skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wikis are git repos as well. Sync them periodically and you're good. Plus it's useful as a backup, because I don't think github archives your reflog.

Issues are normally mirrored to e-mails (caveat: you don't get mail for your own comments), so you can mostly pick up existing threads if your e-mail address book can find the github users involved. If they didn't obscure recipients (at least within an organisation — because I don't think address-book lock-in is worth inconveniencing paying clients), and made an auto self-bcc of your activity, issues would be entirely disaster resistant.
This is as good a time as any to suggest Kevin Smith's "Smoviemakers" podcast for anyone who is interested in the art and business of movie production. It's really a great listen, even when he's talking to people I'm not a huge fan of (such as Scott Derrickson --nothing against him, but I just haven't seen any of his movies)

http://smodcast.com/channels/smoviemakers/
I certainly see future for this!
I agree that the current suite of Metro apps is crap, but that hardly makes the OS a mess. I've been using it as my primary OS for about 6 months and my usage hasn't really changed from Win7. All my work is done from the desktop, with the new start screen working as a useful short cut organiser.

Multitasking is boned

Not sure what you mean there.

...it works badly with multi monitors.

Depends on your definition of 'works badly'. I think they've made smart choices. You can easily nominate which monitor is your Start Screen monitor and all Metro apps will launch there. You can't seem to run metro apps on more than one screen, but you can have 2 visible on the same screen using docking.
Selection bias. Replace with AOL, Yahoo!, MySpace.
The Definitive Guide to Javascript by David Flanagan is incredibly comprehensive (and only $5 on Android)
jgit, the version that Eclipse uses, has native S3 support. I run my own local git server that transparently backs up every push to S3 this way.

http://blog.spearce.org/2008/07/using-jgit-to-publish-on-ama...
I breathed a sigh of relief when there wasn't some tie-in to startup culture or programming or social media at the end of the article. Excellent post.
Only for sites that you don't already have an account on, and which don't use a paypal-like service.

How is a browser supposed to detect either?
Sending a kid to pre-school could save your life
Just move to bitbucket. You can even pay to them if you want to.
On HP/H3C and Schrödinger's Disclosure
“Obviously, our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they’re free,” said Larry Pogemiller, director of the office. “No Minnesotan should hesitate to take advantage of free, online offerings from Coursera.”

Props to the people in charge there for reacting swiftly. Nice to see.
Uh, the "core" of that problem is the senseless yuppies that read it.
Even with a 6X reduction in capacity, that gives me a ~40 mile range (assuming the Tesla Roadster's 241 mile range), which is enough to get from from the house to the coffee shop to the office to the cafe and back home.
I moved my laptop to Mint a while ago, and my Ubuntu desktop uses Cinnamon instead of Unity (and I might move that to Mint once 14 is released)

Elementary is also becoming an option, but I'm really looking forward to Steam and while it should be able to run on Mint I'm not sure it will on Elementary.
The User Data Manifesto
He just wouldn't have had the job if he'd insisted on gross at that point in his career. He lacked the clout.
I don't think so. If you we're hosting GitHub you would figure out pretty easily if it was related to cloning a specific repo from AWS and just disable the account hosting the repo.
> It gets worse: some schools are exempt from this law

Actually that's a good thing.
White House : No evidence of Espionage by Huawei
But you don't charge your own company, you buy services from a seemingly external company (that is actually operated by you). That's one way to generate a loss while actually just moving money around.
I would think being small(er) and having 100M in the bank makes github a pretty good target, unfortunately.
Apple is 30 years old. Why would you think it would be so easily replaced?
I truly look forward to the day when supporting (by paying real money) individual creators and independent teams for music, movies, animation, games, and books will be commonplace in the general public. In tandem, I hope that this will spur great creations to come forth that are not bound by the traditional red tape and truly messed up business models of today's media businesses.

Such a world will require a lot more independence and proactivity from us the consumers (which we are frankly not accustomed to at all right now), from the extra effort needed to engage in "discovery" and in realizing how much of an impact each consumption & purchasing decision can have on the lives of each creative person we choose to support; but such a world will have far more diversity and niche options than we currently see today, which would be a truly amazing future.
Visual Source Safe is too good for 'em.. may they be doomed to emailing .patch files forever.
How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days
https://spacebox.io
stuff like this really drives home my fear of a dystopian future where police bots patrol the skies using all sorts of cameras and sensors to find 'the bad guys'. Facial recognition, thermal cameras, speech patterns and other tech we haven't even though of yet all used to find 'Bad People'. Creepy.
Is this a jquery plugin or something that they created themselves?
Erm: discretion of the callee.
From the article, "The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer."
Creating a Rails 4 Project
Good advice. I've updated the data window to be a rolling 30 period.
This was an interesting article. Mostly because of how it took words that mean one thing to people and then tries to define them as something else.

