skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched on C-SPAN and a Democrat named Ron Wyden participated and in the process implied he had multiple discussions with Paul about the morality and constitutionality of drone strikes. Perhaps I'm naive, but I believe he was standing up for his morals and that it was a sign of Washington actually functioning.
> "He pitched to me a new startup idea"

That only sounds unnatural because of ordering (which is a little like old-style English). Reordered, it reads just fine:

"He pitched a new startup idea to me"

The "pitch [object] to [party]" usage is the older/more established, I think, although recent (American) usage has somewhat shifted to "pitch [party]".

It's not a big deal either way. Maybe ivix is from the UK or somewhere with different usage.
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For people who think this is going to cause drive-by Twitter hijacks, remember that Twitter stores the callback URL on their side for this very reason. Any web app impersonating these apps will fail at the callback stage.
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I kind of hope this ends up replacing iCloud in a lot of apps. iAwriter could really do with using Dropbox by default.
Shhh piptastic don't give away the obvious thing customers should do with these generous payment options.
I'm planning to move away from Heroku too, partly because of the routing system issues you mention in your article, but also because I want to sharpen my sysadmin fu. Have you considered https://www.cloud66.com/ because it seems like a nice tradeoff between going "bare metal all the way" and Heroku's comfy environment.
I think if you looked at a graph of U.S. welfare spending vs. the Gini coefficient over the last 40 years you'd see exactly the opposite of the correlation you suggest.
Looks cool!
How do you gauge the difficulty of adding support for CoffeeScript to this?

Re the indiegogo campaign: I think you should consider adding an extra supporter tier between 25 USD and 1000 USD. The 200 USD tier of CoffeeScript Redux http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelficarra/make-a-be... brought in over 20% of the total amount pledged.
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"Natural telepathy" probably doesn't exist. "Artificial telepathy", on the other hand, is already a reality:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-direct-brain-to-brain-interf...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-brain-computer-interface-goes-...

Of course, it would be a bad idea to call these technologies "telepathy", as they're "simply" wireless brain-to-brain interfaces.
Depending on what the parent calls deep knowledge of WSGI, I also find the idea a bit strange.

I don't have much knowledge of WSGI internals, apart that it passes urls in one direction and responses in the other. I suppose when I hit performances bottlenecks, it might be worth it to dive into the details, but I'm not there yet.

Knowing what is going on at a higher level, the role of the reverse proxy, the app server, the database, and who talks to who is important, but most frameworks (with, maybe, the exception of Rails) don't really abstract that away from you so much.
Let's completely ignore the ridiculous Die Hard reference for a second.

I don't know how I feel about drones, but it seems a large part of the opposition is the unmanned part. I have two problems with this argument:

(1) They're not unmanned. Somebody is actively controlling them.

(2) Why does a pilot make a difference? Pilot's don't get a choice in their targets. This isn't a movie where pilots can decline to fire on a target. They'd certainly get a court martial, their career would be ruined, their life would be ruined with a dishonorable discharge, and depending on the circumstances they very well could go to prison.

So, I guess the reason I feel somewhat indifferent to drones is that I don't really get the main point of opposition. What makes a drone so much different than planes?
Yes, it's called rent seeking.
The Quobis stack seems to be working fine...
The full link for the theme is hidden (hovering will show premiumthemes.com/go) in a similar fashion to what Google does to search results link.

Seeing the URL (http://premiumthemes.com/go) in my Google analytics confirm the issues is happening to some users, I'm disabling it right now.
You would need to learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, and jQuery (you seem to be well on your way here).

On the backend, you only need to learn one of the following three: Ruby, Python, or PHP. Again, it's a matter of taste. Personally, I come from the startup world, and we all dislike PHP, so you'll find few Bay Area / SF startups using that anymore. That being said, if you know a friend who knows Ruby (and Ruby on Rails), Python (and Django), or PHP (and a PHP CMS or CakePHP), then that would be best.
To truly minimise the potential for confusion with this approach, you'd need to be throwing and catching within the same method. And if you're doing that, you might as well just come out of the closet and use goto.
They also have to eat.
Do you mean a veterinary physician or a military veteran?
Any token-based system will.

OAuth, having solved this problem, then goes on to create many more.
Yeah, FWIW, I missed the sarcasm, too. Such is the trouble with a text only format.
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I'm a fan of Meteor, though I think it's too early to use it in production. It's notable for being most of the "things that make up a full technology stack" by itself, along with node.js and mongo.
Among many other things, we have a particular love for redis over at http://enigma.io - So much so, every single page's metadata is bootstrapped from redis, never needing to go to our persistent datastores that sit deeper in the stack. Since our site is really read only (we are big public data provider), we can afford to provision redis in a pre-defined workflow.
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Apologies for my inaccuracy.
Flexibility and scalability - those are the two takeaways from this.

