skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any idea what type of camera was used to track his descent? Satellite imagery?
^^ This. Your eyes are your best altimeter, and flying blind isn't ever a good idea...but particularly on a high-stress operation like this one.
ProPublica are also completely overlooked, even though they do some of the most important reporting out there.

It doesn't help that their web design is horrible.
I disliked the Portrait as well. But loved Dubliners.
http://www.redbullstratos.com/technology/cameras-communicati...
In Faulkner's Sound and The Fury, the first 100 pages are the disjointed mental images. For example, yelling at a golfcourse will trigger paragraphs of memories about his sister Caddy. In contrast to Ulysses we are only given aleatory images for the first 100 pages. I sometimes feel that the work was compromised with such a modernist artifice.
i'd love to see some stats on youtube for this. i noticed over 6 million concurrent viewers, flipped to HD and it worked instantly ... it's purely amazing to push out these amounts of video data.
Sounds awesome! Let us know when it ships. :3
The aloha core is 239KB (minified but not gzipped). Plugins can be anywhere from 5KB to 50KB. The version on the CDN includes about 30 plugins.

I expect the size would be around 300KB if only the basic plugins are included.

Still, it's a lot bigger than redactor - point taken.
Why experiencing a product is better than explaining it
I read Ulysses 3 years ago. After initial skepticism, I discovered that it is truly a great work of literature. One example that impressed me was the chapter Wandering Rocks, where Joyce implements a virtual Dublin that operates like a massive, clockwork simulation tracked over one hour -- he follows many different events and points of view as the characters walk through the city, experiencing events in accurate time that ripple across their perspectives (e.g. a clock chiming heard by 10 different people at different times and intensities according to their distances from the clock, echoes from the walls of surrounding buildings, and the speed of sound -- all mapped to Joyce's deep knowledge of Dublin's geography). Ulysses requires a lot of work and time to understand. I would like to recommend the following to anyone who wants to read it:

1. Give yourself about 6 months.

2. Do not read the text at first go. Instead, listen to the excellent audio recording. http://www.amazon.com/Ulysses-Naxos-AudioBooks-Joyce-James/d... James Joyce was a lyricist and singer and incorporated many auditory elements into his wordplay. Many voices interact in this work, forming a weave that can be baffling on the page but which acquires a certain harmony read aloud. I would even suggest that much in the way rap musicians take utter (often ridiculous) liberty with the English language, creating works incomprehensible on page but that can be understood in the context of song, Joyce experimented with language-as-lyric. Joyce was known for waking up his wife by laughing out loud as he was writing this work -- he found the wordplay ridiculous and hilarious -- so don't approach it with the severity of a religious text.

3. Do not worry if you get lost or zone out. Just keep going and review or re-read later. If you try to understand everything you will never finish and become discouraged.

4. While you are listening to Ulysses, read Vladimir Nabokov's Harvard lectures on Ulysses. http://books.google.com/books/about/Lectures_on_Literature.h... This is a wonderful chapter-by-chapter companion that will make sense of the chaos.

5. If you want a warm up, read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Yeah but I don't think that's Apple's goal with this device. I don't see them releasing a 7.xx" tablet because it better but because it can be sold much cheaper. To get the first time buyers and start locking them into the Apple ecosystem. So they can sell them bigger/better/higher margin things later on. At least thats what I thought until I saw the rumored 8GB version.
While we're on the subject of modernist literature, I would suggest taking a look at In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. It's quite a bit longer than Ulysses, at about 1.5 million words, but I find it really fascinating. The flow of his words, to me, seems almost musical.

However, I'd like to also point out that you shouldn't read ISoLT or Ulysses or any other book for that matter, just for the sake of saying that you were able to read it. I think that you lose the depth, the meaning of the words when you read to "show off". You "read" the book, the words flowed into your brain, but did you really understand what the author said?

Unfortunately, I think modernist literature is often susceptible to "half readers", where people start the book, but never finish it. Modernist style can seem pretty alien to some people (Background, as jseliger pointed out, is also important to understanding the "meaning".) As Wikipedia puts it:

>"For the first-time reader, modernist writing can seem frustrating to understand because of the use of a fragmented style and a lack of conciseness. Furthermore the plot, characters and themes of the text are not always presented in a linear way. The goal of modernist literature is also not particularly focused on catering to one particular audience in a formal way. In addition modernist literature often forcefully opposes, or gives an alternative opinion, on a social concept."
As skydivers, we don't count. That's just the stuff from movies.

We have altimeters that we trust to tell us our height. But more than those, we trust our best altimeter - our eyes. Visor fogging prevents you from knowing how high you are - either by looking at your altimeter, or looking at the ground. And that's a very dangerous place to be - particularly on an unprecedented freefall like this one.

