skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try to get there by bringing the benefits of the web to apps, and by bringing the benefits of apps to the web. We're already seeing this with ChromeOS, FirefoxOS, Cordova, etc. on the web side, and various efforts to streamline app installation, add deep linking, and other things on the app side.

Personally, I think browsers can be a quite good application platform - they're basically a view hierarchy, with a layout and styling system, an event model, and scripting engine. With efforts like the *OS APIs, custom elements, asm.js/PNaCl/Dart, WebGL, canvas, Service Workers... there's a lot you can do, all in a stack that's easily accessible to millions of developers.
Looks awesome! If you remove the comment tag as part of a commit, does it / could it in future close the issue?
Google Play Music All Access (great name!) requires Flash in order to play any music. Unlike Spotify, they do not have a native Linux client. If you abhor Flash for security and performance reasons, GPMAA is much worse on Linux than Spotify.

Rdio's HTML5 interface works perfectly without Flash. I recently switched from Spotify and I'm pretty happy so far.
Cool idea, it might benefit from a Kanban style for the UI
No doubt about it. I wonder how many people give up on promising projects because investors wouldn't be interested in a business that would only attract a 'tiny' market of 1000 people paying $20/month. But if one or two guys can run it and it doesn't take more than a few EC2 instances, why not pursue it?
That's an executive console.
The earliest commercial electric distribution systems in the US used direct current. This was the only technically viable option at the time, but voltage drop made it necessary for power plants to be close to the user -- even in expensive locations -- which in turn required the continuous transportation of fuel to these power plants.

In the 1880s, various inventions made it possible to use high-voltage AC to transmit electric power without significant voltage drop. It became cheaper to put the power plants near the fuel and move the electric power. Furthermore, it became possible to generate electricity from power sources, like great waterfalls, that could not be moved at all.

The moral of the story? If anyone ever invents a way to move code from programmers to employers more cheaply than moving the programmers themselves, Silicon Valley is doomed.
IceCube Telescope Finds High-Energy Neutrinos, Opens Up New Era in Astronomy
Twitter media best practices
Linux/GNU doesn't really have a foothold in the world of design, so that it not surprising.
Ask HN: take a mediocre internship, or hold out for a great one?
I am an undergraduate CS student and recently received an offer from a well-known, but not well-liked, tech company (company x) for a summer internship. The compensation is not great, nor is the location, nor is the expected internship experience at this company. This is not a place I would want to work full-time after graduation.

Company x needs to know my decision by early next week (3 business days from the offer). However, I am in the interview process with a couple top-tier or near top-tier companies. I have alerted them to my competing offer, but doubt they will be able to make a decision by early next week.

Is risking not having any internship worth the possibility of having a great internship, or do I just go with the mediocre one?
Kano: A Raspberry Pi Computer That Snaps Together Like Lego In 107 seconds
For anyone looking into Puppet, I have created a screencast, on how to Learn Puppet using Vagrant @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/8-learning-puppet-with-vag...
Congrats ! I can see AirPair for other stuff than programming, cant wait to see more :)
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Not a good day for this to happen. Xbox Live is impacted as well.
Segway wishes it was the bitcoin of transportation.
Can confirm Sydney is down :(
Ask HN: where are the Amazon headlines in the NSA/Snowden saga
Have We Taken Exam Security Too Far?
For non-breaking news, sure. For breaking events, RSS is inappropriate. You need a push model (which ADN Broadcasts is), whereas RSS is the epitome of pull.
And why is that a justification? Should McDonalds have cameras on it's employees that the employees cannot access or gain copies of the data within?
First image of the Earth by Mars Orbiter Mission
Ubuntu bitcoin indicator applet
I agree with you, thank you.
You could also just get the binary from the Raspbian repositories. You would still need to make sure you have all the binary-compatible dependencies, but at most you need a chroot (and ARM processor/emulator).
Ok, so then do peace officers have that responsibility? Are they the ones responsible and no-one else? Why?
Ask HN: where are the Amazon headlines in the NSA/Snowden saga?
I'm just wondering, they're the other big player but they're the only one that sells services and stuff rather than ads. But they hoover up Kindle data. Did Bezos see this coming and purposely keep Amazon out of that space? Was he lucky because of the business model? Or have i just missed the gory details through coincidence?
You don't understand: All music must be in FLAC because MP3/AAC/WMP just "doesn't sound right".
And yet the world's highest quality, and most widely used pieces of software are developed between thousands of people on email lists everyday (Linux, FreeBSD, etc, etc).
For a higher-level overview of this release, see the blog post: http://blog.ansibleworks.com/2013/11/21/ansible-1-4-released...

A lot of great new features in this release - very excited to see the tool become more and more powerful.

