skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pivotwall Tracker, a simple pivotal tracker wall display
This is a great idea, any chance Opera support will be coming? I can install it through the Chrome web store but can't actually use it.
Well then there are still a few options; 1) it's internal and you can force-feed it to your employees, then it might be ok 2) it's external and you're trying to get a lot of people to work with it outside your company.

In both cases I still think you are better/easier/happier/cheaper off building it once and in case 1) giving your employees tablets/phones with the target OS and in case 2) just waiting till you have enough critical mass to warrant writing a version for the next OS.

Not to mention that, in most cases we have made HTML5 'hybrid' apps, we noticed that it takes more time making it uniform and smooth across the plethora of (especially Android) devices than just writing 2 native versions. And the HTML5 version will just never work well on a large amount of 'Alibaba $50' Android devices which surprisingly many people have. Resulting in TONS of bad reviews (if public) and/or very frustrated people.
Postal worker is probably not an entity of type Person, I would say it's more of a profession.
I live in Somerville (for school) and didn't even know about this. Cheers.
Marc Randolph (NFLX Co-Founder) – AMA
It may seem like that, but the major difference is the layout is left to the CSS. When combined with css media queries, the grid can provide a complete restructuring of the layout completely independent of the markup which would not would have been possible with tables.
I think his argument is that it is worse today, largely because the cost of running a campaign has dramatically increased and that funding doesn't depend on the people, but on an extremely small subset.
Zuckerberg, Musk Invest In Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious
Maybe...

"BitCoin" could refer to the Bitcoin protocol itself. The technical reasons/blockchain could conceivably explain some things, for example.
Yep basically.But we were alreday there with .row an .col-md-3, what's the difference between this and a table ?

semantics? yeah right.

By the way, tables can be made responsive too.
Love the idea. How will you make money? Or at least pay for operations?
This is an excellent advertisement for:

* disabling telnet on your router

* creating 4096-bit ssh keys

* enabling ssh key-based authentication only.

* setting ssh to non-standard ports

* enabling port knocking

* using _only_ tor to check webmail

* deleting your facebook account
Vanity metrics for a mayor?
Micro-framework? I like Slim. Haven't use any other.
Spot on. I have a number of clients who are EU gambling sites. They can count on an email or phone call about 10 minutes before the start of any and every big Football/Rugby/Cricket match to the effect "pay us X euros or we'll take your site off line". Since the betting activity is greatest right before the start, this could represent millions in lost revenue. These clients are very good at DDoS mitigation, but I also suspect they pay a lot of folks off as a cost of doing business. I also suspect that many of the attacks are set up by competitors, because it's pretty easy for a user to say "can't place my bet here, I'll go next door".
I think you overestimate people's concern with their neighbor's job opportunities versus their own welfare/comfort. I point to Walmart as just the tip of the iceburg in making my case.
Don't confuse charisma with extroversion. Being an open, warm, inviting person is not the defining characteristic of those who others readily identify as "charismatic" rather than a "really nice guy". Charisma is first and foremost about impressing others with your charm, intelligence, wit, etc. The skilled ones hide their contempt and egotism well.
Is there a general name for the kind of problem the contestants try to solve in that round of the show? I've encountered variants of it "in the wild" in a game we played at university. People would challenge each other to place arithmetic operators and parentheses between the digits of the serial number printed on bus tickets to get the number 100, with some variations. Despite playing this game for quite a bit I never learned any name for it or the problem it used; I asked other people who played it and nobody knew one, either.

Googling around finds the exact question on Programmers SE (https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/213924/name-...) but no answer.
Medium needs an API
"no upfront registration" is a misnomer, as you will obviously have to sign-up in order to partake of the service.

I would assume you will also have to register a payment method, otherwise they will just fill up with throwaway accounts.
Show HN: Save/Restore Games of 2048
How to block semalt.com referrer traffic using .htaccess
I'd love to see an article on a setup using ipv6, that'd be cool.
This is a hugely important difference.
You outlined a couple of scenarios where a transaction can be fraudulent, which is more than the 0 acceptable to a small business where margins are razor-thin already.

You really expect every mom and pop store to accept Bitcoins when they have to be as technically literate as the posters of HN?
> A single event doesn't certainly demonstrate anything.

It demonstrates what is possible, not probable, and as long as we keep that in mind, there is nothing wrong with it. My life is string of single events, and I will refuse to believe it "doesn't demonstrate anything."
Turkish citizens fight back against Twitter ban
seems the NSA isn't above hiring script-kiddies as long as they get the job done. and apparently they do get the job done all right.
[01:33] <weev> what kind of furry bluefox are you?
[01:33] <weev> i have a giant weevil costume
[01:33] <weev> with fawn horns
[01:33] <weev> to symbolize my malevolence
my "cool story, Hansel" that goes with this: I worked in electronic bingo. One of the things we faced was that paper bingo card manufacturers routinely wanted to limit the effectiveness of electronic bingo markers so-as not to drive themselves out of business. One method they did was limit the number of cards that could be sold to any one person, electronically or otherwise.

