skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good idea, ease into it, show them some leaves, stem cross sections, then "hey I wonder what a sugar ant looks like..." lead into the spider gently
...and there aren't too many truly "enterprise" code written on ruby.

Enterprises use Java or .Net.
Does erosion of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution count as widespread abuse? It does to me. Continuing down the slippery slope leads to things like parallel construction, as the previous poster mentioned.

As for public officials and voters and terrorism, I give you this:

> Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., has received $526,600 from defense contractors and other defense industry interests, more than any other member of the House. He voted to continue the programs.

Source: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/07/29/316197/pronsa-congr...

I will leave you to draw your own conclusions about what that article is saying. I take it to mean that it costs $526,000 to get what I want from that guy.
If you're like me and prefer reading print books, there's an excellent (and very comprehensive) collection of Orwell's letters, essays and journalism. It's slightly difficult to track down but worth the effort.

http://www.godine.com/search.asp?search=orwell
Silent Circle has ceased offering an email service, not all services.
Lincoln Mail would be shot while in the Security Theater.
Show HN: Simple Instagram Analytics Tool
Aren't there certain conditions for the camera to operate lights are siren both or perhaps? It's not on constantly from what I understand and it would make sense for a technical and privacy reasons.
i think its really about the video more than the music
Do they need young teens? Facebook is better as a mature communication platform with a wide range of acquaintances and friends. Young teens can grow up with SnapChats and whatever's popular in the moment, and then migrate to Facebook in their early to mid 20s.
Before plastic ruled the roost everything would go on the fire, the fire being a permanent fixture in the front room. If it was summer you would still have a fire in the evening.

The coal scuttle was a de-facto bin, anything that accumulated in there during the day went on the fire. This would also include the newspaper, which would be scrunched up to make a bed for the fire to be lit with.

It was perfectly reasonable to put things like vegetable peelings on the fire too. They might sizzle but they would still be gone.

Milk came in glass bottles that were washed out and collected by the milk man, very few other bottles were used, certainly no sugar drinks in aluminium cans. Tea ruled in England until relatively recently.

There was also the compost heap. So organic matter would go on there, not out of save the world principle, it was just the done thing. You would obviously eat everything you were given so it wasn't as if there were table scraps in the bin.

I don't believe consumers demanded more and more elaborate packaging. Since forever people have complained about excess packaging. It is actually all about cost. Take for example the recycled 'deposit paid' bottles of yesteryear. The glass was quite thick and they weighed quite a bit. Today glass is different, very thin, lightweight and hence cheaper to distribute. I would argue that packaging has became less elaborate - quality bottles of yesteryear have gone, as have proper biscuit tins to take two examples.

So, the dustbin, it wasn't random dust, it was whatever was left over from the fireplace, mostly ash from coal. Britain was an island of coal in a sea of fish in previous times.
there are a million and one apps that offer the ability to chat with people. if it's a concern people can use one of those
If you actually want to get good candidates from recruiters then 15% is low, recruiters are naturally going to send candidates to the companies that will pay them more first. At 15% you're basically going to get the dregs that other companies don't want.
That's what people who buy monster ethernet cables say.
Doesn't Glass play music and navigate?

If so, it already incorporates some of those functions.
Sadly you're right $99 AUD for $49 USD games. Yeeeep. That was fine when the Aussie dollar was buying 50 US cents....

It's like technical books here, 1998? 1999? I think that's around when the AUD bought 50/55 cents, Tech books skyrocketed to twice the price if the US RRP, fair enough. When the Aussie dollar reached parity last year or the year before, those tech books? Still twice the price.
In that irrational assumes sentience, OK. The randomness being "we can't possibly predict all the elements that went into X happening" OK. But neither of those matters in making an abstraction: the biological components didn't evolve outside of chemistry and physics. We can argue about how much detail would be needed, but is there really anything we can't abstract?
I created this as one of my 3-4 day projects to see whether it would be any interest to some people. The last time I did this (for a Twitter Analytics tool), I got over 30.000 users, many purchasing PRO accounts from day one. Trying to see if Instagram is ready for this.
I think you're confused here. Let me try to explain with an example. Mozilla provides sources and binary blobs both. The latter in no way negates the former.

Cisco will be providing sources and binary blobs both, and the latter in no way negates the former.

Yes, there's "a catch". The catch is, though you get a BSD code license on the source that allows you to redistribute the the source, you do not get a patent license for shipping products based on that source. The only patent protection you can get from Cisco is from their specific binary.

