skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats a tough one. We want to be visual as well as just text. Text is king, but nice to have best of both worlds (if possible)

Editors choose "Featured Images" and we really want to allow for the big expressive photos.

Its hard to constrain them and maintain a sane aspect ratio. I'm not disagreeing with you - I don't have a good answer.

These definitely work really well on larger monitors - however laptops, older computers its not the ideal.

Will need to think about this more.
Interesting to see this today.

My next website is sitting in Tomboy Notes at the moment. I'm just about to start coding.
This is the full stylesheet:

<style type="text/css">
body { font-size:18px; }
.wrapper { max-width: 600px; margin:0 auto; }
</style>

I feel like you're being a little unfair here.
We've been using Inc in beta at Bugsnag for the last couple of weeks, super useful product. HipChat integration is the best feature. Integrating with existing workflows a far better solution to inbox overload.
Common sense couldn't kill the utterly superfluous F-22; the F-35 has way more stakeholders, so don't count on it going away any time soon.
I take it for granted so I forget - but I think its spelt out very very clearly in my profile so I don't have to put an * every time I comment.
How many apps are there in the Windows Store?
Interesting, I didn't know about the coca tea. I thought of another health-based one: unpasteurized milk and cheese. Generally not a problem in Europe, but highly regulated in some states (e.g. no raw milk cheese younger than 60 days, no raw milk period).
It DOES not "work in every other developed nation on the planet"

spain, greece, germany, france, cyprus and 99% of all socialist countries have declining economies, high unemployment rate, high taxes, ZERO innovation, etc. Hey but they have free health care! horay for socialism!
Seems interesting, but on https://sendtoinc.com/signup/:

The requested URL /signup/ was not found on this server.

I'd rather not sign in with Google Apps...

EDIT: Ah, it seems that's not your actual signup link, it's instead at /accounts/signup/. You should change the signup link on your pricing page, then. (Also "Discuss relevant industry new." -> "Discuss relevant industry news.", but that's minor.)
"I think we should create a West Coast "Institue for Advanced Study" in the middle of the desert with a few million dollars and a bunch of dreamers who want to get their hands dirty and try ideas that everyone else thinks are crazy. People do amazing things when nobody is looking over their shoulder."

Modulo some details, I'm on this.

Also, Michael Grinich, is that you? Sorry I missed the housewarming. I'll have to have you back at the Firehouse and tell you about the Laboratorium project. We have some good momentum.
This is a pamphlet they would likely hand out to said angry mobs beforehand.
For anyone interested, with a little background in Coq or Agda it feels like (from what I've read so far) this book is pretty approachable by mathematicians and computer scientists alike.
In my experience, any interface that does not directly conform to the underlying technology is going to increase the amount of work (aka complexity). And typically, the reason why one interface is simpler than the other is because instead of conforming to the environment/language, the engineer had to code another way to do it.
While I agree that the substance of a web page is the most important part of it, there's a whole lot of visual work that aids marketing, retention, and conversion, and while those things are often not appreciated by those of us who enjoy plain text, they are significant and have real benefits.

The problem with all of the "You're reading this" and "You're still reading this" is that the only reason anyone read it is because of the author's networking, and in our case the fact that it was promoted up HN. That says nothing about the content of the page or its power. It'd be just as true and just as irrelevant if the author were the only one who ever read it.

Yes, I agree with some of what's presented. But I also think it's a very narrow and outdated way of looking at the web, and it marginalizes disciplines that, for better or worse, have effectively changed the way that most people experience and internalize the experience of browsing.
It doesn't make you dumb or a hipster or anything like that. It's simply how you like your photos - and there's nothing wrong with that.

As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art. They utilize and encourage poor quality images, poor ratios, and poor choice in taste (cats and food pictures and people flexing in gyms).

But it DOES NOT matter - the consumer wants this, demands it, uses it, so it works. That's an entirely different problem than the photo/video quality issue.

If you look at a platform like 500px, you'll see immense quality - but again, doesn't matter, >90% of people are incapable of creating photos like that. So they don't some crapware to share their food. More power to them.
Sorry, I should be clearer - the kind of AOT compiles that OdinMonkey currently does do not benefit from demand paging, because the entire app is compiled from scratch at startup each time. If it generated executables on disk, then you could demand-page them in, just like the output from a traditional compiler. But I don't know if that has been proposed anywhere.

I guess you could allocate guard pages for each function in the application and AOT-compile each function once on demand to simulate demand paging? Hm.
Our goal for the privacy service is to collect as little as possible. (the corp service is totally separate tech and infrastructure and has user-configurable logging). We're trying to figure out what the absolute minimum is. We're also looking at Bitcoin and other forms of payment.

For a $5-10/mo VPN, we're probably going to handle most problems by "open a new account, here's a service credit", so we don't actually need to debug much. We have a vested interest in collecting the minimum information possible so there's no point in subpoenaing it from us.
The program should be cancelled.

