skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, you're the one who missed the point entirely (of my comment). I'm questioning the factual accuracy of an article in which the author claims to have gotten an A in his AP English class the senior year of high school, despite the fact that he still can't spell the word "straight" correctly. Either he's lying, or his teacher had very low standards. The former is much more likely.

I also question his interest in writing correctly, as all he would have had to do was to paste his article into Word and it would have told him that he was spelling "straight" incorrectly. The fact that he didn't even bother to do that is an even bigger concern.

There's also the fact that, rather than bothering to come up with a proper response to my initial point, you decided to attack me by calling me "very rude" and making (incorrect) assumptions about why I responded to this article. That also makes you very difficult to take seriously. Don't bother to respond until you can do so in a civilized tone.
I would suggest Octopress/Jekyll framework to serve static web pages from a VPS such as DigitalOcean/linode. You may as well use Github Pages to host your web pages if that meets your needs.

This will meet many of your needs listed.
I'm one of the developers working on this site.

For those of you who are on a wanting to see the site mentioned in the page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news?view=beta

You can ask us about any of the technical points of our site here: http://github.com/bbc-news/feedback
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The "It's over 9000!!" app...
Try: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news?view=beta
Yeah, but I'm not so willing to pay $2000+ rent for a studio to have their service.
Religious thinking is not about religion. It is a logical concept where the conclusion appears out of thin air devoid of any connection with the evidence. Similar to magical thinking but probably less fun.

Whilst you might be right that our amorality will bear worse fruits, the status quo prior to this wasn't any better ergo morality and the stable family isn't necessarily better, just different.

The difference is purely that people don't suffer in silence now. This in itself is a wonderful freedom that we all deserve.
BBC News Feedback
Are You Making These 11 Mistakes With Your Giveaways, Sweepstakes and Contests?
Uncurated started to mean personalized in the new era we live now.
Codekit is a beautiful, comprehensive and powerful solution for those who don't want to/don't feel comfortable setting up Grunt or Gulp. If you're one of those people, it comes highly recommended.
This study was actually of humans, not mice but I too am suspicious of the results. Unless they locked these humans up in a cage like a mouse for 20 years and then fed them specific and controlled diets, the results are dubious. Self regulated and self reported diets are notoriously inaccurate.
Eugh, I _hate_ change
Forgive my ignorance, but why does SnapChat maintain a local cache beyond the 10-sec limit in the first place? Why don't they delete the photo and overwrite the disk space so that the photo is pretty much unrecoverable? Is it simply that this is too cumbersome to implement? Are there any technical restrictions? I tried Googling the issue and just came across the wave of articles that covered the discovery of the fact that photos were locally recoverable, but I don't seem to have found anything that indicates what motivated this design choice in the first place. Would be great if someone can shed light on this.

PS: I'm not a SnapChat user, so I admit that I might also be overlooking some functionality of the app that necessitates the use of a local cache
This is only my opinion given there's always some person in the news facing dozens of years in prison for something as simple as sharing a link.

I can't be bothered to search for other similar articles I'm sure you can find them.

Now that quote is the internal monolog I imagine given the actions these people take. It may not be completely accurate or even real but it certainly fits.

If you can come up with a better explanation why the sentences for computer related crimes are so absurdly high I would gladly listen.

I don't really care much for the legal issues the law is just so complex that you can pull off a lot of horrendous shit while perfectly justifying it legally.

If you're a judge that just goes by the letter of the law without applying common sense and morality you have failed.
You must have miss-understood, what every the user types on the keyboard is NOT displayed on the textbox(screen) but instead a scrambled version displays.
Since we're on Hacker News: What's the business model here? I see an awful lot of work for a very limited market. $1000+-license after release?

In any case, great job by the programmers here.
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Solving the Tracking Game“
Samsung Galaxy Glass Patent filing
I read the negative comments before looking at the site myself, and was expecting to agree with them. But now I've looked at it, I think it's pretty good.

The design could do with a bit more 'refining', but then so could the old one. It's just the old one has the advantage of being something that millions of people have already gotten used to. It's hard to fairly compare your feelings about something you use every day vs something new.
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I tried the same thing, It takes a few (5-10) minutes to process a page that size I figured. The CTR was through the roof went from just under 1% to over 5% CTR.
> edit DNA

Isn't there an emacs mode for this yet? I guess Stallman is really slacking these days...
All integer constants "start" as type int. The message isn't about what size your value is but the fact that you are comparing a pointer with an integer. Cast to a char and you still get the same message
If you've never done a SPA before just skip knockout and head to angular or ember.

Your app can out grow knockout and then your stuck rolling your own location provider,dependency injection and more.

