skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that CSS does go too far at times, I don't think this is one of them.
And you know what the funny thing is? Drupal's UI/UX is usually often vastly superior to most other popular content management systems.

I've had the 'pleasure' of working with a variety of content management systems over the course of my career and Drupal is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. You wouldn't believe the shit that is out there, especially in the Enterprise world.

Edit: I mean, I hate PHP with a fiery passion and it would never be my language of choice for a project, but I'd still rather be forced to use Drupal and its clunky EAV-Design than abominations such as Typo3 (also PHP/Typoscript), Joomla (also PHP), DotNetNuke (holy crap, please kill me now, this must be the worst CMS of all time), LifeRay Portal (Java)...
Using games to practice domain modeling
I know databases well and I have a good grasp of all the normalisation levels, however quite recently I had a project where I just stored all my data in a big json object and when I was done I found out (because of a new requirement from my boss) I now needed to query this big json object. At that point I really wished I had had my data in a nice sql database from day one.
That's exactly why I want to switch to a lower paying job to be closer to home.
Hey all. This is my first Hacker News comment and the first time one of my posts got shared. Thanks for that.

Sorry the title is lame, but I went with something which would get attention at BarCamp Nashville. Not all of them are tech savvy, so the title served its purpose and got the talk selected.

Moving on from the title, what do you think of the content?

There are a lot of Bitcoin haters out there, but also a growing group of supporters. From what I've seen, few informed people argue against the actual technology while some argue about the politics or economics. To my knowledge, we've never seen a deflationary currency (outside of some babysitter experiment). We've never seen a store of value with no third party risk which can be transferred anywhere in the world immediately. As for wasted energy concerns, my understanding is the system is more efficient than the overhead associated with ACH, Credit Card, PayPal or other networks for securing transactions.

Either way, curious what you all think about the content. As this is my first HN comment ever, please, be nice. :)
Agreed. Better yet, keep them in a Google data center. Its far more efficient to make cloud storage available at a reasonable price. How about a diskless laptop that boots from cloud storage? That would be a sweet spot economically (depending on network costs I guess).
> I understand that the core UI elements in Drupal are pretty bad, but why not mention how easy it is for a developer to clone that compose form?

Have you got any guide you can point to which shows how to do this in Drupal? The interface has been putting me off using it for a long time.

Thanks!
Exactly what I was wondering, especially as it's still not up after a couple of reloads.
Ghostium - A Ghost theme focused on content
Ghostium
A Ghost theme focused on content based on Medium design/ux.

Features
- Focused on content
- Fully responsive
- HTML5 semantics, WAI-ARIA and Rich Snippets(microdata) roles
- Asynchronous content loading
- Disqus comments
- Syntax Highlight with Prism
- Google Universal Analytics snippet
- OpenGraph and Twitter Cards meta's
- Baseline HTML5 features, DNS prefetching, responsive meta
- One-file CSS/JS for performance
Thanks! I use the same technique as you and have found many interesting repositories via https://github.com/swannodette and https://github.com/namin.
Brazil debates Internet law in wake of NSA scandal
I want a service that prints money.Can you build that?
what's wrong with dotfiles?
Just because it's not true for you, doesn't mean it's not true for everyone. I was rather indifferent about the changes.
-1, ouch. I was just trying to contribute to the discussion. Maybe I've gotten HN completely wrong. Sorry for any spelling/grammar errors btw, English is not my first language.
Shouldn't we be suspicious of subjective measures like "satisfaction" anyway? I know there are a lot of psychology studies based on similarly vague concepts, but I always feel like it's just too easy for scientists (to say nothing of journalists) to fudge their numbers either way to prove their point.
Seems to me that I've had multiple people editing an Excel spreadsheet that was shared in a Dropbox folder, and it worked. Maybe we just got lucky, also it was a pretty simple spreadsheet, basically a task list.
Could you please add a bit of explanation as to why you are so confident that this interpretation of the role of the police should be regarded as categorical fact?

Particularly in the case of UK, if your knowledge allows, given that we operate, at least in principle, an explicitly Peelian system of policing, in contrast to, for example, our European neighbours.
Talky
Thank you, that was along the lines of what I wanted to know, extremely helpful :)
So far i have only ever seen those on UK pages, anyway. Either the rest of the EU (or germany) doesn't care or solves it in a much more unobtrusive way.
I moved from Silicon Valley back to my hometown after 10 years, at a 50% pay cut. Still was paid 50% more than my geo-contemporaries. And since I moved I've gotten into consulting, which is location-independent, and my pay is back up to Valley levels. So pretty sweet deal.

This only worked because I had contacts in the business. That got me steady contracting work all this time (decades).
This doesn't make sense to me. Why hasn't my native Norway ended up in this spot? Claiming "it is inevitable" isn't a valid argument, projecting to unlikely-seeming future scenarios can be used to prove anything. Just because two big nations have ended up with a screwed-up political system doesn't prove that it is an inevitability.
Naked Mole Rats are the coolest creatures in the entire world. They hardly seem to age and they very seldomly get cancer. Also there is a really funny video about them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHi9FvUPSdQ
Yeah, google drive spreadsheets are only good for sharing fairly static small sheets. I just wrote an intro data science book that uses spreadsheets to demonstrate certain algorithms (simplex, kmeans, modularity, LOF, etc.) And in the book I warn the reader to not use Drive. Slow, clunky, and the Solver implementation is garbage. Plug:

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Smart-Science-Transform-Informati...
it would be the same no matter what, especially if the author doesn't use caching :).
Awesome, this is a really good breakdown of the Go web ecosystem. Thanks for that.
How to Opt Out of Data Tracking on Your Most-Used Sites
Where? No other components store power in any way. There's a few small capacitors lying around, but they're so small that you could never power anything from them. If something like this existed, people would have noticed a long, long time ago.
New River and Ocean Currents Power Generator Concept
Apple provides a solution that is a single unit, hardware AND software that is tied together. Think of it as a car, the whole thing is purchased at one time, functions entirely on its own from end to end, but you can add features to it.

The alternatives are allowed, but you are buying a singular device, not a platform for other developers per se, it just happens to allow developers to create software for it.

On the other hand, you have Microsoft which has historically been a platform software solution, building a culture of allowing anyone to build on it, licensing portions and features to developers for them to build on. Until recently, there was only tepid attempts at hardware branded Microsoft where as Apple has always been hardware bound to software to the point you can't easily install OSX on anything other than Apple hardware. The same cannot be said for Microsoft, the only other company that is bound by this rule of multiple defaults.

That rule came about because Microsoft had licensing rules that prevent devs from using MS software on their own hardware if that hardware included competing software. If you wanted to use Windows, you HAD TO use IE only. Microsoft was using monopolistic practices, but did not have a monopoly btw.

In a nutshell, Apple is selling a singular device that happens to have a doorway that allows users to install addition software to expand the hardware/OS beyond its default intended (by Apple standards based on analyzing the user market) purposes.

Other alternatives are hardware solutions that allow your choice of software as middleware to gain access to the hardware functionality. Two hugely different ideologies.

One is a fork, the other is build-a-bear.
Functional Rendering
Dabbling really is not enough to show you the problems with your assumptions. You are right that there is a cost, but it is really paid once up-front by each programmer.

I could have written this same comment five months ago, before I started down the long dark tunnel of doom which is to go beyond LYAH and trying to write a real application. I think it was two months before I saw a light at the end of that tunnel - and only recently that I have really begun to feel as productive in Haskell as I previously was in Ruby. At this point, the costs you speak of are paid up and I do not incur them when I write new code. Yes the type system does impose a lot of structure and some boilerplate, but the benefits are profound. Its the sort of statement I did not really fully credit before experiencing myself, but I will say that is profoundly amazing how frequently my code works perfectly once it compiles. This is particularly true when refactoring. I remember sometimes in Ruby despairing to refactor some code because I didn't want to fix all the tests...in Haskell once my tests are compiling they are passing, and the compiler errors are usually very easy to understand and fix (after several months of head-banging frustration).
> Hello Marihuana legalization

is it legal in Sweden?
We dont know, but backblaze sure knows how to:
1. print backblaze's brand as often as linguistically possible in the same article.
2. Get to the top of HN over a 50 yrs old technology's failure rate without clustering for brand spin speed density etc. (read not much)

Am I unaware that there are new paid spots on the first page of HN? (it would make sense I guess, from a business perspective)

TIA to anyone that can be of help on this,
cheerio, (and good luck to Blackblaze, backblaze a path to a backblazing success!)
We use go-bindata on etcd to build the frontend components of the dashboard into the binary:

https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/resour...
https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/build
https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/dashbo...
Indeed it's a 101. Thanks for your comments. The only one I would really disagree with is "always represent more than one data series". That's really tough to represent multiple series on one single chart and manage to keep it immediatly readable.
Can you prove this? It's the first time I have heard someone make this claim, although it seems like something which is reasonable to test for.
For what is worth, I like the new GMail.
Isn't "enrage" a bit strong for the feelings feel people in response to a website update? Or, are people really enraged?

Do people feel enraged when there is no more toilet paper or they are out of milk? I thought rage was more for racial injustice and displays of gross inconsideration... I'm just trying to figure out if my rage-dar needs a bit of a calibration.

