skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you wrote here is exactly what sprung to my mind upon reading the headline, never mind the story itself. But then after reading it I got to thinking of all the developers that I have met that are absolutely resolute in their belief that, for example, the whole project was done wrong from that start and needs to be written despite the fact that I think it is clear that the risk-reward for such a thing is a terrible trade off. And then there is the over-representation that I perceive in libertarian-types in the tech business.

I don't know, maybe there is something to the idea that spending most of your time engaged in total control over a virtual environment that executes pure logic turns people into activist-types or attracts them. I think the most important thing to being an activist is to be sure you are right and I have met no shortage of hackers that are sure they are right (often no matter how wrong they actually are).
If they've generated a PDF, then they had to have you post the info to their server to run the PDF generator.

I'm a little concerned about whether or not you know this and just forgot for this simple example, or don't know this about how web apps work. You should just assume that any web app you're using is collecting your data, even if you don't "save" or setup an account.

EDIT: I assume this because I have written ones that maximally collect data, so I just assume others have done the same.
Toxic waste spill in Alberta biggest disaster in North America
Thingsquare - a professional alternative to Arduino
I had to go through the gas chamber in basic training, and we were essentially made to remove our masks and breathe some of the tear gas in. Let me tell you: it's not fun. There is no resisting the urge to cough and choke, your eyes water up, and all you can think about is getting out of the cloud.

It does have one positive side effect, however: it cleans out your sinuses like nothing else I've seen. :)
You can work 24x7 as far as I'm concerned. Just don't expect others to do the same.
Gamification & Monetization Wireframing Progression
That's a normal HTTPS cert, I'm talking about this:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-SSL_clien...

Really, though, unless you're extremely security-conscious, a hidden URL over HTTPS with a good password is sufficient for your purposes.

Also, don't serve any pages over plain HTTP, login pages even less so.
You mean, like this guy?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20007827-245.html?part=rss...
What Darkness Does to the Mind [crime study]
That's what a lot of filesystems do behind the scenes, especially Unix-style ones.
yes, it is.
I started with Android (because I don't need to pay for developer membership), but I hate it very much.
Eclipse is very shitty IDE. So many bugs, so slow, so not user friendly.
For me, the key is to not listen to new music whilst trying to do creative work. If I'm listening to an album that I have been listening to for the last 6 months, it can be the perfect foil to the incredibly noisy open plan offices I have worked in for the last 15 years of my career (managers, for goodness sake please stop making open plan offices!)

Nothing beats the overriding hum of a server room though - Pure white noise at loud enough volumes that you can't talk easily with other people. Stick some ear plugs in to dampen the volume a little, and you're set to go.
Nice. I often use Fontello [1] to snag only the fonts I need for a particular project. They have several libraries there, and you can select what you need from any/all and download the compiled CSS and font files.

[1] http://fontello.com/
"first army in human history to be less concerned with the acquisition of power and control and more about giving that empowerment to the individuals we fight for"

That sounds incredible egocentric. Under what standard do you exclude all suffragettes and all abolitionists from this category?
Yes, the stock photos are a really minor issue. But, if you can draw a little diagram that explains your service on a white board, I would prefer that to the lady who has nothing to do with your startup...
Fitimg: A jQuery plugin to make images "fit" to their containers
Show HN: I made a website for generating acronyms for projects: Acronymify
Successful Startups Solve Problems (Big or Small)
Different strokes for different folks, right?
Yes, but the easy of use of JavaScript is orthogonal to the performance claims.

Also, keep in mind that I wrote Lua-JIT, not Lua. There's a big performance difference between them too.
I can't find discussion on HN about this project. But as I remember you guys collected feedback about product before build it, right?
Do you have link?
I'm impressed. Good job.
The famous and rich have managed to get out of laws that were clearly and explicitly applicable to them.

The problem is not the law itself in those cases, it is the people enforcing the law. If your cops and judges can be bribed then no law or defense is ironclad, "selective enforcement" or not.
Instart Logic hopes to profit from speeding up Web sites
Everyone seems to think this guy should go and hide. But if he is hiding he can't defend himself publicly. I think we all know that the US can eventually find him. We also know that if he is found cowering in some hole, far from media scrutiny, that he's likely to be killed, or secretly rendered for torture. Retreating to a semi-friendly place like HK where the press might not be completely captured by US influence, where the gov't might not be completely pliable may have been the best thing he could have done.
Silence will lead to court. You will have a lawyer, preferably a competent one. He/She will advise both you and your wife and you'll present a testimony that won't put you in jail.

Talking to the police has a high certainty they'll present your statement, or part of it, as admission of guilt and that leads directly to jail.

