skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WebObjects is kind of like Rails, but 20 years earlier. (Seriously, it's actually very similar to Rails, in it's bones. I don't know if dhh had seen WebObjects, or they just both had seen some smalltalk mvc framework)

They inherited it from NeXT, and it seriously was really ahead of it's time originally. Hell, it was a technically competent and competitive web framework through, oh, 2002 or 2004, maybe even a few years after that. (Can you tell I used to develop for it?)

But it ended up not being a market Apple wanted to be in, selling a web development framework, and it didn't get much attention, it withered on the vine. (Even if it had... 20 years of legacy is not good for a web framework, it would probably still suck by now -- and who wants a proprietary rather than open source web framework, if they can avoid it?). But they kept using it internally anyway long after they stopped marketting it or selling it externally.

Anyhow, it's really hilarious if the legacy WebObjects part of Apple's web infrastructure are actually the parts that are still up. Hilarious in a pleasant way for those of us who used to use and love WebObjects back in the day.
> "Google contributed ports of NaCl for ARM and Amd64."

So, Mono/C# in Chrome? If NaCl/PNaCl becomes available outside the Chrome App Store, that could be pretty exciting -- Mono does an excellent job with AOT performance and mobile-scale memory utilization.
Yep. I heard it first in the '80s from a guy in the civil service who'd been telling it for forty years.
It would be interesting to do some data mining on the open secrets data set for things like this. Has anybody seen any work on identifying statistically significant funding sources for clusters of representatives based on the way they vote?
My only wish is for a more sturdy display. My Nexus cracked by tapping the screen on the edge of my counter when putting it down and was completely unusable. That being said, it was amazing while I had it.
If you guarantee that your binary has source, it has source. Guaranteed.

If users only want binaries that guarantee they have source, they can insist on only downloading/acquiring binaries from people that guarantee they provide source.
Going native is a great idea that we've been considering, it would make support easier for sure!

RE: ios... getting this to work for the web was an epic struggle, but we're out of the thick of it and it would be cool to have a simplified version for when you want to rap at a random spot.

Opentok's webrtc is not working well enough for us to use in primetime yet. We have been testing it out a lot though, and it is amazingly good stuff when you have your ducks lined up -- looks a lot better, connects a lot faster.
Are there many C# jobs in San Francisco?
If you don't yet have XCode though... out of luck? Man, I'm glad I bought and setup my new mac two weeks ago, and not one week ago.
Same here. My original one had the screen lift issue, so I sent it back and got a replacement, but I haven't noticed a bit of slowness, deterioration, or any other hardware/software issues out of it. I've used it almost daily since the day it was released.
Yes thats how I feel. .Net has some great languages C#, F# etc but I like to feel platform independent.
Ask HN: How do you hack this hot weather?
Cold vs hot shower during the summer? which do you guys take to cool you down. I hear taking a hot shower helps to cool you down more than the cold shower it would make sense if you think about Newton's Law of Cooling. But seriously this hot weather is killing me while I'm programming.
Not hypothermia, but "fan death", and it turns out to be true: http://askakorean.blogspot.com.ar/2009/01/fan-death-is-real....
There are frameworks out there geared for rapid production development, that will get you quite far on your way to that. Some may also have tutorials on how to do production ready stuff with their framework.

If you can't find a book or tutorial; next I would suggest take something that's small and meets your idea of "production" capable, and dissect it. Better is to build a similar concept app to the sample source and try to employ that code and ask questions as you go along.
Very true. Wish I had the time to toy around with D3JS.

My goal with starting the google doc was to make it easier for people to target the companies that fund the politicians.

If everyone who sees this doc, fills in 2 rows, this will be done in a few minutes.
>>Hard work is half of what equation?

I'd say the full equation is to find a worthwhile goal to work hard on. While learning, the 'How to build 180 websites' goal works fine.

Hard work is fruitful only when applied in the right direction. Work 16 hrs/day in a large corporate and all you will get is some middle manager taking credit for all your work, grabbing all the milk and honey for himself and throwing some peanuts at you along the way.

If you are good, find a lofty goal, which is in your best interest and work on that.
git stripspace is neat. I'll have to add that as a hook.
I have no idea about the specifics of the San Francisco job market. I live in the UK, which can be biased towards finance.
Good points but I think I would still err on the side of hiring a good lawyer in that situation or if I was giving advice to the average entrepreneur.

Thanks for the response.
Beautiful story, but when think about the details it may misleading.

If the only object or the judgment criteria
of the quantity way is quantity, and without any deliberate practice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Deli...) why the students finally not just only develop a way to produce high quantity product?

It's not the same way MacCready solve Henry Kremer's problem (http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/), although looks similar.
I like the story very much!

And that's a great project, Jennifer.