2-3 years ago knockout was a breath of fresh air but know its just old and dated technology.
There are no navigation icons showing for me: FireFox 11.0
Your interpretation is not what I intended but neither is it completely unfair.

I am looking for guidance (or rather good discussion and ideas) about how to address this issue for larger Rails apps, just not from Rails or DHH. I don't think it's Rails' place to do this since I don't really think a one-size-fits-all approach is right and it sort of tramples over the core philosophy of ActiveRecord which I believe is a useful default. On the other hand I don't buy into DHH's philosophy that its all astronaut architecture either.
NAME THAT PROSECUTOR

Sarah R. Saldaña is the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas... But who is the lead Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) on this case?
People picking on other people's language skills ... who doesn't understand the difference between whose and who's ... may be living in a glasshouse.
Ah yes, Uthercast

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130768

They are owned by Longford.
Longford owned perfect cover for intelligence assets in middle east (oilfields in Iraq), all of a sudden they sold those and took over spy sat startup.

CIA money laundering/cover for intelligence assets type of deal.
Chrome and the Linux GPU driver quality
2800 is good number from statistical point of view IMHO. Google: sample size determination.
So breaking into a house and taking the TV is illegal, but if you take just everything and also take out the garbage, it becomes legal. You can of course make such laws but this would be just madness. (Don't take the analogy to serious. ;)
TVSmiles Closes $7M Series
Why your certificate authority rarely matters
It doesn't bother me if someone that thinks the Earth is what...6,000 years old and that someone who is gay is a subhuman thing thinks that I'm the ignorant one. It would be like if an otter thought I wasn't a very nice person. The thing is that I've not seen any evidence of someone who has my set of beliefs willfully causing harm to anyone else. But it's pretty easy to see people willfully harming or contributing to the harm of other people in the name of the good book.
Why let the facts get in the way of a good rant? :)
I would like to have my hands on the actual data so I can divide results by years of experience etc. This is too generic and doesn't server truly a purpose other than create some hype about Java 8.

Now, what I would LOVE it would be a survey and thorough interview of the public before Java 9 is built instead of after...
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Seems like there's way less content visible on desktop in beta mode. It's not responsive design, it's just lowering the design to the lowest common denominator.
Why are you posting my computer domain on the open Internet? I will sue you so hard, dude!
UX outside the product : Relevant, Reliable, Reachable
Their really needs to be a Shufflepuck Cafe for iOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVtYVyyX5NY
> a URL isn't simply an address; it is a path, and this makes all the difference.

I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that a URL is a path. A path implies a route from A to B. When I share a URL with you, I imply no path.

> A p.o. address, for example, may tell you how to get to someone's apartment but it wouldn't tell you how to get up there if the front door is locked.

You began your comment with the words FUD, so I'd like to add two of my own - Red Herring!

If you must use analogies, the physical equivalent of a URL is an address, not a P.O. box. But I suspect you still chose the P.O. box analogy because it allows you to create the false construct of a locked front door.

The availability of digital resources at a public URL is equivalent to the availability of physical resources at an address. The "locked front door" is irrelevant in both these (limiting) examples.
Migrant entrepreneurs make 'breathtaking' contribution to UK
Let's say I have a machine that's not connected to the Internet, but I develop a serial protocol that allows the transfer of bitcoins across RS-232, and build a cable that only has the receive signals connected at my "secure" machine.

If I wanted to take it further, the "secure" machine could print that wallet onto paper or could robotically insert flash drives into a USB port (in such a way that removed keys were dropped into a bin the robot couldn't reach into.

This is only one of many ways I can think of that would allow the automatic creation of cold wallets ... the only way to attack such a system is to gain physical access.
I'll agree here. The American brand that has spawned the tea party and is super racist is a crazy death cult. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that somewhere there are good Christians. But I just don't see it in my experience with thousands of then in the USA.
No, you just have to install from source if you want something that your package manager doesn't provide and then hope you can actually get all the dependencies compiled.
While I agree that is amazing, it still wouldn't solve SnapChat's problem. Because once the image is decrypted and displayed to the user, you can easily copy it from memory and store it indefinitely.
Yes, finally the sidebar can take up a third of my ten inch iPad screen. Yes.
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I'm assuming that is a good number for a randomly sampled group. The self selection nature of people that will be taking a typesafe survey gives me doubts about whether it is good here.
As long as java doesn't support aliasing (ie: import com.tool.foo.Bar as FooBar) , its gonna be very hard to tackle the extreme verbosity java results in.
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Designing for one thing that's really good in a world of things that are average, isn't the best strategy. Reminds me of "Designed for IE6" and look where that got us.
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The best thing on the page was the face palm user image.
I think timonv uses vim except for orgmode. In any case, there's https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
The criteria for having to register to collect GST for the government is something along the lines of "your business turnover exceeds $50,000 per financial year". I haven't been there, but I believe it's about as simple as you say; get an "auskey", and then you can do large amounts of the paperwork online.
As a working Java programmer, I wouldn't have said that this was the main source of verbosity in Java. Could you perhaps expand on how this results in verbosity? Perhaps an example of some code in Java as it exists now, and a less verbose version of the code in a hypothetical Java-with-aliasing.
But also google: self-selection bias, which invalidates pretty much all online polls, including this one.
Not this time :)
> What does that then make a link worth?

