skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the impending launch!

No idea what I'd do with the app, what it does, or why I'd want it. "Customize a tour to a point of interest" is not meaning heavy for me. I've never customized a tour in my life. I don't know why I'd want to. You'll want to A/B/C test lots of headlines/copy, but I'd say this is a pretty rough start.

What are hidden gems? Restaurants? Tourist spots?

Your headline/copy needs to paint a picture to the target user and make someone feel that this is the PERFECT app for them. Who is that? Travelers? Partiers? Geocachers? Bored folks on weekend? I'd start with very narrow positioning and expand from there.

The screenshot is you greatest weapon for communication and the first thing people will look at. It's a busy map with a lot of colorful pins. What are the pins? What do the colors mean? What do the icons mean?
An idea I had the other day is a "resurrect" feature. If you have X karma and showdead turned on, you have an upvote link for comments made by hellbanned users (unless a moderator killed that comment specifically). Two upvotes by non-hellbanned users leads to the comment being resurrected, so those without showdead can see it. If a user consistently gets their comments resurrected, they may be eligible to have their entire account resurrected.
Perl 5 actually has several ways of doing macros without using source filters -- pragmas are one example.
min.us is a good alternative to imgur when it comes to large gifs.
Back of envelope calculation:

A. Starting height = 39045 m
B. Desired speed = 343 m/s
C. Acceleration = 9.8 m/s/s

D. Average speed while accelerating = 171 m/s (half of B)
E. Time to reach desired speed = 35 s (B divided by C)
F. Therefore distance travelled = 5985 m (D times E)

G. Therefore altitude at Mach 1 = 33060 m, give or take the small amount of drag.

Edit: Meh, I see from the video that he didn't accelerate as fast as this, I guess the drag was significant after all. Even a small amount of gas will move you if it's coming at you at significant speeds...
The article's description is way off. "Ironically for a book ignored by most philosophers, it contains the answers to a lot of their questions, and the method for answering all of them." As you say, he is among the most influential 20th century philosophers. Besides that, his praise of Wittgenstein's method is hyperbolic.
A testimonial is quite different than a quote. You wouldn't call a positive comment made on HN about linode for example a testimonial. You would reference it in a way that indicated that it was a quote form a source. A testimonial is much more than that.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/testimonial

We are not talking about semantics here.

Lastly, what's with the scoundrel reference. A bit harsh.

Sorry you don't like my "off-handed tales of deceit".
I've mostly applied for other producer positions at TV stations. I've also applied for news writer positions and just a couple of journalism jobs in print/Internet media.

If you're asking what I was looking for money wise? I was in a market around 150 (DMA rank), in a city that was very cheap to live in. I had student loans of $800/month, and I'd like to be able to pay them, afford rent, water, power, food, and an Internet connection. I managed that in a cheap city with a roommate at 30k, so I'd like to make more in a larger city, given I have five years experience producing and five in the studio.

Which do you think unlikely? Me finding another job at all, or me finding a job that pays a wage approaching middle class?
Why is it bad for user experience?
There's a power law distribution, as usual, but it's not very much. IIRC, it generally maxes out $80-$120K, with a select few making more.
Here's a video overview of the (highly specialized) skydiving rig used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SErtpdKLsM4#t=5m20s
> Mach 1.24

How appropriate - the speed of an Austrian skydiver measured in a unit named after an Austrian physicist!
Mr. China "fixing Huang Xiaoming
I recall reading somewhere (from HN) that upvoting as an agreement was allowed. Can't find the source though..
The methuselahs[1] always amazed me in Conway's Game of Life. If anyone's interested, here's the population growth (number of live cells in a given state) of the R-pentomino: http://i.imgur.com/lR3i9.png

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(cellular_automata)
More often, downvotes make me wonder if I could have phrased my thoughts better so as not to tick people off. For all my pessimism, I'm curiously optimistic about people's willingness to accept my views if I can just work the arrogance out. It's hard to know either way, but I think taking it as an incentive to improve is a good way to handle it.
I live in the EU and have legal install of windows for XP,Vista and Win7 and can saftly say I already installed another browser and found the whole chose one option provided as a required patch most annoying.

Sad thing is any user at the level of not being able to install a alternative browser are also the users more prone to have botnets and other malware installed upon there compter. That is the real issue that the EU has not addressed, Microsoft offered a alternative idiot install alternative and I for one found it most annoying.

The EU have better area's to attend to thesedays and I'd hate to suddenly find out one day that chromebooks suddenly have to offer Microsoft browsers as a alternative, or iPad's demanding user pick another browser or not.

