skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically boils down to an 'honor code'. When you are going down imagine yourself as a great person and that history will remember every action you did. If you keep your respect and dignity people will respect you and you live to fight another day. If not no matter how successful you may or may not be, someone will someday say: "yeah its a great company but he fu*ked so so so over". You don't want to be that person. You want to be: "yeah he put 3 companies under but he always manages to pay his debt".
Nordic APIs conference wrap-up
This is cool stuff -- also shows how far things have come in the past decade.

I'm running my company's phone system on a cloud-hosted Asterisk system -- it's basically the same thing that we've been using for years, and works quite well, though we're still tied to physical desk phones.

Curious if anyone has good resources for working with an Asterisk core for an app like this. I recall seeing a Rails framework for Asterisk out there somewhere, but no clue if it's any good. Would love to hear thoughts...
Ah, wow, that sounds lousy. Sorry it didn't work out for you. Didn't see this with either of two of mine. Buying Dell (as opposed to a no-name brand) should ensure a higher-quality LCD panel[1], but apparently YMMV...

[1] http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/dell-premium-pa...
love strikingly.. their sites are beautiful..
MVP, if it gains traction you look at longer-term lease/purchase options
- If you're building a new web app today, which frameworks, platforms, technologies, etc. would you use? why?

Backend:

NodeJS - It's nice to have javascript on both the frontend and backend. And NodeJS is FAST.

MongoDB + PostgresSQL - MongoDB for stuff that needs to be fast / fast to build. PostgresSQL for stuff that doesnt fit the document model.

Frontend:

AngularJS - It's either AngularJS or Ember.js, I prefer AngularJS. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14395887/what-are-benefit...

Yeoman - Generate boilerplate code

Grunt - Compile LESS, Run tests, CSS minification

Bower - Javascript dependencies management

- Would you choose a familiar framework that allows you to develop faster (because you're comfortable with it) even though it's not necessarily 100% 'right' for the job?

I'd rather choose a new framework, at least if it's a project that I will put serious effort into.

- Would you push your own limit and think outside the box to find a better solution even though introducing new technology to the team could be costly (and possibly unpopular)?

Yes, I would definitely do it.

That's actually what I'm currently doing at a startup. We're refactoring the current frontend-javascript codebase which is 30 000 lines of code and it's completely unmaintainable, so we're rewriting it in AngularJS
Automatic Tweeting of game show answers
Why would we want an analogy that more accurately reflects the reality of the situation? We're trying to justify this, not let him out on appeal.
Stop using Digital Ocean Now For the greater good
Air travel in the US is a massively subsidized business (the government gives huge amounts of money to Boeing to make next-gen warcraft, then Boeing translates those R&D concepts into airplanes.

The airlines were, for a long time, subsidized by air post. Fuel prices are still much lower than they could be.

These things are barely directly profitable, but they contribute immensely to the global economy. That's the interesting tradeoff in post-capitalism.
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The first docker.io conference !!11!
Well, atleast gaining marketshare is better than going into a death spiral of losses like Blackberry seems to be doing.

From http://www.wpcentral.com/kantar-windows-phone-hitting-8-perc...

Kantar Worldpanel - July 2013 Windows Phone Share by country

Germany: 8.8% (+2.6% YoY)

GB: 9.2% (+5% YoY)

France: 11% (+7.4% YoY)

Italy: 7.8% (-0.5% YoY)

Spain: 1.8% (+0.1% YoY)

USA: 3.5% (+0.5% YoY)

China: 2.4% (-2.2% YoY)

Australia: 7.4% (+2.4% YoY)

Mexico: 12.5% (+10.5% YoY)

>The biggest and most impressive individual gains were seen in Mexico (12.5%) and France (11%) where double digit Windows Phone sales figures were finally reached.
Better hardware for the screen and LTE possibly, but the storage and memory options are inadequate for such an expensive system.

If they offered the same memory and storage options, it would be a lot more attractive.

Also, trackpad still sucks compared to Apple's.

