skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that Eric points to the bottom-of-page placement of the TOS as further evidence of its inadmissibility, it's a bit ironic that the first paragraph of his article says "This post will make some suggestions" and the last paragraph, pages down, says "[this post] doesn't provide legal advice"

An interesting read though -- thanks.
Just how respectful and appropriate is it to make public claims about someone's character without giving evidence?
A very much needed add-on for Django. It's cool to see the amount of work that's been put into making version 2 great!
http://p3d.in/ is another one.
I wonder how much more effort it would be to predict where a ball is going to end up once it's moving....

For some reason I'm thinking of those guys who did this with a roulette wheel.. but I'm not sure how that will be handy for pool.
I doubt it. They'll still sue Samsung. They just won't try to beat Google at search.
Well, I live in Hungary (right next to you) and our pre-paid plans suck. Calling costs 2-3 times as much as on contracts, same with texting.
A 3G plan with 3GB unlimited (that is they slow you down until the end of the billing cycle) costs 3500 HUF. For 4190 HUF you can get a 4G plan with unlimited browsing and 5GB for other purposes.
You mean in Tornado Alley?
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As Tastypie has already been mentioned, and as it's probably REST Framework 2's main competitor – how do the two compare?
Yes-- that's a great one.
Why doesn't BIND disable/block open recursion by default? It should be a configuration option that you have to turn on and should spit out warning messages in the logs.
> Comparing two things is different from equating them.

True, obviously.

> It's not offensive to compare Stalin to anything,

False.

> including those things you hold sacred. It doesn't
> imply they are equal in all respects, and any inference
> to that effect on your part is in error.

When you compare X to Hitler, or Stalin, or Pol Pot, or the devil, you're necessarily invoking an element of offense to make your broader point. Rightly or wrongly, those figures are inexorably bound to offend. It's not possible to simply assert that away.
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What if you pumped it up by having a hydrostatically balanced system: instead of sucking up the fuel, pump water down to drive a piston that pushes the fuel up.
Am I missing something? Grabcad while great does not have webgl based viewer like sketchfab. Also, it seems to be sketchfab supports wide number of formats.
Oh my god it's TERRIBLE Python, it's just a joke.
Theoretically I have "written" is good time in another file and imported it here, checking to see if datetime.datetime(datetime.now()) is in a good time, but I just wanted to write it so it was understandable as a joke.

Also, I'm just terrible at writing code. See previous post on tommy.authpad.com
It doesn't help much if only the OS is touch-ready, but all the apps aren't, and if it's only the OS, then it will just annoy the PC users.

This is exactly my worry - an SDK for what exactly? I have been in favor of having one standard API/ABI for GUI applications in Linux for years now. Given the fragmentation in Linux, the only road to succes is if one vendor (e.g. Canonical) pushes it. But since the smartphone and tablet revolution, Linux has two problems: there is no standard for PC nor touch interfaces.
Yeah, Oregon is known for it's viscous tsunamis and earthquakes. Also if a tropical cyclone hit Oregon it would not be a hurricane, it would be a typhoon. http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hurricane_vs_Typhoon

I think the idea of the second data center is that it is far away from the first one.
Not sure I agree with their Phusion Passenger vs J2EE. I use torquebox and deploying is just as easy, if not easier. You can instantly deploy an application by executing "torquebox deploy /path/to/your/ruby/app/" or by placing a 2 line .yml file in the JBoss AS deployments folder. Torquebox also comes with Capistrano recipes you can use for automating deployments.
This is a Japanese site that uses similar technology.
http://www.3dcg-arts.net/art/polygon/1679/full
I'm a bit confused. Is this a sharing site? Every model on the site can be viewed on the site, or embedded in another site, or the more technically adept can simply open up Firebug, see where the assets are on the servers and download them directly. This seems like a great way for digital artists to loose control over their creations, because there's no protections for them. Please illuminate what I'm not seeing here...
As a Florida resident, I can anecdotally confirm that the "What if we nuke it?" question circulates fairly often. Usually in years where a powerful or damaging storm appears, especially when places that don't usually get them are hit.
It's funny how even if you could do this (and thank goodness you cannot) people would be for it, but shutting down coal plants to possibly reduce frequency and energy level of hurricanes, nah that's too much inconvenience. Radioactive hurricane, much less hassle.
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Ansible works in pretty much the same manner.
Wow, that kind of sucks for them. I hope they consider prioritizing some kind of geographic replication after the storm is done. It adds cost and complexity (which slows down development, too), but seems like a good tradeoff when you have customers depending on it.