I'd rather waste money than my life. Me and my wife can later sue our neighbours for damages and try to get our money back from them. But I can't sue them to give me back jail time.
Destruction just seems like such a harsh word.

Any time you measure something, you impact what you measure. Without being pedantic about the Physics, look around. If you measure when people get in and our of work, they will optimize around it, and other things may suffer. If you measure defects in code, people will optimize it.

But back to the web... Search by definition is a measurement or prediction of usefulness. It will definitely impact what gets searched. But that collateral damage can be minimized. And it some cases it can improve the web experience, though I wouldn't bank on it. I certainly don't view the Web as a pristine wilderness being destroyed.
How to Customize Spinner in Android
DevOps Ireland Meetup-Scaling Infrastructure with Grml and Kobold
I don't think clojure has triple-quoted strings. Something like

"""
a
"""

parses as three strings, two of which are empty: "", "\na\n", and "". (Clojure strings are allowed to contain literal newlines.)
Slight off-topic, but reminded me of this:

http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html
Apple: The organizational Rorschach
Army? Give me a break!

We developed our own morality in a vacuum..

Sorry, there are plenty of old-timey hackers I worked with at telcos that were happy to look up phone records and just generally mess with stuff, including people's privacy. When they got old enough to fear losing their jobs or saw the new system with auditing in place they stopped.

Your comment sounds too much like hagiography to me.
Will Google Glass turn Big Data into Huge Data?
Thank you very much for your suggestions!

I've bundled them together in a Grooveshark playlist:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Work+Ambient/87531575
How to win like Waze: turn users into contributors
Although I don't agree with the statement made, there does seem to be a large number of people who immediately use the race card on anyone that criticizes President Obama. Not that there aren't people who deserve the racist label, but everyone can't be racist for simply disagreeing with the man.

I agree with your WoT statement and polls tend to back it up.
I'm completely aware the legally subservient option is to "take the financial hit". You're not think it through carefully, I just don't see that as a particularly relevant or salient point, the law is just an arbitrary set of rules the biggest bully has put in place, they probably congratulated themselves on a clever ploy putting him between a rock and a hard place rather than considering whether what they were doing and if the law was sane and gag orders attached to business negotiations with millions of dollars worth of personal repercussions for people under intense pressure to submit to the state was acceptable
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Well, that happens a lot too.
Seems like there's something ironic about that giant "tag cloud" being on this page.
Is Apple confused about the iOS7 design?
Note that StavrosK is probably talking about SSL client authentication, which isn't what most people think about when talking about SSL. Basically, it enables you to allow access only to people with a certain client certificate installed in their browser (i.e., proving the clients' identity to the server, not just the other way around).

Unfortunately I have no idea how this would work on Heroku.

There's a great article about client authentication for HAProxy (might be interesting even if you're not using HAProxy): http://blog.exceliance.fr/2012/10/03/ssl-client-certificate-...
The parent comment is either ill-informed or deliberate misinformation. Kim wasn't armed. There was a fully licensed rifle in the premises, but it wasn't with him. There was no warrant granted to arrest him, no due process, and the prime minister of the country has given him a personal apology for the event, which has been admitted to be a gross perversion of lawful policing.

Somewhere along the line he realized it was a police raid, but chose to wait in the panic room anyway, with the door open, to avoid startling anyone and putting himself at risk of being shot. Even so, and despite knowing of the existence of the room, it took police 13 minutes to find him, and when they finally did they weren't particularly gentle in apprehending him. Dotcom claimed he was punched in the face and kicked to the floor, and that one officer stood on his hand once he was down. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118975-Kim-Dotcom-...
How Startups Helped the NSA Build PRISM
Yes - the original post was titled, "Stop building apps no one wants": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4876680
My concern -- and this is a total layman's observation -- is that if someone comes up with a good way to "spam" the academic research circuit, will we be able to tell? Most of us remember the recent Reinhart-Rogoff incident in which a massively flawed paper (think, Excel-based) wasn't challenged until a curious grad student took notice: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-excel-austerity-economics-paper...

There are other issues in all of that, but for the current discussion, I think it's enough to argue that discovery of exaggeration (the equivalent of resume padding) is still a very difficult problem in academic papers and citations. Do researchers have the tools to methodically sift out the good from the meh? It doesn't seem so. Combine that with the lack of incentive (as seems to be the case in Reinhart-Rogoff) to disprove published findings, and you have a scenario in which gaming the system seems quite doable.
I think a lot of those security checklist things are a good guidemap of what you need to do. Then add to that a security book specific to your application's programming language(s)

Heres one, there are plenty more:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/ensure-basic-web-s...
That's Not Your Customer
Well, the term "army" implies a great deal more control and coordination than I currently see in place. Mind you, if we did organize, it would scare the bejezus out of the authorities.
The wiring up is killing it for me - the wrong parts have been overengineered (MVC4, JSON) and not enough attention has been paid attention to the things that need to be stable (Azure dev tools). Overall the service has amazing potential, insofar as you can do a lot more than you can do on something like App Engine (which only supports HTTP - which after using Azure, was a good decision). But it drops the ball on all the basic features, whether they be buggy or missing.

