skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using the search box? That will search goodfilms globally, not just within the itunes area of the site... but that does give me an idea.
Salman Khan + Eric Schmidt conversation
I wouldn't bother waiting for Maplin. They made a big flap about stocking Arduino boards and kits and have they ever got any in? No!

<insert rant about how Maplin rocked in the 1980's but went down the pan>
Not yet. So far you're the only person that's brought it up, if there's some more interest we might look at doing an "aggregate itunes" view somehow.
Doesn't seem to work for me. It could be that I'm running Ubuntu (assuming you are on OS X) and my version of wkhtmltopdf (0.9.9) uses an older version of webkit that doesn't have support for hyphenation yet.
Looks nice, some of the fonts blur out a bit on my Macbook Air 13" which is a bit distracting. Out of curiosity how are you getting round the which are legit/pirate tracks being sent in?
Sorry, I shouldn't be awake at this hour (See AWS thread). However the number of upvotes I immediately got seems to indicate my subtly suggested solution was quite clear to others.
I got https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9556373/error.png on Chrome v22. Redirects correctly on refresh though.
That page suggests adding a "Sender" header. Up to now I've always used the "Resent-from" header for the purpose of complying with the SPF requirements (pretending to be a forwarding service).

Do you now if there is an advantage of using one versus the other? Reading the RFC it looks like the "Sender" might be a bit more accurate in this context, but the Resent-From may look better in e-mail clients.
Means, you will support war. My suggestion - pacify both.
Yes, that's what I thought :) They do have a solid business plan and funding in place and there is revenue, so I'd say they're in good shape. The only danger would come from being leapfrogged by an even better funded players.
Bootstrap is in a class of its own for exactly what it is supposed to do; to allow a user to quickly set up a concept or prototype site.

The reason why I don't like Bootstrap is because many people use it like a free design template. A seasoned designer or developer can spot a Bootstrap site straight away because they're mostly used straight into production because "it follows best design practices". The huge rise in extensions and colour themes to Bootstrap only prove this.
Actually, I just downvoted you because your post is dickish.
People also sell buttons.
i can't believe that they don't know what is server side validation.
The solution is quite simple to achieve individually, but near impossible to get everyone to achieve at once.

Stop being insulted.
Stop being offended.
Let things go.
Life is too short for it.

If you're not offended, it doesn't matter what people say. Then we can all say what we like and no-one has to worry.
Jenny Holzer said it best http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/radicalism/holzer.s...
Well, you would have to deploy serious code for projects with far-reaching financial consequences when things go wrong first...
Good point, and that might be something to point out. What types of issues have you experienced in the past that you couldn't have blanket predicted beforehand?
Amazon In Talks To Buy Texas Instruments’ Mobile Chip Business
By far the best model of distributing a course online
Odd. If it's not too weird to ask, could you send your IP to help@goodfil.ms so I can test our IP detection logic?
Our app is also on Heroku and it did experience problems.
Duplicating across regions is not well supported by AWS unfortunately. Any idea doing that without completely rebuild the infrastructure in an other region?
The right thing to do is to look at the root cause of all this.

The root cause would be the West arming and training militant Islam.

Back in the day, there was the Caliphate, which was the government of Turkey and Egypt, and the Salafis, Wahhabis and Saudis, who were the militants.

The Caliphate sent a huge army to wipe out the extremists and chase the survivors into the desert.

Later, the West thought it would be clever to bring the extremists back to take over Pakistan (google for "Deobandi") and Arabia (which is why it is called Saudi Arabia now).

Then, they thought it would be really clever to give them Stinger missiles to piss off the Russians (see "Rambo 3").
Saudis + help from Ronald Reagan = AlQaeda.

The West are still arming the extremists (google for "Jundullah"). They think it's a really clever way to piss off the governments in Syria and Iran.

Apparently nothing has been learned from 911.
I don't know about programming being a cure for A.D.D. or the like as it depends upon the programming enviroment (scripting better than compiled I'd say).

