skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure there is a substantive difference between "code" and a "non-executable config file". The latter is something that is read by an executable and which results in specific execution that differs by the content of the file; the difference between this and interpreted code is semantic rather than substantive.

E.g., for any combination of a YAML configuration file and a Ruby function which reads and applies it, there is a corresponding Ruby function which achieves exactly the same result without the configuration file.

There are other reasons to prefer the config file approach, but a policy which deploys the correct code to each environment will have exactly the same behavior with regard to environmental drift as one which deploys identical code the correct config file.
Why would the for profit status of the hosting organization affect the types of projects hosted there?
I second this, writing good documentation is harder than writing code. I can do both with music I already know, however, but I will sometime go for a walk or a cigarette, both help a lot.
Code Club UK expands to the world
I'm using a Geeksphone Peak right now, and it's VERY fast and responsive, especially with newer software. Same with the Keon, which contains a lot of the "target-level" hardware. As long as apps are made specifically for Gecko, it should be fine.
Yeah CS gas is no joke. They used to hit us with it all the time in the Marines for training purposes. If you have ever been hit with pepper spay, CS is about twice as bad.

To combat the effects carry a bottle of solution made up from water and sodium metabisulphate (sold as Campden tablets used in home brewing) as this combination neutralises the effects of CS. If you cannot get this use clean water to rinse the eyes and skin affected.
I would say over MS Word, this offers:

- Discoverability: when I was working on my invoice template, I looked all over the web, and found a bunch of garbage, before I eventually hand-crafted something in Excel

- Ease of use: Word templates can be annoying to fill out and format right, and they won't do the math for you. Excel will, but good luck getting it to print right every time, and heaven help you if you need more than one page.

- Fun: When was the last time you filled out a Word template and thought, wow, that was kind of cool!
I'm thinking of ways I can help.

Gas masks? I own an old Israeli Civil Defense mask with some sealed canisters that expired in the 90s. Might work, but not sure if anyone in Turkey would wear it -- the filters have Hebrew printing on them.

My Army-Navy store has some M17s but I think they're out of filters.
The Most Frustrating Change in OS X Mavericks
Is anyone else deeply concerned that 37signals puts actual production data into their non-production environments (which are inherently insecure given the nature of those environments and who needs access to them)?
Fully agree. At least 'graphic design' is easier to explain than 'information design', which most here at work probably think is a farce or a figment of imagination.
Oh, Tron Legacy OST is the thing! You could also try Doctor Who soundtrack from season 5 and 6, it can do wonders, but sometimes you have to skip at track or two (as they are just too good and make you drop everything you are doing and listen)
Bastion OST is nice too!
> has delivered $178 [in private dollars] to the US economy for every public dollar spent

Fixed it for them. The report writer, Battelle Memorial Institute, can't be trusted to calculate the public benefit due to conflict of interest.
It's good amount of users.
Supreme Court Unanimously Decides Human Genes Cannot Be Patented
FWIW: A lot of terrorists had/have an engineering background.
Is this foundation-mobile plugin on GitHub?
I guess the point is that maybe you should restrict "people from the internet" from being able to access the login page.
A Glimpse into the Future of CSS
Article doesn't actually tell us what it is, beyond a traditional CMS.
"In the long tail of history just following orders is wrong." dang that is a nice quote.
Frustrated with government? Build tools to empower people to change it
We're hiring developers across the stack to help us build tools that empower people to organize around causes they care about. At Amicus (http://amicushq.com/), you can do good and do well. You can improve lives and work on interesting problems.

WE MAKE AN IMPACT:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-social-network-effect-that-is-helping-legalize-gay-marriage/265793/

WE WORK ON INTERESTING PROBLEMS:

-A realtime collaborative community environment for supporters of non-profits to communicate, and provide each other encouragement. This will involve realtime javascript with node.js, socket.io, and backbone.js

-Machine learning and/or statistical analysis on demographics and how they relate to outreach/fundraising effectiveness

-Open source projects, including our own in house, soon to be open sourced, real time Model View Presenter javascript framework with bi-directional data binding

-Realtime data visualization with D3, including D3's map projection, to create data visualization's to help client's understand the impact Amicus is having on their organization

WE'RE WELL FUNDED:

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Sound interesting? Want to change the world for the better? Shoot an email to jobs+HN@amicushq.com and tell us why you'd be a good fit. Include a link to your github and/or linkedin. Amicus is based in NYC.
100 Improvements to the New York Subway
Wasn't there a program in the previous admin where NASA solved YOUR problems?
$150 million roughly equals to 1000 developer years.
Show HN: Convert .NET formatted JSON response dates to human readable
A post or code snippet that does this would be great, seems like a really simple but useful people others may like
I didn’t say ‘all raids’.
It's funny you mention that. My first thought was, "wow, that's a lot of money." But then I thought, "but how much is it really?" I actually have no idea how much it should cost for them to do what they were trying to do though I suspect it is probably a fraction of that $150MM.
I don't think you have to do anything about it. It wouldn't be trending if it is private.
I've noticed the same effect but kind of the other way around. When I'm doing programming that requires thinking outside the box and creativity, music is ANNOYING and disruptive.

