skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A feature of civilian security is that "It was restored from Git" is doesn't immediately spark a concern that Git could be compromised.

I'm not saying that it is, but compromising Git is certainly the sort of thing which would occur to a state sponsored espionage agency. And if one were seeking to compromise the Linux toolchain, it would certainly be a very attractive link. So attractive that not including it in a multi-vector attack might be considered grossly unprofessional.
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Thanks! Yes, wordpress definitely sells better than other types of items, especially on Themeforest. This makes sense because Wordpress itself is extremely popular. I'm not sure why other categories like apps don't do well though. Perhaps envato doesn't invest as much in advertising for those categories....
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"Intuitive" is the great misused word of our industry.

The only intuitive things in human experience are fear of heights and the location of your mother's milk (I'm probably quoting but can't remember who). What people call intuitive is merely the familiar, all else is learnt.

IOS7 requires relearning, as you have confirmed.
I'm a writer for Wired.com and this article is pretty spot on. I'd just add a few things from my experience:

+ Think "fun" not "functional"

The press, and tech press especially, isn't academia. Editor's aren't trying to be encyclopedic. They're looking for things that are entertaining that will generate page views and respect from peers/advertisers. If you're in a "boring" market, focus on your bio or the amazing things your product allowed a user to do.

+ Optimize your company/product for press

You can do a lot to improve your chances of coverage by the way you develop and position your product.

- Look at how Buzzfeed and Upworthy write their headlines and practice pitching your product and its features that way. e.g. Look at a product like "Zombies, Run!" They're in a hugely crowded segment of the market, but a unique concept and catchy branding have helped them vault to the top of their part of the app store.

- A friend developed a game for cats. It seems silly at first glance, but it's catnip to producers/editors/writers. Go after some crazy market segment, or serve them in some crazy way. Uber pulled a fun stunt over the summer where you could summon an ice cream truck and it got huge pickup. Even if your product is pedestrian, there's probably a way to optimize it for attention.

- Have a compelling design — Visuals are huge. If you're making hardware, hire a pro photographer. If you're developing apps, have some unique UI features. Writers get a lot of pitches and having good art is a great way to grab attention.

+ Press coverage does NOT equal "worthiness"

Don't feel bad if you're not resonating with the tech media. I've pitched stories about startups that have $100MM+ revenue run rates and millions of users that get rejected instantly. And when stories like that make it through, they often end up flopping in terms of page views. Contrast that with Foursquare who as of a year ago has ~$2MM and revenue and no shortage of ink.

+ Focus on your market

Every startup wants the row of impressive logos on its homepage, but you'll often get better qualified leads by focusing on more niche publications in your market. They may not have the heft of the NYT or TC, but are a great way to actually drive your business.
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BTW, that difference comes from the different amount of proprietary IP in the respective fields.
Sounds like solid advice to companies - what about advice for young engineers?
> And only through that risk do we see reward. But the little guy working the line, he just wants a paycheck with no risk.

This is a bit of pseudo-economics that's popular in the business community nowadays. Risk can be priced, in that it costs money to shift risk to someone else and you can charge a premium for taking on risk yourself. But statements like "only through that risk do we see reward" are just mumbo-jumbo.
I don't think they'll do that. I think their strategy is to see iOS replace OS X for most tasks and users. They will probably pursue a device somewhere between an iPad and a MacBook Air in doing this.

Robert Cringley thinks this will be a display and input device that connects to a phone:
http://www.cringely.com/2013/09/19/the-secret-of-ios-7/

I think it will be a standalone device:
http://anandabits.com/blog/the-secret-of-ios-7-macbook-vacuu...

The most interesting piece will be to see how Apple approaches this form factor without creating a "refrigerator toaster". I'm optimistic that we'll find out in less than a month...
A bubble occurs when prices are driven by view on the future that are implausible or inconsistent. It seems that current high prices are mostly driven by "investment" competition - meaning that startups can raise prices at early stage because there are too many investors.

This doesn't seem to be happening at later stages (B rounds) or public companies.

What this means is that returns for initial investors is going to be lower - but it still might be sustainable. Companies usually will grow past +$15M when they do well.
Very interesting to read his advice to be wary of hiring the day after his post on the importance of hiring. These two posts aren't contradictory at all, but those who read his piece yesterday and responded well to it should definitely read this as well.
Me Too! (The story of 'Bedlam DL3' -- [2004])
I have a friend who's a beginner pilot for a regional airline (American Eagle). He doesn't fly more than 80 hours a month and he only gets paid for the hours he's actually flying, but he has to be on call a lot (sometimes on call in the airport). And yeah, he makes like $20k a year, I think.

