skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I understand your sentiment... I have to disagree with a few assumptions. I feel that it's perfectly fine to write a project, or even a module in coffeescript. If you look at the NodeJS/NPM ecosystem, you will find a lot of modules will use, or be used by other modules that will be in either JS or Coffee respectively.

While CS supports some features with different syntax than JS, it really isn't THAT hard to pick up, and for the most part I don't care too much. I've mostly written JS, but have used CS for certain bits.. I find the syntax much more pleasant in unit testing, and for grunt tasks in particular (though will likely be using gulp in the future over grunt).

This presentation did show a lot of the niceties with dealing in Classes with CoffeeScript, a lot of which I wasn't aware of... I do tend to keep my objects a bit differently than many though.. I tend to treat my objects as either libraries or effective structures, rarely do I add "smart" methods to my entities.

Will it get me to switch everything, no.. however, multiline strings are nearly enough to get me to strongly consider .coffee for a lot of cases, often I will even mix into .js projects in node.
I was pretty excited about http://chordite.com/ for a while, but at the moment it's still a build-your-own proposition and I struggle to find the time.

I'd really like a non-dominant-hand, bluetooth, chordal keyboard that can replace the mouse and enables decent typing speed suitable for development (i.e. reasonably easy to type { } [ ] , . @ : / \ *, and supports shortcuts).
Your T400 definitely didn't last 8 years.
My apologies garry, I didn't look at the OP. Personal blogs are personal. ;-)

I completely misunderstood your initial comment.
My first paragraph is still valid.
Proving that the code was used to aid a company is not a good measure of the seriousness of of the crime. What if you take the code and store it on a device with really low security? You don't share it, but you allow "hackers" to easily take it, so you are in fact aiding competing companies.
This article has a big flaw imo, as the Model S is not a luxury car as defined here. It competes with the likes of 5/6 Series BMW, Audi A5/A6 and Mercedes E Class. The 7 Series, S Class and Audi A8 are not among its direct rivals, in fact the Tesla only rivals them in price. That doesnt lead to the conclusion that the Model S is eating away market share from the "real" luxury cars though.
I don't like how the popup after you hover on a link covers the links horizontally to the right. It forces you to move the mouse away, wait for the popup to dismiss, and then move the mouse over the next link. Maybe move the popups below the current row of links.
What are the best ways to avoid data roaming fees when travelling abroad?
HTML5 DRM is already in wide distribution via Widevine, which is used by Google Play in addition to YouTube, Netflix, Blockbuster, and Vudu. It's embedded in millions of devices and distributed to millions of client desktops. The W3C's ratification or rejection of the technology isn't going to stop its spread, or the desire that consumers have for streaming video.

Netflix disappearing would be inconvenient for consumers, but the vacuum left by them would be rapidly filled by a competitor happy to acquiesce to the studios' DRM demands in order to get their replacement product to market the fastest.

Widevine is owned by Google. Google also owns the biggest mobile platform and the biggest desktop browser, and is making a strong push into owning the living room through devices like the Chromecast, as well. I will happily argue that the W3C's acceptance of HTML5 DRM (or Netflix's work towards developing a workable spec) is utterly irrelevant to its inevitable deployment across the connected internet.

The HTML5 spec is about allowing for pluggable CDMs. It failing isn't going to stop the actual deployment of CDMs and their enabling of DRM-protected content on the internet. The CDMs already exist, are already deployed, and aren't going away. We can either have a unified way to use them, or we can just continue to slog on through a bunch of crappy solutions like we've been doing for the last decade, but they just aren't going away, period. Making Netflix out to be the bad guy here is naive at best, and malicious at worst.
Last time I used it box.net had something like this - you get a public url that anyone (eg. not registered users) can click to download your file. You can set a timeout and/or download limit before the link becomes disabled.
ZPerfmon: An app performance analysis suite from Zynga
As a learning experience this is a great idea. I think, however, that it would be really useful to note, when applicable, what standard UNIX tool just does a job for you (and presumably learning that tool, too)---about 1/3 of these are either completely handled by a standard tool or easily handled with a bash one-liner, and knowing when not to reinvent the wheel is often most of the battle. :)

(I realize that in the intro Zed talks about people being better at finding than building tools. My suggestion is only that you can help even more people by pointing out both paths.)
I thought this was an excellent and thoughtful piece on the new? ethical and moral dimensions of security. I've had to ask myself some of these questions during my career and it was good to see them spelled out and placed into context.
OpenBR – An open face recognition/biometry library
You can bypass the paywall by searching for the article name on google and clicking through (or modifying your referrer)
From my experience (building a SaaS product for consumers which can be self installed) it's not worth the hassle and most people who claim they'd pay actually don't.