Also, in some jurisdictions we had to have a paper copy of each card sold to match what was in the bingo machine.

Thus, the paper market would never, ever die. So-much-so that the electronic company we were, invested in a printing press.
> otherwise they will just fill up with throwaway accounts.

this is exactly the kind of strategy that 'poor' people take to maximise the effectiveness of 'freebies' (which includes credit). i hope they have some strategy in place to mitigate that risk...
It absolutely does not. It's not the best marketing in the world, but the idea of cryptocurrency and its effective execution are two different things.

According to your logic, malware endangers the idea of computers, or phishing endangers the idea of email. Heck, spoilage endangers the idea of food.
Right, so negative discrimination is not important at all, because it's possible to overcome it if you are sufficiently talented? Bullshit! Everyone has to prove themselves in life, but if you make it harder for one group of people to earn respect than another, then that isn't fair at all. If you've had to put up with an unfair life, that doesn't mean it's bad for other people to complain about unfairness.

Anti-discrimination laws only demand fair treatment. Nothing more. Positive discrimination only happens if organisations choose to follow such a policy. Most organisations actually don't want horribly unqualified people, so it's not as big a deal as you make out.

In political arenas having a percentage quota of women actually makes more sense, because political bodies are supposed to represent the people and 50% of people are women. This is predicated on the notion that everyone is more inclined and better able to represent their own gender's perspective. It doesn't seem too controversial to me, it just seems like an extension of the ideas of proportional representation. Where I've seen it, these quotas are on the list of candidates that political parties nominate, not on the list of elected politicians. It's not that people can't vote in who they like, it's about who the party puts up for election, which is something regular people never have a say in anyway.

Cultural expectations are self-fulfilling prophecies. A hundred years ago, a lot of people had very low expectations about what women (or black people) were capable of. They were wrong, but it took a lot of time and effort to make that change. That is what political correctness is about. Political correctness demands superficial changes to how cultural expectation are expressed. It's a case of "fake it 'til you make it". Even if people deep down feel differently, they are asked to suppress it and treat individuals fairly. That way, the next generation of children grow up with a different view of the world than their parents. With each generation we take a step closer to fairness and equality. People like you know just enough to see that political correctness is superficial, but not quite enough to understand why. So you call it out as hypocritical bullshit, even though it has real, practical, achievable aims. Children pick up on the superficial values of the world around them, and that has a deep effect on them. Check out the Clark experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqvJp2gXJI0
And it's all on github:
https://github.com/DanielHadley/SomervilleSystems
> That's really a bit unfair of an assessment.

The point is that it should be acceptable in either circumstance, not that you shouldn't complain about what happens in an majority male environment because something analogous might happen in a majority female environment.
On the off chance that you'll look back and see this, I'll response. Your implication is that data structures are algorithms, and while that certainly may be true, both traditional computer science curricula and hiring tech companies make a distinction between the two.

In the latter case, what they call algorithms usually tend to be similar to the kind of "brain twister" problems that Microsoft was famous for.

In the former case (academics), data structures include things like stacks, queues, deques, linked lists, and on to graphs and trees. Whereas algorithms are specific procedures carried out with data structures, like sorting and searching, and dynamic algorithms. And then on to much harder stuff, like FFT.

My point is simply that I feel comfortable creating stacks, queues, linked lists, graphs, trees, etc., whereas when someone asked an open-ended algorithmic question to be solved on the white board or phone, I struggle under the pressure and gazing eyes of multiple interviewers to solve these problems (whereas I do fine in my own environment with only the pressure of finishing a job).
Violence. Guns. These are the threats behind every piece of legislation. Comply, or we'll send the goons with guns to make you comply. That most people go ahead and comply without making the government resort to using violence doesn't mean the violence isn't right there behind every bureaucrat's pen.
Cross-platform UI is a bad idea on the desktop. Cross-platform UI also is a bad idea on mobile. We need to learn from the past. Cross-platform UI is a conceptual mistake.
An app that has an icon on the home screen is perceived by the user as "an app", no matter if it actually launches the browser without the toolbar, if it is a web app wrapped in a PhoneGap shell of if it is a native app. To the user, it's an app. It has an icon, so it's an app. The rest are implementation details that the user doesn't (and shouldn't) care about. So if the user perceives it to be a native app like all the other apps, it has to behave like one. Otherwise the user will be disappointed. Web apps that mimic native apps simply don't behave exactly like native apps: Imitating native UI with web technologies on a mobile device will only disappoint.
Consult a lawyer and get an opinion letter. Copyright is unlikely to apply to names (see http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html). Patents clearly do not apply. Character names may be trademarked, but it is likely using a name from the book for your company will not introduce confusion by conflicting with another use of the same "mark". (See http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/process/index.jsp)

