skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sugar on top of Express. This ties in a bunch of other things you need, authentication, authorization, building APIs and generators in a more cohesive way. Still hard to be plain old Express.
ok - so someone downvoted my comment here.. nice. :)
Many of them do.
A very convenient way for "security services" of the world and especially USA to get a very fine list of sympathisers of wikileaks world over has been opened.

Not that it will stop me!
I don't get it, why is obfuscating consumer data a good thing? If I have to see ads, I'd much rather they be relevant things like hosting providers than random things I don't care about...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

Not an arrest, but pretty fucked up. You seem to lack a lot of historical context.
AT&T will start selling customers’ usage data
If you're a Zionist, then I disagree with you in the strongest possible terms, because you are a Zionist, not because you are a Jew. I suppose I misrepresented what I meant by saying 'I hate Israel'. What I meant was I hate Israel in its current form (i.e, a rapidly expanding apartheid state).

I guess I could pull the cop out 'but I have some Jewish friends!' but I won't, you'll just have to believe that me that I hate Zionism rather than Judaism.
He didn't predict the cloud, he basically predicted that the way things were then (timeshared system with dumb terminals) was the way it was always going to be. So he wasn't predicting anything, it was already there. You might be able to say that he predicted it would grow to have terminals everywhere but that is more just looking at normal growth if you assumed the current way of doing things is the way it would always be done.

We're not catching up, we're going back to it. Just this time we have dumb terminals just as powerful as the server that is doing things but relegated to doing nothing but displaying markup. It wouldn't surprise me if cost of the terminal compared to the cost of a central server at the time factored into his views.

The man was amazing, it is not often that one man can make such a impact on the everyday lives of so many, but in this case he missed where computing was going. Oddly, his creation of the mouse made personal computers more accessible to everyone.
Nonsense - utter nonsense.

Voice Link Service “is not compatible with fax machines, DVR services, credit card machines, medical alert or other monitoring services or some High Speed or DSL Internet services.” Customers in western Fire Island and other rural parts of New York have no FiOS or cable modem Internet providers to switch to, so those who rely on these services have no alternatives if switched to Voice Link.

How is that 'the best technology'? The whole point is that it's less capable than POTS. It's not like Verizon were trying to resume rolling out FIOS and the AG was insisting on copper. Don't let your ideology get in the way of basic reading comprehension.
Didn't seem to work at all on an iPad.
If you are an IxD or UX guy, you really owe it to yourself to read "Designing interactions" by Bill Moggridge. In it, Doug Engelbart is interviewed for an entire chapter regarding how he and some other guys designed the mouse. Very interesting stuff.
It seems that people are afraid to "throw away" work, which means they hold on to things they've built (even when they shouldn't) just because they've invested time in them.

But the throwing-away of work is crucial to building something lasting, similar to editing the photos you show to the world. At the very minimum you gain a better understanding of the problem. The thing you keep probably wouldn't be as good without having done the throw-away work.

This also kinda reminds me of the Picasso Principle [1]:

The famous Pablo Picasso was at a party. A woman
recognized him and approached the Master. She asked,
“Will you create a sketch for me?” Picasso agreed,
and, as he pulled out his sketchpad, asked her for a
subject. “A bird in a tree will do,” she responded.
So Picasso spent about a five minutes doing what
Picasso does on the sketchpad. Finished, he ripped the
sketch off the pad, handed it to the woman and said,
“That will be $10,000.” The woman was floored. “Ten
thousand dollars! Why, it only took you five minutes to
draw that sketch!” To which, Picasso replied, “No,
madam. That sketch took me a lifetime.”

1. http://www.ideasicle.com/Ideasicle_Site/Blog_%26_Podcast/Ent...
Was he being serious? Thought it was satire.
You got banned for a reason so why would he unban you?
Do they have any evidence that DRM is important for this?

It baffles me that the music industry was very quick to discard DRM despite being the loudest opponent of piracy for a while, and yet everyone else is still locking down their content. And no, before someone mentions it, streaming was absolutely not a factor in their decision at the time.
In general, I think mail delivery is very reliable. But given the volume, there will be outliers. Even if we assumed 99.9999% reliability (a hypothetical number), given that they sort 300MM pieces per day, 300 pieces per day will be affected.

If you have the money, you should try an experiment: mail a large number of ballot-like pieces from different mailboxes all over the county (say, 10,000 letters) and see how many reach the destination. Sure, it'll cost $5K, but you may have a better answer.
I think that's an unreasonable assumption. It's far more likely that a CA is compromised than an ISP.

Also, don't underestimate the power of e.g. sslstrip. Most users enter "google.com", not "https://google.com". If you're not careful, somebody will just remove all the SSL links on your pages, or lead you to another domain with a valid one, via DNS or HTTP redirects.
> Postage on a post card is currently 33 cents. How many postcards do you reckon you'd have to send before the automatic scanning process costs even one cent extra?

