skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between programming and engineering. I didn't take a software engineering course until after I graduated, but it was so worth it...

It's one thing to solve a problem once it's in front of you, but it's another to make the plan that exposes you to the problems, and keeps new problems coming along so that you can keep solving them, until one day... the project is done.
This infographic is pretty confusing. The numbers are much more easily explained with a bullet point list or graph.
I think this was the old borehole, they specifically didn't penetrate the lake so as to not contaminate it. They're using a different method or an adjacent hole with a sanitized drilling apparatus now. This is based on stories I've read about Vostok over the years, I don't have any extra knowledge on the situation there today.
Ask HN: Any raw html/javascript search engines?
I'm looking for a search engine that will allow me to search raw html/content.

Someone has put up an anonymous slander site but used their google analytics tracking ID for it. I'd like to be able to locate which other sites use this ID but I don't know of any search engines that allow you to search raw content.
No, live and delegate are mostly interchangeable (for reasons explained in the article). They are both used generally to attach a handler to a DOM element indirectly, by actually attaching it to one of the ancestor elements, and then listening for events that propagate up to that ancestor element, and then checking to see if the target of the event matches the target supplied in the live or delegate method as an argument.

The two reasons for using either one are either:

a) to attach handlers to DOM elements that may not yet exist in the DOM.

b) to attach a handler to a single element or small group of elements, listening for events on descendent elements, instead of looping through and attaching the same function to 100 individual elements in the DOM.

For the most part, live is now generally discouraged in favor of delegate (also for reasons explained in the article). In fact, here is the description for .delegate() from the jQuery docs:

Delegate is an alternative to using the .live() method, allowing
for each binding of event delegation to specific DOM elements.
Oops, you're right.

Let me see. I can peer inside of a running black box and twiddle knobs that do something I don't understand until I magically get the right result. Then I can cross my fingers and hope it doesn't change out from under me.

Why does this not sound appealing?
Well, here's one reason: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/28/business/la-fi-china...

By the OP's admission, they were late with some of their payments, and the Chinese counterparty could conceivably have some kind of a legal case against them. In which case, being in China could open them to getting sued in Chinese courts, which can be a tricky situation for Westerners. Not least because (as in this case), it can get difficult to leave the country once the case is in the courts.

(The linked article describes a case where a businessman was stopped at the airport because of a $250,000 lawsuit that he says he was unaware of. He was only able to leave after his family found the money.)
I would expect that it would do what every other unexplainable but repeated phenomena did in pre-scientific cultures, become part of the mythology. See: Weather.

But my only anthropology was a few GE classes in undergrad, so maybe someone with actual knowledge can chime in?

Hopefully future history books (or niche Ph.D. theses more likely ...) won't include a section about the bloody war between the plane-ists and the aplane-ists, over the deep theological issue of gods made manifest and physically watching over you... [See discussion below, not meant as a dig about this specific video or this specific group of people]
They mostly likely have had contact with some people. In the first photo, you can make out a nice machete and a pot.
Should Google stand up to ICE? Should DIGG? Should Reddit? Should Hacker News? Shouldn't any website speak up about this?
Two hours on a netbook? Seriously?

My NC-10 is getting long in the tooth on its original 6-cell battery, but it still gets 4.5-6 hours, depending upon what I'm doing, and I seldom (read "almost never") remember to turn off wifi, which is a major power suck.
Using Facebook/Twitter/OpenID accounts for login would probably remove this issue completely.

Though, I'm not sure if you can get e-mail from these, and making the users enter their e-mail after login would degrade the user experience.
Maybe the experience of using flash?
great idea. i could see this becoming very popular. i recommend fixing the message mismatch between crush and poke. it's possible to have a romantic/sexual interest in someone without it being a crush. frankly crushes are kinda creepy and definately most commonly associated with juvenile/immature states of mind. by downgrading the verbage to interest or attraction, something like that, and totally removing all usage of the word crush, I think you'd get more users, a wider age range, and have a less confusing site message. This is a minor criticism though. The core idea sounds extremely promising with a large market, and is useful for non-techies/non-elites, which is awesome.
Politics is becoming an information technology--it's data feudalism for now
Very disappointed to see this has an 800x480 resolution display. Same resolution as my 3.7" Nexus One but on a 7" display, what is the point?
Google (and Microsoft) Respond to the 'Bing Sting' Controversy [interview]
That looks close to ideal. Maybe a little big, but 700 hours from 3 AA batteries is perfect. Better than the GameBoy I use as a musical scratchpad in the same kinds of situations.
Poor poor people - they'll be better off if we stay away.

EDIT: There is absolutely no chance that our western society has 'got it right'. If you think otherwise, I'm afraid you're deluding yourself.
What caught my eye is this.

