skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, right - fencing solution that relies on the network to stop the service. How could that possibly fail?
But if you actually read through the github thread, you will see that DHH is going against conventional practice in this case.
Show HN: ShotBlocker - iOS screenshot detector a la Snapchat/Poke
I don't see why this suddenly appears to be 'revolutionary' when Sony has had this for a long time?[1] Heck you can even buy an Android powered Sony watch WITH THE SAME DESIGN even now!

[1]http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/accessories/smartwatch...
The reasoning here is that a stolen-but-legally-obtained-and-registered-by-someone-else gun is worth an awful lot on the black market. It's effectively untraceable once it's stolen, meaning that crimes committed with it are much harder to pin on the perpetrator.
Clearly an original design:
http://i.imgur.com/d9gmK.png
http://i.imgur.com/3gXcG.jpg
So use Sinatra instead of Rails and create the stack and build system that works for you.

People are way too into Rails...
It's even broken in trivial ways. Sure, sharing a pic with one's friends raises the risk of someone sharing it on Twitter, but that is super simple to do. Right click, Save Image As..., Upload, Browse, OK. Here are 2 little technical things to do:

* Make the browser technology slightly less happy to assume that displaying a picture means that the viewer has all the rights to download it for his/hers own use. Take out "Save Image As...", perhaps if a "private" attribute is set on the image.

* Make Facebook technology display more clearly what is the audience of a given item. Yeah, that means spelling in clear if the image is available for advertisers as well.

Given this little two steps, "accidentally" posting a private image to Twitter becomes less of an excuse. You took the action of taking a screen snapshot (or camera pic) of something explicitly labeled as private and posted it for a public audience. That sucks and may be even be grounds for legal action under copyright law.
Hi, internet tough guy!
What's it like to work at a start-up that's on fire
Wow. Surprised this hadn't been posted yet. I've been sharing this with people for a while now and I just assumed it had already been submitted.

Chaplin (despite being CoffeeScript) is also a good framework to check out since it demonstrates several good practices for large Backbone.js apps
Yes, you could help it. The connection you made applies to any language/framework.
If you are a technical company, and your employees cannot support themselves, then you have a hiring problem, not an IT problem.
Tim Ferriss's Marketing Strategy, or, Marketing That Is Impervious To Criticism
Setup has always been a very minor annoyance, but as a gamer who uses multiple monitors, Linux has been a simple no-go for me. I proselytize Linux everywhere, but is mostly just a development platform for me, because of this combination. I recently got on the Steam for Linux beta, and it's fantastic. But most games I have to play in windowed mode, and some I just can't play at all, because it spans across my two screens (with very different dimensions and resolutions). Sure, I could disable one monitor, but that's more trouble than it's worth, when I can still take advantage of my 2nd monitor just fine in Windows. In Windows, games only fullscreen on one screen, I can still see my gmail feed just fine on my second monitor.

Linux does a lot of things very well, but multiple monitors has always been a bit of a mess when fullscreened apps are involved.
The Future of Games on the Web
This +10. Out of the 11 out of hospital arrests that I went to as a Paramedic (in a 6 month period), only 1 of them survived.

Ironically, the one who survived was a prisoner who had cut his own throat. He had pretty much bled out by the time we got there, with a tiny little junctional on the monitor. Today he has 0 deficits, and it is like the event never occurred.
The Cult of Glossy is Growing
For me it's signatures ( http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5458 ) and a decent full-text-search (on the roadmap).
Only thing remains is what to do with events/invitations..
Does Rails not provide a way to customize the scaffolding used to make a new app, without forking?
Another way to phrase this is that DHH forgot to add

<meta charset="utf-8" />

Beyond that, the expression isn't "á la carte". It comes from the french "à la carte" (grave accent, not acute).
That's something I already mentioned in the discussion about the original post: There are some interesting facts and some valid generalizations about europe, especially when you compare europe to america. The problem is not discussing these, but those are very very high level - even more high-level than generalizations about the USA. The problem is selling specifics as general truth which is what he does in large parts of his post. I'm not wearing leather trousers while posting this, despite being a mere 200 km from the Weisswurstäquator.

