skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This community doesn't really seem to have a culture of making smooth plugs. I see pretty brazen plugs on a regular basis.
Wearable technology: LiveMap working on Iron Man Motorcycle helmet
It looks like most of the complexity in ember-data is to do with transaction management and references. We decided to forgo both of those and haven't really lost anything because of that.

It's opinionated way of dictating your JSON payload etc was also a factor in the decision to drop it. If you use RoR as a backend it's a perfect tho I assume.
Top 3 Content Management Systems in 2013 Snapshot
It's a basic Boostrap site with jQuery UI. There's nothing here that looks like it was taken from Stripe's website.
They do, but it's an extra 8.95
Fatal error: Call to undefined function getConnectionWithAccessToken() in /hermes/waloraweb002/b442/moo.aksdadcom/quizr_root/pub/leaderboard.php on line 20
Sure, I just wanted to point that out. All the 'libertarian socialists' I know have gotten sick of arguing terminology and just call themselves 'anarchists.'

While in theory, the NAP says nothing about economics, the reality of the general philosophy of those who subscribe the NAP is inherently capitalist. Libertarian philosophy is derived from property rights, starting from the rights of self-ownership. See "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" for example, which starts off by building on top of Locke. Also, the Wikipedia article on the NAP states that there's a strong relationship in the first few sentences, linking to http://mises.org/daily/3660
Instagram as well:
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha...
Before talking about "advanced topics" like a Pirate Party, the US citizens should start to vote a third party into their parliament. Any third party would be a huge improvement over the current situation, be it a Pirate Party or a completely different party.

Unfortunately, the electoral system of the US appears to be prevent that kind of development, as it makes it exceptionally hard for non-established parties to enter the parliament. So fixing the electoral system would be a prerequisite, but how to fix that without having a parliament majority in the first place?
Here's an undocumented API for 'The Nest' thermostat: http://www.wiredprairie.us/blog/index.php/archives/1442

A quick look at programmable web turns up this... https://xively.com/
It's also impossible for anyone with ordinary political views to be represented, as representatives must first win highly partisan primaries. At best the system leaves us with a coin flip between a solid democrat and a solid republican.
I assume there's a way to add context information into the run loop when firing events for debugging purposes. This would largely solve the first half of the issue (who fired the event). The second half, where the error happened, seems like it's just a bug in the way Ember is recording errors.
1) Seeing things in action often clarifies my design.

2) You can build things really fast with Meteor.

3) After you know what you're doing you can develop the robust version much more quickly. This time savings is often significant.

4) Since Meteor is built on Node, you don't throw everything away. You can actually keep quite a few functions and nearly all your handlebars intact when you port to the final project.

I'm not saying working this way is for everyone, but it works well for me.
Yeah, the government use fear to spread ignorance, we should do the same to spread awareness against their systematic privacy violations.
Great perspective.

When learning a new skill or craft, especially one that involves finish work, one principle I follow is to start with the most hidden areas first. Oftentimes, people will jump into a task on the most obvious, most exciting and most frequently observed areas of a job first, learning and making their beginner's mistakes front and center. Then their workmanship becomes more expert by the time they get to the least frequently seen parts of a project. So try not to fall into that trap; In the case of flooring, you want your best work to be in your living spaces, not your closets. :)
How should I ask about work/life balance during an Interview?
They help tons
SavingsFund Makes it Easy to Save for Your Child's Future
TL; DR: Steve Jobs really was quite a dick
Interesting lululemon homepage (CEO wanted banner)
Do you think 3D printer will be the cause of more Gun Crime?
You can get a 3D printer around 1K, and get a workable pistol blueprint online to build. There would be no regulations, almost untraceable accept for the bullet.

Will criminals use this technology to print out guns? (pistol)
Why is that I disagree with every article from Ian Storm Taylor? Media Queries are not hacks and the new IOS7 looks slick to me.

