skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember peeking and poking a PET (or was it a CBM?) we had in the copier room at school until it would make a horrible whining sound requiring turning off the machine. Learned much later that some of the video registers could be poked with values that might damage the hardware :-)
Craigslist treats automated posts as spam. That's why they want you to skip it - what they do is not allowed there.
Awesome idea, I wish this was closer so I could go. Learning from people who failed with their startups is as important as learning from those who succeeded. Usually the successful entrepreneurs have a lot of failures behind them, but in speeches often concentrate on what they did right, not on what failed. It'd very interesting and educational to speak to the entrepreneurs in a gathering like this.
From the captions, this battery starts the APU (and in an emergency, critical systems). The APU starts the main engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_power_unit
Expect Enchantment
Hasn't prior research established that men on average overstate sexual experience and women on average understate? I think I've seen this come up in surveys of number of partners and frequency, so it doesn't surprise me at all that it would happen in sexting surveys.

Even assuming all of the participants are being truthful, you'll have some problems with definitions not being shared by the participants. The classic example is "Does oral sex count?" Men, for whom a large number of partners is (sometimes) culturally good, may be inclined to count it. Women, for whom a large number of partners is (sometimes) culturally bad, might not count it.

With respect to sexting, imagine a woman sends a man a picture of herself in a low-cut dress. The man might say, "she was totally sexting me", and believe it, the woman might say, "I was fully dressed in an outfit seen by hundreds of people at a party, how can that be sexting?", and believe it.
>No, you do not. Good example.

This. This is the reason people are reacting poorly to what you're saying. Pretending that a sweeping statement like that can cover every possible website is _absurd_. The same goes for webfonts.

The question you're answering was not meant to be answered by you. It has to be weighed by each site designer. Saying otherwise is offensive to the people who take the time to answer those kind of questions differently for each project they work on.
You people really need to distinguish between web analytics and plain-old analytics.
You appear to be mis-parsing "In tests to validate these assessments". "These assessments" refers to Boeing's certification assessments, not the NTSB's incident assessment.

Long before any incidents, Boeing estimated a smoke event as once in 10 million hours. The measured rate of fire events is much higher than Boeing's pre-certification estimate of the rate of smoke events. There is absolutely no implication that Boeing's definition of smoke event doesn't include fires.

Edit: as mentioned below, the real problem seems to be that you're assuming smoke implies fire, when smoke merely suggests fire.
I'll try it again, but OO/LO Impress PowerPoint replacement is particularly buggy. I often have to give scientific talks, and I'm always running into bugs. For example, various elements become fixed and uneditable, and figures often get mangled. The import filters occasionally mess up powerpoint documents, too. I wish I could avoid PowerPoint - I hate the ribbon and it can't cope with PDF figures.
>Were I the folks in charge at Boeing, I'd be looking at a joint venture with Mr. Musk, starting today.

Boeing and Lockheed are pretty much the only space flight companies working with the government. Musk has an issue with this which is why his battery predictions are so enjoyable.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-10-16/business/35279...
I think you put the argument better than Byrne did, but I have several problems with it.

First, in terms of sneaking around, remember that Swartz's goal wasn't to ensure that his children and grandchildren could enter MIT server closets and jump on the network whenever they want. It was to download and publish the contents of JSTOR, and to complete that he had to make sure his activities weren't cut short by discovery. He was basically still trying to board the bus. And to the extent that he used inappropriate means to reach his goal, we should condem him for it, but using questionable methods doesn't make it not civil disobedience. So the whole sneaking thing seems like a red herring.

Second, a huge part of this is that Swartz's could not have expected to face the railroading he did. The requirement that you accept the consequences of your civil disobedience isn't completely open-ended, so this matters a great deal. I can't pretend to know if he would have been willing to face some more proportional fallout for his actions, but it's unfair for us to assume he wouldn't just because the trumped-up charges proved to be too much. Take this, for example:

> Certainly Rosa Parks would not have regretted refusing to move seats, even if she landed in jail from it.

But what if they charged her with sedition and threatened to execute her? Of course I don't know what she'd have done, but the question is whether we'd think less of her if she backed down. "Well, that's civil disobedience for ya. Gotta accept the consequences." If that seems like an extreme analogy, let's look at it the other way: while Swartz's and Parks' actions were, in absolute terms, more or less on-par, Parks' was obviously way more--for lack of a better word--outrageous relative to the established power structure. She was facing down a much larger, more deeply seated, more sinister set of rules and was pursuing a much loftier cause; she was a black woman doing as she pleased in Alabama in 1955. And still Swartz faced much nastier consequences. So it's hardly fair to bash Swartz's unwilling to own up to the "consequences" of his actions; they can't be what he bargained for.