And the price really should be lower given that you get less value out of the box.
Concept and Logic Behind Typical Interview Questions
Try upgrading the memory in the 21.5" version, you are going to need a soldering iron and a lot of time.
New? I'm still going headfirst down the Emacs rabbit hole. You can never escape wonderland.
suggestion:

please add your engine to http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=buzzsumo
Apple realized that gaming devices could be a killer app. That's why they licensed the Pippin[1] to Bandai[2]. The fact that it didn't go anywhere was mainly due to them not understanding the market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin
This is either very incoherently written, automatically generated or pastiche word salad. It doesn't make any sense to me.
I don't know about that. I'd kill for an x86 Windows phone, and we'll probably see that in the coming years.
Yes, but despite being named after a fruit, BlackBerry is no Apple.
The speculation has been that since Microsoft was paying Nokia some kind of subsidy they were not permitted to market other OSs. That would explain killing their Meego phones which were selling reasonably well, as well as killing another project for a low-end Linux-based OS. Nokia could easily have tried some Android products at minimal cost.

But all the terms of those contracts were never revealed. I've seen it mentioned in the press that Nokia can re-enter the handset business in 2016, that Nokia owns part of Jolla, and that Nokia ported Android to several phones, which may have had a role in inducing Microsoft to buy the handset business.
I agree. The phrases consistently end in a way that is never completely resolved. See:

"In less than three weeks you can be looking at things differently, more creatively, if you"

"Why many people achieve very little despite spending most of their time"

"The interviews can be shorter since you would have many"
Big Data Notation
F. Scott Fitzgerald to His 11-Year-Old Daughter in Camp
Mattt strikes again!

This one surely comes in handy. I'm just wondering if Apple will be okay with the use of the subtitles. I sure hope so!
"My political philosophy says this is good for the kind of society I want to live in" is a get out of jail free card? What about the people who don't want to live in your kind of society?
DIY Soylent
The NY Times has been running an automated haiku experiment for some time now. I think it has a lot to do with your comment. Check this: haiku.nytimes.com
> Next you have to “lift” the print. This is the realm of CSI. You need to develop the print using one of several techniques involving the fumes from cyanoacrylate...

Hmm, other people seem to have demonstrated an 'attack' that uses ordinary photography to capture the print, and a much simpler process to reproduce it than the one described in OP too.

Here's an article about that: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/22/german-... (An article about those germans was posted on HN a few days ago is how i know about it, not sure if it was this same article)

OP may be right that TouchID is an appropriate level of security for many users/usecases. All security is tradeoffs, none is unattackable.

But OP seems to be over-estimating the amount of work it takes to reproduce the fingerprint, according to the Germans.

Additionally, if phones locked only with TouchID become common, I would expect criminal networks to develop and share standardized processes and devices to do it, lowering the barrier further.
> Development is about collaboration...

It some cases development might require or benefit from the collaboration between more than one developer, but I think it's quite a stretch to write "Development is about collaboration."

There does exist successful software and applications written by a single developer.
I flipped over to Macs from Linux desktops (laptops) because I was tired of reconfiguring things every 6 months or so. This was also ten years ago, but there is something very comforting in having a dedicated system that is well configured and tested that also has a good command prompt.
Worry about it when you're important enough for the Chinese government to care what you do? I'm certainly not.
How I Built My Art Career and Learned to Hate It.
There's a strong correlation between the number of reviews of movies and box office performance, but not the average rating. Having a bunch of joke reviews, even bad ones, probably does more to raise awareness of products than it does to harm sales.
> But in general, occasional (like once a year or less) couple-hour mail queue delays should probably be expected from any mail provider, no?

I've hosted a dozen or so mailboxes at Rackspace Mail (formerly Mailtrust) for several years now. I have experienced zero delayed delivery or service failures of any kind in all those years.