He was so upset with the airlines that he quit (also trying to save his marriage). But he loves flying so much that he went back to the same airline, and had to start over again at the bottom of the seniority ladder.

He says that flying is so much fun that he just thinks it's great that he gets paid to do it instead of having to pay to do it, ha. Still, though, he's enrolled in classes again so that he won't have to pay off his student loans because he can't afford the payments.
A rule my father taught me when I was young.

"Never loan money to a friend with the expectation that you'll get it back, be ready to just let it go."
Wow, overreact much? The [sic] means you noticed a mis-spelling, clever you!
Gotta enjoy the HTTP2 as put forth in http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html and can't help but smirk at the never-ending discussions on DOCTYPE: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Architecture/Letter_1.html
I'm not sure who is doing the advising (your site seems to suggest, it's coming from a PM) but if it's indeed meant to be serious, then the whole tone is just... wrong. Starting with the title. You know how you can make certain jokes about your own ethnicity that just sound mean coming from a different ethnicity? It's the same when someone who is not doing the actual coding starts a list with "Stop saying these things..." to people who are actually building stuff.
I think it's a bubble in terms of the people, many big egos. In these times you should how to not have an no ego at all, if you don't have an ego, no one can leverage that to make you do things.

The actual founder-founders, the inventors of the ideas however, are totally aware of that situation and let the startup people with the big egos do the CEO jobs while pulling the strings in the background.

It's not a bubble in terms of the actual startups, because it's all based on users that actually use the apps a lot. The more usage an app has, the harder it is to kill.

After the whole solomo, photo sharing hype, investors have become very cautious, so I don't actually believe money is cheap now.

However, it's an ego bubble right now, startups get press before being ready, pursue vanity metrics that actually will kill the company, their own startups are growing over their heads.

So it's maybe a people/ego bubble right now, which could turn into a full bubble, but time will show.
If you're breaking their TOS, having your account suspended is your problem, not theirs.
This article is a few years behind the latest best practice.

What this is is basically "Object Oriented CSS" that became popular years ago and was later refuted by many in the community for it's numerous downsides, namely in maintenance cost, code-clutter and slow performance on old browsers and mobile.

With a preprocessor like SASS you can have OO and have semantic class names. Take that margin example. You could define class names that add varying types of margins. But you don't use them in HTML. You create a semantic class for specific use cases that @extend's the margin class you need.

Now you have the best of both worlds. Less, semantic class names, with the flexibility and consistency of the OO style.
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Good comments are useful. Perhaps they don't have the resources, but comment moderation could solve the problem.
I deleted it instead of editing. Sorry for that kinda migrating the servers also pretty high pressure on me :|
I also feel this complaint about iOS7, while relevant to the phone UI, is using the iPad UI to make a greater point: that iOS7 doesn't feel like it was designed for the iPad.

Skeuomorphic vs. Flat aside, the sparseness in how iOS7 looks on my iPad prompted me to revert the upgrade and go back to corinthian-leather-infested iOS6 for now.

The lack of visual cues in iOS7 is a bit off putting combined with the "designed primarily for iPhone" keep me from upgrading mine and my parents' iPads.

That said, I'm loving iOS7 on my iPhone5. It feels liberating.
> And no one is talking about a bubble anymore

Another great poster stopped reading HN.
Merging mobile and desktop was Microsofts best decision since hiring Dave Cutler
Bug reports: on systematising quality
Not to mention, nested is always slower.
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Creating a custom view - HipChat integration
Interview with the guy behind the Bing redesign
I would like to know. For Windows and Ubuntu. I was never able to properly ipython notebook under 3.3 either.
When I grew up, the stores around me commonly had those voluntary questionnaires. Each include a bunch of questions that if I wanted to answer, provide the store with market research. Some times even, those stores include a small reward for answering - A chance to win a prize or simply a buck's worth of store credit.

I don't see those anymore. I haven't been asked by a stranger to answer a few questions in years. Even the computer that the fast food restaurant had looks to be gone.
Great! Looking forward to seeing this progress.
That's NDB cluster, not Galera. They are apples and oranges.
Bradley Manning was subject to military law and treated accordingly. Do you have evidence he was treated unlawfully? And if not, why would he be exempt from the law?

Snowden was subject to civilian law, so far as I am aware, so he would not be able to draw on Manning as an example.

"Safe", in your world, appears to mean "free from the long arm of the law."
Can I export/download my data?
Does anyone have a suggestion for an app like this for android?
I should rephrase my question: on what technology platforms would one use Nock and Hoon? Embedded systems? Anything (due to "portability")?
Is there any way of changing the definition of voter eligibility without someone being able to accuse someone else of stacking the deck?
Wayland. That's the answer as far as I can tell.

