skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left out our response to this development further in the article:

"The United States Navy has responded by switching its focus from a close blockade force of shallow water vessels to return to building deep water ballistic defense destroyers. The United States has also assigned most of its ballistic missile defense capable ships to the Pacific, extended the BMD program to all Aegis destroyers and increased procurement of SM-3 BMD missiles. The United States also has a large network optimized for tracking ballistic missile launches which may give carrier groups sufficient warning in order to move away from the target area while the missile is in flight."

We've been playing the BMD (Ballistic Missile Defense) game longer than the PRC has been playing the ICBM game....

ADDED: we've got 62 Arleigh Burke class destroyers operating, 8 on order and another 6 planned.
I've had quite a lot of luck developing HTML/JS apps in Sencha Touch (very basic CRUD apps of course). Really noticed a speed improvement running the latest release on an iPhone 5S. Not sure how much room there really is for HTML/JS ports at this stage. Titanum was a let down for me. Am keen to try Xamarin next. Or just go native? Thoughts?...
Integrations with Dropbox, Gdrive, Tumblr, Evernote are coming. Definitely will look into Pocket as well :)
Will there be cake?
Releasing mobile website next week!
so they do. well it was good while it lasted.
That's fantastic. I bet you this cost everyone less money then litigation. The only way they could have made this better is if they sent the author a bottle too.

I have come to believe that there are contracts and there are intentions behind the contracts. A person or a company can sign a contract, and have no plans to fulfill it and at the same time a person or a company can fulfill a promise without signing any contract. While contracts are a necessary evil, the real question is what does the other party intend to do.
They did a nice job on this framework, but I think it is a fundamentally wrong approach. Here is why: http://www.springenwerk.com/2011/09/thoughts-on-mobile-ui-de...
Or, if you prefer a video: http://vimeo.com/32256530
How to Dominate the Entire First Page of Google
Ack, soundcloud took it down when I uploaded another interview and went past their free plan. Just upgraded, it should now be available.
> "One of the classic signs of a conspiracy theory is that it is not falsifiable"

The assertions raised absolutely are falsifiable.
You just need to bring the proper data to do so.

The original assertion is that Google's failed bridge proposal is an example that money doesn't buy power.

But that begs the question of whether Google actually tried to buy the result they were looking for. If they didn't expend their money on this issue, it's not at all a counter-example against "money buys power". [1]

Further, one would have to reasonably show that even if Google did expend their money, that they outspent any would-be counter-parties.

So you can definitely falsify the assertion.
You just need the proper data.

[1] Given the peripheral benefits of the proposal, it could quite likely be a reinforcing example. If one can't get even a good project through a political body without paying the right gatekeepers, it only reinforces the original charge.
You don't expect me to do my dirty business on my regular phone, do you? ;)
So the amount of foot traffic going in and out of my (quiet) apartment is the issue? I hope I'm not exceeding this limit already by myself especially since none of my neighbors know who I am. As for having my friends over, this is an issue as well?
"If you define democracy as something where every citizen can participate equally you can easily come to the conclusion that all these countries in fact are not democracies because clearly these governments often do things that the population does not want."

The definition of democracy continues, pretty significantly:

"... either directly or indirectly through elected representatives"

Direct democracy is practised essentially nowhere (about 50,000 Swiss) and every other democracy in the world is representative. Clearly, when someone refers to 'democracy', with no other context, they're referring to a representative strain, and therefore the UK, USA, etc. are functioning democracies. If you want to discuss whether a representative democracy is worse than a direct one, we can have that debate, but don't try to distort things by making outlandish, untrue statements right off the bat.
Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan
Restating a problem (in a larger context) is not solving it.
Don't forget an important reason gifs are rampant; they aren't chased by take-downs of copyright holders, while video snippets are much more exposed...
Gizmodo says this uses GPS but there's no way that's accurate enough, is there?
Beta invitation and getting subscribers pre-launch is in many cases a flawed strategy. It is really, really hard for an unknown startup (amongst hundreds of other unknown startups) to stay 'top of mind' for more than a week or so.

For the beta and pre-launch startups I sign up for, I remember only half by the time I can register and use the service. I register for about 5% of those I still recognise. For the rest, I simply don't care any more.

Rethink the pre-launch and onboarding strategy. Just because others say you should doesn't mean it will work for you. THINK FOR YOURSELF.
Do you guys have folders beyond one level now? I signed up for the beta (?) a while back but stopped using it once I saw folders couldn't be created beyond one level.
way better than retired bookmarks!
can't find info on pricing or countries available... so... close tab.
Based on an HN recommendation I got one of these: http://www.americanfloormats.com/rejuvenator-anti-fatigue-ma... . Expensive but also very good.
OK, you're right on that. It still reveals a lot about inequality. I meant it not as a mathematical proof, but as evidence.
I used to have two phones (one for work, one personal[0]). I appreciate the appeal of consolidating that into one just out of convenience. "You're carrying around too much bacteria" seems to be a rather weird argument even to bring up.

[0] In my case, I needed access to both iOS and Android, so this wouldn't really have helped anyway, but that's separate.
This looks fantastic. Congrats on working out an awesome UX.
Seems like a great idea. Small thing - I registered with Facebook and accepted the read permissions, but refused the write permissions (sorry, no apps get write permissions). Instead of saying "ok, we'll just ask again when you actually want to post something to Facebook," Dragdis just dropped me at a screen saying that I absolutely must give write permissions.

That should change. You should ask for write permissions, but if it's refused, ask again when it becomes necessary.
This ad just makes me think there is some money is making a phone with some antibacterial properties, not that I need to eliminate phones.
Another solution is to work in a place where highly intelligent people are the majority.
Was the word you were looking for "entropy"?
True, but these people usually want money - fast. The process you describe takes time and with time the risk of being caught expands. So I guess "real criminals" would opt for fast money rather than long term possibilities.
The option you're describing seems more likely for various "agencies" and the likes...
Wow what a tough crowd. So many off topic discussions. The framework is buttery smooth, and very well done. Kudos to the dev!
I have never seen any html5 framework (like ionic, jqm, wink etc) nail swipe to delete row so acurately
Awesome job!
Can user export their data in reasonable format?
#MCCONNELLING- SOO FUNNY ENRIQUE SONG
#mcconnelling- SOOOO FUNNY- ENRIQUE IGLESIAS SONG
I've been rooting for MediaCrush from the beginning, but there are two things I prefer about gfycat:

1) Their scrubber handle is REALLY slick and easy to use.

2) I never have to worry that gfycat will make noise if I blindly open a link in a new tab.

If you could give me a cookie so that mediacrush links will ALWAYS start muted for ME, no matter what the author or URL say, I'd be much happier.

And something neither one of you get right (I think):

If I open five animated GIFs each in their own tab, the images don't start playing until I switch to that tab. So once I make a given tab active, I get to see the animation starting from the beginning. Both gfycat and MediaCrush start playing the animation right away, so when I eventually make that tab active, I have to rewind to see from the start. (Or, in your case, click play if autoplay is off. Which isn't as bad but still less convenient than "play on focus" that I get with animated GIFs.)

Anyway, my $0.02. I care about quality and open source, but the average Redditor/4chan'r cares not about such things.
No thanks, I'll stick to those crappy posters that say "Achievement" or "Creativity". Or maybe the cat hanging off the branch.
AI made a huge mistake latching on to CS rather than biology
Harsh! The 2 color receptor part is accurate. And given that both photos are on your screen, and one is 20% less acute than the other, the approximation is fair.
>because your answer is just flat wrong

His answer to "Can we agree?" is wrong?
This seems very similar to Java's gridbag layout manager (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/gridba...) in terms of functionality.

I always liked the flexibility of using that layout manager (although I always managed it via visual editors) so if this does reach mainstream compatibility it could be good!

As comments on the article point out, it seems to overlap with FlexBox quite a bit though.
I hate to nitpick, but that link points to a survey on the perception of corruption, not actual corruption.

I know it's near impossible to measure actual corruption, but other data points would be helpful.
Anti-Social Network Helps You Avoid People You Don't Want To See
GifCam is my tool of choice. http://blog.bahraniapps.com/?page_id=21
Drag dis? Is your userbase the ghetto? The name's gotta change, it's awful.
There's a difference between an idea guy and a Proof of concept guy.
Microview Shrinks Arduino Into A Teeny, Weenie OLED Module
Yep. The NPR Planet Money episode said it's typical for car dealers to be responsible for about 20% of a states sales tax revenues. TWENTY PERCENT.
Mistake 2 - Does anyone have a great way of managing this process they could recommend to a non-programmer?
There may be a lot of bacteria on my cell phone ... but they're MY bacteria. I avoid using other people's phones for just this reason (and don't share my own).
That also worries me a little.
I think the one at MIT might be possible, but I'm not sure
Good stuff. One nitpick. The intro video is a bit long. It should have started at t = 20s IMO. I watched it in mute though.
techcrunch is that way -->

you're on a startup incubator's community forum.
Yes, all 4 of us! :P
Apparently MtGox, despite the name, was never used for anything other than bitcoin. It was just a domain the owner had.
This was dated almost a year ago. This is me waiting for the promised follow-up!
Dual SIM phones exist. Or am I missing the point here entirely?
MediaCrush is a great name, IMO. But mediacru.sh is gross.

For the record, I disagree with the BETA tag and the "bandwidth saved" thing. The real issue is that it's easier to upload to gfycat.
As a note, for Debian/Ubuntu, you can recreate the default DBs on a shell with mysql_install_db followed by mysql_secure_installation .
I don't think your model has to have 1200 lines of code to see the benefits. DHH's ticket class stars with 2 lines of model code, which is a very rare case in the Rails applications I've seen. Counting by hand, I see DHH's example has one, two, three...

Twenty-six (26) lines of model code that are dedicated to validating this specific "confirmation" validation.

Given that validation is just one of the concerns of models built with The Rails Way, imagine sprinkling all of the other code that a model will have in-and-around these 26 lines of code. The central purpose of those 26 lines of code vanish into the fog of the rest of the model, creating the mystical behaviors that are common in some Rails applications.

I totally understand the concern about preemptive architecture, but once the code count for a given behavior creeps from 4, to 8, to 12... it's time to organize it into some sort of central place that's isolated from the rest. I mean, gosh, we know how this works in the real world, right?

Dev A: Here's my 26 lines of validation code to the model, DHH says it's the right thing to do.

Dev B (hours later): I need to add a little bit of behavior here, but I'm only adding a little bit of code. I'm not going to try to deduce what all of that code does, so I'll just tack mine on the bottom.

Dev C (days later): I have to add a bit of code... hmm... this is sort of a mess, I see mostly validation code but I also see some behavior. I'm not touching any of it. I'll just patch my stuff here... and here!

[iterate over and over, you get a mess of a Rails app]

I've seen this happen to multiple Rails applications... Rails applications built by experienced developers who know Rails in-and-out.

Plopping a bunch of code in something as important as a Rails model and leaving the cleanup for the next dev isn't very polite.
"having your friends over" eh? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/airbnb-orgy_n_49788...
That worries me a lot :-)
You may be a legitimate company with the best of intentions, but after recent stories about people purchasing chrome extensions to abuse the update process by silently changing them to inject ads into pages it would be only natural for people to view requests of this nature with suspicion. You should probably provide more information than a gmail address.
I agree. The first app we wrote using CanCan, the `ability.rb` file (and the dozen files we factored out of that) grew to be... significant.

I love the idea of Pundit because it decouples all that as much as seems practical. I'm about to find out if theory informs practice or not...
Doctor Who tourist attractions in the UK
Maybe he is disappointed with charity and non-profit companies… they are supposed to be fill of good feelings but maybe their owners are not. A lot of people think that people who work for charity or non-profit companies work for free, just to feel good or develop as a person but that would not be true. People who set up this kind of companies can get the wage they think they deserve (normally a lot) so a lot of money for “the charity” finish in their pockets after doing nothing very special or smart to help the poors, and when people find out that, they feel really disappointed (as me). I have volunteered several times and I saw things I didn't like.

I think some people may think that if you work 100% for a non-profit company you should get something. Well, I agree on that but not crazy wages of 6 numbers for doing not very much… I think non-profit companies should have transparent money accounts to every member so that every person can see what they do with their money, they are fill of good and nice feelings, aren't they?why don’t they show us all the good things they do with the money?
That's analogous to the advance of desktops. The hardware kept getting faster ("what Intel gives") but at the same time the software became more complex ("Microsoft takes away"). If you deliver software based on it performing better on future revs of hardware, you're going to get a reputation for delivering pokey software.
Still Burned by the FDA
"The ghetto", really? You sound properly awful.
It was Paulson who lead it, but Bernanke and Blair were right there next to him during the TARP ultimatum meeting. The implicit threat was that if they turned it down, the regulators would force it upon them.

The meeting minutes came out in an FOIA request and lawsuit[0]:

> Ben, Sheila, John, Tim and I have asked you here ..

> If a capital fusion is not appealing, you should be aware that your regulator will require it in any circumstance.

[0] http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judic...
It's just not practical to dig up an entire cities worth of streets to lay a second transmission line. You are legally allowed to compete with the cable co and telephone co. But it's rarely attempted because it's not profitable. They already have a network, building one is very expensive.

Competition is actually our problem. In countries with only 1 telecom choice, the government regulates it. It often lets ISPs pay to rent the transmission line that the telecom owns.^1 Instead America lets the cable company compete against the telephone company and we get two poor choices.

If you want nationwide fiber? Give ATT and Verizon their monopoly on ISP lastmile networks, but force them to lease your line to indie ISPs.

Just calling for more competition sounds like a good idea, but it won't work.

^1you can actually do this now for DSL in America.
They could not have chosen a more terrifying creature to put on the cover.
Don't get me wrong, I don't consider chrome's design to be the end-all of browser design. The difference is that chrome is pretty. Firefox (pre Australis, have yet to try that) was just down right hideous. Whether its usable or not is irrelevant if a user can't stand to look at it. The "chrome" on your application should not be off-putting, however functional you think it may be. It is a lot like furniture; functional is important, but none of that matters if its hideous to begin with.
Clustering Solr is even harder. I would say that, once you know what you're doing, ES makes this much easier.
Keep in mind that this doesn't measure corruption, but perceptions of corruption. If corruption exists, but is not obvious to the average person, then it won't be reflected in the Corruption Perceptions Index.
Can Smart Cars Curb Road Rage?
Sorry Chyrp
ScratchJr: Coding for Young Kids
I'm baffled that a technology stack (HTML, JS) that every single web developer think is broken (but still have to deal with) is being considered for iOS development, and being promoted as an easy way to develop native apps.

This is where I think RubyMotion offered the best of both worlds: native APIs and Ruby's flexibility (even if Objective-C is really not that bad or hard to learn).
I've participated in them, and one thing you learn very quickly is that users don't know what they want. But users can tell if something is ugly--you should listen to them there.
Not at the moment, but we will introduce Dropbox, Gdrive integration in April.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search tests limits of satellites
There is a very strange obsession with how other people spend their money. This article basically decries wealthy people using their money to try to earn more money rather than giving their money away to people who need more money. All the while, the author is writing this from, what I expect, isn't a mud hovel while being, what I expect, is fully clothed, fed, and sheltered because they, themselves, did not give all of their money away to people who need more money.
Well, StackOverflow helps a lot there. The important thing is that the process is standardized and fairly uniform.

If you're using a lot of code to generate forms that depend on models, look into ModelForms: they allow you to generate a form that maps to a specific model's fields trivially and allow adding additional validation and persisting the model to the database.
I think it's actually based on the grids in WPF ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation ). This is no bad thing; those grids are superb for UI layout. Look at the editors list; this comes out of MS. Again, it's good that they feed this out into web standards.
just amazing. less steps to do something usual for me. thanks !
This is not really hacker news is it!!!!
These days when I see a GitHub post that they are experiencing a DDoS attack I have a slightly cynical reaction to it. I was at a software conference where we had thousands of people hitting GitHub to clone projects for workshops all that same time. They shut us down and said they were experiencing a DDoS... We were lucky that a couple of GitHub employees were at the conference and were able to contact the main office to get things straightened out.
Also, I'm somewhere I can't watch a video — would be nice to be able to read what it does.
Rational analysis has never been a meaningful cornerstone of politics.
A's premise is faulty. The accounting/fraud measures are not obviated. You have slow cash with a transaction log, that's it.

shenanigans that happen at the re-entry points to the conventional financial system

Those shenanigans aren't exclusive to exchanges. Exchanges are currently the epicenter of shenanigans because they're just high volume and operate on bitcoin as if it wasn't just a different asset in the conventional financial system.

People that are neither true believers nor in a specifically bitcoin focused business operate as normal. Bitcoin is just internet fun bucks that have to be liquidated. So the Bitcoin transactions get treated the same as any other transaction, as a result they carry the benefits of the processes created around conventional transactions.
I can't help laughing at all this shit. I was saying for years people shouldn't be trusting their money to Mt Gox, and constantly got mocked for it. Common sense wins again.
Ultimately it all comes down to empathy and compassion. When your child, spouse, or parent is sick, you will not go and develop a tool for improving life of future generations. The people in scientific or innovation fields are rarely motivated by empathy; they are driven by something that is cool, interesting and exciting.

Charitable organizations are not effective enough, that's a separate issue.
Git works pretty damn good offline as well, sure you can't push to the server but its not going to be a show stopper if GitHub goes down for an hour.
I see that this draft is dated January 2014. Earlier versions go back to April 2011: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-grid-layout-20110407/

What's changed in this version?
I'd panic too, if my A1 jumped to C1 for no apparent reason. ;-)

And it's evil to use A-D and 1-4 with "up" and "left" commands ... and not telling us which side is labelled with letters and which with numbers.

Makes me wonder what TWENTY EIGHTY-FOUR would look like ;-)
Realtime cyberwars
Do you have a citation for this? I'm genuinely interested as last year the police cleared a case where they had to install their own scanners as they weren't allowed to use toll collect data.
Being able to download .zip with media and JSON files as metadata would be okay for most of us, I guess.
Here's a dockerfile setup I wrote for Postgres which uses a 'data container' for the entire Postgres database: https://github.com/codelittinc/dockerfiles/tree/master/postg...

The gist of it is that you explicitly tell your DB container that there will be a shared directory on the container at runtime. This allows you to chown the directory before the data container is added.

Then, when you're running, use --volumes-from `$data-container-name` and it'll work. Want an article on it?
Start with nitrous.io for a free quick dev environment. It gives you a little linux box you can play with and setup the web server. Perfect for learning.

As for language, I'll defer to the rest of the community. I'm partial on Node.js, since you really only have to learn Javascript, HTML and CSS. Everything else you can rely on your programmer knowledge. The choice is yours.

I recommend you choose a fairly simple project that interests you. No stupid hello world -- you're not completely new. Try an online tic tac toe game or something.

As for front end, I recommend you try backbone. It's barebones enough that you'll learn exactly what other frameworks do for you. It's also short enough to read to see how it works.
Well, yes you can...one branch of a company could legally compel (and would if there are separate privacy policies) another to give up information as part of an investigation.