skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former 'softie, I view it as a 'rally the troops' tone. Us against them with an undcurrent of 'they're scared'.

Definitely a different tone than what MSFT normally has, but they're confident, and in a world of 7 figure license deals, it's motivation and tone setting for re-selling partners and field staff.
Below 5% of Aussie startups scale into sustainable businesses
I'm assuming that you are referring to Jonah Lehrer recycling his own material. Part of tokenadult's self-assigned role here on HN is collecting relevant commentary and references for various subjects, then revising and posting it whenever those subjects come up. You'll find such tokenadult tomes posted on articles related to intelligence, for example. I think they are a useful contribution to the discussion, as they summarize previous discussions and bring newcomers up to speed on a subject.
I'm really confused. This link just takes me to a broken splash page with Trello marketing text that overlaps and cut off pictures? Might want to check that out if any of the authors are out there. HTC EVO 4g BTW.
I didn't realize extensions were largely javascript. Thanks for the pointers.
So 2004...that experience was probably running a mix of Windows Server 2000/NT. OS's that would be teenagers/in college now. It really is a different world in the server OS space (especially in the enterprise datacenter space) now.
That's merely because the concept of consent has become polluted.

Anyone who wants to know what I consent to has to ask me.
I've never understood the desire to work remotely, unless you are nomadic and travel the world.
Facebook Has Been Sucking The Life Out Of Artist / Fan Communication
"# of users" is a metric I use to choose which framework to use. For one, it makes it much more likely that a problem I'm having can be solved with a google or forum or stackoverflow search.

I think that alone makes it a much better metric to judge the experience you'll have with a framework than its cyclomatic complexity (at least for a user of a framework, maybe not as a developer)
Agreed (and as mentioned below), a bit of a rally the troops when it comes to re-selling partners and field sales.
No. Like the captain of a sinking ship, the CEO of a fucked company's duty is to make sure customers get their data back, employees have a soft landing, and investors get back any remaining money.
http://strtotime.net/
I'm always a bit surprised that SQL Server doesn't get the recognition that (IMO) it deserves

As someone who has spent 13 years with it and has dragged himself through multiple certification cycles, the reason it doesn't get recognition is that it's an insanely deep money pit when you have to scale it. By the time you've forked out for the (now suddenly per core rather than CPU[1]!) enterprise license, all the 3rd party backup and restore tools, numerous windows licenses and had your arse audited for license compliance, you're down a lot of cash.

Not only that, from a technical perspective, it's an absolute bastard to administer, particularly if something goes snap. It requires significantly more meat popsicles to run than a similar sized Postgres or MySQL cluster.

To be honest, it's cheaper to solve all the problems that SQL Server solves at an architectural level these days. It's no longer something special (was it ever?).

The only thing going for it these days is that it's better than Oracle.

[1] This properly fucks us on the 2008->2012 upgrade cycle as our primary machines are 4x 8 core Xeons. So that's from 4 licensable CPUs to 32 licensable CPUs. We have 4 of those machines. Bastards!
Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine
Damien Katz had said the document-like Lotus Notes db inspired him to create CouchDB.

He talked about this in a 2009 podcast:
"You can think of Damien Katz' CouchDB project as the distilled 'good stuff' from Lotus Notes. Wait! Why are you running away? Come back! It's not that bad! We swear!"
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4150.html
I meant the HTTP spec which is where GETs specified.
Just submitted an "issue" about that: https://github.com/amsul/pickadate.js/issues/6
Ah yeah. I believe the usual terminology is such that "extensions" are javascript and "addons" are something native. You could probably do cryto well with an addon.. to the extent that it is possible to do an addon at all properly (honestly I have no idea there).
There you go - this will make your life easier then:

http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/dijit/form.html#d...
I fondly remember the first version of Lotus 123. Started out writing a simple macro and then entire programs automating the business where I was working.

