skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ewan went 99% of the way in making the app. If the only thing holding him back is getting the screenshots right, I'd say he's "so close".

I'd wager that most of Microsoft's app approval team is away the week between Christmas and New Years. If the submission was routed to someone overseas where Christmas isn't as big a deal (so they weren't on vacation), that would explain the miscommunication. I would just resubmit now that presumably everyone is back from vacation.

Apple closes the App Store to new submissions over the holidays. At least Microsoft was open.

I'd be interested in seeing a screenshot of the main menu to see the 3 choices he mentions.
This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate getting distracted on websites.

If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself.
Replacing pipes with IPv6 sounds like a recipe for disaster. It may be distasteful, but the ease of forking processes and communicating between them in C on UNIX has been very useful to me. I haven't even bothered looking into DBus, etc. because they're overkill for my requirements.

Providing only one, complicated way to do something is not great, especially when simple alternatives exist.

P.S. I'm not sure if your proposal rewrites 'pipes' in the shell as well - the overhead in a one-liner would be awful.
It'll help a lot when I can search it from my computer:

in:conversations, timeframe: 201x-11, location:office, present:Kalle Anka.

Fast forward 90 seconds and I'm proving he ACTUALLY told me to do exactly that.
Super-request HTTP assert testing
This is precisely the direction I would love to see politics go. Cut out the middle-people layer!
Specialization and services are great and efficient. I don't consider something a service though, when it is forced on me.
Great initiative from Miquel Camps.
I like this concept. I tried to signup to give it a try with my iPad app iJuror but it looks like the App Search only looks for iPhone or Universal apps. Is there another way to go about adding an iPad only app?
New services bypass Apple DRM to allow pirated installs without jailbreaking
It's also important to note the role of short terms here.

Consider a 2 week loan with a 10% chance of default. You need to charge an 11% risk premium to break even. Translating that 11% risk premium into an APR yields 1400%. A 1 year loan with the same default probability would have only an 11% APR.

So it's both fixed costs and division by short durations which make the APR seem ridiculously high.
My local old fashioned cinema closed about a year ago ending an unbroken single family ownership dating back to the
first world war.
It had been dying on its feet for a long time.
Last film i watched there i almost froze to death.
The town's population is only about 7000 and there are modern cinemas about a half hour drive away.
This story suggests that the local population would need to pledge a half million euro a year to re-open it and that's not going to happen
I signed up. I'm a self taught guitar player, and although I've made pretty good progress, sometimes it's tough to make time to practice. I'm hoping that weekly lessons will inspire me to make time for it.

Good luck!
Why We Need Evidence
It doesn't even have to be a human error. Birds in/near cities are happy to attack R/C models. If you see your model you can run away from them, but if you only have the camera view, you won't see what's happening.

Now think that even slightly cracked propeller will easily break off at 10k+ rpm. When this happened for me, piece of the propeller ended up ~10cm under the surface of slightly frozen ground. Fortunately it flew straight down after it broke - I believe it could be lethal if it hit some person instead.

TL;DR, even if you don't make a mistake and can't see a mechanical fault, flying R/C models can be very dangerous. Flying close to people is irresponsible even if you're experienced with controlling them.
It may be "buzzword driven recruiting" but it probably reflects what employers are asking for. Look at it as the data point it is.
IMHO that definition is flawed. For lots of people senior != time on something. That's what usually recruiters have to back on because they don't have any other measures. I'm asking from a programmer standpoint. I remember dhh's joke on some position in NY (NYT or Library, can't recall) position requiring 8 years of Rails experience ;)
k g h
i j

Presumably?
I call them rockstars. ;)
Real-world Blogging Stats 2012: SEO-rich Content Rules
Have you seen Plan9?

A Plan 9 system comprises file servers, CPU servers and terminals. (...) Since CPU servers and terminals use the same kernel, users may choose to run programs locally on their terminals or remotely on CPU servers. The organization of Plan 9 hides the details of system connectivity allowing both users and administrators to configure their environment to be as distributed or centralized as they wish. Simple commands support the construction of a locally represented name space spanning many machines and networks.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/net/net.html
Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire Consultants
SSL/TLS Server Name Indication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) is supported by all major browsers nowadays. No need for a multi-domain certificate, just use an individual certificate for each virtual host.
While all opinions are respectable, it seems you are saying he is wrong because you think he is boring as a person. Fair.
Uhhhh... there's a gazillion products based on "spaced repetition" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Icons by hour
That'll leave you with tons of text with respect to what you said. Now integrate that with some kind of a keylogger on all your devices (like a computer, tablet, and phone) which can track states and applications. Also, by virtue of having a current generation smart phone you can also tag locations and timestamps, at least to cell tower triangulation accuracy if not GPS accuracy.

