skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I wonder is why they go about it so badly and stupidly. By chance, I took part in one of the first guerilla marketing exercises of this type about 20 years ago. Af enduring a night in the rain waiting to buy tickets for a tennis match at London's wimbledon, in the morning some nice people came along with a bunch of Batman t-shirts (the Time burton version was just being released) and of course chilly wet tennis fans were delighted to have another layer of clothing - and there were lots of Batman logos in the crowd when the match was televised later that day.

I understand organizers of sporting events and people who have paid a lot of money for broadcast rights (public money, in the case of the BBC) don't want to give free advertising to other brands surfing on the popularity of the Olympics...but surely the way to approach this is to hold the brand owners responsible, and agree that organized displays outside normal commercial channels (front gardens vs. billboards along a marathon route, say) are the commercial equivalent of graffiti.

Letting police come into people's houses because they can see objectionable material from the outside will end in tears. Sure, it's inappropriate if someone decks their house with ads for candy or cheap beer, but between poorly-drafted rules and over-enthusiastic police officers, I feel pretty certain that non-commercial displays of everything from political views to portraits of people who look overly sad or gloomy will become grounds for police censorship.

I lived in the UK for about a decade and loved it. But between the plethora of security cameras and things like this, I just can't imagine living there now. Neither Labor and Conservative governments over the years have shown any real respect for civil liberties.
I don't know if you can say the new line made commuting around Vancouver any easier—more modernized, perhaps, but until it opened there were bus lines running down the same "track" with the same carrying capacities/latencies (98s and 424s.) They also removed many long-distance "shortcut" buses in the process, meaning that getting from, say, 1 Rd. in Richmond to Granville & Broadway turned from one bus to three (2 + the train line.) It was definitely extra capacity required for the Olympic duration, but it's mostly a wash now that it's over.
I think only Vietnamese is more of a disaster than when it comes to shoehorning a language into the Latin script.

I used to have a script that Cyrillicized Polish, for the benefit of my Russian speaking friend, who found it made it possible to half-understand things.

This might help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJI6JDAxUd4
Smule CEO Jeff Smith explains why won't work with Android
I linked this downthread, you should give it a look : http://www.xkcd.com/675/
and is made out of wood
Unfortunately, I still see it happening. People whose experience in print vastly outweighs their web experience often tend to design for the web with only a superficial understanding of it. They don't understand the way browsers render things; they don't quite understand how people view things on a screen.

A good "web designer" has the same understanding of CSS and screen viewing as a good print designer understands paper weights and ink coverage.
Would it be lawful to remove Olympic-related material under a warrant?
Concurrency is easy for most projects if you stick to simple design patterns. It is hard for very high-performance programs.
So, my first reaction, is I wouldn't use it, but I don't own stocks so that is not a surprise. My second reaction is who would use it and I get stuck there too.

The front page is not that valuable, because it is relatively easy to add up to 100. The second page where it aggregates the portfolio into one graph seems useful, but in order for a user to actually use that page, they would have to commit to a portfolio on the front page. This confusing me because I thought the whole point was to get information while you were building portfolios.

You should consider moving that graph of the combined portfolios to the front page under where you enter the stocks. This way when people are adding and subtracting stocks they can actually see what impact it has on the aggregate and then maybe your site can be useful for that.

Overall, I am instinctually concerned about your site because it seems like you have put a lot of time and effort into something that doesn't do much, which is exactly the opposite of what you want to do with a start up. Generally you want to put very little effort into a site that does a lot!
Many good hotels stock mini-toothpaste and such and will send it to your room free if you call the front desk.
Git's New Smart HTTP functionality
Nithyananda breaking records on Tweets
Wow. A wonderful article.

The real question is, just how in-control is the computer. And how much has to go wrong such that uncontrollable acceleration happens and nothing can override that acceleration such that no matter what you do the computer makes the car go into "drive" and accelerate to the max, without responding to other parts of the system like the breaks and such.
True. If the guy who led the G80 project isn't worth a 100M, NVidia is not paying him properly.
I remember seeing a website like that, it was a "multiplayer flash whiteboard" and dozens of people were connected at any given time. It was mostly full of penises and other sexual drawings, as you would expected.
These story is part of an exposé series. The other two stories:

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-in...

How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-co...
> I guess what it comes down to is what kind of people they hire: helpful, courteous people, or power-hungry rule jockeys.

The problem is that reality suggests a distribution of the two, not a dichotomy of one or the other.
Yea but how many policeman are actually going to do that?
They already refused changes to enable them to possess guns due to the problems it would cause them.
I wonder if they'd refuse to do this or not, or just "pretend" to do it and not actually bother.
UX is complex enough, and important enough, to be its own discipline. I've been a developer for eight years, and guys doing UX/IA have improved the quality of the sites I've worked on tremendously.
Thank god! I have heard only from people who buy into the witch hunt (and an excellent name for it, that is). I am really very glad to see I'm not the only person who realizes most of it is ridiculous and overblown. Hell, even if the gas pedal corroded AND the floor mat held it down, has not one of these drivers even though to reach down and PULL the goddamn thing up?

