skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of explaining why this likely won't be the Next Big Thing (tm) I'll tell you why I still think you should give it a shot:

1. The Experience. Building and maintaining a service you care about--even if only you and your friends are the ones using it--will help you work on skills that will continue to come in handy.

2. Learning to set realistic expectations. This is more than just saying, if you think it will take 1 month, it will actually take 2-3, etc. This is about learning how much you personally can handle without biting off more than you can chew. I know that, early on, I had hugely ambitious personal projects, and in many ways I still do, but I no longer get frustrated at myself for taking longer than I'd like to complete certain features. And, most importantly, I no longer feel like I'm letting down clients and friends, because I am less likely to give them unrealistic estimates.

3. The opportunity to spark more ideas. You may set-off with one goal in mind, only to find a much more interesting problem to solve. And that's okay. But sometimes the only way to find these nuggets is to get your hands dirty and start exploring a problem domain. Even if it never leads to a project of your own, you can blog about your ideas and maybe it will inspire someone else.

Anyway -- those are just my two cents. Don't feel like you have to change the world with your ideas, but also (and I guess this is the point I was trying to get at) don't be afraid to just try things out and see where they lead.
You can be pretty sure that marathon runners are using PEDs too.
I could not help but notice one of their Cover feed screenshots showing an advert -- http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yY/r/fNNR8sV8Y3W.png .

OK, this one I think I get. Why have full-screen standby ads only on Kindle?
Well, it's not exactly news that patents are an extortion racket. And where there's a racket, you will find someone to use it, be it the mafia or a patent troll.
Yay...common Safari beat Chrome!
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Apple also supports Safari on Windows.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1531
... and all of the Suggested Posts.
> As far as I can tell this is just another third party launcher with the same privacy implications as any app that has GPS permissions.

Except for the part where no other app collects or maintains anywhere near as much data about your personal history, your friends, what you look like, what your friends look like, what you like, what your friends like, who you talk to, what you talk about, what your friends talk about, which services you subscribe to, where you went to school, where you worked, when you worked, when you graduated, when you began a relationship, when you ended a relationship, your sexual preferences...

I could keep going.
Google’s Blink Q&A: New rendering engine will replace WebKit
Maxthon and Qihoo are both major browser vendors in China who provide dual-engine (Trident and WebKit) browsers for Windows. I don't know whether they contribute code to the Windows WebKit port, or whether they do/will use Chromium/Blink.
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Didn't you notice the solar panels on the top? Of course those panels generate enough electricity to power all give charging ports at the same time.

However, I agree with the promoted comment on the site, they are pushed advertising over fixing serious issues with the game, or at least that's how it appears.
It would be nice to read the description. But the URL that is supposed to have the problem is a site that does not work.
> Here is the thing, I want a company to run my CI server, I am happy to pay for this service

there are quite a few hosted commercial Jenkins providers. https://www.shiningpanda-ci.com/ etc.
This is an oft-repeated line that is entirely false. Ben & Jerry's ice cream spent decades turning down good business deals to stay true to their ideals. The Chicago Cubs notoriously refused to play night baseball games at home for decades after it became popular, and were even sued by shareholders to try to force them to install lights at Wrigley. The Court ruled that management of the Cubs could choose to ignore short-term profits from night baseball if it thought that the franchise was best served by keeping the traditional purity of the game.[1] (Of course, the Cubs ultimately relented, but maybe that's why they haven't won the World Series). Craiglist, to the extreme consternation of its investors, has prioritized a certain long-term vision of the service over lots of short-term profits.

Even publicly-traded companies can choose to pursue long-term goals over short-term profit. Autodesk is rumored to be setting up a subsidiary that blends profit and non-profit motives, and plenty of companies have done other acts that are not in their short-term interests.

[1] Shlensky v. Wrigley, 95 Ill. App. 2d 173 (1968).
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well they can pursue long term profits. I think trying to monetize every possible interaction although a strategy, is one that is voluntary not required for survival
I believe his point was that you don't trust them enough to install their normal app, so you wouldn't be expected to install Facebook Home.

However, someone who has already installed the normal app doesn't need much more trust to add Home as well.
I heard this used as an example against the legal uselessness of disclaimers on emails - they can't force you into a contract without your consent, and to be clearer, the example was given: "By reading this you agree to pay me $100 immediately"....
What? Safari is substantially less common than Chrome. I'm confused.
An more detailed writeup, but hardly satisfying. Like most of Heroku's technical choices made in the name of "simplicity" and "robustness."

But I guess I should accept that Heroku will never be a technically impressive PaaS provider. Just the one I hear about the most.
Thanks! I came across the second one just a few minutes ago. It's probably the best starting point like you said. The first on is new to me and I saved a few others throughout the day. I'm looking them all over including some media companies ones that are rather unfair towards the composer.

