skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Separating DOM and data I can understand, but I am not convinced Backbone is the right way to do it.

My code would look more like:

function postdata(url, data, callback) {
$.ajax({
url: '/status',
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
data: data,
success: function (received) { callback(received); }
});
}

var statusform;

(function(pub) {
var status = ""

pub.init = init;
function init() {
$('#new-status form').submit(function(e) {
submitdata();
e.preventDefault();
});
}

function submitdata() {
var data = {
text: getfieldvalue("textarea")
};

if (!data.text) { return; }
postdata("/status", data, function(received) {
status = received.status;
drawscreen();
});
}

function getfieldvalue(fieldname) {
return $('#new-status').find(fieldname).val();
}

function drawscreen() {
if (status) {
$('#statuses').append('<li>' + status + '</li>');
$('#new-status').find('textarea').val('');
status = "";
}
}
}) (statusform);

$(document).onload(statusform.init);

Note 1: This code sample is untested, but should give a good enough idea what I am trying to do.
Note 2: For extra type safety, use typescript interfaces to model data.
There are no factories in the world that do not have human labor as an expense on the P/L sheet. Automation/robotic-ness is not a yes or no question or even a single floating point number. "the build process" is not a well defined constraint, perhaps automatic screw machines and contour/turret lathes were "fully robotic builds" a century or so ago.

Given those restrictions, from a mfg background and looking at the pix its basically more or less similar to other automobile plants, not particularly under or over capitalized. Their "secret sauce" is not their shop floor. Note I'm not in any way implying there is anything wrong or imperfect with their shop floor, I'm merely claiming that the production floor is not their "secret sauce".

This is probably by design. If you're going to push the boundaries in numerous areas of technology, it would be pretty dumb to push your luck and in addition to everything else, try to hyper automate a factory. If anyone would try a hyperautomated factory, I would guess it would be one of the giant incumbents, probably Ford, probably on a known and simple/cheap model. I would expect the worlds first "never touched by human hands" automobile to be something very similar to a Ford Focus rather than a Tesla.
Personally I see the potential for false positives as rendering them mostly useless in a crowd setting.
I guess that's true. I forgot that the NYPD can search through all of your stuff when you enter a subway, but you have the right to refuse and just not take the subway (at least at that station)
Can you please link to the remote execution bug?
Luckily we'll keep drone use safe and restricted to governments, immune to the ill intents of big corporations and malicious hackers.
DDG is mostly a front end for a bunch of search engines. Perl, PHP and Python are great to make front-ends like that. Because you are for the most part only dispatching queries, parsing xml feeds and build the gui for the end user.

Writing an internet scale search engine on the other hand would require different tools. Most successful projects has probably been done i C, C++ and maybe Java.
Roughly 30cm to the foot.
I completely agree with that. I do think aligning users' interest with the company is a good thing. It's just the "marketing" of App.net that makes it feel otherwise.

For example, the heading of this post was "The promise of “unbundling”". It's vague but I think a little bit misleading. But I guess that's the point of marketing :).
VinesMap - Real time Vines + Open Street Map
Xcode 4.6 and iOS 6.1 released today
> yes it's hard to articulate to your non-tech friends why they should spend $36/year on this.

Actually, I am a tech person, and I like to support App.net. I have not yet seen a reason to use the service.

> ...it's becoming a pretty positive place to hang out, and most of the people I care about listening to are there.

Ok. This is genuinely the first benefit I have heard about using it. Great. Please elaborate more. (I say this as someone looking for reasons to support App.net.)
faster than native, really?
A Quantum Means Toward a Macro End: The Solid-State Processor (2010)
I heard a catchier way to phrase #2 and #4 - the "me, make, meet" schedule:

http://managinguxteams.com/2010/03/27/me-make-meet-how-to-ma...

It's written by a former Google manager on how he used his calendar to maintain his sanity and individual output while also dealing with his commitments to others (via meetings).
Maybe ESR thinks he should have been consulted before publishing?

