skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From their faq:

> We are modeling data limits around scenarios where a sensor value is sent to an HTTP endpoint once or twice per minute. Expect final rate limits to be in that range. For specific questions on increased rate usage, please email us at info@2lemetry.com. Higher end plans are available.
This is why it should be a law. Losing video/camera to be like losing a badge,gun,etc
Short and curlies
My experience exactly. I left them years ago when they jacked up basic banking fees to ridiculous levels.

When I was a client them they did organize "meetups with VCs/lawyers", but for the most part those events were mostly designed to pander to the guests' egos and I presume make them feel valued enough to drive their companies towards SVBank for higher-ticket services, like large credit lines.
Honeypot? They say each job posting has its own email address. Email the ninja address, and either you comply with their requirements, or at least enter into the spirit of the joke, or they blacklist you. It's a good way to compile a list of recruiters who simply spam any job listing they can find.
You're in your condo and not only is the roof structurally unsound but the HOA keeps walking around on it holding umbrellas to protect you and the other residents from the rain.

Meanwhile, most of your neighbors are focused on their own lives, and the lives of the people they'd rather watch on TV.

That roof IS going to collapse. Its just a matter of when. Would you too not have contempt for the priorities of your neighbors?
and then you get a big paycheck from the government indicating that all is not the same in Alaska
None of the code I want to install on my hard drive is written in Scheme (except a Scheme compiler).

Also, Scheme cannot practically be used as an interactive command processor and file-name-space browser like a Unix shell can. (Yes, I know about scsh; I do not like it.)
People have different walking distances. Nothing wrong with a user setting ...
You may have heard an identical idea a few months ago, but I've never heard of it.

I have heard of Popcorn.
Seems like you missed the part where Apple did it, therefore it finally became good. Just like Intel was a dirty word until Apple switched, then it was good.
Christopher Hitchens has a few hour long talks recorded on youtube about his book 'Why Orwell matters' and explains what gave him that kind of insight. 1984 was widely distributed in the Soviet underground and those who read it could not figure out how Orwell understood perfectly what life under Stalin was like without having experienced it himself.

Somebody today with that kind of directness and clarity would be John Ralston Saul, who advocates writing in clear language. Voltaire's Bastards was written in the 90s and is very much still relevant today.
CMU's got a fairly nice one. It guides students as they build a series of compilers for increasingly large subsets of C, effectively from scratch. Course materials are public, I believe.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/fox/mosaic/people/fp/co...
The "first they ignore you..." quote is often attributed to Gandhi, but he likely never said it: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Disputed

Also, somebody should start a Bank of Bitcoin. There's no reason why the benefits of banking couldn't be applied to bitcoin.
Ask HN: Why do investors need to be accredited?
I recently read an article[1] which stated that companies are only allowed to solicit investments from accredited investors. What's the reasoning behind this? Why can't anyone, including myself[2], who is willing to risk their own money invest in a startup?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/sec-announces-crowdfunding-rule-to-allow-startups-to-raise-1-million-from-unaccredited-investors-2013-10#ixzz2iaskUpYm

[2] http://blog.atommorgan.com/investors-need-to-be-accredited
I submitted this link because I just came across it and I found it to be still relevant in 2013. The article is from 2003, ten years a go.

I use Markdown and Textile on a daily basis and Textpattern is still my go-to CMS for small to medium sized sites. Textpattern is very light-weight and easy to understand for anyone who knows HTML. I can make static HTML pages into dynamic sites much quicker with Textpattern than with Drupal or Wordpress. All articles are saved in MySQL, but the CMS handles heavy traffic extremely well. It really deserves more attention than it has.

http://textpattern.com
This is bullshit. In my whole experience as a full stack developer, after having tried various technologies and languages and frameworks - including ones built with PHP, Ruby, Scala, Javascript and Golang, I can this say with full confidence and can afford to put my name and credibility to stake - Nothing is going to replace Ruby on rails anytime soon.

I wish something would, but nothing at the moment, is even close to the scale at which rails gets things done. I truly mean it. And something built out of Javascript replacing a Ruby-based full-bleed framework? I think you must be fucking kidding me. What the author describes is a very specific use-case and maybe, just maybe Meteor JS might replace a portion of that use case. In fact, if I were to do something like what the author suggests, I would still choose rails and Knockout JS (or Angular JS if you know it better).

Do you know how long it takes to build a Facebook backend clone in rails? Maybe a day? And the frontend (all the Ajaxy stuff) should probably add a week or two (worse-case scenario). That's just it. That's the power of rails.

If you were to build the backend in Javascript without the power that Rails provides I'm sure you will need more than just a day, let alone a week.