For $2/mo/mailbox ($10/mo minimum total), you get a 100% uptime SLA, 25GB per mailbox, IMAP-push/POP3, good spam filtering and 24/7/365 support. That's 100% uptime or you get paid, and a real person will pick up the phone if you have a problem at 3AM on Christmas, for $2.
As an iOS developer, I always enjoy @Horse_iOS.
You can already use the English version, and we definitely have plans for a Chinese version for the near future as well.
So true. So much FUD, even by so-called Linux advocates. Guess many haven't played AAA games on Linux (Oil Rush, X-Plane 10, Valve games for native titles, and many run great on Wine), or tried to develop games for Linux.

Fact is, performance on Linux is fantastic, graphics drivers are a non-issue unless you're on AMD graphics (Intel is decent, Nvidia is great), OpenGL is up to the latest version on Nvidia, 3.0 on Intel, and sound is the weak point, but still not that bad.

For developing, you have pretty good, easy tools like Maratis, Irrlicht, Panda3D, SDL, Blender, etc... Not to mention commercial engines like Unreal, Unigine, and others I'm sure...

Linux isn't perfect, but it is pretty good, and it can run AAA games just fine, right now.
One solution to the carry on size restrictions: wearable luggage!!

http://www.skyscanner.net/news/best-wearable-luggage-jackets...
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I was imagining.

Unfortunately it's invite only.. To each their own.
How We Could Write Better CSS
I just wonder why Nokia didn't went with Maemo-based devices.

They had a headstart with smartphone-like OS. But other than N900, they didn't really use it anywhere.
Thanks a lot! Definitely let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions!
Moe and Foe rescuing Angara and Sarma
"...based on a £40k salary..." How sad that it's still considered "normal" in London. So basically toys and noise are cheaper than hard cash. No wonder best devs go to finance.
I've suggested MacBooks to Windows users as solid, if expensive, Windows machines. The ones that went for it have been happy with the setup.
> matters of state election law

Yep. There are actually a very few cities which use Instant-runoff voting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting_in_the_Un...

Unfortunately, the people who have to pass laws for non-FPTP voting, are the people it would displace :(
Thanks a lot! Where are you in Europe? We'll be in Paris in Dec.
Its a massive step in the right direction. Its a giant overhaul that was accomplished in a crazy amount of time. Yes theres some obvious missteps, and having literally everything look different across the board is going to be confusing for many people, but either way the transition wasn't going to be fun.

This really isn't news.
The claim that the trend was unstoppable ignores at least two key opportunities that were foregone:

1. The Meego smartphones were selling well, and could have been continued.

2. Android-based products could have been added to the product line at relatively little cost.

While this is all theoretical, we do know other OEMs, like Sony and LG, have had strong comebacks with Android products, and several other OEMs have broken into the top 10 with Android, all despite Samsung's dominance.
I just opened up the clock app on my iPhone after reading this post and it's shocking how much cleaner/clearer the interface is on the iPhone than it is on the iPad.
Call me maybe: NuoDB
This feels like some skeevy attempt at grabbing business information. As another poster has pointed out, the server is sitting in India.
Storing files in the cloud is a commodity service. Why wouldn't they outsource it? They use AWS too.
Heh, I guess that could work, but then it's about who to invite!
Nothing. I'm validating the idea.
From MySQL+MMM to MariaDB+Galera Cluster: A High Availability Makeover
If anyone is interested in running an _ebooks account of their own, Jacob Harris of the New York Times wrote a Ruby library called iron_ebooks[1] which does just that. Using iron_ebooks, Harris has two accounts: @harrisj_ebooks, which uses his main twitter handle (@harrisj) as an input, and @harrisj_ebooks2 which uses @harrisj_ebooks as its input. The generated tweets have actually been pretty funny and well done.

Also, iron_ebooks uses Iron.io, so you get all the fun of an _ebooks account with all the "serverless" greatness of IronWorker.

[1] https://github.com/harrisj/iron_ebooks
I'm waiting a LoL for linux so i can uninstall windows.
Thanks for the detailed reply! I'm going to experiment with some of the things you mentioned.
We use google apps for business and a fair number of our account were "heavily" affected, with mail taking upward of half an hour to deliver.