When we set up our "data center" in Santa Clara (nearly 1600 machines in 100 cabinets) racking and stacking and booting didn't take long at all, what took forever was getting various network providers plumbed.

Co-location facilities range from extremely 'swank' like the Switch [1] facility in Las Vegas, to the extremely 'bare' like some mid-peninsula facilities I looked at. They can be run by a 'team' of folks with on site security, network staff, mechanical teams, and HVAC teams, or one contract security guy in a bullet proof glass booth noting who goes in and out.

A 'swank' co-location facility can sell you floor space at $800/kw per month. A 'bargain' co-location facility might be as little as $150/kw per month. A 'cabinet' is generally between 4 - 10kW so $3,200 - $8,000 per month per cabinet high end, and as little as $600 - $1500 per month per cabinet at the bargain side. If you negotiate your IP transit (networking) costs you pay between $3 and $6 per mbit or $3000 to $6000 for a gigabit line. For swank co-lo centers like the ones mentioned you're also going to pay $150/hr for "smart hands" services where someone on staff in the colo will go out and swap a drive for you or replace a bad Ethernet cable.

The ownership of these places ranges from real estate investment trusts (REITs) to businesses dedicated to internet services.

It is an amazingly diverse set of things for something as simple as chilled room with power and security and network connectivity. The first time I had to go up and do some work in Google's Oregon data center it became really clear to me why someone like Google would build their own data centers. The amount of costs you could shave off your computing budget were enormous. With that much profit just laying there on the table it becomes clear how folks can compete in that space.

With regards to the article, if I want to drop 3 or 4 cabinets of 'stuff' into 50 data centers around the world using the local datacenter IP connection its pretty straight forward to do. If you need a megawatt of space (I know megawatts aren't normally a measure of volume but in Data centers they are) and guaranteed redundant gigabit IP that can burst to 10Gbits, that is a bit harder to co-ordinate in 30 day bursts unless you do most of the work yourself.

[1] http://www.switchnap.com/
I can't wait to read their post-mortem. Must be pretty exciting.
Native Client? Or PNaCl if you insist on extreme portability.
A Simple Fix for Farming
Tech journalism is officially as good as political journalism,
The prices drop off as you get farther into the outer boroughs. Even a token crossing of the East River saves you about $500 a month in rent. (I live in Brooklyn Heights. It's overpriced, but not Chelsea overpriced. And it's only 15 minutes to commute to Chelsea.)
Why Preschool Can Save the World [AUDIO]
you cannot neatly separate ideas and execution.

This. ^^^ Its all about the performance envelope. And who actually knows it.

Ideas are both general "ideas" (a product, or about a theory, or strategy) as well as "ideas" are about problem solving (practical, tactical, etc). A top "technical" guy in any field will be an idea guy, strictly because he is a problem solver that can abstract his experience back into higher-level principles.

Example: Programming requires creative problem solving. Likewise, you'd be amazed at how much "creativity" happens in accounting, tax, and legal professions. ALthough much of this is of the practical variety ("artisanal") rather than of the blue sky ("arty").

LIkewise, a top "Idea" guy in any field with have both levels of abstraction covered. I think somebody once made the remark that if you dream it but can't ship it, its more like a hallucination than an actual idea. So maybe the bad ones are not the "idea guys" but "the hallucinators". And in that case, yes, their value is certainly questionable. =D
XFCE is kind of gnome. Built off gtk2 and all. It was never mainline super integrated gnome, and it replaced a lot of dumb shit you didn't need to rewrite (see: the fudging calculator, the terminal emulator, etc) but I still feel like Cinnamon / XFCE should be in the same camp. They want the same thing, after all.
Most startups? Name even one startup in the same league as the others you've named.
Isn't minimum wage like 20 euros an hour in .ch? That's a lot higher than the US :)
May just be the way it is worded, but the spiritual section ruins this post for me. "...skills every programmer should have" being able to meditate can mean a lot of non-spiritual things. People are able to clear their head via hundreds of methods that have nothing to do with being spiritual. Even meditation I would not personally consider to having to be spiritual. But listening to music, taking walks, doing something to clear your mind from everything that is currently holding it back. This in itself is not spiritual. I agree, what it is, is an essential skill, one needed in life, not just in programming. We all have periods of losing focus. And being able to recover during these times, it's a valuable skill to have with any task. But I think using the title "every programmer" than attributing the way you personally get by is misleading.
Equally amusing - so long as a liquid is frozen, you can bring as much as you like in any size container, because now it's a solid.

