skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Republicans are by no means unified about that.

Libertarians are probably the weakest leg of the Republican coalition. The religious right and the neocons are much stronger, the former has little reason to oppose this, the latter might be naturally inclined to support it.

Interestingly, I've been hearing a bit about Democratic-leaning "civil libertarians" -- people who want small government without buying into any of the Republican social agenda. Maybe there's a way to build a coalition that can take a big enough bite out of both parties to force them to take notice...
Nothing says "small government" like expanding government oversight, right? I really don't understand what the Republican party actually stands for. There's no consistency in their platform. I might not agree with the Libertarian Party either, but at least I understand why they say what they say.

Can someone help me out here?
The top and bottom bars are completely native. So when you tap on a tab, your interacting with a native interface laid out in a nib and a message is passed to the javascript app inside the main web view telling it which tab has been selected. The sliding drawers (popularized by Path and Facebook) area also completely native, but they house two other webviews that also are simply running javascript apps in them. Finally, we have a slide out "quick add" menu that we determined needed to be native both because the performance when it was implemented in HTML5/CSS3 on older Android devices wasn't acceptable and also because it needed to overlap other native elements.

The main reason we need to have some native UI components is because fixed elements are not well supported on older iOS and Android devices. That means that in the webview sandwiched inbetween our top and bottom bars we cannot have any fixed ui elements. This ensures that the scrolling stays smooth on all devices because it's really just utilizing the native webview scroller. Newer versions of iOS and Android do support native-style momentum scrolling within a DIV, but the performance isn't quite there on all but the most powerful devices (for reference, Sencha Touch's http://fb.html5isready.com uses these native scrolling divs, and quite impressively too).

There are also other features that need to be native under the hood like push notifications support, camera/photo-library support, and contacts support, etc. Thankfully Phonegap makes most of that available to us and for anything that isn't available as a Phonegap plugin we simply wrote ourselves.

The way I see it, this "hybrid" approach is a necessary stopgap for us HTML5 mobile developers while we wait for more devices to reach the capability of the fastest phones available right now (iPhone 5, Galaxy S3, etc). Eventually we should be able to do almost everything in pure HTML5 like Sencha Touch's demo linked above and ditch the native UI elements completely. There will, however, always need to be some sort of bridge between HTML5 apps on Android and iOS devices and the native APIs that are not made available to those devices' mobile web browsers (contacts, camera, files, push notifications, in-app purchases, etc).

I hope that explains it in better detail. Hit me up if you have more questions, my email is in my profile.
There is immunity for sharing information "in good faith" under CISPA. CISPA is not a blanket authorization to share data.

If an ISP suffers a breach and coughs up huge amounts of PII that they handled negligently, they are absolutely still liable after CISPA becomes a law.
Good games and low cost operations ALWAYS make money.

Just hire developers,graphics artist and/or sound guys.
No suits, no hr, no nothing else other then content creators.
If you _HAVE_ to hire non content creators, make it count.
If your congressperson voted for the bill, you can express your dissatisfaction, which counts for something. This kind of thing is not the sort of issue your congressperson likely understands or even thinks about for very long - they just do what their staff suggest and they don't expect to be called on it when they get back home to their districts. So if you can make it an issue, make it something they think might affect votes, you'll raise the priority and raise the level of discussion a little bit. And that makes it harder for the kind of disinformation that spreads around CISPA to survive.

Congresspeople are currently very afraid of "getting SOPAed" where they try to make some kind of tech policy regulation and then accidentally set off a huge wave of activism.

Keep in mind, just because something passes in the House doesn't mean it's law. There's a long process - right now it's still just a bill (that they voted for on Capitol Hill (sorry)). There's a lot that can be done, and, now, probably will be done to mobilize on this issue. I doubt that it will come to SOPA-level activity (SOPA would have affected the bottom lines of big tech companies. This is "just" about privacy). But there's always room for trying to make things more reasonable.
I need to get in the habit of reading HN comments before I click the links to read articles like this.

They shouldn't be able to make money off of pushing crap like this, but with every click they do.
Hehe, "purportedly"
Those are two non-related things, unless your only metric of superiority is that it comes pre-bundled.
A Tour of Python Solutions for Industrial Engineering Problems
I literally write this way because of you. You should feel free to fill in my blanks.
Isn't the bulk of this data available already through the Crunchbase API? Seems like this could be calculated in real-time if someone bothered to build it.
That's what I thought when I read this, but I haven't looked at PCA in awhile, so I wasn't sure. It's only relative differences on each axis that matter, right?
I think, from reading the chart, that ExtJs is pretty well stablished but loosing steam, and the new frameworks picking up steam, specially AngularJS.

Now these trends focus on a world wide searches. If you look closely at the detail, the number of search for extJs in China, pretty much take the 90% of the searches. And in the U.S. extJs has practically no prescence.

