skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know they were planning on building this in Manhattan?
It bears mentioning that you obviously have a shitty boss and that you should leave at the earliest possibility.
How much air pressure and track length would you need to accelerate a craft like this to supersonic speeds? ponders. Come to think of it, would that even be physically possible? My understanding of the "sonic boom" phenomenon is that it involves the craft breaking through a zone of high air pressure that has accumulated in front of it... Surely this wouldn't be possible if the pressure itself were propelling the craft. My (uninformed) guess would be that supersonic speeds are attainable with this kind of system, but probably unfeasible, and crafts probably wouldn't experience the sonic boom phenomenon.
This functionality is coming. It basically works with SQL Server and Oracle, but I need to do more validation before releasing.
Hmm... No. A "protected computer" can be simply "a computer which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication", which includes pretty much anything nowadays as long as some money changes hands, some Google AdWords on your blog ought to be enough.

> In the general case, the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the unauthorized access to the computer system was in furtherance of an actual fraud that produced something of value for the accused.

That is 100% false, and I'm calling you out as having simply made it up. Fraud is NOT required, take a look at 1030, we can quite clearly read:

"Whoever - (2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains (C) information from any protected computer, shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section"

It's there in black and white.
Looks really nice ,I am just not sure about the "wks" at the bottom and "days" at the top. It looks...strange. Good work anyway.
It's not the same because you will pay slightly more tax on that $1 going up, and slightly less tax on reducing your costs.
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Integrate Padrino, Omniauth and github
Kids’ Stuff: Hasbro Engages Its Youngest Customers for Good
This article feels like it ends 10% of the way to actually answering the question it asks. "Hey, this thing is slow. I'll write something that might be equivalent, and see if it's not slow, and then I'll stop." If you're going to accuse someone of 'cheating' or otherwise rigging a benchmark, maybe you should at least do a proper benchmark yourself, or figure out how they cheated?

EDIT: Some basic digging reveals that this is using web workers, and V8's profiler does't record samples for web workers. It appears to be much slower in the current Release build of Chrome than it is in Canary, so whatever is causing it to be slow in V8 is actively being worked on by Chrome's developers.

Unfortunately Firefox's profiler only profiles the main thread as well. Furthermore the mandelbrot demo doesn't work right in Aurora or Nightly, so uh, yeah.

Given the use of workers, one guess would be that IE10 offers a much faster implementation of postMessage, making it cheaper to send the rendered pixel data back from the workers when it's done. Another obvious candidate would be a much faster implementation of putImageData for rendering the pixels to the canvas. A third candidate would be the use of something that IE10's JIT optimizes that V8 doesn't and Firefox struggles with slightly. Try/catch would be an obvious one; floats would be another.

The code for the demo is there, and it's got comments, so if you really think they're cheating, read it. It looks fine to me and it looks like something that V8 should be able to turn into highly performant assembly, so if it's not, the fault probably lies with V8, not Microsoft.
Chrome has a very good built-in performance profiler for JavaScript.

In the interest of scientific truth, someone (not me) should profile microsoft's fabricated example and show the world all the dirty browser-sniffing tricks.
It doesn't matter how fast yours run. It's the comparison that matters.
clickable : http://appfail.net

I like the idea but could you tell what are you key differentiators from something like http://www.muscula.com/ which is one I was considering to use right now?

Something I don't understand in your pricing is the difference between professionnal and business about the history. For professionnal you only have 60 days history for up to 12,000 issues and for business you have 180 days history for up to 40,000 issues. The problem is that if you reach the maximum for professionnal in 60 days you'll probably reach the maximum of business too in 180 days, wouldn't you ?

Also what do you mean by "Web Sites (Applications)" is it URL based, domain based?

Another small point, under Firefox, if I click on "Pricing" on the header, it goes to the pricing by showing/hiding every div and it's not a nice effect.