My guess is that Felix spent a while trying to get a glimpse at his altimeter. He finally saw enough to tell him he was getting somewhere close to deployment altitude, and decided to make the safe choice.
With the comma, the phrase is equivalent to:

"... readers will only read long-form content, and that only if it is excellent."

(Forgive me if my usage of that is no longer current. It has been quite a while since I've spent an extended period of time with current formal writing.) The intended meaning was probably something like this:

"... readers will only put the effort into reading long-form content if it is excellent."
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(I also have showdead for the same reason - reading dissenting opinions can be quite interesting)

It's a good thing if only because the alternative would be a ban, and they would stop posting altogether. They may be a ghost but I see value in their posts - or I wouldn't have showdead on.

This makes me wonder how many users have showdead on?
If you put the second one directly next to itself some cool stuff happens
Your proposed solution is not that simple. You make it sound like EA simply used the wrong query.

> One, if EA is technically incompetent enough to allow such a severe bug to exist, they won’t have the technical skills to discern who used the promo code more than once.

The bug was not that obvious, and doesn't necessarily imply lack of technical skill. On the other hand, finding out who used a promo code more than once, as long as these things have been logged, should be trivial for any admin.
The article it mentions in the preamble i believe is this (it took be a couple of googles):

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/10/tumblr-continues-its-quest-...

Bizarre they don't even interlink to their own pando articles.
On my main page, I use AJAX to load the Share buttons when the user mouses-over the post itself, so that they aren't loaded all at once. Specifically, it loads the HTML, then runs it through each social service's HTML parser to render the buttons.

On individual blog posts, the buttons did not load because the DOM element is not present for that template. However, the parser still ran on mouse-over, which is what caused the flickering. So I just disabled the parser when the user is on an individual blog post.
I don't care because I can actually move my arms.
Even better, if I move them a bit during the day, the chance of getting carpal tunnel is reduced.
Multicast requires all the intermediate routers support it, I thought. Is that really the case? I can't imagine big routers at ISPs allowing multicast.
Primary reason was licensing. This was a year ago.
I don't really like the fact that this article more or less accepts at face value the metric of "jobs" as being the relevant measure of "helping the economy." This might have been more or less the case when the output from the vast majority of jobs rarely deviated more than an order of magnitude from the average job, but that is far from the case these days.

Instead of an intelligent and creative person joining an assembly line or becoming a pit trader, they have the opportunity to create something of value from nothing and give access to it to the entire world.

The fact that paradigm shifts are accelerating isn't a bad thing in my opinion. Within a few generations, the idea that the world is more or less the same place when we leave it as it was when we entered it will likely not be an automatic assumption people will make about the world.
I live in southern california though... I wonder if they help out with relocation? I'll shoot my resume over.. I dig the site it looks fresh and a good service..

What do you guys use on the backend?
Sounds good :-) Do you use Linux on this EeePC?
> On the other hand if you rule such works out, wouldn't you also get rid of many important and enjoyable works. Much of Borges, Eliot's The Waste Land, DFW's novels and essays, Pynchon, Homer are some of the ones that immediately came to mind.

But is Homer enjoyable? I don't dispute that it is important, or that it is enjoyable to some.

But my memory of the Iliad from my freshman course on Western civ was that it was a cross between allusions which I didn't have the interest or patience to track down, and a long list of warriors, with eight lines about their family history each, who then promptly get killed by Achilles.

Since then I've tried to read similar (maybe?) works of literature, with the same result. I tried to read Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I'm sorry to say I couldn't get the point.

It seems that the sort of people who enjoy Homer are, to a first approximation, the same sort of people as those who enjoy Joyce, or any other literary work where it is difficult to figure out what the author means.

In short, I remain curious about how one might appreciate such a work, but I don't really buy your argument here.
You can meet people in Canada :)

I don't know if he's still doing it but a few years ago my wife took a workshop with him called "Ten Days with Keith". She loved it, and him. But it took a few days. He is an odd duck whose brilliance is not immediately apparent. Pretty amazing to be around someone who can tell stories about Beckett and Pinter though.

I think of Johnstone as in the spirit of Lao Tzu. He is all about the unplanned and unthought. And about creating conditions favorable to its arising.
Hmm, another triumph for the "Github will get you hired" crowd. And so soon after the "Github will get you kicked off Coursera" debacle.

Actually this is a good use case for DVCS - at least you have a second chance to clean up your commit messages when pushing from a private repo. It does have to be private though. I would be interested to see if BitBucket gets a boost in users this month...
Just a side note but talent isn't just in coding ability. All else being equal, what ig1 said.
This is a strange article. I say strange because Sarah Lacy hasn't seem to look into what "New Yorker style" prose / stories look or feel like. The New Yorker is not only a publisher of journalism. It also does short stories, serializations, and I generally consider it an incubator of literary thoughts, methods, and practices the way YCombinator is an incubator of entrepreneurship.

