skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think phpMyAdmin v4 is a backward move. They got rid of frames in favor of a more ajaxified UI but it is running many times slower than the <3.5 versions. I understand using Frames is supposed to be bad but in this case they offered a better user experience.
I think the point is not that design will not be needed, is that card-based designs make sense as a native structure for web content, and thus better than static page designs.
Haha, of course not :-) Good luck!
> Technically I hate the glued together, shit-stack that is the organically evolved web. One part of me thinks we have devolved from the Big Iron/VMS days.

I've seen many people express their dislike for the status quo, however I haven't seen any real arguments for how things could be better.

In terms of UI at least I've worked with Delphi, I've worked with Visual Basic, I've worked with Java's Swing and with WxWidgets and with Android - all of the available UI toolkits, except HTML, make it easy to build stuff with standard widgets. However, if you diverge from that path, pain ensues and I haven't encountered something more dynamic or malleable to experimentation than working with HTML/CSS. There's also nothing stopping you from implementing frameworks of standard widgets on top of the browser's DOM and Javascript. And btw, even Android or iOS developers that are quite happy with their native platform, are sometimes embedding WebViews in their app for cases in which they've got something complicated to do.

In terms of Javascript, there are already compilers and frameworks that use Javascript as a target, with things like Google's GWT giving you everything a Java developer dreams about (code reuse, some static type safety, etc...), yet Javascript is still more popular by an order of magnitude than all alternatives combined. And if you haven't seen the Unreal Engine demonstrating asm.js in Firefox, you should.

In terms of security, the biggest attack vectors on the web right now are old browser versions and various browser plugins that are still around, like Java (most PCs have a version of the Java plugin installed with known vulnerabilities) or Adobe Reader or other crappy plugins with a broken update cycle. With Chrome and Firefox auto-updated regularly, Javascript is actually quite secure and there's nothing in it that prevents you from sandboxing its execution.

Many people complain about the state of the web, however given the constraints that the web faces (open standards, multi-platform in every sense, multiple independent implementations from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, etc...) I have a hard time believing on how things could be better. In fact, given the history of the web, especially given Microsoft that has held the web back for a couple of years simply because they could, the web turned out to be awesome.
To the link: are any of the major CM toolsets not backed by a company? Opscode, Puppet Labs, Ansibleworks, SaltStack... they all have corporate backing.
Poor men when will we ever catch a break in this world.
> Sony had some other certification program previously as well and even made a nice little psp phone on top of Android but they just let the whole concept rot last time.

It's still the same initiative/system, the Sony Ericsson Play was the first Playstation Certified Android phone.
Amazing indeed, too bad it doesn't have Windows and Linux versions too, since I often change environments so I always need my laptop next to me. I tried many MySQL GUIs but not a single one was awesome like SequelPro :(
Is it sexist to like tits?
I wonder how much of this project was sparked or inspired by Ouya. I got an Ouya with the intention of making games for it, but I've barely turned it on after the two-week experimental honeymoon, mostly because of a limited discovery system and the low quality of most games.
When I see such developments, I conclude that society does not feel the pain enough yet.

The pain that inevitably will catch up with us, for all the real problems we create but do not solve.
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Sony is going to have a truckload of indie titles on PS VITA which VITA TV owners will directly benefit from. In total there are around 1300 games ready to be picked up and played (PS1, PSP and PS VITA combined).

I'd pick a pure gaming platform game over an Android / iOS based game any day. 100% Controller support for all games, and the games are generally of higher quality.

Sony having 100% control of the underlying platform for the device for 100% integration with their other devices (PS4, PS3, etc) is far more important than supporting Android games.

I think this is pretty much the end for Ouya, come to think of it. Android is just too fragile as a pure gaming device compared to something that was built from the ground up for that sole purpose.

Other than just gaming, the ability to watch movies, listen to music, stream PS4 to another TV, instead of purchasing 2 PS4's, (e.g. one for the bedroom and one for the living room), are excellent features. Each of which on their own are excellent selling points, except you get all of them for the same price.

I think a lot of people may be underestimating this product. If successful, they are literally taking Apple's Apple TV and Ouya's market at the same time, as well as creating a new market themselves.
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I don't know if there exists such an app, but it would probably not be considered sexist. Just like affirmative action / employment equity is not considered racist.
Nothing but steadiness.
This sounds along the lines that The Hoff was responsible for the Berlin Wall coming down...
Feminism is about the equality of opportunity and power.

You cannot create a picture of equal sexism by demonstrating a low-power, low-economic status, low opportunity-of-career-advancement role (that has traditionally been a female-only occupation due in-part to traditional gender-specific roles around child-rearing) where men who choose to enter it are viewed with scepticism. Especially if that role includes close, private contact with young children.

