skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In actuality it would be `email.NewEmail()` -- the lack of namespace specificity is due to the code examples already being part of the package. The issue with a simple `New()` 'constructor' is that there is ambiguity as to what struct it's creating.
Why We’ve Bet on Node.js plus Streamline (Hint: It’s Productivity)
Typer.js: An easy-to-use plugin that just types
You can download (free) browser apps, Terra for instance, that spoof the browser useragent (ie, firefox, another one iirc).
Good point - when developing the package, I was referencing these [1][2] documents which showed the use of NewObject() instead of New(). I figured since I provide more than one possible struct (both Email and Attachment), the use of NewEmail would provide consistency.

However, now that you mention it, I suppose it wouldn't have hurt, and the meaning would have been fairly clear. Oh well - live and learn, at this point, I'm doing my best not to break backwards compatibility if I don't have to.

Thanks for the heads up!

[1] http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#composite_literals

[2] https://sites.google.com/site/gopatterns/object-oriented/con...
Static or Dynamic Typing? Why not both?
3-5 hours is good battery life in 2014?
Not necessarily: https://www.google.com/search?q=golang+%22func+New(%22+site%...
The Macbook has a better trackpad and the (legal) ability to run every major desktop OS.

That's worth $300 to me...
Awesome to hear from you! Good points and I believe you're right on all of them.

I thought there was more to it because the headline made me think that the general problem of taking a random StreetView location and finding the addresses in it was solved, which really set some high expectations.

This work is equally impressive and good stuff. Hope to see this headline again in the future soon.
Like ihsw said, in Go you probably should leave it as `NewEmail` because `New` is ambiguous.
This could be genius if Facebook puts the right momentum behind it.
Thanks, that's the idea. None of us are really qualified to do much more than attempt to provide a positive role model to kids who don't really have any, and every now and again it actually seems to work.

The particular organisation I'm working with is the Forest Estate Community Hub, in Egham, which is run by my church. I ended up getting involved mostly because I was one of a few people who thought something like the kids club we run was needed, and in a small church the only way things like that happen is if you step up and get on with it!

The closest we get to a web page is a Twitter account at https://twitter.com/ForestEstateHub, which gets updated both with the kids club, and various other groups that use the building.
What the U.S. does is to use military force to preserve the international status quo. E.g. if we go into an oil rich state like Iraq, we don't just take the oil, we just ensure that it continues to be sold in the market as usual. This isn't "war" but it's not "conquest" either.
> How many members of Congress voted to close down Guantanamo Bay?

Most recently, a majority of the Senate -- almost entirely Democrats, though three Republicans joined -- and 174 members of the House, also mostly on party lines.

So, not exactly the best example of an issue where the parties are aligned.

> It's not gridlock stopping these things.

Well, except that, at least in the case of closing the detention facility at Gitmo, its exactly Republicans in control of the House blocking the position that the Democratic-controlled White House, the Democratic-majority Senate, and Democrats in the House all support.
Naive question, but common our enterprise break-ins where a company would need a tool devoted entirely to it?
I'm using the app now and I see that I have "0 thank you cards." That seems like it might be some kind of points system. We'll see once I can get someone else to install the thing.
Hmm: no way to download the 3D objects created.

Interesting tech, but that's a real pity.
Post, don't post, doesn't matter. Your friends who do post will give enough information about you that not having an account wont matter.

Nothing stops someone from tagging you in a photo. Nothing will stop people from posting "Hanging with XXX @ YYY". Putting 2 and 2 together: they now know who you are, types of places you visit, and what you look like. And you never made an account. After this your choices are:

- get radical with friends about what they post about you

- give in and use facebook

- stop hanging out with your friends
Don't tell me, I merely added one line of code to show that more information than the interface{} being nil is kept.
The article mentions they use grunticon to provide a PNG fallback, so IE8 is not a problem:

https://github.com/filamentgroup/grunticon
I know it is hard to control for culture, but seeing as how mormon men are still American but have a 10 year gap in life expectancy over other American men [1], any analysis on the effects of health care across nations should at least try to control for cultural differences. That singular cultural difference is twice the magnitude of the difference between the OECD and the US. And when you realize that culture could be a far stronger predictor than health care quality/availability, you start wondering how much of that gap is due to us being fatasses.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/morm...
Apparently they don't yet have a great network of nodes in Europe though:

ping dangrossman.github.io
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 16.173/16.275/16.463/0.074 ms

(From Paris, France)

In comparison, Cloudfront is something like 2ms away.
It's the android model. Valve make the reference hardware and OS, the PC manufacturers build the boxes. The PC manufacturers are betting that Steambox will let them tap into the console market which is both huge and currently unavailable too them.
I don't really want Jelly to succeed because I dislike Bono so much.

You sound more like a pathetic child.
This is really impressive, and I can see it being useful for a lot of people - the GoPro crowd, and people selling uncommon things on eBay or Etsy come to mind.
I wouldn't bet on it. Amazon knows exactly what I just bought and still shows me 100 different variations on it "recommended" for me.
It has always struck me as odd that Amazon shows me ads for things I had searched for and didn't buy as though I didn't already know about those products. Seems they should perhaps show me what other people bought that searched for similar or the same products as myself.
There are many hopper-fed scanners on Amazon, from about $700 up.
I'm curious. How could web fonts become an attack vector?
Actually I'd trust Boingo more than Facebook as a platform.

They've been around since 2001, Facebook since 2004.
If you don't mind server-side JavaScript, I've fallen head over heels for SailsJS[0]. It's a Node framework built on top of Express that has MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite integration. The hook is that it automatically generates a REST API for all of your models. So you "sails new project", "cd project", "sails generate model thing", edit models/thing and add the attributes, and you're done. Backbone routes are created automagically. (You can also define more complex API functionality in the controller as usual, and it also has built-in socket.io support.)

[0] http://sailsjs.org
Looks like there's a way to skip the checkin with a code that you get from the business.
I've got to say that the more I hear "Redis can never be reliable" the more I cringe. It just seems like one of those things that's been said and repeated without people stopping to fact-check along the way.

Redis Clustering tutorial: http://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial

Redis persistence (using AOF or RDB or both): http://redis.io/topics/persistence
I binge watched Fringe and the X-Files over the holidays. The most stark difference to me was the torture. Fringe in some ways is delightful and gentle. Especially in the portrayal of Walter's mental illness. It's very much like the X-Files in that regards. But even in a show like that they still packed in the torture. What blog post SHOULD I have written? I know Scandal is full of torture. Does our Sci-fi need to be as well? Why is that? What changed since the X-Files were released? That's the point I was trying to make anyway.
With "Sponsored Data" AT&T is double dipping -also harmful to startups
As someone who spent a non-trivial part of my childhood being bullied, I wouldn't call this bullying. It seems more in line with public shaming than anything else.

At any rate, bullying generally isn't illegal. Neither is naming names. In order to be legally actionable, harassment usually has to get to the point where there's some threat of violence or some pattern of behavior. As far as I can tell, there has been exactly one blog post about this guy (two if you include the post about DO) about some conversations in a chat room that's open to the public. That's not harassment. Were it otherwise, every blog that mentioned Justine Sacco should have been taken down.

Reddit is a community with its own social norms. I have no issue with Reddit policing itself in a manner to create an environment welcoming to others. But DO is a service provider! They may have the legal right to do so, but I don't expect them to be making value judgments about my (lawful) expression, anymore than I expect Comcast or Gmail to.
Is there any way to point my github page (jdan.github.io) to a domain (let's say www.example.com) without losing all my projects' github pages (i.e. jdan.github.io/cleaver)?

