skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty neat execution, thumbs up guys
Not a web host, but if you use CloudFlare with SSL in front of your host you get PFS: http://blog.cloudflare.com/staying-on-top-of-tls-attacks
Could this be related to all those cancers popping up?
The whole article is flawed in one major point. They assume that women are buying women's magazines because they are for women. In reality they are buying magazines that are of interest for them. Thus women's magazines are women's magazines because of the content. If you change the content (let it be rocket engine construction) it won't be women's magazine anymore because women won't buy it.

I think this is a typical mistake feminists make. Instead of understanding and accepting what women want, they represents their view of what they should want and blame all other factors (stereotype anyone?).
Interchange is the money the bank that issued the card gets from the merchant's bank. It's income, not expense, for that bank.
Technology items are dirt cheap. A white label tablet with decent specs is 100$, a no name android phone 150$, decent gaming PC - 500$ ... its the fashionable tech items that are expensive. And the abusive carrier practices.
And do not forget towel!
Open source is not the best way to call this.

This is more of a simplified version of the software escrow agreement, where you continuously push your code base to a trusted third-party in case your company goes belly-up.

I had to deal with a software escrow in the past, and this is a smart alternative to it - if the customer agrees. There is clearly less protection though.
> Also don't count on their replication as your backup.

This statement seems like a complete non-sequitur: does anyone credible recommend replication as a backup strategy? It's like dinging a server vendor because you can't rely on RAID as a backup plan.
China is not Communist... maybe your question is can be restated as if China will adopt democratic system eventually? I personally believe the answer to that is that is has to, and yes it will probably be more stable compared to the collapse of the Soviet Union - China has that, and it's own history of revolutions, as a reference.
Well done for putting this together. What is disappointing is how few vegetarian restaurants there are! For such a large city you would expect a few more places on the map yet they are so few and far between.

My default option when there is nothing veggie specific is to eat some place Indian. Plenty of Indian restaurants do understand that vegetarianism is the way even if they do have dead animal dishes on the menu for those encultured from an early age to eat 'meat'. It would be helpful if the best Indian restaurants were on the list too.

One thing that does surprise me about the few vegetarian restaurants that are in London is the clientele. Places like Mildreds are packed night after night, and the punters seem that bit more vibrant, healthy, better looking, articulate and youthful than you would normally expect to find when eating out.

More generally, I think that something has to change regarding vegetarianism in London, much like how things have changed regarding cycling in London. As a society we cannot go on eating variants of endangered species on toast for every meal, it is just not on or necessary. Meat eaters need to lighten up a bit and put some variety into their diet.

Why can't the variety of vegetarian cuisine in London be a tourist attraction? Why can't house prices be that bit higher just because they are in an area where there is an excellent choice of vegetarian restaurants? (In the same way that being on a bicycle route adds to the value of a property.) Why can't we have some version of the 'Bake Off' on TV that is about vegetarian food, to celebrate it rather than be all preachy about how evil the meat industry is? Aside from Hitler, why is it that nobody knows of anyone famous for being vegetarian? This is particularly weird when so many celebrities, athletes, respected thinkers and others that people aspire to and respect are actually vegetarian. Where is the 'Boris' or 'Jamie Oliver' of the vegetarian cause?

Going back to the cycling situation we have had a culture shift in cycling and attitudes towards it that has not pissed off motorists. Even if they don't cycle they don't get uppity about those that do. We need something along the same lines for vegetarianism in London.

Anyway, I hope you too have ideas on how attitudes towards vegetarianism could change in London, it would be great if you could say so on your site.
One question:

After signing up for Gitter I checked out Trou.pe. But even without signing up for Trou.pe it already knew my gravatar & was able to suggest me usernames (including my full name) when going to http://trou.pe.