PS. I really appreciate your help.
Stop posting. There's too much stuff to read
So I'm closing my laptop and going to bed
"Supports" maybe (is it up to date with WebKit security fixes?), but definitely no longer maintains or develops. Safari 6 is not available for Windows. There have been no updates to Safari for Windows in almost a year, and no new feature releases in almost two years.
Are you religious by any chance?

You continue striking out. I'm an atheist.

But you seem to be the kind of atheist that gives the rest of us a bad name.
Exactly, this is "the money quote":

"The scary part is that these would be bundled by OEM's and might be harder to stop and even uninstall".
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On one phone by one manufacturer. If you don't like the OS, don't buy the phone.
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The migration can be transparent, since the app has your plaintext password when you log in.

Alternatively, stored passwords can be upgraded by using the new scheme on the hold ashed password, and storing that that's how the password should be checked in the future.

Since not everyone was migrated, I'm assuming they went the first way.
I've seen the message notifying me that I've added a new device to the account, yes, but what does that have anything to do with the encryption?

When someone sends me an iMessage, their client sends as many copies as I have devices?
I managed to hack your last paragraph into 140 characters, in case anyone else wants to tweet it and look smart like I did.

"Ebert judged films by their ambitions, eschewing the ivory tower: action films needed but good action while cerebral ones had a higher bar."

(Minus the quotation marks, that's 139 characters.)
This is a disagreement over words, not about what those words correspond to. The map is not the territory.
I've been a vim user for something like 6/7 years now and I absolutely love it, but the editor really shows its age when you realize that its internals can only be fully customized through vimscript (i.e. you can script it using Python/Perl/Ruby but none of them offer the same interface and control that vim's own scripting language, see section 2. on http://items.sjbach.com/97/writing-a-vim-plugin), which is not exactly the best programming language around.

I wish vim would be rewritten from scratch without changing anything but the way you access and modify the guts (and possibly the "windowing" system) so that all the "fancy" plugins like Cmd-T, NerdTree, FuzzyFinder wouldn't look like crap. The maintainability of said plugins would greatly improve too if the scripting language was I don't know, Python, Ruby, Javascript/CSS and whatnot.
Yeah, I didn't intend this to turn into a back and forth. I think we both had similar intentions, but from different perspectives and with different first-hand information that may not be well communicated. I agree that it's best to leave it be from here. I think both of us and our respective projects bear no ill will and desire the best for the Web as a whole, despite differences in how exactly to get there.
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It seems to me this is just a kind of cultural mis-match. I mean, nobody would bat an eye if the New York Times ran a full-page ad for the Nissan Leaf, or if Mattel produced a Hot Wheels car designed to represent the Leaf. It seems like EA is thinking along similar lines.
The best way is to add functions to the prototype. Also, here's a good article: http://www.phpied.com/3-ways-to-define-a-javascript-class/
I must've missed the who's hiring thread. I'll tack it on here.

If you want to get in to Ember, we've been using it in production since 0.6. We'll be actively hiring people pretty soon.

Deets are: We're in Manhattan, NYC. We're a team of 3. Use Ember.js, Rails, D3.js and a bunch of crazy backend things including custom stuff. Have lots of paying customers. Lots of money in the bank and we're on our way to be cash flow positive this year.

My contact info is in my profile. We hire opportunistically so while we're not actively looking to fill a position, if you'd be an amazing person to join us, I'd hire you.
You are responding to a stray Apple fanboy who spelled "come on" as "common." I recommend disengaging.
I think this is going to suck. And I think that because Facebook apparently doesn't have any engineers who do "plumbing" - uninteresting work that's necessary.

The core Facebook app still has a software menu button pop up, because they're not targeting a remotely recent build of Android. There is not a single jellybean-style rich notification anywhere to be found. The MediaUploadService doesn't stop itself if media upload is turned off, and it shouldn't even be on because android 4.x broadcasts an intent when a picture is taken anyway.

As we saw in a post about a month ago, monkey patching dalvik is sexy and interesting to work on - the fact that their codebase is so convoluted that they have to is a symptom of sloppy engineering.
I agree. My primary languages are C# and PHP. My C# background heavily influences the way I write PHP code using heavy OOP principals and even type-safety (using instanceof) where needed.

I avoid using associative arrays as return objects when arrays of real objects (or type-safe collections of objects) are better suited.

So I think that you can write really nice code with PHP and a good framework. It's more about the software architecture than the language.
There doesn't have to be a victim. This looks like an amicable fork that gives some quick benefit to all parties involved.
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I think there's a profound difference between a user-mod to add real-life objects to the game world, and a paid-for game object that has magical qualities that only reflect favorably to the marketing client.

