skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hoodie is Open Source and more like BYOBAAS (Bring Your Own Backend As A Service), you can host it yourself, or pay someone to host it for you. You are not beholden to single company’s VCs.

Meteor is about exposing backend and frontend APIs to the browser. Hoodie hides backend complexity as much as it can. The target audiences are very different. Hoodie aims for more frobtendy/designery types, in the future Hoodie definitely wants to reach non-coders as well.

Firebase and Meteor have likely seen more development time, because Hoodie is supported by a bootstrapped company that works on Hoodie part-time and puts it’s profits into future Hoodie development. That way Hoodie moves slower, but Hoodie won’t be at a crossroads when VC funding runs out, or expected growth isn’t big enough.

As far as I can tell, Hoodie’s offline/sync/p2p story is more solid than any other solutions, but then, I’m heavily biased :)

Hoodie’s focus on clean and simple APIs also makes it more easy for beginners.
Still, sharing passwords in plaintext is stupid.
Software dev here... I recently transitioned from an "open space" office to a cubicle. I absolutely love it.
I still wear headphones all the time, but cutting out the visual distractions alone is an improvement!
The only advertising I see on there is The Deck which is divided up over so many sites I can't imagine any of them make much money from it. If I log out, I see Adsense too, which as far as I can tell isn't a good source of returns nowadays either, it's more in the last-ditch "I can't sell advertising myself, give me anything!" school of advertising.

I think they should take the Reddit approach: gold + directly sold ads. Directly sold ads would surely make a better CPM than Adsense and it could go on all pageviews rather than just non logged in ones..
"There is an email plugin that does that, but it's just a showcase and we would not recommend to use that in a production app."

You do realize that by putting it in your documentation, you're encouraging people to use it.
There has been an uptick in neo-reactionary sentiment all through Silicon Valley. The title is a bit... strong, but this isn't a fringe thing. For example, a talk at Startup School is explicitly mentioned.
I swear there were no Chinese entries on that page the first time I looked...
This could be the secret reason for the hype around IoT. Monthly subscriptions for your toaster's security patches. Maybe Google will start giving toasters away for free, and while your toast is toasting, it'll play a jingle for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!®
Yes, Jessamyn has an amazing knack for handling users. That sounds rather pedestrian but she makes it into an intellectual art.
I hope she's making a positive move.

Also the whole site is just so personable. I hope it stays around.
Yes, you need a pipeline to pull this off, but maybe not as big of one as you think. Some advice:

* Be OK being idle sometimes. If you double your prices and get 2/3 the work, you're way ahead. And that time isn't wasted; use it to network, to have fun side projects, to learn new stuff, to relax on the beach.

* Take bigger jobs so you can spend less time hunting.

* Prefer referenceable clients to a big portfolio. If a prospective client can call a past client and get a rave review, that's gold. Unfortunately, that means you may have to be more picky about who you take on, which works against your price bottom line.

* Move up the value chain as hard as you can. Learn everything you need to do that. Your goal is to move from "what do I code next, boss?", to being that coder, but also an architect, a project manager, a trusted advisor, an expert on product building, a UX designer, etc. Assuming you're junior, that stuff takes time to learn, so don't fake-it-til-you-make-it and it's OK to start off as a coder-for-hire. My point is just that's where you want to expand to, as opposed to adding incrementally to your portfolio. If you're senior, well, that's what makes you awesome, so position yourself accordingly.

* Other, more senior, contractors are really good lead-gen. Work with them on one project and prove your worth, and they'll fill your pipeline for you, either by passing along work they can't take on or by bringing you into larger jobs. Your network isn't just your clients.

* If it's possible, consider moving to somewhere more target-rich. Edit: now that I've looked you up, I see you're also in Cambridge; they're may be better places to find work, but I don't know them. I should disclaim, though, that I know next to nothing about the games business.
Metafilter has absurdly good moderation. It sounds like they're going to do the best they can with more automation and fewer staff, but this is a huge loss.

What they're doing is just really hard. It's not a paradise, but they have reasonably civil, well-thought-out conversations with people of vastly different viewpoints on everything from transgender issues to Israel-Palestine to which rock band is the best to weird art to police brutality to which dogs are the cutest dogs to anything else you can think of. Imagine scaling up Hacker News so that every member is allowed to post to the top of the front page, and posts are allowed to be on any topic imaginable, and the average comment is going to be at least as knowledgeable and thoughtful as it is here -- in fact, the comments are expected to be good enough that they won't be sorted or threaded, and it will be more or less a faux pas to comment without reading all the comments that came before yours. It'll also be a faux pas to drive away people with contradicting ideas.

Running a site like that is so hard that I don't know of anyone else doing it. Not at this scale, not with so many members, not with so much freedom remaining to members.

The key is that Metafilter functions like a community. The members have reputations they care about (partly because of the $5 entrance fee, and partly because they value the respect of other members), and the mods pay attention to the mood of the site and the relationships between people, spending more time nudging people than actively deleting things. They also spend a ton of time (at metatalk.metafilter.com) getting feedback from the community about how the site should be moderated.

Spend a few weeks reading Metatalk and you realize that, whatever they're being paid, it isn't enough.
It’s cozy, and friendly, and comfortable, and warm, and fuzzy: take your pick :)
Google Launches An Instagram Account
More important, that's not only example of shifting where things render, but replacing documents with programs.
Our Move to Switzerland
Martini v1.0 released
I haven't done much assembly (barring some FPGA programming I did in an undergrad course, and writing an editor on a Motorola processor).

This code so eminently readable. Is this the norm or is it Woz working his magic writing incredibly detailed documentation. Writing easily understandable code takes effort and wisdom. Anyone who writes code for a living knows the importance of writing code which is easy to read and maintain.
Yay! Now I can blow through the Verizon data caps in half the time.

I am condescending because of how ridiculously fast it is to blow through a data cap when doing something simple like playing music on google music, or using facebook, downloading apps.

Furthermore as speeds increase websites start caring less and less about super mobile friendly versions and thus don't optimize for bandwidth. Which means again blowing through the monthly cap. Do users notice that say www.foo.com downloaded 5mb of data over a small browsing session if the download was fast enough?

Often responsive web design also allows dev/design to punt on bandwidth as they make it look right vs download right.
Regarding number 2, I believe the snowden leaks implicated the US and Israel for Stuxnet? The wikipedia source for that claim is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/08/snowden_us_israel_st... which refers to this email interview: http://cryptome.org/2013/07/snowden-spiegel-13-0707-en.htm

>Interviewer: Did the NSA help to create Stuxnet? (Stuxnet is the computer worm that was deployed against the Iranian nuclear program.)

Snowden: NSA and Israel co-wrote it.
Some more infos here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768434
I remember this program back in high school. Great fun when you're getting into things like solving Rubik's cubes and such. It also has one of the nicer interfaces for something initially so complicated.

My only complaint is that while trying to learn it, the speed of rotation was defaulted to so fast I couldn't tell what was happening. But slowed down, it's quite satisfying!
Somewhat counter-intuitively, security flaws in banking can be beneficial for customers.

The argument is simply that security is hard for clients; passwords and PINs get written down no matter how much you'd like them not to. However, if a system is theoretically secure, then the burden of security falls increasingly on the user, and getting fraudulent transactions reversed becomes ever more difficult. This makes online banking riskier for the customer.
Could someone knowledgeable in this area point out what's so interesting or noteworthy about this?
Efficiency with sublime text and ruby
Final Fantasy for the NES seems to be designed the same way. A lot of the spells are actually "call function A with strength N, call function B with strength M and flag X". And with a large enough vocabulary of functions and flags, you get fire spells, healing spells, instant death spells, protection spells, etc.
So far so good, signed up, installed, works great! My staff is entirely remote and this comes in handy.
SoundCloud is way too big and embedded across the net for Twitter to shut them down (as some people seem to fear in the comments). This would not go down the way of Posterous or We Are Hunted, the former of which was already not going to continue because they had essentially lost to tumblr and the latter of which was more of an experiment.
Don't forget Iraq and Austria.

