skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case A, the PLA hands the data off to Chinese competitors for economic gain. In case B, no such activity happens. There's no economic leverage, just intel. We know the Chinese spy on us for strategic reasons, and we're not filing a case against that activity.

Basically, the military is acting as an arm of corporate espionage. That's a big no-no.
Canonical's cloud-in-a-box: The Ubuntu Orange Box
The site was probably down, too many requests, now we scaled the server and it's kind of coping...
That must be because you're only flying short-haul, dare I say, likely within North America.

Can you imaging being on a flight for more than 6 or 7 hours without anything to eat? The flight from Sydney to LA is 14.5 hrs. They have to feed every passenger. I would be surprised if flights from the Eastern US to Hawaii didn't also have meals service included in the ticket.
The article isn't especially informative, but it's nice to see the initiatives Ford is taking in advancing tech in the automotive industry. I feel like they may be at the forefront of major manufacturers (obviously Tesla is way ahead), especially with their OpenXC program... Which is a device in all new Ford vehicles that can be tapped into to show a lot more data than OBDII provides, and is open-source to encourage apps to use the data. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a huge crowd behind this...

I don't own a Ford yet, but when I do, I'm hoping to get into the OpenXC device using Nexus 7 tablet in the dash. Lots of changes to come in the next decade...
And now i want to generate a TOC ;)
Ehrr, feedback taken...
That was one point where I wasn't sure quite how to talk about this. In the back of my mind, I have a sense that "gets deflected more" (meaning "longer distance") is actually referring to the same fundamental process that "gets slowed down more" (in the sense of index of refraction: v=c/n) refers to: either way, the time to pass through the medium is longer than it would take to pass through an equally large vacuum region. But I wasn't quite confident enough to phrase it that way in my main reply.
I won't consider this an actual thing until you can telnet or ssh in.

Well, it won't be long till no one actually admins a Unix system through ssh anymore, they just connect to their cloud instances via a Web console using their Macs. (Linux? On the desktop? Like ew, man.) So I guess my greys are totally showing here.
Promises: The Sync Problem (part 1)
Promises: The Inversion Problem (part 2)
> and Google refuse to release an actual API for Hangouts

In old good days we didn't ask for protocols. We just took the specs by force, by reverse engineering. Worked well with ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger and loads of others, except for, possibly, Skype (which was reverse engineered, but late to the party)

And "alternative" messengers survived and even prospered (seriously outplaying the dysfunctional, overweight and ad-ridden "official" ones), even if they were actively fought by network owners. Given that official Hangouts "desktop" app is is nearly completely unusable - and even more for those who don't use Chrome - and even web messenging support is lacking (you just can't put a button "Contact me on Hangouts" on your site), I'm a bit curious why no one cared about Hangouts enough to play that game once again.
And then when you're big, sell out like everyone else.
Have you tried the Scout App (which the article is about)? How does its search work?

I agree that geocoding has been a problem for OSM, especially for building numbers, where the data often isn't there. But on the software side there seems to be progress recently, for instance, here are two open-source geocoders released in the last few months:

Photon, made by Komoot: https://github.com/komoot/photon, used in production at http://www.komoot.de/suggest/?&hl=en

Pelias, made by Mapzen: http://stateofthemap.us/session/pelias/, live demo at http://mapzen.com/pelias/

On building numbers, we need geocoders which can interpolate between sparse data, and then use that system to highlight where the gaps are. People tend to add data to OSM when they're confident that it's actually being used, to its full extent. If there are a hundred buildings along a road, in theory you don't need to add many of them before you can get a very good idea of where an address might be.
Nice moral high ground there!
A better web font compression format: WOFF 2.0
Promises: The Trust Problem (part 3)
> I have all except github as all I do is actually on my own repos

I would suggest making one or more of your repos public. Even if you're the only one contributing, potential employers will still get a sense of your ability and/or experience. Another idea is to make a repo of just code samples. Nothing demonstrates how you code better than your actual code.
Promises: The Extension Problem (part 4)
US-Sino relations are volatile. I'm sure this has been discussed privately for years, but it was politically risky to talk about publicly. This is the first time they decided to take it public with force.
Fog Computing? Air Computing
Completely agree ChuckMcM, and further more, I feel it is important to realise that we are discussing the issues with IoT early on, before most people are using IoT devices. There are a huge number of people working on the solutions to the problems listed in the article.
You can confirm this by inspecting the document - the markdown is parsed into nodes through regexp and then a full HTML document is constructed and injected into the DOM (or rather, creating the DOM and then injecting it).

Cool, fun, but probably not something for which I can see a practical use.
Indeed http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/sof/4451591937.html
NSA Nicknames and Codewords
The Chrome team has a reference implementation for a compressor/decompressor here:

https://code.google.com/p/font-compression-reference/
I am not disagreeing with you in general, but for me Netflix really could be a replacement for traditional channels. Not too OT: I am visiting my Dad and yesterday morning we saw the new Godzilla movie in IMAX 3D and later last night watched Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" which was such a better experience than Godzilla. Old movie/TV technology done artfully beats less artful tech. Netflix can deliver old and some new content cheaply and on my time schedule.
Bitcoin development group hit by resignations
"which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far"

Not so. I apologize for putting you in the position of trying to prove a negative but

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/world/no-morsel-too-minusc...

specifically lists by topic "... the agency’s official mission list includes using its surveillance powers to achieve ... “economic advantage” over Japan and Brazil, among other countries."

Their own list of customers includes "United States Trade Representative"...

Combine the revolving door policy between .gov and .com with the merger of .com and .gov for all practical purposes, and ...
Do you think having both an originally published date plus an "updated on" date would fix the issue without being devious? The published date is important information to me, but if I see that the author has edited it recently it makes me feel that it has been checked to still be relevant.
I don't think I'd use a framework for that use case. I'd pull in the AWS PHP SDK (amazing that we can use three sets of acronyms like that) via Composer, and then create a "quick script", if such a thing exists, to handle orchestrating all of that.

Rendering HTML isn't the highlight of Laravel (altho the template language is pretty nice)
> 6. Avoid saying things like "TGIF" or "at least it's Wednesday."

Since switching careers (I'm a former banquet manager turned software engineer) I've always advised people who spend their entire week looking forward to the weekend to change careers to something they'll enjoy more. Sadly too many people feel work is something that must be hated.
As I understand it, wouldn't Google render this page while crawling? Perhaps they'd punish it for doing so, but I think Google would have no issue with the content itself.

I also wonder how much FOUC you could incite by increasing the size of the markdown document.
Apple used some of the old data, before OSM changed its license to share-alike. That data is probably still in there somewhere, but I think it's very unlikely they are incorporating any OSM updates, past about five years back, because the license would mean they'd have to release their combined dataset.
> A website displays on _my_ computer. I should have more control over that "space" than a "public space", for sure. There's nothing wrong with wanting complete control of how my computer is being used.

Who cares if it's _your_ computer? It's _their_ product or service you're using, which is offered to you under well-defined terms of use. You're free to not use it if you don't agree with the terms of use.

Let's assume that breaking the terms of use is illegal or immoral. Then how does doing it on _your_ computer absolve you of responsibility? A person's basement is also _his_ private space. Should he have free reign to hold people there against their will? Having a private space doesn't give you carte blanche, especially when other people are involved (e.g. the people who built the products or services you're using).

> If the business model of the advertisers requires that they trust that my computer displays their ads then I see it as their fault for misplacing their trust.

The essence of your argument is that whenever you can screw somebody over and they're powerless to stop you, it's their fault when you screw them over. This is not an argument I'd be proud to make.

By this logic, a local convenience store that hasn't installed security cameras is at fault when you steal from them, because they misplaced their trust in their customers. A woman walking alone at night is at fault when someone attacks her, because she misplaced her trust in society.

By the way, I use AdBlock. But I don't think your attempts at ethically justifying AdBlock hold any water.
I like seeing the date. I get confused and frustrated when I see an article like "Simplify your web apps with JQuery" and there's no date of publication. Was it the first edition of JQuery circa 2005, or was it a recent version? At least when talking about a rapidly evolving software ecology, I think the date of publication is a critical piece of information to provide up front.

If an author fears the "bit rot" effect, then why not update the piece and provide an "updated" date, e.g.:

"Solving World Hunger with JQuery"
by Blister Peanuts, October, 2010
Updated May, 2014

That magic "2014" cues the reader that there may be very recent, relevant information, and they are less likely to skip past it.
A few things.

Our mantra is simplicity and empowering everybody in a company to interact with servers via an easy to use web interface, this includes less technical employees such as support, marketing, and contractors. Others in the DevOps space are focused on ever increasing complexity and command line systems. Our approach is a beautiful web interface with no external dependencies (agents). ​Typical configuration management has a steep learning curve and ​requires expertise and upfront man hours. Going with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, require a large time investment, and companies have to send developers off to Chef school for two weeks to learn their systems. We don’t ask our users to go to school. They can signup and start managing servers instantly with their existing stack (bash, perl, python, ruby, go, or node.js).
Well, I wasn't suggesting it as a universal law because obviously some programmers don't work for pointy haired bosses. Some work for themselves and others for another programmer...and what programmer thinks Cobol is so cool they would use it by choice?

