skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their base layer needs to specify exact versions of libraries.

Deploying from images should be much faster and less fragile (oops, is Github down?) than from scripts.
If you had to have your patent reviewed by a team of engineers before it is approved, then we will have less patents.(we don't need a patent for a slick button) And to file for a law suit, you will also have to have a team of engineers to review it.

This could be a very good thing.
DESIGNERS only: Attend the "Designing For Contextual Awareness" event
Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Asterisk
The "classical" definition of an open letter is a correspondence from person/entity A to person/entity B, which is published for general viewing rather than mailed. The goal of such things is to demonstrate a point of view, and action on that view, for others. As a form of rhetoric it is reasonably persuasive if done well.

So to answer your rhetorical question :-) of "Is an open letter just a blog post you start with 'Dear such-and-such'?", Of course it is, it is a rhetorical argument made in the form of a correspondence. Making such arguments in the form of an essay or allegory are also common.
They could be using some kind of format-preserving encryption, but then they would have needed an unhashed version of the password to generate this "phone input" field.
I usually try to subvert the redaction on PDF files with a reasonable degree of success, but I suspect it would be a waste of time in this case :) Anyway, most interesting, both technically and socially. Had I been born in the US I think I'd have enjoyed working at the NSA.
> WP and Wordpress picked the wrong implementation language.

No they didn't. PHP makes sure you can deploy them just about everywhere for very cheap and without really knowing what you're doing.
I am curious on what you people think about the Constructal theory. Please let me know.
http://www.constructal.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructal_theory
Those of us with an ounce of humility or perspective (I suspect that includes you) seem less likely to have that kind of problem... though honestly, I don't think this "entitlement culture" is an industry-wide problem. It seems, from what I'm seeing, largely concentrated on the coasts, particularly the one mentioned in this post. Attitudes and perspectives are vastly different in other places, even more than you would normally expect outside of tech.
FYI, Rob Conery just posted a great post that addresses the exact issues the OP had: http://wekeroad.com/2013/03/20/ember-baby-steps
If you look at the DigitalRev website you'll see the product widget in the side bar[1], this lists the products they have for sale relevant to the article. Why would a GoPro employee be looking at digitalrev.com? Probably to look at reviews of their products. If they were on that review page and spotted the GoPro being sold with unlicensed images (or whatever the problem is) they're likely to link to the page they were looking at when contacting their lawyers, correct? This seems like an unfortunate oversight; the person that "discovered" the GoPro licensing issue linked to the page they saw it on, not considering the potential confusion because they're linking to an article about GoPro.

Seems like an easy mistake to make.

[1] Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/PWJp2BU.png
Ember camp 2013 presentations
It’s never too late. Just do it better.
Thank you! I actually gave the talk a few days ago (I'm sticking around for the post-conference sprints), and I think it went well. In the future, I'd love to have hard data ready to cite in response to your question. I'll try to gather some once I get back home.
> but Google presents an interesting challenge here because the free services die without even trying or offering a paid version. I wonder what would happen if, instead of just axing services, google started charging.

If a free Google service had either the volume of users or the instensity of use that would make it seem viable as a paid service, it probably would either become a paid service or, if Google had a strategic reason to keep it free, continue as a free service.

A free service that gets axed is almost certainly one that it doesn't appear likely enough to Google that it would be worthwhile as a paid service to justify expending the staff time required to design a pricing structure and integrate billing.
Could this be deployed using OpenVBX?
Well, per http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/dod_dictionary/, a code word is

A word that has been assigned a classification and a
classified meaning to safeguard intentions and
information regarding a classified plan or operation.

That is to say, the meaning of a code word is generally classified. It's not just a convenient label; its purpose is to obfuscate even the general intent behind . . . whatever's going on under that umbrella.

If they think it's been compromised--that is, if they think someone has figured out UMBRA=COMINT--they'll generally change it. If it's made it all the way onto Wikipedia, they probably changed it long ago. And if it isn't redacted in declassified materials, they definitely changed it long ago.

Though it's always possible that they just don't care anymore. Sometimes programs persist under their code words long after what they're doing isn't classified anymore.
Unlike C it was a net benefit even if a small one. Pascal was often the direct competitor to C and for low level tasks it's a much better language that lost out due to UNIX / tool chain support.
I don't want to read a financial blog if the majority of their content just comes from a google search anyways. I hate when news sites just quote verbatim from a source (or worse, another article) with no extra analysis or anything thrown in. I would far prefer to just read the original and make my own conclusions.
It depends on what you actually want to do with Bootstrap. Do you need it to quickly assemble a website just for prototyping and you are satisfied with the layout Bootstrap comes with? In that case: just read the Bootstrap manual and you will mostly be fine.
But, if you want to make changes to the layout and have some more control, you better start of learning html and css (like all have said here).
Entitlement is when you're a welfare recipient smoking dope and watching TV all day and demanding everybody else cover your existence.