Real world characteristics were used for a long time as a crutch. It helped the non tech savvy connect to technology, because they were utilizing things they recognized from the real world.

Fast forward and now people don't need this crutch. Flat design and minimalism are proof of that. Don't be scared of change.
Yep, agreed.

What I find funny is that the people who are writing these articles are advanced users and not some grandmother who needs protection. Ie - if you are either a designer who deeply cares about how your icons look - don't be a sheep and customize your pocket computer the way you want.
I completely disagree on the dynamic icons. When I want to play some music, I know I'm looking for a two-eighth-note icon on a pink-orange background, and I don't want that background to change to black cause I listened to Dark Side last.
How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones?
Great article. Thanks for the reading.
Find the Mafia: addicting NP-complete iOS game based on the clique problem
Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back for the Fifth Terminator Movie
Yeah, I don't use C# and I don't know if you can do that, I think you have to create a class and declare them as methods like Java.

But C# does have closures and lambdas, and lets you use functions as arguments and return values. Java doesn't have any of those yet, although they're supposed to be coming in 1.8.
Yeah, and iOS isn't following most of them. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windowsphone/design/... I didn't look at every single one, but having used Windows Phone 7&8 for over a year, and scrutinized the released slides from iOS 7, I don't see any place where they are especially similar.
To be a bit more specific, I was moving some sites over from linode as a test to see if they would perform the same on DO. So effectively they only lost some test stuff. Still data loss though, like you said.
New Interview with NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney
wtf? As OP stated, there was nothing in the meeting about confidentiality. If you are telling people your business plan, and talking about that plan would benefit them, but you want it to remain secret, fucking tell them.
The Phantom Query
google talk
www.reddit.com/r/nootropics

I selected a provider (who ships from India) based on reviews from this sub-reddit. They accept my payments in bitcoins.

I haven't noticed a loss in creativity, but I think creativity in itself is something extremely difficult to measure or quantify. I attempted to join experiments being done by several labs across the country (with regards to tCDS), and was declined by all. It was then I went on to do it myself.

I agree with your last statement completely. I work no more than 8 hours a day, get at least 7-8 hours of sleep per night now, and eat in a much more healthy fashion.
The USA has been like a successful startup. The first people in were the superstars who had vision and made things happen. The next arrivals were strong performers not scared of hard work who could at least understand the vision and keep the momentum going.

Eventually at any new successful company, the hangers-on arrive. The "work hard, play hard" mantra that drove the first generations gives way to just a "play hard" one. The benefits created by the original visionaries are siphoned off mercilessly by those who didn't create them, can't create anything new, and don't seem to care that they're so destructive. With the decline of the company and jerks in power, anyone worth a damn goes elsewhere to find a better environment or if they do stay they tend to work around the system to get their jobs done or just content themselves operating at 1/4 speed for a paycheck. As more good people leave because of frustration, a death spiral ensues since upper management clowns no longer have anyone who can problem solve.

We had a nice run. It's really too bad that we lost our way as a nation.
Would have been nice if both a Democrat and Republican could have requested this as statesmen. I am not sure there are any left. I love this though. A group of R's and D's would be even better.
A couple of tips on how to code more comfortably & not make your back hate you
so is this like https://www.startupthreads.com/ where you can integrate with them to send t-shirts to clients or community members?
That's why you have a friend help. They can point out the eighteen ways it can go wrong. I mean, yeah, you could go it alone, and the internet is helpful, but it can turn out exactly like you say. I've helped friends with home projects where it turns out a trip to the hardware store is in order. More times than not I'll mention that "it looks like we'll need a whattzit and a hoozsnoggle while we're there" because the need for those items won't become evident until you come back home.