All of this is possible now, and the lifelogging community has been doing it for years and years. "Why" you do it is still an unanswered question. The usefulness hasn't been proven out.

Over the past year, I've come to feel that perhaps recording every word isn't as important as recording the context. All the words you said are there, but the context is lost. In context, that was a really funny joke, but the words, by themselves, were rude, or cruel, or sexist, or racist. It doesn't record everyone around you laughing, or how good you felt, or that it was a really good day as far as your depression management was concerned, or that that was the last time you saw X before his accident, and when you do go back and reminisce, those are the important things, not the precise words you used.

As of yet, lifelogging hasn't saved the meaning.
That's in large part what WebFinger was created for, which I used as a model when developing this project: http://hueniverse.com/webfinger/

Gmail actually used to support it to a degree (it came along with Buzz) but in September I think they removed the host-meta file. WebFinger is still a big part of OStatus (which is what identi.ca is based on).

The main issue I have with WebFinger is that unless you have your own domain name, it's either tied to an e-mail service, or you get an identity that looks like an e-mail address but isn't. Gmail had it, then dropped it, and given Google+ I don't think they would have too much interest in bringing it back. OStatus acct: identifiers are a lot like e-mail addresses but I don't think they function as such.

Of course if you have your own domain you can make it so that isn't the case, but most people don't and if you try to create a free domain that makes it easy for people to do that sort of thing you basically end up with aka.nu anyway.
Good to know, thanks! (one less vaporware i have to worry about)
Are these for absolute beginners or are they useful for people with some experience?
> The question for today's security specialists is, what still makes sense from the 1985 guidelines?

Indeed. Today every webapp developer is a security specialist.

> Certain audit reports (e.g., date and time of last login) should be provided by the system directly to the user.

In 2013, this still makes sense, but is not often implemented.
Supergenpass. Remember one password, generate a unique one per domain. Use a browser extension. Or Android App. The one master password never leaves the local machine. Want something more? Use a Yubikey to store your master password or a postfix of the master password -- that's how I log into my banks, type in a password and then touch my Yubikey Nano which adds another huge amount of characters (the Yubikey needs to be reprogrammed to store a fixed password not an OTP).
Seeking a data-loving sales person to lead the charge (REMOTE from somewhere in the bay area)

AppMonsta sells data and insights to help businesses better understand the mobile app markets. Our customers love us, we're bootstrapped and profitable, and we're growing quickly. We love hustle - we've been out hitting the streets as founders for the past year (we closed Neilsen and comScore starting with cold emails). Now it's time for us to bring a real pro - we've figured out the product and the market segments, and now we need someone who can use what we've learned to close a whole bunch of new customers.

When we talk to prospects, we hear things like "We've been looking for a solution to this problem for the past three weeks. This is EXACTLY what we were looking for". There are tons of leads just waiting for someone to give them a demo and close them, as well as a ton of companies that don't know they want to talk to us yet (we usually come back from conferences with handfuls of business cards to give demos to).

As our first dedicated sales person, there's a huge opportunity waiting for you (and responsibility to match). You'll set the tone for our whole sales organization, and have the opportunity to grow into a very senior management role. You'll be instrumental in helping develop a repeatable, measurable sales process. At the same time, you should be comfortable with being the feet on the street while we ramp up. We have had great luck with attending conferences, sending cold emails, and giving web demos to close new customers.

Our entire team works remotely. We're very flexible about where and when you work, as long as you're hustling, closing deals, and keeping our existing customers happy and paying. Being in somewhere in the bay area is a big bonus, as both founders are here, as are a lot of our customers. We try to get together at least once a week, and meet with our customers in person when we can. We also provide everyone with a 4G LTE wireless access point so you can work from wherever suits your fancy.

Send me an email at scotty@appmonsta.com and tell me what gets you fired up about selling.
I have like 10 frequently used apps that I had pinned to the start menu and launching them is a pain with having to search or if you pin them on the metro desktop its a lot of scrolling due to the large tiles. Plus there's a contextual switch that takes a user out of the zone with the entire screen switching especially when you have to close and open different apps constantly due to memory constraints, so that's a lot of jarring context switching.
Gordon Bell digitized much of his life, and everything for the past ten or twenty years. Phone calls, emails, a photo every sixty seconds, more when his heart rate increased. He hardly ever went back to it. Revisiting it was so rare as to be a notable event in and of itself.

