skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A app similar to square (a point of sale for iPad), but with more features. I doing a real-time sync (based in firebase) for it.

This is a upgrade, semi-rewrite of http://www.elmalabarista.com/bestseller (until now only useful for wholesale distributors with ERP + Sync server) to help small shops to sell and replace DOS based POS software that is very common in my country and elsewhere.

Is a single-man operation ;)

P.D: And I wish to have time/money to build a language based in FoxPro/Python...
South Korea’s education system: The great decompression
> PHP is a general purpose programming language.

No no no no no no no. Nonono. No.

It's a web framework and template language built around a handful of C wrappers and awkward database interactions. It can't even represent unsigned 64 bit integers. Any complex math requires you to convert the numbers into strings.

PHP is an advanced template language for HTML.
Vi and Rogue were both influenced by the hardware of the old ADM terminals, which had the arrows printed on HJKL.
> security by obscurity is never a good layer by itself but part of a larger "onion" it can be helpful.

That's ok. Just don't pretend that you are getting anything worthwhile from that policy. All you get is a 10 bit door, added (not multiplied - so, it does not increase your overall security) to whatever security you already had.

In computer security, people normally consider anything with less than 64 bits worthless. A 10 protection can be brute-forced by hand.

As humans work, changing that port is a clear indicator of an admin that didn't care about avoiding the less secure modes of SSH. If you are looking for obscurity, I'd consider a non-standard port (and concern about bots) to be a huge flag announcing "This system is exploitable".
The water problem is a lot bigger than that. North American cities have mostly polluted the rivers they lie on and can't use them for a water supply. E.g. Atlanta gets its water from Lake Lanier, not the Chattahoochee. New York gets its water from the Catskills, not the Hudson.

Many cities are facing water shortages. Not just Las Vegas and Phoenix. The Colorado is tapped out, and California, Arizona, and Nevada have been fighting over it for decades. Rainy humid Atlanta was facing water usage controls for several years around 2007-2009. The Floridan aquifer is tapped out--developers are having to dig wells 1,000 feet deep these days to get water. Fracking is in danger of contaminating the Ogallala along with all the water that makes agriculture possible in the breadbasket. San Francisco is not yet in dire straights but Hetchy-Hetch isn't immune to the water problem.
https://loseproof.com - a little side-project we launched a couple of weeks ago.

It's a low-cost, secure and simple way to protect things that are important to you.

We've started with stickers for now, but are looking to offer item-specific protection soon e.g. keyrings, luggage tags and pet tags. The concept is well-founded but, until now, has been really poorly executed.
No, we can detect changes in blood flow, and we've posited that there's a correlation between this blood flow and brain activity, and found that that is consistent with the way the blood flows alter.

This does not in any way rule out that the parts of the brain that are not showing up in the fMRI are participating in the thinking process at that moment. We have no idea whatsoever of how the thinking process itself unfolds.
I actually found their initial attempts really disappointing. I was hoping for some really cool, advanced stuff. Emailing them .jar files? To me that's laughable. When my friends and I used to try and infect each other with sub7 in the 90s it was with a .jpg with the executable buried inside. That was more sneaky that a .jar claiming to be a resume.
This seems more like your observation rather than a point of the article, but I agree 100%
any of those imply you'll be decent at work.

you're not competing with people who have read paip, or people who do udacity courses; you're competing with people who do fuck all.
building better graphical models for biometric image recognition
Google paying AdBlock Plus to not block Google's ads
The other responses are good.

There will also probably be databases of landmarks like buildings and light poles that can be used to make a centimeter-accurate visual positioning system.
LinkedIn iOS 7.0 settings - Did somebody forget to remove the 'dev' flag?
Karma inflation, eh? How does that come about?

Is it the result of HN becoming more popular? More readers and same size front page means more readers per post, so more votes per post, so an individual accumulates karma more quickly?
The coming zero-sum game
Yes, you're not the only one. I've never owned or held anything platinum but I still didn't expect such a small amount to weigh so much
GMail's IMAP server actually works well... it just violates the spec in several obnoxious ways.

