skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although not a complete "wrapper" it is very interesting:

Node Webkit: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

Features:

Apps written in modern HTML5, CSS3, JS and WebGL.

Complete support for Node.js APIs and all its third party modules.

Good performance: Node and WebKit runs in the same thread: Function calls are made straightforward; objects are in the same heap and can just reference each other;

Easy to package and distribute apps.

Available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows
It's payable if you watch any TV "as it is broadcast" so that means watching via a cable/satellite/freeview or watching stuff that is being streamed on iplayer the same time as on TV.

Weirdly though you don't need one to watch iplayer "catch up" content which is usually available about an hour after the initial showing.

So if you watch a lot of iplayer catch up you don't have to pay, but if you consume no BBC content and just use your TV to watch Sky1 or whatever then you do have to pay.
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This - I wish I could up vote multiple times. Fundamentally, distributors want to be able to use DRM to protect their content. If open standards won't provide a way to do that, there is no surprise that they turn to Silverlight etc.
Quote1 [But the stress made him come back to God, she said. “Mom, can we pray?” Shane asked in April. “If I survive this, Father, I want to live my life to serve you.”]

I find it odd that the Todd family did not invoke the attention of US gov earlier.
They argue that Shane Todd had been anxious and feared for his life for some time before his death. Had that been the case, and Shane Todd was unable to leave Singapore due to his situation, surely the US gov should've been informed of the situation and help transfer Shane back to the US. The US gov would also have had an interest in doing so since Shane Todd had reported to his mother that he was possibly compromising the security of his home land due to his research in Singapore.

Quote2 [“He said he felt he was being asked to compromise American security.”]

Quote1 indicates Shane means to dedicate his life to 'God'(phrased Father) if he survives. I assume that any parent hearing their child stating this would immediately take action as to save the life of their child and thus contact some instance of US gov.
It's ironic that RT plagiarized TorrentFreak to tell us this.

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-rips-off-pirate-ba...
Ah I see. Yes it does resemble a speaker then. Was viewing the article from mobile, and all the images were stripped out. Still, several things in the article couls probably be attributed to the Singaporean police force's incompetence and not outright malice. Being corruption-free != being competent. The family didn't help either by withholding evidence. They should have created a mirror of the external drive, then handed the original to the police (instead of offering to do it the other way around).
Firefox has one, too.

about:config, search for "plugins.click_to_play". Enable!
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It aims to be a fast MongoDB-like library which can be embedded into C/C++ and NodeJS applications under terms of LGPL license. EJDB is the C library based on modified version of Tokyo Cabinet. JSON representation of queries and data implemented with API based on C BSON
> This guy above me loves the fact that people are executed for marijuana possession

No, I'm pretty sure he never said that, and I'm almost as sure he doesn't.

Your political opponents are not evil.
Kippt's creator here. I send you an email about this.
These problems are sort of related. If you build technology to allow people to communicate anonymously then most likely that technology can also be used for piracy.

So enforcement of systems that are less anonymous and offer less overall control to the end user can be justified under the grounds of protecting intellectual property rights.

If you can reform IP law in some way then perhaps you can remove roadblocks towards the adoption of systems which are more open, more secure etc.
"it’s actually really fast and responsive"

Is everyone today equipped with at least 4-core 3GHz i7s or what?

Text Edit demo is barely responsive on my Athlon 64 X2 4600+ in recent Google Chrome beta (25.0.1364.84) on up-to-date debian wheezy. To the point it's unusable, unfortunately.

I admire the project, it must have been a great fun to build it and it is impressive achievement. Really!

I still hope it may be optimized more, so it will be truly responsive. Even then it doesn't mean it's the right way to go. Web developers, please, do not write your websites as Qt apps to compile them later with emscripten-qt!
> And with Stalin/Hitler, you'd also have to look at the neighboring historical eras. For all you know Germany historically was also very non-corrupt. (not a challenge, if you do know, please speak!)

Doesn't matter, this still refutes the original statement.
If I remember there is some issues with passing untrusted shader code to the GPU

So it may be a legitimate concern (only blown out of proportion)
Faith in Humanity: +1pt
Coach bags are made in China since 2009 and the price actually went up when they moved production there.

so is the Apple iPhone, but no one (maybe other than some economist) calls them Chinese.
Yes and look at how well that works -- most things are on filesharing networks long before they are on netflix (which has DRM).

