skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not mutually exclusive, but soft power relies on having the appearance of not needing your hard power. Soft power is when you arrive to someone's office dressed up really nice; have a lovely conversation with them over coffee and pastries about what they're going to do this year; and at the end you look at your business companions and casually remark, "I don't even know why I brought these huge, muscled-looking ex-mobsters with me at all."
I use TM2 regularly and really like it for these reasons. My only real gripe, and why I might switch to ST3 at some point, is auto complete. TM technically has code completion[1], but I've never found it particularly useful compared to the popup style that ST and XCode use.

[1] http://blog.macromates.com/2012/clever-completion/
I think 'crashing into the ground' indicates it's a done deal. No saving is possible, so what's left is talking about it. I'm thankful for that much, at least.
What the fuck? How is this real?
Well, you could always think of the guy's question as to do with whether the reputation system is actually working properly?
That was my suspicion as well after reading this article. We really need to wait until more data is gathered - or better still, another probe enters the area - before making any grand pronouncements.
would never fly in the US. Students would sue for unfair (or worse, from a PR perspective, discriminatory) treatment. Education is a right, and by flunking those students, you are denying those students that right.
I don't have the answers. I'm just pointing out that writing, recording, and selling music doesn't entitle one to profits, and if you're in a saturated market like the music business you should expect that you're probably going to fail in your business ventures there unless you're in the top 0.1%. Perhaps the answer is for musicians to lower their expectations about making a business out of their art, because even with the system working as designed most of them already operate at a net loss.
George Orwell's Birthday Party
I can't decide if the author is brilliant and doing a scathing critique of short attention spans and knee jerk reactions of the modern developer or is entirely on the level and just a bit of an imbecile.
Isn't the purpose of a legal defense fund so that the person doesn't have to use a public defender? They are saying if you can't afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you, and if you can afford a lawyer, then your money will be confiscated and we will use it to pay the lawyer we appointed for you.
Yes, everybody is talking about Snowden, and nobody is talking about the facts he revealed. It's distressing, but IMO not surprising.

People love human-interest stories. You see this all the time. In any news story where there's anything resembling a central figure, the stories will be mostly about that person, not about the overall event.

Combine that with the difficulty of asking hard questions, and you get what we see. The government probably doesn't even have to exert any kind of overt pressure.
The problem was primarily particulates, and that has been taken care of.

Most diesel cars now have a separate urea tank which functions as after treatment. Others (primarily trucks) use exhaust gas recirculation instead so that they don't have to maintain two fluid tanks.

I'm quite a car nerd, and generally when people come to me asking whether they should get a Prius, I typically ask them about their driving habits. I live in San Diego, where there are lots and lots of freeways, so diesel cars do really well here and I often recommend them. Hell, the newer Audi diesels are quite good performance-wise as well (torque for days! woohoo!!)
Who is Leaking More: Edward Snowden or the Government Officials Condemning Him?
Show HN: NeoCities HTML Styling Framework
The app I wish I had in a college setting was a simple way of letting people know that I'm open to doing certain things at a certain time.

The best example i'm thinking about is like a pre-checkin feature for something like foursquare so friends can see I'm open to going to a bar/movie/dinner etc & they know it's worthwhile to call me, instead of having to do a bunch of back & forth messages to see who is up for any given thing at a time. Maybe this is because so many of my friends want to know "who else is interested" before they even express interest.
Europe values different air quality values than some of the states do. Then there are memories of the Oldsmobile diesels which sealed the fate of diesel passenger cars in the US.

Current diesels, having owned a Golf and now a Beetle convertible with one, are very clean, still efficient, and even fairly quiet. You could sit behind my car when I start it or its running and not detect a scent of diesel. In fact it can be less offensive than some gasoline cars.

Still I drive in a world of public buses and commercial dump trucks that just pump plumes of black stuff into the air. Makes it hard to sell to the average consumer.

That is changing, besides VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche (see the pattern), Jeep will have a Grand Cherokee with a diesel, Chevrolet has a diesel version of the Cruze, and Mazda will have a 6 with one as well.

In my case I wanted a fun to drive car, its a convertible, that got very good mileage. All the hybrids to me are penalty boxes. So when I saw VW was going to offer a convertible with the efficiency that a diesel belongs I jumped at it.
The client code and assets are surely copyrighted by Google, no?

Also, I think the backend is the hard part.
What could the NSA do with a quantum computer?
Less than 1 cent?!
You've had 5 phones in 3 years and that's somehow supposed to convince us to move to your system for being better?

I've had 2 phones in that time, an HTC desire that lasted me 3 .5 years and a nexus 4 that I've had since replacing that and I expect to last me equally as long.
the popularity of these cheat sheets every month is telling of git's confusing, over-overloaded syntax :(

i keep hoping they make a clean break and just rework the commands to reduce confusion and introduce better uniformity
This deserves more than 3 upvotes...
> I think we have indeed seen Firefox go from approximately 30% share at the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 down to less than 20% today.