Underestimate? No, I know how awry things can go. In our first house I noticed a leak in the basement under the toilet above. Wax ring, easy fix and cheap. Except it had been leaking a while, meaning a good piece of the subfloor had rotted. Up comes the carpet (who the hell thinks carpet in a house with men is a good idea in the bathroom?), might as well put in new linoleum on top of the new sub flooring. Since the floor's coming up, there's no better time to put in that sink the wife wanted. Somewhere in the process we discovered the wet drywalling under the shower stall. To the Depot for new drywall and shower stall! Weeks later I finished the job.

All because a sixty-nine cent wax ring failed.
I did, but Reddit has a nasty habit of deleting my posts, generally silently (so it looks to me like they're still there but no one else can see). I was actually silent banned from Reddit for a year by an automatic spam filter's mistake. Really sucks.

You all can feel free to try on my behalf tho! Perhaps you have a more established account.
I'd bet all this data has been/is used in granting people security clearances and discovering where leaks are coming from.
The Model S has a basic, REST-ish API: https://github.com/timdorr/model-s-api
www allows for the use of CNAMEs (which, as I understand it, is why the www convention was established in the first place).
I'm really annoyed by those sites that insist on having a non-removable top bar overlaying the text. Because they break the page-down key. You page down, but part of the unread text scoots under the top bar. Arrrg.
Sorry but is this the kind of paranoid stupidity I should start to expect from HN now ?

The "government" has been able to collect far more data via the tax and health care systems, TSA, census etc for decades. Imagine all the scary statements I could contrive from those. Or how about we amp up the crazy and talk about all the things the "government" could be doing with their drones and satellites.
If you're not monitoring crashes, check out Crashlytics.

http://crashlytics.com/

You'd be surprised what can be detected and caught.
Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks
I mean that's the basic problem, isn't it? Some people can't compromise. Many people who are proponents of privacy rights, oppose copyright, etc, consider themselves too good to participate in the political system, and would never stoop to, say, trying to find common ground with religious or social conservatives on the subject of surveillance, even though there might be politically valuable common ground to be found.
From what I've seen via daltonize/XScope/etc iOS 7 is significantly clearer for many apps for the common 2 types of color blindness. Do you have tritanopia or something else?

The weather app isn't in "iOS7" default style and is a little hard to read for normal trichromates. And honestly, if only the weather app is crap, not like there aren't 203948203498 weather apps.

Are any of the other apps hard for you to read? I know I'm constantly checking contrast/colorblind appearance in apps from designers who don't necessarily look at designs with CB people in mind.

Invert colors almost certainly will fix things if all else fails, but I suspect "enhance text legibility" or "increase font size" will do the trick for 99% of apps.
The problem with secret executive orders, secret courts, secret decisions, secret rulings, secret spying, secret actions taken as the result of the spying -- is that the public, and elected officials, don't know what the hell is going on. A closed society is one where paranoia is both frequent and justified. Dictators spy on their opponents, execute them, and quickly imagine new enemies. Eventually no one trusts anyone.

I would suggest that the best way to understand what is going on is to imagine that, but rather than a single individual as dictator, instead a large group of individuals suffering from fear & paranoia.

When we think that the NSA is spying on terrorists, then we assume that the NSA is using judgement and discretion, focusing on a narrow vertical of individuals. That is certainly what I believed in the past. When it is disclosed that it goes far beyond terrorists, collects deep meta data on the entire US population while logging all electronic communication on a group of a million or so, our imaginations run wild -- and justifiably so.
Totally agree there would be problems to solve with 3rd party applications changing their icons. I was actually thinking Apple could do something smart about the intervals that the icons are allowed to change.

For example, the icon has free reign to update itself when the application is active. This would be useful for things like Newsstand, where the user purchasing new items affects the icon. But wouldn't need to be abused since the icon can't be seen while the application is active, so no one is going to blink it.

Then you could allow applications to update at a constrained interval when they aren't active as well. Except what if the amount of time required for the icon to update itself determined how often it happened. So an icon like "Clock" literally takes the tiniest sliver of time to update would be allowed to update more freely. (Clock is a bad example since even that is excessive, but you get the idea.)

