skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're driving someone else's car, their collision/comprehensive insurance covers damage to their car (although there's a chance their insurance company will decline to pay or decide to sue you depending on the circumstances). Your liability insurance covers personal injury and property damage that you cause to others.

Drivers are listed for two reasons. The first is because a big chunk of car insurance is liability insurance. The second is because the probability of the insurance company having to pay to repair or replace your car depends on the likelihood one of the drivers will cause an accident.

This is all made more complicated by the fact that personal injury lawsuits are a numbers game. If the driver didn't have insurance and their estate has very little money, it doesn't matter that making them liable is a slam dunk case. It's not worth the effort. On the other hand, if the car owner has insurance, is alive, and has a lifetime income potential in the tens of millions of dollars, that's worth a lawsuit even if the probability of success is lower.

It feels scummy, but most personal injury lawyers are investing in cases. They'll be happy to take a lower probability chance on a bigger return. It's not all that different from venture capital, although you could argue pretty easily that VCs are a more positive force for social good and value creation.
Does this mean there's a niche for someone with a lot of land to buy many very cheap-to-insure vehicles and sell them to people who don't want a car but need one for insurance?

The vehicles stay on the land.
I'm sure many would agree with me;
I'd rather pay for an app rather than seeing tons of ads on it.
Well… http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
This template seems to work for all workplace architecture discussions:

I find that my work style is the only work style that works for me, therefore it works for everyone because HR ensures we're all identical cogs in the machine. Therefore I feel the best idea is to enforce hyper conformity on everyone. If they don't like it they can not work, or I can relate how other employers are more extreme so they should be happy.

As far as my own preferences go, as a guy who has to work at home a lot, its always hilarious to substitute in "home" for "work" and re-read articles about the supposed advantages of open plan offices. Yes, I do my best coding at home when my toddler kids are no more than 3 feet from my ears and arguing continuously with each other over meaningless stuff I don't care about. Yes, I do my best coding when Barney the Dinosaur music is blasting loudly (unless you're the guy picking the music, the music the team has to listen to probably sucks). Yes, when I'm deep into debugging something, the correct next step is always to have last nights American Idol monday morning quarterbacking babbled into my ears. Sure, the best way to stay on task is to listen to others in the area talk about their own work, what could be distracting about that.

My only question is who is paying people to write this kind of stuff? None of it is logical, so they're obviously not figuring it out on their own. Is it a Stockholm Syndrome thing or kiss up to the boss thing based on their own work environment? Or just the old classic follow the money, where someone, somehow, is making money off this? Personally I think is one of those "I strongly encourage my competitors to implement this solution" type of near-industrial counter-espionage. I heard google makes their rock star architects work next to the jet engine test area at the airport, I strongly encourage my competition to implement that plan.
Hopefully this means more stock Android devices arriving on the market.
The worst part is that just like in the housing bubble, where lenders went into strawberry fields and offered home loans for 300k houses in california to undocumented immigrants making 10/hr and then asked for everyone else to bail them out because they are shocked the person wasn't able to afford the loan.

Same thing applies here. You recruit a bunch of people who have no business being at college and certainly can't afford it, convince them that they NEED college and should take on student loans, they struggle, graduate and have no real marketable skills. Bank that made the loan hassles the student and when millions can't pay them back, I'm guessing we have another bailout on our hands. Glad we learn our lesson last time!
Bought. Love the interface! It fixes most of the issues I had with Wonderful Day App (Review: http://woikr.com/iphone/wonderful-day-for-iphone-stay-motiva...).

Question:
What happens if I go through a day without opening the app. Is the activity marked not done automatically?

Suggestion:

Tiny suggestion: Allow swiping in both directions. After using Sparrow I'm used to swipe left for most actions. Doesn't work here though.
Sell in may is one of the few statistically proven effects that continues to this day.
Another demographic variable mentioned in the article is that the older end of the unemployed cohort had much lower rates of "attended college" and rises are expected as they age leave the workforce. At first my concern seeing that chart was "OMG why didn't anyone see this trend over the last 20 years and why hasn't it been part of the public discussion", but given at least that confound is not factored into the data display, my feeling is now that it's more of a meaningless fished graphic/statistic for effect/pageviews.
FaceTime? You mean that proprietary protocol that Apple uses only for their own products? And what does that have to do with WebRTC?
But then again isn't all client-side JavaScript open source?
Like olex said, this is completely incorrect.
"In Europe this absolutely cannot happen. First, everybodys is health is insured by state, so whatever injuries in whatever car accident anybody may have, there's no claims to present to anybody - state pays everything."

I personally don't know of any states that do this in Europe but I guarantee you in Eastern Europe this is entirely untrue.

Why are you trying to make the US system look bad with these lies?

Think about how damaging it would be to a state's economy to cover these kinds of accidents on a regular basis.
Hey are you guys planning on doing a blog entry on how you developed this? I know next to nothing about Node.js and co and it seems like a good choice for a lot of my ideas.
If it was obvious and easy, it would not have taken 600 years for Gutenberg to get it right.
Good work...
Facebook Takes Aim at Cross-Browser ‘LilyJade’ Worm
I think he just needed some financial security before he settled down.
Is this a reference to South Park's Facebook episode or an attempt at correcting something that didn't need a correction?
This seems a bit leaky. You're exposing the caching mechanism in the method signature(yeah, ok, in practice it's unlikely to be a problem).
Show HN: Liszt - I'm 15 years old and I just released my first iOS app
Question: anyone know the largest risk, financially, that Thiel has recently taken?
Hidden Fingerprint of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Finally Found
And I must add: don't waste your time with PeepCode's old Node.js screencast[1]. It's really old, and almost everything has changed since then.

[1]: https://peepcode.com/products/nodejs-i (Last update: August 2010: https://peepcode.com/products/nodejs-i/versions*)
Show HN: SwipeVideo, my first iOS App
Wow! Awesome!
I think the OP's comment held a seed of wisdom, even though it wasn't properly expressed.

The point I got from his post was that recently graduated and unemployed kids should stop waiting to be offered jobs that obviously don't exist anymore, and bring out the entrepreneurial spirit that made this country great (a long time ago).

The point is not to mop floors for $20, but to create a website (essentially a business) that solves somebody else's pain. That is the essential idea. Find a pain, fix it, charge enough to make a profit and move on to the next pain point that needs fixing.
That's not true. Create a PeerConnection and feed it a getUserMedia stream object.
Well ok maybe that was a bad example (taken from the product site), but i still think there could be a use for "do this thing X times per day"
CCTV cameras in classrooms help us keep watch on teachers in classrooms

This is quite odd, but then I found the same is happening in the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/aug/04/schools-cctv...
I wonder how long before a politician promises a chicken in every pot, and a robot in every kitchen.
nice article.

but isn't it more work to hide the content from js-disabled-browsers? so why do it?
Alas, entrepreneurial disruption in this field is made near impossible by the need for governmental oversight of all things related to education.

Until "official" degrees stop being an unspoken requirement when considering job applicants, startups such as Khan Academy will remain useful, but ultimately powerless to truly disrupt education.
You may be able to do it through emsctipten versions of ruby and python which you can load in webkits JavaScript engine. http://repl.it works like that.
Very nice start, I might start using this over my Streaks calendar app. One suggestion would be to add a passcode lock like Streaks has.
False.
The whole point of the bsd license is that you are not required to make source available, but that if you do that you need to preserve the bsd notices about the copyright of the orIginal code. I'm over simplifying slightly but gpl is the one with the mandatory code resharing. MIT and bsd do not have that
The MIT and BSD licenses do allow distribution inside of commercial software without providing source code. The only real restrictions are that the MIT license requires you to include their copyright notice somewhere and the BSD license is similar.

I believe the ZLIB license also permits commercial distribution.

