skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you do "var B = Object.create(A);", should B be called a clone of A or a copy of A?

I have seen various definitions of the term "clone", e.g. Io language documentation says that "a clone is an empty object that has the parent in its list of protos", this article defines clone as an exact shallow copy of another object.
"...if you just re-ran it every now and again only the things that had changed, or were missing, would be updated."

Exactly the behaviour I was hoping for. I've 'cloned' your repository and will proceed to play. Thanks for making this generally available.
> How do you explain that to the typical passenger?

You get some video cameras and start filming. You take some avionic displays. You take a bunch of cell phones and iPads. You turn the cell phones on, do some normal activities, and record the distortions to the avionics devices.

You then show that video to passengers.

I believe that pre-GSM analogue phones probably caused considerable interference.

And, because they are not close to cell towers modern GSM phones will switch to highest-power mode to get a better signal. Having a couple of hundred of those phones bunched up together in a plane might cause problems. Listen to the burbling noise you get with a phone near any radio. (And the electronics are not all in the pilot's cabin - there's stuff all over aircraft.)

But it's obviously controversial, and causes confrontation between bolshy passengers and staff who have no option but to enforce the rule; so if they're going to continue to have the rule they should justify it with science and research and evidence.

Do the studies. Show the harm. Publish the results.

And if it's not harmful, well, great. Change the regulations and concentrate on all the other stuff that can cause death and destruction.
"Exerting the kind of influence that the Kochs do doesn't just require money, it also requires decades of hard and patient work."

You can see the origins of the current Republican party in the 1970's. And further back in the Birchers.
Some other useful links (I think I found them in the Reddit post)
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...

and a great video
http://www.magnificentmobility.com/
> "Ugliness" is always from a given perspective

No, humans have a pretty converging opinion on what's attractive in other humans. To the point of being quantifiable https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/fashion/09skin.html?pagew...

And, really, come on, the idea of sexual selection is 150 years old. We don't need to be slaves to it but it is real.
I have to say, Installous was actually a really impressive app for what it was.

It was literally as simple to use as the original App Store, which was incredible. I've never seen that kind of excellent design in an app designed for piracy. It seriously "just worked" in the same way that you'd expect any iOS app to work: you searched for an app, clicked install, it'd take you to a mirror (usually on a site like Mediafire), download it in the background, and install. The interface had a shocking amount of polish, too.

I can't really argue, as a developer, that it's a shame that development has stopped on it, but still - there must be a lot of smart developer talent in that group that will hopefully be put to better use now :)
The scum of the earth are often the same people as those who deeply emotionally feel they are good guys, I suspect, hard enough as it is to believe for people who try to avoid cognitive dissonance. Human behavior is more complex than Hollywood would have you believe.
an interesting 8 min video of Daniel Pink talking about SDT

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=10386642n
"I always feel horrible for the flight attendants. It feels like they are running a day care. Why are people like that? Are they stupid and don't understand the rules? Or do they think the rules don't apply to them?"

My wife is a flight attendant and she defenately feels like she is running a day care. She says it has gotten progressively worse each year.

It does seem to be regional though. She has some flights where the people are always nice and some(Pittsburg) where the people are always rude.
I'm working on developing a Product, uncertain of success. Am I wasting time?
I'm developing a product which puts an Interactive Restuarant Menu on a Tablet Screen, expecting it to be bought by hotel firms.
Almost complete, I'm starting to feel as if I'm wasting time on building something unsure of its success. Is it normal? or should I switch project?
P.S I'm a yet to pass out college hacker
Should be ok now - sry about that - we ran out of space
There are hordes of people who will say outrageous things because they think they are anonymous.

It's one of the many ways that the Internet has amplified character issues that already existed in society.
Huh?