I only came across Ansible this summer, but it really blew my mind. I've been doing systems contracting for a few years now and Ansible is the most valuable tool I've come across for systems management so far. Now, rather than have to use (and train my clients on) multiple tools, I can have them just learn one solid tool that can handle orchestration, deployment, configuration management, server inventory, etc. I can now do a systems project in days when before the same project would take weeks. Expect to hear a lot more about Ansible in the future.

Ansible isn't awesome because of a feature-list. It's awesome because it saves me time and gives me a lot of power for very little investment. Whether you're setting up a single server or 10,000 nodes, you can use this tool to give you a ton of leverage without having to spend weeks learning complex tools.

That's why I've been focusing on it so much in the last few months.

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No-Equipment Workouts [pdf]
MIT license is one of those licenses which the license text do not reference itself by name.

A bit odd, but the requirements to use the software are understood to be simple.
There will be at least three development platforms called Spark now, the others being http://spark.incubator.apache.org/ and https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Spark
I switched from Foundation 4 to Flatstrap (a version of Bootstrap) instead because I like the flat UI. v4 had many problems with JS and especially topbar was never good enough. I ended up creating my own topbar which is not ideal. Also the lack of fixed cols is a big issue for desktop design.
This is how any parliamentary body on the planet works. If you are concerned about this from a constitutional perspective you do exactly what the founders did: separate legislative powers into equal chambers.

If you place constitutional requirements above a majority vote on a parliamentary body then the judiciary has to step in and enforce those requirements violating the separation of powers.
This is why I never open links in same window, everything is middle click. Even on ios I will tap-hold to open in new window, I can never trust JS apps not to trash my forward/back
Hmm... their limitations on how much text/options you can enter is making it somewhat difficult.
How Do You Make Money Off Stolen Art?
Why do you feel the app gold rush is over? Just curious.
I personally would hold out for a great one! These early internship experiences actually play an important part in shaping your career. But then again, I am not fully aware of your circumstances. It's all about whether you want safety (and the associated mediocrity) or excitement (and the associated risk).
dear lawyers,

Isn't there a thing called 'slander of title?'

Would that thing apply in the case of representing someone else's work as your own for the purpose of issuing a DMCA?
It's a law written to limit it, so in that sense a law "against" something. But the whole point is who is the criminal in the transaction.

So: The premise of this öaw in Sweden is, basically, that there exists almost zero (or at least little enough to ignore) "fine and peaceful business between consenting adults", so that is a non-issue. I think it is due to several factors

1) only street prostitution is extensively investigated, and the street prostitution is basically trafficking victims, drug users and so on. 2) There is little or no "German" sex industry, i.e. no brothels or other "well organized" industry. 3) Few argue that it is an important human freedom to buy or sell sex, and very few would have a problem with the State having a say in it.

I don't know if there has been much research done on whether the prostitution has moved under ground, one can't simply assert it, and it is very hard to investigate (and to interpret the numbers! internet prostitution is way up between 1990 and 2010 because internet)

Btw. I don't think there is any research establishing the connection between increased levels of rape with stricter laws or reduced levels of prostitution?
I wonder why most free icon sets are licensed with attribution but most free software is not...
That's an interesting question. On the commercial side 1/2 of amazon is public and the other 1/2 can be gotten in finer detail from banks and credit cards.

That still leaves AWS which is a huge portion of the internet.
I charge consulting rates, and if you'd ask me to specify by the hour what I do I'd tell you to stuff it. People routinely asking for hourly breakdowns, for work that priced entirely reasonable and who are kept in the loop on what is done and at what rate, are pathological customers you don't want in the first place.

(lawyers are used to billing in 6 minute increments, and while I think it's interesting to go over their bills, I'd pay them (at least my current firm) the amounts they ask too if they wouldn't provide me with a specified bill. I sometimes feel sorry for them, what kind of life is that, having to write down the time for every 2 minute email you write?)

If you don't trust your professional services suppliers enough to pay their bills without knowing what they did hour-by-hour, you need to find other people who work for you, because that's not a healthy relationship you have.
I would say that the real boss debugging starts with finding a way to make it first a unittest debugging.

Once the weird behavior is covered, usually print debugging is even better than pdb because it will encourage you to extend the test suite.

What I would like though is a special monkey patching in python that allow my to write print like "p this that" and will prettyprint this and that on stdout
There's another huge reason the cubicle office is dominant: Cubicles are immediately tax deductible, while building out offices is considered a capital improvement, and therefore has to be depreciated over a longer period of time.