Nvidia's prop driver isn't setup to be compatible with Mir/Wayland as is. Helping nouveau is important or else Nvidia is going to die a fast firey death as Wayland and Mir becoming more and more important.
I think we've reached a point where most small companies can and should blindly use the cloud for everything that can be done remotely. There are only two situations where the cloud shouldn't be used:

1. If you're using tons of servers, you might benefit from hosting your own hardware on a large scale. But even then you can probably negotiate with the cloud service for a better price (like Netflix did). If you're a big customer and you think you should move off the cloud, the provider can beat your expected costs and still make a profit. Your team doesn't have thousands of years of combined hardware experience, and you're not buying hardware at a better price than Amazon got.

2) You don't want The NSA snooping on your company's data. This is a moot point because they will obtain the data anyway, with a gag order, if they really need to.
Looks sweet will check it out, been playing with lift, but I like how you can do non-daily routines here.
"Military Spec MacBook Air" is my new favorite oxymoron.
Delta Airlines bought an oil refinery in Philadelphia recently as part of their fuel hedging strategy
There's a subtext you're missing.
> My [MacBook] Air usually lasts about 4 or 5 hours with full brightness and the wifi turned on

What are you doing that depletes the battery so fast? I have a 2012 13" MacBook Air which lasts 8-9 hours. My typical use is: display set to 50% brightness, WiFi turned on, mostly using Adobe CC apps.
I build things that scratch a personal itch. If there's a product that I need and I can't find a suitable existing product, I build it and sell it, because I assume other people also have that need. That's how Duet was born - I wanted a self hosted project management app that was functional and beautiful. I couldn't find one, so I built it myself...
Military Spec MacBook Air case. During use, it’s the external battery and power supply that are very well protected, not the computer itself. The MacBook Air is hardly a Toughbook (of course, a Toughbook is also 3 times as heavy).
I agree this is a better way to do things, but if we want to be page-specific, why not use separate style sheets? I know we are supposed minimize the number of http requests but is having 2 external style sheets (1 for global styles and 1 for page-specific styles) really too many? It will prevent parsing every style for the entire site on every page load whether the page needs it nor not, plus decrease collisions and other maintenance problems caused by too much CSS in one bucket.
Sell shovels.
Oh please. It's an idiom.
Completely agreed – regardless of the amount of money at your disposal, I can't believe they managed it in 7 months. It really is crazy.
The animations stuttered on mine for a while, now they're fine. But they're too slow! I put iOS6 and iOS7 side by side, and turned them both on from sleeping, iOS6 brought up the unlock screen instantly, iOS7's animation meant that it took, what felt like, forever to display the unlock screen. In reality it's probably only a few hundred milliseconds, but considering I do that probably 50 times a day, it's getting annoying very quickly.

Perhaps this little niggle is there to prompt me to want their touch sensor to speed up the process of turning on my phone.

The rest of the animations also slow me down, but this one is the most irritating.
Seth Godin also has a short and sweet diatribe about Powerpoint: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/01/really_bad_p...
I've learned to directly look at header files with apple code now-a-days. And AVFoundation on iOS has a similar sparseness of documentation and community. Also when you actually work with the code, you find out it's extremely fragile.

This is why you want to be able to see source code in your libraries, you can solve these kinds of problems a lot better.
I think those numbers are full brightness. Maybe 2012 is better, this was mid 2011.
16 year olds aren't exactly disenfranchised

Of course they are. They don't have the vote, but are still subject to all laws and taxes in full.
I think the better argument against the CAP theorem is that while it is true, is it not really that useful. If you have a database with nodes in three data centers, it is much more likely that one of the data centers becomes disconnected (partitioned) from the rest of the internet, rather than that the internet itself is partitioned. In this case, a CP system can still remain available to the internet, it just can't also remain available to the nodes within the disconnected data center.

https://foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-cap-theorem
Not in this version, but it's been added to the development backlog since it's something people want.
I thought his hiring post was incredibly useful despite a couple disagreements I had. This one on the other hand seems much less useful. The fact is a bubble is only obviously in retrospect, and the forces that led to the dotcom bubble (completely unknown potential of "The Internet" combined with a deluge of dumb money due to easy IPOs and accompanying hype cycle) are no longer present, and thus any future bubble will look completely different and the conventional wisdom won't spot it coming.
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Well, it's hard to know what you don't know.
If there is a bubble, it's most certainly not starting, it's ending. With the Fed tapering imminent, and interest rates starting to rise, there's no way that a bubble will be starting at this point. If anything, it will pop a bunch of near-bubbles, like Bay Area real estate, rent prices, stock market, etc.
It could be that Mixpanel is using something like LESS and nesting stuff for organization.
So OP went public, then claimed he didn't want to go public (deleted message) but still encourages people to drop DO based on his unhappiness..

