skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More just an unproven hypothesis.
It's not like the article claims that you are a worse human being for preferring a gold iphone.
IPhone 5S fingerprint scanner hacked
I've been a happy PIA subscriber since the Snowden controversy. However every time I see them becoming more popular (at least 4 of my friends have signed up with them in the past few weeks) and earnestly trying to make themselves more secure, I also realize that someone, somewhere within the NSA (and yes, other intelligence agencies around the world) is elevating them on a list of VPNs to break.
It's not legal (now) for European banks to shift the fraud liability to the Customer with chip-and-PIN, but that hasn't stopped them from trying: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-2215223/Vi...
Do I know you?! This sounds exactly like what happened at my place of work. I've also already filled in all the Backbone.js gaps, but Angular.js seems easier to get a team all working in the same direction.

Also, I didn't mean one project using both Angular and Backbone.
Git-cal - GitHub Activity Calendar for your Terminal
For some strange reason that strongly reminds me from Apache Tomcat & Hibernate.
But I do believe I have fixed the problems you raised.

Except for the one where you are rolling your own and not using the libraries he suggests.
It seem to imply creating new structures in files. You will need the upgrade_mysql or similar script for doing so, odds are low that it will happen keeping the same version number.

There are also too many things in this version that are incompatible changes that requires upgrading the db, doing a small patch to upgrade individual feature could complicate things when comes the time to upgrade to 5.7+.
It was a beautiful attempt.
Extremely few. I doubt they got enough phones to make any significant difference in the overall numbers.

Totally anecdotally, I reserved a black (sorry, "space gray") phone at Target on Wednesday as a backup plan, in case I failed at the Apple store. They still haven't told me it's ready.

From what I've heard (hooray for rumors!) non-Apple stores are getting just a handful of phones, while Apple's stores are going through hundreds or thousands.
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The benefits of modest amounts of exercise are in how you FEEL (energized) more than how you LOOK.

Another benefit is that, because it takes little time, you're much more likely to do it.
I don't have any issue with a browser extension. The problem is that the actual CONTENT of the discussion is changed because comments aren't collapsible by default. In many of the comment threads I look at, 80% of the discussion is on the top comment, even though it may be only mildly more interesting than the second highest rated comment.
I guess I'm in the minority - I really like the class based views for simple crud work. Obviously function based views are a better fit for things that are outside of the simple. but I've had a lot of luck using CBV to simplify crud work.

Interested to try out django vanilla views
It's an interesting concept, though I don't know if I understand how this will help people improve their sex life. It's just about sharing secrets anonymously, right?
Thanks!

The documentation source is markdown.

The styling and documentation building script is custom, and taken from the documentation for Django REST framework.

I'd like to build it into a proper markdown docs tool someday if I can find the time.
Announcing Surface 2, Surface Pro 2, and new Surface Accessories
So they should use Hadoop?
Red and Gold are the Chinese lucky colors.

India values gold disproportionately as well.

Those are such well known facts, maybe the authors didn't think they needed to explain them

https://www.google.com/search?q=gold%20in%20asian%20culture

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Gold-in-Chinese-...

http://heryyansen.hubpages.com/hub/The-significance-of-the-c...

In India, gold is usually part of dowrys. (I read a great National Geographic article which I can't find online)

Edit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6431446

and the sibling comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6431521
India, China are gluttons for gold [1]. So much that Indian government has to impose curbs on gold import to safe guard its national currency [2]. Most of this gold ends in private citizen hands as jewellery or bars and buscuits.

[1] http://www.gold.org/investment/statistics/demand_and_supply_...
[2] http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/19/india-gold-timeline...
The jsbin demos seem to be down, but these two links seem to work:

https://googledrive.com/host/0B36Z_Tkm2-4QOFd0dlpSLXowbzQ/de...
https://googledrive.com/host/0B36Z_Tkm2-4QOFd0dlpSLXowbzQ/de...
You have a typo on the front page: "form your head"
Not only can S3 serve the file as a torrent, if you provide it as a torrent link and have disabled read access to the file, S3 will still serve as the tracker as long as other peers in the swarm have a full copy of the file to serve.
Isn't that prevalent everywhere? Some cultures show off gold, others show off cars and their accessories, others show off the latest tech toys.

"Look at me, I have so much income, I can afford to spend it frivolously!"
It's not transistors approaching the size of atoms,
it's transistors' features.
Isn't this data? "In Australia and China, online Apple Store shipping times for the iPhone 5s rapidly slipped to 7–10 days for all colors and capacities, with immediate unavailability of the 64GB gold version."

