skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And losing, they felt more and more deeply as the campaign
went on, would mean horrible things for the country. They
started to worry about the next Supreme Court Justices
while they coded.

Is it too naive to think that Reed and his team are able to influence the Administration's policies? Their ability to raise Billions of dollars and increase voter participation must trump 'regular' moneyed interests.
The right way to handle this problem is to scrape the content out of the incoming HTML, do a best-effort pass at remembering the formatting rules expressed in it, entity-encode everything, and regenerate the HTML markup from scratch.

It is never a good idea to accept HTML from a client, attempt to clean it up, and then pass it directly into the DOM of a server-generated page.
I didn't start doing this till I started programming. It never occurred to me how much more logical this approach was till then.
I'd expect that many of the responses from people who would prefer less trees are from people who have specific trees that they are annoyed with. For instance, if there are some city-owned trees that make it so you have to clean your gutters often, or that are blocking what would otherwise be a spectacular (and property value boosting) view, I can see thinking that your city has too many trees.
> witness the backlash against home schooling

Not to de-rail the thread, but what is the backlash against home-schooling? I know that it's become more popular in recent years, but people did home-schooling in decades past.
I think this is a case where an industry has chosen self-regulation to avoid government regulation that they may not be able to control.
Or automating the creation of a unique app token for each user: https://dev.twitter.com/apps

What TOS does that violate? What if the user manually creates a token and inputs it? Could Twitter detect this even happening?
The design looks really metro inspired. Maybe MS is onto something.
NSBlog: Let's Build objc_msgSend
Here's the video of the talk (PyCon Canada 2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpBaZKSODFA&feature=plcp
If only geeks would understand IP spoofing. You can't spoof an entire BitTorrent connection.
Descriptions could use formatting love, see UITableViewDelegate
>There is no easy way to include .js file that are stored on your server.

So lets assume you have a totally-static website. That involves copying files over e.g. FTP at worst. So you have an FTP application, editing tools, etc. How unlikely is it that either A) the tools don't offer JS minification, or B) you're using flat text editors, and can't find someone who can write `cat /.js > all.js` or apparently the Windows equivalent `copy /b file+file+file all.js` in an executable text file? Then it's a double-click and drag the all.js file over.

Remember, we already have multiple source files which are included everywhere or this wouldn't be a debating point. So your files must be include-able in every page, which are either order-agnostic or must always be in the same order. Either you maintain that by hand, or you run one of those scripts or you use your editing application. Is editing every file by hand easier or harder than a single double-click?
Not sure how $36/year is "rich". Cable TV costs more than that per month!

Personally, I'm sick of being sold to. Ad-supported is not the only business model in town and I'm not sure when using an ad-supported service over a paid one became a virtue. If this makes me "rich", ok.

App.net is just proof that at least a few people agree with me.
Yep, shouldn't the right answer be: accept whatever the user gave you, validate it with a link in the email you send that they've received it.

Should be even more important if you ever intend to do business with say someone from China. Good luck dealing with validating hanji in an email.
Actually, I also would like to know how you could accomplish this. Assuming "this" is "use your connection in a P2P network to make a peer report that it is connected to A.B.C.D, when in fact you are at W.X.Y.X"
Apple's Biggest Screwup : OS X Server
Hacker Group Says Program Can Exploit Microsoft Security Hole (1998)
Thank you. Had I seen that article first I wouldn't have posted the one I found!
I have lived with canner in two loved ones very close to me. My wife and my Dad. My wifes TNBC was caught early and and the treatment was horrific but she has survived. I wasn't so lucky with my Dad as he came out of the gate with prostate cancer, stage IV, earlier detection in his case would have given me the time for fishing and the other things we'd put off for his retirement.
Did I read this article correctly?

"First comes the "notice" phase, which simply involves letting users know they've been tracked on copyright-infringing sites."

So, if I wander over to the Pirate Bay or any other site like it, even just for research, I'm in trouble without downloading anything?

... why? they might have the best torrent for a [completely legally acquired game] mod.
Thank you for your point of view, but again, I am not saying that I am entitled for success. The only thing that I am saying in my humble opinion is that applications should be reviewed in full (Alumni network or Partners, etc.) That is because probably applies in our case, we are really bad with words in our application but watching a video or how it works and full blown beta demo could increase the chances... my 2 cents.
CD to the root of current GIT repo
function groot() {
cd $(git rev-parse --show-cdup);
}

Place this in your .*shrc

P.S. If you want to get back to where you were in the git repo:
cd -
Chinese Willing to Pay More for Made-in-USA Goods
I don't trust Evernote's security enough to put this kind of info on their infrastructure.
Awesome. Consider it a part of my project by default. :)
Exactly this.

