skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a tennis match Amy. I'm not in competition with you. My life goals are not the same as yours. I still want to make gobs of money, but I want to make it on my terms.

I'm highly creative and can't stay with old ideas for long. I want to invent and innovate constantly.

BTW, I may be new to HN but I'm not new to hustling or marketing, so I know making a consistent 30,000 smackers a month on time tracking software would probably require a lot of blood, sweat and tears. New people need to hear this because its a more complete story.

Congratulations on your success.
Skins TV series and Joe Kittinger jump.
Behavior-specific social networks, Facebook's challenge, and others' opportunity
Preliminary (i.e., non-record certified) telemetry:

Exit altitude:

128,100 ft
39,045 m

Free-fall time:

4m:20s

Free-fall distance:

119,846 ft
36,529 m

Maximum velocity:

373 m/s
1,342.8 km/h
833.9 mph
Mach 1.24
I have experienced the same problem myself. An even simpler (partial) fix would be to just move the buttons further away from each other. They are so close at the moment that hitting the right one on a touch device is basically pure luck. You could also use JS to add an "are you sure?" popup upon hitting downvote.

OTOH HN actually has a fair number of usability issues, though it doesn't seem like there is much interest in fixing them (I'm sure PG has plenty of other things to do). I think this might be partly because this board is written in some form of LISP so less people will be comfortable tweaking the source.

Would it be heresy to suggest a re-implementation in something like rails, or gasp even PHP?
Once it was clear that there was was a leak of confidencial information, he should have taken what was required as minimal evidence (a few screenshots?) and then contacted the Acting Privacy Commissioner.

Did he really need to go through files related to Doctors/Radiology, Debt Collectionn, Fraud Investigations, Care and Protection, HCN? Snooping through the servers beyond what was necessary was wrong.

The bigger story is the lack of security on the New Zealand servers. However, what he did was wrong and possible illegal IMHO.
I was under the impression alot if not all digital camera's had a filter for IR that on some is easier to remove than others.

Seen many a article on how to convert a common digital camera though have not tried any myself so for example this one http://www.petapixel.com/2010/10/20/how-to-convert-a-cheap-d...

Note that removing the IR filter the camera will still pick up visable light so you could add a filter to remove that so you just get IR or if the firmware is hackable then you can could see what opensource flavours are out. Though failing that most photo edit software will cater for that with after filtering. But you will be doing most IR in the dark to eliminate the sun factor, unless you want to see how much the sun warms area's.

I'm sure somebody has done this type of hack and can comment better with converting digital camera's to IR and what models are best for the price, possibly ebay 2nd hand DLSR's but who knows?
Of course. It's kind of a requirement at KSplice[1]. :)

1. http://www.ksplice.com/
Is breaking the sound barrier noticeable to the sky diver?
nice movie
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/09/john-carter-720p-bluray-f...
make sure your rows are in containers.

container
row
span6
span6
In addition, the author claimed he spent a week preparing the story. Yet he only contacted the Acting Privacy Commissioner yesterday. He blog was published before the government had a chance to fix the issue. I find this irresponsible.
That's no differentiation -- there's just writers. I can't speak to why that's the case -- maybe because they don't want to make anyone be the person who does nothing but crap work. I don't think anyone sets out planning to do a bunch of rewrites anyway. In my experience it just sneaks up on you "Oh, well we should probably cover this and I need a post, guess I'll just do this real quick." That's just my experience, but there's certainly no one at TC telling me to do rewrites. I guess there's also varying definitions of what constitutes a re-write -- I don't actually always depend on a press release or anyone's else's coverage for every news short news story.
Yeah it's definitely off. x axis transitions are too fast.
Well we agree. My answer is not to justify PNaCL, but to let you know that when you say "we commit to this", it means we give some serious investment on Emscripten and building a community. So far Emscripten has only been mentioned as 1-2 slides on each JS talk. And I think we both agree that a serious project as it is, it needs a few people building posting updates and letting everyone about the great work that is being done by @kripken.

Thanks though for your answer.
Having zoom enabled and changing device rotation can cause formatting issues on some devices. The mobile (smartphone) websites of TechCrunch, Yahoo, Cnet, Mashable, etc. all disable mobile zoom.

Tablets appear to be a different story though, and zoom might need to be enabled there.
What is the advantage of using a Raspberry Pi as opposed to install Ngnix direct on you Tomato equipped router? Almost all routers can extend space with USB keys or similar.
Great idea! I love it!
Check out joyceimages.com for Ulysses "illustrations". We use images from the time the book is set in. Some of them are of a specific person or place that's mentioned, while others just demonstrate the mood of a line.
Can you imagine how much worse EA's image would get if they did that? I'm hoping the PR department will override the legal department in this case.
How long ago was this? I can imagine the experience wouldn't be nearly as painful with internet access.
More people should photograph
Another one to check out if you're interested in the soft sciences, culture, & history is Lapham's Quarterly.
Good point, that would be good too! However, it's easier to store stuff on the Raspi than on the Tomato. I also like working on a full debian environment.
Ask HN: Our code review checklist. Love it or hate it, but add your comments
Very true. The question is whether the government saw sense and scaled back it's unsustainable future drive, or whether things just stalled. I'm still undecided.
If one was so non-technical as to be incapable of using diff and a bug tracker, perhaps they shouldn't be writing manpages.
Wearable Device Translates Ambient Sound to Haptic Feedback by Bone Conduction
9.8m/s^2 at work.
Let me rephrase that more accurately:

Instead we need to push for tech savvy people to make it high up in Washington and European Union so that they preempt consumers' choices about who to do business with, instead of letting free individuals make decisions for themselves.
Postmodernism - funny writers being studied by people with either no sense of humor, or a very mean-spirited one.

(Oh wait, it's HN).

What I mean, in long form:

Postmodernist works (e.g. Catch 22) are often hilarious. The hallmarks of postmodernism (references, subverting memes, subverting conventions, subverting everything, breaking the fourth wall) are the kind of thing you see more in British comedy than "serious" literature.

Postmodernist writers either miss the jokes completely, or kill them with overanalysis. I am postulating that either the academics we call "postmodernist" don't actually get the jokes, or are very wryly re-telling them with a straight face, then secretly laughing at the people who don't realise it's all a joke (which I consider mean-spirited).
Journalism and creative writing are not the same thing. Journalism of the form found in the New Yorker requires financial investment, in the form of funding travel, and in the form of funding full-time fact checking.

Also, if you think that startups are not-immediate-money-driven, I would disagree.
The problem is that if you know you are banned you can just create an extra account and continue trolling.

Perhaps there should be a method for those with "showdead" switched on to petition for a review of a hellbanned user?
I think this is the best possible example of why you should always develop websites using progressive enhancement. First, write the app without using any JavaScript. Test it. Make sure the core logic works as intended. Then add JavaScript to make it faster, pretties, simpler to use. That will most likely prevent fuckups such as this, and it will also result in better structured, easier to reason about architecture.
Exactly. I'm even too scared to make pushy phone calls - I love it when somebody else does that and I get to read about it.
He was just asked this at the press conference, and he replied that he felt nothing as he is in a pressurised suit (he could neither feel or hear anything during the fall).
Surviving in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18
Some context, for those who, like myself, didn't recognise it: It's celebrating the 107th anniversary of the publication of an American comic strip. It ran between 1905 and 1927.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo
I don't know what this is going to cost EA, but this may end up being a good thing. People hate Origin but more importantly, all their games are already on Steam, so they just continue to buy from Valve. This might get a few people to keep Origin installed on their computer and help the Origin network effect out. Up until now, EAs only strategy has been to make their big name franchises Origin exclusive. This will probably work better and may not end up costing them much.
Non-swipe link: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137521-the-tech-behind-fe...
Sure, I have a few planned out projects & I'd love to get one launched. What kind of projects are you interested in working on? Drop me a mail if you'd like to discuss.
No it doesn't. The problem with the sonic boom in fighter jets and the associated forces it produces is because the control surfaces of the planes at the time weren't designed to deal with the effects from supersonic speeds[0], so they would lose control.

There is no 'force' associated with breaking the sound barrier, as most would imagine

Most of the forces in the freefall would have been G forces from the tumbling or spinning motion as he jumped out.

[0] the tl;dr for aircraft is that as you approach and overtake mach 1, at some point the airflow at the beginning of the wing is supersonic while at the rear of the wing it is not, as you accelerate this point moves from the front of the wing to the rear. the problem is that it causes the airflow from that point to separate from the wing which results in a stall, spin, crash etc.
> Are we really too busy for one of history's great psychological novels?

Yes.
This article missed the earlier Reddit thread where a separate exploit was discovered, that the coupon applied to every item in the basket. $20 off of everything. Coupled with a coupon from a different forum you could add tens or maybe hundreds of games to your account for free in one large bundle.

I'm really curious to see EA's response.
They are also the kind of policies that will make enterprisey minds feel safe and secure. Not worth reading too much into them.
Ask HN: Judge my Upcoming App's Landing Page
I'm launching a new iOS app this Wednesday. It has been my largest undertaking ever (details below). As such, I'm really making an effort in terms of promotion which has been one of my blind spots in the past.

