skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,

I'm not sure why you think we're using bootstrap, we're not. Everything in our code base is bespoke (with the exception of jQuery 2). As a result, we get to choose our breakpoints, and they're flexible for now (there's a lot of movement before we go to the next one).

The iPad in portrait mode doesn't have the available width to show the second column without cramming the stories in the main column.

We settled on the breakpoints we have due to the amount of devices we want to offer our content on. We're a service that's trying to work on as many devices as possible, from Nokia 100s to modern desktop browsers. So we did the logical thing of splitting devices into groups, feature phones, smart phones, tablets, and above (desktop & TVs). Some of the larger screened Android phones cause issues since they have a massive resolution, but can't display content as a tablet because it would be hard to read.

You're right, we don't have volume settings right now, so we can't emphasise any of the stories except to make them the "top" story. We haven't got to that point yet, we are after all in beta. All I can say is it will come.

I can't comment on editorial context, just the technology.

The most read functionality is being worked on to be richer.

Thanks :)
Ah ok fair enough. There's no less content on many other pages I compared though. And as for the amount of stuff on the homepage, I wouldn't say the old site necessarily had the 'right' amount. I find the new design a bit easier on the eye, easier to scan, and more conducive to delving into specific topic pages that interest me. I don't know though, I might just be subconsciously overcompensating for all the negative comments because I feel they're overly harsh. It's impossible to really know how good a redesign is until you've lived with it for a while.
A representative of the technical team did a talk at the Mobilism conference. Which was my favourite of all talks that conference. Interesting stuff.

Video: http://vimeopro.com/mirabeaunl/mobilism-2013/video/68025331

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jcleveley/mobilism-2013-a-story-of...
Well, most of those use the ACE editor component, rather than the CodeMirror editor component.

I don't know why and obviously, this isn't true for everybody, but i'm always at war with CodeMirror. It auto-outdents and reformats things exactly how i do not want them. Whenever i'm forced to use CodeMirror, i'm undo-ing more than i'm typing and swearing about once every 5 seconds.

So, if you are one of those people, like me, that is always getting furious at jsFiddle, try an ACE based alternative.

Interestingly, once you realize that these code-editor components are quite simple to implement on a web-site, you also understand why there are 100+ jsFiddles clones. Most, if not all web-devs should be able to create one in half a day. They may think it's harder before they begin, but they will be pleasantly suprised.

This is likely also, why we're seeing a new "Online IDE" every week these days. GitHub's new Atom.io editor is the first one in a long time, to not use CodeMirror or ACE at its core.
We might consider removing the pinch-to-zoom lock, previously a dependency caused us to enable it.
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Quality: a cautionary tale
Hey Evan, as with Rubyforge the last 7-odd years, you'd be welcome to a free account on Bytemark's UK cloud platform bigv.io, or dedicated servers, or a mix on the same VLAN. We're a Ruby shop ourselves, and we host a fair chunk of Debian in our data centre too these days (https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130404). I So just drop me a line if that's of interest <matthew@bytemark.co.uk>.

I assume this was posted because it's an enormous bill :) but obviously if you're happy with it, carry on!
Another solution to the 'elephant in the room' - that frontend workflows have become too complicated for frontend developers.
Not sure if those images are supposed to be full of jpeg artifacts. Examples:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/130/media/images/52908000/jpg/_...

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/130/media/images/73349000/jpg/_...

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/130/media/images/66387000/jpg/_...

Also the top\nread|watched bar has a font that is very difficult to scan, at least under Firefox on Linux.
What Glass needs is understanding the need to keep the feet on the ground and realizing that scifi oriented marketing can only go so far. As exciting as "look and feel as a borg" may sound in PR releases, it's useless long term on doing real practical things. Sell it as the more mundane souped up camera it actually is and it could do a lot better.
Yeah, Google seems to be in a awkward space with their Java implementation with Apache depreciating the project it was based on. Right now they just seem to be doing nothing, but at some point they'll have to make a move...
it was very famous 20 years ago when X configuration required complex frequency calculus.
An hour to catch the coding bug
I read somewhere (many years ago) regarding hacking that the actual act of intruding a system and/or causing damage and so forth is one crime, and that teaching someone how to do it is another. It could be that the source was simply incorrect (as there are security courses readily available), but I wonder if this is the same kind of scenario? Regardless, -linking- to something isn't the same as actually doing it. But I feel that the same kind of argument has been made against, say, Isohunt.com and it seems to have worked against them.
This was first proposed on HN in December. It took about two months to get it done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828102
We support non retina devices, which are stuck on iOS 6. When this came out we weren't sure whether it applied to that too, so stuck with 50. We'd already been keeping it under 50 for 6 months by then so we had all the infrastructure set up, its mostly automated.

