skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Often times things that sound useful are posted here, but I don't really feel like I need them (not necessarily the case here). A screenshot could create that need :-)
Meta-data surveillance being used to catch perps
> It also doesn't currently work (it'll error out saying it's not available on the Software Update Server)

For what it's worth, It was previously working in earlier betas
It's interesting.

I wonder if this kind of protectionism will become more common/useful as lower-skilled jobs become harder and harder to come by. In the past, reduction of prices via higher efficiencies (= fewer jobs) has generally been a near-universal good: it freed up the workforce for other, more useful activities. Nowadays, there doesn't seem to be any new segment of industry spurring lower-skilled job growth. The flip side of prices getting lower is that job availability/quality goes down.

One could see France's stand against higher efficiencies as, effectively, a form of monetary redistribution. Perhaps the choice is between a society with low prices and a large underclass of un/under-employed, or higher prices and most people being able to make ends meet. If you're going to choose the higher-prices approach, the French method of redistribution at least maintains valuable cultural elements and a culture of needing to work - as opposed to straight benefits.
Netskope
I tend to agree. The "start-up"-term has become so bloated that it hardly make any sense any more. To churn out hundreds of generic landing-pages based on templates, built with "start-up generators" wont create anything of value.

"Don't have a product - no problem!" Get your idea out there and get that seed-round running - then you can surely hire some eager developer-monkeys to do the implementation.. wrong.
IMHO a start-up is a game-changing idea; unique and ahead of it's time. Developing it should take time, and it should be risky - if not it will already have been done.
Am truly impressed with this project. For those who are looking for screenshots-

http://takezoe.blogspot.jp/2013/09/gitbucket-15-released.htm...

It's a near clone of GH.
While 95% accuracy would be a really phenomenal achievement, an accuracy in the range of 85-90% is achievable using methods simpler than deep neural nets. I have done some work on sentiment analysis in the past. I used a Naive Bayes model with some enhancements like n-grams, negation handling and information filtering and was able to get more than 88% accuracy on a similar dataset based on movie reviews.

You can find more details here -http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1305/1305.6143.pdf and the code over here - https://github.com/vivekn/sentiment/blob/master/info.py
Well you don't train the algorithm to just give you Yes/No. You tell it to give you

a) Yes, SUPER green

b) Yes, Green

c) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyeah, ok, but watch this guy

d) please review manually

e) no, too many other loans

f) no, but maybe yes, with more collateral

g) no, convicted felon

h) no, unemployed

i) no, your wife has a billion loans

j) no, insufficient money down

k) ...

(there's like 300 or so different reasons in practice)

So the inputs to the neural net would be all the information you know about the applicant, appropriately encoded. Then you sprinkle hidden layers to personal taste, and the output layer would be a->i binary neurons.
> sampled from a psuedo random number generator

This shouldn't present much of a problem to the NSA.
After yesterday, installing Satis (server for composer packages) jumped almost to the top of my list, been unable to access composer for a big chunk of the day could have been a real problem on the wrong day.

I use Bitbucket for my repo's (with mirrors on my servers) as I actually prefer it (and you can have unlimited repo's < 5 users) so it was a pain to have a dependency on github as well.

Single points of failure suck.
Does RapGenius index nerdcore lyrics?
Basically meta-data being used to trace people's footsteps - their mobile footprints - to look for potential perps that may have abducted Madeleine.

This is frightening. I'd like an end to this story. But this feels like it's a crossing a line. And can be used for further justification for the surveillance state.
Also exists as a nice n easy turnkeylinux package - I use it for all of my private repos http://www.turnkeylinux.org/gitlab
Can you please elaborate on the money back guarantee?
I'd missed YouTrack (which considering I adore phpstorm and pycharm is annoying), it looks excellent :).
Who could disagree that the cavil is the highest form of debate?
maybe even a tad too much. But neat indeed.
Private data gatekeeper stands between you and the NSA
> Chrome devtools will show :before and :after properties.