Kickstarter croudsources the risk, and the upside is 'you get this thing we want to make', where you could instead just wait for that thing to be made and buy it.

I would rather have given Pebble $200 or $2000 for a (admittedly tiny) piece of the company. That's compelling.

The risk is way, way too high for the reward. But the price points are generally so low that it isn't a big deal. It's like playing the Super Lotto, but instead of an infinitesimal chance of winning $10m on a given date, you have a slightly less infinitesimal chance of getting the product you wanted at some nebulous point in the future.

All the downside of risk with none of the upside, where do I sign up?!
The Cost of an Email Unsubscribe
If Twitter charged to send tweets (like Facebook is now doing) then they wouldn't need to crack down on third-party clients.
Answers to common questions about RethinkDB
Card, dice, and word games that can be explained in no more than 100 words
"Most of the Romney organization's core IT operations, such as desktop support and back-office systems, were outsourced to Best Buy subsidiary MindShift Technologies"

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/which-...
Assuming you mean web pages, I'd go with neither: use max-width instead. You avoid forcing people with narrow windows to scroll horizontally, while also avoiding excessively long lines of text on wide windows.
This is correct. HBO doesn't cost $10, it costs more like $80. Sure, you get a lot more than HBO for the $80 but there is no way to get HBO alone unbundled.
Life isn't fair
Orca wasn't built by contractors, it was written in-house by Romney staffers and volunteers.

See: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/which-...
Interesting! What version of Android / device did you take that screenshot with?

In general it doesn't appear to be fixed:
http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime

And I verified it just now in an Android 4.1 emulator going to this url to test:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_in...
There are certain services that accomplish what you want at a much much better quality level, cost $10-12 per month and offer full SSL connections, but I'm not allowed to tell you about them.
> Exactly, that's precisely the message they wanted you to have.

The message they want you to have is "build boring enterprisey stuff".
It's not so other people can see them, your phone will probably be at lock screen when you put it down anyway. It enables you to quickly glance at your phone and see the crap you care about.

From the home screen tiles I can instantly see if I've missed any calls, any unread emails, status updates on twitter/facebook, chat messages and text messages. Without scrolling, or tapping.

A scroll down the screen gives me other less useful stuff, like whether or not I need my umbrella today and if there is a wreck on my normal commute route.

Each to their own.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like the internal elements of the date picker in the calendar respect my browser text-size settings. Along with the other styling comments here, I hope that we keep accessibility in mind and allow the user to control their font size for these UI elements. I hope this is just an oversight or my user-error.
Python-route53 released
The real shocker for me is that NASA is actually working on prototypes.
Plus you can just ignore their DNS server, and use 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 (google's) or OpenDNS instead. (though that may not work if they cut off your connection until you acknowledge)
I did not see in the presentation the following code snippet:

"from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor"

Somehow I feel cheated... ;) :P
Cookie law, Cookieless and django tips.
Powergremlin lets you measure and optimize your iOS app’s power usage
> I'm sure there's a law somewhere that says that no matter how completely indefensible a position, there is some contrary-minded group who will loudly proclaim allegiance to it. And if there isn't, there is now.

We could call it the Flat Earth Law. http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/
Nothing, which is why you might want to avoid the "Like" button. You can choose between not "Like"-ing anything, to avoid your name showing up on spam, or you can "Like" worthwhile, interesting things, so your friends' spam is marginally more interesting.
>I'm located on Spain but all my software is configured as en_US for convenience.

Out of curiosity, why? I am always frustrated with Google (and others) for using my IP address to determine my locale setting, when I clearly have indicated en_US in the headers I send down to them. But I can see why they do if a lot of people purposefully don't set their locale correctly for whatever reason.
Didn't the latest Ars article suggest Orca wasn't a contractor concoction after all? [1]

I think all we really see, is that the Obama campaign had experience and no primary campaign distractions.

The Obama campaign had a v1 in 2008 and were merely updating it for 2012. Yes, they had to figure in mobile and the enhanced scale of the problem, but they were starting from a significantly better place than the GOP, who were caught completely flat-footed on technology in 2008.

The Obama campaign also had a (comparatively) leisurely opportunity to implement and refine their system while the Republican primary battles raged on and any one potential GOP candidate was denied the money/focus to start the development of a national campaign tool.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/which-...
"Be aware that pictures and other things you write down (including emails) can be used against you for legal/tax purposes. If you’re living out of your office or visa-versa, you didn’t tell me, and you don’t have any pictures. It can be dealt with, but you’d rather not."

Uhh.. What? Clarify?

In general, please fix grammar. Lots of issues that actually make the list harder to understand.

Thanks for putting it together. It's pretty useful!
> What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8?

Notifications. Multiple accounts. Filters. Speed.

