skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I agree, but when discovered we don't have to wait for a government to do its dirty work before the mere mortals are allowed the patch. Patched, poked in the repository and job done.

The temporal window of attack is pretty low. Take a look at Microsoft when CVE's are issued versus when the KB article with hotfix is announced and it hits windows update. Not a good story.

Regarding the key fiasco, we used puttygen for key generation.
Why, oh why is there no Lisp on the list? Here's to the weird ones.
Change your ship's charge so that it's the same as the pulled ship, maybe?
Here we go again. Not to be cynical, but that's just unfair. Apple has plenty of time improve their icons before iOS 7 releases to the public, assuming they acknowledge it wasn't a brilliant idea to outsource design to the local children's art school.
"save us from the unnecessary skeuomorphism"

People get stuck on the word 'skeuomorphism' here but the key word is 'unnecessary':

Find My Friends is often condemned for being too skeuomorphic. Mythbusted: Find My Friends uses standard iOS UI that is themed using custom graphics. The fine corinthian leather and stitching does not harken back to a day of fine corinthian leather products we used to use to find our friends. There is no connection to real world objects by using these materials.

http://mantia.me/blog/skeuomorphism/
Ruby: Sinatra/Rails, usually on top of Heroku or straight-up AWS. Usually a SQL-variant or MongoDB.
Hopefully we'll find out for sure now.
you read my mind. was going to type exactly this.!!
Before I put up MyNSARecords, I was curious as to whether more people would want a copy or want them deleted. Thought you might find it interesting: the "want a copy" crowd outnumbers the "delete" crowd by about 4 to 1.
you and I have very different definitions of "prototype"
Javascript (node.js etc)
He's done a heroic thing, and I think he deserves some latitude in defending himself from the unjust prosecution of those he's exposed. They brought it on themselves.
hello all, my name is brian and I'm a cofounder of Fireplug - here to answer any questions regarding Fireplug, our ability to scrobble Google Reader and give you credit for what you've read (before it dies).
Did you look into the frameworks built on top of Backbone like Marionette?
> they had satellites that could read the print on a newspaper.

This is physically impossible, for the reasons given by marssaxman below; specifically, the resolution of an imaging system is limited by diffraction. In order to read a newspaper from orbit, you would need a ridiculously large aperture. Furthermore, you've certainly seen declassified Cold War satellite and aerial (U-2) imagery. You know what it looks like. Do you seriously believe they had something else that could read newspapers?
I was merely outlining that the acquirer hasn't displayed a pattern of being very interested in defending the privacy of its users. There's a difference between complying with the law and what the big telcos have been doing.
Racket. Really enjoyed using it.
sorry forgot to add it. Just added.
Agreed. JavaScript is the top language on github by a margin (https://github.com/languages), and some of the other languages you listed aren't really intended for web apps naturally. I would add JavaScript post haste and probably kill off Dart and VB.
It will take a while before I am comfortable with others wearing Glass around me. The thought of speaking to someone wearing the device makes me a little uncomfortable. I realize that may sound a little luddite-esque to certain members of this community, but there you have it.

This is a resistance that I'm sure is shared by many in the general public. It's something we all may get used to eventually, but I honestly predict a fairly grating and occasionally unpleasant transition period.
Node.js isnt a language.
D) Magnetize your hull to the same charge and bring in the ship
Not just "seeing" (atmospheric turbulence), but also diffraction.
I don't need to believe in gods in order to demand that my government treat people as I expect they should be treated. Nobody does, though if some do, that is fine as well. Arguing that there are no unalienable rights because there is no gods is missing the point, unalienable rights are whatever we demand them to be. As sure as any hypothetical god could demand there be unalienable rights, so can we.

This means that we will never all agree on an unalienable set of rights, but so what? With apologies to Sir Charles Napier, let us all act according to our own sense of morality.
I think mootools is pretty cool.
How does Yubikey protects you from malware? I'm genuinely curious as from the overview it seems to only store passwords?