I've always found django (for example I'm not specifically down on django) to be quick to get up and running but to lead you gently down a path that ends with a very high brick wall.

Pyramid on the other hand is so flexible that pretty much any part of the framework can be swapped out for something else and you can abstract the important parts of your app into a mini-framework for yourself. An example of this: The code I have <100 lines of code in a file called rest_traversal.py that maps SQLAlchemy mapped tables to urls like:

/db/Model -> all instances of Model
/db/Model/1 -> model 1
/db/Model/1/relationship -> all members of model 1's relationship

I'm currently using Pyramid to build the real time front end to an algorithmic trading system and it's been the perfect balance for me.
Would you buy an opensource washing machine?
anyone who found the discussion of dynamical systems here interesting would be well served by having a look at http://www.scholarpedia.org/, which has some very good articles on the area

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http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_dynamica...
Sure, but that's beside the point. OAuth does not attempt to deal with this problem. If you have the secret consumer token, then you are that consumer in the eyes of OAuth.
1. Citing two data point among paragraphs of anecdote is cursory.

2. Opinion pieces (should) mean they have a declared persuasive goal, not that all forms of rhetoric are acceptable. The word "opinion" is not a license to argue from astrology.
If the app is displaying its own internal web view for OAuth, it can load any page it wants in there and tell the user it's Twitter. It can even fake an address bar with a twitter.com URL if it wants. Then use the common phishing technique of 'oops, you must have entered your password wrong' (the user didn't, but now the phisher has it), followed by a forward to the real site so the user suspects nothing.

But this is hypothetical. In reality there is little motivation for apps in an App Store-like environment, which survive on customer goodwill, to want to do this.

The user's security is probably not why Twitter chose OAuth.
"In fact i have been an "texteditor-only" type in the past, but coding C# in Visual Studio has really been a revelation for me."

The fact that application X is "just a text editor" is not a justification for X having poor editing functions. In fact, you'd expect a specialized text editor to have better editing functions that an IDE, since an IDE can have other selling points, such as an integrated build system, a version manager, a profiler or a debugger, whereas an editor can only impress you solely by its usability for...well, editing.
Twitter did this to themselves. Without the limit, this information is worthless. It'll make sense for an app like Tweetro[1] to add custom token as a feature or easter egg.

1: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/11/3631108/tweetro-user-toke...
Agreed. I'm finding the iOS version of iA Writer doesn't like it when I modify the file elsewhere - I have to manually switch files for it to detect the change.
Still think it is pricey compared to the specs on the Macbook Air.
Interesting. Their 200 dollar tier is basically my 'all backers' tier (name in a readme file). But I can probably come up with something slightly more valuable to offer at ~250€.

As for CoffeeScript support -- the only major piece missing there is an error-tolerant CoffeeScript parser. Given that, one could simply run the CoffeeScript compiler over code, and analyze the output. There'd be some shuffling with source maps needed to translate source locations in the various representations of the code, but that's a solved problem. Well, and of course you might see some translation artifacts. The CS output code is semantically close to the input, but there are differences.
Did you miss the sarcasm even in retrospect? Because I don't really see how it can be possible to read this article and not understand that I'm pointing out that all of these things we did are terrible ideas and you shouldn't do them.
"whereas Tern tries to do whole-program analysis."

I suppose you're not doing live type feedback? Given a test suite for the code being edited, that would seem like a natural thing to do.
Only if the app uses the phone's certificate store, as opposed to a hard-coded one.
a signed copy of your book? :}
To me, this looks like a themeforest redirector
Kinda complicated on some parts for me, but neat! Thanks for sharing.
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Honestly, do the Tories even bother pretending they're not copying the Americans anymore?
Why I Stopped Worrying About My Competitors Success
Exactly. Get some clients to pay for your product (or your soon-to-be product).

I am not ever again doing the mistake of developing something in my corner. I want to see the money!

Find market/fit before trying to grow.
I suggest you try substantiating that idea before trying to decipher why it is ...
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Looking forward to seeing the recap videos on YouTube.
The Now Habit - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination...

Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/059...

Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclo...
Might just be the fonts, but this looks like a Windows 8 app.

Congrats on the launch!
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May I extol the virtues of quitting and finding a better job to you? :-)
"Momentum" (people use it because it's popular) isn't precisely the same thing as network effect (people use it because to interoperate with other people) which isn't precisely the same thing as high costs of transition (people use it because switching would require a lot of work). E.g. Google has momentum, but not the other two. Facebook has both momentum and network effect. MS Office has all three.