It is when there is no alternative choice and for windows that has never been the case to date (not sure about tablet windows flavours). That can not be said for other operating systems and iOS at some point was a little rejecting of alternative browsers in its central dominating app store. Windows had netscape before microsoft had a browser, always been alternatives and easy to install and associate. The only issue is that they expect people who are unable to handle that trivial task on the internet blindly without even saying no Microsoft they must pick a antivirus program before they connect to the internet. That would of been useful inforcement, but nope.

At times I do wonder if I sent in a CV on punched cards to the main EU office that they would not only accept it and convert onto 8" floppy disc for me for free. I think that is an old joke, but there again so is the point in time the EU are on about and even then they missed the real issue.
Angry people are allowed to use angry language....

http://www.derailingfordummies.com/menu.html
Raspberry Pi: The Small Computer With The Big Ambition
But there's obviously air resistance, otherwise you wouldn't ever slow down. And the drogue is just providing more air resistance. I tend to agree with you, that I don't think that should count as free fall, but gravity is certainly not the only force being exerted.
Rows being in containers fixed the resizing issue. But not the centering!
90% of Incubators and Accelerators Will Fail and That's Fine
first:good job Nick (long time friend)! Also Elli, though we've never chatted.

I think the meta pattern of the examples in the article are in some ways examples of startups that are creating "market-like" mechanisms for more effectively helping businesses and people. Hireart's doing that from the lens of jobs/candidate search, and the education startups are allowing people to spend the coin of time into investing in their own knowledge/skills.
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Well named: fear of your own ignorance is an excellent way to hate literature.

No one can 'get' it all. There's too much, and besides, half of it might not be there anyway.

Devour lit with popcorn. Odysseus is a superhero; Knect a nerd; Bloom a clown. And I'm a creepy teddy bear, saying "Reading is Fun!"
And then you find new S-curves. I wasn't talking about the Singularity, for what it's worth. I would also take another look at Moore's law along with researching some of the other price/speed/computing laws dealing with progress over time that are analogous and just as important.

However, no, progress isn't easy or entirely predictable. You are correct.

However, it's much harder when you have to focus energy on those who don't want progress to happen, for whatever reason they might have.

While this time the discussion was aimed at those who would fear-monger based on job figures, it will often be the incumbents in the field trying desperately to stay fat & relevant without having to become uncomfortable, and my larger point was that you can't just argue directly against every emotionally resounding, but incorrect, argument when dealing with a shift in paradigm.

In every big change in the world, there will be short term "winners" and "losers", relative to where they were before, even if the change results in large advances for almost everyone in the long term. Those who are going to be given the short end of that stick will not change their mind no matter what, and it only raises the profile and perceived validity of the argument when you treat it as the correct way to frame the issue.
Why not?

The center tag is the only tag that still centers correctly.
This is somewhat unrelated, but how did you change the scroll thumb colour in OS X ML in that site? All other pages have gray scroll thumb.
The biggest issue is getting up there. A balloon will only go so high, after that you'd need powered flight.

The maximum speed is the escape velocity of earth. That's the fastest you can fall to earth - assuming you started from infinitely far away. Which also answers your question: The is no maximum altitude. (Although if you get far enough away you'll have a hard time aiming due to the orbit of the earth around the sun.)

However you can cheat and power yourself toward the earth, and then there is no maximum speed.
Yes, the title "In Search of Lost Time" became popular when D.J. Enright revised the previous English translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, which were titled Remembrance of Things Past. ("Remembrance of Things Past" came from Shakespeare's Sonnet 30, "In Search of Lost Time" being a literal translation of the original French title.) Pretty much all the English translations are based off of Moncrieff's work.

There's also a new re-translation being done by Penguin; only the first four are out, the rest are supposed to be out in 2018(?). I think the delay is due to some of the volumes being under copyright still.
Atebits Looks Like It's Preparing to Launch A New iOS App
Throttle Bandwidth on Mac OS X
Non-Google-Books versions:

Test pilot Bill Weaver's personal account (exact same text) -- http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71breakup.htm

Very similar 3rd-person account -- http://www.thexhunters.com/xpeditions/sr-71a_952_accident.ht...
They seem to have been warned multiple times, here is someone saying they warned the department a year ago.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objec...
I'm not a gamer, so I'd be interested in hearing what people have done to try to ameliorate the succeed-or-die nature of indie game development.

It seems like it's just the usual problem of building something no one wants, which in other industries is solved with an MVP and/or starting your marketing long before you have a product.
My friend recently linked me to Path of Exile's expansive passive skill tree. Pretty inspiring to play around with that without even knowing anything about the game. I've pined for that kind of skill tree since I was a kid.

I recommend anyone to check it out: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/. It looks like a star map.
> I'll bet he would have a different opinion if it was him standing on that little ledge before stepping off.

If he was standing on that little ledge: "The theory of gravity definitely no longer needs to be tested this way. Now let me back in!"
Shutting Down Ransomware with Invincea
I think he meant altitude at which he was slowed back to mach 1.0.
great ideas - now we go and do it.

