skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brake pedal is a pretty obvious user interface. Most people use it whenever they drive. In general, brakes will easily overpower the engine when fully applied. Car & Driver did some tests to be sure [1], and were able to stop a floored Camery going 70 MPH in 190 feet, only 16 feet further than with the throttle closed. Even if shifting or turning off the engine aren't an option (doubtful) the brakes are an obvious and simple way to bring the car back under control. There's really no avoiding the fact that driver error, or at least inaction, played a large part in these accidents.

[1](http://www.caranddriver.com/features/09q4/how_to_deal_with_u...)
The tone of your article and this reply seems to suggest you think Blizzard is trying to sneak this in the back door, rather than you just being surprised and overreacting to the realization.

Perhaps they are, but I never got that impression. Whether I read the EULA or saw the downloader and saw immediately what it was doing or I just got lucky somewhere, I honestly thought this was common knowledge.
The letdown of Hulu Plus and the horrendous monstrosity that is Netflix (and its even worse iPad app) are at least movements in the right direction. I find solace in the mere idea that one day I might be able to go to a website, select an episode, and watch television content on my computer screen.

I don't know why this is so hard. I am willing to pay money for it! I will open my wallet and pay money to watch TV on my computer! Even with ads!
Not sure if you saw the graph hidden in the side: "Complaints rose after Toyota recalled 3.8 million vehicles in November..." -- it makes the same case as you.

Let's have an experiment: another manufacturer can institute a fake recall and see what happens.

> Naturally they adamantly deny it

And, thanks to the nature of human memory, after the first few times they aren't even intentionally lying. (A memory is part recall, part imagination. Replay something enough times, it can become more of the latter than the former.)
I just looked up my alma mater on this website. It is so fucking sad that websites like this exist, it is just toxic. The vile and the vitriol, I mean wtf?
I like the variant:

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Actually if your primary interest is online streaming netflix offers unlimited streaming in their 8.99 a month plan, a bit less than hulu.
The uncommanded accelrations are proprtional to the numbers of that car model on the market.

20years it was AUDI (accelerates under demonic influence) - it can't be the drivers cos they are Americans - it must be those foreign cars.
I'm looking at it as a way to replace cable tv for first run network shows (30 rock, modern family, etc.). They say they will stream that stuff at 720p. I'd love to know how that compared to comcast. I would watch with a Mac mini attached to the tv.
I wonder what a mashup of twitter/4chan/foursquare would look like. In my large lectures, it's not uncommon for more than half of the students to have laptops open and on facebook. Imagine being able to have a real time discussion in a classroom/stadium/concert hall that's completely anonymous.

I got bored one weekend and created a rough working version using rails, but I scrapped it because I didn't want to maintain the site much less promote it.

What do you all think?
Ask HN: What should I use for feedback?
I'm working on a small personal website to host some small things (starting with a dashboard widget), so I'm looking for a feedback solution. Ideally, I'd like something with a free account, as I do not have much traffic thus far. I don't need a lot of features, and I'd like something where I could just drop a form onto the page vs. redirecting to a separate site for feedback collection. I'd appreciate any suggestions you'd have for what I should use, as well as what I should stay away from.
Same thing happened to me in a fast-food drive thru. I was behind an elderly woman who was driving a Buick (no, really --- you see how these stereotypes gain traction). First, she overshot the pickup window. She reversed, but ended up too far away to reach the food being handed out. So she decided to get out of the car, but left it in reverse. As she got out of the car and her foot came off the brake, the car started to roll backwards (automatic transmission). She quickly sat back down and --- I knew what was going to happen but I could not go anywhere --- she stepped on the accelerator. Luckily she was only a few feet in front of me by then and the damage was confined to the bumpers.
Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

- Steve Jobs
Well, the day job has a 13" aluminum macbook pro. Very nice, outfitted with everything ruby, blackbag, clojure, sbcl, external kenisis keyboard.

Home has another white 13" macbook used for time on the train with one of them there usb cellular thingies. Big development system is 8 gigs two core 400gig asus MB driving a samsung 204bw, running ubuntu next-to-latest, intel gig nic. Second montior driven by a 900mhz amd with 200gig drive, running ubuntu latest on another 204bw. The windows box is a 64bit gigabyte MB running 32 bit w2k with bunches of scsi drives and a scsi DAT tape drive.

In the basement are six $300 systems (asus mn2k or such) with dual or single core, 2 gigs (one with 4 gigs), dual intel gig nics, one inboard nic each, ubuntu latest or next to latest. And there is a cluster driven by a caos 2gig 3-nic box, with 7 diskless work nodes with 2 gig ram, 2 nics each. With something like $400, proximity to Tiger Direct, a monitor, keyboard and a mouse, you can build a very respectable development system the next day with one hour of assembly time.

