skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If we tolerate mass electronic tracking of our children's locations to keep them safe today, how long before it becomes normal for everyone to be location-tracked all the time?"

Slippery-slope arguments are only fallacies when they go against your own beliefs.
Replacing my smartphone with the iPad mini
It's not the cosmetic problems of the phpBB design you've brought over so much as it is the fundamental problems. Take, for example, the list of threads. Just like phpBB, there are lots of columns of numbers, and stats, nearly all unnecessary. Likes? Views? Activity? Participants?

The job here is to judge a thread. If a thread's good, people will post on it, and it will bump to the top. That's it. The only other things you need to know are title and size (number of posts).

Even the avatars are unnecessary here: either the community is small and it'll be all the usual suspects on every thread, or the community is huge and most of the avatars will be meaningless.

phpBB's deep problem is it overloads human conversation with metrics and geegaws that are there only because they were easy to code. They distract from the discourse, and I fear they'll detract from Discourse.
I was really surprised when I finally figured out that all I had to do was: (on my Debian system)

aptitude install w3c-markup-validator

and opening http://localhost/w3c-validator/ in the browser.

Unfortunately, HTML5 is not supported out of the box. However, this might be added as described in: http://blog.simplytestable.com/installing-the-w3c-html-valid...
It's very similar to Crashlytics with the primary difference being Sentry's very strong focus on web applications (initially) and our slowly expanding support for desktop and mobile applications
Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?
Apple came pretty close to having the lights turned off. Microsoft stepped in and injected some cash. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html or from Wikipedia:
At the 1997 Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would join Microsoft to release new versions of Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, and that Microsoft made a $150 million investment in non-voting Apple stock.[62]
All the world is staged
I would agree that before, the risks from injuries like concussions were not known.

In this era, however, most people playing these contact sports like football and hockey know about them. And if they play at a high-enough level such that they can play in college, then the level of care and attention they get is even higher. If they don't play at a high enough level, their career effectively ends at high school.

And it's in the best interest of colleges to pay heed and educate the students on the risks as well. It's not just the NFL that is at risk to litigation, it's also the entire college system. Given the amount of litigation that colleges face, they also probably pay as much attention to things like concussions and career-ending injuries as the NFL does.

So I disagree that these days most people don't understand the risks. I believe the risks are well ingrained throughout the entire system. And people are willing to take those risks, which is their right.
We're working on expanding our discovery tools, as wiwillia explained above, but any discovery tools will always be filtered, either manually, or by fairly stringent criteria, such as already having sold a number of shirts. As with any website that freely accepts user-submitted content, making it easily viewable to the public is inviting abusive and spammy submissions.
Thanks for the clarification. If you work for Github it would be useful if the blog clearly stated it (maybe I just missed it?)
> matching the weak isolation provided by many databases, hopefully provide a familiar programming interface

I'm not sure it's really that familiar. Just knowing how to make requests doesn't ensure you really understand all the ways the answers could be wrong, much less have done the analysis and proven you can withstand all those failure modes. I think a lot of systems out there are quietly corrupting themselves in ways the maintainers didn't have high enough scale or good enough analytics to notice, at least not early enough to recover to a valid state.
Based on this comment[1] and the graph on the blog post I assume they get to keep around 30% after paying for production, shipping, etc.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5172890
People keep upvoting it every month.
They would if they weren't wearing head to toe padded protection. It would actually hurt, and pain would limit the needless aggression. Works fine in Rugby (union and league) and Aussie rules, with players every bit as hard and aggressive.
The loop was a trivial example. Less trivial examples are not possible either. For instance, I'd like to write a function that takes in a channel and returns a (directional) channel that has been turned asynchronous, by running a goroutine that manages a queue and doing some other things above and beyond what a merely buffered channel does (emulating Erlang's way of managing async messages with backoff timeouts), but I can't do that correctly and safely. I haven't completely written this function in fact but it's certainly at least 20 lines.