Check out http://mozillaopennews.org/

note - I work for mozilla.
He did a public service. What he did is (according to lawyers) not illegal. See http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/keith-ng-facing-possible-two-ye....
Dragon Age 1 and Mass Effect 1 & 2 are still available on Steam. Interestingly, they pulled Crysis 2 then a few months later added Crysis 2 Maximum Edition.

For Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3, I agree with their reasoning. Steam doesn't allow in-app purchases that circumvent their distribution system, and that's a load of crap.
How on earth do the submissions have that score?
Is it just me or are they rerlolling requests and lxml for no good reason?
unfortunately it's just pubmed ... so it's a life sciences and biomed aggregator :( Not a science aggregator.
If they are monitored and if unauthorized access is prevented by "harsh discipline". then they are not protected. Protection is proactive not reactive.
Thanks for the link. I will have to take a harder look at it as it wasn't quite obvious to me as to what it truly provides at the moment. Again, thanks and I will clone it when I get to my laptop.
You do know IE is still by far #1 right?
That was my first thought, sadly many other governments would never be as close to open as this in all compass directions of the World. So kudos to the NZ goverment upon that aspect.
well, I did manage to get through the post, and this is obviously someone deeply offended, so I made myself get through it. Then I went on to read antirez's and comments. Here's my thoughts.

According to one of antirez's comment responses: "the root of the problem is equal dignity of individuals". and the only way to change this is by "(showing) our children that we don't have any sexual bias, they'll observe us, and will act accordingly (even in this case talking will help marginally if they can't see we act well)".

And generally if you read his article you get the overal impression (at least I did) that he is against protection of minorites when the language is formulated in specific terms (ie. such and such policy for women, or for irish men or whatever). He advocates always formulating the language in general terms such as "Why is A not payed like B even if they have similar responsibilities and tasks." and going from there.

As pointed out by author at prettylittlemachine, many of his formulations are not well put, for example, when antirez writes "Talking with my female coworkers I discovered they were deeply upset and offended by other women that were too easy to ask for respect using sexism as a flag." she responds by saying "Ah, right. The problem is actually THE WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE!!!"

Again she quotes antirez saying "Similarly, I will not care who you are if you do something silly at work. Nothing is more offensive for you than me being too easy with you because you are part of some minority. ", and responds by saying "Here again, the theme that women are going to get off too easily when they fuck up in the workplace because they are women."

in summary, for me I'll have to think about this subject a little while to formulate a solid opinion on it, but initially, I tend to agree with what I think is antirez's view that the idea we should espouse is mutual respect and equal rights for all individuals. There's no need to add adjectives or specify types of individuals men,women, caucasians, etc, I think if we have that mindset our children will have it too and maybe the issues will fall away, they are cultural after all.

EDIT: here's antirez's twitter where he clarifies and you can see others reactions as well: https://twitter.com/antirez
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While I agree that vitriol isn't the best response to someone displaying a lack of understanding, as you did, I hope you don't get defensive and instead try to learn something from the people who made reasonable critiques of your thoughts. Because they need some adjusting.
Hi Elli,

I did enjoy the article, and I agree that there need to be good ways to address this form of argument.

My main thought, probably not well expressed, was that I wish it had been more emphasized how it's not the most terrible thing in the world for someone to have to pivot their career, and it's getting easier for people to do so every day. However, it's going to get harder with each passing day to "prove" specific forms of technology[1] generate Y jobs for reasons that you expressed in the article. For that reason, I think it's likely better to try to sidestep the argument altogether and explain why it's asking the wrong question instead of first providing a direct answer to the question/argument.

I did re-read the article after making the first comment, and I admit I had concentrated on the first half of it a little more than the second half where you do address some of my concerns.

[1] Technology in general isn't under attack here, it's generally only technology created in the last X years. X generally being the number of years since the target audience for the argument entered the workforce.
Out of curiosity, what program was it he used to view the source code? The one in the screenshots.
>Why can't you have only one version, and someone on mobile will zoom in and out?

Because to do that manually is usually clunky. Responsiveness makes it happen automatically and thus smooth.

>A web site version with 10 things on the header is going to piss people off on the mobile app regardless of how responsively those 10 things show up in their face.

Good responsive sites rearrange those 10 things in the header so that they are not "in your face" as you say. See also: Twitter Bootstrap.
When are they going to fine Apple? I don't get a choice on iOS...
Linux TCP/IP Tuning for Scalability
10 Million hits a day with a $15 server
I'd love to be able to filter articles behind a paywall. It'd probably be a good way to make people sign up for the sign, too.
Advanced Movie Computer Generated Special Effects (with models/wireframes)
Hint: you are saying that my thoughts need to be "adjusted".
I dunno, I find shanley's tone rather refreshing compared to the smarmy, passive-aggressive, self-satisfied tone of antirez's article...
I can't find it in the twitter and google agreements, I haven't checked them all.. Where are these additions?
http://www.google.com.au/
Not really. It's more like Apple issuing you a coupon for a free iPod Nano, but when you go to checkout with the iPod Nano and a Macbook in your cart, the cashier tells you they're both free.

