skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy above clearly applied the coding standards of the OpenBSD base system to a contributed package and used that as a basis for argument. Irrespective of how Ruby's developers do things, it is sloppy thinking.

As for going through the ports tree, your presumption is odd, of course I haven't sat with each and every developer. Perhaps you intended irony. Ho hum. But where's the invective? It is exceedingly rare for software to be written with as much security-consciousness as OpenBSD. I don't think that's a controversial statement.
Stalin was and will always be one of the most evil mass murderers in history. The fact he was responsible for the death of tens of millions of people in Eastern Europe is hard to fathom - but it's true.

It baffles the mind how he could have got so far. It must be in part because people didn't speak up early on, either out of fear or because they were uninformed.

Unspeakably sad how bad it got. They probably thought it wasn't possible. Perhaps too trusting?

People today can never become complacent. Never be too distracted, preoccupied or inconvenienced to speak up and stand up against oppression. Even when the oppression is from our own elected governments.
For those wanting smartphone functionality without smartphone prices, I suggest using T-Mobile prepaid. I have a Nexus 4 that I use without a data plan. 90% of my life is spent within the comforting rays of wifi and I use my phone for email, web browsing, etc. When I'm out I can make voice calls when needed.

The best part, though, is that you can purchase data access for $3 a day. So when I travel I usually turn on the data so I can stay connected and look things up.
PlayStation 4: game on for the next generation?
This seems relevant: http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2013/02/eefin-and-hambone-or-what-...

What gives the appearance of some monopoly on genius to the sort of cultural output that is housed in museums and Lincoln Plaza and so on is just this: that brainless one-percenters are spending huge amounts of money to put their names on these monuments, and the brainless bourgeoisie makes pilgrimages to them, spending medium sums of money to have a brush with cultural objects that supposedly edify by their simple proximity. The illusion that genius is stored up in sites of high culture is sustained by capital and by the laziness and gullibility of culture's consumers: all the season-ticket holders, all the dupes of the museums' advertising departments, for their part driven ever further, under the compulsion of capital, to make the Ottoman sultan's throne, or medieval armor, or Greco-Bactrian statuary, look like so many things to buy-- passing them off as a special class of objects, museum objects, that you can buy in a way just by going and standing in front of them.
What is the best method to undo an action?
I don't think that's entirely correct, at least in the United States. As far as I understand the law, it IS legal to videorecord people, children and otherwise in public places with or without their permission and on private property under some conditions. I'm certainly not a legal expert and I would be interested in seeing any citations that might prove this wrong. Here are a few sources I found on the web:

http://communications-media.lawyers.com/privacy-law/Child-Ph...
(note that according to this, in the state of Georgia and possibly New Jersey it may now be illegal to photograph children who aren't your own)

http://www.uvu.edu/wrs/trainingmaterials/recording.html
It's funny how nice these corporations seem to act when breaking into new markets. Ask an european about T-Mobile and he will tell you pretty much the same stories that you tell about AT&T.
Can you imagine how much more pleasant participating in HN, GitHub, etc. would be if all programmers were this pleasant and open-minded?

Regardless of the particular merits of the technique he talks about here, I think we can all learn a lesson from this guy about appreciating the work and ideas of others.
Wii U expanding third-party dev range with HTML5
any law that 80% of people on the freeway break is a terrible law.

They are actually supposed to be set so that 80-90% of the people are obeying the limit (see MUTCD), but that often results in limits that are perceived as being too high by communities.
You could probably have managed to be a bit more constructive.
My comment was both germane and consistent with the tone of the linked article.

> Do you like what became of it?

Who cares what I like? The conversation will do just fine without checking with me or my tastes.
T-Mobile stores no longer sell SIM card kits; you must buy them online.

You can also regularly get a T-Mobile prepaid phone of some variant for $20 at Walgreens, which comes with the "Activation Kit" (SIM card and secret number) as well as a terrible GSM-only phone you can throw away.
AT&T doesn't consider my Nokia N900 a smart phone. I'm pretty certain AT&T never sold the N900, so this could support your theory.
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Wow, please don't be discouraged by all the negativity. Sure there are plugins and scripts to do this but I, like you, don't like installing many plugins and I'd use this so rarely that I'd forget where the script was by the time I needed it. So having this bookmarked for those odd occasions when I'd use it is the perfect solution.

Furthermore I'd say the current comments exemplify why many like myself no longer share or comment much on HN these days. Say what you will but the quality of discussions is devolving into a big who-can-act-more-jaded-and-know-it-all-ish contest. I'd be willing to bet there are just tons of people who'd want something like this. It's not about "oh there are better solutions" or "more elegant" solutions. It comes down to personal preference and tastes. For every person who's too cool for a browser based solutions there are ten more who'd rather have this than a plugin but don't say anything and just use it.
I wonder if there are any unintended consequences though.