Perfect practice makes perfect!
"Epic struggle" is sort of what I expected you would say. The world would benefit from a detailed writeup of how you got video working to your satisfaction, please tell us about the missing functionality you wish was there, what were some of the trade-offs you had to make, and maybe even some open source? :-)
I'm willing to bet, the feds already have the master encryption keys and just want to make the companies give up the keys willingly so it sheds some of the blame onto them rather than all on government at once.
How is Mono not platform independent? It doesn't have a lot of .net features from Windows like windows forms, but it has the entire C# language and their own implementations of xna, etc.

The only concern I would have is that Microsoft might try to crush Xamarin at some point, but I wouldn't count that likely, Mono is their ticket to keep .net from looking like anti-competitive platform lock in.
Then surely the guy insists on being able to speak with his wife to arrange a time/meeting place?
Thanks for the response. I'm getting started with JS tonight. Hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to pick up after Obj-C.
>I'm generation X myself and I well remember all the crap our generation got growing up. How we were dumber than the last generation, less ambitious, lacked principles and morals, etc.

Are you kidding? We had it easy. I can remember people saying "Thank God you aren't baby boomers. We're sick of those narcissists."

You're right about the millenials being screwed by the university system, though. There's a whole generation of college grads who'll be paying off student loans well into middle age.
How is C# on Mono, a finger of Microsoft?
Xcode 4 is available on the App Store.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h412
I imagine they take a hardline because otherwise it creates a precedent. "Can this guy come in and take photos? It's my boyfriend/brother/BFF/etc." Becomes a potential loophole.

Very unlikely to be exploited, but I imagine that's what they're thinking. If they are thinking...
Good read about HTTPS, but very bad title. HTTPS does NOT stop attackers. It does stop data sniffing on wirelress network, but does not prevent any server-side attack (XSS, SQL Injection, an flaw in the web application).
Some web traffic data for my part-time video game blog
Can someone give a summary or TL;DR for us less technical types? This looks very promising.
I looked through your comment history to see if you already answered and couldn't find it. What happened when you got stuck? I'd suspect there were points where you couldn't figure something out; it tends to happen when you become frustrated and you have to take a break. You mentioned that you had no previous programming experience. How much time did you spend learning before you created the first app on day 1?

I ask because this goes against the pattern I've observed in most students. I was involved in starting Bloc, which is an online programming bootcamp. I think the #1 value proposition is having a person there to help when you get unstuck. It's fascinating to see you overcome the learning curve on your own which affects most people trying to learn.

Just so I can fully understand: did you have any human interaction or assistance during this entire time? That to me is the most impressive part of this. A lot of us had TAs, professors, group projects where we worked closely with others. I don't know a single person in my own network who has learned to program on their own without any human help.

Hope it doesn't come across as if I'm belittling what you've done or seem skeptical, this is really impressive!
>Why is that so hard to believe? Some people do feel ill when reading about vile and disgusting circumstances and situations.

If you're such a wilting flower that rude talk from 25 years ago makes you physically sick you'll never amount to much in life.
Is this something you could teach me?
I remember in 2011 reading with great interest some research into nootkatone[1] as a mosquito repellent[2] (which has already been shown to be effective against ticks). It is a non-toxic oil found in grapefruit and is already approved by the FDA as a food additive.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything (read: consumer-available products) come of it. Upon a bit of searching, I found a patent[3] for a nootkatone-based insect repellent... filed in 1998!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootkatone

[2]: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135468567/repelling-bugs-with-...

[3]: http://www.google.com/patents/EP1033076A1?cl=en
Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
Translation: "I know what I'm saying is coming from a place of extreme bitterness, but I don't want search results for my name showing these comments to my potential employers."

If you're going out of your way to create a new account to voice your opinion, chances are your opinion is shit.
Neal Stephenson novels required reading eh?
Because the all the main frameworks asp.net MVC, entity framework tend to be a bit flaky using mono. The up to date versions may not work.
It doesn't take much to save $10,000, which is more than enough to fund 6 months off work to learn something.
Of course, but zeromq makes it feel like you don't. It provides a message massing system that you pass messages into on one end and they magically pop out the other. If the network is slow, congested or down it'll cache messages locally until it can reconnect and send them. The problem is you don't know what's going on and if the local cache fills up it'll silently drop messages. In some use cases that's perfectly fine- it depends on your application.

Zeromq is great for some things - it's super flexible and FAST. It's just not, on its own, durable. If you need durability you have to build it on top. Doable, just not free.
These guys tend to come out of the woodwork when the focus of the article is of a certain gender, if you catch my drift.
She's not being left... an adult should easily be able to either get a cab, or find somewhere safe nearby, or have some plan -- I'm sure she had a hotel room, she could get back to that the same way she got to the conference center in the first place. I am not saying the whole situation wasn't ridiculous, but I feel like people here are acting like this woman is a helpless child.