It seems like it would be a self-defeating process since the cost built into sending "data flak" would pay for the services monitoring it.
Thanks! Really appreciate the support
Strava is turning away from API dev to lock users into their App
By anti-Zionism I don't mean to imply that I am for removing all Jews from Israel or whatever. I am for a one-state solution.
With a system like that, the intersection itself would be capable of logging the passing of every vehicle: time, direction, speed. There is no escape.
Wierd, I haven't had any issues in my virtualenv. All I did was `pip install ansible`. The only hiccup was I had to `apt-get install python-dev` on Debian.
> This makes testing and maintenance of such things all but impossible

Developers have been maintaining such apps for decades without any problem. And everything is testable , even a stocked procedure.

If you dont care about data integrity, then make your application responsible for your schema...Some do care. Non-rel databases guarantee 0 data integrity, with very little performance gain over relational-databases.

Finally most frameworks allow developpers to generate the db schema during development without writing a single query. with all the cache layers like redis and other goodies , there is little to no reason to use non-rel databases.
Good thing I am not saying that.

I am saying that Google's commitment to openness has declined substantially over the years, and that this is due to their interpretation of the commercial context.
This looks pretty awesome. Definitely going to give it a try.
Isn't that a completely different thing?
I work for AT&T in prospect direct marketing and I can't see any of the customer data. They are a lot more protective of this information than you might expect.
Maybe you just don't have the health upgrade. Once you get 20 health per cured meat the ferral beasts are much easier to keep at bay.
German here. All these after Snowden proposals from German government or opposition are fake. Either they call it a Hollywood fantasy, want to escalate it to the EU or now ignore snooping happens at the cable.

The day anybody proposes encryption to the public I'll consider to start voting again. And regarding some other comments here, I think it's a stretch calling a country democracy, if the voter turnout is below 50%.
The thing is, what if the teen did commit that act a day/week/month later?

Yes, the half million bail and physical abuse is wrong, but ultra-violent comments like this are from a psychologically disturbed mind. Something had to be done.
>> The reality is, nobody is going to shoot you and your friends in the head for marching around chanting about NSA surveillance.

Wow are you naive. You sound like a plant. These FBI documents reveal just how free we really are today. I know right. Trust us, we're from the government.

http://rt.com/usa/fbi-assassination-ows-sniper-227/
I didn't ask for podcasts that will, by themselves, make me a better software engineer. I'm just looking for ones that are more productive than just listening to music in my car on the way to work.
What better sources of teeth and scales are you referring to? Harvesting them from wandering beasts seems extraordinarily tedious and time-consuming. Converting to them from fur requires an incredible amount of fur.
Ugh, I knew I shouldn't have looked at these comments. You guys totally spoiled the surprise. =P
I think you applied a very rational process to founder equity here. thank you.
Evo Morales was not forced to land
Power cut combined with serious fire in my street a few months ago. Very glad the line powered landline handset still worked (although mobile had enough charge).
I haven't used CrashPlan so I can't really say, sorry. I've moved to Arq now which has been working very well for me but it's OSX only.
Douglas Engelbart, Developer of the Early Computer Mouse, Dead at 88
Thanks for the heads-up. Just pushed a fix for a pair of double-superscript errors. I can then build under Ubuntu 12.04. Hope this works for you.
Modding would be fun, could even be refactored as a "minimalist game framework." No particular mods come to mind ATM though. Any ideas?
MasterCard and Visa have started banning VPN providers
If your targets are loading pirated APKs onto their phones, you don't need any other security vulnerabilities...
Whatever, say, Google-a-few-year-back then.
I believe he means server-side, like node.js
Bitcoin... a monetary system that requires internet connectivity and CPU usage... in which every transaction is recorded forever and the database is replicated by all participants... is "off the grid"?
What's the state of that driver look like? It's literally the only thing holding me back from moving over today.
This falls under exactly the same Laws that prevent a UK resident viewing Channel 4 content on YouTube. (Or, try asking a German why so much of YouTube is "dark" to them, specifically Corporately sponsored music channels).

It has nothing to do with your license fee, and everything to do with the (vastly complex and totally out of my expertise) realms of International Copyright / Licensing Laws.

As ever, these things are really not simple enough to be covered by a blog post. Yes: the BBC's default page should be totally transparent (i.e. "You cannot view this because of agreement X, Y, Z", however, there's probably a clause in some contract preventing them from stating it - and no, that's not a joke) but this really is not the droid you're looking for to rant at.

Hint: If you're in Australia, the entire works of George Orwell are public domain; in the USA and the EU, this isn't the case. And yes, we need a serious shake up of the entire structure to progress, but this isn't the wet-stone to sharpen your axe on, trust me.