For instance, if everyone buys same day/ day before, what's availability like? Are there different classes of seating?
Are there empty seats during slow times of the year? Does the government simply eat those costs?

I'm completely ignorant of how air travel works in China, and these are genuine questions.
JavaScript will be the first class language for GNOME application development
Chargeback. Your credit card company takes a dim view of people who try to bill you for things you haven't ordered.
Fair enough. My point is being more mindful and deliberate about things, and not taking the default of "I have to come into work." You don't have to. I'm certainly not suggesting that you have to work remotely, either.
Exactly, it goes beyond games.

As a web developer at a creative agency, it's impossible to pitch an interactive 3D simulation or data visualization project to a client if it won't work in IE. I'd be happy if even CSS 3D transforms were widely supported.
It's $45, but you only get 2GB of data. They advertise 'unlimited' but if you go even a byte over 2 GB they harass you with automated phone calls and then 'throttle' you (down to less than 1 Kb/s, so basically disable your data access, as everything times out).

The California Department of Consumer Affairs doesn't seem to care about their abuse of the term 'unlimited', but we should here.
Uh, the example in the article is from a numerical computation, and following conventions (typically, from a book, or a research paper, etc) is often a good idea. Just as long as they are not confusing. An example would be using g for the gravitational constant. If they start becoming confusing, can take them out to a namespace (if the language allows it): just like Math/e is a better practice than e, so Physics/g could be better than g. As a previous comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157849) indicates, when used in a short piece of code, quick synonyms can be used, thus g instead of Physics/g (or Physics/Some_Longer_Name).

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, short-lived names can often be short, too. In some cases they are little more than placeholders. An example is an index for a for-loop that is in fact a "for-each" loop when the language lacks the latter and the index does not have much of a meaning of its own.
My brother is in prison for murder. He did it and confessed to it. Still, during the trial the detectives saw fit to lie under oath, and bring forth evidence of his character (his diary) obtained illegally (they lied and said it was obtained via a neighbor who found it in a trash can in his house 0_o). All of this even though they had an open and shut case. It blew my mind that in a case that they had in the bag and where the evidence of the crime itself was enough to put him away forever they still did all of that. The story of the diary was especially ridiculous. It's not like the detectives told some whoppers just to make things easier on themselves. They lied about all sorts of small things, like how his arrest actually happened. From that I learned to fear the system. If they'll do that with a slam dunk case, what will they do to get a conviction when the case is a tough one? How many men has this state (Texas) executed as a result of this system?
Microsoft dev tools to add Linux-style source code versioning
Web browsers throttle the number of concurrent connections to a domain.
It is my goal to support the most desirable company in any market. Don't think that I would hesitate for a second to change carriers if T-Mobile stopped being nice, competent, and helpful and AT&T stopped being jerks and offering reasonable plans and policies. Vote with your wallet and all that, and right now, T-Mobile is the only cell phone service provider that I am aware of that doesn't suck in my market.
There are workflow issues to generalising the case. In particular, since this is a devops issue any such solution has to be based on satisfying the needs of developers (e.g. ease of deployment, version specificity), and the needs of admins (ease of patching & audit, dependency management) across a wide variety of packaging mechanisms for both base OS and many language-specific ecosystems.

It's no surprise to me that the unit of deployment, for many sites, is becoming the virtual machine template. Since you don't even need to bother maintaining it; just keep your data separate from your code, rebuild the image when necessary with latest libs & pkgs, and throw away old ones. This is how many PaaS providers are doing things.
We're in the age of technologies like Chef, Puppet, and virtual machines. Said hairballs are described by code, and versionable.

And if that is still a problem for 95% of the enterprise IT, I guess that's why startup tend to kick their butts out in the frontiers.
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I remember thinking about this on an app I was building about 4 years ago. At the time, I was thinking that having the logo at the bottom would be a bit of a differentiator, and might make it recognizable, as many people I figure just ignore the top-bar logo area.

However, The topbar is often used for so much other stuff that users are looking for like search and navigation links, that moving the logo to the bottom (you may have a different idea) ended up just taking more pixels and in my general opinion asking (no a/b testing), most people just didn't like it as much as the stock standard, top left position.

I seem to recall a few sites I've seen use top right positioning for the logo, but nothing is coming to mind right now.
Not that I disagree with you but why do you think this was ever not the case? Other than the mindless part, of course, which I'll disagree with as Google is nothing if not mindfully opportunistic in their pursuit of us and the almighty buck they derive from it.
My girlfriend has the exact same shoe size (5 in the US). She buys all of her shoes from Chinese companies on Ebay, as they always seem to have her size in stock. I have no idea if there are regional foot size differences, but shopping online may be a solution.
You know what'd be cool? If you made this into a plugin too! But then maybe you'd get a lot of "this already exists except better" comments. So maybe if you did that you could just let me know and everyone who's too cool can keep their useless negativity to needlessly criticize someone else.
Yes, it's a well-known convention to link back to the Home page by clicking on the logo.