The geographic load balancing side is basically a solved problem (although you don't want to use only DNS-based load balancing like Route53 in most cases), but the hard part is wide area replication of databases for hot failover.

It's pretty easy to do failover if you'll accept a 5-10 minute outage, though.
Test are a consequence of a very real problem of evaluating teachers. Since neither parents nor children have in most public schools any choice over the school and teachers in it, regular consumer-driven quality controls that work on most markets are absent. However, quality problem is still real and existing - there are, obviously, good schools and bad schools, good teachers and bad teachers. Assume you are a well-intentioned educational administrator, and you want to improve the quality of education. How you do that? How you know which school is doing good and which is doing bad? How you know which teacher is beneficial and which is not? How you know which policy is beneficial and which is harmful? And most of all - how you do it in a way that is scalable to state and national levels and can be centralized and processed at huge scales (without which Department of Education has no data on which it can base its policies)? Obviously, standardized tests look like a perfect fit for this problem. So there's no mystery in this, it is a natural result.

Of course, there are a lot of deficiencies in this approach, which you can see and teachers can see it too. But given centralized, state-driven education system, what else you can do? You can not have absence of quality controls - this would have immense corrupting potential and the system would have incentive to deteriorate very quickly. You can not have individual approach - DoE can't account for each school in each small town, they just don't have resources for that. So with current approach, testing is inevitable.
Yes, it does raise its head. NOAA even has it as part of its FAQ, at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html :

> During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms. Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.

Here the question is asked in 2004: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=255086
> if alt+tab was the standard for 15 years, why should it be shifted?

Alt+tab works as expected -- which is to say, as I always expected it to -- on Unity, what do you mean by "shifted"?
Yes, we have multiple off-site backups (cloud as well as an offsite storage DC) for all customer data. All data is still safe in NYC -- we've just brought down service to prevent problems in case of an abrupt power failure.
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Earlier yesterday it wasn't a hurricane though. And shortly after landfall it was no longer a hurricane again - even before it weakened. (cold core => post-tropical cyclone?)

I think using a general catch-all that was not a narrowly-defined technical term that didn't/wouldn't universally apply was actually a prudent and defensible thing. Given their goal of collecting all the concerns of all the stages of the storm under one umbrella.

Even if their motivation was just stupid news branding/sensationalism.
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Great stuff. Reminds me of Hemmingway's shortest story, just 6 words: "For sale: baby shoes, never used."
This is precisely why we have a self host requirement for all of our software. We did have a ton of stuff in salesforce but due to a number of problems with salesforce availability and the inevitable problem of relying on British Telecom's infrastructure monkeys, it got moved to a locally hosted dynamics CRM solution with off site transaction log shipping should the office catch fire.

Cost a small fortune but there is nothing more expensive than not being there for your paying customers.
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Very much so; when I was in the market for a REST app, I found tastypie very clean to work with for adding on to an existing project.
(all the major options should be on djangopackages.com)
Title is a bit sensationalist don't you think? It's at least under the guise of research.
The last time I looked, save dialogs for example in Preview were broken too, as the horizontal scroll bar hid most of the lowest row even when you scrolled to the absolute bottom. What were they thinking? That's a pretty serious basic level bug that your UI is blocking your data. Don't they test such big changes?

All kinds of things are broken left and right in OSX but I guess that's just how it is. Mail hangs constantly and silently, you're just not receiving anything anymore. You can't close it (and force quit is not an option anymore?), you have to kill it from command line. The new calendar is brown faux leather all of a sudden, completely different than everything else. And you can't easily select which account you're viewing and setting events for.

It is interesting to note that software functionality and polish above a certain mediocre level just can not be reached.

Sure, sometimes it's understandable that stuff is totally rewritten from scratch since some fundamental new technology made it necessary, and you have to go to a state of more brokenness. But even when that is not the case, it seems software can't go beyond "90% complete" or so, at best it just reaches an asymptotic level where stuff is broken at the same rate as it is repaired.

After the major and hard stuff is done, what the heck are all the engineers and testers working on? If you're not in a hurry to create those big features any more, you could concentrate on at least doing the few new small features very well. But it feels as if OSX UI has taken as many steps backwards as it has gone forward from Snow Leopard.