Translation:
As part of "Mystic" apparently the NSA monitored not only
all communications in Iraq, but also in Austria. The
basis for this was a secret treaty, by which the
government knew about it, writes an Austrian magazine.
[...]

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pre...
Different Types of LIP Kisses MEN Like to KISS
Yes I am aware of it. I also like it a lot. The Q Platform is able to interoperate with that Q library as well as with Angular, etc.

There are also several languages named Q. I don't think "Q Platform" is the same thing as a promises framework. It's not even for Javascript only. So why downvote the platform because there is something named similar to it?

Another example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_authorization

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/oauth/xauth

https://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/postini/doc...
Feature request: adjustable expiration time
This is cool. Would have used it in my previous role as I cold called quite a bit.

Not sure if I would have paid for it however. Excel and Evernote seem to do a good job in keeping track of all my call details.

Also to reiterate everyone else's statement, the landing page takes way too long to load.
And yet we were talking about how they are using billions to catch B-level criminals...
Jsist: JavaScript Conference in Istanbul, calling for presentations
Could, probably wouldn't. Just as consumer, competition, procurement and other regulation typically doesn't cover hobbyists. I'd call that a feature -- more effective enforcement for commercial entities, hobbyists can ignore. Contrast with copyright hack, applies to all, commercial entities can ignore without consequence.
Crafting a branching narrative design tool
I have seen some plugin projector to the iPhone. But they are a pain. You really have to make adjustment. Why can it detect the ceiling surface and adjust the angle, tilt, lighting...?
Or the NSA is providing a framework for the DEA and other agencies to use in the future.
We really ought to completely skip over Chip and PIN to something like Google Wallet or another NFC system...
note: it detects firefox nightly user agent as out of date and probably unsafe.
its actually really up to date! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo
What great timing! I was just about to roll my own using etcd, haproxy and a bunch of perl duct tape.

Very excited to take a good look at vulcand.
Each account on Commando.io is sandboxed (dedicated database). They each have their own set of keys with a randomly generated passphrase on the private key which is then AES encrypted and stored in the database. We take security very seriously, read more aout our practices at: https://commando.io/security.html.
Seems like I should've seen this on the latest episode of Silicon Valley.
Won’t machines take over most labor making unemployment normality?
I get: "Your Web Browser is Out of Date! Some features of this site (and many others) may appear broken. Your browser may also have serious security flaws. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version of a modern browser."

This is on Firefox 29.0.1, Mac OS X 10.9.3.

Even if whatever is causing that message is fixed, the language of the message really needs changing. I am running the latest version of a modern browser, and so are the other potential users/customers that you've redirected away from your site!
Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal [video]
For what? :)
What you will learn at a programming bootcamp
First of all, it's another cool thing by Woz. I've read a lot about him, but I didn't know he did a floating point implementation for the 6502. Second, the code is really beautiful, eminently readable.
Continuous Deployments through SSH Just Got a Lot Better
Down votes?

It upsets you that I show you how to SEO w/ SPA?

Says a bit about you I think.
I'm guessing that this is likely to be more depressing.

I like to consider myself as one of those amateur physicists who Hooft talks about. .. but instead of the deep academic physicist researcher kind, I prefer to be the playful kind. I've filled a notebook with such play. It is likely to be of no use to a professional physicist, but I certainly had fun thinking about things.

A couple examples -

1. I tried to work out a formula for refractive index of a material assuming that photons get slowed down by it through repeated absorption and re-emission.

2. I asked "what if gravity obeyed maxwell's equations?" Iirc some approximate calculations based on it turned ou something like newtonian laws would hold if we're living on the inside of an exploding blackhole (or something like that).