Google seems to fighting this well-known convention. The google logo is frequently linked to nothing at all!
The tragedy - at least in my experience - is that in the long run they're really all the same. "Trust us, we want only your best! (your money)".

I can only second kevingadd's advice to try and not tie yourself to one with a longterm contract. The fewer customers they have locked in, the more careful they have to be about not pissing them off.
The parent just linked to a half-hour long TV show which does a reasonably thoughtful job at depicting the possible significance of ubiquitous recording in people's lives. Is this not the right kind of considering, or what?
looks like a startup
Is it possible to do SXSW (including travel from NYC) for under $2000?
Eh, it seems more that it's just hard for some people to know when to stop trying to apply philosophy to something. I find myself often engaging in a whole lot of philosophic thought, but I know better than to think that has any bearing on science.

Derails.
This is exactly how Yahoo implemented this. The downside is that you have to select a new "sign in seal" for each browser/computer that you use.
Cool project! I also use a browser extension for this currently, but the obvious advantage to this is you can use it on any browser immediately as long as you remember the domain name.

One suggestion - it would be a bit more useful if you hid the top bar while it's in "refreshing mode", and made the iframe take up the whole page. You could put a little icon in one of the top corners to reveal it again. I've used tools like this in the past to show analytics and news dashboards, and you typically want to keep as much screen real estate as possible.
As much as I've wanted to break out of the top/left logo standard, the problem is... it's the standard. It's what web users have come to expect that logo will be at the top (expectation is top/left) and that it will take them to the home or dashboard. Any time we step out of this box users are like 'WTF' (I'm no exception).
How does the result of committing perjury ("a miscarriage of justice") factor into whether or not it's been committed? AIUI (IANAL), perjury requires three conditions be met: a materially false statement (1) made with intent to deceive (2) while under oath or affirmation (3).

Can you provide a citation or point to some case law for my edification, please?
Pro tip: If you legitimately fail at reasonably resolving an issue like the OP, try filing a Better Business Bureau complaint. You'd be surprised. I filed one against Verizon last month and got a call a week later from their "executive team" offering me exactly what their support agents said was "impossible, against policy and regulation". Got a $550 account credit :)
Hi, a friend sent me this link. I love to design websites, logos, draw characters and whatnot. I am proficient with vector illustration. Here is my site: http://www.ahernpaul.com

My rate is $50/hr and I am amenable to flat fees for full projects.

-Paul Ahern
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First, THANK YOU!

Second, yeah... some of the tone seems to be harsh but at the same time the comments do have some valid criticisms in them. Some people DO prefer scripts and hand-coded approaches... but like You & I, some people don't. So, I take it with a grain of salt. (I now appreciate that phrase a little more).

Another demographic I kept in mind aside from coders... is people like my former roommate. She doesn't even know what javascript is and would want a way to just simply check if tickets for her favorite festival finally went on sale (ie. Coachella sold out in 5 minutes this year and she spent a lot of refreshing trying to check on it) so that's also a demographic I was aiming to help.

With all that said... It's not like I'm releasing a product I spent hundreds of hours or hundreds of dollars on, so I'm not entirely crushed if nobody finds it useful. At the same time, it's nice to see somebody else DOES find it useful so I really appreciate the positive feedback.

I hope it gets a few bookmarks and helps some people out. I know my old roommate already has it bookmarked. =)
Gelernter is a very smart guy (and a excellent writer in other areas) who happens to have patents in this sort of area. Pushing it is in his best interests, hence the stream of sludge.
As a long time Rails dev, I never trust the package maintainer's OS packages for Rails. I need specific versions of Rails and gems, often times specific git commits.

In places where the IT staff insists on making sure this isn't "redundant", they usually use something like fpm to create a deb or an rpm out of the gem specified by Gemfile. Which you then have to drop into a custom deb/rpm repository. On top of that, the ops staff don't know how to do that properly, so they end up with a bunch of testing and development dependencies that the Rails application doesn't need.

... or, you have the deploy process call, "bundle install"

The redundancy is in the OS packages, not in application dependencies. So it is actually better to automate such with something like Chef and Puppet. From there, I can define exactly what the application needs from the OS.

I have seen this play out in a lot of ways, devs vs. sys admin. In the past, sys admins "win" since compute resources were still scarce. We're in the age of virtual machines now and configuration automation. Applications get their own VMs, sometimes in multiple nodes. We don't have Unix high priests guarding the altar with SSH keys, hand-deploying things in secret early-morning ceremonies. We have automation to deploy for us, which means we want to make it easier for the automation to deploy, not necessarily for someone to shell in and maneuver around with hand installations.

