skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to you benhowdle89. This is just what I was looking for recently since I've been trying to move old sites to support svgs. Also, digging the kanye quote.
How does this work exactly? You input lat/long and it spits out a gallery of photos with EXIF location data that's close? How do the pictures get into the system?

EDIT:
Ah, I see now the footer text. You're pulling the photos from Instagram. Interesting.
Court affirms $675,000 penalty in music-downloading case
It's not that we don't agree, it's that we (or, personally, I) don't see how you wouldn't know what its benefit could be. That you would think "it's about time" was worth posting at all based upon not knowing the benefits of the feature, even if those benefits only accrued to other people.

But hey, I suppose it's easier to say we don't understand your point to the degree necessary to agree with it, than it is to suspect a fundamental flaw in your own reasoning.
I've not heard about this, you got a source for me?
> Since the patent itself cites prior art, obviously the patent isn't patenting the same thing as the prior art.

It should be easy for you, if you are correct, to simply state what is new and novel and patentworthy that Apple did, that is not covered by the prior art mentioned.
I actually first learned about Semmelweis as an ethical case study. IIRC, Semmelweis did a formal experiment with a control group: only some of the doctors in the First Clinic washed their hands with chlorinated lime; the others deliberately went directly from handling cadavers to delivering babies. The question was whether killing a few innocent women and children in the course of the experiment was justified by all those that would be saved if he proved that washing with lime reduced the death rate.

Maybe a better illustration would be Peter Pronovost's efforts to get hospitals to use checklists. His studies show that using a checklist for routine procedures like inserting a catheter dramatically reduces infection rates, saving lives and money. It's such a huge win that you'd think checklists would take the medical world by storm, but that hasn't happened. Convincing doctors to use a checklist requires overcoming their self-image of competence; it's too easy for a doctor to think, "I know I have to wash my hands before inserting a catheter, I don't need some nurse with a checklist to remind me."

Of course, Pronovost's story is less dramatic than Semmelweis. Pronovost has been more carefully about drawing conclusions from his observations, done a better job of presenting his ideas, and been more successful—hospitals are adopting his methods, if slowly and sometimes grudgingly. He's not likely to die alone in an asylum. To my mind, though, that makes a better illustration of Aaron's thesis.
Many obesity researchers find Guyenet to be quite the joke.

For example, Peter over at HyperLipid recently ripped him to utter shreds:

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/confused.html

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/insulin-un-de...

Not to mention, Taubes countered Guyenet with a 6-part series refuting Guyenet's widely mocked food-reward/palatability hypothesis:

http://garytaubes.com/2011/09/catching-up-on-lost-time-ances...

The thing is, there's a lot of infighting; These guys are always going back and forth. They both have their camps. Those both have their arsenal of studies. It's almost a sport...

The simple fact of the matter is that we're not really going to actually know conclusively and incontrovertibly one way or the other for at least another decade.
So here is a fun idea (that nobody will probably take up). In the U.S. you can sue for anything and any reason. If this happens, it would be an interesting exercise to sue Apple (large, class-action) for limiting the availability of marketplace options.
I'm not sure that Twitter can afford to be feared - they need to be loved. Twitter doesn't lord over a Renaissance Italian fiefdom; their serfs can migrate to other city-states at will.

But first, there needs to be another city-state.
Top 20 jQuery Mobile Tutorials in 2012
According to Twitter's own numbers, there were over a million registered apps... last year. By their own growth numbers, assuming they didn't increase (very unlikely), there would be almost 25 million registered apps today.

http://blog.twitter.com/2011/07/one-million-registered-twitt...
Forgive me if this was not your intention, but I feel like the way you phrased this (and the fact that it's currently the top comment on this story) is symptomatic of some of the negativity that's recently been rising on HN.

The first sentence is snarky and a put-down. The second sentence is a quasi-apology for the first line. The third sentence disparages the work done by people who, in all likelihood, worked very hard, had good intentions, suffered through horrible events, and were at least reasonably competent.

Also, there is no indication that you have any inside information about this, and you did not elaborate on why you were "deeply disappointed in their execution" -- do you have anything to suggest that anyone else would have executed better, given the circumstances? Isn't it better to give them the benefit of the doubt? Couldn't you express disappointment that the project isn't complete without putting down the people who worked on it?
And I was just working on this exact same thing...
I stand corrected on SpaceX... yes it seems Musk founded it.

But on Tesla Motors the fact of the matter is that it was started by engineers (Eberheard and Tarpenning) and control was taken away by an investor (Musk)

Some facts:
1. The first wikipedia page review on Tesla Motors from Jue 12, 2006 [1]:
"The firm was started in 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning....
Tesla has also managed to secure initial funding from prominent investors, such as PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page."