How's that possible?
I moved to London in 2006 and it was £3 then which was at that point the price of a pint. Still 5.50 is quite good.
For those not familiar, the pudding in the domain name referring to a few kinds of sausage in England/Ireland (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding )
Life Size Messi
All those people living in basements lined with tinfoil were right all along.
I've seen these mini directories fall by the wayside in the past, but I wish the author the best.

As someone that likes to eat vegan food and having worked in a vegan cafe, I think it's important to clearly state if an outlet has a vegetarian/vegan kitchen. That's very appealing to me. To be honest I've gotten lazy at asking in a lot of places about how they prepare their food.

We have something called a chip shop in the UK, where you can buy deep fried chips, sausages, chicken and fish. Some places keep the vat of fat for chips separate to the meat and fish friers, others mix it all up, and some chip shops (especially up norf'), use animal fats to fry in. I've bought countless bags of chips only to discover small bits of fish, or find the chips taste of chicken. Even in some places where I've asked and they've assured me otherwise. To be frank some people are too thick to even answer the question if posed or just don't care. I know for a fact the veggie burgers in Grubbs in Brighton were fried in the meat friers (though that might be past practice). It's also a bit of a turn off for me to watch someone make me a sandwich after they've just prepared someone elses and handled meat.

I'd like a veggie chip shop friendly list (if you can ever call a chip shop that)! I should cobble something together myself.

Where others have ascertained that the kitchen is veggie friendly, that's good information to share.
Just tried signing up with github and got the message -

"Gitter isn't ready yet. If we get enough support, we will launch this in a few months. Help spread the word by Tweeting about us and follow @GitChat for updates."

From the other comments here, it looks like people are able to try out a demo or something. What am I missing?
User accounts stored in Redis. Not to complain about Redis, I love it. But I wouldn't store my user accounts in either Redis or MongoDB.
"I have saved over a million dollars and I make over 60k per year in passive income ... At that rate, I will never know what it is to be rich."

WHAT? I would consider that hideously rich, I've never met anyone with that much money before. A million dollars? Speechless.
It's a great start. I'd love to contribute some places (around EC1) that I frequent if you take suggestions?
I really think they should have taken a towel with them.
acko's website is one I have in my favorites bar. Love reading the stuff he puts there. Sadly I wish, as with many of my favorite development/science blogs he updated much more frequently.
Hi. Thanks so much.

I do everything "in the browser" these days. No Photoshop, just straight HTML/CSS/JS in Sublime Text. That way the site starts to feel alive pretty quickly and then I just tweak stuff around until I'm happy with it.

Colours...
Sometimes I use http://flatuicolors.com/ as a starting point and then tweak it from there.

Also keep looking around at stuff on Dribble/Behance/Pinterest for inspiration. Some good guys to follow on Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/robklaiss/uiux/
http://www.pinterest.com/alexhyett/ui-ux-inspiration/
http://www.pinterest.com/wkk711/mobile-ui-ux/

Hope that's helpful.
Beatniks.

That's what we'll get.

The Beats were a genuine movement of talented, hard working literary types. They were hip. They were cool. They were who everyone wanted to be, so people started emulating their dress, their mannerisms, their speach.

But they were not driven by the same passion. Their motivation was different.

Ginsberg said of the Beatniks: "If beatniks and not illuminated Beat poets overrun this country, they will have been created not by Kerouac but by industries of mass communication which continue to brainwash man."

If we let companies continue to use GitHub as a hiring tool, the OSS community will gradually become overrun by people attempting to achieve the same success as the OSS pioneers by mimicking their actions...but lacking their same motivation.