The "ritualized" nature of mean comments on bad code seems to be in evidence on HN recently.
Next up, "Google maps live". Hi Mom, can you see me waving?
Unfortunately, the Zapper doesn't work on flat screen^H^H^H^H^H^H panel TVs

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/98225/duck-hunt-on...
Second amendment remedies will be rather... lacking when it comes to 24/7 surveillance by armed drones flying above the sky.

It's scary but increasingly inevitable that panopticon surveillance of all open physical spaces will happen. Having a rifle isn't going to do much to escape or counteract that.
Sure, why not? If there's anything like that I did care about, Facebook would be none the wiser anyway.
They charge users a yearly subscription. It's the same as any business model. Somehow they've pulled in "openness" and "transparency" into their marketing lingo and it's damn confusing.

I don't dislike App.net. A good friend of mine works there and I'm rooting for them and wish more online services would charge consumers.
Courier Prime - A Courier made for screenplays
So, tin foil hoodies? Or maybe chain mail will come back in style?

I haven't encountered one of these yet, but I'd actually be willing to go through if I had some sort of metallic pre-wash all over my clothes.
If you can carry that, you can carry a light notebook =/
I really like the approach of translating from jQuery. Even if you don't end up using Backbone for everything, it really gives you an idea of what to do with it. I read Backbone tutorials before, and you learn how to do things, but with not much language context. Looking at the alternative ways to do one thing is way more useful.
6 second vidoes? Big meh from me but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
> Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

You can disable this feature by opening /etc/default/apport and editing enabled=1 to enabled=0. Then stop the service with "sudo service apport stop" or reboot.

You can then selectively enable it again when you notice a reproducible bug or use ubuntu-bug to report bugs against packages.
A student in a four year program will lose about $150,000 at time of graduation by simply not working during that time, never mind any costs that are incurred by the schooling itself.
Beautiful slides with so many information about Padrino. They helped me a lot!
The irony is that Firefox is by far the least secure current browser (after Chrome, then probably Safari and IE10 for various reasons, then Firefox).
Yes, you can use any SMTP service you want with Meteor, including Mailgun. It's just when you use meteor deploy, your app is automatically configured with Mailgun. (note- I work at Mailgun).
Opera's Math.random() is cryptographically secure
This seems to relate to using devices to detect things inside your car (dogs) or devices to detect growing lamps in your house (unconstitutional search).

It looks like they are working to erode searches again, using dogs to detect drugs inside a home. http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/10/argument-preview-drug-snif...

Everything I learned in high school civics class seems to be obsolete when it comes to our Constitutional rights: "bong hits for jesus", "administrative" searches (body scanners), and now street searches.

Why is it the argument from ignorance/lack of imagination via fear is so compelling? "We need to do X to stop Y." Where Y is something very remote but really scary.
AdBrite ceases operations
Show HN: Word Frequency in Moby Dick with d3.js
«Panopticism is taken literally by at least one Air Force commander in Kandahar. ‘He
knows we’re there,’ Colonel Theodore Osowski told a reporter, referring to the Taliban,
‘and when we’re not there, he thinks we might be there’: Brian Mockenhaupt, ‘We’ve
seen the future and it’s unmanned’, Esquire, 14 October 2009.»

in: Dis/Ordering the Orient: scopic regimes and modern war by Derek Gregory

http://geographicalimaginations.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/... [pdf]

downloadable along other well researched resources on the topic here:
http://geographicalimaginations.com/downloads/
USA redefined "terrorist" to mean any person physically close to person that is known to be terrorist. It simplifies targeting and civilian casualties counting.
I just wanted to say the same thing.
Interesting. Any public big users of the API?
Happy International Privacy Day
CopyTele Files Lawsuits Alleging Theft of Display Tech Used for Kindle, Nook
When I think "spotting a terrorist", I think seeing a guy put a bomb on the ground, not necessary picking out facial features, which need more resolution. When I hear spot a person, I think "pick out a particular person" [facial features]. This may not be what other people infer, but it's my general gist.
Here's some good advice - if you are great at selling, come up with a product, and go sell it to people, get feedback, do the customer development, hire a part time designer to make some nice mockups. You don't need a product to sell - you only need max a powerpoint, or at least a working prototype.

