skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the Charles Shaw aka "two buck chuck", it's famous because it won an award when it was $2. How this brand works is buying the unwanted discard grapes from other wineries and then having them bottled. There is no consistency. Most years it is not very good. But, there was a glut of grapes on the market some years ago which allowed Charles Shaw to buy good quality grapes at a very low clearance price, which created a brief bubble where they had good wine for cheap. Since then they have been buying, as they do, the low priced, and low quality grapes, and the wine is not that great. It also has not been priced at $2 for some time. But, a lot of people know the story that "two buck chuck won some sort of award" and so they buy it and talk about how good it is even though it's pretty bad. Well good for them, they are happy and not spending a lot. I fail to see that that is a problem.

So when the journalists in 2013 trot it out and claim it is an award winning wine for $2, that shows instantly the journalist knows absolutely nothing about the wine market.

Since this happens in the opening paragraph in this article, it saves a lot of time reading.
> Power should be balanced amongst multiple super-powers, instead of a single one.

This is not something you see in nature. It is not natural. That is all I am saying.

Within a pride of lions, wolves, gorillas what have you, there exists hierarchy. The hierarchy exists cause it renders advantages to the survival of the group. If there are say four contenders interested in a mate, only one wins and that helps the entire group cause the best(most fit) genes are passed forward.
Shouldn't a microwave oven be the perfect household Faraday cage? It certainly has the shielding to contain 2.4 GHz waves, so the 800, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz cannot be that far off.
False? People liking cabernet sauvignon does not imply that they cannot like a merlot in a cabernet sauvignon bottle.
Survata (YC S12) is considered a competitor to Google Consumer Survey's core product. I agree this new product looks more like Qualaroo, though.

(I'm a Survata co-founder)
Hey HN,

Long time lurker. Made an account just a few days ago.

I recently started to teach myself programming (a little bit of Python and Django, nothing spectacular) as a challenge of sorts and also to see if the various ideas that kept buzzing in my head could be brought to life. Through this process, I kept lurking in various communities soaking in as much knowledge as I could. I attempted my way through a few online courses to hone my (non-existent) skills and six months later, I bring you HashPix.

The first few projects that I attempted didn't work out all that well. Some due to my poor knowledge of the subject, others due to poor execution, and yet others simply because they were bad ideas. This one is still quite raw and I was quite terrified of posting it here but thanks to some encouragement from /r/Django over at reddit, I finally decided to take the plunge and get some input from you guys.

So, here I am. Suggestions, feedback requested. Criticism invited. Bouquets appreciated. Brickbats welcome. Looking to learn as much as I can. And then some... :)

Thanks for reading!
So the mic in your phone can be used as a bug when you arent using it?
How To Make an Important Phone Call Effectively
> My point is that even within that framework, municipalities do not need to resort to the government's monopoly on the use of force to exclude Uber from the public roads.

Sure they do.

> The public built the roads that Uber runs its service on, and the public, acting through municipal governments, is entitled to exclude Uber from those roads.

Perhaps, but, in any case, that doesn't relieve them of the need to rely on the so-called "monopoly on force" to exclude Uber, it just, at best, is the justification for that particular use of it.
The Rise Of The Minimalist Workout
Conspiracy theory time.

What if employers start making employees wear them and have the video retained indefinitely? So that everything you saw, said and did was recorded for your employer to watch.

If this video streams to any online account, what’s to stop an outside agency from getting their hands on it.

Personally, I think it's rather upsetting that the feature people always rave about the most is the one that quickest turns us into an even more voluntary surveillance state.

TLDR: we don't need damn cameras on our damn faces. I promise your life can be fulfilling with out them.
Great now my browser is fat after visiting mcdonalds.

Feels like i'm smacking a fat belly
Photos allow you to discriminate which moment in time you want to convey to people. You can take and retake photos until you distill it to the right scene. Dead simple postprocess editing, e.g. filters, allowed you to enhance that even further.

