skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again and again when I visit linked product sites I'm greeted with pages like this[1]. Even though the link in the article has a country specified in the URL. After selecting the location I'm not forwarded to the requested product page. In this example I got redirected to some ad with Jennifer Lopez[2].
I can't even select US as region, it just sends me back to the localeselector.

Stop this.

[1] http://www.harmankardon.com/pages/localeselector.aspx
[2] http://at.harmankardon.com/jennifer-lopez-and-harman-kardon-... (I suspect this link won't work)

Edit: This is hilarious. The Kensington remote link opens the product page and then overlays a country selection. Selecting my country redirects me to the homepage in my language. At least I can close the selection window and stay on the product page.
Sudoku: crack for intellectuals.
His professors “stressed that they weren’t there to teach us a soon-to-be obsolete skill or two about a specific language or operating system ... but rather the foundations of the field, for example: characteristics of languages and operating systems, how one deals with complex projects and works with others, what is actually computable, the analysis of algorithms, and the mathematical and theoretical foundations of the field, to pick just a few among many. That education has held me in good stead and I’ve often pitied the folks who try to compete during a lifetime of constant technological change without it.”
The danger of overexertion, which as you said is obvious, is not the only take-away I got from the article. Many of the worst injuries described came from poses that are not necessarily strenuous/difficult, but that rotate or bend the neck out of standard range.
tl;dr:

"General-purpose networked computers, free and anonymous speech, and sustained civil liberties make it impossible to maintain this distribution monopoly of digitizable information. As technical progress can't be legislated against, basic civil liberties would have to go to maintain the crumbling monopoly."
Is it bad news when quantum computing has bad news? I'm torn on the subject. There are lots of interesting problems that might be solved or at least drastically sped up by quantum computing, such as optimization problems in engineering. However, security, which we generally deem essential in everyday transactions, depends purely on a lower limit to the time it takes to factor a large prime using known technologies. Similar for other essentials, such as privacy and anonymity. Quantum computing would be good in some ways, but terribly bad in others.
I often wonder about these findings. To what extent are we seeing a neurologically-driven phenomenon vis-a-vis one generated by a host of factors causing relatively common skill atroph? By 45, many people might be working largely on autopilot, causing flexible skills to decline in favor of scripted response.
I think there are some places where comments work great and some places where they descend into vitriol and nonsense. I totally respect decisions that go either way. It really depends on the subject matter, your own tone (which definitely sets the tone for the comments) and the amount of energy you're willing or able to put into policing and moderating the discussion.

Personally I'd be happy to never see another comment section on a local newspaper site ever again. They're the absolute worst.
See also, http://www.itsthisforthat.com/
Obama Announces New Plans For US Military || thenewsjockey
>Surely the users of Reddit who pine for its past have many alternatives today.

Surely...but where?!
Not used the paid option (didn't know there was one), but tried using it for a few (non-tech) small businesses about 2 years ago. Lots of traffic, no conversions, high bounce rate.

The demographic appears to be "bored people looking for free stimulation".
Agree 100%. There is so much wrong with all of these questions, and that's only one of the things wrong with this particular one.

In addition to that, there's very good reason for someone to act differently when it's a gain vs. loss at stake. For one thing, this difference is the whole reason that an insurance industry can exist! (And insurance, in turn, is the only reason many kinds of utility-enhancing ventures can exist at all!)

I used to wonder what the point of insurance was when you could just bear the risk yourself, but then I had an insight (that no one else arguing with me managed to bring up):

Diminishing marginal utility implies increasing marginal disutility!

Utility as a function of how much of a good G that you have, usually increases at a decreasing rate. The first n units provide more of a utility gain than the 2nd n units, and so on. For much the same reason, losing your first n units isn't as bad as losing the 2nd n units, and so on. (It may help to visualize U(n) as a logarithmic curve.)

This is why people can rationally regard it as better to have a guaranteed loss of (at least) N rather than a (1/x) chance of losing x times N, while not also buying a lottery ticket for N that offers a (1/x) chance of gaining x times N. And that, in turn, shows the fundamental asymmetry between insurance and gambling.

Kahnemann must be on the phone with VF right now demanding they correct this article in about ten places.
Script# is being used to compile Microsoft's online Office apps from C# to JS

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/22/evolving-ecmas...

(see "Larger Scale JavaScript" in there). Given that, I am assuming it is quite mature and usable.
Proving something about a NxN grid does not have much to do with a problem being NP-complete.

For example, the fact that it is not very hard to proof that a 1x1 sudoku requires 1 clue does not prove that sudoku is not NP-complete.
I've attended quite a lot of yoga classes in different parts of the country, and none of them have included any kind of inversion -- no head stands, shoulder stands, or "bridge" (aka wheel). For that matter, none have included the leg extension done by the guy in the green shirt, either.