I think the most useful aspect of large digital archives will be when natural language processing and image recognition get good enough to automatically distil the archive into actual information (rather than just data), no manual reviewing ever.

This would be along the lines of being able to ask "What did Bob say about X?" or "Find things that correlate with weight loss" and get meaningful answers (with summaries and so on, as appropriate).

(However, this seems mighty similar to saying "sufficiently smart compiler" http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler.)
@cheald: The best answer so far, but sorry if I still find it a little incomplete as this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2569501/what-ruby-and-rai....
See, every developer should be able to read someone else's code, have a big picture of the stack he's using and sustainable knowledge of every bit of it, be familiar with philosophical issues, and ways of doing, and community practices (such as testing or BDD), handle the deployment and scalability of their own production system, and use a version control system. I don't think handling all that plus serious communication and somewhat mentoring skills would get you a senior dev. That's why I'm asking for more. Thanks.
Governments are responsible for considerably more violence than individuals.
Hey I'm one of the founders. The early weeks are focused on beginners and then it will get more advanced.
Note that this is my personal opinion. I think we should be trying to come up with new solutions - BrowserId/Persona some some identity problems, but nowhere near all.

Have a read through Kim Cameron's post [1] to get a feel for how naive, if noble, Mozilla's efforts are.

http://www.identityblog.com/?p=352
Are these r/ references to Reddit? I had thought it was yet another new quirky unneeded programming language I had intentionally avoided to learn.
Thread fail.
And then he'll say, that's not what I meant, you're being pedantic, you're addressing individual points instead of the whole issue holistically.

Or maybe it's a personal fight, and you're throwing his words back in his face, and now he realizes he can't trust you with his feelings because you always take him so literally. He's sorry he's not a poet, that he's only human and has trouble expressing his emotions sometimes, but this just isn't going to work between us.

The only person who's ever looked bad when I've used someone's words against them is me.
It would be easy for some, hard for others.
Well give us some more info then, good man!
Passwords are bullshit. Passwords are the way that the IT moves the responsibility for the users' data, privacy and money over to the users.
Of course, users will never use passwords that are any safe, but now they are to blame for this.
It's so horribly hypocritial that it makes me cry.
We should all be ashamed of this and not get any sleep until the matter is resolved.
The problem is: we sleep just fine and make our sin worse.
SEEKING FREELANCER

We're looking for a software engineer that loves big data and distributed systems - you know who you are!

AppMonsta collects massive amounts of data about mobile apps and turns it into actionable metrics for a wide variety of business customers ranging from investors to health care companies to startups. We really love data, building distributed systems, and helping people understand complicated market dynamics through our data.

We're looking for a distributed systems/big data guru to join our distributed team. You'll take ownership of our crawl & data pipeline, keeping them running with high uptime, scaling them up to handle load, and adding new data sources and new features to help our customers make even better decisions. This shouldn't be your first time to the distributed systems/big data rodeo - we're looking for a senior engineer that likes mentoring junior engineers and is interested in growing into a tech lead role.

Our current tech stack is mostly python, linux, aws (ec2, s3, & emr mostly), mongodb, and redis. If you haven't worked with individual pieces of this before it's fine - we like working with smart people that are comfortable working in a distributed systems/big data/cloud environment. We're happy to help you get up to speed with anything you haven't seen before. We practice peer code review and continuous deployment on all our code and systems.

Our entire team works remotely. We're very flexible about where and when you work, as long as you ship code, keep systems online, and are reachable by other team members for part of the day. We stay in touch via a team chatroom and weekly team video chats, with impromptu 1-on-1 video chats whenever there's a detailed issue to discuss. To make this work, you'll need to be in a compatible timezone (between PDT(UTC-08) and CET(UTC+1)), and be very fluent writing and speaking english. Like getting out of the house to work? Ask about our mobile internet subsidy:)

This is a full time, longterm opportunity. If this sounds exciting, email me your resume and a couple hundred lines of some code you've written (preferably python), so we can get a sense for your coding style to scotty@appmonsta.com
I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll read comments before I read an article, so I could still find it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments.
If you close/open a lot of apps due to memory constraints then you have to leave the desktop a lot and it's jarring. The start screen makes it slower to launch apps when you have a lot of apps you frequently used due to scrolling. I just want a fast way to launch apps.
Writer Resolutions for 2013 (and beyond)
In the grand scheme of things, going paperless is not really a significant tactic to mitigate climate change or other environmental impacts. The paper industry has one of the best environmental track records and paper is one of the only truly sustainable products in existence.

In contrast, computers, data centers, mobile phones, and communication networks are well on their way to becoming one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions on the planet. Heavy metals, lead, and other hazardous materials are also frequently present in electronic products.