Then there are the recycled bunch, two running openbsd for firewalls. These are two generations ago, castoff from friends who bought their kids new boxes. One bsd box that used to run the church website, a FIT pc running latest ubuntu that I thought might be useful (might be using it for day job if it weren't for VM Fusion--load it up with backtrack 4). Then there are two recycled "media" pcs, 32bits, one of which drives the TV, and the other that, well, i think it is running ntp, and maybe a website for some friends.

With all this, you would think I am a system administrator, but the closest to being an SA was when I wrote the first version of the Mark Williams Coherent Administrator's Guide. If Erin were to check my homework, I would certainly flunk.

What is fun at parties is to fire up the 40 inch TV with the media PC behind it and ask your dinner guests' address, and show them the bird's-eye-view of their house. Oh, and be cautious about pulling it up with zillow. That could get to be a not-so-positive experience at dinner time.
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You should consider posting your rough working session to the community and let them take it from there.

There are lots of folks that enjoy taking seeds and planting them -- there are lots more folks who enjoy nurturing and maintaing the result.
Many of these cars have a power button -- if the "key" is inside the car, the button is activated. When the car is on, and in park, it will turn off with a simple press of the button, but when in motion that does not work.

(I've been told that holding the power button for several seconds, just like one would a crashed computer, will force a shutdown; can't verify that though.)
I use (and am happy with) http://madmimi.com
The least offensive version of this idea would be the one where the Government promises to buy advertising in every newspaper every day at a price proportional to its readership.

To keep it nonpolitical, the advertising could be of the form of a full-page daily report laying out the which bills are being considered by which houses, what the Supreme Court is doing, the President's agenda for the day, and other strictly-true government business.
MIT's New Fibers Combine Piezoelectric Sensitivity with Heat and Light Sensing
> horrendous monstrosity that is Netflix

What is wrong with Netflix (besides silverlight)? I used the service for a very long time to satisfy almost all of my TV viewing needs.
Young women care about manliness of the sort you describe, because they don't meet many rich guys and aren't trying to get married anyway. Women in their late twenties care about money because they interact with people with real jobs all the time and want to get married, and are probably starting to get ugly.
Some newer cars don't have a key, they have a pushbutton on/off "switch" (not really a switch at all, just a signal to the computer that the driver wants to start the car). To "force shut off" a running car in gear, you have to hold the button down for several seconds (think rebooting a PC by holding the power button down for several seconds).
This is Matt Jones, an engineer on the site integrity team at Facebook. We're the ones who address issues like this one on Facebook.

Ultimately clickjacking / UI redress is a browser vulnerability - it shouldn't be possible to display one thing and have another receive user interactions. As some people have pointed out, Firefox's NoScript plugin does a pretty good job of preventing it. But that isn't to say victim web sites shouldn't do anything about it.

In the case of Like buttons, they inherently run in an iframe so our protection on the rest of facebook.com (http://theharmonyguy.com/2010/03/13/facebook-adds-code-for-c...) can't apply. However, Facebook knows the urls these buttons point to and generally knows or can infer the urls where they are embedded. When we detect a likejacking site on one of these urls, we block its url or domain from being liked and prevent future clicks on facebook.com from going to it.
Why not leave the defaults until you are directed otherwise? Wordpress and some plugins will either require write access to .htaccess so they can make changes or give you the text to copy-paste yourself.

Things like your URL structure can be changed inside of Wordpress Admin. Many seem to recommend avoiding using dates in the URL if you are concerned about good content appearing stale after a few weeks.
What Your Computer Does While You Wait
Hi Carbocation,
Great feedback, I really appreciate it. We're using the email address so you can come back later and view reports you've run in the past. I've changed the copy a little to make that clear.

I'm still new to layout/jquery etc so I'll have the screenshot up in a few hours based on the feedback of other posters.
Firefox 4 still has a little ways to go (of course). I've been running the beta since it came out.

I accidentally discovered a neat DoS in Firefox 4 while working on some JS: the alert loop from hell is persistent even after you close the tab. IIRC, in 3 it was possible to close the tab in between alert()s and they would go away; in 4, you'll have to kill and restart Firefox to get rid of them. Chrome still has an advantage there.
One of my favorite code comments comes from qmail: /* NFS Dorks */
E.g., button mashing.
It's even further cheaper when you place a value on your time spent watching Hulu's commercials. Not to mention the decreased entertainment experience from the commercial interruptions.
People make fun of me all the time when I stop in the middle of what I (or we) am doing and say, "Holy cow man, look at what we CAN do! Look at what we ARE doing!" Dreams of 10 years ago became realities yesterday.