EDIT: You might also want to add a menu for "Features" because when you are on "Pricing" or "Support" it's not intuitive where to go to see more info.
IT Project Management Software - ProjectVision
Re: "no rails" - perhaps it reduces friction by not touching the ground, via a combination of a railgun propulsion + airfoil. Thus, not needing continuous maglev for levitation. Also explains the "concord" comparison.
Almost sounds like a bigger version of http://shweeb.com
Time for an open discussion about Android
For many IT chiefs, the emergence of a credible alternative to Apple's iPhone has been a life-saver. The fact that there are so many different Android smartphones available at all manner of price points, on numerous networks and tariffs has paved the way for the ostensibly consumer devices to swarm in to the enterprise. And it's avoided the eye-watering cost of having to offer to pay for employees' iPhone.
I wish there will be lots of cheap 13-15" ARM ultrabooks on market one day...
Nice to see a lawsuit on here that I don't object to, for once.
You don't have to browser sniff to make something run slowly in V8. You can just write ordinary JavaScript and discover that it runs awful because you hit one of the hundreds of JavaScript edge cases that each JIT treats differently.
Yup. Definitely the worst decision I've made so far. I am in the middle of registering a new LLC. It will take some time. For now, I have included the DBA of Rakesoft into the EULA.
Agreed; and they're even arguably in the same business wrt greetings cards.
He also said that there aren't any rails and it runs on the ground. At the moment, we have a Concorde without wings[0] (a lifting body Concorde, perhaps?) crossed with a railgun without rails. Sounds like vaporware.

[0]: It could still have wings but operate under ground effect, though it seems that it would be difficult to keep your leading edge intact travelling just above a hard surface "twice as fast as an airliner". "Twice as fast as an airliner" is Mach 0.85 * 2 = Mach 1.7 at FL360, which translates into Mach 1.5 at sea level. One useful thing we learn from this is that this system will basically have to be propelled by compressed air or electromagnetic force, since props don't work over Mach 1 and we don't have electric turbines.
I don't agree with your comments about arrogance. You can be right and strongly opinionated without being arrogant. Junior or senior -- making anyone, boss or not, look bad anywhere, but especially in front of a client is a perfect way of finding yourself at the business end of some pretty nasty social dynamics.

Practice voicing your opinion and arguing for it in a way that isn't confrontational. 9 out of 10 times, it's as simple as acknowledging the other person: "I see where you're going with this, it's a good way to solve A, B and C. But when we get to D, I fear X will bite us in the tail - Y can avoid that.". This also avoids the stinging embarrassment of being arrogant and later being proven wrong.
Definitely this. It's very low risk, and you have the skills to make quick money on smallish jobs. You won't be earning what you are worth but that's not really the point if you need the cash fast. People posting ads on these sites are primarily looking for an indication that you fully understand the requirements, so when responding lay out in detail what the job entails then pitch why you can do it and the timeframe/cost.

These sites are crowded with non-native English speakers that often pitch for a job with something like "yes i can do", so putting in a little work up front will get you good hit rate.

I haven't really looked at this stuff for a while (and I'm no expert save from hiring a few people) but last time I checked odesk.com and freelancer.com were the main ones.

Not good money and yeah it's traditional, but fast and fairly reliable/predictable.
So are most of your comments.
Social API, Facebook and Firefox
Cute, but this isn't Reddit.
This one is hard to call. Trademark owner should defend trademarks. Oatmeal studio has a legit case where it's not making up the charges or claiming damages - it's simple, plain trademark infringement(per the article). On the other hand, oatmeal is a loaded term. Even if The Oatmeal did some searches before settling on the name, it's very likely he didn't know about the existence of Oatmeal studio.
Bash-isms i wish i knew earlier
Guarding a 'Fundamental Right' of Privacy in Europe
...what if having this complexity "packaged" in the framework prevents it for cropping up in your application code? (yeah, this usually happens when you do things "the framework way", but most web apps are pretty unoriginal so picking a framework that "fits" and walking "it's way" is a good idea most of the time...)