The point is, nothing is close to what rails is right now. I badly wanted something to replace rails for my work, but I haven't found a single solution that fits my needs. I've tried everything - Play, Sails, Revel, Gorilla, etc etc. But nothing there is that can replace rails. And all the frameworks that claim to be more like Rails, they're simply not true. Have you tried using play (Scala) and PostgreSQL together? The experience is nothing like Rails.

I can make a clone of any complex app out there in the web in a matter of minutes/hours. That's the power that rails gives me and no other framework/combination can't.

I understand that Rails is slow. But this is not the right way to critique it - Claiming something is going to replace it when it actually isn't true.

We develop all our v0.1s in Rails in house and port them to Go (only if necessary and if the project owner is particular about it.) and that seems to work well for us.
Plenty of people don't really care about watching movies on their phones, so I wouldn't say "anyone".
Getting a degree in engineering means you're and engineer? He just said he works as an engineer for Microsoft...
Of course the NY Times are not Reddit. Why are you even bringing that up?

The AP, Fox News, NPR, PBS, CNN, LA Times, ... all have reported on the story in the Washington Post. The NY Times has not, and that's unfortunate. It's a major news event.
Supporting iOS 6 is a non-trivial amount of work for many apps. Furthermore, you also have to test on iOS 6, and on more devices.

All that for a piece of the market that now amounts to 25% and is shrinking every minute.
She was speeding--in the seventies while in a 65 mph zone.

Additionally, from an article on the web:
"Under California rules, video screens are prohibited anywhere ahead of the front seats unless they're displaying GPS information, a map, or information about the car itself."
Since these is not typically a political discussion forum, at least outline your "overwhelming" factual evidence.
It takes maybe a day working with your Capistrano script to implement zero downtime deploys in Rails if you're running Unicorn, Puma, or Passenger Enterprise...
I upvoted just because I think the site is SO cool.
I guess it's time for the ultimate exit.
No pressure though ;)
Hint: no one cares about printing from online. This is a lesson we learned the hard way at Eye-Fi. Good luck.
Can't you alert the driver using an audio-only system that doesn't require Glass? And aren't audio-only GPS directions safer than video-delivered directions in general? Perhaps dash-mounted GPS screens should be outlawed as well.
What's more interesting is if this will allow end-user to compile a binary for personal use. If the build scripts works as well as eg: most c-extentions for python (so you can do like the equivalent on debian for mercurial: apt-get build-dep mercurial; virtualenv --no-site-packages test;cd test;./bin/pip install mercurial -- and have it just work) -- a real "loophole" might actually present itself in the licensing.

It still wouldn't be quite as easy on Windows (even if it builds with a free and/or gratis compiler there) -- but on all platforms building a plugin (automagically) should be much more feasible than for "everyone" to build Firefox (that thing is a monster).
As they say... photo or it didn't happen.
In the Great Depression of the 1930s many people lost a lot of money by investing in unregulated securities. So now anyone can invest in highly-regulated securities and only rich people can invest in sketchy stuff.
>Do you know how long it takes to build a Facebook backend clone in rails? Maybe a day?

A basic social network clone? Sure, maybe a day. But to emulate all the features Facebook has would probably take well over a month if done alone, even if the dev was very experienced with Rails.
Just wanted to chime in and say I get you, man. "Chat with people within 1 mile" is just a better thing than "Chat with people within a radius adjusted based on how many users are online nearby."
This article is semantically interesting. It's a negative title, but it has a kinda positive message for "the rest of us" (apple circa 1985). You see, the FBI now has 3.5% of the whole currency(not the float, of the WHOLE shebang) --ref the silk road shutdown. So there's a need to keep the appetite of the crowd that can buy this vision wet. I say we all cash out real fast; just for kicks.
Exedore is a throughly Mac-Native Python IDE
Exactly like that.

If Obama believed these programs (and Guantanamo Bay) were "wrong" with the same conviction Snowden believes – he'd do what it takes to shut them down, with the same career/livelihood risks that Snowden accepted.

It's precisely the sort of moral compromises that Obama has made to allow Guantanamo Bay to stay operating, that have allowed the NSA to grab so much extraordinary power amd avoid any sort of reasonable oversight.

I understand that "just closing Guantanamo" isn't as simple as it sounds - but letting things like that slide because they're complicated, and doing so for 40 odd years, has allowed a situation where people like Clipper think lying to congress is his job. Where intelligent people somehow perform the sort of mental gymnastics that allow them to claim collecting and storing personal communication isn't "collection" unless a person listens to the collected information.

If the president wanted it to stop - he'd stop it. If he's not stopping it, it's because there's something he considers more important.

He _might_ even be right. There might be a real and provable public interest reason why Guantanamo and the NSA have to be the way they are. There's no obvious or easy explanation along those lines – and it's super easy to cynically attribute it all to personal(and corporate) wealth and power motives which _are_ pretty obvious.
Popper Mail (go read The Open Society and Its Enemies)
The public also voted in a Republican House majority and flipped Ted Kennedy's seat to prevent a filibuster proof Senate majority to essentially prevent Obamacare being implemented without amendments.