Btw: The point about a larger market is an interesting notion, but don't forget that you might just as well sell to canadians, middle and south america and you'd have a larger, even more unified market. That's exactly where the european diversity matters: It's hard to sell to france as a german startup and they other way round. So to get around that you actually need to serve a fragmented market with different rules and regulations for each fragment. See for example how last.fm radio was available in selected countries only or spotify as well.
Some other Elite inspired open source games.
http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/games.html
The argument I've seen is that this is very the kind of politically-driven privacy invasion that gun owners have feared about gun registration laws.
The Woz Uses Cycloramic And An iPhone 5 To Street View His Kitchen
This is a mischaracterization.

UEFI secure boot is not required to run Windows 8.

It is required to slap a Windows 8 logo on a new machine.

That is a decision made by hardware vendors, not Microsoft. Since it is hard to imagine a serious advertising campaign based around a competitor's lack of such logos, such decisions reflect the desktop Linux market.

I suspect that hardware vendors are happy to make desktop Linux harder to install because I vividly imagine indignant support calls from novice Linux installers adopting FOSS as an ideology.
Thanks. I'm not really a rails person, so forgive me if I have some questions. Am I correct in interpreting that thread as DHH not wanting to support multiple ruby package managers in the rails codebase? In particular, DHH has 'blessed' rbenv and that commit wants to support rvm?

If this is the case, then I have to wonder: why is there any dependency on a package manager at all in the rails codebase? This just seems odd to me, and perhaps is the source of the conflict. E.g. people are fine with 'omakase' frameworks, but these menus typically don't include toolchain dishes. It would be like going into a restaurant and being told that you must use chopsticks, no forks allowed.
Registration is generally not required for a shotgun, which is what is commonly recommended for home invasion defense. While there is certainly going to be an overlap between owners of registered handguns and owners of unregistered shotguns, "house is not on the map, no guns to worry about in there" is a false assumption.
Configuring Spring Data with MySql
And how do you define a Hacker, One who takes the MACRO crap ??
Does DHH post regularly? His "Archive" shows 3 posts in the last 4 days, you'd think he'd have more history posting.

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/archive.html
I don't like this but I don't understand how this deals with "NRA fear." Many NRA members are proud they have a gun. Like anyone else, they are eager to tell or show why like them.
It is amazing how well morphine can work, and how utterly useless it can be at other times. I found it to be incredibly helpful during the AMI cases, especially for putting the patient as ease, especially when they understand the gravity of the STEMI that they are currently experiencing.

We went to a fractured tib/fib (Football injury) and we loaded him up with the maximum dose over the course of treatment (50 minutes or so) and it didn't even touch the sides.

Looking back we probably should have called for the IC guys and done some ketamine + realignment.
Anybody wants to look to another one (not launched, still a beta version, but created with large projects in mind, speed of development and long time maintenance in mind): https://github.com/salboaie/shape ?

I will greatly appreciate your feedback.
If you think of it, pop culture shared amongst Europeans have a greater chance to be American than European.
IMO, there's not much difference between government employees and arbitrary members of the general public.

It's a safe assumption that if the government is collecting personal information then random strangers will have access to it.
As a former publishing professional, no - there isn't. If the article were to differentiate between online subscription revenue and print subscription revenue, and were to control for other factors that ALSO drive switch to subscription, then you could make the case that the paywall is "working."
There is always a last minute surge at the end which this doesn't take into account
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29887&postco...
The auditive Internet, a rising trend
The fact that you get excited about killing another human shows you are not qualified to own a gun.
This is just his blog. He's the chef of a framework, not an avowed HTML guru.