Haven't looked at it since iOS 7 launch though, do you know if it was iOS 6 too?
No country for single women
If you think a bit about it, it can't work.

A bank can verify, on a daily basis, that they still have "most" of their assets. And a lot of the assets can't be stolen in any real way. Banks owns a house - house can't be stolen. The legal process will get it back. Bank owns treasury bonds - can't be stolen, we know who is "supposed" to own them. Etc.

Occasionally there may be an unexpected asset leak (rogue trader or something). But the damage is still limited, it's still small compared to the assets of the bank. Barings lost something like 20% of all their assets - obviously disastrous, but they still had 80% left. And a failure that large is intended to be impossible to occur.

A bitcoin "bank", well, you audit it at 11AM and at 11:02AM it can have nothing, 0, zero. No insurer is going to sign on for that sort of risk at any price.
The fear of pressing the deploy button
Expert Finds SQL Injection and RCE Vulnerabilities in Deutsche Telekom Systems
The difference is that engineers actually know how to build safe bridges. I feel (and am actually) safe living in a house designed by a single competent architect, but I am not secure using a TLS implementation written by a single competent programmer. The only way we have found to end up with reasonable secure code is to have it reviewed by a lot of competent people.
FreedomPop unveils anonymous, encrypted phone service, pay with Bitcoin
> That's part of the fallacy. In the OSS world it's assumed that when code passes through many hands, is depended upon by many projects, and is critical to the functioning of many systems used by many users then naturally the code in use will be seen by many eyes.

Right and as you point out that's not true. What gets less attention is why. I know in my own code there are dependencies I know very, very well. Some of them I have helped to author. Some of them I have helped with regarding maintenance programming later. But there are many which I don't.

There are a bunch of reasons for this:

1. Code has varying degrees of readability and is easily comprehensible to various extents. Code which reads like a book gets more time than that which I have to figure out its structure first.

2. Code that is well maintained provides less necessity to add someone else. I tend to be more likely to read poorly maintained code than well maintained code, for example because bugs don't get fixed is a good reason to try to fix them myself....
For Saucy, the fix is in:

.../ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.12.23-1ubuntu4.2

Yours is:

.../ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.12.23-1ubuntu4

See:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.12.23-1ubunt...
I don't fully understand this issue.

I understand that you are never going to be able to stop the intended recipient keeping the image - that's trivial just with a screenshot, and anyone even capable / caring enough to run the linked code is going to defeat any further obfuscation you pile on.

What isn't clear to me from the link is: Is this same encryption the only protection applied to "snaps" that are in-flight? If I run my own wireless access point, can I use this code to decode all messages received by Snapchat users connected to my AP?
I'm actually part of a 2-person iOS Dev shop that specializes in quick turn-arounds. Shoot me an email and I'll see if we can help. chris@downrightsimple.com
XKCD Now - world time zone converter based on XKCD comic #1335
Can you elaborate on why knockout is old and dated? It's HTML and JS, just like the others.

And compared to the bloat that is angular and especially ember, I find knockout strikes with simplicity and 'keeping-it-simple'.
This, done (more) right: zerobin [0]

- open source, so you can (and should) host your own
- encrypted on the client, only encrypted data is stored on the server. Key is "stored" in the fragment identifier [1] (ie after the #hash), so the server doesn't receive it, yet you can share the full url with who you want.

Obvious deficiency: the javascript to encrypt/decrypt is distributed by the server, so you have to trust it. Which is why you should install and use your own instance.

Side-effect of using client-side encryption: "burn after reading" is merely a convenience for the server admin so he can reclaim some disk space. You don't have to trust the server for this.

Oh, and it's only php, so installation is only unzipping.

[0] http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier
Yeah, if its not actually random its not going to be all that useful a sample size.
If you want to use Yahoo services, you're going to need to have a hacked email account.
Testing multiple iOS platforms on Travis
Facebook Drones to Battle Google Balloons in the War of Airborne Internet
Fractal landscape: musicians with guns - overstepping artifacts
Creepy as hell, but if it could use face recognition and give you data about people that would be some next level stuff.
Reach in and grab a pixel
A scientist looking to dissolve the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds is interface designer and engineer, Jinha Lee. He wants us to be able to grasp the pixels in our computers.
> Are there some problems with this approach

More work. Since the users don't care about this breach anyway (which is why it hasn't been solved yet), it's not worth the developers' time.
Calling out the Bitcoin Foundation Scam
Right, apparently the notion of sample bias escaped whomever said that.
There is more than one kind of infinity
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Here is the source code: https://github.com/mattlag/GLYPHR
Rotary dial telephone baffles modern children
I really don't see the value of having the compile toolchain in your editor. If you are making a serious front-end project, you will have created a gulp/grunt based workflow so that anyone with node installed can compile it. If you rely on Codekit's features, surely you're locking people into that editor?

