skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I equate it to Google Talk. Replace "webcam picture" with "online status" and you can say remarkably similar things about the two.

Both Google Talk and Sqwiggle are meant to facilitate communication and not to be used as accountability tools, but if you don't trust those you're sharing that info with then it could be used that way. Both give out signals of my online status based on my presence, and both can manually be set to a "busy" mode(to the detriment of communication) if I want to not be bothered or "watched". Sqwiggle is obviously a more intimate version of this, but that works to its benefit in lowering barriers to having quick conversations with people you can "see" are available.

Disclosure: I work at Zapier.
But of course. Who approaches a problem like "I need to serialize dates into this standardized document format" and decides to go with "Let's concat strings in our own format" instead of going with "Let's check the spec and use someDateLibrary.dateToString('that fmt string')? (Or better, something like Go's time API, but that's beside the point)
Why couldn't capitalistic country be dictatorship also? The only ruling part would be the rich people/companies.
Visiting the US for a while, I recall being yelled at by an inland border patrol guard in Texas for having the temerity to keep my passport in my trunk. Saying my name was definitely not all that was required.
Correct, on re-reading the article the $23m is the value offered for HR training, which is apparently somehow equivalent to the value of the economic benefit Ecuador gains from the agreement - so presumably they already did the relevant math to get to that number.

I'm not sure the $23m applies only to the flower industry - it reads like it applies to the value of the total agreement to Ecuador. - I do mention upthread that without actually knowing the details of the agreement we're all just speculating.

But you asked where I got $23m from... and the answer was the article.

and my larger point still stands anyway... Ecuador apparently sell $5 billion in oil to the US... BILLION not million. A loss of $23million is still chump change. A loss of $230m probably wouldn't affect much.
Good question! See "Your Car" in the list of car health meters.
Thanks for the tip, looks like nothing new has been added.
We are software people: (Jeff Lawson)
Wild weather is costing us billions of dollars
I'm fairly certain Google already knows almost every password considering most are rubbish and Google Books has been around in one form or another since at least 2004.

Also : https://www.google.com/search?q=password+list
If I'm not mistaken, isn't fiber optic splitting done with a glass... Prism?
You can't trust anyone. You can trust protocols and implementations and proven math.

That said, I would bet good money they already have working quantum computers, in which case current crypto may have quite a few problems.
I don't know about browser history, but there's evidence that Google use your user-agent string other connection details to uniquely identify you when you connect to their servers, and to build a history of your search terms even without you having a google account. They can later use that knowledge to serve directed advertising in search results across any of their products.
Can we stop calling video that uses extensions "HTML5 video" (even if it may be part of the HTML spec)? I suggest we call it "EME video".
Would there be a problem if Google just open sourced it's previous platform? They could open source the project and lots of developers could put their own take on the platform. It's probably simple to install on GAE (which they can monetize) and they wouldn't have to maintain the reader.
That is wonderful. I struggled at both of them. :)
If you don't mind asking, what is your current education level? These exam questions are attempted by high school teenagers in the IIT entrance exam.
I assume you've being downvoted by people who saw "fuck you" and stopped reading before getting to the ":)"
I think that their target audience are (mom & pop) businesses (about to go online) happy to trust the Mastercard brand, not programmers that get uppity about seeing yet another clone & complaining about an API.
The problem you describe is not intrinsic to governments, it's intrinsic to any powerful entity. If the government were weak, then corporations would take its place in abusing power. The key is to create a system where it's very difficult for any single entity to gain power outside of their niche or purpose.

The system of checks and balances in government was designed for this purpose.
Fair enough. For what it's worth, my own value judgements only allowed me to complain, but I couldn't quite get far enough along in even my own vitriol to actually downvote your comment.

Apologies for unfairly representing your message. Perhaps I, too, was oversensitive to the subject - though not being a rich white guy with a history of opulent marriages, I don't know what specifically I reacted to.
This is a neat idea, although currently I can't really figure out what the deal is. It seems that I'll have a really effective car, and then the next round, I'll end up with a completely new set of cars, none of which resemble the previous winner, and all of which are less effective.