It seems that the best way to get people to pay for something is to make it a requirement (to use the service or a set of features).
I met Michael briefly after the gig, lovely chap and keen cyclist. Did you catch the Qatsi trilogy at Hamer Hall last year?
Nice tutorial
Also, Nico Muhly's Mothertongue.

http://nicomuhly.bandcamp.com/album/mothertongue
Pbcopy and pbpaste for Linux
If you are an organisation with deep pockets (nation state) and are willing to send trusted (armed, diplomatic) couriers to every end point you want to talk securely with (embassies) every month then it can be secure but it will definitely be expensive.
I said that breaking a law has fairly predictable results. Among them the possibility of acquittal on appeal. In fact, if you're doing it for some sort of protest reason, this might actually be the goal (building case law against an unfair/unconstitutional law or interpretation).
We've been following Moore's Law for decades now. What's really stopping us from a real mobile and internet-of-things revolution is a breakthrough in charge storage devices. I wonder how long until one of the many "new discoveries on X material to create new battery" can be practically feasible and marketable.
(a)I was offering him the benefit of the doubt. You're correct. Other possibilities include that he's simply a criminal or merely dumb. (b) You did. Reread the third line of the post.
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the coffee console app has a watch parameter iirc.. as do many build tools...
You don't need any tricks for the sticky footer. Just use position: fixed on the footer and add a padding-bottom to the body for the same height as the footer. In absolutely ancient browsers it will simply show the footer at the bottom when you scroll there.
Do we know the scope of likely affected printers? The company I work at runs a whole heap (~80) of WorkCentre 3220, 4150 and 4250s, as well as ApeosPorts, etc.

I shudder to think how much we've scanned that could be affected by this. Thankfully, I think all of our engineering drawings (which for a decade+ were printed, signed, then scanned when needed for digital issue) were done on a non-xerox device, but all of our standard A3/A4 business stuff is done on Xerox devices.
Falkvinge must be a mainstream politician now. He's pandering to the base with ad hominems while foregoing the opportunity to make an intellectual case :)

I want to try and understand.

On the WTO

"having moved ahead from that failure with disguising lopsided rent-seeking schemes as “free trade agreements”. The first of these was the WTO"

He seems to think his audience will just know what this means. I admit I don't have WTO objections filed away in my (libertarian-leaning) subconscious under "obviously true, no need for explanation."

According to Wikipedia [1], objections include

"-Rich countries are able to maintain high import duties and quotas in certain products, blocking imports from developing countries (e.g. clothing);

-The increase in non-tariff barriers such as anti-dumping measures allowed against developing countries;

-The maintenance of high protection of agriculture in developed countries while developing ones are pressed to open their markets;

-Many developing countries do not have the capacity to follow the negotiations and participate actively in the Uruguay Round"

These actually seems like quite legitimate political gripes to me, and they fit with what I know.

There are also structural reasons people object to the neoliberal opening of markets, in a big bang release [Martin Khor, 2]

"The problem in trade liberalisation is that a country can control how fast to liberalise its imports (and thus increase the inflow of products) but cannot determine by itself how fast its exports grow. Export growth partly depends on the prices of the existing exported products (and developing countries have suffered from serious declines in their tenns of trade) and also on having or developing the infrastructure, human and enterprise capacity for new exports (which is a longterm process and not easily achieved)."

So that's at least an interesting and intelligible set of claims that one can debate with empirical evidence. I don't know what I conclude from them, but its too bad the rhetoric tends to be so substance-free given how important it is.

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

[2] http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/davos2-cn.htm

Edit: formatting
I think it's simply that mechanization has increased wealth of only a few, and the remainder of the population still has needs and wants that require money.
No. Because normal behaviour is order-insensitive, I expect that f(a=1,b=2) and f(b=2,a=1) should have identical behaviour. If you make the arguments order-sensitive, then they may not. If, for readability reasons, I change the order of the arguments, I will then be surprised when my code stops working.

Conversely, If (because I think it is order-sensitive) I believe that, in order to make the function do what I want, I have to call f(a=1,b=2) and not f(b=2,a=1), then I'm not going to change the order willy-nilly, so I won't be affected by my expectations not matching reality.
The best way to ensure good content is to ensure smart teachers, which is what these metrics are designed for.