There is nothing better right now than the MS Word workflow with all the accumulated templates, macros, etc. We can both imagine better things, and it is indeed an area that could use a lot of innovation, but github, with zero support for word processing formats or even binary files in general, is a non-starter here. Want to disrupt the space? Make Github for ODF documents in a way that let's you cleanly e-mail around diffs and apply them, and let's you easily merge changes from multiple people to documents that may have drifted from the branch point. Make it robust, so people don't fear using the tool for what it might do to their documents. That's a billion dollar Office monopoly-challenging idea right there with applications far beyond the legal space. It's also technically challenging as hell. This is not a space where a minimally viable product is going to play. It's competing with MS on its own turf.
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So nobody argues that scientific papers should be free for everyone to use?
I share the same experiences, now I'm working using the methodology you described.
A little disappointing that it all boiled down to the lack of a way to handle a negative coefficient, but fun problem nonetheless.
Indeed. Constantly changing keys would cause as many problems for users of the official client as it would for unofficial clients.

Twitter could make some way for the official client to fetch new keys from a server without a binary update, but then they'd have to somehow protect that mechanism from third parties...

I suppose the next logical step would be to procedurally generate keys based on the date, and have only the algorithm (not the keys themselves) known to the official client. Not in any way insurmountable, but a little more difficult to crack.
The answer might be stuffed in the "this system will likely shut down prior to generating more information than the sum of the information in the individual subatomic particles."
But the Hobbit just made a billion dollars in the box office alone. (And it cost around 200 million to make.) Peter Jackson has no reason to buck the system.
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Oh, I contest that. It depends heavily on how you employ the bored teenager. Employ him at flipping burgers and he's obviously "unproductive" as ever was in 1993. Employ him at data-entry and he's the human component in an immensely valuable computation. What he still lacks in the latter case is bargaining power: the ability to walk out of his job and bring the vast computation to a quick halt.

(Which is why unionization of a lot of low-level white-collar workers would really help, and would probably save us a lot of stupid talk on the subject of "My oh my, whatever should the government do!" Strong organized labor is how you keep government out of the labor market, at least if you don't want the working class to starve.)
> "Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement." -- pg [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347].

As I can find no reference to this in the guidelines, I guess this unofficial statement is the best we will get. Not a good policy - it's non-standard, and encourages the wrong kind of behaviour, but in the case of HN I will concede the point.

> that you were happy to interpret that law however you wanted

I am not interpreting any law. What someone does with their own mail client is between them and their provider - and that's in the cases where marking as spam is even sent to the provider, which is not the standard behaviour.

> if you decide "spam filters should be used to determine whether people are in compliance with the CAN SPAM Act", the law states you are actually allowed to have interfaces that include "menus" as part of the opt-out to determine what should be opted out of (as you may want to continue receiving some e-mail, but not things like that).

You seem to imagine that "spam" is purely a legal definition because there exists an act of congress that seeks to limit it. The term long predates the act, and the capabilities we have developed to fight it do not depend on the specifics of US law. Do I, or any regular mail user, care that the law allows menus? No, make us jump through hoops and we get mad. Or "gleefully vindictive", if you're feeling fragile.

> the law actually states you can continue to receive mail for 30 days after you initiate the opt-out.

Which is why we do not rely on that particular law in the fight against spam.

But in fact, for most mail users actual spam is not a big problem. Gmail has great filters for example, and very rarely do most power users need to trawl through their spam folder for mis-filed messages. For most users, spammy behaviour by "legitimate" senders is much more pressing. If people really love your content, one-click unsubscribe is not going to keep them from it. If you put obstacles in the way of unsubscription, if you make it easier for them to mark you as spam (or filter you out, whatever), they will do so. My time, and the time spent by millions of mail users, is worth something, and is not to be wasted by mass-mailers' borderline behaviour.

So if you are one of these, I suggest you to give serious consideration to the hard-pressed user's experience of email.
Serious question--are you reliably able to use the Internet with JS effectively disabled?
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Where to begin with UX?
I really would like to get started with UX, I've seen things from the Dustin Curtis American Airlines site mockup, to svbtle, to even things on dribbble, and I'm always in awe of what is and can be done.

I have ZERO idea on where to begin, I'm not even sure how people go about making HTML/CSS that amazing to see. I know minimal HTML and even less CSS, but even some wordpress themes are amazing to look at.

Where do I begin? Sorry if this has appeared haphazard to read :(
I'm not sure what the process was for renouncing one's citizenship during that time, but the vast majority of the Confederate soldiers were born in the Union, making them citizens.