This happens in other software too. For example Xnview and XFLR5 have both been developed for a long time and have had their ups and downs, and at the moment might be below 50% of their historical level of "perfection". But they're cheap/free mostly one man operations, multiplatform and have had massive rewrites and feature expansions. Often the developer might not even have some supported platform to test platform specific issues on, and it's a surprise they work as well as they do.
Or, if you have a Galaxy Nexus, try out an alpha port here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805282
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I prefer if they don't approach me unless I'm obviously looking for help, but in my cases shopping in the UK it was "there is nothing useful on the shelf, I need to find out if there is a product by asking an employee" and not being able to readily get one.
We use DRF 1 for all our APIs. Very excited to give DRF 2 a whirl.
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By analogy, being naked is your default protection against the elements. I think it works exactly as intended.
I'm in the tristate area. My team lost power. Honestly we could really use the day. However that's not how life works, and I think there is value in pushing through to results in the face of adversity. Would I take the gift of an extra day? Sure, no need to make things harder for yourself. But think about this from the perspective of YC's goals: find the best entrepreneurs. My guess is that the best entrepreneurs will get the job done without an extra day.
Any chance any of these REST libs are going to support mongodb? If one already does, can someone provide a reference?
I've outlined how we solved this problem in another comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717713

Incidentally, I'm not here to form relationships - personal or otherwise. The primary goal of social media sites is to indulge in procrastination while advertisers bombard us with new products, not to improve one's life. For the latter, there are books, actions and real people made of flesh and blood. This reminds me a lot of some of the people I encountered in my gaming days - they tend to forget about the context of the platform they are using.
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It also varies by product, including how the product is consumed. It is quite complex.
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Does it fix the bug In the most recent version whereby dropdowns wouldn't work on ios safari?
Tomcat deployment is also pretty easy, can package a war file and then there are even context parameters if you want to use the same war for multiple instances. That being said this is a nice option which is already integrated with apache or nginx so don't have to setup a proxy, and this will handle static assets automatically if you are not using a CDN.
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Hurricanes would not be a problem if you Americans really understood fairytale about three pigs and bad wolf and start to build your houses from bricks instead of paper. Then you would need to just ensure that you have full fridge of food and a lot of books to read, no need to evacuate.
no, but http://cdnjs.com does, although I don't think they have the CSS
Yeah, I know. As a Python guy with a minor case of OCD, I sometimes feel compelled to critique code, even when I know the code was written in jest.

Sorry for being a pedant :)
Using Heroku buildback means you have shifted to using Heroku instead of self hosting?
Steve Jobs was no Steve Jobs... until later anyway.
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Several times a month, usually heavily clustered. That number would go up if I had a "guest" mode.

How much developer effort could possibly be saved by merely neglecting to make a UI for this that can fit on a small screen, as well as a large one? This should be a solved problem.
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"What could Iran possibly stand to gain from snooping on Israeli police?"
I can think of lots of things, starting with information that is shared by Mossad. Even identifying the police officers who liaise with the intelligence service might be useful. If you can grab that info along with maybe the code names for a few projects, you can follow up with another email that sounds more plausible "Hey this is Moishe, can you shoot me the latest on the XYZ investigation?"
Weak students may benefit, but strong students don't. Some of them are strong enough to work through a class of couple dozens of peers not interested in learning and disrupting the class out of boredom, but some of them just give up.

I'd like to see some data about this "net negative" claim. I think forcing bright kids that want to learn and advance to suffer through substandard school and disruptive environment that suppresses their will to learn and prevents them from achieving better results because the school needs their parents' money and they will be "good influence" on those bullies and delinquents - is plain wrong. A person - even a kid - should not be means to an end. It's just immoral - and judging from the results public school achieve statistically, being more expensive and less successful that private ones - also impractical.
https://github.com/fatiherikli/tastypie-mongodb-resource
... especially since there is more than one historical example for all of Manhattan losing power. (One of those times involved looting and civil strife.) Combined with the verbiage about "once-in-a-generation storm", it is fortunate that any part of Manhattan had power.
Wasn't trying to push my stuff, but here are a couple of resources that may be helpful.

You can sign up for a free Mimiran account (http://www.mimiran.com/pricing-signup/), which includes a couple of sample proposals which are based on real winning proposals.

You can also check out the http://www.mimiran.com/proposals/ section of the website, which has a number of posts on writing compelling proposals.

Check them out and see if you agree with the ideas we are, ummm, proposing. ;-)
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REST framework's serialization isn't tied to the ORM, so it should play perfectly well with mongodb.
Thanks! Been meaning to check this out for a while.
There is Facebook Zero[1]; I believe that it is (to some degree) the inspiration for the Wikipedia Zero project.