I one brought through security the remains of a soft-drink with ice cubes, that I'd transferred into a bottle. They made me drain the liquid that had melted, but the ice-cubes themselves weren't a problem.
X-rated code comments
> "Do I need to call a supervisor?"

"Call someone, because as is my right I would like to request a private screening room, please."
They stay well up to date, but not because of Ubuntu. At least the last time I used Chrome, it required a PPA from Google, which is updated by Google. The Firefox repo is updated by Canonical's apt staff.
>Perhaps I'm misunderstanding: I thought one goal of DVCS was to remove central points of failure? In that sense, isn't a central "hub" regressive?

This meme is getting really, really tiresome. Github being down is NOT a central point of failure. Most people know that setting up your own git server is trivial, literally a 3-4 step process. We know that we don't lose our files, our history, our working tree, etc.

The "git" in Github is easily replaced. The "hub" part has its own value. The communication tools, the well-presented diffs, the inline-editing capability, issues, wiki, etc. That's the value people are gnashing their teeth over.
Meanwhile this industry is complaining it's being strangled by piracy?
Being relatively new to cross-language compilation, how are one language's class APIs typically translated into another?

For example :

[1,2,3].shuffle

[turns into] =>

(function() {
var __opal = Opal, self = __opal.top, __scope = __opal, nil = __opal.nil, __breaker = __opal.breaker, __slice = __opal.slice;

return [1, 2, 3].$shuffle()
})();

Of course, since JS arrays do not have a "shuffle" method, the output reads :

TypeError: Object 1,2,3 has no method '$shuffle'

Is the answer to simply use class/object methods that are present in both languages?
Seven people have been to space as tourists, so far.

No signs of laser-armed sharks yet!
What's fascinating to me is that he ended the piece with a bunch of lolbertarian claptrap. Guy hoaxes a few tech news sites and all of the sudden he's Milton Friedman.
It's called "Hollywood accounting":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Good call Zachary =)

To be fair, we had trouble finding stats on how much people spent specifically on driving long distance and threw the trillion miles in knowing it wasn't ideal. That's why there's a prototype day! =)
I wonder what sort of shotgun load you need to take out a drone, would that be more like a pheasant or a goose load?
Anyone that's played GTA Vice City enough knows an RC heli could manage at least one casualty pretty easily on failure (and, just to be sure, I've personally seen enough nitro-powered chicken dances to know this is possibly a _low_ estimate).
Thanks! It worked great!
It doesn't have to. In both of those cases you're not entering your credit card number.
Announcing OCaml Labs
Yeah, bitbucket never gets DDOS'd! Well, except when they do
http://blog.bitbucket.org/2009/10/04/on-our-extended-downtim...
Smart license plate frame that prevents you from getting a ticket
Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing: Part 2 – AR
Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
Amanda Todd Facebook
As someone who really appreciates sports stats, I find myself ignoring the numbers to admire the design. Really, really beautiful.
There was a Supreme Court decision that said thermal imaging of a person's home is a "search" and requires a warrant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

Before this decision they could do a thermal image of your home and if it gave off a certain heat signature, the police could use that a probably cause to get a warrant to search the home.

Now, they need a warrant just to do the thermal imaging.
Does it make sense anymore for SSD to go through a hard drive interface?

Even SATA3 cannot keep up with a raid of SSD.
If you have GitHub enterprise, it is run on your stuff and you get your own Wikis, issues, unlimited repos, etc. Even your own Gist that you can wrap behind your own CAS.
He's not talking about changing your mind out of changing your mind's sake. But only consider that you might be wrong and be just open to change your mind, if that proves to be the right thing. This might sound obvious, but the point he's making is that most people don't do this. And it's one of the most remarkable characteristics of smart people, it's that they do change their mind when needed.

Average people think the the genius are genius because they're right all the time. But that's not the case. We're all human and we're all wrong a lot. The most remarkable characteristic of geniuses is that they realize they're wrong a lot, while others live under the illusion they're right a lot. Both the average and the genius are wrong often. What sets both apart is the genius notices it, changes his course and -- at the end of the day -- makes a better decision.

The significant bit to take from here is, don't try to be right at your first impression. You're not dumb for getting it wrong the first time. It's ok, just be a skeptic, think about it and don't be afraid to change if you later find that you were wrong.
I'd be more concerned with signal interception. Assume they use current RC tech[1], which is designed to elimiate interference or capture error, but that doesn't mean it's infeasible. That would be a troubling twist.

Suppose a related idea would be that the image captures from airport body scanners could be intercepted. I have not seen any reference to such an action, at all. Anyone have ideas about an attack vector for those?

[1]: http://spektrumrc.com/DSM/Technology/useDSM.aspx
I think it would really push geo-engineering to a whole new level.