If you look at the detail for AngularJS, most of the searches are in California, New York and India.

So it is really not the best trend analysis, but it does put the power of China into perspective.
I think you're absolutely right : package management is a symptom of a developper-centric OS. I've packaged several hundreds of apps for Linux and have been using it almost exclusively since 1997. And the least I can say is that it's a bloody unholy mess. The latest joke/failure in Linux is the packaging of TeX on Fedora which uses (if my memory serves me right) over 3,000 packages!

Many developpers just do what they feel like doing and often disregard standards because a lot of them think they know better ( also known as the "not invented here" syndrome ). How many times did I send patches upstream to fix an standards issue ( such as a missing pkgconfig file ) and some arrogant developper who thinks he knows better rejects it. And when someone comes in and tries to consolidate the OS a bit (what the systemd guys are trying to do) a horde of reactionary users start trolling the hell out of them.

As far as Haiku, I think the plan with the package manager is to only use it to update the base OS. Apps would still be installed by unzipping them in an appropriate place. At least I hope so. If not it will be as you say yet another exotic UNIX variant. Unfortunately, there also have been talks of replacing the BeOS API with Qt.
Cracking / Recovering Wifi Password on Mac
Mail so beautiful it could be in the Louvre
Hard drives..

Jk... but seriously, good question! it's gotta just be a massive feet of engineering
I had a really similar experience. As a bored teenager in the late 90s, I would sometimes log into the Yahoo chat rooms using the computers at my high school. The chat client was a Java applet, and it was atrociously slow and prone to crashing. I had started teaching myself to program a few years earlier, so creating a chat client seemed like a fun project.

There was a guy that hung out in the Programming:1 chat room with the chat handle was 127001 (he was able to create that handle before Yahoo became more strict with the chat handles one could create) that had reverse-engineered the protocol and posted a guide online. I wonder what happened to him. Thanks, loopy!

Anyway, I created a Yahoo chat client in Win32/C as I was learning the API and the language. I was the only user for quite a while, but eventually I posted it using the free web space EarthLink gave me for being a dial-up subscriber. It got pretty popular through word of mouth. Later, when I installed Linux for the first time, I took that code and turned it into an ncurses-based client. It was a lot of fun, and somehow I ended up turning the fun I had hacking on little projects like that into a living.
Cool idea, but with 1 Mb/s I can as well run it from home. Even with my crappy dsl.
For Mac, am I better off with Homebrew?

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/osx/...

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Homebrew-and-Python
I imagine that people are not paying $400 for 'a video game' but rather a sense of accomplishment.

Ie it simply feels good to get shit done, to score points, to achieve something. Playing these games allows the user to short-circuit this and produce same psychological effect without the work involved.

Think of it as masturbation - nature made sex pleasurable so that organisms would procreate. But humans have figured out a way to achieve same result (ie firing pleasure neurons, serotonin release, etc) without going through the trouble of finding a mate (and having to care for the little person that may come after)
I am confused. Why are you opposed to the USG spending money on protecting defense information transiting private-sector networks because of private-sector contractors? You strike me as the kind of person who would be irritated that information was being insecurely shared between DOD and (say) Lockheed to begin with.
You're probably missing SPI's root certificate, which is available from http://www.spi-inc.org/ca/, or if you're using a Debian system, from the ca-certificates package.

There is also the HTTP version available at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/04/msg000...
I get the instant replay analogy, but I have a problem with a bug in their software impacting the results of the competition. I work in software, so I get living with bugs and understanding they are always going to be there. But I am unhappy that Kaggle/GE announced the winners via press release at the same the rest of the competition field was notified. It makes it impossible for a competitor to dispute the final results.

From the response I have received from Kaggle/GE I get the impression, under no circumstances what so ever would they go back and change the published results of this competition.
Virtualenv is about managing multiple/conflicting versions of libraries, not different versions of Python itself. You're accomplishing the same thing by using a different VM for each app, just with higher overhead and isolation of things other than Python as well.
3 new planets could host life
They could probably, but CISPA (and the things that inevitably come after it) makes it a lot smoother.
Internet Archive + Trovebox = Free, unlimited photo storage
Did a lot of AMOS too when I was in high school. We made a nice platform game with two friends and released it as shareware. Lots of small experiments too, including some attempts at adventure games. :)
It's like preventing checkmate by knocking the board over. You can't blame the rules of chess for that.
Any headline that ends in a question mark, the answer is either "no" or "nothing."

Pathetic link bait.
Though annoying for the user, it's the best way to engage the user. Bring back to the website and boost up hits, opportunities to cross-sell, upgrades, or drive retention. Besides sending the message itself in the notification adds a bit of technical complexity.
ACLU Seeks Carrier Smackdown Over Android Updates
This isn't a tech problem. If you want meaningful change, organize hundreds or thousands of people to march in DC--you know, like they did before the Internet.
“America should imagine, when they go to bed tonight, if they were a Sandy Hook parent,” he said. “How betrayed would you feel if your kid was gunned down and the U.S. Senate could care less?”

I'm not necessarily against the idea of more gun control (though I haven't spent the time to analyze my beliefs on this in depth), but it seems Conway's spewing just as much illogical rhetoric as the Senators are in his case against them. I wish it were possible to stir passion in large groups of people with sound logic instead of metaphorical and obviously overblown imagery.
The app crashes constantly on the "Coverage" tab, using the map. I'm using an iPhone 4S, on WIFI, and I'm in the midwest.
Nothing about the bill suggests it will be limited to operational network security data, so you should stop spreading this untruth. In fact, it's pretty obvious that it won't be just netflows.

(For those following and don't know what a netflow is, it doesn't contain payload data. It's more or less headers and statistics. Nothing about CISPA attempts to limit information to netflows only.)
Probably the result of an automated translation. I wrote a tool to use the bing translator and automatically translate an entire resource file for both ios and android (https://github.com/joelmartinez/LocalAlchemy probably a bit outdated now since I think the translation APIs changed a bit).

But this was just a starting point because the file was huge ... I'm a spanish speaker so I was helping out with the spanish translation. Some of the translations were fine, some of them were horrendous, but as long as I just looked through the file, I could usually just find the ones that looked funny. Took me a fraction of the time than if I'd done the whole file by hand.

There's no substitute for a native speaker, but tech can help speed up the process immensely :)
Bored now. The big drama queen.
Apple Kills AppGratis’ Push Notifications In Second Hammer Blow
OP here.

TL;DR

Trovebox (formerly OpenPhoto) supports over 6 storage services for our (FOSS) photo platform. We recently added Internet Archive as one of those.

Use our service/apps/api/etc and your photos are magically stored under your Archive.org account.
Can you do an explain like I'm five on this thing? (Plus echelon)?
Thanks for the link! Very helpful. However, my own searching suggests Google treats /something-about-something/ similar to /somethingaboutsomething/. So it isn't a perfect example. If the same content is on both url's, would one always win?

Our own debate was whether to hyphenate a two word phrase in the directory structure: /kitchensink/whatever/ vs /kitchen-sink/whatever/. So we had to do a similar debate as the domain hyphen analysis. Spam signal/Google treatment vs. User Convenience vs. Does it really matter.
Securing FreeBSD server with Fail2Ban and IPFW
I don't think it's very honest of you to suggest that I'm claiming CISPA only covers Netflow information. I use Netflow as an example of the kind of benign information that is difficult to share today, and would be easier to share under CISPA. I've explicitly described scenarios that could include message payloads on these threads, and I know you've read those messages because you've replied to them.
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats support the views they claim to. Those are just ways to get votes from their gullible and emotionally persuadable constituents who will pick the least-worst of the 2 choices as long as the candidate of their choice presents a veneer of authenticity.

Politicians really support the views of the people who actually matter to them - the donors who fund their campaigns, the lobbyists who give them nice perks while they're in office, and the companies who promise them high-paying jobs once they've left public office.
Then your imagination is seriously limited.

Let's just look at my home town of Joplin, Missouri, in solidly Red State America. Only a few hundred police for 50K residents; as a hypothetical, what do you think would be the difference between their revolting alone, vs. with thousands of just as well armed civilians? Who's RKBA they strongly support, in words and deeds, I might add.
Ask HN: What are your favorite audiobooks?
I'm generally interested and also have a bunch of audible credits to burn before closing my account.

Open to suggestions from any genre.
Cracking the real code of life
Pretty awesome that the company the OP is complaining about has already posted a comment in reply to the blog post (on the actual blog)...

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Darren,

You're right, this sucks. Looking into this now and see how this can not happen again.

Michael La Rosa
CMO at PSD2HTML.com
It obviously stands for global fascist totalitarian government.
Circles are backwards for this, though. I shouldn't have to choose who I share my public posts with. Circles are great for posts I want to limit to a certain subset of people - e.g. semi-private conversations / photos about my friends that I'm not posting to Public. For posts where it's other people who want to do the limiting, I would like a way of categorizing my posts. A simple tag, or "public circle" would suffice. Let people subscribe to my "mountain biking" public circle (or tag), and I can post to that circle. Then people have the choice to either subscribe to everything I post or a subset based on their interests.

I would use that feature a lot and would re-add a lot of the celebrity posters if they properly tagged their posts. But since they don't have a way to do that and I don't have a way to limit their posts based on a filter they get shoved into a circle of "following, but not really" that I rarely check.
The major parties in the United States are what the rest of the world calls "the right wing." Their goals are more or less "keep the wealth in the hands of the wealthy" and "keep the power in the hands of the powerful." The only difference is which groups of wealthy and powerful people the parties cater to, though there is plenty of overlap there.
I know that they are working on a new UI for the backend.

How is the programming model out of date? I am looking at getting into it via the new v6.0. It has ASP.NET MVC support but the CMS itself is still WebForms.
UPDATE #3:

wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/LOOKUP
wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/FLIPPED

Here is what I got: http://imgur.com/a/LN2vi
How a Fake Island Landed on Google Earth
No. Under Time Dilation, everyone on the node is affected equally. This gives you more reaction time, but your opponent gets the same benefit.

Edit: I see what you were saying now. Actually yes, I believe that there have been cases in which capital ships are tackled in TiDi systems. This puts them at a disadvantage since the corporation who captured them can quickly respond, and it takes them much longer to try and escape tackle.
Externalities are economic items that are not reflected in the market price of a good or service. Thus, there are both negative and positive externalities.

A proper discussion of externalities discuss both types, however, positive externalities are usually factored into the cost of goods or services relatively easily and quickly, and so are generally not ripe for discussion in mature markets.
Generation Whine: The Entitlement Generation
Bitcoin Mining on an NES
The technical education of China's unaccountable governing elite has not prevented them from causing the greatest environmental catastrophe in living memory, nor does it guarantee that they will be at all motivated to clean up the mess.

China's leaders may be engineers, but they are also an unaccountable elite whose primary goal is and continues to be their own aggrandizement and enrichment. Who do you think causes environmental damage in the US? Populist governors leading prayer meetings or the technical and economic elites who actually build, own, and operate polluting entities? Mock the U.S. political system all you like, but it contains mechanisms that allowed popular pressure to produce a tremendous environmental turnaround and a raft of effective environmental legislation. That China's political system will do the same is by no means guaranteed.
Company holds Bob's health records on their servers, and also some of his emails. Company forwards health records along with emails to the USG, even though emails were only what was requested by the USG. Company cannot be held liable for HIPAA violation.

IANAL.
>>to prove that your "easily" claim is a stretch<<

> Yes, you were trying to prove that -- you were finding fault instead of finding how to make things work.

> Other people found how to make things work, because that's what they were trying to do.

Not really. The first time I downloaded the zip (about a year ago) I sincerely tried to make it work and did read the readme. Spent about 1 hour then gave up. This time I simply retraced those exact same steps with the intent of showing the current deficiencies.

>>Its sufficient to simply warn the user.<<

> Was it sufficient to list

> Willingness to read the README

> as a requirement? Apparently not.

Yes it is. Its my fault for not reading the README completely. (but to be fair, all directories of the distribution were not quite covered)

You don't have to remove the complete zip archive then add a quiz to the website testing if the user read the README before allowing them to download the complete archive.

If that doesn't work either, what then? Will you completely remove the download link to the archive, ruining it for those willing to read the README? The way I see it, you've done your part, the rest is up to the user.

This is where I strongly disagree with your approach - and this is why I want to make a new benchmarks game.
I suspect it's very difficult to actually pull it off, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has happened once or twice.

My impression is that chasing people across several different systems is a relatively rare practice, since you're basically blind to what might be waiting for you when you jump after. Worse, you'd have to be giving the other player an impression that you're going to a specific destination and they'd have to notice that there's a faster route to begin with.

Plus, if someone jumps into a dilated node, they've managed to put themselves inside the crossfire of at least two very large fleets anyways.

Basically, the level of mind game necessary to even open the possibility of doing this makes it impractical at best.
The man has many different hands. Just because NIST is doing something doesn't mean the NSA isn't doing something completely different.
Redis does OK as a queue, but not as well as rabbit.

For a start, rabbit handles OOM better. It has lower per-message overhead. It has a more flexible queueing model in general so that you can use it for both work queue-y stuff and other queuing needs. It's interesting how often queues seem handy once they are easy to use.

Then there's the fact that redis is good for lots of things other than queues, and you'll be tempted to use it for that, and that will crowd the queue use. If you hold a transaction on redis or do a large set intersection or run a lua script, you block everything else, including your fanned-out celery worker pool.
So it passed... now what?
> With sufficient cash in both accounts it wouldn't have been an issue.

Depends on your definition of "sufficient." If you're no longer small compared to the market, i.e. you have enough money that a small fraction of your capital can completely fill the arbitrage-able offers and move prices back into line, in that situation moving money between exchanges is no longer an issue.

But you don't need to be that big to merely make a risk-free profit when the right kind of pricing anomaly appears. And if there are enough small actors doing this, their combined efforts can stamp out pricing anomalies just as effectively as a single large actor.