Which is still really fast, especially when you know how mail work and remember the "old days". I guess people got used to email being an instantaneous form of communication, which says a lot about how great it is working most of the time, given that instantaneous is not in email's job description.
We've generally found it to be decent, although (naturally) variable. We use Twilio alongside a UK SIP provider called Voipfone (http://voipfone.co.uk) which is how we actually get our calls through to PSTN.

Twilio Client (https://www.twilio.com/client) seems to provide better quality, but we really like the convenience of hardware phones and built-in PBX functionality.
The next Apple statement placating congress about jobs created can probably also include

"
With iOS 7, we have also created the largest number of design critics, UI designers and UX experts in history - Everybody is now an expert and we believe the world will
be a better place for it.
"
"It's either AngularJS or Ember.js" is Backone out of the question for you? how come?
This guy has been writing Obj-C for 10+ years! woot!
Well if patients are the problem then the whole thing's a moot point; patients are just getting what they deserve for refusing not only to trust doctors but also to do even a tiny bit of research for themselves. The problem is that such things can harm the whole population, even those who make sensible health decisions, due to how antibiotics overuse encourages the development of antibiotics-resistant superbugs. If doctors can't stop this, then who can?
The seats sit on rails on the floor, so they can be swapped out or repositioned quite easily. Usually the Supplementary Type Certificate for each aircraft plans for this.
If you drag the reminder row to the left (only when in non-edit mode), two buttons appear on the right. The "More" button also shows this popup.

So, the popup is shown by clicking on a bright blue "i" in a circle or a square dark grey "More" button, and the title of the popup is "Details"...

Also, if you type and press enter too quickly, you can make the app crash.
Why does it have to scale? Maybe it's not meant to scale. Not EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD HAS TO SCALE.
I'm not looking forward to it. Flying has already gotten devilishly uncomfortable (my knees run into the seat in front of me) and while I would pay for a little bit more comfort, I can't figure out whether it's just impossible to find such airlines/seats, or if they just don't exist on the trips I make.
It's so true. Tinker. Tinker. Tinker. Boom!
"Make something people want", they said.
Indeed - Twilio is awesome purely because it allows you to integrate with the phone networks, which are basically a legacy system, naturally within your applications.

I've not really played with Asterisk. How is it to configure, and what has your experience been like? We outsource the PBX side of our system to a SIP provider called Voipfone (http://voipfone.co.uk) but it would be appealing if we could do this in-house and have even more flexibility.
Defense contracts are not subsidies. They are won by competition with the likes of Lockheed. Most of the money won is spent providing the product or service. The profit margins on defense contracts are not nearly large enough to "subsidize" an airline business. Yes, some R&D crosses over but it's no easy trick. Lockheed does not play in the commercial space at all.

Disclosure: Former Boeing Employee.
How Americans Became Terrorists in Africa
Apps that use Mixpanel are most likely the kind of apps that folks with 5s's would use. Therefore I'd take this data with a grain of salt.
Have you come across JaCoCo [1]? It does its instrumentation via a JVM agent at runtime-- no need to recompile your code just to test for coverage.

I've been using it for the last year or two and love it! One of my favorite features is how easy it is to generate separate coverage information for unit tests vs. integration tests. Sonar provides excellent support for it, as well.

[1] http://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/
> The United States is a unique country in the sense that it was carefully designed from the ground up, in accordance with the latest scientific and philosophical theories of the time, in opposition to the political systems of the old world, and most importantly with a healthy dose of skepticism about all those romantic ideals of the state.