Another way of approaching this is to note that we've been comparing Aaron Swartz to Rosa Parks and Mahatma Ghandi, freaking giants in the history of civil disobedience. Is that really the standard we mean to set? You can't push the ball forward unless you're willing to spend significant portions of your life in jail? Gotta look unblinkingly into the eyes of false justice or accept things the way they are?
Speeding Up Page Load Times
Sctp is a pretty cool protocol. I'm actually planning on including it as part of a user land network stack I'm slowly working on.
If they didn't have push access and servers, how would they let you know when you had new mail? Third party iOS apps can't poll for new mail, so remote notifications are the only way!
I don't really see the problem with cookies. They make things easier to implement, they enable a ton of new businesses and they make things easier for the consumers.
It's not quite that simple due to the VPN and proxy configurations we have. Google Hangouts just will not work over a VPN unless it's allowed directly through the firewall, which requires a firewall rule. Typically firewall rules are based on IP addresses and ports. Allowed Google Hangouts (which we want) also has the side effect of allowing Chrome Remote Desktop (which we don't want) directly through the firewall.

"You are doing it wrong" is not an acceptable answer in an enterprise environment unless the vendor is willing to work with their customers to make sure it's possible to actually do it right. But that would mean the vendor would need real customer service...
Did some of that, had to throw in delay loops so the sprites wouldn't tear when moving in response to the joystick.
Kickstarter Project for BBQ sauce emails backers about a "FULL PRODUCT RECALL"
Definitely check out http://www.programmableweb.com/apitag/?q=stocks
I don't think it does out-of-the-box, but applications can hook into the Hub (the unified inbox) so it is possible to write an app to do that.
Introducing Quick File Search
It's not very clear what is actually does. Is it for developers to integrate payments into an app or a shopkeeper to charge credit cards? I'm from New Zealand so I miss out on all the Stripe goodness. Will this work for me?
Show HN: Minimalist Wallpaper App for iPhone/iPad
I threw together a simple app for people with a simpler taste in wallpapers.

Link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/min-wallpapers/id595197158?ls=1&mt=8
And if you are an adult and want to get involved volunteer! I've volunteered at several levels ranging from helping a local team all the way up to judging at their World Festival and it's probably the best reminder of why I went into engineering. Plus, hearing a student be excited to explain the concepts of torque is just awe inspiring.
Clickable https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/min-wallpapers/id595197158?l...
Creating yet another centralised web app on a shoestring budget is hardly the solution here. No doubt it too would lose money and get shut down or get bought out and get shut down. Unless somebody with resources is prepared to fund/maintain it, but even then you are reliant on the goodwill, energy and money of a single person. Even charging users doesn't solve the problem of the owner just pulling the plug for whatever reason.

The centralised web model is broken when it comes to any kind of services that stores significant user data (and it turns out that most things involve storing user data). If you are going to order people to start coding, at least tell them to start coding on solutions to the real problem.
It's a great idea, and I think it should be the default behavior for cookies - require users to explicitly agree whenever a cross-site cookie comes up.
Day in the Life - Modern Stoic
Very presumptuous of you, but let's say I didn't:

Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I can't imagine milk.com ever selling for over six figures unless some heavily-funded startup is throwing cash around, but that would be a hugely inflated price, not what it's actually worth.

So if a guy owns a $10K domain name and I don't, should I feel bad? Should he feel good?

There are people out there who own 6-letter domain names worth a heckuva lot more.
>This is the reason people are reacting poorly to what you're saying

I didn't see anyone react poorly. There is nothing bad about polite disagreement. I enjoy hearing other people's views, and having them try to convince me of the merits of their views.

>Pretending that a sweeping statement like that can cover every possible website is _absurd_

I obviously disagree. Can you give me an example of where deliberately choosing to make your website harder to read is a good choice? And that would be considered good web design?
Wozniak: Apple now 'somewhat behind' in smartphone features
I don't necessarily disagree about those things being sad/scary/pathetic. But these things cost money. Taxpayers are generally averse to spending money on long term prevention. Something that people consider an "expensive boondoggle" and refuse to pay for before an incident tends to become "shame on you for not doing your job" right after.

Do you remember after the BP spill how people were shocked -- shocked! -- that the government did not have deep sea oil rig submersibles and that we had to rely on BP's resources? This type of thinking blew my mind. Who on earth would have supported paying for deep sea utility submersibles for some "black swan" oil spill before this incident happened? And the funny part is, now that it's over and everybody has moved on, they probably still wouldn't.

So back to the FAA... how are we going to pay for top tier engineering talent in the kinds of numbers required to check these components at the level of detail we might wish?

TL;DR: proper oversight costs money.
GCC explains here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cppinternals/Token-Spacing.htm...

I can't find anything in the C spec that says this is strictly required, but that doesn't mean it's not in there.
Scaling in Complex Domains Using CQRS, Axon, and Spring Insight
"GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual
bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices"

The developer is working in the northern Chihuahuan desert, where
the bearing capacity of livestock rangeland can be expressed in
acres per animal (or cow/calf unit), and where a transition
from fixed fences to virtual could be a huge revolution for
ranchers, landowners, and public lands agencies alike.

