skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussing the termination in a press release would not
have happened, as it shouldn't.

Not much point in firing someone to satisfy bloggers, twitter users and HN users if you don't tell them you've done it.
> The hardware, mostly the screen

Uhm? iPhone 5 has one of the best screens ever made, did other surpass it so quick?
Google's Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch
After Samsumg and Apple, now it seems Google is making a smartwatch, too.
Doctors Determine The Enormous Body Count Of Sugary Drinks
Worth mentioning that if someone wants to ask me (I'm running this) questions about this I'll be checking here!
I suspect access to MAC addresses will go away at some point—it has the same privacy concerns as UDID.
It's very sad to see with what problems they are dealing right now. They're late for probabbly 5-10 years in startups.
The Summer of Drones
If you have a chance, try it again I added a lot of inbetween colors!
Thanks but also sorry, because I should clarify—it's not my app, I just found it last night while looking for just this for a new Chromebook. I'm a heavy NValt user and there's sadly no Dropbox support on ARM as yet. Also saw that no one had posted to HN yet so thought I'd share.

Dev is a Japanese fellow on Twitter @kazuhiroshibuya, I'm sure he'll appreciate new users and any kudos. It's really well-designed and like others who commented here, I'm very glad for the prominent privacy disclosures on the homepage.
Isn't avoiding staleness one of the reasons behind the Google Doodles?
> The hardware, mostly the screen

What needs changing? It's incredibly high resolution, and is the only phone screen I've ever seen that can display purple properly.
Hackernews isn't that active, it has a very big user base that view but the number of people actively contributing (comments, submissions) is pretty small. During the last 6 minutes there has been 30 comments on HN, for reddit there has been over 100 in the last 10 seconds. The new queue is a good place to look to decide if creating subcategories would be a good idea, most submissions don't seem that great and giving them air time would be more inclusive, but would it be for the better?

Also for me personally I enjoy that HN is just one big list of submissions centred around one goal ("Anything that good hackers would find interesting") it means it's easy enough to discover new fields of interest I'd never have thought to search out, whereas on reddit discovering new fields of interest is much more difficult.
Please get rid of IE8 - ugh, hate to see that many still using it - doesn't look like I can drop support for awhile
Was I the only one that missed the part where the article explains why "It's Still the Platform to Beat"?
>What you're suger coating here is using exploits to break into a secure system.

No. Because using "exploits" (not a legally defined term AFAIK) doesn't necessarily mean that access was unauthorized. If you're the sysadmin for a remote server that you suddenly discover you can't login to with your account and that people are complaining that it's sending spam, and you smash the stack on a vulnerable application running on the server in order to regain control and shut it down, I should hope that wouldn't be "unauthorized access" and subject to criminal penalties.

And then there's the fact that "exploit" is a fuzzy and undefined thing. Is changing "userid=4833" to "userid=4834" to get another user's account not an "exploit" but changing "userid=4833" to "userid=0" to get root access is? What if the maximum userid is 65535 and if you use "userid=65536" then it rolls back around and gives you root because it's equivalent to "userid=0" but doesn't get rejected like "userid=0" would? This is no way for a criminal law to operate.

>For the data Weev encountered was there any possible way to get a 401 response for the URLs?

Sure there was. If AT&T had configured their server properly then that's exactly what it would have given him. If I wanted to introduce some irony then I would have to ask you whether you were "blaming the victim" here.
Here's the edit history for the page, where you can see all the edits user Amywilentz made over the last few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy_Wilentz&a...
The Easter Egg Song
Startups Must Adapt to New Customer Buying Dynamics
Haven't tested in Firefox. I assume the webapp works just fine, but there's a dedicated Chrome extension.
Does anyone know of an explanation of the bitcoin protocol in plain English? I'm a non-math guy who's trying to write a legal treatise on the use of bitcoin, and I'd like to give some background on how it works to my readers. Can anyone help?
What plugins?
Even giving all benefit of the doubt, what's the solution then?

If you don't personally treat anyone differently based on attributes outside their control, what else are you obligated to do?
I just got to wondering, how would charging for a monthly service work in bitcoin? A user can't just give you an account number and say bill me $X every month, right?

Any thoughts on how to design such a system?
HN is at its best just the way it is right now. There no need for subcategories.
You know who the target of Girls who Code are? Girls. Actual girls. Not ``going to meet some girls''(women) girls. Children. Teenagers.

Teenagers who, by culture, are reluctant to approach Computer Science and other technical fields. This education group is trying to reverse this trend.

RTFWebsite next time.
If he didn't actually sell the information, is it really a crime? Is it really intent? I can type out or even copy/paste a bunch of words, but does that prove intent? The guy is a troll--it's expected he would try to get a rise out of people.
Any process that involves date/times and doesn't involve date/times being stored and processed as UTC dates is the wrong solution. As the final step on the presentation layer you can convert them into whatever wacky TZ you want but passing dates back and forward to the server in non-UTC format is fast track to Insanityland
It's a one-line fix: send searches to them rather than Amazon.
A website that I really like and follow regularly is wamda.com. Its only for the MENA region though.
The Now Habit, the book that was suggested with that "Procrastination is not Laziness" post last week goes very into depth about de-coupling one's self-worth and one's fear of rejection and criticism. I've started to read it, and I think that I can recommend it to anyone who's anxious about how they or how something they've made will be responded to.
This is a great intro to bitcoin. It made me feel more optimistic about the prospects of the currency.

It highlights many of the risks and benefits but misses out on what I think is the Achilles' heel of bitcoin, the ability for sovereigns to shut down the exchanges.

Without the ability to convert bitcoin to fiat easily, the currency loses its usefulness as a proxy for fiat currency. Does anyone have a convincing argument for how the exchanges are not vulnerable?
and /h/jailbait for any languages not older than 24 month
Why wouldn't one wear them while driving?

One of my first ideas for Glass is to act as a HUD for driving information. Especially for motorcyclists, having speed information and even rear view camera easily within your field of vision sounds like an excellent use of this technology.
I don't think this is exactly what you are referring to, but there are apps, like feedly, where the back button brings you back to the home screen, and not back one screen. I don't know if this is because these apps are "ports" from iOS, or the devs are ignoring Android specific features to make it easier for themselves, or something else.

It's not Android's fault but it does frustrate me that different apps treat the hard button differently. FWIW I would rather have it this way than the way Apple handles it.
This is false. I guarantee you, scientists would be very interested if they actually demonstrated entanglement. For example, in the slides of the linked talk, the presenter goes over a very general measure of entanglement which allows you to construct after-the-fact a "witness" of entanglement. It is respected theory, and a credible last-resort approach; no numbers. His latest preprint[1] doesn't have a clear claim either. The Newscientist section refers to a conference 2 weeks ago, without published abstracts, procedings, or video. I'll believe it when I see it (there's no indication Aram's quote is in context, but maybe he has).

The first thing any qc lab does when they get their second qubit is make an entangled state and measure Bell Inequality violation. D-wave's lack of interest in this or in running Shor[2] is very telling. Everybody wants to run Shor, it's where the money is.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1739

[2] http://dwave.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/computational-universa...
...only to cancel it at some random future time, mid-drive.
Electronic lending and public libraries
What are the problems with South, as you point to? I think those are a big part of the selling point for your project. :)

Additionally, could you explain how the project will not be obviated by Django's plans to implement built-in schema migration in, I think, 1.6 or 1.7?

You taken on one of the most important aspects of managing Django services, so I'm genuinely interested, but I just want to know what the thinking is behind this.
You're right, this isn't reddit. Applying a derisive label in place of an actual argument doesn't work here. If you have a point, please feel free to make it. Either way, lay off the name-calling.

BTW, your post reads like a tour of logical fallacies. You can do better I'm sure.
Of course -- just like it's more acceptable to lay off a lady! Her husband can just get a job :)

You single guys supporting your parents or supporting people you're not married to (for whatever reason) or sending money back home to help out, your families are invisible.

One could argue that someone with a spouse has a bigger safety net than a single person -- which is actually true and is a contributor to the fact that married men have higher life expectancy than single men -- but it's easier to make assumptions. I'm sure someone will read this and argue that "on average married men need the job more"; I'd like to remind them that this is so because we (society) make it that way through paying men more, expecting men to be primary breadwinners, making childcare so *&^%ing expensive that it makes sense for the lower-paid parent to stay home, spreading elder-care responsibilities unequally.... The system does have its logic: someone's got to do the work, after all!
"If I had glass" on Yahoo and Bing:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Agw0sPNuxbiST6yjUH1P2j6b...

http://www.bing.com/search?q=if+i+had+glass&go=&qs=n...

and Google

https://www.google.com/?q=if%20i%20had%20glass#hl=en&new...
Yay for a crazy summer!
I switched from Chrome to Firefox... tab groups, the extensions available, and actually being able to save and sync my search keywords across computers (instead of being stuck with a 2 yr old settings) are some big features for me.

Oh, also that Greasemonkey itself is very easy to use.

I might consider trying out Opera again in the future, since its mouse gestures are very responsive and the interface looks nice (to me). However, lots of web pages didn't render properly for me the last time I used it (3+ yrs ago)
I've found that it is very helpful to include some sort of pseudo-unique "Incident number" in error responses which you also log in the server's log along with any exception/error details.

This makes it very easy then to correlate issues reported by users with the actual errors/requests in the log.
If you let me touch your dongle, I'll let you fork my repo
John Saddington on his unconventional approach to building WP themes
Now that's looking better.

$ curl curlgur.tk/4YO6ZFm.png
I will second this. What's wrong with South, currently?

By the way, this is the first Kickstarter project I've considered funding.
Man, this is such a fucking confusing case.
I don't want to support harassment in a professional context, but I find it really hard to think of what those guys did as harassment.

I want to live in a world where you can make crude jokes with your work friends and not be afraid about who is listening in. Harassment shouldn't be defined by a list of taboo subjects or stupid rules. Harassment should mean intentional actions that make someone feel uncomfortable or afraid. That means there needs to be some reasonable leeway made for situations where you don't know you're making someone uncomfortable. It makes sense that we should be careful about the kind of jokes we make directly to people but we shouldn't by default have to assume that someone with absolutely zero sense of humour is listening in.

People should be free to make jokes and flirt and do whatever they like at the work place, as long as no-one minds. We have to spend half our life at work, what's the fucking point of having to be a robot the whole time?
Sexual jokes aren't necessarily sexist, nor are they necessarily harassing. Neither is flirting, or kissing or flat out having sex, for that matter. (Might be inappropriate for a work environment, but doesn't have to be sexual harassment, does it?) On the other hand, if you do it in an inappropriate way, looking at someone could be genuinely terrifying harassment. I bet if you were careful and sadistic enough, you could turn any innocuous interaction into something that, over time, makes someone feel deeply uncomfortable.

Imagine if we work together. Imagine I am perfectly normal with everyone else, but when I put my reports on your desk, I slide them on gently, looking you in the eye, then I just hold them there, palm flat on the desk and I smile. I let the smile last just a second too long, then I go off and carry on being relatively normal with everyone else. I do that every single day, and each time you look less and less comfortable, and each time I either don't react or seem to enjoy your discomfort. How long would it take before that became very unpleasant for you? What kind of possible rule structure could be in place that could conceivable prevent me from doing this without requiring some communication from you? What would you ban? Looking someone in the eye and smiling for too long? How many seconds is too long? How would you time it?
Moreover, how the fuck would this rule structure be able to distinguish intentional harassment from the situation where it turns out I am slightly autistic and I happen to really enjoy looking over your shoulder at your screensaver when I drop my reports on your desk?

We have to set the rules at a place of compromise and rely on explicit communication to sort everything else out. Otherwise we'll end up with segregated offices or women in fucking Burkhas or some other retarded solution to the general problem of otherwise clever people being unable to cope with social interaction.
I remember people asking me if I took drugs when creating music since I make psychedelic trance overall hahaha. I never took drugs but it's funny how I enjoy music in a similar way to people who take psychedelic drugs. Mine is more analytical but in the end we all see shapes and color. :P
I'm assuming you mean this language[1]. Crystal is a new language that uses Ruby syntax and compiles to C using LLVM. Pretty cool looking actually.

[1]https://github.com/manastech/crystal/wiki/Introduction
I understand your optimism, which is why my example included your scenario as a subset.

Think of it in this metaphorical way. The initial sparks between you, a dalek lover, and me are eventually extinguished by discussion. But because it took place in a public forum, some of the sparks landed in nearby tinder, which reignited the fire that destroyed our beloved Skaros. Our personal fire extinguishers are not enough to put out that blaze.

Or, in a non-metaphorial way, I give you the yellow card. We discuss it and come to a mutually agreeable and even pleasant understanding. I then write in my blog about how successful the yellow card system was. Others don't think it was justifiable for me to give you a yellow card, since daleks are supreme, and retaliate. The chain reaction of reprisals start, and poof! Back to the 1000 year war.
Well you must understand that what's acceptable is a constantly moving narrative and it moves at different speeds in different cultures. In general humor that works based on demeaning a subset so that the larger majority can laugh at its expense is something that's (slowly) dying. After all, in your initial comment, all your doing is saying "Let me insult this boorish driver by comparing him to a menstruating woman! We can all have a laugh at that right?"
Looking for a 'solution' is the wrong angle to take. There is no easy answer to any question that involves privilege. You can't make a decision about how it can be fixed and just fix it. It's an ongoing process and a living conversation.

That's why he says that it's not just about shutting up when you're called out on your privilege, it's also about listening. Accept that there are things in the world, and positions people are in, that you can't just argue out of existence.
The user would have to set up a cron-job effectively. All payments have to be initiated by the holder of the wallet.
I thought installing an SSD would speed up development on my local system in Rails 3 - it barely changed a thing.