It's not big data in the Facebook/Twitter sense of the word, but in this case, how quickly unavailability is reached seems to be the best data point.
Agreed. The new interface just doesn't work for me. Really need to find a new mail client. Kind of dislike GMail anyway since it searches ZIP files I attach and won't even let me send EXE builds to people I am working with in a ZIP. So I do all these stupid rename things and have to send the person instructions to rename the files.
In case you forgot. Corporations ARE people.
Good search takes great minds, makes sense to see such a high quality post like that on a search engine project.

I didn't know github had self-hosted inline images.

Going to have to re-read the markup doc.
20 years ago, during the peak of the CASE hype, there used to be several others.Borland ObjectVision, IBM VisualAge, Siemens EasyCase were some of them.
Problem of all this tools is: It's proven that they don't scale.
The sample programms that come with them all look nice and tidy, but god beware if you have to solve some real problem with real error handling.
Right now Matlab Simulink&Stateflow (+some kind of code generator) is the only system usable for fingerpainting programms of significant size.
Show HN: A dumb easy model (javascript) for promises
I think you will have a very hard time getting people to use this by making them sign up. You should use a captcha instead. I also don't think most people would find unsolicited, anonymous sex tips that useful, but Cosmo sells, so there could be an audience.

edit: Or is it supposed to more like a post secret type thing?
Which of these is supposed to support the idea that it's disproportionate?

Of course they love gold. Everybody loves gold.

Americans are going crazy over the gold iPhone too. But nobody's talking about that, because they'd rather talk about Asians.

If it can be demonstrated that cultural preferences have translated into a disparate demand for gold iPhones in Asian countries, then and only then can this claim be made with a straight face. As it stands, it's just uninformed discussion about people who are "different".
You're thinking of Groupon.
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Therefore, prompts are the wrong way to do it.
sometimes, change is for the better

Of course this is always possible in general terms. But I was talking about a specific set of cases: redesigns of UIs that already work and that already have a huge base of existing users who will have to relearn what they know. In my experience, it's extremely rare for that kind of change to be "for the better".

you'll need to move away from the sweet spot the majority settled with to get to another (hopefully better adjusted) local optimum.

And in the process, you will have to move through a "pit" of UI suck where lots of people have significantly worse productivity for a significant period of time. And for what?

Finding examples of cases where this did not work are no argument against all changes.

I didn't argue against all changes; as noted above, I was talking specifically about software UI changes that force existing users to re-learn things for no good reason.

perhaps re-learning would have been more than compensated by the amount of time saved due to new features.

How much time saved? And how long before that savings pays back the huge cost of the switch, per the above?

And can these numbers even be measured anyway? Sure, Google can measure to the millisecond how long it takes for you to move the mouse from one place to another, and no doubt they have numbers to show that the new GMail UI shaves critical milliseconds off certain common operations. But can they measure the frustration caused by changes like this? Can they measure the emails that don't even get written because people get fed up with their new UI? Can they measure the cost of keeping people within their walled garden?

This problem is not limited to Google, of course; I think it's endemic in the software UI world. I think software UIs are like fashions: changes are largely driven not by functionality but by an arms race for users' attention.
Yeah, that was helpful.
Actually I'm saying that top comments don't get more upvotes. Once the single top comment has enough discussion underneath it, the comment votes become skewed and inaccurate. At that point, the "top" comment (which may or may not be the "top" comment anymore) gets an unproportional amount of votes with respect to it's vertical location on the page.

The second, third, and fourth comments may be great or even better than the comment at the top of the page, but they don't get any discussion because they are too far down the page.

Sure, using a browser extension fixes that issue for me, but it doesn't change the fact that 80% of the discussion and exposure is only going to happen on the first thread.

I expect there is a good reason why HN has chosen not to implement comment collapse. I posted this question in hopes of getting an answer as to what that reason is. Maybe if I understand the system better then I will be able to use it more efficiently.
shame on me, thank you much!
I'm the developer of the project and I just hijacked the top comment! :)

It's been a 2 years long ride. I used Backbone and Zepto on front end, jake for building and managing assets. App uses the same PHP backend as a desktop site.

Ask me anything!
So you state that from your POV his language reflected that women are not people too ??? That is really great, that you had to make a throw away account to put that out there, it reflects a lot about you trying to raise issue with something you create a strawman for on the first line of your comment. "If we asked the author..." and than you present an imaginary author giving an 'apology'. That is abysmally poor and you had to protect your regular account because of it.

In no way does he ever objectify his girlfriend and you just project to no end. Where does he exclude "the idea of female programmers completely". Maybe in the same way that he excludes the idea of "dead rhinos", because it isn't the point. The point his, he is excited about his girlfriend wanting him to teach her about programming and wrote about it. Go rain on someone elses parade.