This article is both factual and sensationalist at the same time.
I think Joel makes great points in this article about horizontal software. If your product has wide uses, then how do you market it? It will seem generic, and people will ultimately have to adapt it to what they want to do. This is a challenge I've had with Edgy, my minimalistic diagram app for Android, is that experts will see it as an over simplification of a very powerful tool, and general users will not see the potential of just a little bit of that power.
Facebook is Bigger Threat to the Web than Apple
I started of in mobile in J2ME and am not looking back, you would want a sizeable portion of the market to even consider switching from the Android/iOS SDKs unless you also have a passion for self harm.

Even something as simple as signing and certification is a massive headache as theres no standardisation of what root certificates are in devices. The UTi and Java Verfied (Java Verfried as we called it) came very close but its still not 100%

No one really upgraded the firmware in their devices and the Java machine could not be updated, when fragmentation issues were solved, it was painful but some useful lessons were learned I guess!
Just because Coffescript is transformed into Javascript, doesn't make this a VM written in Javascript.
I did: git clone https://github.com/membase/manifest couchbase

cd couchbase; ruby fetch-manifest.rb branch-1.8.xml; brew install libevent; make
I was talking to my father over the holidays about SOPA. He's an avid FOX news and CNN viewer. He had no idea what I was talking about. After our conversation he took it upon himself to search Google on the subject to educate himself on it. I'm from Canada so all I can do is keep an eye on this at the moment, but it goes to show you that everyone in the US need to spread the word.
The "cobra pose" is done in the beginner class I go to but I skip it - my core is still not strong enough to keep my lower back from getting hurt.

Instead I do the "sphinx pose" while I keep my lower abdominals pulled in:

Cobra pose - http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/471

Sphinx pose - http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/2464
And it's not like smaller libraries can't get books in, if you need them. These days, you can probably fill in a list of ISBNs on a website, and pick them up in a couple of days, as they can ship rarer books in from larger libraries.

The only point in having libraries, not warehouses, is that people can visit them.
I'm aware that ARM is not a single, monolithic target like x86. That said, are there any articles that discuss ARM targeted at newbie OS developers?
What's missing in the description here is that Puma is built for Rubinius and jRuby, which both have true multithreading (no GIL).

I'm not sure if it's considered production ready yet though.
I've done that leg etension pose in Bikram yoga. I liked the challenge of Bikram, but it definitely was bad for my back so I stopped going.
Facebook is giving away free business cards
They're talking about PHP Storm from Jetbrains, Netbeans is still free.
Thin's --threaded flag is still considered experimental. Also, spawning a native OS thread per incoming connection is not cheap, either.
They pay for positive comments, not sarcastic ones. Don't expect a check in the mail... ;-)
Unfortunately this is true for now. Obviously we are going to launch other device support and means to sign in. I hope you left a vote at the site about your preferred device platform.
Ramnit Worm steals 45000 Facebook passwords
The onus is on the person making that claim, not the other way around. You can't make a claim without any evidence, and then defend it by demanding evidence of the contrary.
Jaws: HTML5 Javascript game engine / development library
Trello is one of those products I've come to love with an almost insane passion. You'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. It has become indispensable for me.

Personally, I'd happily pay for it. I find it incredible easy to use and super user-friendly.

Oddly enough, though, I tried to get my fiance to use it for wedding planning. She claims it makes no sense :) - so I'm not entirely sure it's ready for all walks of life, at least not quite yet. I can't even convince her to let me show her around it. Oh well :)

edit: wow, seriously? downvotes? That's pretty harsh for a thoughtful comment about a useful piece of software that has helped me professionally and personally. Pretty lame, if you ask me.
Biggest Shortcoming of Google Chrome
Another great option for ruby:

http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/toc/
SOPA will destroy jobs and the economy
It's not far off the mark. The problem with familiarity is that it's easy to conflate with easy. Once you see the solution to the problem it's hard to believe that it's hard to implement. The solution is so easy, how could anyone worth their salt not see it?

As an example of what I mean: studying math. The majority of the time after reading or listening to an explanation of the problem and walking through an example exercise or two, I the student am left to bash my head against a set of problems. Despite the wishes of the teacher and their best efforts to illuminate the way the solutions to the problems and why they work is not clear. You have to just throw your mind against the wall until you break on through. Then when you do you see that the answer really is simple. And you wonder why it was so hard to see it. Years later you might wonder why anyone cannot recognize how simple it is. You've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner on the other side of the wall.

The other half of the problem I see with using puzzles in interviews is the adversarial nature of the situation. By posing the problem you're triggering a response in the candidate to find an answer. They want the correct answer because they want the job. Explaining to the candidate that they can think aloud and walk through the problem might help to switch them off that track, but I find only a handful of people respond to that encouragement.