Just look at the list of authors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_Yorker_contribu...

Raymond Carver, JD Salinger, Alice Munroe, Vladimir Nabokov, VS Naipaul, Dorothy Parker, Philip Roth among others.

I don't know if Sarah has looked through the some New Yorker Magazines and actually read the stories.

Who's going to found those startups that YCombinator is looking for? Those dedicated, driven, individuals and teams with a single-minded focus to creating a service, a company, a product that people will pay for.

Who's going to write New Yorker style stories? Those driven, single-minded, not-immediate-money-driven and creative individuals and teams (writer/editor teams, etc) who will do whatever it takes to push forward the written form.

But of course, writing the truth never bought anyone any favours with advertisers.
Ask HN: Any Skype groups/rooms where startup founders network?
Hello. About 1.5 years ago I really got into virtual networking via skype. I know in certain circles this is huge. So, are there any Skype rooms where fellow HN readers connect.

If not, anyone interested in starting one?

The reason is that when one works virtually, this kind of real time interaction is great for getting feedback, building relationships and the like.

And sometimes it can get frustrating and lonely out there when you've decided to take the red pill vs. the blue pill.

And who knows if you are looking to connect with a co-founder or find joint venture partners this could be resourceful as well.

Feel free to add me on Skype if this resonates with you: shola_sabidoye

I'm interested to hear people's thoughts on this.
Actually, I check my username once a week for a hellban precisely because I don't like the idea of being silently censored. An outright ban is far more palatable than realizing after a year that I've just been wasting my time. Just the mere thought of it ruins my desire to participate in the fist place.
Gotcha. :)
Most of those sorts of options will do more harm than good. If you've ever attempted to skydive (or fly in a wind tunnel), you know that the slightest move of one's hand can cause instability, or a spin. It takes a lot of experience to gain enough control to be able to really fly your body (and in the dead air at the altitude of this jump, all previous bets are off). Adding any sort of wings, fins, or whatnot would cause more uncertainty than it would certainty. (This is why wingsuits are so dangerous to fly - the extra surface area means that the subtlest of moves are magnified significantly.)

The safest option is a drogue parachute - the small stabilization parachute you see when watching tandem skydiving videos. They kept a drogue as an automatic backup to attempt to stabilize him if he encountered an uncontrollable spin.

But even that has its risks. An entanglement on a jump like this (or any jump, really) could be a death warrant.
اعلى قفزة في التاريخ - فلكس
أعلى قفزة فى التاريخ - فليكس يقفز بمظلته من الفضاء للأرض فى تجربة فريدة ومثيرة (صور + فيديو)
Yeah, time-of-check-to-time-of-use attacks are not usually described as "timing attacks" but instead just called TOCTTOU. In this scenario you might also say "exploiting a race condition".
Big Dog Weaponized
Is there a moo tools equivalent of this?!
The License was changed recently to GPLv2.
in the meantime, I enabled zoom for mobile devices.

Whoever turned it off in the first place was a bad person, and should feel bad for doing so.
Oh, and while not enabled by default, Hallo has quite nice image handling. Some screencasts in http://blog.iks-project.eu/semantic-enhanced-cmf-editor-now-...
The book is out of copyright now, so is available on Project Gutenburg in a variety of file formats.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
he did, just confirmed and verified by the notary.
8 million people watched the redbull stratos live stream - a new record
Exactly. Something as simple as using different typography or changing button style defaults would go a long way.

I understand the idea of using something more minimal for just grid etc, but for me, it hasn't been enough of an issue to not use bootstrap.
LIVE: Press Conference RedBull Stratos

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/
According to the press conference, he hit 833MPH (Mach 1.24).
Funny. For the past few years, I've been an avid evangelist of the articles written by both New Yorker and Vanity Fair (I'm not seeing any references to this one in the article or here in the comments. Don't balk at the name or genre, they have some of the very best feature articles on the most random topics that I have ever come across). People called me crazy.

The Economist has been mentioned here in the comments, but while good, it does not compare in terms of length and sheer quality to the offerings by these two. Apples and oranges, really.
Okay, if he thought he was close to the deployment altitude then of course it's perfectly sensible to use the parachute. It's only if he was nowhere near it that I would question using the chute right away in response to vision impairment.

And I haven't watched any movies with skydiving, I just figured that if you were watching an altimeter drop you would be able to extrapolate for a limited time.
Confirmation from the post-jump press conference: mach 1.24.
One giant leap for man, one small step for mankind.
For me, the moment that transformed the book from a chore to a delight was the moment I realized it was funny. I was allowed to laugh, but I was also allowed to miss jokes, miss references. There are so many, that if one flies over your head, then next one will fly straight into your open mouth. The Rise of The New Bloomusalem is hysterically funny.

