skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I meant in real terms but I didn't specify it.

Or they'll be like me with barely $5000 invested in stocks - To get a comfortable retirement I'll probably need to invest at least $10,000 a year. However, if the price of investments rise faster than my wage, I'll need to spend more to purchase investments to produce the same absolute yield. The income from my investments would also be reduced (due to reduced yield). You can argue they are capital gains, but the "capital gains" would only be permanent if the company's assets or income was increased permanently.

What I am saying is the increase in price for investments resulting in lower yield without justification is not a good thing for buyers of said investments.

I have a $50,000 student debt owed to the government, whose interest is indexed to CPI. There is no point for me to pay off my loan early besides what the government requires me to do. So, I constantly invest my excess earnings.
Thanks Fleitz. I missed links on the Logo+title+screenshot. I'll definitely get them in there for when the app because available on the store.

The spots are not necessarily restaurant specific. The points of interest are closer to encompassing whole neighborhoods rather than a single restaurant. It's really just about where the hotspots are in a given location. Some are chosen due to a cluster or restaurants, but others may be chosen simply because its a scenic are where lots of photos are taken and shared. Your comment definitely shows me that I need to convey this somehow. Thanks again!
A year of fun and hard work on learning Dart
> and keeps the markup clean via regexp cleanup

wait what?
I've had the experience of trying to read Nabakov and Nietzsche and in both cases being sure most of it was sailing way over my head. I kind of enjoyed the stuff anyway, but as a working adult I don't have time to screw around with secret decoder rings. Wish I did.
What's Wrong With antirez's Post on Sexism in IT
How appropriate, today is the day Felix Baumgartner broke the speed of sound in a pressurized suit.
Sambdala, I'm one of the ppl who wrote the article. I actually agree with you that today's jobs have a higher potential to really affect the world. Technology lets us outsource tedious tasks to computers so we can focus on more meaningful and creative things. I think people who just say "technology is destroying jobs" are missing the fact that technology is creating completely new opportunities (as you say "to create something of value from nothing and give access to it to the entire world")
- Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?

- Both.
But in the case of free fall from space or near space, the air is so thin that these effects are minimal.

-- This is interesing, Thanks.

Do we know at what altitude he hit Mach 1.0, out of curiousity?
Just a note: you're more likely to find an English-language version of À la recherche du temps perdu titled Remembrance of Things Past rather than In Search of Lost Time.
Ask HN: Are your Google Calendar events older than ~2  months gone, too? 
Trying to figure out if I'm going crazy, if this is isolated to my account, or if the rest of the internet just hasn't noticed yet.
If you don't want to put a lot of time into your app-marketing site, the easy solution is to just setup a blog using a Wordpress theme designed for that purpose. There's a bunch of free ones that do a good job of highlighting your app in a format thought-through by the theme's designer. They also give you the ability to use the built-in features like subscriptions, and other Wordpress-native plugins to engage your users without having to code it all yourself.

Here's a free one. There's a lot of others too. Just search for "Free App Wordpress Themes" to find some others:

http://www.appdesignvault.com/darstell-iphone-wordpress-them...
Show HN: Can you tell me what's wrong with this idea?
Hi,

I'm thinking of releasing a public beta real soon, but I have a small fear that things won't be as expected, so can you just point a finger on what's wrong? what could be done to get some traction? is it worth it?

here is the link: http://www.sqardius.com

any piece of advice, suggestion, remark or critic is highly appreciated.

Thanks.
We host a couple of external DNS-servers on Linode for redundancy, and I just looked at our smokeping reports, and everything looks pretty nice. We wouldn't notice downtime on a single machine other than some noise in nagios, but as far as I can remember, they have been stable all year.

I've added some reports from smokeping and munin. Please note that these are DNS-servers, so basically the only thing that generates IO is logging and updates. Your milage may vary.

Linode London DC:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24775/linode_london_v4.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24775/linode_london_v6.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24775/linode_london_io.png

Linode Newark DC:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24775/linode_newark_v4.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24775/linode_newark_v6.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24775/linode_newark_io.png
"If you know where I can hire decent Rails developers for $100 an hour or less, please let me know! That's not the kind of rate I see."

Montevideo, Uruguay. Mail me if you want - I'm not the talented Rails developer, sadly, but I know some guys that worked at Cubox (http://cuboxlabs.com/).
Whatever it is, I imagine it was well worth it for the primary sponsor, Red Bull. A lot of the tech was developed just for this jump, so it would be difficult to get a final price tag without including R&D costs (which are already tricky).
Where is Murakami funny? I've found him wise and deeply moving, but never funny.
Flaw In Facebook Lets You Create As Many Fake Likes As You Want
Couldn't stomach reading all the way through this.