...though it would be interesting to see this metric applied to a Ruby framework like Rails
Ask HN: Working around Apple 30% without pissing them off?
Is it possible to allow mobile shopping without giving Apple 30%?

What i mean is, Will it ever be possible that you could purchase say groceries/day-to-day stuff on an iOS app?

Currently apple blocks any attempt of allowing users to purchase via a third-party payment service.

This proves extremely difficult for users/clients whose goods are far from having 30% margins.

Even the big guns like Amazon has to have user open up the website to conduct the payment step which hurts the UX.

Any thoughts or experience with this?
If you have AdWords on your blog, you're doing interstate commerce.
I would venture a guess that someone at Oatmeal Studios was probably aware of The Oatmeal as an online entity; they took no legal action until Inman entered their domain. I would also expect that Inman was not aware of Oatmeal Studios prior to this venture, and that this matter will be amicably resolved.
Running the test on the latest firefox nightly results in a time of ~3 seconds, so if microsoft IS cheating by doing some browser sniffing they might want to widen the net somewhat, or end up looking bad (in 18 weeks...)

The other option, and still a little dodgy, is that they found operations that ran poorly in V8, optimized the hell out of them in chakra specifically to say "Look, we're faster then chrome!" while just letting the fact that spidermonkey is faster slide because mozilla is way less of a threat then google.
to go between LA and SF in 30 minutes you'll need to approach the speed of sound. Certainly self driving cars don't fit that category. Also Musk talked about it as a 5th mode of transportation, not sure if cars would cut it.
To be fair I think all of that is good advice if you work at a certain kind of company. At my place of work I don't think any of those apply, nobody tracks your hours for example and you can work from home if you want so the never be late doesn't really work.

And this is from a reasonably sized company (~1500 full time staff)
Oh, I didn't say anything about stable. Just unified. :)
THERE NO UNBOXING VIDEO ON YOUTUBE. I WONDER GOOGLE REALLY SHIP NEXUS TO ANYBODY.
I find this fear of mistakes a bit disconcerting.

We all make mistakes, big ones, small ones, ones people notice and ones they don't. If we didn't make mistakes we wouldn't need testing.

What we do, is we learn where the mistakes are most likely to occur and we learn to mitigate the effects of those mistakes.
Coming in even or slightly faster (in most benchmarks) than an Intel Atom D525 from over two years ago is "crazy fast"? I'm impressed with the Chromebook overall and I think it's a cool product but talk about a bait-and-switch title.
Because of exorbitant fees? :) It is just as expensive in Europe as in NA so it's not a case of Americans getting shafted this time. You have multiple parties that want to get a cut of the action.

First the content provider that is actually offering the customer something of value. Then you have the payment processor that are delivering sms:es. They need have to have separate agreements with each operator to charge their customers so that the purched items actually shows up on the customers phone bill. Each operator may have a different method of charging payment processors. Some charge a higher percentage per transaction, others a higher base fee and so on.

Then you also have lots of shady content providers, who wouldn't think twice about gouging their customers if they can get away with it. That leads to a pricey dispute resolution procedure because someone has to answer when the customer disputes a sky high telephone bill and arrange for chargebacks and so on.

But mostly it's the operators at fault. They charge payment processors a lot for access to their customers and it is not like it is a free market. If you want to accept sms payments from Verizon customers then you have to have an agreement with Verizon no matter what the cost is. They know it, and they charge what they can get away with.
> "I see where you're going with this, it's a good way to solve A, B and C. But when we get to D, I fear X will bite us in the tail - Y can avoid that."

In practice, I word things similar to what you've described here, probably even more deferent.

Still, if I believe it is in a clients best interest to do Y, I don't mind sticking my neck out and make the case more strongly for it, even if I turn out to be wrong.

Additionally, I've found over my career that I've learned the most useful skills, both technical and otherwise, from developers who were fantastically arrogant. They also happened to deliver the most value to the business, so no one cared.
API for extracting semantic image data - colors, faces, Exif data and more
My iPhone4S with iOS6 often lose WiFi connection but iPad with iOS5 didn't.
This blog post describes a new cloud-based API that helps you improve your website using semantic information hidden in your user uploaded images. You can use Cloudinary's API to retrieve Exif data, coordinates of detected faces, predominant colors and color histogram of your uploaded images.
Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python and Node.js sample code included.
Everyone optimizes for their own benchmarks. You can say it's dodgy, but that's really just an argument in favor of real-world tests instead of microbenchmarks like this one. You don't have to 'rig' a microbenchmark to come out the winner; you just pick the right microbenchmark, because it's not a real world scenario.

Given the lack of evidence to support actual cheating you should probably just apply occam's razor here and assume it's actually faster. Or you could use the dark, hidden secrets of 'view source' to read the JS yourself. It has comments!
I agree with the first two, not so sure it will resolve amicably though - perhaps.
Their annoucement email makes me think about a new kind of scam we need to be suspicious of: fake acquisition annoucements. Even though it is not the case here, obviously, let's take an example:

You receive an email saying "(Genuine) WebApp A acquired by (Scam) WebApp B, please enter your new login/password to enter new shiny WebAppB!"

But maybe I'm paranoid?
Firefox nightly 20.0a1 (released today) runs the test...very well, actually.
I thought weev was charged (and convicted) for hacking at AT&Ts website and extracting a bunch of people's personal information? He was certainly not engaging in what you would call "ordinary behavior."

Now, is this something that I, with a bit of idle time, curl, and awk might have done on a lark - yup. Does it scare me that I then might have been found guilty of criminal behavior? Yes. Would I have done something like publish people's personal information on Gawker? Not anymore. Would I let AT&T know personally that they had a security hole? Probably not - likely to be the messenger that would get shot. Is the NET result of this that the bad guys, who keep quiet, and make use of this information for nefarios purposes now have free rein, because nobody will mention it to AT&T? Yes. Is the NET-EFFECT of this law a reduction in security and increased number of security exploitations? Yes. Should the Law be Fixed? Yes.
The A15 seems to be the same weight as the Macbook air. I always thought about buying an MBA, but I feared the hassle of installing Linux on it.

Is the A15 my future development machine? All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So performance is not an issue.
I'm not sure how, other than Inman completely giving up on greeting cards, or somehow completely separating it from The Oatmeal.
So we're saying that every Unix and Unix-like implementation in recent times that supports and indeed advocates [1] placing /usr, /tmp, /var, and so on on seperate filesystems have done so because the developers are unskilled novices with no understanding or experience of the problem at hand? Sorry, I think it's entirely the wrong term.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning
“Cheaper than high speed rail” - why is high speed rail expensive? I believe because precision contact between rail and wheel is required. How would this be done cheaper in a tunnel?

One issue with a tunnel is that even if the air and carriages are moving at the same speed, there is still drag or friction between the air and the wall of the tunnel by Poissiulle's law. At the proposed speeds (~300km/h) and distances (600km), this becomes a lot, and higher pressures (if my quick calculations are right) lead to higher energy requirements through higher air density.

In a vacuum, this friction would not exist. I can post my calcs if there is interest - I used a Moody chart and Darcy's friction equation, and ended up with an energy requirement that there would have to be ~80 million carriages going each way to be as efficient as a Telsa roadster, and neglecting any other losses.
I think people are reporting this relative to expectations rather than absolutely: they assumed it woudl be slower due to the lower cost and lower power consumption but the results defied that expectaion.
What's with the only 6.5 hour battery life? I would buy it if it had >=9.

Edit: it's a serious question :) I am really wondering why the Nexus 10 has 9 hours and this 6.5?

Please Google, add a 3rd 'chromebook without chrome os' which is a Nexus 10 (Android but hopefully soon Ubuntu hacked) with a click-on keyboard (with battery) for $350. Thanks!
This is the best of our system (a check on the legislative more effective than re-election every 4yr) and the worse (having to know about this decision, i.e. hire gaggle of expensive experts to find the "get out of jail free" decision for you. And, whether you are a criminal depends on your geographic (which circut) and temporal (has it been resolved by SCOTUS yet) location.)

Rather than having knowable, deterministic laws we are all at the mercy of the lawyers and judges we happen to get that "day".

It's still probably the least bad system.
You can be arrogant if you're brilliant - not the other way around. As a junior engineer (in the 'not much experience', not 'pay grade' sense), you're probably not brilliant enough to be arrogant.
making a benchmark specifically to be slower on your competitors browser? Little dodgy.

From everything I've read IE10 apparently is fast, and the numbers are believable from my experience doing similar things (web workers drawing fractal-like images on a canvas) but given that it's the only "pretty" benchmark in the lot, it just seems a little strange.
Looks like you were trying to send pull requests?
Video of Jolla Sailfish OS user interface
I don't actually use any MS software whatsoever.

I think the clunkiness, the slowness, the instability, are objectively bad traits of Notes no matter your background.
It seems that suing each other is an American substitute for civil discourse and common sense. If I was Gary Larson I'd consider suing Oatmeal Studios for all the derivative card designs they sell.
> He says its an awesome game

As a data point, I think it's a nice game indeed.

> but this seems way too overpriced to me.

Technically, the price is $0, as far a I've seen gems are solely accelerators. However it takes more effort (and time, but that's mostly time spent not playing the game) to play that way of course.
Open Information Land Tightens, Digg Has No RSS Now.
The Punisher
>> When he started the company, he had a girlfriend. She was a sweet girl, who actually got his Isaac Asimov references.

What have you done!?
$250 is not exceptionally low cost for a netbook. Furthermore the power dissipation of the chromebook under load is only slightly better than a comparable atom system [1]. The idle performance is better, I will give them that. Still, the death of x86 in the face of ARM for performance-sensitive environments (even when power consumption is a factor) has been greatly exaggerated.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/6422/samsung-chromebook-xe303-...
Git Pulls Updated
Show HN: A Non-Profit to help high school students build startups (LANDING PAGE)
Why should I use cdist? (configuration management)
The guy who _made the website_ that outputs PDFs of boarding passes was the one who got raided. It wasn't "present[ing] forged travel document[s]".

The people at the RNC _were_ arrested.
I am also starting to consider this for development, but I need more assurance that it is a viable option.
Does everything mostly work out of the box, or would there be a lot of tinkering / troubleshooting required, e.g. because of the somewhat non-standard nature of running ubuntu on ARM architecture? What about drivers, e.g. for wifi and trackpad?
Jolla Mobile: website launch and Sailfish OS sneak peek
Is it really critical? If you take the datepicker of the TFL official website (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/) they start the week on sunday too. But I agree it can be a pain when you assume the first day is monday.
Zen and the Art of speaking at Ruby Conf 2012, the dRuby way
Yes it's horrible to administer. We have high profile DBAs. One of them was on the SQL Server team a few years back. A huge amount of work is generated for them that is unnecessary on other platforms.

SSIS is a pile of shit. It's impossible to test properly, suffers horrific deployment problems, is very unreliable and the only way to get transactional guarantees is using DTC which literally destroys your performance.

A better solution is something like spring batch / spring integration back off a queue solution.

Agree that NIH/DIY is bad here.
It wasn't just this action that got him convicted. Intent also plays a role. His intent was malicious, with the intent to benefit from what a reasonable person would conclude was access to intentionally private data. Had his actions after discovering the problem been one of a responsible adult the results would have been different. The difficulty has little to do with it. Easily getting access to something you shouldn't have access to does not instilled you with special rights. This also means intent plays a critical role.

Read past the headlines and actually understand the entire story before posting.
Ask HN: is poutsch a good name for a web app?
I guess you need to know what it does:

It is intended to help people and organizations collect and express opinions online