I'm making a list of the things that I tried to do in the language, then couldn't; I'm up to four right now, each of which are not trivial examples, but are instances of code that I must repeat because I can not refactor it. This is not a plus. (My list is at home and I'm not, and I'm sort of saving it for a blog post anyhow, but this is representative; not killer, but the issues compound as the program gets large.)

Mind you, I know the language is young, etc etc, and I support the idea of doing it right rather than doing it sooner, nor am I attached to "generics" as the only possible solution. However, there is a real problem here for refactorability, and I would not want the Go community to build too much of a metaphorical callous around this issue and get to the point where they just reflexively respond with annoyance. There is a problem here.
> And now I can't reply to scott_s's reply (another weird quirk that I don't understand, since it doesn't seem to be tied to how nested the comment is),

It's based on time. You can't reply immediately, you have to let some time pass. The idea is that it stops a conversation, a quick back and forth, and forces it to take a while, which should in theory encouraged more reasonable responses.
> The fact that Remeron worked for me has absolutely nothing to do with belief or placebo affect.

With all respect, you cannot make this claim. The only way this claim could become scientific would be with a double-blind scientific study. Such a study would compare the drug with ... a placebo.

And, as I have pointed out, the studies that have been conducted do not support the claim that antidepressants work for the majority of people -- indeed, studies demonstrate the opposite conclusion, that they do not work.

> On the other hand, you have no grounds to assert that I was cured by the placebo effect.

Yes, which means it's a good thing that I never said that anywhere. And why would I? The claim makes no sense -- no one is ever "cured" by the placebo effect.

> I don't need scientific evidence to know that this is how Paxil effected me ...

Wow. The drug companies must love clients like you.

> I, personally, have plenty of information to make an accurate and rational conclusion here.

You are ignoring the readily available scientific findings, so no, your conclusion is neither accurate nor rational.

This is an excellent capsule summary of modern psychological research -- no electron micrographs, no useful in vitro results, no objective evidence. No known causes for diagnosed conditions, and subjective diagnostic criteria. Instead, a nearly complete reliance on the self-reporting of clients, who insist that the drugs do or do not work, or the therapy works or doesn't work.

No matter how sincerely psychologists and psychiatrists want to help people, this charade will continue until real science begins to be done, and for that, we'll probably have to completely switch away from psychology to neuroscience. As it happens, Thomas R. Insel, the sitting director of the NIMH, agrees with this view:

Link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=faulty-circ...

Quote: "In most areas of medicine, doctors have historically tried to glean something about the underlying cause of a patient's illness before figuring out a treatment that addresses the source of the problem. When it came to mental or behavioral disorders in the past, however, no physical cause was detectable so the problem was long assumed by doctors to be solely "mental," and psychological therapies followed suit. Today scientific approaches based on modern biology, neuroscience and genomics are replacing nearly a century of purely psychological theories, yielding new approaches to the treatment of mental illnesses."
I noticed that as well. If your userbase looks a bit like StackOverflow's or HN's it's probably not such a big deal. If your userbase isn't a bunch of developers, designers or early adopters and looks more like W3counter's then 14% of your potential desktop users (tested IE8, presumably similar on 7) get a loading screen when accessing the try.discourse.org demo. If the apparent limitations to IE9 support are significant, that's a quarter of a potential userbase that can't effectively participate in a community, at least not without writing new code - presumably connected with the infinite scroll feature - to support still-common legacy browsers.

Say what you like about the crappiness of php forum software, but their designs that haven't been updated since about 2001 just work.
Amazon Announces Virtual Currency For Kindle Fire
Nothing grinds my gears more than Dyson products. Oh sure I'll spend £400 on an insanely complicated vacuum with hundreds of springs and hinges and clips that breaks 6 months later and does no better job than a simple, virtually indestructable Henry that cost just 1/4 the price.

Or £300 on a FAN.