And I'm almost too afraid to add my comment lest it finds its way to your blog styled in bold followed by a "FUCK YOU" response. Keep it classy.
This fits well with the framework suggested by The Innovator's Solution:

1. In any product ecosystem, there are parts where the functionality is already good enough for the market which people aren't willing to pay more for. There are also parts where people are willing to pay more for better functionality. One example is hard drive storage: in general, few consumers today will pay to go from a 512gb hard drive to a larger one, but many are willing to pay for a faster hard drive, such as a solid state drive.

2. As a business you want to build the parts where people will pay for better functionality, while outsourcing the parts where functionality is already good enough.
I think "people who just say "technology is destroying jobs"" should just be ignored, like their predecessors were when they decried plant robotics replacing assembly line workers.

This is the circle of life, just like the newest wave of immigrants takes the shittiest jobs in the economy, the shittiest (mindless) jobs in the economy are eaten up by technology. This has been going on in this country (US) since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

P.S. Great article btw.
That's a good point as well. I think his point is that he could trigger people into downvoting or replying to his post regardless of whether those folks fully read or understood his post or the linked material. Several of the comments certainly demonstrate that to be the case.
"Suddenly everyone..."

Hyperbole. I'll believe it when I see it.

Even in print, there is only one NewYorker. There are some other mags that are almost comparable, but it's not like there are scores of them to choose from.

And how exactly does longform help websites advance their dodgey advertising tactics?

It's just my opinion but I honestly think writing on the web was better in the 1990's. These type of websites would likely be criticized today as "walls of text" and for not having enough JavaScript or using enough of the latest CSS or HTML features.

The more interesting question to me is the relationship between talented journalists and website developers. They do not necessarily see the world the same way. They operate from different models.

What if salaried journalists committed to the craft of writing (not pandering to advertisers or search engines) had the technological empowerment to build high speed, highly organised distribution (publishing) systems without the need to consult with web developers and accept developers' dreams of dodgey pay by the click web advertising? Do I believe there is a disconnect between the two groups? Yes.

There are still middlemen in publishing. They are just new middlemen. Alas, they can't afford to pay salaries as their predecessors could.

Perhaps what needs to be taught is the technical skill so that ageing journalists schooled in long form can cut out the middleman, start their own publishing businesses and hire the top talent to train the young people entering the field.
The contrast between your comment, second-highest currently, and the highest one, which says that the book is fun and basically says that you'll only enjoy it if you don't take it too seriously (which implies avoiding the sort of superstructure you describe) is quite odd. I have no idea who's right, as I haven't even tried the book, but it's interesting to see such opposing opinions of it.
Indeed. For reference, here's Linus' actual quote from the linked Slashdot article[1]:

I'm not actually all that much of a storage guy, and while I'm the top-level kernel maintainer, this is likely a question that would be better asked of a number of other people.

The one (personal) thing storage-related that I'd like to re-iterate is that I think that rotating storage is going the way of the dodo (or the tape). "How do I hate thee, let me count the ways". The latencies of rotational storage are horrendous, and I personally refuse to use a machine that has those nasty platters of spinning rust in them.

Sure, maybe those rotating platters are ok in some NAS box that you keep your big media files on (or in that cloud storage cluster you use, and where the network latencies make the disk latencies be secondary), but in an actual computer? Ugh. "Get thee behind me, Satan".

[1] http://meta.slashdot.org/story/12/10/11/0030249/linus-torval...
i confirm
They actually pulled most of their top titles off Steam when Origin launched. Mass effect, Dragon Age etc. If you already own them on Steam then they remain in your library but you can't buy them on there anymore.
Units Digit of a Power: A Constant-Time Algorithm Using a Little Number Theory
I took it by doing it longer than you.
>EA might ask for the games back

Given the new trend of not actually "owning" the games, I think this might prove difficult from a legal perspective.
I. Hate. Period. Delimited. Sentences.
Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion
What were you looking for? Did you find it? It seems pretty unlikely you would, honestly.
Muslims protest 'age of mockery' as thousands descend on Google offices
Or complicating things for no good reason, one could enter: javascript:$('.tweet').hide(); in the address bar.
Really put off by the hateful and obnoxious tone. Can't take you seriously with all the foul language. You really lack emotional control. I'd be embarrassed if I published something like this.
I'm not a big fan of the design.
I prefer the "minimalist" design of HN.
But still, nice website.
> I think that your efforts are spent much better focusing on figuring out the marketing for your app within the app store itself.

