skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it's potentially more dire than that. Suppression of political opposition in a "democracy" (we're actually a constitutional republic, the constitutional part is especially important to the rule of law), that is, excluding groups wholesale from the political process, is fantastically dangerous. What peaceful choices are left to these people?
But now we can have both - PostgreSQL with all the batteries + (as just one of that batteries) any additional NoSQL backend using http://blog.endpoint.com/2013/05/foreign-data-wrappers.html
Arbitrary and discretionary enforcement of the law(and granted power) is bad and abuse of power.

If republican organization get 60% of the politically motivated donations they should get 60% of IRS eyeballs' time. If they get less they are getting off easy, if more they are punished unfairly.
Lead the User by Using the Leader
> I wonder if it would be possible to plug a python/node interpreter into that.

Looks like it just takes a C function pointer, if you can call whatever from C you're done (you can embed Python, no idea for Node).

Looks like this is mostly for postgres extension modules though (e.g. foreign data wrappers), it's not for applications (postgres clients).
Bill Gates Gets Emotional Remembering Steve Jobs [Video Included]
is it a storm VPS? Just resize it yourself...
From the stats I could find, I estimate about 0.5% of them are running CyabogenMod. I had expected it to be more.
The world's most powerful computing network is being wasted on bitcoin
"Not just hackers and rogues", well it was billed as a premium device with the full Android experience.

It's a data SIM specifically for use as a modem SIM not as a phone, so while I understand they want to do that I don't see why Google has to go along with it. Despite all the comments in this thread unless it's mandated by law somewhere it's still on Google's head as I see it.
Can Good Vibrations Perfect Your Posture?
The giraffe in the opposite corner: the lag time on pushing updates, and navigating the rules and restrictions of app stores.
The IRS has a sordid history of doing this for political purposes. The IRS targeted anti-war groups during the Johnson and Nixon administrations [1]. Was that justifiable by your reasoning, or does it only apply to groups that you put in scare quotes?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/03/magazine/misuse-of-the-irs...
Sandberg wont run with another technology person. She would need a policy person to give her credibility and help her win 1-2 states. She will get Florida based on the Jewish vote probably. So she needs to get a VP to win Pennsylvania and Ohio.
I'm selling through codecanyon, so it comes with their regular license: http://codecanyon.net/licenses/regular
I wish he'd stay up there! :-)
I'd love to try it, but it only runs on OS X 10.8 or later.
People begging for money online (see those "please donate cash so I can get breast implants" sorts of things from a few years ago and on various sub-reddits) are probably a more honest way to earn money than the start-up cashing out method.

If I donate money for some stranger to get larger breasts, I at least know with certainty I'm being used. Not so with many start-ups.

At least that's how I interpret the guy's rant in the article. And in some respects, I share his view. But in many ways, it's no different than someone ranting about their favorite indie band signing up under the litigious umbrella of the RIAA labels.

Sure, the individual(s) producing the goods need to feed themselves (and feed themselves exceedingly well, according to a poster below), but if you as an individual engage with a group of fans/customers, then you are in fact betraying them to some extent when you change your game out from under them.
The Basics of Hiring an Intern for Your Startup
> See, their strategy feels like patronizing, as though us overly-idealistic Californians can’t possible deal with the realities of DC politicking.

It's apparent from this post that that is the truth.

For example this blogger writes as though he believes that the backlash against FWD.us is a totally organic expression of authentic opinion in the tech community. He mentions the truth in passing:

> after a list of environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, boycotted Facebook over FWD.us-funded ads that praised Republicans for supporting the Keystone pipeline (below)

See, the opinion against Keystone is real, but the expression of it against FWD.us has been juiced by a significant outpouring of resources by politically savvy groups like the Sierra Club.

This is not an organic uprising by Silicon Valley. It's one set of professional politickers (anti-Keystone) successfully leaching off the PR of another (FWD.us). It happens all the time. But it can be hard for idealistic people to spot because they tend to perceive one side of an argument as more authentic, natural, or real, than the other--leading them to underestimate the role of professional organizers in a given trend or action.
It's probably because of a sense that Zuckerberg and his ilk are "one of us" because they're in the same industry we are. That's hardly true; they have very different interests than the average coder.

If you're a programmer and want to donate to people defending your interests in the political realm, consider EFF instead.
Thanks for all the answers! I got a couple of friends to mention codeacademy as well...
That makes a lot of sense. I'm not in NY but I do see this among the very wealthiest people I know.

In a lot of ways, frats and university clubs do similar things, formally and informally. When people do embarrassing, dangerous, illegal, or immature things together, it bonds them in interesting and tight ways.