Anyway, would would be really cool to see would be something like Picbreeder, but for cars, where you can manually choose which cars to breed, then let them evolve on different courses, etc. Having some extra control over the situation would make for something extremely addictive.
You should definitely go there tomorrow!!
bride money you say? sounds like an even more dangerous adventure.
Pivoting data in Postgres
That depends on who does the surveillance. Stopping to use American services is a simple start, and it is much easier to act against surveillance in your own country than it is to act against surveillance by the US.

Of course, this only helps if your ‘home area’, i.e. the area you trust to not intercept your messages and where you can act meaningfully to ban such interception, is sufficiently large – given the size of the EU (for example) even after Britain is out, that shouldn’t be too much a problem.

For everything going outside this green zone, encrypted communication is the go-to-response, be that PGP, OTR or at the very least HTTPS.
Matt Cutts browses this site. Maybe he knows the reason why?
Google Is Developing Android Game Console
The SV expectation/mentality that if someone builds something first they "own" that space is unjustifiable. I'm not say you are saying that, but it is an implicit attitude in the Valley.

Competition (or "clones") were around 100 years ago, continue to exist today and will be around for the next 100 years. Today's innovation is tomorrow's commodity thanks to competition. This is good.

Is it disappointing that MasterCard launched a similar service? Sure, I would too be disappointed and I sympathise.

Having said that, stating that "a product copies everything" is not really true. They can not copy execution, culture, customer service, customer loyalty, etc. You have that on your side.

People think that Ford Motor was one of the first (if not the only) car manufacturer in States in the early 1900s, but it was quite the contrary. The car was a revolutionary technology: it had a combustion engine, it was fast, etc. Over 100 car companies were launched in the early 1900s. All of them car startups. When the technology goes in one direction it is difficult to be the salmon that swims upstream, in the opposite direction. To tell those +100 car startups to "go and innovate, I own the combustion engine on top of four wheels" is simple unrealistic. Expect competition, that's my point.

How did Ford survive having less resources than many others? How did Ford survive the great depression? Execution. It improved the assembly line, vertically integrated to bring more production in-house, etc.

Stripe's case should be no different. Today's technology and innovation is commoditised in months. Execution can't be commoditised. Don't expect competitors to rest on their laurels.
"A DRM-free subscription service would immediately lead to a ripper tool that would download everything in one month"

Why would anyone bother doing that when they could just download what they wanted over bittorrent?
I've lived in Austin for the last 13 years or so and worked on 6 startups. I love it and can't see myself anywhere else. I've spent a bit of time in SF over the years, and love it there, but just can't imagine living there.

* Heat: It's hot in the summer. Really hot. Over 100 most days. After some time, you just accept it and move on with life. You stay inside. You live later in the evening when it's dark and cooler. The flip side of this is that for 8 months out of the year, the weather is pretty incredible :)

* Startups: There are lots of startups here. But you'll find that Austin tends to not focus as much on the consumer oriented startups. So many of them you'll never really have heard of. Some success stories are Spiceworks, Indeed, HomeAway, BazaarVoice, and Mass Relevance. There are also lots of agencies based here that are always looking to hire. There's also a big VC here (Austin Ventures) and an incubator that's had some success (Capital Factory).

* Tech Community: The Javascript and Ruby/Rails communities are very active. Each hosts a conference each year that are well attended and respected. Again, SXSW is here each March which is also pretty incredible.

* City: Austin is awesome. Live Music, Lakes, Pools, Great Food, SXSW, ACL, F1... I could go on... seriously, it's pretty sweet.