The bosses thought it was magic. It was so much fun I'd regularly stay after work for hours sometimes. Then I discovered dBase II which allowed me to do even more ;<).
Candor returns
WSJ stole my headline... ha

http://www.forbes.com/sites/siliconangle/2012/11/20/hp-swind...
> as they are already on a tight budget

They are NOT on a tight budget - even with the entire shuttle fleet shut down, they're spending more than they have in all but a few years since 1970.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

$17 BILLION may not sound like much in the insane scale of other federal spending, but it's a vast amount by any other scale.
Democracy is nine wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. I for one am quite happy the US isn't a democracy (it's a republic).
These pair nicely:

http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/dijit/form/DateTe...
John you should dress like a homeless woman or a prostitute..that would be a great disguise
I thought the idea behind microjs was libraries/frameworks that didn't require monoliths (like jQuery).
To this date, one of my favorite sites out there is the Lotus Notes sucks site: http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/

Love the error messages: http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/lnEx70.html
Product designer explains his role to potential candidates in Barcelona
Looks like a good idea. I would definitely improve the website but I would see this working.
"You Asked It" Turns Twitter Into Chatroulette, But Without The Nudity
An 'Uber' Problem for Cities: Balancing Innovation with Regulation
mtgx, I would like to discuss UEFI Secure Boot with you offline. Can you help us defeat it? I made a throwaway account whats_your_name2.hotmail.com if you want to email me.
Too bulky in my opinion. I don't need 90 percent of the things in that sdk.
If you are going to make the decision and commitment to supply client SDKs instead of a RESTful API why choose to implement the back-end as a http service? It is now hidden entirely by abstraction from clients and there are lots of efficiencies to be gained by using a custom protocol.

Did you evaluate whether a RPC pipe or distributed filesystem was a better fit?
The U.S. Should Walk the Talk on Free Trade
The last day
Facebook: Views Can Be More Valuable Than Clicks
> Your communications in the US are all already monitored as a fact of life.

I would ask you to provide evidence that my private communications are being monitored. Explain to me how the US government has cracked/backdoored every crypto library available.
Fork, fix and contribute.
Yea, I'm not a fan of this pattern, it's a pain to step through with a debugger.
it directly correlates to the number of hours you will spend with the debugger stepping through the labyrinth admin trying to figure out why your widget ended up without a whatsit.
Those are priceless.

There is that old phrase "take your ball and bat and go home" which a child was unhappy with how a game they were playing was going they could just leave. Now when someone gets criticized for their design skills they take their changes and try to build an entirely new ballpark, ticketing system, franchise rules, game rules, and seat numbering scheme.

I'd think it was funny if I wasn't dealing with the whole drm/kms/dri/x11/gles battle to see who can build the stupidest way to plug this together for my own, otherwise fun, projects. Makes me pine for Microsoft to port DirectX to Linux, how sad is that!
No, they're entirely functional. You can't copyright, say, penicillin (it is not a creative work!), but you can get a patent on the use of penicillin to kill microorganisms.
3x more signups from Habrahabr.ru than from 12 hours on HN front page
To SUM it up I hope we found evidence of one of the following.

- Evidence of Oceans on Mars
- Nitrogen in the soil, needed for plants to grow on mars
- Amino Acids
- Fossils

It could be something that is a play on words, 'Earth Shattering' could mean volcanic activity

I also wonder if they are finding rare minerals or metals.

It could also have to do with Isotope ratios, as much of our history currently depends on Carbon Dating and other Radioactive Isotope decay rates. Different Atmospheric conditions could have different isotope ratios, this would be a pretty big shake up and it does not necessarily require the rover to find a specific chemical or a complex thing like DNA or organism remnants.

My mind would be blown, if NASA found one of the following.

- living plants
- living microbes
- manufactured materials not of human/ earth origin.
- tons of precious metals.
How is the licence fee a tax?
Autonomy was one of the places I worked very early on while getting enough of a CV to pick and choose. I was only there for a matter of months though, and in systems, but I really rather liked that job. In the end I left fairly rapidly because I couldn't cope with living in Cambridge (I like smaller places and I like being near the coast).