The big issue I have with MVC4 (and many other Microsoft things with which I've been working) is that MVC4 doesn't work to fit around me - I need to work to fit around it. Compare that to working with Flask - supporters say it's a "beautiful API", but really what it comes down to is that Flask is minimal enough (not minimalist), gives you everything you need to work with the web, and if you need to do something complex, doesn't get in the way. It's at the appropriate level of abstraction. MVC4 is not.

I guess we'll see how the cost goes over time as well - not sure how that will pan out. I wish I had better stuff to say, because I was quite excited about it when I first started using it, but I have soured on it and won't use it for anything not Microsoft-centric.
nice, followed you, I hope I don't miss it. will it be released on zurb plugins page or only independently?
IPv6 usage of Google services spikes on weekends
if you define complexity by the amount of admin pages, then it is not complex. You can have a basic crud app with 100 pages of CRUD forms, does it make the app "complex" ?

Google Maps has 1 screen ,but all the infrastructure required to make it work is complex, and the code required to display maps is too. That's what a complex app is. Not an app with 100 screens of CRUD, reporting or whatever.
NSA hires the best nerds.

DoD hires all the scientists. The ones who don't get hired, go to pharmaceuticals (which have an excellent track record of morally dubious acts).

Nerds that I have have met or seen in mailing lists, have a strong co-relation with totalitarianism aka evil sysadmins.

I would like to call a distinction b/w Aron who is first and foremost a philosophy-geek, something that all idealists have in common.
Except some speech is now a felony. Neat, huh?
Dude, this area is tropical. There is no winter.
you can also put up a htpasswd if you can on that directory, every bit helps.
Too bad most "nerds" these days work for firms whose sole purpose is to gather user data and violate privacy in general.
He meant a rich app with complex interactions, as distinct from a basic text content site.
If someone can make that up you wonder why they don't just accuse him of being in Al-Qaeda or having WMD and simply bomb him. Would save all the tedious business of due process and evidence...
A side matter, but handing the BBC's governance over to Ofcom? They haven't held the Independent Television programme contractors to their remits since 2001 under the threat of any sanction - or, for that matter, put their contracts up to tender (not that it worked or ever will work if we want a One Nation Tory-style public broadcasting system again - and not that I remain suspicious of their inconsistent singling out of Thames Television) since 1993.

The BBC Trust, at the very least, has an image to mantain.
The quote is nice but it's a great justification for illegal/unconstitutional actions. Those in power can do a lot of harm while abusing this idea.
"What part of the operation is violent to you?"

Pretty much all of it?
That's way OT. The article has absolutely zero to do with flight pricing, or the content of the website.

It's about making a webapp UI work well across different viewport dimensions using Zurb Foundation.
It's not that flat design is a "grown up design". It's that we're establishing a pattern of design fashion, much like the cycle of clothing fashion. We'll come back to skeumorphism eventually.
Statement of NSA Chief to US Senate [pdf]
One thing I missed out from the article: Waze contributors get direct access to the Waze devs once their data collection is high enough. This is a fascinating model that doesn't condescend to app users, but elevates them to having an active role in improving the app.
Real headline: Publicly funded broadcaster makes same mistake most large private enterprises make in more or less the same way.

It seems to me that months or years of auditing and hearings and cries for heads to roll are probably wasted. Just like a private company a few mangers should probably get tossed or reassigned and the second version of the same project should get started to address the businesses needs the first one was supposed to.
Oh yes, he has been lying, bragging and hustling for far longer.

In 2001, he told the NY Times his net worth was Euro 200 million. Obviously not true, but he did make at least some money by selling Data Protect to TÜV Rheinland.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/22/business/worldbusiness/22i...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/kim-dotcom/
I'd want the universities to fund the students out of their $multi-billion endowments, rather than get my kids to work longer to pay for it.
Not only is the code great, but so is the documentation, the release notes, and the community.
As of 2008 there were reportedly eight million Americans listed in the database as possible threats, often for trivial reasons, whom the government may choose to track, question, or detain in a time of crisis.
I'm a bit surprised that there are so few people who legitimately don't care at all. I actually don't care. I think it gives people a creepy, Orwellian-type feeling (because there were similar ideas in 1984) but the most significant part of 1984 was the totalitarian government itself. If covert methods are used to enforce the (possibly absurd) laws of a totalitarian regime, that's one thing; for the NSA to use covert methods to enforce our democratically produced laws and our collective desire for national security, that's something quite different. In the end, nothing they enforce relates to anything I do in my day to day life.
I tried it at a REPL in version 1.5.1 and it didn't work for me. I don't think standard Clojure has triple-quote strings.
Prof Bob Sutton at Stanford made a similar point about Steve Jobs last year: http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/07/wired-story-w...
so what will happens with Waze now?
Just used adioso for the first time. Then I read the post.