Yet, it was "deem and passed" and here we are. Power to the people?
6 steps Silicon Valley can take to protect users from NSA spying
We're a decent sized tech company.
I have actually read that, but I had forgotten about it. Thanks for the reply and pointing me back to the article!
So the law is attempting to protect people from themselves?
I experienced this problem first hand this morning...
Help foil the NSA by Encrypting Google Drive
That's the Irish version, as in, "Do not read me mail."
Why ISROs Mars Mission is cheapest?
I get the feeling I'm going to take a karma hit for this, but here goes...

By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.

There's a problem with this. The Post goes into a good amount of detail regarding how the NSA/GCHQ is collecting, but leaves nothing but speculation as to who they're targeting or why. It even goes so far as to suggest that NSA/GCHQ is targeting millions upon millions of ordinary citizens without giving evidence to back up that assertion. I would argue that these media outlets are doing us a disservice by not providing this information. All they're doing is generating hype and fear. I'm scrolling through the comments here and seeing calls for the imprisonment (or worse) of Obama administration officials and NSA personnel based not on solid evidence that the public at large is being spied upon, but based on our fear that the public is being spied upon. Some hypothetical headlines as an analogy:

A: "SWAT team guns down local residents"

B: "SWAT team guns down unarmed retirement home residents"

C: "SWAT team guns down pair of local gunmen; ends killing spree"

Headline A is vague and misleading. If that was the entirety of the information put out, the public would be outraged. If the actual story was closer to headline B, they'd be rightfully outraged, and all trust in the police force would be rightfully gone. The outrage wouldn't be justified if the actual story was closer to headline C. With regards to today's story, I don't want see something like "NSA spies on Google traffic" - there's not enough context. I want to see evidence showing who they're targeting and why. If it turns out that they're spying on US Congressmen, major business executives or just ordinary Americans with the intent to blackmail/bribe/manipulate/etc. - that's the reason to call for these people to stand trial. If it turns out that they're spying on the unencrypted internet traffic of valid intelligence targets like foreign government officials/foreign spies/terrorists/etc., what has the public gained by telling us all how they're doing it?

The media needs to show us that there's a good reason to be afraid/outraged of a vast, covert Orwellian apparatus, then show us how to protect ourselves against it. Show us that the NSA is determined to undermine the public good for its own benefit. Unless there is no vast, hidden Orwellian state. Every Snowden document that gets released without showing evidence that the NSA is pursuing anyone besides those it has been tasked to pursue leads me to believe more and more that there is no such evidence, and the media is riding high on all of this fear and outrage to gather advertising dollars.
It's not a song, it's a prelude. And actually not very technically difficult, one reason for its immediate and enduring popularity. The simultaneous chords are just played very quickly one after the other and not "rolled".
It's interesting to me that the auto industry has been around for a hundred years, and while some components are standard (wheels, battery), 95% of the components in a car are not interchangeable. Until recently, the performance of cars has been relatively stable. So I'm not sure this observation is universal to all industries.
I'd like to think, protecting the middle class and poor from thieves.
Is Marissa Mayer’s Employee Review System Finally Targeting Underperformers?
Well over a month to clone all of facebook. I hope you don't estimate as a living. To clone facebook would take well over a year.
Actually, Microsoft did listen to their ASP.NET developer userbase. And ASP.NET developers loved them for it. And yet, despite Microsoft listening to their users, we're still not enchanted with ASP.NET... what gives?

Lets say a framework's user base consists primarily of language-specific consultancy shops that really desire tools for rapidly prototyping applications. And the framework authors listen to these users diligently. You'll likely have a product that's really good at rapidly prototyping applications inside a consultancy. What about people who aren't language-specific consultancy developers? Well if you have a similar use-case you'll surely be happy!

Meteor and Rails strike me as Apples and Oranges - Rails is a general purpose framework that assumes a separation of systems between client and server (And optionally separation between server and database if you forgo Active Record). Meteor assumes you want a tightly coupled, real-time, rich JavaScript web application.

The author assumes Sauce for the Goose is sauce for the gander... but judging by the lack of ASP.NET around here I'm not sure that's the case.
Adobe Security Breach Could Affect As Many As 150 Million Users
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Japan’s Mystery Pyramids
Ten years I say! Building facebook would take ten years, no less!
Or it's simply luck. If the odds of succeeding are random, say 1%, then the more you try, the greater the odds you will eventually win the lottery. It would make sense that most of the winners had tried multiple times. I'm not sure it follows that the winners are necessarily more talented than the losers.
He seems to be in the "if it works now, why change it?" camp. So at the moment that means using Java Server Faces on the front end. I haven't had much exposure to the server-side, but I'm so not sure there is any good framework in place as it's closely coupled with the front end logic.