Have you seen the design for YCombinator.com? 1998 called and it wants its Arial font, <table> and <center> tags back. By your logic, YCombinator is worthless for helping Web startups launch.
"But they all share a common language"

Ha! You haven't been to Watsonville, California or just about anywhere along the border with Mexico, have you?
How Peer Review Metrics Create a Measurement Culture
Vivtek, you are projecting. Stop being a dick.
I live in Utah, where most people own guns and a large group, myself included, have concealed carry permits. All interactions with strangers happen in that context, and we do ok. We've had some shootings. They're s seen as a reminder that individuals should carry more, not less.
Loaded fine for me, the problem must be on your end.
> In particular, DHH has 'blessed' rbenv and that commit wants to support rvm?

No. Two things are going on:

1. 'binstubs' will now be checked into source control. If I use MRI and you use JRuby, they'll start with different things, and therefore, cause conflict.

2. Many of the Ruby version switchers work with '#!/usr/bin/env ruby', but rbenv won't in certain circumstances, so an optimization for it has been built into the framework now.

David maintains that if I use MRI and you use JRuby, or if I use rvm and you use rbenv, this is an 'organizational failure.'
I think it would be a shame if American entrepreneurs were to be deterred from starting businesses in Europe solely because they've heard this and that general statement about Europe that isn't correct.

Martin Varsavsky goes into specifics regarding legislation, etc., and, as others have pointed out, many of those details are simply not correct when applied to all/most of Europe the way he does.
Here's a great lil' venn diagram of all the European bodies

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Supranati...
I think the Sony smart watch needs to be linked to a smartphone to be useful, while the Motorola MOTOACTV can used as a standalone device.

http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/8GB-or-16GB-MOTOACTV/79...
Probably related to Rails 4. Once it's gold, I'm sure he'll have less to say.
The Most Overlooked Statistic in Economics: Household Formation
It does have some features to do this, but the point is that the default operation is simply broken for many, many people. That suggests that it should not be the default.
Apple Exploring Alternative Wind Power Technology And Motion-Control Mac Mice
I remember the Fossil Write PDA(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Wrist_PDA)

The charging was a problem, but I couldn't find a killed application or use for it that wasn't covered by a regular watch. The only thing I used it for was a watch!

I think that these products face an existential crisis that asks "what can a watch do better than my Android cellphone?"
France Telecom basically did that to some of its employees too when it muted from monopoly to oligopoly. It led to a surge in suicides.
Automatic unsubscribe can work for example via the RFC 2369 List-Unsubscribe header. For example Gmail uses that to show a unsubscribe dialog when you mark a message as spam. Of course you need to use your own judgment on which messages to trust enough to even try unsubscribing from.
Ruby gems are like Python packages. Django apps are very often not installable as Python packages.
One of my paramedic instructors told me a pretty funny story.

Apparently they were on shift one Saturday afternoon, when a call came through for a Code 2 (Cardiac Arrest) at a local racecourse.

Anyway, it was about 15 minutes away so they took off in a hurry, all the while receiving notes on their terminal regarding the job. Apparently it went along the lines of this:

Initial: Unknown Age, Cardiac Arrest, Racecourse etc
Update: CPR in Progress
Update: Doctor has self accounced at scene.
Update: Doctor has called patient as deceased. CPR ceased.

It took another 5 minutes for the paramedics to get to the racecourse, and they still unloaded their gear and made their way to the patient. When asking for the doctor, they found that it was actually the racecourse veterinarian who had made the call.
So when Americans say American do they mean US Citizen or someone from North/South America? ...
$FANATICAL_CAUSE without guns? I'm not too worried about that.
I remember what the @home jingle ~2000-2001 should've been:

"I don't wanna grow, I wanna buy a crappy web portal..."
What is the progress on the MIT LCS35 Time Capsule Crypto-Puzzle?
This article is really helpful. One of the statements at the end talks about starting to work on a problem or idea immediately if it is possible(vs jotting it down). What is bizarre is that sometimes NOT staying focused on a specific task list yields extraordinary results.
How Big Data Can Solve America's Gun Problem
trolls (in particular) can only be stopped if they are genuinely ignored.