Off the top of my head it's only the GPL licenses that require source distribution no matter what.
Just bought the app and I really like it. The interface is gorgeous, it's as plain and minimal as you could hope for, but with enough style to make it enjoyable to use.

I think that you really nailed the "Frequency" settings, especially the "x times per week" section. It makes it so flexible.

I've tried, but I can't think of anything I'd like added or changed. It's also very refreshing to use an app that doesn't have a "Settings" section.

Looking forward to starting to use it!
Watch TC Disrupt Hackathon Demos
> This article is completely worthless.

Well it basically says that a worst-case situation Postgres still manages to keep up with MongoDB.
This is ridiculous.

Expecting people to use passwords this long and remember them is infeasible.

If this is what it takes to have a secure password, passwords are broken.

Of course, we already knew that, didn't we?
Professor Calls for Taking Unabomber's Tech Critique Seriously
The Unabomber continues to write manifestos from prison calling for end of tech. Should we be listening?
>Wow, man. Did a Lisp eat your cat or something?

No, I even like it. It just didn't make my cat 2x more productive as a programmer, which is what I find a BS statement coming from many Lisp proponents...

>Maybe you didn't, but a lot of people saw the Light Table demo and thought, "If that thing works right it looks like it might cut my workload in half." This would be the reason (you may have heard) they've raised a few hundred thousand in pre-orders in addition to funding from the most prominent startup accelerator in tech.

I like the LT demo. I don't think in the least it will cut my workload in half --those that think so are IMNSHO delluded. At best it will make certain operations easier to carry out, but most of them will be marginal to my efficiency. Editing environment is not the bottleneck to my coding, thinking is. That's why thousands of programmers work just fine with crude old Vim and not something like a Smalltalk editor or a Lisp Machine (or even Emacs or VS or Eclipse). A competent programmer can get by even with vi or Notepad++, with only small loss of productivity.

>Okay, so you don't buy the hype. Bully for you. But "a really lame conspiracy theory"? Presumably, not only would Viaweb have been as dominant were it written in C, but 37signals would have been more successful sticking with PHP instead of wasting time writing Rails, and if all your Emacs users switched to using Notepad, it wouldn't cost the company any money. That sounds pretty realistic.

Actually there were programmers AS succesful at the time as ViaWeb that were INDEED writing in C. Case in point, Yahoo, the company that bought ViaWeb in the first place, used C. Later switched to PHP IIRC.

But, crucial to my actual point was the use of the world "marginal". C to Ruby might make a difference. Ruby to Lisp not so much (it could even be adverse, because of the lack of mature web frameworks and libs that Ruby has plently).

And certainly Emacs to LT, even less so.
If you are interested in "latency-based" DNS routing, I'm giving a talk at Velocity in June about how we do it at Facebook:

http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/public/schedule/detail/...

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/aristus/doppler-12564220
> this form of payment for a person working just two hours a day every day could equate to about $21 a month—12 percent of the average monthly wage in the region.

Unless the average person in the region works 2 / .12 = 16.67 hours per day every day (do they?) this is a pretty raw deal.
It's funny because this article missed the whole other half of this "Story".

1. It went meta:

http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/...

2. The artist himself made T-Shirts and sold them for $6.89:

http://kidultone.com/?p=1763
I have been using https://chains.cc/ which is as far as I know the best web UI for "Don't break the chain" idea. However the lack of mobile app makes it harder to use and therefore I'm giving Habit List a try. Looks great!

btw. for me, week starts on Monday.
Soc.cl: Social search from Microsoft Labs debuts
If I had student debt I'd be thrilled not to pay it back. This country needs a general debt strike or perhaps a jubilee.
Damn You, Microsoft Word. Damn You.
What's the success rate among entrepreneurs? Don't most small businesses tank within the first three years? Does this really help if "millions of kids a year" are entering the workforce?