Looking back I'm fairly sure I was woefully underpaid for the position ... but also not nearly as good at it as I thought I was at the time. So if anybody reading this thread remembers my work less than fondly, sorry :)
Out of ten, one of them is U.S.-based. That seems to support the assertion that something is wrong in the U.S.
...aaaand the world continued not caring.
The real value of Facebook is in your fans friends.
Ah, ok. Obviously you know the details of the situation far better than I. Just something I spend a lot of time thinking about.
Which is why I don't understand why pilots have to be screened

A person could be supportive of the cause without being willing to sacrifice his life. If pilots could get into restricted areas un-screened they could bring in bombs or weapons which they hand off to third parties. This would also be a more efficient use of a limited resource (the hypothetical Taliban sympathizer flying for a commercial airline).
Not in my experience. There are plenty of shooting ranges in Canada and they are always full. Properly equipped shooting range is the only place where you can legally shoot restricted guns -- pistols and such. Rifles and shotguns (unrestricted) on the other hand are common in rural areas and you can buy one in Canadian Tire in hunting section and shoot on your property or crown land. I know few people who drive around with a rifle in the back of their truck. No automatics anywhere though. :(

You have to pass a safety test (common sense, plus some regulations) and get few references to slightly increase the chance that you are not criminally insane to get PAL, but it is really less than a weekend worth of effort (and some waiting for papers).
"Bind it like this: $( '.datepicker' ).datepicker()" - so the very first instruction is an incorrect reference to JavaScript 'binding' as something that extends or provides features to an element, vs what it truly does: change the scope reference of the 'this' keyword in a function. Oh jQuery, thank you for obscuring the actual JavaScript language for developers everywhere sigh
Rogue UBS Trader Gets 7 Years In Jail Over $2.3B Fraudulent Trading Loss
A site doesn't have to run "annoying" ads for them to accidentally serve malware. Annoyance is just another line on the litany of reasons to run an ad blocker.
I am just wondering, why the topic here is "senate bill rewrite", and not "Democratic Majority in the Senate wants to led feds read your e-mail without warrants".

Maybe it is just me, but the recent (absolutely justified) bashing of the GOP retraction the copyright policy paper makes me wonder, why negative GOP stories have always attached to the party name, while DEM stories are usually attributed to a single politician or the institution per se.
That's an arms race the site owner will never win.
That is not a RESTful solution, though: what resource is it acting on? What are the four CRUD operations for it?

You have to come up with some added, unnecessary, implementation-exposing abstraction like "CityPair". (In which case "delete" could be ill-defined if, as would be wise, the distance is computed from a lat/long or road table lookup, and so there is no actual database entry that corresponds to the distance between the cities.) That's the problem with REST: it doesn't avoid the complexity of RPC; it just crams it into ever-more-creative resource types.

Most API users (sorry, "consumers") would prefer they just be told the format in which to ask for the data, not have to re-discover it through gradually-exposed paths each time.
Project to determine the historical origins of the 2.4GHz band
SocialWire Gets $2M From First Round Capital For Facebook Ads
New drugs are an extremely specific and limited case of Patents, a chemical formula.

If Biotech worked the way software did, you would be able to patent "A combination of chemicals inside of a pill that cures headaches".
Agreed the app had no clarity. At the time it released (the first app) it seemed like a real-time mash-up of that wedding thing where there is a camera on every table, and the guests are supposed to shoot candids of people around them, and then at the end of the event folks go through all the candid shots and create an album which captures the 'essence' of the event for your memory book.

Take that model, apply technology where everyone is already walking around with a phone, and boom you've got the 'color' app.

And it was a cool idea but the whole "its doing this all the time" thing really was weird. Our CEO was getting pictures of people's friends from Oracle across the street because we happened to be geographically "close." That was more creepy than interesting.
Client-side encryption solves everything until they make it illegal, which is a very big and very clear step that they have not made. And if you're not encrypting it yourself, you shouldn't consider it encrypted, period.
Army To Develop Halo-Style Electric Pulses
C++: Different forms of polymorphism
Presuming you're securing against gmail monitoring, Google in this case would be the eavesdropper/attacker.

