skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is getting a bit off topic, but no, motorcycles would not benefit from seatbelts. They would actually be a huge detriment. You're right with the idea that it is advantageous to be separated from the motorcycle in a crash. Not just due to not wanting to be dragged along however.

When I started riding a motorcycle several years back I took a proper safety and rider training course. One of the strategies that could be employed for an imminent crash was literally referred to as a "Superman Dive". Basically, you see you're about to hit a car/truck so you put your feet on the footpegs, hands on the gas tank and jump over the vehicle you're about to hit and then do your best to roll when you hit the ground on the other side. A seatbelt would naturally prevent this.

While hitting the ground on the other side of the vehicle and then going for a roll is far from a good day, it beats going from whatever-speed-you're-at to zero instantly when you're flung into the other vehicle. Since there is no metal box around you on a motorcycle, rather than be a safety feature, a seatbelt would limit or prevent actions that could seriously reduce the chances and severity of injuries.
Yet another one???
Susan Sontag's radical vision for remixing education
> Perjuring oneself while under deposition can lead to prosecution without any "miscarriage of justice" having taken place in the form of a concluded trial and judgment based upon said testimony.

No, as far as I know and in most jurisdictions -- for it to be perjury, among the other conditions already listed, there must be a resulting miscarriage of justice. BTW IANAL.

EDIT: the "miscarriage of justice" issue often affects a prosecutor's decision to pursue a case, and it affects the sentencing phase, but it's not actually part of the formal definition. I was wrong.

> The courts might also consider context, where the fact of a member of law enforcement committing perjury might be considered particularly onerous ...

Yes, but that only applies to sentencing, not the issue of guilt. Whether the facts support a conviction of perjury is separate from the issue of an appropriate punishment after a conviction.
Because "lie detectors" are pseudo-science rubbish. The only thing they test is how well you handle lie detectors.
> Most of this money doesn't come from banks or venture capital funds, however. "Newly founded companies are mostly financed by the founders' own funds"

Ah the typical European startup dilemma. The governments recognize that in an age of difficult unemployment and stagnating growth, new avenues of entrepreneurship need to be embraced, and so they set up all sorts of programs to encourage new startups. But then these startups get beyond the very early stage, and need to raise capital to continue their growth. And the look to institutional money in Europe. And no one will give them any. Because the European investor mindset is so risk averse, that only those who already have money are considered safe enough to start real businesses (continuing the old guard).

Personally, I think that's great. You folks in Europe are just reasserting that we in the US have the more opportune climate for startups. And so we'll continue to steal all your good ones ;)
In other words, you put that entity out of business. Sounds like success!
There are some in my town too you see giant tubes and blades heading out of town towards the testing facility, 90 metre monsters.

It's funny this article is about wind I guess that's the point him being an engineer for Vestas. Here on the island I live on we often get windsurfers who come here because it's so windy.
This certainly looks like the best "traditional style" webapp framework yet for node - e.g. something that reminds me strongly of a well-apportioned SpringMVC setup.

That said, I'm a huge fan of Meteor. It is (almost) totally non-traditional, but granted it does not give you the fine-grained control of this framework. I can see Hapi being the correct choice if either a) your developers are uncomfortable with large paradigm shifts (and seriously, who can blame them?) or b) you have to conform to a pre-existing API that requires low-level control (which is, of course, a total bummer).

Very nice work - and from my skimming of your docs, very nice documentation. Lots of good info in there without a lot of fluff, and I like that it's all on one page. Kudos. I'll definitely try Hapi instead of Connect next time I need something like this.
The only disruption that I see in Enterprise sales is that consolidation of functions and growth in the big enterprise software suites is wiping out whole categories of product.

Microsoft is ahead of the curve on this. How can you justify buying Altiris when you own SCCM via the Core CAL? Ditto for AV, although the MS solution is not that great. How do you justify some enterprise monitoring suite for some wacky prcice when you license system center for $2k per VM host?

People who think they are disrupting spending in the enterprise on on crack. You're in an era of belt-tightening, and the belt gets tighter every time there's a "fiscal cliff" or some other looming nightmare. My director circa 2003 could drop $500k with a few days notice. Now, the procurement people watch any purchase like a hawk -- some places want ROI calculations on toner!

Salesforce is a another great example. I met them last week, they very much looked and sounded like enterprise sales folk. The only thing "radical" about them is that they are competing against other software vendors AND your incumbent hardware and data center / network providers. If you buy Siebel, you need to deal with Oracle's bullshit for the software and the services to make it work, AND you need to land infrastructure to run it at full capacity on day 1.