Feminists like me want an equal share of the good jobs for women throughout all strata of all industries. Men will undoubtably have to take up some of the low-paid shit jobs to compensate—but that is equality.

Sexism is a female only problem and will continue to be as long as men hold most of the power and are afforded most of the best opportunities.
Exactly. Starting a new brand would take a long time to push, whereas using iPhone and Apple names for their cheaper phone automatically guarantees sales but might hurt them in the future.
http://www.cube20.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_algorithm
Yes, I agree completely. That's exactly why I'm suspicious of the numbers the parent quoted.
Nanigans Office Tour [Slideshow]
As an Australian, I was disappointed to see the team attempt to use "Aussie humour" as a shield.
What would have been more Australian would be to harden up and apologise.
Mocking Server Dependencies in JavaScript and AngularJS
Technically true, although LtU is not typically associated with blogspam. Maybe it's a crafty social search to see if anyone will fill in the broken link?

If so, it worked on me:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~swm11/examples/bluespec/Tiny3/Thack...

Turns out to be a really interesting article. I just resubmitted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352765
It's not really a "Show HN", though is it? It's an paid-for extension of an existing product. In that vein, while an informative post I did find the following statement a bit disingenuous:

"As Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail and partner at Y Combinator, says, the correct order of operations is to “sell before you build.” When you launch, you want a whole list of people that you can tell to buy it. But more than that, you want to ensure that you’re investing all that time building something that people want to buy."

As far as I can tell, they built a product for 40,000 people over a certain period of time without generating a cent in profit or knowing in advance that any of those people would ever consider paying from the product. While some users did claim they wanted a team version they would pay for, this was only after the base product was built without knowing people would pay for it.

This bugs me a bit because I'm working on a project where I'd love to be able to sell before I build, as it's obviously a very sound principle, but in practice I just can't see how to go about it and I was hoping to learn something new from this post.
Having a sexuality is not sexist. Sexualising the workplace usually is, as it makes it unfriendly to others.

I appreciate that porn (hard, soft or just this smut) is a business too, but is that the business that techcrunch is in?
This is actually a good example why you should have a code of conduct as a conference. Bad things on stage happen. As an organizer, you can now write an apology that sounds like the one techcrunch wrote:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/

Or, if you had a CoC, it could sound like this:

* "Sorry, we had people on stage that violated the rules we agreed upon beforehand. <list of rules from CoC> They were expelled from the conference immediately."
It already happens.

Women laughing at a man having his penis cut off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDjUjhexTQk&hd=1
I really like the layout of this article, so I started poking around the source. I almost screamed when I saw `p class="msContent"` around every paragraph.

Seriously though, this obviously takes some manual intervention to achieve this kind of variance in the content layout (where blockquotes are full width, but content p's only take the left 2/3). Does anyone here have any visibility into how they do this from the editorial side, and where I could try and hire an editor who actually gave a shit about this kind of thing?
How can we add to the list?
Editing the schema directly instead of using migrations (where you get your changes source-controlled) is a good thing why exactly?
Nice idea.

Missing Evernote API: http://dev.evernote.com/doc/
I can only think to keep costs down. But it does seem odd.
I'm just one data point, but the Samsung SSD in my Macbook Pro failed after 13 months. They're no panacea.

By the way, Apple replaced it free of charge, outside warranty.
Man Remodels Internet as One Giant Computer
>Still, this whole PC thing sometimes can feel like walking on eggshells

Important stuff is rarely easy or simple.
I imagine that the NSA was a big fan of the "instant upload" feature on Android phones, especially for targets they had an active interest in.

I would not be surprised if Google built in the capability (server-side) to instantly send a copy off to the NSA.

> According to one NSA document, these files contain the kind of information that is of particular interest to analysts, such as lists of contacts, call logs and drafts of text messages.

I know that when backing up an iPhone to your computer you can choose to encrypt the backups. I wonder if backups to iCloud are encrypted. I never enabled that option and don't recall seeing any such settings but I suspect they are not.

After reading this article, I'm ready to ask my boss to replace my work-issued iPhone with something else but that's probably pointless. The only option for someone who does not want to be constantly tracked, it seems, is to completely forego use of a mobile phone.
"Sexism is a female only problem and will continue to be as long as men hold most of the power and are afforded most of the best opportunities."

Can you name one company who wouldn't take a more competent female developer over a male developer?
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> And the government has announced they will rip up the cable and give everyone 25-50Mbps down and 4-5Mbps up.

The government needs to re-negotiate it's deal with Telstra, and I expect the HFC network remaining with Telstra as a wholesaler monopoly will be a part of that.