Whereas an icon that needed to make an HTTP request to get new information to update itself would take 100's of milliseconds, and thus would be rate limited to only update maybe once an hour at most.

No idea if it could work technically, but it seems like an interesting solution.
You should probably talk to PayPal first...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/08/did-paypal-just-clone-strip...
It's worth pointing out that "working as intended" isn't necessarily "working the right/ideal way".
Turn down the brightness. Seriously, if you're getting headaches you have it way too high for your normal environment's lighting.
Part of this is very true. Part of it is that science has already done this - 200 years ago with the development of scientific units. We already have a great universal format - it is just not digital in nature and doesn't exist as a 'file format'.
I second that, should have started with the plug up top. Nevertheless, I loved the article and ifixit looks neat.
Also explored at length in God Is An Iron, a short story by Spider Robinson, extended into the novel Mindkiller. Unlike in Ringworld, where wireheading/tasps are a MacGuffin, they're the central plot point in GIAI/Mindkiller.
> last I checked, the purpose of MAPP wasn't to allow MAPP-partners the ability "to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments"

The phrase you quoted is utterly meaningless, and the article provides absolutely no evidence that the vulnerability notifications are used for that purpose.

It's just an anonymous source is saying "with knowledge of unpatched vulnerabilities, the government could exploit that knowledge." Obviously! With knowledge of unpatched vulnerabilities, YOU could exploit that knoweldge. Anybody could. What of it?

The quote is garbage.
>people used the cocoa leaf to make a tea they drank all the time, the way we drink coffee or caffeinated soda.

Coca leaf tea is one thing. What about crack? Don't say it would never have been invented without criminalization; everything is invented eventually.
I'm somewhat amused that many here mention the amateurishness of Sivers' behaviour, yet there's no mention of Jobs' passive-aggressive bullshit.

"But we realize record companies do a great service. They edit! Did you know that if you and I record a song, for $40 we can pay a few of the services to get it on their site, through some intermediaries? We can be on Rhapsody and all these other guys for $40?"

Dude, what a pompous douchebag. You got a problem with what I did, tell me. Just don't screw around, sending mixed signals in a very roundabout way in the hope that I get it, because you're too scared of any confrontation in your Garden of Reality Distortion. I know Apple likes being this impenetrable Kremlin, but this is just plainly taking pages from Stalin's Guide to Management. "Did you know some CEO from a very successful tech company is a pompous douchebag?..."
Not sure, although it seems like you didn't read the article. Also you don't disagree with _every_ article of mine because I argued exactly what you are arguing in this comment a couple years back: http://ianstormtaylor.com/skeumorphism-on-the-ipad/
Sorry, $80 for a four year subscription? Because that's what the Office 365 for Students deal is. That's $1.66 per month.

Seems pretty in-budget for a student.
Coffee-houses: The Internet in a cup (2003)
That's a really good point, not only does it not get done DIY-style, it doesn't get passed on. I think that's where the problem lies with some of my friends: they don't even realize DIY is an option because they've never known anyone to do such things. It's one thing to think "yeah, I could do it but I choose not to" (I think it myself at times), it's another to not even know that a professional is not required.

As for family time, and I say this as one without kids, if the kids are old enough I can't think of a more valuable way to spend time than teaching your kids to build something.
Mmmmm white label pizza.
I wonder if we can ask for something similar in Europe.
I live in Belgium and the government is snooping.
Not on a similar scale.
But it does happen without a warrant.
It's all legal because the changed the constitution.
I'm not sure what can be done about it.
It might be against the EU constitution.
I don't really know where to start.
But I do want to stop it.
So basically it's got known privacy problems

Most of which can be addressed. There's also a UUID in each build. Privoxy can remove that AFAIU. I don't use Chrome myself, but Chromium.