For Inky (http://inky.com) we had to devote a bunch of Gimap-specific effort into explicitly syncing flags, for example, because Gimap simply doesn't notify clients of flag changes. Inky has to poll Gimap for flag changes rather than passively learning about them via IMAP IDLE.

And the treatment of labels as folders is a mess for IMAP clients, as is the All Mail folder, which -- if not handled properly -- effectively generates a duplicate of every message in every folder.

But Gimap does work reliably in our experience. It's a bit slow, but it's less broken than IMAP servers run by other major providers (who shall remain nameless).
Here a fellow hacker from Barcelona.

I rented a loft for 6620€/year. It's mint condition and it's in the outskirts of Barcelona. I'm 12 min in subway to the plaza Catalonia and in 7 min using the train or 20 mins in bus. To be honest, I would never never again will rent in the centre of the city. It's expensive and all buildings are antique, without the proper commodities.

If you want to come Barcelona, check the outskirts, get a scooter or enjoy the Barcelona transportation system. It's wonderful.

I want to add some more info about living in Barcelona.

The weather is magnifique. It barely rains all the year. You can go mountains withing 2h car travel if you want to enjoy the snow in winter.

Eating can be really cheap IF you go to the supermarket, buy all the meals and cook yourself like I do, I saved 300€/month doing this instead eating outside. If you can compile rails, you can be a chef, :). I do buy the meals and stuff for around 90€/month. That includes the 40lts of water i buy. Then daily i try to buy meat, fish or vegetables for the week and it cost me no more than 220€ month.

I pay 90 euros electricity, 30 gas and 40 water every 2 months. 60 euros for 100mbit fiber connection + phone and mobile and that's all.
There are two latencies:

* For the fire order from the command central to the drone.

* For the missile from drone to target.

I'd guess the later is greater than the former.

> and they get killed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_damage
I often scan QR codes and find them mostly useful
I often scan QR codes but find them rarely useful
I rarely scan QR codes
I never scan QR codes
I don't have a smartphone
I think it's interesting that in your mind "WSGI" equates with Python support. In my opinion little enthusiasm has to do with how limited and boring WSGI is - I think you'd find much more enthused users if you offered something better than WSGI.
You might want to rethink this text on your website:
"Most mail clients only support the popular email providers."

That's false FUD.
I recently started doing more freelance development and didn't find any solutions that I thought did the following really well:

- I hate tracking my time, so the app should make this very easy & compelling to do (dare I say fun?)

- Should work well with lots of different contract types (hourly, daily, weekly, retainer)

- Should earn me more money using best practices (minimum billing increments, etc...)

- Should get me paid faster & with the lowest fees possible (client payment details on file & using ACH or something)

- Should make managing sub-contractors a breeze. Think of managing sub-contractor invoices & time like a pull-request on GitHub.

So I decided I'm going to work on this and try to make something that people will really love using.

If you're interested, get notified when it launches: http://bradjasper.com/timetracker/
Really, the only reason Python and Ruby have the same "noticeably higher" barrier to entry is because most cheap hosting services don't support Python and Ruby the same way they do PHP. Python and Ruby are just as easy, if not easier, for a beginner to get into outside of web dev.
I expected something more elaborate than sending malware as an email attachment, this is a commonly known way of infecting and hijacking machines so it makes the topic less news-worthy.

But it's always good to remind people to apply common sense when using email and the internet and be aware of their digital footprints.
The US uses over 1 trillion cubic meters of water per year.
I spent three weeks in the Netherlands with my family this summer. The cycling experience is truly magical. To add to some other comments made in this thread:

-- Roel appears to have knowledge in this area, so I don't want to contradict him, but it does seem that the Dutch went at least part-way down the path towards a car-focused society and successfully pulled back. Read http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/netherlands/ for more history.