Last time I tried it wasn't possible.
They've been using fastly for a while now, makes sense that they're using fastly in this case as well.
How to dig up data for analysis, minus the crippling DB performance hit.
Degrees of Value: Making College Pay Off
These rewritings have been executed by Go's creators and core developers, not by common programmers.

eg. http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1
Cracking the Code to GitHub’s Growth
Does it still require Silverlight?
There was some talk of this on HN a while back, where the marketing theory presented was that there is a noticeable increase in sales if the customer walks away from a sale but is then later reminded of the product they almost bought.
How about switching the font on the blog too? It's barely legible.
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Ask and ye shall receive!

Answer: Americans engage in more risky behavior than other OECD members (driving, we also drive worse than some OECD members, etc):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/11/23/the-myt...

http://b-i.forbesimg.com/theapothecary/files/2013/11/Nationa...
Weekly round-up (#1/2014)
Is gamification necessary? The fact that the questions you see are posed by friends is maybe enough incentive to answer.
Does "Facebook WiFi" allow users to access any web content or just Facebook? The product page only describes how users and businesses can use a variety of Facebook features. For many people, Facebook access alone would be good enough.
I fear you are labouring under a misapprehension. The "free" in "free money" refers to the fact that it doesn't directly cost the recipient anything. Like "free healthcare". Nobody is claiming that the government can obtain the money for free.
You guys are awesome. Kudos!
I stand corrected and wasn't aware of the multidigit claim.
A hybrid approach would be nice for your example: check in on Facebook to get online yourself, or go ask the barista for the WiFi password
Lack of confidence
They have a lot of tables which are (depending on the browser) interpreted by OS functions, so if there was a buffer overflow bug in the OS font code then you could exploit it with a webfont.

Most (all? Not sure about Safari) use the "OpenType Sanitizer" on all webfonts, which parses and validates all of the tables and all of the offsets contained within them. http://code.google.com/p/ots
Got missed in the downtime yesterday. Interesting since Unicorn's tech allows ad stitching in RTMP streams and they have some pretty interesting patents around the technology.
Nomorobo
If you don't like it, don't buy a Facebook WiFi router.

For our business use case, this is perfect.
The passage you quote doesn't say "worse than random noise", it says "worse than trying it out". I'm not sure that's true but it is a substantially weaker claim.
>I'm stunned by how torture has became common in TV shows, at least since "24". But is it propaganda? to me, it was more a way to please the audience.

Violence in its ultimate form. A viewer who associates him/herself with the protagonist gets the feeling of being a righteous God exerting the punishment. An irresistible catnip for "good people with values".
Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog [2011]
It's about time that somebody built something like this. Nomorobo maintains a robocaller blacklist and uses the simultaneous ring feature of your phone provider. When the call is from a blacklisted number, they answer and immediately hang up.

Here's the article where I found out about it: http://www.today.com/money/free-service-proves-it-can-block-....
In my experience, you can see noticeable performance losses pretty quickly on mobile devices in as few as 9 on-screen icons, especially in cases of animated elements.

edit: caveat for animated elements.
Atlas: The First Fitness Tracker that Actually Tracks Your Workout
The typical american lifestyle seems designed to kill you: drink a lot, work all the time, take drugs (legal or otherwise) to medicate or recreate yourself into submission, refuse to use your 10 days a year off so you continue to look like a "team player."

The mormon lifestyle is: no drinking, everything is based around family/community, and travel the world to convert others. Plus, something about a musical.

Fun fact: A few tech companies refuse to recruit at BYU because mormons can't work all weekend.
What? Gopher isn't dead, buddy. There are over 160 servers.
Would you care to further explain how USB or writable smartcards are "broken" for this application? ISTM that with stingy enough trust models (i.e. the device shouldn't trust the host nor should the client trust the host or the device...) something could be done.
It doesn't matter if they are common. What matters is that if/when it does happen, the results aren't catastrophic.
If you put a CNAME file in the repo, all of the project pages automagically route.

For example, sheetjs.github.io is configured to handle oss.sheetjs.com: https://github.com/SheetJS/SheetJS.github.io/blob/master/CNA...