An article[2] about it was submitted to HN a little while ago, and it argued that Facebook Zero is an attempt get people to think that "internet" and "Facebook" are synonyms.

[1]: http://0.facebook.com/

[2]: Possibly: http://qz.com/5180/facebooks-plan-to-find-its-next-billion-u... It's not loading for me so I can't be sure, but it is in my browser history.
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I agree, one of the main reasons I decided to use TorqueBox was because of this. Requires minimal configuration and I get distributed cache, clustered messaging system, HA scheduled jobs and HA services.
You can just grab the tag of the version you need from Github and the docs are included in there.

i.e. https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tree/v1.0.0

If that's too complicated for you, I believe there is even someone who hosts an archive of all the version of the docs? He posted elsewhere in this thread..

http://bootstrapdocs.com/
Really nice! I just tried it for a few minutes and that's impressive. Works really well on Mac and FF Nightly.

A few things thought:

- I didn't find how to switch between apps.

- Setting a custom resolution will be a good feature.

- Copy/Paste from desktop to B2G

edit: Ok so to go back to home screen, on a mac use fn+left arrow key of fn+right arrow ke
We are in the process of switching a project from Torquebox to Passenger. We spent a lot of time having to fix issues here and there, tweak our chef recipes, and, on top of it, the startup time of JRuby was painful. I'm a huge fan of JRuby and Torquebox, and I hope they do really well. We're a startup, so we need the devops effort to be minimal and the development time to be extremely speedy. I hope we're able to migrate over to JRuby one day in the future after we release.
I agree, but this is where my department is being pragmatic. A computer scientist with no experience at all in OOP or basic software engineering will initially be pretty useless in the private sector, which is where 90% of graduates go.
Quoting Jeff in an attack on Joel has got to be irony yes?

Whatever this post says Jeff clearly didn't share your view of Joel being an amateur and a fraud given that he went on to start a pretty successful business with him.
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My little personal VPS (non-recursive!) DNS server has been asked to participate in one of these DDoS attacks before; the incoming requests for isc.org tipped me off. I guess they didn't notice that my server wasn't sending replies.
It seems like this would have all been mute if zappos did the standard industry thing of including a "I agree to the terms and conditions" checkbox on account creation page:

https://secure-www.zappos.com/register?checkout=true
cognet NYC datacenter down: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717985
If water is leaking in, not a crushing tidal wave, all you need is a small elevation about drainage / pump to route leaking water to another location.
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Nothing...? http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm//wp-content/uploads/201...

Though your point is clear. Mac OS X is very clearly reminiscent of this interface.
Not happy with Tastypie[0] or DRF[1], we've created another one, basically a simple wrapper around CBVs, for a specific niche (RESTful but not HATEOAS, JSON-only): https://github.com/dobarkod/django-restless (overview&docs at
http://django-restless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ )

So far used it in a couple of our projects, but would welcome feedback.

[0] too much ModelResource magic
[1] custom model (de)serialization into multiple formats, browsable api is majority of the framework: IAGNI, and 80% functionality we needed was in 20% of DRF (which is basically what Restless is)
Hmm, there's quite a lot out there actually. Try a regular search (not news) for "Nuclear bomb hurricane" and see what turns up. A good hour or two's reading at least.

Here's an authoritative discussion from the NOAA: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

Some wacky ideas here, including using submarines to pump cold water from the ocean depths to the surface to disrupt convection currents:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/meteorology/news-subver...

As to the origin of the idea, all I could find was that it was first proposed in the 1950s (but no source.) That makes sense given that it's an obvious thing to try with a new H-bomb toy. I couldn't find any evidence that the Ploughshares program* in the '60s ever considered it, so I expect the idea was shot down after the first back-of-the-envelope calculation.

*Ploughshares was an exploration of peaceful uses of nuclear explosives. Turns out they're only really good at digging really gigantic holes that you can't use for 50,000 years.

(Edit: ChuckMcM, commenting below, has actually been to a Ploughshares crater and since he didn't die I'll admit that "50,000 years" is poetic hyperbole, not scientific fact.)
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Or just make the generators work submerged?
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"Solutions" like that are the reason Android has such a persistently mediocre reputation.
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Zero Facebook only works on some networks in certain countries:

http://readwrite.com/2010/05/18/free_mobile_facebook_with_0f...