I'd also be interested to see this sort of tech applied to a more
suburban context: a cluster of homeowners at a woodland interface
could keep a small herd of GPS-equipped goats to suppress brush and
unwanted grasses, reducing wildfire risks and competing with
browsing deer, while being less likely to leap out in front of motor
vehicles (assuming either good virtual boundaries or traditional
fences for the goats between browse and roads).
Ask HN: How do you decide when to turn down a job?
I work with a small agency and I'm in the middle of negotiating a project with a very large client. It's an amazing project and I feel incredibly privileged to get to do this kind of work. Unfortunately their budget is pretty unreasonable and they don't seem to be willing to sacrifice features to get the project even close to their budget.

If I turn it down, it will quite likely close down a channel of our business that we love and get to create really cool work for.

If I accept it, it will set a precedent for what our time and skills are worth.

I'm leaning heavily towards walking away at this point, but I just wanted to know if anyone here has had similar experience and what the outcome was for them.
Valve’s Gabe Newell foresees living room PCs, inter-game marketplaces
People talk about IT the same way you are talking about HR. It's not always the case that what is put in place is unnecessary or useless. It is often the case that those not having to deal with these processes on a regular basis think they are unnecessary or useless.
http://rubyspec.org
I don't disagree. One way to look at the question is "if we ban all other uses we cripple case X, Y, and Z" vs "if we allow other uses we allow X, Y, and Z but enable P, Q, and R type problems."

Lots of things in the world have similar tradeoffs, to use a silly example "Leave your front door unlocked" makes it easy for anyone to come in, but also makes it easy for crooks to come in, so a common solution is to lock it and give certain folks the key.

Cookies came about as a way for a web service to retain state across sessions, and then that concept got applied to lots and lots and lots of things, some good some bad. Perhaps there are two things here we should have "originHostState" and "GenericUserState". We could then see how many people allowed the latter type of cookie to be set.
I know of a method in which you give each respondent a coin and ask them to flip it in secret. If the coin lands heads, answer "Yes," if not, answer honestly. Then, if you ask a question like "Have you sexted?" or "Do you use drugs?", you may get survey results that look like 60% yes and 40% no. You subtract 50% from the yes count to account for the coin toss and get accurate overall results, but the participants have plausible deniability.

However, I can't remember the name of it, nor the article I read about it, and Google isn't helping.
...after you've eliminated other possibilities like pilot error, poor maintenance, extreme weather, sabotage and so on. When I hear of an aircraft crash, my first instinct is not to suspect the manufacturer.
Airport travel with computers in the US
IRC! It's another irc-alike, IRC for people who use excel

-former founder of an irc-alike for people who use excel
Blog: The 'magical thinking' that kills your chances for good PR
It really feels a lot like the shuttle disasters, with Boeing playing the part of NASA and delegating work out to contractors who feel they must get something out or risk losing the next big contract. God forbid if this does come down to a disaster it will be even more difficult to unravel, since this time it will cross political and cultural boundaries.
Video: Gabe Newell's PC-centric vision of video games' future
Hi

I'm just wondering what did you use to package your webapp for desktops?

Thanks!
Practice-Oriented Provable Security & the Social Construction of Cryptography
Great idea. Wizards are definitely useful for a variety of projects, so it's nice to be able to get one off the ground without having to consider the UI too much more than one needs to.
IOS App to HTML5 App porter
I would love to read that book - I've always found domain negotiation fascinating.
Indeed, that's a disadvantage. However, this is easily fixed by resizing the browser window (reducing the width). I often do that with "normal" sites, too, if their text lines are too wide.
If they are cheap/unrealistic now they will only get worse. I think you already know that though don't you?
Excellent article. I love Phil's sense of humor. Seems like a great guy running a great company!
Windows Phone tops Blackberry in US
Priceline for ride sharing
Again, I don't understand why you're repeating your "truths". You're asking for updates. You got one. How is anyone getting burned?

Again I'm going to repeat: Software from WP7 works on WP8. A majority of software from WP8 will work on WP7. What are you missing out on by not getting WP8? A couple features only made possible by the new hardware released with WP8. Let's go with your Apple example: if you bought an iPhone 4 right before the release of the iPhone 4S, yeah, you "got" the update to the latest software version, for certain definitions of "got". What didn't you get? The biggest part of the update, basically the whole reason for the new phone: Siri. Without Siri, you've got a minor software update to last generation's phone.