From my perspective, it looks cool and all, but the dates load extremely slow and you have to click the right arrow to pick your dates, rather than pop-up calendar, which they also use on a different part of the site and works out better.. Also, I wanted to fly to Vegas, it picked out my local airport and an 8 hour 1 stop trip to Vegas. By selecting an airport just 45 minutes farther from me, there are 4 hour flights to Vegas. But it didn't suggest those flights for me, it just took my location by default (from IP) and then shot out the 8 hour flights.

I don't know, I dont like the design. Too much fluff, not enough ease.
This article is prone to the "Availability Bias"

We tend to believe something is true when examples confirming it are easily available to fetch from our memories.

This has been exploited for example by telling people to think about 12 situations where they were rude. People end up believing they are rude when they can easily come up with example situations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
I did a quick check to see how Wikipedia defined a "One Nation Tory" - after all they have been pretty thin on the ground this last 30 years (especially here in Scotland!).

I'm somewhat amused to see that "One nation conservatism" appears to now be the policy of the Labour Party:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-nation_conservatism
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Flat vs. Skeumorphism aside -- I agree, those iOS 7 looks like someone's overzealous puke from last night's binge drinking.

I would not mind it as much if they let me tweak some of the colors so I can have dark background.

In any case, eventually, the flat-UI proponents will realize that flat design is a subtle skeumorphism, one harking back to the days when graphics hardware were not capable of rendering more realistic images.
Show HN: Pixlator - jQuery Plugin
There's nothing real-time about it. The data (http://hawttrends.appspot.com/api/terms/) is pulled from Google Trends, but it's certainly not real-time, more like hourly updated.
I am not smart enough to understand how anything NSA did could have justified Nacchio defrauding his shareholders by willfully and knowingly selling them stock in his company at an inflated price.

Neither, it seems, was the court.
The full FreeAgent app supports Paypal, GoCardless and Dwolla for direct invoice payment
No, coworkers walking is distracting because I can hear and understand what they are saying. My mind gets interested and will try to listen. For me it's the same with music that has pronounced lyrics.
Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything
How we got over 35,000 engaged Pinterest followers in one week
I think this is the best argument against ditching the file system metaphor. Having a generic, well-understood resource like a file-system is the power of general purpose computers. If Apple (or Google) can blur the concept of portable data, they can argue that data is "just too nebulous and complicated" to be useful to you mere mortals.
What are the philosophical implications of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem?
Yahoo buys conference call startup Rondee
Google does not claim its real time.Its a set of popular trending searches and it seems to update hourly.
> Also, all of the links I've posted on my account show 0 clicks.

My company's account has tens of thousands of followers (all organic) and we also see "0 clicks". We know we get a high CTR when including a link in a tweet as we measure it both on Bitly and the site's analytics. I guess the service is still rough around the edges, but looks promising.
IMO, the existance of code to configure more then one production-like environment is an anti-pattern. The remedy is using configuration management (Chef/Puppet/whatever) to put the correct environment specific configuration into place in a non-executable config file. Any other policy will lead to environmental drift.
I don't think anyone is trying to minimize the heinousness of child abuse. I think the point being made is that just because a particularly technique may be effective against a particular crime, doesn't mean that technique is morally or legally right.

We could castrate everyone even accused of pedophilia and that would probably discourage some amount of child sexual abuse, but clearly that wouldn't be right. Similarly, we could forcibly commit everyone with a history of mental illness in mental institutions and maybe that would've prevented Sandy Hook, Aurora, and most recently the Santa Monica shooting. Yet, that wouldn't be right.

In short, the ends don't justify the means. Usurping constitutional rights because it would make it more convenient to fight terrorism is the worst possible path we could take in dealing with the threat of terrorism.
Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf]
Note that the content in this CMS is hours and hours of raw video footage rather than the usual snippets of text.
Yet it's a pretty awesome way to get a snapshot of the trending topics of the day.
The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
I used infiniality and the result is beautiful. From what I was able to deduce it was a mix of phpstorm bolding everything way too much, JDK refusing to use rendering and some dpi issues (a letter in storm is almost twice smaller than in kwrite)

But my experiences with arch are very positive so far.