RedHerring Article July 8 2006[2]:

"Tesla Motors said earlier this month that it has raised a $40-million Series C round of financing led by VantagePoint Venture Partners and Elon Musk"

Finally from Eberheard himself [3]: "Mr. Musk was one of the leads I followed."

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tesla_Motors&o...

[2]http://web.archive.org/web/20060708071455/http://www.redherr...

[3] http://fora.tv/2011/05/22/Martin_Eberhard_Learn_by_Doing
Good points and I agree with the general conclusion.

One aspect of building a mobile HTML app that soundly beats the native alternative is iteration speed. Not having to wait for the approval (and possible resubmission) turnaround time can be quite an advantage especially early on.

The key is being able to transition to a native app quickly - an interesting thoughts for the phonegaps and other html wrappers of the world.
7 Tenets for Branded Content Creators
It's not that hard until level 8. At that point I got too lazy to actually continue with it :)
Friction is a very complex subject so I won't address it, but other things like the absence of materials that are perfectly flat, perfectly rigid, infinitely strong, etc. are easily explained by the fact that matter is made out of atoms.

For example, there's a recurring thought experiment about the limit of the speed of light that goes something like this: say you have a rigid rod that is one light-year long and you push on one end, won't the other end instantly move, thus proving that you can exceed the speed of light? The problem with that is that it's based on an approximate and intuitive understanding rather than a proper understanding of the physics involved. For a short rod if you push on one end the other end seemingly moves instantaneously, giving the illusion of rigidity, but in actuality what is happening is that you are transmitting forces through the rod at the speed of sound in the material, and if you make movements that are slow compared to the time and space involved then everything will appear instantaneous (since the speed of sound in steel is about six thousand meters per second). However, once you scale things up the intuitive approximation is no longer valid. What happens when you push a long rod from one end is that a displacement wave moves along the rod at the speed of sound until it reaches the opposite end, taking far, far longer to move than a signal travelling at the speed of light. Also, no material can be perfectly flat because at the scale of atoms there are... atoms, which are not flat.

That's generally the biggest reason why we can't have perfect anything, because stuff is made of atoms and atoms are messy. Often times people who let dreams of perfect materials lead them astray fail to take into account the underlying mechanism for the property they are considering (e.g. rigidity is due to forces being transmitted from atom to atom within a material). A good rule of thumb for whether or not an assumption of perfection is going to ruin a thought experiment is whether or not you're ignoring the underlying mechanism for that process. Another is whether or not you're assuming some arbitrarily small amount that you are omitting from the model because it introduces a "tax" that is annoying to account for but that can be easily bounded or instead you are assuming absolute 100% perfection that your whole model is completely reliant upon and even the slightest deviation from perfection would ruin the model.

Interestingly enough, there are a few examples of physically perfect things in the real Universe. For example, superconductors experience 0 electrical resistance to current, and superfluid helium does not experience friction internally, and electrons appear to be perfect point-like charges.
I don't think your bosses education level is deterministic enough of his abilities or skills to manage you and whether or not he has the smarts.

Managers should manage and should be effective at that.

As a software developer working in UK, I am managed by someone who has already been a developer in the past and he does not involve himself into any of the technical aspects of my job. He is caring after the larger picture, where I am only one of a group of players that he oversees. It's just like an orchestra, you don't expect the maestro to play all the instruments, but you _do_ expect him to know how to drive all the musicians. Having a manager that isn't smart (or whose education level + smarts doesn't meet the threshold of "can do more than just the mechanical aspects of the job" is a problem, however.) And as I've never been a developer in Portugal, because, education-wise, I don't qualify to work anywhere in Portugal, I cannot speak specifically how the landscape looks for software developers which during my 10 year stint was one area where a degree was an absolute must. However, as someone above said, there seems to be a lot of business leaders and while this is critically essential, it's unfortunately only a part of the much larger landscape and this is where it needs addressing.
Must-Have Apps for Successful High School Students
Should not github take care of the commit messages?
How many Twitter Clients Have You Enabled?
"Usage is like oxygen for ideas."

http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/
Investor != Cofounder.

Cofounder is someone that is there from day 1.
Tesla Roadster existed before Musks's involvement.
Martin Eberheard searched for Ventura Capital,
one of his leads was Elon Musk.

See my other reply for the links.
The Myth of the "Alpha Wolf" [1999]
Wow, this is a pretty sad story.
It is :). The "up" and "down" command won't work, and there are a few bugs with NoMethodError's, but the core functionality is very much there.
alternatively, http://playmo.tv/
In short, if you're starting a business, get started. If you're submitting a publication to one of the most exclusive journals in computer science, think things out first. Fair enough.
This is an unfortunate move. I found it very useful to see who was tweeting using an app that suggested it's the real person, versus tweets coming from large, paid enterprise apps using Twitter's API -- big "social media management" software that a marketing organization would use to schedule tweets at pre-designated times.
Citrusleaf NoSQL data store rebrands as Aerospike, releases community edition
Their site http://www.aerospike.com

However, news of their VC funding (covered in the TNW article linked) is not on their blog yet.
Not only that, but it helps them discover new apps. For example, 'posted via Instagram would be useful', as would 'posted via Camera+' etc.
How did you find the domain through reverse dns? None of the queries I ran gave any useful results.
I've tried hopping on the Rails train a few times now. This is by far the best way to learn coming from a PHP background. Thank you!
And the ruby regex newline vulnerability that featured in one of the later XSS levels was also present in an earlier level, but wasn't necessary for the intended vector, so I wondered if it was an unintentional oversight, or left as an alternate exploit, or just a red-herring? (being intentionally vague so as not to spoil it for anyone...)
strace still blows me away every time I use it. ProcMon on Windows does some of the same stuff, but there's really no comparison.
I've retracted my comments on SpaceX (it seems he did start that)

The Pay Pal Story is well known and documented.

As for Tesla Motors... I still claim he didn't found the company.

Here are my sources:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441480
i suspect a bunch of high profile projects already HAVE fallen apart; they just haven't fallen apart in high profile ways. "Still working on it" messages gradually decreasing in frequency until everyone forgets.
None of those are particularly interesting to me... not at double the product cost. Maybe I'm just in the minority and don't get it.
Regarding Kickstarter, Sauropod Studio just successfully raised $702,000 for Castle Story despite being based in Montreal. It probably requires some significant extra work, but it's certainly possible.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/902505202/castle-story
At least this is progress. I'm still looking forward to this project, even though it's been #deadpooled for a long time.

After just logging in, I'm surprised at how excruciatingly slooooooooooow it is. Upwards of a minute to save a minor change to my profile. I certainly hope self-hosting our profiles and content is an option sooner than later.
Actually, it wasn't supposed to be there in any of the levels :).
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Braintree will very soon be in Canada. I believe they're running beta as well.
Their site http://aerospike.com

However, news of their VC funding (mentioned in the TNW article) has not made it onto their blog yet.
My common sense is saying to me that: "dumb people are more likely to smoke pot before 18."

They don't regain IQ points when they stop because they never had them. :D

But this is just my uninformed unscientific guess.
If I operated a business and told the shareholders "Yeah, we've gotta spend some money on lawyers so we're not going to sell to California." I'd be out so fast you'd hear a sonic boom.
I am not sure how you can read accusation of religiously motivated blindness/idolatry as anything but an attack really, it isn't a well-reasoned argument against a position, just ad-hominem.

Coincidently I am currently reading the aforementioned book myself (oh no, I am a religous loon!!), and if anything I get the impression of an exacerbated person basically pointing out that:

1: The current status quo in nutritional science was established before there was large scale data to confirm/refute it. It was heavily influenced by very few (I believe he mentions 1 or 2) specific scientists and became orthodoxy almost through force of will not necessarily because the data (which they didn't have) actually supported the hypothesis.

2: There are now numerous studies and quite a bit of data that seem to at least point to alternative hypothesis that should be explored. I don't recall yet having seen the author claim even the carbohydrate hypothesis he talks about is correct, just that it should be getting more study/attention than it is in main-stream nutritional science, and that it is better supported by the study data we do have than the currently accepted hypothesis which the studies we undertaken to test.

3: The idea that sedentary lifestyles coupled with abundantly available food just doesn’t track with the actual data as obesity seems to track much more closely with availability highly refined carbohydrates and massively increased sugar consumption. That said both could well play into it, it isn’t necessarily an either-or but much like the famous global warming vs. number of pirates graph it also doesn’t show causation, just correlation, and perhaps meaningless/misleading correlation at that.

4: Explaining obesity by overeating is as useful as explaining alcoholism by overdrinking (okay, I just threw that in because it is a funny quote :))

His primary push that I have taken away thus far is ‘we should be exploring this hypothesis, which isn’t actually terribly new nor is it terribly radical’. He claims people generally aren’t for unclear reasons (though I haven't picked up any sort of conspiracy vibes yet, which I was expecting). I have looked around for someone to refute his book but all I found was a weak refutation in Reason[1] which he responded to, and in my opinion, destroyed the critique quite handily [2]. I would be very interested in any responses that actually take to task the quoted studies / science from his book instead of attacking him by-proxy by calling Atkins a kook.

[1] http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/big-fat-fake/print

[2] http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/an-exercise-in-vitriol...
Great work. This is was sorely needed.

May I ask why did you go with progressive enhancement instead of graceful degradation? Sort of like

<img class="logo svg" src="logo.png" ... />

This would allow old clients with javascript disabled to still display the image, but I'm not sure if it would cause duplicate requests in modern browsers.
Libere.co: Drag-n-drop your photos between Flickr and 500px
Mhmm. It's really annoying when I register for something, activation e-mail, fifty other steps, get to the payment screen... No country dropdown. Only United States.

It's bad enough that I can't use any ing services here, but quit wasting my time and getting my hopes up.
I suppose what was implied here was "undomesticated animal out in the wild and not held in captivity".
It's about what people choose to know. There are many people who don't want to know about things they can't always do something about. Many people would rather live a carefree life than know they can get a particular disease. This is a point of view I have trouble wrapping my head around personally, but it can't just be discounted. My example is also a little more clear cut than most. There are many cases where it's not so definitive. Some of the risk calculations result in increases over the baseline for the population of 10%. What does that even mean? It's all pretty poorly understood. Hence there is a real desire to only report back the really strong data. But that unfortunately results in eliminating useful, but highly speculative data.
Apple's patent victory could equal faster Android updates
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Is something like this sufficient as a proof? It's so natural and easy, yet convincing and accurate, that I have hard time believing it. :) Even if it's just an explanation it's still awesome. How I wish I could find materials teaching math ideas without relying heavily on math language! (And no, because I'm not going to contribute to the field I don't really need to know that language... Except I need, because it's the only way to obtain what is useful to me, however uncomfortable it is for me...)
You're right, I think it felt more natural to do it the way I did. If I did it in the above way, then the browser would DL the PNG then the JS would cause the browser to go DL the SVG. As a %, the browsers that do support SVGs are far greater than those that don't. So those people are still getting a great experience, but the SVG supporting browsers getting an even better one!
I understand you cannot purchase music though, correct? It's just a locker service?
Python logging with lggr
Google perpetrated one of the worst offenses I've ever seen in regards to 'regional discrimination'.

Way back when Android was first launching I wanted to order an ADP1. $500 or so and free shipping in the US.

Shipping to anywhere in the world (Russia, China, South Africa, etc) was anywhere from $30-$60. Shipping to Canada was about $280. Half the price of the bloody phone in shipping just to get it across the border, plus duty and tax when I received it.

Needless to say I shipped it to a guy I knew in the states and had it re-shipped for ~$30.
Mark Zuckerberg expressed this view at a Y Combinator event, chiding the crowd: “You’ve decided you want to start a company, but you don’t know what you’re passionate about yet.”

Wasn't Facebook an MVP that he put up primarily on a whim? Seems like he derived his "passion" from the fact that it was blowing up.

In fact, weren't Apple, Google ... etc built in a similar fashion? Maybe big vision works best once you have lots of resources and experience.
What would help me is if it were easy to track this stuff.

When I get the receipt at a restaurant, why isn't there a nutrition label printed on it, like the ones in grocery stores? Why aren't there QR encodings of nutrition labels for easy scanning by your choice of tracking app?

I see opportunity for improvement here :)
Your Attitude is Key to Your Job Search
I've used the same feature through Citi credit cards although it's fairly well hidden on their site if I remember correctly. I've never found this feature with my American Express or Chase accounts.
An Emirical Study of Scala and Java
So you can choose which one you like best, obviously! If I remember correctly, the default scheme on my machine was unbearable for me - it was too "bright".
I'm sorry, but what's the point? I'm not meaning to be rude, but I really don't like comments like this one. Yes, some people like you have to work on machines that they have no admin power, or have ancient terminals, but it's 2012. A lot of us on HN do have a say on what runs on our machines (be it our own laptops, or our own servers) and most if not all of them are running OSes no older than a couple years and thankfully all of them have color terminals.

I know you didn't mean to sound like an old-timer dismissing how "kids these days" do things that don't feel your super-nerdy needs, but sadly that's how your comment sounded (to me), so I thought I share my feelings with you. No offense!
CanJS: The Best of Both Worlds
Speed running Stripe's CTF Level 8
I also used that bug for the three levels. At that time I was more concerned in catching up (I started late) and the thought of it being an unintentional bug never crossed my mind. Though hours later I thought it was a bit strange that all three levels had to be solved in a similar way.
Are we still at the stage of judging people based on what smartphone they own? Good grief.
Wow, pry and its plugins universe gets better each day.

If you're new to pry I recommend you check pry-remote & pry-debugger.
Most of what is creeping these days is way too debatable...
A Little Math; A Lot of Physics
He and his partner debated “pivoting” from one nascent business to the next, even as the clock ticked toward the all-important “Demo Day,” when they were to present their ideas to investors.

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision. You cannot have a pivot without vision (that's just wandering around).

https://twitter.com/ericries/status/221318901018017792
Lots of potential for startups in the inflight entertainment space if they uplift the restrictions on PEDs