skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parallel Proxy sends live traffic to a production & test server in real-time
In the UK we are constantly berated by government, medical boards etc etc for not keeping fit and healthy, also for costing the national health service a lot of money in terms of illness due to lack of exercise.

No money is ever spent on cycle infrastructure and the roads are treacherous, many motorists are very antagonistic towards cyclists and as a result of this most people are scared away from it.

I'm not sure whether this light is a useful thing anyway, I just felt like having a rant :)
The top navigation with the colored lines is great, similar to the bbc website http://www.bbc.co.uk/ where each of the topmost items have a different colored underline.

Now for the negatives:

those gradients in your main navigation ( ABOUT, DOWNLOADS, etc... ) is horrible. I see this a lot in bad Wordpress themes. It's dated, looks bad now, and will look worse in 6months.

The blue SEARCH font color on the blue background is a poor contrast choice.

Those Python 2.x, 3.x buttons look terrible too. It's the gradients, remove those inner grey gradients, it doesn't add anything to the buttons, doesn't even make them stand out.

Your code formatting screen looks great.

The responsive layout also needs work. The double navigation bar on ipad doesnt look nice. The search bar on the iphone is WAY too small. that should either be stacked / above / below the nav, not side by side on a 320px screen.

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web design is going flat, with big font types, and big images, everything is square, clean.

http://www.hulu.com/
http://www.uniqlo.com/us/
http://www.ebay.com/new
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/05/the-walking-dead-kill...

Personally i would keep it simple like backbone documentation

http://backbonejs.org/

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Good job though :)
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Thanks for your kind words and for trying out Mocktails.

I personally found 10px width to be quite usable, but if you are having trouble with it then I don't mind nudging it up to say 15px.

If you have any other suggestions or feature requests, please do not hesitate to let us know. You could do this at our feedback forum at http://mocktailsapp.uservoice.com
The Future Is Now - But Not Everybody Knows It
I think Nick Bostrom should have focused more on the time and randomness factor. Maybe there was life in our galaxy, but they visited us before humans have lived. Or we have been visited (think peruvian desert drawings [1]), but before we as human race were as advanced as we are today and they left our boring planet to visit another galaxy. There are probably more than 170 billion (1.7 × 1011) galaxies...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines
Looks good. I think I should point out that the current version of python.org is actually pretty decent in the scheme of programming language/codebase sites (there are some real eyesores out there!)
I like this idea better and I should be getting mine in the mail in the next month or so http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1652790707/torch-bicycle...
I generally use the keyboard to do everything it can on the computer, including to navigate long articles. I use the arrow keys to keep whatever I'm reading near the top of the page. In fact, if there were an easy way to keyboard-navigate the entire internet, short of scrolling around with the arrow keys, I'd never touch my mouse.
Thank you for the feedback I will take it and give it to the team
Yes while it may be better than some we can do all whole lot better and that's the goal
I'm sorry, I don't understand, how would telling someone that the staff have left the store be breaking the law. And why do you think its a poor analogy. Its a sign post directing people to a place where they could easily access content illegally. Very similar to what TV Shack was doing.

The analogy only fails in the sense that in reality the item stolen was digital media (it could be argued that nothing of value is lost) and in the shop scenario, the content is physical media (and therefore value is directly lost). Despite the difference though, thats irrelevant to the action played by TV Shack (and the sign in the analogy).
I recall meeting Biella a number of years ago in that area of the world. She seemed very nice and committed to her research.
Yes. One time I had to buy a one-way ticket back at the airport. Now I paid by credit card and cancelled my ticket as soon as I could and got most of my money back, but it was still a bit of a PITA, and reinforced in me the importance of always having a decent buffer on an emergency credit card.
Thanks a lot for this detailed bug report. I'll look into this ASAP. If you would like me to keep you updated on the status of this bug, please let me know your email (or any other way to communicate with you in private). You can mail me at bg@mocktailsapp.in or to bugs@mocktailsapp.in.

Once again thanks a lot!
OT: Does anyone know what happened to official Ruby site redesign proposal?
Clients vs Designers vs Freelancers (couldn't help posting it here)
I love Android and want a Nexus 4 but this was goddamn stupid and pointless.
By all means, buy the car with the best safety record. But you still need to fasten your seatbelt, buy and properly install car seats for your kids, and, above all, learn how to drive safely.

My point is that there is more to security than installing an OS and running regular updates.
Worst project name ever.
Hey! Glad you found my post useful!
I'm not saying it is not reliable, just that it is not robust relative to safety-critical software. It can be reliably used as a server without a problem, but whether or not it can be used in a manned spacecraft, for example, is another question of robustness entirely.
Every day news about BTC acceptance! nice sign!
For three years jedi knights tolerated questions about the Force and everything from a young she-padawan. Until they realised she can't spell "42".

Dudes, seriously, does anyone of you want to be treated like monkey tribe? Even if it is anonymous?
Woops, completely glossed over that.
Very nice. Congrats on shipping.

Why the subdomain blog.mocktailsapp.in?

You're building a product which is already established as a thing people need. You can almost be sure people are searching, right now, for 'mockups with version control' (or some other benefit which differentiates your software from the competition). Your competitors pages are too established for a newer domain like yours to easily out rank them on terms like 'mockups', but since they have little to no reason to talk about things like version control, you can easily out rank them for something like 'mockups'+'version control' or 'collaborative mockups', etc. You should try your best to concentrate your page rank (and links) into a single domain as early as possible to give yourself the maximum advantage.

Search isn't great for the discovery of many apps out there. Since it could be for yours, take advantage of it!

I'm really looking forward to seeing this go forward. Again, great job!
You need glass or plastic. That's why the iPhone has those glass parts at the top and bottom still.
But a managed code compiler could still generate native (and managed) code if needed.

Or a new C# compiler could be written in some kind of native C# variant that generates both managed and native code.
It may be a slight cause for concern if we find extinct life on Mars, but for it to be too much of a worry, you have to make quite a lot of assumptions. There are plenty of other explanations for the Fermi paradox that don't include a great filter, and this argument only applies if the life we found was dead rather than possibly still present microbiological life. And it's also assuming the life here and on Mars wasn't seeded from the same place, but Earth was the only hospitable planet.

My view is that it's likely/possible the universe is has quite a lot of life. However, since all evidence suggests the universe had a beginning, between abiogenesis, evolution, and the universe/galaxy/planet being in a state hospitable to life, it might always take a very long time to get the state we're in now, just as it did on this planet. It's quite possible that there are billions of planets with life in some stage of evolution, but few of them are significantly more advanced than our planet's life. Even if there are a smaller number of super-advanced civilisations, they may only have been broadcasting for a few hundred thousand years, and we may not be in range of that, or pointing our antennae at the right place to pick up the very weak signals. Even if they have discovered FTL travel, it would conceivably still take an extremely long time for them to visit every planet in the universe. Even if they have visited Earth in our historically documented timeline, they may not have been interested enough in what they saw to stop by and have a chat. Worse, if they have discovered FTL, they're probably not using radio broadcasts any more.

But that doesn't mean that life is uncommon, or even that there isn't some intergalactic federation of civilisations, just that any given civilisation being significant enough to notice or be noticed happens rarely. I would be far more worried about extra-terrestrials being hostile than non-existent (see Stephen Hawking's views on the matter).

Really, most of these sort of arguments feel quite similar to a bunch of humans sitting around a hundred thousand years ago, discussing with their tribe that they are probably the only humans on the planet, since no other more advanced cultures have communicated with them yet. Even though they haven't discovered any efficient means of transport to actually explore the Earth yet...
I'm not arguing whether Curiosity has found evidence for life on Mars or not but I would like to point out a logical fallacy in the cited argument; in particular, the statement "device X wasn't designed to do Y" does not imply "device X can't do Y".
By the way, the repository of the application discussed in this article is on github: https://github.com/sgodbillon/reactivemongo-demo-app :)
Well let's not get ahead too much. Suppose such a civilization has existed in another galaxy, there is probably very little chance that they would be able to jump to another galaxy. The distances are huge.

And there is also the possibility of having intelligent civilizations never reaching the space age for one reason or another.

We have only ONE specie on Earth among billions which reached this point, it is not like we have much of a sample to make any rule.

All this is just assumptions based on very small data pool. Meaningless.
Is it just me who doesn't really like VS.net IDE? I like C#, but I would probably prefer to use something like netbeans or eclipse over VS.net.

Mostly it's just how difficult and annoying it is to fix up a failed build. If you are trying to build something and it's failing because of strange 32bit vs 64bit incompatible libraries or any similar style of technical issues, you're left completely on your own with strange and vague build errors. On the pythin/java/ruby side this stuff is in fairly obvious config files and generally just seems to work. I can't be the only one who has run into this kind of stuff?

Also, the docs/code completion just doesn't seem to work as nicely as in Java where everything has nice big easy to read document blurbs on every function. For example, Bitmap.create<ctrl+shift> and eclipse gives me an awesome popup with all the different versions and a big documentation window from JavaDoc about how exactly to use the function and when/when not to use it.

With VS.net, I'm always having to go read up on MSDN pages in a browser which are poorly written. Just me?
The point is, well before folks who could feel "boredom" passed by us, their self-replicating probes would have landed here, many thousand, million or billion years prior. And they would have harassed our planet to depletion, since they are dumb and drone-like. Even if a meteor somehow extinguished them, by then they would have launched themselves into all of the solar system, and by chance would land here again. Given time and randomness, these probes are like radio waves; they get everywhere once set in motion. Thus we can assume they were never set in motion.
You don't know. Period. It could be. Isn't it also remotely possible that this was a hardware hack and a pretty inventive and effective one?
I used similar way. Works nice if you have limited budget.
For the things I actually use a personal server for, $150/month is overkill. A server that used to handle my family’s email\* and runs my personal Web site runs just fine on my Linode 512. Heck, if they offered a “256” plan with half the capacity for $9.95/month, I’d be tempted to switch to that.

\* I moved to gmail, not because of cost, but because I got tired of managing the spam filter.
NASA seems to be backing off this:

Guy Webster, a spokesman for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which operates Curiosity, said the findings would be “interesting” rather than “earthshaking.”

from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/science/space/undisclosed-...
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Yeah I completely understand this point of view and I was toying with removing the reference to search engines, but ultimately it boils down to the same thing in all cases, as mentioned in the article:

> US authorities claimed the 24-year-old's TVShack website hosted links to pirated films and TV programmes.

Regardless of the inherent properties of search engines, they are still linking to that content (or to content that links to the content).

I do understand the point of view of the Law, but I think ultimately it can't and shouldn't be enforced.
As a user of Django, I'd like to say thanks. This is how a framework should be built - with the users first and foremost, and with keeping support for old versions when it makes sense to do so.

I started using Django a few years ago, and still have old projects in old versions of Django. If Django would habitually "throw me under the bus", so to speak, I would quickly learn not to trust it and move to a better framework.
It's hardly a surprise, though. There's organic compounds everywhere in the solar system. If they found amino-acids it would be a totally different story, but just organic compounds is really rubbish information.
Most developers end up installing ReSharper or VisualAssist.
Another easy to correct mistake is the micro-USB cable they included. It doesn't have the USB logo on it to indicate which end is up, which is in violation of the USB spec.

Better USB cables emboss the logo so that one can tell which end is the top even in the dark.

But the absolute best is Logitech's solution: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Logitech-Micro-USB-Cable-/2...

Logitech's solution ensures that you always effortlessly plug your cable in correctly on the first try. No need for reversible connectors like lightning, just use a well designed cable.

EDIT:

it appears most people aren't seeing the innovation. Check out the last picture in the linked set. There's a very large bump on the micro USB end of the cable that ensures that it's pretty much impossible to pick up the cable with the top end down.
It does sound a little bit like Dogbert doing his "Engineers in the Mist".
mmm. This recalls me the situation when a young monkey is taken into lab to the elder one and asks what is the monkey job. The elder one puffs: "Its anthropological research!". "What is it?" - asks the young one. "You see, I push this button and measure how fast these large white monkeys will give me a banana".
It's an interesting thought experiment, but not too meaningful. The universe is still young; it's been around for 13 billion years, the Earth for 6. Given the immense distances involved, and the complexity and resources required for interstellar travel, it's not surprising we wouldn't have seen life.

And, for a moment, let's suppose your thought experiment is true, and there's an alien probe somewhere in our solar system. Would you be surprised we haven't found it yet? There're an awful lot of places left to look.
It all depends on environment. Bushmen may find you edible.
A (perhaps redundant) request: Please please do not sacrifice usability for beauty/design. I love current Python docs and I think they're one of the best out there.

Thanks for the hard work! It looks great. :)
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Ask HN: Cato's Hike - Programming for Kids on iPad and iPhone
Not many games take the player out of the game and make them think about it abstractly up front rather than controlling the player directly which is why this is so special! Cato's Hike teaches kids, teens (and adults) basic coding and programming using a fun card-based interface.

The biggest problem I have is how to reach kids through the game. I've added a manual, tutorials and more levels. Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I create video tutorials? Write more articles? I feel everytime that the first things kids do is skip the tutorial and go straight to the game and get lost. When I'm around to help they get it, if they read a bit they get it as well. Anyone else figure out how to deal with this in a game setting?

The current update added a manual and more UI tweaks, but I'm really excited for the next update which will add support for goto's as proxy for procedures :) I think at that point I will have covered enough concepts!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/catos-hike-programming-logic/id574335479?ls=1&mt=8

http://hwahba.com/catoshike
there are lots of technical reasons that are perfectly valid, true, but it's not absolutely necessary.
This is stupid.

The £50 that this light costs will buy you an extremely bright set of conventional lights, giving out several hundred lumens rather than 80. These lights will illuminate a large area of the ground ahead of you, allowing you to see, and provide dazzlingly bright points of light several feet off the ground, allowing you to be seen. These lights focus their beam where it is needed, projecting light directly towards the eyes of motorists, rather than bouncing it off the ground for no clear reason. Spend a bit more and you can buy a Magicshine set, which is on a par with motorcycle lighting.