One can imagine that if it was 1999 and you had been one of GWB's close Yale or MBA buddies who had blown a snowstorm of cocaine together, and you called him up for a little favor or consideration, that such a thing might come through rather quickly and discreetly.
I got to the 3rd paragraph and thought: "Christ, this sounds almost as pessimistic as a Michael O. Church comment!"

Then I looked at the comment author.

Despite this pessimism I think you make some great points, but I do feel that your persistent negative bias towards corporations (and people in general) can detract from what are often great insights within your comments.
People didn't like FaceMash, either.

The cynical favor-trading approach of FWD.us isn't for everyone... but maybe A/B testing will show it works better for achieving the tech industries' goals.

Those who prefer other approaches should start their own activism group, working the same shared issues, within their preferred framework. A 1-2 punch, and trying a diversity of strategies, is most likely to achieve success.
Test et avis du GPS Takara GP67
It's both a failure mode and a safety switch.

The safety switch is like the old game of "Would you rather have $100 now or a 5% chance of $1000 in four years?"

The failure mode is the truth of public markets are absolutely closed to new entrants unless you are selling a mass market physical product or if you have over 500 million monthly users on some web service.

Given the diminishing marginal utility of cash, a few million dollars RFN is tastier than a few billion dollars when you are $age+7 years old. We can always try again later, right?

I'm pouring a few years of my life into creating a product

That's a great point too. A lot of people get very endeared to their products and companies. Their companies are them. Other people make companies only as vehicles to flip and cash out. It's up to you. They aren't compatible viewpoints though. The company-is-part-of-me people see the make-it-then-flip-it contingency equivalent to people who only have babies to extract government benefit checks.
"A rule of law, rather than a rule of authoritarianism, is one of our greatest advancements"

"Our"? Authoritarians do not set and enforce the Rule of Law? I think you're creating more of a divide between the two concepts than exist in reality.
Obama Makes Open Data the Default for Federal Government
This is not to be confused with the other Bitcoin ATM. The "ATM" described in this article is more of a Bitcoin vending machine.

Bitcoin ATM:
https://bitcoinatm.com/media/pictures/flagship1.png

Bitcoin Machine (the one this article is about):
http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzA1LzAyLzEzL0xhbWFzc...
Apple Is Snubbing Foxconn After iPhone 5 Production Problems
The Rails/ActiveRecord bug tracker?

edit: the underlying connector might be a better idea to start with, as it'll need to expose the fields somehow before an ORM can take advantage of them.
Buy Glass didn't force you to wear it everytime.

You can wear them only when you have something interesting to share.
My google glass proposal was to use it as a brain extension for things we can't do with our brain. For example - remember some of the foods we eat and how we feel to predict our reactions to new foods and environments - energy spikes, side effects. Our brain can't always do it as we do not know the ingredients and do not remember our metabolic abilities at various outside temperatures, etc. Aurametrix can do it. Interested? Let me know.
Tokyo’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Startup – Gengo
Geolocation used that way exposes something like a location ("is nearby") without those users even having a choice or being aware. I'm not saying that's what Twitter does, but if it did, I wouldn't find that nice at all.
I'd like to pick your brain as that's the problem I'm facing right now - I have a web site that is accessed by users, and I would like to get a comprehensive picture of what they do. I already have a log table for logging all changes (as you said - I can show it to the users themselves so they know who hanged what in a collaborative environment), but I struggle defining meaningful way to log read access - should I record every hit? Would that be too much data to store and process later? Should I record some aggregates instead?
Amazon‘s new “virtual currency” of dubious benefit to customers
It's actually included on the ARM Chromebook now, I was able to launch it in Best Buy after search for the instructions on my phone (it's Ctrl-Alt-T).

The author is referring to launching normal ssh instead of the version included in cros shell which has a weird runtime configuration menu (much like ftp) and some limitations.

You do need dev mode to start bash even as a non-privileged user unfortunately.
Robots are going to take your job
If you want to "AJAX" an image onto the page after the initial page load, why not just use an <img> tag? You may be surprised to learn that it's even part of the HTML spec!

I was pretty surprised when I got to the ChartsController and saw it returning JSON. Seems like the hard way to go about it. I just assumed it was generating SVGs.
Grunt JavaScript Automation for the Lazy Developer
Well, I'm arguing that flexible schema is better than no schema. And in practice schemaless is only about schema defined outside of database. It's a solution to the wrong problem.
Back when the registrar at Penn State could be accessed either directly (standing in line), or via phone dial-in, my roommate and I recorded the registrar's welcome message as our answering machine message. His mom was not amused, but everyone else on campus who regularly called us enjoyed it.
... assuming you're using the snapchat client to open the images. If you have a rooted phone, there are ways to save it before the snapchat client opens the image.
There's a selection bias on the quality of hybrid apps; the good ones are so hard to distinguish that you'd never know.

I've also used several mobile websites that are WAY better than the app (Redbox, for instance). Depending on the use case, the browser can sometimes be the best experience, though obviously not always.