I love listening to music while pixel juggling UI's or fixing bugs but as soon as I start working on a scheduling algorithm or something similar I have to turn the music off.
I understand. My point was that it would be better to alert Instagram rather than direct a lot of HN users to a page that offers no value.
quite nice !
On the other hand it leads to the police assuming suspects are armed and taking precautions that can lead to completely innocent and or unarmed people being shot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_G...
Justices rule human genes cannot be patented
Ah yes, sorry, I didn't post the link because we literally just started it, so there's not much to see yet (all we have so far is the mobile lists).

It's here though: https://github.com/alfajango/foundation-mobile

If anyone has ideas for components we should include (or if you want to contribute), please post on the issues! For example, you can see my own post for our upcoming full-window, modal drop-downs:
https://github.com/alfajango/foundation-mobile/issues/1
This exchange reminds me of this excerpt from The Simpsons:

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.

Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.

Homer: Thank you, dear.

Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.

Homer: Oh, how does it work?

Lisa: It doesn't work.

Homer: Uh-huh.

Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.

Homer: Uh-huh.

Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?

It's a funny thing, we'll never be able to prove one way or another, because if the government reveals any plots they've foiled, it could give out classified details of the system. So in the end, we're left simply to trust an entity that would like to spy on us... It's like a racket.
I personally hope they out the amount of government paid shills on the internet and any documentation as to their directive, such as how they 'slide' topics off of popular social media sites or comment to quell a rising storm.

To that end, when are we going to get some more reputable people in Washington? Why has it become the chore of the least of us to represent all of us? Where are all the upstanding citizens that these jobs should be filled with, rather than the lowest common denominator that's proliferated our house and senate to this day?

I've run through all the possibilities I could think of, regarding solutions to this mess, and the one that seems to come closest to reality is that we need to start pushing for the formation of a new party. Only by the formation of a new group, who has not yet been subjugated by the money powers that be, will we be able to get out of this mess. These revelations are our best chance to get such an initiative started, as those in a position of power are either too cowardly or too bought to do so themselves.
From what I understand (and I work in the public media sphere), this was a monster CMS project. A way to integrate audio, video, web content, reporters notes, etc. Is it any wonder a project like that failed?
Triple quotes tend to come up for two purposes:

1. Long regular expression strings that have quote marks involved. I'm not a fan of large, complex regexes, but a lot of people dislike the line-noise added by escaping.

2. Docstrings that may have quotes in them.

It's to remove the string escaping that makes literals look different from the strings they describe.
Denying PRISM
What if there is a conflict between US law and the law of the country in which the owned corporation operates?

To take @ratsbane's example, Amazon Data Services Ireland is the Irish company that manages the data centre that currently comprises the AWS EU West region. It does no business in the US, but its parent company (Amazon.com Inc) does. Amazon Data Services Ireland are subject to Irish and EU laws relating to privacy and data protection. They can't just ship personal/commercial data out of the UK to the US as this would breach local laws. If the US govt demands that Amazon Inc provide it with data that is located in Dublin, what do Amazon Inc actually do? Does US law really mandate that Amazon Inc must force its subsidiary to break local laws?

"It can potentially seize assets. Or it can arrest company officers if they happen to enter US jurisdiction."

I know this has happened with on-line gaming companies - but that is a situation where the foreign company is doing something that the UK considers to be illegal. We're talking about the scope of laws relating to non-US companies engaged in lawful activities.

I suspect that the reach of the US government in these situations actually depends on international agreements with other nations (or groups, like the EU) and not US domestic law.
How does any of that contradict my earlier comment?

If the police plans to raid a building which they suspect hosts armed suspects, like in the case of Kim Schmitz, surely they’ll send in units carrying fire arms.
More complex, sure, but the real point is that they're both significantly more complex than a basic text content site.
What about milk? It works well on pepper spray.

Never been sprayed directly, but I was cleaning out a dorm room for a summer-time job and someone had left a bottle that went off by accident. And somebody in a club I was in decided to mace the room one time... ugh...
At the cost of result quality, one could exploit social networks as a possible solution: promote the pages that your neighbors visit for an extended period of time (and thus deem to be of high value) by a factor corresponding to said neighbor's distance from you. If the queries are slightly randomized such that their order differs per person and per session, then new possible results could tested.
See also: http://members.verizon.net/vze3fs8i/air/airpaper.html
Awesome, thanks! We already have a Github repo up (see my other comment), we just haven't pushed a lot to it just yet. We're building it as part of a couple other projects, so we're pulling our code over as we implement it. So far, it's a joint project between us (alfajango.com) and our friends over karmacrm.com.