I got dropped in Paris one day and my friend never showed up, I didn't have a place to go and I didn't know the area or speak French, but I managed to find a guest house and a grocery store and I lived for a few days -- any adult can do the same, this is not rocket science and being a woman doesn't make this more difficult.
Core.async: Asynchronous Programming with Clojure and ClojureScript
I would be very curious what SoC this is based around, whether Android games and other things can be added with firmware upgrades or if this is more of a VideoCore-style type chip like the Roku 2 and RaspPI.

Based on the price though I think this would be that class of processor and not really a competitor hardware wise with Apple TV (dual-core A6).
Usually the way vote counting works is the leadership figures out whether it's going to win or lose, and then members in swing districts to vote the other way. It doesn't change the outcome, but it does give them political cover.

If all the representatives had voted the way they wanted it to turn out, the result would probably have been much more lopsided.

It's theater, basically.
This sucks. However it's never been my experience, and I've brought my wife to a half-dozen techeds on three continents. Sounds like systematic misunderstandings that added up into one big mess.

(I've ignored the dress code for 15 years, FWIW)
Well, I have a HTPC, and a PS3, and I still got this. Why? Because it's super cheap, and does a few things better than the other devices - Youtube and Netflix etc don't work on XBMC well at all, youtube on the PS3 is a pain since you have to wait for it to open the app, and being able to use this for play music will be great. For $17 (with the netflix months and shipping), it's well worth it.
> The difference is that the US has control over its own immune system, and could choose not to be allergic if it wished.

Nope. Democracies are constrained to the strategic analysis ability of the average voter. Absent a radical eugenics campaign, the average voter will continue to cast superficial, uninformed votes. Democracies die because they vote for their own destruction.

P.S. If the people had voted in a rational nuclear power plan, the Middle East would be just another backwater. The bin Laden clan would be just another bunch of towelheads squabbling over camels.
>What a mind boggling time we are living in where the liberal government is pressing to keep such practices and conservatives are against it only because they are against liberals in principle.

What in the world are you talking about? Do you have any reason to believe this is true?
I created a Ruby gem/command line tool that pulls the ADC status page and returns a pretty output:

https://github.com/imkmf/adc
The cycle is like this:

1. Pound away at the keyboard indiscriminately for years, no pain
2. Pound away, start to get pain but it goes away after some off time (could be as little as a night)
3. Pound away, get pain but it goes away after extended rest time
4. Pound away, the pain never really goes away, it just subsides.

It is much like the straw the breaks the camel's back, the frog in a boiling point of water - what you take for granted (the ability to input your thoughts into a machine) might not always be toll-free.

If you get pain, stop. Don't be macho or in denial. Go out and do some whole body exercise like swimming (http://totalimmersion.net rocks)

-Someone who has residual pain of 3 on a scale of 10, with spikes going higher. I've become very efficient and have long ago since started diversifying out of programming.
House of Representatives rejected motion to restrict the NSA
Ask HN: Is there evidence that artificial sweetener is bad for you?
I eat a low-carb diet and enjoy good results. I basically function in keto all the time. The thing is, a lot of people are so aggressive against artificial sweeteners - do they have any solid evidence to fall back on?

A common argument I hear is 'I have normal coke because at least my body knows what to do with the sugar!'

This to me is narrow minded. The human body didn't evolve in conditions including an abundance of high-fructose corn syrup so No. Your body does not know what to do with it. Type 2 diabetes is a fine example of the body not knowing what to do with it.

I don't want to let go of my artificially sweetened coffees - any solid empirical evidence in either direction would be much appreciated!
I had quite low expectations for what I would learn from this article but it was actually very good. I really liked the paint analogy and the simplified understandable maths.

Does someone want to try it here? :P
Lets use root 2 and a small private number. We can do mod 10 (so the last digit of 2^(your secret) is your public number).
My public number would be 4. (My secret number is secret).
I know this is kind of goofy but it could be fun?
Opentok is really the best way to do this right now, if you're small and trying to build something creative with real-time video. I am guilty of treating their system as a black boxen though. I know it from the API which gives you a lot of flexibility about how video streams are shared, who gets to publish, and who can record.

We've been putting in various optimizations to reduce our costs (now that we got it basically running well enough to elicit a suspension of user disbelief). Without revealing too much, it is running in the low dollars per hour range to support users in the hundreds per hour range.

Also, I built a way to manage amazon EC2s using perl and rex. Definitely check this out, it is really easy to deal with. http://rexify.org/api/index.html
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Great article full of awesome tips/tricks!