I learned early on with a ZX81 and I can say one thing I did learn a bit more patience with the wobberly ram pack and loading/saving times.

Though I worked in a nice quite bedroom with no distractions and that is a big factor.

I would say that doing martial arts - well kendo helped me alot on many levels. Has nice culture and attitude compared to some of the other martial arts or at least how they are taught. Also `Do` being the way or as apposed to `Jitsu` suffix, which is the art of killing; Does highlight its more zen like mindset. Also knowing what distracts you and how it distracts you and controlling the distractions helps as well.

But like anything and anybody - if it works for you then it works nomatter what other people say and stick with your comfort level.
Why am I insulting LGBT guys/gals? Everybody is free to choose, but it is still a fact that reproduction (or rather, having kids) is important for a lot of people. Even some LGBT people try to adopt children afaik.

Also without reproduction nobody would be here.
and that's why one reason for MySql popularity is its simplicity. Instead of having full alphabet of features it just has A and B, and its easy to learn. BTW I'm not a fan of MySql.
On class-oriented
I see the same thing. Pingdom reports higher response-time, but no downtime (meaning no alert). Also no alerts from AWS Cloudwatch. I first became aware of the issue when internal api-tests started failing at 9:56am CET. I see users accessing the site, but I don't know how many it's failing for.
The problem with Android tablets: the browsers all suck
How would you recommend performing that failover, when Elastic Load Balancers only cover a single region? If you host your own load balancer it'll have to be hosted somewhere, and DNS failover seems unpopular [1].

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/60553/why-is-dns-failover-n...
The US-East-1 is also spread across more than 10 datacenters, which doesn't make things easy. Might not be true for other, more expensive, regions.
Some more nooses to hang ourselves with here:

http://www.neiladdison.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/law/malcomm.htm

Most of this legislation came in under "think of the children" type laws to prevent critical discussion of the warmongering taking place in the last couple of decades (since just before the Gulf War).

It's not puritanism, as at least that had some moral basis. This is plain totalitarianism under a fascist banner. The associated forms of indoctrination and the inevitable propaganda makes people think they should be offended when they see this as "it must be bad", resulting in the cycle continuing.

Most people aren't offended by this sort of thing - they are afraid to have a potentially different opinion and therefore conform.

Editing to add: in my youth I called a policeman a "fascist cunt" and was told off. I was a) a couple of decades early and b) punished appropriately.
An innovative approach to presentations
I don't really go on there, I just know there is one that some on here uses.
Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?
OK, I suppose there's no harm in sharing... and thanks for the response, so

Rio De Janeiro, 22, the $2000 that I have to pay off to my current company, the contingency plan would be just to find another job in IT...

so I'm pretty sure I should go, I just don't know why I feel so bad about leaving my current company and my project but I know that I may never have another chance like this.
Thank you!

iTunes is terrible to search for films to watch. Previously I've used Goodfilms to search for films but had to resort to torrenting if not available in iTunes.

The main benefit for iTunes being super fast download times guaranteed.
Internetsopedia?
work out if you trust them, work out what is the worst that could happen (i.e. ending up sleeping on friends floors back home if it all goes wrong) - if that is acceptable then go

Your friends can always visit

“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: ‘It’s gonna go wrong.’ Or ‘She’s going to hurt me.’ Or ‘I had a couple of bad love affairs so therefore …’

“Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” Ray Bradbury (Note: do not try with actual cliffs!)
Workday's I.P.O.: 'The Incumbents Are Not Prepared'
I know... it's about PIPA, they are trying to do an environment similar to Ycombinator in Brazil
Let's focus on the real scourge first... "Link expired".
"unbelievably beautiful" - come on, it looks nice but it's just a wysiwyg editor - noone is going to moved to tears.

This apple initiated hyperbole should stop, it's pretty wanky and just devalues words.