In the life cycle of a significant program, which is more important how easily it was initially written, or how easily it can be read and understood over the years?

Because no one can write write a self-documenting Regex, Regex's are only easier to write because any need to document programs is ignored. The extension of this practice is an argument is that code should not contain a lot of comments because comments tend not to be maintained. As Larry Wall noted, Laziness, Hubris, and Impatience all play their role - He being the person responsible for a language so obfuscating as to garner a reputation for author's being unable to understand their own programs {heavy on Regex a coincidence or correlation?}

As Perlis said "It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one." Particularly if the language makes it harder to read the correct program and speeds up the process of writing the incorrect one. Flomatic and Cobol are verbose for exactly the same reason that some programming languages have static type systems and nobody really takes claims about their verbosity seriously because we recognize the tradeoff of keystrokes for clarity.

Hopper was a Naval officer. She took programming seriously and she understood human nature. They're both reflected in her approach to programming languages. She realized that people can die if a program on the fire control computer is incorrect and a 16" artillery shell falls short onto friendlies or long onto a maternity ward. Nothing promotes the importance of clear communication for robustness like combat - as in civilian life you never know who might be dead or retired or reassigned when the code needs to change.

BTW, I was being a bit tongue in cheek. On the other hand, programmers have been known to use obfuscation as a means for protecting their jobs, and bosses being able to read code is the primary argument for using technical people as managers rather than those with general experience as managers. Programmers are no less immune from creating fiefdoms than anyone else.
Model M keyboard
Second laracasts, it pretty much sets the bar imo for content of that type, it would be worth 3 times the price (but no one tells him).

On top of which Jeffrey is just an all round nice guy (he does a bunch for the PHP community as well as some nice open source packages).
While I'd definitely advocate getting extremely comfortable with your preferred text editor, this does not seem like a good approach at all. These drills ask you to do a specific command by description ("Move one character right"), which creates an association between that description and the editor action. However, when you're working quickly in an editor, you're thinking at a much higher level than "move one character right"; you're thinking about how to perform some higher-level action involving code navigation or editing.

It would make more sense to present an editor and ask the user to make a specific high-level change (such as refactoring a function), let the user do so, and then analyze their input to figure out whether they could have done so more efficiently. For instance, in vim, did they navigate by hitting hjkl or use a more efficient /search, and did they hit delete/x repeatedly or use something like c2w?
Does anyone know of a feed that has implemented a way to view top comments as part of the feed item summary/content?

Maybe with an image (SVG?) or an iframe?
Muphry's [sic] law, indeed.
The store bought items look surprisingly close to the ads. The food ads appear, relatively less modified than say the female on the cover of every fashion mag.
Will the routing data be fed into OSM, or will telenav be building their own closed routing database that they use in conjunction with OSM? I didn't see an answer to that on the linked page.
This is an incorrect understanding of GPLv2. From the GPLv2:

"This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License."
True, though then France and other countries should be filing charges against the U.S. then, right?
(Only responding because you were downvoted.) I also would not generally call "fast food" "restaurants". When I read the title, I was thinking "huh, what ads? ones at the restaurant itself? the ludicrous websites restaurants tend to? but aren't those usually only showing shots of the interior and not the food?" and then I realized "oh, they mean fast food". I certainly eat at places like Subway and Taco Bell all too often, but it sounds wrong to me (in the cultural linguistic context that I have) to then say "I went to a restaurant today", I'd have to say "I got fast food" or something.
Getting Interrupted Is Your Job
>NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple, which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far.

There have been many, many stories published in the world's leading newspapers about NSA industrial espionage:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-busted-conducting-industria...

The NSA's own slides list "economic" as one of the main reasons for spying. And none of this is at all new:

https://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/991101-echelon-mj.ht...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/11/outfront-0

I would also point out that U.S. law specifically criminalizes economic espionage on behalf of foreign governments, but economic espionage on behalf of the U.S. government is not illegal.

TL;DR: It's absurd to think that the NSA isn't spying for economic information. Tons of evidence has been presented.
Dang it, I was hoping for a 'pick your features & download your customized version of jekyll'! I guess that would be a static site generator generator...
We're just playing dirty to make sure everyone else plays fair!

To be fair, I do agree with you.
Slides on market research for startups: one-click 24h tools finally exist
I don't get it- can you give an example of a 'seed'?

Sounds interesting.
The 'Get the Code' link is broken (https://chrome.com/cubelab#create). Does anyone have a link to the code?
Maybe we could suggest renaming it to bikeshed, then using the framework with the new name would be "bikeshedding".
This looks very nice. Is there any plan to add support for Ansible? Not sure I'm a fan of having bash scripts in the UI which are not available locally (is that the case?). I'd much rather have an Ansible repo in git that I develop locally and push to Commando.io.
Fixing Income Inequality
I'd recommend a silicone based lubricant. Jig-a-loo works very well. I used to compete, so I've used a few.
It's true. I agree.
Yes. I am drawing the line at feeding yourself. Everyone must be able to make a snack without poisoning themselves.
I loved the idea of using XSLT rendering to take an well formatted XML document and process it client side in the browser, but it came with more problems than it solved.

The tooling was terrible to accomplish it, but different browsers reacted slightly different to the XSLT, some had a flash of unstyled XML followed by it rendering the page using XSLT, JavaScript didn't work right since the page had to be served as XML not as HTML, Adsense my ad network at the time didn't work with it either.

XSLT had potential, but it never really caught on, and now we just have JavaScript frameworks that do all the rendering client side using JavaScript instead.
What do 220,000,000,000 GPS data points look like?
Passing an Information Security Interview
I currently pay Polish developers USD$40/hour.
Neuroscience says the brain works harder and better on autopilot
Oh, It will be great if I'll find this rate even for my current tech-spec. (.NET)
I second those who said "get help".

But I would also say that YOU NEED TO FORGIVE YOURSELF.

You didn't tell us all the circumstances, just that you didn't make it in time to see him off. I can understand feeling badly about that. I can understand kicking yourself for it. But guilt?

You made a mistake. It worked out badly. It hurts. But forgive yourself, both for your own sake and for your father's. (I didn't know your father, but I suspect that he would not want you driving yourself into the inability to function over this. It seems more likely that he would say, "I forgive you, son. Get back up. Keep going.")
Appreciating Design(2012)
that style was never meant for end-users! It is dense so it can show a lot of features and please the contributors.
I recently got approached to help build an IOT related business.

Some of the questions that come up for me are what happens to all these Lithium coin cell batteries, the PCB boards and chips as all these $5 devices die and are discarded? We already hear sad stories about where cell phones and other electronics go to die. It seems like these devices will be cheaper and thus the population of the devices will outstrip cell phones and other electronics by orders of magnitude. As much as we can worry about “potential” security and misuse issues there is a clear need for stewardship of all these devices that will be pumped out en masse into our world. I don't think RoHS[1] was developed with this level of scale in mind and density of devices.

Often I imagine being Geordi La Forge[2] with electromagnetic vision and how all these devices will be cramming our lives with more electromagnetic noise. It's not clear to me we understand the effects of this on everything from health to un-intended side effects to other technology.

I’m not saying I won’t do something in IOT, I’m saying we should all be thinking more about the overall effects of these types of technology as they scale.

IMHO nothing will stop the development and deployment of IOT devices. The smartphone is a perfect example, if people find usefulness in a technology it’s adoption is almost guaranteed.

Perhaps we need an open dialog on IOT best practices and how each of us can contribute to some level of thoughtfulness around these technologies as they develop in our world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substa...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge#Appearances
this is pure FUD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
It worked well enough. Metals that gained weight through oxidation were simply losing "negative phlogiston".
It's more than just an edge case -- you're very likely to encounter the bugs that were fixed if you allocate large objects in a rails request handler. You should upgrade.
Google Buying Twitch.tv for $1 billion
You might have been downvoted by others, but you're right in that it _is_ a cultural point. A burger, for example, does not count as proper meal for most people above 45 in my home country (Central/Eastern Europe). And for them, a proper meal must start with a soup. :)

For me, restaurant is a place where food is important.
I'd be really interested in your thoughts on one of the things we're building. It does exactly what you describe.

http://nymote.org/docs/2013-foci-signposts.pdf
I would argue that really depends on the subject. Maps are to some extent limited. Yes, they are never 100% up-to-date, but looking at my small village if I had mapped that 10 years ago all I would have had to change up until today would be maybe 15 new homes and 2 new streets a few stores and some small adjustments, but that's pretty much it. On the other hand if I wanted to build a search engine that's a completely different story.
I ordered this on your recommendation, and it just arrived today.

This thing is like the Bell Bible. Fold-out diagrams and everything. Amazing.

Thanks for the info.
I made a less-tricky, less-cool thing like this[0] and I still use it on my site today. It's really great to not have to recompile markdown or do anything other than a git-push on text files. The fact that view-source works on yours is super cool, though; nicely done!

[0]: https://github.com/haldean/docstore
No plan to support Ansible. However, being able to push/import scripts (we call them recipes) from git into Commando.io is a highly requested feature and on the roadmap. Also, just to clarify, we support recipes in bash, perl, python, ruby, go, or node.js.
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Would this work for a wordpress site?