skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a more critical view of the study, see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/09/reef-alarmists-jump-th...

- it is a meta-study based on surveys performed more frequently on damaged areas, by poorly trained observers

- it asserts storm damage is increasing because of increased cyclone intensity, but there is no measured increase in intensity

- the cause and effect of water quality issues are significantly more complicated than presented

It also raises the question of what benefit Australia has received from all its previous GBR management investment. If efforts of previous decades have been so completely ineffectual, why throw more money at it?
I think she meant New Yorker, so it was funny that she talked about newspapers for most of the article.
>In the creepshots case, the material is produced without the consent of the subjects

You mean like the best photos of every 20th century street photographer, from Cartier Bresson to Gary Winograd?
Exactly. Screen scrape Google search results instead, I've heard that works great. Bet your business model on it, I've heard. ;-)
All I really want from journalists is the information that most of us are too lazy or busy to collect. I want them to make phone calls, speak to insiders, cross reference public statements with available records, generally make a nuisance of themselves until they have some new insights to bring to light.

Most times though it seems they're barely doing any more research than what went into a well received HN comment. Except some articles are padded out with details of what the reporter is having for lunch during the interview... I've got no idea why that type of writing is in demand. I'd rather read a flat transcript in most cases.
Obviously this is on open source stuff, but I'd don't think it'd reflect positively with a prospective client or employer.
I have huge respect for people who make this sort of call - deploy the parachute when it needs to be deployed, not when it would land him another record.

Like mountaineers who turn back before reaching the summit, because they know that getting there is only part of the effort.

Well done, Felix. On all accounts!
I can't speak to the name (or even existence) of any fallacy that this describes, but pricing strategy you mentioned is known as price anchoring, where a higher number anchors the value against which the lower number is compared. Sometimes it's an explicit comparison of price, for or example where a higher price is offered, then "discounted" to a still high, but percieved bargain price; or a comparison of price to value (eg. ROI); or to an unrelated value that sets a subconscious numeric anchor for the price that follows.

This is relevant: http://danwin.com/2011/12/the-irrationality-of-price-anchori...
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I'm a big fan of data mining so I'll make sure to take it out for spin :) And from fellow belgian people, nice!
Did this guy just jump from the edge of space at maybe more than the speed of sound and you're grousing at him for not falling the longest time?

You sir, have high expectations.
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google doodle has started to become an art form!!
If you enjoyed Nagel, pick up 'The Mind's I', an anthology edited by Douglas Hofstadter, which includes a few of Nagel's essays and many others of value. If you're interested in things like crime and punishment, Leo Katz has written several highly accessible books on moral philosophy and law, though his arguments sometimes trike me as glib. Reading Plato, especially the dialogs of Socrates, can be a little indigestible at first, because he takes a long time to get to the point. but there's a reason that Whitehead said most philosophy consists of 'footnotes to Plato'; once you get used to the style you'll find the weighty matters leavened with a surprising amount of dry humor.
I've done MSF which is incidentally GREAT as general driver's training. I've also got a US Sailing Basic Keelboat cert somewhere. Sailing has also had a big impact on how I think - learning to deal with forces much greater than you is very worthwhile.

If you live near a ski area, pickup the cheaper weekday season pass and do night skiing twice a week until you can handle the black diamOnds with ease.

Apply this to everything you find.
Something that doesn't die when I drop it once a day would be good enough (even if it is a 3rd party case for something else).
STL is good for what it is. The limitation is that there is little ability to specify behaviors, use cases, data distributions, workload profiles, etc because that would effectively break the abstraction and expose the internals.

However, STL still requires an implementation and so the implementors select algorithms that will give adequate performance across a wide range of scenarios but which are usually significantly suboptimal for any specific scenario. Consequently, a custom implementation tuned for a specific scenario will often handily out-perform the STL implementation. For the kinds of applications I work on, poor-fitting STL implementations are frequently major bottlenecks in the profiler.

It is plausible to add an enormous number of implementations and data structures to STL that would allow someone to select/construct the perfect data structure for a particular use case. However, that would also add a level of complexity to the STL that probably is not worth the benefit for many users.
Adding Vary Header Support To Nginx
Using Lua to add Vary header support to Nginx: may be handy for those using it as a reverse proxy.
Doesn't that contradict the definition of free-fall? How big can the drogue be before it's considered a parachute?
I actually enjoyed the "... for Beginners" series of philosophy intros that come in the format of comics. I think they're a great way to get introduced to some of the basic concepts.

They're really easy to digest, really quick, easy, fun reads. Highly recommended.