Is it really so hard to open a command window and run a single command?
Show HN: a simple, clean BTC and LTC price report web app
this is disproportionate and sadly very expected...

although something about playing with fire and being burned comes to mind..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
I'm of the mind that there is immense value in being able to figure out difficult proofs.

Absolutely.

However, the rabbit hole is very deep. Many papers make leaps from one sentence to the next that, if you're not familiar with the field, can take a couple days to figure out. Even then, real world proofs are informal and therefore not air-tight. They're close enough, almost always, but there's a reason why a mathematical proof isn't considered valid unless it's lived for two years under peer scrutiny.

One could drill down to formal proof in the Godelian sense, in which proofs are mere typography and can be checked mechanically, but that's not how most of real mathematics is done and, practically speaking, most of it can't be done that way and remain useful to humans (like assembly language, it's too low-level for most applications).
My one-step way worked great, which was to go on a retreat with this organization -- http://www.dhamma.org. It's suggested donation.

The challenge is the first time you go has to be for a full ten days. No reading, writing, or talking. The idea is you are a monk for ten days. I had never meditated before. I showed up with comfortable clothes and toiletries and they took care of everything else. Very challenging, but as rewarding and life-changing as anything I've done.

I wrote up my experiences -- http://joshuaspodek.com/vipassana-meditation, http://joshuaspodek.com/goenka-10-day-meditation-retreats, and http://joshuaspodek.com/jumping_for_joy -- for more background.

EDIT: copying from the first link to save a click (losing the formatting, sorry):

A reader emailed me about mindfulness and self-awareness. I mentioned to him a meditation retreat I did a few years ago and found an old post I wrote about the experience, answering another reader’s questions about the course.

I did a ten day Vipassana course a few years ago.

What it’s about: It teaches you a meditation technique and gives you the time and space to practice it. It’s based on buddhist beliefs. We meditated for 8-10 hours per day for ten days. That’s basically it. You aren’t supposed to read, write, gesture, etc, except to ask the instructor questions. They provide food and instruction on what to focus on.

Was it hard: Yes, it was hard. The first couple days were painful while getting used to sitting still for so long. I started getting comfortable by the second day. Ten days is a long time (the place I went in Massachusetts required your first session be ten days) so it’s a mental challenge.

Keep in mind, thousands of people have done it. It’s hard, but anyone can do it. You just have to persevere.

Main benefits: Some people had profound, life-changing positive experiences, understanding more about themselves and their perception of the world around them. Some people go regularly. On the other hand, some people left early. I found the experience positive.

The main benefits were a better understanding of my priorities in life, calmness, less attachment to things, more freedom. I haven’t meditated much since then, but I do sometimes, and I keep many of the benefits. I’ll probably go again for shorter sessions periodically.

I later added

By the way, I don’t like religion, so I didn’t like some of the buddhist stuff, but no one else I talked to had a problem with it. I guess I’m more sensitive to religion than most. You can generally ignore the religious part if you want and just get the technique. I did, anyway.

and

Regarding location, I don’t think it would make that much of a difference. My eyes were closed to meditate around ten hours a day, sleeping seven or eight hours a night, meals in an eating room. There is not much room for variation. Nor should there be. All one needs is quiet.
Ask HN: What should I do with my "failed" side project?
I create a www.ubercamp.net a few months back and after several marketing attempts, I haven't received a single paying customers.

I have 310 users on the free plan but I am not sure they are actually using the site. I think they just tried it out and never came back.

Should I open source it?
Sell it?
Try harder?
Other ideas?

PS: It was a financial failure but as far as a side project goes, it was fun to build from scratch and it was also my first "large" ruby on rails project.
As a London based developer for BBCWW who grew up in Glasgow I can tell you this is definitely a good thing, the BBC is far too London centric.
I presume this was created with: Mandelbulb 3d (http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-3d/)
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Agreed. Looking at old and new is striking. I much prefer the new as it focuses on the important content. The old looks like a product of organic growth (understandable) that seeks to pack in as much on the homepage as possible (and "Above the Fold"). The homepage isn't the be-all, end-all of a website and should pull you in to other areas for exploration.

Calling it "lazily" designed is condescending and disrespectful of those who put their time and effort into this. Thick skins are required for web design/dev, but some professional courtesy is appropriate, I think. The developers themselves are here. How about something more constructive? What would YOU change? (OP, not callum85)
Looks nice! Shouldn't it say USD/BTC (USD per BTC) instead of BTC/UTC though?
Google Publicly Debuts Its Late-Stage Growth Fund, Google Capital
As an employee of Greenhost I highly recommend this.
Thanks for answering...like I said, it's early, and I'm obviously projecting my various development/design failures on to your team :). And I'm showing my ignorance of frameworks in general, implying that Bootstrap is the Inventor of all Breakpoints (though I don't consider using Bootstrap bad at all, just that its default handling of iPad is similar to the BBC's beta).

I guess I just suspect that news editors/execs are jumping too quickly on the "mobile-first" and "above the fold doesn't matter in cyberspace" movements...not that either of them are bad, but neither do they universally apply. I'm just not convinced that this kind of 2-column view (a smidgen wider than the iPad-portrait-breakpoint) would be a problem to squeeze into the iPad portrait, or even iPad mini:

http://i.imgur.com/mT220OG.png

Whatever it's awkwardness at full-desktop view, to me, that would be just about perfect for the tablet view. Could you shed some light on any analytics insight that's informed the process? For example, I suspect (but haven't ever counted) that the majority of stories I click through on the NYTimes home page were not in the center well or top headlines:

http://imgur.com/UC6VnRn

On the frontpage today, I'd be more likely to click on the E-cigarettes story, maybe the charter schools story, and most definitely the top list of Ramen restaurants...none of which would be top-site news (E-Cigarettes may take the center stage during the afternoon). But if war in Ukraine broke out? I'd probably click on the massive site-wide headline that the NYT would probably use. I like whitespace and sparseness, but I just don't think it plays particularly well to news sites' strengths and weaknesses...especially the weaknesses of the content-management side (which is obviously not in the control of your team, but is inevitably a factor to deal with at most news sites).
Really proud to have been a part of this :-)

You can see the fonts in action at http://unicodepowersymbol.com/
Putin among Nobel Peace nominees
MaxCDN is a very low-end "CDN". If you can buy your account from the website without talking to an account manager, and the plans are as low as $9/month, you should not expect a lot of performance, features, locations, etc.: what you should, however, expect is "cheap"... MaxCDN is appropriately cheap.

To look at something more reasonable: CDNetworks is realistic competition; they are strong in Asia, and were the people I was comparing the pricing to (so they aren't going to be horribly expensive). According to the comparison website you are using, they have almost four times as many edge locations.

http://www.cdnplanet.com/compare/cloudfront/cdnetworks/

Honestly, though, the reality is that the really great CDNs don't even have data on this website (even for CDNetworks I think this data is not accurate: looks like an approximation): the leaders in this space are Akamai and Limelight, and both just show "Not Available" for the number of edge nodes they have.

Even going a little lower on the CDN pecking list, though: Level3, which according to this website you are using is mostly "competitive" with CloudFront (sometimes actually worse) in the regions CloudFront bothers to cover, is clearly covering entire subcontinents where CloudFront has nothing.

The reality is that CloudFront is still trying to grow out a network: they have poor coverage in Europe (which is pretty key), a few nodes in Japan/Singapore, and then next to no coverage anywhere else. Yet, they insist on pricing their product as if they were a big player (12c/GB is Akamai-level expensive).

(So, do I get to condescendingly say "this is nonsense" now? I mean, seriously: you clearly didn't spend much time using this website and you didn't look into who the leaders are to verify you weren't comparing low-end to low-end... also, I think you are not appreciating that 0->2 is infinitely better ;P.)
A vast hidden surveillance network, powered by the repo industry
This is amazingly good and very elegant.
God, this is devious. While reading it I was thinking, "where does the sarcasm part end?" but it never did. I mean, as an aspiring indy dev I can understand the need to make a living, but this is in the same league with casino money. I really hope this is just a phase, and people would collectively understand that these games are designed to take your money, and that they're not worth it.
This misses the dangerous part, which is mathematicians in groups can confuse each other into accepting ideas which are basically nonsensical, especially if the counter argument relies on some obvious but intuitive observation of reality but cannot be easily formalised within their chosen framework of the moment.

As a consequence of this it wouldn't surprise me if the overwhelming majority of maths was actually incoherent nonsense and that the people that understood this thought they were just very confused due to being shouted down all the time, when the really confused people are the ones oblivious to their own situation.
I think a url is both an address and a path. The domain is clearly the address of the server (residence), where the 'path' applies to. You can even construct a path in many cases that includes a password to grant entry to an otherwise protected resource, which is no different from giving someone a key to get in the door.

I don't like that interpretation, because i feel it's important that linking remains legal in most crcumstances, if not all, but that doesn't change the fact that if you reason by analogy to the physical world most url's are indeed paths. And this is where the danger is: reasoning by analogy. It doesn't produce good results to reason about dgital resources by analogy to physical resources.
Rethinking Responsive SVG
Just checked with a couple folks here, the limit is for the iTunes store, and therefore was also raised for iOS 6 (we assume older versions as well, but don't support them either).