No-one has said they're going to "rip up" the HFC cable. It was to be decommissioned under the old NBN plan and it's future hasn't been decided under the new.
Ah, I see what you mean now. Ta.
Arduino based curtain automation
The Big Calculator Gone Crazy
This does indeed look awesome, but the article doesn't fully explain what it is that prevents us from scaling ordinary transistors further. If I understand correctly electrons start tunneling when transistors shrink to around 10nm (correct me if I'm wrong here) however Intel has 6nm process on their roadmap. Is Intel doing something magical to prevent tunneling or is my physics way off?
Store Your Life Online for Free when You Work Abroad
Scored 2400, was pretty fun.

A problem is that some of the languages are indistinguishable. I'm pretty sure the example I saw for Logtalk would be perfectly acceptable Prolog.
What if, let's just make this hypothetical for a second, woman want men to stare at their breasts? Would you still have an issue?
No. I like them quite a bit. But it is sexist to make an app to encourage men to ogle random women's breasts and submit photos while doing so, to an audience of men and women.
PyMC follows the library approach to probabilistic programming rather than inventing yet another application specific language that only a niche of developers will be willing to spend time to learn.

Despite not introducing a new language syntax or DSL, PyMC is still probabilistic programming in the sense that you have python variables that represent random variables with prior distributions and then use those to derive new random variables by using deterministic python expressions or functions. Finally you plug an inference engine to be able to invert the execution order and derive a posterior distribution on the unobserved variables.
How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man's switch
Nice!
Are you sure that this example is acceptable for Prolog?
https://github.com/krasnoukhov/langgame/blob/master/models/v...
Navicat is infinitely more useful for mysql database administration, especially with the option to login via ssh
If there was a hypothetical "dickstare" app for woman (to objectify men and their body parts) I wouldn't make a big deal of it.

Seems to me a lot of woman do objectify men. For example when I'm browsing the Dutch Viva forums, there are plenty of topics on so called "fuck buddies". Male friends that are not relationship material but good enough for sex.

Some topics from the last few weeks are:

* Traineeship Suriname[1]: a topic about a Dutch girl that is going for a traineeship in Suriname and she has a certain fetish for black people and is mainly interested in having sex with said people.

* Do you have a fuck buddy[2]: an inquiry of which readers from the forums have a fuck buddy.

Another example could be some Coca-Cola commercials [3][4]. Do we feel (as men) offended by how these commercials objectify our gender?

[1]: http://forum.viva.nl/forum/Seks/Stage_Suriname/list_messages...

[2]: http://forum.viva.nl/forum/Seks/Fuckbuddy/list_messages/2030...

[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AqpFcgTqQ

[4]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Sre-wpGHE
Museum Identifies New Van Gogh Painting in Amsterdam
First: congratulations!

Second: you say that: "Your privacy and security is our top priority. We take all reasonable precautions to keep your data safe and secure."

Does that mean that you support s/mime and gpg for the emails you send and receive?
Show HN - launched our startup - webRemind - Appointment Reminders made easy
Dear HN users, we've finally launched our web app - webRemind. It's an appointment reminder solution. What do you think? Any comments/suggestions?

Thank you - this is such a great community!

Tom
What does titstare have to do with not valuing women for anything other than their tits? Pardon me for asking.
This looks great, has anyone tried it out yet?
Yeah right ! You completely missed the context. Picked one sentence out of the whole argument and didn't realize who it's being targeted at.

The ones who are living on a few bucks a day aren't the ones logging on to groupon at 1pm to compete for those onion prices for the 10 minutes that it lasted. Neither do they have broadband, credit cards, netbanking. Neither are they the target consumer for groupon.
The top of the page tells me nothing about what they're campaigning for. FTTN? NBN? FTTH?

English people. English! I'm not even sure if this is a parody.

The Liberal Party of Australia: Reconsider your plan for a 'FTTN' NBN in favour of a superior 'FTTH' NBN

Australia needs the right NBN.

Vote at change.org if you agree!
My PS3 has ended up being basically a dedicated Netflix box, that I very occasionally play some quick games on. If Sony doesn't completely blow it, I'll be replacing my PS3 with this.
anecdotal evidence in Slovenia != general truth in Europe
Read the message at the top of the site, it is a petition to the libs.
I wouldn't necessarily dismiss lots of lines of code as bloat,
but In this case you are probably right.
I didn't say all Australians are boofheads. I said some Australians are boofheads. And I never said it explains or condones their behaviour that they are Australians. Doesn't help stereotypes!

Yes, I am an Australian male :-)
And yes, I realize the change.org site has more details. But once again, the whole top of that page has no actual info in the title except a bunch of acronyms.
The new AJAXified interface is slower and more inconsistent. The inline edit feature never works and has a very subtle feedback. But hey, it's ubiquitous and it gets the job done. However, I've started using SequelPro on OS X as a replacement which works pretty great.
I don't want to spend 8 hours a day in a sterile humorless environment where everyone is scared to say something wrong on the off chance that someone might get offended. Moreover the old work/free time duality is dying. People work form home and do non-work stuff at work.
Let me preface this by saying that I'm frustrated on a regular basis by the claim that everything is sexist, because labeling someone who isn't with that word can be just as harmful. Especially in the tech industry and gaming and geekery. Even more, I'm put off by the almost constant misuse of the word "misogyny". It is never used for what the word really means. It just sounds good, so people throw it around.