It's hard for me to say this. I like GitHub. I like Open Source. I am proud of what little I have managed to contribute to that community, and I think it is to my advantage if a company considers my GitHub profile when making a hiring decision. That said...I'd rather give up that advantage in exchange for keeping GitHub as an open community to share source, instead of a cauldron for the latest start up founders to pluck their next engineering hire from.
We are talking about no one will invest in hyperloop. If it is because people suspect Musk's cost estimates are off then that is worth bringing up.
Exactly. "Women's magazines" should really be called something like "women's traditional role model in society". It's something of a remnant of a previous era which is still useable for some purposes. My wife can read Cosmo if she needs women's fashion advice, but we read the same articles in Esquire or TechCrunch.
The no change of clothes angle seems to be overshadowing what I think really made their experience - that of no itinerary. That said, I think people mostly over-pack for holidays/travel. I once had all my luggage stolen at the start of a holiday when camping in France. I ended up buying a jumper and a change of underwear and the rest of the holiday went swimingly :)
Hi. No it's purely testing a concept. Lean product development process in full swing.

We tried to make that clear in the text above the signup button, sorry if we mislead you that wasn't the intention.

We're trying to gauge interest before investing heavily in the product.
At the moment we have node + express + faye for rest api/streaming. The web front end is currently built with backbone, less and a sprinkling of bootstrap.
Love the webpage!!
Neat idea.

There are several automatic test runners in Go which work from the terminal. Here's one for example: https://github.com/levicook/glitch. Not as pretty, but perhaps more useful if you want to avoid the browser.
ASRock BitCoint Mining Motherboard
How is this different than say... http://www.dopdf.com/?
This is really a crowded space with plenty of free alternatives that are quite easy to use and work flawlessly
Ah, thanks that explains it. Different in Europe though.
The next 3D printing revolution
Thanks, was hoping someone would find that easter egg. Got to have a little fun along the journey!
I always just make blurry photos this way :/
> Why? Because you can attach a business model to that improvement and extract revenues.

I don't think that is a reason to attach more value to something.

I realize this is not everyone's opinion, of course.
Surely this is entirely a perspective issue? Absolutely no disrespect or anything, but I think this is about more than just money, and perhaps you should try talking it over with somebody significantly more qualified.

I mean, just a little perspective,
The average (median) US household income as of 2011 is $50,000. Inflation adjusted, it's never passed $60,000 1980-2011. [0]

You make more in passive income than most families make from actively working. Oh, and $160,000 puts you firmly in the top 10%, again as of 2011. Maybe you don't see yourself as rich, but you really are doing well.

If the average US worker works 45 years at $50,000, they can earn about $2.25million. You already have half of that over 8 years, in savings. You are miles ahead of the curve here. Most people will never see $1million in their bank account. If I have the equivalent of $1million 8 years after graduation, I imagine that would be a sign I was doing well - why isn't it? Oh, and your average of $125,000 saved per year would put you in the top 15% if it were your entire earnings.

Sorry, my point is, I don't think this is about money. I don't think you're greedy, it's something else. "crashing and burning, becoming homeless or committing suicide" would be the worst possible outcomes, and you can, and deserve to do better than that.

Please talk to somebody more qualified about this because statistically speaking you're doing incredibly so far.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
I disagree with this article completely. I'm a woman and a software developer and I think my Github is very valuable as a portfolio to me. Before I used Github, if I wanted some of my code to get shown off, I would make a blog post about it and call out specific chunks while linking to a ZIP of the whole thing. If a potential employer wanted to see samples of my code, they'd have to find my blog and dig through its archives. Now, they just find my Github. The author acts as though when an employer asks for someone's Github, it's going to be the main or only component to determine whether to hire or not. In interviews where I've been the interviewer, we've used it as a filter to determine if a candidate cares enough to code on their own, if they contribute to open source projects, what their coding style is like, what languages they gravitate to writing in, and just as a general personality guideline. It's cool to see the kind of stuff a person codes in their personal account, whether it's joke repos that give a glimpse at the person's personality and sense of humor, or actual serious projects.
You learn more about yourself going alone.
When you perform the OAuth signup via GitHub, GitHub provides us with your name username, etc. Then, if you click the link to signup with Troupe, we create a Troupe account for you, pre-populated with your details, so that you don't need to enter them again.

Hope this helps!