Once you're at the point where someone says 'ok, ill pay you for this product', you'll have some cash, or you'll have a compelling story for a developer.

Imagine instead of posting 'please someone technical join me im a hard worker', your story was 'guys, i just sold <large company> on a product <here> that I'd been working on selling for 4 months, i'll split the contract with a developer who wants to come on board and build a company around this idea with me'.

Much more compelling.
Google ad exchange rival, AdBrite is shutting down
Those benchmarks are extremely suspicious. I remember comparing Perl and Python for bioinformatic work (non-trivial computational workloads), and finding that Perl was about 2x the speed of Python, on average.

Later, I did similar, non-trivial benchmarks with Python and Ruby, and found a similar, 2x factor. Ruby has improved since then, but unless Perl has become dramatically slower in the same interval, I suspect that these benchmarks are either trivial (i.e. simple loops), or badly written.
From Mango to Apollo: The HTC Windows Phone 8X on the Daily
Much of the software in Ubuntu is available on ARM today. If you have an Ubuntu ARM device (say, you are running the desktop on a Panda board), you can launch Ubuntu Software Centre and see for yourself.

For a less pretty view (and one that will only make much sense if you already understand how the Ubuntu archives are organized (poorly)), check out http://ports.ubuntu.com/
It's also worth noting that Cassandra and MongoDB offer strictly weaker fault tolerance than HyperDex in these benchmarks.
Twitter Addresses Transparency Copyright with a Dedicated Support Site
+ 1 for the C1M comet application

The article provides a lot more in-depth information on the subject and more experimental data (across multiple machines - not only localhost).
In NYC the subway is critical infrastructure, as important as electricity or water, denial of its use should not be taken lightly.

Denial of this service to people who would not submit to a search, IMO, makes this highly coercive and the search can no longer be considered strictly voluntary.

One has to remember that having seen the flip side of the urban coin, New York City has taken the stance that quality of life ought to be enforced via any means necessary: legal or extralegal. Both stop and frisk as well as the bag searches on the subway do not pass even a cursory constitutionality examination, but that doesn't seem to bother anyone.
You can download a free book about privacy here:
http://www.lolomgfree.com/

It's to a free Kindle version. I haven't read it yet as I just received the link to it today.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129332
Good work. For comparison, this is what pros do with their photobooth:
http://www.theimageisfound.com/crazybooth/index2.php#/galler... (flash, sorry)
AdBrite is ceasing operations on Feb 1 2013
Just received an email from adBrite stating that they will be ceasing operations on Feb 1, 2013.

Below is a copy of the email:

"Dear adBrite Publisher,

Over the last few weeks, adBrite and its management have been evaluating the go-forward plan for the business. Given market conditions and certain financial liabilities, in working with our lenders, we have decided to cease operations on Feb 1, 2013.

This is a difficult decision for all of us at adBrite. However, after much deliberation this seems to be the best course of action despite the impact it will have on all the employees, clients and partners who helped build this business. There will be a team in place as needed to assist with winding down.
Thank you for being part of the adBrite community.

The adBrite Team"
Apparently there are a number of problems with terahertz technology, meaning potential methods of fooling them.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/military/the-truth-about-...
Show HN: See what websites are dropping what cookies & more
What I Learned Working at LivingSocial
Ah but GM is not one plant. Its not even really a car company, its a financing company that happens to own all the shares of stock in numerous sub-corporations, some of which happen to make cars, just like Tesla.