We have the ability to see things that are so small, you wouldn't even know they were there otherwise. We can compute Pi to millions (billions!) of digits before I can even say the first 4 out loud. [Mentioned in article] I live video chat with a friend in China, which is on the other side of the planet, thousands of KM and miles away. Millions (billions!) of people can all access information from their homes or their phones, in the middle of no where. We are communicating with a man made object that is over 20 BILLION kilometers away from us. We can store thousands (millions!) of books in a device no larger than a human finger. We can move several times faster than the speed of sound. We can...

Simply amazing. It is humbling to be able to work with technology every day and see what we can do. It is truly a blessing to know that even 5 years from now we, the human race, will be doing things that people are only beginning to imagine now. Here is to you technology, you make my pants shrink.
If he had 10^4 thousand dollars I assume he wouldn't have to worry about whether to pay off his student loans or not. Unless he had a lot of student loans.

I assume it means what it says. Tens of thousands of dollars in the bank. Nice to have, but far from FU.
OK, you've talked me into it. I've been thinking about getting a cleaner for a while, it's time to start using a small portion of my money to get rid of the thing I hate most and the thing which I get most depressed for not doing.
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They're working on fixing this the Right Way and right now it's on the list for Firefox 4: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562258
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United States Article on Wikipedia hacked.
If they want it to be worth $10 (or more), there's one big thing they'd need to do: live streaming (or, at least upload shows right when the episode ends).

Like Dustin Curtis said, "Netflix killed Blockbuster, but Hulu is going to kill Netflix. So much death, and I still can't watch fucking live TV on the internet."
What you need is a REST framework and not a web framework. The server side web frameworks are archaic for building true web applications. Use a client side framework and communicate with your REST framework. Use a CMS to do templating, the world does not need another server side tempalting language to do poorly what CMS's do.

Implement you view in pure HTML / CSS / Javascript. This makes development tool portability, server platform portability and CMS portability a none issue for your UI. By completely separating the view it also forces your architecture to implement all business logic and data access as services. Which creates an open API for mobile and 3rd party developers as well as future uninvented UI products.

The UI moves faster than business logic and requires different development procedures. As much as it is software development to produce a web app, it is just as much digital publishing which requires a total different release schedule and less labor intensive quality verification requirements.

Server frameworks have been making the compromise of faster development to satisfy the digital publishing requirements (ASP, PHP) or strict enforcement to satisfy the software development quality requirements (Java, .NET). All of them are bastardized to either the designer or the developer take you pick.

Removing the view from the server cleanly severs the two worlds and allows designers and front end developers the ability to rapidly iterate while allowing middleware developers the ability to enforce contracts and security.

Build the best REST framework available and you will start to see developers flock in droves as more and more organizations realize the benefits of separating the two disciplines.
In mathematics

True + True == False

might be a common interpretation.
It is now as dead as say Digital Unix or OpenVMS.
Great! Also, I didn't mean for my negativity to be personally directed, but I did want to give you the full 'benefit' of my as-negative-as-possible interpretation of uncertainty. It's great that you're iterating so quickly, by the way!
Python is fairly strongly typed in general. (At least compared to Perl and the like. Examples like True + True notwithstanding.) It is just also very dynamic.
> Who in their right mind would search for "red yellow blue"?

People searching for the band, the "primary color triad in a standard artist's color wheel"[1], or maybe an artist entering random colors because they're bored and want to see what they can find. Since I just learned about the band, I'm sure there are many other reasons that I haven't thought of.

I'm surprised it's not more. Can you substantiate your claims?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYB_color_model (second result)
It's so hard because the Media Industry has been resistant to change / technology that would help them for a rather long time. Vinyl/Cassettes/CDs/MP3s/DRM-free MP3s were going to starve musicians. VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray/3D home TVs were going to kill theaters. The Internet was/is going to <insert doomsday prediction here, any will work>. Piraters were/are going to kill all content creation.

It's all BS, that's why it's so hard. But maybe I'm just bitter about all this.
Indeed, Ellison is no idiot, and that's precisely what he's been doing: putting Sun's formerly free properties behind strict paywalls in order to get the company cash-flow-positive again after Sun bled money giving away the geese that laid the golden eggs.
Try using "thou" in an intimate situation, and your partner will be waiting for a Holy Grail punchline....

But seriously, "thou" just doesn't exist in modern English for the vast majority of English speakers on the planet. They use "thou" when they're quoting or reciting older texts, or when they want to make something new sound like something old. For instance, someone writing a prayer might sprinkle it with "thee" and "thou" to mimic the prayers and scriptures he's familiar with, because it puts him in a religious frame of mind. People who do that kind of thing tend to be inconsistent (just like when people use mock-archaic language for comedic purposes) and their usage would probably defy grammatical description.
Get an antenna.
An essay on a site for programmers is not "every day language."

He said, "Grow up people," which is not very respectful.