The gh-pages branch for js-xls (https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls/tree/gh-pages), accessible at http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls, now redirects to http://oss.sheetjs.com/js-xls (and does the right thing so long as the main site repo doesn't have a conflicting directory)

As an example of a conflict, consider http://oss.sheetjs.com/test_files/ . The test_files repo (https://github.com/SheetJS/test_files/tree/gh-pages) is masked by the test_files subdirectory of the main repo (https://github.com/SheetJS/SheetJS.github.io/tree/master/tes...)
Mormons typically fast one day a week, no? What other concrete examples of culture do Mormons manifest?

CORRECTION: It's actually one day a month.
food, pollution, poverty, war.. many aspects where US does "more" than others
The U.S. is #1 in common cancer 5-year survival rates:

http://b-i.forbesimg.com/theapothecary/files/2013/11/CONCORD...

Further, remove fatal injuries from life expectancy data and U.S. is #1 in life expectancy. Source:

http://b-i.forbesimg.com/theapothecary/files/2013/11/Nationa...
Very good point. But I'd argue that most customers start off as "users". Sure - some people show up for the first time and whip out their credit cards - but when you're starting that small your best (early) customers will be ones you convert to paid out of the beta.
And so Facebook encroaches upon the physical world to anchor itself

Not sure if you intended to sound so pessimistic but surely that's only a good thing? From a business perspective, this is an incredibly clever service. From a users perspective, this is an incredibly useful service.

Everyone seems to forget that Facebook users are not the consumer, they are the product being sold. If, by using this service, Facebook delivers me alarmingly specific adverts, then so be it. I've yet to be hurt by looking at an advert.
I've often wondered why they do this. I see more variations of items I just purchased rather than accompanying/related items.
That's because it is just doing item-based collaborative filtering, right? It works beautifully other times. I bought chopsticks once and it showed me not more chopsticks, but other accessories for sushi, etc.
Do you have a pointer to that most recent vote? Everything I can find has solid majorities of both houses voting against closure or transfers, although it is indeed not as solid as I made it out to be in my previous comment.
Still in beta/alpha as far as I last checked (we've been waiting for it). Additionally as far as clustering is concerned there still seem to be a lot of 'unknowns' for me with clustering Redis. Using a cluster in RabbitMQ is dead simple and it just works.
Vine Co-Founder Is Leaving To Kickstart A New Project
Some Thoughts on Productivity
Does the system let you create a new facebook account or only login with an existing one?

If I were to see this system in place, I'd just create a new fake facebook account. So long as the system doesn't have some draconian 'log in with an account older than 1 month with 10 friends' type thing, I don't think I'd mind, and I'm solidly in the 'facebook is evil' crowd.
While I'm sure the lack of medical access and quality of are major contributors, I think this OECD document on obesity and overweight rates are telling as well:

http://www.oecd.org/health/49716427.pdf
Spoilers: that chart ends in 1999.
Do you wake up to Pandora's music alarm clock?
I Love These Robots Covering Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball"
People. I have consistently warned you about the impending takeover of our society by our robot overlords. This is not a joke. They are coming.
Oh, most definitely is it a good thing. Their initial foray into consumer products -- the HTC First -- was an absolute disaster. Strategically speaking I would not at all be surprised that this quells the fears surrounding Facebook's future, especially if it gains traction.

We're witnessing the end of anonymous free wifi, and nobody is better equipped for identifying users than Facebook.
Drones would still have places they're allowed to fly and places they're not. So the solution will probably still apply.
The U.S. has greater income and healthcare inequality, and has a larger population of poor people living without access to reasonable medical care. The major impact of this on life-expectancy shows up in infant mortality rates, which is 6.14 per 1,000 versus 4 per 1,000 OECD average: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/us-infant-mortality-rate-drops....

The graphs in the article showslife expectancy at birth, which is a number dominated by infant mortality rate. For life expectancy at age 65, the US is slightly above the OECD average. Comparable to Germany or Norway. See Page 19 of this PDF: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/8109111ec004....