Demanding market rates is a rational response to a job offer, and I do not understand why otherwise rational engineers romanticize working for less than they are worth simply because "engineers make a lot of money."
The difference there is that Google Maps was used on a majority of all products that featured maps (outside in-house things from Microsoft, or special partnerships). Google Alerts, Reader, Finance, et al are products they have been closing/breaking/disregarding for lack of interest, which is a completely opposite problem from the Maps example.
I see what you mean :D
I'm just glad I understand technology at least to some extent. I mean technology is often so complex I could never put together most of it myself or even understand it down to intricate detail, but at least I have a grasp of how it all fits together to make a pc, cpu, memory, television, radio, phone, remote control, ...

I can't imagine going trough this life without having the faintest idea of how a lot of the stuff I use everyday actually works.
I hope that there will be a positive flip side to these incidents. The swathes of negative publicity and often humiliating climb downs that follow, will make the DMCA a toxic legal tool for many companies. At least those that are concerned with good PR anyway.
> Though they brag about their "Unlimited Vacation" (today's buzzword), they offered only 15 days of PTO, standard for any professional job in the United States.

Has anyone ever tried to take advantage of "Unlimited Vacation" at an early startup? I mean, sincerely tried to invoke that contractual promise as a way to take 3+ weeks consecutively?
Thanks a lot for the reply, it's very helpful.

That sounds like a better workflow than what I've tried in the past (recording video first, audio second), I'll be sure to give it a shot next time.

I'm also curious if having a Vine-like ability to record while a button is pressed (or something) would make record-all-in-one-go more feasible. That way, you could take breaks while recording and think through next section before committing.
I'd love to do this, but it would be particularly hacky because I need to access HN via XHR--I can't just frame it because HN sends the X-Frame-Options: DENY header (see the bottom of the blog post for details). However, I might be able to fix that by modifying HTTP headers in the extension. For now, I don't mind actually doing all my commenting/replying in a new tab, I initially meant the sidebar to be for quick scanning of what's already there.
> But Discourse's goal is to raise the bar. Significantly.

Well then it's probably not the right place for ember, because programmers don't behave that way, and your response has been to lock down all forms of criticism, even things you find to be in keeping with internet and programmer culture.

That's criticism you need - criticism you say is in keeping with the culture, and that you say you've been actively soliciting.

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> "[the sarcasm] still deviates from the high quality of discussion I'd like to have"

I think what you might be missing is that nobody else is reading it that way except you. Most of us are trying to tell you "guy, you're being way over-sensitive, and you aren't rising on your own to the standards you set for others."

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> "I opted to publicly explain why I wouldn't be participating."

And the response you got was "you're lowering the bar; stop it."

And you have dug your heels in to insist you're doing the right thing.

We disagree.

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> "What I failed to do, and this shows my failing to keep that high bar, is explain what we could change to make the discussion civil."

What you could have done is responded to the actual legitimate criticism, which you pay lip service to being appropriate in typical internet culture.

Dancing around it then shutting the topic off is not a form of keeping a high bar, sir. It is my opinion that this phrasing is self congratulatory, so that you don't have to face the nature of what you're actually doing.

Have you considered that your behavior here is doing serious damage to the reputation of the ember community?

It doesn't really matter if you agree with yourself; the rest of us don't. Repeating yourself, "clarifying" yourself; these things don't matter.

In reality, someone joked around, told you what they needed; you paniced, and yelled at them for giving you what you pretend you want. Then you told everyone "oh this is totally appropriate, but Discourse wants something else."

Except Discourse didn't do this. You did.

Please understand, sir, that to the rest of us, you just appear to be back-pedalling and blame shifting.

To the rest of us, it looks like you barked at someone because you didn't want to know that your role as documentation maintainer had not been well fulfilled.

And "explaining" won't change that that's how this is being interpreted, because if that's what really was going on, someone would respond by "explaining."

Civil discussion doesn't mean discussion you like, and it doesn't actually exclude sarcasm, either. What civil discussion is is factually based discussion which does not make personal attacks.

He didn't make personal attacks. You did, extensively, in three places that I'm aware of.

If you find him to be uncivil, get a mirror.
github id: stormbrew

I've been wondering when something like this would come around and if I'd have to try to write it myself. I've made smaller, less isolated, scale versions of this idea before but this looks snazzy.
If you think of TEDx as simply a wider funnel for TED.com content, I think it has been a great success.

