skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"John Catt, an 80 year old pensioner at the time and his daughter Linda (with no criminal record between them) - were stopped in 2005, had their vehicle searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 by City of London Police and were threatened with arrest if they refused to answer police questions. After making formal police complaints, it was discovered they were stopped after their vehicle had been picked up by roadside ANPR CCTV cameras, after a marker had been placed against their vehicle in the Police National Computer database as a result of them being spotted attending EDO MBM demonstrations in Brighton"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police-enforced_ANPR_in_the_UK#...
A Quick Air Quality and Weather API Mashup
I'm sure that the investors in such ventures are thrilled at the idea of paying developers to spin their wheels for a few months in order to create material for a "lessons learned" blog post.
A proven 2-step process for getting your next promotion
Sure they have a process! You pay them the $185k application fee, and you get your TLD. That's a process, right?

/s
Nice. I think this meets an important need in the Clojure tutorial space, focusing on the many dimensions of a typical problem-solving workflow rather than the tool setup or language itself. This sort of "how do you get stuff done" description, touching on package management, REPL exploration, coding, testing, deployment, connecting with APIs, etc. is useful in helping people gain confidence and productivity. It's long, but for someone who's a beginner to intermediate, working through this kind of well thought out and comprehensive slice of Clojure development is really worthwhile.
tl;dr lots of nerve endings and large mapping on the brain
I agree with you. This is purely a racket to make $$$. What we should be buying is "dot whatever". So Walmart would buy `.walmart` and Google would buy `.google`, etc. The names can be anything. And they shouldn't cost $100,000 either. Instead they should be like actual property and cost what the market will bare. There may be an associated ICANN annual fee, but that should be same for all domains.

The whole concept of a limited selection of TLDs needs to go.
No, this book is far too advanced if you're just learning C++. The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition by	Bjarne Stroustrup is the way to go for modern C++ (it covers everything and uses C++11 examples as much as possible). The beginning of "Effective Modern C++" starts off with the subtle distinction between template specialization and auto specialization and arcana for rvalue references vs lvalue references. If you're looking for a light read on C++11 plus, maybe some of the later chapters, but it's a rough start.
The level-4 modifiers are actually useful - I don't see their inclusion as a failure of a standard.

Ambiguity was going to be possible either way - here's a Level 2 example:

/{+a}/{+b}
-> "/foo/bar/baz"

By "reversible" I meant it's possible to find something that reconstructs to the original URL (http://bit.ly/1H27rwD), much like you did.
Paid 5k for fooker.com, never used it. Such is life.
Me too. This is also called "fake it till you make it". It sounds like empty b.s. But there is a lot to it. The book Stop Worrying and Start Living suggests that when your mood is bad, force yourself to smile and pretend outwardly that everything is good. I've found this really helps, even though it sounds dumb.

Also along the same lines is Picasso's famous quote: inspiration comes, but it has to find us working.
Show HN: StatisticalAtlas.com: demographic charts and maps down to the city block
Great read.

One of my favourite quotes is "motivation follows action". Often times I've found myself loath to do something, but once I start "revving up" (at work, it might be starting with something simple like a small refactor; at home, it could be committing to simply washing one plate of the stack I have remaining) I find I gain the motivation to keep going.
One of the reasons I like Postgres having JSON. In that experimental phase, make up a schema. Then solidify it.
Relevant pull request: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/pull/2817
I think the shared_ptr and unique_ptr examples could better show why you'd choose one over the other, and what their limitations are.
I was under the impression factory TPMS have the vin.

It's been mandatory in the US since 2008 to have TPMS so all 2008 and newer cars have an oem system.
> they are not going to spend anything on an unproven idea
Exactly!

It's even in their mission statement:
> Rocket identifies and builds proven Internet business models and transfers them to new, underserved or untapped markets where it seeks to scale them into market leading online companies.
They shouldn't pass on the savings to just some of the customers; there's no reason they can't pass on the savings to all of their customers. After all, everyone benefits: those using the service with the CDN node get a faster path to that content, and everyone else gets a less congested path to the rest of the internet.
This is embarrassing, I've got so many started/abandoned projects. I suppose if anyone were interested in one of these projects I'd be glad to chat about either working together or selling the domain, depending on the project.

warning: this post contains sarcasm

- http://subwaytim.es - subway tracking service

- http://thankyouforriding.com - game for coders to optimize operation of a subway system. Thought of this during Boston's terrible public transit struggles this winter

- http://gitforgovernment.org - wanted to encourage city/state govts to put their legislation on GitHub and accept pull requests. THAT would have gone well

- http://enginomicon.com - planned to put my course notes from my mechanical engineering degree online; make a Wikipedia for all types of engineering

- http://everyref.com - created before I discovered devdocs.io and wanted to make a quick ref for coders. Right now you can search HTTP statuses, but the project is pretty much dead; I'm not sure if I even still have the code for it

- http://stupidprogrammertricks.com - place to put little projects and small demos. So far the only demo is a properly-installed nginx server :-P

- http://uwherever.com - wanted to create a place where people applying to college could organize their efforts, see when deadlines fell across colleges, publish their acceptance/rejection for other students to see, etc. As you can see I spent a lot of time picking a name for this

- http://spinner.graphics - planned to spend a quick weekend making a few AJAX loading animations and presenting it with ads, because who doesn't have at least one site that they're only doing for the money?