And just what the FUCK is a digital motor? http://www.dyson.co.uk/vacuumcleaners/ddm.aspx

Over-priced, over-engineered, completely unnecessary rip-off bullshit.
Skin temp drops to dew point and not a degree lower. Wind speed can mess with total heat energy flux thru a surface via windchill, but thats more a long term / higher delta t effect. Hence the Floridians who are looking confused at your claim and the Arizonians who shiver along with you.
According to Jeff Atwood:

"Well, I love .NET -- it is amazingly fast and incredibly well designed"

"But for open source projects, there's just too much friction in a Microsoft stack. So it was either Python or Ruby and @eviltrout had an extensive Ruby background, so... here we are."

Source: http://try.discourse.org/t/-net-vs-ruby/415/11
(That forum is reset every day, so this link will expire soon)
HN becomes part of Teespring marketing strategy ? )
About iPad market share
Karma whoring.
I sometimes use adblock as an incredibly blunt instrument to delete unwanted page elements.
I think the whole idea of having air blasting into a sink is asking for sanitation problems. Sinks are very dirty and if you are blasting air into them it would then create aerosols of the grime and spit in the sinks!
That's what I have always said about law. I can do about 4 hours of legal work a day. Then I am absolutely done. I have no idea how my colleagues can clock in 8 hours.

Yes - there are days I can do more. But there are also days I do less than 4 hours. In the long run I do about 4 hours a day. That's it.
Museums Grapple With Onerous Restrictions on Donations
What's with all the Rails hate? It's getting tiring already. We're not going to stop loving and using Ruby and it's cute little sibling Rails because of a few hiccups so get over it already, ok?
Pure aerobic endurance aside, gridiron players are some of the most athletic people on the planet when ranked on things like quickness, strength, vertical leap, agility, and so forth. There is an event called the NFL Scouting Combine where college athletes are tested and ranked on these factors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine

Perhaps the most interesting differentiator between american football and other sports is how much of it is about raw athleticism. It's a power, speed and size arms race. Most other sports are more about how good the players are with specific skills.
For what it's worth, I've never seen that before, and it was really interesting. I'm glad someone posted it :)
Thanks... It was an idea I had a while back and hacked together quickly as a proof of concept. Didn't know if anyone would find it interesting.
Yes, it uses googledrive.com, but not for anything user-identifiable.

The threat is that a user logs in to googledrive.com and receives an authentication cookie tied to their Google account. Later, they view a malicious user page at googledrive.com/host/someevilpage, and a script on that page reads the authentication cookie and sends it to the attacker, who can now log in to googledrive.com as the victim.

That doesn't happen here because you don't actually log in to googledrive.com. The worst a malicious script could do is harvest data set by other scripts, and that's a drastically smaller (although still present) threat.
I'm amazed to see people still doing browser detection (hint: other browsers actually do have the features you need, you just didn't think to put them in your list), and worse yet still outright blocking you when they mistakenly think your browser won't work. "We haven't tested your browser, continue at your own risk" is fine, "we won't let you look at this because we don't know your browser exists" isn't.
Excel Xlerator, that's the one i was thinking of with my meek "high airflow traditional driers".
email garrett@newrelic.com or zoe@newrelic.com and they will hook you up!

Patrick Moran
VP, Marketing
New Relic
Love Asana. Looks like they share my wish for it to go FASTER FASTER FASTER!
Not to be confused with god the Ruby process monitor:

http://godrb.com/

Also, great choice for searchability: "go god." You guys are so clever!
Yes, for my posts, but not so effective for replies to them, especially those older than 24 hours.
By serverless, I expected peer to peer without a server. This still uses a server.
You do realise Apple's site is listed as an example of a site with good contrast on contrastrebellion.com?
The old AirBlade had some huge design flaws. I've been in busy restrooms with AirBlade dryers which were wet and gross. Not pigsty level, but that's not really what you'd want to be touching after you've just washed your hands. Well, a problem with AirBlades is that it's very easy to accidentally touch the dryer cavity when you're plunging your hands in and drawing them out. Sometimes the strong blast of air even encourages this to happen. I have encountered more conventional air dryers which have touch less activation, and hyper fast airflow that are just about as quick as the Dyson, and which give better results, because you can rub your hands beneath the blower and adjust which parts get the most airflow according to dampness. AirBlades allow nothing of the sort. I think the design is gimmicky and is more about differentiating Dyson's product than real utility. Unfortunately, other hand dryer companies don't have Dyson's marketing budget.
I disagree.

It's good to read bits and pieces here and there, but he deviates too much into Git, Github, Heroku, Unit Testing, etc.

I want to learn Rails and Ruby. An already hard enough task.

There's no reason to smash my face into so many new concepts at once.

-Source: Myself when I starting out with Rails.

A much better source I found is the book Agile Web Development with Rails from Pragmatic Programmer Bookshelf:

http://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-r...

Starts with dumb, .html.erb files, for static HTML, then slowly builds up on previous lessons - WITHOUT GOING TOO MUCH OFF TANGENT.

Unit tests, rspec! the second coming! yada yada. I wanted to learn Rails, most newbie want that as well.
Yes, but large numbers tend to just blow people's minds. Compare it to, say, power lossage due to people leaving their light bulbs on too long, or using incandescent bulbs instead of something more efficient.

It's noise. Nothing more.
A Conversation with the President of the Open Source Initiative (Video)
Several recent improvements in the OSI include opening the organization to individual memberships, and setting up the FLOSS Competence Center Network, both of which will no doubt help the OSI carry out and expand its primary mission: "Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software."
Interesting. It looks like those tests are heavily biased towards short-burst athleticism, which would make sense looking at the figures in that infographic. So football players excel at short-burst, but not endurance.
Teleport Us - Litreactor's Sci-Fi Writing Challenge
The car has permanent cell connection (and WiFi, but thats still lacking software support). Theres even an API [0] you can talk to and have it give you GPS coordinates or turn on the climate control.

[0]: http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/
I considered getting a fiscal sponsorship when I launched my tech-driven nonprofit organization, but I ultimately decided that that was not the best course for us. Getting a fiscal sponsor can save you some paperwork and headache in the beginning, but the biggest drawback (other than that they take anywhere between 7-15% of your revenue) is the issue of control. Technically, your fiscal sponsorship has control of your program, operations, and hiring. While you can find and work with a fairly hands-off fiscal sponsor, if you want full control of your startup organization, then file for the 501(c)3. It's more upfront work, but will save you the headache of spinoff and potential conflicts.

Also, get a pro-bono lawyer or accountant to file for your tax exempt status. Most law firms actively look for nonprofit pro-bono work to do, and you can also look for pro-bono work at law schools. I had an accountant do ours pro-bono, and in the end the actual application did not take that much time.
MySQL madness and Rails (+possible exploit)
WiFi or cellular I believe (I do not have a Tesla).
$1M in tshirt sales and not profitable? Something is wrong.
If you need to make a tool(and use twice the amount of storage) to be able to "query your data" in a SQL manner while using noSQL, it probably means you are using the wrong tool for the job.
>> digital motor

Just another way of saying brushless.
> For an example of a service that won't be accepted after today, check out Campfire. It uses other Ruby gems and contains custom logic to transform the GitHub payload to Campfire messages. Existing hooks will keep working (don't worry 37signals, we Campfire).
Installing The W3C HTML Validator With HTML5 Support
"If I was General Motors I would be afraid. Very afraid."