And on that, I was plesently surprised to see Chrome will now display :before and :after psuedo elements in the DOM structure
Yes. Because heaven forfend anyone should get paid. One cannot serve both God and Mammon.
Any idea how fast it is? GitHub have put a considerable amount of effort into a very fast implementation.
so where comments here?
Or, the user would see their browser not supporting Netflix, think it's a poor product and which to a 'superior' one.
Wow, it has precisely one unit test.
I switched back to Firefox when Chrome's performance slid to the point where it was unusable after a day. I forgot what it was like to have middle click work correctly.
They do sideprojects that are well received. Maybe not as far out of their main business than Google does, but Twitter's BootStrap can be seen as a huge success.
Stone is a brittle material that chips and shatters if looked at the wrong way. Stonecutters and masons were highly skilled professionals. What you're looking for are the masses of porters and carriers, unskilled workers moving construction materials.
Swarms of hornets kill 42 people, injure hundreds in northwest China
I just donated £20.

I think it's worth making this as public as possible.
> When inspecting an element in FF devtools, :before and :after CSS properties will not be shown.

It was fixed recently. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/new-features-in-the-firefo...
What is 'fake' or 'dodgy' about the article? You haven't actually specified what problems you have with it.

Acidification, pollution and overfishing are all related if you care about ocean biodiversity or about the economic impacts of the collapse of fisheries.

A much more recent article than your 10 year old one: http://droyer.web.wesleyan.edu/Honisch_et_al_2012_Science_oc...

Ocean acidification may have severe consequences for marine ecosystems; however, assessing its future impact is difficult because laboratory experiments and field observations are limited by their reduced ecologic complexity and sample period, respectively. In contrast, the geological record contains long-term evidence for a variety of global environmental perturbations, including ocean acidification plus their associated biotic responses. We review events exhibiting evidence for elevated atmospheric CO2, global warming, and ocean acidification over the past ~300 million years of Earth’s history, some with contemporaneous extinction or evolutionary turnover among marine calcifiers. Although similarities exist, no past event perfectly parallels future projections in terms of disrupting the balance of ocean carbonate chemistry—a consequence of the unprecedented rapidity of CO2 release currently taking place.
GitHub Enterprise is self-hosted, FYI https://enterprise.github.com/faq
Except if you don't own it you may be told you can't watch the film with more than 2 friends or on Friday evenings or Christmas Eve. You may be told you cannot listen to your music if travelling to another country, or copy it to your new $10,000 hi-fi so you can really enjoy it.
It's ok, we know it. :(
It's a nightmare to install in Windows though. This is much easier. Drop the WAR file and then type in 1 command to run it.
Are this kind of full clones legal?

I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box but I'm wondering about the blatant clone of the UI.
True. Tab switching with % <search term> is extremely convenient.
Isn't it a fairly simple procedure of "insert ice pick into eye socket, tap with hammer, done"?
Agreed. I like the idea, but the buttons, issue tracker, etc are all a bit too similar for my liking.
Hey Thomas, apa kabar? :-)

I delegated several things already, but never the development. I like to keep my coding skills sharp so that I keep value as a developer, you might need the skills to pay the bills when your business doesn't go too well.

If you want a contrary viewpoint, Aymeric fellow HNer wrote that some time ago, you might find it interesting:

http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2011/i-am-a-developer-yet-i-outsou...
Static Site Generators - Definitive Listing
Rant on: Why is it that people use "Prism" as synonym for the whole state of government surveillance? PRISM is one specific program of the NSA, there is much more and there is much worse (eg TEMPORA).
Those aren't the only choices though. One is that you just accept that there will be a large number of unemployed, and account for that by having a basic income guarantee. Another would be creating make-work for many people. And there are others, it's not just "go back to 1970 or birth control".
I'll deal with what I wrote only, not the rest of your silliness :-)

The basic argument is that those who want restrictions to content have been attempting to chip away at what is essentially an open platform. While the W3C's argument is that it is an "extension" to the HTMLMediaElement, and while the draft goes to great pains to state that it is not a DRM system, in actual fact it goes a great way towards allowing for a DRM system.