I'd really appreciate feedback on this landing page I've created. Most of my skills are in the coding realm, so design is always a struggle for me. Please be harsh!

http://wanderousapp.com

(For fans of specifics: 443.85 hours total, 282.48 hours iOS, 120.03 hours webdev & scripting in python+django, 49.97 hours graphic design, 19,750 lines objective-c, 7,346 lines of python. Spread over the past 3.5 months.)
First of all, I think you're confusing correlation and causation here:

"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."

For example, Nabokov is much more accessible than Joyce, but the same people who like Ulysses are likely to enjoy Lolita.

Second, I would ask whether you enjoy any literature. Some people like words more than others. What do you like to read? Do you read poetry? Not everyone has to. People who study music tend to like more "inaccessible" music like Bach or Mahler or whatever, and I presume you don't think it's because they're being pretentious. I listen to more mainstream music. But words, I get and love.

I haven't read the Iliad, but I loved The Odyssey. I read it for the first time two years ago (age: 26, translation: Fagles). It's full of sex and violence and dramatic tension. Expecting a dusty classic, I was surprised by how engaging it was.
Clickable: http://wanderousapp.com
A lot of Stallman's points are nonsense, but the one about ALEC is particularly stupid and misinformed. ALEC, which is basically a think tank, has been the subject of a campaign of demonization by the totalitarian left, which has unfortunately been very effective in getting some of their contributors to cut off funding. If you don't like ALEC's solutions to problems, then by all means you should start your own damn foundation and promote out your own set of "model bills" and position papers, instead of trying silence ALEC's.
I don't think you have characterized the problem accurately (or at least completely). The coupon allowed you to add dozens of games to your cart, then applied the $20 off to each individual item instead of just one, or against the total. It was a logic problem in applying the coupon on the server side.
agreeing with huskyr here. nicely done in so little lines.
Ah, I bought a beta key a while ago. Nice to see local developers making a mark. Certainly the best hack/slash game out right now.
if you want to do this sort of entity recognition, there is Apache Stanbol which is quite useful: http://stanbol.apache.org/
Photographers, embrace Instagram
I had 8 instances with Linode and quickly moved after their disgraceful behaviour during their Bitcoin security incident. In which customers were only told days after it was reported across the internet and to this day nobody knows exactly what happened, what was done to fix it or whether it will happen again.

As a PaaS/IaaS provide you NEVER, EVER hide things from your customers. Especially with security. And you combine this with their very average uptime and I would never recommend Linode to anybody.

You are much better off having a look around:

http://webhostingtalk.com
So because of DRM, they're fully capable of taking those games "back" (removing them from accounts), right? I mean, if VALVe one day decided I no longer can have TF2 they can simply strip it from account, is that how their terms work?
HN Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Avoid unnecessary editing of the article's original title.
Another 50 years of Moore’s Law
Yes, I'm working on an update that adds something interesting from the start, and a better explanation of how to play. Thanks for the feedback. :)
Going that extra mile was necessary to make this a big story instead of having it brushed under the carpet. It seems that the leak was known about as much as a year ago (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...), MSD were informed, but nothing was done because there was no media firestorm. By showing what was exposed, Keith Ng made the horrific impact of the leak understandable to the public and media and greatly increased the likelihood that something will get done.
Why You Shouldn’t Build A Business On An API Call
I don't think he was saying 'from orbit.' He was saying in an emergency.

Yes, the heat from re-entry is caused by the slowing of the spacecraft's relative speed from the incredibly fast speeds of orbit, as gravity gains hold of it and pulls it even faster. If someone exited a spacecraft in space, with zero drag, and headed towards earth, they would be moving at faster than their terminal velocity and would likely burn up.

But if someone had an issue in a sub-orbital flight - or on takeoff for a space mission - bailing out could be a viable option.

(Interestingly, this is why Col. Kittinger made the jumps he made with Project Excelsior in 1960 - to test whether an astronaut with no skydiving experience in the upcoming Mercury space program could successfully escape their spacecraft in the event of an emergency during the ascent.)
The font isn't rendered well in FF 16. Other than that, it's a pretty interesting project.
This makes me happy on so many levels.
Thanks for such a thorough reply! I'm very curious about the highest possible (and feasible) altitude. I couldn't find out how high you can go and still fall towards the Earth. (At some point you would just orbit the Earth, right?)

Edit: Thanks to both replies. Never mind, then!
You can comment here on HN or edit in the following link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lct10jhe3FotsqkeCsVPkM_U...
I've had my Linode account for 3 years this month, with server instances from all of their U.S. datacenters. Before I sing their praises, I have to describe how hard it is for me to be a fan of just about anything. I'm a pretty grumpy dude and I think everything's crap.