Another good way to ease in to the subject are the "Philosophy of Watchmen", "Philosophy of Batman", "Philosophy through Science Fiction" types of books. If you have an interest in any comic or fiction genre, there's probably a "Philosophy of ..." book written about it. See if you can find it, as having that connection will help you to relate and understand the underlying philosophical ideas (which can often seem way too abstract when presented on their own).

As for primary sources, I'd recommend reading Nietzsche and Plato. Nietzsche especially is probably the greatest writer philosophy has ever produced, by far. So reading his work is not the chore that the work of most other philosophers is. He also deals with very visceral, real issues that tend to really speak to people (unlike, say, most of the analytics who tend to love building abstract little logic or language puzzles to play with, which tend to leave most people cold).

Plato isn't as good a writer as Nietzsche, but his work does make for a pretty easy read, and the issues he deals with are also quite relevant and understandable for people just starting to dip their toes in to the wide sea of philosophy.
In the first couple paragraphs..."Simply put: It was easy and cheap for a lot of other players on the Web to outdo daily newspaper journalism for cheap or free."

But her point is that investigative journalism like that seen in the New Yorker won't convert to free web content as easily.
I'm baffled by this admiration of commit messages that do nothing to explain the code committed.
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He did not pass the speed of sound :(
Having read those, I'm pretty much on your side about the karma, but in each of the downvoted ones I can pick out a thing that definitely rubs people up the wrong way and can lead to downvotes if they already disagree with the content of the post.

Firstly you begin with "No.", which many many folks on here find rude and arrogant, and I'm basically with them - plus I've read so many ranty unreasonable posts beginning with "No." that it begins to hoist a red flag - then you misspell "keyboard". Those kinds of things tip people over from "disagree" to "downvote".

Second, "Do not ever bring PSD to me. Ever." - who are you talking to? Yes, I think we get it, but you must understand how rude it sounds. In this case I am sure that had you replied to the (sincere) follow up question then you'd have got some correcting upvotes. You didn't, so it looks like you're just ranting.

Thirdly, typos: "something what", "get's". You don't get downvoted for typos, but when you're saying something like you were in that post you need to do so with authority. If you undermine that then it recontextualises the post and makes it seem like you're bullshitting.

The problem that they all have though is TONE. You sound aggressive.
From what I can tell, that's on Facebook's end, as all the Facebook plugins seems to flicker occasionally as well. I'll look into it, although there's nothing unusual with my front-end code that should be causing unusual behavior...maybe CloudFlare caching issues?

Thanks for letting me know btw. :)
It would be easier, if clicking and dragging filled all the cells in the mouse-path with life. Without this, it is very cumbersome to initiate the cells.

Great work, btw! Now everyone can play the game of life! :)
Yes, the video will be posted youtube.com/redbull in the next few hours.
A random button would be a fun way to get started.
Rephrase: with higher efficacy.
That's true. There was a time when it wasn't easy for regular folks to find press releases and announcements, so there were all these magazines marketed to IT pros and tech executives that just regurgitated marketing materials, and that could be perceived as being a valuable service.

Of course, some of the websites still do that :-) But you really need to add original reporting or analysis today to stand out.
Ask HN: Got talent overflow
So, I keep reading posts telling us there is a huge shortage of talent in the valley and everywhere.
And then I look around, and I got at least a dozen super talented people unable to get the work they want.

CONTEXT:
Been developing for 10 years now, from army days, where I built a large network of great developers *.
Many of them worked in the big names here (MS/Intel/Google/Nice/etc) and/or got offers of either to work or relocate with others.
But they went the startup way and now slowly trickle back to the market looking for freelance and project work.

And while amazon gladly offered my friend $120K to relocate to the states, no one is willing to give him a freelance project if he wants above $50/hour (unless he sits full time in their office and becomes de-facto employee).

Can someone explain how this can be ?

(o) To be clear, these are Java / C# / Rails, areas that should be super hot (even had an Android dev who couldn't find a decent project).
Yeah, 4 cents/word (what Tumblr is paying) is a joke. Claiming there's a shortage of writers is ridiculous. There's lot of good writers out there.
He was spinning like crazy for quite some time - that literally had my heart beating like crazy - i was like - what's going to happen - is he unconscious - is the automatic parachute ejection not working - then; later was happy to seem him gain control on his free fall. :-)
Don't know if there are standards for this, but here is what Wikipedia says about the previous jump:

"On August 16, 1960, he made the final jump, from the Excelsior I999II, at 102,800 feet (31,300 m).[2] Towing a small drogue parachute for initial stabilization, he fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 miles per hour (988 km/h)[4][5] before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
The Internet is still a leveling bitch on dysfunctional industries. This is hardly a free-for-all; readers will only read long form content, if it’s excellent.

I think the major change with the advent the internet is that since one can publish so easily, one cannot count on the presence of an editor to help with things like eliminating stray commas which alter the meaning of one's sentences.
Is there a problem with linking to your own blog?
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Not likely. I believe the record holder for longest free fall duration is Valeri Polyakov, at 14 months aboard MIR ;-)
Indeed, he didn't break the speed of sound. When he hit around an estimated 729mph, he was spinning a fair bit. It looked as if he made the decision to attempt to stabilize (I think he mentioned during descent that he thought he was going to pass out) himself at the cost of not breaking the sound barrier.
For a team the score for a single game in meaningless it's simply win/loss.

Think of it like this. If simply increasing the score was of value teams could simply walk the first 3 batters each inning. I mean it's within the rules and just think how much more exciting the game would be if each inning started with bases loaded.
yeah and at exactly the same time communication stopped suddenly ... that was a very horrifying moment indeed
Nice, you downvote me for your imprecision. Are you an MBA?

How about "first things first?"
Does anyone know where I can see this video? I missed the live jump...
3d printers will print designs optimized for them, rather than ones optimized for mass production.

Spend 100$ and wait a few days, or spend a few bucks and wait a few hours?

The question is whether a coffee maker can be made from less materials in a way compatible with cheap 3d printing, and there is no reason to believe it won't be possible.
This is the most WTF article I've seen in awhile. A shortage of writers? Really?
At the peak they released helium to slow his ascent. At around 126k ft he accelerated and was ascending at 2000ft/min (twice as fast as he was going for most of the trip). It would have been interesting to see where it would have naturally stopped.
I don't think it has been confirmed yet, he was pretty close.
Who cares if they're not actually vulnerable? It's 2012. These password restrictions are arbitrary and anachronistic.
How completely pointless. If I stop by my local hardware store looking for some paint and its closed, then find a little sketch pad where I can draw a picture to express myself if think this was the most stupid thing I've seen all year. What is is this, kindergarten?
Suddenly everyone wants New Yorker style software. Who is going to develop it?
here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETbQv7RC8V8&feature=youtu...
We have a handful[1] of secure machines that are allowed to SSH into production systems. No development or other Internet activity takes place on those boxes.

[1] A handful because many of us are remote. Mine is a EeePC.
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No, he probably did this to leave Joe Kittinger one of his world records, because Joe was the essential team member who made this mission possible for Felix.
Slaughter long running apache processes without mercy
Not sure if it's out yet but it will be on Red Bull's Youtube channel (that's where the live stream was)
Agree. And not just for my own posts. I see downvoted posts like parent's and think that it's no worse than several other comments on this page that aren't downvoted.

Another example is the ubiquitous person who posts on some story complaining about the CSS or that the font of the page is bad design. That person never seems to get downvoted despite being flagrantly off-topic.

The only constant seems to be that comments spouting very popular truisms ("patents are bad", "functional languages are good") garner lots of upvotes.
What's your excuse
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Their centering doesn't work either.

The code from the following link demonstrates that (change "span6" to "six columns")
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652191
That's okay. You did a better job than what any of the popular tech blogs would have done.
Always felt like a price / market issue to me.

They see everyone around them hire full time developers at $100+K/year
And they see everyone getting freelancers at $40/hour

So they assume this is how things are.
Since you mention Hofstadter, I simply have to bring up Godel, Escher, Bach. Especially for anyone who's interested in computers and artificial intelligence, this is a must read. It is brimming over with philosophical issues, and is very accessible even to someone without any previous exposure to philosophy.

I'd also recommend "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem. It's an anthology of hilarious science fiction stories, many of which deal with deep philosophical themes. Also, along those lines is Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, which is also hilarious and very philosophical.

These aren't exactly the first books most people think of when asked for intro to philosophy books, but I think books like these are quite perfect as very easy, gentle, funny and fun intros to many philosophical themes. Their humor and wit also put the vast majority of "real" philosophy books to shame.
oh, ok, sure (sorry).
Both of them fail to center elements. They are also unable to keep the proportions set for them when resizing a window.

Here's code that demonstrates that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652191
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands highest ever jump
This podcast has an interview that explains the camera tech used http://www.fxguide.com/therc/red_centre_073/
And it doesn't even have to be about really significant stuff. For example our local paper had a story recently about a new website for one of the city services. No mention of:

a) What it cost.

b) Why it was 12 months late (based on deadline in original RFP).

c) Why key requirements specified in the original RFP were not implemented.