These changes are radical in that they make procuring and getting value easier, and lower the probability of seven figure shelf ware. But they don't change the sales process... You still have a salesperson and supporting team.
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D'oh, I misread the spec; this is where understanding the Clojure properly may have helped too. I thought the keys had to be in both maps, not the keys from both maps. Good call on the | and flat_map then :-)
Interface is way too laggy. I don't want to see individual tweets flit by at 10fps. Drop the tweets and hashtags and give me 60fps.
Bank of America ties it to your user name, which is one of the reasons I quit using them.
I hesitated a while before clicking on that link. At my previous job, I was responsible for maintaining a ".gov" site and this post got me thinking. Is there a code of conduct or a professional response that is expected of a web developer who sees a post like this on pastebin? Are we supposed to just ignore it? Maybe click the link to make sure we are not on the list? Not click on the link? I know I would have been thankful if someone had given me a heads up if my site was on that list.
For those curious,

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/firehose
Its not competitive when everyone is locked in 2 year contacts. Want a true competitive market, get rid of contacts and force people to buy their phones.
IIRC, most of these banks have insurance to cover that case, so in theory you shouldn't lose any money provided you notify them in a timely manner of unauthorized transactions.
Show HN: Mandelbrot Fractal Rendering with JS, webworkers, and canvas
>Why people feel entitled to services at the price they choose is beyond me

Did you read the article? ATT detected he had a smartphone and upgraded his plan to include data, forcibly. That's like GM saying, oh we've detected your car comes with OnStar and are activating the OnStar plan. If you don't like it, you're more than free to sell your car.
To me it seems a lot simpler. The perspective of the shot juxtaposes a lone man always against something much larger than himself - facing it head on. It's an archetypically heroic pose. If it has to do with anything Kantian I'd think it would have less to do with his moral philosophy and more to do with the realm of the noumena and phenomena and his transcendental philosophy as contemplated by a lone man who for the first time sees something of the shape of things from a vantage point above the fog.
Do you get visual voicemail with that plan?
Because "Be Good" can be ambiguous, e.g. it's also equivalent to "Don't Be Bad [at doing something]".
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When I signed up for USAA, by default they had a silly authentication system based on "security questions". I was very disappointed until I found out that they support several mechanisms, and allow you to disable the ones you won't use. Hence, I use the one where I combine my password with a token generated by a mobile app. Maybe other banks have alternate authentication mechanisms stashed away as well?
I guess I shouldn't conflate the courts with the prosecutor's office (and law enforcement itself, for that matter).

And IANAL -- NEC (Not Even Close) -- myself. BTW, I hope that acronyms suffice in such disclaimers. ;-)

The P.S. that I added to my grandparent, I wrote before you followed up. So, it was not in response to your response.

Beginning to feel too much like a lawyer, just writing these convolutions...

I appreciate your level-headed, and researched, responses. Admittedly, I'm going more than a bit on emotion, here.

Without being overly versed in the details of the law, I watch the contemporary results and trends in this country with a growing horror. Of course, that may reflect my own particular circumstances [1] as much or more than an objective (however defined) measure of actual circumstances.

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[1] Including e.g. aging, competing with production environments that don't have to meet my own's level of expenses including due to regulatory and safety expenses, respect for IP, etc.
Why we stopped using Drupal for our platform
Consistency.

Sometimes I might use tab, sometimes I might notice something's off by one and use a space (for right or wrong, habits + muscle memory etc.) I also use code from other developers who may be even more inconsistent or pick one over the other.

If everyone just uses spaces - as in common in the worlds I work in - a lot of the above issues are prevented.
I guess it's because a couple months ago svbtle debuted as an invite-only blogging thing, and a bunch of people got really angry and created an exact copy just to spite what the Org. guy was doing which was basically saying: if you see this design you know you're gonna be reading quality stuff.
Show the business how new web projects should run.
A little presentation that you can use to show the business the basic workflow of how a new web application should be launched. A wip, but something desperately needed in some cases.
As of this writing, the grandparent was downvoted; this post is a response to that situation.

> Ruby sucks

Ruby actually does suck. I don't like it; that's my personal opinion.

But I can't say that. All the cool startups are using it, so Ruby has become one of HN's sacred cows: There are people on here, like the parent, who take offense when someone dares have anything but the highest praise for Ruby and Rails.

I've looked at Ruby. The syntax is ugly; the language is about as bad as Perl in this regard. I've deployed Ruby applications; it's complex (although, to be fair, this is endemic to Web development). Rails is a nightmare.

A lot of HN'ers seem to like it. That's fine. But we should listen to unpopular opinions; important truths aren't always immediately universally accepted as such.

Problem: Maybe Ruby is actually the best thing since sliced bread, but I don't understand its greatness because I haven't seen the right tutorial. Solution: Write a better tutorial, improve existing ones, or point out your favorite beginning Ruby tutorials on HN or your blog.