As for the misuse, the device can be PIN protected (it's not much but saves you some time to transfer the bitcoins).
This poll is very interesting to me for one reason - Python is winning the poll, yet I very rarely see/use any large web applications that are actually written in Python. I'm guessing this is partly because Python is increasing in popularity now, and the web applications being written in it haven't yet reached the wider public? Also, perhaps, a lot of small personal projects are done in Python yet don't scale out into the Gmail/Gdocs/Github style ubiquitous services?

The poll is also missing Javascript which is very strange, as it's probably still the most used language for the front end of web apps, and with Node it's probably used more regularly for the full stack, too. EDIT: Looks like Javascript was just edited into the poll now.
It seems they can't go full non-skeuomorphic without looking like a WP rip-off? Finding new symbols for abstract concepts is even harder though, some will stay until we have brain-computer interfaces that will give us new senses.
Will they though?
I have used Scala in conjunction with the Play Framework as of late. I am a fan of it.
Wow - that was a very meaningful contribution. It certainly shows Kyle Wiens to be a man of purpose.
THis has been asked several times.. but I'll go ahead and say I've been using Fastmail.fm for my personal email for several years now and have not had a problem with it.

For work, I've used self-hosted exchange (I didnt manage it), Rackspace, and most recently Microsoft Office 365 for my current startup. We're liking MS O365 but I wouldn't pay that much for my personal email hosting at this point.
There is a lot of ambiguity about whether we are able to activate pleasure or merely activate wanting.
Care to shed more information on this? How well did it work? Were the effects long term or temporary?
I am such a noob that forgot to add javascript. added now.
Would it be possible to improve the resolution of optical imagery using a synthetic aperture?
There's never a bad time to re-read this classic. Here's one link to the entire book:

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
Is all this just because they "lost control" of the old inspector to Google (who invested heavily in it)?

The new one doesn't support the websocket protocol yet so I can't use it in my WK stuff anyway, but I don't know why they spent a bunch of time on a new one. I was also sad to see the "Native Memory Instrumentation" removed from WebKit, because I've always wanted to know "where the memory goes" on any given page.
I think what's wrong with the icons can be summed up by the following:

• Inconsistency

• Unnecessary complexity

I don't have much of a problem with the colours. The icons are only half the problem though. Both the text and icons do not stand out enough against the background, and the text and icons seem too close together. The homescreen just looks half finished.
User Management: The Next Major Pillar in the *-as-a-Service Paradigm
They think the clear denial and resulting walk-backs are enough.
PGP, Inc., now Symantec, has been selling a product that does exactly this for years.
I usually skip the comments and just come here. :-)
Prism: Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks
I'm pretty much a JavaScript guy, but lately I've been writing a lot of stuff with Ruby for work, so I might give a Rails a try, really depends on what we'd be building.

And while I'm commenting I might as well add at at this point if I wouldn't touch PHP or Java with a long stick. I can barely sleep at night when I think of all the people who still write Java on browser...
Show HN: WebGL hackathon (NYC) invite
Would love to see folks join us for some beer, food, and WebGL goodness!

PS - in hacking spirit, we made this over dinner in one pass, so don't hate (too much)
Entirely different concept. I want simple data to be easily distributable and interpretable.
Make a format that can universally read/write the data in these very basic graphs:

http://download.cell.com/images/journalimages/2211-1247/PIIS...
http://download.cell.com/images/journalimages/2211-1247/PIIS...
http://download.cell.com/images/journalimages/2211-1247/PIIS...

Most science (that really needs hackers' help) is not the big sexy datasets, but the really basic HTML5/CSS viewable graphs otherwise done in Excel. But it must be done in a scientifically rigorous way (retain units and labels, be able to manipulate those units, and be able to show/hide data between different datasets).