It was here that the coldest temperature ever found on Earth -- minus 89.2 Celsius (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit) -- was recorded.

That's cold enough that it starts snowing dry ice!
But only because the credit card company charges merchants an unnecessary extra 2% in fees so they can bribe you with your own money.

The cost of that lunch should be $19.60, or less.
The footage almost looks like clips from the movie Avatar.
"One of the five people applying for each job opening"

So, if every person who somehow becomes unemployed applies for more than five jobs, these two stats would together imply an amazing market for job seekers, right? I hate stats like this because they are meaningless by themselves and, perhaps more importantly, seem chosen with intent to mislead.
Supposedly this is due to intertribal trade, rather than direct contact with the larger outside communities.
Realistically, they're on borrowed time. I mean, the common cold (etc, etc) isn't going to play nice once it finally hits them.
I hope this undisturbed group of Emacs users is allowed to continue their peaceful way of life.
Rainbird: Realtime Analytics at Twitter
this is especially useful with AJAX since the DOM elements may get replaced.
Seeing how far we've come, but we still can't get flash right, I would guess.
from their faq (http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and...):

"uncontacted tribes will have seen aeroplanes on numerous occasions. The idea that this damages their self-image and/or spiritual beliefs belongs in the realm of fiction, and is based on the false supposition that their cultures are fragile. Experience shows that such peoples are in fact robust and well able to adapt to outside goods – most have been doing so for a very long time. Tribal peoples are not destroyed when they get or see things from outside, but by violence and disease as their lands are invaded."
There's only one excuse for storing passwords in plaintext - to perform challenge-response auth, so passwords can't be sniffed. A tradeoff between line and database security. Of course, this is only applicable in cases when two special conditions are met:

a) The line is considered not secure enough. YMMV here.

b) There's no possibility to use some kind of more secure method (for example, deploy a PKI, ZKPP or PAKE). Like when you're ISP offering PPPoE access (lots of SOHO routers just don't know about EAP at all).

So this is definitely not about web sites (as they could - and really should - use HTTPS).
Might want to upgrade from the small instance sooner than that, the site seems completely unresponsive right now.
The lake is massive. Thousands of gallons of freon would barely register as a contaminant. Moreover, the pressure of the water would tend to push up through the borehole (although Freon is slightly denser than water so some will likely seep down through the water column).

The real issue isn't potential chemical contaminants, but biological contamination. It's thought that the lake has been cut off from the rest of earth's biosphere for millennia. It's likely a biological time-capsule, but breaching the seal could expose it to modern life that could take over.
There's a pretty detailed article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1022822/Incre...) that explains what anthropologists assume they're thinking. It's basically "Stay Away" since the plane is a foreign object. In fact, you can see the tribesmen readying their weapons in case the flying object veers towards them.
>I don't see it as that different.

It is very very different. You can't tinker with the weighting of something that doesn't exist, and if you don't have the necessary data, no amount of reweighting is going to improve things. Microsoft in this case no longer needs to come up with any data of their own, they can just use clicks on Google as a proxy for any combination of signals.
Absolutely fascinating stuff, and for me anyway it raises some interesting ethical questions. Making contact with these tribes would (I would imagine) destroy a lot of culture, to say nothing of the obvious issues of disease, etc. On the other hand, in a society where we claim to value innovation and progress, failing to offer these tribes the benefits available to others feels a little wrong. Given the choice between our lifestyles and theirs, how many of us would choose theirs?

It raises some interesting legal questions too. In the United States for example, I believe (and I could be wrong on this) starting in 2014 we would fine these tribes for failure to purchase health insurance. To say nothing of the "Republican Form of Government" guarantee in the constitution.
I'm sure you're up there with those who think that people who owe large sums of money should "just work harder" or "lay off alcohol and cigs".

I had a medical injury that has royally screwed up my life. I also HAD insurance, but starbucks switched insurance and I was now in preexisting condition hell. I had no money for a lawsuit, so I'm now 12k in the hole, along with basic living expenses that I had to cover while not being able to work. Its upwards of 20k and I have no way to pay it off.

So no. Quite many people in USA are just 1 accident away from ruin. I've seen it 3x before, and now with me. And there's not much at all that could be done.
I'll go one further: How do you know other civilizations don't go "the inhabitants of Earth are one of the few uncontacted civilizations left in the galaxy" and petition the Intergalactic Council to not harvest the sun for energy?

It sounds far-fetched, but do you think this tribe is thinking "there are other civilizations on Earth that we've never talked to, yet they're trying not to destroy us"?
Actually CFCs are not at all bad. They are incredibly stable chemical compounds that won't normally react with anything else.

The problem with CFCs is that you get a stable compound by reacting really reactive things together, and now they can't find anything they want to react with more. So when they get into the upper atmosphere and get broken apart by hard radiation, you now have really reactive stuff mixed in with the fragile ozone layer. And they act as a catalyst to break down ozone.