If you review the diagram in the draft [1], you will see that it covers playback of certain content. Currently, it is restricted to media files. But you can see that once this is adopted, it would then lower the barriers for media companies and other interested actors to push for encryption mechanisms for individual elements.

Even worse, note that the Content Decryption Module (CDM) is a "part of or add-on to the user agent that provides functionality for one or more Key Systems". In other words, these will probably need to be implemented as binary blobs which are add-ons for browsers. They may need to use specific technologies that are part of particular operating systems.

What does this leave us all with? Well, it leaves us with the promogulation of a bad idea (restrictive DRM) implemented using a variety of browser specific extensions that may need to utilise the specific technologies of a particular operating system.

As an example, you could be forced to use an add-on for Internet Explorer that can only be used on Windows 8.

So in other words, the plan is a bad one for technical reasons, and for political reasons it lowers the barriers to campaigning for more restrictive measures leaking nto the rest of the standard.

1. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
Rumor: Google to Announce "Gem" Smartwatch Alongside Android 4.4
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Very very nice. Painless to run, too.
I've heard "Rails style" about as frequently as I've heard "Django style".

I've never heard "Sinatra style". In fact, when someone first mentioned Sinatra to me, they explained it as "like a web.py style microframework, for Ruby". This was a conversation between two Python developers though, so it makes sense we'd be more familiar with the Python ecosystem. But that's as much a Python-centric bias as your original comment seemed Ruby-centric bias.

Incidentally, I don't think Flask has all that much in common with Sinatra.
Bluebird – A full-featured, fast promises library for JavaScript
Dino Viehland, who works on Python Tools for Visual Studio, used to work on IronPython. No doubt knowledge gained implementing the language helps with implementing development tools...
Worth pointing out that they can't make an application to the ECtHR until all legal appeals have been exhausted in the UK (Supreme Court?). Otherwise the application will be immediately rejected.
PV is a very long way from being free right now. Even with subsidies, it's out of most people's budget to put up solar panels, and then you have to replace them every 20 years, and pay for an inverter to use the power (inverter prices and installation costs are not coming down, rather they are going the other way).
Death To Innovation
I don't agree with all of this by any means ("take money from marketing" - NO!), but it's an interesting read.
Media distributors have all the right to modify their works in any way they feel like. It is after all their property and they should enjoy the Property rights associated with it. If they want to encrypt it, scramble it, create CDs with strange sectors, they are completely free to do so.

My hardware however is not theirs, it's mine. I should have the same property rights to my property as they should have to theirs. Goods that still are controlled by the manufacturer has thus been designed to infringe on my property rights after ownership has been transfered. It is wrong, and should be illegal.

DRM is a technical design to corrupt property rights. The actual owner has none of the rights in "Bundle of rights"¹. One losses any of the control associated with property rights². It removes the concept of private property in ways we should never allow. It is simply a worse crime in history than eminent domain, mostly because everyone nowadays carries it in their pocket.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_of_rights

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_rights
A bit more than that - you have to wiggle the ice pick just so...
I was considering replacing Haiku with Linux, which will face the same issues.
Zynga only had one profitable year in 2010. They have lost $600 million since then.
I think he calls the 70s the end of the golden age, which was the 50s and 60s.
ORG have a lot of very smart legal minds on their team. I've worked with some of them: I'm 100% sure they already know the legal issues.

They'll do this the right way.
maybe so, but have you noticed that your paypal link is only partly clickable?
Right. Because without DRM, people don't get paid?

Your argument (here) is not better than the STD comparison: Apples, oranges, no relevant content.