Ask why Disney gets 70+ years of Copyright, it's a far more egregious case.
1) The special token is much better idea. I don't feel comfortable giving out any passwords to anyone, (almost) ever.
The Rust documentation is a list of modules, but I think a cross-reference with a list of all traits declared in all modules would be very useful. Developers, particularly people writing libraries, would have a big "to-do" list of all the traits their new types could implement.
Somewhat relatedly, after zenphoton.com I made a tool called High Quality Zen (HQZ) which uses a similar algorithm to do high quality off-line rendering. I made this video with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obbew_7_Xo8
Assuming that the site you're using over HTTPS is:

1.) Not vulnerable to any CSRF flaws
2.) Uses Strict-Transport-Security
3.) Uses cookies with the "secure" flag set

If any of those conditions are not met, then no, HTTPS over open wi-fi is not trustworthy.
OpenPositioningSystem
Yes, the plate number on your vehicle is publicly available data. But I don't see how that is very usefully. I'm not sure there is any way for a random person to do anything with a plate number. It would require the person to have some sort of connection to the DMV or other agency that has access to your name and address based on the plate number. And those people are still not going to have access to your medical records even if they did manage to get your name and address just by knowing your plate number.

EDIT: the bit about getting at medical records seeped in from reading another comment.
it'w worse , it is basically a bin where you throw paper. You can still search for a specific one ,but as you throw more paper in the trashcan , it gets more complicated to find the paper you want. but hey ,it is easier and faster than to organize them on a rack they say ...
Thanks! Yea, that'll be my next step forward. Because of the absurdly strange way I came up with of generating the sentences, I'm having a difficult time figuring out a way of doing that without completely re-writing my function. I'm sure I'll get that functionality working eventually, just need to learn more about JavaScript at this point in time.
Reading code is a much better way for a developer to learn than reading articles IMO. Of course writing is even better...
Which is hilarious, because Weizenbaum is basically the 70s and 80s version of Dave Winer without the RSS under his belt.
Haha thank you, maybe I'll add that functionality in!
Found this tool for collaboration, but I wish it had voice chat built in:
http://screenhero.com/
Check out browserling

http://browserling.com
I think they're using FB as a trust proxy..
It's supposed to save the exposure in that link, and when I click the link it does open with a non-default exposure value. Hmm!
Because the news media's job is to be a government watchdog. "The concept of the media or press as a fourth branch stems from a belief that the news media's responsibility to inform the populace is essential to the healthy functioning of the democracy" [1]. They haven't been doing their job for a long time.

Edited to explain: Fixing the news media could be viewed as addressing an underlying cause for a dysfunctional representational system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_branch_of_government
Reminds of a joke about a mechanic who charged $500 for hitting something with a hammer. When the customer grumbled, he said he wasn't charging $500 for the blow, but rather for knowing where to hit it.
I'd go with "computing pioneer". Then again, that headline could be less likely to encourage people to read on and find out what Engelbart actually did.
You're welcome, and I should probably know more about the Mehenna case. I wish I was still studying for the bar, I can't afford law school. :-/

Believe it or not I'm more drawn to defense work.
If it's a small part you want to optimize it works great. But if all your project is performance sensitive it becomes a big hack that's hard to maintain.
The problem is that they are not dictators... They were democratically elected. Morsi may have lost popular support, but is democracy served by a coup every time a country's leadership's approval numbers drop below 50%? In the case of Turkey, Erdogan still enjoys majority support, and would likely win an election held today.

Calling these protests democratic is incorrect. Instead they point to a larger problem: that majorities of these countries support hard-line Islamist governments. The protesters are merely a reflection that fundamentalists (perhaps of any religion) are incompatible with a free and secular society.
MoodScope, a context-aware smartphone to sense and share your mood
the point is that you dont want to see ads, you are forced to
skype crashes for me when i forget to reconnect my external webcam. I hope you find a fix.
With zenphoton I really wanted to keep the user interaction model as simple as possible, since part of the 'zen' was in the drawing experience itself.

I made a more complex tool based on the same raytracing style, called High Quality Zen (HQZ). It has some support for representing curves as many small line segments with interpolated normals.

https://github.com/scanlime/zenphoton/tree/master/hqz
I agree that the date was a poor choice. So many people traveling, barbecuing, and engaged in other activities. Despite this I will attend as well tomorrow. It'd be pretty cool to see Alexis Ohanian at the rally (I believe his is the comment currently (5:37PM) above yours).

Although pvnik who replied to you points out everyone being off work which is a very solid point. Apparently it was decided to be the best date. I guess I like the symbolism. Still not sure though.
my parents, aunts and uncles all usually call to talk or send emails, most of my friends gchat/text/tweet to communicate.
Affluent Families Have Ways to Sway School Assignments (2006)
Which just illustrates that while comparatively young companies may all be all about one application, its not exactly unusual even for a company that starts out that way to rapidly grow into one providing a large array of applications with overlapping use of data.