Cisco's isn't the first open source H264 codec and it won't be the last, but it's the only one that comes with patent help and that's what makes it different from the others.
I wonder what Orwell would make of terms from his own works being used in these ways.
I am at a loss for words. Arrogant, self-righteous, disrespectful, ignorant, mendacious...nothing cuts it. It is illegal in the US but who cares about the rest of the world?

I'm as appalled as the next guy about the NSA's actions, but let's keep this in perspective here: many countries have 2 intelligence agencies, one for external and one for internal. Do "MI-5" and "MI-6" ring a bell?

Plus, in this particular instance: the GCHQ (British version of NSA) is the one passing along the wiretapped stuff to the NSA.

> We are not spying at US citizens, only at this other guys across the ocean.

In this instance, it's the guys across the ocean who are spying, and passing on the results to us.
i think you might be right... hadn't thought of that
Not too long ago I was wondering what ever happened to this guy once Microsoft scooped him up... now we know.
The numbers probably aren't accurate for big coastal cities, but when you take all of the States into account, it isn't inconceivable.
I have been typing with 10 fingers blind for over 30 years now and I have used, first, the little nob some laptops had/have as mouse and now the trackpad on the Macbook; I don't lift/move my hand from the keyboard at all to use all keys and hardly for the mouse (trackpad). I type really fast at that, including numbers. A numpad on a laptop would be rather a waste of space and would slow me down as well as I would miss my right hand when typing words instead of numbers.

I can see it's handy for some people (like most people like an actual mouse) but I do see the OP his point; at least here most shops carry mostly laptops with numpads and they are not an option. The choices are heavily limited because of this.
So true. We are conditioned by education to look for a job when our natural inclination is to simply do.

My 8yo niece wants to make money and wanted to have a lemonade stand. Her dad literally told her, no, you need to start thinking about getting a job.

I hope they don't wear her down eventually.
Totally agree.

There was a talk show on the radio yesterday about Tor, the illegal trade of drugs and other bad things on the Internet. They referred to it as "The dark web".
> A screen has to put out enough photons that a pupil two millimeters wide can capture enough light from it half a meter away. That fundamental principle isn't going to change anytime soon, and since that's the largest piece of energy consumption in phones these days, power requirements aren't going to drop significantly in the foreseeable future

The technology isn't there yet, but I would love to see the day when we can make laptop screens (and the like) out of e-ink-like displays.

I don't like staring at backlit screens all day. A computer screen has about the same luminous intensity as a 40W bulb[0], which is not a pleasant thing to stare at all day.

If only we could figure out a way to make e-ink remotely usable with high refresh rates, etc[1]., we could rely on external lighting (which is usually available) and get dramatically better battery life out of our laptops and/or phones.

It could even fall back on "frontlighting" (what the Kindle Paperwhite does) for nighttime usage.

[0] Preempting any physicists' objections: yes, I know that watts do not measure luminous intensity (that would be the candela), but a 40W bulb is a familiar reference point, and this comparison is roughly in the right ballpark.

[1] Which is a big hurdle, and why I admit that the technology isn't there yet.
Ask HN: Are there any SAAS options for theme editors?
My boss loves Weebly because it's WSIWYG and simple enough for non-technical people to build a site with. We're give our affiliates the ability to skin our app, but we simply allow them to edit raw HTML files which get copied to production when they publish. I'd love to plug into a SAAS app that makes it simple for non technical people to modify their theme without having to build it in house. What are my options?

Edit: I'm not looking for just a CMS, I want to be able to pull the theme back into my app as static HTML files to deploy in the existing theme system.
A recap of your pleasant original comment:

"Don't get me wrong, it's a nifty little app.
You probably learned a lot! That said, it's still
just a toy campus app."

A morsel of value from the world squandered.

I'll bite your offer for you to mock it up in Ruby real quick. The problem with the "it's easy and I could do it" dismissal is that, even though you could, you didn't.

Maybe you can team up with this guy[1]. You can probably even reuse his repo[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501
[2]: http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/
Not if you take into account the time and effort of cooking/cleaning/shopping.

Soylent is prepared food. It's a substitute for cheap restaurants like Taco Bell or Subway, not cooking rice and beans at home.
thanks! one of our biggest goals was to maintain privacy by only requiring a username to sign up.
Interesting video that challenges the typical Political views
I LOVE my Majestouch-2. That Amazon link is massively overpriced, though (looks like it's coming from Japan); I got mine for $140 from NCIX.