Isn't most of the (digital!) music market DRM free by now? How does that EVEN WORK?
Yeah, who needs those pesky regulations. We should just start deregulating. Let's start with banks. Oh wait, that didn't turn out so well did it? Remember a certain massive explosion in Texas recently. I guess deregulation there just didn't come fast enough to stop it? What about energy? Surely they must have the tightest and most restrictive regulations with OSHA being such a pest. I think some people on the gulf coast would like to have a word with you.

Surely deregulation will lead to more competitive free markets! Take a look at the 19th and early 20th century economy for some excellent examples of how wonderful monopolies are (railroads, oil, etc). I'll assume you're not against government regulation of utility infrastructure since I'll assume you wouldn't like hoping a company will decide your area is profitable enough to build out or having to have new wiring and piping run to your house to switch to a competitors infrastructure.

Labor laws. Pffft. Who needs those? We have unions to ensure businesses don't mistreat workers. Oh wait. Surely an employer would never take advantage of someone to pad their bottom line. Yeah.

Are there areas where the government does some ridiculous things? Sure. Does it cost money to protect and treat workers respectfully? Sure. Are we worth the ideals we stand for if we don't? NO.

Oh gee, better quit those social programs! We sure wouldn't want accidentally melt down the economy ensuring our population is healthy or providing benefits to veterans or pensions for government employees or teacher salaries or infrastructure -- I think the everyone gets the point there.

We don't have near the tax burden in the US that we did mid century so I guess we have a ways to go before our government is "collecting as much revenue as they possibly can".

No need to reply expecting a debate, I've said my piece. :)
Yep. I remember Chrome was blasting fast when I switched to it when it appeared. I switched back to FF few months ago and I like it better, especially on Android.
Check out www.shareasale.com - they've got hundreds of affiliate programs for real-world items, including lots of clothing stores. I've been with them for years now - they have an excellent reputation.
Why a younger developer wouldn't want to write reporting software for a grid monitoring company? Sounds more interesting than webapps.
Somebody should extend this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial_charm#Psychopathic_...
Paypal blocked my card when trying to donate, won't start a conspiracy theory.
A browser that refuses to implement EME is an inferior set-top box. Question is if becoming Hollywood's set-top box is really Firefox's (and Mozilla's) mission.
I believe martial katas were invented as a means for one teacher to teach lots and lots of students at the same time. Like a lot of things of oriental origin, they tend to get romanticized in the west.
You seem to be replying to a post I didn't write. I never said any of that.
TopTab - Chrome Extension Generator
TopTab is a Chrome extension generator

TopTab allows you to easily create a Chrome extension integrating your own website content!
TopTab gives you the option to engage better with your users.

TopTab gives your users the ability to stay updated with the latest news from your site every time they open a new tab

TopTab is a freemium product
Have you seen http://www.datakind.org/ ? - connecting Data Scientists to data problems faced by non-profits.
Fucked if they do, fucked if they don't. If it wasn't encrypted, why were they so stupid ? If it's encrypted, fuck them too.

This shit happens. To EVERYBODY, sooner or later. What makes a difference is how to handle it. I say Kudos to Adobe for storing encrypted data, being open and owning it up, and trying to fix what's been messed.
could you please elaborate?
it sounds like there's no problem with machine learning itself, it's how you are using it.

if you're not learning about cats then you need to try a different strategy that deals more directly with them.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOOGLE OFFERS Your PRODUCT FOR FREE?
Way too similar. People should come up with new ideas instead of cloning someone else's work.
An Interview with Cue CEO Daniel Gross
VLC even ships with everything to "crack" DVDs. Those tools are flying under the radar, but Firefox probably won't (with two direct competitors being part of MPEG-LA).

Firefox makes money (through the search engine integration at least), VLC et al do not.

It might also help that VLC is a french project. Laws and patents are sufficiently different that it takes effort to build a case, while for US cases the MPEG-LA + members have probably a template on file where they only have to fill in the victim.
Actually I sort of like the medieval approach : government prizes. We want this done, why not create a competition ? If a company can solve this problem, document how you've done it (AFTER the fact) and present it to a board of government scientists. If they believe you, you get the prize money.