Fractions and decimals are not difficult. I doubt that kids who have been learning math with Khan have problems understanding them. But ìf Khan has been a little unclear for some percentage of students, the addition of a few exercises should solve the problem. The lacunae of a smart teacher are easily fixed, unlike the confusion caused by a teacher who doesn't understand the material.
I believe the page you are referring to is sf.net/people.
Speculation that some part of this story is fishy -

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/01/avalon-ventures-rais... (2011)
Self esteem or other esteem?
Don't confuse screen resolution with browser window size. FWIW (less variability?) analytics companies love screen resolution, and put far less weight on browser window size (with or without the window chrome)
in the free account files get deleted (see docs) so I would suggest not to use it as a backup system. Also, from same docs, the intended use is sending files, becareful with different use cases ;)
13 years of children being in schools is still fewer person-hours worked in the workpace. Children in schools are not directly creating any value through their labor.
I used to be a product/design guy at CNET in their games division. My team was working on one of the biggest initiatives for the company, launching a new site with a pretty small team of engineers (think it was 6, we had no editorial team, just some recent hires for data entry). In any case, we'd been working on it for 5 months or so, really grueling work, but we were young and excited about building something with so much potential. One month before the actual launch someone came up to me and said, "hey, we need you to move the launch date up two weeks". The reason was pretty boring, the usual executive needs it for X, and as you'd imagine nobody was very excited about it. So all the engineers are stuck in a cramp little meeting room bitching about how many extra hours we'd have to put in to get it done.

Eventually I laughed and said "Well, no one in this room will ever work on a two-letter domain again. That's probably reason enough. At least we get to say we launched one."

8 years later I still think about that day. I've had a pretty wild career, but yep, I doubt I'll ever get to build another TV.com.

Anyways, that's my tiny anecdote about a two letter domain! Worked with a lot of good people on it and still work with some of them. It's a pretty different site now, but right out of the gate it was huge and had tons and tons of community contributions to its episode guides, storing everything in a nice structured data style. These days all I think is... man, we could have done so much more with it (we should have put an API out for the data at least). From what I understand, Google's sidebar related data search results have slowly been biting at into the traffic of large wiki repositories like TV.com and IMDB over the past couple years.
Except workers are also buyers; why can't the workers take advantage of reduced prices to work fewer hours?
I wish the turning point were close but I don't think it is. As other comments note he doesn't make a good case for his claim.

I am surprised how little other countries have cared how easily the USA State Department and Trade representatives have been able to dictate terms to their politicians.

It seems to me for a tipping point to occur other countries have to punish politicians for being toadies to the USA's dictates. Until that happens I don't hold out much hope. I would love it for the USA to turn against the copyright monopolists but I think they have bought a significant majority of our politicians and we have shown no interest in throwing out the politicians doing favors for those that have paid them well.
He's probably wrong, but I hope he's not.
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The interior of a cell does not follow solution dynamics at all in the way that you would like for it to, and this is why:

http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/illustration/mycoplas...
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Surreal indeed.

The subway video looked remarkably similar to what you would see today. Folks were overdressed, but that's about it.

However, that San Francisco street cruise was a different world!
So… Tesla is Apple circa 1983.

(And of course the whole point of Tesla Motors is to make an affordable EV, but let's not give credit too early. To loosely quote Elon Musk's response to criticism like this, "many people are under the mistaken impression that we made the Roadster because we thought there was a dire shortage of sports-cars for rich people.")
I've become a fan of the micro-paywall. A one-time fee of $5-10 is an amazingly powerful filter.

Metafilter, as you said, is one example. Another is the Ruby Rogues Parley mailing list (now Discourse site). I can only imagine what a HN with similar filtering-of-the-noise would be like.
‘1984 Day’: Restore the Fourth movement kickstarts anti-surveillance protest
There's a better utility available than ncat. It's called socat. It has more features than ncat that people might find useful.

http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html#EXAMPLES
And I'm just sitting here just waiting for some HN folk to tell me why this is farcical / never going to make to production. It's a lot quicker than reading the article and all getting my hopes up.
I really like the explanatory graphic on OpenBR's front page. It's certainly not very artistic... But it does a great job of explaining at a single glance what exactly this project does and where it fits in a software pipeline. I wish more projects had an upfront compact visual representation of what they offer.

I can imagine what it would look like if this were a .io startup instead of a research project. The front page would be 20 times taller with endless scrolling, yet consist mostly of beautifully laid out white space filled with some trendy shade of brown. In that vast emptiness there would be floating decapitated heads that actively try to escape the mouse cursor. When I finally manage to hover over one of the heads, it would reveal a nondescript slogan, for example "Recognize. Integrate. Socially." There would be a single cryptic two-line code example given in CoffeeScript, and nowhere on the site would it be apparent whether this product is commercial and how much it costs.
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6154158
I’ll Show THEM An old note on being stubborn
There are some really great responses here. Well worth reading the whole thread.

Thanks for posting.
If you read the original Vanity Fair piece, Lewis assembles a true 'jury' of his peers - that's the best part of the piece.
Maybe we are simply taking the wrong approach.

How many gears from a mechanical computer does it take to simulate a micro processor?