> figure out a way to get as many blogs/news sources to cover your app release as possible

I totally agree on both of these points. However, I feel like creating, and iterating the message on this landing is time spent focusing on the app store marketing I'll end up using as well as time spent improving my pitch to journalists. Case in point: this is my first attempt at pitching the concept of Wanderous and, over the past hour reading everyone's comments, I've learned that it was pretty much a failure. This is a good thing. An amazingly good thing. Because if this was the pitch I started sending to journalists the concept would not be communicated clearly and my promotion efforts would flop.

When I say "gem" or "point of interest" people are thinking "single restaurant" or "single attraction" The key part of my pitch that I'm screwing up is that Wanderous is about neighborhoods or simple scenic areas in general. The POIs are algorithmically determined by high densities of shared photo geotags and other social activity.

So for example, there are 100 POIs in San Francisco. One of these hundred is called "Nob Hill" and happens to be 1 block from Granite Rock Climbing Gym... but Granite Rock Climbing Gym doesn't rank in the top 10 most popular sub-places in my Nob Hill POI (eclipsed by Grace Cathedral and other famous/notable buildings). But that area is quite scenic and worth visiting (according to Wanderous).
That's not quite the claim he made though. His claim is that the only reason to have those policies is to mitigate SQL injection and because you're storing cleartext passwords.

If you're storing password hashes, you don't care about the charset used for the password, and the only limitation on password length would be sane bandwidth concerns - who really cares if I send you 2 or 3Kb of password if your hash algorthm is going to store that in the same sized database column as "password123"?

Either they have those policies for a reason - they've got bad password storage practices, or they have them for no good reason - which is a very good excuse to ask "WTF?"

And do you _really_ think this might have "cut down on widespread security outbreaks"? That's a pretty lame justification in my opinion - it's like claiming I'd be "improving my users security" by disallowing vowels in passwords, to minimise the risk that they re-use existing passwords. There is no way to "enforce a unique password" without keeping too much knowledge of users passwords.

I think the OP's stated "concerns" are very valid, and I agree with him that Rackspace's policies and answers fall a long way short of providing the reassurance that they're storing critical security credentials in a safe fashion.
I'd be interested to know if the 'tech has a sexism problem' industry has increased or decreased sexism in tech.

I've got a theory on that...
It has nothing to do with that, it's branding. Check Google France, Spain, China, Russia...they all have localized versions of "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons. The Japanese and Koreans are English-crazy, so they kept it in English to look hip.
Thanks for building it! I've been using it as a schematic editor for about the last 6 months to illustrate posts online (I haven't tried the simulator yet) and it's the most impressive software feat I've seen in a long time.
This might have made some sense back in ~2002 when all other browsers were DOA. Seems almost cruel to watch the EU stomp a dying browser further into the pavement.

Surely it would be more fitting for the EU to look into UEFI or Windows 8 RT which IIRC will not allow other browsers at all.
Another one we discussed a while ago:

http://willbailey.name/conway/index.html

The discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555071

The annotated source: http://willbailey.name/conway/docs/conway.html
Why the downvotes for a reference to one of the greatest songs of all time ( Karma Police by Radiohead ) ?
This was basically my point.

I enjoyed the article, but I think arguing against the point without questioning the underlying assumptions takes effort and attention away from building the future rather than reassuring those who are scared of it.
To be quite honest the most shocking thing I found about antirez's post was not the post itself, but the boiling hate surrounding it.
He is often wise and moving. But In Kafka on the Shore, a nameless concept embodies itself as Colonel Sanders, who is a magical pimp.

A line from The Second Bakery Attack1: "Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt."

Murakami makes me laugh a lot.

1 http://ctina.com/bakeryattack.html
headline should be: "europe is going bankrupt and needs to find people to tax and companies to shakedown so they don't need to reform."
All you folks working on automated email tools, workflows and specialized HTML-JavaScript-CSS mail formatters?

Stop. Read this. Consider whether your tool adds to human experiences or should be replaced by a webpage with a FAQ.
This is an emotional article full of personal attacks and not worthy of reading.
There's nothing more nauseating than listening to a member of the most privileged, pampered, self-deluded group to ever exist--i.e., a white, middle-class woman--spew vitriol over imagined oppression.
>I just don't see the point.

That's in part because Joyce had synthesized the previous couple hundred years of literary history and the movements within literature, and he very consciously wanted to do something very different from what had been done before (he also wasn't interested much in what readers of conventional novels would think). If you don't have a lot of context regarding, say, literature from Paradise Lost and Shakespeare to 1921, you're going to find the point very hard to see. If you do, then the novel can be sublime.

Joyce was writing during the time we now call Modernism, and the Modernists really broke the link between popular and critical success / pleasure, and we've been living with the results, as a culture, ever since.

If you're curious about these issues, Peter Gay's Modernism is a decent place to start.
or iOS and the app store, which is hundreds of times more anti-competition.
Twitition - the Internet to stop using Internet Explorer
I don't care what the argument is about: this is not the way to get people to take your "side" seriously or to consider the points you're attempting to make.
I actually wish more people would rip off designs, instead of trying to look different for its own sake. It would lead to much more uniformity, and when people do make a new design for the sake of a new design (as apposed to differentiating their site), it will stand out more.

Having said that, I also like the design of the page, however, the solid white background comes across as a little bit to strong. After a few minute hacking around with the background, #ECF2F5 seems to make the site a lot easier on the eyes.
"As an outgrowth of Bill Weaver's inability to see out of his faceplate from the ice buildup, futre SR-71 ejection seats incorporated a battery pack that continued to keep the glass faceplate heated during the frigid descent."

The amount of engineering and refinement that goes into these safety systems really amazes me. They learn from everything in aviation and put it to good use.
Red Bull Camaraderie - Probably what Felix saw on his space journey today
Omg plz No comment
NO COMMENT.... .-.
I don't think it is. I seem to recall Isaac saying that he considers require.extensions to be a mistake, though I don't know if he meant the concept (extensibility) or implementation (register hooks under filename extensions). Either way, I think it's recognized that a lot of people enjoy and use the functionality so it's unlikely to go away.

As an aside, here's the relevant bit of code that loads the (already compiled) source as a module: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/module.js#L40...
I know women who do use their gender to get respect. I never heard them explicitly demanding it, but they expect it and often get it. There are not many of them, but they do exist.

Maybe you don't know any such women, maybe you live in a culture where you don't get respect even when you deserve it, but that is no reason to write such an aggressive article.

I am concerned that nowadays, when a guy points that we are not going towards gender equality, but overshooting it, he is labeled to be chauvinistic and buried under a mountain of hate. The original article was polite and had a point, he didn't deserve this.
Hey I was promised HTML5! What's with all this Javascript?!

As a side note, posted on HN the other day: https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=conways%20game%...
I'm less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Limited password lengths (shorter than possible DOS attacks attempting to upload megabytes into the password field) mean that either a) you're storing cleartext passwords, or b) your tech people are storing hashed passwords and somebody who doesn't understand web security is in a position of enough control to subvert the decisions of the tech people who _do_ understand how to do things.

Either their password storage is insecure, or their marketing/support/management is reducing security by imposing arbitrarily policies on passwords - arbitrarily policies which just happen to look exactly like they're mitigating SQLi and storing passwords as cleartext.
Since when have Moore's Laws ended? Last time I checked, both were still in full force. (Just to avoid a misunderstanding: Moore's Laws are not about clock rates.)
Kittinger reduced his speed through the use of a drogue chute. Not directly comparable.
An early look into Nuuton
Maybe the skydiving community has its own definition of free fall? My books say there can't be any force on you except gravity, which seem to rule out any apparatus intended to slow the fall.
While burning off excess speed is one major concern for this approach, I've always wondered what it would take to use a balloon like this one to get past some of the tricky parts of rocketry like dealing with atmosphere and carrying extra fuel to carry the extra fuel you are carrying. If you could launch a rocket from 40km (roughly the height of the balloon), you're 25% into the minimum LEO, and ~10% of the way to the ISS. More importantly, the fuel savings from launching at a higher altitude are exponential, because each meter of altitude is one meter of less atmospheric drag (with diminishing returns) and the corresponding fuel/weight savings from not having to carry fuel to travel the first 40km.

I would imagine that the current limitations on doing something like this are related to the maximum weight a hot air balloon can lift, in addition to the untested physics and engineering of a mid-air space launch. Imagine if SpaceShipOne (which was launched at 13.3km) could be taken to 40km and then launched.

Perhaps someone with a better understanding of lighter-than-air lift physics could explain what the current limitations on this are.
Don't world record attempts need to be supervised and checked for authenticity? /couldbewrong
As per some feedback, I've added a random button, and some initial life, for those that don't know what to create. I'm still working on some of the other things people have suggested:

- Saving the state of the 'creation stage'
and resetting it when the player clicks a restart button.
So you can experiment without having to redraw everything.
- Wrapping cells around border (think Super Mario Bros 2.)
- Easier drawing, using click and drag.

For those that have already tried it will likely need to clear their cache with ctrl+f5.
Nothing wrong with the idea, just that it's not a new one, I can't remember any of the names but social geo tagging / location based photos / shares are not a new thing. (I guess panoramio is one example)

but that said, who said that it should stop you from trying, the fact I can't think of any name for such an app might prove that it's not that mainstream yet and there is room for one more.

see how many todo apps we have, and we keep having more.
You've been here for a year - you should know better. Your message is just noise, and has nothing to do with the topic.