skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol a bunch of Reddit traffic cannot pull down Google's servers. When a doc has heavy traffic, Google has ways of limiting usage of doc by making it read only), but a Reddit thread can never pull down a file sharing site. Esp big ones like drive, dropbox and skydrive.
The article makes mentions mobile clients, but could anyone here give a slightly more mobile-centric review of the alternatives? Since I've gotten a Nexus 7, I've found myself using the Google Reader Android app rather than the web app, and I view Android app quality as one of the biggest factors in selecting a replacement service.

The first alternative I tried was Newsblur. I like their web version, although it's been unresponsive occasionally due to the influx of users. However, their official Android app has left me unsatisfied. In about 5 minutes of playing with it, I got duplicate articles, then a negative unread count, then a crash. I'm willing to give it more time to iron out the bugs, but in the meantime, what other alternatives (if any) have really solid Android apps?
Same here. I don't care about someone else's algorithms for finding me news stories or any social aspects of sharing. I follow the feeds I follow and just want them served up to me in one place. And if by some random chance I want to share that with someone, I'll do that my own way. What I want from an RSS reader is just that... read my RSS. That is all.
Exactly. Subreddits like /r/hailcorporate exist to try to make light of these practices (and started out credible enough), but now it is overrun with conspiracy theorists who think that any and all references to a major brand in a post that hits the front page - especially if it doesn't have very many comments - is clearly advertising, and you are all sheeple.

They even mass-downvoted someone for saying "something smells fishy and it isn't the Fish Filet" in a thread about the baby eating the used condom off the floor because just mentioning a product means they must be a paid marketer.
Microsoft supports Windows Phones longer than actively sold on market
Ohh - it does indeed look like a small Orbital :-)
This can't be the issue, even if it's get 10k submission per seconds, it can't make the system like Google Drive down. come on. that just ridiculous.
I think, in my head, I implicitly also had "open-source" in that list.

There are several open-source Smalltalks that have some of these things, but I believe that Pharo is the only one that does all of them. For example, GNU Smalltalk is the only other Smalltalk I know that has a decent command-line interface, but it lacks a JIT. (If I have this wrong, hopefully Paolo will correct me.) You can absolutely use Squeak to write real-world applications, but the last I checked, you still had to either use the older, slower FFI or write a plugin if you wanted to call C, and the official distributions still do not include a JIT. Cuis is largely a subset of Squeak, and therefore has similar features and drawbacks, and so on and so forth.

If you go closed-source, you do have more options. VisualWorks has a good C FFI and a fast JIT, and might have a great command-line interface (I honestly don't remember), but it's not even free-as-in-beer for hobby projects anymore. Dolphin is likewise fast and has great COM bindings and good libraries, but is proprietary, and has disappeared and come back enough I'm not entirely sure I'd feel comfortable spending money on it.

So, yes, you're right, there are other Smalltalks that fulfill some of these requirements, but Pharo is, as far as I know, the only open-source one that fulfills all.
omg, ad hominem, yarble garble!
A similar mindhack on how to revert back to your "Last Known Working Configuration": http://zerotosuperhero.com/mindhack/find-your-lifes-last-kno...

Its good for uncovering unnoticed strengths and keystone habits.

Note: I'm firing up Zero to Superhero again, but excuse the blog as its still under construction.
Did you happen to look at the URL?

http://drive.google.com/?test

That's not an account protected page, that's the splash page asking you to create an account or log in.

Perhaps it wasn't accessible to you because it was down?
> I wish Burp didn't have a Scanner. I might pay $25 more for a branded version of Burp that specifically didn't have that feature, so I could reassure clients I wasn't ever using it.

Huh? Do you like wasting clients time/money?
Nice! FYI, those charts are VERY fuzzy on my retina display. :(
> it's doubtful that there are people deliberately setting up car accidents in order to get youtube hits.