It'll be released independently, but we've been talking to the Zurb people (they're pretty cool), and they said they'll link to it from the Foundation homepage and will help us implement or change things in Foundation if we need to (and if it's a good idea of course).
Maybe, but that's not really how gun ownership works in America. The people protesting things typically aren't gun owners, and even if they are, they don't bring guns with them. I've been at a G20 Riot (in America) where the police shot gas canisters at people; if any protesters had guns, it would have not gone down well.

The reasoning behind gun ownership is more like this: if the government institutes martial law / comes to take my guns or property / commits some huge atrocity against me or my family, gun owners will be able to defend themselves. This isn't a completely accurate view, obviously, but it's the general feeling I get from growing up in the US.
Huh, nice.
They have something somewhat similar in the lobby of the Sydney office, with a 3d globe displayed on several screens with search terms being displayed on their origins.
THE SECRET WAR
It's always good advice for any consultant or company to have their accountant (and lawyer, if applicable) review anything related to their field. It's why we have them.

However I would not criticize a tool for not covering all the p's and q's of every country's tax and legal code. If every startup/SAAS had to handle all these cases, we would have far fewer of the cool services we use today.
Failure to Communicate isn’t the fault of Technology
Hmm, interesting. I always liked listening to classical while studying because there are no vocals, it's very relaxing, it gets rid of the back ground noise, and I can just work away.

But I can see where you'd want to listen to classical, all those ups and downs, it tells a story if you listen closely.

Trance would probably work but I don't tend to like electronic music quite as much.
It reduces chances of calculation mistakes as it calculates total amount for you whereas you would need to do it manually in a document template.
Same here, and I did have something vulernable: Super Cache. I just updated.

You know what would be nice? Opt-in e-mail lists for each plug-in. If I hadn't seen this article, I might not have updated for months. If I'd gotten an e-mail that says, "SUPER CACHE COMPROMISED, UPDATE NOW," I sure would've.
This picture supposedly[1] shows exactly that: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLnx94jCIAE8yQ9.jpg

[1]: I use supposedly since there is no obvious way for me to validate this, though the language on there is turkish...
It doesn't matter that the PS4 will come out soon, there's still plenty of demand for the PS3, and Sony will continue to sell and support it with games for years.
Actually, it's American tear gas; all the photos of canisters I've seen so far say 'Made in the USA.'

That said, getting hit with tear gas sucks. If you're wearing contacts, really bad things can happen...

http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/attachments/File/textzin...
It seems to have (just) changed to a non-standard (different to the rest of Instagram's) 404 page.
NFC payments service is now live in more than fourteen Chinese cities
China Mobile,the world's largest mobile network operator, has announced testing of swiping cellphones for bus fare has been completed. Along with Chinese bank card association China UnionPay, they announced that their NFC payments service is now live in more than fourteen Chinese cities
I couldn't look at that for more than 10 seconds without seeing a Pirate Bay related search.
As a big fan of the Economist, I'm surprised they didn't catch the typo in the name of the project they're reporting on.
"Digitial Media Initiative (DMI)"
Especially since a rudimentary spell-checker would have caught it.
Can you try again please, should be fixed?
Emphasize and practice does not mean emphasize and practice effective methods.
What about services providing public API functions like:

getWarrantCurrentStatus(custID) // "No"/"No Comment"/"Yes"

getWarrantLastChangeDateTime(custID)

getWarrantPreviousStatus(custID)

getWarrantHistoricalStatus(custID, DateTime)

getWarrantResponseCurrentCount(custID, responseType) // accepts only "No Comment" or "Yes"

getWarrantResponseHistoricalCount(custID, DateTime, responseType)

// for all the above functions, a custID of 'MagicNumber' is the special customer ID of 'Anyone'.
They do it here, too. Just ask Scott Olsen.
They removed the link to the admin page.
Non of those were remotely credible. Yet the media continually treats him with kid gloves.
>Publicly funded broadcaster makes same mistake most large private enterprises make in more or less the same way.

Actually large private enterprises don't usually make this kind of mistake. This is a typical big government project. Software development is hard. Building large, complex, poorly defined software systems is hard.

//EDIT

I should clarify that. I don't think a private enterprise would engage in a project that would have it build an internal system, at that scale ($100 million), having so little impact on it's primary revenue driver, over so many years!