Google controls the key/cert that allows for Chrome extension updating...
Hey pg, if I give you a self-contained light piece of JS that does this, would you consider including it in your website? This would also work on mobile.
For a while there, there were image bugs floating around in a Microosft library (CBA'd to look it up now) that would allow infection based on a specially crafted .BMP image.

And not all ad networks use images only; some do javascript, or worse, flash.

This is a case of a few morons ruining it for legitimate sites, unfortunately. Tragedy of the commons. The result is that I now block ads by default, on every device I own, unless I have a good reason not to. Again, the miniscule amount of support I'd be providing to whatever site is greatly offset by the risk of being served some nasty infection.
> lumber industry (last one is debated plenty)

The lumber industry? You're seriously comparing Big Pharma and for-profit prison companies with the timber industry?

I'm not sure if you are talking about America in the 2010s, but the timber industry is tanking. Maybe if you were talking about the 1970s I might peripherally agree.

The timber industry is so bad right now that it is cheaper to buy 2x4s to burn in your fireplace than firewood harvested from logging scraps.
Isn't that dependent on actually hitting a bug in the framework where you need to do that?
After reading the last two sentences I can't tell if this is serious or satire.
According to the Wikipedia article increased cyclomatic complexity leads to harder test code and the increased likelihood of more defects.

I'm curious how the analysis in the blog post works. In languages like Python it's common to hide branches inside of data structure lookups like the following:

def f():
...

def g():
...

def h(x):
return {
True: f,
False: g}[not x]()
Seriously - and you should be able to choose AY-8192, SID or whatever. It could also listen to a tune and render it back as 8-bit sound :)
MBassador - Light weight message bus for Java
The Best Airlines for Wi-Fi
so dont require them, you only use/build what you want.
Its AMD and everything is nicely separated
The other frameworks would "fall down" or you would need to write a small amount of glue code?

While Django is mature, I'm using it right now in fact, I find that I spend a hell of a lot of time trying to figure out why Django is doing a specific thing or how to convince it to do the exact thing I want.

I'm convinced, after a few years of Django work and a year or so of Flask (or just werkzeug libraries), that Django is the wrong level of complexity for a web framework.

For every minute I've saved by having django handle the edge case or having some great feature built in I feel like I've lost a few minutes to fighting against the framework when my use case doesn't fit into the expected usage and I'm fighting against a fairly rigid framework.

This feeling is what I think the OP is trying to get at with the "excessive complexity" measurement, although using a single metric like this is probably not the answer. It does fit decently well with my impressions of the frameworks listed (among the ones I've used anyway) but this is a messy and subjective problem.

I've found myself firmly in the "libraries > frameworks" camp because of this issue so I'm certainly biased towards liking this metric, even with it's faults.
The overwhelming majority of functionality in Django is useful for day to day web development. An argument could be made that a few bits of contrib and stuff like databrowse should be culled but they are completely separate from the rest of the framework and don't add to the conceptual complexity in any meaningful way.

And catering to 'every single edge case' actually seems to contradict the philosophy I've observed on the django-developers list.
> what resource is it acting on?

The distance between the two cities.

> You have to come up with some added, unnecessary, implementation-exposing abstraction like "CityPair".

This is a really weird thing to say. No, you don't. I have no idea why you would think that.

> What are the four CRUD operations for it? [...] In which case "delete" could be ill-defined

Not every method has to be valid for every resource. It's a total non-issue that you can't delete a distance.

(And POST/GET/PUT/DELETE is a very different concept from CRUD.)
I know that's the opposite of what most nerds like me want, but I think we're well served by a very broad definition of unauthorized access, and we're poorly served by vague conspiracy laws in more places than just online.