Those are two apparent reasons.
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That's an awesome quote, hadn't seen it before! Pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?
Because we're evolved (hard-wired) social animals. ^_^
Hulu ads aren't bad. Mute the computer and switch to another tab for thirty seconds. Far better than ads on actual television, since you know exactly when they're going to end, and even if you miss it you can always rewind.
I totally agree. Most TV shows appear on BitTorrent networks within an hour of airing. Why can't hulu beat those delivery times when they have a partnership with the content producers?
A collection of great programming quotes from Alan Perlis (first recipient of the Turing Award):

http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
Wait, why would I want to pay to watch whatever's on right now? I have a TV and an antenna for that.
Yes, but perhaps this is a sign of iframe abuse on the part of Facebook and the 3rd party site developers? Placing blame on the browser is pretty lame.

The solution to this problem is to not mislead users by embedding one domain's content within another site in the first place.
"Nothing Happens To Anybody Which He Is Not Fitted By Nature To Bear."
I do not know how Hulu Plus is steaming data to the iP(ad)hone, but there has to be some sort of encryption. The reason so many streaming sites use Adobe Flash and/or Microsoft SilverLight is because they offer it. Youtube wrote a blog post about HTML5 and included some insight on this[1].

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Content Protection :: YouTube doesn't own the videos that you watch - they're owned by their respective creators, who control how those videos are distributed through YouTube. For YouTube Rentals, video owners require us to use secure streaming technology, such as the Flash Platform's RTMPE protocol, to ensure their videos are not redistributed. Without content protection, we would not be able to offer videos like this.

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[1] http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
Wikipedia is getting aggressive about making money!
I recall at least a few reports, I think one was on a recorded 911 call and another observed by a state trooper following, that brakes were applied and after the car was ultimately stopped there was evidence (burned brake pads, brake rotors discolored by heat, etc.) that the brakes were in fact used.

It may be that there were a few genuine throttle malfunctions which, once reported, brought all the "accidentally stepped on the gas pedal" accidents out of the woodwork.
There are plenty of businesses that become less relevant through no fault of their own (see 'buggy whip manufacturers'). That doesn't mean they require subsidies - it reminds me of Clevinger's father (?) in Catch-22 who made his fortune not growing parsley, investing government subsidies into buying more land on which to not grow parsley!

But the USPS is a good example of a point I've been lingering on since making my earlier comment - at what point does something become a basic right (or expectation, to prevent confusion with the Bill of Rights) in our society? Is postage a basic expectation? Is a home town newspaper a basic expectation? And if so, should we expect our taxes to subsidise them as we do with roads or healthcare?
Sorry; I'm not saying that all developers know SQL. I'm saying that the ones that we are all talking about know, or are competent enough to quickly know, SQL.

To me, the people that you are talking about have no context in the discussion in the least. They would be the last to jump on the NoSQL bandwagon because they don't really care, for example.

The universe of discourse only includes the devs who care, e.g. the people who are creating ORMs, using ORMs, using NoSQL, etc, not _all_ developers. I kinda assumed that was implied.
Isn't that what Google Buzz was supposed to be?
It is funny how people who are bounded to an artificial sandbox are trying to view themselves as equal (or even better) than those who created this sandbox. ^_^

JVM is a mere C++ program. Period.
What's with all the downvoting?
It's not ad-hominem, because he didn't say you were wrong because you're an idiot; he said you're an idiot because you're wrong. ;-)

Conspiracy theories aren't very popular here, unless they involve those pesky climate scientists.
In summary:

People do nigh-everything socially, seemingly one-way interactions help define group activities (and are thus not just one-way), and doing stuff for free really is its own reward, in a way, because people like feeling generous and it raises their view of themselves / their standing in society.

It... feels too loosely aimed, however. Like a set of rambling thoughts rather than a discussion with a purpose.

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edit: also, personally, I think the line spacing is too large. It feels like I'm reading lines instead of sentences which continue past the line. Probably because the side-bar has normal spacing, and the spacing between the <p> tags is roughly the same as the vertical gap between the content and the sidebar, which makes the content feel divided up more than it is.
There's a large difference between gossiping within your circle of friends and committing character assassination in a public forum with complete anonymity.

I just went to Virginia Tech's section on http://collegeacb.com and on the front page is:

"(Name removed) -Incoming Whore"

".... I NEEDED to warn everyone. I went to school with a girl named (Name removed) (Known as (Name removed) "Sluttman") and she is a fat, backstabbing bitch that has STDs. Girls, don't be her friend...."
It's pretty lame that they closed this question just because it doesn't fit the Stack Overflow model and doesn't have a right answer.

Part of a moderator's job is to use judgment and ignore rules when it makes sense to do so. This is a great thread, and closing it (even after 600 posts) seems like a bad decision.