But not Linode. They are really, really great.

1. Great support. I'm an experienced sysadmin but I still occasionally run in to things that make me scratch my head. When I do, Linode support is the last place I turn to, but when I do turn to them, they respond within a few minutes and almost always with the right answer. They should be held up as a model of perfect customer service right alongside Zappos and Amazon and Nordstrom.

2. No I/O issues so far, for me. One of the concerns of a VPS is that you can get strange issues caused by other VPS instances running on the same hardware where everything will be sluggish but iostat and its brethren will you tell you everything's fine. I haven't seen this on any of my Linodes so far.

3. No other performance issues so far. Similar to above; the only time my instance feels icky is when I've crapped on it somehow. Near as I can tell, nobody else is using the same hardware I am.

4. Pretty good uptime. Unfortunately, not perfect -- if you insist on 100% uptime, you'll have to get clever with redundancies between datacenters -- but it's been pretty good overall. They're pretty open about problems as they happen, check http://status.linode.com. There were repeat problems with their Fremont datacenter about a year ago, so I moved everything out of it, but it's probably OK now.

5. A pretty nice management interface. I did like their previous version a little better, but the current one is OK. You can still do pretty much anything you need to do from it.

6. No stupid password requirements. My main Linode password is a string of line noise. It works. 'Nuff said. (Also: you can make their interface block logins from IPs you haven't logged in from before; attempted login attempts from unknown IPs will result in an email to you with a link to allow that IP.)

7. They like to give their customers gifts. Really, about twice a year they'll say, "thanks for being our customer!" by handing out free memory upgrades or other awesomeness. How cool is that?

Some criticisms:

1. Disk space seems pretty expensive right now. That might be a lingering side-effect of the mass destruction of HD manufacturers early this year. I'm not yet feeling like the disk space is completely inadequate, but it is more of a problem than RAM (for me).

2. Security. They had two incidents in the last year, IIRC; one caused by an ex-employee who compromised a bunch of Linodes running Bitcoin-related stuff, and one caused by a Xen vulnerability. Linode was pretty tight-lipped about both of those, and I don't like that.

Hope this helps.
All the while this kept playing in my head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8
SDN's Potential in the Data Center and On the WAN
Awesome work! My current data structures textbook is awful, and this book helped clarify a lot of concepts that were originally confusing.
Official: Skydiver Breaks Speed of Sound
Probably not, because he exited at almost zero atmosphere.
If they did try to charge for the games they would get enough chargebacks that they would have a hard time processing credit card payments for a while. And with chargeback penalties they might actually lose money.

The only sensible options are a) do nothing or b) revoke games purchased with these codes. If I were them I would do nothing and treat it as an unplanned pricing experiment. Since a lot of these games have an online component (network effects!) the "giveaways" might increase real sales overall.
A wiki like that exists for Finnegans Wake

http://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
This is better. http://atopiary.com/
The Elegant Email
Thanks for the heads up; I'm sure that there will be plenty of little things pop up now we have finalized the entry. We'll take a look at it once the judging is over.
Not on Skype but on IRC you can go to #startups on freenode
Yeah, I modified an old CVS disposable digital camera to do this once. Those filters only block near IR (as mentioned in the article), basically light just outside our vision spectrum. You can use infrared LED's and a camera thus modified to make a cheap night vision camera (This is, I believe, how the night mode on old sony cameras would work).

Measuring heat, however, requires far IR, which won't be picked up by removing the filter.
I worked in local TV journalism for about five years; an industry thrashing around to find its new footing to be sure. There are very few people there who are willing to do serious journalism. They don't know how to Google, or who to call. Many of those fresh out of college simply have no curiosity, and little imagination.

It's not unusual to talk to some and find out their dreams of being the next Oprah or Brian Williams. (I'm not knocking those people or celebrities mind you. Even then often the reporters don't realize the work and dedication those people put into their craft. They just know success when they see it.) These people are chasing the popular respect, popularity in culture, and money. Of course, not all. Just many.

There are some people who really do have an interest in the work. I say this as a producer with five years experience, who has been looking for a job just over a year now[0]. The three times interviews with top 80 markets have gone far enough to talk money the offers were around $20k. I'm going to have to take the next job like this offered to me.

[0] I lost my last job because I visited 4chan. My boss said the news wires we subscribed too had enough information, and there was no excuse to try to look at the site myself. Therefor, I was obviously going to look at porn. Which I assume there were thumbnails of on my harddrive.