skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what I hate ? Posts on HN of a company's website where after you read the whole thing, you still have no clue what they're doing.

The use of we're reinventing/we're disrupting or things like that.

A landing page with whoop whoop colors, fancy words and bacteria talk. Aiming at reducing the number of phones to just one, using expressions like "phone solution" (what does that even mean). Many startups fail miserably to tell you how it works, simply. And no, no amount of CSS or infographics will remediate that.

Now: On the link, you actually have to click to the main site to make sense of it. Then, it shows you a sort of screen, but it's not a phone (it's part of the image. The layout is broken. I have to dezoom to 33% to see there's a whole image, but I can't read what's in there and I can't zoom on the specific image. Just awful).

Then, there's the wrong argument provided: Frigging bacteria. For one, do you know how many bacteria there are ? The argument is weak.

And two, there are phones that have dual SIM(heck, there are even triple SIM phones) so the argument cancels itself out. You're pushing the wrong piece of chess.

Show me how it works. A frigging prototype. An actual phone (since you said the "phone solution" is on your "existing devices". Why there's no image of an iPhone or an Android phone with the product installed).

I hate those links. So to sum it up:

-Weak arguments (Bacteria. Many people don't care given the already huge number of bacteria they deal with already. And tow, there are multiple SIM phones).

-Awful page layout.

-No info:

No info on how the product works.
No info on the price.
No demo (photos of at least how it should* look like because I think there isn't even a product and it's a test balloon, just to test the waters).

Aaaand the use of one of the most hated expressions in my book: "We're reinventing". Heck, even Nikola Tesla didn't use that expression and I mean, he's TESLA !)
It reflects the brand/product. ElasticSearch is terrifying to use :)
> Isn't there any secular, non-nationalist political movement in Turkey?

Sure, such movements exist, but the conservative school is the most powerful; they possess most the money and media, and thus silence things.

> Clearly, Turkey is not really a democracy anymore.

Turkey's democracy has been buggy from the start. I believe the election system allows for situations like today, where one party can gain the absolute ruler status.
Yeah, when the state can't even articulate the act, much less why it is wrong, it is really hard to respect their jurisprudence.

EDIT:

And before anyone counters with "Whether you respect it or not, it's the law (and they have the power to enforce it).", do consider that such an argument is basically saying that the rule of law boils down to men with guns.

I don't think that that is either noble or desirable--for a civilization, we must do better.
Oh come on. Every multimeter I've ever owned was yellow. The Sparkfun multimeters look like every other cheap multimeter, and decidedly unlike Fluke's. It's not even the same damn shade of yellow.

This is pointless waste and a huge scandal.
Out of Work, Out of Luck
Automated Testing of Hardware Appliances with Docker
High scores rise to the top, but the scores are kept unobtrusive so they don't become the focus.
Oops, I thought I left those somewhere...
Big Data Analytics for Cybersecurity and Fraud
Remember that newspapers have to write at a ~2nd grade level because the general public is stupid.
Launching startups in the inner city
NSA Impersonates Facebook to Spread Malware
Only commercial banks are under the regulatory authority of the Fed. Until they converted to a bank holding company, Goldmann Sachs was not regulated by the Fed. As an "ivesemt bank" (which is not actually a bank at all), they were regulated by a mishmash of other authorities including the SEC and FTC. That was a major contributing factor to the financial crisis in the first place, and the reason Dodd-Frank expanded the authority of the Fed and FDIC to cover "systemically important financial institutions"--even if they are not banks.
It seems the what's mostly changed is support. IE10 has it, and Chrome has it experimentally.
Cybercriminals Getting Money with ZBOT Adds Clickbot
Tamil Nadu govt slaps Rs 2,400 cr tax demand notice on Nokia
> As much as I don't like the idea of incumbents using their weight to protect against innovative competition, is this not just the nature of a strategic view of competitive advantage?

Yes. What is wrong is that the government shouldn't be helpping them.
Watch Steve Ballmer Nearly Implode While Hawking Windows 1.0
It's a wierd issue because on my localhost everything is fine but when i deploy it to some servers like appfog or heroku then this issue comes. I am checking logs and trying hard to fix it. But if you are getting this error try refresh the page and try again.
I don't like the container linking because it is basically tied to one server without extra complexity.

CoreOS' "fleet" ( https://coreos.com/docs/launching-containers/launching/launc... ) gives a cluster-wide solution.

But even without using fleet, the overall mechanism is fairly easy to adapt: Either use systemd dependencies like in their example, or have a script that queries docker on each host to spot changes in running containers, and update an etcd instance (or whichever your preferred config server is).
> Have BitCoin ever officially explained the reason the BitCoins were gone?

This is analogous to saying:

"Have US Dollar ever officially explained the reason the dollars were gone?" after a bank was robbed.
Did you change the rules after posting it here? It seems like they are more chaotic now (and I like it).
i have just deleted "twitter and facebook" under "Drag to" folder. and i found no options to get them back. i could only creat a folder but not the app like twitter and facebook?
"Blocking Twitter is like breaking a mirror – it only removes reflections"
Also, I was asked to agree to your terms and privacy policy...yet couldn't actually view either. When I attempted to register without acceptance, I was told I must accept, but still no indication of what I was actually agreeing to:

http://imgur.com/PcLFaPE
Holy shit, a relatively small municipality whose website doesn't look like complete ass! Elected officials know what they're doing in Somerville.
MtGox has never provided a good reason why they were missing so much in various asset classes. They tried to point to "transaction malleability" early on, but people who have traced such activity say that it can account for only a small fraction of the BTC MtGox claims to be missing.

Insider theft or loss of keys seem to be the most plausible theories, though some people think all the money may simply have been gambled away trying to recover losses incurred earlier.

Some folks over on Reddit, btw, claim to also have found an additional 300,000 BTC still under MtGox's control. This is perhaps support for the "missing keys" theory, or perhaps simply "gross incompetence".
Ballistic Recovery Systems
I know these particular dashboards aren't real-time, but I'm still reminded of Dan Mckinley's, "Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics"

http://mcfunley.com/whom-the-gods-would-destroy-they-first-g...

> Real-time web analytics is a seductive concept. It appeals to our desire for instant gratification. But the truth is that there are very few product decisions that can be made in real time, if there are any at all. Analysis is difficult enough already, without attempting to do it at speed.

In this case, the lack of context isn't just from not having a ready-comparison across timeframes...but what does it mean when "Graffiti Removed" peaks two weeks ago, and then flattens to a low as of today? Is it because sanitation crews aren't working as hard? Or is it because they've been working so hard -- and so have the cops -- that there's now much less graffiti to clean up?

Even with the sparse data here, I feel that there's a risk of a kind of "data overload"...in that nearly all of the data here is irrelevant without context...is it really more efficient for the mayor to glance at the dashboard every once in awhile and reflexively shout to his aides, "WTF is up with our potholes, check it out!"
Small quibble about the video. This is not hacker-attentional grade. With the sound off, I lose interest when I fail to see content by the 5s mark. (Just some model bouncing around an apartment she could never afford on a model's salary.)
i wasnt expecting that answer...

how large was your friends table?
maybe it was quick when doing friends of friends because the friends table was already wholly loaded into memory?

i wonder if your relationship traversals spanned across different tables, if postgres would still be as quick?
Also, in interpreted languages, it's difficult to know whether the primitive operations actually are constant time, which is why I think the better universal solution is to hash both the MAC from the untrusted input as well as your own computed MAC once more with the same HMAC with a random key and only then do the comparison on the result of that. The HMAC should be constant time anyhow, and with this construction, it shouldn't matter much whether the final comparison is constant time.
The scene[1] in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon tells the NSA to beat it is probably in line with how a lot of us feel. Interesting work, but the end result is too much to live with.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw
{
"Potholes filled":
{
"total": 383,
"one same street": 287,
"near the mayors house": 287,
"near campaign donors houses": 32
}
}
Forget about Silver for a moment.

What’s more dangerous, the bias in an opinion page or bias in a feature article masquerading as neutral fact?

More data, more samples, can produce more spurious relationships, whatever statistical massaging is applied. Given more Noise, there’s more opportunity to inject bias in finding your Signal. Journalists shouldn’t pretend their data doesn’t stink because they just figured out how to get Excel to crap out regression results.
You're thinking of JavaScriptCore. It allows Objective-C objects to be used inside of JavaScript (and vice versa).

It's actually a pretty cool technology. I gave a talk about it this month at Berlin CocoaHeads, and I'm gonna put some blog posts together about it soon!
I would have loved this when I was running gifexplode.com (now owned by a spammer).
I prefer option 3 - ISPs charge more for people that use more. I know this would require marketing changes, and many customers wouldn't like it, so it won't happen and instead they'll just keep doing what they're doing and trying to extort money from data-heavy services.

Option 1 is unfair to some people, Option 2 puts a huge barrier to entry in place for businesses. Option 3 is the only real solution IMHO.
What are you using to make certain tabs smaller than others in Chrome? I would use the crap out of that.
Are people really suffering from the bacteria on their phones?

Genuine story: I started using a smartphone about 4 years ago and a nasty skin condition I had went away within a month and never came back. I suspect that it was bacterial or fungal and there was a little war in which the bacteria on my phone won. Exposure to bacteria can be a good thing. I suspect perfect hygiene is bot going to do much for your immune system in the long run.

Oh and this is the shittest pitch I've ever seen.
I once did a security audit of Fitnesse, perhaps the best known software developed under the red-green-refactor cycle of TDD. I found a number of security vulnerabilities. A path traversal vulnerability meant I could read an arbitrary file on the server, including the password file. The password hash encoding is weak, and given a hash I was able to find a password which would match the hash. Once I had upload access to the server, another path traversal vulnerability meant I could upload to an arbitrary spot on the server, so long as the process had permissions to it. By design, the server can execute Java code. Combined, this means an attacker could run arbitrary code on the server.

While the worst vulnerabilities have since been fixed, the server still contains a CSRF vulnerability.

These all suggest that unit testing/TDD doesn't really add much to security protection.
Bootstrap. It helps any site go from looking like crap to passable.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll put some thought into playing autoplayed videos only after the tab gets focus.

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/543
The fact that this company can lose and then find $116 million is a disheartening thought. It ultimately it hurts the whole idea of a cryptocurrency.
thanks, didn't know about it. i will check it out.
There is no need for this service with Bitcoin - the balance controlled by every address in the network is known to everyone.
If by tab real estate, you mean the amount of tabs that can be shown at once, you only lose 1/8th of a tab http://i.imgur.com/uT0oHl3.png
I have used and spent time with both products and I couldn't disagree with this more. In my opinion, Elasticsearch is the more mature product and has been around longer than Solr Cloud (ES 2/2010, Solr Cloud 10/2012)[0][1], if you count Compass developement (ES' precursor) than even longer. Where ES was built from the ground up with clustering in mind, this is a feature that is certainly a primary focus for Solr Cloud but not a key feature for much of Solr's development. I would also contend that, in my opinion, there is no basis for the assessment that Solr Cloud provides "more power" than ES.

Elasticsearch has been an open project for some time, and they have recently formed a for-profit company in order to push the project forward even more. Certainly the Apache Project has an investment in Solr and, I certainly hope, that the project will continue even if Lucid Works (who employs 25% of the Solr developers)[2] were to close up shop.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr

[2]: http://www.lucidworks.com/about-us/
Although that doesn't seem to be the same thing as a "realtime" dashboard, that is an amazingly well-done site.

20 years ago it had the not-entirely-undeserved nickname Slummerville. It's remarkable how much it's changed.
How to pour a glass of water.
missed the bitcoin train.
> Simply having to wait a week to get approved for the iOS App Store (and less on Android) doesn't constitute 0 control over distribution. You can still release the app to the store when you want, if you plan ahead, and pull it whenever you like. Less control, yes, but not zero.

You don't have control whether your app will be accepted into the store (like the recent bitcoin apps), you don't have control whether the content in your app will be allowed in the store (such as the many Comixology comics that where banned from being sold).

> Also, how is this different from writing a non-native app? The same rules apply to distributing web apps if you want them to be in the store.

But I don't have to put my web apps in the store at all, I just tell my users to visit a URL.
You can paste a URL from your clipboard into the home page of MediaCrush, providing a similar functionality. This also allows you to make albums of a bunch of URLs.
> "This is where the beauty of popcorn time just shines because it's the same amount of data but it's coming from everywhere."

The net neutrality decision not only opens the door to monopolists 'shaping' traffic by peer, but also 'shaping' traffic by protocol. [1]

Even if your data is coming from 'everywhere', they can squeeze it down to almost-nothing. The MPAA is likely popping champagne over the prospect of finally having a tool with which to kill casual bittorrent use. [2]

[1] And shaping traffic by device is also on the table. I hope game console- and platform-makers are preparing for this.

[2] Yes, people could tunnel that traffic through a proxy or VPN. But the ISPs only have to kill casual use to significantly harm the network. And throttling all VPN/SSH traffic and using that as a cudgel to extract fees from more companies is also not only feasible, but perfectly in line with their incentives.
Right click on the tab and select "Pin Tab"
>Why buy 200 coins in a game when you only need ten?

Great. Another psychological trick the F2P devs can add to their toolbox.
mysql-proxy allows that, right?
The Indian gov is such a farce as far as its policies are concerned regarding business. Vodafone, Formula One, Coal block allocation... ugh. What a gov !

Hope things change when the highly regarded Modi comes into power.
Accidentally finding that much money is embarrassing. MtGox needs to get their act together. I get the whole "it's a wild west crazy time for everyone." But this is insane.
tvtropes.org

I hope you don't waste time on tvtropes.com ;)
Cross-platform compatibility (2001)
Why not use ipv6 for the network between services?
ok.. i have implemented it under "setting" :P
Link to discussion in progress: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7440305
Nothing to Hide – Big data + computation to confound mining and surveillance
Time intervals and testing
Web Dev here. I don't think the stack is broken.
Sam Altman tweeted, asking for advice about women
Αποφράξεις Διάγνωση με κάμερα – apofraxeis-vlachos.gr : apofraxeis-vlachos.gr
How does one sell free software?
Telegraphy provides real time events for WSGI Python applications
So we return to tables ...
Microsoft selling private data to FBI for $200 a person
Microsoft admits reading Hotmail inbox of blogger
The Altcoin Song! – An Ode to Bitcoin Alternatives 
Inspired by (and using the music of) David Lehrer's "The Elements".
The huge top bar makes up more than half of the screen, making the whole thing very annoying to read.
IFTTT integration would be AWESOME
>I think your analogy, while a good one, is quite a bit off on scale there.

According to wiki.answers, it took 300 people just over two years to build the Eiffel Tower.

Now compare that to Linux, or Gimp, or any other large OSS project and tell me the scale is still off. Or were you claiming that I was off in the other direction? In which case... I might agree with you. ;-)

> But if I wanted to attempt to build my own Eiffel Tower in my backyard, why is it bad that I wish to do so? Maybe I just want to do it to see if I can accomplish it?

It depends entirely on your motive and goal. If your goal is to build it yourself, if your motive is just "see if I can build this with my own power" then there is nothing at all bad. I applaud that. If your goal is to make the best software to fill a certain gap, if it's to make the world a better place with the highest change/effort ratio, then I would argue that adding your knowledge & power to an already existing project is the better way.
Hacked emails show what Microsoft charges the FBI for user data
If you've ever wondered how much your data is worth
I should have searched first.
A digital loan shark that will only let you have €5. Sound business model there...
> .but what does it mean when "Graffiti Removed" peaks two weeks ago, and then flattens to a low as of today?

Without data, you wouldn't have asked that question, and you wouldn't have got an answer.

Analytics doesn't give answers, it gives questions.
The concept is interesting. However, I don't think that the concept of "use now, pay later" is really what prevents people from doing micro transactions. The real work is to convince content providers to hide their stuff behind cheap paywalls and use their system.

Flattr never gained enough traction and I don't see how laterpay solves this problem.
Here's one benefit you get with docker: Speed of rebuilds, and ensuring that your build instructions and list of dependencies accurately reflects your actual environment. I basically have a "basic dev setup" container for all my projects now, and each new project sits as sub-directories of a directory on the host that I bind mount into the docker containers. Each project then also has a Dockerfile which adds any project specific dependencies.

Building a fresh container then takes a couple of seconds. And the projects run within those containers only. Ever time I restart the apps in my development environment, I rebuild the container, because it is so cheap. Which means I know at any time that the container can be rebuilt to a state the app will run in. I know when I want to deploy that the Dockerfile accurately reflects the dependencies, because otherwise my app wouldn't be running in the dev environment, as any and all changes to anything outside of the application repository are only applied through changes to the Dockerfile.
Show HN: Different languages interactive meme
Different languages interactive meme
That said - when I did find it, I was impressed by how incredible readable it was:
https://dragdis.com/privacy_policy

Please link to that from your sign up page!
Wish I could upvote this a bunch of times
"a solution is a homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase" - a liquid phone, that sounds cool!
In the final stages of upgrading a 1.4.x project to 1.6. The process seems to have been very simple, other than two very specific bugs that you are unlikely to run into (one had to do with our own code and how it interacted with django_compressor, the other was in the Oracle driver which I doubt you are using).

Do the upgrade. Just read the release notes for every release between the versions you are going through and make sure to make the changes they suggest/require. It'll take you 2 hours and yes it is worthwhile.
The rule of law does boil down to men with guns.

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
If Bitcoin was around in the '90s...
The wayback machine begs to differ: http://web.archive.org/web/20070525044536/http://mtgox.com/g... -- now, if the codebase was the same as it was when that page was hosted and today, I can't say.
I understand this model, but with some software there is no obvious model for selling solutions beside the software. A lot of times the software is the solution.
Your Computer Knows Your Pain (Better Than Humans Do)
I don't understand why companies and CMS projects think that everything needs to happen in the browser.

Especially in situations like publishing, when the content creation is being done 100% by people under employment or contract. Give them a native app or browser plugin for authoring, and you can solve all these problems with much greater sophistication.

In the distant past I used to use Microsoft Content Management Server to power websites. It lacked most of the modern features of a web CMS, but it provided a native app and IE plugin for authoring. In terms of code control and consistency it kicked the ass of even the best JS libraries available today.

A native authoring app, side loaded onto employee machines, would be a much more powerful authoring solution. It would produce clean HTML code and push it into the CMS via an API call.
I agree that he should be acquitted for the "crimes" of which he finds himself incarcerated for, since they aren't crimes.

However, weev also needs to stop being such an asshole about other things and being so proud of that.
Java 8 friday: Java 8 will revolutionize database access
> even today, we are incredibly bad at managing [...] brilliant people

That is an important question, and unfortunately, I haven't seen lots of books on that topic.

Except maybe "Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers" by J. Hank Rainwater: http://books.google.de/books/about/Herding_Cats.html?id=9xFP...

(This is not so much about "brilliant" people, but about creative people - especially good programmers - in general.)
If a tap on a notification dismissed it, and a long hold on the notification launched the app, none of this would be a problem.
Bloomberg has been funding Igalia to land CSS Grid implementation work in both WebKit and Blink. Igalia wrote a recent blog post about the latest work:

http://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2014/03/13/welcome-css-grid-la...
Yester is a new kind of history publication
I give it until tomorrow before we see a text-adventure-based version of 2048