I'm surprised to see the HN community so vociferously opposed to TEDx. We are all basically reading a news website that operates with a similar principle (wide funnel, with a method to route the best content to the top for wider distribution).
I've always wondered how much of this is paid for by oil money. How much of it is the result of middle eastern sheiks needing to find a place to store the oil wealth they've plundered from their countries?
Because GitHub.
Speaking of which, here's David Maynard himself posing (lower-right) in EA's first software-artist-themed "Can a Computer Make You Cry?" advertisement:

http://chrishecker.com/Can_a_Computer_Make_You_Cry%3F
There's always anxiety when launching something new. Is it what people are looking for? Are we doing this the right way? How can we make it better? Notice there are no questions in there about money? If that is your biggest concern it will take away from the focus of building the best solution you can. If you are really building something incredible the money will come. Be patient. The work is worth the reward.
Your comment then forked me to find (on linkedin) the salesman who sold me that machine. Of all things he now works at Kodak it seems.

I remember those hot type machines never owned one it was before my time.

Someone could probably make a novelty linotype app duplicating the process and the noise the machine made.
Yes, I do this exact same thing. I really don't want to store password on my side and I'm of the impression that sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter do this better than I ever will and that most of the users visiting the site will have some kind of account on these sites. Ignoring man-in-the-middle attacks, if one of the above thinks the email is valid, I have no reason not to.

As a disclaimer, though, I've worked on highly specialized apps where the users belong to a certain organization bound by one of the above. For example, I made a website for my school and every student there has an email address that is tied to that school's Google Apps for Edu account, so I'm guaranteed that all valid users (students) will be able to log in via Google.
It seems like you're being downvoted pretty heavily. Part of it probably has to do with the views you're expressing, but I think a big part of it is the manner in which you are expressing those views. The former is probably never going to change for you, but the latter could always be changed.

> A creepshot by definition is a sexualized photograph, this doesn't count.

I think your argument here is being overly dismissive. Sure in the most common usage of the term, it's not a creepshot. But I still think many would agree that it's creepy, as a matter of social custom, to take pictures of random people. It never bodes well for an argument when it's focused on the semantics of a single term.

> Nothing wrong with this.

You don't provide a justification for this. Just a matter-of-fact statement (which is very off-putting).

> And no, she was under no obligation to explain anything to them

I agree she was not under any obligation to explain anything to them. But again, I think this argument is overly technical. Might it have been a good idea to simply ask them to apologize, and then leave it at that? I don't think anyone should instantly jump for the nuclear option (of getting people kicked out).

> which is a pretty gross thing to say and is offensive to folks with mental disability.

I think you're getting downvoted here for throwing out what appears to be a red herring (quibbling over a minor detail and in general being overly focused on semantics).

> The OP did not fire this individual nor escort them out of the room

I agree with you here, but then again, keep this in mind: the Department of Justice did not intend for Aaron Swartz to kill himself. Yet that was the consequence of their actions. I apologize if anyone thinks this example is too extreme.

I also feel like it's a leap to say that it is actually the company that is being overly PC. It's more likely they fired him because of the negative media attention.
Feels like it was a bail out by GoPro due to the public beating they are taking for the takedown notice, but obviously there is no proof.
The prestige asset generated by YC is interesting, because I bet it's going to have an unintended consequence of increasing the social difference between founders and employees.

If you're a YC founder, you're in the club. You were picked. It's great if you succeed; if you fail, you have a network. If you're a YC employee, you're just an employee of a small startup. YC founders seem, at least from this, to be blind to the fact that their employees aren't able to cash in on the prestige of being YC and will therefore expect hard currency.

I think that crappy benefits send a pretty awful signal: we're not committed enough to making your life not suck. A 25-year-old founder is going to think of that stuff as an afterthought, while the 40-year-old is thinking, "kid, if I wanted to take on that kind of risk and insanity, I'd have your job". Health insurance is a goddamn mess and a company can't expect to get it right in an afternoon, but it is important.
Loyalty and blind obedience are not necessarily the same thing. I'm fond of Carl Schurz's aphorism: “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
Chrome had some issues with checking if the CSS3 transition was finished. And it's fixed now.