If we were to one day to closely simulate the brain, I am sure the method will not involve computers as we know them today.
Am I understanding correctly? You are putting audi A4/3($27K MSRP) into the same class as Jaguar(starts at $47K) and Range Rovers ($83K MSRP)? I think Tesla with it's price tag should go into a separate category from audi a4,3...

Edit: According to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification#USA.2C_UK_a...) - the British English "Luxury Car" is represented by: Audi A8, BMW 7 Series, Jaguar XJ, Maserati Quattroporte, Mercedes S-Class.
I'm curious if the exploits would work with javascript enabled, but with noscript installed. This is default for the current TBB I think.
Yes ugly. And not, CSS framework it's not only grid, it's styles also.
This is great news! Looking forward to experimenting with this new library. I hope it can be somehow used on Android in the future.
Looks sweet. I'll check it out.
Yes, that's it :) It's not linked from anywhere anymore, is it?
How is this any different than emailing a file to yourself? And what prevents anyone from uploading large, malicious, or spammy files to your dropbox?
Curious that this needed to be proven, and that Google "needs" the Nexus program, as if this was a unwanted necessity.

Google has always stated that they want to run Motorola as its own entity. The companies spokesmen have always made very clear that the Nexus program will continue.

As for "fragmentation": Nobody gains anything if the Moto X ships with the latest Android version. Customers, Developer and Platform provider benefit much more from regular, long term updates (e.g. a device does not fall two version behind for two years) that instant platform updates (which are unrealistic for cross-platform technologies anyway).

The interesting question here is if the Moto X will get the Android version that Google releases after Android 5. If it is running the 2 weeks old version at release it only important for gadget geeks and the boulevard press.
This tool has been around for a while. All my AWS images sport it, I found it very useful to quickly move files to my computer whenever I need to. Very reliable.
So you see no problem with watching a movie and having to use the mousewheel to go to each next frame?
And what is a div, semantically speaking? Wrapper is the same, only with class attached for identification/styling purposes.
Why the focus on zeromq? With Python it's not hard to use sockets. It's good for programmers to know what zeromq is built on.
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It's not obvious from the title, but this is a commercial service that hosts files for you, and this is a tool to work with it.

It has nothing to do with file uploads to HTTP/FTP/SSH servers.
More about deleting features
Ok here you go: https://github.com/thekarangoel/Pixels/blob/master/pixels.py

I also made the algorithm a lot faster now!
What's funny is how many people use the kitchen sink (all-in) bootstrap.min.css files... I generally pull the source .less files and then copy the variables, and mixins file, and create my own bootstrap-custom.less that points to the copied files, and the rest of the original... from there, I can modify the copied bits at will, and better integrate my own extensions.
what if you take the windowed cosine transform, and then see where the transform is within 10% of each other (or less than a threshold value). Then zero out all such regions. With the technique you're using I'd worry about the phase happening to be exactly 180 degrees if the frequency and position of the noise source are 'just so' - which might explain your observation of 'pops'.
The saddest part is that they are offering HTTPS only for Pro accounts.
New thing I do in code
I was wondering how long it would take for them to find a business model.
Steve Jobs Responds to an Insult
Model S seems to rival both the 5er and 7er in size (btw, seats 7)
Comparing Coffeescript to Scala is an outrage! ;)

When I heared about Coffeescript I thought about Scala, too. Not because it reminded me about Scala, but who it took to make Scala and then out of the blue some guy comes along with some new lang, which should ease some problems.

CS is to JS what PHP is to Perl.
It works better if you use the source .less files, and make your own modifications as needed.. I make copies of the variables and mixins, and generally only need to edit my copies, then have a custom less that loads my variables/mixins along with the other source files as-is.
Almost like an actual drop box
Now you can have ls_nsa and cp_nsa. rm_nsa is obsolete.
Moore's law actually helps battery powered devices too. As the switching elements get smaller they consume less power. The problem really is that we've at the same time increased our demands on the devices to the point where the gains were undone.

5 years ago cell phones had a longer battery life than smart phones do today.
> What overhead?

The overhead of tooling, extra dependencies, debugging complexities and new syntactic constructs.

If you're going to pay for all that, why not bite the bullet and use a language which actually improves the states of things and adds useful semantics?
Like many other iPhoney devotees, Obama doesn't like people messing with his deity.
Knightmare returns for Youtube Geek Week
Ahh, the memories.

From the blurb: "A remake of the classic TV show Knightmare, brought to back to life exclusively for YouTube's Geek Week! Starring Hugo Myatt, Isy Suttie, Jessie Cave, Mark Knight, Amazing Phil, Danisnotonfire, Stuart Ashen and Emma Blackery."
Thanks, I'll be looking into that.
Developer demands “big contribution” from Microsoft before supporting WP8 and W8