To your other point, there is nothing polite about insulting others with sexist labels. The 'polite criticism reminds people woman are people too' tirade... ending with the "and you all know that"/"some folks", is just priceless and telling passive aggressive form after preaching against the bad male sexist programmer that should watch his language.
Liveblogging the Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop 2013
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I follow you. Is the problem with your high speed port scanner lie in the implementation of DialTimeout or you for some reason you had to use syscall.Connect in a new goroutine and implemented the timeouts with select{} ?
Right, 9 million is pretty unimpressive, especially when you consider that Blackberry managed to sell over 3 million last quarter. Major Fail Apple.
"In Australia and China, online Apple Store shipping times for the iPhone 5s rapidly slipped to 7–10 days for all colors and capacities, with immediate unavailability of the 64GB gold version."

Speed of unavailable being reached seems like the best metric available right now, and that suggests more demand in Asia than other places (although it's early and hard to draw conclusions - so I guess I would agree with your point that Business Insider jumped to conclusions a bit, really just seems like Apple wildly underestimated demand for the whole 5S series).
I think you might have evaded the question :-).

There really are some "webapps" with tight performance requirements. For example, Google's web frontend is a statically compiled C++ application. And yes, anithero, you could write that sort of thing in Cython and with some type declarations get acceptable native performance. You will probably miss a few opportunities for optimization but catch the low-hanging fruit and get an orders of magnitude speedup over Python.
I've always liked CBV's, despite their complexity. Something just seemed more "right" about them than FBV's. That being said, the designers unquestionably got a bit class-happy, and it's almost impossible to use CBV's in any nontrivial way without dipping into the library source code (well written and documented as it may be) to truly understand the control flow between the overrides.

I definitely hear you on inheritance. I'm becoming more convinced that inheritance in many cases is a crutch that prevents a much more reasonable control flow and maintainable design that can be achieved compositionally.

The mixing of inheritance and mixins in the canonical CBV design is tricky, to say the least. I guess it was done with the expectation that people would more directly use the mixins and base classes, but in reality, people tend to try to extend the leaf classes and the class tangle gets exacerbated. This project seems like a huge step in the right direction.
It should be noted that while they use curves generated by Certicom, Certicom is now a subsidiary of BlackBerry.
Shell Scripts vs. Ansible
> just metadata

Entire national strategies for surveillance in wartime were entirely based on "just" metadata. (Japan in WWII. Back then, it was called "traffic analysis.")
This completely ignores the fact that the exact same thing happened in the US and probably every other 5S launch country.

That gold is preferred in Asia is not under dispute. What I dispute is the idea that it is preferred more than in other countries. I've yet to see any evidence for this, but that doesn't stop all of these articles from making the claim anyway.
I agree, Apple is doomed.
The reason it doesn't allow you to do JSON GET requests is because of the possibility of hijacking. http://haacked.com/archive/2009/06/24/json-hijacking.aspx Not allowing this by default is a good thing. It will make developers look up the reason it's not working, and hopefully not return an array from the get request. They could have done a runtime exception only if an array was returned, but that's a matter of opinion.
Simple KPIs For Running Your Company Like A Fast Paced Tech Startup
The US isn't the only country that does this. Japan does it too, at least.
It's alright, we all have short memories these days :)

Here ya go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6431371
How much of it was subsidized by NSA?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs...
Great efforts. I don't think it's usually the case that a raindrop is brought to a stop once it overcomes friction, though, right?
Sorry, no push/exchange is what I meant.
I was a bit surprised OpenVPN still doesn't support GCM mode.
Has anyone dug in and figured out how these #s are impacted by MMI?
The priciest part of your takeaway coffee? It's the cup, not the beans
I can't see it improving anyone's sex life. Even with 24/7 moderation to weed out the joke/troll posts (which I can envisage a site like this being a real honey-pot for), everyone's tastes and desires are different. So the best way to improve your sex life will still be the old fashioned methods; to read their body signals (it shouldn't take a genius to tell if you're turning on your partner) and even just to talk to them (assuming you're in a relationship).

Best of luck to the OP though.
Well, at first one of my ideas was to allow users to vote the tips they liked most and having them matched with other users (of the sex they were interested into) interested in doing the same things.
Also for already established sex relationships I thought this could have been a tool where both can select what they like and we show them just what they both like. In this way we take away the negative embarrassment of getting your ideas refused. What about it?
I'll paste my thoughts from a conversations I had with someone about them:

"There are places where the generic views could/should be simplified, get_template_names and get_form_class are horrendously complicated. But his big example is removing get_form_kwargs, which is probably my single most heavily-used function when using them (Django's generic class-based views). Overriding form_valid is always a little gnarly, because you need to know the implementation details to know it's not worth calling super."