I actually can't remember the last time I felt something I would call "rage". Am I missing out on something?!
http://www.dn.se/debatt/antalet-fangar-ar-nu-sa-lagt-att-vi-...

More likely the guardian is lagging a few days behind.
I'm not at all a big fan of Drupal, having quit it at 5...but my perception is that all things considered, this is not a bad interface compared to what most clients expect for their own website...and I'm not saying that in a woo-hoo! kind of way...It's sad that people don't reflect more on how much a clunky admin UI can heavily hamper their content production.

I run a pretty simple instance of Wordpress for my blog, but I've updated my custom, hacked-up Jekkyl site far more often than that, as well as my Tumblr (to say nothing of what I put out on Twitter, or, I guess, HN). CMS UIs matter, and kudos to the OP for trying to preach on that.
I don't have a guide on-hand but my advice, if you're new to Drupal, would be to take a few weeks and really explore the power of it (via contributed modules and some of your own development; if possible). The same thing scared me away initially (that was 8 years ago), but I've learned to love the power and complete flexibility that this platform offers.

Since we're talking about messaging, try out the Private message module. Right off the bat, you'll get a much cleaner form than the ugly node form. Private messages are also fieldable so you can add additional fields like attachments, labels, etc. Using the API (hook_form_alter()), you can do anything you want to any form at all. Then once you introduce a good theme, the possibilities are as endless as any other solution.

I'd also take a look at some of the Drupal 8 backported modules for Drupal 7 (if you're going to use 7). They introduced a number of great UI changes and made some of them available for Drupal 7 via modules.
Bran in drag!
Seems like the price is a bit steep for a little bit of fabric.
Selectize.js - A textbox and select-box hybrid
We're going to start with the basic Math functions, sort and filter.

Another key feature will be a robust API to allow people to build on top of it. More on that in another post soon.
I think that there is a big opportunity in using Google Discovery style REST APIs. There is a new framework at github.com/rwl/endpoints that lets you build "Cloud Endpoints" style REST APIs outside of the Appengine ecosystem. Here is an example application using this project: https://github.com/philips/endpoint-hello
That's awesome Jeff. Do you have a link to your map? I'd love to see it. Would be cool to try and put some moving bikes on it now :)

http://blog.cartodb.com/post/66687861735/torque-is-live-try-...
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zerohedge maybe ? It is not really tech, but a blog on economy and finance, and it does talk about HFT often.
Remember, nothing is impossible
Thanks for the answer!

I'm doing this as a hobby/challenge. The blog: www.21pips.com

Yes I plan to write new articles weekly, however if I don't see an increase in traffic I might not have the motivation to continue.

I'm not an expert in SEO, but it seems impossible to me to get a decent SERP (even for long tail search) in this industry. I'm competing against huge banks or websites with crazy pageranks.
Its cool to be sensitive to the feelings of others. But its not actually required, not even in a civilized society. When writing "straight white men feel that we have the interpretative prerogative..." keep in mind that every free-thinking person actually does have that right. If others disagree, fine. Acting as the PC Police doesn't make you a better person; it makes you silly and anti-intellectual.
For the most part, good points.

I'd add a #5: Be able to work with any team member. If you can get along well with most everyone, they (probably) won't say negative things about you to your boss behind your back.
The "battery to keep your clock on time problem" was a problem of the offline PC world. Cellphones just need to get network time when they boot if they lost time. Thus manufacturers shouldn't need to include a separate clock battery in the limited space on a phone body.
Don't thinks so, but I wanted to cite a real-world example of decriminalization that is actually happening in at least some jurisdictions on that planet. That was the first one that came to my mind. Others include

* decriminalization of same-sex intercourse (gay, lesbian).

* general decriminalization of drugs (think portugal)
It kind of goes hand in hand with having a G+ account.
"It’s bye bye Japan, and everyone on the West Coast should evacuate"
Is it really worth it to work all those extra hours?
Yeah, if that was true that would be completely against EU regulations,so you could sue manufacturers and win millions. So if you have any proof that they are doing that, you are practically a millionaire, I don't know why are you not on your way to the court yet.
The title of this post is misleading and inaccurate. The original title was "GOCE gives in to gravity".

Further, the post says: "GOCE satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica."

While this may seem like a rather wide area, there's still a very good idea where the debris re-entered. "No idea" is very far from the truth. Given that it is known which orbit it fell on, that already excludes most of the Earth's surface area. What is left is a narrow, sinusoidal line (the ground track), which is a rather good estimate where it fell. As far as I know, there are no better observations (ie. radar tracking) available, but we've still got a decent estimate.

Please change this shameful link bait title to better match HN guidelines about post submissions.
"Modern popular game", which so happens to be developed by two guys, who got their funding on kickstarter.