Problem: Maybe the syntax of Ruby is really what makes me uncomfortable. Solution: A Python-to-Ruby bridge would let people like me experience the goodness of Rails without the pain of learning Ruby's extensive syntactic "innovations."

Problem: The grandparent's employer was uncomfortable with the number of security vulnerabilities recently found in Rails. Solution: Maybe having a stable branch which didn't innovate quite as fast and focused on security would make enterprise users more comfortable with Rails. Or maybe the Rails community needs more thorough vetting of new features for potential security holes, perhaps through requiring separate reviews for security and functionality before patches are officially accepted.

But if we just dismiss anyone who criticizes Ruby as a troll, how are we supposed to recognize and respond to actual problems like these? The grandparent's issues were a legitimate criticism of Ruby, and should not have been downvoted.
It's a trade off between that and allowing some random stranger to transfer your money if you get up and forget to lock your computer. Our first alpha didn't have the auto-logout and by far the most common piece of feedback we got was that we needed it.
I have no interest in opening myself up to spurious malpractice suits by paraphrasing the claims of this patent. It does appear, however, at a first glance, that they likely require more than "check[ing] a unique serial number securely, either over the phone or net."
Nice. How do you get the diamonds out that are stuck in the rocks if your only controls are the arrow keys?
Sort of OT: I processed accident claims for over five years. You don't have to do anything "insane" on a motorcycle to get seriously racked up. What would be a minor fenderbender in a car leading to minor whiplash, where the policyholder was trying to see how many neckrubs he could get covered, on a motorcycle can be them picking gravel out of your road rash and involve broken bones that don't want to mend right and require surgery weeks later. I also saw plenty of second degree burns on the leg from contact with the tailpipe. I never saw a single burn claim for just routine driving of a car.

As for ATVs, they should require more protection. I saw at least one claim involving loss of the foot and lower leg. It made even motorcycle accidents look relatively tame.

I probably reviewed over 60,000 accident files in my time with the company, to give some context for my impressions that motorcycles are just crazy dangerous, no matter how careful you are.
Gopros for police officers?
The phones are slightly cheaper, but the point stands. Good analogy.
I skimmed the PDF and didn't see what you're referring to; however, I did see it explicitly point out the ineffectiveness of "security" questions.
How does one set their website to be iframe unfriendly? Intriguing.
> Your ungratefulness is likely to bring a well deserved meteor strike leaving you with fewer telecom options.

I was perfectly happy with my previous contract. If I'm being "ungrateful" for the privilege of getting charged extra for a service I didn't agree to, then I guess we have different definitions of gratefulness.
Nice looking game... but, I can jump and move about with the arrow keys, but pass straight through diamonds (floating in the air), and can't drill through the rock. I tried other keys on the keyboard, but nothing happens. How should I be playing?
If the American people had any sense at all, we would drive AT&T out of business tomorrow. This story is no exception -- they live to do this kind of crap.

They boss the consumer around, but it is the consumer who truly holds all the power. Luckily for them, we consumers have been lulled into inattention, and somehow we put up with this crap.

Edit/Addition: We need to ban together, drive AT&T out of business, and serve notice to the corporate world that they fucking work for us, not the other way around.
Surely that is illegal? How can you be signed up to a contract you don't agree to?
That is what the article argues or at least that they are similar in concept. Since the painting is from the romantic era it could suggest that the studios have adopted a the concept because of the recession. I wouldn't be surprised if the movie industry has trend forecasting like many other industries.

On the other hand it might just be that they are teaser poster. If we are really going for similarity the poster for 2012 is a pretty good fit[0]. Of course I'm not sure if you actually had anything to add or just wanted a Seinfeld moment?

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/
Isn't a bookmark just as convenient as an addon? Especially with an omnibar/awesomebar?
Yes but its really expensive and they have almost a monopoly on the vast quantity of data. They are the linguistic data consortium. Yearly membership fees for companies is $24000, for non profits(e.g education) is $2400 per year. Plus it costs extra for the actual data.

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
To piggy-back off this: My family left T-Mobile because we didn't get reception in the 1st floor of our house. The last monthly bill was for 8 days of service out of 31, so it should have been prorated, but wasn't - they charged us for the whole month, despite automatically detecting the date we ended service. The rep said that this was just how their "system" handled mid-month terminations.

My point is not that T-Mobile sucks, but that all cell providers will provide delightful fair service to many, and cheat and piss off some. Take it with a grain of salt when someone says that one company is "scum."
> it can not use data at all unless you are on a wifi network.

Which is >95% of the time for me, and many people.
The blog post is worse than useless.

The images give you as a user a sense of situational awareness -- I know based on the picture which of a half dozen accounts I have (personal, Ira, business, etc) I'm logging into.

