skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read the entire article, did he beat the record?
What speed do you need to average to hit 32hours cross country? 90mph?
I wonder if now it could be accomplished more easily using 2013 traffic and weather data apps. Like waze and Stormpulse and dark sky and maybe google glass or other augmented reality apps paired with night vision and other sensors.
Yes, it was indeed sarcasm. Lame, hastily-written sarcasm :)
this is only useful for clients who aren't running their own switches & bgp. if they are running their own network, they can peer with ISPs that don't have physical locations in their dns names. this is a thing you can request, for obvious reasons.
"yes. it is dangerous. driving fast is dangerous. but people do FAR more dangerous things on their commute to work every morning and after happy hour."

Yeah, and driving a pen into your eyeball is FAR less dangerous than shooting yourself in the head with a .45. I'm not sure why I should care about the distinction, though. Your shithead texting at 85mph and Mr. "I'm Too Rich To Obey The Law" here are both assholes endangering innocent people with willful carelessness. Fuck 'em both.
it (was) back for a moment. now threw 500.
status says 01:24 UTC Bitbucket is experiencing an issue affecting all users. We're working to determine the cause and fix asap.
I get that this was written in quick response to the earlier post about AngularJS, but it would have been far more useful if it had actually drawn direct comparisons between the two frameworks.

I'm currently using AngularJS for a project, and loving it. Everything in this blog post looked like something with a close equivalent in Angular (data binding => data binding, components => directives, Handlebars Helpers => filters), so I didn't see any compelling reason to try Ember.

It is great to see competition in this space though! It seems that full-featured JS frameworks are progressing rapidly because of it.
The example given for the "components" argument in this article is very contrived and unpersuasive.
I'm not a fan of the concept of intellectual property, but...

...you apparently don't understand the concept of an analogy. The whole reason that IP is called intellectual property is precisely to draw an analogy. Thus, the violation of that property is called theft.

And besides, you don't understand theft of physical property either. It does not require physical trespass: taking someone's wallet when they put it down on a table for a moment is theft. Theft is a transfer of possession without an accompanying transfer of ownership.

In intellectual property, theft is a duplication of possession without an accompanying duplication of ownership. The result is nevertheless that someone comes into possession of property without the right to own it. Distilled, this is an entirely fair conceptualization of theft.
I wonder if there's a pool of non-profit capital available for purchasing technology meant to foster civic technologies. I'd worry that selling to governments would be too difficult for a startup otherwise. Length, contracting requirements, regulation, etc.
I like how I keep saying 'in the open' and you keep saying 'by committee'. OpenGL extensions are the textbook example of what I'm talking about: Published documentation of the API surface, what it does, etc.

EDIT: However, I should be clear that you are correct that their initial design was traditionally done at a vendor behind closed doors, so they certainly could have been more open than they were. Whether that would have actually been possible in the IP-laden, slow-development-cycle of hardware graphics is another question, but nonetheless...
Professionally, telecom infrastructure stuff. Platform: Linux (RHEL), C++. Development tools: Emacs, git, lots of xterms.

For fun: Random hacks (Linux / OS X / Common Lisp + Emacs + SLIME), occasional 6502 hacks targeting the old NES (actually Lisp generating machine code, not traditional assembly), and some FPGA stuff on the Papilio Pro board using Verilog and the Xilinx tools. Also a couple indie games on the back burner - one in Lisp, the other in C++.
It is up right now.
https://status.github.com/
Yes, but if they are collecting $100k to fund their work on this project over the next year, they will still be paying taxes ON TOP of that.
Thanks! What I meant is that certain entrepreneurs will choose to go for money, while others won't.

Again - thanks for the reply!
Do they not have the bandwidth or resources to stop or mitigate something like this from happening? I would've thought they'd have better resources in place in case of something like this.
This is phenomenal. Thank you.
Don't do that. Criticize people on their work, not on their personal attributes.
Dude, you're being more than a little bit of a dick. I'm ignorant of government policy and politics in general, and it's only recently that I've begun rectifying that.

Yes, it was a simple, straightforward query for information that I lack. And you hardly answered.
You believe that anyone critical of Dart is deliberately trying to sabotage it because they are too lazy to learn another language ? Give us a break with this ridiculous drivel.

I am critical of it because I am sick of companies coming up with their own proprietary technologies and trying to force it as a defacto standard. It hurts developers. It hurts consumers. It has real economic and productivity costs. It undermines the fabric and stability of the web as a platform for humanities' information.

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple have a responsibility to work together to create open, widely adopted standards. And they all deserve criticism when they deviate from this.
Yup. Just checked it and I'm seeing the same thing. Gotta love the skull and crossbones.
"A big breakthrough would be if Congress, as a cost-saving measure, allowed Medicare payments for out-of-country treatment."