Thanks for letting me know, xauronx. I appreciate it a lot.
this will never happen. They say unlimited vacation policy as long as ur manager approves.
I just want to know what the dish is called, what's in it and what does it cost. A picture would be nice, but not really needed.
well that's the odd thing

> Perhaps the strangest part of it all is that the review highly recommends the Hero3 Black edition is the clear winner between the two.

as per the article of this thread
I whole heartedly agree with this. Any site that tries that I immediately stop creating the account.
So how can we access it? The "Access API" page is just a login form, and the docs don't explain where to signup.
There is no such thing as a tech company anymore
Fantastic response, thanks for your insight!
Interesting concept. Not sure there's much difference using this vs a simple Google search especially if you're just looking to get back basic information. It'd be interesting to see filtered results based on classes offered throughout a geographical area.
Very cool - I didn't know about this. However, this still presupposes you have a local Python/Django/Mezzanine installation. Simple for a Django web developer, probably not too bad for a non-Django web developer - but it's a bit much to expect a non Developer to set up Python, Django, and Mezzanine on their local system.

On the other hand, I see a way to make this simple for a non developer. Set up a virtual machine with everything all set up. Then all the end user would have to do is download VMware or virtualbox. Then download the VM image with Ubuntu/Django/Mezzanine/Fabric. And then you'd be approaching the same level of simplicity of getting started with self-hosted Wordpress.
‘Net-Zero’ Energy Store Being Built By Walgreens
Google Keep is Live(ish)
Hi. Savagedm came in here to sing your praises. I just wanted to let you know--before you graciously acknowledge his adulation--that he represents a large and fairly freaky population of misogynists on reddit who typically congregate in http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/, and who have an especially sharp hatred for feminists of any stripe (be they ever so humble).

The giveaway is
> Women frequently engage in behaviour that, when mirrored in men, would be called out for sexist. One point I was discussing with the girl I currently am dating is that there needs to now be a "mens' [sic] rights movement" similar to what women have accomplished [...]

Don't be fooled. The Men's Rights subreddit is just thinly veiled misogyny, often with some white supremacy thrown in the mix. Just go browse the sub--don't take my word for it.

Some of your comments suggest you might fit in over there. Then again, maybe not.
github: thoward

How does this compare with warden? https://github.com/thoward/vagrant-warden
This guy seems to be even more confident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2LBO8wig8
Sounds like Amara's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara
People in tech don't realize just how lucky they are. I'm 20 with no wife or kids, and I'm making more per year than certainly almost all of my friends will be making after they choose to actually finish college and get a salaried job. However, I'm told by people that myself and my colleagues are getting underpaid (we work at a startup). Ridiculous.
about 6 days
awesome! I love seeing Twilio devs using "old" landline tech with the API. Way to go!
Well, I guess that would explain the LinkedIn requests ;)
The point about having multiple providers and forgetting which one you used rang true to me. My gotos are twitter, google, or github and it seems I change based on the type of app I'm connecting with.
Rails 3.2.13 - Performance regressions and major bugs
That's a strange opinion to have though, because before doing login through either of these services, you will be asked if you want to give that app permission to certain parts of your account. For example, I might have you log in through Google to verify your email and I don't see a reason why you wouldn't let me see it; you've already shared your email with my app to register an account in the first place.
Reading the reddit thread on this, it seems that the DMCA takedown was because the review is using copyrighted images/material that is authorized for use by GoPro resellers, of which digitalrev.com is not one.

I found this comment by photoknut[1] summed up the story:

"I'm sure the DMCA was used a general way for GoPro to have this article pulled. Sure they could've had lawyer contact lawyers and go through all that, but I'm sure this was easier. They clearly don't allow unauthorized resellers to use their images, that definitely falls under the umbrella of a DMCA takedown notice. GoPro owns those images and says who can use them, DigitalRev clearly can not. "

He goes on to mention that digitalrev has a shady history of re-selling the camera they damage in reviews as a new product.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/1anq5d/gopro_doesnt_l...
github: baransn
Thanks! It was so satisfying to make a physical phone ring!
I always liked Backbone, using it exclusively before switching to ember.js as of recently. I wonder why the authors waited more than 2 years to reach 1.0?
I have a friend that sells car parts online and one of the companies whom he was an authorized retailer for, did a DMCA takedown because he used their logo. They contacted the hosting company who took down the whole server. his store was down for several days while we worked out the issues. kind of ridiculous.
> However, I'm told by people that myself and my colleagues are getting underpaid (we work at a startup).

That's how “market rate“ works. A profession's salary has nothing to do with what you deserve and everything to do with how your specific combination of skills are valued by the free market.
Potentially, though you may need to hack up a SIP module yourself.
What's with this on the blog background?

"SECURITY WARNING: Please treat the URL above as you would your password and do not share it with anyone."
i think that you HAVE TO go to your job and explain your situation, This was not a case of harrassment Adria, i dont know if you intended for this man to get fired. you need to make this right and get this mans job back. Because if you did, spiritually, your in so much trouble, and you wont be able to keep a job your self and become an outcast.