skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I"m really going to miss the Roy Building when they tear it down / turn it into condos. I can't think of a better place to host your early-stage startup / indie dev office in Halifax: prime downtown location, relatively inexpensive rent, flexible terms, "Maltese Falcon" 1940s decor. I've had two offices there, but eventually moved on (just across the street though).
If you are asking about attaching GUI applications to tabs, there are a few ways to do that: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/wiki/LaunchNewTab#...

You can also configure it to start in a tab
Plus it will get them a considerable amount of goodwill from the rest of South America and the third world.
500 Startups' Dave McClure Flames Startup Canada's "1000 Startups": Srsly, Guys?
"RealCrowd members are accredited investors"

can someone define what accredited investor means ? I would love to invest in stuff like this but how do I know if I am an accredited investor ?
Okay so I did drop a mail.
You're right and all your points are on target. We have a working platform right now (and infact we're using it to deploy our own code and services to EC2).

Our pricing is still TBD, but its going to be a low price per server per month sort of model.

We'll update the site with a pricing page soon! Please email me and I can answer more of your questions in detail.
I think you should spend some time to talk about the pain you are fixing. There's no hook. What problem am I having now that you are going to make go away?
I don't care about if it's two hops or three; they're collecting a metric shit-tonne of info. It's like really large amounts of money: if a corporation makes a million dollars or five million dollars, it's all just numbers on a page for me. This "revelation" doesn't change the game at all, because I know that there's still a lot of shit that the NSA isn't telling us about their activities. Feels like hit bait (and it's worked).
I tried it for a few days to sync my main laptop with my netbook. Could not find any info on how it works and stopped using it. How does it generate keys? How does it sync? How can i be sure nobody is reading my files somewhere else? Back to rsync I guess, though the two way sync with syncapp was rly nice.
I'm not much rails but why can't you upgrade to a more recent version instead of having he 10k patch agreement?
I'd love to know more about how the cluster will organized. Is there going to be some kind of master controller node, or will it be distributed and self organizing somehow?

It almost feels as tho Flynn (or maybe something build on top of Flynn) could/should be a whole minimal linux distribution (SmartOS-ish) that could just boot up into RAM, be told to read a cluster config from somewhere and then start working for the cluster accepting Docker services.
Puppet-lint ;). But seriously, cool to see a puppet module for dokku as I imagine the author will continue to work on it even with this new project. I'd say keep working on it if you have time!
We have a customer that is running a delayed job. I'll write up an example and post it on the blog soon.

In a nutshell you'd run it just like you'd run any ruby or rails app.
For one, they are bitmap fonts, based on what you'd usually see in video hardware ROM. Using a thinner font would cause DOS applications (the first, and main thing you'd run in a DOS box) to look really bad. Remember they would use things from the (character set)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437] to do windows and such in text video modes.

In the current day, the non-bitmap fonts such as Consolas don't translate well when using things like RDP or other remote tools. Partially because you lose things like font smoothing which make them more readable and partially because of compression artifacts obscuring characters.
FoundationDB acquires Akiban
Google Reader did attempt to find the feed's address.
This sounds like an ad for Google, including the Microsoft and Verizon bashing. The truth is that Google 'needs' to see the messages, all you other info and documents in clear text to serve ads and mine them. That's their business model and they aren't about to change it.

Oh and as other said, NSA can force them to do what Microsoft did.
Comparing an attacking man to an attacking dog is a little apples-to-oranges. It's probably less likely that the dog can be 'reformed,' and a reformed person is a lot more useful to society than a reformed dog. They're called human rights for a reason.
ISE on Powershell 3.0 is also somewhat useful
all testimonies before congress are under oath, i believe
Looks really interesting. It would be nice if we can use javascript, ruby etc
I definitely don't need games either. The other thing is that Windows is very graphical by default (understandable given that they are targeting the masses) but there isn't a built in way to make its presentation minimal[1], like stripping everything out and simply being able to launch what you need. This is easily achievable with a basic Openbox setup, with dmenu on top, boom!

1. There are probably customization tools out there that would let you get close to this but I don't believe it's truly possible just given desktop Windows' architecture.
I compared to EC2 primarily because it also has hourly pricing.

If I compared to DigitalOcean instead, then DotCloud would look even worse -- about 10x more expensive.
yep definitely, an interesting implementation, and certainly almost impossible to guess from passive observation. thanks.
I get a JS error when I go to the page.