(I'm one of the devs)
You sound like a very intelligent and capable person, but that doesn't mean that all of your thoughts are intelligent and worth your attention. Some parts of your brain come up with really stupid or useless thoughts. For example, you have a lot of all-or-nothing thinking here (you use the word "never" a lot), and you discount the positive things you've accomplished (you've saved a lot of money and have high passive income, but it took you a lot of time...).

I'd recommend taking a look at this short list of "The Ten Forms of Twisted Thinking": http://cnysearch.com/twist.htm It might help you see the holes in your thinking. Although it may be distasteful, a psychologist may also be able to help you find which ideas are twisting your perspective so negatively.
> This is very troubling. Please see a doctor. Please consider seeing a therapist. Thoughts of suicide are worrying signs of depression, which can be a fatal illness. Modern treatments are getting better, especially if you have the money to access medication and therapy. And early intervention helps.

This is the appropriate response to this post and it is worth repeating in order to help it be viewed by the poster.
bitcoin price updated every minute
current bitcoin price provided by coinbase.com

> do you have to crawl coinbase.com/charts every minute or do they offer BTC quotes via their API?

nice project, I also like the interface!
willing and able to work for free

For me, GitHub is a gallery of my art, not work, so:

Me working for free for an employer that tells me what to do does not lead from me working in my spare time doing what/how I want.
"She covers the reasons why using OSS as a hiring filter biases your selection process toward white men, and the excuses we use to tell ourselves everything is A-OK."

What...the..fuck? I never thought I would see something like this on the front page of hacker news. But obviously anything can happen.
The important detail they miss out is that there's no broker and no (built in) persistence, and that sucks when parts of your critical messaging infrastructure go down and you lose messages you thought had been sent.
Ironic that this is the same author that praised Square, a technology that brings credit cards to more businesses. He's also not in Coin's target audience. He says himself he only uses two cards. Great! Coin isn't for you.

The technology is here. NFC has been in virtually every Android smartphone since 2011, plus Google Wallet and Apple's Passbook. It's all here, ready to go. Businesses, and consumers, aren't sold.

Regardless of my personal opinion on the crudeness of NFC, the problem is point-of-sale systems are (at least) three years away from adopting these technologies at any level of ubiquity.

Go to your nearest farmer's market, and they're still dealing in cash! Square is doing wonderful things to bring credit card processing to the masses, but _that_ is cutting edge. Coin is the next step on the consumer side.
This post was brought to you by the vegetarianism propaganda society.
I don't know if it affects this case, but I know that the Japanese government was doing a lot to prop up their companies, so it's possible that "Japanese competition" isn't entirely private sector.
(I'm the one that wrote the blog post)

Thank you for your awesome feedback. I believe that this could be done fairly easy with UserApp. We've built the system using well-known technology and standards and haven't bought any third-party software that has been integrated into our code.

The clause is not clear about everything. The code would of course be released in the same state as when we are developing in it. If of any reason we would have to close down, why would we want to make it hard for our customers? In that case we would probably give it out as an AWS instance together with instructions and documentation.

And you are right about the open-source license - we definitely need to clarify that. It will probably be under MIT.
If you have time to peddling your diversify book, write angry tweets, go to conferences and do podcasts. You have time to write code. That is, if you're a software engineer (the people who use Github mainly)
The core of "0MQ is just sockets" argument is that it doesn't do the main reason while MQ systems are used instead of, say, sockets - persistence and guaranteed delivery if some endpoints die.

All the arguments in the article are about the fact that it does messaging really good with lots of features, but it doesn't have the queue part at all.

Sure, you can build that yourself on top of 0MQ, but I'd say that building the 'guaranteed delivery' part properly is the hard part of an MQ system.
Why do you think that all these technical people would forget about the floor? So the tent comes with a crappy carpet, so what?
What did the US learn from the 1032nd nuke, that the previous 1031 didn't teach us?
China not communist? It's right there in the name of the ruling party.
Your website is full of XSS Vulnerabilities, see ask.php
Gravity Battery Concept
Your Website is where your CV goes.

Whether it (your CV link, internally — extracts data from github? — or externally) points to your github profile or not is your decision.

Why is this still being discussed ?

Websites, people. Websites.
Hi!

We're using a huge amount of open source components ourselves and are actively contributing back to those projects. James Coglan's Faye is a great example of this where we've been working with James to get it to V1.

The approach we'll take for our own work is certainly to open source some of the components rather than the entire system. We're big believers in giving back, but at the same time we ned to protect our own business.
Sounds very interesting :) Will investigate the alternative. Thanks for the feedback!
Good to know, thanks. What are the options for communication between CloudFlare and the origin? Do you recommend anything in particular?
Wondering if they could develop a multi-factor auth model to complement the card to make the CC company's happy.

Thinking out loud here... could you make the use of the Coin card dependent on being within range of your bluetooth enabled cell phone. If the card knows that it is being swiped (not sure if it does)... then the in-range phone could know and send a msg to the CC company with the shared secret saying "yo, it's legit". Now a thief would have to steal both the phone and the card for it to work. I'm sure there are a million holes in this, but just putting it out there.

Similar concept could work regular CC's as well. CC company comes up with "card swiper 2.0!" and deploys them to merchants. I as a consumer get some incentive from the CC company to register my device with them. When my card get's swiped at a merchant... card swiper 2.0 tries to detect my device. If it sees it, great, lower chance of fraud. If it doesn't, give me a ring to see if I'm aware that my card was used or deny the charges. Might help the triage the sheer number of transactions out there for what's fraud and what isn't.
So you're pushing my information between two different services. Both of which happen to be provided by the same organization.

It's kinda convenient, but still does not feel quite right :(
On a related note, the shitstorms over Google's closing projects like Reader or changing the comment systems in YouTube completely eclipse announcements of developing self driving cars, new ways of wearable computing, new methods of distributing internet to 3rd world countries, and so on.
My wife and I travelled through Europe around the same time as you (most of 2007 and some of 2008). We managed to spend about $25000 for both of us for a year's travel. There's really a ton of ways to travel cheaply if you do your research.

One resource that was invaluable for us was HelpExchange (http://www.helpx.net). Basically the idea is that you exchange helping out someone (usually for about 4 hours a day) in exchange for room and board. On it's own, it's not the greatest deal in the universe, but you can find some really interesting places. During our stay, we did help exchange at:

- A farm in Sweden, where we helped out at the market, got to see some amazing countryside with super friendly people.

- A pub / hostel in a small village in Yorkshire, where our "job" was really just to chat with the locals and pull the occasional pint.

- An absolutely beautiful chateau in Normandy, with 4 other helpx people, including a chef who made the most amazing food ever.

- A camel farm in Austria, where we actually learned to be pretty good horseback riders in 4 weeks (due to dressage lessons every day after we took the camels for a walk)
TeamPostgreSQL is a very good web GUI for PostgreSQL: http://www.teampostgresql.com
Get your own back on recruiters
I work for a creative agency that is regularly accosted by recruitment firms, despite us making it perfectly clear that we don't work with them.

One day, enough was enough, and we built a tool to distract them from distracting us and our industry peers. Take a look!
If your users can run your stack on their servers, why not offer self-hosted edition for a fee like Atlassian?
Yes, because 0mq is just sockets.
I cannot wait for MyYogaPro to start, I need it! I think it's a great project and I'm really curious to how it is going to evolve.

You can check it out here if you want, I think it's brilliant: http://www.myyogapro.com/00468
Javascript comes from a school that most people simply didn't attend. But it's actually ahead of the curve by about 10 years, as evidenced by the emergence of Scala and co.
My Hackathon GitChat project from one year ago: http://chat.gitrun.com/.
Source: https://github.com/gitrun/chat