Tax law all too frequently shapes behavior, and this is one of those cases.
It's because the metadata saying to render the image @2x is lost when imgur serves the PNG back to our browsers.
Comparing containers and generating Dockerfiles with GuardRail
No, it doesn't address peripheral vision or noise.
I still don't see the need for this. If my RSS reader is always polling for new messages then I will get the message. Push or pull, the end user doesn't see the difference.
Reminds me of the office in the well-known Soviet film, Sluzhebniy Roman (Office Romance) filmed in the Soviet Union in the early 70's. But the senior manager did have her own office which doubled as a conference room.
The engine is designed for your end users in mind and for them to track a particular Github issue. A kanban style wouldn't really be beneficial since end users are just tracking items(not as a developer working on them).
Using Bees to Detect Cancer in Humans
What if google wants to use their videos as part of real-time traffic? In such a case, shouldn't public servant's data, no matter the cause of the service, be allowed to be used for public good? What about when a cop makes a friendly but racist joke at a co-worker or friend? Should that be allowed? What about when the officers are having a fight with their boyfriends or in-laws. Just because the fight is occurring 'on-duty' doesn't mean that they can avoid it nor does it mean that they loose the right to have an argument with loved ones privately.

Also, privileges are part of responsibilities. With further responsibilities come further privileges. Higher ranks in the military are saluted because of their increased duties, they also gain a better mess hall and other privileges as rank improves. Outside of the military, a driver's license is a good example. With the privilege of driving comes the responsibility to maintain safety for your vehicle. The responsibilities of a US citizen are to serve if drafted, to be educated, to serve on juries, to respect the law, to pay your fair share of the taxes, to respect the authority of the government, and to respect the differing opinions of other citizens. With this you gain many rights and privileges that are afforded to you that many people in other countries do not have.
The folks sending banking credentials to Nigeria tend to not be computer savvy. The same is not true for Bitcoin.
How to Create Your Reason - HBR
> Face-to-face communication is the [...] most efficient way for humans to interact.

I'll bet my progress in five thousand years of human history against your progress in fifty thousand years of human prehistory.
Some people may think that, but I doubt that that applies here. Wolfram certainly knows that "proprietary" and "free" aren't antonyms.

I do think there is a commercial side to this, too, however. This is a kind of a hook to catch future customers of the commercial package.
Energy harvesting chips: The next big thing for a connected world
Sure, just be sure your WiFi network has been deployed for voice (much higher density of APs). Cisco Jabber, Avaya One-X, Microsoft Lync are all available on PC, Mac, Android and iOS. For Asterisk and SIP based deployments, Bria makes an excellent softphone for the same platforms.
I seriously cannot understand the lasting attachment people have for $400 plastic devices, but using a tablet or smartphone avoids problems caused by an unstable/busy PC. In 2005, at an accounting firm (conservative user base, broad mix of ages) voluntary / satisfied softphone users was 35%, today I would expect it would be nearly double. Never hurts to ask the IT department.
Hello, dear critics! :) My "Make Batch Files" tool is in early alpha version, so I'd like to hear any feedback or criticism, especially regarding the idea itself.
I guess that's a good thing. They're pushing the web forward.
Ah, a relief. Not that I doubted that S.W. is a reasonable person but open source vs closed source is such a… “religious” topic. :-)

Collaborations in Wolfram language will be a pretty unique experiment, for they are likely to unite people from very different fields (including, of course, lots of non-programmers). It's going to be great.
Office space would be a lot cheaper if you would just move out of the big tech hubs! Even Silicon Valley has its distant suburbs where rent is cheaper, and commute times are lower.
When will this be available on Rails?
Ready 0.6 Released
Only if you use an overly literal interpretation of "commercial" yet don't use the literal interpretation of "open source" (since it's also possible to make source code visible to the public without using a license that would be considered "open source").
Changes in Ready 0.6
And there are people who only write code after they have figured out why their design is right.
nwenzel, your video at http://blog.simplelegal.com/simplelegal-reports doesn't play on Firefox. I'd suggest using a service like Vimeo or one of the tools listed at http://praegnanz.de/html5video/ to make sure you have a Flash fallback.
You know who else bundled Mathematica for free?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#Software_applications
IMO, the existence of Sage obviates the need to use Mathematica in the same way as the existence of the Gimp obviates the need to use Photoshop.

In both cases, the commercial package has many, many features that the free version barely implements or even completely lacks, and implements many of the shared features better. On top of that, the commercial software has the advantage of being market leader. That brings with it that it, in general, is easier to find a Mathematica package to do X that to find a Sage one.
Forget these OpenOffice layouts. I think LaTeX is more flexible... oh wait, never mind.
What's brought Monty Python back together?
Ask HN: Who uses AWS spot instances?
Which companies are using spot instances, and what are they using them for? Off the top of my head I can think of Netflix, but most companies haven't created their architecture to be that resilient.
As of this writing, Internet Explorer 11 is code-named Chrome and is being mirrored for download by Google at http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/.