What if users had a killfile for their account? Seems more meritocratic than hellbanning at least, if I can just choose who I want to ignore or not, and if you can tolerate someone, then they're alive for you.
More specifically, they're oversight tools set up in 2006, following the awareness of the Bush Administration's use of warrentless wiretaps. The FISA revisions were to extend the flexibility of judges who were already allowed to retroactively provide legal permission up to 48 hours after the initial wiretapping began and approved over 95% of the wiretaps requested.

The Bush Administration simply refused to go through even that rubberstamp process. I was an intern in the House office where the initial compromise that became this bill was proposed, even if it was later named for a much more senior Congressman.

The FISA deal was a small retraction following a huge jump forward in intrusive government powers, so I'm proud to be supporting EFF's efforts to push privacy forward as much as possible, in light of the PATRIOT Act's overreach and similar during the past decade.
Honestly this post is a perfect example.

You've classified "Americans" as one group when your really talking about "American Nationalists". It sounds like your attributing nationalist propaganda you see on Fox News to all Americans. This is also a great example of state/city variation. Living in Boston for 7 years I can probably count the number of times I've heard someone talking about "The American Way" or using the term "Unamerican" on one hand. One week long trip to Texas and you hear it a dozen times or more.
this is a nice overview of flask. now I can have an informed opinion about it without ever having used it.
When concealed-carry permit addresses were published by a journalist in our town in 2007, people who had fled abusive relationships were immediately forced to move.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/108418

Transparent government is a net positive, but as with everything, we have to be careful with the consequences of our actions.
Try to follow the conversation between somebody living in my village and the next one 5 km further down the road. Or a bavarian and someone from Hamburg. They wouldn't understand each others dialects. You know what I mean. Even the folks down on the mexican border get fox news and understand plain old english.

Things tend to be pretty ok in western europe where most can agree on english, but don't forget that a large part of europe was behind the iron curtain and didn't get to learn english until 1989. The majority of people in the east doesn't speak any english at all.
If you're running a business with high margins watch out for Jeff Bezos
Would a robber actually take this information into account?

As I understand it, most prefer to do their thieving when there is nobody home, anyway.
>it might be good to have that as context

But is this really a matter of something your neighbors need to know? Unless the person is acting irrationally, recklessly, or endangering others right in front of you, whether or not they have a gun is not more important than knowing if they have a lead pipe, a car, or a can of gas and a match. Whether or not someone has a gun in their house doesn't matter nearly as much as if they had one in their pocket.

Where it really comes through is that the police know. If the person is acting in a manner that makes you fear for you life enough to question if they own a gun, that's the point where you step out of their lives and let the police step in. I would rather not have my neighbors call the police saying "freehunter is acting odd and he has a gun!" unless I'm currently holding that gun in my hand.

Maybe instead of a map showing where gun owners live, we should have a map showing where mentally unstable people live. They're potentially dangerous with or without a firearm. A gun always needs someone to pull the trigger, a person doesn't need weapons to cause harm.
I haven't been to the particular locations you name, but my experience with multilingualism in the US is that it's more like "Spanish spoken here" than "Does anyone speak English?"
Lol, imagine the flames if DHH had that kind of personality. People are being molly-coddled by DHH for stupid stuff like a default in .gitignore.
One of my bugbears, but to be completely accurate this is an Euler Diagram, not a Venn Diagram. Technically, a Venn Diagram has to have all possible intersections represented.

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

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

http://blog.stevemould.com/venn-vs-euler-diagrams/
> Strict separation of code and data contradicts the definition and purpose of "computers."