Twitter.com compares to (many) Twitter clients like 2004 webmail compares to native e-mail clients of the time.
The headline is needlessly inflammatory. The bashing was entirely epicurean (burritos & pizza stuff, reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latke%E2%80%93Hamantash_Debate). There were a few interesting points, in that certain areas, because of resident industries, lend themselves to certain businesses. Fashion in NYC is the one pointed to the article, and I've seen similar arguments made for marketing businesses. Love to get the boards thoughts about this for other sectors!
"VP" is so prevalent at banks because bank depositors and customers feel important when they get to talk to a "vice president."
You can't be serious. Put your hand to your monitor, and with your thumb and forefinger, unpinch. Your thumb and finger move left and right?

So my counterexamples are irrelevant, and you unpinch in a way nobody else does. Sounds like you just get off on being contrarian.
Look at those beards! Obama was destined to win, flown to victory on the billowing gray beards of ... something. Justice? The internet?
Dynamic typing in a statically typed language - All Unkept
Wonder if a product belongs to the Internet of Things?
Here is the video from PyCon Canada 2012 (with download link and such): http://pyvideo.org/video/1601/twisted-history-of-python-pack...
Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits
The Value of DBC (and perhaps YC?)
I'm not (in this argument) arguing against the idea that a world without patents wouldn't be better. It might but that is a whole other discussion. In this world patents exist and FRAND commitments enable significant amounts of commerce and standardisation to proceed.

FRAND is not irrelevant, most companies meet their commitment and massive numbers (of possibly dubious) patents can be licensed quite cheaply in many areas. Samsung and Motorola are trying abuse their Standards Essential Patents in several areas and are risking this whole system (at least in Samsung's case possibly at great risk to themselves in the medium term).

You say FRAND is irrelevant because some companies aren't following it but I think they form the minority and it is yet to be seen if they get away with it. Rambus didn't (although it took years) and Motorola is in another suit with Microsoft which may yet enforce some FRAND rules. Plus anti-trust authorities in the US (I think) and Europe have at least been taking an interest in this area although no actual proceedings have been brought they could still be.

If I want to build a device to connect to the mobile phone network I need to follow the standards.

If I want to build a device to connect to connect to wifi I need to follow the standards.

If I want to process video that is available from just about anywhere I need to follow the standards.

If I want to design a new UI I can choose to develop something new (and patent it if I want), use something published but non patented (hard to find), use something old (>20 years), take a license to something patented or take my chances getting sued. Only the last two options are open when developing to a standard.

At the moment if a single company (without a monopoly position) develops a new "standard" they can license it how they want because they are not breaking competition law and won't have entered any commitments. That doesn't make it OK for competitors to act together to do this.
In general, it's referring to the fact that you should be very careful with what you write down.

For example, if you send an email to a potential employee that the 10,000 shares you are offering them are worth $10,000, you've effectively valued your stock at $1/share. Now if you try to go and give options at $0.02/share and claim that is "fair market value", if the IRS ever saw the original email you would be in a bad situation.

Re. the grammar, happy to fix it up as necessary, it was done in a very conversational style as I didn't think it would be this popular, and likely has ways that it can be improved for clarity. Let me know what/where can be improved and I'll fix it up
I've always wondered why Twitter doesn't do something like this. Why wouldn't they change their rules to something like: Once you have more than 100k users you pay us 5-10% of every copy of your software sold. If your app's free then you don't pay anything.

I'm pretty sure developers would agree to something like this and Twitter could get some extra money that they're not getting right now.
I haven't finished any production-ready apps yet, but I can tell you it's a heck of a lot of fun, well worth the $199 so far. It took a little while for me to wrap my head around how to integrate third party libraries, but once I got the right incantation, everything seems to be working as advertised.

The community is also moving very rapidly to replace the Apple's Interface Builder centered UI design process with a DSL approach.

Also, the way Laurent has designed MacRuby and RubyMotion is really brilliant, and I'm happy to be along for the ride and looking forward to see what's coming next.
If it is too old, too bad for me. NOT. Age is just a number. I am sure there are plenty of 31 year olds who are as successful as the 18 year olds.
Problem with enterprise is not a technology or even design, it is bureaucracy times mediocrity.)
You dont always need to spoof the connection:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349156
It's far easier for you to use a computer, because you have used computers.

Remember when user manuals used to tell people what "ctrl c" meant" ('Hold down the "control key, then press and release the c key, then release the control key') - or Microsoft's animation of ctrl-alt-del to login?