Can't tell if the OP actually believes this or if the whole article is just a troll.
The strangeness I see is that the /delegate call isn't specific. I can't say that I want Joe to be able to decrypt LaunchCode3, so I could end up inadvertently allowing Mary to decrypt SecretLocation without really wanting to - it is wide open to timing attacks. This doesn't seem like a fundamental flaw, just something (maybe) overlooked in v1. Very cool stuff.
Don't Get Scroogled
Our engagement project: Beautiful Wedding Registries.
pretty sweet!
wrt my post, s/ideas/unique project with preexisting code and hardware/. Granted it's no MVP with a proper income strategy.

Are my ideas on how to proceed correct? I'm not sure--perhaps I should validate on my own. I can't afford to scale yet (time and money), so perhaps I should seek to "wow" and then seek interest. I can at least do that on my own.

That said, your post was really insightful. As another already mentioned, I wasn't aware about the solicitation rule.
If "always" means an interval of more than 10 seconds, true push is still going to feel a lot more high tech, even if it probably doesn't matter in practice for most (but not all) broadcasts.
Have spoken with a few people already. Of those, three others have currently offered support. Need help even if you do not have funds:

What we need are contacts at AOL and AOL Music. If you know anyone that works at AOL or anyone that has a relationship with someone at AOL let me know.

PS. Had two offers with BTC pledges, unfortunately that would make things more difficult so please just help with USD or personal contacts.
The Celtic Tiger Purrs: Ireland Tops European VC Chart
It seems to have dependencies on core Foundation Javascript. I don't think it can be used stand-alone.
True.
I had used cmd for about 15 years before that, so while using "cd" or "dir" and the classic lingo was okay, doing everything rails-related in CLI just felt..clunky: "why would you have such a bad interface? EasyPHP does everything just fine with a GUI!". Had I known CLI could be more intuitive (hello pipes!), I'd have looked up for a better alternative sooner =)
IIRC, both datatables [1] and JQGrid [2] do this, right?

[1] http://datatables.net/

[2]http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html
And of course, they wouldn't have to test every IP address in the world, they'd only have to test the IP addresses that appeared in the webserver logs at some point, substantially reducing the time requirement.
Craftsmanship working for commercial objectives
Here’s how Bitcoin charmed Washington
Camel cased would actually be javaScript
Ansible is so good, than even Ansible playbooks win awards:

https://github.com/Answers4AWS/netflixoss-ansible

:-)
is up in Pune, India
This seems really neat, but how does such a well designed site miss the title tag?
...this being Foundations greatest failure. Until IE8 is under 2% usage, it going to be hard to convince an ecommerce client that it's OK to leave these users on the table. Sure we can implement workarounds, but that adds a lot of overhead to development.

Does it not make sense for a front-end framework to handle cross-browser compatibility for us?
History:

- The History of Byzantium

- History of Rome (finished)

- Revolutions

- The China History Podcast

- Ancient Warefare Podcast

- A History of Hannibal

- A History of Alexander (finished)

China:

- Sinica Podcast (Part of Popup Chinese)

- China Money Podcast

- The China History Podccast

- The Creamcast

Tech:

- Think Distributed
Will this allow me to talk with the buggers?
You have just rediscovered the reason that some people talk about "free software", and some people talk about "open source".

The sort of access to source code that is being expected here is really no more than the sort of access that you can get to Windows code. It really is not an unreasonable expectation.
Keep a politician in your pocket - but not the way you think
Initial thoughts: great idea for a startup.

As soon as Deepak Chopra scrolls into view: Ugh, new age bullshit and lies.

I have no idea why this thought process is the way it is.
Print debugging is faster. Most people who use this technique also don't make so many mistakes because they take the time to review their code, not to mention writing unit tests.

Their debug cycle is a) notice something is not quite right. b) insert some print statements in the code that they just changed. c) run it again. d) look at the code and the print statements to see where they made a wrong assumption, fix it and move on.

No need for figuring out where to set a break or single stepping through too much tangle.
Silk Road's Admin Console: Mastermind
Yes, I'm quite sure the marketing team in charge of the Scroogled campaign has the technical chops to prevent a DNS outage.
> What's the point?

It's basically Java, but Google made it. Your Chrome Apps can run wherever Chrome does.
It's working just fine for me. I use Outlook.com mostly as one of several back-up email accounts. I tested it by sending a message to my Gmail account, and all is well.
> only if you're decoding user input as UTF-7

Hmm, may I ask what makes utf8 won't produce U+DEADBEEF? Or something remotely like that?

Edit:

'\xfb\x9b\xbb\xaf'.decode('utf8')

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfb in position 0: invalid start byte
Is this an example of our new right to general solicitation or what!?
Judging by their revenues, someone must find their software interesting, or at least useful.
> They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?

They are the "native" apps for ChromeOS that, incidentally, can also run anywhere else* that Chrome OS runs.

* except iOS
A friend of mine working at Microsoft mentioned this afternoon the Redmond campus had a full network outage.