And make the prize money something like $5 billion or so. Chump change for what you're asking for. Besides, it has to be an amount that would provide decades of comfort for a company of at least a dozen people + a nice reward for any investors.

This worked for draining swamps in the late middle ages. It worked for building things like clocks and compasses, and these sorts of prizes is how ocean-capable ships were designed in the first place. I would argue that the (early) prizes were for 'allow a ship to navigate without any visible markers on the ground', about as nebulous a concept as 'lower atmospheric co2 by 50% - or at least prove you can do it' would be.
The $1090 Optimus Popularis -keyboard gets into production
They are, but redistributing them in certain jurisdictions may be illegal, which prevents many from actually exercising the rights the license grants them. For example, until not long ago, Debian would disable those codecs in their ffmpeg package.

Firefox can't afford to play fast-and-loose with patent liability.
> The W3C is the guardian of the world wide web

At least they were.
Europe's hottest startup capitals: Stockholm
Reflecting on Open Source business models
Not at all. While the author does end with a curve ball on the arts (which he then admits in the commments), the point is valid. Spending on infrastructure, education, reasearch, healthcare, exploration and the like contribute much more than the sum total of their costs. NASA is a well known example of this. DARPA as well.

What you're describing contributes to a vicious cycle. Lowering prices means less revenue which translates to lay-offs, scaling back and cutting corners. That means worse quality and less demand, which means lower prices again - so on and so forth. Unfortunately, a simple supply and demand curve doesn't come close to describing a functioning modern economy.
The less focused the effort, the more diluted the message.
Try argumentum ad absurdum.
http://takezoe.blogspot.com/2013/09/gitbucket-15-released.ht...
Nope. Highest rated comment is sarcastic, uninformative garbage.
They do describe the route they are taking - they asked the government and got referred to the "Investigatory Powers Tribunal" (IPT) but the ECtHR has already decided that the IPT is a bit dubious so they may entertain a direct approach.
https does not expose referrer, and you are logging in through https, right?
The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets
> but what stops someone from using a screen recorder?

Protected AV Path. Which is why I'd expect this feature to quickly extend to plugins that only work with certain graphics drivers on certain platforms.
Yes! It's downloading. Just in time with my second HDD cable delivery - will upgrade my Mac Mini to SSD today!
Seeds: 95 [154 MB / s] Leech: 411 [100 MB / s]
I fed it with "I'm surprised how well it can parse the sentiment of sample sentences I threw at it." and it thought that was negative - so I corrected it. The whole level of interaction and transparency with the model is great. "Buy" occurs 12 times. I wonder if stemming could help.
Looks really neat. I like the sound of the music genre classification chapter.
Except they need to implement Content Decryption Modules, which are not standardised and which may use features (or DRM systems) that are only implemented on particular systems. Ultimately, this extension could tie particular content to a particular system. Say, for instance, you could only watch some content on a Windows 8 system because it requires a Microsoft specific DRM system implemented only on Windows 8. A system that could ultimately be badly documented (or not documented at all) that makes it hard for competing browsers to use the CDM.

Frankly, this system would only work if you standardise in a DRM system. The W3C may claim "only the simple clear key system is required to be implemented as a common baseline" [1], but that's highly misleading IMO.

1. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
so this thing downloads arbitrary binaries with no verification and makes them executable on my local machine?

cool story bro. probably some cool hacks in here but no one is going to use this.
I agree that the weakest point of gitlab is ease of installation
I wish they'd write an official set of native MS SQL drivers for Linux, like they did with the PHP SQL drivers on Windows. Yes I know there's FreeTDS, unixODBC etc, but the level of faff getting it to work just so never fills me with confidence.
Nice first HN comment, sag!
comic sans ms, really?