skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often gotten bitten by writing migrations in multiple apps during development and then later finding out that a new install can't be run due to circular dependencies.

Then its quite tricky to untangle them. Maybe there's a way to do a dry run full migration (fresh install) test or even a check and warning when creating a new migration. of course it usually involves multiple sibling apps that have too much knowledge of each other's FKs.

anyway, thanks for south !
Should be easy enough doing with phantom.js http://skookum.com/blog/dynamic-screenshots-on-the-server-wi...
ITunes 11’s Mysterious Cloud Icon Explained
I actually think the dumbphone was the biggest change, not the smartphone or anything else on your list. No matter if it is SMS, Facebook or HN - that was the moment people started getting emotionally chained to computers and text-only interfaces. Being punctual and reliable also matters a lot less since then.
Probably stuff like sending people to Florida to cover a campaign, sending people to Cupertino to cover the iPad mini, sending people to Geneva to cover the Higgs discovery played more into the expense.
But this cannot be of much use, even if they can make an atmosphere somehow, they would need an active core for magnetic field to protect from solar particles/radiation.
Look at China today and tell me you want Mars and the Moon to look like that tomorrow.
Web vs app: why the web shouldn't bother
Looks good. Just like ziptastic and all the others, but with international support. That's a real advantage.

I've always wanted to use such a library for my checkout forms and whatnot, but unfortunately it doesn't fit the typical UI paradigm.

If you need the address info, you'll (almost) never ask for the zip code before the city and state, so the information has already been filled in before the user gets that far... and the country comes last.

Users are used to entering the address info in that natural order: street, city, state, zip, country (usually pre-set to your biggest userbase). I think the cognitive overhead of mixing that order up actually exceeds the effort of having them fill in all 3 fields.

The only place I could see you using something like this is if your are tailoring your services to a US-only userbase (so you can guarantee that a zip code is there and that the other info will not need to be manually entered). For example, we use ziptastic (at the server side for cross-domain reasons) at http://gastomorrow.com/ which is a US-only service to guess the price of gas tomorrow in your area.
Share, Stream, Customize - SoundCloud Developers
JQuery and audio on web
Even though audio on websites is predominantly ignored and most of the times hated, there are websites where audio is necessary. Starting with sites where people go to listen to songs or various websites where certain actions trigger a small audio file to make the experience more interesting.
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Thinking about this more, I guess hydroponics might be the way to go ;)
I stand on the #$%(@& things all the time and wish they'd just crush under my feet instead of being near-invincible by comparison with my soft cells. ;)
Planets around 'solar twins' of Sun more habitable than Earth
U.S. Disputes Iran's Claim To Have Captured Drone
Boston-area tech sector is scrambling to fill jobs
Now there is an RSS feed: http://advent2012.digitpaint.nl/feed.rss
AirBnB customer support here.

We're really sorry about the inconvenience, and for your troubles...

actually I'm just messing with you. Does this look like AirBnB?

If you can't get your issue resolved, just do a chargeback, get your money and book a hotel like a normal person.

If you want to bitch on the internet, there are thousands of review sites on the internet. This is not one of them.
Works well on the desktop but I couldn't get it to work on my iPhone and the UI was completely broken when I tried to load the page.
More CSS (filter) effects than a Hollywood movie
Microsoft Research: Safe Parallelism [pdf in gviewer]
Anyone with kids is well aware of this fact - though they rarely intend to stand on them!
They probably will - to test equipment, as a part of preparation to colonize Mars.
Steve disliked Flash because it crashed small mobile devices and chewed system resources.

A few years later Adobe AGREED with this by discontinuing Flash on Android.
Ah, found it: this is a much better link for the story: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90786/8044143.html

"During the experiment, four kinds of edible vegetables, namely lettuce, leaf lettuce, gynura bicolor and sonchus oleraceus, were planted in a 36-square-meter area to absorb the carbon dioxide exhaled by the two astronauts and provide them with oxygen and 30-50 grams of fresh vegetables per meal per person."

Google tells me you need 1 ton of soil to cover 30m^2 to a depth of 25cm. So now I'm interested to know if/how they're optimising for mass efficiency.
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Fill in the blank:

1. Develop system capable of growing plants on Mars.
2. ____________________
3. Grow plants on Mars.
Facebook allows Messenger for Android sign up using just name and phone number
Kind of like Microsoft? ;)

As an aside, as a Non-US citizen of the world, I applaud any effort to get outside of our planet, even more so if they are as ambitious as this one.
> the buyer’s credit card company decided in favor of the buyer.

How is this PayPal's and not the credit card company's fault? Couldn't the same thing happen to anyone accepting credit card payments?
!(Money instanceof Object).
Presumably they are also working on that.