Paper itself is one of the most recycled products. Its production often lends itself to easy use of renewable energy sources (like hydro power) and proper forest management provides a sustainable source of raw materials as well as a carbon-sink [1].

[1] http://www.paperbecause.com/paper-is-sustainable/paper-truth...
I think the problem is that startssl will only give you one certificate per domain. Ie, they wont give you multiple free certificates for different subdomains of the same domain.

Also, as far as I understood it SNI doesn't (and never will) exist for Windows XP IE users, making it a non-starter for most websites for many years to come.
I'm not familiar with this situation - was it a public comment? If so, discussion of the work you do for your employer - their intellectual property - could get you fired.
This is brilliant! I've seen some early betas of Instinct, and I'm super excited to see this roll out. It really makes learning guitar simple and fun - almost like a video game. I've been an amateur since I got a guitar at 16 - I can play, but never got serious about it. I'm really looking forward to spending some time each week getting better!
Try without SSL: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

Or on GitHub: https://github.com/gorilla
I saw no mention of live streaming.

The removal of 'match' in routes is a little saddening....

I'm not sure how I feel about the concerns abstraction.
Doesn't help that the bubble is bursting/deflating, investors are getting stingy, and people are being called out for their "boring" ideas.
Make Me Worry You’re Not O.K.
I will not go paperless at least not for now, because I do not see how paper production is more polluting compared to server farms which use ton of electricity which has to be generated somehow and we still generate ton of electricity from some other color sources than green. Paper then again is easily recycled and more we recycle it the less we waste wood.

Then there is the business side of this. If average office worker prints 10,000 sheets of paper per year the paper would cost about 100 euros per year. The black laser casettes would cost about 400 euros per year. This comes down to 500 euros per year and this supports workers working in the ink and paper industry. If I really need that much paper I can always pay the price of it. When going completely paperless would put the cash on the hands of few founders and server administrators and would require those who I am in contact with to use the same or compatible services.
Don't know the origin of this particular music but you can find a lot of quite freely licensed music on jamendo.com.

(Haven't read on the licensing, I'm only using it as a source of music for work, not artwork.)
Is someone with severe health issues not allowed to have love in their lives? Mental illness presents unique problems to a relationship, but the one suffering is still a person, who deserves to have a bit of happiness.

The author said they'd already tried a bunch of dating outlets with no success, and then they found this wonderful woman that they fell in love with

Believe it or not people with mental illnesses have wishes and hopes and dreams too, and having a partner nearby that loves you can make some things a whole lot easier, and make life seem worth living even in the toughest times.
It's particularly interesting to people like me (and I suspect many others on HN), because we straddle the line ("wear many hats"). I personally love crazy ideas (everything is a file! No, really, look at Plan9!) and wild research directions. But for my day to day work, where I have to ship? Linux just works. But I also like having options, both to play with (personal) and to solve problems (work). In many respects, Linux already has enough flexibility and options to satisfy me.

As for fragmentation, get used to it; it's part of the job. Things are more unified now than they've ever been, it might not stay that way, and one of the major thrusts of the OP (and many comments here) is that there may be too much unification, and not enough variety and options.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...
Currently the only way to bet on horse races in the US, check it out
Apple airs unfortunately-timed ‘Do Not Disturb’ ad with Venus, Serena Williams
If you look at government as a service, imagine if it weren't compulsory, and if competition were allowed.

This would solve many problems that are caused when government is a monopoly. If you can opt out, or conveniently choose another "service provider", it makes that service more accountable for its actions.

Even services like phone/internet providers would improve as a result, because those government approved monopolies would no longer be enforced, opening up competition in those sectors as well.
Win8 main problem is there's no killer must have app(s) that decimates similar apps on other platforms. The Metro Mail app is almost a complete failure, and the store is not user friendly for discovery of apps. If they can't get their first tier apps to show what Win8 Metro can do, then what hope do third party apps have?

And it seems like Win9 is still sticking with this failed UI paradigm: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-9-Won-t-Bring-Back-th...
"Schizophrenics in India are far more likely to go undiagnosed and untreated, which only exacerbates the problems for them and their families."

Not sure if that statement is entirely reality-based:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prognosis_of_schizophrenia#Inte...
Google’s Attack on Apple is Good News for Apple
and God did you really not get that the bus thing was just meant to represent how much he loved this woman? This is something people say about others they love deeply.
People do use drones to get news footage:
http://www.euronews.com/picture-of-the-day/2011/12/10/ten-th...
I believe this shot was taken by a drone
See also http://rccam.livejournal.com/49843.html