Or, I would be in talks to buy Tesla.
How Super Bowl XLVII changed real time marketing
A valid point, but I think we can also say that when helmets were added to football, they were thinking about preventing concussions and weren't aware of the potentially more lethal effects of chronic trauma. Now that we have seen both sides, we can make a more educated decision on the subject.
Dalton Caldwell on App.net: 6 months later, people are starting to ‘get it’
This echoes my experience as well, however I prefer to break it into 3 x 80 minute blocks. The times when I've tried to push myself beyond that for a short period of time (a few weeks) I have ended up sick, ill or entirely unproductive to make up for it.
> That said - those hard plastic helmets are weapons. They can hurt a player a lot more than a skull. Not sure what to do with that conclusion.

Sounds like it's time to put padding over the outside of the helmet!
I think it depends on the context. In this case, I think that "serverless" would mean "doesn't depend on an external server, only the two clients", because that's the only really important distinction you could make about servers.
"digital motor" = marketing name for a brushless motor. Very light, very high power, very expensive, very cool.

Think of something like a cross between the mechanics and wiring of a 3 phase motor and the operational action of the worlds fastest stepper motor, all scaled down to a tiny little thing.

Better called an electronic motor than a digital motor in that all you really need is a herd of opamps to synthesize the rather complicated driving waveforms, but most folks do that in a digital microcontroller now so thats where the marketing name comes from. Not a complete misnomer.

I guess you could say an old fashioned universal brush motor that you're probably familiar with is kind of like a single bit single speed simplification of a brushless motor.
Both! We would have the human class and script class competitions and then a FFA class. I like this idea more and more.
The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower
I'm a proponent of this theory, and it worked for me in Law School. I would only study for two two hour sessions each day, after which I was free to do whatever I wanted. This worked quite well for me, and I always felt fresh and sharp, especially when finals came around.

I also did the same study plan for the bar exam and feel like it worked well there too, i.e. passed it on the first try with a minimum of drama, the whole thing was actually quite pleasant.

In contrast, many of my peers would study basically around the clock, pull all nighters, made their lives miserable and didn't do any better, and more often than not quite worse.
Why Amazon wants its own currency
RBS Faces $783Million Fine for Manipulating LIBOR
I notice ralphchurch's name is green. That means recently registered, right?
Musk has no reason to sell. He's already a billionaire. He is part of what is referred to as the "PayPal Mafia". They're not in it for the money anymore, they're in it for the "flying cars"—the things they were promised as children but the future didn't provide. This is also why he founded SpaceX and why there are so many rumors about a high-speed hyper-tube for mass transport.
awesome program. genuinely altruistic, maturely hands-off, and exciting program. very fortunate to have been part of it.
7 minute flight time is a bit short, but on the other hand the charge time is only 20 minutes.

I think I might get one and try to make some sort of induction charging / IR base-station seeking setup, like a roomba. Probably makes the most sense to put the IR beacon on the chopper and have a webcam in the base-station guide it back for charging.
Mentally Ill Smoke 30% of All Cigarettes
What is the reasoning that the Rails team doesn't want to address it for now? Do you have a link to a forum discussion or anything?
I like that "Chesterton's Fence" description. At the risk of turning the discussion political, I'll have to use it the next time someone asks why the FDA exists...
Daylight: A New OpenSource SDN Consortium in the making
I like the use of keywords in the url structure to get directly to the needed timer. I can see putting both a "green" and "black" shortcut on my iPhone – just one tap to directly set and start a timer.

Reminds me of the reason I made http://donetemperature.com. I don't know how many times I searched for a proper cooking temperature when grilling and ended up with poor/conflicting results or having to scroll through a recipe or article for a simple number.
I can't believe people think they need a dedicated project to remove trailing whitespace from source files. Let's wait and see if it appears at the Apple store for $39.95.

What happened to the time-honored Unix tradition of creating your own filters crafted from bits of trivial, specialized code? Or, in this case, applying existing tools like sed?
You weren't imputing to me a claim that some other fields are "not science", I hope? I have opinions, but I left it as an exercise for the reader on purpose; I only care that there is a line somewhere, not about defending a particular one.