Each set of needs is a beautiful and unique snowflake. Anyone reflexively choosing Technology X solely because Company Y does(n't) is probably not qualified to decide on tech stacks.
It’s not charity, it’s a new business model.
For some big brands, Google+ is a wasteland
Amazon Coins: purchase apps, games and in-app items in the Amazon Appstore
Ask HN: Are trade shows / conferences worth it?
What are your thoughts on trade shows? Were they helpful to your start-up? Did you find many leads or establish networking connections? Was it worth it?

The reason I ask is I'm debating whether or not to attend the National Restaurant Association's yearly trade show up in Chicago this week. A vendor booth, flights, hotel, signage, tables, etc will easily run me $5k - $6k. In the grand scheme of things, I realize that's not a whole lot of money but I'm self-funded. It would be a pretty significant hit to the savings I've set aside to live on. On the flip side, this could be exactly what I need to get an in into the industry; something that has been pretty difficult for me to do at the national level.

Any insight into your experiences with them would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
How can Big Data transform the way we hire and get hired?
Nice way to prove a (ralfns) point.
Its completely counter to logic, the purpose as lobbying
as it is today is when a small sized population with
extreme financial resources want to influence specific
legislature.

I was recently involved with the libel law reform campaign in the UK. A well organised political campaign will often do a bunch of things - they'll decide what they want and produce clear summaries. They'll work out how much opposition this is likely to have and whether their desired outcome is politically feasible. They'll find high profile failings of the current legislation. They'll identify legislators who are likely to be sympathetic and help get a foot in the door. They'll get news coverage. They'll organise rallies where well-spoken people from organisations you've heard of explain what's wrong with current legislation. The speakers will be organised, so all points get covered and there's not too much repition. They'll invite their supporters to invite their representatives to those rallies. They'll look for celebrity supporters. And they probably do a bunch of other stuff behind the scenes that I don't know about because I'm not an expert political campaigner.

Isn't hiring organised, experienced people who know how to do this politics stuff what lobbying is? Surely lobbying doesn't just mean ladling out gobs of cash to corrupt legislators?
It's the case for some industries, but it's a fallacious example. You're citing cases where businesses have been successful, I would say, in spite of DRM, in industries where the status quo is accepting DRM or having no content.

Amazon distributes MP3s via "the open web" - sure, it's via MP3 files over HTTP, but an <audio> tag can pull that, Amazon could (and perhaps does) implement their cloud player in that manner anyway.

Valve's Steam distributes a great deal of games without DRM - games are high margin products compared to music singles or DVDs, yet they seem quite successful. I try, or often only buy DRM-free games on Steam to support them.

Apple's iTunes switched in the past few years to distributing music without DRM that encumbered their files and locked in consumers to their iEcosystem. Those files can be uploaded, trivially, to any file sharing network.

The Gordian knot of the problem of piracy and DRM is that only one dedicated person needs to leak it, and as long as I can listen to, look at or sense content, the analog hole will exist. Content industries have tried the approach of treating all of their customers like criminals, and it's been awful for consumers and the amount of content available trivially on peer to peer networks hasn't decreased or even decelerated, as far as I can tell. This treating everyone like a criminal to prevent one dedicated attacker is insane in the colloquial sense, wherein content companies try DRM over and over again and expect different results.

I say, let Hollywood and the video content industry squirm until it realizes it needs the internet more than the internet needs it.
PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for engineers in SF
We’re a small team of construction engineers, software engineers, and ex-rocket scientists, building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We love disrupting an industry that makes up 11% of Global GDP because no one ever cared to do so (for comparison, defense is only 2.5% of global GDP). Our users are project engineers, architects, superintendents, and electricians, and they love our app (because it helps them build real things more efficiently).

We're looking for front-end engineers with a passion for making beautiful intuitive products. Our front-end tech is iOS, Android, and backbone.js. You will be our twelfth team member and sixth member of engineering.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

Competitive salary, equity, company engineering retreats to Mexico, and an office next to a beer garden (Hayes Valley, SF).

Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
The title seems to lead on that it's possible to create beautiful charts with just one line of Ruby, when really it's 'Create beautiful charts with just one line of Ruby (if you use these libraries).'