Also, you forgot step 4.
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or we can just eat algae.
>Does this look like AirBnB?

Doesn't look like Paypal either but hey it's the top story at the moment.
I'm also not sure why it's on hacker news, but his blog post are always wonderfully detailed and fascinating.

Perhaps this is more appropriate for hacker news though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of...
I agree, even if you don't agree with Adam Curtis's politics, his documentaries are very thought provoking and well worth watching. Some of my favourites include "The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream", "The Century of self", "Pandora's Box", "All watched over by Machines Loving Grace". If you enjoyed this particular blog post, check out "The Power of Nightmares".
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Like semicolons in general and abbreviations in online discussions, "tl;dr" is both mis and over used.

There is a trend among authors to use it as a stand-in for "In conclusion" and another trend among commentators to use it as an introduction for dismissive snark.

"Too long" inherently implies fault with the writing. When used by an author it is often an excuse for bad writing. Only on rare occasions is it endearing self deprication...or rather it is just possible to imagine such circumstances regardless of their actual occurrence.

On the other hand, its use by a commentator carries the negative connotation that the author's writing isn't worth reading.

tl;dr: Don't use "tl;dr."
Marsnips ;-)
Their experiment was using a closed biosphere, so they're bringing the atmosphere with them.

Really, I think the original article was terrible; it omitted important details to make the whole thing sound more silly. Closed biological systems are an interesting field of research.

I'm not sure about radiation levels on a mars mission, but if we can solve the problem for humans, it should be solvable for plants/algae.
Reaching The Internet Event Horizon
What is a Windows 8 App? How is it Different from a Desktop Application?
I love the new design and have been using the beta for ages - the only thing that irks is that it steals the spacebar key to play/pause rather than scroll page up/down.

Also, a great bit of UX detail worth noting is that it prepends '▶' to the page title when audio is playing, so you can see which browser tab sound is coming from - something all multimedia pages should adopt!
quanticle: before I answer your question, I'm glad you're willing to compare gold to Bitcoin, because the world's total supply of gold, ~171,000 tons, is currently worth ~US$9.4 trillion,[1] whereas the total supply of Bitcoin is currently worth only ~US$130 million.[2] If Bitcoin ever gains anywhere near as much credibility as gold, the potential for appreciation is mind-boggling.

As it turns out, I do own a bit of physical gold (as well as some bitcoins), but that's irrelevant, because I'm one of the lucky people in this planet who currently lives in an advanced economy, so I'm not constantly worrying about impending financial, economic, governmental, or societal collapse. I have the luxury of taking it for granted that things will continue to function normally every day.

However, I have lived and/or worked in several so-called 'developing' economies, and have personally experienced hyper-inflation, and can tell you with certainty that when people lose faith in their government-issued currency, they turn to any alternative that can survive the crisis while retaining its value.

--

[1] http://www.gold.org/about_gold/story_of_gold/numbers_and_fac...

[2] http://www.bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/
IPhone Overtakes Android in the U.S
I guess that's how you spot the tourists. (I carried an umbrella the one time I visited Seattle, but never needed it.)
I fully agree. I could have continued past Adobe and MS and started on the likes of Apple, but it'd have been a very long post. I considered whether the MS comment was out of context, that was my attempt at saying it goes beyond just Adobe.

But the OA is about Adobe and HTML. Of course, it's not so much that they'll jump to the tech that has displaced them, it's more the marketing language (which, again, I know everyone's at it) suggests "yeah, cool, we always wanted this one to win, honest". They even give a history lesson on the site, and that's not the history I remember.

Poor engineering, that's aimed more at Flex than Flash. I spent many months suffering at the hands of Flex and the Adobe IDE. We implemented exactly the same app in both Flex and Java, Flex and its environment were painful, relatively.

Companies will protect their own interests, but both I personally view Adobe's decision to drop the SVG plugin, and Microsoft's decision to enforce their own standard on IE as de facto, as having put a general drag on what could and can be achieved in browsers. They're entitled to do so, but I think the decisions have been detrimental to the Internet population as whole, that's all.
This is a wonderful article that gives great historical background to the middle eastern conflict and sets it in a very real context of the distrust of authority that has become so much more visible in the past ten years.

But:

This is an example of where HN's policy on titles fails. The title is a great title for the article - it's pithy, relevant and captures the sentiment of the writer exactly.

However, on a news aggregator, the title is useless. I don't believe that anyone would have expected to read a treatise on the codependent relationship between the various authorities in the Middle East when reading that title. In this case, a better title could be generated without changing too much - "Save your kisses for me - the codependency of middle eastern authority" - that would accurately prepare the reader (and probably get more interest.)
>A few years later Adobe AGREED with this >by discontinuing Flash on Android.
Is this "agreement" a fact you can unambiguously prove by pointing out to some statement from an Adobe person, or is this a subjective assumption.
Another subjective assumption there: company losing the game because of a disruptive product? I sure hope they acknowledge this pronto and refocus to cope with the changes!
https://quabel.com/subscribe/hobbyist/ doesn't work for me.
"You cannot access this page"
China should focus on developing non-contaminated produce in China, so their elite doesn't have to import it.
Cargurus.com has a similar feature. You are right...it's a great feature for negotiating price.
>the decisions have been detrimental to the Internet
>population as whole

Absolutely. We're still paying the price(s) now...
It sounds like you think you disagree with me but I can't tell why. (Except for the semantic hairsplitting at the beginning, which is simply mistaken, but unrelated to the rest of the discussion.)
I made a similar thing with phantomjs and node: http://node-urlshot.herokuapp.com/
Ways Your Spending Habits Change with Age
I don't know how complex you want it to be, but the tool I've been using for almost 10 months now is pretty great. I think you should take a look at Paymo ( http://paymo.biz ) maybe it's up your alley.
Those resources could have been spent in something more useful.
Check out the Writer's Market books. There is a large list of publishers both large and small as well as articles on the writing process itself and how to contact publishers.

My guess? The target market for your book is too small for traditional publishers and you will have to end up self-publishing. This isn't my type of book so I will defer to others on whether print or e-book is better. A friend of mine just self-published on Amazon using CreateSpace and it has been a good experience for her. Her book is available in both print and kindle form.
I will defend ORMs until my dying day, but south is entirely new beast. Took me a few days of screwing around to be able to safely dig myself out of my own holes.
A good read, but this stuck out -

"Liberals in the west look on baffled and horrified. What they thought was a glorious revolution in the Arab world is morphing into something they don't understand."

Really?
I'm (pretty) liberal but I watched the revolution with the knowledge that while evil was being ousted, revolutions seldom seem to end well. The developments in Egypt since then have, if anything, been comparatively mild. The Military either stepped aside or were made to step aside, without coups or mass bloodshed, and now there is an elected president that everyone is protesting over because he's given himself insane powers.

This is not a good situation, don't get me wrong, but for (almost) two years after a revolution? We're lucky we're not reading about massacres and mass graves.
Am I bitching?

I was under impression that this site is about start-ups and what they should and should not do to grow and achieve success.

If you want to listen only to good music, there is Pandora and plenty of other sites like that. Not all medicine is sweet.
Thanks for your comment.

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PHP OOP: A Look At PHP Objects Under The Hood
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I love the self-irony of being "distraction-free", but having fscking fireworks!

(Note: I do "get it", gamification/rewards work, but it still strikes me as funny.)
Student group suing Facebook in Irish court
Android was expanding more rapidly than iOS.

What reason do you suggest for them not latching onto that opportunity?
My impression was that Curiosity's sensors have shown that the presumed danger of Martian radiation has been greatly overestimated. Unfortunately, I can't remember the sources, but I've read it in multiple places.
As a parent, I really, really, really wish they'd collapse under a human's weight. That shit hurts.
I just got round to reading that article last week, it's incredibly informative and like you say, avoids any mud slinging.
Why is Flash still a requirement?
The way in which possession of a home limits the spectrum of opportunities I am willing to consider as practical. And its not so much annoying. It's a more profound emotion, perhaps more akin to regret.

Ideas that my dwelling should be a certain way are driven by beliefs that I am stuck with it for an extended period of time.
Programming like a Pirate (Alt+Shift+M)
Ship the conversion equipment and laboratory first, remotely operated and mostly autonomous. Send mice second. Send people only when you know your garden is working and producing edible (or good enough that it's an acceptable risk) food.

This might require slightly better AI than currently exists, and a lot of patience from telepresence operators, but it seems achievable in the near future.
Knowing Everything but Not Knowing a Thing
To be fair with Muse, I've tried the first public beta some time ago and I admit the produced code was a sad laughable mess.
I had to opportunity to reopen my try-out site on the latest public release, did an export, and took time to compare: it's much, much better. Seeing how fast their release iteration is, and the short time between the two tests I did, I turned from mocking skeptic to actual...hmmm... believer(?).

That is of course, considering the main target for the product is not me or my peers but rather non-coders... I'm always better off on my own with my big hairy hands on the keyboard typing my code.
There are many ways to present the data such that situation in the pacific northwest doesn't seem so bad."If you look at the total inches of rainfall in Seattle, we really don't get that much rain." "Oh sure, most days it rains, but by hour it really isn't so bad." "No, you can go outside. You just need to wait for a small break in the weather, and then you can do all your errands or go play outside briefly."

Well, I suppose this is all true, but it doesn't change how depressing this is. After living in the PNW for 22 years, and then moving to Florida, I understand a lot more about how bad it is. Sure, it rains a lot more in Florida. In fact, I'd be willing to be there are more rainy days here. But, you don't spend all day waiting for that small break. You go outside, enjoy the day, and then the sky dumps several inches of water over an hour. Afterwards, the clouds are gone and the sun is back.

Gone are the days of walking through the fine mist of rain, which just seems to hover in the air and somehow soak you to the bone despite your waterproof coat. No more constant drizzle which have lasted the entire week.

The pacific northwest is a wonderful area. Beautiful scenary, wonderful hiking, amazing summers, and for the most part interesting people. But there is just something just wrong about it. Maybe it's the rain, or the overcast, or something, but now that I don't live there, I am happy.
How well could this work?

On the plus side (for plants), the Martian atmosphere is about 95% CO2. Even though the total pressure of the atmosphere is much less than our own, the partial pressure of CO2 is still about 20 times higher (erring a bit on the generous side).

On the other hand, Mars is about 1.5 times as far from the sun, so the intensity of sunlight is less than half, and temperatures are correspondingly colder. Then again, if we're going to support human colonists, we probably need a nuclear power source anyway. So let's assume we rig up bright lighting to grow our plants.

There's some uncertainty about the soil, but at least some studies suggest that it could support life. There's probably frozen water there, so we'll use the spare heat from our nuclear reactor to melt some.

Humans need approximately 30g of Oxygen per hour, which is roughly 1 mole. A fast-photosynthesising plant can produce 30 umol/m2/s. Running the numbers, you'd need 9 square metres of leaf area photosynthesising at that rate per person - assuming it could carry on 24 hours a day. To supply food, you'd need rather more, because not all of the carbon fixed goes into edible parts.

This is actually a lot more feasible than I initially thought. You'd probably want to send robots ahead to construct the base and plant the plants, though. And you still have the problem of life support for the journey, which would be several months.
Nice that you noticed. To be honest, it seemed a bit weird for me as well as I was typing out the text above :-)

The funny thing is, my cofounders hated the fireworks idea, but then some blog post said very positive things about it and so we kept it.
Diarize = new habit = photo diary of your life
Diarize.co is a new iPhone app that gets its users into the new habit of keeping a photo diary. Forget to take pictures for long periods of time? Diarize is ready to bug the hell out of you till you get into the habit.
I think the biggest problem he (and probably other readers) has with your post is this line:

> I would really appreciate if someone @AirBnB would help to intervene the existing ineffective process. No need to return the money - just return the booking to my wife, make us happy :-)

This is a specific plea for action from a company, but it's directed at a forum of people who are almost all completely unrelated to that company.
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/contact
Live chat?
You have a smart marketing ploy with the "Privacy made in Germany" slogan. Similar to "German engineering", instantly recognizable. Also, great looking product.

I wonder though, I am a German lawyer myself and under the impression that German data privacy laws (which I am not specialised in) are not that different from US/UK/generic EU country laws. Do you have any research or comparisons on that?

Because I see two ways how my data might get misappropriated anyway: either by your hosting provider, over which you have no control whatsoever if you don't own the physical servers, or by a police investigation, with which you have to comply anyway. So what exactly does German privacy protection buy me here?
I wish this article was around year or two ago. I had an awful experience with south so much so that I switched to ruby and sequel. Sequel totally decouples your migrations from your model. It's pretty nice actually and ends up saving quite a bit of headache.
DI.fm now has chiptunes channel
I currently use Geonames to map ZIP codes to locality names, and find nearby ZIP codes/localities given a ZIP code. Can you explain why your service is preferable for me?
As the parent of a child with Asperger's Syndrome, I know what this must have meant to him, and I'll continue to be a Lego customer for life because of this. Kudos to Lego.
You know, I don't think I've ever seen anything negative about Lego as a company in any serious way. Staff reports are uniformly 'this place is amazing to work', customers love their products, they've kept their product line diverse and with a wide, wide range of prices so there's no exclusionary practise. Good business practises for sure.
kinda. most of the post, both title and ending are focused on you and your anecdote.
Curiosity Does Not Equal Chaos
try HomeAway or VRBO instead. :)
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(Save this as a .prg file and run it in your favourite C64 emulator or on the real thing itself. Please note that the first two bytes are actually required by .prg file format to indicate load address. The actual code is 11 bytes).

For more information:

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Kodable teaches kids 5+ the basics of programming
IIRC, Flash is not required, but provides a fallback for those browsers and devices that do not fully support HTML5 audio.
Understand, agree that it may be perceived as plea, which it is not. I can sort out my stuff myself :-)

The point is - the AirBnB support process looks broken. Is their fix-my-mistake process also broken?