I hope the number of people filming crashes against random strangers on the highway are low, but crashes in a controlled environment are definitely happening to fill the market void. Heck, the demolition derby is a long standing American tradition.

> I imagine that the market of people willing to pay money to watch a cow be abused is significantly smaller than the market for child porn.

PETA makes money, and given their reach I expect significant amounts of money, from distributing such videos and similar content.

Though I would suggest that money is not the only motivator. Like I mentioned in another post, people will create content just to know people are tuning in. Likewise, in software we create and distribute free and/or open source projects just for the satisfaction of knowing others are using what we have created. Money doesn't necessarily matter.
Works for me (I'm in US if that matters).
Media Queries in JavaScript: Introducing mqa.js
Software professionalism
Interesting approach, at first glance I was not really convinced, but seeing the possible applications in wearable electronics, this might be the ideal solution.
If the autocorrect is good this could actually be pretty neat. I found that because you stuck with QWERTY I could "eye type" on it pretty easily, unlike some other concept keyboards.

This should really be implemented as a feature in a full-size keyboard. Like a button with a down arrow that causes the keyboard to shrink into "one dimension" when you want the screen space. Or if 1D must be the default, it should at least be able to expand to full size when a lot of typing is necessary.
Ask HN: Making a viral prelaunch page, here's what we've got. What do you think?
Even if you have >9 gb of docs, you are not going to use all off them at once. Offline version is to keep a cache of most used/important files. Offline deals with temporary service downtime or network unavailability. It is not meant to provide a complete experience.
Fury At Amazon Over Fee Hikes
Making Firebug into an extension that works inside the Firefox dev tools (the same way Firebug plugins can add tabs) sounds like the best way to move forward both Firefox and Firebug.
Italian scientists show to make damaged retinas see the light.
Incidentally, I really love the soundtrack. Does anyone know if this is just stock music from somewhere?
The Chromebook is Google's retarded child, we shouldn't challenge it or make fun it. Just let it be.
I nearly never use Google Drove on my Chromebook outside of things I'd have in Drive anyway (Docs, etc). The only 'hard' ties to Google in ChromeOS are logins, updates, and a special Drive interface.

I also don't treat it as a computer, just a slightly smarter thin client. And that's fine by me (in fact, that's part of the appeal).
He had to click accept connection before it allowed him to edit the CSS.
That can't be right. A file sharing site from Google cannot handle a Reddit thread? Seriously?
GOP reveals tech upgrades include API/app store and Silicon Valley office
Defining test for RubyMonk: Software as Robots
Other aspects also take time to learn. You also listed programming languages, hinting at a developer position.
This project reminds me of Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" and ensemble coding.

I personally consider this book a must read for every aspiring entrepreneur in software and hardware.
Tell HN: Some good news for my startup
So, I've been working on this project with a co-founder for about a year now in my free time. It's a huge daunting project with way more features than I can possibly implement in a reasonable amount of time. Hiring someone is pretty much out of the question as we have little to no budget.

It's in a usable state right now and my co-founder is starting to test the waters to gauge it's reception. Within a week of starting to look a nursing home and a major hospital in our area agreed to meet with us. I'm afraid. As a developer I see all of the external weaknesses and feel all of the internal structural weaknesses.

It's an exciting step forward forward but also extremely scary.
My (irrational) fear is that if this becomes a modest success, there will be an aqui-hiring with much talk of it appearing in some upcoming edition of Blackberry or Windows or whatever, and then nothing will be heard from them again.

I think I need a little more sunshine, I must be low on Vitamin D.
The Marshmallow Test
This is a derailing of the original conversation. I'm not saying you can't build a moral case against abortion, but it doesn't make sense to do so here. Why?

Because the article concerns attempts to prevent cruelty to animals, ie. pain and suffering. For most if not all of the legally allowed period in the US for aborting fetuses, a fetus doesn't even have the developed nervous system to feel pain, or the basic cognition to experience suffering. So those concerns aren't at all valid.