A guidance system.
Yahoo will no longer connect to their services with Google or Facebook IDs
A larger number wouldn't neutralize the bias either.
I had the opposite impression. My initial reaction was "how immature and technological incompetent are your users?".

I'm guessing the app is being marketed towards hipster frontend devs.
I'm pretty sure it only seems like it. If you compare the sites side-by-side, it's all still there, it just feels less crowded. Which is a good thing.
It's more akin to publishing a phone catalog, where one of the entries say "Drugs, Inc." vs someone telling you to go to "Drugs, Inc." to buy crack.

There may (or may not) be specific laws that deal with explicit referrals to illegal activities.
Still too early to tell about adoption. The article wasn't specific enough - it may be that as people find out about Android incompatibilities they hold off their upgrade plans, regardless of their apparent insatiable appetite for lambdas.
Thank you for taking questions and I apologize for sounding belligerent, I haven't had my coffee yet :)

Can you explain the rationale (besides that it's the default behavior for Bootstrap breakpoints) for making the iPad portrait mode similar to what I imagine the phone version is? Here's what I see on my (Retina) iPad:

http://imgur.com/GUoDwOQ

It's not that the Ukraine crisis isn't important, but this is the kind of treatment I would expect if Ukraine and Russia broke out into full fledged war. In fact, what would the BBC front page look like (on the iPad, or not-full-screen desktop) if war broke out? The current catch-all-and-put-it-into-a-uniform-box doesn't leave much room to emphasize anything. Furthermore, if BBC's top story of the day happened to be something like, well, "China sets growth, defence targets" (which is currently the second story)...I can't imagine this doing anything but killing the habit of visiting BBC as an impulse, because after awhile, as a reader, I'm trained to think that the BBC has ONE BIG STORY...and often, that story is boring.

But as a developer, I see this as, well, they're just using the default breakpoints in Bootstrap. So is that going to be changed? Or is this really what everyone has signed off on? And if so, what are the contingencies? I mean, that is, what happens if: a) War or something like 9/11 * 10 breaks out? or b) Justin Bieber gets arrested for peeing again (more likely)? What are the mockups for those scenarios, and how do they look different than what I've posted in the above link?

edit: And this is what the "Most Read" tab looks like, in every implementation, including stretched browser:

http://i.imgur.com/ulgdLm1.png

I'm assuming that will be changed, but speaking for experience, it's non-trivial to reorganize the fundamental content blocks, especially to add them. I think this is where mobile-first is especially troublesome for content-heavy sites...and in many situations, this kind of view (even though it is given extremely high prominence as the second of 2 tabs) will be left as is, either out of neglect or because, eh, at least it's legible. But what a waste of screen real estate.
I like what I'm seeing, however the main gripe I have is that it doesn't seem to be cross-platform; it looks like it's a GUI for Grunt configuration (it seems to have similar options) though.

Compare Maven / Ant / Gradle for the Java world, instead of builds configured in the IDE; said IDE's often have a GUI component for major build configuration files.

I wouldn't mind a GUI for Grunt configs, without sensible code refactoring, those can be a bitch to maintain.
A bit frustration that it is a paid upgrade for Codekit 1.0 users - doesn't seem like that much has been changed, and it's not as if the first version saw a ton of updates.
The most visually stunning Web Design Framework available.
Well, I got an idea: shoot a photo every 30 seconds, upload it to secure server and send an email to a lawyer when you get arrested.
Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused
it is a bit disappointing that so many developers dive into making things without making some minimum research effort into what others have done before. its a recurring theme... however i'm torn because its nice that useful software can hit the market so quickly.

the usual piracy arguments are fine, and yes information that can be viewed by the intended recipient is necessarily crackable, but i think we owe it to our industry and community to not ignore the past X years of work in this field and implement embarrassingly naive amateur solutions. however it does require knowledge and effort to exploit this - particularly physical or close access to the device - imo no layers of security are not worth much once an attacker has physical access.