There are lots of interesting things going on, pick one.
What about Numbers for iCloud? (not a troll question)
I guess..
From what I understand, at this point all 3 major hard disk vendors have very similar failure rates. The thing to look out for is that certain runs of drives may be "contaminated" during the manufacturing process, but knowing which ones is pretty unpredictable.
No. Any thick client architecture has to deal with this problem. The current resource-oriented models (by which I mean they're focused on serving http resources) are severely limiting those of us who want to develop a web application.

Some people are side-stepping the issue by saying that the whole presentation layer must be moved to the front-end, but that approach is really incompatible with the web.

If anything, the current state of the front-end is thanks to server-side developers who want to bring their world view to the browser. (Think: MVC -> Backbone / Ruby -> Coffeescript -- apologies to the authors of those tools)
Modern PNG compressors
I don't think anybody is claiming that functional programming makes complexity magically go away. The claim is that functional programming (especially when backed by a strong static type system) makes several categories of issues essentially disappear. That's a much more reasonable claim to make.
Google's cache is up: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
Great intro to data-vis! Does anyone have more related links to share?

Personally, I found this very useful:

http://complexdiagrams.com/properties

* this is not a shameless plug!
I was going to mention OSNews, but then I realized it's been a while I didn't visit so I went to check it:

And this is the current frontpage: Sony, Samsung, QNX, Valve, Microsoft, Linux, Google, Microsoft, Google, Valve, OpenBSD, Apple, Apple/Microsoft, Apple/Microsoft/Google, Apple, Google, Cisco, Motorola, Nokia, Apple.

My memory was that it was more of a site about alternative OSes and the like...
I think that's the real goal of the post: if gmail was built with Drupal it would be always broken :D
sounds like you want government...
what is the most robust PHP ORM out there for large projects?
While your namesake is sweet and delicious, your opinions are questionable.
Another useful tip is to get those doors upgraded ASAP, then work on upgrading shields. Fully upgraded doors are lifesavers when fires break out or intruders beam in.
> Who the hell cares how safe you FEEL?

You should, how safe you feel is part of your quality of life. It's correct that it may not reflect objective statistics, and that it's influenced by media, but the fact remains.. how you feel affects your life.

For example the situation with healthcare. Your health insurance adds to your quality of life even when you are not using it.
Now you're just being oversensitive :) Granted, the "interpretative prerogative" line was obviously flamebait...
Surprisingly long, all things considered.
I remember quite precisely having collaborately worked on a single Excel document stored on Skydrive. I could instantly see the modifications my coworkers made on the document.
Hackers Steal $1 Million From Australian Bitcoin Bank
Ask HN: Sell framework licenses or open source it?
Hey fellow HN'ers. I've worked a couple of months on an a/b testing framework for .net (asp.net + desktop apps).

Now that I'm close to finishing it, I don't know what to do: open source it on github or sell licenses of it.

What would you do?
I can not say what was the real intent behind this but I'd like to discuss it from my point of view, how I perceive it and what would my intentions would be if I dressed up as a woman.

Being a woman IS NOT "about as low, ridiculous and debased as a person can get". To me this is the same as if he would wear that silly body builder costume with muscles poking out or the sumo wrestler suit.And by wearing those suits I don't think it is derogatory to body builders or sumo wrestlers. It is about the person doing it making a joke of themselves because they just look ridiculous and funny when they do not appear as themselves. Walking in heels, wearing makeup, having lots of muscles on you or just lots of body mass (not to say fat) will make you walk awkward because you are not used to it.

There is a difference when you put on a muscle suit for a day and if you build up and have muscles every day (I wish) so it is not also about mocking the way how body builders walk (btw. the walk think is the only thing that comes to my mind if I was wearing one of those what would I think is funny on me about that, maybe there are also some other aspects why that would be funny).

So no, it is not degrading to dress up as any person, it is just for a laugh, at least in my case and how I perceive that. That said, if someone is making a joke not out of themselves but out of people they are dressing up as, that is not nice and not ok.

The real question is will you stop mean people being mean by banning and/or criticizing any dressing up or you will just kill off some harmless fun, while mean people still stay mean and find other ways to "practice" their meanness?
How does your indifference to the changes speak to the fact that there were people who had a problem with the new interface that didn't speak up? Does your indifference somehow make the person you responded to cease to exist?
The Diabolical Developer
And a very powerful property. Never mind conserving CPU or memory; the slowest component in any system is the wetware programming the system: you. I always try to use tools and techniques that eliminate the possibility of categories of bugs. I use scope to control use-counting when possible; I use as strong a type as is helpful in the tool I'm using etc.