It's way over budget, not as stealthy as originally claimed and completely unnecessary. The DOD should be putting this money and effort into UAVs.

I also have to wonder how quickly the Chinese will get the software updates.
How Balanced uses Flask: A call with Balanced CTO Mahmoud Abdelkader
That they store everything that is encrypted means that they probably have everybody's gmail, etc. I'm guessing their thinking is that eventually they'll be able to decrypt it and sift through it all.
I don't know about the OP, but in 1994, I was mostly using Webcrawler as my search engine. Lycos came out around then too. Switched to Altavista pretty quickly after it came out.
It depends on what stage this is done at. Imagine everything is linked to a user. How hard would it be to allow anonymous posts?
Spendthrifts! They could have used a CD and increased the capacity from 600MB to one petabyte.
Fair enough. I still respectfully disagree.

In fact - the NYTimes links back to our article from here:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/todays-scuttlebot-t...

So I feel value has been added.
>the science of accident reconstruction and cause determination have improved vastly.

My guess is the techniques have evolved accordingly. And federal authorities can take control of an investigation if it's in the interest of national security. The "magical bullet theory" is a great historical example of how federal authorities handle inconvenient evidence.
When will the Sealand node come online?
Drawings are the heart and soul of civilization. For one, they originated ~37 thousand years before the first written language. Second, understanding text requires knowing how the information it contains is encoded (what language it is written in). Drawings are far more universal.
Automation Is The Driving Theme In Six Cloud Startups
If there was an error in the original anti aliasing that's now fixed, that should be fine - I was speculating how to get a vector version up and running (I am sure there are vector image formats, but all the web-friendly ones I've found turn out to be bitmap underneath.)

(just checked, after refreshing my cache a few times, and it looks much better now, nice one.)
Trailing the Canaries
I like your version even better. ;)

The point of the post wasn't: "un-style everything!"

The point was that simple, unadorned words on a page can be powerful and effective.
Hell yeah :)
Without taking away from SpaceX's accomplishments, it's important to keep the performance of the Merlin engines in context. The Merlin 1d is arguably the most efficient rocket engine using a gas-generator cycle and RP-1 (kerosene) fuel. That's a very specific claim. Hydrogen-burning engines like the one on the Space Shuttle are much more efficient (measured by specific impulse), and some Soviet kerosene rockets came very close both in specific impulse and thrust to weight ratio, though they used a somewhat different cycle. Relevant discussion: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2012/06/comment-....

Still a very impressive achievement, but looking at the performance of SpaceX's engines circa 2012 and comparing them to what the Soviets built in 1960 or 1970 helps put the pace of the industry into context.
I haven't found git to work much differently in practice, at least with papers (I haven't written a book in it). You will end up with way too many conflicts unless you basically "lock" sections through either a software mechanism or agreement, because edits often touch or reorder many paragraphs. A copyediting/wording pass will typically touch every paragraph, for example, and these are more frequent in writing than refactoring or variable-renaming passes are in coding.

You can somewhat improve the situation if you adopt a somewhat weird source-formatting policy, where you write each sentence on one separate long-ish line, rather than flowing by paragraph. Then you will be able to automatically merge as long as nobody has made an edit or move that touches the same sentence, giving you better merge granularity. But even then conflicts happen pretty often, and few people like this style of formatting (maybe it'd work better with tool support).

For a book this might work better, though, because I assume you'd be making less frequent edits, and people would less often be working at the same time.
But if you don't have faith in the CA system, then what is the additional concern over an expired cert?
Give it a try. I make my own solution from a battery, a resistor, distilled water and some 9999 grade silver wire but your local store should have it.

I've got BMW silver-impregnated socks and they just never smell even after a full day in boots. My wife has used colloidal silver gel on burns (she's a nurse) and it's an incredible anti-bacterial agent. Silver, like ozone, needs to be treated with respect for medical purposes and you're sadly right that there's a good deal of nonsense out there but it does work.
> I don't usually work from the literature (it is hard to access papers outside of academia, and they're usually weird, abstract, hard to read, and miss the point anyway) so I work from the first principles.

Amazing.
Are You Monetizing Thank You Emails?
Do you do ANY kind of logging?
Large web firms are charged millions for faster Internet access:fair to Netflix?
I did my undergraduate in Engineering Physics then went on to do a PhD in Materials Science. After a couple years of graduate coursework and research and passing exams, it was time to pick a dissertation topic. We then had to defend it before our committee and get their approval.

Well, I failed my first attempt (you were allowed 2). The reason the committee gave me for not passing was that my topic of choice was not a "significant improvement of basic science". This perplexed me. My committee was made up of members who were all 60+ years in age and had been the founding fathers of metallurgy. Collectively, they invented a completely new field called opto-electronics. When they gave me that response, I thought to myself, how the fuck do they expect me to improve basic science?!