Videos don't work the same way. Trying to distill the zeitgeist into a video is (24FPS * 15sec) times more work. Without a rich set of postprocess editing tools, i.e. what filters did for photos, that are equally dead-simple, the fantasy-aspiration of what instagram did for photos simply isn't there.

Sure, the trailer instagram showed for the introduction of videos had the same emotional and fantasy components in it that filters brought to photos, except they did a crap ton of postprocessing work on it to get it to that stage. Contrast this with when they showcase photos and filters - they must have done little or no work. Unless the app itself can create the level of videos that instagram showcased, instagram video has brought upon itself the death of fantasy.
octopress which is Jekyll based.
Would it be an improvement if unanswered questions (or ones with no replies) were hidden from Google?

I find it pretty frustrating when searching a topic and SO's unanswered or closed questions are at top the of SERPs.
Stack Exchange is not going to provide you with what you want. You can ask 'til you're blue in the face, but they're pretty clear about what they do and don't want.

So why keep asking?

You'll get better results creating it yourself, or persuading someone else to create it.
So the only solution is to increase the effort to decrypt. And for that we have to either/both increase complexity of the crypto (hard) and the amount of noise traffic.

Changing the crypto would require lots of time to roll out new platforms and updated clients.

Hence, the only feasible way to save the internet is to convert all porn sites to https. If you work on a ISP, block all porn connections over http, nature will find a way and the https sites will popup overnight.
Michael Hastings' Car Hacking Theory Latest Attempt To Explain Suspicious Death
Yeah, probably.

Alternatively, we could set up a mesh of dropbox/cloud accounts. People would connect in pairs and generate their own huge files of garbage. Then they would copy it into each of their dropbox directories and it would propagate n times. If everyone does this every day (write a script to generate random data), there will be a continuous stream of randomly encrypted files across the network. When your cloud drive fills up, delete older files.
>is you're paying extra not for vanity or features (unless it's for a date or a gift)

When else would you get wine? I don't think I've ever bought wine that wasn't for a social occasion (except in college, but then I bought the cheapest stuff I could find).
I started with blogger to make it as easy as painless as possible (also I didn't have time to manage or money to spend on a hosting provider or server). Now if I want to keep it as easy as possible, tumblr (although blogger has better Google indexing, even if Google denies it I have made some informal tests that kind of prove it.)

If I want to tinker as much as possible without rolling my own system, Wordpress probably (of course now I have a virtual server). If I want to tinker as much as possible, deep in the guts, rolling my own with some templating system and the simplest thing that can generate categories and previous-next. Which of course could be as simple as a small set of bash-sed-awk scripts/programs.
I think experts are more able to talk about objective features, but they get labeled as snobs when they proclaim that they've grown out of their initial subjectivity. ("Anyone with good taste will find this collection of features to be good and that collection to be bad; anyone else doesn't know what they are talking about.") When really all that's happened is their ability to articulate preferences and domain knowledge has developed. It's like adults looking down on childish behavior or something.
Right, it's the cross platform TFS Explorer (basically Source Control View in Visual Studio, but pulled out as an app)
So... what you've said is that it depends on whether or not you can get a fair trial, only you've assumed that it is. All I've said is that that isn't necessarily the case.

If you (a "criminal") determine that there might not be a chance that you'll be treated fairly I have 0 problem with you running.
1GB per 1B of hidden data. Let's see how fast we can fill their storage.
And on one of those two planets, all the robots are DEAD. If that isn't the setup for an awesome Doctor Who/Culture cross-over fanfic, I don't know what is.
You can almost run rvm and rbenv in parallel by installing them under separate system users.