Rapid global cooling would render huge chunks of landmass virtually useless and put many of the worlds most economically important cities under a glacier, so governments would be quickly pressured to fund drastic measures to re-stabilize the climate before we have another ice-age.
If people aren't up in arms about the TSA at airports groping them, they sure aren't going to do a darn thing about drones watching them.

Police know people are lazy and/or complacent.
Seriously ... summer holidays are pretty universal; it's not like countries generally considered to have very good educational systems don't have them.

China, Korea, Japan, all have 6-8 weeks of summer holiday; the U.S. seems to have somewhat more on average (of course in all of these countries there's some local variation), maybe 8-10 weeks, but that doesn't seem enough of a difference to have any dramatic effect.

The U.S.'s problems with education are cultural: American culture does not value education. School scheduling is mostly irrelevant.
UK Engineers Claim To Be Able To Make Gas From Air
From what I can tell, here are the most popular gems for the ten winners:

haml (8)
devise (6)
coffee (5)
sass (5)
pry (5)
sidekiq (4)
mysql (4)
honeybadger (4)
simple_form (3)
pusher (3)
bootstrap (3)

It's pretty clear that haml/coffee/sass are just flat out winning, despite all the handwringing.
You're using lots of italics and pleading.

I'd say, have a realistic understanding of the nullity of this particular gesture. If you want to make a gesture of significance, you have to get involved in actual on-the-ground politics. (Maybe you are, but from your writing, you don't sound like it.)
Interestingly, I found this kind of hard to read. I think there's just too much leading in the body text - I could feel my eye moving as I was reading. Decreasing the line height to 1.25em felt better to me.
I know the law doesn't work this way, but there should really be some sort of rule of thumb that states if you need a UAV with special imaging equipment to determine if a crime has occurred, it's not a real crime. A real crime should be detectable in any number of less absurdly sci-fi ways.

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, should a noise complaint be filed? I'd say no.
The link shortening compounds the issue because it’s opaque — it hides the URL of the spammy site you’ll get redirected to.
The 'good old webhosters' don't seem to provide half the things that fortrabbit are such as a non-traditional payment method and integration with Git and other tools.
After going down a rat hole of implementing a cross browser file input recently, with transparent overlays and special iframes and all that jazz... definitely will be looking to use filepicker in my next project that needs it.
Google Threatens to Stop Indexing French Media Sites
I personally know someone who once maintained a heated greenhouse full of tropical plants and chameleons. (He was almost breaking even on his electrical costs by selling baby chameleons for the pet trade.)

He finally quit and sold the house specifically because he was tired of having agents show up on his door step every month, sometimes with guns drawn.
Agreed, it's so easy to get screwed over.
Zero-Day Exploit released for Vulnerability in Novell ZENworks
Hey jdelgado- I'm working on the same thing, wondered if you found anything in the 9 days since this post?
> When it comes to these sorts of insults, the skin is one of the most resilient organs.

Why do we think know that? Because of data from conventional X-rays that have a totally different geometric assumption. (Energy distributed throughout the body volume.) What we know of cancer at the level of mechanisms inside the cell suggests that the living part of skin that constantly divides to replace cells is more prone to cancer than other tissues.

> The FDA is notoriously risk-averse, but it has done studies on the safety of backscatter devices and concluded they're safe

The web page you pointed to just mentions "low dose" and compares the dose to "Naturally occurring ionizing radiation." Well, duh, I know this already. Most naturally occurring ionizing radiation deposits its energy evenly throughout the body. It doesn't address the new geometry of energy deposition. Show me one study that does! Show me one government document that does!

Again, it's "spherical cows" assumptions applied to public health! As a technically adept person, this should raise your suspicions! I'll grant you that the risk is probably low, but without more research into the same energy deposition geometry, you're handwaving public health.
Just to add to this, I work on an enterprise sized project and we use UML all the time! Its not Boeing, but its a large code base and things get complicated fast. We make class diagrams for all of our large features. If there is complex workflows, we usually make a sequence diagram or some sort of state diagram, depends on the developer. It helps with estimating and helps flush out requirements. I can't image working without UML diagrams.

I`ve also done class diagrams for smaller projects when refactoring. It makes it easier to explain to coworkers what logic needs to go where.
I have an old poker friend who started a similar site: http://buzzdraft.com/

It's formatted to be similar to poker sit-and-gos.
Copybar cofounder here, sorry to hear that you didn't see anything happen. What browser are you using?
Did you click the link? "Hollywood Accounting" is the article title and the subject of the first sentence.
They do not only can make gas from air, but actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, too.
The problem that should be solved - significant electricity consumption that is required by chemical process.