Drivers are not looking at the ground. They're not looking out for weird green symbols. They're looking for red or white points of light, a few feet off the ground. Cars and trucks have large blind spots on the nearside of their vehicle, which a cyclist can best avoid by using their height - a cyclist is as tall as a large SUV, providing good opportunities to mount your lights above the doorline of most cars.

If you're worried about drivers turning across your path, your road position is wrong. You can buy some silly gadget that won't really help the situation, or you can get some training to give you the confidence to get out of the gutter.
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Here is a tldr of the interview: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b61713bb2203997700013f
Thanks for the kind words and for using Mocktails.

As for your question: I subscribe to the belief that if a company has a product page at 'www' subdomain or at the root domain, then it's blog should be located at the 'blog' subdomain. That was literally the only reason for putting the blog there.

You are correct in that we dont rank very well for mockups, and your points on SEO are quite apt. However, I do not know much about SEO, so I wonder if the benefits accrued by moving the blog to the 'www' subdomain would be outweighed by placing enough links to the 'www' subdomain in the blog posts.

Also, for now, I would like to focus on just building the product, especially since the much-vaunted version control doesn't actually exist yet. This would prevent a ton of support tickets from people who came in searching for 'version controlled mockups' and then dont find the feature anywhere.
Looks good.

That's another example: http://fatiherikli.github.com/mockup-designer/
The docs are not part of the redesign except perhaps for updated style sheets. See http://pythonorg-redesign.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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I got a bit confused by your statement.

CIL is always compiled to native code, either via JIT or AOT (ngen, mono -aot).
I guess I was just trying to illustrate in a creative way why people keep bagging on Nigeria. Once the spam stops people will forget all about it. And it's not just email spam, eBay and Craigslist are overrun too.

Sure it's a bit unfair as all countries have spammers. In fact, US and UK outrank Nigeria for scams, but those are two huge places and have a lot of other notable things, and Nigeria is #3.

So I think if Nigeria boosts its economy and provides alternatives for people to make money then the spam dies down and people forget all about it.
There is an ethnography for that(physics geeks) too.

http://www.amazon.com/Beamtimes-Lifetimes-World-Energy-Physi...
> Microsoft has not, nor will they, come to the conclusion that the CLR was a failed experiment.

It's easy to say that now, but time has a funny way of winkling out deeply seated truths that we try to shy away from. Trust me, I like the CLR, I used to work in DevDiv, it's close to my heart.

However, one has to wonder if something is missing or not quite right. The CLR was originally a grand strategic play. It was intended to be everywhere, in Windows, in browsers, in game consoles, in phones, everywhere. And not just present everywhere but also underpinning all of these important products. A lot of the big projects to convert native code to managed code, such as in Windows, foundered and failed. Other than Microsoft.com most of the rest of Microsoft compiles their products to native code. Meanwhile, Windows has released its own "runtime" (WinRT) and windows mobile development is migrating toward native development as well. Not to mention the failure of silverlight to gain traction. The niche the CLR serves today is vastly diminished from the vision even 5 years ago. Also, they've tried to break out of their niche by making sweeping improvements to the CLR such as adding dynamic language support and such-like but they still seem to be stuck in the same rut as ever.

Maybe the CLR will stick around forever, but given the trends it's looking increasingly likely that in, say, 10 years the CLR will be a bit like vb6. Still supported by default in every windows release but no longer fully embraced by the current tool chain.
Yes you can buy 2 year old processors but then you leave 2 years of improvement/price falls on the table. Is a definable 70% performance better than a vague handwavy 100%? Depends on your use case but if predictability of performance (of a single host) is a priority you should be using a dedicated box.
I have a friend who is a Phd chemist. We were undergraduates together. We went to High School and Junior High together, too. When he was studying chemistry as a senior, I remember one of the pithy academic phrases he learned from a professor.

"Five hours in the lab will save you a whole hour in the library."

I'm an architect. I once had a job as a building plans examiner. I read the entire building code, front to back. Others have at times considered me "a building code expert" - I think of myself more or less equivalent to "the office computer guru" because they can install a new video card in a PC, but anyway...When I am designing, or someone asks me a building code question, I have learned over the years that the fastest most efficient way to proceed is to open up the code book and read what it actually says. I learned my memory is faulty and incomplete by paying the dumb tax.

Flailing around has it's place. It's part of the creative process. It's not a good method for executing an objective plan.

Good Luck.
Thanks for trying out Mocktails. Glad you liked it.
As for your link, while I am a huge fan of minimalism, it's a tad too minimal, don't you think?