The original title is 'Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby', which is more accurate.
If you have a GIS dataset and you want to style it and serve it, your previous best bet was to use TileStache or something like that, to seed the png tiles for a zoom range. If you want to change the style, then you have to re-seed. I believe this allows you to 'seed' vectors and changing style is completely flexible.
Highlights & Pictures from our Scaling to 1M  Users Event
Can you provide a different measure for something that means "used by the most number of people"?
Don't worry about a few bad reviews. For each bad review there are thousands of people who don't have any complaints and don't bother to talk about it online. For instance, I've never had any trouble with my Nexus devices.
See also https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Smart_Property.
On the plane or in the plane?  Services as facades
Here's hoping the next crew does such a good job at public outreach.
Whenever I see photos of suffering children in a political context for me it is the "look at those poor children, clearly the [opposing group] are poor evil" argument. Which is not about the children anymore, it's about diverting your attention from the cause of the problem. And this argument is used over and over on any occasion. How can you not become numb to that?
http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/Pages/distributors.aspx#fbid... ?
Thats pretty awesome!
"Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story..."
Ruby has a tainting mechanism, but I don't believe it's used very much.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/taint.html
Choosing an SSO Strategy: SAML vs OAuth2
I suspect a lot of people will start to attribute bad designs to flat design because of its lower barrier to entry. There are likely to be a lot more people who are less than mediocre, in both visual and interaction design skills, applying it to poorly crafted and planned out sites and apps, and sadly the thing that will stand out the most is that they used a flat design, not that they simply designed poorly.
>I am integrating it into a chrome packaged app and am struggling with reading zip and rar files via javascript.

Does it have to be a chrome packaged app? If not, take a look at appjs or node-webkit.
I've done this before in scenarios of packet handling. e.g.

packets.incoming[16] = {
login_size: {type: 'byte'},
magic_code: {type: 'byte'},
client_version: {type: 'short'},
high_detail: {type: 'byte'},
archive_crc: {type: ['int', 9]},
reported_size: {type: 'byte'},
block_opcode: {type: 'byte'},
client_key: {type: ['int', 2]},
server_key: {type: ['int', 2]},
uid: {type: 'int'},
username: {type: 'string'},
password: {type: 'string'}
};

packets.outgoing[253] = packets.outgoingMessage = function (message) {
var length = message.length + 1;
return {
opcode: {type:'byte', value: 253},
length: {type:'byte', value: length},
message:	{type:'string', value: message}
};
};
The Boost.Units library for C++ does this: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/doc/html/boost_units/Qu...

Some examples from the documentation:

quantity<length> L = 2.0*meters;
quantity<energy> E = kilograms*pow<2>(L/seconds);

quantity<plane_angle> theta = 0.375*radians;
quantity<dimensionless> sin_theta = sin(theta);
quantity<plane_angle> thetap = asin(sin_theta);

I figured Haskell's type system could also do this sort of thing, and it can. I found Dimensional: https://code.google.com/p/dimensional/, but I'm not sure if it's in standard use in the Haskell community. Examples: https://code.google.com/p/dimensional/wiki/IspExample
Optimizing Conversions on Low Traffic Websites
Very nice work. I look forward to seeing where they go with this. I am curious as to how they handle polygons that span multiple tiles. If they take the rather straightforward approach of taking any polygon and splitting it up to fit in each respective tile, that has all sorts of implications for styling. Imagine you want to draw a building as a solid color and then draw the outline in some secondary color. What happens if the building falls on a tile boundary?
This is exactly what I did when releasing new apps. By the time I had built Car Locator, I had built a following of loyal users who were willing to try out other apps I released. It made releasing and promoting subsequent apps much easier.
Acqui-hire means:

(1) $3-6 million per engineer, with investors, founders, and executives getting most of that money. Most of these don't get rich in the VC-istan sense, but they get enough money to buy a house. Founders join Those Who Have Completed An Exit and are now seen as real human beings by VCs.

(2) engineers get hired as contractors, which is a 12-month interview process with better results than the front-door process (75%, as opposed to 45% with a real introduction and sub-1% on a job site) and might make back the ~$50k they lost by working below market salary.

Acqui-hire is bad but it's not quite a failure. It means the founders get paid, and the engineers get about the same payoff as they would have had in a corporate job. (Whether it's good or bad for them comes down to the assimilation process; it's usually somewhat negative.) It does, however, mean that the engineers get screwed relative to the startup promise (of being an executive, or rich, or able to do the most interesting engineering work, some day).
The most I've seen about Hadfield being Canadian is on YouTube where there are comments that basically amount to "Go America". There is the standard reply that "You know he is Canadian, right?".

As a US citizen, I'm uncomfortable with the constant jump by the masses to assume that everybody that does something has to be from the US. You are correct that the ISS is about international cooperation, so isn't it good the nations that are involved get their recognition?
I've definitely met those types of Indians, for whom a job at a big company is the holy grail, and the majority of them come from a position of financial insecurity.

On the other hand I've met others who have a much more scientific bent, so I don't think its "Indian culture" that forces people to be anti-innovation.

It's the conservative strain of Indian thought which naturally dominates the brains of people raised in financially insecure conditions. Poverty breeds materialism.
I'm using https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike to support Postgres using mongo-like queries.

I patched in a bunch of features I needed, and it works really well for me.