Really though, they add DRM to an open standard and we break it open like the old rusty lock that it is.
Good luck suing a nameless ip in Russia.
as a corporation running on public money, i expect the bbc to keep public interest in mind. Drm only hinders the paying public. I will have to pay for a windows license if i intend to view content i have already paid for, so that bbc can keep their illegitimate masters happy. As for others, they are free to use proprietary software to deliver their content. I just want them to stay away from buying out the somewhat open internet that we have today.

for people who believe that if only open source could reliably protect IP - almost nothing can protect content which is meant to be consumed. Only law can and that is where we are headed.
and PandoDaily turned off comments and hid the existing comments... interesting, pandodaily...
It's specifically titled as advice to applicants, not "Should you apply to YC?", right?
There have been multiple local kernel exploits in the past few years. For somebody who doesn't constantly watch seclists.org or similar security sites, how do I find out whether my kernel is vulnerable to any known exploit? Is there a tool that can help me with checking? Is there a notification tool?
The obvious difference is that those companies are not funded out of a regressive tax (technically a license but nobody's fooled by that).
The primary bottleneck for most startups isn't money, it's time.

Also for most startups (assuming you're not doing something CPU/bandwidth heavy) the actual cost of hosting is going to be a relatively small part of the budget. If your burn rate is a million dollars, reducing 10k of hosting costs to 1k isn't really worth the effort.
You need to think about anything you put in or under your skin. News at 11.
This is well intentioned, but incorrect. For startups and small businesses, as long as you do not have outside professional investors (like VC's) always use LLC's. The solution to the problem described by Chris is simple: do your accounting on a cash and not an accrual basis. That way the only way you will ever pay taxes is if you have the cash. LLC's are designed to: 1) avoid double taxation (at the personal and corporate levels) and 2) allow you to pass losses through so that you can reduce your personal tax liability. As was noted there are many very large brands that use LLC's for certain products too such as Amazon, NFL, A&E Television and probably thousands more. Finally, speak to an accountant so that they can walk you through the details.
I'd like to know more about their TCP/IP Stack changes in the Kernel and their sysctl.conf settings :)
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Chances are I have your site on http://reocities.com/ just append your old homestead and it should pop up.

There are many others besides that did stuff like this so check out the archive team, archive.org and so on.
I haven't used ember.js, but have been getting my teeth into angular.js over the past couple of months. Overall, I've been very happy with it.

What I liked:

- Relative simplicity and very little code for most common tasks (showing/hiding content, AJAX and JSON support, breaking down the UI into components / areas).

- Great testability, thanks to relatively clean separation of concerns.

- The two way databinding support is awesome and works well. This does away with lots of the usual boilerplate.

- Templating is very straightforward.

- No performance issues to report. But from what I can gather, Angular a bit like the Swing framework - it's possible to shoot yourself in the foot and write poorly peforming applications. (Haven't managed to do that yet ;))

What I'm struggling with:

- Working with directives is complicated. They are the only way you can integrate with other javascript components sanely. Specifically, I ran into some issues with how to make the databinding work between directives. Still wrapping my head around how that bit works.

- It took a while before I was able to get my unit tests up and running (most example test suites were out of date with the current way of doing things)

- I have some (minor) issues with how things are named. There are two kinds of 'Controllers', for example, which are used in very different contexts (in the DOM, and in directives). Angular's 'controllers' are actually closer to models IMHO (they are where you manipulate state) than controllers.
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I agree that knowing how to pull your own data is important. While you are doing the tedious work of pulling data your brain will often spot a good idea for a new experiment or see a new relationship in the data structure.
> There are people out there that say "And personally i like to beat my wife and kids" and there are societies where this is accepted behaviour.

Don't equate smoking marijuana to beating another human being. I've never even tried it, for the record, but I don't see anything wrong with getting high if you want to, as long as you don't cause harm to others.
Why not try Javascript or C?
I'd try AngularJS/EmberJS/Meteor or built something on my own using epoll.
Pinboard it is for me too. And you can't beat Maciej for diligent customer support and sardonic PR.
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Android port of the Firebird Jdbc driver Jaybird 2.2.2 is released
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Until services like that allow me to code on a plane, I'm not interested.
if bbc is a big enough customer for such content ( and i believe the bbc is), it can dictate terms when buying such content. If it is not doing so, we can only assume corruption and collusion as reasons.
I find it very surprising that the organization supposedly promoting the open "web for all" is even considering baking in DRM handcuffs.

It seems so short-sighted. Copyright is just a bunch of laws this society agrees on today. The web is not about today's laws, social mores, or profit motives, but of connectivity, sharing, and freedom of information and expression. When I see things like this even being considered, I sometimes think that we don't deserve such freedom.

If we're going to start DRM'ing media, why not just DRM the entire web page and be done with it? Why send HTML over the wire at all when we can send an encrypted blob? That'd be the ideal world for the media companies--total end-to-end secrecy, with users just being warm bodies with credit cards.