SnapChat is not alone - there are much, much worse offenders. That recent memory optimisation article about Firefox was imo considerably more shocking... browsers in general seem to be littered with amateurish crap. Even things like Office have some serious problems (why is this file locked? have you memory mapped it? do you need to actively stream my 1.2MB of excel file? really?) the Visual Studio devs have classically thrown away and rebuilt lots of good work over the last two iterations, whilst damaging the quality of the compiler - despite adding features. if valid code from popular libraries stops building between releases i wonder what regression tests are being done if any...
Third party sign in might not be ideal, but having to register for every crappy service and website is much much worse.

And flickr or tumblr have quite a bit more users than you've guessed.
Isn't "meta" the keyword of the 21st century? I remember reading articles about "meta modernism" being the thing we're in right now (after modernism, post modernism and post post modernism)- everywhere from art to culture to, as this article points out, advertising.

I'm waiting for a plane to take off right now and can't dig up articles, but maybe a more knowledgeable HN'er can fill in for me.
There are two additional on-line font editors:

FontStruct - build a face with pre-defined blocks, uses Flash, proprietary, sponsored by FontShop. 6 years old.

http://fontstruct.com/

typism - development history and novel path drawing, uses SVG+JS, MIT licensed. Fonts are distributed under OFL. 5 years old.

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I'm curious how this design is responsive when, on the desktop, it still doesn't utilise my browser windows full width. It feels even more plain and full of whitespace than the current site.

The screenshots in this post don't show the vast swaths of whitespace on either side of the page. Is everyone inside the BBC still using a 800x600 CRT?
The worst that could happen is if android drops java as the primary language. I wonder if google is willing to do that, or if they are now too invested in the language to drop it.
On the flipside I grew up and decided I was a bit too smart for school, dropped out and tried on my own. After spending a few years doing pointless, manual, hard work I decided I should go back to school.

After graduating my life has turned around. I have a great job with a great pay, and I have massive opertunities to further my knowledge.

Dropping out works for some people. But it certainly did not for me :P
Wow, this is something that's been bothering me for some time. Why didn't Mark grow the team? He evidently didn't have any employees, just a handful of contractors.

This would explain why.
A lazer?

Google Glass is already dusted. It occupies the very centre of an 'uncanny valley' when it comes to wearable computing. It's simply too creepy to have people walking around with a HUD and and camera next to one eye. And coming from Google no less.

Should have positioned it more as something you wear for outdoor sports, or for specific activities (I know they tried a bit)... but as an everyday computing/sensor device it fails the cultural/social challenge.
You are conflating the (very real) damages caused by drug consumption with the much larger damages caused by other crimes in the illegal drug trade. Drug cartels do a lot of murder.

Drug laws would lock up for good the guy in apartment 4c as well, and large segments of society do not see him as "quite different" than the cartels.
I don't speak Korean very well

Your cofounder probably doesn't write Ruby,JavaScript, Haskell, whatever very well.

This should be a business decision not a negotiation.

The ideal equity split creates value. The only means by which it can do so is to make future success more likely. It's not about rewarding the past, it's about making sure each person carries as much load as they can going forward. If you do a 60-40 split is one of you going to do 50% more work?

If your startup pivots, do you clawback equity from the idea guy?
The importance of "Nice-to-haves"
Government Comics
I counted the number of items on each page (links to news stories) and came up with 38 vs 75. I make that approx half the amount of 'stuff'.

Here's a side by side screenshot of what I see. http://imgur.com/HmiHhe2

EDIT: I was counting items in the whole page. In that screenshot I count 11 vs 51, which is a greater difference.
An extremely wide site risks becoming unreadable due to long line lengths, so a max-width will be set to prevent this happening.
No matter how hard you try,

you will never be hated more than Jesus.
This paragraph from the article represents all that I feel about the rise of anti-marketing marketing, but couldn't articulate:

> It’s a counterintuitive sleight of hand: By acknowledging that their central message is unbelievable or at least exaggerated, the branding masterminds gain our trust and bolster our faith in the brand. Will Ferrell, for example, promoted “Anchorman II” and Dodge at the same time by appearing on talk shows as Ron Burgundy and declaring that Dodge’s cars were “terrible.” Dodge sales spiked. (Ferrell also voices President Business.) In New Zealand, Burger King ran YouTube ads of two guys eating Burger King while complaining about YouTube ads. Nearly every Super Bowl ad this year referred to the fact that it was a Super Bowl ad. The brand — and the TV ad, the movie and the fictional spokesman — is hyperaware of its own fictionality and thus earns the right to simultaneously denigrate and elevate itself as divine.
It started off like your were going to provide a sound rebuttal, but it didn't materialise. Instead we got:

> Google doesn't do any filtering (except the filtering that it does do)

> Google doesn't give directions to somebody's house and tell you how to get in, it gives directions to everybody's houses and tells you how to get in.