They would never do it. The amount of fraud in Medicare is astounding because the gov't doesn't use a lot of resources to verify claims. Can you imagine what would happen if the services were provided outside of the US? You probably couldn't even sue the provider to recover money from fraudulent claims.
YouTube Wants to Hear Your Complaints, So It Can Parody Them
Worth the price of admission and time to watch. Appreciate the effort by YouTube.
Tor Freedom Host compromised, JS injected into multiple sites
I looked at the site for some time and couldn't find an answer to my question. Does anybody know if the SMS is just for US cellphones?
To a degree this is pretty funny. Are you sure the hotel didn't do it on purpose just to remove the opportunity for hackers to get over on the hotel?
Someone from Google's HR team needs to drag you into a room, and force you to read something about the art of persuasion. You have embarrassed your project and team. While your arguments are mostly sound, they are overly combative and largely unconvincing. From a 70 year old book, here are some tips to "Win people to your way of thinking":

* The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

* Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say "You're Wrong."

* If you're wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

* Begin in a friendly way.

* Start with questions to which the other person will answer yes.

* Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.

* Let the other person feel the idea is his or hers.

* Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.

* Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

* Appeal to the nobler motives.

* Dramatize your ideas.

* Throw down a challenge.

Frankly, you should relax. Google's Go ate tons of shit on HN, and now gets nothing but praise. If you wan't to persuade people to the way you think, then persuade people correctly. If you are offended by some argument, grow thicker fucking skin and don't lash back. If you must lash back do it from a throwaway account and don't mention you work for Google. Let the arguments rest on their own merits.
Random raids on illegals incite UK uproar
most deserving nominee in decades.
In the end, Roy never attempted the 25-minute Manhattan Rendez-vous. But he claims to have raced a 27-minute "practice run." He proudly estimates that he hit top speeds of 144 mph [through downtown New York]...

Christ, what an asshole.
It seems that the JS is checking for firefox and then opening an iframe, which presumably holds some more JS.

Anyone know what that might be, and who has compromised freedom host?
How about business expenses, of the fake kind of course.
They append their spam to the end of the selection, but indexof length -1
There certainly should be, joeg8. I know of, at least one grid computing infrastructure fund for this (can't remember the name though), and I believe Amazon must be offering discounted stuff AWS credit for non-profits, apart from Google's packages for non-profits.
There are also several documentaries out there about the "Gumball 3000" mentioned in the article.
Initial Thoughts on Nvidia Shield
Atm i work mainly as web and mobile developer

general OS: mainly linux (debian-like for reason of compatibility with some of my hw), sometimes windows in a wm when needed

Web dev --> konsole, kate, sublimeText2, vim, intelliJIdea12
--> php (laravel, yii), javascript/jquery, python/django, html5, some css3

Mobile dev(android mainly) --> kate, androidStudio, intellijIdea12
Great article, a couple of comments:

root@dinospace: wget -qO- \
https://raw.github.com/progrium/dokku/master/bootstrap.sh \
| sudo bash

First, if you're already logged in as root, there is no[1] need for sudo. Secondly, I know this is how dokku recommends installing, but a) running wget as root probably isn't the best idea, and b) pulling down a shell script and running it as root is a really bad idea. At least download the script and check that you're running what you think you're doing (in fact, you'll see that the script is just a short list of things, few of which needs to be run as root).

ana@local: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | \
ssh root@dinosaurspaceships.org \
“sudo gitreceive upload-key username”

Same thing - either give your regular user sudo privileges (and prepare to have to enter your password, unless you specify to not need one -- in which case that should be limited to eg the gitrecieve command) -- or just drop the sudo.

I think docker is a great project, but I would like to see more support for running it under different user(s) than root. Looks like I'm not the only one:

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/1121

[1] sudo does some logging, but that is mainly helpful when it can log a "useful" user name, not "root" -- ie: you can see who broke the server, if more than one person has sudo access.
the irony of a whistleblower trying to escape from the nobel-prize winning president of the United States being nominated for the nobel prize is, well pricelss.
I fail to see how what Snowden has done has promoted world peace. The Nobel Peace prize is not (recent awardees notwithstanding) a we-like-you prize. It's supposed to be about world peace, and I just don't see how Snowden has advanced that particular goal. Or am I just dense?
Can you imagine if Edward Snowden was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just a couple of years after Barack Obama? The contrast would truly blow my mind.