- http://beer-n-code.com - planned to make a public directory of bars with wifi suitable for meetups. So far only has a mesmerizing ASCII beer mug on it
If I were frozen in 2005 and woke up today, and someone told me "You know what's big on the web now? Javascript and animated GIFs!" I'd start walking back to the freezer. And if they added "Oh, and in politics, Bush and Clinton are running for president," I'd start running.
I use RethinkDB as the backing database for a API server written in Haskell. So I have pretty strong guarantees that the data which enters the database is sane, and when I read it out Haskell automatically validates it against a very strict schema.

SQL schemas are not expressive enough to describe the data types which I want to store in the database. The argument SQL vs NoSQL becomes moot when any database is degraded to essentially pure blob storage. What matters to me is ease of use, administration/maintenance burden, and of course speed. How strictly the database verifies the schema isn't even on the picture.
Lets see...

- beatin.gs

- feloni.es

- comrad.es

- aftershav.es

I'll probably never find real uses for these, but they're amusing to own
To be fair if it comes to pinching things your name seems familiar. I'm guessing you went with usefedora.com as getfedora.com was taken? :)
This is just sad news for the rock industry.
1. This isn't possible on an iPhone unless you jailbreak, right?

2. Aren't those Android screenshots in that iPhone frame?
[citation needed]

The Apache license has a Trademarks clause. But if the software name isn't Trademarked...

The GPLv2 doesn't cover forking, software name, or trademark. Go ahead and search it.

Nagios is the only software I can think of that has a clause that prevents you from forking it, with or without the same name.

http://assets.nagios.com/licenses/nagios_open_software_licen...
I would be more worried about a false positive in the OCR. Say your plate is 0000000 and someone steals a car with plate OOOOOOO and commits a crime. Now you get pulled over and have to deal with the police.
I think the reasonableness issue comes into play in two ways:

First, its an objective test, which means reasonableness is based on factors such as democratic accountability, personal autonomy, threats of government abuse, etc.

Second, it's only "reasonable" at an individual level to expet your public locations are being logged if you expect the police have the resources to put a tail on every person in America, which is crazy (Kevin Bankston and Ashkan Soltani have a great paper on "costs" of surveillance and location tracking specifically: http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/tiny-constables-and-the-...). The aggregate effect of monitoring everyone's location is a very new concept, and appears very unreasonable based on social norms.

As far as arbitrariness of drawing lines, I think a clear distinction can be made in use of electronic devices to generate location data (in establishing a legal standard the question gets more complex; I recommend looking at writings on topic by Prof. Susan Freiwald, who has done excellent research on the issue). Basing a rule on use of electronic devices is the path states are going down to address both demands for cell phone location data, and directly obtaining location data through devices such as stingrays. It's a simple approach with a clear line that directly gets to the problem of electronic generation of data giving the government unprecedented power regarding location data.
That seems like it would turn off some potential users due to the hassle of switching apps.

I'm ignorant of the process, but is there no way to check that the user has installed SMSSecure first and, if not, fall back to sending unencrypted data? (perhaps that could be toggled via a fail open/closed option)
Reputation is a great judge of quality and for certain things, and absolutely awful for others. For things that take a great deal of base knowledge to properly evaluate, like cryptography, quantum physics, etc. relying on reputation is generally the best bet unless you've studied the topic for years. There is simply no way to objectively and properly evaluate them for a significant majority of people. On the other hand, on topics that are inherently subjective, or topics that most people understand and end up having conflicting, subjective viewpoints, reputation is an awful way to evaluate the quality of content.

Most of the time on HN, reputation only contributes to the problem. Comments and posts should be evaluated based on their content, not on the person posting them. Reputation only fans the flames of "groupthink", "the hive mind", or whatever you want to call the inevitable tribalism that exists in every sufficiently large community. Reputation has a way of turning subjective opinions into de facto truths, even on things that are unrelated to the source of the reputation, and how could you possibly have an dissenting opinion on the truth ? Giving a popular, well known, "reputable" name priority has a chilling effect on discussion, since going against them is a surefire way to catch some heat from the rest of the community. If reputation and the popularity of a name didn't affect people's views, celebrity endorsements wouldn't be a thing.