The other OECD countries started pulling away on infant mortality starting in the 1970's: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/Files/hcp/health/health2012_in....
Toward Software-defined SLAs
You should read mine then, because there not from the Bay. There from Chicago! :)

In all seriousness, I definitely understand your point. But, the personal touch mentioned in the article isn't meant to trick people into thinking I'm directly sending them a note. The personal part is about letting my customers know who I am. That Draft is a product run by one person who is just trying make a living by fixing problems I keep running into every day.

What I find strange are the emails I get from "companies" who communicate like they are a 100 person company who have been in business for 10 years, when really it's just a one or two folks in their living room and they started 30 days ago. When you own up to being what you really are in these emails and blog posts about your company, really great things happen. For example:

I have new acquaintances on places like Twitter fighting to get my name and product in front of their friends. They go to bat for me because they know a lot more about what I'm going through to keep this company going than if I was a fake Big Time Co. whose pretends to be flush with cash and doesn't need any help.

Or, when bugs and problems happen, I have a lot more loyalty from my users sticking with me to get things solved. If I was an anonymous corporation, they'd have moved onto the next anonymous corporation.
Thoughtbot's Playbook, Revisited
I would love to see a comparison graph from Canada.

The US and Canada are not the same country, but they're similar in a lot of ways. If Canada's graph shows the same drop, it'd be an indication that maybe the problem isn't with the US healthcare system, maybe it's something about culture/diet/environment/etc.
"The agency, he says, had tracked a high-value target in South Asia for over a decade before learn­ing that he had once applied for a green card—making him, under NSA rules, a “US person.” “As soon we discovered that,” Ledgett says, “we dropped collection on him under our Executive Order 12333 authority and canceled 14 years of reports.”"

Does anyone know more about this? Does that mean I can send in a form and instantly be a "US person" to the NSA, even without intention of actually getting a green card?
No alcohol, tobacco, coffee or tea are the big ones that I can think of.
Interesting how ALIAS records are becoming a de-facto DNS protocol feature. Despite not having even an RFC draft proposing their existence, GitHub recommends using ALIAS records, and large players (e.g. AWS, Dyn, and DNSSimple IIRC, as well as us) now support adding ALIAS records to a domain.

I wonder why ALIAS took hold but DNAME and ANAME records were never widely supported despite actually making it into a few RFCs. Hrmm.

(Disclaimer: Namecast (http://www.namecast.net) supports ALIAS records as well, so I have an abnormal interest in what was otherwise a small part of the article.)
Nice, I'd consider getting one. Wish it was a bit bigger though... I have an XPS 16 which isn't very heavy and don't want a smaller screen.

When I use the wife's Mac I'm always fumbling around the keyboard shortcuts. However, the screen is amazing. If this Dell had a bit more DPI I'd be sold.
I've been in a coffee shop that does this. You can either set the password yourself or log in via facebook. Don't remember the exact workflow, but it's possible.
And even more specifically - threads with locks. Shared mutable state is okay as long as any state-swapping operations are atomic, eg. with STM or if you build up the state in one thread, switch it with an atomic pointer swap, and don't let other threads mutate the state.
The Prime Directive wasn't mentioned until the end of the first season, and it wasn't defined until the end of the second season.

And, provided someone previously broke the Prime Directive, inadvertently or not, Starfleet personnel are permitted to directly intervene and ignore the Prime Directive to minimize the harm caused. And most cases where Kirk "violates" the Prime Directive, someone else already interfered, meaning no violation occurred.
Isn't it amazing how data can be bent to tell almost any desired story?
No smoking, no drinking alcohol, coffee or tea (I think it may be caffeine). They also tend to have a stronger focus on homemade food (rather than pre-cooked/boxed/canned) and habits/hobbies that aren't dangerous.

In other words, all of the fun, yummy, or convenient, but terrible for you things that tend to be in our lives, they're not allowed to do.
I wonder if they're doing anything with MAC address correlation to track devices that do not join their net.
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