If you type for even an hour each day, you owe it to yourself to try out a mechanical keyboard...I'd never go back.
Dell locates source of cat pee smell in laptops after four months
I suggest names that don't have limited country/cultural references if the intent is to make this a global success. Some other suggestions:

-SecMail (Secure Email)

-PrivMail (private/privacy email)

-FMail (freedom email)

-NetMail (New Internet standard email)

And thank you for taking this on, it is seriously needed. And please, no reliance on CA certs, chances are the NSA has compromised at least some of those.
organizations are not ma-turing complete
I cannot believe that in our age, and in a field like ours where everyone has a computer and is internet savvy we are still using recruitment agencies to find jobs and employees.

Paying 15% of my salary for the privilege of being a self-proclaimed hub between employers and employees? Well, thank you very much, but I'll skip.
Thanks for your feedback.

>I'd love to see this be integrated into the OS at a lower level

The program is already at that lower level (it is necessary to read/write volume information.)

I debated about how the control should work (the way you described is how Earcandy for PulseAudio worked.) My reasoning is that you likely will only have to set up your background music one time so this way requires less configuration. Also if you listen to web-based music, you need to either run your music in a separate browser or configure it in mute.fm's built-in browser. I haven't gotten feedback from users on this aspect so far but could change out the heuristic if needed.

>Also, it would be nice if it could pause your music rather than fading it out.

It will pause instead of mute if you have specified how your player pauses (via a commandline or JavaScript.) You can change the fade duration to zero if you want to remove the fade.
>The deal makes it free (as in beer) for everybody.

No, it only makes it free (as in beer) for those who will (and is supported) use the Cisco binary.
Many thanks to you and the other replies for increasing my linguistic cultural awareness!
You might not have to be able to predict quantum phenomena. IIRC, one of the issues they had with the "quantum internet" thing they built in New Mexico[1] was having to downgrade what should have been a perfectly secure connection to an insecure classical one because it's impossible to route an quantum entangled signal.

Not that this is necessarily a weakness of quantum encryption, so much as a suggestion that any system can't be perfectly secure. Maybe the chips have a backdoor. Maybe a random number generator is biased. Maybe any number of things up to and including maybe you get hit with a five dollar wrench over the head until you give up your password. What I fear is that while the math may be secure, the system itself can't be secured. The web was never built on the premise that security would matter, was it? Or at the very least that the adversary wouldn't be ones' own government. What can you do other than fabricate your own chips, build your own compiler, compile your own os, write your own network protocol and host a darknet (with similar self-constructed machines) out in the woods somewhere using a one-time pad for encryption? Even that's not enough.

[1]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418657,00.asp
What you're describing sounds like how computers work now. What I see as the logical next step is to design chips that use Javascript as their instruction set, because in the future, every layer underneath Javascript will just be overhead, because everything will be Javascript. We might as well start planning for it now.
NSA statement on Washington Post report on infiltration of Google, Yahoo data...
true! right now im targeting college freshman. if it catches on in the dorms i think itll work.
Snowden leaks: NSA ‘hacked Google and Yahoo data links’
I don't understand why email hosting has to be so difficult. You say it is easy, which it is if you know what you are doing, but it is not really that simple, is it? There is no out of the box solution that just works, even the microsoft effort called exchange is not that. You should be able to configure a mail server with the ease that you can configure a mail client.
Try http://www.cushycms.com
Last I checked, the Affordable Care Act really didn't involve anyone at the Executive Branch deciding on what medical treatment I could get. Downvoted for fearmongering and paranoid speculation. (purposely botched implementation of a large software project to make single payer easier? Because the Tea Party shutting down the US government to try to block this healthcare bill makes it likely we will see single payer pass?)
"Do not try poach our staff" hmm sounds a lovely place to work NOT

Gives a very entitled vibe if your to buzy/lazy to recruit your self you have to take whats on offer.

You may not have meant this way but that doesn't give a good vibe for those who might want to come and work for you.
SSL Added and Removed Here
Read the article.

> Minimal to the max: The story of a promising young designer and the Popsicle that never was

> In his effort to think outside the box, Kim had moved beyond the box entirely – and beyond the assignment as well. Instead of redesigning dessert, Kim had used his three days to rebrand one of the world’s largest technology companies.
I would not want to build a large Ruby app. That sounds incredibly painful. What's with all these "=>"??? And I still haven't wrapped my head around how you get the star onto the monkey, and why one would even want to do such a thing.

Ruby is the worst language ever, because I do not know how to use it.
I thought all recordings (audio and video) are completely legal in public places because there is no expectation of privacy.