That said, looking at my (much) younger cousins and their friends, it strikes me that the latest generation of 20-somethings are already impressively entrepreneurial. However, I don't see many of their businesses scaling enough to support a family, much less employ scads of others.
Security Configuration Recommendations for Apple iOS 5 Devices by NSA/CSS
Do you happen to know the performance characteristics of hstore?

I use mongo for some analytics but it doesn't perform well on big datasets(not mongo's fault, memory on the machine is limited). I was wondering if hstore can replace it.

I read somewhere on the mailing list that hstore doesn't perform well on big datasets( > 500,000 i think). Is that still true?

If there are no benchmarks, I am going to do them myself.
An Anomaly in the μTorrent network
What? No. You can distribute binaries you compiled from open source code that is licensed under the MIT or BSD licenses, in both commercial and noncommercial contexts. Read the license text, they only require you to include the license with your distribution. Not the source code or any of your modifications.
Show HN: My first web app - HakingPot
Hey, at least he published his benchmark code on github, where experts in either system are free to fork and improve them. That's already better than most of the benchmark comparisons I see.

He really should include his mongo and pg config files as well though.
14 Reasons Why the New iPad 3 Sucks
Economics is the wrong reason to go to college. If you go to college to learn you'll be in much better shape. Even if you study basket weaving.
I think the best entrepreneurial disruption you could provide in education would be to provide education on entrepreneurial methods. :-)

I'm in my 30s, and I have quite a lot of various skills, but spotting areas of opportunity is still not among those skills.
Maybe I'm the minority here, but I find disposable e-mail addresses to be a solution in search a problem. It pushes so much additional work on the user, that it just seems simpler for me to accept the fact that I'll receive spam anyway and work to minimize that thought filtering. I've used the same e-mail address since 2001. It's all over the Internet. Adding disposable e-mail addresses to my toolbox is not going to sufficiently help in any way, since I already receive a massive amount of spam that I must address already.

Even reading the other posts here on how they "handle" disposable e-mails makes my head spin.
Show HN: iAdd for iPad redesign (task management for iOS)
It's sexist to put aside those considerations due to gender politics.
Someone made a USB plug hook that holds the magnetic power cord in with more friction. Googling it has not proven easy, so I'll have to just leave it at that.
The interesting question for us who agree with you is why do other people think otherwise. Two reasons come to mind: some co-workers don't mind the disruptions themselves (e.g. if they do a different kind of work), and some managers simply just like the view.
Honest question. I'm not white ; do many white people in America really truly believe high school history as it is taught?

i.e that white people invented absolutely everything and Europe is the only old world with history worth studying? Then again maybe it's changed in the past 15 years?
>But why does it anger you so much?

So much? I just made a comment, it's not like I'm running around foaming at the mouth, is it?

>Besides, you seem to be ignoring that ViaWeb was built before there were ubiquitous open source libraries for practically everything. My guess is that they basically had to write the whole server/application/persistence/security/payment stack themselves from scratch. Considering that they were able to build it all with a handful (2-4?) of programmers and to beat out competition that had a head start and a much higher head count, I would wager that Lisp had at least a little something to do with it.

I agree. But wouldn't something like Smalltalk be equally good for the same purpose? Or Perl?
3D IMAGING
> when you've on the surface of a high-dimensional sphere, almost every step takes you out. Getting into the interior is like trying to get into the interior of a spike from its tip.

This does, yes. Starting with how this aspect changes from a circle (1-sphere) to a 2-sphere might help to get across the "spikiness" you are talking about. It seems to be basically saying the same thing as the "lopping off the cap" description, but the latter was very hard for me to visualize. Saying that a smaller and smaller fraction of the total "hypersolid angle" intersects the hypersphere's interior as you increase the dimension makes it much easier (for me) to see what's going on.
I would recommend a hands-on approach as well. There are a lot of articles on the philosophy of events, callbacks, etc., but it will click much faster if you figure out the patterns yourself just trying to write something useful.