In general, I'm not sold on Tom's specific implementation, primarily because it throws away parts of the API that I personally use quite heavily. Of course, the counter-argument is that he's kept the parts that he uses heavily. I suspect the ideal solution is somewhere between Tom's implementation and the existing one.
Just happened to me TWICE :) Finally figured it out.
pure EC2 is a terrible choice for general web application hosting

"Terrible" is seriously overstating it. There are a lot of advantages to AWS (I understand you said "pure", but that really makes no sense in the context of AWS) that can justify the price premium -- ELB, elastic IPs, the ability to spit out AMI images (and machines from them) at will, the private networks, the firewall, etc. The fantastic network capacity (I am always wary of services like OVH that offer "unlimited" anything, because it is always limited, and unlimited means that your peers will be saturating switches because it's "free").

There are a tremendous number of flexibility reasons why EC2 comes at a premium, and it is an easy justification in many shops. Even if you aren't using ELB today, and won't have to spin out machines, etc, that flexibility has significant value.

I say this having machines at AWS, Digital Ocean and OVH. OVH is very, very bare bones, and you'd better have an escape hatch because the simplest configuration error can leave your machine incapacitated and beyond reach (adding the KVM option is usuriously expensive -- like $350 per month per machine).
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
The last two threads by the same name got a lot of attention (and a lot of love from patio), but seeing how its been over a year since then it would be interesting to hear from new people (HN userbase is ever growing) and also get updates from some people who posted in the previous threads.

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603

Previous to Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487
I'd argue the title is probably the worst part because singling out a demographic without mentioning that they're talking about said demographic while using bizarre phrasing makes it sound almost laughable. In writing a piss-poor title it just sounds like someone not giving due-respect to X billion people. By the way, Asia likes gold? Continents can like things now? I need to read more on plate tectonics.
That sucks! I've only got experience of the UK carriers, you can get something like 600 minutes, 'unlimited' data for around £10/month here SIM-only. And on a one month contract!
Why combine? Because the server side infrastructure is a lot more flexible with MVC (than WebForms) and follows how HTML is supposed to work.

If you're developing an API or service, use WebAPI instead. It solves most of the issues people have with MVC. MVC is still simple and easy to use to create services with, and I'd still recommend it to people.
Yeah unfortunately it seems to be a standard these days its kinda ridiculous if you ask me. I'm pretty sure I'd give them a special finger after the second interview, but that's just me.
Also, the inline LaTeX equations are great. I didn't know the service that was used:

http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
Actually I was hoping to create something more interactive, like two people who have sex (or want to) in the real life and are too shy to share their fantasies. So with this you could vote them and, apart from getting new ideas, you would be notified just of the tips your partner DOES like and he/she of the ones you DO like.
It seems reasonable and also sort of expected, as people buying an iPhone would rather go for what best is available than to try and save a 100 dollars.
Just an FYI. We use XtraDB Cluster in a relatively high-transaction, high-performance configuration, so feel free to ask me anything about it!

It's a great setup (although you have to work with it, just like most sql clustering setups out there, you can't just throw anything on it and hope it sticks).
a friend of a friend is a happy customer of PIA for over 9 months now. their customer service is actually really good.
Get a grip. This is a news article, not a PhD thesis.

Yes, gold is fetishized in the west. However the fact that it's even more fetishized in the East is overwhelmingly obvious to anyone what actually knows what they're talking about. Including actual Chinese people. My Chinese relatives hold a significant amount of their life savings in Gold. This is quite normal over there. In Hohhot, my wife's home town, you can buy small gold bricks in many department stores. They have little sheep stamped on them because that's a lucky sign.
These negative posts are so cliché. If people who were blogging wrote more in a positive light than whining or bashing on something that is purely their own opinion, I think reading top articles around here would be much more enjoyable.

For anyone else out there thinking of doing anything in Word then copying and pasting... you can break soooo many things on the web.
Using Google Glass to Make SciFi Films–A Cyborg in New York
Media entrepreneur and DIY filmmaker, Boonsri Dickinson , who also has a degree in Chemical Engineering, has created a short scifi film using Google Glass with some help from her iPhone! It’s about two friends (one human and a cyborg) who meet in a treehouse to discuss love.
Self-hosted inline images in GitHub markdown are a little tricky, but the syntax that works is:

![screen shot](https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar/raw/master/screenshot.jpeg)

...on a line by itself. The answer was found on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10935763/github-picture-p...
Doesn't their business location in the US negate the need to be cracked?
I wasn't specifically using Ruby as an example of new/unstable tech. My point was that your average business owner doesn't know Ruby from ASP from Perl. It becomes the job of the tech provider to implement technology that not only serves the need now, but also the need years down the road.
My question is if google spent 21 billion, why did microsoft spend > 15 billion on its datacenters. How much datacenter resources is each microsoft customer using? It can't be from just office 365, Azure, and Bing. So is the majority from just software updates/downloads?