skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blame the messengers for shoving rumors down your throat. Maybe even blame yourself for being interested in rumors. The hoaxers do not contact you individually, that part is done by others.
For example while rereading my post, I realized I use the word 'quite' too often. How about that.
Apple starts work on massive data center
Whether you are an individual contributor or a manager of a large team, you are an Amazon leader.

They are also meant for ICs, not just people-manager leaders. They are used as touchstones for interviews and performance evaluations.
I'm fairly sure that full body scans do not fall under the border search exception. For one, the exception only applies to international borders, and usually, these types of searches would be performed by Customs agents—not the TSA.
Jeff Dean doesn't have a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia has a page on Jeff Dean.
Yeah - as a resident of Portland, Maine who frequently flies out of my home airport to visit clients, I'm not so psyched about the small airports getting the old radiation machines.
Also, any form of ionising radiation is generally accepted to be A Bad Thing. To suggest that it could possibly be good seems ludicrous. Even UV rays are generally accepted to be harmful

UV rays in sunlight are used by the body to synthesize Vitamin D - they can be good for you.
Copybar cofounder here, great catch, thanks.
> especially when it's not mean-spirited or demeaning.

This is a common misunderstanding about the nature of racism. Read about Asian Americans and the model minority.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding: I thought one goal of DVCS was to remove central points of failure? In that sense, isn't a central "hub" regressive?

I wonder if there's a way to host Git repositories with static files, say, on Amazon S3... That would be neat.
Reddit testing bitcoin tip service
You misread the article. There are open redirectors on .gov domains (like a naive hit-counter), the shortener just goes .gov -> .gov. Now the shortener blacklists the open redirects as short link targets.
>Its not a troll comment.

Sure it is, it's a short, inciteful quip that required little effort and provided absolutely nothing in the way support yet produced a 30-odd comment tangent, a solid 20% of all commentary. Pretty much the definition of a reasonably successful troll.

>I will just use Windows, which contrary to all the complaints that people keep making, actually "just works".

Because one of your anecdotes is worth more than all of theirs.
Is HipMob funded? How do bootstrapped startups handle huge companies like Zappos? Would they be able to take on a client whose resource usage (in terms of hardware and people) would outstrip all the startup's current clients by a few orders of magnitude?

What if they find their architecture doesn't scale and they really can't handle it -- is it worth the risk of going under because you spent all your savings on servers and employees to handle this company-changing client, only to lose them immediately when things don't work out right away?

I guess that's why startups seek funding, eh? I'm not sure what I'd do if a Zappos wanted to sign up with one of my apps, honestly. Spend the money scaling up quickly for them, not knowing with certainty that I'd be able to keep ahead of their usage, or just turn them down?
If you want to make a service worth a damn to the world, you should expect regular DDOS.
Well played. Definitely a move to boost traffic to hipmob rather than a legitimate open letter to Tony, but I like the creative thinking behind the campaign.
Amazon has a service outage every time you look at it funny, much less a DDoS...

hyuk, hyuk
Because high availability is for legacy waterfall chumps. Github's too busy being rockstars.
IPhone 5 Untethered Jailbreak On iOS 6 Release Status
Incidentally, even outside of the movie business, never take net points on anything, for exactly this reason.
Also taking a photo of your screen hides a lot of the telltale giveaways of a rendered image. But yeah, Blender's renderer is pretty amazing.
These Photos May Not Show A Leaked Sony Nexus After All – Here's Why
You can bet on OS X getting there before Windows does.
Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.
so what happened in november 2010?

related article http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/78-percent-of-bit...
Attacking a rails application, you would be proud of that? Rails sites are not exactly known for their performance.
> how an innovator might address the patent threat until this mess is fixed

I have no issue with anyone claiming patents defensively, but he's trying to justify having a claim and an exclusive right to an obvious idea. THAT is trolling no matter how much he calls himself an innovator, a grassroots developer or whatever. He's part of the problem, not the solution.
I only took high school physics and a Google search isn't returning anything. Could you tell me why a spinning ball weighs more than a stationary ball?

Another comment seems to claim that since E=mc2, rotational energy can be converted to to mass and viola, the earth is heavier because it has more energy! But that doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe frame dragging has something to do with it? Your pulling of space-time through rotation looks the same as your pulling of space-time from gravity so you appear heavier?

Or is it for the same reason that moving bodies are heavier? Every point of the ball is moving and therefore heavier, the fact that it's rotating makes no differece.
Nice try! Although the iphone picture on your website is not clear/sharp. Do you need a photographer to take a better pic for you?
Cool approach - but my nitpick is the misquoting of Fry - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QfSzgV1q5g
Yes. Forcing journalists to fact-check stories is a good thing.
When you've got thousands of people willing to take your staff's place, there's no reason to pay them well.
A bit buggy right now on Mac OSX Chrome 22 but I see what you're doing. Can't wait to see the final implementation. Awesome work.
Show HN: Independent Crowdfunding Platform
I never graduated, so I probably won't ever apply to Google.
> Don't want to be like this? Don't get angry when someone challenges you. That's the best way to start. I've never understood why so many people get upset if you try to point out a flaw in their reasoning.

This is one of the first things I tell our new hires - please call us on doing something stupid or being closed-minded. Just like a child, ask "why" all the time. We may have the right solution in place to cover bizarre edge cases that they don't know about yet, but it's just as possible that their fresh perspective is a far better way to approach the problem.

I'll get annoyed if people are challenging stuff just for the sake of it, but any time there's a genuine improvement being proposed it's a welcome discussion.
Depends on if it's a cruise or not
With some googling and clicking around I couldn't find what the estimated population was before the disaster.

Anyone know?
Do you really expect your typical underpaid, undereducated, and overworked TSA employee to properly calibrate, maintain, or use a backscatter machines?

Even in hospitals, which have much stricter standards of safety and training have had accidents[1] where patients have been administered overdoses of radiation (some to lethal effect).

Just give the TSA another 10 or 20 years.. I would not be at all surprised to hear of major lawsuits from travelers who've been seriously injured by these machines, due to TSA incompetence in purchasing junky machines, maintaining/calibrating them poorly, or not training their employees to use them properly.

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/health/29radiation.html?_r...
Hi there - Ayo from Hipmob here. You raise a fair question - we believe we can handle the scale challenge well (we're built on Heroku & AWS), and we've deployed with that in mind. That being said, only time (and deployments) will tell.
>If I'm getting my rights violated, I'm at least getting a reach around for it. Plus, even though I know it's terribly childish, being able to ask if they're happy that they grew up to make a living by touching my balls gives me a little bit of false empowerment in a crappy situation.

Bravo. I'm going to use that.
Git is distributed and there's no reason you should have to stop working, or committing, just because github is temporarily unavailable. At least for dependencies only on git. Losing access to wikis, pull requests, and issues may be a problem for some teams.

http://ozmm.org/posts/when_github_goes_down.html has a good summary of quick ways to keep using git without github.
Github isn't solely a git server. They also have issues, wikis, etc, that are harder to keep in multiple locations.
At least Russians did not plant the microbes for Vladimir Putin to find using a giant microscope in front of television cameras. :)
RIP Microsoft ClearType Inventor Bill Hill
Sigh. Yes, we know. Hollywood Accounting.
An argument for Intellectual Property
Crowdfunding startups are the mortgage backed security credit default swap's for the retail investor?
Not all users are your customer
Thanks - and I suggest you get a lot accomplished over the next few weeks.
The "spiritual" word is often used in non-religious contexts to mean the mastery of the inner world.

Meditation is often used as a way to take control of your thought processes (which are sometimes negative), so that's why it's often classified as a spiritual practice.
Interesting concept, well done for shipping. Just a couple of points:

- You id="mask" element has a higher z-order than your formatting popup making it impossible to select styles in the demo.

- The blink from the original to the edited content is kind of jarring. Not sure where your servers are, but here from AUS the lag was very noticable.

- This is a peeve I have with all editors: When you select a H1,2,3 etc style the entire block is styled. This is the opposite of what users expect. Instead you should break that fragment out and run your execCommand on it. This way only the selected text receives the style and your users aren't left scratching their heads :)

- Consider adding an in-line editor for in-line images. Popping over a modal editor onmouseup is not intuitive for your average Joe.
Design impaired developer here; i'm interested to know how you picked green as being a trigger for more conversions, is there some data with A/B testing this color choice comes from?
In the broadest sense, about 10 million web-forums and similar sites also match your description...

Why would they go for github of all things?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-energy_equivalence
Getting where? More technical? That's certainly not the direction it's been heading up to now.
The Writing Revolution (reforming education)
Competition to Install Free Fiber for Growing Businesses in NYC
I dunno.

I tried to use Windows 8 for a month or so and it was extremely annoying.

I'll wait for Windows 9: The apology.
Do you live in Milan, Italy? Join the first italian meetup
A lot of people seem to be offended by this article when I think all the author was trying to say is that opening yourself to other, non-programming related stuff simply helps you become a better programmer as a whole. I honestly don't think he's suggesting you should be a pro at all those other points, just have a fairly good knowledge of them.

I personally find that, on top of the points mentioned in the article, a large number of programmers I've met or have had the chance to interview have a crucial lack of extra-curricular activities. While it's true most can code, a lot less are able to come up with creative solutions on the spot, and I do think this is a skill that stems from looking "beyond the code".

And yes, as some people have mentioned, I also think it applies to other jobs. In fact I think a lot of jobs require very similar skills, it's just the different application of a given mindset.
A simple fix that should be embraced by all schools.
That is wrong. You should be eminently prepared for this question. At the very least, you should have estimated the scale you need to be able to support, and demonstrate that your systems can handle the load. This means spending development time and effort to create a scaling test environment, with instrumentation, and then spending time to present the results.
It's not as bad as some people say. Metro is not a good interface for desktop/laptops but you aren't forced to use it. You can always switch back to a desktop and yes you can still get to a command prompt.
I used it and found it a mess of an OS and Metro apps horrible. Multitasking is boned and it works badly with multi monitors.
Accurate web statistics
The great thing about these URL shorteners is the companies seem to be very proactive when dealing with spam and malware. They don't want to be associated with this crap so naturally they block it when they find it.
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is very interesting in light of Turkey intercepting "radar" equipment from Russia to Syria.

If the jamming is coming from Syria, I'd say it's the government trying to jam the encrypted satellite radios of the rebels. (Some of the aid to the rebels from the US and Europe was for secure comms.)
Here's a few links about the open source Mapbox iOS SDK:
http://mapbox.com/mobile/

Installation/Guide
http://mapbox.com/mapbox-ios-sdk/

Github Repo
https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-ios-sdk
Prediction: it will be shot down within the first month of operation.
In other words, be a scientist. Consider the truth as a distant target, and our understanding only as an approximation based on the evidence we have right now.

Scientists have known this for years. They have made it their whole way of life—because it works, and it's true.

Smart people in all walks of life most certainly follow those same kinds of scientific principles. Bezos is spot on, there's just an entire branch of knowledge that's been spot on way before he was.
It looks like the other commenter was completely right. Thanks.
Huh, I don't think I've heard it used like that before, or didn't understand it that way in any case. "Spiritual" to me, being based on "sprit", always has connotations of external supernatural entities.
Actually, the article you linked says this:

In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the sole authority to control all airspace, exclusively determining the rules and requirements for its use. Typically, in the "Uncontrolled" category of airspace, any pilot can fly any aircraft as low as he or she wants, subject to the requirement of maintaining a 500-foot (150 m) distance from people and man-made structures...

So the law says that the FAA gets to determine the rules, and the current rules that the FAA has implemented require a 500 foot distance from structures. However, it would seem that the FAA could change these regulations tomorrow without any changes having to be made to federal law.
I don't see how you get from "model minority" to "absolutely any discussion related to race is racist".

Sure, some things that aren't mean-spirited or demeaning are also racist, but that doesn't mean that everything is. Am I missing something? Serious question.
Significance of the post - This is a list of common characteristics that Jeff has seen in people he considers to be geniuses. Maybe it is possible that if us normal people adopt these characteristics into our own identity, we might be able to achieve genius status as well.

As far as the details you get into about the constantly changing mind, the solution changing rapidly, and focus on self supporting details, I think you have made a mis-step with the idea of a rapidly changing solution.

If there is a correct solution to a problem, it will never change. Our understanding of the solution can change, the problem could change which would require a new solution. But the correct solution (again assuming one exists) to a set problem can not change.

When he is talking of this changing mind, he is referring to a human's natural process to build it's understanding of our environment, or some problem space, on previous data and conclusions. The problem that most people have is they accept their many previous conclusions as fact, so they are unable to see problem from the correct perspective, because that perspective would require some previous belief to be wrong, thus they never consider that correct perspective. A good example here would be a creationists inability to come to correct scientific conclusions because they believe the world is only a few thousand years old. Bill Nye!

But the worst kind of person to be if you desire to reach genius status is one that searches for validation of their beliefs over truth. Most of us have this in us, I know I do even though I think of myself as open minded. The best example for this would be for you to go out and debate a friend with opposing political views. At some point you will find yourself defending something that you don't fully understand, your friend will make a valid point, and this little asshole inside you will tell you to defy his point at all costs. But you won't, because you started this conversation searching for truth over validation, and then you will consciously understand the desire to search for validation.
Linux? Seriously, why the Windows love when there is such an OS already in existence?
"Together these three phases produce an S-curve. The phase whose growth defines the startup is the second one, the ascent. Its length and slope determine how big the company will be." http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
Paul Graham is wrong. The focus should be on great teams executing good ideas. Execution matters - but you need an idea to execute. Changing ideas doesn't mean the ideas don't matter.
For Fun: Reinventing baking recipe instructions
[].slice.call(arguments) returning a new argument is fundamentally different because you would not want x.slice(1,2) to modify x in order to produce an appropriate sublist to return. Perhaps it's just me, but I expect a constructor to initialize "this" (optionally returning "this"), but not returning {};
A Map App For iPhone That Gets You Lost (On Purpose)
Overlay image + CSS + jquery-cookie
Hi Ayo. I don't mean to pick on Hipmob specifically. It's just a question your post raised that I have for startups in general, especially bootstrapped startups. I don't think I've ever seen a blog post or case study about how startups have handled landing major clients and while still small, relatively unproven teams & systems.

I'd love to know, for example, how a company like MixPanel or GinzaMetrics goes from handling a few million data points per customer, to perhaps billions. It seems like making the leap from helping other startups to helping Disney could take not just exponentially more resources, but a whole different architecture.
>When I was younger, I didn't know what confirmation bias was. I had to be introduced to the concept. After being introduced, I was able to make better decisions.

Hah! You only think that because you're not counting the bad decisions.

>Decision making biases of various sorts are my chief pet peeve in modern life. It's almost impossible to discuss public policy with people, even in the smartest online forums I know. I think it's banned at Less Wrong. When I listen to the media, I spend most of my time ticking of the biases I hear.

But biases are like stereotypes in that they're shortcuts your mind has developed based on past experience. That's what people used to call "wisdom".
LOIC is pretty easy to filter, it's about a 1 out of 10 on the difficulty scale. Either GitHub as a whole is technically incompetent, or they are getting hit with something built by big kids.
What makes DDOSes different from black mold? Both are expected risks and should be mitigated. Yeah, there are sentient actors behind the DDOS, but GitHub has to deal with it at the level of their infrastructure either way.
Google Ventures Hires Its First Designers In Residence
Copybar cofounder here, thanks for the great feedback. We'll take a look at the mask issue asap. Delivery will continue to be optimized and I dig your ideas on the styling and image editing, look for those enhancements soon.
It lacks some paleoalignment pictures to illustrate the facts.

See http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S092054460800003... for the end carnian impacts - perfect alignment between Manitoba, Quebec, France and Azerbaijan craters
Didn't mean to sound dismissive. My reply wasn't stating that we're unprepared; we're absolutely prepared and we think about this ALL DAY. We're also seasoned enough to know that behaviors sometimes deviate from test environments while in the wild.
What do you mean by 'technical'. OS X has UNIX underpinnings, you can still VIM, Mutt and Lynx as much as you want, you can compile from source. This is meaningless to me.
Most often I see these things in my referral logs from sites that want to hide which exact page has a link to your content. Common on certain types of web forums, for example. Eg www.forumsite.com/?redirect=yoursite

There are also services like anonym.to for when people try and hide even the host site entirely. I've seen forums that turn all outgoing links into anonym.to links.
I don't get it. What is it supposed to do. I click on the big green "Try it now" button and nothing happens...
Microsoft’s New Tablet: Surface Warfare Torpedoed
This post reads like a thinly-disguised ad for the "Phidgets SBC2", a $230 board similar to the $35 Raspberry Pi, but with a slower processor, less memory, and no HDMI output. It does have built-in IO, which you'd need an expansion board to implement on the Pi.

TL;DR
Friends don't let friends use Phidgets.
Not further than Clojure's multimethods. They dispatch on the value of an arbitrary function you write. This can be anything; it's not even restricted to types. Couple this with Clojure's ad hoc hierarchy system and even Haskell's types seem limited by comparison.
Rails Rumble 2012: A Beginners Postmortem
Honestly the modern moral of the story is bandcamp or indiegogo or kickstarter or some other service. I'll be the first to say it is going to be much MUCH harder than taking a record deal but we do live in a time where its possible to stay away from the big industry folks and strike gold (or out) on your own.
Facebook quietly phases out FB Questions
How to Build a Small Gaming PC
It is 1000ft over urban areas, but police helicopters are already exempt. The reason is because they want aircraft to be high enough they can try not to crash on top of a bunch of people or into some building when they loose power (rather than a privacy issue). A helicopter can do an emergency landing with better control in a no power situation. A 4 pound UAV is going to be able to fly lower than that because it is not going to kill a bunch of people when it looses power and crashes into a school or something.
I always opt out of both the new booths. Occasionally they ask why. I say I don't trust them, nobody should trust the security apparatus of the state, and they have no real concern for my safety or well-being. I also make a point of saying everyone needs to see my pat-downs, for me to be safe, and to show people how to stand for their limited choice.
Google Gives Update On Shopping Going Full Paid Inclusion
Clojure has both map and multimethods. It's trivial to map over a collection and dispatch to a different implementation for every element in the collection. With multiple collections, this extends to multiple dispatch over the corresponding elements in each collection.
Minnesota clarifies: Free online ed is OK
“Obviously, our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they’re free,” said Larry Pogemiller, director of the office. “No Minnesotan should hesitate to take advantage of free, online offerings from Coursera.”

Props to the people in charge there for reacting swiftly. Nice to see.