The political designation of where they were fighting is less significant, and actually makes this a better analogy for an American Citizen fighting in a foreign land against the American Govt.
It doesn't create business but it does get the founders a paycheck.

The more startup stuff I read the more I think a lot of founders are just in it to get investment and draw a salary from that while they around bloviating about the latest buzzwords rather than either building a business or getting a job.
you just linked to the main page!
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Why must it be that the worker isn't producing the value?

Worker X may be producing value of $10X or $20X per hour, but corporation Y is pocketing the difference, and can do so because there is an oversupply of workers.
I'm going to strongly side with them.

You are essentially breaking the internet. Then you're asking them to help you work around all the stuff you broke and posting a public complaint here when they tell you "no." Sorry but too bad.

I might have some sympathy if you even explained why you need to "NoScript" their site in particular. If you had accessibility issues (e.g. handicaps) I would definitely feel sympathy for your position.

NoScript rolls the web back to pre-1997 levels.
This post is a logical mess. The author might do better writing another one in a few years or learning to use diagrams to convey architecture (but for god's sake don't bother with UML!).

Architecturally, the changes discussed seem to be (1) From a standard protocol to some customization for premature optimization purposes (unmeasured results), and back to a standard protocol. (2) From service abstraction through higher-layer communication to service-dependency through direct database connectivity. (3) From code duplication between client/server to the use of a centralized model. (4) From multiple codebases to a single codebase.

My take: (1) Is premature optimization, needless complexity and was ultimately a waste of time. (2) A change so completely fundamentally different with a view towards system architecture (security, resource allocation, proxy/WAN/potential-client-range, etc.) that it is hard to analyze; ultimately it suggests a complete misunderstanding or rescoping of the original problem. (3) Generating code or behaviour from models is very often a great idea. While up-front complexity may appear slightly larger, it means you can retarget your code to other languages/platforms much more easily, without the inefficies and syntax-learning overheads of partial-but-similar strategies through runtime abstraction libraries. (These are occasionally useful for very-specific requirements, but that's a tangent.) (4) See 2.
Congrats. I still can't get by the initial cost of RubyMotion. I know, it will pay for itself, but that's a lot of initial buy-in going on faith. I wish they had a demo version available to try before buying.
Great post - I love reading about this rapid fast releases, even better when the writer had to learn a new language.

I was curious about ruby motion beforehand but now I can't wait to get stuck in.

Oh, and congrats! :D
Nobody said it's a perfect market. It's not a market dominated by monopolies either. The heavy handed solutions provided by minimum wages and other government measures doesn't help matters. They mask some problems while creating many others due to economic dislocation.

In the end, masterminds planning all our lives and trying to create utopia on earth have never done better than following simpler rules of law and letting people deal with each other in a free market capitalistic system.
I'm not sure I see how that applies to subsidised tuition, could you elaborate?
I know, lame joke, but I'm not sure it deserves a -4!
This was a very helpful and practical tutorial. I don't know why sysops is a source of perpetual confusion for me but it's good to have as many examples as possible. Could you elaborate on the actual hoops that creating a non-root user was creating for you?
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> For comparison, Germany has no statutory minimum wage

This is true, but you cannot use that as an argument, because the German system cannot be compared to the U.S. system.

There are two reasons for having no minimum wage in Germany.

First:

It us up to the individual unions to negotiate a minimum wage. And unions still have a lot of power in Germany. So many jobs actually do have a minimum wage.

Second:

If someone in Germany has a job that does not produce a living wage, the person automatically qualifies for social security money paid by the state.

Besides that, a minimum wage on a state-wide level will be implemented in the next years. I am sure of that. There are more and more non union regulated industries that have started to pay very low wages.
I totally agree and it's next in the list of improvements I want to do. I just wanted to share this asap until it's fresh in my mind.

Edit

Done! :-)
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>"People don't want to cheat to win - and you're telling them that they have to. Well, who are you to say that? Why should people listen to you?"

It's advice, you can take it or leave it.

You're more than welcome to be the guy/team who says, "we're going to do this the right way!". But so do a lot of other indie gaming teams, and they go under. I lived in the social gaming space for a while (Facebook). The biggest discouragement is that the quality of games made little difference to getting noticed and making money. I am no longer in the space.

You can do it the "honorable" way, and that's great, and may work. If you want to make a business of the business, you have to get your hands dirty. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Thank you; your minor nitpick doesn't seem minor at all. It was keeping me from noticing I don't see what the problem is. The movement here is deterministic, it's just hard to predict. I don't see the paradox at all.