However, as thick headed and unapologetically thick-skinned I assert myself to be and expect others to be, I can absolutely see why women would have a problem with this in this particular environment.

Let me present a really shoddy analogy (but it's all I've got at the moment):

I am obese. I attend a tech conference full of professionals in my industry. Friends, colleagues, potential connections, people I admire. Someone then comes on stage and does a presentation about fat people. It's an app that focuses on how fat people are. For humor. And they attempt to make a lot of humor about it. And the audience around me is laughing.

Now, I'm super fat. I'm more than aware of that. I know that people around me are, too. I have a good sense of humor. I'm even happy to make myself the ass-end of a joke about my weight. However, when I am in a huge room full of people laughing at a presentation making light of people like me, I suddenly feel incredibly awkward, self-aware, embarrassed, and like I'm not wanted there. Maybe that I don't even belong there. So, I stop going. I stop supporting. I stop participating.

It's all about context and having a little tact. These guys used pretty poor judgement. I don't think they should be strung up or driven out of town for it. They should just be an example of how people with no ill-intentions can end up making other people really uncomfortable and how that is something you need to be sensitive to when acting in any professionally related capacity.
Mono's price is a rounding error in most software projects.

It is only an issue for hobby developers.
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I am typing this comment one of these, and I find quite sad that when it dies, no-one made a continuation or substitute of it :(
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as in, science still pretty much has so much to learn about then environment and claims of doom and gloom should be taken with the same grain of salt as with religious prophets.
I just spent 5 minutes looking up what all the acronyms meant.
I do really want the NBN to be the best it can be, but I really really really want a proper debate about the issue.

Arguments should not be as one-sided as either "the Coalition's plan is crap, because it's slower" or "Labor's plan is crap, because it costs more". Instead, the debate needs to be about whether or not the extra speed is worth the cost.

We aren't currently seeing this sort of debate. The Coalition says "give us some benefits to quantify". Labor says "giving all of the benefits would be impossible". I believe Labor should at least try. If they fail, they can fall back to their current position; no ground lost. At this point, Labor need only give benefits from the speed difference to support the cost difference - not the entire project cost.

P.s., the change.org petition is full of flaws. For example: "Broadband internet is an ‘infrastructure’ and should be considered in the same light as highways, water management, electricity and so forth; it should be a ‘right’ available ‘equally’ to all Australians."

But surely, better roads exist where they are needed more- where the cost justifies such? My parent's farm runs off of tank water and a self-sufficient sewerage system, not town water. The cost to provide the same service I receive at my apartment building as to their farm would be ludicrous.

Why are we not seeing a proper debate on this issue?
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This was both a massive waste of time and effort. A truly interesting app would be one that measures facial symmetry. Humans tend to appreciate symmetrical features, same length of arms, legs, eye alignment, etc. I can see where this too could be abused, sadly. But at least it would have a marginally better chance to have a market. And it would provide a interesting technical challenge.
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>In an already male-biased community the non-inclusivity of demos like these put out a very specific message to women: this is not for you.

It's just one demo. And it's ok for an app to be not for any specific sex, not that there's any reason why women can't play CircleShake. Not every app should be for everyone.

And I agree that TitStare is terrible. I just don't understand why the completely unrelated app is brought up in the article.
I've just tried to sign up for your service and it restricts certain characters from the password. Why is that?
Where you are going with this is so ridiculous I won't be responding, other than with this response!
The article is from Stanford, so I don't doubt it's legitimacy.

That said, the title sounds like the most ridiculous collection of scientific buzz words. All they are missing is "big data" and it will be complete.
This is one of the (many) apps we looked at when we started working on JackDB[1]. It's a database client in your browser. Rather than just a table interface though, JackDB is a full featured query editor and even includes scrolling result sets.

Besides MySQL, we also support PostgreSQL (what we use in house), Oracle and MS SQL Server.

[1]: http://www.jackdb.com/
I love that you displayed your "innovation accounting" here. I'm wondering, how do you account for ongoing cost for maintaining/updating the software? I've never seen software that didn't require some TLC over time...
We recently had a hackathon with a multilateral rice science nonprofit - they had very focused challenges http://rice-hackathon.irri.org/challenges using their domain expertise - the results of the hackathon was eye-opening!
> Usually meeting requirements at a decent price is a higher priority than whatever elicits extreme angst from Hacker News.

Your comment would have been stronger without the quip against people at HN. As you can see from all the hot air from politicians this is not localized to HN.