Using a name from a book brings along a lot of baggage, some of which you might want, but some, not so much.
No matter what, it's complicated.
looking forward to seeing the new site. i am the founder of a similar site in NY Kidklass.com. i look forward to watching you grow along with us, its important work we are both doing.
IBeacon Technology Begins Moving Into the Home
The source is even on github: https://github.com/DanielHadley/SomervilleSystems

As someone who grew up in Somerville, I'm impressed.
Are Most Winning A/B Test Results Misleading?
Nicely executed. Great job.

I have family that leave browser tabs open for days because bookmarks are too unwieldly for them to manage. It causes a host of problems.

This is the best solution I've seen that elegantly solves the local bookmarks problem.

So thanks for making it. I'm excited to watch this app grow over the next few years. I think it is going to flourish.
The problem with option 3 is people don't really want to pay for what they consume, and the state is happy to oblige by placing itself as the middle-man between concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.
Ask HN: What if ISPs throttled Google's services?
With the advent of Comcast wringing money out of Netflix, why don't they hit on other players like Google with YouTube?
How would you solve choosing the right font size though? It should be such that the longest line perfectly fits the width.
In Surprise Meeting, China’s President Greets Michelle Obama
FabFriday: It's Infographics Time
Steering wheels have 9 times more bacteria than a public toilet seat. That's 967,402 bacteria! Well by cutting the number of steering wheels per person to 0.1, over 104,345 billions of bacteria will be removed from earth by doing so. Those bacteria will never know what hit 'em.
That is not an "ideas guy"; that is a "sales person". And a strong sales person is essential and actually adds value. While some technical founders can also be great sales people; it is uncommon so this is a good pairing.

When people say "ideas guy", at least in my local techno-sphere, it means the person that has "some great idea", but no skills to implement, no skills to sell it, and no money to back it.

We get "idea guys" at our tech meetups on a somewhat regular basis. They just show up one day, and it's always the same thing, "So I have this great idea to do X, but I don't know how to program. I don't have any money to pay anyone, but I'll give you a 10% equity to build my idea. Huh?, no no I don't have any existing customer relationships either. Now which one of you can get this done the fastest?"

On the other hand we have people that fit into one of the 3 necessary/valuable categories (Implementers/Sellers/Financial Backers). People in all 3 of these categories have ideas and add real value.
Touring a live nuclear reactor
It seems odd to me that people still need separate phones for personal/business. Aren't there services that allow you to set up a separate number that goes straight to the same phone? I know Google Voice does that, and lets you even set filters so that it (for example) only rings during business hours and goes straight to voicemail otherwise.
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee remake looks hot in new gameplay video
Is this photoshopped?
The cloud continues to kick Oracle's butt – but not just in technology
So let's just fire up Norton Undelete FAT32 edition and see what's on my Windows XP SP1 cold storage laptop...
I remember being surprised that the bottleneck for some modern devices (like cell phones) wasn't the number of vertices one could push, but rather the fill rate and number of draw calls. Do consoles these days hit performance bounds as a function of the number of draw calls rather than the number of polygons/vertices?

I ask because I can completely understand how doubling the number of draw calls could be problematic in a VR situation.
It sounds like international security is being run by 10 year old wannabe anonymous members.

Yep. Replace "wannabe anonymous members" with "wannabe hardass" or "war hawk" and you have the essence of the US approach to international relations.

So while childish language for childish actions bothers me, so does the act of trying to class-up childish behavior with the well worn flavor of political rhetoric that acts like whatever bullshit getting peddled is reasonable and responsible.

I can't decide which I like less.
Jenkins, CocoaPods, Certificates and Provisioning Profiles
Not if you need less than 30m of downtime a month to run your business.
Agreed. There is no law against being a dick, which is his main offence.
The president of YC publicly tweets to his 16.1k followers which can also be seen and answered by anyone who hears of this tweet. Not only that, but he's addressing an issue he and YC have received a lot of negative comments on in the past. And this is sad?
I'd do it tonight if I didn't already have plans
Privacy – Send a self destructable message
some people do better than minimum wage at http://gittip.com/
Criminal courts should not evaluate whether accused is good guy or a bad guy. The only possible exception is when the guy is found guilty and court is looking for sentence.