I don't disagree that Firefox lost marketshare over the past 3 years. Interestingly enough, the peaks you list are nowhere near Firefox 4's release date (March 2011), while Google's advertising for Chrome began near those points [1]. Both StatCounter and Net Applications show this trend (decline after Q4 2009).

Whether or not StatCounter or Net Applications is more accurate is an argument I don't want to pursue (page views vs unique visitors, country weighting to remove bias vs no weighting to preserve data integrity, etc.).

> I know many others share this opinion, as well. The numbers above support that very strongly.

I'm willing to bet if Firefox continued to look like version 3.6 yet took the same performance/behavior from every version along the way it would be in the same position. Chrome has simply been the superior browser to get things done, but that can actually be questioned now with a more competitive browser landscape.

> Before then, the focus was on usability, and providing a good browser. Since then, however, the priorities have clearly shifted,

How so?

> It's a bad situation, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

Who's pretending? I'm quite aware of Firefox/Mozilla's position as an underdog (in fact, I'm concerned). I'm just wondering why you feel the need to reiterate your dislike given that if someone has not been convinced to move from Firefox to another browser by now, then either they don't know other options (unlikely) or they clearly still appreciate something about the Firefox or Mozilla community and ecosystem that goes beyond the growing pains that pushed you away.

Mozilla did wonders breaking the IE monoculture and they are doing solid work now keeping the other major players honest, if not competitive by offering a solid contender now. In the end, I want Mozilla to be successful because I believe Mozilla matters: https://brendaneich.com/2013/02/why-mozilla-matters/

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10422101-71.html
Unbelievable how easy that was. If I were him, I would have been so tempted to take over celebrity accounts.
Neither Snowden nor Greenwald have revealed any more documents so all we have is a powerpoint presentation, a letter from attorney general Holder, and a document saying the USA tapped a cable connecting to China. Without more information, what else can be discussed?
is that a responsive webpage? :D
New Technology Will Test 50-Year-Old Physics Theory
Although you have browser support covered on a doc-by-doc basis, I would find it useful to have a rollup page by browser of gotchas. e.g. all the common JS gotchas for IE8 (e.g. no go on client.innerWidth), IE9 not supported opacity, etc.

Here's a ghetto example of a reference file I started after recent project that drove me nuts which would give you the sense of what I mean: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApBq5nqLSn9MdER...
Yes, I remember these external services but in those cases you had to link to a page completely off the site.

Geocities had some feature where you could actually embed guestbook entries into your page.
Reported by Daily Caller? It's quite possibly not real. Their social media team must be aces to get Tucker Carlson this much cred on HN and Reddit.
How 7 Lines of Ruby Will Speed Up Your Heroku Deploys
I maintain a very basic cheatsheet (https://github.com/trufa/git-cheatsheet) if anyone is interested, I think it is a little bit more helpful since it links to relevant explanations and has some clarifications beside the code.

I did it for myself (because I kept forgetting) so it's not very thorough, but still a little more helpful if you ask me, it will get better with time and/or collaboration (unlike an image!).

Note that the very basics are not included, those you tend to remember them soon enough IMO.

If you're interested it's hosted on github and I would be very happy if anyone want's to collaborate:

https://github.com/trufa/git-cheatsheet
How People Think Facebook Connect Log‑in and Log‑out Work
If anybody can come to this restaurant, it won't be a great restaurant, so we have to exclude those people.

What do you think high prices do?
While on the first glance your comment might seem to be an unfair, snarky dismissal, it's actually a pretty accurate summary of what's making me stay with beta versions instead of buying it.

Here's a bug that's been driving me crazy: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8889

I can edit the theme file, but it's hit-and-miss guessing game that hasn't yielded any results. I also couldn't find any comprehensive docs for the theme file format. I can't look at the editor source code to see whether any solution is possible, because the source is closed. Likewise, there's no way someone could supply their own patch to the author, for the same reason. So anyone who needs this fixed is at the mercy of the author, who has not responded in any way yet.

Don't get me wrong: Sublime Text 2 has been a delight to use, for the most part. Sublime Text 3 seems to be equally great. I would probably shell out $70 if that would mean I would have better chances to have my pet peeves fixed in some foreseeable future, but I can't see any clear indication of that, either.
> I know metadata is at least as sensitive as the actual content, but you need to pick your battles.

So, picking the metadata battle:

Its straightforward from the command line to email crypto-content to your desired addressee while emailing(spamming?) to a few more auto-generated others. These newly(if functional) spammed others would value your contact, as it provides them with a participating valid email account, so `spamee' can now also `shotgun' emails to more addressees further obfuscating his intended addressee(s).
If this became popular, universal, The graph of all our email metadata (nodes?) becomes chaotic.

The timestamp metadata? Send to subset random sampled addressees over set random offset ranges.

The SUBJECT: header could be automated to filter through all this new junkmail.

What else, hmmmmnnn...
Researchers create mini-magnetosphere for cancer-free interplanetary travel
Blind prejudice against a news source when they link to a primary source (http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Texas-teen-charged-with-...) as well as name names that can be trivially searched for with zillions of hits (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=Justin+Carter+threat) is not constructive.
No. The congress/president are so scared of having another terrorist attach on their watch that they are 100% sold on letting the NSA/FBI/CIA/NYPD do anything they want to do in the name of safety/security.

This stems from the fact that the average American demands that they be safe and anyone that "drops the ball" will bear their wrath next election cycle. The average American values an illusion of safety/security FAR HIGHER than their privacy.
If it wasn't for geocities, i would have never realized my first website, which was the first step to learn HTML, which was the first step in dreaming of developing a web application, which is what I do today.

Of course geocities did not force you to obey to strict rules in your design, but many of us are programmers, and we have this particular tendency to try stick to guidelines even when not needed :), so I'd say, it was not Geocities responsability, but it's user's and a power user will never try to code in a messy way, but instead will try to inform himself day after day on best practices, standars, and reflect this in his code.

But here came the power of Geocities! It helped you at that stage where you were not yet a pro, perhaps you dreamt of becoming one, but at that moment you just needed the enthusiasm boost of being able to create SOMETHING YOURS, UNIQUE, A REAL SIGN OF YOURSELF and being able for the first time ever in human history to share it instantly WITH THE WHOLE(connected)WORLD! I remember this giving chills to me! :) And yet you could learn more from it! Compare this with being forced to obey to strict standards and guidelines right from the beginning.. of your learning experience ["hey avoid table, it's devil" when you are happy you finally managed to share your vinil collection (and mp3z? :) ) of your fav bands with the entire world for the first time in your (teen) life!]

We all now how much important is REWARD while learning new technologies at those early stages! Geocities, and also similar sites, were the fuel to start your engine and get to your first MULTIUSER "APP"(kind of) REWARD! what is the value of that? :)
Due to the Norquist pledge this has about 0% chance of happening just because of the word tax. Realistically the people opposed to the tax would probably prefer the freedom to adapt that a tax offers compared to the small command and control regulatory comprimises congress has been making on the issue, but that type of debate is too deep for people that campaign on silly pledges.
If Afrikaans is a non-weird language that would be because it's a creole (indiginous African and Dutch).

Don't know about Hindi, but since it's used as a lingua franca of sorts that might also be the reason behind its normalness.
Why would having DRM as part of the HTML specification hurt the web ? I am not in favour of DRM but these who want to protect their content always find a way (silverlight). It would probably be simpler for everybody if it was part of HTML.
http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/brieflist.asp :)
Except that they are - by definition - not trusted; they lack security clearance. Just because other people who lack security clearance have some classified documents doesn't mean that we should give it to everybody.
Quickly Building a Messaging Protocol With Google Protocol Buffers
This brought a warmness to my heart. I remember those days well. As much as I know google and search in general is the defining technological advance of our time, there is a part of me that wishes that Yahoo and other human-curated directories ended up being the start point for the Internet. It felt like a smaller, friendly place back then.
Just use Indonesian. It's very non-weird, both according to the article and according to my own experience.
Even if you had a credit card swiper connected to your computer you'd still have to enter the CVV2 and associated address information because from the merchant's point of view it'd still be a card not present transaction. If you want to change that, you'd have to go down the road of having a piece of hardware that a third party can trust the owner hasn't tampered with. That's a really difficult problem as various DRM schemes have shown.

The there's the integration between the swiper and the operating system and the operating system and the browser. And at the end you are still left with a UX very much like the form filling software because the browser needs to guess where to put the information and have some way of fixing it if it got it wrong.
The topography of tweets
> it seems to be staying pretty vanilla

Thank God.
> "For most Europeans stock options are considered a scam to pay them less."

I agree with your overall thesis, but bear in mind that in the US stock options are frequently used as a reason to pay people less.
I guess I need to learn how to talk about things in-depth without looking like I really really care about them. Because I don't. I just thought about it a bit.

But, ostensibly, the creator cares, because that was a big part of his post. He decried Facebook and similar platforms for fostering a "uniformity and blandness rival[ing] something out of a Soviet bloc residential apartments corridor," then went on to promote Bootstrap, which is subject to the same pitfalls. I just wanted to explore that trade-off between sophistication and originality in today's websites. I still think it's a great idea, and judging from what I saw on the browse page, people are carrying the experimentation/sandbox torch pretty well.
I googled the term "Justin Carter texas teen jail" and got a whole lot of links from other websites and thumbnail of a youtube video of what looks like a local tv station covering the same story.