I pray people realize this is folly... I don't know what we're gonna do if stupidity brings down the pillar of the auto industry, through no fault of it's own.
The less the government sees of the internet, the less they interfere with it. I hope they blacklist the entire thing.
Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': exclusive pictures and details
It's unclear who that affiliate account is owned by. For all we know, that other company could just be providing the tools for LiveJournal to insert their own affiliate id.
Heard that the top level domain linode.com was black holed due to its association with malicious activity [...]

Reading this sentence, reminded me of Google using Linode when that incident happened with Chinese hackers.
short answer - the brake system has to suffer a mechanical failure. read the part where "brakes always win over engines".
I think he meant 35, not 53
WTF. I host in Linode.
see audi circa 1987.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi#Reported_sudden_unintended...
This whole Toyota debacle makes me wonder if competing car companies buy cars made by other manufacturers and poke at them in the hopes of having something just like this happen.
Most people aren't in this situation--especially since, as in previous years, the government is adding a little "stimulus" to our tax refunds.
Remember: http://www.amazing1.com/

:)
If it breaks a law.

Otherwise they should go to court the proper way
Ask HN: Open review systems?
I like to keep track of restaurants, movies and whiskeys I like, but I'd like to do it a) on my own terms and b) in a way that is potentially semantically helpful to others, particularly friends and fans. Yet I haven't found any decentralized Yelp!'s or FourSquares, nor any sort of standard for posting reviews, for example, on my site. Any advice? Should I just buckle under and give/trust my data to traditional review sites? Should I just post reviews on my site, and to hell with the semantic web? Any thoughts are welcome.
A poster for early stage start-ups
The accelerator pedal would have to be immovable, frozen in place.

The ignition switch would have to lock or otherwise malfunction

The shift lever or clutch or automatic shift lever would have to malfunction

The brakes would have to overheat (does not really happen much in a production car). It is not 100% true that brakes will always overpower the engine, but the cases in which they don't are the ones with massive 700hp engines with big 'ol turbos and stock drum brakes, and in that situation it's the owner's responsibility.

There would also have to be no runaway truck exits.

If you were creative and knew something about cars, you could pull one of many fuses from the fuse box. On cars I've serviced, the computer fuse is always in the driver kick panel, so just rip off that panel and start yanking fuses while watching the road.

It should be noted that the e-brake on fwd cars is not your best choice (though still a decent choice); while a locked up wheel provides drag, it does not apply as much drag as a rolling wheel with maximum braking (which can easily be obtained cause of ABS). Also at extreme speeds you run the risk of a spin, which puts you possibly at risk for a roll.
I hold the conspiracy theory that these issues are being so aggressively sought out in an attempt to bring Toyota's image down to the level of American auto manufacturers.
Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
Witch hunt is a great word. When I watched a CNN clip of one woman giving evidence about her "broken" Lexus I felt a very strong analogue to Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Surely they won't continue to release final builds now the program is at $99/year?
I get it. I just wanted to point out that's what we're talking about, because it's also still a P=NP problem to even know if something is a P=NP problem, so all we can do, it would seem, is put up guards against the likely suspects. And that's all great. I'm trying not to be a negative nancy, but its statements like these that just seem so sloppy:

"If this holds true, even if we can trivially parallelize each query, an exponential function (the amount of information) divided by a polynomial (number of machines) still dominates the logarithmic function we defined earlier as acceptable. This means that given modern trends, if a given query isn’t scalable vertically, it also isn’t scalable horizontally, which makes SQL fundamentally unscalable, period."

Cut out the fluff and all that's saying is "Given modern trends, SQL is fundamentally unscalable, period." And why? Because anyone can write a bad query. And what's the answer? Complexity guards? Well, it certainly sounds good, more guards in SQL, or let's not call it SQL if there are organizational issues (i.e. non-modular design) and syntactical paradigms to improve. And lets insert some other [undescribed] computational theory to improve it, but the paradigms don't change the algorithmic reality, they can only hope to strategize better.

Having said all that, I don't want to be misunderstood, it sounds like there may be some very interesting ideas behind all of this. It's hard to know in a case like this whether to comment on something, considering that much of the comment is negative. What motivates me is that in bullet points the article seems to imply something quite different than it sounds like when taken at face value. And I honestly appreciate push back if I'm just wrong about that. It's all about filters required to find the good stuff in all the the hyperbole that surrounds us.
Horizontal scrollbar prompts EU gripe from 6 browser makers
Try this: http://www.btobsources.com/google-quietly-acquires-pdfmenot-...
I'm truly amazed that the idea of turning someone away because they're not drinking the correct Cola does not seem excessive by comparison.
This reminds me of when I worked tech support for a big US ISP. I would get calls from users who couldn't connect to certain .mil sites because they had an IP ending in zero (x.x.x.0). The only solution was to reset their modem and hope the DHCP server would give them a new IP that didn't end in zero.
I Quit, or It's Open Source from now on
"negatively strange"

Is that, like, "boring", "commonplace", "average" matter?
We were indeed using a Wacom tablet for this demo, but we have an text tool on the way, which should help those of us (such as me!) who are biologically incapable of drawing letters with a mouse (and even sometimes with a pen)...
Ask HN: Is it OK to submit job postings on HN?
I'd like to post a position, but I'm not sure if it is OK to do so. Any clarification would be great.
There is about a .000000001% chance you just saved my life. Thank you. (edited math)
With documentation I mean a) offline readable documentation and b) non-technical documentation targeted at newcomers. Please take a look at the scala site http://www.scala-lang.org/node/198 and compare that (especially the "Language Specification" and "Scala by Example") with the clojure site.

Alternatively, take a look at the offerings of the haskell community -- including Real World Haskell.
Chrome extension to skip Adsense's 'Take me to my account'
See the Great Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Windshield_Pitting_Epid...
Why Layoffs Should be Avoided | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com
Awesome stuff. I love how Git just keeps getting better.

Funny (to me) aside:

"Grack [the Rack-based Git Smart HTTP process] is about half as fast as the Apache version for simple ref-listing stuff, but we’re talking 10ths of a second."

When optimizing my web app, reducing request time by 100s of milliseconds (er, I mean, "10ths of a second") would be a monumental occasion. I dance around the room when that happens. Am I wrong in thinking "10ths of a second" might be a dramatic difference for a place like GitHub?
Amazing movie about the history of our world
My Definition of success
I wholeheartedly agree. The sheer number of failures that have to occur, the low level of action on the drivers' parts required to overcome the problem (put it in neutral! Use your brakes! Use your parking brakes!), the speed and intensity of the government's response, and the fact that GM is so unpopular combine to make the entire debacle suspect.
This is definitely a witch hunt. The same thing happened in my ford truck when I misplaced the mat after cleaning it. I simply turned the car off put the clutch in and coasted to a stop at the edge of the highway and fixed the mat. From the reports this sounds like the exact situation for the Toyota cars. From my perspective nothing is wrong with the cars and the whole thing is way overblown.
"Notes" is a great idea, but storing them anywhere but locally raises the probability that they could leak, which would be disastrous for your users and possibly fatal for your startup. Good luck with the product though, neat stuff.
I realized after about 20 of these that I would use the hex code when talking about these colors. While using firebug to check out the source, I noticed this field in the form:

input type="hidden" value="#2309a7" name="color"

It looks like anyone could just change the value of that hidden input and screw up the results.
I also don't get the joke. Care to explain?
The .cx TLD has negative connotations for me. I don't know if this will be a relevant issue for your intended audience.
Massive Methane Melt off Siberia
I'm from Georgia and moved to Atlanta in '87 to go to Georgia Tech. I was a part of the student group that put together the Olympic bid. I stayed in Atlanta through the '96 games.
My view is different than yours.

I do feel Atlanta did a good job hosting the '96 Olympics. However, your perspective that "Atlanta was a total ghetto before the Olympics" is far off. The "ghettos" can be restated as "poor black communities". These did not go away. They just relocated. This gentrification process was in place prior to the Olympic prep. The prep simply added more money to accelerate the process.
I ended up buying a ebay copy of the VHS for 2.0.1, but I've never seen it on DVD- Were you able to find a copy that I'd missed?
I'm not sure if I'm more interested in the explanation for this data or in how you came across it.
What do you consider a "properly functioning market"? People who espouse free market views of health insurance believe that it can work like other insurances (such as car and home insurance). But this ignores the fact that health insurance is fundamentally different. With other types of insurance, the max value of the insured is fixed (to basically its replacement cost). However, since we can't replace ourselves, we have to resort to fixing the problem with medicine, and the cost of this is dependent on the type and severity of the illness. The free market approach is exactly what you see with today's dysfunctional system. Health insurance companies charge healthy people and drop them when they get sick. Or healthy people decide not to insure themselves, and so the rolls are left with sick people who have higher insurance premiums. Of course, sometimes the healthy people get sick, go to the ER, and raise everybody's costs.