Neither are deserving, IMO.
The IP that's hosting the iframe is a Verizon Business one. The JS also looks to be setting a cookie, probably for identification purposes (reading the cookie from another site to confirm the user?). I'm not sure that's the case because once the Tor Bundle is closed, cookies are automatically deleted.
Here's the brief answer, as I understand it: they're frameworks that provide model-view data binding, ease data/presentational decoupling, and (in some cases) provide single-page app (SPA) infrastructure in the mode of MV*. In short, they're designed to tackle some of the common complexities that arise when writing feature-rich multi-part SPAs.

You can do it all on your own, for sure, and I actually think that writing a complex front-end-heavy application without anything but jQuery is a really great way to show yourself the potential use of these libraries. It's not really super hard to write decent, well-structured and segregated code... but it does begin to feel, after a while, like you're spending your time hooking up wires you've hooked up before.

At that point, you either write your own abstraction, or you go looking for an abstraction that someone else (preferably smarter than you) will maintain.
Awesome, him getting a Peace Prize for going against the president who also happened to get the peace prize. Oh the irony.
That's not what the article says.

>That's because the terms under which John Henry is buying the paper stick the New York Times Company with the Globe's pension obligations, which are said to amount to around $110 million. Which is to say that the worth of the overall Globe enterprise is negative $40 million, not $70 million.

emphasis added
No, it's not just you. It's completely undeserved.
I'm not saying that it's wrong. KO's approach is a defensible architectural alternative. I guess I took an unnecessarily snotty tone in my previous comment.

However, KO's design it didn't sit well with how I wanted things to work. Basically I want plain javascript for my own core logic and then to have round-trip binding to the user interface with a minimum of fuss.

For simple cases, Angular does that reasonably well. More complicated cases require a much more intimate engagement with Angular's design and architecture, which is where my gripe about the docs becomes relevant.
Anyone could be nominated for the prize. It just means some guy wrote a letter to the committee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Nomination

If I'm reading that correctly, any recognized professor could write a letter nominating anybody.
The Age Of Big Data - BBC Documentary (video)
The BBC documentary follows people who mine Big Data, including LAPD police officers who use data to predict crime, a London scientist/trader who makes millions with math, and a South African astronomer who wants to catalogs the entire cosmos.
This is just plain nonsense. Go and AngularJS are two of the most popular technologies on HN. And I can't imagine anyone not believing Google's DB work (BigTable, BigQuery, Dremel) for example is anything but impressive.
Windows was the near-universal platform and fairly sophisticated networking ability was inbuilt.
The BBC documentary follows people who mine Big Data, including LAPD police officers who use data to predict crime, a London scientist/trader who makes millions with math, and a South African astronomer who wants to catalogs the entire cosmos.

via: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/08/bbc-documentary-age-of-big-...
Obama overturns Apple import ban
Obama didn't do anything to earn it either, other than not being George W. Bush.
Superspeed USB 3.1 Announced, Could Bring the End of Thunderbolt
Tile, a micro tracking device for lost items
I can't speak for OP but if you look through the Balanced Dashboard repo there are some good examples:

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/blob/master/test/integration/guest_user_flow.js

For the most part we use integration testing e.g. We simulate mouse clicks and key presses via jQuery and then assert changes in the page behaviour and calls made to the API (see line #85 in above link).

If you approach it like that, and I assume this would be the same for Angular, there's very little testing that's specific to the framework you're building on top of.

At Balanced, even when running unit tests on models to test features in isolation we're still not touching anything inside Ember, occasionally we may jump into the internals to short cut getting the app to a particular state but 99.9% of the time you don't need to.
Well, I don't agree with his point of view and I don't agree that Bram Cohen was a good programmer. He has the merit of a good protocol like BitTorrent but not as a good programmer. I remember well the bitTorrent first desktop application: a Python code where they need to embed a whole Python interpreter to run it! an ugly UI that only few people can understand and it was after Napster and a lot of P2P early clients. I don't know many cases where a company needed to acquire another company client for their own protocol! yes, I am talking about uTorrent. I can think in TweetDeck but Twitter never implemented a desktop client initially. I think many programmers think that they are great but only a few are so great (think in people like Carmack)

Now, comparing his own point of view with my humble experience with great people I can say it depends... I know great people like Ricardo Quesada who built Cocos2D. Yes, he knows about architecture but his attitude is very different he work and he is passionate. I think in another people and they were not great in architecture but in achieving (almost) impossible things in short time.
Obama was awarded the Peace Prize prematurely. I've yet to see something he's done to deserve it, despite voting for him the first time.
Who cares? There is a lot of people who can nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize. Fidel Castro has even been nominated.
What are you using the confirmed email for? Do you need the user's email for a core function of the site? Or is it an antispam tool?