Courts should evaluate whether the guy broke the law and whether the law is consistent with constitution. His trolling activities and personality should not play much role when determining guilt.
NASA wants developers to create and deploy coastal flooding simulations
we use the Open Table reference for our similar service I agree that is the closest comparison especially because I noticed you also have SaaS for vendors in addition to the marketplace.
This Week in Tech (March 15-21)
DC has had something like this for a few years. See e.g. http://track.dc.gov/Agency/KA0 for dashboard and http://data.dc.gov/ for a massive list of available datasets.
Weird, I totally missed it when I tried on the iPad.
It's a great question. As a contractor, is the Uber driver forced to carry his own liability insurance? How much? Is Uber liable, too? What is the answer to those same questions for a regulated taxi or limousine service?

I don't have time to look up the answers because of work, but I'm genuinely curious if anyone knows. It seems like these are reasonable questions to ask, and could lead to a constructive conversation about the role and necessity of regulation.
> I don’t even understand what they are.

Should a prosecutor be allowed to prosecute a case if he doesn't understand the actions taken by the prosecuted?

How can he be sure that a crime has been commited?

> He had to download the entire iOS system

I guess the prosecutor has downloaded the entire iOS system to his Iphone. I guess he doesn't know that he has done that.
That's just a holding page, not a functional site.
I'm sure Meg Whitman or Marissa Mayer would chuckle at such articles.

First:
{
you should know that “among high-growth-potential ventures, only 11 percent of U.S. firms with venture-capital backing, past and present, have been founded or led by women
}

You should know that among high growth potential ventures, 0% of U.S. firms with venture capital backing, past and present, have been founded or led by Aliens.

What does this tell you ? There are simply not enough women starting and/or leading companies. Like it or not, most companies have been started and are led by men, so most companies who will ever receive backing, will be led by men.

You have a 100 people starting a company, 90 are guys, 10 are women. Say 20 will receive backing. Of those 20, would it be surprising if most were led by men ?

Combinatorics, do you speak it.

Second:
{
women-led ventures have received only 7 percent of all venture funds.” Considering that about 51 percent of the U.S. population is women and that there are loads of studies that demonstrate better financial returns from businesses run by women, this trend persists year after year.
}

How many Mexicans are in the state of California ? 30.6 %. How many backed startups are created or led by Mexicans.

Is it racism or discrimination ? I don't think so. There are just not many Mexicans starting Tech companies. And I don't see them bitching about it's an "old white boys club".

Demographics, do you speak it. That's when you profile your typical hacker, it's most probably a male, most probably white and most probably young.

So, if people stopped coming out with articles as to "why" life is so "unfair" to them, and how they're repressed and discriminated.. I call bullshit.

Build a great product that solves a need, nobody will care who you are. People would buy something they need, even if provided by someone they hate. It's just a matter of supply and demand.

Now, those women who received backing ? They deserve it. That's because they don't dwell writing articles with a picture of a giant man stepping on a "strong liberated woman". They just do shit that matters.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 Infographics
Grids are also significantly more flexible and more responsive than tables. You finally get reliable vertical centering of elements as a side-benefit.

Tables got a very bad name because they were abused back when they were the only thing available for layout: "if the only tool you have is a hammer..." Yes, but sometimes data is actually tabular.

Grids are good for UI layout. The web was just for documents, but not any more. So now we need good ways to lay out UIs.
Any evidence newspapers write at a second grade level? I seriously doubt this.

That being said, there is an effort in politics to "dumb down" speeches in the last few years to reach a bigger audience. They still speak at high school level though.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/state-of-the-unio...

>Obama's use of simple language is in part a reflection of his audience: the American voter in an election year. And it's part of a larger trend in simpler State of the Union language as the speech as transitioned from a simple address to Congress into a prime-time televised event.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/21/study-congre...

>A new study by the Sunlight Foundation found that Congress speaks at an average grade level of 10.6, equivalent to a sophomore in high school. That number is down from 2005, when Congress' 11.5 speaking level was in line with a high school junior.

>"We do it on purpose," Mulvaney said of himself and his other freshman Republicans. "People have been teaching this for decades. If you want someone to understand your message, you speak clearly and concisely."

EDIT: I went to the New York Times homepage and picked the first article I saw. It was this: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/world/europe/ukraine.html?... I than ran it though a readability score analysis: https://readability-score.com/ It was written about at an 11th grade level.
The bitcoins that were just found were in wallets that haven't been used since 2011. They are not the same wallets affected by the recent problems.
Chrome appears to have some of it experimentally. For example, the old 'grid-definition-columns' which was removed from the spec is supported, but the newer (?) 'grid-template-columns' isn't. Alignment doesn't seem to work, at least as I understand it should (e.g. 'align-self: center' should vertically align a grid item).
I don't really see the connection between Bitcoin and Micro-Payment services at all. Bitcoin is hardly easy and instant unlike Flattr (Although I'd say Flattr isn't really that easy and straightforward as their intro video wants people to believe) and this service.
It depends on how you define terror though