But you can breathe them all you want, and (assuming you got enough oxygen) will suffer no ill effects.
What do you mean by mode?
<something that catches people's attention> + 1000memories.

Few other examples:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862700

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005187

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598485

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985340

I used to like the idea of 1000 memories back when I heard it for first time. But the aggressive PR posts on HN has ruined it for me. I never visited it again since I felt 1000memories' publicity rather relied on emotional exploitation (that is a strong word to use, but I can't think of a better one).
Does Google use clicks from anywhere on the web other than their own sites as a ranking signal?
This "footage" hit the news a couple of years ago in Brazil, and a couple of days later was challenged as being fake. I could look more into details and see if there is any translation from the articles back then, but I will stand that this is NOT an "uncontacted tribe".
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/02/military-unemployment-...

This is the problem that civiside.com is solving. "We help veterans search beyond the job board". We have been very successful in getting companies to sign up for the Guaranteed Interview Program http://www.civiside.com/guaranteed_interview but we need press attention to make more employers aware of what we are doing. In addition to the GI Program, we are helping veterans by enabling their family, friends, and supporters to tap the networked job market. Finally, we have just added the former VP of Biz Dev., and the former Director of Marketing at military.com to our team, therefore adding much needed experience and muscle to our efforts.

Veterans are at a disadvantage in finding work after they leave the military...this should not be and we have a solution for it. Help us help veterans.
We should give them access to technology and to our way of life. Our way of life is better. Preserving their backwards culture so they can continue lives of misery and suffering is just as disgusting as the Prime Directive.

Help is exactly what I would want from advanced alien visitors. I don't want them to respect my culture just because it is mine; I want something better for myself, not cultural relativism.

There is nothing good or enviable about uncivilized lifestyles to preserve; any actions that maintain them in that lifestyle are ensuring they literally die young, mostly of preventable causes. Their lives are short, uncomfortable and brutal. Trying to minimize contact is ensuring they do not get modern medical care and that they retain their dark ages quality (or worse) myths and prejudices.
My thinkpad technically has 3 buttons (just for the record). I think the user experience would suck (for me at least). With mouse, I use my index finger and middle finger for left and right buttons so my thumb is free. But with laptop, I use my thumb to press both left right buttons. I don't think I would want to use my middle/index finger to press any touchpad buttons except the touchpad itself.
the article is short and to the point, taking a smart humorous stance upon what is a non-issue for the most (read young) HN-ers.

At my age, 39, i just can't respond to a job posting calling for a ninja or a rock star. ~20 years ago, i drunk my share with national level rock-stars, and won some street fights (incl. one me against 3 them) and some lost (incl. one me against them 7) - so i know what is the canyon between me and a ninja or a rock-star.
Well that sure is a good reason not to go there, and also a good reason not to do business with Chinese companies.
Former eHow owner: Demand Media model flawed
I know :( if i could this second I would but I have guests arriving for the weekend, it's terrible timing really!
Is there some number of links that would make this tribe 'contacted' then? I would have assumed 'uncontacted' meant 'no knowledge of outside world at all' but it seems not.

Having this tribe get a machete and pot and see a plane makes it feel pretty 'contacted'. Not that I want to quibble over some definition...
Ask HN: Best free online collaboration tool for a startup?
What is everyone's preferred online collaboration tool for their startup? I know basecamp is popular but we are looking to save as much as possible because we are just getting our team together.
Ask HN: How do you track the rankings of competitors' iOS app?
Do you know some good tools to monitor the rankings of multiple iOS apps in AppStore?

Suppose a case that you are the iOS developer of LivingSocial and you'd like to monitor the ranking of competitors' apps (such as Groupon, Amazon, eBay, Google Shopper, for example) very frequently.

There are some monitoring tools such as appannie (http://www.appannie.com/top/united-states/), but cannot display multiple apps in a single screen.
I had read in an earlier article that their approved methodology was to pull back the instant they detected liquid water---which, due to the pressure of the ice sheet, would flow out of the hole---and withdraw the drill and go away for the winter; then come back in November and drill out cores from the now-really-well-frozen water that would have risen from the hole. Basically, using the lake's water to plug their borehole and protect the lake.

So I'm not sure what this kerosene and freon business is about.
What would you consider a failure? I use 1Password + Dropbox, so in effect my passwords database is backed on three computers and iPhone.
That's one additional benefit: new logins and passwords are synced.
This is dangerous advice. I'm not a lawyer, but our lawyer has advised us not to turn off web hosting for non-payment of a design bill.

If you provide two services (say, design and hosting) you can't hold one "hostage" for non-payment on the other (that's my understanding at least).

