skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, personally this isn't much of a problem, since I've got exactly no data at all hosted on cloud services. All the data I want to use on the go, as well as from home, I host on my own server. Therefore the data is, as far as I know, my property.

However, anybody running a business on customer data might want to think about the implications of this. The real question is where to put the servers. The EU isn't much better about this than the US (since they've spent most of the last few years with their heads up in America's bottom anyway).
Indeed - this article seems to have an interesting answer to the wrong question.
The enterprise is why Microsoft didn't invent the iPad.

There is so much baggage that Microsoft has to support to make huge amounts of money with enterprise companies that they can't just drop everything and reinvent like Apple could.

That's why there is a split in Windows 8 - they can't drop the desktop and bolt.
Autonomous Aerial Robot Maneuvers Like a Bird
"My computer is acting funny, do I have a virus?"

Family tech support.

Referring to IE, and Chrome, and Firefox as 'the internet'.

Googling full URL's (this is extremely common for non-technical people)

Moving a 200GB iTunes library from one computer to another

However, as others have mentioned, folder is the proper terminology in a Windows environment.
And I would upvote them too, if I could.

My point is not that the community isn't great. It's just that upvotes are the main currency I have to meaningfully reward individuals for their contributions (which is why you've received plenty of mine over the years).
Actually, Microsoft did move to the tablet before anyone else. They created a tablet version of Windows 10 years ago. Do you remember those? I had some friends who had those machines; mostly in the form of laptops that had a screen that would rotate into a tablet form factor, with a stylus for input.

Those were a market failure. It wasn't until Apple re-invented the tablet, and Android showed that there is actually a tablet market and not just an iPad market, that Microsoft re-entered the game with the Surface.
Even more so if the course was easy and they received a good grade.
I wonder if this can be used in delivery of goods inside a city.
Nice :) Where can we buy it?
Here is a list of static site generators (you should add your own):
https://gist.github.com/2254924

I'm big fan of Jekyll. I use it intensively on my binaryage.com site:
https://github.com/binaryage/site

I also started working on my own client-side static-site post-processor:
https://github.com/darwin/terraform

This is not yet another static site generator. The idea is to have browser-based editor for static site with live preview. Saving your changes would go directly to github, which will trigger site regeneration.

Right now I'm waiting for PhantomJS to upgrade internal webkit version. Terraform depends on the new DOMMutationObserver API (resp. on http://code.google.com/p/mutation-summary).
Looks really nice! Long time Sparrow fan and it'd be sweet to have a familiar experience on my Windows box too. Seems like they're developing a bunch of stuff on top of what Sparrow has too which opens up new possibilities of an email-orientated app store. Worth supporting on Kickstarter to help make it happen, plus get a license back which you'll end up buying anyway if this interests you.
This is a wonderful idea. I've thought of doing the same with Twilio. You could also make it a little more secure with Twilio by only opening the gate (dialing "9") for specific phone numbers that call in - for example your friend's number of the pizza place's number.
Just tried it out, seems like it works fine. It brings back all the Windows 7 start menu functionality.
I don't think I remember the book where I read this, but it was something about a former chief of police of New York, I believe in the 90's, when criminality was very high, and instead of focusing on the "big crimes", he focused on the small ones, like stopping graffiti on the walls, people jumping the gate at the subway, and other small crimes like that.

The point was to dramatically reduce this "ecosystem" of criminality. I believe it's kind of like when people see garbage on the ground, it's much easier for them to throw their garbage on the ground, too, because "others are doing it". The same thing must be with small crimes and with the people joining the drug cartels.

I believe The District was inspired from this guy's work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_District
Google is trying very hard to be this, for example in not hiring people without degrees.
Hey,

Thank you so much for this. I've no idea why I didn't think of this initially - but I've now rewritten the plugin to do this instead. Hope you like it - and thanks again!

Jack
Well written, and totally agreed that a degree stamp / piece of paper is not an indicator of the knowledge or passion of the individual.

However, I do know that lack of degree is always weighing heavily on the individual who doesn't have it. This further leads to compensatory behaviour

My 2 cents - I think an individual is better off taking small steps towards getting a degree than justifying it for the rest of their life.
Deciding what code to write is not a waste, writing code that is not needed is far more wasteful. Defining that as "in meetings" is not very productive.
What a terrible idea. This guy is going to get himself killed. I think there are two issues here, one that he is filming but also that he is invading personal space and picking out specific people and essentially staring at them. Tactically, if a stranger begins staring at me or targeting me in some odd way I consider them a threat to my life.
I know you mean well, but all of these laws would end up getting used to suppress other political parties.

Take for instance, this one:

- A candidate must post a huge bond. If he or she is found telling lies they end-up in prison and have huge financial consequences.

Laws like this, for instance, are used to great effect in Singapore to suppress alternative parties. The party in control uses the threat of bankrupting the other candidate to make it impossible for them to basically run a campaign. And god forbid they talk about the Yew family!
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It is to some extent. Normally I'd be very much in favor of doing that but in this particular case the main protagonist has for now more to lose than to gain from becoming cause celebre. The best thing in this particular case (which has only losers) is for the whole thing to go away and for her to continue her life. Corruption fighting is high priority but not as high as her continued safety and well-being.
FWIW, Las Vegas casinos use facial recognition to recognize card counters and other 'undesirables.' One of my Dad's clients (he's an engraver) was head of security for Caeser's Palace and his assertion was that the cameras were 85 - 90% effective at picking up someone as they walked in the door, and 100% effective at identifying them if they loitered in the casino for more than about 15 minutes. Granted its anecdotal, its backed up by the guys who well these systems to Casinos promising this capability but still.

I've never had a chance to talk to them about false positives or negatives so I can't really put their numbers in perspective but they seem to project facial recognition as a 'solved problem.'
Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
Hmm, I'm not sure I would say "At the moment 0% of Con Edison's Customers in Manhattan are Without Power". I currently have 4 people staying with me because their power is out in Battery Park, Chelsea, and Gramercy. It is definitely an improvement (I didn't have power or water until yesterday morning), but it's not over yet.

Looking at the ConEd official power outage map, they list roughly 10,000 people in Manhattan without power.
You sum up exactly why I've long since not cared about WordPress, but you seem to assume anything dynamic has to have an admin interface.

The ideal engine for me still uses flat files for content, but doesn't compile the files to HTML. Let a cache like Varnish handle the load. That way I can implement things like comments without running off to the latest service-of-the-month that might shut down and take everything with them.

I've spent enough time dealing with third-party javascript and issues on their end screwing up the first-party to want no part of a remote comment service.
> Do you have inside knowledge of this case

No, he does not.
Destroying drug cartels, the practical way: legalize.
Your proposition ignores the demand part of the equation completely.
This change appears to have been pushed already. Can't fault the responsiveness!
Actually there is a framework: https://github.com/JoshCheek/deject

Have't tested it yet but it makes a lot of sense.

Redefining a class isn't dependency injection it's a hack to get the compiler to stop complaining. It works but it's very unclear to the person reading the program that a class your code depends on was actually redefined somewhere else.

For testing purposes placing this mock class somewhere at the start of your code is clear but only ever practical in that scenario.

I can also imagine that some programmers might not even think of the possibility that some code they depend on was overridden somewhere else.

In real maintainable code where you want to swap out behaviours it's nice if there was a special way of defining your dependencies. This is the same for all languages.

Deject offers a way so you don't have to fiddle with constructors but instead you have handles in your classes that you can override with different behavior if needed.

TL;DR: Yes, Ruby is powerful and you technically don't need IoC containers. But to make it maintainable for everyone it's a good idea to do so anyway.
You should set up an Angellist account Check out angel.co and read VentureHacks (by the founders of Angellist). Also, Dave McClure has content all over about raising money, rules to making a pitch deck, etc.

It would be helpful if you gave some more information on the space you're working in and city you're based.
"We've discovered ways of producing orders of magnitude more food from the same plots of land."

By completely depleting our non-renewable resources: groundwater, soil, and oil.
Conditional random field
Or maybe they could just, you know, legalize it?

What's the big deal of replacing one cartel with another? I mean, I understand that's what's inevitably going to happen - it's just sad to see widespread kowtowing by deillegalization supporters sucking up to power.
This looks interesting to use a vm dev machine. Install it under vmware or something alike on your mac/pc and run your sites/apps live over there.

It seems to me there are huge advantages to doing that because if your run mamp on your mac for web development your quickly bump into problems like installing memcached or non-mac services. You also get more experienced with linux..

There actually already is something available for this called TurnKey Linux (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/).

A quick hint, if you do develop sites locally on your mac and get annoyed with Mac's weird dns lookup (.local, skipping the hosts file if it's not in a specific format.. etc) check out Dnsmasq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq). You can install it on your mac using port.
National is having to do with the nation, federal is having to do with the federal government.

National Basketball Association and Federal Bureau of Investigation obviously make sense. National Security Agency is a federal agency charged with security of the nation.
I saw in one of the comments that both of you are from different places (UK and Ned), still you could help your friend in India. Kinda makes my belief in Internet media more concrete
Is there any decline of PC? I didn't notice.
Great job! Gotta love the responsiveness. I hope you keep making it better.
“Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.” Margaret Thatcher
Google Search is becoming more like adwords. They just removed a site I manage because it doesn't meet the Google quality guidelines easyfastcheaponlinetrafficeschool.com. When they remove your site its like disappearing from the internet... I had to switch the site to a new domain and the loss in sales has been about $70,000+ so far not to mention spending more on adwords.
Airline, Myspace, Banks, Government websites vulnerable to Hackers
Q. Is there life on Mars?

A. There is now!
Would love to know this too.
Drug prohibition is immoral and violates the political and ethical sovereignty of the individual. I own my body and I despise anyone who seeks to enslave it.

Of course, America's "liberty" is really just a facade for their nationalism.
The idea is to leave something fun but approachable ready to go to make it easy to get into work mode. I don't enjoy code review very much, so for me trying to do this first would be a recipe for procrastination.
Skype hands 16-year-old's personal information to IT company
I don't understand you. You're here, on a board that regularly discusses, touts, and builds the bleeding edge, but here you are screaming form the rooftops that you hate change...

Tablets are over-hyped like PCs were over-hyped in the 90s. They are in the ascendency. Not because they're perfect for the work that most of us here on HN are doing/want to do, but because they're closer to perfect for the other 95% of humans. They lack many capabilities today that will limit them from being used in specific areas, but those reasons will dwindle over time.

Change simply for the sake of change, isn't good. However, as someone who loves technology, when I see family and friends successfully USING technology without fear of breaking things or feeling like an idiot? Using technology that brings joy? That is change worth supporting.
That'd be nice, but for the record, spending a lot of money on the military and cutting taxes (Bush, Romney) is not 'basically democrats with a little bit of jesus thrown in'.

I think your beef is more with the national security conservatives than the religious ones, religion is orthogonal to economic conservatism and often employed in its favor (megachurches hating on 'socialism', etc)
Welcome to the New Web
...which means you really ought to have the same rules in effect on both the client and server. With a large number of forms this can lead to some ugly maintenance issues.

How do other developers solve this problem?

I've found a very practical solution on the .NET side of things is to use data annotations with MVC - which allows you to markup your model with metadata describing the shape of acceptable data and have it automagically validated on both client and server - but haven't found anything similar in PHP and other languages. Any recommendations?
This experiment would have been equally disturbing to people had he done everything the same but not held a camera. The camera is not what is creeping people out.

If I was in a classroom and someone came and stood five feet away and just told me they were watching me, I would be on edge as well.
@jackfranklin I know you probably just haven't gotten to it yet but for the sake of completeness, on the readme you can change the 'Validation Methods' section to show the validation object structure rather than method names with brackets.
What you say is true when there are only two competitors - every move by the underdog will then be good for consumers. But chances are that a dumped Nexus/Kindle will hurt others much more so than Apple. (Most likely example: Google may push Amazon out of the tablet market, which would be a loss for consumers.)
I really like Middleman for my static websites because of the livereload support: http://middlemanapp.com/
I still prefer LAMP. One trick to improving cache on LAMP is converting or caching files into HTML. I know there are a number of templating engines like Smarty out there that will do just that, but what I mean is actually converting dynamic parts of the site that only change when an admin writes new content. Convert those pages into static HTML files when the admin adds new content, etc.

For example, a number of ecommerce website run off shopping cart systems that use a database. Why not have them convert into a HTML version of the site after the admin adds new products, edits products, ect. That would take a huge load off the server and database.
If you're detained, it's because they think you're guilty.

And many times this means they think you're guilty of things that shouldn't be a crime in the first place, like possessing drugs.
This is the framework I've been trying to find again since seeing it a few months ago. It seems to lie somewhere in-between traditional backend Rails and all-frontend JS MV* frameworks, which makes it interesting to me. Will be investigating it seriously if it can offer any better solutions to doing AJAX/interactive pages with Rails.

edit: After reading the Getting Started introduction, I'm reminded why I wasn't convinced the first time - I don't immediately see how it's a significantly better solution than Rails + piecemeal frontend JS. I'm going to look for a demo screencast now, because I need to see some simple code and its effects.
A "top X" list flaming Apple from 'helpmyseo.com'. The upvote link on this should log you out.
Or because this is not a particularly new post, no particularly new content either.
Tee hee. Linkbait headline leading to a website apparently called "Help my SEO." At least we're above-board!
Evolution will defeat this strategy in short order. Some organizations practice better communications security and will thrive in the vacuum created by the loss of their competitors.
Nothing to be found here that Hacker News users don't already know.
Looks pretty good. They should team up with the Sparrow guys :)
I also would like to buy it, but I think this is research technology.
Britain has invaded all but 22 countries of the world
I do have a degree, but besides my first job, which I got through the uni's internship program, I have never been asked about it since. Of course, now that I'm cofounding a startup, its unlikely that I ever will be asked about it (though as a technical cofounder, it may help to add to my credibility, though if I can execute, I won't need a degree to prove that I can execute..)
The Game Theory of Brain Enhancement 
An economist argues that widespread brain enhancement is inevitable.
for what language/ framework, do you want the tutorials for?
Can you be more specific about it?
What about EC2 do you want to know? EC2 itself is pretty agnostic, I mean it's just like having a linux box?