I don't know whether I went anywhere with those, but they were interesting to think about when I knew enough math to do them.

I'm quite sure such play is well within the reach of amateur theoretical physicists even if you may not end up solving the domain's pressing problems.
> Meteor is about exposing backend and frontend APIs to the browser

It is the weirdest description of Meteor I have seen so far.

Meteor is all about helping developers to build excellent web apps with ease and spending less time, not providing APIs.
The inquiry about the cost may have been a too oblique suggestion that you need to tell what it costs on the web site.
I think they are the cutting edge of this sort of thing. Think about military tech that we now use in everyday life, lots of innovations come from military applications. Think about memory foam and NASA.

Think about it they have more money to spend than anyone; corporation or government.
They also got rid of the person leading that deal and the Twitter Music app that they shut down. They appear to be taking a new approach that goes beyond what is trending.
I used to write a lot of ARM code in the 90s, and, though I say it myself, I thought it was all very readable code. Of course, it was more heavily commented than code I'd write in a higher-level language, but also it's about structuring it well: subroutines and, kind of, objects even.

Of course, it helped that the ARM instruction set was very simple back then.
Have you thought about adding some features to the group management?

So one could add a new user and then just have checkboxes for all the available groups. This way you could create a user who acts as a DBA and then just give him access to all the servers in the group "DATABASE" without giving him access to all available servers. I'm not sure how feasible that is but I couldn't find anything in the FAQ or the group/users page.
Hefty in learning curve, not system resources.
I've used Erlang for about 6 years now. The thing is, I haven't used only Erlang for 6 years, so I've never forced myself into cognitive dissonance about the ways in which other languages do things better, or worse, simply failed to be exposed to them.

It's a bit sad to see the Erlang community start wearing the embracing its flaws as a badge of pride. It's a short-term solution, but long term it leads to community death. I guess I'm getting out of that world none too soon. There are reasons why it has not become more popular than it has, and if the community is going to chose to embrace them rather than deal with them, well, more power to them. You can do it without me. Which I do not mention as if that's some sort of major threat or anything, because of course it's not.

Or if they choose to run around claiming that 6 years of experience just isn't enough to get Erlang, well, more power to you too.
"SoundCloud is already moving into a direction that I don't particularly like"

What direction is that that you are referring to?
Scout: https://scoutapp.com/
Why Congress Lost The 2014 Indian Election?
> The word length also is a good match for the blacked-out area.

That kind of thing makes it astonishing that government agencies still consider blacking-out a sensible mechanism.
Why doesn't MetaFilter update their layout / aesthetic? If google is hammering them, I'm sure a large part of it is the insta-bounces a site this old looking has.
This looks awesome! I was just thinking of something like this the other day. Can't wait to try it. Any chance of being able to import from Linode in addition to DO, EC2, Rackspace, etc?
+1 on this. I've used it in a previous project of mine. I did experiment with the other Redis-go libraries but Gary's felt the most complete and solid.
>Quickly send passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information safely. Your data is encrypted and can only be decrypted when viewed using your private link.

Am I missing something here? "Your private link" is what you pass around for others to download see the linked to document/data. Anyone who has the link (or is first to use it) has your password/sensitive data.
Dropping, yes, but not yet (and plausibly not ever) in the same ballpark as data.
A photographic look inside AT&T’s network disaster recovery operations
They /all/ want in on the action is why they aren't complaining. Every single one of them has a plan in place or is planning to try to achieve the same data cap mechanism for extracting additional money from those '2%' [which will magically grow over time to a much larger % because BW usage grows much, much faster than 200gb in 5 years.]

AT&T has had 150gb & 250gb caps.

TWC is trying to do something similar in a different way:
http://bgr.com/2014/03/13/time-warner-cable-data-caps-reject...
“Despite the extremely low uptake rate, Marcus said he thinks there’s an important principle for the company to establish: The more data customers use, the more money they should pay,”

Charter does too:
http://www.myaccount.charter.com/customers/support.aspx?supp...