For example, a user-mod to add a set of real-world Cold War era firearms to Counter-Strike is different than Bushmaster paying to have a prototype rifle that has zero recoil, automatic firing, and instagib armor-piercing ammo.
Though obvious, FWIW: correct link to [1] https://github.com/slightlyoff/cassowary-js-refactor
Make it easy to tie the web to physical devices
Funny, I wrote a note explaining my process a couple of days ago..

1. What is the business, do I understand it? (If no, then less likely to buy)

2. Numbers (revenues, earnings, margins) over the last 5 years atleast

3. Piotroski score -- more of a shortcut to quickly assess quality of the business

4. Annual price returns -- more to understand how the stock has been doing over the years and over the last few months

5. Liquidity/debt ratios -- this is very industry driven, some sectors like tech have very low debt levels others have higher

6. Comparables -- steps 2 to 5 for atleast one or two direct competitors. Plus ratios ofcourse (PE,Price to Book, EV/EBITDA etc)

7. A very quick dcf -- (I've been building a tool that helps me do this quickly)

If I've done all these steps (takes me about 30 - 40 minutes to do these steps),
and I like the company then read the annual report (at-least twice).

Often takes me a couple of weeks if not more to decide to initiate a long position.

blog post -- http://equisear.ch/blog/2013/04/the-first-30-minutes-looking...

I've been building tools that help me do this, its not ready yet but gets me there most of the way-- http://equisear.ch
I'm just surprised they found a company willing to associate themselves with the SimCity brand given the past month of turmoil. Presumably there was already a contract in-place for this deal - but still, you've got a bunch of pissed off fans for a game that still sits with a massive 1-star rating on Amazon, and that's scheduled to have a new wave of Mac users come on-board putting additional stress on their infrastructure. Plus how many people are going to rush out and buy a Leaf because they saw it in SimCity?
a) Depends on what hashing algorithm is used (and whether it incorporates a salt). http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/#performance

b) Because it's hard to secure a corporate infrastructure, (i.e., making a good set of usability/security trade-offs), and there's no such thing as perfect security. A web application that's been audited can still have a security flaw that enables disclosure of authentication data. Or an employee's machine might be compromised, leading to a compromise of corporate infrastructure or data that he/she is able to access.
The part that seems sketchy to me isn't the agreement itself, but not disclosing what you're threatening to sue for. Plaintiffs usually come at you with a litany of grievances. You can hash them out in court or settle, but you know up front what you're fighting about.
>But I think our reasons for sharing experiences on social media are more cynical than that. It’s not sharing, it’s bragging.

No. Stop. You do not speak for every user of social media, or most of them, or even a significant fraction of them.

>We end up with a diminished perception of reality because we’re more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter for our meal than we are about how it tastes.

Does anyone aside from a minority of people who can be described with various adjectives, but I'll settle on "attention whore", actually work this way? I don't. Nobody I know does. Do you?

Balance in all things. This is just another blasted "social media is teh evulz" post dressed in flowery language.

For what it's worth, this is why I think Glass and its descendants will be the next big thing. You remove the friction from sharing, you remove 98% of the author's complaints (and the complaints of those "social media blaarrrgh" types). When sharing becomes as simple as just looking at something and saying a magic word, or nodding your head, or touching your temple, you don't have to throw brain cycles at operating some kind of device, it just happens naturally.
That assumes you know about this in the first place. It's not like everyone reads Hacker News or GigaOM; this kind of news often doesn't trickle down to MM.
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Being verbose and committee-driven need not condemn a thing; Ada the programming language is both and is leaps and bounds better than its nearest competitor (C++).

but programming opengl still feels like setting up a rube goldberg machine for its initial run
Refer to #6 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=common
Bitcoin: More ideology than trustworthy currency
That is kind of my point. Everyone thought running was good but more rigorous analysis showed that it is not that simple.
I deleted my FB account when they IPO'd as I could then plainly see that the only worth in the company was user data and it would certainly be monetised as much as possible.

But 'deleting' an account probably doesn't do much more than remove the data from the immediate web services. My data has probably been sold to multiple 3rd parties by now.
SimCity's first free and optional DLC is a Nissan sponsored recharging station.

Is it DLC? Yes. Is it a sponsored piece of DLC? Yes. Does it 1:1 replace a small park? Yes (in terms of in-game cost, and all other functionality).

Basically it is an in-game park re-skinned as a Nissan Leaf re-charging station. Given away for free to those who purposely go and download it from EA's web-site, and then purposely build it in their city.

Oh the horror?

Plus SimCity is one of those games that broadly speaking benefits from real establishments and real brands appearing in the game. It is much more fun to see McDonalds on your little digital street than it is to see "Generic Burger House 10101."

This whole article and the people that whining about this are just looking for any reason to beat up EA/Maxis. This is not a valid reason.