Do you want guides to the EC2 API?
does this do only browser emulation or actual app running?
I feel the same way about taxes, but we can't always have what we want..now can we?
Agreed. The glorious irony here is that the age old argument for spec work is that it builds your portfolio- I know that my SO portfolio contributed to landing my current job.
This is an interesting idea. I have a wordpress blog and would be very interested to switch to static. However, my wife uses the blog and really needs something more WYSIWYG than markdown.

Be sure to share when you've finished.
I've been using this for a new rails app:
https://github.com/bcardarella/client_side_validations

It does basically what you describe, but once you combine it with some other gems and add in some non-standard validations, it seems to get a bit unwieldy. I'm newish to rails but it makes me pine for Node.js, where I could literally just run the same validations on the client and server. Do any rails gurus know if this is best practice?
A degree also proves that you were able to stay dedicated to something for ~4 years without giving up. There is a lot to be said for showing that kind of commitment to a goal.
I fixed a bug in Python
I was hoping they continue in the tradition they are now, which has both saved them and gotten them in trouble in the past.

Currently they use dash mounted cameras with mics and they can't turn them off on some models. I was hoping they would have something like a helmet mounted GoPro or best mounted one. Yes, it won't see everything, but since they call 50 officers to a car ticket, someone will capture it.

Loss of tape should come with fines. Leo should be held to the highest of standards. No off duty for mistakes, you are fired.

The other case I heard where it helped them was some spoiled brats were drunk in public and called in a attempted rape charge. Tapes probed otherwise and had the girls talking about making the false claim in tape. They got busted pretty hard from what I recall.
Illegal drugs is only a small part of the problem. The bigger issue is government corruption in Mexico.
create an instance > log into it using PEM file > thats it :)
I think, almost by definition, for a language to have any interest, it must be able to deal with I/O streams. I can't think of a language that wouldn't work (I'd be very interested if somebody knows one and why it wouldn't work).

What the scripting languages give you is simplicity. No need to muss with compilers.
Tablets and PC will co-exist. You see, no one gets the fact that tablets are limited by their size. If you want to stuff in power, you are going to compromise on something, especially size, in this context.

Tablets are over-hyped and all they have is the cool factor. They are GREAT for consuming content, but not for producing them. And people who produce content are a huge majority. Let's take web developers and designers for example, I can't even imagine them (or me) working on their designs with 'an app' with a tablet. At least not until if it has a mouse; and if it has a mouse, it is automatically an evolution of the PC. There are so many many segments which the tablet can never fulfil. As a 3d artist, I can tell you how important the Graphics processor is to me, when I'm rendering my artwork. And rendering is not something instantaneous, depending on the complexity of the scene, it could take anywhere between a few seconds to a dozen hours to a couple of days for a single frame. And a remember, one second of a video (for film) has 24 frames. So I need to wait for 24frames*12hrs (assume 1 frame = 12 hrs avg.) to get one second of video rendered. And this is just one example I'm able to think of, but there are many many industries like Animation or 3d that are heavily dependent on PC's and tablets can NEVER replace them. Performance-centric industries are a huge portion of the PC market, until they make the transition to tablets (which is not in the near future), this tablet replacing PC's is just over-hyped BS that's a waste of everyone's time.
Blog Post was almost a month ago - October 8.
The Responsive Designer
Or a good team within a bad company.
Anyone have thoughts on deploying static sites to S3?

I have a few static sites and single-page JS apps, and right now I just serve them with Nginx off a shared server. I've tried looking for a definitive answer on "Where should I host static sites?" but it hasn't appeared yet.
Yeah, I remember those machines and did even see one used in person once.

Aside from any Apple magic and all the associated style factors, I think technology was just not ready then; they were just a laptop with a reversible screen, which was too heavy and bulky to be used in the ways people actually want to use a tablet rather than a laptop. You might have gotten two hours of battery life, for the first week of its life. And the stylus wasn't exactly inspiring either - it smacked more of a way to easily translate mouse-driven software than the best way to interact with the device. That's a lot more obvious in hindsight, of course.