Your second comment is a good one. What I think he meant by "trend" was that last year Rails was what all the architects and leaders at the company were pushing for. His argument was that this year it's the same thing except with single page architecture (Backbonejs in this case).
It's only a matter of time before someone in this scene rediscovers spectral music and creates a black MIDI version of Partiels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX77MC5oXDY).

I also think the black MIDI examples that have been posted would sound significantly better with better instrumentation (that is, more expensive softsynths -- I am a fan of TruePianos, personally).
That's pretty impressive.

Even if they restrict the donations to only a few "eligible products" (which doesn't seem to be the case [1]), 0.5% for a retailer is an incredible amount of money.

Wondering if they're compensating this move with tax rebates. Amazon already operates under razor thin margins; they can't afford to take another 0.5% from the bottom line.

[1] From http://smile.amazon.com/gp/charity/pd.html/ref=smi_se_saas_p...
Purchases Eligible for Donations
Tens of millions of products on AmazonSmile are eligible for donations. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages. Recurring Subscribe-and-Save purchases and subscription renewals are not currently eligible.
No, but apparently all the way up.
The US Government is accountable, yes. I'll even buy that the executive branch is the accountable party, given the role of implementing laws and programs. However, calling them the project manager of the site and then extending that to directly making medical treatment decisions is pretty crazy. If Amazon screws up my toilet paper order, does that mean they're automatically incompetent at auto-scaling my EC2 instances?

For what it's worth, there's some crazy delegation of tasks in the ACA. For over a year now, I've been on the interim Preexisting Condition Insurance Program. (expires 12/31, so I'm in a bit of freakout mode, but that's another story for another time ....) It's administered by the Department of Agriculture. Ummm.... moo?
It would be interesting to see the technical details of how this was done.
how did you manage not to say FreeMail
> they aren't regulating what you can have, they are regulating the minimum floor.

This is utter nonsense on its face. If I have (or want) something under the minimum floor, they have regulated that away from me. They have regulated what I can have.
You can probably get to 12 to 14 and still sound good by using some of the fingers to play multiple neighboring notes.
I just added ‘kernel adulator’ to the list of terms I’ll use. My search engine (DDG) returned zero mentions of the term, so you may have coined a new one (and a good one at that.) I’m not a big fan of RMS, but I do agree that Linux distributions should be referred to as ‘GNU/Linux’. OS X is more than XNU too.
Lavamail?
His argument is that the "new paradigm" is constantly changing and reinventing itself (usually with old concepts). Meaning in ~2 years, there is going to be a "better" way to do things. I'm not sure I agree with him, but that's his argument for not switching to a front-end MV* framework.
Sure, but it could take considerable time to adapt one's muscle memory to the different key spacing.
I don't know if it's done on a real chip or not, but that's FM synthesis, like produced by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2612 in SEGA machines.
I could do it in five.
I hope to see this magic new mystery protocol as something similar to TextSecure, where we have forward secrecy from the OTR protocol.

The current e-mail protocols are far too centralized, which doesn't make sense. Mail is delivered, and after that, it is no longer in possession of USPS. This is unlike how E-mail works (even though it kind of seems like that's what happens).

I hope to see some kind of client being required to run on my computer to decrypt e-mails at rest and receive e-mails that are delivered to me from the central server.
My Facebook Lockout
The Bay Area "Reverse Commute"
From Unity to Three.js
You might enjoy this article by Geoff Pullum on why P&EL is misguided https://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/04/04/eliminat...
What is happening there is that we were able to get some geolocation data back from your IP, but a standard "City, State" format isn't available (for whatever reason).

That being said, you are absolutely right. It is very confusing. In the event that happens in the future, we will leave that field blank so users (such as yourself) can manually enter a location.

As for the "i.e." versus "e.g.," I was honestly not aware of the difference. You've prompted me to Google it, and the results are super interesting! Thanks for pointing it out! I'll make sure to get that updated.
You touch on one of the other benefits of a framework; they're a fairly decent way to learn. But, unfortunately, much of that is because you're learning what NOT to do.

A much better way to learn is to go write your own framework. Then you're forced to encounter the pitfalls and overcome them through research, trial-and-error, and interacting with the community.

But continuing to use a framework is just a crutch in my opinion. At some point not only are you not learning anything but, as I mentioned before, all you're really doing is gluing framework code/modules together. You're actively doing yourself a disservice and letting your skills atrophy by relying on such a crutch.

One thing about frameworks that I find interesting is; how many were used to develop Unix? None. Because there weren't any back then. And now its in billions of devices worldwide.

I did this myself. It was crap. Fun to write, and I learned a lot from it. But still, monolithic, poorly documented, tightly-coupled crap and even I don't use it anymore.