Think a way to download and view a melting point curve dataset without ANY user configuration. Or an enzyme activity curve. Or a drug dosage response curve. VERY basic data, but it must be able to maintain and interpret a label and a unit in addition to the number itself.
Traveling Deliveryperson Problem
Go. Add it :)
For those that find this useful, you may also want to check out the book/tutorial I'm writing on elasticsearch at http://exploringelasticsearch.com
Psychological Traits vs. Personality Type Theory
That sounds like normal software to me. Nobody is forcing you to update unless the ABI changes. And you can start a mailing list that talks about updates if you like.
It was just a subjective question. I thought Dropbox could just extend this functionality.

Or maybe 3rd party apps/services could felicitate this just the way e.g. http://calepin.co does for static site generation. Use Dropbox for storage of emails. And naturally you'll have a local email archive on all your connected devices.

So, seems there's nth like this as Dropbox doesn't let us to do the compounding, as you also pointed out.
Google Maps has my postal code wrong for 2/3 places I've lived.
The strong selling point of iOS is consistency and order across all concepts. To me Android is like a mutagenic factory sewage - anything is possible for better of worth.
I think they might have taken skeuomorphism to the extreme in some of the recent apps (Calendar, Notes, and Reminders, I'm looking at you) but after looking through the screenshots of the new app UIs and these icon comparison I think they went too far in the other direction.

To me an icon is a quick way of telling me what the app is and for lack of that (I tend to hoard apps) some clue as to what it might do. I really have to wonder if they did any tests on this. For example, show someone an icon and see how long it takes for them to correctly say what it does. Amorphous blobs just doesn't do it for me for things like Game Center.
Totally agree — Penny Arcade Report is super impressive. They cover such a wide variety of stuff and have an incredibly broad range from Kickstarted board games to AAA console franchises.
YouTube handles more traffic than all the sites you named combined.
Skeuomorphism was important to transition users from physical objects to virtual objects in a meaningful way. It enabled you and I to understand what tap/touch/pinchNzoom etc are.

Now that we know what virtual objects are about, we can move to a design scheme that's made for virtual objects.

I inherently don't like the phrase 'Flat Design' - there is so much more to this.
Their commercial stating that the iPad can't have Office just became obsolete.
It's inconsistent with the entire OS. Having 7 or 8 apps look completely different is inconsistent and jarring when you shift from app to app. And the linen was just plain fugly.

We live in an age where flatter, more consistent UI designs are a necessity. Not flat to the point where you can't tell what the hell is going on, like Metro, but minimalist with visual cues to let you know what is happening, which is similar to Google's interface for Android and their web services.

We don't need to be reminded that games used to be played in casinos. We don't need to be reminded of how a ledger notepad with leather binding looks. We don't need to be reminded of how a bookshelf looks.

Why?

Because we don't use bookshelfs, game tables, or ledger pads on our phones.

We use digital representations of games, text, and input devices. The need to have an analog analogue is gone. And apart from the horrid icons in iOS 7, it's a step forward in every way. Except, of course, for the icons.

Did I mention the icons were awful?
The thing I realized after installing iOS7 was how few of the stock icons still resided on my home screen. Sure, some of the required ones need work - but when mixed with a well-chosen background, and mixed in with the other app icons from my collection - the overall aesthetic isn't as jarring.
Doesn't gmail do everything you ask for? $50 a year? It is the best if you don't care about control/privacy.
Gabe's writing has gotten much, much better of the years, though Tycho's has always been good.

But seriously, I remember early Gabe newsposts and they were just full of typos and spelling errors and I honestly lost a little respect for him. Then again, I was an arrogant little shite ten years ago, so don't read much into that.
That's great! Do you get down to Philly or Baltimore much? We've got a big fan base here that would love to chat with you at a TechBreakfast in Philly or Baltimore - let me know.
I've always found the comic pretentious and unfunny. Probably because a character almost always is given a mouth-breathing look of stupidity in at least one panel. The joke of the comic has always seemed to be, "look at this thing I've seen people doing, wow that's idiotic, here's the flawed thinking that led to that."

This is only based on the Penny Arcade comics I've seen that have gone viral, so perhaps it is not representative.
Do the accessibility options help?
In addition to everything else that's been said in this thread, let me point this out:

In at least some states (my own North Carolina, for example) it's VERY difficult to get a new political party recognized by the State, and certified as eligible to put candidates on the ballot. Now, to be fair, NC has some of the worst ballot access laws in the country, but the point is that it's not necessarily easy to organize a party, get candidates on the ballot, etc.

Here in NC, you have to gather enough petition signatures to equal, IIRC, 10% of the total votes cast in the last Presidential election, in order to certify a new party. That winds up being > 100,000 signatures, and you just can't collect that many signatures using only volunteers, which means you need to hire paid petitioners. Last I heard, it cost about a dollar per signature. Oh, and you actually need about 25% more signatures than the nominal requirement, because a bunch will get thrown out by the Board of Elections for one reason or another (not from NC, no birthdate listed, etc.)

You're basically talking about a 4 year long effort and over $100,000.00 to get on the ballot here. And here's the rub: If your party's candidate for President or Governor doesn't garner at least 2% of the vote, you get bumped back off the ballot and have to repeat the whole process again. And so on and so on and so on... Now, 2% isn't that bad, but they only just lowered it to 2% from, IIRC, 10%, a few years ago.

For context: Since the modern (current) election laws went into place, only one party in NC has ever gotten ballot access outside of the Democrats and Republicans, and that was the Libertarian Party. And until they lowered the retention threshold to 2%, we had to go through that "petion, petition, petition every 4 years" cycle essentially constantly, which meant that we had very little money (or energy) to dedicate to supporting candidates, advertising, etc. It was a nonstop war just to retain ballot access.

Also, for context, no 3rd party candidate in NC history has gained 10% or more in race for President or Governor. We have managed to hit the 2% threshold the last two election cycles though, which is nice, since it frees up time and energy and money to do other things besides petitioning.

Anyway, the point of all that is just to show that it takes a lot of effort, time, energy and money to organize a political party and get on the ballot (at least here. Each state is different). And that's just getting on the ballot. Actually winning elections is even harder.
You don't see the difference between say, having a camera next to you on the seat of your car and driving the Google StreetView car everywhere you go?
Don't quote me on this, but I think Python is more wildly used than Ruby as a language, but not on the web and it's popularity on the poll might have to do with Rails now falling off little since it's not the shiny new toy anymore.

Everyone seems to be all up in Python right now and I don't know why.
Skeuomorphism is an attempt at reproducing physical items digitally. The problem is that in a few years, nobody is going to relate to most of these objects.

The same thing is still true for any icon (such as the "save" floppy disk or the old-style trash can), but at least they're simple and don't require realism. They'll simply become abstract symbols that represent some actions.

I'm an absolute fan of flat design, and my favorite mobile OS is Windows Phone. However, I still prefer iOS 6 to iOS 7, if only for the look of third party apps.
Noise becomes data when you have the right algorithm.
- So do I understand you correctly, you have both the mobile friendly Web site and native app?

- Are you monetizing your native app or is it "buy 1, get 2nd free" type of a thing?

- Why do you need mobile app at all?

- Is your native app only to gain more market traction, or it actually can do something Web-version cannot?
I think this is a much more effective method of getting people to reject snooping. Saying "the government can track metadata about who you call" is not very scary.

But make it more concrete and you get some scary statements:

- The government can use phone call metadata to build a list of all people who likely own firearms and are gun enthusiasts and pro-gun rights.

- The government can use phone call metadata to build a list of all women who likely have had abortions or use contraception.

- The government can use phone call metadata to build lists of likely members of each religious group, and their respective social networks.

Now there's something for everyone to oppose!
The man loves words and writing and such. I don't think there's anything pretentious about it.
Try something like this perhaps:

<a href="/retrieve/" class="button retrieve">Retrieve</a>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
.button {
font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
text-decoration:none;
color:#fff;
background-color:green;
margin:1em;
padding:0.5em 1em;
font-size:2em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:0.1em;
}
</style>

http://jsfiddle.net/zdYbM/
There are a ton of large web apps done in python. Youtube, disqus, bitbucket, The Onion, some mozilla properties, instagram are the examples that come to my mind. A simple google search would probably result in surfacing many more - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale
Tips My Dad Says
Unfortuntely, I don't see good alternatives for Java if it's a larger project.

C# - tied to MS stack. I know, there's Mono, but I'm somehow sceptical using it for a web app...

Python, Ruby, PHP - slow, much worse IDE support than Java.

Clojure - dynamic typing -> worse IDE support, less readable than Java.

Scala - slow compilation, overly complex and unelegant syntax.

Go - looks good, but sometimes feels too low-level - it's a systems programming language, it was created as a C++ replacement.

Dart - unfortunately the ecosystem isn't evolved yet, but this is how Java should look like. The only thing I don't like is optional typing.
It seems that everyone around here is immediately willing to defend Snowden and cast the government as the bad guys.

An excerpt from this article (http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/edward-snowden-is-co...):

> Baker says the government built in as many controls and oversights as it could think of. “Two different presidents from two different parties with very different perspectives. Two different Intelligence committees led by two different parties. A dozen judges chosen from among the life-appointed judiciary. None of them thought this was legally problematic,” Baker says. “And one guy says, ‘Yeah, I disagree, so I’m going to blow it up.’ If the insistence is, ‘It only satisfies me if it’s out in public,’ then we’re not talking about intelligence-gathering. We’re not even talking about law enforcement. We’re talking about research. And I’m not sure you can run a large country in a dangerous world just by doing open-source research.”

> Other advocates of the NSA operation say the sheer vastness of the program is what helps shield citizens. “Individuals are protected by the anonymity granted by the quantity of information,” says Eric Posner, a University of Chicago law professor. “It’s just too difficult to spy on such a vast number of people in a way that’s meaningful.”
Mozilla Launches ScienceLab To Help Researchers Use The Open Web
It looks like a dev did this one, not a designer :))).
Seems pretty easy to test, though hard to test ethically perhaps. Wire someone up, flip the switch, tell them that they can turn it off if they don't like it. If they like it, then is it not by definition pleasure? Perhaps they find "wanting" to be pleasurable, but I know that I for one do not.
Some people are upset about the look of iOS, Android and WP converging, but I'm quite happy about it. At the moment many apps get written to fit the iOS style and when they are ported over to Android they look horrible.

I think now many cross platform apps are going to start looking a lot better.
Some frameworks are designed to help with this step though. For instance: Rails has scaffolds & generators, angular.js has directives (plain old html views you can open), html itself can be used for mock-ups (and there are plenty of others as well).

Specifically, why build a partially functional prototype only to throw it away for another framework down the road.

It seems naive to me, because the effort you put into the prototype is mostly dropped (except for high-level mental models). Rather then building a throw-away prototype, I think it's better idea to build a prototype you can refactor and improve, with one set of tools.
I feel the same way... about Ruby. I'm always shocked at how often I can just guess how to do something, and it works. The language lets you do anything.

Whereas in Python, there's one way to do it, and it's a matter of looking it up the right way to do it.

Matter of personal preference, really. They're pretty much equivalent choices for a web app and one probably just should use whichever one is most comfortable with.
Security Limits for Compromising Emanations [pdf]
Basically we have chosen Percona to by our MySQL 'base'. Essentially even if they switch to MariaDB as the core I can expect a seamless transition and support to back it up if needed. Essentially if the crap ever truly hits the fan with Percona solutions they can charge us for some hours. If the same happens with MariaDB it's pretty much 'me'.
Nationalists don't really care about the rights and freedoms of other people. They are only concerned about the rights and freedoms of their own country.
Yahoo's Acquisition of Tumblr For 1.1 Billion Dollars
For a small number of tasks in Clojure, it's very sensible to write a Java program that handles what you want to do, then call it from Clojure. Here's an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14949705/clojure-performa...