I didn't realize you could do check-box style to-do markers inside of messages for issues and pulls (- [ ] Task 1). I'm not sure how long this has been a feature, but this is fantastic to finally know about for sub-tasks inside of issues. I always had a painful time trying to break those up, and keep them grouped somehow via milestones, labels, etc.
There.

Is THERE evidence...

Yes, there is lots of evidence. Both against artificial sweetener and also regular sugar for the body.
Thanks, I took your advice and threw the vid on the front page
Page has a design flaw - links aren't stressed in any way except for capital letters. Only accidentally I figured that it was actually a link. Not intuitive. Other than that - a very interesting article.
I too found the presentation much more interesting. The pauses in between each break/slide just gave me time to take in the significance. I think it was very appropriate here, and I'm glad I was introduced to this method of presentation. I think I'll use it myself some time.
In all honesty, for all the freedom-related speech in the US and the so-called constitutionally protected rights against government corruption and abuse, I'm shocked that Americans are not in the streets rioting right now.
"I've never seen a major conference center that didn't have a place to drink coffee and read for 2 hours without being killed. "

Both the perfectness and absurdity of this sentence is awesome.

New Orleans may be bad, but it isn't _that_ bad, especially an area that MS (or any big firm) chooses for a company sponsored gathering. If MS was bright had any respect for their speakers they would have dynamically made room available for this speaker's wife in some area inside the conference center. They are idiots for not bending rules doing it. But to also think they shoved her out a door and steel barred the entrance and left her there by herself in the middle of Voodoo Shantytown New Orleans where the creole shamans and werewolves circled her is just as crazy.

I get where the author is coming from and totally understand his stance, but I honestly do not believe that MS intentionally put his (non-invited?) wife in harms way. From his description MS treated him awfully and I hope they realize this and attempt to correct it in the future and see where being human in some instances is indirectly worth more than the price of admission to TechEd, but lets be honest - they didn't make his wife walk the plank to circling sharks.
Nippy, a Clojure serialization library
Like a WAL file.
Oh did it not say that? I may have gotten that impression from some other comments here.
Did you see her initial commit?[0] It's the default Rails app. Any tech-savvy person can throw that up on github in a day if they know nothing about it. The next time she changes the app/ directory, where all the actual Ruby code goes, is two months later.[1]

Absolutely nothing she's said has given the impression she is trying to mislead.

[0]: https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt/tree/258e91c40f...

[1]: https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt/commit/c0d02c8c...
I agree, all the points are valid, I'm just pointing out that the comments here which are making an emphatic point about his wife being thrown to the curb are not compelling unless his wife is disabled or unable to communicate. Everything about the situation is all kinds of wrong, and singling out this one detail is a huge distraction to the real issue -- that Microsoft dropped the ball and treated a valued contributor like shit.
Wow, I stand corrected. I had recalled reading an article that claimed this, but according to the Wikipedia entry, it's not true.

I just did a quick comparison of Helvetica and Arial at 13px and, while they are very nearly identical at that size, enough of the superiority of Helvetica shows through (the q and R look nicer, for instance) that I'm willing to completely reverse my opinion.

Helvetica Neue on the other hand still looks awful at 13px on a standard resolution screen due to the tracking being too tight.
I can see a few potential flaws that could have caused them to not get follow up funding (although I am in no way suggesting that they didn't get follow up funding)

1. Cost. People in Africa are poor, so unless these can be produced and sold for pennies a piece, it probably won't take off. Using the 'buy one, donate one' method probably doesn't scale enough to solve the malaria problem.
2. Behavior. Condoms are a fairly effective method to practice safe sex, and despite a massive amount of money and education, adoption has been slow, or non-existent in Africa. I can see similar issues with Kite.
3. Effectiveness - While they may work, they may not have been shown to be effective enough to warrant further funding.
4. For-profit? I can't seem to find anything on the companies website, but the gates foundation prefers to give their money to non-profits. If they are a for-profit company, I could see reluctance on the foundations part to continue providing funds.

On a personal note, this seems like a cool product that I would use when camping/hiking. But for some of the reasons mentioned above, I would be skeptical to declare this as the solution to malaria in third-world countries, not that I would mind to be proven wrong. I wish them the best of luck.
As anyone who's ever summered in Minnesota will tell you, (and as one who's been chased out of the woods near a river one evening by a starving swarm of thousands) this is akin to finding the holy grail.
Of the Bay-Area congress people I know (Eshoo, Lofgren, Honda, Speier, Pelosi), only one rejected limits on NSA. Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosi, representative of San Francisco, voted in favor of unlimited NSA wiretaps for all of your phone and email traffic.
I would also point out that text is used for more than just body copy.
I don't see any mention of moonlight? Has support for it been completely dropped? Is anyone else maintaining it ?
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yeah, it's awesome. I had no idea this existed.