If someone was making the argument that we shouldn't eat meat at all, because killing animal organisms is wrong, then abortion would be relevant to bring up.

Humans are killing countless numbers of microscopic organisms everyday, both out of necessity and a desire to stay healthy (using antibacterial products and antibiotics), so at least personally i think an edict against killing is a silly idea. Cruelty and killing are not one and the same though.
Startup Success Isn't Measured By The Volume Of Noise
The debate between power and simplicity in software continues on. Should you make features that are scary, and only useful to a handful of your users?

My $.02: Let Firefox continue to be feature-packed. Why? The other (popular) browsers are lacking by default (default being without plugins) in this regard. Keeping Firefox feature-loaded out of the box reduces the hassle for somebody that needs access to powerful web tools, when the alternative is downloading a bunch of plugins/ extensions/ bloatstuff.
The naive one that measures the average heat output of a human (about 100 watts, or 2,000 kilocalories/day). This an upper bound on mechanical work.
Sorry, but you can't seriously compare uptime of cloud-based services to hard-disk failure.

I've been using computers since I was 12, so about 17 years, and in that time I've had two hard disks break on me. I'm sure you're going to say you've had a lot more, but if your hard disks are going out of action at a rate even near to how often Google's core services drop out, well, you're doing something wrong.

"Shit happens" is never a valid excuse, even for a service provided at no cost to the user.
About as ridiculous as shutting down Jabber federation on GTalk because that was the only measure Google could take to limit spammy invites.

Google has come down a lot from their pedestal last week. In my book, this Jabber federation issue put them on par with "two teenagers in a garage".

So, ridiculous as it may be, today I believe one spreadsheet can bring GDrive down. Last week I had a different opinion.
Looks like it will be painful to get used to, but we said that about the QWERTY keyboard and look where we are today.
Got an Open Source project? Let me design for it free
I've been through this, with university philosophy professors.

a) Morality is not viewpoint dependent. An repugnant act is not suddenly acceptable if the perpetrator lacks moral reasoning capabilities. While we do not hold insane people responsible for their criminal actions we do, in fact, stop them from doing it.

b) Morality is not dependent upon extenuating circumstances. If I murder you and steal your last loaf of bread because I am starving, it may be understandable but it is still murder.

c) The moral cost of not performing the genocide pales compared to the established moral cost (for the purposes of this discussion) of allowing the ongoing, millinia long "murder" of the prey animals to continue for untold generations to come.
It's a valid complaint. At the very least, you can say that many of the problems associated with using HTML for apps stem from the fact that it was originally designed for documents, not apps.
The only one I can really recommend is SpiderOak, due to their zero-knowledge policy on what users upload. Everything is encrypted with your password, and if you lose that, you're SOL. They have no way of seeing what you've uploaded, so they're just providing you some drive space. It's a wonderful service altogether.

If you would like to help me out and use my referral link (so you and I get some extra free GBs), it's https://spideroak.com/download/referral/049cbbf6bc2c2df3b005...
That's an interesting approach, but I wonder if it isn't subject to "thrashing" as soon as you start dealing with documents that are edited in more than one place.

For instance, imagine that you have a laptop L and a desktop D. You edit shared document X in your "actual files" folder on L. Version 2 of X is saved on L, and you currently have version 1 of X on D.

1.) Dropbox happens to notice that X needs to be updated from v1 to v2 on D. Dropbox updates X to v2.

2.) Skydrive has not yet been notified of the changes to X. It changes X back to v1 for you on D.

3.) Dropbox notices that X has been modified on D. It sees that the new v1 X has an updated timestamp, so it assumes that this is a better version of X. Dropbox saves this as v3 (which is identical to the original v1).

4.) Dropbox pushes the v3 change to L, erasing your v2 work. Oops!

Basically, unless every synchronization service follows precisely the same protocol, you're gonna have a bad time.
An overview of mobile gaming in Asia, Part 1: South Korea
Without regressing into plato's cave and brain in a jar emulation type philosophical discussions....