There are tons of valid reasons: The broken game, the small city sizes, their misleading remarks (e.g. always on DRM), amongst other things. People are misfiring here.
Yes, much clearer now.
I get that they needed to drive engagement before they had ubiquity, but the interaction became about seeing people I didn't know. Like most social products, the experience changes when more people are on it. In my opinion, Facebook, Apple, Google, and device makers are the only companies that can solve this problem.
Could I talk you into sharing that list?

I have been thinking I should be more proactive with my congresscritters. It seems I am always sending reactive messages.
I'm trying to express my anger and joy at the same time. Just like how chromium has abandoned webkit, it's Webkit's time to return the favor, get it?
That's why you need people to fight for it. Consider movements such as silent circle and megabox. At the very least, people should worry about blocking companies from abusing user data, removing Patriot Act, so on. Truth is, people have to give a shit.
>I love how the article spins it such that offshoring is only for sinister, evil people. The reality is that most people use offshoring as a hedge against insolvent governments, and depending on their industry, the very real threat of criminal prosecution for benign activity.

In the Western world, most people use off shores to avoid paying taxes that regular citizens pay and that they, themselves would have to pay if not for hiding their money through various channels.

We might not like high taxation, in Europe, but we do believe in fair taxes and in our state having money for education, health, military, etc. And we consider those people using tax havens and offshoring to be the scum of the earth, at least in popular, average person, opinion. See the popular reaction to Gerard Depardieu seeking tax shelter outside France for an example.
I added an example. https://github.com/fatiherikli/kule#backbone-example
You can use their messenger app for SMS as well. Might solve your issue, but I'd imagine that there is some drawbacks. I have not tested it myself.
I understand exactly where you are coming from. I learned a lot of basics from codecademy.com, and their modules have come a long way.

However, no matter which way you try to learn, the best piece of advice I was given is to have an idea of something you want to build in the first place. Even if it's dumb, or too complicated for a beginner, it's good to have the ability to see what direction you want to go in as you are learning more and more about the different languages and how they work. Otherwise, you will get bored and frustrated pretty quickly, and you won't be likely to stick to the learning process.
There are a lot of things about CI for mobile applications that are tough to do, even once you have the mac infrastructure. (i.e. code signing, spinning up tests with simulators, trending results, etc.)

Over at cisimple our product is specifically focused on CI fo mobile and we take care of all that headache for you. https://www.cisimple.com
IME, most clutter from async logic in JavaScript, however it's dressed up, only happens at all because of implementing something that is fundamentally sequential and synchronous using the wrong tools for the job. The slide "A JS-er's lament" was a great demonstration of how fundamentally broken the current JS model is.

Put another way, the obviously missing pattern to me is to just move the concurrency up to the level of having multiple threads, and then use synchronous interfaces for synchronous operations. Now that Web Workers are starting to become more widely supported, I don't understand why we aren't heading for synchronous APIs as fast as humanly possible.
I had that same idea more than once, to propose a local per-element media query.

In fact the concept itself of querying the whole window to understand the dimension a portion of it will occupy... well it's strange.

At the same time, have you considered the implications of such a structure? A local media query could change the queried properties. Dangerously recursive.

In fact you COULD reach what you want using seamless iframes. I tinkered my head with such an option sometimes.
Rackspace's goal is to kill the patents. The people can move on, but the would need new IP.
This kinda goes well beyond that, from what I gather. Here's a thread where someone counted all the cars in his city, and found 90% of them were Nissan Leafs. Someone on the thread is asking how to uninstall the mod, because even when not placing the item, all the cars coming from other cities are Nissan Leafs.

This is far more prominent than if Mattel made a particular kind of Hot Wheels car. Also keep in mind that downloadable content has been the promised road forward for straightening up a lot of the mess that SimCity has been-- and so for this to be the first downloadable content is a bit of a slap in the face to already crestfallen customers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1bm74h/90_of_my_car...
Most interesting follow-up: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024...:

"Since we no longer need to support the Chromium port, let's take the opportunity to streamline. Hopefully, this will make development easier and more coherent for everyone."

That makes one almost think that any project with users with differing goals is best forked. In reality, I think it is a signal that both parties realize that, because of the difference in goals, the fork may have more benefits than disadvantages for both sides of the fork.
Any jQuery plugins out there for image annotation like Kotaku?
http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749

I really like their image annotations. The closest I found was these few:

http://flipbit.co.uk/jquery-image-annotation.html
http://www.zurb.com/playground/javascript-annotation-plugin
http://mystuff.berense.org/posts/2010-11/my-stuff-image-annotations
There is one now. And the author of the mail posted in the thread linked here and offered help, seemed professional to me. Of course, I don't know whether there was any arguing going on before that decision, but that thread doesn't seem to point to that.