I did upvote your comment though because you're right -- most of the time we write incorrect code. Despite our best efforts to write our tests up front and walk through our best laid plans, we still make mistakes. Developing software is a process and becoming a good programmer, to me, means mastering that process and cultivating the wisdom and experience to see the bigger picture.

Trivial problems trigger the trivia response. We learn trivia by rote. Once I got over the initial depression when I had to go through this style of interview process I figured out a way around it. I wrote software to train myself in trivial programs and practiced walking through problems I was unfamiliar with. I started practicing code kata and as a result have been more comfortable with these sorts of problems... but is that really a good indicator of competence? Is it even a useful signal? Of what does it signal at all?
In my (limited) experience, it's fairly difficult to find J2ME devices which are easy to get code on- most cheap feature phones use proprietary cables and software for data transfer. If anybody can prove me wrong, please do. As a hobbyist, a dirt-cheap commodity Java platform would neat to have.
It's unusual for a geoloc service to find me (I'm in Plymouth, UK but my ISP is always listed as Newton Abbot) - but this one manages.
This sounds like a "prove that God exists!" / "prove that he doesn't!" argument...
I think the word people use most often is impact. Environmental impact. :)
They did produce a formal solution/proof. The disappointing part is that it contains billions of statements that don't give us any insight about the problem.
Yeah, but on the other hand it's hard to find an appropriate status code. Since prefetching is a common feature in many browsers they should agree on a new code, there are still plenty of 4XX available.
I got London and I'm on the Dorset/Devon border.

I find the "personalised" geolocation stuff mildly annoying in general - and not only because it's invariably miles off. It doesn't show me a site 'cares'. If anything, it looks lazy.

If it's for showing prices in my currency rather than dollars then that's useful, but more often than not it's to show some stupid "What ho, old bean!" message. I'm a Northerner living in cider country - you may as well have said that in Spanish!
I agree completely with a minor tweak:
"Would you RISK $900 for a 90% chance to win $1000?"
"Would you RISK $100 for a 10% chance to win $1000?"

It's all about managing the risk: generally speaking, I can afford to risk $100, but not $900. Furthermore, I've already spent/borrowed the second $1000 (We're TAKING my existing money, which I presumably have already planned on having). So the first is a windfall, but the second is a real need. So I WON'T risk a large amount of money for a windfall, but I WILL risk a small amount in order to meet a real need. I'd say that's 100% rational.

Bob
My understanding based on a presentation from Dr. Nic is that Puma is a straight fork of Mongrel since Mongrel had threading from the beginning but it is essentially unsupported now.

This commit lends to that story as well:
https://github.com/evanphx/puma/commit/1888887d8ff8fdf4954c3...

I agree though, would be nice to mention its heritage in the read me.
I've read the bill at least twice now and I still don't see the doomsday scenario described many times here on HN.

I get the slippery-slope argument, that SOPA is just one step closer to true censorship and control over the internet, but I don't think that is enough to get so upset about (its a very small step, with obvious workarounds)

Somebody please point out to me:

1) Where it says that Youtube, Facebook, Google are affected by this bill. -- It looks to me like it only affects sites on foreign domains or foreign servers. They explicitly say that these popular sites are not affected.

2) Where it says that ISP's, hosting companies, domain registrars or even sites focused on user-generated content are required to actively monitor their data and their customers' data for infringing content and are held liable if they fail to monitor. -- It appears to me that the bill specifically says they DON'T have to do this; that they only have to make reasonable attempts at prevention and then are required to take data down when given a take-down request.

3) How tor would be made illegal under this bill. -- It looks like only tools designed or marketed for the primary purpose of circumventing this bill are made illegal. That means DeSOPA and MAFIAAfire, but tor seems to be out of reach.

Back on topic of the article, perhaps there isn't a conspiracy here, perhaps media outlets genuinely don't see what the big deal is.

I agree that the bill is mostly useless and mostly supported by an aging industry, and I don't support it. But I don't see the big deal either. So, somebody please enlighten me because the sensational fog is obstructing my view.
Google Tablet: A True Competitor Against the iPad and Kindle Fire?
Motorola Drops E911 GPS Patent from ITC Apple Complaint
Phones definitely have non-zero influence on the plane
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAPAP2003_03.PDF

Please, read at least the executive summary
Are they the worst because they don't manage the comments?
It's a nice idea but, in reality, I think most web programmers could (and would) implement this quite easily themselves with ~50 lines of code of PHP+JS. From what I saw, this product doesn't really solve any hard problems.
I'm completely clueless and wanted to know what 'nikah' is here.

I'm sure I'm missing subtleties, but it might help other readers to think of 'marriage' or 'marriage contract' etc..