Take it to small claims court, or let it go.
Is there an application that Makes the Paypal API easier to install?
Looking to integrate payments into a website, but I'm a little worried about security. If there's a Saas company that makes paypal pro integration very easy, I'd love to hear about them.
Discovering the Distance-to-Discount Ratio
Take classes in or read about biology/neurobiology, human development (how the brain develops and learns), and psychology (how the brain reacts and responds). I've done AI work and come at it from a unique perspective due to my biology/engineering education. Normally I come up with some unique solutions & products to problems that can't be solved using conventional means.
Great recommendation. If I could only choose one, it would be this.
And a "medical emergency" can have unlimited costs today...
The Type of HN Poster I Really Want: One With a Sense of Humor.
I think there is a DEEP flaw in this argument:

"Here’s another one. This time, it’s a misspelling of “bombilate,” a rare word I cited above. I searched for “bombilete,” instead.."

In essence, they say that Google only pointed to the typo, but Bing redirected to it. Thus, "it’s very unlikely it figured this out from Google". For me, making that argument is insulting to the readers intelligence.
I do operate on a different level than others--typically two levels below.
You could just do legalzoom. I went to my accountant for the first time because I was skeptical and I wanted to learn to do it myself. It's fairly easy to do yourself if you do the research.
Anybody else hearing H.P. Lovecraft echoes here?

Antarctica? Check.
Mysterious underground lake? Check.
Driven scientists? Check.
Extremely isolated location? Check.

Here's how I see it going down:

Drill pierces lake; eldritch horror escapes or is otherwise unleashed as consequence of scientific hubris; Vostok station's radio transmissions cease suddenly; a team is sent to investigate... maybe they find the sole survivor of the original drill crew (he's gone horribly insane, of course), eking out an existence in what remains of the research station... he warns the investigators not to go down to the drill site...
If he does great work and it's what I need I'd use him

To be sure, the site design as displayed is only average. Sure, he may do average work very well, but I'm not sure this is the best way to advertise that.
Thanks for the example. Looks like we'll give up attempting to serve any HTTP pages in the future, and do as you recommend -- I don't see any way of getting around the login-form-phishing hack you describe.
"It's minus 40 (Celsius) outside," Turkeyev said. "But whatever, we're working. We're feeling good. There's only 5 meters left until we get to the lake so it'll all be very soon."

love it
DuckDuckGo ups content farm banning by promoting wikiHow in 0-click
The low resolution is a killer for me.

I think I'll hold out for http://www.thetoshibatablet.com/
That is really just the standard "style guide" of the site. YC companies are always referenced that way in titles.

It seems a bit unfair to make the assumption there is something opportunistic going on. The 1000Memories team are very thoughtful about the sensitive nature of their business in my experience.
New Nokia Bubbles lock screen interface beta for Symbian
If they like trading pots and knives with other tribes, maybe they would like to trade with the wider world if they were given the opportunity?
By say, taking out student loans?

Considering that this is pretty much the primary way that education is paid for these days, simply repeating "debt is a bad idea" hardly seems adequate.

(and I am personally happy to be debt-free but I can see why my indebted friends made the choices they did, however badly they may have worked out).
Well, Apple is doing all kinds of weird stuff and Apple is also not Webkit.

I think that 3D transforms in CSS are inevitable, there is consequently nothing wrong with browsers testing the waters. Implementation and standards always had an organic relationship, sometimes the standards are ahead and sometimes the implementations. I think that’s how it should work, I think that strengthens and accelerates the process. The standards frontier of the web will always be messy and I am honestly happy that standards bodies are finally willing to embrace that messiness.

Apple encouraging the use of CSS properties with prefixes, even if they are brand new and there are no implementations in other browsers or even plans is a different issue. Luckily nobody listens to Apple when looking for advice regarding web development ;-)

I personally think that you shouldn’t use 3D transforms at the moment for anything you intend to be used. Neat demos are ok.
Kudos to Google for this. It's the exact opposite approach to security than that used with Explorer. Instead of closed code and trying to hide flaws, they open the code and offer rewards to those who find them. In the long run, this will lead to better and more secure code.
How do they know it's huge? From their point of view, it could be the size of a bird.

The story goes that the Huaorani called Nate Saint's plane a "woodbee" before he landed near them. After all, it flies and it buzzes.
I have to call BS on this.

It may not "hurt" them, but it does influence/effect them. It has to. Going way back to my anthro classes, all primitive cultures crafted religious beliefs as survival mechanisms, to pass down stories and things that would benefit future generations etc etc. It was also a way to explain what they couldn't explain but still experienced (weather, natural disasters...) and this would fall into that category.

What the FAQ did was use inflammatory language (damage, fragile) rather than talk about how this might shape and craft their thoughts and beliefs. If we haven't contacted them, we simply cannot know if IT DID impact them.