The standard way of handling distributed clients is with trust calculations. A simeon trust calculation is to duplicate a packet of work multiple times and/or process questionable ones yourself. If they match, you can bump up the trust calculation on that client.

Public key crypto is all fine and good. It's great for executables so you know who they came from (hmm, trust again..).

So why can't I have the private key to a tpm I buy or have integrated in my motherboard?
Show HN:Post MVP,I've Added more features to my REST test client(WcfStorm.REST)
Gaming Platforms as an attack vector against remote systems - Hacking News
I agree. Google Drive supports an entire world of Chromebooks, startups, small businesses, and quite a few large businesses. I can't imagine the traffic from a Reddit thread would bring the service down. Even if the doc had something malicious in it (which I doubt is possible because Drive doesn't allow for executable code), they surely have failsafes to wall off any bad files from the rest of the service.
The problem with the American diet is not HFCS but sugar. HFCS and sugar is in everything because Americans like sugary, sweet tasting food. HFCS is used as sugar substitute because it is cheap (thanks to govt subsidy). Replacing HFCS with sugar in junk food will not turn it into nutritious food. Demonizing HFCS is a bad strategy. I think people are smart enough to realize that massive consumption of sugar, in whatever form, cannot be a healthy lifestyle.
Doesn't Chartbeat do something like that?
Transportation is notoriously hidebound. The city of Detroit is a monument to that mindset.

There is a lot of low hanging fruit in simply applying well known techniques. For example, Toyota has made big advances by simply removing excess metal from their engines. GM could have beat them to it in the 1960s by hiring a few interns.

There is also a great deal of efficiency to be gained by insulating buildings. A comprehensive approach to automating insulation retrofits would give tremendous savings but would not take more than $50M or so for the engineering.
Templates were already pretty complex a few years ago when I was a casual contributor. I am so glad they did this!

Now, if we could only go back in time and replace Vimscript with Lua or Lisp or anything...
While I agree that some of these options need to be hidden away better, a lot of the complaints would be fixed by adding easy reset-to-default buttons, or even some marker to show when something is changed from the default.

If users go messing around in the important internals of the necessarily complex machine that is the browser then they deserve what problems they have. In short: If you don't understand an advanced option, stay the fuck away from it.

Also, the article suggests making certificate management an add-on, among other things. That is the stupidest and most insecure thing I've heard the past 2 years.
Reading tea leaves?

I find that highly unlikely given how Google's services are built.
Sublime Web Inspector already got that first one figured out for javascript: http://sokolovstas.github.com/SublimeWebInspector/
Receive With Simplicity
How about opening up a browser-based API for existing in-browser IDE-like environments to leverage the debugging tools that are already present?

What I am talking about is instead of recreating jsFiddle in the dev tools, how about letting jsFiddle (with appropriate user confirmation) control the dev tools?

As the creator of Plunker (http://beta.plnkr.co/edit/e5iLyQ?p=preview), I would love to be able to leverage the environment that has already been created to allow adding breakpoints and inspecting of running code. Since Plunker already has live-previewing and a working multi-file editing interface, it would be really amazing to be able to take it to the next level.

Shameless plug: If you've never heard of Plunker, check it out. For free you get live-reload of previews, transparent compilation (and sourcemapping) of stuff like Coffee-Script, Typescript, Stylus, etc.., real-time collaboration on the same code, live js/css linting and much more! Also, it is open-source (http://github.com/filearts/).
What’s going on in KDE Plasma Workspaces 2?
But the TPM is just a chip on the LPC bus, right? Couldn't you do a man-in-the-middle and have the TPM think it's talking to real hardware when in reality it's talking to an emulated system?
If you don't want to use mongodb backend you can easily use sofart, its my own mongodb portable like sqlite.

Just follow this steps: http://paste.socketubs.net/tinabirera.hs

Come back if you need more help.
>But you are arguing against the relevance of selective pressure.