So Microsoft is calling a spade a spade, where Apple is hiding behind a bigger version number. Apple leaves out big features from their software upgrades for users on last year's phone, but it's okay because the version number is one higher? That's not leaving their users out in the cold? You don't feel burned for not getting Siri on your iPhone 4? Because on both iOS and Windows Phone, you're getting updates for an old phone, and on both iOS and Windows Phone you're only getting the parts of the update your phone will support. Whether you buy that the phone support is the issue or not, that's how it goes. The only difference is the major version number, and if they're lying to you about it or not.

I guess I don't understand how it's acceptable for Apple to fuck you over and lie to you about it, but not for Microsoft to just release an update for an old phone.
Front End Developer for Fashion Tech Co.  (YC S12)
We are a fashion tech company that launched out of the YC S12 batch. We were voted top 10 YC S12 companies by the likes of Inc.com, TechCrunch and Kevin Rose. We are based in Bay Area and are completely overhauling our UI/UX and web interface. We have a built a small but fun core team and are looking for a front end developer that can take the reigns and help build a phenomenal user experience.

You will be one of the founding members of our engineering team and will have the opportunity to learn a boat load about the apparel space, from supply chain to manufacturing to delivery. Better than an MBA :)

If interested, here are some of the basic requirements we are looking for:

Front End PHP (Zend) Developer

- Strong with JQuery, Javascript, HTML, CSS, JSON
- Strong PHP experience, PHP web applications on Zend Framework
- Apache web server experience
- MySQL
- Experience building high-performance, high-traffic, front-end apps

* We're looking for someone who has exceptional UI/UX skills using CSS. *

Email us a note of why you are the right person for the job!
jobs@vastrm.com
Your copy on the landing page (under the blue circle-ish images) is very hard to read.

The logo has an issue with spacing between the letters. The "a" is too far fromn the first "l".

The pricing page is not quite clear. What do I get with the free plan? Can I "friend" my co-workers? A paragraph explaining it would be nice. Five dollars seems like the wrong price for this sort of deal. Even the cheapest option on github is seven dollars.

I would love to test your headline.

The top segment of the landing page says nothing. There are no testimonials, no text explaining what you do, nothing. Just a signup box which does not seem to fit in the whole context.

This copy has the wrong rhythm:

About Hall

Hall helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. There are thousands of companies using Hall, from small businesses to the world's largest enterprises like Amazon and Nike. Professionals love using Hall to communicate.

Sentence structure is way too long, and confusing. Let me take a quick stab at it.

About us:

Hall aims to do one thing. Help your team communicate in real time. It achieves that with a state-of-the-art status panel. You can easily keep track of what your team is doing. Get things done by using our hassle-free communication tools. Its your own intelligence network.

Who uses Hall to make their lives easier? Big Companies like Nike, Amazon to smaller team like yours. They all have one thing in common: No matter the size, everyone just loves Hall.

But don't take our word for it. Try Hall now. See what you have been missing. Its free.

By the way, go ahead and use that if you want. :)
Berlin key (forced locking key)
Hmmm, interesting. The "defer" approach is a different spin on things. But yes, panic/recover does look like it would address my concerns. I never did like exceptions across package boundaries much, but inside a cohesive module I want to use them instead of a bunch of code that checks return values for error codes.
At least one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6#FAA_React...
Ken's Street Fighter II with animated sprites
The same thing could be said about pharmaceutics, but lo, the FDA now exists for a reason.
So, I'm playing with this with my team... And I'm not so sure that I "get it". How is this better than using Skype or IRC? What am I missing? I like the clean interface, but I'm not sure what value I'm getting out of it. How does this compare to Yammer or Jostle?
I was referring to the live demo at http://stripe.github.com/jquery.payment/example/. Either way, I wouldn't consider the library interpreting 113 as 11/3 as a "working".
This is a growing problem in a lot of industries, sort of similar to what Joel Spolsky calls the "Lord Palmerston" principle http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LordPalmerston.html

Everything's so big, but you can't learn any faster than people before you, when everything was smaller, so you focus on a tiny area. In the 60's an amateur mechanic could understand and tweak a car, now they're so complex a profession mechanical engineer would have a hard time.

How many people could have actually understand the issue with the 787 or with mortgage CDO's before anything went wrong? Only a handful, and they're generally the ones making the things.
He is the 'bridge' person you speak of. He was only 30 but had about 15 years of professional software development experience. He spent 3 years at a startup developing highly parallel algorithms in C and implementing them in FPGAs resulting in commercial products. He said that in interviewing chip designers for his company that nearly all had no sense of algorithms. He felt that his software experience was a major strength in hardware design.
I think the FUD aspect is unfortunately just part of the kind of communication it facilitates. Neighborhood mailing lists, blogs, Facebook groups – they all end up spreading information about crime in a way that makes the neighborhood feel less safe. If there's a solution to this, I think it would be social instead of technical. Also at a certain point as the neighborhood communication matures it gets better, IMHO – people need to learn how best to communicate with each other, and there's no other way to do that than practice.