Instead of a chat or a todo app, why not create something cool? Try a small game, a remote control app, cloud music player, etc. Node won't slow you down.
We're thinking about adding popular (trending) topics and indeed position based topics. But these features could wait for the beta launch!

It's a great idea though, thanks for sharing!
>Deciding that millions of new graduates aren't getting jobs because they are lazy is one of the more ignorant and lazy arguments I've ever seen.

How do you interpret the linked article then? "Mopping floors" doesn't literally mean mopping floors, it means settling for the jobs that are available, not the jobs you want.
Actually, much sooner, in 593 A.D., the first printing press was invented in China.

However, Gutenberg's was far superior because the press could be altered, the chinese press was carved in wood and could not be modified.
No, you can see the source, but thats not the same as "open source".
If you wanted to rent your car out like this, how hard is it to set up an LLC so if god forbid something like this happens, they can't come after you personally?
for many college freshman, the apparent difficulty of a subject is considered thoroughly, while the job prospects of a career path are a secondary consideration.

Right. My point was that this is partly because of the educational culture which promotes "getting a degree will make you earn more" rather than "getting a degree in subject X, Y, or Z will make you earn more". Students who enter college intending to study science but can't hack it would probably be better off dropping out; instead, most end up in liberal arts and are surprised when their degree turns out to be useless because all the advertising they ever saw promoted "having a degree" as the only relevant flag.
They all said, "A baby and a start up? Good luck with that."
Beautiful. May I ask what resources you used to learn iOS hacking?

Also: What's that font?
Six pages doesn't seem to compare with the complexity of the Gutenberg Bible. Printing on a small scale,using wood... compared to large scale commercially viable printing.
Ownership implies responsibility. For precedence, see pets and children.
We are now. Look out for next week!
No there isn't. You neither can nor should screen buyers and renters. This simply isn't your job. And it harms the business the big way.
When people rent cars they also rent the risk.
Most successful entrepreneurs failed at least once until they made it. I can only speak from experience, the startup founder that I worked for had three failed attempts before he made it (relatively) big.

My other point was exactly that. Most small businesses will fail, but the ones that succeed will be the job creators (I hate that buzzword!) and hire the ones that didn't make it.

After having worked for a startup myself for a while, I am now ready to try it on my own. If I fail, there's always other successful startups I could work for. If I succeed, I'll need good employees, and someone who tried and failed (but learned from the experience) would be a prime candidate.
Love it. I'd add a video which shows the swiping motion, though.

P.S. which resources did you use to learn iOS programming?
Tumblr security hole: does this work for you?
Recently, after some playing with the chromium debugger in the Tumblr blog customize panel, I discovered that just about any theme (including premium) can be downloaded via a simple wget command:

wget http://tumblr.com/customize_api/theme/34426 --post-data="Origin: http://www.tumblr.com"

This would download a JSON object which contains the theme file (under the "theme" field).

In this case, the theme I've downloaded is Paperback (http://www.tumblr.com/theme/34426); As you can see, the theme is premium and requires a 49$ fee to use.
I can just copy the theme code from the JSON I downloaded, paste it in "Edit HTML" and use that theme for free.

I do not advise anyone to do it, but it's worth exploring. Of course, if the theme code leaks, it can be easily pirated, but don't you think being able to just download every single theme is a little too far?

Try this:
wget http://tumblr.com/customize_api/theme/8952 --post-data="Origin: http://www.tumblr.com" (rank & file)
Or
wget http://tumblr.com/customize_api/theme/15063 --post-data="Origin: http://www.tumblr.com" (Fluid 2)

You can browse the themes to fetch the ID's using the Tumblr theme garden (http://tumblr.com/themes) or by browsing this JSON object:
http://www.tumblr.com/customize_api/themes
It's weird. A few minutes before I read this article, Google send me a verification code to my phone. And I don't currently sign-up/sign-in/open any google related service. Maybe someone use this trick to me?
I made something similar for android for my needs - although it is not as pretty :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsmithy....