skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh ok - good that the image was not picked up from a path in the install folder. I thought that was the case! That would have been bad.
It's not a rate (all the backers are paying a fixed cost of their own choice), it's a salary. Why should someone take a pay cut in order to produce an open source project?
chrome compiles javascript into an intermediate language already, they just need to allow that intermediate code directly from a script tag.
Yeah, I can see how my post could be interpreted that way, though I didn't mean it like that. Just because a woman was offended definitely doesn't mean the statement was necessarily sexist. I'm just trying to offer one possible way they could be construed as sexist -- not to say that I agree with the interpretation personally, though.
This is your defense in the 'China is not repressive' argument?
A property value for taxation purposes has little to do with it's actual market value.
Chrome's UI is also completely and totally inflexible. As you can see in this screenshot, http://i.imgur.com/D8rMRBa.png , my firefox's UI takes up less space and is only two rows. Chrome has three rows (the close/max/min buttons, tabs, and navigation). There is no way on windows to reduce that top height. Firefox is flexible enough that you can trivially do what I have with only some simple css. The defaults for firefox are roughly as minimalistic as chrome too. Also, on my linux box my firefox is thinned down even more, while chrome just looks horribly out of place since you can't alter its appearance to closer match the native environment.

I prefer firefox for quite a few reasons, but since you bring up the UI, that's the only one I'll mention here.
My bad I forgot to proof read it. Thanks.
Greatness isn't a home run— it's a long series of singles to the outfield.
DevTable - collaborative online IDE
"""
DevTable is a brand new collaborative online IDE that can help you work with your team more effectively. With our integrated Google-docs like collaborative editing, working on code simultaneously is a breeze. Communication is also streamlined with our video chat and context-sensitive text chat.

- Real-time collaborative code editing
- Javascript, Python, and HTML autocomplete and syntax highlighting
- Cloud storage for all of your source files and project resources
- Git support for import, commit, pull and push
- Deployment using SCP or Google App Engine
- Javascript compilation and minification using Google's Closure Compiler
- LaTeX syntax highlighting, error detection, and compilation
- Project import and export from zip
"""
Sure, I get that. But just like many other things, talking about stereotypes is generally looked upon as racist (or genderist, etc)... unless it is a white stereotype and then it's just fine because apparently we deserve it. Somehow along the way (probably due to the sins of our fathers) we've been shackled with some gross double standards that make it really difficult to take it all seriously. Hypocrisy is rampant.
"""
DevTable is a brand new collaborative online IDE that can help you work with your team more effectively. With our integrated Google-docs like collaborative editing, working on code simultaneously is a breeze. Communication is also streamlined with our video chat and context-sensitive text chat.

- Real-time collaborative code editing
- Javascript, Python, and HTML autocomplete and syntax highlighting
- Cloud storage for all of your source files and project resources
- Git support for import, commit, pull and push
- Deployment using SCP or Google App Engine
- Javascript compilation and minification using Google's Closure Compiler
- LaTeX syntax highlighting, error detection, and compilation
- Project import and export from zip
"""
You're absolutely right, this was on the front page.

I think it's worth nothing though: this is an update: when it was on the front page it still needed backers. -- Now the project has met it's goal, and the author has added some stretch goals.

I personally think that it's reasonable to post an update and stir up more interest for the newly defined stretch goals.

Maybe some potential backers will be more interested now that they see the project has met it's goal?
Many of the comments here are missing the point a little. To summarize:

"If your customer experiences a freak event that no one can really plan for trying to turn that into a win for yourself is inappropriate" - We should argue on the merits of that. Don't confuse this with a service that perhaps experiences ongoing issues. Those are material points that a buyer should know and are fair game to raise in marketing.
Do you have a reading list you could share?
>There's just a vague implication that the language and it's ecosystem are substandard to Ruby and Python. Apparently you think it's self evident, so doesn't require explanation

To turn the question on its head, why should anyone choose Perl over the alternatives? I honestly have never seen a reason to switch. Not terribly many others have either, as of late. I will attempt to lay out some of my reasoning.

When evaluating a new language & ecosystem, I tend to look for an active and welcoming community, a large selection of actively maintained libraries, and lastly a language that is interesting and/or fun to develop in. I can't really pontificate with authority on how Perl fares with regards to the above 3, but I will share my perception. Feel free to contradict (of course).

1. Community : there's no doubt Perl's community has taken a bit of a hit over the last n years population wise. In addition, the Perl community has, anecdotally, a reputation for being a bit terse [1]. Nothing cut and dry here, but again nothing that stands out IMHO.

2. Libraries : by extension of a diminishing pool of active contributors, it stands to reason some modules may not be as actively supported as their counterparts in other languages. This is compounded by the uncertain state of the language's version (5,6,7?)

3. Language : I personally have enjoyed coding in Perl, and am not really too intimidated by its historical warts. It's quite possible to write readable Perl, so write-only accusations are of little concern (to me).

Notes :

* Versioning : As an outsider, the current state of Perl's versioning is confusing. Perl 6 has been in development for over a decade, and I've seen mention of Perl 5.2 being released as Perl 7. None of this reflects positively on the language as a whole as it raises concerns about future proofing and maintainability.

* Mojolicious : Looks nice. My only concern would be that, based on the GitHub commit history, it is overwhelmingly governed and contributed to by a single individual. More so than even Rails, and significantly more so than Django. This isn't necessarily a negative, but I'd certainly want to trust him before building a production app using his tool.

[1] http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2012/10/why-people-d...
jquery, jquery mobile only for the page/events system, not the ui
Yep, dongle jokes in a conference audience--and priggish overreactions to them--are a serious issue for sure. It's practically on par with nuclear proliferation and childhood obesity.
It's not super-useful to measure the speed of a network nobody is using yet. AT&T gives me 5-6 megabits in a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, in the middle of the afternoon. I'd be very surprised to see T-Mobile, with its limited resources and limited spectrum be able to come close.

Which is ultimately why it was a total disaster that the DOJ nixed the ATT/T-Mobile merger. Now you've got two carriers with not enough spectrum versus Verizon that's sitting on a fat 20 MHz nationwide band.
The Bitcoin Foundation Visualized
Really, which bank? Is it a true foreign currency account, or based on that currency's index. Personally interested.
You really think that's the best place to start?

I would begin with a figuring out a more secure, desired configuration before trying to automate it. (Especially given, IMHO, the very steep learning curve for Chef & Puppet)
>Either we have a very odd sample (unlikely, broad basket of eCommerce sites), or, well, Android sure as shit ain't dominant.

It is. Just with the wrong crowd: mostly people that don't care much about smartphones and got a low tier Android phone for free with their contracts.

So it has won on volume, but not on the people that matter (both financially, ie those buying with higher margins, and technologically, ie the most tech savvy).

Which also explains why over 50% of Android phones run 1 or 2 years old Android versions.
I know. I was making a broad statement about the future of government. Bitcoin is a huge threat to tax collection on all levels.
I had this exact thought while walking to work this morning.

It came to me that the vast majority of modern society is completely independent of the actual people executing it. There are very few jobs that could not be done just as well by another person with the same training.

Most jobs are like coded modules. They have well-defined inputs and outputs - even creative jobs can be defined in terms of "create something people will pay for".

The system is what runs the world, not the individual people who carry it out.
There are many many many suitable black / Asian / woman choices for speaking at your conf. No reason to be a 'token.'
The source code for those kinds of systems is commonly referred to as, "policy."
As someone who is trying to wean himself off of .NET I'd say Ruby isn't exactly the best choice out there. I could jump over to any JVM language (even hip ones) or convert into a Pythonista.

Ruby is hardly efficient and with better(and efficient) alternatives out there I wonder why do people still flock to Ruby/Rails.
I would love if you could also make something a la thredless/spreadshirt/lafraise ...

Because I'm always looking for "fantasy" socks (e.g. not just plain socks, don't know the proper English idiom for that) and they are quite hard to find.

I understand that you need a certain volume for a batch to be worth doing, hence the "let people create design, vote and then sell the most popular one" idea.
"Download prevention" is impossible. The analog hole cannot be closed. If it can be delivered to our senses, then it can be copied.
Yes, let's bring the mobile phone experience 10 to 20 years backwards, letting only what can be done with the hodge-podge that is HTML5 be available.
Show HN: How to Unmoderate Hacker News Titles
Building a data-driven approach to keeping users' email addresses up-to-date
There's something ironic about a cynic, in the classic sense of "question everything and undermine assertions", protesting the corruption of his own self-declared title. ;-)
Even if BitCoin can't be exchanged for some fiat currencies, there is always the prospect of exchange through some middle step: either less restrictive foreign currencies, or commodities such as gold.

At this point, a full-scale governmental assault on BitCoin could slow it down or scare some people away, but it's highly doubtful that the growth could be stopped altogether. The bigger danger is that they'll embrace it wholesale and start taxing BTC exorbitantly instead. :P
Ugh. Sorry about this. As a lapsed math person (though not quite to your level) I meant it sincerely...
Ask HN: Why don't more people use GrubHub, Foodler, etc?
These services allow you to order food online for delivery, instead of calling. However, these services don't get much use, which doesn't make sense to me. This is counter to ordering Domino's pizza online, which seems to get more use.

Why are these services not so popular? Is it just that people feel more comfortable dealing directly with the restaurant?
Sure, other people may be comfortable wearing those clothing. I'm just saying that I, personally, would not feel comfortable doing so. Unfortunately, the "did you see what she was wearing? she was asking for it!" line of thinking still exists with some people :/
It's hard for people who don't know about the history of China (sorry staticfish for making this assumption) to understand why it behaves the way it does now. The century of humiliation and the civil war (not to mention Japanese invasion) has left its mark on the Chinese psyche. The one thing they learned from all that mess was that China had to be 'one', dissidence could not be allowed; otherwise there would be constant bickering and infighting. Although surely they're repressive, there's a reason for that which is not pure malice and evil
If DRM is inevitable, I'd take a properly implemented DRM that's been through community scrutiny than another Sony rootkit fiasco any time.
VMware Crosses the Rubicon Yet Again
Evernote Devcup 2013
Was about to reply with the exact sentiment. She should mind her own business.
How would you like hooks in your web browser for the Sony root kit?

That's what's being proposed at the W3C.
it's mentioned in the post that the author reported the facts a number of times.
Was it unethical for domain registrars to offer sales when Go Daddy was catching flak for supporting SOPA?

No, but that wasn't a "black swan" event that GoDaddy could not control. They chose to support SOPA. In my mind, that's a pretty different scenario.

All I'm saying is capitalism works best when customers are sensitive to problems. The more alternatives they try, the more likely they try the best alternative, the more likely the best companies succeed.

I basically agree with that; I just think the OP's post is pointing out a very specific edge case where a certain sort of behaviour is indicated.
Excel had a flight simulator.
In-Stream Facebook Commerce Is Here
Looks like Lucy is the primary exemplar picture for a rat terrier on Wikipedia? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy,_a_Rat_Terrier.j...

P.S. She's a cute dog!
Bangkok Condo For Sale in Bitcoin
> I think it's worth nothing though

You're harsh.
Nonprofit’s Gift of Bikes Helps Cambodian Girls Get to School Safely
Really impressive stuff, especially considering that is still just the beginning. The skin around the mouth and cheeks seems completely (uncannily?) real, although the lip movements could still use some work.

Also, whether it was intentional or not, as a Caprica fan, I greatly enjoy that the talking head is named "Zoe". :)
Until there is chargebacks, and protection is afforded to the buyer, I'm no longer using bitcoins.

I've made half a dozen or so purchases with bitcoins and 100% of the time I was ripped off and received nothing.

Once bitten, twice shy, eight times I stay the hell away.
Congratulations, the project looks good. I will keep it in mind. I didn't install sometime ago partially because I was already running a Gitolite instance and wasn't sure it would play nice.

Great to see Postgres support, can I ask why MySql is the recommended DB?

The install instructions are still quite long but it is really good to see them done properly with a separate non-root user. The suggested Ruby version isn't the latest (even on the 1.9.3 branch) although I'm not sure that matters.
The data structure has great complexity, and is closely relate to hash-array mapped tries, and ropes, which have good implementations.

Individual implementations might suck. Others are just fine (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/fingertree/0.0/d...) - though even this could be optimized (for constant factors).
Money and open source mix just fine.

The practical reason that open source has exploded is that a large number of interested parties can contribute towards a project that benefits them all, avoiding duplication of effort.

This is just the next logical step. Instead of contributing one hour of my time, I can spend it on my day job and pay for one hour of Andrew's time.

In practice, this is exactly the same as the old model, just with higher efficiency - as a Django outsider (but user), one hour of Andrew's time is worth the first hundred of mine.

If you don't want to contribute financially, you have no obligation to; just in the same way that you can use Django and contribute no code. It also doesn't stop you from helping in other ways - I'm sure Andrew would be thrilled to have help, so long as you spend those countless hours getting up to speed :)
To get damages she would need to demonstrate harm. But if she could, this becomes interesting, as Google can not hide behind the usual search-engine defense: they are not merely linking to sites here, but making up their own facts. (IANAL.)
I haven't read the Now Habit yet, but another great read along those lines is The Antidote.
The problem is that you'd need a fully locked-down chain, all the way from server to monitor, to be able to pull that off.

Every single one of the devices in that chain has to be reduced to a black box which we're not allowed to tamper with.

Hollywoord is trying hard to actually achieve that, and that is the scary part.
Post-author here. This was a fun sample app to build. Heroku scheduler made it really easy to deploy the invoice emails on a set schedule. If you have any feedback on ways to improve the app or if you would have done anything differently, let me know.
Amy Wilentz also published her essay on the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-wilentz/how-google-killed-... Not sure whether that helps or not though.
Posthaven Launches In Public Beta
It is only a matter of time before they start to use Google for this information, they already use it for mapping, and have made some mistakes. The fictitious island is one example.
" 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. "

Hardware design is just one (of many) important characteristics in smartphone design. Of much greater importance is the balance across the different characteristics.
In addition to the points made by unalone, I'll just add that oftentimes rape apologists will blame the victim with phrases like "Look at her outfit, she was asking for it" type of reasoning. It makes me really self-conscious of what I wear, even though I know it shouldn't matter.
Thanks for understanding in https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/3303#discussion_r3...

The attribution was merged and is live on https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/CHANGELOG#L...
Awesome write up Roy!
no, they can do it. There is overlay support in current generation iptv support that can target scrolls and texture replacements at a resolution of less than a zipcode. Take that gear and apply a few static watermarks with timecodes and then swap the different streams at unique times for each viewer and you can end up with a stream thats uniquely identifiable.

Motorola's (Google) new gear can do this, though the purpose is targeted advertising not watermarks. The truth is streaming DRM is about preventing your mother from giving a copy to the neighbors, almost all the content is already on P2P by the time it streams.
My understanding of the proposed EME is that it does not implement any DRM, and DRM implemented for it would likely be opaque software implemented without community scrutiny.

The EME (again, by my understanding, I could be wrong) only defines an API to communicate with DRM systems. I don't think this helps us gain any scrutiny over DRM.
I was rounding off, but in reality they might never reach 1.5 billion thanks to their falling birth rate.

In order for an OS to get adopted by Chinese users, it has to easily run the applications that Chinese users use. Period.

That is exactly what they are trying to make happen. The article says they are going to bundle versions of popular Chinese applications (think QQ, Weibo clients) with the distro.

This is why OS X doesn't work for China--it doesn't run enough Chinese applications. Canonical is apparently working with some Chinese government ministry to fix that issue ahead of time.

A potential issue, though, will be the thousands of Chinese websites that use ActiveX plugins and therefore cannot run on anything other than IE in Windows.

South Korea has the same problem of browser lock-in, only much worse because they actually passed a law saying that all online monetary transactions in the country have to use a specific ActiveX encryption plugin.

Microsoft already killed ActiveX (and Silverlight) but its legacy is that web developers all over East Asia have an enormous technical debt, and users remain locked in until they settle it.
Funny, given all the insanity of the past week, that this hasn't caused much of a stir in all the years github has been around:

http://shop.github.com/products/fork-you-shirt-mens-medium

I also remember having a laugh over their “fork queue” feature, which has since been spring-cleaned.

https://github.com/blog/270-the-fork-queue
"In the United States, financial transactions must be done in US currency"

It's not helpful to make things up from your own imagination.
Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
Really cool widget, but to me your tagline seems wrong. You give away tshirts at conferences because people notice them, they don't notice socks. Just say, make cool socks.
Still deep in the uncanny valley in my opinion.
Is there really a problem in the US with a huge number of people donating buildings to schools to get their kids in? I did not realize this happens on a large enough scale to make that an actual issue.
My reference to "signing up" means that I won't be entering in to a gentleman's agreement. I'm on good terms with reality.
Web Money Gets Laundering Rule
Some stats on the traffic sources to this page. Looks like Twitter was important to getting this project funded:

https://bitly.com/ZhmXuw+
Sorry, didn't see it up on the front page. I was actually surprised when the submission went through, this seems like a hackernews dream project (js + git + open source + crowdfunding).
A Redditor's solid explanation of memes and anti-meme behavior
> Fact 1. If I want a movie or song without paying for it, I can get it.

this is actually irrelevant. netflix is contractually obligated to distribute all their content through DRM'ed channels. Hollywood knows that DRM isn't going to stop copying, but they would still like to reduce it, and they certainly aren't going to license their content to services that make copying trivial.
Profiling JIT-ted Ruby code with OProfile on Rubinius
Novelty-seekers who can't seem to wrap their head around bitcoin being an evolution of existing concepts that've been around since money was invented.
Just wanted to say thanks for South, it makes my projects a whole lot easier. Looking forward to this.
FWIW Groupon hired a lot of bigs from other companies prior to IPO, but it was more about ecommerce executives than software and design. There are a lot of great people that want to work at a hot proven company (not a small startup), and Dropbox probably fits that best.
To have enough information I'd have to live your life twice, once per timeline with each computer. That's not going to happen. So, make a decision (or flip a coin) and move on. ;)