The best system I know of is the one 4chan has. Everyone is anonymous, previous comments have no influence on current ones, and the only thing there is to evaluate is the content of your post. Since posts are ranked by time, not by score, every post has an equal opportunity, and it's incredibly difficult to cheat. Obviously that system also has problems, and a lack of threading is annoying at best, but at least it doesn't suffer from stifling discussion and punishing anyone who dissents.

The ideal system would be one where users have a per-topic reputation score, and the poster's handle isn't shown. This way eg. an expert on crytography doesn't have any sway in a discussion about marketing. The fact that someone is revered for their knowledge of networking says about the validity of their thoughts on economical issues, and should have no weight in those discussions. However I imagine this would be incredibly difficult to actually implement in a reasonable way, and could probably still be gamed, though it would be better than what we currently have.

Side Note: I didn't (and can't) downvote you, and I'm not sure why people feel your comment doesn't deserve to be seen.
Meet the Man Building Elon Musk's 760MPH Hyperloop: Interview with Dirk Ahlborn
Livongo Health Nabs $20M to Expand Diabetes Management Program
“They treated us as if we were murderers”: The trauma of an ICE raid
Serpy: ridiculously fast Python object serialization
whenever you think the solution is fixing human nature, you've just added many, many more problems.
I agree, waiting to get motivated can be really frustrating and it can fuel a sense of guilt because you know you should be doing something. Just starting do it triggers a rewarding feeling and spawns that precious feeling of motivation i guess.
mailcastr.com - email app

getque.com - something like pocket but with a focus on organizing/sharing
They're right. See [0] for the details.

Excerpt:

When the Arduino project started, the five co-founders (myself [Massimo Banzi] , David Cuartielles, David Mellis, Tom Igoe, and Gianluca Martino) decided to create a company that would own the trademarks and manage the business side of Arduino: Manufacturers would build and sell boards, Arduino would get a royalty from them like in many other businesses, such as in the fashion world. This happened in April 2008 when Arduino LLC was founded and the bylaws of the company specified that each of the five founders would transfer to this company any ownership of the Arduino brand. At the end of 2008 when Arduino was about to register the trademark in the US and worldwide, unknown to us and without any advance notice, Gianluca’s company Smart Projects — our main boards manufacturer — went ahead and registered the Arduino name in Italy and kept this news for himself for almost two years.

After the process of registering in the US was over and our lawyer tried to extend the trademark to the rest of the world, he realised that somebody had registered it already in Italy. We (Tom, David, David, and I) were shocked and demanded explanations. Gianluca reassured us that this was done to protect our collective investment. We were friends (or so we thought), so based on this agreement we kept working together for years, received royalties while quietly trying to bring the trademark back into the Arduino company through endless discussions that dragged on while Arduino became very successful thanks to the hard work each one of us put into it (and for a long time we didn’t even get a salary out of it).

As the project became more successful and sales increased, the attempts at regaining control of the Italian trademark registration became more and more difficult with larger and larger demands made to us while Gianluca effectively vetoed us from either bringing in other manufacturers or get any external investment. We made headway with Arduino creating a lot of innovation, pushing the boundaries of open source hardware, hiring a lot of talented people around the world and ultimately building an amazing community around the arduino.cc website.

———

0. http://makezine.com/2015/03/19/massimo-banzi-fighting-for-ar...
Unfortunately mobile web pages can't run background processes, can't launch AJAX requests to arbitrary domains, speak UDP, do file I/O

Background processes, cross-domain AJAX and file I/O actually are possible now, at least to certain extents. It's getting a lot better, but as you say, Apple drag their feet at every opportunity.
New Text-To-Speech Technology Delivers Market-Moving Information in Real Time
I've got

- ridiculous.website

- ideafora.website
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

- Benito Mussolini, 1935, "The Doctrine of Fascism," Firenze: Vallecchi Editore.
mylog.com/.net/.org - registered in July 1998. I'd designed (but didn't get around to building) a "personal log" that you could always bring up instantly with a hotkey, type something in right away, and it would never lose it. You wouldn't have to think about filenames, saving your data, or anything. It would just keep your notes in chronological order and let you search for stuff or give it more organization later. The motto was "Always ready. Never forgets."

evernote.com - registered in January 2000. Nope, not mine. But it was funny to see so many of the same ideas (no, they didn't steal them from me), including the elephant "never forgets" logo!
I did read it, and many others like it. This isn't "deep" at all, it's about what color coordinates best with your problem space and development practices and developer personalities.
I think this is the most reasonable take I've read and encompasses the whole "right tool for the job" mindset that I like.

I've found that when starting a new project I get paralyzed with coming up with the perfect data model that will also scale in the future, so I'd rather punt, take the tradeoffs that come with schemaless DBs, and keep a plan to migrate to something like Postgres in the backlog. Holding on to our tools too tightly is IMO how projects get crippled.
The issue is, however, that the parties (customers) haven't received any copies or rights under the GPL2 as due to ubiquiti's license violation, ubiquiti didn't (and does not) possess the any right to the original software (including redistribution).

Think about the licensing issue as a licensing chain / tree with each version having a separate license (instance).
cerberusoft.com
It was when I wanted to quit my dead end job. I hope to use it one day to go freelance or have a project.
Great list. This is something I will be using for my startup(s). Keep it up.

[edited for dodgy grammar and not being a very useful comment!]
“Believe in yourself, love yourself, don’t let people compromise your instincts”
watchead.com
toeaware.com
minimalreality.com
mainetain.org
dollarsignquestionmark.com ($?.com)
On my currently laptop I only pull about 5fps when viewing this. Indeed cool, but the OPs (albeit more simple) runs at a solid 60fps
datantra.com
I have far more domains out of play than otherwise. A few I like:

Coin.St - Coin Street: Buy cryptocurrency nearby

xcrow.co - An escrow service that never was

Transformation.al - My wife thought it was a cool name

AcceptRent.com - An rent payment service

ThePeoplesMedicine.com - Medical cannabis doctor referral service
People would rather blame someone else for something they rationalize the someone else has done than blame themselves for the things they just did. We're broken in that regard, and it's time to fix it.
This is an odd precedent we're setting here...

But I'm not a fan of Smart TVs anyway because they will become disposable much more quickly.
And here is idea taken from the swingers party - car key lottery. We have a lot of cars everyone throws a key and takes random for the day ...
Yeah that's what I'm saying, if this demo has been 80,000 interacting particles it would be extremely impressive.
Both sites just look like a customized bootstrap theme to me
Anything over 90% is good enough for me personally, I can't be bothered to not use recent features in CSS/HTML because IE>9 us god awful and Opera Mini doesn't support it.
If people in your organization are concerned about document-based databases because "they're not fully ACID", they're right. If ACID guarantees are important for your use case, then that automatically nullifies all the other hypothetical advantages of NoSQL databases.
Blah. I have a smart TV that can use netflix, but I hardly ever use it considering that I have a Chromecast and XBox One that can use netflix.
Can you say which users you're really targeting or point me to where you've said it before? Keep up the good work, man!
With the rise of realtime applications

What does "realtime" have to do with the datastore?
You're thinking of Apple's "goto fail" bug, not Heartbleed.
that's some real IO game you've got buddy! Haha
It's interesting what a short window there is for some of these ideas.
What are your plans with tit.io lol?
An aluminum graphite battery that could charge your smartphone in 60 seconds
would be cool if you could somehow output this to audio
I fear these kinds of tools will be (are?) used as an argument to keep using C/C++. "Just adhere to all these standards and use all these code analysis tools" is a really bad way of handling bugs when I guarantee you it won't be used by those that need it most.
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Absolutely and if your working with non domestic supplies (high voltage/amperage)you hope to god that if you have an bad accident that you are killed outright.
Whats incredible about this is that they are taking such a futuristic and ambitious project and not scaling it back or making it more realistic. They keep pushing the boundaries on what they can accomplish with it. I hope they'll be able to achieve everything they set out to do.
It's almost like people looked at the title and didn't see what he was actually saying. He uses the term monopolies to talk about building something that is separate from any competitors, either by orders of magnitude improvement or being substantially different from anything else out there. He is basically saying, don't run head first into competing in a commodity business, do something to make your business not a commodity.
I find playing with this very relaxing. +1!
Here are a few from the top of my head:

iruntunes.com - Circa 2002. The idea was music which was tailored to your cadence. I hate(d) running off beat.

introshirts.com -- (2003?) Shirts for introverted people with phrases that were designed to be identified only by OTHER introverted people with similar interests. So... yeah. T-shirts.

wgatv.com -- (2007) when the first writer's strike happened, I thought that writers should band together and use the internet to make and distribute their own internet TV. Even wrote a "manifesto" YOUTH!
What nobody tells you about “will-change”
What Would Happen If the Earth Stopped in Its Orbit?
I'm sure they could topple a canoe, and I wouldn't go swimming with them on purpose. But they really do tend to shy away from human confrontation. I've heard there hasn't been a single fatal attack in the Wildlife Refuge.

For the most part, they seem to leave you alone if you leave them alone. I wouldn't say I ever got comfortable with them on my trip, but I stopped being terrified. Heh.

That said, they're intimidating nonetheless, and worthy of a healthy respect. And their growling is unsettling.
Great writeup. Side note: If it were upto to me, I'd recommend Cursive Clojure (with IntelliJ) to beginners. No steep learning curve and works flawlessly!

https://cursiveclojure.com/

EDIT: Added link
Sounds like a niche vertical
banjax.farm