They also make it more difficult to misdirect people to a lookalike site via phishing. Even old people recognize that their login picture, normally prominently displayed, is missing.
Microserfs (1994)
I agree. "Academic integrity" always seemed like a law that was enforced with strange brutality. I've never cheated on a test before, but I don't think working with others is a bad thing. In fact, I wonder if I was trained so much by this to only work on things by myself, which has other negative consequences.
Well, HN receives a significant amount of traffic -- probably a good many people do go on to click the links. It's equivalent at this point to having the URL featured on some high-traffic tech news site.

If you're still wary, pick the most unremarkable one, that you think most people are likely to click. That way it seems more normal from their perspective -- you're just one among many in the wide sea. Here, I'll even help you out: https://secureweb.hqda.pentagon.mil/dpo/Details.asp?ID=108
I never have a problem finding the right price so long as it is just 2 days in advance with ITA Matrix: http://matrix.itasoftware.com

I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in this thread. Incredible value, even for international flight. I used it to book a day-before-Thanksgiving flight two or three days before and ended up with a ridiculously good deal on a non-stop coach flight.
Something that I've come to realize only in the last couple of years: most programming arguments revolve around personal preference. There are of course optimizations that can be made to actually improve machine performance; these can be found reasonably simply through profiling. At the end of the day, most arguments revolve around "style".

It's actually a very tricky subject. If you're working on SMe apps, including startups, most often a given project'style will flow from the lead (or the person/people who initiated the project). They may be good, they may be bad. Invariably, less experienced developers are hired and learn Ro code following this style. Eventually, those less experienced developers become experienced, and leave to persue other projects. And they take that style with them.

Depending on the role they have, there is likely still a lead above them. And this is where the arguments begin. The lead had his/her style. The new dev has experience with another style, and it may or may not mesh with the new lead's style.

And so the problem perpetuates.

It can be very difficult to work with those devs in the early-middle stage of their career. If they are good people, they learn to be flexible, adopt the best parts of all the styles they are exposed to, and eventually become great leads. But many will not, are confrontational, and ultimately poisonous to the teams they are on.

If I can quote my favorite philosopher, Ted "Theodore" Logan: "if the only true wisdom lies in knowing, then you know nothing"
Be careful about that. If you chargeback and the large company fights back, you could be in a world of pain with the phone company AND the credit card company!
Flash couldn't be loaded on Google Chrome / Linux
Some issues:

1. You should add code to keep diamonds from spawning in rocks. It'd be simple to implement: Check if the diamond spawn location is rock, and if it is, don't spawn it.

2. Don't use a dialog for user name entry; use a form or something instead. In my browser (Chromium on Linux Mint), the dialog locks the entire browser window until I type in a name, even if I don't want to play -- maybe I just want to click on About to see more about you.

3. Is this open-source? It's probably way too simple to be commercially viable, but it'd be instructive for learning socket.io to look at the source; you should put it on Github or something.

4. Just checked the site again; it's down. The front page of HN will do that. Maybe you could throw some screenshots up on a static http server or Amazon S3 if you the ingredients handy, so people have something to look at.
I've been using republic wireless for about a year now. $19 a month for unlimited everything.

For people who don't know, it's a hyrbid wifi phone that also allows for unlimited 3g, talk and texts on sprint's network when you're not near wifi.
More like most blockbuster movies from the last two to three years. Neat trend, but hardly representative of all film posters in general. When I think of blockbuster movie posters, I think of Drew Struzan's work for Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Now that's iconic.
Well, I was specifically referring to the situation in the link, where StackExchange hires remote workers to be full-time developers. Unless I've somehow misunderstood and those appointments are not full-time but rather contract-based.

I understand that if you're freelancing things are very different.
Yep, that's the interesting question. Along with: Why is there something rather than nothing?

Note that I did not say "nothing exists" I said "nothing exists on its own". Could have said "Don't take the self so seriously, in only exists in relation to other things".

Indeed, why seek anything? That only makes sense if there's something missing. Meditation would have it that there is nothing missing and that we just don't know that.
I know that Microserfs is a classic, but when I read it yesterday, it was strangely relatable and realistic, yet so different from the way our industry depicts itself today.
Is it important to make your own case studies?
Renaming Files And Folders in Java
You're missing the point. Seat belt laws are weird when compared to motorcycles, because the purpose of the law is to limit personal injury during an accident. Which would make sense, if it wasn't for the fact that if you have an accident on a motorcycle, you are pretty much guaranteed to be more injured than when in a car without a seat belt. So either outlaw motorcycles and require seat belts, or allow motorcycles and using seat belts is up to the driver. But the current legal situation is inconsistent.