Uncaught Error: Invariant Violation - react.min.js:20

Google Chrome
They're showing off in a holier-than-thou douchey way.
Contrast that with the attitude the folks at freenode#haskell sport, who are actually solving hard problems, and you'll understand why I think MojoTech's blog post is immature.
Sorry I say we because I'm practicing to talk like we're a big company but you're right, that right now I'm working alone. I'm looking for a biz dev / sales /marketing type person to join though
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This looks great, do you know if there's an equivalent for linux? can you do something like this with iptables / ufw?
Bring Back Flophouses, Rooming Houses, and Microapartments
Chinese museum found with 40,000 fake exhibits forced to close
Coca Cola Austria had it's plant in Lambach back then.
http://en.coca-colahellenic.at/about-us/History/
Lambach is a small city in Austria and it's a few miles from my hometown. I assume Coca Cola produced it in the old beer plant building. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambach
Giraffe.js - a light and flexible library that extends Backbone to new heights
Here is the website for the app
http://www.getjumpstart.me/
Women stay in jobs longer than they should
Please don't do yourself a disservice by accomodating low price for high value. If your product is going to derive lots of value charging a high price isn't absurd.
Will Video Kill The JPEG Star?
Justice takes time sometimes, especially when we're talking about powerful people who can claim "national secrets" at the drop of a hat. Think about how much work federal prosecutors have to do to convict someone like James Clapper (or anybody else that's lied to Congress). For reference, the Enron scandal was revealed in 2001, but it wasn't until 2006 that Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty. And they didn't even have a national security excuse.

Truthfully, now that public opinion has come out against Prism, I think that the politicians are going to do everything in their power to publicly punish the people responsible. We just need to be patient.
Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)
Well, looking like vodka is more or less just an exercise in packaging, once you've got the "not looking like something in particular" part down. Maybe you could make it look like some sort of tea if you just got it down to a light-brown color but ideally you don't want to give people reason to wonder what it is. If you were going to go that route you could probably pass coke off as coffee anyway. Clear is perfect for this purpose, it'd either be vodka or water, depending on the packaging. Both are un-opinionated drinks in the right context (6.5oz may be a bit too much vodka to be knocking back during a meeting, though probably not particularly notably so.)
"We are not collecting [geolocation] data," Inglis said, "under this program." (emphasis added)
Accredited investors must meet one of the following criteria:

-a minimum net worth of $1,000,000 (excluding primary residence)

-annual income of $200,000 for the prior two years and anticipation of the same in the current year if filing individually

-annual income of $300,000 for the prior two years and anticipation of the same going forward if filing jointly

For now, we're limited to accredited investors only, but as the JOBS act continues to roll out, we'll see how the SEC/FINRA craft their rules and hopefully open it up to all investors.
Hoocuddanowed
Compared to other languages, 179 pages for the full specification is pretty small. Java and C sharp have that more than three that size. C++ is roughly five times as large. If you're a fan of functional languages, Haskell is almost twice as large. Even Scheme, an extremely simple language, is only about 30 pages shorter.
How would someone wanting to open up a devops-on-retainer consultancy reach you guys?
Rep. Justin Amash has brought forth a bill to defund the NSA.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/17333823810/rep-ju...
Zappos CEO Bets $350 Million on a Las Vegas Startup Scene
And I used to be mad at MS Clippy for trying hard to know better ...
Investing in STEM is Old School
Excellent point! The pain is around making it easier for developers to deploy to multiple servers and clouds but also to help you keep track of whats deployed and running and where is it running.

Also the teams features make it easy to collaborate and see who change what and when.
You basically need to have more than a million dollars in assets not including your house, or have a salary higher than 200k a year or something around that
How about we repeal (or at least let expire) both the Patriot Act and FISA Amendments Act, and then we start over from scratch, and have a real 2+ year national debate on what NSA's job should be and what level of oversight they need to have.

Also, don't even think about putting back the "general warrant" provision in the laws. That is and will always be unconstitutional. You have a target? Ask a judge to give you a normal warrant, for that target, or for several targets at most - not a whole country.
> Pages that automatically open in new tab are annoying.

This is your opinion--why should it rule the way a browser works for everyone? I think hover navigations are annoying--should Chrome break those too?
I'm moving one of my revenue-positive apps to Distelli. Rahul is a great guy, and the platform is awesome to develop on.
That's a written language problem Apple didn't see coming. It not as bad as the situation you get when you try to discuss the new New iPad though. The Le Ferrari has managed a similar achievement too.
Thats a good point. We're still trying to figure out the price point, but our goal is to go for adoption and volume. Your thoughts on this would be welcome and help us figure out our strategy.
ColAR App — Coloring pages come to life
Cool, makes sense Dave! Thanks.
Turntable.fm's New Premium Subscription
> In those fields you might peak at 26.

This is oft-repeated, but I’ve never seen any actual evidence to support it. I know plenty of mathematicians who didn’t start doing their best work until they were in their 40s, and musicians who have only gotten better well into their 60s.
Dual ISO: dynamic range improvement for Canon 5D3 and 7D
Apple's Enterprise Distribution abused to enable install of a GameBoy emulator
Moore's law is crap (2006)
> How did he jump from a book in 2009 to having several products on what basically amounts to life coaching (dream job, earning money on the side, resume improvements, etc)?