-- The "bike path" in my town that we celebrate as amazing would be derided as complete crap in Holland. It's too narrow, not well paved, not lit at night, and it's mixed-use, which means you have to dodge pedestrians, roller bladers, dog walkers, etc. Bike paths in the Netherlands are BIKE ONLY. Not only are you separated from cars, but also from pedestrians. One of the worst crimes as a pedestrian (and a sure sign of a tourist) is to stand in the bike lane.

-- Cycling is not just a fair weather activity. Nearly all bikes are equipped with dynamos to power lights, which are legally mandated for riding at night and are useful in the fall/winter fog and gloom. Yes, people ride in the rain, and even in the snow. For most people, biking is the one and only way to get around, so it's not an option, it's a requirement.

-- It's hard to comprehend how thoroughly bikes are integrated into society. Every office has a bike parking shed with racks and locks. Apartment buildings have storage rooms in the basement, with special ramps built into the stairways so you can roll bikes down the hill. Train stations have massive bike storage areas, and most stations have both bike rentals and also repair stations. For an extra 6 Euros, you can take your bike on the train with you to go anywhere in the country, and if you have a folding bike (very common), you can take it on the train for free.

-- Cycling is integrated into daily life. No Lycra and clipless pedals -- you cycle in street clothes. Bikes are upright and comfortable. Nobody wears helmets, even kids (our kids went nuts because we made them wear them ...) People ride at a good clip, 10-12 mph, fast enough to get there, but not so fast that they get sweaty or out of breath. When you run across a friend or co-worker on the bike path, you'll typically pull up next to them and ride two-abreast (the paths are wide enough) so that you can talk and ride.

My favorite thing: you'll often see older couples riding side by side holding hands.

Man, I would love to see this take hold in the US, but it will take a major change not just in public opinion, but also in city planning and infrastructure investment.
An illuminating question just in its asking. (Why aren't we reading about those who make the decisions instead of the guy who holds the joystick?)
http://reminderhero.com - an email and SMS reminder service. Currently in beta.

Unlike some of my previous projects (such as http://surveylitics.com), it's cool because it's actually useful. I've been using it for the past month or two for everything and anything I need to remember.
Seriously, this story made me feel more secure. I imagined a lot more attack vectors (such as http://xkcd.com/792/ ) and having all those attempts fail seems kind of anticlimactic.

Basically they got in via phishing? First via a .jar file and then a video? I'd like more info on how the video can take over your computer. But in any case I don't fall for phihing scams.

The best thing I saw there was asking to print out the resume. Had the system been newer it would have worked.

Couldn't they have tried using one of those drive-by Javascript vulnerabilities?

The rest of it once they gain entry is straightforward.

Here is what I am wondering about: I use Google Apps for my email etc. If my company starts competing with Google on some fronta, can't Google just engage in corporate espionage by simply reading the email we store there? They'd also have access to all our accounts. How would this ever come to light?
i wonder how come they're not psychologycally trained(brainwashed) to be immune to this. after 1-3 months of constantly telling them how cruel the terrorists are, showing them images of the attrocities that their future targets perform, i believe the operators will begin to feel like heroes for taking them out. I guess US is not that good at propaganda afterall
> What do people do when it rains or snows? Do people walk instead, take mass transit, or drive?

I live in Northern Germany and for the last 20 years I used my bike to first drive to school, then to university and now to my workplace. On average I drive about 10 to 15 km a day for commuting and perhaps another few km for shopping and going out in the evening.

I can not remember a single day were I did not drive bike because the weather bad. Even two or three winters ago when the streets were covered with ice for 4 weeks driving to work with a bike was not a problem at all.

Some stuff I learned:

* buy high quality mudguards

* use a hub dynamo (Shimano or SON) and not these horrible cheap one which touch the wheels

* invest 80 euro in a really really good LED front light (I am a big fan of Busch & Müller, those things are really bright and switch on automatically when it is getting dark)

* for snow and ice buy some spike tires. If you are a bit careful and experienced you can drive over pure ice without any problems. They cost 60 euro per piece but you can use them for 3 or 4 winters

* for normal weather buy some tires with protection against glass and other sharp objects. I have a pair of Schwalbe Marathon Plus and I never had a flat tire in the last 6 or 7 years

* buy the most expensive lock you can find (Abus or Kryptonite) and always lock your bike to something

* always have a set of dry clothing at your workplace just in case the rain is really bad.

* some people buy special rain pants but I personally don't like/need them

* buy and wear a helmet

* install a fender rack to which you can install some bike bag (I am a big fan of everthing from Ortlieb)

With the right gear driving in bad weather is not a problem. Sometimes it isn't fun but I am grateful that I am not dependent on a car!

But what matters most is the infrastructure. Driving bike in Germany is really nice most if the time. But when I lived in the midwest in the US in a smallish town I was one of very few ciclyst in town and driving bike there sucked a lot.
A relevant Guardian article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-k...

"The president's underlings compile their proposed lists of who should be executed, and the president - at a charming weekly event dubbed by White House aides as "Terror Tuesday" - then chooses from "baseball cards" and decrees in total secrecy who should die. The power of accuser, prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner are all consolidated in this one man, and those powers are exercised in the dark."
They ride. No, really. Pretty much all bikes have fenders, so you don't get the rooster-tail of mud up your back. I was there two weeks ago, and it rained pretty much every day, yet I rode the 2 miles to the office each day with my raincoat on.
"Daddy, when I grow up I want to be a drone warrior, too!"

I assume this name came from the government/military itself, and GQ just used it without putting much thought into it, or maybe they just wanted to be sensationalist, but I'm becoming increasingly less patient and angry at these sort of Orwellian names.

Why a warrior? Why not its true meaning like "drone assassin" or even "drone terrorist". But if you really don't want to cause certain emotions (even they would be the accurate reaction to it), then you can at least call it "drone operator", I suppose, but I don't think that would do it justice. A drone operator could be someone delivering pizza by drones in the future. I'd rather they got a much more accurate, and less vague, name.

But warrior? What are they battling to deserve the honor of a warrior? The buttons on their gamepad? What's next? Calling them "drone heroes"? Don't laugh, they actually tried to give these drone assassins medals, until others in the military spoke out against it:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/us-usa-pentagon-me...

I think this is a very important issue that shouldn't be downplayed, because these are the sort of tools (just like the word "patriot") used to brainwash people with little education and coming from poor families, to get them to fight wars for them, and do even very immoral things, while making them feel good about themselves for doing it:

"Hey son, killing those men, their wives and children at the push of a button, made you a warrior, and you served your nation well, today!".

It disgusts me.
Rent control? Geez. If it's the destruction of the city you're after, you could just bomb it, you know. :P

(Oh! Or are you one of those denialists who thinks rent control isn't actually destructive, and prefers your own vision of reality to what the consensus among economists has to say about the matter? because if so I've got some people you should meet who don't believe climate scientists on global warming, or the medical establishment about things like homeopathy, and i think you can all be friends)
By the N I T are you talking about Milton Friedman's proposed system?
Good tip - thanks!
Does anyone know why most of these apps are released in only some countries? What is holding back developers from just releasing globally?
It's the bay area, but we break it up into South bay, and East bay to easily pinpoint the location we are referring to. "She's from somewhere in the East bay", but it's still the bay area; But you don't use it in the following way, "I'm going to the South bay". You would just say, "I'm going to Cupertino/Ssn Jose/etc..." If you're referring to San Francisco, you would just say the city or San Francisco. If you say "frisko", everyone would know you're not from San Francisco.
Those missiles are laser-guided, and the Drone flies following way-points. The only time were the latency actually comes into effect is between the firing order and the actual launch - Hellfires are F&F.
I'm working on a program that allows you to make presentations in record time[0] because making slideshows sucks - and it shouldn't have to.

Learning a lot about node modules, promises, and maintaining an open-source library. Loving every minute of it :)

[0]: http://jdan.github.io/cleaver/
People do this in the Netherlands, but not as many. They cycle to the train station, take the train, and then cycle to work at the other end. Long-distance trains move along pretty well -- it takes two hours to drive from Eindhoven to Amsterdam (assuming you don't hit one of the notorious traffic jams), but only 1:20 by train. As I mentioned in another comment, people either keep a bike at both stations, or they buy a folding bike and carry it on the train with them.
I think most people's definition would be more like the mass murder of non-combatants for religious or political reasons
It introduces a communications problem. Which machines are running SSH on a non-standard port and what is it? Plus some tools are harder to set up, IIRC SVN+SSH is one of them.
Do you know what dotjs is? If you do maybe a converter from dotjs to a chrome extension would be a nice tool :)
Do you consider yourself a good replacement for Windows Live Mail client (formerly known as outlook express)?
What? No it's not. Terrorism is about using violent, random attacks that cause fear to effect some sort of change. It has nothing to do with distance.
I couldn't finish this article. It just makes me too angry.

Warrior? How dare anyone involved in this dignify themselves with such an honour-laden term. They're just murderers, and the fact they hide behind so many layers of technology just makes it all the more cowardly and despicable.
I've generally been happy with Mail.app in Mavericks until yesterday evening when I got a notification center pop-up for a new mail and accidentally clicked the delete option, instead of reply. The email completely and utterly disappeared from the client and the server (google apps imap), wasn't in any Trash or All Mail folder.

It was gone completely based off an errant click on a pop-up notification. Kind of scary.
Why Stockholm Syndrome Could Be A Total Myth
It's in the "other" section; neither good nor bad in my opinion, just different from (some) other languages.
:(

That's primarily a reaction to the dozens of mail startups that layer on top of GMail instead of supporting IMAP, POP, and SMTP etc. But obviously there's something on that page to offend anyone who tries hard enough to be offended.
"Most people's definition of a terrorist attack" is any violence they don't believe in. It's a pejorative, not a description. Lets not do that fake objectivity thing here.

The somewhat objective definition of terror attacks is no longer in use.
As a writer for digital media, I use MS Word. Need to write without being online. And I send my file to editorial team to merge (with images and other writers work) and convert to web page format.
3 hour commutes aren't uncommon...in the States. Pretty rare in the UK.
There is a HUGE number of engineer positions where the job isn't just "to write code". If that's all you're contributing then you're in for a very limited career.
Don't forget about cell signal jammers! Surely it uses CDMA or GSM.

Links:

http://www.starchase.us/d/

http://www.starchase.us/d/2D.php

http://www.starchase.us/admin/
Ok. Taken it, looks quite a lot of material. Will post a review tomorrow if this thread is alive. Thanks.
No, the laws on higher powered electric bicycles are not clear:

http://www.atob.org.uk/electric-bikes/electric-bike-legislat...

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/article/electric-bikes-and-the...

(Edit, better link)
As someone who lives in the land of trees and windows (and grew up in the land of the freeway) I count Santa Cruz as part of the Bay Area, there are enough commuters running up and down CA-17 to make it count.
I prototyped something exactly like this a couple of years ago but I really struggled with converting human readable times (I'm not a programmer).

Looks great! Subscribed.
There isn't a single house or flat (for any price whatsoever) within 4 hour by train radius from Liverpool St that compares to a three bedroom in Barcelona.
I met a person in San Jose who told me they were from the city, and I asked "Oh nice, me too! Which part are you from?" He named some unheard of district, and I kept asking questions to try to pinpoint where it was, and I found out he was actually from Palo Alto. That's extreme.
Yes, particularly now that outlook.com supports IMAP.
Thanks so much. The problem's fixed for me.
It's also the worst, Widnows IMAP client I've found, period. I suspect it doesn't implement caching in an intelligent way. I long for a functional version of Evolution for Windows.
This is the future of warfare, and i am afraid it will only get worse, much worse.

In a decade or two tanks and soldiers might be remote controlled too, and between nations fighting their playstation-wars there will still be innocent civilians.