skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a street shooter myself, I've observed that most people's reactions to being photographed is somewhere between ambivalent and happy

I never take photos on people on the streets, I'm only interested in taking photos of buildings in my city. Even so, I've been verbally assaulted because of that at least 3 times (apparently it's ok to threaten some skinny dude with beating him up and swearing on his mother if you see him taking photos of dilapidated buildings with his phone).

Yes, I do not live in Silicon Valley nor in any similar cocoon-like area as those advertised in Google's presentation videos, I live in an Eastern European capital city of 2.5 million people, but hey, we're not that big of a market anyway.
Front page looks broken on chrome for android:

http://imgur.com/k2mNFVc
Or OmniWeb before that. PDF in the browser? Congrats, you're only twelve years behind.
Rails is just the sweet spot for low enough bar of entry, power and expressiveness. It also offers you a proven way to get up on your feet easily.

But well, it's a fashion thing. People need new things, people need to kill the father, people need new chapels. Nevermind that what we have right now does the job perfectly and is lots of fun, we need something NEW.
"People are generally worthless, unlike me." Check.
NARR8: The New and Innovative Experience with Motion Comics
Barracuda has like 200k customers and has been around for at least several years. Here's more information:
https://www.barracudanetworks.com/company/
The problem is that unless you are a Google Apps for education customer who can get Google on the phone, the form doesn't come down for weeks.

That means they'll have hundreds of credentials and can do all sorts of nasty things to your computing environment and to people's accounts.

That's not acceptable.

Hopefully Google will treat this more seriously now that it's hit the press.
You may very well lose money.
To be more precise, Estonia burns Oil shale rather than coal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_in_Estonia
With Vanguard, you save about 0.7% of annual fees -- which is $3390.26 for every $10,000 invested over 18 years, growing at 6%.
People find the idea of people who prefer to live by themselves disturbing. I mentioned Sylvan Hart recently to some geeks, and cue the deranged bomber jokes. Really made me sad.

Nothing wrong with introversion, IMO. Lots of people have done it throughout centuries. It can be harmful, and props to OP for recognizing the problem and choosing to move forward.
A Designers Hardware Store that sells materials for desktop fabrication
I cannot understand how its in public domain and you are not allowed to make a digital copy. Obviously if someone has gone through the process of digitizing, even if its in public domain, they can have a copyright over the specific digital copy. However that doesn't stop you from creating a copy yourself, right ? For sure that's not easily done but still that doesn't mean you are not allowed to do so. Am i missing something ?
The Chicken & The Egg – a tale of a poorly defined problem
you would hope people would be able to use this with a certain amount of tact. Also, a simple button on the side of the glasses could be used for silent photos, or some other function perhaps.
I run the Copy client apps exclusively on GNU/Linux boxes. There is even a handy CLI (command line interface) if GUI's aren't your thing.
Before this patch, this is usually how I would open PDFs in Firefox:

"Okay, so I clicked on the link. Wait - where's the Download box? No, wait -- I told Firefox to download this MIME type automatically, right? Okay, but where is Evince? I thought it would load after I downloaded it. Okay, let me cd to Downloads, it's probably there. Okay, now I have to open Evince -- no, wait, I can just open Thunar to open it because the .pdf MIME is associated with Evince. Okay, so now I have to launch Thunar... Okay, now where is my Downloads folder again?"

Granted, it would be easier if I weren't such a blockhead, but it's still a royal pain in the ass.
Only thing one would excel over dropbox is that create some context aware data to be used without manually searching the whole files. other wise there already far too many service
Most Brazilian banks still use Java applets - which sometimes don't work in newer browser versions and have odd bugs with 32-/64-bit compatibility.
No way that the data connection is 100% of their cost.
The whole idea with electric vehicles is that it is an abstraction layer.
We will buy our GUI programmer an Android tablet :)
>Small talk was always pointless.

I used to have this view. I like talking about interesting subjects, comparing understandings of complex issues, understanding different viewpoints.

However, I realized that small talk is an important part of that. It's a system that lets you and the other party feel each other out without committing social transgressions. It's what lets you guess that someone would say "Hitler was right," without allowing them to actually say it.

I don't really do small talk with my friends. With them, I talk about things that I care about, or they care about, and that's fine. With acquaintances and strangers, it's essential.
Rails is now like Java EE because it is no longer better than the competition. It's not that Rails got worse. Perhaps in simplicity it did get worse a bit, but overall Rails now is much better than Rails then. The thing is that the competition got a lot better too. The baseline changed.

I don't think the thing that will be to Rails as Rails was to Java EE exists yet though. The competition has merely caught up, perhaps a little ahead on some fronts and a little behind on others. But there is nothing that is clearly much much better. Things like Meteor and Opa are a step in the right direction, but they don't go far enough (yet).

Does anybody remember this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY

This is not the original Rails video, it's the second one I think, but they're fairly similar (couldn't find the original). Back then when I saw the first Rails video I remember finding it amazing. Now it's just boring.
Oh I disagree entirely. After having spend two days debugging someone's versionless Gemfile / bundler problem on my CI server, I want someone to pay for my pain.
Take a look at Tales.

Tales is a block tolerant web scraper that runs on top of aws and rackspace. Tales is design to be easy to deploy, configure, and manage.

https://github.com/calufa/tales-core
You want that. Ok? I'm not sure you are going to like the results. But, if you want a follow up, I'll happily supply it.
Programming is supposed to be enjoyable. If you're not enjoying it, why are you doing it? If you are enjoying it, then what is the problem? There's people who dedicated their entire lives to Mathematics, for example. They did it because they had a passion for it. The absolutely extreme case is obviously Erdos. If you don't have a passion for programming, stop damaging yourself… If you have a passion for programming, then you're lucky, and you should let the entire world know that you do.
Every law enforcement officer should be required to wear this.
> I'm going to put this in all caps because you are not paying my day rate: YOU ARE AN ABUSE SURVIVOR.

...and you're being abusive under the guise of trying to help.

Aggression is not a good answer and if you can't make your point succinctly without it then now would be a good time to learn. Not to mention the arrogance of presuming you know what's best for someone to the point where you feel you should attempt to force your opinion upon them.
I'm curious. So how much power (energy) can a typical residential user use? I'm thinking average lines and transformers.
There is a note of subtlety there that I find hard to translate but my French interpreter detects a very subtle note of sarcasm in that carefully worded salutation.

When you've been insulted you can insult back by throwing rotten fish or you can insult back by being very explicitly correct and I sense this is some slight variation of that. Maybe someone who is more experienced in French can confirm or deny that.
Exactly. There are so many other factors regarding pricing: Long Term Value, and Cost to Acquire being one of them. It is common to break your audience into 'bands', and learn the trigger points for each band: cost to acquire a customer in this segment and how likely they are to make repeat purchases, at which price.

Simply put, the majority of your audience may make repeat purchases, but only if each purchase is a separate price. This is much greater value than a one-off purchase.
We're getting a lot of feedback on the homepage and how it doesn't convey enough information. The homepage is intended for more non-tech-savvy users. We'll likely add a lot more of this technical information soon.
Generally I'd agree with you. And generally I think these releases are PR. But the sentence in question "feels" more sincere than that to me:

She said it's "important that the page be dynamic, that it feel very fresh, and that it be very intuitive, and that it really tries to embody beautiful design".

In context, I don't think the first word, "dynamic", means AJAX, I think it means conveying energy or excitement. Putting the "Yaa-hoo!!!" back in Yahoo, if you will. The hero images change out. The weather, stocks and scores are up to date. On the iPad, you have an edge to edge (full bleed) hero image and thumbs you can scroll to. On the iPad, it does "feel" dynamic without being annoying.

The next word, "fresh", is the opposite of what Yahoo's been for a decade. The Yahoo look until not long ago still hearkened back to its curated directory days. When visited from an iPad, her new design does feel up to date, without feeling like it came from Bootstrap Template Monster Ville. You can recognize at a glance that this is not MSN, AOL, et. al. (However, when visited on a desktop, I think it feels more like a shuffled iGoogle, so not so fresh.)

There is a risk in "intuitive" in that it's crucial for the Yahoo audience which is a little older and more change averse. In this case, the word needs to mean approachable and immediately grokked by their majority. Grandpa needs to be able to find his scores and grandma her horoscope. I suspect this word used here signals why this page isn't singing and dancing with undiscoverable swipe style affordances.

The "beautiful design" is the hardest to accept, if visiting from the desktop. On the iPad, I was struck how nice it looked. On the desktop, I think she might be bringing too much Google to her aesthetic. "Clean" is not equal to "beautiful", and I'm not even sure it's clean given the use of grey hairlines and shaded boxes to delineate content areas. A more "beautiful" design might, for example, convey the content area boundaries aesthetically, and have the grey hairlines and shading show up only when the gear (settings) and X (close) icons are needed. With a decade of Google behind her, she probably does consider this presentation more "beautiful" than any of the section home pages you reach from this page.

Word by word, I think she used the best words she had on hand for what she was directing her redesign team to come up with. I like that she talked about how it "felt" rather than just metrics.

If you spitball a bunch of terms you want your home page to convey, this isn't a bad list. Perhaps these particular words sound overused because, well, a home page like Yahoo's needs these words as priorities.

I didn't read her comment as insincere or corporate speak or even marketing speak. I think it's honestly what she was going for.
Drats! Foiled again by the karma police. If only I'd recommended some cartoons to watch or new diets to try!
Mobile App vs. Mobile Web
Password Manager
Does anyone know a good password manager that we can use in our startup? We would prefer something open-source and that let us share the passwords.
Ask HN: How to socialize in a new city?
For an upcoming freelance IT-job my girlfriend and I are planning to move to another city 500km away. We have a lot of friends and family at our current place. What would you do to win new friends in your new city, especially considering we are two?
I actually had to write some Java recently for the first time in about ten years. I was hoping that the evolution of the language would make it less painful than it used to be.

I was unimpressed. Generics are better than nothing, but still dramatically worse than having a reasonable syntax for anonymous closures. The newer iterator syntax is better than nothing, but still maddeningly lacking in the most basic type inference -- any compiler that can't infer the type of "thing" here is stupid:

ArrayList<MyClass> list = this.buildList();
for (MyClass thing: list){
...
}

The programmer is still forced to overspecify and manually convert between types like ArrayList<Thing> and Thing[], even though 95% of the time the difference has no impact worth thinking about.

I could go on, but my point is that people like me who dislike Java dislike it for fundamental reasons. We're not going to be converted, because the changes we would demand would probably horrify Java's core audience.
I have a problem with redundant adjectives and modifiers. Comes from years of essay writing where I was graded on length and grammar rather than quality.
And sadly, they never got it quite right! none of the subsequent tribes games had the same skiing behaviour. The only reason the competitive community in Tribes 2 has hung on for so long is that a community mod sped the game up to be more like Tribes 1.

Forget about Tribes: Vengeance & Tribes Ascend, neither captured that same feel.
> 529

I looked into that, but since my kids have dual citizenship (US/Italy), and since I could easily envision them not going to school in the US, or deciding that university isn't for them, the penalty provisions of that seemed a bit onerous.
Report: Eastern European gang hacked Apple, Facebook, Twitter
Well either they're making 99% gross margin, or perhaps they need a few Backblaze Storage Pods.
Yes. All of our data centers are currently located in the US, and if we do offer overseas storage, we'll make that an explicit choice.
Power users vs. empowered users
I've never hired anyone nor been employed at a Silicon Valley company but this isn't banking so don't worry too much about people throwing out your resume because of where you went to school.
My Challenge: From Service Business to Product Business in 1 Year
Since passed laws are basically changesets of the existing code, it should be a simple matter of applying patches based on the new laws.

In other words, once you digitize the code the first time, any git could update it.

http://macwright.org/2013/02/13/the-code-compiled.html
In many European countries, not just France, American per-hour wages would be considered exploitation. And that does not even begin to look at things like holidays, sick leave, maternity leave, workers compensation and of course health insurance.
"Being a nice person will not only earn you any affection you crave but the opposite, contempt for being an agreeable person."

This has not been my experience. I like nice people, and dislike assholes. I know plenty of other people who feel the same. Of course, there are people who are attracted to assholes, but if you're interested in their affection then you might want to take a deep, hard look at why.

"Professional help is an oxymoron. Psychiatrists waste money and time."

There are lots of different types of psychiatrists and psychologists in the US and around the world. The most popular type of therapy in the US right now is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), but there are many, many others. If one therapy (or one therapist) doesn't work for you, that doesn't mean that another won't.

"In my humble opinion, fundamental human problems involve three things, social class, money and sex."

You might want to look at Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs.[1] From most basic to the highest needs, they are:

* Physiological needs

* Safety needs

* Love and belonging

* Esteem

* Self-actualization

* Self-transcendence

Your "social class, money and sex" only really cover the bottom four levels, and completely ignore the need for self-actualization and self-transcendence. While Maslow's heirarchy is controversial, I personally think it's quite myopic to ignore the need many people have for getting beyond the lower levels in to the quest for self-discovery, self-development, and self-transcendence.

"Shrinks will not grant you any of those things. You have to do the dirty work yourself."

Psychologists and psychotherapists can certainly never "grant" you anything except a (hopefully) sympathetic ear. A good therapist can also help you get insight and offer good advice, but you will certainly have to do a lot of hard work in the therapy session and as homework. To think that on your own you can achieve anywhere near the amount of insight, healing, and growth that you could with the help of a good therapist is (usually and for most people) overly optimistic.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Curious, what other web dev frameworks offer a unified stack (ORM, deployment, dependency management, testing, project structuring)?
Even if they derived 100% of their electricity from coal, it would be a huge win for the environment. There have been multiple studies done on this, and power plants and electric motors are massively more efficient and clean than gasoline cars. Even when you factor in transmission losses, charging losses, etc. and assume you're using 100% coal power, EVs beat ICEs by a wide margin.

Not to mention, solar is rapidly approaching the point where it will be cheaper than coal, so it's only a matter of time before coal will start getting phased out anyway.
I don't think it's the build vs. buy trade-off, I think it is more a question of efficient platforms for vendor collaboration resulting in the emergence of voluntary standards that create efficient and open markets kind of problem. Ruby has a DIY ethic which is respectable, but there's little infrastructure to support market-wide discussions throughout the ecosystem.

Really, if you want to make analogies. Rails is essential loose federation covered under Articles of Confederation while Java is to be appreciated as a strong Federal system that allows for states to innovate.
I gave up on using any password manager program with any cloud sync service. I am back to plain old Excel file which I daily "backup" to the cloud using native backup service.

I think for important and daily-used files, relying on cloud service (read: keeping and working off of cloud) is not trust-worthy. I'd rather keep things local and only use cloud for backup.
The second sentence explains and justifies the first. The third refines and clarifies. If you hold that it suffices to merely authoritatively assert a claim, then they are unnecessary, but the point of the third sentence is that, in fact, it doesn't.
Contextual Content Engine Vurb Raises More Than $1.5M
The About section does not say who is behind. The only thing you have going for you is your domain name.
From what I understand it was pretty problematic to multiplayer too, since with a bunch of carriers it becomes difficult to manually target them behind all the interceptors.
I'm interested in maybe having a couple of those boxes for video data, to keep it online for editing bays. What would be the best solution to backup that amount of data - redundant boxes?
That kudos thing is so much fun.
As an alternative to 4): 4.A) Law-cast - every law enforcement officer should be required to wear this. A real-time transcript of all events should be captured.

This would have a profound impact on society.
Rails is probably not going to do well in the performance department, but I think the other metrics would be interesting to see, and require actual research, rather than just whipping up an attention-gathering headline.
Oh c'mon it's much much worse than that. Oracle runs the JCP not the W3C.

And, yes, I admit it, I'm a jerk.
How to Use the Stately WebFont With Rails for Easy Map Visualizations
You're missing my point and resorting to sarcasm - very nice </sarcasm>. My point is not that Hive is the better choice because everyone is going to reload their data frequently. My point is that if you want a fair benchmark, don't use an obviously slow data format for Hive. They spent time importing data optimized for RedShift, but they took a very naive approach for Hive. I'm sure RedShift will still be faster, but not 10 times faster.
connectivity for an existing system makes sense at a retailer with a physically persistent location.. but if you are looking at being mobile, you need data connectivity.

I think this breaks down easily:
1) You DO have existing device and data plan, and need to be mobile: Square (or similar service) makes sense.
2) You DONT have existing device or data plan, and need to be mobile: GoPago

I think the evolution of phones tends towards people already carrying a smartphone with data plans, making square (or other service only -- no hardware solutions) somewhat more attractive with its rates.
Couldn't be more timely for me. I've been working on documenting the Discourse installation. For someone who doesn't work in Ruby every day, even as a long time Linux user, it is daunting.

Once an application, no matter the language, has a significant number of external dependencies deploying it becomes a challenge.
There's a buried comment in here about the login being a javascript popup. Here's a normal HTML page for doing logins: https://www.copy.com/auth/login/
I was wondering that too. The ToS says "Barracuda Networks" at the top. https://www.copy.com/about/tos/
Chrome DevTools: Support for the console.table command has landed in Canary
For that to have been a happy coincidence is basically impossible with PDF. You're told a run of positioned glyphs to render, but then you have to figure out what text those really represent by looking at the font tables (even the simplest documents tend to contain ligatures)...and that's before you assemble the runs into sentences, paragraphs, columns etc, generally without help from the PDF, although it can optionally contain this info. The first version of PDF.js rendered positioned images of text runs, text extraction came later and was definitely deliberate.

(I was paying attention, as I wrote some of the code to do multicolumn text selection in poppler)
Starcraft singleplayer always seemed sort of like Q3A singleplayer to me. Clearly not the main attraction.
Do you have any numbers for these claims? (Not agreeing or disagreeing, just interested in some evidence either way.)
That must've been an expensive domain name purchase.
As a Java developer that got in to Rails I have been saying this for years (especially since Rails 3). I'm glad someone else has finally brought the discussion to HN.
> People sold space with power/cooling included at ratios which were unsustainable

Do we have an ethical duty to make sure our counter-parties are always making sustainable offers?
I really don't think that's the case anymore. At the most recent RubyConf in Denver there was nothing but love for the JVM, running Ruby on it, and even utilizing Java itself when the need arose.
What would be the point of making it a standard ? It's already one de-facto. I prefer to have other solutions not trying to be devise but rather solving auth problems in their own way. Also, the lack of documentation is often balanced by the great readability of the code (Which is extremely clean / straightforward for devise & omniauth & most of the strategies)
The purpose of the homepage is that if you need to quickly upload a file and give someone a link, just drop a file and you're done. It lets people know how easy it is to share files.

We're going to work on getting more information about the product on the site really quickly.