I used ballet dancing because people start young, with simple steps, and build up. This is kind of how computer users work. You might think that searching the web, selecting software, downloading and installing that software is easy and merely a sequence of simple steps. But that bit of ballet? That's just a sequence of steps strung together.
Why can't you tell us about them?
Considering how much javascript is involved in current twitter and how often can subtle things in markup change, I'd say it's just too brittle to rely on.
Which corporation would pass on a college graduate?
Very good point about this specifically. They live in a poorer part of the city. It shouldn't be that way, but it may well be that their neighbourhoods aren't as well tended as some of the richer parts of San Francisco.

> In other words, the respondent's answer depends on the who they think is asking the question and how they think their answer might be used.

Also, a good point about surveys in general.
Blue State Digital

BSD

I got it...
If your salary ever depends on a completely free service's API, then you may be scared shitless, but you've also usually made a bad choice.
What's your bitcoin strategy?

It seems like bitcoin could really complement this type of business: The escrow service would be very useful to people wishing to pay in bitcoin. And at the same time, Balanced could benefit from the significantly lower fees and zero risk of fraud that bitcoin payments offer.
> What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.

Moreover, it works remarkably great in Win8. Add a direct link to twitter.com on your start page, and it feels like a fullscreen native app in virtually every way.
>What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8

I dunno. Ask the 100,000+ people that wanted to use the client.
I'd say that sudden explosion in one user application is very suspicious. This is easily countered by premoderation of applications, for example.
Having written scrapers in the past, I can tell you that changes are usually pretty easy to deal with. And if you write your scraper nicely, many small changes won't even matter.

Since the client runs on the user's machine, performance isn't really an issue, either. (Trying to do it for all users on a server is a different story.)

APIs are indeed "all the rage" because they're easier and don't change as much. But when given no other option... You do what you have to.
Famous brain set to go under the knife
The author keeps calling it ugly, but to me it looks f-in sweet!
D'oh. Thanks for the catch. Changed.
Wow, thanks for pointing that out. The headline is very misleading. Here's the full slideshow: http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2012/11/15/best-of-b...

There are 25 things on there, including five 'best devices'. I guess the headline wouldn't be as interesting if it made this clear.
The vending machine part of the story is a bit strange. Why did they not make a machine that would accept a dime and return a couple pennies with the coke?
Myspace Begins Roll Out of New Site
Perhaps "don't depend on someone else's API unless you're paying for it" is a better attitude. Depending on someone else to keep giving you something for free is problematic at best.
For the things it can do, yes, it is very good. It's not a general-purpose login, so of course there will be things you can't do (like uninstall things). But the things you can do cover most things:

* Install/update programs via Ninite
* Install Windows updates
* Any screenshot they take with Soluto (F8) get automatically sent to you with system runtime information
* Enable/disable/delay programs during startup (delaying them means Soluto starts them after you have a usable system)
* Enable/disable web browser extensions
* View hardware and driver information
View-blocking is a major problem in a beautiful city with lots of trees.
Well that isn't going to work -- what if you use a vpn (say to your place of employment, because you are working at home)?
Terms Of Services should be illegal
Theres also Bento - http://cournape.github.com/Bento/html/index.html which is well designed. Disclaimer - David C is a friend.
"but it’s just not as cool to be a 35 years old millionaire now days when there are 24 years old billionaires running around."

If you actually meant that, I'd say you're too immature. Honestly it's about making money, or changing something you care about in this world. if you want to be a founder because it's fashionable well ...
See what your paycheck will look like before and after the fiscal cliff
Unfortunately not for my purposes; my start menu is not unordered, it is dense, categorized and alphabetical - like this: http://imgur.com/XRAG1
Wikipedia does. Unfortunately pg's essays don't, which is a shame, because it would help the reading experience much.
Why not? Because of liability to law suits for breach of the terms of service or copyright violation. Third parties have been sued for scraping in the past.
This would only work for the public timeline. Most people would want to view their own timeline and that would be hard to since you'll have to create a browser instance for every user you have.
What's ridiculous is assuming you can make money off of a free data source without any inherent long term risk.
13-year-old creates iPhone app to track missile fire on southern Israel
But who wants to pay to tweet? With the business and culture they've built, they don't have a way to go back. They have to stay free for everyone, they have to show ads to make money, and they have to kill 3rd party apps to make sure the ads get seen their way.

If you want Twitter-that-was, ADN is your best bet at this point.
Oh! I completely missed that you can buy coins.

I really ought to switch my default association with coins in games from "game mechanic" to "real cash". The times, they are a' changin'.
Read the link that I posted. These people aren't stupid and they haven't believed trackers for a few years now.
In the Ruby world, a common heuristic for problems is:

1) Can the language do this for me?
2) If not, is there a gem that does it?
3) If not, can I make one?

The tools to make it easy to get and share gems and manage dependencies are a huge boost for all Rubyists.

Here's hoping that Python devs, who already have a very nice language to work with, can unite around an equally set of package tools.