* Restaurants: Yes. Awesome. In the last 5 years, it's really exploded. I'm constantly amazed by the amount of great food that's available now. A lot of it stems from the rise of trailers a few years back. The best ones have gone on to open brick and morder locations. Notable standouts: Uchi, Barley Swine, Perla's, Franklin BBQ, Homeslice Pizza, La Condessa, Sway, Torchy's Tacos. So much good food. And if you're willing to drive an hour outside of Austin, there are probably 50 authentic Texas BBQ places in the surrounding area. Also beer. A few incredible breweries have started over the last few years.

* $$: Definitely cheaper to live here than SF or NY :)
The border is a different story. No one has any rights at the US border.
This is most likely the same reason digg's frontpage was deindexed. There's no "content" per se, it's just links. Someone will notice, add an exception, and all is well.

Unlike Digg, HN has a substantial amount of content in the comments pages though, which are heavily indexed.

Edit - All the comment pages are still indexed just fine. It's /only/ the front-page. Which, imo, doesn't really matter anyway.
Do you have any thought of how that architecture may look? What is a use case you envision?
Should all button text start with a verb?
Cool, in Support -> Home -> General, couldn't be more visible. Tried searching for "country" in the support-area, no hits, no more time spent searching.
New adventures with functional languages in financial sector
>the next conservative government will get rid of it as fast as they can.

We don't have universal health care.
Founders Fund only took 16% during the Quantcast Series A, and they expressly said at the time that they didn't have a specific target for ownership percentage.

I remember this because other firms wanted 20% or more.
I've come to be of the opinion that the best position to be in is as an earlier buyer of something funded via Kickstarter. I've yet to back something where my thought has been "I'm so glad I was here for the prototyping and quality assurance phase!"
What a lot people may not know is that these universities release many of their lectures online on youtube. I have watched some in the past to catch up with missing notes and it was helpful.
Edit --
Link - http://www.youtube.com/iit
Actually, that's already how it works. :) Imports are relative to the importing file unless they start with a '/', in which case the import path is searched.

The protobuf approach was somewhat necessitated by the fact that various parts of the protobuf implementation expected file names to be canonical, e.g. so that it could tell if two descriptors were for the same file by comparing the names. This mean it was necessary for the compiler to know where the top of the source tree was and dealing with relative paths would have been pretty ugly. This worked fine for Google-internal usage, but was problematic for a lot of open source users.

Cap'n Proto does not use file names as canonical identifiers. Instead, it requires every file to assign itself a unique ID (a random 64-bit number). This introduces some other problems, but on the whole I think it comes out a lot nicer.
Exactly - and I don't think OS X was ever truly a microkernel, it used Mach as the base for XNU, but it was always a hybrid kernel even going back as far as the NeXTStep days.

QNX is all that is left and as you say, it's waning -- fast. And ironically, QNX in BlackBerry OS has lost many of the so-called advantages it had in the past, because a large portion of the OS is dedicated to running Android in an emulation layer, thus using a monolithic kernel anyway. sigh

Stallman failed and that's OK. Giving the world emacs and GCC was enough, frankly. He used to always make it seem like Linus just got "lucky" and happened to make a kernel before Hurd was done -- but that wasn't the case at all. Linus got a working kernel working faster and Linux proved to be better than anything Hurd could achieve, full-stop.
This headline is misleading. It implies the program is still ongoing, where the original article clearly states that the program was shut down 2 years ago.

Moreover, after a lot of cynical complaining about Obama not being meaningfully different than previous administrations, it's worth noting that Obama was the one to shut this down.

I'm not interested in reflexively defending the government or Obama but we still need to pay attention to the facts at hand.
That doesn't mean that standing up to bullying countries doesn't work. There's always another superpower to run to, and they seem to like undermining each other's bullying.
That's actually an excellent point. In this context, "flattening" the logo seems like a very bad idea... The "old" logo uses strong color to make the pieces visible, while "new" logo depends on outlines and borders to show detail, which naturally blur when you shrink the logo.