The funny thing about Hacker News is you never know who's going to be reading your posts. Hi! I'm the person who convinced Ramit to quit his day job and do this blogging/product thing full time several years ago. I also know Patrick personally and it's an interesting comparison you are making between the two of them.

> In only 3 years since the book he's convinced individuals to drop $2-15k on the promise that he can help them get a better job.

I understand the skepticism around Ramit's products, especially from the HN crowd. However, knowing Ramit and having been through his products as a reviewer, they are stellar, and the results he gets for his students are meticulously documented. That's not to say they're for everyone--as an entrepreneur myself, I didn't get as much value as a job-seeker would have, and Ramit is probably a couple years away from creating a product geared toward entrepreneurs.

Knowing both Ramit and Patrick, the main similarity I see is both have a deeply analytical mind. Neither takes anything for granted, and they're both fanatical testers...not just with marketing copy, but also with their products. Ramit goes to ridiculous levels to make sure his products are bar none the best out there. He spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on salaries and hiring the best people so that his products can be the top of their class.

Patrick is a bit different, as he got burned on consulting (I'm sure he'll tell that story when he's ready) and went back to focusing on products. He's newer to the info product segment than Ramit, and a little more gun-shy when it comes to aggressive sales. (Ramit uses more aggressive sales tactics because he strongly feels--and has the testimonials to back it up--that he does have the best stuff out there.) Patrick is more cautious, as a geek first and foremost, and someone who built up his list through Hacker News and other geek-oriented websites.

In neither case would I hesitate to buy one of their products that was aimed in my direction or endorse them for other folks in their respective target markets. Both Patrick and Ramit operate from a foundation of integrity and putting the best stuff out there. I'm fortunate to count both of them as friends and mentors.
Thank you Bilal for your endorsement and kind words!! I appreciate it. Building a company as a single founder is hard and every bit of encouragement helps.
It's not a good idea because your city would then be full of poisoned food and dead decomposing dog corpses.

If you do live where the city or country doesn't have centres that humanely kill strays and/or the government doesn't have a protocol for dealing with them, get some thick boots, a strong stick and hope you don't run into one of the 10+-strong packs that roam certain neighbourhoods.

In case there's a stray dog that's aggressive towards people and lives near your home and you definitely positively must put it down, a common humane poison is antifreeze - it first induces drowsiness, then stops the heart. A pretty literal "put to sleep".
Offtopic somewhat, but if you're building a feed reader in Python, you can use feedfinder.py[1], to allow for feed discovery. The last feed reader I wrote, years ago, utilized it to great effect.

Every new feed reader on the block shocks me when I have to enter the exact URL to the feed (e.g., domain/xml/feed.xml, or what have you).

[1] - http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feedfinder/
To get an even better explanation on what the word "simple" means and what it derives from, I would recommend "Simplicity Ain't Easy" by Stuart Halloway[1]. While it is very similar to "Simple made Easy", it focuses a lot more on the etymology of the words "simple" and "complex" and how people misuse the word.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cidchWg74Y4
I mean tokenizing things like "8-8" vs "8+-8" vs "8---8" present some special challenges for the lexer.
I wonder (and would not be surprised) if the nodes are always defined by phone number alone. Meaning, if you made a restaurant reservation at the italian place by your house, you're two hops from everyone who's ever called or been called by them.
After a certain age, "making more" can't be followed with "love". Or so I've heard.

If I am aware of the correct meaning, that is. (Not native.)
Totally agreed with Sam here. We built Parse with this simple program:

10 Ask users what they want
20 Synthesize the feedback and build it
30 GOTO 10
Things you might see in Amsterdam
Time to First Tweet
Thanks for catching that, I've made an issue for it :)

https://github.com/chocolit/dashboard/issues/3
Who is "we"? I think a lot of people are against animal abuse.
Warnings as errors, turn on all of them, pedantic mode and static analysers running alongside unit tests on every build.

Even then, there might be dragons waiting for you.
I like the astronaut in the bottom right corner. Very cool.
Ten Steps To Close Down an Open Society
interesting...how does it work? CRUD?
The passage you quote seems fairly neutral to me, and you appear to bring more baggage to the conversation than the author himself.

There was in fact a qualitative change in popular Chinese outlook from Mao to Deng, never mind the damage Mao inflicted on the country. China became more materialistic, less ideological, less idealistic. White people were associated with rich and powerful western nations, so their prestige increased. Black people were associated with poor African nations, so their prestige decreased. This was independent of any preferences for light and delicate features.