How about measuring emissions reaching the cockpit instruments, putting instruments in the back, doing tests on the ground, doing tests outside the airplane with different types of instruments, allowing devices on modern (more heavily shielded) planes and then seeing whether there are statistically more of these benign incidents (pilot obviously has discretion to ban devices, as always), since we haven't actually seen any planes drop out of the sky, ...
That is not what I meant, I do not agree with you.

Are there some interesting studies? Yes, a few, and some trainers are aware of those. (I challenge you/anyone to provide a list of 5 great fitness papers! For funsies, I'm not saying it can't be done.)

However, in general, we're all flying seat of our pants.

I'd love to see some examples of the bedrock research that you believe trainers rely upon.
I never said these products were scams.
Actually, the OSI has approved two of Microsoft's licenses.

http://opensource.org/node/207
Liberal arts colleges forced to evolve with market
Yahoo Korea is now terminated
You raise a good technical point, once which I don't have the E&M background to comment on. But, I think there is an obvious question: if it's relatively easy to setup these circumstances where interference from many devices can effect the instruments in a modern plane, why don't we have such demonstrations?

The FAA's position is that they don't have proof that the devices are completely safe to use. But what experiments have they carried out? If they had experiments which showed that the devices are not safe to use, I would assume they would just cite those. If they don't have any experiments, then I find that troubling as well. If they do have experiments, then how many do we have to perform before we realize that you can't prove a negative? (That is, if the devices are safe, you can't experimentally prove this.)
Except you don't do that to people.

If you want to truly understand someone's condition, first be their friend and earn the right to talk to them about it. Or jump on wikipedia.

But don't stare. People are not here for your edu-porn.
The scary thing is that you lose the whole device, and flash seems more fragile this way that disks are.

Perhaps we just understand disk failure modes better, and are more comfortable with them.
Did you read the article? They cite reliable sources that say this ban on electronics on airliners is nothing but baloney.

Anyway, I'm honestly curious... Where's your favorite place, under your bed?
It has to be really, really difficult to have this condition. To constantly arouse shocked and disgusted feelings in people has got to hurt, bad.

But there are limits to what we can see/smell/etc and not be disturbed by. For me, Harlequin babies are gruesome, but they are still someone's baby. They're human, and so are their parents, and I know this. My reaction is not a reflection on the baby or the parents but on me and the limits of what I can tolerate.

Now, obviously a lot of folks could do a better job of being tactful about their reaction to her appearance. But I can't tell if her problem is with the reaction as such, or its expression. Would she feel better if people found her appearance disturbing but kept that to themselves? I'm not sure. Learning isn't the issue, knowing that she has a medical condition doesn't change the visceral reaction to her appearance.
PlaceIt ChromeApp: Your Product Screenshots in Realistic Environments breezi.com
I recently got into road biking myself, but one thing I disagree with in this post is that you should buy an expensive road bike to start. I bought a $400 road bike off bikesdirect.com and another $120 on step-in pedals/shoes and outside of a few more cheap accessories I've not spent more than $700 on the whole package. It's the best bike I've ever personally ridden and I have really gotten into the sport (I'm training for a triathlon next summer).

It reminds me of when I bought my first new car, a 2007 VW Rabbit. I knew what I wanted - the four-door non-sport edition, but the dealer asked me if I wanted to test drive the GTI which I didn't know came in a 4-door. I was very tempted but resisted because I knew as soon as I test drove the GTI, the Rabbit would feel sluggish in comparison. The point is, if you start out by test driving something expensive, whether it be a bike or a car, your expectations will rise from zero to very-high and it will taint the well of cheaper options.

It's much more economical to buy a cheaper bike when you have zero expectations, especially if you don't know whether or not you will commit to the sport long-term. You can always sell it and upgrade to a nice $1000+ road bike in the future if you end up loving the sport. I might even recommend going cheaper than I did and buying a used road bike on craigslist for far less than the $400 I spent on a new bike (however cheap $400 is for a new road bike). As others have mentioned here, half the fun of owning a bike is learning how to maintain, repair, and upgrade it over time.
interesting read. some cool sound bites in there too.
If the current Congress fails to come up with something here, let's elect all new people during the next election.
Why can't gov. agencies or airplane manufacturers create an test that mimicks real-world conditions and put a definitive end to the question?