If I'm in a public place, I can record anything I can see from there.
dave? pretty sure i met you a few times in SF at the TRUE car meetups. thanks for the comment!
CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
The problem with posting a "list of rules for working with me" is that the only people who will read it are more diligent and thoughtful recruiters. It will only filter out people who a) bother to read it and b) have enough sense to read and consider your terms. The logical result is that your overall number of high quality recruiters might decrease, while the number of low quality recruiters will remain the same.
Until it's fixed, until it's worthy of the hard earned money spent on it (which is a considerable sum), no, we haven't had enough.

This is government accountability 101.
Has anyone checked this company's website job section? They have a 'Ninja' position advertised as '(Note: this isn't a development ninja, coding ninja, design ninja. This is a role for an actual Ninja)' :)
It's not really 'unplayable' it's simply not playable by a single pianist at a single keyboard. It would entirely be possible to have 30 pianists at 30 keyboards playing these songs. The question then becomes, "Why?"
> Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150%

Most nutrients with recommended amounts are healthy at higher than recommended amounts within fairly wide bounds, but the usually-listed recommended amount for Sodium is much higher than is minimally necessary, and is actually the upper limit recommended for about half the US population. So, actually, I'm not surprised that something intended as a broadly-usable food replacement would go over on most nutrients and under on Sodium.

http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssodium/

Nutrition isn't one-size-fits-all.
hey thanks a lot! the app was inspired because i needed to scalp tickets at a concert so events would be key
I am thinking of going with the $10 plan with a a Nexus 4. Turn on data when you need it for 6cents/MB. Have you been happy with the call quality, etc?
A company that won over with its transparency – Evernote
Company Culture at Thalmic Labs (YC W13)
Just kidding here but both one sucks and the other thing you suck on.

Relax...just said that for the joke. I eat my popsicle with a knife and fork.
ahh, crap, thanks for pointing that out
"When it was his turn, Kim took a deep breath, stood next to the large computer monitor he’d hauled into class, and started his presentation. It didn’t include a single Popsicle."

The article goes on about how this was a "thinking outside of the box" move and how it illustrates Kim's brilliance.

I don't know Kim's work. I'm going to assume that he's a talented guy, and perhaps the criticism that follows is better suited for the author, who chose to include it in the article. But this particular anecdote screams "fail!" to me, for one single reason: he was tasked with coming up a popsicle redesign. That was his deliverable, and his instructor was his client.

If I ask a designer to come up with a new design for the rainboots I'll be manufacturing, I don't want them to tell me how I can manufacture umbrellas or inform my customers about the weather so they don't need rainboots -- unless I've included that possibility in the scope of my request.
> My social network streams are more and more filled up with multi-megabyte animated GIFs, and WebP is a reasonable replacement for both animated GIFs and transparent PNGs.

It's only slightly better than lossy PNG:

http://pngmini.com/vs-webp/

It doesn't appear to be good at beating GIF, and loses to APNG in compression (and I suspect also decoding speed):

http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp1.html

and I find it highly questionable whether a new format that is exactly as expensive as WebM intra frames should be used instead of WebM.
ASP.NET enabled a lot of certain types of developers to quickly drag-n-drop web apps just like they did with VB Windows GUIs. The amount of code needed was pretty cool. Sure, it resulted in a less-than-ideal webpage, but it worked. VB.NET wasn't really a foundation; it had major changes from VB6 and had feature parity with C# (and more in some cases). Javascript is by far a much worse language. What should we expect from a 10-day design?

If this guys is going off about how it shaves a week or so off a 5 week project, problems that appear on bigger apps might not be high on his priority list.

I wonder if Meteor will end up introducing security holes like ASP.NET, as developers forget there's an abstraction and clients can't be trusted? (In ASP.NET, things like being able to screw with viewstate or fire events for disabled controls.)

I still have the hope for a unified platform. But I'd much prefer it to be on a solid language that compiles down to JS. I'm not sure it's an unattainable goal. I think you nailed it with "seamless" and "invisible" - abstracting major things like client versus server, or local versus network, can really end up biting developers.
I don't like numpads either, but I see why some people do like them. Low resolution screens however; that does no-one any good I would say. And for me it's downright annoying. I work mostly exclusively on laptops and having as much room on one screen as possible is very valuable for me. 1366x768 is insanely low and yet most laptops have had it for years.
Ansible playbook to deploy a personal server with Dockerized apps
That's awesome Daniel. I really appreciate what you are doing. When things wind down with my current egghead push, I might see how I can pitch in to help.
Surprised to see such a seminal essay on the top of HN. I'm sure most people here will have read this before ... but, hey, always a good re-read.
No Secrets Allowed