skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now I feel old. I remember when I was writing articles like this for IE6. Though I'm betting there are a few of you out there who remember writing articles like this for IE5 or Netscape.

This article is obviously written for beginners, so I won't be too hard on it for lacking comprehensive detail, but I will make a few recommendations.

In the reset section, showing the * reset is okay, but I think it would be good to mention a few of the more popular/established/supported ones - like the Eric Meyer reset or normalize.css, and link to those. Beginners can obviously google "css reset", but it may be hard for them to discern which results are good and which are bad. Showing a few that are popular or commonly used will help them move forward on this point.

For the vendor prefix area, I would also recommend including a paragraph about checking sites like caniuse.com to see if the CSS property that you plan on using is even supported in browsers like IE8 or IE9.

Since the article is for beginners, too much detail within the article may be overwhelming for them, but links to resources they can use to expand their knowledge on the points you mention would be nice, as it would allow them to build on top of what you've written at their own pace.
Yep; the app is packaged up for distribution via PhoneGap, and we're also using its geolocation shims.
Clinkle Raises $25M Seed Round
TCP is not going away anytime soon... If anything, the hope is that QUIC can help improve TCP in the long run -- but first, we need to validate a lot of the design assumptions. :)
Maemo 5. I like that it's not tied to some tech giant, and that it comes with a console where you can simply do "apt-get install".
Just taking out Dropbox and Airbnb, the average for the rest already drops quite a bit. With Dropbox at more than $4bil [1] and Airbnb at $2.5bil [2], that leaves the remaining 283 at about $5bil total, or $17.6mil each. Taking out others like Weebly would drop it further.

[1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/02/07/why-is-dropbox-...

[2] - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-19/airbnb-said-to-be-r...
These proposed changes to the standard do not add DRM. Rather they add a standardized interface between javascript in a browser and a proprietary binary blob that actually contains the DRM. Why do you think this would improve the situation of Netflix on Linux?

All you are going to have is a fancy API with nothing to plug into it.
Best comment ever :D
A personal check would be appreciated, but I can use with bags of them as well. :)
Copies the source app's Heroku Postgres data, if present.

Won't that take a prohibitively long time for large apps?
There are some scant tech details in this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953926
I agree. BTW, I was very surprised to read an article this week (sorry, couldn't find the link) about how much harsher anti-whistle blower laws are in the USA than in other countries.
If there was even the possibility that Lessig would run, I would quit my job, dump my savings, and find SOME way to be a part of that.
Well I'd argue the minimum proportional response to achieve the ends (i.e. there's some carrot/stick combinations that would not be 'right', or worth the international outcry... and even in that window why go for overkill?)

The problem is that I don't think the U.S. has a lot of carrots at any given time (what are we going to do, lodge a formal protest?), and you'd certainly not want to start off with the stick.
>We also aggressively prevent depressing and duplicate stories from appearing in the feed.

Huh? Duplicate I can understand, but depressing stories? Isn't that subjective? What happened to dontbubbleus[0] principles of not filtering? Did Fred want a better news reader?

And here I was hoping for a new way to experience search like giving 3rd party devs more freedom to implement plugins in search…

[0] http://dontbubble.us/
This is essentially a shallower version of "The New Funding Landscape" (http://www.paulgraham.com/superangels.html), which was published in 2010.
Assuming this level of unconstitutional surveillance continues, what can we do?

Here are some of my ideas: Send encrypted emails, to communicate long distances. Use the internet way less. Use cell phones only to arrange real life meetups. Hang out & talk to people in real life. Never have a meaningful discussion "over the air".
Tesla Motors’ 90-second battery swapping tech is faster than filling a gas tank
This doesn't really describe much about how they raised at all. In fact, it seems to focus on pretty much everything except for what they actually did to successfully raise the money, just that they eventually got it...
> When I leave the project, any PHP developer will be able to pick up and implement changes within hours.

Congratulations. But will they be able to make changes without breaking what you did? That's the mark of a good developer. Anyone can make something, but it takes real experience and constant thought about how your code will be observed by others down the line to make a truly great product.

> Problems with PHP itself aside, rolling your own from scratch only ever works out well for projects that start small and stay small.

Small projects were what PHP was initially designed for. By the way the OP is talking, I believe that he's working on mostly brochureware or at least small/simple apps that don't require 24/7 monitoring or maintenance.
IOS7 Webkit Platform Change Details
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." -- Albert Einstein
socks really don't add that much comfort if you wear nice shoes.
The Ouya game console has geopolitical implications - for your kids
Great work. Could you elaborate why you didn't pick the route of using one of the mentioned libraries, Clang or Acute?
At tonido, we plan to build a system similar to yours to handle our incoming leads. We would appreciate if you have put up a pricing page probably with a free trial for a week. We wont trust a free service.
The Schwarzschild radius (sometimes historically referred
to as the gravitational radius) is the radius of a sphere
such that, if all the mass of an object is compressed
within that sphere, the escape speed from the surface of
the sphere would equal the speed of light.
--Wikipedia

Personally, I think your project getting so big that not even light can escape is a far better image (your project would literally be a black hole) than the on the article implies where you cannot get a rocket of the surface.
> "That would not change with drugs being legal, it would still be the cause of the destruction of families and communities."

The biggest reason why drugs tear apart communities is because they are illegal. Make them legal, give proper information, and let people decide on their own. Open up clinics to treat people and to use as a demonstration as one of the possible dangers if you do harder drugs.

Btw, do you think that cannabis, LSD, magic mushrooms, mescaline, and MDMA should be illegal? Do you think we should make Naloxone over the counter and be allowed to be sold everywhere?

> At the same time there is no guarantee that crime would go away, addicts will still need drugs very badly every day, so unless it was extremely cheap or free (I don't know what the price target would be) they would still need to be out hustling.

There is no guarantee in anything. Portugal has seen crime go down. That's data, baby. Also, when drugs are legal they are way cheaper than they are right now. The biggest reason why they can be expensive is because they are part of a black market which inflates the price artificially. Did you read my link above about how countries are experimenting with giving unadulterated heroin to heroin addicts and are helping treat them? They are seeing very successful results.

Once again: People who want to do heroin are already doing heroin. Stop parroting the false notion that people aren't doing drugs. They are.
Startup Will Launch Constellation of Tiny Monitoring Satellites
is there a way I can change the default Google now shooing on android (the one at the very bottom of the screen) to this?
Even with the best team, best idea & amazing execution prior to raising money $25M is crazy..
I think they are more like anthropology graphs (e.g., http://www.flickr.com/photos/runningafterantelope/2366031003...)
Online art sales outstrip galleries
I'm genuinely curious how a net to go under the bridge would cost $45m. How?
First clues emerge about Jelly, Twitter co-founder's mysterious new startup
>We will be constantly watched.

Your phones are tapped, your metadata is collected, your internet traffic is watched and stored, and your categorized, organized data online (emails, documents, history, behaviors, etc) is available at the drop of a dime.

What do you mean "will be constantly watched"?
I can't seem to find a single thing online that supports your statement, either concerning the monument part or federal jurisdiction of the bridge.
I think there's a moderation angle too, since the old browser extensions invariably resulted in a hundred "LOLFAG" comments on random CNN stories.
Ah, we find the complete opposite.

One serendipitous thing we've discovered while using and working on Zapier is that the tool itself allows you to use whatever your best in class application is for the task at hand, regardless of what else you'll need to shoehorn into it. Zapier can help you connect up the different tools that are the best at what they do.

Multiple tools also help us silo stuff, for example:

* Trello covers product roadmap.
* Github covers bugs.
* iDoneThis covers everything else we're working on.

Just like you might use a particular database for its strengths (Cassandra for write heavy loads, Redis for crazy fast in memeory, Mongo for speedy development), you should use various SaaS tools for their strengths.
Great app. I've been helping beta test and it's obvious a lot of effort went into making it look polished and feel responsive. An amazing feat of programming and design magic. Angular, ClojureScript, HTML5 and CSS3 working in concert. Congrats lynaghk and ryan!
Speed up your Android Emulator
Maybe he was talking about the canon (the TV episodes) of Star Trek and the movies of Star Wars?
It seems a bit opaque/confusing. Pretty soon everyone seems to be based on the same root 'genome' and you can't even tell which cars are 'yours' so to speak. Likewise, you can't wall off your own gene pool so that it doesn't get cross-contaminated.
> immediately changed facebook password and blocked this bot/weirdo just to be safe

Did you also check your Facebook settings for any extra authorized apps/devices?
I see that it is for moreutils. I am having the hardest time using the interface for forallsecure.com. It seems that you can not search by package. When I browsed through the list I figured I would have come across moreutils around page 49/51 but I did not see it. I am tempted to download:

http://forallsecure.com/programs/1
...
http://forallsecure.com/programs/22630

But that seems like a waste of everyone's resources. What was the bug?

For people unfamiliar with joeyh's contribution to Debian it is important to note that he is a legendary DD:

http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=joeyh%40debian.org
"He does not walk to the beat of normal society's drum."

...says the base jumper.
I created a petition with a concept that I think would be a pretty helpful proactive step to start addressing these problems:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/enable-american-so...