Agreed. Just to a broadband jamming experiment to see what leaks in. A mil-spec style shielding might be expensive (this is the argument a pilot made to me- as if planes are cheap), but we could at least test, and possibly approve some designs.

OTOH, turning off devices for a few minutes isn't really a big concern for me. But I dislike the "it's ok to be ignorant" attitude by the rule-makers.
don't you have their email already if you got them in gmail?
This is godsent. I have over 100 starred repos for various reasons and the only sorting github allows is through language. So naturally, finding old repos is extremely tedious. I'm going to start using this right away.
You're right, I was thinking of an aileron roll. A barrel roll is definitely doable.
I think she was talking about actual staring, not just "being the focus of attention".
"Naive" is right. Don't these guys remember 1995 and Newt Gingrich and the new Republican majority "stealing Christmas"? Right before they negotiated with Bill Clinton major entitlement and tax cuts that put the U.S. on the soundest fiscal footing it had seen in decades.

It's always the last generation's Republicans that were the reasonable guys and this year's that are bought and paid for radical nutjobs. I'm not old enough to remember the political 1980's that well, but my impression is that Reagan, the guy who "couldn't be nominated by today's Republican party", also caught a lot of flak as a radical who was going to start WWIII.

With a four year interruption during two unpopular wars and an economic meltdown, a strongly anti-tax majority has been elected to the U.S. House for almost two decades, well before anyone had heard of the "Tea Party" or the Koch brothers. One could argue that they've been fairly consistently anti-entitlement growth as well, given the contortions Boehner and Hastert had to go through to get Medicare Part D passed.

It's not a conspiracy, it's what American voters apparently want in the house of Congress that most directly controls the purse.
The Kindle has 3 modes. "On"; "asleep"; and "off". It can receives stuff wirelessly while "on" or "asleep".

It also has an airplane mode.

> Power switch — puts your Kindle to sleep, wakes it up, and turns your Kindle on or off. The power switch is located just to the right of the micro-USB/power port. To put your Kindle to sleep, slide and release the power switch; the screensaver appears on the display. While your Kindle is asleep, other keys and buttons are locked so that you don’t accidentally change the place in your reading. For Kindle with Special Offers, the center of the 5-way controller is not locked while your Kindle is asleep. To turn your Kindle off, slide and hold the power switch for seven seconds until the screen goes blank and then release. To wake up or turn on your Kindle, slide and release the power switch again. If you have set up a device password, you will be prompted to enter the password after turning on your Kindle or waking it from sleep.

> If your Kindle does not power on or is unresponsive during use, try resetting the device by sliding and holding the power switch for 15 seconds before releasing.

> Might be because it's jailbroken and running funky code

Well, that's awkward. The FA must enforce the regulations; you don't want to say anything like "modified electronic device" or you risk being taken off the plane at gunpoint and detained in a room while big men with rubber gloves search every orifice.

I do agree that the rules are annoying as heck.
Apple Reportedly Developing Connected Watch
To ALL HN readers: It's a troll post(some guy's personal rant) just to get more clicks on the ads at the sides and bottom. P.S - Someone please flag this from the frontpage!
Neat!

Mobile search view is a little cluttered, and the sort dropdown doesn't seem to be changeable.

http://imgur.com/KNl9t.jpg
My 2013 Resolution: Get Way Weirder (as per the prophecy)
I don't think any of those are intended to imply "binary large object". They are just talking about non-human-readable data. They may not be implying any negative connotations anymore, but that's the origin of "binary blob".
Beta 1 is out and it's great!
Eh. I've been using magnets to mitigate PTSD and other persistent pains. LSD and shrooms have been instrumental in the development of many of my psionic abilities.

It wasn't until I tripped methylone that I realized that I probably shouldn't share my gifts with too many people.

But now they're labeling "HPDD": persistent hallucinogenic experience surely must be a bad thing. This country is buggered. Period.
Good point. Mechanical disks usually start exhibiting warning signs when failing (the disk in my T61 started clicking about a month ago is being replaced tomorrow). I'm not sure I'll get away with that in the Samsung 840 that is going in it instead.

(yes I do backups and rsync hourly before anyone slates me for working on a cranky machine).
How multi-disk failures happen
I like the site design - the darker them really makes photos pop. I am not a fan of the name though; I've always found that names that have ambiguous pronunciations are always the easiest for people to forget.
Develop customer then the product. Take a look at Lean startup by Eric Ries, search for Customer Development, read Steve Blank, read Start slow & Stay Small by Rob Walling. Talk to businesses. Get out of your computer screen. Ask their opinion. Ask them to pay you.
I was hoping for a downloadable single-image version but he doesn't have one. I made one myself by compositing his tiles.

Image: http://frammish.org/dots.png

Code: http://pastie.org/5602534
Have to agree with you that online tutorials followed by hands-on is a more practical way to learn than try and follow books. Finding the right tutorial is tricky though. Have you noticed that most Java tutorials assume that you know C?
I bet she has to deal with pretty hostile reactions in her day to day life. Maybe not quite as horrible as "You should kill yourself", but still pretty bad.

UK TV station Channel 4 had an interesting documentary where they paired up people with facial disfigurement and people who really wanted cosmetic surgery. The comments that people with facial disfigurement had to endure in everyday life really were awful. (And there's plenty of research showing "ugly" people do less well than "pretty" people in things like job interviews and pay rises etc.)

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(Unfortunately, most of the programmes had confrontational pairs who had little interest in understanding the other person.) The most interesting was a man who had extensive burn scars on his face, paired up with a woman who had large breasts. He went in saying that she should not have surgery at all. After a while he could see just how horrible people were to her just because of her large breasts. That's S01E01.

(http://www.channel4.com/programmes/beauty-the-beast-ugly-fac...)

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2010/aug/26/bea...)
Except we won't. We rarely do, and only at onesies and twosies.

Besides, they aren't working on the fiscal cliff anyway, even if it looks like they are. They're wielding a tool which they created which gives them another way to make the other side look bad. That's the entire point. Governing is a side effect.

Tip O'Neill said that all politics is local. That may be true for elections. But it is certain that all government is politics.
A good old Nintendo 64
I can give a huge thumbs up for ARPnet. They are based in downtown LA (and peer @ 1 Wilshire and I think they also are part of the Any2Net exchange from CoreSite), they also fully support IPv6 on VPC's as well as managed servers.

I've had both from them and have found support to be excellent. Honestly can't say enough good things about these guys.
Show HN: Weekend Project, Clean stock charts for AAPL/GOOG/AMZN/IBM
This is awesome, thank you. I've got 300 starred repos which renders the entire system effectively useless as I cannot find anything. Gitrep looks like it'll fix this awesomely, thanks!
1. URLs should update with the filters I choose. It looks like all of them are POST requests. This breaks bookmarking, backbutton and slew of other things. HTML5 makes it easier for webapps like this with their pushHistory feature. Take a look at that

2. When I hover on the item to see what it is linked to, I get a "fake" amuzuor/../outbound_link - I like to see where I'd end up, before I click. I couldnt find a place for that.
On modern aircraft, not just the cockpit electronics but the flight controls themselves. They are no longer cables, they are electronic (rudders, etc.).

If you fly a smaller/older plane (I flew a cessna earlier this month) they don't have the same "off" requirement. "Airplane" mode is fine.
Thanks for letting us know. We've added a quick introduction to the site for new users that appears on your first visit.

We're also currently working on bringing out a responsive/mobile interface.
Humans may have a converging opinion however this is more likely related to the current social norms rather than an anything else.

If you were to transport a person from 400 years ago into the present then you would find their idea of ugliness would be very different from our present opinion.

I agree that sexual selection isn't a new idea, however I would suggest it's more related to what the media and advertising tells us is optimal rather than other factors (e.g. see the changing sexual norms in teenagers due to porn).
very cool and simple to use! Thanks Breezi
> The fundamental data structure of data transport between layers is a hash. This is for both incoming and outgoing data from the each layer. There are many benefits to this approach. The biggest benefit is that each layer stays decoupled from the other layers and that hashes act as messages passed between the layers.

If I understand correctly, the only thing this is doing is converting a compile time dependency into a run time dependency. But the dependency is there nevertheless in the names of the fields, types, etc.
As a software dev currently thinking through my 'next thing,' I find this opinion refreshing. There's a lot of redundant and me-too software and it's far too easy to fall into the trap of building another mobile/social/geo/photo app.

I think hardware makers are doing a great job of pushing the envelop, but software not so much.

The question is, what's next for software? At the time Twitter came out, it was brand new...amazing...innovative. I can't recall feeling the same about anything since.

My own personal belief is that embedded software is going to be the next thing, but the problem there is the barrier to entry is a bit higher, both in terms of knowledge base and financial cost. That said, tech like Bluetooth LE is making it easier than ever to try.
2013 Resolutions: a man page a day makes the newb go away
As per the other link there are a lot of these systems out there, each with different pros and cons. If you spot bugs or have suggestion please do drop me a mail/raise an issue.
Can You Withstand The Meteorites - my reflections on 2012
Evening School of Erlang - Pasadena Feb2013 - Early Bird now open 
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The Evening School of Erlang is a series of Erlang classes designed to bring together developers interested in programming in Erlang and companies who are looking to recruit bright Erlang developers all across the U.S. The Evening School of Erlang Pasadena is starting on the 19th of February and consists of two- hour evening classes which are conducted twice a week (every Tuesday and Thursday) over a four week period from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.

At the end of the four weeks, participants will be able to take the Erlang Foundation certification exam at no additional cost. This will validate to future employers their knowledge of the Erlang language.
The trick is that the experiment might get back a "sometimes" result. That is, sometimes a certain combination of devices causes a radio spur to give one of the avionics a little tickle. Then, if something drifts (as CPU clocks will) the spur goes away, or drifts off to a harmless band, or onto something else you are not watching.

And doing the test on the ground is not convincing, as the signals the instruments are looking at are at a larger strength than the spurs. How does the spur compete with the ever-weakening signal as the plane flies further out? The desired signal declines as the square of the distance, where as the junk in the passenger compartment is not changing.

And you can also do the math on this, and it is intimidating. The math says to take the sum and difference of every pair of radio signals to see the full spectrum of hash put out by the collection of devices. With three or five radios (I am including the unintentional transmitters here as well, like CPU clocks) on 200 devices, that is how many pairs? Now, how many signals does that spit out?

And if they did site such a study, the social pressure would still be here. In the article, we are referencing the acumen of Alec Baldwin and Claire McCaskell.

(Spur is jargon for Spurious Signal.)

The military faced a problem in the same space but of a different magnitude. Powerful radars need to be turned off during takeoff and landing for some aircraft so they are not blind.
Look around you
So, let's say you do "delete" your account. Wouldn't your information still be there to be sold? Does any TOS actually say deleting your account deletes all data from that account?
ES6 will introduce class syntax, but it's also going to standardise __proto__ property [1] making it easier to write both classical and prototypical code.

[1] http://javascript.spec.whatwg.org/#object.prototype.__proto_...
If only the.. uhh.. "people" glued to Fox News and MSNBC could open their eyes and realize that their side is just as culpable as the evil side.