Honestly, the "flat" design starts looking a lot more like a blue-and-orange-smudge at that scale.
Pytest supports unittest fixtures, kind-of
I ran pytest on the tests written to demonstrate unittest fixtures.
Some surprises.
There are some differences, which I list out in this post.
> [...] it was the Non Ethnic Germans that got stopped a lot more.

That's probably true to some extent. I imagine though that the situation is similar in other countries, and the problem is racism in itself. It's sad, but it has nothing to with the ID requirement.

Just look at the US; they may not require an ID, but it sure does not seem to stop their police from physically abusing anyone who looks at them the wrong way. Or in rare cases, literally beating up or even murdering someone just because they're black/mexican/whatever.

(Disclaimer: I've never been to the US. American pop culture may have distorted my view on the American police. :)
Making a vector image is piece of cake. The SVG syntax is a bit concise, but that's about it. See http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/svg-curves/cu... . Regarding arbitrary zoom, it's just a matter of changing the viewbox: http://www.justinmccandless.com/blog/Making+Sense+of+SVG+vie... (it's no madness though) And you don't even have to redraw (that's the benefit of SVG, it has a scene graph unlike canvas). Remember, a vector image doesn't need to have any inherit width or height! In fact, if you don't specify it, the browser will resize the image so that the viewbox fills the browser viewport!

Another advantage is that you can handle generated images as images, not as code, without converting them to raster bitmaps (which I guess you'd be forced to when when dumping the canvas).
Reminders, links I like, videos I find and want to keep, music I find through Shazaam, the photos my friends send me. Basically I want to click on tab and see all the media.
I'd happily read 9600 words written by anyone with thoughtful, interesting and captivating opinions.
It is easy to add this information in the search – in the particular example, adding ‘Java’ will likely mean that someone is not looking for specific strings from a tropical island or the local clothing types, but your ‘type 1’ strings. Even better, the same person can look for clothing by adding an appropriate identifier, without having to worry that ‘type 1’ answers leak into their ‘type 4’ query.
Calling it "lazy" was fair given the points he made. He's not talking about copying products, he's talking about copying the product AND all the little UI/UX details. That really is lazy.
New Myspace is still playing music from indie labels without permission
Land near the borders (particularly the southern border) is treated differently (very poorly, as you unfortunately learned). Texas is not even the worse in that regard, as hard as that may be to believe. Arizona takes that shameful crown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070
While Britain stagnates, America is roaring
The IP information is a common and general location, usually of your nearest Telecom tower. IP address in itself does not lead to your Internet device. So the paragraph is still inaccurate if the Ad agency is tracking through IP. Your IP was always naked and available to anyone you send email to (through the headers).
Never really been a fan of the Firefox logo. Why not go for a revolution? Just use the Red Panda as inspiration for something very cutsey and recognisable. Bin the current logo.

I like the idea of the ship's wheel in the navigator logo, and the compass in Safari. As for the other logos they don't do anything for me (oh alright, IceWeasel is quite a funny knock off, and Nightly's is boringly okay.)
New SHIELD's Marvel Heroes Guide Covers All 26 Heroes
This wouldn't work with background colors though, would it? I imagine the document background color would be undefined outside the body then. Do you suggest putting the background color on the html element? I never saw that.
Oh I thought it was a lazy designer that left out all the details in the Firefox logo. Never imagined it was actually a new logo. Didn't really notice it a lot though anyway, not sure you can even call this a new logo.
The Dashboard Lifecycle
Weird, I always disliked Safari's compass and really did like Firefox' logo.
You should learn more about the FDA. It kills many Americans by slowing down the adoption of new drugs, and by adding serious cost to the development of new drugs. In other areas, the FDA is "captured" by industry and offers no protection. For example, the FDA has no rule or standard on arsenic in food, despite evidence that the carcinogen is commonly in US brown rice. Placing your faith in a government agency is foolish-- we'd be better off without the FDA because people would take the threats more seriously and you'd have more effective private certification programs fill in the gap.
> I would bet good money they already have working quantum computers