A reasonably fair comparison would be GM's Bowling Green Corvette plant which makes, on long term average, about 200 to 300 cars per week for a grand total around 10K to 15K per year. About the same as Tesla, more or less.
Surely you mean non-crts (or flat panel displays)? This is a flat screen tv and it should work just fine with duck-hunt -> http://www.amazon.com/Sony-WEGA-KV-27FS13-27-Flat-Screen/dp/...
> within reasonable latency bounds

Have you used DDG? Requests take over 500-600ms regularly for me. Compare to Google's instant search and excellent latency for non-instant queries... which handle orders of magnitude more traffic.
My 2013 setup of hardware & software
FMYI Converts To Twitter Bootstrap For Community-Minded Social Network
This bug looks similar to the previous rails SQL injection/manipulation issues. The code expects some type T but instead gets a type U and because of this some unexpected behaviour happens. In a typesafe language this mistake would be harder to make. This is a really ugly one to solve and there is going to be lots of rails code bases that are going to be vulnerable to this issue. Maybe there is an option in mysql or the vulnerable databases to treat this as an error rather than generate a warning.

if you don't have anything that is enforcing types then you are fucked :) it is ok to have untyped (or weakly typed) db and statically typed frontend. it is ok to have typed db and dynamically typed frontend. but if you have untyped db and dynamically typed frontend you are in for a world of pain.
Tail call optimization does nothing to mitigate the fact that it takes an exponential number of recursive calls to calculate fibonacci. Just draw the call tree of f(5) by hand to see what happens.

>My impression is that most people here understand that a simple for-loop will get the job done, but they don't see for-loops as very interesting

Well, let's make them a bit more interesting then... The simple for loop is actually an example of dynamic programming, i.e. building a table of values from the bottom up in order to avoid repeated calculations. In this case the table only needs to have size 2, as an entry won't be read ever again after the first 2 uses.
No it doesn't. It sells ad space next to content on valuable internet properties. Google Search and YouTube being the two big ones.

Please everyone, stop sensationalizing this. Google doesn't "sell users" or "sell your privacy" any more than, e.g., NBC, which sells ads alongside its content.
>Yeah, but selling your privacy isn't the point of its existence, unlike Google

I usually agree with your comments, rayiner, but have to disagree with this one.

Unless there is very strong evidence to the contrary (and neither Mozilla's mission statement nor its non-profit status qualifies as very strong evidence), any organization that depends on an organization that 'sells your privacy' (your words) for over 90% of its income is just as bad-for-your-privacy in the long term as an organization that directly sells your privacy.
What is LOIC and can I be arrested for DDoS'ing someone?
Anatomy of a Virtual Speech with Google+ Hangouts
Again, can't you get these same packages on Ubuntu?
Intuit Acquires Payvment’s Team, Tech, Patents While Ecwid Takes Its Merchants
Anyone else read the article, see the picture of Lee Cheng and say to themselves, "damn I wish I was that guy"?
Not sure you should take that start-up job? Think like an investor
I disagree with you. If there was excess manpower, graduate students wouldn't be stressed out with overwhelming work. Obviously, there is a lot more work to go around and less bodies to give it to.
Most of the research man-hours is gone trying to implement other people's research-methods so you have a 'baseline.' A complete waste of time just to have one graph in the Results section of your publication. The height of research inefficiency is to replicate someone else's results and hope (finger's crossed) that you followed their 8-page paper (that took them 10 months to develop) meticulously.
Academic researchers only care about results, it is the graduate students that need to be efficient. The efficiency software should be bought by the PIs for their graduate students.
#Powerful Joe Rogan
Why does Element.innerText cause the browser to "layout?" The author said he might explain this in another article.
Show HN: Listen to music that people on Twitter are talking about
Just this past year I started to get an interest in watches. These watches of his look fantastic, I love the independent watch styles.
FastestFox is the biggest.
Understanding Loop Invariants in Whiley
How To: Upgrade a Wall Outlet to USB Functionality
"its always done this way" is the ultimate motivation of any startup. We wouldn't have any competing startups if everyone just accepted that, probably, not have any entrepreneurs or have a better world for that matter. The fitness function of the world will flatline.
Michael Moritz on immigration reform
you just don't get it do you?
WhatsApp found to breach Dutch and Canadian privacy laws
Ugh, "Bong Hits for Jesus". That SCOTUS decision sincerely and utterly gnaws at my core. One of the worst decisions in the last 30 years.
I just want to point out that the link is for user submitted design suggestions and is not necessarily official Canonical plan of record for what will ship.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/01/23/community-driven-ubuntu-...