No, I am arguing against pretending there is a correlation between "natural" and "good" when there is not. Like I very clearly said.
All the time. I'm not sure how to not activate auto-completion sometimes.
For me, it ebbs and flows. There are times when I feel challenged, and there are definitely times where politics, the types of problems, etc. tend to extinguish the flame to get excited and work hard. I think the trick is, when you feel your "programming fire" starting to get extinguished, find a side project that inspires you (granted, if you have the time to do so). This gets me through the burn out and piques my interest when the day to day coding doesn't do it for me.
"Could someone more knowledgable than myself explain how cloud services could be less vulnerable to universal failures?"

Setup your own system and then you will have better control of all the parts of the system and create the redundancy that fits your particular purpose. Yes it's more expensive and yes it's more difficult obviously.
Do you think people are born as developers?

Or perhaps they start as "consumers" and then learn development?

What happens to that process if you hide the things they could use to undertake it?
Can anyone link to a good example of a simply lua template that's live on Wikipedia right now? The linked article wasn't pretty great for examples.
Maybe HN should send homing pigeons when a link gets popular?

Finally! The perfect application for RFC-1149[1]. And people said it was just an April Fool's Day joke!

[1]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
Why? I say leave Firebug alone, or just kill it already? We don't need two inspectors.
Symbolic gestures are all very well, but real gestures, however small, are a lot better. Here's a few ideas off the top of my head for things you could do on Saturday instead of turning off the lights for an hour:

- If you still use incandescent bulbs, buy some fluorescent or LED bulbs to replace them.

- If you heat your house in winter, and it's not well insulated, look up options for getting better insulation put in.

- If you're in the habit of driving when you could have walked or used public transport, try one of those alternatives.

- If you eat meat, try a vegetarian dinner on Saturday.

Any other ideas?
YouTube decision on removing video? Are they rational on this one?
Is it true YouTube will try their best to remove this video, and if so, on which stands? Cant understand their call for this.
Ask HN: SEO Advice
I'm thinking about diversifying my current food labeling product line to help with seo with menus (http://www.quickfoodlabels.com), and was wondering if any of you had SEO tips

For example, when I was visiting my friends at Google, they told me having a Google+ page improves your seo by 70%.

Any hints/tips/myths from the hn community?
"realize they are being taken advantage of and learn how to negotiate better"

I am not so optimistic about that, my friends and I are similar in these matters. We don't want to negotiate those things... We just want to build cool things, and people continue to take advantage of that.

There is hope if you become indie and have the "bad" luck of not being acquired while also manage to be decently successful. Outside of that, it's just a vicious circle.
From your free chapter, what is a "comp"?
I think the ideas quickly presented near the end of the video (~1:30 onwards) are the most exciting part of this project. Right now, text entry using a video game controller isn't exactly pleasant, and there are no shortage of use cases for technologies like Google Glass where voice recognition wouldn't be appropriate. This area is ripe for innovation; good luck Minuum!
The Professors Behind the MOOC Hype
Be careful taking this advice. "Get rid of all the options" can actually be quite powerful... it makes software that "just works". But it also makes software that "just doesn't work". The reason that these suggestions make sense is that Firefox allows plugins and extensions which CAN allow for these things.

Perhaps the moral of the story is to build your software with layers of configurability. In layer one, there are hardly any choices, but there is an "advanced" button to allow further configuration. In layer 2, there are many more options, but still only "frequently-used" features... however, there is a plug-in or scripting system that allows adding additional features if a developer makes them. The ecosystem of plug-ins would be layer 3 (note that this only works if you provide a common place to DISTRIBUTE the plug-ins and you make an effort to filter out malware). Finally, layer 4 would be the ability to build one's own plug-ins, but this layer would only be available to developers.

I have some software (like browsers, IDEs, and even older things like Emacs) that works like this today... but maybe all software should be built with layers of configurability.