Quiet understatement would be better; mention that it's well designed and easy to use instead.
The New Digg Has A Fighting Chance
duely noted and agree about the spread of products and there audience now compared to 1980's - certianly was more electrical enthusiast back then compared with the range of stocking junk they tend to have nowadays dominating there stores.

But that said I do feel they will come true on this one as they already taken pre-orders (though going to wait so I can walk in and pop down some hard currency and walk out with one myself) http://www.maplin.co.uk/raspberrypi

But we shall see how history unfolds, you may be right though I have good feelings on this.

Just recalled why maplins went downhill as there used to be maplins shops and tandy/radio shack shops and it was the later that sold the chinz shall we say. Now there is just maplins filling both holes.
Just the normal state of affairs for computing hardware. Next year's computers will pack more power for the same price. Only difference is that they didn't give the updated Pi's a new model number. An interesting lesson in consumer psychology perhaps?
The Pi would be perfect if only they can fix the problems with USB and isochronous transfers that prevent the Kinect from working. There was mention of work being done on this in the comments, so here's hoping a kernel update solves the USB issues.
They could turn it into a partial auction: I.e. allow people to pay more than the asking price. Highest bidder gets paid first. All the excess goes to charity---which could be the Raspberry Pi foundation itself, and thus towards making for Raspberry Pi's available for needy people later on.
Great news though I personaly would prefer to see another ethernet port (yes can add one via USB but not at full ethernet speeds). Would make a brilliant firewall box then and one area I'd love to have one in place.
and you also cannot have secondary indexes that way
I expected to the see the price as well. Would be great if you could show the rental/buy price if available as often that is more of a determinate than reviews/star rating.
Yes, I totally agree!! Especially with the last quote. It's just that my boss is also trying to make me believe that it's stupid to go and it won't work... but I won't let him change my mind. However when he asked me why do you want to go, I said: - Cause I like the idea, I want to try and I'm sure I'll learn a lot on the way. How can this not be enough?
Also RAM just gets cheaper over time.
This is a good strategy. My only complaint with it (and I do it too for some things) is that it can mess up people's address books a little. For example, when I start typing someone's name in gmail, sometimes I get "Joe Smith <a3gfdf33sds32fs@someapp.com>" instead of "joesmith@hisdomain.com"
Thanks for the really useful tool. Great implementation of infinite scrolling too, but perhaps the small footer bar could be fixed in the viewport so we can click the links without more films loading and pushing it down?

This is also a bit off-topic, but what with Skyfall coming out this month, I wanted to watch Casino Royale on my Apple TV - only to find out that none of the James Bond movies are available on iTunes - not to rent, not to purchase. I know there are always issues with licensing and copyrights in the film and TV industry but does anybody know of any specific reasons why one of the most popular creative franchises of all time isn't available from the biggest digital media distributor out there?!
Document as a blob, with identifiers and foreign keys surrogates as their own fields - OK, I could live with that hybrid approach.
It's such a pain to search on iTunes so it's great you made this site :-) Did you scrape the info or is there an API?
TechNet magazine reviewed a new Fiddler extension for load testing
Indeed. Maplin are like an Argos these days, except the service is worse than Argos and you have to wait longer to be served, and they have less in stock, and the staff run away when you ask them anything.

Looking at their £69 offer - it does look pretty good actually. If they deliver, I'll be very surprised and would consider forgiving them for a while :)

Tandy - £1 for 5 resistors!! How could they possibly have failed?
DNS failover is fine, even if its manually triggered. We are almost two and a half hours into this network event, so even if you set a 5 minute TTL on your records and it takes you 15 minutes to respond, you are still way ahead of the game.