I could never have made it through, if it were merely an intellectual exercise. It's a slapstick, pun-filled, over-the-top festival. There are songs, and dances, and plays, and fights, and sex (maybe), and proofs by algebra that Hamlet was Shakespeare's grandfather, or vice versa... IT'S FUNNY.
I'd be interested to hear what novels others think should be read and why...
Maybe you should be writing for yourself, not for the others?

I write to share ideas/experiences I have. If there are replies, there is a valuable feedback - either as a validation, or as a suggestion of other things I should reconsider. I try to "reward" the valuable inputs by pressing on upvote, even I forget sometimes (upvoting is diverting - I don't really like to spend time on that)

Someday I may be hellbanned. Maybe 90% won't see my posts then, but the 10% that do is what matters - people who see value in dissenting opinions, and may still offer interesting insightful replies
This is the wrong approach. You don't train someone to produce such works.

These types of proses are more like a personal distillation of experiences. You can take a handful of olympic athletes, pair them up with a great editor and writer team, and come up with a great story about what happened at the london olympics. That would be a cover worthy story.

It's not about training writers who can churn out articles. It's about understanding that writing itself is an art, not something that can be trained, but something that needs to be invented.

Put it in terms that people on hacker news would probably understand - Writing a major New Yorker cover story is like finding the topic, writing, and then defending a PhD thesis. You have to come up with an original thought, support it with research and original experimentation, distill it down, test your hypothesis, and see if your thesis is still solid. After rounds and rounds of editing, repositioning, rewriting, and PIVOTING, you come out with a kernel of an article - the amount of words written would be approx 10 - 20 times the amount of text that would actually be published. The rest would be research material and stuff "left on the editing table".

You can't train that. Successful authors understand this - all of their advice to young writers would include something like - "only you know what kind of story you want to write" - "keep practicing" "keep writing every day".

There is no handbook to learn, no school to go to.

Journalism school gives you a template of what other people have done, but at the same time, I consider it a waste of time for writers. Just go out there experience the world, talk to as many people as you can, and write seriously every single day. You'll come out the other side with a comparable set of skills as someone who went to school for journalism.

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So what is the right approach? For me, it would be encouragement - start young - get education right. Bring up childhood and adult literacy, give people the ability to think and reason. Increase funding to schools and give teachers a better deal.

You'll find more and more kids wanting to write, keep practicing it, and thus we get better writers when they grow up.

For the immediate situation, the same thing applies - give people who want to write the chance to tell their story. Increase funding commitments to schools and higher education.

Get people talking about writing as an actual practice instead of as an advertising technique (ie writing copy) or as a purely legalistic/procedural language (ie taxes, lawsuits, and manuals).

People will become more interested in writing and the skills required in literacy.

Who knows, the best story might be hiding there in the heart of that guy you pass by every day living on the streets.
Doesn't normalize enter to BR and I haven't managed to break it. WYSIHTML5 works for normal use cases and produces nice markup but if you mess around with multiple overlapping inline elements or the two lists and indent/dedent enough you'll wind up with very bizarre markup.
Don't Bother Recruiting at This LA Hackathon
How about a kickstarter to create a ebook that has the guidance built in?
I've been running a few Linodes for the past year with absolutely no complaints. A year isn't a huge sample period, but I am very happy with my experience so far. I can't compare to Slicehost or Rackspace, but compared to my previous VPS at Media Temple (grrr...) Linode is paradise.
Because computers are about instant gratification and always will be.
It's somewhat unintuitive. I also had just pressed play at first. Then I read the text and added a bunch of unconnected dots. Nothing. Only after reading your comment above have I understood how it works.
1,236 kilometres per hour (768 mph)
SS6 is java (no framework), rabbitmq, mongo, memcached with node providing services like less compilation.
IANAL, but it's possible that these users are now liable to pay for the extra games. They knew that the code was only usable once, yet used it multiple times. EA might ask for the games back or charge the users.

(I'm not taking EA's side, I'm just pointing out some possible consequences.)
I find that Ulysses is a completely different book every time I read it. Perhaps that's because I'm under the influence of whatever analysis, essay, or bit of commentary I happen to have read about it, or class I happen to be taking, just before diving in. Or perhaps it's because I've been in a different life stage, or state of mind, each time. But honestly, if I weren't a strict unbeliever in the supernatural, I'd swear that Joyce hastily rewrites the book, from beyond the grave, each time I open it up.

I know of no other book that has this effect on me.
Europe Closer to Fining Microsoft Billions Over Failure To Offer IE Alternatives
What makes it stranger is that this story is appearing in a publication, identifying an unserved market, without any hint that they themselves would publish exactly what they say is missing. That is a story I'd like to read, and I might even click on a Pando link to read it.
Zhang Weiying: China's Anti-Keynesian Insurgent
I couldn't imagine the guts it would take to stand on that platform, much less calmly step off.