While there are reasons that running all those applications for, say, Google on a shared RDBMS backend isn't the right answer, the reason isn't that Google has a single application that uses all its data and so doesn't have to worry about coordination between different applications using the same data.
May I ask what search terms you used?

I tentatively thought it was "TheBrain", but that's a bit later, and I was working out if there's any link between Harlan Hugh and Engelbart.
difference is, you know if you got mugged.
Ugh. When the news media refers to "secret courts" and "secret laws" they're taking some liberties with the definitions of "court" and "law".

The first thing to understand is that one of the basic concepts in our separation of powers system is that the executive has discretion in how it enforces the law. Take something basic like the Sherman Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. 1). The most important piece is just one paragraph: "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal..."

The courts establish the precise contours of what is a "restraint of trade" or what is a "combination" under the law. This creates a set of boundaries for the executive. The executive is empowered to enforce the law, but has discretion within those boundaries. If it thinks some class of things is or is not a violation of the law, it is entitled to prosecute cases accordingly until the courts decide the point one way or another or Congress clarifies the law.

Presidential orders cannot create law, but they can guide the rest of the executive branch's enforcement of the law, within those boundaries of discretion. The President might issue a directive telling the DOJ: "we don't think that such and such agreement is a 'combination' under the antitrust laws, so don't prosecute such cases." Usually these interpretations are public (and are published in the form of regulations). Sometimes these interpretations are secret, in which case the media calls it a "secret law." But the key thing is that the directive only guides executive action that was lawful anyway.

Now, the FISA court has been called a "secret court" but it again serves to guide executive discretion, and is not a court of general jurisdiction. Its opinions are binding on no other court other than itself, and its jurisdiction is extremely limited. The basic principle behind FISA is that the executive can do a lot of things as a part of its foreign intelligence function Constitutionally that we don't necessarily want it to do. In particular, it can conduct surveillance of foreign agents entirely without warrants because foreign agents don't have 4th amendment rights. The purpose of the FISA court is to constrain the executive's discretion in this regard, by requiring it to get a FISA warrant for all foreign surveillance, even though such surveillance would not require a warrant under the 4th amendment.

To circle back to mpyne's point: neither "secret courts" nor "secret law" can override public courts and public law. Rather, they are internal to the executive. They guide the executive's discretionary powers within the boundaries established by public law. If they hadn't written it down, they'd still be entitled to do it, and nobody would complain about any "secret laws" or "presidential directives." The things mpyne mentioned are illegal according to public law, and thus not within the executive's power to do regardless of any secret directives or secret court opinions.
Skillshare - Project-Based Classes, Anytime, Anywhere.
Seems it would rather be better if there was a .net TimeSpan / JodaTime Duration type, or better yet, a type system that understood units.
WikiSpeed: Car Manufacturing in the Age of Open Collaboration
Agreed that being on Facebook takes away anonymity, which is one of Bitcoin's benefits. There are also many great non-anonymous uses for Bitcoin- "free PayPal", for example. That's the angle we're taking in this app.
Hey Austin is weird too....
Didn't get past the fourth sentence in Part 1:

It doesn’t use one-way data binding.

Probably want to reword that.

Also the first link (Things I Wish I Were Told about AngularJS) starts off with a bad example used to demonstrate ng-repeat's scope changes. Anyone reading that (at any level of AngularJS knowledge) would first pick up on the fact that it uses 'item.value' for the text input but just 'checked' for the checkbox. The example is more of a design mistake in the code than an example of ng-repeat's scope.
and that privacy data is used to tailor ad serving.
It is worth pointing out that Ansible does not need concurrent connections to each server to manage each machine, you can address as large of groups as you want and control parallelism with the --forks parameter.
I doubt an anti-abortion protestor who is collecting license plate numbers is doing it to get a hold of medical records. They have already made their "judgement".
And yet, according to Netcraft yesterday:

"Apache and nginx, both open source web servers, have
lost market share this month whilst Microsoft gained
significantly, up by 2.43 percentage points, to just shy
of 20% of worldwide sites. For the second consecutive
month, nginx is powering fewer sites than in the previous
month's Web Server Survey, which is due, in part, to
almost 2M sites moving from nginx and to Apache. Within
the million busiest sites, a similar picture emerges:
nginx lost over 4,000 busy sites, many of which have
moved to Apache."

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/07/02/july-2013-web-s...
this app is a passive location app for iPhone that conserves battery in several ways... more on that here: http://quadstreaker.com/about.html
Go is still missing a key component needed to make it a real breakout language for web application backends: a central repository for open source libraries.

The mainstream web development languages like Python, Ruby, and Javascript have this via PyPi, Gems, and NPM respectively.

There are some efforts to make this happen like Go Nuts, but nothing with serious traction yet. I think it's just a matter of time though.