It's a subtle distinction I wanted to point out.

Not speaking on behalf of Canonical, just in my own capacity.
Yes, it's better to succeed than fail. So what?
Virtualized API Stacks
"A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software."

Looks like this ticket will remain opened for quite a long time.
6096 meters, or 6.096 kilometers.
Maybe you're trying to be ironical, but the 2nd Amendment reads "being necessary to the security of a free State"

As in, "free to form militias to beat down slave rebellions"

So unless you've got a problem with your slaves, not sure it's so neat.
correct, the opposite of overfitting is underfitting, knowing that whenever you talk to joe you get punched, and you have 10 training examples, but this time is different, he's wearing his brown shirt, so it's probably safe now.

not finding the signal from the noise, because joe hitting me 10 times in a row is not conclusive, because most humans never hit me. and joe is wearing new clothing, so it's safe because joe is a human.
Load testing django applications
Quipio- It's like instagram for words
How Identity Thieves Snatch Billions in Phony Tax Refunds
'"Overeducated" here means getting an academic credential where it isn't necessary.'

I would say it was said to set a worthiness factor on a profession; to imply that taxi drivers are not valuable to our society.

The software industry most certainly does not require a degree either, and we have countless success stories of people in the industry without degrees or relevant degrees, but we wouldn't say someone with a degree is overeducated to do the job because we regard programmers in high standing. Imagine if this article was about all the overeducated CS grads working as programmers. We'd be all up in arms about it, even though there is no theoretical difference. You still need complex skills and education to be a good taxi driver. It is not something just anyone can hop into the car and do.
$>sed "s/a person/a delivery person/"
>>Method length should be 1 to 3 lines.

I've read that claim. The only time I really had to work with code like that was horrible.

It was like a book where the sentences were in random order, with the next sentence number appended, so you would have to browse to another page every few words. :-(

The context switches didn't make me productive... Sometimes, I had to look 3-4 levels up or down in the hierarchy to find a parameter type (this was in a scripting language). If anyone talked to me, it took a looong time to rebuild the model in my head.

Edit: In short, grandparent++.
Counties set valuations and property taxes
Erm - why exactly? Sources?
what does, this?

> It is really scary to imagine a future where a handful of people or even a single person can physically control the entire population.

What weaponry do you think would be necessary for a civilian population to successfully repel a US Marine battalion? Is it even reasonable to expect that a civilian population would possess anywhere near the appropriate level of training for such a situation?
For those interested in watches, the book "Watchmaking" by George Daniels is an interesting read. It's very technical, but covers in great detail all the steps necessary to make a watch, including some complications.
Command-line JSON inspector
The author mentioned only two top females Marissa Mayer and Belinda Stronach. How about the very successful Chanda Zaveri we just had a post about? http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130126/jsp/calcutta/story_164...

I'm not saying looks don't affect interviews, I think they do, but I'd like to see a little more investigation and a little less assumption.
Xubuntu is a great alternative to Ubuntu if you want the Debian minimalism with a few of the unobtrusive Ubuntu extras.
The intention for the site design was that your minimum request is listed at the top, and then more stuff is in the other tools to consider section at the bottom.
On that point, Sexual Offences Act 2003 S12(1)(a) appears to be badly drafted as it's not clear that the sexual "gratification" has to be the defendants, it could the second party's. In which case if you sent it someone and they got off on it but that someone was a minor it would be an offence.

Read another way even if someone didn't get off on it but the material is pornographic (ie of the sort people use for sexual gratification) then it would still count.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Thanks for the feedback. I'll update the landing this week. The most common use cases we have so far: dates / young couples that want spend quality time, friends dinners, supper clubs, cooking enthusiasts who want to learn new recipes from top Chefs... You just order the recipe you want: no subscription yet(people have requested it). Cut off time is 10pm the day before your delivery. If you have friends in NYC, feel free to share the joy of cooking :)
She's smokin'.