I haven't looked into it further but if all you had to doubt the story was "Reported by Daily Caller?" I think that should be sufficient.
Urdu, I'm told by someone who speaks the language, is Hindi written in Arabic script.
> Authorities charged him with making a terrorist threat. If convicted, he will face eight years in prison.

So terrorist threats with nothing to back it up is worth 8 years in prison? Does that seem right to anyone else?
Title is misleading: Ecuador merely _offers_ to donate $23M.
This is a very nice article.

One nitpick- You don't need to use statsd as an intermediary in order for your application to send metrics via UDP; just set ENABLE_UDP_LISTENER to True in carbon.conf and graphite will accept metrics on UDP itself. Other options are TCP(obviously) and AMQP.

I love how simple Graphite's plaintext protocol is; it's nothing more than a line of text with <metric path> <metric value> <metric timestamp>. This has lead lots of software to integrate graphite support and makes it easy to do yourself. In a pinch I've even set up a cronjob reading a value from /proc and sending it to graphite via netcat.

Graphite shines at generating graphs, but it's ability to return JSON is also very useful. For example, I've written a script (https://github.com/sciurus/grallect) that plugs into Nagios and generates alerts based on system metrics sent by Collectd to Graphite.

My two frustrations with graphite-

You have to choose a single aggregation method. I'd like to be able to store the average, minimum, and maximum values.

Sometimes I find it hard to query for the data I want. E.G. To check the percentage of space used on each filesystem I have to fetch example.com.df-.df_complex-used and example.com.df-.df_complex-free separately and calculate the percentages myself because asPercent(example.df-*.df_complex-{used,free}) would combine all the filesystems.
I was probably too incendiary in my phrasing, and I agree with what you say. If Simplify solves your problems better than Stripe does, you should use it (and good job to them for doing so). It's our job, of course, to have that not be the case.

The point I was trying to make was fairly narrowly scoped: needlessly copying even tiny details of Stripe is pretty uninspired.

(P.S. Any chance you could drop me an email? I'm patrick@stripe.com.)
The physically possesses part is an important part of that equation. If I hack the users computer and steal the swipe info then I can retransmit the data and home swipe without physical possession of the card. Since the user never lost the card he is less likely to report it lost or stolen in a timely manner. A smart credit card would generate a known nonce making retransmited data worthless, and restore the likely physically has the card factor.
Perhaps Snowden is afraid of what could happen to him before trial. The fact that his concerns might be well motivated is certainly relevant to the actions of NSA and the behaviour of your government.
Your Startup Need an Intractable Design Problem
Even better than git for publishing, I like the "fork" concept as applied to the more general web. Forget copyright issues for a moment... if you could fork sites here it would allow for really fast site creation where you can build off others' creations.
The fact that courts can declare laws to be unconstitutional is a hack out of Supremacy clause, as decided by the SCOTUS itself in one of the early cases. All other rules still apply, such as proving your standing for harm, which you cannot, if the executive keeps everything secret.

A proper constitutional court (as implemented by many other countries) is much more suited to these kinds of cases, which concern the spirit of Constitution, rather than specifics of harm and injuries to one specific entity.
Agreed. Why isn't there a dot txt tld?
> it's often a group of people with a shared history, culture, and language, what's often referred to as a 'nation'

But nationalism applies to a specific territory -- as defined by a government. It just seems arbitrary to love people of a certain territory and not another due to a border established by a monopolistic force on violence.
I want to emphasize how big the gap is between $3/mo hosting and free. I started programming when I was 12 and I learned I could submit a "website" instead of a very large history project. This was a very long time ago and I'm pretty sure my history teacher did it as a joke because most people didn't even know what a website was.

To get to the point, as a 12 year old coming from a home with absolutely no disposable income, free was the only option I had to try my hand and building a website. I had just built a computer the year before and thought it would be a nifty idea to try my hand in programming. I completed the project and used that skill to earn money during junior high, high school, college and in my career.

I'm not quite sure where I would be today if that teacher didn't put that option on the paper or, and more to the point, GeoCities didn't offer a 100% free way of my hosting my report about the Manhattan Project.

Fully sporting a GIF of a nuclear explosion.
>Cue people commenting below how Nokia will recover, and you will understand how people think Blackberry can recover too

Reality is much more nuanced than that.

Remember when Apple was finished and only very few diehard fans were buying Apple products?

Nokia is about to launch some cool exclusive products like a Windows Phone 41MP camera phone on July 11th. I don't imply that it will save Nokia, but as I said, things are much more nuanced than just "Nokia is finished".
Ignore the Numbers
I work for a company that resells microsoft software and that's pretty much what we do right now.
> make a static page with no scripting.

Well, in my book, that's a recipe for great content.
I don't understand why.