Look at Hacker News. Its signup process is dead simple - you enter a username and password, and you're automatically logged in. I'd hazard a guess that doing that is the simplest process possible, but there is a tradeoff - it's impossible to recover your password if you forget it. It all depends on what is required for your site to function, so I don't think there is a simple solution to your question.
What: I'm not a professional programmer, but I spend a lot of my free time coding my various hair-brained money making schemes. Trading bots mostly.

How: My main development enviroment is VS 2013 on Windows 8.1. On most of my "real" projects I work with C#, though I've been experimenting with F# for that recently. For those little scripting jobs for little automation type things, I used to use Powershell. (if you haven't heard of it it's the native scripting language for Windows). Hardware-wise, I use a Lenovo U410 which I'm really been liking over the last year.
I did say “recent awardees notwithstanding”.
Yeah he beat it by a full hour and three minutes, using a spotter airplane and a new co-pilot. Man, what an awesome story. Completely reckless, but completely awesome.
Fair enough. I just wanted to restate the obvious.
I don't really understand the nobel peace prize, or specifically why Obama was awarded it. I understand being the first black president of the United States is a big deal, but did he personally do anything to promote peace? Or does being black in the white house somehow lower racism, hence promoting world peace?
In practice, the youtube api has other cases in that switch expression (ENDED, PAUSED, etc). For those, you would use the following in their case statement: document.title = document.title.replace("\u25B6","");

And to revise my original code, this is what you could use in the PLAYING statement to prevent multiple play symbols: document.title = "\u25B6" + document.title.replace("\u25B6","");

Notice, too, that I replaced the "▶" with the appropriate javascript encoding.
Anyone who gets in the way of government abuses is promoting peace in my opinion. In Snowden's case, he's released information about programs that are specifically abusing the privacy of the world's population. One hopes that such a release serves as an impetus to curb or prevent it in the future. I think that at least fits my criteria.
Ask HN: Is Bitbucket down, too?
GitHub is not down anymore: https://status.github.com/
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitbucket.org

Looks like its down for everyone, at least according to that web service!
I'm pretty sure pressure on the buttons would be suboptimal but it occurs to me that I can reassess things once I've got this phone in a case. Thanks!
Github is back and Bitbucket went down.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitbucket.org

What's going on today?
Well he did take a huge personal risk to promote freedom etc...
The majority of backers are paying $23. That's not even 15 minutes of software development time. I fail to comprehend how backers are investing as much into the idea as the developers.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with this. You may be right. Depends on how enterprising Contra is, and how willing the studio is to engage in more than just selling some rights and walking away. It's not really that much potential revenue, the studio may not want to do any more.
Figure Gala Show Lillehammer Olympic 1994 - 1080p HDTV
Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. Compiles
He was made a Nobel Laureate for not being George W. Bush.
I'm sorry, I still don't see the link between "[curbing] government abuses" and "promoting peace". What is the link?
There was a link posted in the other discussion (by visionscaper) that makes the direct comparisons that you suggested. Personally, that's also what I want to see in these types of blog posts.

Cage Match – Ember.js vs. AngularJS : http://vimeo.com/68215606

I still haven't had to pick one side, but this talk will certainly make me lean towards some framework. I just wish it was a 4-sided battle with Backbone.js and Knockout.js since those are the other 2 frameworks that are on my radar.
Probably more helpful to link to here: http://status.bitbucket.org/
Well. The definition for the awards it definitively arguable. It states "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.".
Which is the basis of why Obama got the award. Apparently he help improve the American image of their foreign polices (without actually improving it). Snowden has done the opposite regardless of what he did the right thing or now (I applaud him). So far the actions of Snowden has resulted in a further divide between countries (US and others). So yeah he does not reserve the Nobel Peace Price. He does deserve freedom and some prize though (not sure which one).
Why do you think it should cost less than 100k to build a mail app?
Freedom, yes, but peace?
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. This is a joke right? Right!?!
Wasn't so much about him being the first black President as much as him not being Bush/Cheney et. al. Still pretty premature of them since Obama ended up adopting and ramping up many of the foreign policies that made Bush/Cheney so despised by the world in the first place.
Using Backbone is like being left in a desert and told to go home.
Well, I think government abuses falls under the umbrella of things that aren't peace. Thus, action against government abuses would be implicitly promoting peace.
Don't forget 340 Pine!
University Of California Approves Major Open Access Policy To Make Research Free
Weakening the global hegemon is certainly a contribution to world peace.
01:24 UTC Bitbucket is experiencing an issue affecting all users. We're working to determine the cause and fix asap.

Thought from the post title the Atlassian guys were taking the night off - definitely does not seem to be the case.