This is wrong on a number of levels; the US wasn't designed from the ground up -- at the ground level, and the whole way up to the level of the States, it was a pretty direct carry over from the pre-revolutionary structure under British colonial rule, with the "colonies" renamed "states". And, while it certainly was inspired by a particular strain of philosophy, this was neither scientific (empirical political/social science, wasn't even a thing) nor is it even remotely unique for revolutionary regimes to create regimes based on currently-popular trends in political philosophy in opposition to the contemporary dominant models, its also not uncommon for them to fall apart rather quickly, as the US revolutionary regime under the Articles of Confederation did, and be replaced by one that (while it may retain some of its revolutionary flavor) hews a lot closer to the previously dominant models (as the US system under the Constitution -- which borrowed heavily from the system in Britain and those in many of the colonies-that-became-states -- did.)
I doubt that Plato said that.
UI language and locale can be two different things. It has been the same for me for years.
OFF-TOPIC why is that when I hit back in Ars it creates about 10 pages in my history (didn't click anything in the page itself) this is an UX nightmare and the 3-4 articles I've looked in the past week made me cringe when trying to leave the page.
The site is pretty much dead anyways. Note how there is only one story on the frontpage atm with a single comment. But the code is somewhere in github if you want to make your own.
True, but the url posted yesterday couldn't withstand the load... he's now using github gh-pages so it should do better.
That's not a subsidy in the true sense of the word, though. It's a company using a massively profitable but specialized industry (blowing stuff up as efficiently/quickly/quietly/spectacularly as possible) to fund a much smaller-margin but comparatively very broad industry (commercial aeronautics).
I'm hoping for a timeline of:

Winter 2013: Mac Pro for sale, announced together with 30" 4K retina display

Spring 2014: MacBook Pro Retina updated to support 4K output

Fall 2014: High end iMac gets retina option
IOS7 throws an error for fake power cables
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I am like you. Recently, I was given the advice (by someone who the advice was working for well) to hire a business manager. You do what you are good at (producing content, conducting research, giving workshops & lectures) and they manage the business. You need to be able to trust them, but assuming you can find somebody like that and afford to pay them, it makes a lot of sense. Perhaps there should be an app for that (outsourced business management??).

Best of luck to you :)
Much of the economy depends on cheap air travel.

As an example consider the trouble for businesses if they could not mail legal documents or critical parts overnight. Consider Disney World vacations if everyone had to drive across the country to get there. Consider all the cities in the country that would wilt because no one wants to drive all the way there. Consider people not wanting to drive 18 hours to attend the Super Bowl.

A lot of money moves around the country on those planes one way or another.
Nice work, makes for a very pretty empty tab screen to glance at now and then.
Until there is a post-mortem, we have to assume the simplest explanation: gross facepalm, like leaving something 777 open to the world.
Getting an email server to work in 2013 is relatively easy. Fixing it quickly without losing anything when a problem arises and things pile up is not.

Having your worst damage in case of critical failure being only 2.5 hours of delay, on a very large scale architecture ? That's genuinely great work. 2.5 hours is not even a failure in email terms.
Promises on important matters are made every day and subsequently broken. Any reason why Ars is bringing this up now?
CSS line-height calculator
This tool is meant to help calculate line-height in translation from Photoshop (PSD) to HTML.
(The Voyager doctor was a pretty good character)

It is absurd. Everyone complaining about the wait is asserting implicitly that they need to be allowed to get their healthcare before anyone they are able to outbid.

Personally, yes, I want everyone poorer then myself to wait until my surgery is done. But that's because I'm not so far down. Is it what's best for society? Most likely not.

Probably ideally for healthcare you would live in Canada where it is not the worst cost to health ratio of all the western countries, but you're also able to nip down to the US and cut in line in a pinch.
As a counterpoint, nobody I know experienced any problems with gmail yesterday. Including coworkers.
Lithium batteries are the perfect example. We still bring them on board despite their dangers.
Also see http://xkcd.com/651/
Great post! Just discovered another nice piece about CI on their blog > http://blog.codeship.io/2013/09/12/the-codeship-workflow-par...

Seems damn legit!
Am curious how they find this out? Am happy they don't disable charging altogether and instead only display a warning.
>Maybe those 1.5% of messages were all to the same users, so some people had no delay, and some people had ALL their mail delayed a couple hours?

Probably this. Gmail was just about unusable for me yesterday.

Not that I'm complaining, for exactly your reasons.
Pinterest Appeals To Publishers With New Article Pins
I am not sure if I get the post right, but if you want to know what keywords people use when clicking on your website and/or seeing your website in search results (and on which average position you are with that keyword), and on which page they land the most often (and with which keyword), you can use Google WebMaster tools

For free, for every website.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/