Etc.
There is one (at least for work as a whole):
https://www.mercuryapp.com/
User irace is an engineer at tumblr, apparently.
Functional concurrent and sequential sequences for Go
imeem was pretty big and embedded when it was shut down unceremoniously by myspace. So that is no protection. I don't think Twitter is likely to do that though.
I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps "\r\n" is more friendly to Windows or Telnet users?
Since the file is uploaded to Torpedo servers, details on the encryption/security should probably be shared.
$10/month seems a bit expensive considering the functionality and feature set. That said, I don't know too much about the space.

Also, you should build a better pricing page. The "Buy" tab just sends you to a free trial registration with no explanation of pricing or anything. I'm usually reticent to sign up for the "free trial" without having any idea of what the end pricing structure will be.
Twitter lost $645 million in 2013. I'm not sure "spend $2 to make $1" necessarily qualifies as "decent".
An open letter to London Taxi Drivers
There must be something on Reddit.
Quite often NSA spends billions because it already spends billions.

Contractors, infrastructure, PR, salaries, promotions, training. That has been put into place.

Well it was there to spy on the Soviets. Then it was kind of sitting there waiting for a problem. And the problem was found. Terrorism. Drugs. Could be something else tomorrow. As long as Joe Smith in SIGINT department 15 gets his salary paid, he doesn't care. As long as L3 or whoever gets to build another data center they don't care. They will all collectively find some reason to justify it, but underneath, quite often is just making more money keeping busy.

They made the mistake though (mistake from their point of view), that one of the characteristics they look for in people they hire is patriotism. That can very very dangerous if eventually those people are forced to do un-patriotic things (or things they can't brainwash them into thinking they are patriotic). You end up with Binney and Snowden then.
Probably only because CRLF is sort of the network line ending standard, used in many common protocols like http, imap, smtp, etc.
Regenerative medicine trends , the quest for immortality
Regenerative medicine trends , the quest for immortality
I am looking for something like this exactly. Would love to see more features or a full tour of exactly what this is.

So essentially this is a CRM? Can you do an import from CSV? Is it per user per month? Multi-user?

Would also love to see a little bit more of the interface prior to signing up sorry hope I am not asking too much.

Really love the simplicity of this, I cannot stand SaaS's like salesforce that are so terribly bloated and hard to work with.
> I'm a bit curious why no one cared about Hangouts enough to play that game once again.

Maybe because Hangouts was created as an unwelcome product eating a completely functional service people liked.

Nobody wants to invest in a service which just told you to fuck off.
The volume to surface area of the moon is massively greater than the ISS, and only a tiny amount of the surface area is actually exposed to the atmosphere. If the Issue can last for months without a boost, I figure the effect of the moon on the moon would be neglible on much longer timescales.
Slightly different use-case, as:

(comp foo second)

Is equivalent to:

(fn [[_ x]] (foo x))

Not:

(fn [_ x] (foo x))
I think the page doesn't gain much from the animations, particularly the mouseovers. A lot of my browsing is on my phone or tablet anyway, where those would not work. It makes me think that perhaps the same kind of approach is used in the product, which would make it mobile-unfriendly...
IPhone 6 in WebGL, click to rotate, double-click to zoom
Neither of those are valid examples of what I meant. In the first, the . is not the function terminator, it's the floating point separator. Same ASCII character, different semantic token. In the second, the comma is not the statement separator, it's the value separator. Again, same ASCII character, different semantic token.

The question is, can you produce a situation in which ; . , are interchangable and valid in their capacity as statement separators.

My compliments for trying though, as I'm aware this smells like goalpost hiking and I do want to be complimentary about what you did. If you read my post again, though, I think it will become clear that this is what I meant all along, but I agree this superficially looks like I'm trying to cheat.