Things being application-centric, the "right" thing is to conform to the requirements of the dev team's app, not the other way around.
Java is still the most secure widespread runtime
Wow, it never occurred to me that the seatbelt law is particularly weird given motorcycles.
I was thinking about that (hiding the toolbar). That's a great idea of making a little icon that lets you return to it. It would also solve the problem I'm having with the extra padding issues on some browsers. I might make that happen on a later date.

And yes, i agree.. it's hard to remember the domain name. If I think of something short and sweet and see that it's available... I'll change it to that. I spent no more than 10 seconds on thinking of a domain name. I figured most people would just boomark it, if they found it useful, since it's not an every day tool... but i get your point. It's always better if you can easily remember the domain name.

Thanks for the feedback!
Nice idea. I wonder how technical sounding you'd have to get to push it through. "Issuing a legal claim over a telecommunications network"?
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that's probably because of the bootstrap template.
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It's not a new consideration; Bob Shaw’s 1972 book Other Days, Other Eyes does a credible job of looking at a world with ubiquitous recording - a cheap dust like recording medium is crop dusted across entire countries with the result that it can be hoovered up and played back to show whatever took place in the vicinity.

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/10/slow-glass-seen-from-all-ar...
Poll: Do you think C++ will regain the spotlight?
What the fu*k should I hack this weekend?
> if people allow that police work necessitate some ugliness at times

The silent majority can and does realize this. Proof: http://mashable.com/2013/02/01/reddit-atlanta-mall-manager-t...

I've seen this happen a number of times on reddit. Someone claims police brutality, the thread escalates to the main page, then eventually dies down with the top few posts taking a cool-headed stance. In fact, there have been times when I have found my own opinion on the less moderate side of the hivemind's consensus, and I consider myself fairly trigger-shy when it comes to criticizing the police for doing their job (possibly because I've never been on the wrong side of an arrest).

I've heard the claim repeated many times that "democratic oversight" could never work because people, in general, are too soft-hearted to understand the realities of policework. It just doesn't ring true to me: if anything, people tend to ignore violence if it has nothing to do with them.
I can tell you that deploying a Rails app needs to come from using rubygem and bundler, never the OS's package management.

As for security concerns: you can and should vet gems, but it won't matter if the application itself has vulnerabilities.

We don't have very many Rails app written as a packaged system for deployment. The kind you see are often SAAS apps or something to interact with people internally. They are often bespoke and written for specific needs.
I believe German trademark law has been (ab)used, too, so don't think you're completely safe.
The answer to this question is: Let the market decide. Ask for a 15% signing bonus and if you don't get it... well, then, either deal with it or look elsewhere. Companies are considering the total cost to them to employ you, not just your base salary or even hiring bonuses. If it's beyond what they are interested in paying, they'll decline.
Readability. Whatever is the most readable. Do that.
Just took two pictures in two different camera apps on iOS and not a peep.
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> Why do so many people hate
Ruby?
Because they have sweated too hard to get a productive knowledge of their own favourite language with so much of "adapt your brain to the tool and remember how you did by heart" which in ruby never happens( it adapts to your human brain) and then they are turned off by the feeling of envy for this.
The Visual Studio 2010 Uninstall Utility can be ran in 3 different modes
A bookmarklet containing JS would be exactly what you described.

I like the idea of the OP, but using an iframe is inherently set up for failure.

Reasonable questions a 'non techie' might have: why can't I use this with site X? 'Well, site X blocks I frames.' What's an iframe? Also why can't I use this with site X?
Most people don't even know what a browser is, let alone how to use plug-ins, so this approach should be better for 99% of people. Great job and great regular solution to a regular problem.
I'm continually disappointed by the increasing disconnect of the lessons of college with the needs of our modern professional world. Nearly everything meaningful is done as a collaborate effort, yet in formalized education it is branded "cheating". Education is not a zero sum game (but grades often are).
The replies are true, but to your question, yes. Right now would be a good time provided you were on square footing with both.
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good point, there's lots of awesome German audio software out there..

I'd add Celemony to that list as well.
You be the Judge
The three word answer to this article is buried several paragraphs down:

because they can
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my rough location (must be kept by Dutch law)

That's creepy, and would make me not want to carry a phone at all.
This is all a bunch of smoke. Microsoft already has an interest in it's partners succeeding in sales.

They already deal with the confidentiality of products in development from partners. They're as much on the hook with confidentiality agreements after investing in Dell as before.

Let's not forget, Microsoft was a large investor in Apple as well, but that didn't mean they're was any conflict of interest in that case, or was there?
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