Op seems very childish and not very forthcoming.
Ask HN: HTML 5 Geolocation improved in ios7
Is it just me or has the geo location improved by a factor of 100 in the new iOS release? At best I used to get an accuracy of 65 meters now I'm averaging an accuracy of 5 meters.
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>Then again, taking a PTO day to do a trial day of work has a really minimal level of risk to it.

You're not going to find much support for that idea among people in demand. I'd interpret that as a huge red flag that this person does not respect my time. Also, imagine you're applying at a few different places and they all do this. Suddenly, you've wasted your vacation days on working harder without getting paid.
Perhaps we differ on our definition of the term value. Twitter had to have some inherent value right from the get go otherwise it wouldn't have had the ability to capture users. Why would you sign-up to something if it didn't have some sort of value to you even if it was only entertainment through curiosity?

Most Start-ups that grow well focus on creating value for a small user base. acquiring a small user base isn't hard. we're only talking 10-50 people. Even your contact list is probably bigger than that. once you've optimised your value proposition, have some social proof and can readily demonstrate your ability to create value for a larger audience, it gets easier.

I saw Buffer go through this firsthand (nr enough)
According to cisco design guidelines[1] , 150 msec is acceptable network latency(not including video encoding/decoding). Also [2] talks about 300 msec total latency about the limits for remote surgeries.

Even if we take 150 as our guiding figure, if we assume direct fiber optic connection between sites, the maximum distance would be 45000 kilometers, which can basically connect any 2 points on earth.

So theoretically at least, it's possible. Achieving good latencies in real life is much harder though :)

[1]http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Video/t...
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The CFR is a collection of influential Americans who meet to discuss and influence policy on the gamut of topics. It isn't a place where the Illuminati lizard-people meet to perform occult rituals and determine how to enslave the population of the earth, despite how the interwebs tries to paint that picture.

It's hard to say they have any specific agenda when you actually read some of the (vast amounts) of work they produce.

It's not that hard at all. They are very clearly economic neoliberals, moral/social moderates, and foreign-policy hawks. These positions are coherently expressed in all their literature, even if their membership varies in just how ardent/extreme or quiet/moderate they want to be about expressing and imposing their ideology.
I recently started working on UI development. Some useful stuff I found:

1. LESS - http://lesscss.org/
2. LESS Elements - http://lesselements.com/
3. Pure CSS - http://purecss.io/ [cool stuff, but not LESS.]
Meanwhile, http://blog.pagerduty.com/2013/04/outage-post-mortem-april-1...
Whenever I'm writing CSS and I start getting to the point where I question whether or not I might as well be using inline styles, I know I'm doing something wrong and take a step back to evaluate where I went wrong.
Who the fuck is "you know who" and what does that even mean?
This happens all the time in the industry. If you cut off a customer for abuse, they get /mad/ at you. I mean, they get way more angry than when I screw up a customer's domain through my own incompetence. When you shut someone down for abuse, they react as if it was a direct, personal attack.

One user sent me a bill for $10,000 after I cut 'em off for running a spam cannon, for lost business. I mean, I'd say 90% chance that they were just incompetent sysadmins trying to run wordpress and they got compromised, but ground truth was that they were sending out rather a lot of spam.

I sent a few notices before and after shutting them down, but their mail was hosted on the down VPS, so they never got it. Man, they were angry.

Dealing with stuff like this is the hardest part, I think, of running a low-cost (and thus low support expectation) VPS service. (one of the advantages, I think, of a high-touch service is that if you are paying me to manage your VPS, well, if it gets compromised, well, first it's my job to see to it that it doesn't get compromised, but if it does, it becomes my job to clean up the mess, bring up a new host, restore from pre-compromise backups, etc... - you get to be the hero rather than the bad guy.)

Key here, I think, is setting expectations; setting expectations is harder than you think, though. I've got a bunch of random copy on my front page... which is probably the wrong way to do it. But the customer needs to know ahead of time what is going to happen if they start spewing spam or participating in a DoS... and the customer needs to understand that they are going to get shut down even if it was an accident.

This problem is made oh so much worse by this massive influx of developers without sysadmin skills who should properly be on a more managed (or PAAS) solution who are moving to VPSs because they are so cheap.
Well if you can show one example where rewards come without risk I'll gladly cede my position. I just haven't experienced it myself in my life. I guess someone giving me a gift is risk free. But I wouldn't call that a reward.