How much, at what odds, and under what conditions of settling?
Ummm can someone explain to me what exactly is going on here?
Should I be using Nginx + UWSGI with Go apps? I know someone wrote a seemingly comprehensive uwsgi package for Go, but IIRC it kinda got shredded a bit in the mailing list.

edit: Hm, maybe there's a different thread or I was discouraged from using it in IRC or I'm inventing memories because this ml post is fairly lackluster either way: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/2vHlfkpS-m0/MZ-X...
And what does the Ad agencies got to do with this NSA mess? Or in other words, is there any disclosure in this article of any Ad agency doing NSA's job?
I agree, that didn't make much sense. It seems like the post was targeted more towards LPs than startups.
The comments are the real content of this site.
Jimmy Wales vows to resist PRISM, wonders if Snowden edited Wikipedia
Programs are often shut down when superseded by new or better tools. In any case, both the WaPo and the Guardian article on the same leak says metadata collection is ongoing:

A senior administration official queried by the Washington Post denied that the Obama administration was "using this program" to "collect internet metadata in bulk", but added: "I'm not going to say we're not collecting any internet metadata."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-...
I wouldn't say QNX is waning... It's used in trains, nuclear power stations, cars, embedded systems etc. If anything, QNX is a good counter-example to your argument because it's one of the few really successful microkernels out there.

edit: a broader list of where QNX is used: http://www.qnx.com/company/30ways/
Really? I'm not sure about eye candy but I find high powered executives intrinsically "hot". Apparently, it's an evolutionary thing...
The guy just looks like a sociopathic wanna-be hacker.

Siðblindur aumingi.
Google Developing Game Console & Smart Watch
TouchCast Aims To Reinvent Online Video With Interactive Apps
So, as far as I can tell, you have failed to demonstrate that Twisted Web with PyPy is not a viable alternative, which is disappointing.

Also, uWSGI's core team doesn't have any faith in their own code; they use Apache instead of dogfooding. (And they're moving all hosting and development to sites like Github.) Twisted, at least, is confident enough in the quality of their code to self-host.
That's exactly why the users can no longer trust the service or the government to do right by them. Client-side encryption is the only way to be sure your rights aren't being trampled.
I'm curious too. But maybe a good licensing-aware image search facility can auto-match acceptable images to stories?
WORLD WAR 3 WANTED BY ISRAEL
Perfect? Two people know the key.
I find this to be a really interesting business decision for MasterCard. MasterCard cannot offer this service directly on their information systems because of there own rules and the antitrust consent decree.

So what have they done? They've built a wrapper around Priority Payments Services, an independent sales organization of Wells Fargo. (For reference, Stripe is also an ISO of Wells Fargo Merchant Services).

Which is all a long way of saying that MasterCard went pretty far out of there way to build this system. They must really see value in selling directly to merchant developers.

There is another possible story here: maybe the ISO wanted to compete with Stripe, they built the system and site, and asked MasterCard for their branding.
What about SEPA [1]? Didn't it simplify things enough? E.g. I can make bank transfers between EUR accounts from France to Poland (which is not in eurozone BTW) within a few hours (during the week) with a total cost ~€1 which is quite acceptable (of course not for €5 transfers, but the cost is fixed, so it's good enough for bigger transfers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
Jaguar CX-75 - Hybrid Supercar - 800+ bhp
A couple of years ago there was an article comparing the various wsgi servers. The one that seemed most performant/low memory at the time was gevent, so I chose it for the application I was writing at the time to run on an ec2 micro behind nginx. It was very easy to use too, just wrote a 10 line python script and that was it.

I've never seen any articles about it since, so I wonder if others know something I don't. Can anyone compare gevent's webserver vs. uwsgi, gunicorn, etc behind nginx?
If you can monitor a meaningful fraction of traffic, then you can use an advertising agency's cookies to track a target.
It was just a play on words... not meant to be taken literally or seriously.