I don't believe that your argument here is correct. Code and data sharing the same memory space is not a necessary condition of being Turing complete. Just because a Turing machine works that way doesn't require any Turing complete computer to work that way.

On the other hand, the distinction between 'code' and 'data' when running a simulator is a little bit arbitrary.

> As for the "principal of least privilege", well, that was the point of microkernels.

Not nearly the whole point of microkernels, no.
Off topic, but for a moment there I mistook him for Zed Shaw. Also, this tutorial is quite fantastic (integration with Whoosh part especially)
Congress Says Netflix Can Share What You're Watching
This "robber" argument is incredibly FUD'ish and worth thinking through further. When we talk about gun ownership, robbers and guns we're usually discussing the fear of getting shot by a burgular. Getting robbed sucks but most of us have insurance and all of us agree it pales in comparison to getting shot.

So let's think this through:

- If a robber is robbing my house, and is armed, and we accidentally confront each other, which is my preferred state of mind? Which outcome is most likely to result in me not being shot?
a) Robber believes me to not be carrying any gun per this map?
b) Robber believes me to be carrying a gun (per this map?)
c) Robber has no access to this information so has to assume there's a 50/50 chance I'm packing heat?

Therefore the greatest risk, if any really comes from this map, is probably the identified gun owner vs the identified non gun owner should the robber (incorrectly) conclude the gun owner is away and the non gun owner is home and needing to quickly steal electronics for instant cash to buy illegal drugs.
China's Beidou GPS-substitute opens to public in Asia
This 'stupid stuff' breaks every single new Rails app on Heroku that uses rbenv.
I thought that calls to 911 from security systems didn't happen directly. As I understand it, if a system is tripped, the security system's call center calls you, and in certain circumstances, would then call 911 on your behalf but not necessarily from your house.
Citation needed for "reducing e touching of things that other people touch helps avoid catching a contagious ailment"? Down vote.
This watch will not be used primarily to tell the time. It will be used primarily to read and compose text messages, possibly with a curved touchscreen for better ergonomics.
The only difference between a troll and someone who is misinformed or sloppy is intention; a troll is dense/wrong/mean on purpose, and not because they're actually ignorant or annoyed. It's an action a person can engage in; it's not really a type of person. But these days, "troll" often enough seems to just mean "too stupid to reason with", or is even just a cop out to not reason at all.. it's quite the convenient catch-all label that way.

"why did that user get banned?"

"they were a troll"

"ah, okay. that's fine then, seeing how I am not banned this must be totally legit. damn trolls!"
Oh stewardess, I speak jive.
You can fire someone for owning a gun in most states. Gun owners aren't a protected class except for Missouri where a law was recently passed to make them one, despite no known cases of someone firing an employee for gun ownership. Interestingly, LGBT individuals aren't a protected class in Missouri, despite many cases of firing employees for being an LGBT individual.
Django for the Rails Developer
As a brazilian, I completely understand this feeling. A lot of people think Buenos Aires is Brazil's capital, when it's actually Argentina's capital. And small parts of our culture are taken as national main interest, as carnival.

But it's ok to me. In the end, there's no much to do besides correcting people. It's not worth to be upset with this behaviour. People will always generalize and will always state things about places they don't even know with total confidence.
Remember that CPR will not restart a stopped heart. CPR's only use is to maintain some blood/air flow until you can get to a defibrillator or life-support machinery, in hopes of preventing damage to the brain or other vital bits.

And unless it's started pretty much immediately, it won't even accomplish that, which makes it futile.
They will make a desktop client soon :)
Stupid diabetics exist, just like in the rest of the population (though it sounds like the diabetic in this case was just unlucky, from the grandparent's followup).
I am an African currently living in Europe. When you think that my home country ( just 1 out of 54 in Africa ) is made up of over 500 tribes which were really separate and distinct nations pre-colonializiation by the British, you come to realize that any generalization made of a continent is rarely (if ever) a representation of the observed set.