That's how I handle having some clients who use one and some that use the other.
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I don't think it'll fail. I think it's going to be a massive success for people already addicted to things like facebook, instagram and reddit. The thought of never having to miss some tiny thing to share online so you can amass a tiny bit more internet karma is too alluring to go un-utilized. The amount of 'check out what this person said at burger king' and 'look at this person dancing on the subway' videos is going to skyrocket.
There is a difference between using a power to achieve an end, and necessarily needing to use that power to achieve that end. Cities might use their monopoly on force, as governments, to enforce a ban on Uber, but even if they did not have that power, they could use their rights as the entities that build and maintain the roads Uber runs on.
>Our descendants will probably not allocate billions of dollars on a mission to a ball of dry rock

if our descendants will still be thinking in billions of dollars ...
Yep, Platformatec are great people.
If the OP is more on the python side of things, there's Hyde, too. I played with it briefly a few months ago and, well, didn't suck at all (didn't use it enough to say it's the best ever, though)
This is awesome! When a handful of cars actually make for a good race it's especially mesmerizing.

I feel like it's only a matter of time before some startup implements a genetic driven visualization of the data from their app. If the effect is as compelling, I'd be staring at their marketing page for a long time.
And IE11 will support Windows 7, right?
If markdown isn't your style: Habari or WordPress. If markdown is ok: jekyll/octopress. Pagoda (https://github.com/alagu/pagoda) seems like a nice addition to jekyll if you need/want online editing.
Sure, but there's a point where the government could go too far. For example, if the government starting having random mattress inspections inside peoples homes that would be way too intrusive despite any reductions in bedbugs that might result.
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This sounds like a brilliant solution to a difficult problem, but I fear it only solves a portion of the problem. It deals with the issue of stolen keys, but how does it protect against cryptanalysis? If an organization were able to reveal the a key with a replicable process, couldn't it be simply repeated for each session key?
This is great news for game development of the web. WebGL will become the standard for 3D browser games.
>Or the NSA could just demand private keys via FISA letter.

I don't think you're legally obligated to retain private keys. If they start doing that I'll generate a new set of keys every day.
Credit to Microsoft for reversing their previous stance on WebGL.

Credit to Mozilla for pushing 3d on the web and forcing the issue. Any browser that doesn't implement WebGL will soon be considered crippled; Microsoft desperately wants to avoid that title again, so in a way, Mozilla forced their hand.

Competition at work.
Jimmy Wales breaks Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
Heaven forbid that current events and unfolding political discourse should have any effect on anything one does with ones life.
But are they allowed to use it to tell people that conventional car dealers are using the law to screw over consumers and therefore chip away at their political power?
Your Apartment's Deep, Dark Secrets
Can someone explain why we don't get ECDHE on ubuntu 12.04 by default?

On ubuntu 12.04 my apache has:

SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!ADH:!MD5

` openssl ciphers 'HIGH:MEDIUM:!ADH:!MD5'` shows a ton of ECDHE stuff in the list. I am not sure what it takes to get apache to use the ECDHE ciphers.
That. Since you have pretty much accepted that you failed as the "leader" of your crew, why pretend you are one now?

Have a meeting with the guys that do work for your company/product first, LISTEN to them, and then take it from there.
I don't think those 'jokes' go over as funny as the people that may make them hope. If everything my manager said was jokingly prefixed with 'you might get fired...' well, I'd consider it annoying and not at all a joke. If it's used sparingly, I'd take it seriously. Either way, I'd certainly feel like I'm walking on eggshells at that company. It would not improve morale at said company.

Put it another way - your wife, when you get home always says "You are cheating on me and I know it!" and then plays it off like a joke... this goes on every day... would you find it funny?
I disagree that there is some anti-American nefariousness going on with this data collection mess.
Aha, it's because they think their income will go up from donations of individuals? That makes more sense.
Is it just me or does this seem incredibly expensive at $0.10 per response? http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/pricing

If you compare qualaroo.com, their base package is $79 and comes with unlimited responses...
Thumbs up for eloquent ruby, fantastic book
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That was my thought too - why did they not put in sane hours and deliver as promised, instead of killing the team to overdeliver?
Another co-author here. By now most people should probably already know that Rails has 2 default stacks: http://words.steveklabnik.com/rails-has-two-default-stacks