As I said: you're arguing in the absence of evidence on a pretty widely available and analyzed application. Rather than simply throwing out hypotheticals, a more interesting exercise would be to do some research of posted information to see if there are known issues. Might even make for an interesting HN submission.

I might do that myself.
He did leave his girlfriend behind in Hawaii.

As much as I hate how the media is focusing on Snowden rather than the actual leaks, I can't help but wonder what the deal is with that relationship.
Scare quotes are the great hallmark of a rationalist. </sarcasm>
Apparently they've been accused of copycat designs before. http://www.t-shirttalk.com/2012/06/15/dont-clone-a-t-shirt-c...

I'm not sure it matters a whole lot though. Great artists steal and everything...
I instantly thought of Stripe when I saw this site as well.
Well, I don't know about that, but the icons have two purposes:

1. Allow new users to guess at the functionality of apps before tapping them. This is important for first impressions (like trying out the phone at the store before buying it).

2. Allow current users to quickly and reliably navigate to the app they intend to use.

It seems to me that instead of arguing about skeuomorphism, there should just be some good old A/B testing for these two use cases. And whatever wins is best. Maybe Apple has done this, maybe not.
I will not agree with you that he has overplayed his hand. Obama was just meeting with Chinese leadership not but a week ago with pleas for the government to stop their cyber attacks on US targets. This is exposing that hypocrisy. Additionally he could be an asset to the Chinese government because he likely has MUCH more information than is being made public. However, I think because of his strict ideals to do no harm I think he will be unlikely to cooperate with them on divulging anything that would be of substance to the Chinese government. All that said I think he may still have information he wants to make light of and so, simply because he still does not have access to this information, does not mean he does not having something explosive waiting to be revealed. I think he is a liability to the HK and Chinese governments but they are not easy to kowtow to the US demands simply on the grounds that he has violated laws which HK does not recognize themselves. Grab some popcorn, this will develop much more interestingly than I think you think it will.
I will just add a stolen high ranked comment from one of the collective blogs.

iOS 7 Jelly Bean
Hey friend,

You're not alone. I want to bump suggestions for going offline - vacation to Hawaii for a week, hike, bike ride, whatever. Just don't be online for a little bit.

Some other suggestions that have helped me:

1) Read! Have you read Good Omens? How about Ender's Game? Sci fi is great for tuning off.

2) Get a hobby involving something physical ... gardening, carpentry, flying an RC plane.

3) If you want to stay techy but do something physical, consider getting an Arduino. Build blinking LEDs or something else that's cool!
But are the shirts any good? No mention of material or examples of how one might look.
We've been using Crittercism in the past and recently switched to Crashlytics, unfortunately memory crashes are one of the few exceptions (hah) to the rule, as they are SIGKILLs from the OS.

Another commenter recommended touching a file at launch and at sleep to track untraceable crashes, which we do for various other reasons, but don't upload the stats. We may begin doing this.
The word "enormity" means generally "evil": The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. (1913 Webster).

It's not a general synonym for "enormous" or "having vast size", except by confusion.
No, it means, "We'll get sued if we leave those 7 letters out."
> He went to work for IBM, overseeing the construction of their big plant in South San Jose. A while back, the entire compound was razed. They replaced it with a Lowe's and a parking lot.

Let's thank the baby boomer generation, a.k.a. The Dumbest Generation of Narcissists In The History of The World[1].

[1] - http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/the_dumbest_generatio...
We do this for various other reasons (clearing possibly corrupted state, etc), but we've never uploaded the statistics to the servers. We may begin doing this in the future.
Python Map-Reduce Engine (Online editing and more)
I've noticed many criticisms here on hackernews of using artistic license in writing as coming off as pretentious or egotistical; it almost seems to be a bout of anti-intellectualism. I would personally love to be able to write at Jerry's level, he definitely has talent.
I'm sorry to say but a lot of countries will degrade back to authoritarianism within the next 10-20 years due to economy and political problems.

Like ? Name the countries.