I wasn't sure what to make of it and thought for a second that it's an accessory or something like that.
As you rightly pointed out, Yoga attracts people who want a less rigorous way of being healthy.

Ironically Yoga was created as one of the most disciplined arts and was hand in glove with nerve-wrecking penance. That's what most people who want to do yoga miss nowadays, they don't really know what it was for , they just get into it because it's easy, and that ends up being a big mistake because it was made to not be easy.

Also funnily enough, even if people practice yoga on their own, it was developed with the inherent fail-safe of body pain in mind, so it wouldn't harm them. However nowadays you have expert teachers who push you beyond your body's limits and that's truly dangerous.

So to sum up, if you want to get into Yoga, get a good book and do it on your own.
OR
Make sure you find a really really good teacher and do a thorough check before joining a class, and don't just enter into a Yoga program on a whim.

Those are the only two ways I see to stay safe, and still benefit from learning Yoga.
Infant mortality is a horrible statistic. Birth registration varies by country, so what counts as "infant mortality" is so varied that it's useless to compare.

> Japanese people actually develop much less cancer[2.1], one reason for which is much better preventative medical care (for average people); the average Japanese person sees a doctor three times more often than the average Americans, and have three times more MRI scans

Cancer doesn't work that way. Seeing the doctor 3 times per year is not going to keep you from developing cancer. They may catch it earlier

Also how many times they see doctors could be completely cultural.

I have a crappy high deductible health plan I bought because I'm self-employed (that costs about $100 per month), but I can see a GP 6 times per year for $10 a visit.

For the average American the number of times they go to the doctor has nothing to do with cost.
Things Still Missing From CSS
There's a few ways that they can patch this. I'm assuming that there's some sort of auth process in place for their http calls and this could simply be a case where this particular endpoint missed the auth.

Or they're simply blocking the whatsappstatus's ip and a fix would actually require both client side and server side changes.

But honestly its just a messaging app and how many people really cares if "let's go grab a beer" is encrypted or not.
Makes total sense.

The reason Yoga was invented (if I'm not mistaken) was to allow Yogis to meditate for long periods of time - often hours or days. In essence, Yoga was used to ensure that your body could stay still for long periods of time.

It feels that people here in the West use Yoga as a "workout". Which is kind of crazy since, in my opinion, you're supposed to do Yoga to be in tune with yourself, bring awareness to your body and calm your mind (with the ultimate goal of being able to meditate).

Whenever I go to a Yoga class I personally prefer to stay in the back and do the poses at my own pace, and only focus on those where I feel comfortable - if a pose is stopping me from breathing properly I know that something is wrong.
When doing yoga, everyone needs to know and understand their limits. I know there is a lot of pressure, personally, to reach farther and twist more than you should whilst doing yoga. The straps are there for a reason and it shouldn't be viewed a weakness to have to use one.
Oh my, I can't believe my eyes:

Our developers bleed all over MongoDB, WebSockets, CoffeeScript and Node.
But at least they’re having fun. And in today’s tight job market,
great programmers have a lot of sway on what they’re going to be working on.

So is the job market so bad you have to bribe engineers by letting them use tools they're apparently not proficient or efficient with, just so they'll come and work for you? I find it so insane it's not even funny anymore.
I propose you should be downvoted for promoting the same type of authoritarianism that you claim to hate. Instead of trying to enforce some highly subjective rule, why not just start your own new disruptive news services?
I'm halfway through it as well, but have a less positive impression. I came into it with a lot of respect for Kahneman and his research, but the first half of book is extremely flat. Much like the reaction here to this Vanity Fair teaser, I constantly find myself quibbling with the examples, and disagreeing with the explanations.

I'm not sure who to blame, though. I think the book was written over a considerable period of time. Perhaps Kahneman's standards have changed? Perhaps there were multiple editors involved, some of whom (like the Vanity Fair author) didn't really understand the material? Or perhaps the editor was great, but only worked on some of the chapters.

I'd offer a much less enthusiastic bottom line: It's a frustrating book, but you should read it anyway. Skip to Chapter 20 "The Illusion of Validity" if you get bogged down.
What if a URL that is meant to be accessed with a GET request that kicks off an expensive, long-running process is prefetched?

Then the API owners will realize they shouldn't break the HTTP standard just because it happened to work before.

In particular, the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods
SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods
ought to be considered "safe". This allows user agents to represent other methods,
such as POST, PUT and DELETE, in a special way, so that the user is made aware of the fact
that a possibly unsafe action is being requested.

Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not generate side-effects
as a result of performing a GET request; in fact, some dynamic resources consider
that a feature. The important distinction here is that the user did not request the
side-effects, so therefore cannot be held accountable for them.

This argument comes up every time there's a breaking change, but developers should be responsible for their actions. They broke the spec, they should be deal with the consequences.