The idea that some DNS resolver somewhere caches records longer than TTL is mostly a myth. This is the case rarely on some mobile networks and networks behind satellite uplinks, but they generally have larger network issues anyway.
Many sites speak against Islam and its prophet, many of them speak against the Koran and its teachings. No demonstrations have gone all out against them. They hold a POV that is not acceptable to Muslims, but that's fine. Many of them even attempt to do research about the topic they talk about to prove their POVs. The question is, would you consider someone who creates a film portraying Jesus or Mohammad as a child molester or as a fraud as someone practicing free speech? I think there is quite a difference between the two.
Bootstrap as a "free design template" is great, when hiring a professional graphic designer and CSS expert are not an option.

And even when it is, most restaurant websites in the world would be better off with a standard Bootstrap template rather than the horrid Flash+PDF designs that they currently use.
No issues in the internal EC2 network. At least, none that I could find. I guess that's the reason why ELB doesn't shift any traffic. The whole issue seems to be on the Internet facing network. Failing routers, maybe.

Pingdom still claims 100% uptime, but New Relic (which includes an equivalent pinging service) reports downtime from time to time. Around 25 timeout alerts into the last couple of hours.
Mitsuba Makes Graphics Realistic
Your database should be the central storage of this data and it should do it's hardest to guarantee that everything is consistent. Consistency means referential integrity over foreign keys, but it also means that values of attributes are well within their specified domain. And "D]7843bn;hdbnb" is not valid JSON, so the database should reject that.

If your database is already doing these checks, then it can simplify anything that builds on them, because you already have huge amounts of guarantees.

Other guarantees you would add are unique constraints, exclusion constraints, check constraints, and so on.

So it might only benefit 1%, but what's the problem with that? If you want to stuff JSON into a text field, no one is stopping you. Of course, now you'd have much less reason to do so, and would be loading a gun getting ready to shoot yourself in the foot...
Productivity in the US and Europe: The importance of being urban
Indeed. But when it comes to learning, isn't learning the basic subset of Postgres commands just as easy as the basic subset of MySQL commands and so on? I don't see any difference in learning curve between the 2...

(but what I'm afraid of about adding all this features is that one day "take the basic set of Postgres features" will become more like "pick a subset of C++ features (that YOU THINK are basic)" and we know where this path goes...)
What a great rating system. Love the site, thanks!
Some of them have made it onto Netflix (see http://goodfil.ms/films/on_netflix/recently_released)

Trying to "fix" the severe segmentation problems between the various online streaming services is one of the things we're aiming to fix with Goodfilms. It's so annoying when you want to legally rent content but first you've got to do a mission to figure out where on earth you can get it from.
I will look into the font issue. Iam just streaming public songs off of soundcloud at the moment.
80 Modern Coming Soon and Under Construction Templates
I'm not the parent, but the linked project has some bold statements in its README:

> each window has a size that is not convenient for editing

> The window that has the main focus will have the perfect size for editing

and nothing to backup these claims except a wikipedia article that, in fact, doesn't.

The parent's comment goes well with the project's claims, I'd say.
There is a huge (tarred or zipped, I'm unsure as @geelen did the work) database dump of all the itunes store content for affiliates.
Your post makes me sad I didn't get to know him
To add another point: For programs which only run for a certain time (not servers) the freeing can be delayed until the end and then skipped.
Design Simplicity: a Dyson Case Study
I missed for this year. I am surely going to hack next one!
Is there research results which quantity whether Golden Ratio is good for window management?
I live in UK, but currently in Denmark. Site detected that I am coming from Denmark, but I set it to look into UK Store. Now, when I click on movie, Source Code, the price presented to me is in dollars (and quite excessive being $39 for HD and $29 for SD). What happened to GBP?
Now I click to rent it - I am landing in Denmark iTunes store. Not sure is it a problem of goodfil.ms or iTunes store.
Your boss however good his intentions is bound to be thinking also about his organisation without you so you have to factor that in - why not ask him for a year long sabbatical and also work out a way that you can possibly still be there to answer questions if they get stuck in your absence. If the company that you are with are this worried about you going then it is probably time they faced up to not building a business around one person and also you can help them transition to to time without you there
Looks like this is the reason I can't push to heroku either.
Next you'll be telling me that the hundreds of years in which islam used violence to dominate Spain was a Golden Age of tolerance and multi-culturalism.