Big enterprises fail with big software, that's a fact. But they wouldn't fail in this specific way. This is a quintessential big government software project failure.
Previous discussion, including info from someone close to the project, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5762116
Ask HN: Is it really this easy?
I'm browsing startups near my area and what I'm seeing are a lot of startups that are based on previous big ideas, just applied to a very niche market. Ideas that I'm sitting on the subway and thinking to myself, "Hmm that'd be a cool idea", and then I discard it two seconds later. I have hundreds of ideas written down, and I am so quick to discard each and every one of them as silly because who the fuck would use any of these apps I came up with. Then I see the list of startups and what they are all about and I weep.

How do these companies get funding? Why do they get funding? A majority of these startups don't have a very unique ideas and it doesn't look like many are really making a difference or increasing wealth.

How do startups work? Do a lot of these just get initial funding, get an office, work on their stuff, and if it doesn't succeed, it just shuts down?

I'm honestly a bit confused at how the startup scene works as I have a great idea and I'm pouring my blood, sweat, and tears into it. It'd be lovely to have a small team to work with and I'm wondering how do these people get SO MUCH funding? It seems that every second company I'm looking at has been funded through the roof.

I'm genuinely curious how it works as I'm trying to get my own business going. Can somebody shed some light into the process?
We have sadistic cops over here as well. They will actually put it on q-tips and swab underneath the protestor's eyelids:

http://www.nopepperspray.org/
Looks like it's already possible: http://betanews.com/2013/05/24/spy-on-the-worlds-web-searche...

That said, and while the visualization is spiffy, I do not think I want the collective interest of the Internet displaying on my monitor for all to see when I am away. I've been to the Internet, and I can't say I approve of everything that goes on out there. ;)
8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect (2008)
Thanks for the feedback. As I'm fairly new to all of this, I'd love to hear how I can turn this into a more viable experiment.

Also, to defend myself a little: I think I'm at least being responsible by in no way claiming that it's statistically valid, and in fact making the point that it's not, and citing the reasons why, several times in the article.

I do stand by my point, however, that this helps the public understand the danger of metadata for data-mining, as well as introducing them to the pitfalls of statistics.
The article says that drugs were found during the execution of a warrant, it doesn't say what the warrant was for or how the drugs were found during the execution of the warrant. You can find evidence for other crimes when you execute a warrant, you just can't look it if it's outside the scope of the warrant.

Also, even if the warrant was overbroad, the evidence wouldn't get thrown out as fruit of the tainted tree, because a bad decision by a judge (e.g. grant a bad warrant) won't cause the evidence to become tainted in that way. You can exclude evidence because the police broke the law, but the judge isn't breaking the law just by interpreting it poorly. Or put another way, we don't want the police to have second-guess judges' decisions.
Maybe they remove the top 10% of searches?
More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
Since they know what "porn" is by way of safesearch, the could easily check to see if a search query returns "unsafe" content.
America's Worst Charities
The author, Daniel Greenfeld, is also coauthor of Two Scoops of Django (https://django.2scoops.org/) that has a lot of other awesome tips.
Good design gives you a peak of usability and aesthetics. If you need a switch to let you prefer one over the other, then I think you've done it wrong.
Simple browser-side CSS does the trick. I use Stylish[1] for Chromium. I believe there is also a Firefox version.

[1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...
Hackers tend to be passive, arm-chair, activists. Twittering on the internet and feeding outrage to each other, but never actually getting engaged to solve real issues. How many hackers do you know that have dedicated their entire careers to causes in the public service?

In comparison, I look around at my friends who majored in liberal arts. I know a double-digit number of people who turned down six figure jobs to go into public service for a fraction of the money, doing often thankless work. One of my best friends wants to save the environment. The summer after our second year of school, I went to go intern at a firm, which gave me a $1k/month lunch budget and a guaranteed job after graduation, while she went to intern for the EPA which doesn't have much of a budget for anything, and rarely hires anyone after graduation. Now, I've got an office with views of Manhattan, and she's waitressing on the side to make ends meet while looking for that rare opportunity to get a job at an environmental non-profit.

How many hackers do you know that would turn down a job at Google or Facebook and instead try to break into the (often insanely competitive) job market of public service? I'm not judging the people who wouldn't go down that road. I think they're like me and most people: personally moral, but not willing to put a larger moral cause ahead of their own self-interest. That's fine, and the way it should be. But it's ridiculous to be that way then get self-congratulatory just because you write some scathing internet screeds complaining about the man.

I'd estimate that about 10-12% of Stanford Law's graduating class each year goes into public interest work or government work. Can you imagine what the political landscape would look like if 10-12% of Stanford UG's engineering graduates each year went into public interest jobs or into government (to change policy from the inside?)
I had the chance to see some of the work Adobe is planning to do with their CMS (some actual demos from the "Adobe Labs"), and i cant deny the resemblance to BBCs case. I am wondering whether Adobe was involved...
PRISM - All your data, in one place
Viewport relative unit strangeness in iOS 6
pretty sure werkkzeug was the tool, not the demo