I do agree with you regarding conspiracy, but you are right that I would in principle prefer to have every Internet-facing system as robustly secured as if it had been independently reviewed by you, cpercival, and the people who wrote the space shuttle's software. A small part of the reason I want this is so that absolutely anybody can confidently write and deploy scraping software that collects and analyzes information in new ways (e.g. IBM Watson, better search engines, or some other as yet undiscovered idea).
Great idea. I would try to show at least a real photo of where you pick the trees, or actual pictures of trees. Also, the "venture" theme is cute, but it's not going to resonate with general consumers - it will likely even be confusing.
Startup copies another game exactly down to the tutorial and makes money... CONGRATS, YAY, SO IMPRESSIVE

Zynga copies another game exactly down to the tutorial and makes money... LAWSUIT OMG HATE HATE HATE

You people are such hypocrites
Because admining Windows still feels like an enormous nuisance compared to admining a Linux box?

I've heard Server 2012 adds more capabilities that would make it administerable more like a Linux sysadmin would expect.

Sorry if I offended the point-and-click "sysadmins".
> If they don't, then perhaps "the Pirate Party' is a bad name?

By that token, oughtn't "The Republicans" win every election in a republic? And does "The Democrats" view republicans as non-democratic?

This is only half in jest.
And even if they don't earn their salt, your lawyers should protect you in the representations and warranties section of the definitive agreement.
I've seen that already, and yes, it's impressive, but watch and see, this isn't going to be built in 90 days, or next year. Probably never.
I'm a huge fan of your service, I've read a lot about you, GTC, and have been interested in the whole aspect of it for awhile. This is a shot in the dark, but could I email you a couple questions? I promise not to take too much of your time.
We've been seeing articles everywhere about how App economics don't make sense, it looks like games are the exception. I'd love to see the communities thoughts about this!
During the Viking program in the 70's, Levin's Labeled Release experiments seemed to show life in the martian soil. Two other experiments, also on Viking, failed to collaborate this finding, although there were issues with both of them which made their negative findings less meaningful.

Ever since Viking, there have been no biological experiments sent to Mars. The issue has been tabled for 30 years.

I'm hoping Dr. Levin finally gets his confirmation. If that's the case, it would explain why they're double and triple checking things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program#Biological_exper...
White House Puts Fate Of Pardoned Turkey Up To Facebook Voters
I should add, I also feel like these big frameworks have all the components and dont do a good job of each component. I rather use something that is by itself but the author is passionate about the widget and it is the best it can be.
Went from disgusted to amused as I read the article, looks like both are safe. Shows both social media savvy and a solid self of humor, nice work again White House.
Well, if the site's documentation gives any indication of performance, this is only used with the app and only as authentication. The store clerk would have the stamp, and all it would do is authenticate the store within the app. Nothing can really be lurking.
ACTA was supposed to be a "free trade" thing, too, when in fact it was the exact opposite.
>6k and a jQuery dependency? Dates aren't as hard as they used to be. I'm working on a pure-JS datepicker for modern browsers that will clock in at under 5k minified, with no dependencies. Take a look at my work so far here: https://github.com/potch/fortnight.js

(Edited to correct that the likely final minified size will be closer to 5k. Hoping to add accessibility features and localizability.)
FTA: But he also authored the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which is still looming over Web companies, and the reviled Protect IP Act. An article in The New Republic concluded Leahy's work on the Patriot Act "appears to have made the bill less protective of civil liberties." Leahy had introduced significant portions of the Patriot Act under the name Enhancement of Privacy and Public Safety in Cyberspace Act (PDF) a year earlier.

He's far from a consistent supporter of Civil Liberties. Surely we shouldn't demonize him, but clearly could use some education and encouragement to do the right thing.
This isn't the best system, obviously, but it does work. So don't despair, just be vigilant.

It's just that most of us can't afford to outsource our vigilance, and the system works better for those who can.
I am currently employed in the banking industry, and live in Charlotte, NC–a major banking center. I can confirm that bugs of this nature exist, and are in fact, not even uncommon.