BBC, Netflix, MS, and--of all companies--Google should be ashamed to be involved in this.
Yes, sadly. At my interview they said I could have a Linux machine, and I believed them. I got a freaking Mac. It's assumed that everybody secretly yearns for a Macintosh.
I read "how to get into YC" as a guide what traits will make me a more successful academic. After all, a fellowship is much like YC financing, except my high-risk project does papers, grants, networking instead of software.
Rails hosting that supports WebSockets?
Heroku does not support WebSockets. Which Rails hosting platforms support WebSockets. (Also, if any, which of them give a free mini instance like Heroku does?)
What's the issue, then? They still find a way to distribute their content but Web Standards aren't tainted. Seems like things are working as they should.
Just correcting the misinformation that you can get caned by overstaying for a single day...
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I agree with this. A very well-polished site, looks incredibly professional. Great work.
I'm a bit unclear. Do you use a makefile instead of Jekyll/Octopress? Or somehow in combination with it?

Yes, I do remember that years ago I read about a static web management system that was makefile-centric, but think it lost popularity as more advanced CMS's came out.

Also I have trouble thinking about how a makefile can help you manage the 'Prev' and 'Next" attributes on a page. This is, not only make HTML from the page I just generated, but also go back to the previous writeup and update it to add a 'Next' link to it.
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It's OK for ANTI-piracy activists to do this: they're the good guys.

This will be another "high court" for the anti-piracy activists, "low court" for the commoners kind of thing. An apology and a slap on the wrists at most.
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the bbc is not one person. While i am proud of many of the things that bbc has created, this is an instance of the wrong people using bbc to further their interests.

Commercial interests will be expected to have a say, but shouldn't be the ones to decide the future of the internet. However, money talks and i don't expect the internet to remain free unless we as stakeholders do something about it.
Ask HN: My SaaS idea was bad, need alternative part time job
Hello,

Yesterday I submitted a topic on HN about a possible SaaS product, my own product. As suggested by a few HNers, I started to send some emails to possible customers, explaining them what am I up to, what would they like to have, how are they doing now, what issues do they have and if they would like a service that does all the work in an automatic way, not manually.

The answer was: NO. Out of about 37 emails and PM on forums I got:
- 25 NO replies, 3 YES, 9 nothings (until now)

The ugly truth is...my idea was bad, and I wish I knew this 24h ago.

Now, straight to the point: I need work for extra income.

Areas of expertise: PHP & MySQL - 3 to 4 years, Wordpress - 2+ years (private plugins and theme development), Javascript & jQuery (Twitter Bootstrap lately) - 2+ years, Web Services & APIs - 2+ years, Git/SVN/Hg - 3+ years

I am opened to the following kind of proposals: hourly paid job (mon-fri: 2-4 hours, sat-sun: 8-12 hours), project based job with milestone payments

Contact me on skype: "adyp.eu" or by email "contact [@] adrianpop.com" (remove brackets).
Money can buy time in various forms. I think PaaS is one abstraction level too much to remain flexible and efficient as you grow.
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Is the BBC big enough to fend off ITV, C5 or Sky who don't have to worry about such issues? Remember Occam's Razor before jumping to conclusions about corruption...
I have a 4 core 2GHZ i7, and it locks up Firefox for me as well.
freebsd, apache, sbcl, ucw, postgresql/cl-store, bootstrap, jquery
:The people selling content to the BBC

Blaming "the people selling content to the BBC" ignores the fact that the BBC is itself a content producer which, through BBC Worldwide, makes money from that content. Media companies want to restrict the availability of their products, and sadly the BBC management is acting no different from other companies in that respect.
BBC demands DRM for HTML5
I can see the logic in having socialized broadcasting that funds the creation and distribution of content. But what is the point if it is buying pre-existing commercial content?

Why not lower the fee/tax and let people buy content on the free market if the price is right?
The issue is that I need a proprietary plug-in with frequent security problems (Flash) to watch the videos. It would be better if they could deliver their content through a standardised protocol with more secure clients.

On the whole, that benefit isn't worth the downsides of adding DRM provisions to an open standard. And of course, I'd prefer they could do without DRM at all, but that still seems like a pipe dream.
I find it interesting how easy it is to criticize a functioning system based on some aspect of non-conformance with some hypothetical ideal. The idea that HN wouldn't run on a database is no less astounding than the idea that much of facebook runs on PHP. Design of real systems is often messy and imperfect and deviates from the ideal due to necessity of optimizing one or another factor that may not be obvious.
Kind of depends

There's the "two guys in a dorm eating ramen" and there's the YC backed "startup" that already has a couple of hires

So if your monthly budget is of hundreds of dollars, using a VPS instead of Heroku makes sense
This probably won't make you any less sad. Apologies in advance.

It's not simply a matter of throwing money and brains at healthcare. I used to work on data analysis at a healthcare startup. There is no shortage of driven, talented, intelligent people making businesses in that space. There are giant firehoses of money in healthcare as well, both effective uses and of the boondoggle variety.

So it's not solely the lure of money that draws bright people out of healthcare. It could also be the realization that nothing you ever did would be more effective than getting doctors to wash their hands, and doctors still don't do that.

Many people are brilliant enough to make wonderful tools, but it seems that nobody is brilliant enough to overcome a system that doesn't want to use them. Whereas if you make a tool that helps businesses sell advertisements, or whatever the source of revenue, there is a higher chance people will actually use it.
That business model is basically what Cloud66 seems to be doing: https://www.cloud66.com/

Looks pretty decent, would make sense to see something similar for other stacks.
Chubby Checker sues HP over  app
It appears to be built using Ruby on Rails.
This kind of shit still happens? Holy crap. I'm probably going to be involved in the defense industry over the next decade - and this was a serious eye opener. Robotics is fun - getting killed for it isn't. I'm staying the hell away from foreign countries and contacts from now on.
> 5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard.

It peaked[1] in 2010 and is now settled on the 13th place, so I got to give him some credit for this prediction. If you include other dialects including newcomers such as Clojure, we might be talking at least close to the 10th most popular.

[1]: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Lisp.html
I'm a Singaporean and have served for some time in the military( Compulsory National Service as well as a short stint as a regular) and I think that the comments below seem to misunderstand the level of control that the government has over speech, people and companies in Singapore.

We have many restrictive laws here but they are very selectively enforced. As long as you stay away from "hot" topics such as direct criticism of the ruling party and sensitive issues such as immigration, you are ok. But if you make too many waves, there are many ways in which such selective enforcement can come back to bite you.

On an individual level, you will get much more attention on things like your tax returns. Your Provident Fund usage can be limited in many ways(It is a opaque system and they don't need to give you any justifications)

If you own a company, it will also be subject to a much higher tax scrutiny. They can choke your company by limiting the number of foreign talent that you can hire( again an opaque process). They can reject your applications without any reasons and simply say better luck next year.

Even with all these pressures, Singapore is a great place to do business and just enjoy a generally high quality of life as long as you don't do anything foolhardy or get really unlucky with the cards that you get dealt.

On a side note, if the person in question above was involved in some tricky business, then I would not put it past this government to take drastic measures
Much as I complain about women, I have to admit, this guy is a complete doofus for assuming you "work at" a startup. LOL
A worthwhile criticism, except...

How many ads do you see on HN? What's the ad revenue? What are the operating costs?
+1 for Pinboard - I've been using it since "The great Delicious exodus". I really like it.
This isn't the BBC screwing people over. This is likely a constraint introduced by licensing American (or foreign) exports for broadcast over here. If the licensors want DRM as part of the agreement, then there's not much choice left for the BBC unless they want to reduce the diversity of their content.
> - unstable API

Seeing as Ember just hit 1.0 RC, the API should now be pretty stable. It's been pretty bad the last few months though.

Also, with a stable API, the docs will hopefully see significant improvement.
You are exhibiting some insane cognitive dissonance there. Your post is internally inconsistent. Singapore is Disneyland with a death penalty.
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The Syrian civil war has destroyed nearly half the country’s wealth
Interesting. Could you, please, elaborate on this? I would like to learn more about this issue so any good sources of information would be highly appreciated.
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profit and social responsibility don't go together. Google has every reason to be interested in a locked-down web. That way it could be sure of all the revenue that youtube movie premieres would bring. Sadly, a more responsible way of doing the same thing will not be as profitable.
Ask HN: How could Rails4 help Heroku?
Reading the comments on this, I'm sensing different ideas of whether a future Rails' multi-threading can actually help Heroku.

Does Unicorn achieve as much as we could hope for from Rails?
I wonder what the best course of action would be?

The most obvious solution would be to boycott all DRM encumbered content. That could certainly work at a HN level, but the money of the billions of other people who don't really understand what DRM is still speaks quite loudly.

You could educate and advocate a broader boycott, but in practise what you would be asking people to do would be to forgo the majority of mainstream pop culture. Basically a tragedy of the commons.

The only other solution would be to propose legislation that would make illegal or punish those who integrate DRM. The only political party in the UK who would be open to such an idea would be the pirate party who will never win a general election because there are very few people to whom copyright law is the #1 hotbutton political issue.
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