I'll take moslem Spain over Torquemada any day.

It is complete stupidity to assert Islamic violence over European Christendom, when Europe became Christian because of the violence of the Roman Empire.

So what if Europe had been conquered by Genghis Khan and subsequently turned moslem? The Albigensians were exterminated by Catholics. Do you find that somehow better than if they had been exterminated by Sunnis? Do you think the Albigensians enjoyed being slaughtered by Catholics more?

At their basis, Islam, Christianity and Judaism are exactly the same horrid Old Testament garbage. If anything, Islam is less offensive because some of the worst bits of the Old Testament have been cut out, the same way Java is less offensive than C++.
I assume you are using the AWS dashboard to manually deploy instances and setting them up by hand? First step is to get your infrastucture to the point where it deploys and scales up and down by itself. Once you manage that, moving to or keeping hot spares in another region is pretty easy.

Look into automated deployment tools like Foreman and configuration management tools like Puppet.
Take the plunge: Now may be a good time to launch that start-up
>I think (with disdain) about "pundits" whose job is to promote some position regardless of its merit; people who spend their lives arguing passionately for whatever pays the most... that is ugly and works against adapting a culture to handle new ideas and situations.

I don't know; a certain degree of specialization helps society function better. Espousing contrary positions is valuable to society and at the same time emotionally draining (which is mitigated if you do it often); having it done by dedicated people seems like a win.

(I felt kind of similarly about the story of the disabled guy who goes around suing places for ADA compliance as a full-time job: if we really care about making businesses accessible for the disabled, it's more efficient to have him doing the lawsuits and other disabled people getting on with their lives)
- this is the beginning of the experience - enjoy!
This. Making trolling/writing offensive comments on other people's walls a crime is arguable (I disagree, but I understand the rationale. Writing things on your own wall, however, with no intention to offend or troll, and then getting arrested is ridiculous. The same logic applies to wearing an offensive shirt as opposed to shouting abuse.

The worst part about this is the media coverage almost universally treating this as normal and expected -- which, in a sense, is even worse than explicitly arguing for it -- and neglecting to go into specifics about whether someone posted something on their own wall or not, which is really relevant.
i can't git push to heroku...
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Knockout.js Added to the F#/C# MVC 4 Single Page Application Template
Ha, do you actually regularly read HN? If you think the comments on this submission are bad I advise you don't go read the ones here from the other week http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603611
Hmmmn, it's probably a bit of both.

We need to save in session when you switch store to change what you see on a specific film page. But then I'm pretty sure we send you to a generic itunes URL per item and you're being redirected by them. Maybe.
Thanks for the Netflix link. Next problem? I'm in the UK, and so of course one of the most well-known English characters isn't available to stream from Netflix UK... sigh

I completely agree the segmentation issue. You'd have thought doing it legally is so much more convenient but it just doesn't seem to be like that.

You've got a new Goodfilms user in me though :)
I wonder what they are doing with all the 256MBhard boards they have left. It would be pretty tight timing for them to get all the old units sold at the exact same time.
...instead of "would be loading a gun getting ready to shoot yourself in the foot" I'd see it as building an app that could easily be maintained by a/more programmer(s) with no advanced DBA knowledge (less people with less expertise needed, and have the really smart know-it-alls work on more interesting things - and yes, I am thinking this from a MANAGER'S perspective, guilty on that ;) )
Have scheduled tasks to create AMIs of your infrastructure. Create scripts or redeploy by hand into another zone when an extended issue has occurred, or deploy and leave powered down as part of a 'DR' plan or something.
Is he being ironic about the signature? I thought it should be "as short as possible"...
How the social web fuels 'non-capitalist' movements