Since the Book is not 'the factory default stack of Rails' but rather the Rails "way" we certainly do have an opinion about what is considered the most popular and efficient way of building Rails apps. This does mean we use HAML throughout the book, because honestly, we all think its a better choice. Personally, since we converted to HAML at Astrails several years ago, I cringe every time I have to deal with ERB. Its just too verbose and it doesn't present the structure as obviously as HAML. Same for the rest of the 'opinions' in the book. YMMW
now, where do they stand on WebRTC?
I trust Google much more than any other monopoly out there. Just contrast their behavior, with other companies sitting on mountains of cash. They don't need to do a lot of the things they do. Yet they do it. That's a big positive.

The negative is innovation in search is restricted to a few hundred people sitting in Mountain View. I just don't think innovation in search is happening at the pace that it could be happening because of this limit.

Just as they have done with Android and Chrome and Youtube they need to create a marketplace on top of search.

Just think about it...right now they have a random bunch of 10 or so tabs (flights, recipes, patents etc) above the search box. Is that it?

To expand search to its full potential that list has to expand. What better way to do it than create a marketplace?

It would be a good experiment to run a pilot in some small country or city and see what happens. Unlimited API access to google search...any app built on top of that platform that gets X number of hits becomes another tab above your search bar...for a price...or advertisers could make it free cause domain based search can get them better targeting. This is just an example but they really should be trying to tap into entire dev community worldwide to expand search.
You can't go wrong reading anything from Patrick McKenzie (www.kalzumeus.com)

Obvious starting points are http://www.kalzumeus.com/start-here-if-youre-new/ and http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

I'd definitely suggest signing up for his Email list too at the top of that site.
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Man, I'm sort of jealous - if you get into wine, you have so many awesome first experiences in front of you! When you want to try more reds, I'd look at some cabernet sauvignons and syrahs.
Use mine then ;) http://bdhf.me/bbe/

Designed for el cheapo shared hosts with php. No database, just plain text files in posts directory. Minimal features. Write in markdown. Antisocial, because no one reads mine.

Really, I am rather proud of it no matter how crappy it is. Everyone is welcome to bash it for any reason on twitter or facebook. All feedback will be considered carefully.
Right now, it's primarily through referral and search. It is a well networked industry so figuring out how to get users to refer other users is one key. Also, with most paid channels (which we haven't used very aggressively yet), keep in mind that the cost of user acquisition and be offset by a. conversion into an upgraded account and b. the lifetime value of an upgraded user.
Surprised this story has not yet been covered by any major news outlets, tech or otherwise.
I think this can get you into some trouble in the UK, if not the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
This is potentially great news for anyone using a browser. Let's hope that the implementation is close to spec, and makes for a relatively seamless experience across all browsers.
Why not by default? Ask ubuntu and report a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+filebug

How to do it for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5171250
If we all didn't care about stragglers, there wouldn't be stragglers.
They waited until WebRTC was about to be ratified and then released their own incompatible spec.
Arguable. Personally, that site has not yet provided me with an answer to a question I've actually had. Maybe someday.
Different products. Qualaroo pops surveys on your own website. Google's product pops surveys on other companies' websites, who are paid for the privilege. Useful if you have small traffic or are seeking answers from an audience diff from your own.
I think that is an intractable problem. It is impossible to design a system that is not vulnerable to flaws in its design. The idea is to design a system that doesn't have flaws.
They haven't said one way or the other at this point -- and have stated that they won't any time soon.
Partially correct, the number of requests (all that JS, CSS and images) without minification and compression enabled is making this not only twice the size (in Kb) that it needs to be, but the waterfall of blocked requests is terrible. See http://scans.zoompf.com/s/7180a12152cdf3dbd5087c2f7d09813d/r... for a cursory look at the optimization opportunities. I did LOL at the HTML comment near the end:

<!-- JavaScript at the bottom for fast page loading -->
Unchecked power corrupts anybody that uses it. Obama should have closed these secret courts that authorize drone murder and mass spying the moment he took office, now it seems he's been sucked in and corrupted just like anybody else in his position.

Its not just domestic spying either, there is a whole gov propaganda chorus on social media to influence discussion and squash dissent run by centcom. At first they "promised" it would not be used domestically but if you were to go looking around twitter and online media comments you will easily find the centcom puppets demonizing and discrediting Snowden, drowning out the issues he leaked which is criminal domestic surveillance

m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
Me neither :) But my line of thinking was that lots of sites that have nothing in common pointing to the same site... must mean that that site isn't isn't very relevant

(Now that I'm trying to explain it I see my mistake: it could just mean that the site is very general, like Facebook.)
The other big takeway is that they added support for SPDY3!
Wow. IE11 looks like it has some really great stuff in it, particularly the dev tools, even over the WebGL. Props to the IE team!
I couldn't resist the urge :)

I built http://www.utterson.me because I wanted a Jekyll blog but I wanted to post via email (like Posterous did). I'm gonna start using it to blog and see if it solves a problem for anyone else. Fortunately, I've only wasted 2 nights so far.

For me, it's not about the platform or NIH syndrome. It's about removing all friction so I'll actually write. If I have to login to WordPress and fiddle around or run `jekyll serve` then git push, I just won't do it. Sending an email seemed like the easiest way.

I deal with WordPress a lot at work so I'm sort of sick of dealing with updates, plugins, themes, etc.

I guess If I had to go with off the shelf, I'd do Tumblr or SquareSpace. Roon and Medium look interesting too.

EDIT: forgot about roon and medium
I'm not sure what Fab does really, but just looking over the article I came across this gem:

The bit about holding out pay was a joke to get everyone’s attention. It worked.

Did everyone really know that it was a joke? Later on he says...

It was a joke. We have about a thousand jokes just like it. “If you have time to xyz, you have time to get fired.” It’s a joke about staying focused and not getting distracted.

I don't know him, I don't work with him, but I have worked with people like him and they were hated. They thought their jokes were funny. When people are being threatened as a joke, they have a bunch of names they like to call Mr. Funny, but the names aren't as nice as "Mr. Funny"
http://de.slideshare.net/Mark_Kilgard/gpuaccelerated-path-re...

This looks more sophisticated than the kind of tessellation I'm used to but they still have triangle fans!
Oh what I would give to pit my genetically-superior boxcar against a challenger.
/me nods

http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/cu-rtc-web/cu-r...
The inconsistency of two buck chuck can be turned into a fun game though. My friends like to each buy a bottle from each pallet and try them in the parking lot. If any of them turn out to be good, they go back in and buy the whole pallet.
The article is not making a judgement; that was simply leading up to the point of the article:

Video is imperfect. It’s a lot harder to craft a perfect video

In other words, we show off versions of ourselves that are not true-to-life, and it will be much harder to maintain & showcase those facades when the medium is video.
Okay then, hypothesize. Use J. Edna Hoover as a template if you think there's no precedent.
> Cities might use their monopoly on force, as governments, to enforce a ban on Uber, but even if they did not have that power, they could use their rights as the entities that build and maintain the roads Uber runs on.

No, they couldn't. Rights are a theoretical justification for excluding someone, the government's compulsory power is a mechanism for excluding someone.

The former cannot substitute for the latter (and vice versa.)
> Let's hope that the implementation is close to spec

I got so excited for a moment and then you had to go and post this. Microsoft seems to have a desire to make things difficult for web developers.
Uber, Lyft, Sidecar told to shut down in Los Angeles
The difference is Nixon did this illegally while Obama cleared everything through those ridiculous secret courts. He has carte blanche to trample on the constitution all he wants