It turns out the solution was much more nuanced. In the months that followed, my advisor would have thought experiments with me. He essentially helped me brainstorm problems that needed solving, but he always started our sessions with the question, "what is something that you always wanted to exist, but doesn't? What are you most curious about?" He then gave me the keys to his shop and told me to "tinker around". Take apart his vacuum tubes. Screw around with his argon laser and sputtering machine.

Innovation in the physical world comes from the same curious people that are inventing fun software programs. But we absolutely need to cultivate it, because that is what is dying. Put a workbench in every home, make it easier for people to take apart things they buy, encourage people to be creative without fear of punishment.
Loving the iOS SDK. That's 100% the way to go. Parse for real-time apps.
Well they vet them for sure, but AES is a Dutch invention.
Thats also a good question, we'll look into it.
Oh yeah, I've seen that, it's like the lemon party of food porn or something. And anyway, it's only dangerous if the maggots are dead! I thought of a more mainstream example (to repeat myself from another reply) - there's a lot of regulations surrounding raw milk and cheese.
As a natural selection factor it will lead to flourishing microbal cultures which are 1000x times more deadly than current cocci.
It's completely proprietary tech developed by a team of image processing specialists on the Instagram team.

It in no way uses the iOS SDK.
Yup, Lockheed's X-35 beat out a (horrendously ugly) Boeing airplane to win the contract, but my understanding was that the initial orders were cost-plus. That's pretty typical for large procurements of advanced aircraft. It's hard to know long it will take and how much it will cost to build something that bleeding-edge.
Reactions to a pro-nuclear power environmental film
Its a case of damned if you do and damned if you dont.

Regarding AdBlock - our site looks the same with it on as it does with it off.
Parse + Firebase == Unstoppable
Backends are a thing of the past.
If you want to make it the editor's choice, build a feature that at least gives them visibility into what they're doing. Worst case, just load an article preview in a bunch of fixed-size iframes which match the viewport size of common browsers. Better but more expensive, cobble together a browser farm (getting cheaper now thanks to modern.ie images). Either way, make it a prominent part of the editorial process.

Edit: I think the reason it bugs me is that text is the primary value your site provides. The image is ambiance. Ambiance that blocks me from the value I seek goes from tasteful to gaudy real fast. I get the desire to let editors be expressive, but if you're in a situation where you're forced to prioritize, always prioritize the thing that brought the visitor to your site in the first place. Otherwise you might not have need for the editor at all.
Your point is still not relevant because it's offered as a benefit, not control. Complaining about it is like complaining that you're being paid a specific salary and not another one. Don't like it? Go somewhere else. Want to go somewhere else and don't like it? Don't go there then.

Part of an employer offering health benefit is to compete against other employers. They don't have to buy it, and you don't have to accept it. However, few employers offer a buy-out policy, which is something I would really like to see.

Currently I'm on GWL through my employer. While it's not the greatest, it's not bad for the amount of money. However, if I had the choice, I'd take the money from my employer and add my own cash to it to buy something like Blue Cross.
Thanks for pointing these out, fixes should be live in a minute or two.
I've just started reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb.

He defines 3 states: fragile, robust and antifragile. Fragile things weaken during times of volatility or uncertainty (such as a central government's power during a coup), robust things are indifferent (like the Pyramids) and antifragile things actually strengthen from uncertainty or upheaval (e.g. Syrian rebel's power during the current civil war).

It would seem innovation thrives in the antifragile state. The chaos and uncertainty of war certainly drives innovation.
How we - the Kims - use Basecamp at home
I would agree. Humans survived up all the way up until the point antibiotics were discovered, so why wouldn't they survive if all antibiotics suddenly became ineffective?

Sure you'd see average life expectancy drop dramatically, but I don't think you'd see humans die out as a species.
A new boilerplate for MEAN (Mongo/Express/Angular/Node) based applications
MEAN is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications.
It is designed to give you quick and organized way to start developing of MEAN based web apps with useful modules like mongoose and passport pre-bundled and configured.
We mainly try to take care of the connection points between existing popular frameworks and solve common integration problems.
You are making a series of stupid assumptions here. Like I'm denying that AIDS kills, or that STDs kill. It's clearly established. Which is why I've always been extremely cautious and I'm healthy as it gets.

The fact that AIDS is virus-induced, that remains unproven. However, it's pandered as such and a number of companies are cashing big on antivirals and antiretrovirals, in many cases worsening the patient's health. To claim something is proven without proof, that is pathetic.

And this is not the only scam induced by big pharma. There are many other perverse effects stemming directly from the fact that pharmaceuticals cash big on chronic illnesses, giving them an incentive to research not in cures, but in long lasting treatments.