I mean if I wanted to just read the city's one-sided press release, I would do that.

And the paper wonders why nobody subscribes to the print version anymore.
At the moment it looks like he passed it.
In our recent reader survey almost every
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As long as those powerful people aren't your investors, no doubt. http://observer.com/2012/08/conflict-journalism-how-online-m...
Most Online Journalism Is Rotten to the Core
that, or the fogged up visor and inability to read altitude meters
Smooth! I loved the little touches, like the parallax effects on the previous panes as the window stretched vertically.
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I had this same problem with my Galaxy Nexus. My sim card was really old and after the change and 4.0.4 update now it works great.
Why Startups Are Helping The Economy More Than You Think
Congrats to Felix and Red Bull! Makes me and so many others proud to be Austrian.
Now that I've actually finished the article (heh), I think it's asking a very good question.

What she's really saying is:

1) Readers want good long-form articles
2) Some sites are even willing to pay for it
3) But, there are no longer up-and-comers being trained to produce such work, there are only the writers who already have the experience.

What she's saying is not all that different from the complaint you see about hiring developers- Everyone wants someone with 5 years experience, but there's a lack of opportunities for people to get that 5 years experience.

I think that's an exaggerated complaint in the software industry, but maybe not as much in the journalism biz.
Self promotion [of your own blog/site] is frowned upon I believe. We have SHOW HN: for when you want to show something off that you have done.

I think it's mainly to stop reporters at Gawker from linking to all their articles though ;)
That has been exactly my experience. When I first heard about "show dead" I turned it on out of curiosity and started to find all sorts of interesting and worthwhile comments. Yes, a few trolls too, but fewer of those.

It really bothers my sense of ethics that the scenario you described can happen: someone posting insightful comments for a year and not realizing they are a "ghost". It's a waste of human potential - both for the writer and for those who don't get to read the comments - and the system here is explicitly designed to keep the writer in the dark about the situation.

How is this a good thing?
"At times," he said, "it seemed almost impossible to remotely understand how the program worked."

Ahh, I know that feeling.
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Actually they have pretty different approaches to economics, yet they end up with similar conclusions (except for differences regarding the control of the supply).

And you say that like it's a bad thing, when in reality we could use a healthy dose of economic conservatism right now.
This did seem quite surprising to me as well - I think they might have let it go if it wasn't quite such a high rate of ascent. 2000ft/min could easily give them a final altitude way above what they'd expected.
> The proper way to implement a promo code is logical: when the user attempts to apply a promo code, the server checks, has the user used this promo code before? by querying SELECT FROM transactions WHERE user_id = current_user AND promo_code = “OS3874XVC”. If the result set is empty, then the user hasn’t used the code, and everything’s good to go.

Be very careful here, it's not as simple as it looks. If you don't do the correct locking it is very easy to have timing attacks which allow keys to be used twice.

We learned this the hard way after posting a one use key for our game on 4chan. A thousand people rushed to try the key and around 100 people managed to get in using it.
GIF of the first five seconds or so
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Who's going to write it? How about the writers for The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, The Economist, The Paris Review, etc. I could fill up the length of a long-form article with names of publications that have long-form writing.

The real question is, who's going to pay for it? This is like when someone complains that there aren't any good programmers out there, and, P.S., they're paying $25k a year. The article talks about 2000-3000 word articles. At the rate Tumblr's paying, that's $80-$120 per article. Who are they kidding? At those rates, if you're an established writer, you're better off posting to a personal blog and relying on ad revenue.

There have been a few magazines (both online and print) that have recently managed to establish themselves as reputable publications that have good writing. What they've done is pay above-market rates to attract good writers. After all, why would you publish in some no name publication instead of The Atlantic? Tumblr seems to be using the opposite strategy.
When is "Good" Good Enough for Bitcoin?
Ask HN: Why is a website being "responsive" good?
Why must website elements resize magically when windows are enlarged?

People read best when they don't move their head left and right. This means 80 characters in a line. Why must CSS frameworks have support for being "responsive"?

Why is responsive good?
So provide examples. What other developed nations still haven't introduced universal healthcare of some form and are seriously debating maintaining that quality standard?
More newsworthy would be if it actually came in as promsed, on time and under budget. Only the Onion seems interested in breaking real news like that, however.
How exactly does helmet fog tie into safe parachute decisions? Couldn't see altitude and didn't trust himself to count?