Let me know what you think!
Ah, so he does. I wasn't aware.
clickable: https://www.bulletin.io
> I dismissed him as just paranoid.

ALWAYS listen to the crazy old guy, especially if he's been correct about past events.

You don't have to believe him, but at least listen to him.

regards,

A Crazy Old Guy
Well, I got the chance to be surprised regarding things like DNA samples. I'm not worried about targeted surveillance as much as I am broad-spectrum storing of everything anybody ever does on the internet for later lookup.

If they had it their way, the NSA would have never told anyone about it. Thanks to Snowden, now you can talk about the NSA spying on everyone without making it a joke so you don't sound like a loon.
not sure what this had to do the parent comment, but if there's a net, people will find other ways. It's like making prostitution illegal, did it really cut down on the number of people having sex? Of course not.
Ask HN: What do you Hate about the Framework you use? (or what's missing?)
We just pushed a new update go check it out. Upgraded Chat. Soon to come is a Intelligent Design (God Mode).
Also, standardizing EME will not bring Netflix to Linux (the most common misunderstanding around EME). Please name one CDM for a Linux distro other than ChromeOS. Widevine is available only in ChromeOS, and Playready is only available in Windows. So looks like you have to buy one of those Operating Systems to have Netflix.
Seriously. They even copied his text verbatim. The original code didn't mention any license which I don't think means it's a free-for-all. Also, they apparently copied the code before he pushed a bug-fix I emailed him yesterday :)
> "I'll say that you are missing the fact that information campaigns don't reach the very people who are most at risk."

We could reach everyone in the country if we spent just a fraction of the trillion dollars we've spent on fighting the unsuccessful drug war. The key is that you have to be willing to give people unbiased information. In DARE they tried to tell us that acid drips down your spine which is absolute bullshit.
On what evidence? He has some pictures on the web, so? Same with the speeding movies. What are the grounds?
Seems like a good moment for some Emma Goldman:

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
Is it officially out of beta? I tried it a couple weeks ago and found that it didn't successfully re-provision several of my add-ons.
That example was overblown on reddit (and probably elsewhere).

This is simply 13 separate counts of graffiti, which has a 1 year maximum, and they are supposed to list the incidents separately (or something like that) when they charge him. He won't serve 13 years.
"current easy-to-grok, quick-to-fix 'nil-pointer error'"

But they aren't. That's why they're the "billion dollar mistake": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Quotations If you think they're just easy quick problems, I find it doubtful you've ever worked in a significantly sized system.

Are you aware of the fact that there are plenty of languages that actually already have non-nullable values? Have you spent any time using them? Do you understand that such languages still support null values, but you have to call for them explicitly? Do you understand that we're calling for non-nullable values not out of some sort of abstract concept of correctness floating in space, but from concrete experience? I suspect you'll find that more experience correlates with a stronger belief in the need for non-nullable fields. It seems to me the people most vigorously defending the need for nulls have obviously never tried the alternative, as evidenced by their frequent belief that it's an all-or-nothing proposition, which is not true of any language, thus strongly implying a complete lack of experience. Also implied by you asking me whether nil should even exist, which is the wrong question, again implying you don't understand the alternative I'm advocating for here.

And again... it's soooo easy to add them, even to existing languages, and soooo easy to use them. It's not an overhaul, and it's an easy way to avoid the billion-dollar mistake. The cost/benefits are just so, so clearly in favor of defaulting to non-nullable values.
This argument is very similar to that about the 'value' of modern art. We traditionally place all the value on the amount of effort that goes directly into producing the item, and discount any of the other effort involved in making it a success.

Perhaps the cliche `success = perspiration + inspiration` needs to be updated to include `marketing`.
Show HN: Run embedded Code in Blog posts with one line.
I know that company Y does something similar with their artists as part of their yearly reviews, and their artists don't know of anything they could be doing better. As one of them said to me "If I knew what I could be doing better, I'd be doing it."

Feedback can be useful, but I'd be hesitant around structuring requirements for it.
It's not really funny — because when you actually do care about the underlying feed parsing, you end up searching in vain for a replacement among readers that are, as you say, lazy prettification on top of bad fetch/parse engines.

Google Reader had become amazing at getting updates virtually as soon as they were published. I've been comparing how well the competitors do, and some of them are more than 30 minutes later than Reader at finding and showing stories.
http://www.unheap.com/section/media/images/

Imageloader looks interesting. Unheap is a cool resource for these sorts of things too.
So what you're saying is that if you take all of the successful companies out of an investor's portfolio, that portfolio will have a lower value.
We added the "Your Car" label which is mutated based on the current Champion of the World. We are working on improving the manipulation capabilities for Intelligent Design.
It's a front-end that gives you one entry point for StartPage, Google, Weather, IMDB, Amazon, [entire bang support list].

Just a search = "keyword list"

I want Google search = "!g keyword list"

I want Google Finance Search = "!gf keyword list"

I want Amazon products search = "!a keyword list"

No one else gives you this much freedom to coherently pass your request directly where you want it to go (AND while respecting the fact that you don't want others to know what you're searching).
This. Every time I've started a project and then abandoned it shortly afterwards, it was because the goal was too complex and I didn't break it up into small-enough pieces. Every time I've succeeded at a large project, it was because I was able to set small, testable intermediate targets. That small shot of dopamine you get when some small thing works does wonders for your motivation to keep at it.
Bullshit. Even your own source acknowledges that they can't confirm these reports.
Try: the wedding had essentially no ecological impact.
You and people like you is why this site sucks now. Your comment exemplifies my point better then I ever could.
Apache CouchDB 1.3.1 Released
How to be an awesome client for a freelancer.
>Why should I care what 51% of other people think, if I'm sure they're wrong?

Because you want them to care what you think when you're in the 51%. That's the basis of a lawful society. If everyone feels that they can do whatever they like regardless of what anyone else thinks, you just have anarchy. It seems that you decide to obey laws on a case-by-case basis on purely pragmatic grounds, but if everyone acted that way we'd in effect have no laws at all.
Ask HN: Zend PHP 5.3 Certification Worth It?
I am a PHP Developer looking to better my employment opportunities in the future. I know the history behind Zend and why it is as important as it is, but do their certifications live up to the Zend name? Does having the ability to market oneself as a Zend Certified Engineer hold any water?
Arabic: A language with too many armies and navies?
Wow, this is great! Login with Google account, import data from Google Reader worked seamlessly, clean UI. Thanks!
I'm not necessarily saying that Linux will ever be a high priority, but having to only provide a PlayReady Media Extension for a few browsers on Linux is a much more reasonable effort then providing the whole Silverlight or Flash runtime.
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Neither of them were released when we started development. Also, I tend to think that it's better to explicitly manipulate JavaScript data structures through ClojureScript than try to build some potentially leaky abstractions on top of them.

Since ClojureScript's protocols are so flexible, it doesn't take a lot of work to teach ClojureScript about JavaScript---whereas the other direction is much more difficult to get right.
I have 7GB of data sitting in one of their Postgres instances right now. It only takes a couple minutes to backup and restore to a new db, so I guess it depends on how you'd define "prohibitively long."
At least they give fair warning..

https://github.com/heroku/heroku/blob/master/lib/heroku/comm...
More specifically than that:

You can find the Cleckley book in question online in various places like http://libgen.info/view.php?id=23550 ; even if you aren't that interested in psychopathy per se or judging how well the OP person fits Cleckley's characteristics, it's still a fascinating & worthwhile read, I think (my review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/373031205 ).

The reference for my claim about treatment being inefficacious: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2006-harris.pdf “Treatment of psychopathy: A review of empirical findings” Harris & Rice 2006

And you can find quotes on other topics from the academic literature in http://lesswrong.com/lw/fzy/notes_on_psychopathy/
This feels like a completely unfair analysis.

The US Government is warned by a lot of parties about a lot of things.

I'd be very interested in knowing about the signal to noise ratio before I lay down such heavy handed, seemingly uninformed judgement...

Also: If the Boston bombings was the final straw, then WHY ON EARTH wasn't 9/11 the final straw? Several orders of magnitude worse of a cock-up than Boston!
Samsung pays Apple $1 billion in nickels
As time goes on GNU HURD becomes sadder and sadder :/

They can't even seem to be consistently settled on their basics like what micro kernel they are using

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurd#Other_microkernels

In the 2000s they experimented with 3 other micro kernels, all of which went "no where". Over half a decade spending their limited dev resources on work that ultimately went no where since they are still apparently using Mach.

and now (from the article):

- GNU/Hurd 2013 is available for the 32-bit x86 architecture only

- Hurd can currently only make use of one CPU (or CPU core). That is to say, it will still run on multi-core and SMP machines, but only utilizing a single processor.

- Hurd generally uses device drivers ported from Linux 2.0 ... So the latest and greatest shiny hardware might cause trouble.

Once upon a time if you could get it to run on your hardware it was at least vaguely competitive, but now the thought of putting it on my 64bit quad core laptop... well... what a waste.

And instead of trying to even keep up, they are still trying to pick the right micro kernel...

"In years past, Richard Stallman was quoted as saying that Linux was a good option to use while the Hurd was still incomplete"