Health insurance companies would love to purge their rolls of all unhealthy people, and only charge premiums to healthy people. The free market cannot fix this.
I have to agree; I can sense the schadenfreude all over the place and it's getting annoying.
> impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML

They didn't do that either. "Sorry, Stocx requires your browser to support javascript". It's not hard to make two text fields and a submit button work, and that should have been revision one.
Because society is basically one enormous, opaque device driver blob? It specifies an arbitrary input/output format so ugly that seeing the underlying reasoning would be an embarrassment.
If there's one thing I hate about Hacker News its the rampant climate change denialism/do-nothing-ism.

You can pretend global warming isn't happening, or you can open your eyes and look at the evidence of massive change and extremely dangerous positive feedback loops.

If this methane all escapes, we are pretty much screwed.
Great article! I love this:

"I'm continually amazed by how much better people react if I remember to arbitrarily throw "I think" before I state an opinion. I mean, it's coming out of my mouth, and it's not like there's some external arbiter of which sitcom is funniest, so of course it's an "I think." That's assumed. But, apparently, if I go out of my way to remind people that it's my opinion with a marker that makes little sense to me, they relax. So I do it."

A lesson I have only recently learned in my 30s, it really does help!
Whoa. My native language is in the Romance group, and I could pretty much muddle through a paragraph of Interlingua with no help. I think the comprehension level was about 90%.
Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette
We think that's because you managed to beat the autocomplete :) Try again now?
It might be hard to optimize a more general language, but it's impossible to optimize something that can't be expressed in a simple language.
I doubt anyone will be seizing your Pepsi if the games were sponsored by Coke, but they might have a case for not letting you set up your Pepsi-points gear under the coke sign.
Thanks!

(We wanted a short URL for Twitter, which straight away sends you off into the land of weird country-code domains...)
Mercurial welcomes git to the HTTP party. ;-)
Other ways to spend the money? Well, anyone living in Atlanta now will tell you this winter's rainfall showed them just how bad the city's sewer system is. Its well known that Atlanta has major sewer problems for perhaps 100 years...think "massive sink holes that can suck down an entire building".

When your spending on beautification to show the world your city for 3 weeks, major infrastructure projects like sewer systems aren't high on the list.
A lot of time. Work parallelization, network servers, P2P, UI background workers, long running reports, etc. Mostly in C++ and Java.

It's really not too bad. One thing to remember is to stick with simple design. Another thing is to stick with lower level API, the one the OS or language provides. Avoid high level library. If you can't avoid, insist to have the source code. There might be bugs are in the library. Also the high level library tends to have sparse documentation to document their behavior in detail. In multi-thread programming, you need to know every detail and every assumption about the API.
Kojiro Humanoid Robot Mimics Your Musculoskeletal System
I wonder if it seems close to the languages one is familiar with.

My native tongue is Romanian and I grew up on the border with Serbia - I used to speak Serbian near-fluently (but lost it after 2+ decades of not using it); I also know a little bit of Russian. This language seemed similar to Serbian to me.
An "earn in” proposal - Employee option allocations in early stage companies
Actually, this didn't take too long to build on top of our platform, which we built for Timetric (http://timetric.com/) - that's where the vast majority of our effort has gone.
Yes, it does.

I always feel silly adding it in, because of course what I'm saying is my opinion. What else would it be?

But I say it when I'm talking to people who need it.

I've always thought that the main reason for it is that most people are very easily threatened in their opinions, so without the "I Think", they can feel like they are being attacked.

But it could be that most people simply haven't been trained to differentiate fact and opinion on their own, so they need clear markers.

At least, I think that's possible.
Scam-Trafficking Games Company Insists Its Haiti Charity Was Not a Scam, Too
Pretty much a must-have for this if you don't want to type purple, red, blue, pink, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

Although, after doing this for a little while, I'm getting the feeling it's to measure people's endurance when filling out online surveys.
(I'm just about old enough to remember That Site, yes. I think our intended audience hasn't spent quite so long in the dingier corners of Slashdot threads; I hope so, anyway!)
Many of the Toyota problems had nothing to do with the mats--they are drive by wire and the computer was slammed on the gas without the pedal being depressed. Depending on when this occurs it could be deadly even with an expert driver.
I thought "Take Screenshot" was going to save my scribbles to a file. This is a cool feature though, I could imagine using it for captioning random stuff on the web...that said, I'd want to be able to download/share my image when I'm done with it.
Can anyone check to see if http://matt.might.net/ is blocked?

I host it on a linode.

Thanks!
JavaScript: It’s Not Just for Browsers Any More
Thanks - yes, this is an error. We'll fix it shortly!
The user experience of pulling a git repository isn't really comparable to building a website. Also, the effect of a slow web server compounds with each additional resource on the page - as far as I can tell, the added efficiency of the new HTTP code tries to combat exactly that repeated back-and-forth.