And I think this was one of the author's points, that shifts in popular outlook have affected Chinese perceptions of black people. What might once have been an asset (perception of shared suffering under capitalist/imperialist oppression) is now a liability ("we're poor but not as poor as you!").
I'm a little leery anytime someone goes from doing 'Activity A' to no longer doing 'Activity A' and instead teaching people how to do it.

I don't know Patrick personally, so I won't denigrate him for this approach, but I find this conversation quite disheartening.
A friend of my parents is nearing 70.

In his younger years he reversed engineered the apple2 and excels in music, painting and and of course hacking like there is no tomorrow. He can literally build anything he wants to.

He is an expert in assembler and and a couple of higher level languages, but it is his assembler skills that have always amazed me because he would always produce some crazy hardware for his many passions. And he had many. This was besides running a successful bank security company.

He is a watch geek and is building this in half size from scratch litterally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Olsen's_World_Clock

One of the wrenches is 400 years to resolve around it's own axis.

Here is some of that work.

http://000fff.org/watches/523223_10150679399796150_150139365...

And here are some more of his work:

http://000fff.org/watches/134363_468677071149_7733152_o.jpg

http://000fff.org/watches/135126_468676956149_1839796_o.jpg

http://000fff.org/watches/169423_468677241149_6736953_o.jpg

He also designed this small boat harbour for the local area he lives in https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=bryggen%2C+copenhagen... because he bought a boat.

I somehow wonder how many Da Vinci's are out there with these kind skills. I can't even begin to think who they manage.

Would be cool to do a series of some of these holder hackers.
So what process am I using now that you are going to replace? I must be doing something because my code gets deployed.

Give point by point details about how what I am doing right now sucks. It make me hate my job, keeps me up at night, turns away customers, and loses me money.

Then, after you have convinced me that my current process sucks (and epiphanized with me that it was the best I could do at the time), go back though every point and tell me how you have fixed them.
Cool, looking forward to that doc.
Getting Started with Polymer.dart
There are no ads in Drive. You pay for storage, that's how it makes money.
Who determines what provisions are sensible? Clearly the intelligence community can't do it unilaterally, because nobody would buy it. And we're talking about years before Congress or god forbid the courts can take any actions. Do you think it's a good idea to shut the NSA down until then?
First, don't trust us, we are hackers. It looks like you're selling to librarians, so go ask some of them. They are generally very nice and super awesome.

Second, consider adding a 1-line elevator pitch under your tagline. "Online Library Management System" is a good start but it is a bit vague - library of what? Managing how? Try to write a 1-sentence phrase, packed with specific language, directly addressing the pain point(s) and how you are solving them. Something like some of the text in your About/FAQ sections.

Third, the cover-swish feature is neat, but the "COVERSWISH" title is hard to grok on first glance. Consider a plain easy-to-parse title.

Fourth, your "Detailed Book Information" section does not show very detailed information.

Overall pretty slick, but again I am not a librarian and their worldview is different enough from ours that I recommend you spend lots of time with them. :)
I was referring to the StreetView Skyhook-like program that did exist, and yes, it was shut down after it was discovered to be collecting more than just SSIDs:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-...

In addition, given the concerns raised, we have
decided that it’s best to stop our Street View
cars collecting WiFi network data entirely.

I presume this is what the OP meant by "war driving (street view)", and not the on-device collection you refer to.
I didn't realize I needed the history piece until I just a minute ago, dang, that would be nice. Looking forward to the Windows server piece.
At some point, however, that statement reverses itself.
DoT - Fastest + concise javascript template engine for nodejs and browsers
Correct. So who would pay for x when y? Everyone who wants x, not y.
Well, politics can intervene. Nixon and Clinton were so detested by their opposing parties that they were (or nearly were) impeached for fairly trivial reasons.
Does anyone know of a good way to use Google Drive from Linux securely? I'm currently sitting on a 1TB Drive account with nothing really to do with it. I tried fuse-google-drive and it was so broken it was unusable.
On the value of physical work
Physical work - in the western world - is totally undervalued.
A feed is fundamentally centralized anyway, so I don't see the problem with relying on the feed to push updates to you. Unfortunately because Google build a super-centralized crutch into PuSH everybody thought mooching off Google was the point of PuSH so sites never installed their own hubs.
creating a vacuum of knowledge, drawing in stereotypes and prejudice

That's a beautiful turn of phrase.
This is turning into a Western Mass developers thread. Paging cmiles74 and ggualberto.
You can't just make that many assumptions in one short sentence. Granted, I don't have kids, either. ;)
I hear that! 240 lbs old and 75% more gray.
Google testing encryption to hide your Drive files
11 Billion Clues in 800 Million Documents
It's probably a directed graph, and the hops are directed paths.