Feel free to downvote away though. It's important and downvotes might actually get more people to read it.
`ndisasm your_binary | less` done!
We have that in Jira - we'll get to it - promise.
Did you try IVPN? http://www.ivpn.net/

I've just purchased an Asus RT-N66U to run an OpenVPN client so that I can encrypt the traffic from all computers, and as I don't do file-sharing I've focused on choosing a provider obsessed by privacy rather than piracy. IVPN looks like it, but I haven't yet tried it so don't yet know how it will perform.
The Firebase team is amazing, congrats to them!
4bytes is crazy fast: https://github.com/donutdan4114/4bytes-framework
Since it's ethernet-distance to the UK node, ... (after I left, HavenCo ran servers out of London Telehouse for a long time claiming they were "on Sealand". It was lulz when the place caught on fire and everything was unaffected. Previously, we had 4xE1 running from border routers at Telehouse back to shore near Sealand and then a microwave link, but I guess they figured this was cheaper and more reliable and no one would check... :)
I doubt the money generated from sales of valuable crap
will cover the cost of your expenses.

The problem is that there is no such thing as "valuable crap". But let's assume people won't send you crap but only boxes they consider themselves worth more than $10.
You will have a hard time find a buyer that pays $10
.
In reality it's more like
"one man’s treasure is every one else's crap"

The scientific explanation is Endowment effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
You could also drop a feature used by 1% who just happen to be the 1% who make the buying decisions or are vocal.

I call these User Landmines (they are quiet right up until you step on one).
Your days of not testing your code are limited.
Could anyone point out how it differs from Atlassian's Confluence?
Not just anybody. You had to have a publisher, and it took weeks to years to get a piece published. Which means nothing got published if there wasn't a chance at a monetary return. The web is a significant improvement if you ask me.
Fixed :) https://www.firebase.com/about.html
Something that struck me with an unexpected amount of force was a recent scene in Game of Thrones where one of the characters is explaining to another (sheltered) character that he knew the location of a secret passage because he had read about it in a book.

The sheltered character was astounded that he looked at squiggles on a page, and through which was able to know something about the world. "Wizardry", was I think the word used.

But when you break communication down to what it is, ideas and knowledge abstracted so they can be externalized, it's pretty fucking amazing.
Curious to know what you think about the Cumulus release - if I'm not mistaken, you guys are also 'just' Linux?
Thanks for the Amazon Seller suggestion. I didn't know about that either. <:)
node-webkit seems to have a number of options for local storage: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Save-persisten...

Amongst those are a native SQL engine (sqlite) and a native NoSQL engine (levelDB, through the IndexedDB API)

It'd be useful to know what benefits NeDB brings over other existing storage mechanisms.
what is your memory footprint?
For non-destructive editing, the new Acorn4 beats the crap out of Adobe products. Pile on layer styles/effects, re-order them and re-parameterize them on the fly with live preview.

Also you can have the same effect multiple times. For example, you could have 3 or more separate non-destructive drop shadows on one layer.
I use version control even for personal projects with no collaborators. Just being able to see what's changed since you last recorded is a big win.
One question concerning pricing -- is it $5 after three users (e.g. $10 for five users) or $5 for all users once you have three users (e.g. $25 for five users)?
Ah, much nicer!
This is probably true. Still, it seems like a red flag to me that on a project like the F-35, which presumably has adequate funding for office space and other such things, their only solution for providing offices for their own employees is night shifts.

There's a very good reason not to have engineers work nights. While some are undoubtedly night owls, many (most?) will have lives and families which will suffer from night shifts. That accelerates burnout and increases resentment--both of which are usually running high in a troubled project anyway.
I've been wondering for a while whether the app store model will foster more paid open source software. Theoretically, the app store owner can protect the original creator from unwanted clones, and most users won't bother to find and compile the source code to avoid buying the $2 app.

I've not seen much evidence of this so far, but StormCloud, a weather applet available on Ubuntu and Chrome, is one example (more or less - I'm not sure that the "Don't be a dick public license" meets strict definitions of freedom).
"So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying 'no'."
I'm completely at a loss as to why he thought this was a good idea. Highly entertaining, but in a way that seems to bat at his expense, which makes it puzzling why he's involved.
> You might also get a performance increase by just replacing the optimizing compiler wholesale with LLVM?

I can't speak directly to this, but I'm sure if it was worth it, the Spidermonkey and V8 teams would have done it already.
@foobarbazqux

There are other animal-based ones that aren't really health related. E.g. restaurants aren't allowed to serve meat that's not FDA inspected, but the FDA only inspects a small variety of meats. There was a restaurant in SF that was serving cricket tacos and they got shut down because of this:

http://boingboing.net/2011/06/09/grasshopper-tacos-ba.html
Do you see anything interesting in the design of SIMON? Apart from how parsimonious it is with mathematical operations.