It does make things like tests etc run way, way faster though.
Curiously, a couple of weeks since that post was made, Google have obviously updated their results, I no longer get a "Died:" record when I search for "amy wilentz".

Perhaps another case of Google ignoring you until you get a bit of publicity, or just them finally catching up.
> I'd also be lying if I didn't mention that I truly believe the sort of project we are building

He qualified it pretty well. It could have been:

> Discourse represents the future of software.

Wouldn't that have been more arrogant?
I think you're conflating purposeful use of sex as a selling point with being sex positive.

These are vastly not the same thing.

One of them gets in the way of the message, gets in the way of discussion, and furthermore DOES make some people highly uncomfortable. Sure, some of those people may be sex negative. But many, many more are probably just rather annoyed at being treated like they're some buffoon who is going to flock to any booth with some tits on it.

Furthermore, not everyone wants to live quite so loudly. When you're standing at a booth with booth babes at it, you can't help but feel the eyes on you of other, nearby attendees. What if they're genuinely interested in what the product at the booth is- but suddenly they're put into the uncomfortable position of feeling like people might mistake what they're doing for something less seemly?

Perhaps it's a bit much to keep those kinds of jokes out of the talks, for the sake of culture. Then again? If it gets in more programmers, to not have that kind of content there, then they should stand by it.

(And one thing I might add: It's possible to be sex positive without wanting to be so public about it, and still being annoyed with its use, sometimes.)
This is awesome. Thank you so much.

We in Africa are just as geeky as anywhere else in the world, but we tend to face problems unique to living on the continent. An HN-like site should yield some great "uncanny valley"-esque discussions :-)
Sytse Sijbrandij from GitLab.com here. Thank you for submitting this. We hope people like the change. We put a lot of hard working in making GitLab more stable and scaling it. Let us know what you think.
This looks brilliant. I agree with Kluny's first comment; if someone has an email for @kazuhiroshibuya, please tell him there is currently a spelling and grammatical error on the landing page. Suggest the second sentence be changed from:
"Writebox helps you to concentrate to writing and seamlessly sync your wiring text accross all your devices."
To:
"Writebox helps you concentrate on writing and seamlessly syncs your text writings across all your devices."
Android App Development Bootcamp at UChicago
Over the course of two days (April 6-7, 2013), students will be given a practical introduction to the Android development platform, and approaches necessary to build an Android application. The bootcamp will consist of lectures, hands-on coding exercises, and discussion.

This bootcamp is open to those who are familiar with at least one C-class programming language (e.g. Java, C/C++, C#, or Objective-C) and with object-oriented design.
> Oh, also that Greasemonkey itself is very easy to use.

TamperMonkey[1] works exactly the same in Chrome/Chromium and to some extent in Android.

[1] http://tampermonkey.net/
The iPhone has remained virtually unchanged over the last 5 years. Each model is slightly faster and slightly brighter. Sure you fanboys can make the argument about every feature added, but look at the specs differences. And the look and feel of the phone has barely changed[1].

If you look at the progress not just in design, but software, hardware and everything. Samsung, HTC, Nokia, all the major manfs have come miles further than Apple in the last 5 years when it comes to hardware design.

When it comes to software Android has also come miles in the last few years. People that aren't Android users don't realize this and go with the same standby arguments against Android (fragmented, ugly ui, non-integrated UI). When Android first came on the market (HTC G1) it could not even compare to an iPhone. But Android has solved many of these problems over the years, due partially to the fact that it's open source and has lots of people / companies contributing to it. It has now come to a point where it is miles beyond iOS and iOS has even gone as far as starting to steal features from Android (notifications drawer anyone?).

I've said it before I will say it again. Apple should spend less money worrying about and suing it's competitors and spend more time and money on improving their mediocre products.

The time for something new from Apple is definitely soon or they risk starting to lose market share. Although, most of their users are to drunk on koolaid to even know what other products are in the market.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices#iPhone
I try to address the key points in the Kickstarter, but essentially South is too fragile (it relies on exactly linear histories) and too verbose (bakes the entire ORM state into every migration) - the main point is to fix those.

It's also worth pointing out that this IS the built-in schema migration that's going in in 1.6 or 1.7.
> how the project will not be obviated by Django's plans to implement built-in schema migration in, I think, 1.6 or 1.7?

uhmm, it's exactly this project :)
That's a good old post by Scalzi, but the people who most need to pay attention to it are the ones least likely to pay attention to it.

EDIT: He also has a current post: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/03/21/two-simple-observation...
A healthy man has thousands of problems. A sick man only one.

Thank you, for sharing.