It may still be unethical, my point is just that there are shades of gray here.
Tis is kind of sad. What are the legal reprecussions if MS tells the EU to take a hike? No desktop windows in EU?
The government put a man on the moon so they could appear more technologically capable than the Soviets. Once they got their propaganda piece, the incentive died out.
> «The "Edge of Space" jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.» [1]
> «I'm told somebody's jumping out of a perfectly good balloon from 23-miles up. The theory of gravity no longer needs to be tested in this way»[2]

Oh come on... this man worked and prepared for this for 5 years and the way I understand it, there were definitely some uncertainties about how his body would take it; black out, red out, burst arteries etc. so even in the case of all parts working as intended and a safe landing he was in enough danger. A lot of preparation and a lot of technology went into this.

Why belittle it like that? Just because it did not immediately bring humanity forward a gigantic leap? You could argue the same about music, heck Mozart's and Bach's works are just soundwaves and the same frequencies have been tested very thoroughly, they propagate through air and water just fine! All sorts of colours can be found in nature, why draw a painting? No need to test whether our eyes can perceive colours on a canvas!

I am sorry, Mr. deGrasse Tyson, but humans are more than just efficient, self-improving robots and our most human moments were and are to be found in play and in otherwise completely "useless" activities like art, music, sports or record-chasing which do nothing but making us and maybe others feel good or thrilled and captivating people's attention for a moment.
That was my first thought as well. For better or worse, I love MooTools and vastly prefer it to jQuery. It's the occasional time like this whene I have admit there's a cost to picking & sticking with the way less popular framework.

MooEditable is pretty good, but I'd plunk down the cash to swap this one in in a heartbeat.
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Sadly you can imagine less honest user would of found this and not alerted anybody of athourity. The level of security being ustilised is at a level that how many years was it like this as it has been that secure since then sadly.

Many people also may have less respectful governments with regards to being alerted to this and could even end up charging you. Some even have laws against even checking if its is secure as it would be deemed hacking a govermental server. When you have that type of law then you can only imagine at the security in some of the offices. You hope they have good security staff and pentesters. This is clearly not the case with this oversight. It is beyond schoolboy error level even of security.

Still least in other countries they just leave all that data on a USB stick, so in that it is had to guage how much data leaked in comparision to others. But the opertunity is large and covers areas that can and could of caused alot of damage.
Either you work for PandoDaily or this is a very elaborate tongue-in-cheek comment. I'm certain you're the first and last person to ever say "Pando is to tech, what The Economist is to business, or The New Yorker is to culture."

It's just a spinoff of TechCrunch in both its origins and content. It's like the Joanie Loves Chachi to Happy Days.

I'll just assume you're joking.
It's called a joke. Lighten up.
Be careful with that. BCrypt for example silently truncates long passwords (>72 chars).
Thanks, you're dead-on with all of your points.

You're surrounded by scenic, interesting, and happening places and don't know it. Wanderous helps you discover and explore these places by guiding you to them and showing you what's there.

The target user is travelers and locals alike. I think I'd prefer to appeal to local (read: everyday) users over travelers. I'll have to think about this one.

Which is better for the landing page: this colorful screen shot that makes user's ask.. what're all those goodies? vs. a detailed screenshot showing a New Expedition being created? I went with this in hopes of it being more alluring and visually appealing. The Expedition creation screen looks a bit boring and less appealing but would help convey the concept.
Ouch. Definitely have my sympathies.
Thanks for all the comments. I definitely think I'll be going with Linode, but remain aware of security issues. One thing I'm really looking forward to is the IPV6 support, which Slicehost hasn't ever quite worked out to my satisfaction. It'll mean IPV6 support for jsonip.com relatively soon, I hope.
Thanks alot for the graphs. That's awesome data to have on hand. Very reassuring. Could you say roughly how many servers you guys run?
What does this rearrangement do that makes them not be in my face?

Twitter Bootstrap has been a disaster for me:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651506
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201207-201209

That turns out not to be the case.
With the rumors about it being targeted towards reading books, with a focus on iBooks, then that size seems respectable for the low-end.
Yes because some (most of the ones worth paying for) of the games require some sort of server. So every new player in a game is not free for EA. Giving away a game means they will lose money on this person if they play online.
I think keeping your resume in a textual format like Markdown is a really smart idea. I've been doing it for about two years now.
Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers