skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Circuit Playground plushies from Adafruit
Any person standing in front of a large perspective background is copying a single painting? Really?
This is a silly remark. Harvard doesn't care at all about the popular rankings of colleges, because no one picks Harvard just because they read it got a good rating in US News. And Harvard isn't proud of itself because it has a high graduation rate; Harvard is proud of itself because, whatever anyone else may think, Harvard thinks it's the best university in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

It's possible that everything you don't like about the US airline market is a relic of exactly this kind of government planning.
Collaboration only makes sense when people have something to offer one another. It's actually valuable to learn something for yourself so that you can meaningfully contribute to collaborative efforts.

Besides, ethics are important.
Tools for the Lean Web Developer
Not accurate, actually, though I understand your confusion. I ordered a SIM from them a few weeks ago (on the website) and then activated my phone with one of those plans. No Walmart.
I don't have an issue with this specifically (like apparently a few others do), but I'm wondering if you could walk me through a use-case.

You mention tickets for Coachella. Ok, so I want to go, but I'm waiting for the tickets to go on sale.

If I understand what you've built, I have to sit here watching the page refresh, which means I could just as easily press refresh.
What I want to know is has the page changed! Is the action I wanted to take now available. How does your site really resolve that problem?
This is true. A bookmarklet would be nice. But, I am not pinterest (who distributes a bookmarklet) or david walsh or anybody that gets tons of traffic so a bookmarklet that I distributed myself would just get lost in the mix... and that wouldn't help anybody.

I also wanted something that had some UI and a little control (ie. the ability to change the timing).

It's not perfect. I know. And you're right... People who know nothing about code, also know nothing about iframes, so there's that.

I'll have to come up with a solution for the iframe issue down the line. Maybe I'll distribute a bookmarklet on this site? =)
For the holidays I flew a nested fare. It was the cheapest way I could find to fly the itinerary I wanted.

The first ticket was:
11/20 SFO - MHT
12/30 BOS - SFO

And the second:
11/25 PVD - SFO
12/20 SFO - PVD
Resurrecting Location-Based Games
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
That's true. I said 'browser' to a client on the phone the other day and they asked me what that was. I then had to correct myself and say "Internet Explorer". ;)

Jokes aside... Thank you!
Fascinating. How do philosophers and scientists react to Godel's incompleteness theorem w.r.t. falsification? To me, at least, it seems to suggest that falsification is a flashlight that for whatever reason fails to illuminate certain otherwise possible paths.

(I understand that the theorem applies in the context of "consistent" formal systems, and that falsification is about the process of refining models of systems to be more consistent. It's interesting that the emergent properties of the pursuit of falsification bring about a paradoxical system in the limit.)
They do sell SIM cards, I was at a T-Mobile store yesterday. I don't understand the rationale for selling SIM cards in-store at 20 times the cost of buying online.
What's with the svbtle ripoff?
As a software developer you're playing a round of roulette for every 10k you make. As noble as what you're saying sounds, nobody wants to be a casualty of war.
My sister in law is a public defender, she has managed to get cops that lie under oath fired. We're not talking capital crimes here, we're talking stupid traffic citations where the officer would rather lie than admit they made a bad call.

Her belief is that lying is like cocaine, you use it once to get through the case because you know that even though its not strictly the truth the right thing will happen, and then you use it because you really didn't prepare enough, and suddenly its not a 'big deal' in your mind, after all these are people committing crimes right? We're protecting the 'good' people from these scumbags. And you lose yourself.

Exceptionally sad.
Amazon vs. Netflix: Streaming Battle Heats Up
64 percent of Millenial Media’s gaming ad impressions come from Android
I just went through this. Verizon also will not let you have a smart phone without a data plan.

My search for phone service without a dataplan lead me to h20wireless prepaid. I expect my yearly phone bill to be $100 now. (I rarely call or text anyone)
A grain of salt, cannot fault the article except it skimmed over a couple of areas. Keep these things in mind, especially if 3D graphics is something new for you:

Why you shouldn't use WebGL

* Performance: This is the big one. In 3D graphics and in particular games performance, both execution speed and memory usage, is everything. You can do some great stuff in WebGL but fitting lots of complex stuff (physics, AI, motion) in 1/60 of a second is hard enough when you can scratch around in ASM if you have to, let alone being constrained to javascript.

The Three.js demos are fantastic examples and a great learning tool. But they do feel to me like 90s demo scene[2] stuff. Working within strict limitations and using all the tricks of the trade to produce more than the sum of its parts.

* Libraries: the leading library Three.js is great and getting better and I enjoy using it. But I have a background in 3D graphics and know my way around 3D and OpenGL. Alternatives such as Unity hold your hand and have larger communities from which to draw help from if you don't know much about 3D.

[1] http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
I appreciate your butt-kicking energy! However, I must note: configuration idempotency tools that regard infrastructure as code are not new. I think you'll find that the inadequacy of cfengine, puppet & chef to the task is why they are not universally used. Devops is a very young discipline and these tools are the stepping stones toward a more coherent model of component deployment. I'm not saying they're crap, just that we can and will do better. Chef is probably the best effort so far, although I am unconvinced by the client/server variant.

In particular, none of them yet solve the problems of client application deployment. They are also implicated in the VM sprawl many cloud users experience.

Finally, they have convinced some developers that systems administration is something they can do themselves. Experience consistently proves this wrong; I've lost count of developers out of their depth, asking for rescue from suboptimal deployment decisions and needing rescuing. Either that or they discover a penchant for systems admin as well, and thus become devops people (this is what happened to me). I've seen the latter happen most often in the ISP world; perhaps network engineers have that mindset.

Personally I foresee a stronger role for packages as an output from continuous integration pipelines (another young discipline).
Anybody who could write the javascript to make that happen wouldn't need my website to make it happen. They could just enter most of what they would write directly into their browser bar.
> their support they have been friendly, competent, and helpful

I've been a tmobile customer since 2007. In the middle of last year I took my line from a family plan into an individual plan. That involved speaking to 7 different people (several of whom contradicted each other as they then forwarded me to the next one) and being hung up on 3 times (as they messed up the transfers).

Then the bills I started getting were truly bizarre with numerous unspecified additional charges and credits. (My very first bill had 5 regulatory fees!) At one point when I called in again, the rep took 80 minutes to figure out the bill (ie what the various numbers were for) and then another 30 minutes dealing with the ones that shouldn't be there. It didn't help that what customers are shown on their bills and what the reps get to see are not the same, and took about 15 minutes to establish that.

Around the new year they sent an email saying that you could make impossible to have slamming, except of course they took about 7 paragraphs to say that. They said it could be disabled on the website, so off I went. I couldn't figure it out since there was absolutely no setting with text remotely similar to their email. Their rep couldn't find it either and had me call back again during business hours where another person first picked 2 other settings that couldn't possibly be it, before finally settling on "Block Content Downloads" as being the setting which doesn't match up its description.

TLDR: I would be pleased to encounter the same competence you did, and would be far more pleased if things worked so I never had to call in the first place. Whenever people talk about how good someone's support is, they never seem to express the negative that they had to call in the first place.
Just Go Change Your Twitter Password Now
> bookmarklet.
If you could detect sites that block your I frame, offering the bookmarklet as an alternative is probably the best way to do it.

That's the best 'business case' for changing your approach.
Are Vine videos down for you too?
Pick a company like reddit, that provides a service using open source software, and submit a patch to a problem they care about. That would get the attention of the programming staff without going through HR.
So ignoring the fact that the US has far more lax privacy restrictions than many other countries. It would still be illegal then to record audio without consent and record video on private property, wherever a sign has been displayed or in places like public bathrooms.

Which again begs the question. Nobody seems to care then that it would be illegal to use the device for its current intended purpose.
Everybody's an Expert: Putting Predictions to the Test
Surprised this isn't a bigger thing on Hacker News.
Interesting point about motorcycles. I wonder though, would motorcycles actually benefit from seatbelts? In an accident a car will provide a substantial amount of protection to the driver, so it's in the driver's interest to be fastened in place. Perhaps it's actually better for the motorcyclist to be separated from the bike as opposed to bring dragged along..
> but on the other hand they are just people -- as fallible as anyone.

Responsibilities, privileges, and risks should be clearly presented to anyone applying for the position.

Imagine, for example, we applied the same argument to ATC controllers. "Oh they are just human, so they let the planes collide once in a while. No biggie. Maybe 10 days paid vacation" -- No way, right? There would be talks of manslaughter charges, putting better processes in place. Shorter shifts.

I can see "they are just people" excuse being used for those who are involuntarily stuck in the situation. Police works is still voluntary employment.

Also don't buy the "just a few bad cases" excuse. It is not just those few cops that are corrupt that are bad, everyone who sees, but doesn't say anything, is also part of the "spoiled bunch". I would guess most cops by now have seen their colleagues do questionable things and didn't say anything. So by this definition there are very few "good cops"
Minecraft server event analytics on Mixpanel
I'm learning Clojure and figured it'd be neat to just record Minecraft in-game events to Mixpanel and see what the data looks like. I'm only logging a few events right now, and only have data from me playing around on my test server, but the data works really well with Mixpanel's segmentation feature.

The code for my plugin is here, if anybody is interested: https://github.com/ryancole/com.rycole.bukkit.eventlog
I'm learning Clojure and figured it'd be neat to just record Minecraft in-game events to Mixpanel and see what the data looks like. I'm only logging a few events right now, and only have data from me playing around on my test server, but the data works really well with Mixpanel's segmentation feature.

The screenshot shows block broken by a player, grouped by block type.

The code for my plugin is here, if anybody is interested: https://github.com/ryancole/com.rycole.bukkit.eventlog
One thing your reply reminded me of is I wanted to add a "Open in new window" button once you saw your desired result.

So, possible use case is actually something somebody is using it right now for.

My Bloody Valentine (MBV), a band who hasnt released an album in 21 years, is releasing their album tonight. They have a tab open with the website for MBV refreshing every 30 seconds or so.... and check back on that tab on occasion to see if it's live yet! Then once it's live... They'll know they can check it out.

They could also, if they had enough monitor space, like i do, could just have it sitting in the corner of their desktop refreshing away until they see the page change to what they want. That removes all the clicking of refresh, which is why i called it "Let me refresh that for you".

Yes, a script code do the solutions. Yes, you could sit their and click refresh over and over. But that's the point of technology, isn't it? To do things for us better than we could ourselves?
> Of course, given the large number of these critical issues, the business decided to pull and rewrite the apps based on input from the It Security team who described the current Ruby developer culture as being immature, ignorant of software engineering principles, unaware of secure coding, too enamoured with shiny/magic/convenience to care about longer-term implications in their design choices, thinking that constant band-aid fixes are the right way forward rather than acknowledge and fix poor design and implementation, and basically a liability for the company and it's data.

And you're switching to PHP? Someone should be fired for that decision.
Just a side note on the subject of "learning about Woz," If you haven't already, I highly recommend his book iWoz. it's a really interesting recounting of his early days as an engineer.
Open Source PHP Usage Tops 244 Million Sites
Doesnt seem a great idea. When it gets hacked they get all your passwords.
"Just think about the logic here. The people complaining about the law suits here are complaining that a company is trying to protect it's own right to make a living from a technology that the patent office has verified as unique and novel. If you disagree then track the patent office and voice your problems with the patents as they are published."

Because the patent office verified it as "novel," that's the reason he isn't a patent troll. sigh The only way you can be a patent troll is to have the patent office verify a patent that you can sue people over!
Can you tell us more about this problem of client application deployment, please? I work with CFEngine quite a bit and it can deploy server and client components. What issues are you running into?
Nice to finally see Windows 8/IE 10 support for Mac. Anyone know of a way to use the trackpad to emulate multitouch in IE 10?
AT&T are one of the worst mobile companies in US. Avoid them as a plague.
There is lots of literature in psychology and in design (makes you see a Ferrari in a whole new light). It was the only interesting part in my freshman psyche class at USC.
Jets are actually really useful, and even yachts and cars can be actively enjoyed. Buying shitty ugly art just as a status symbol is nothing like that, and you pretty much deserve a guillotine or a bullet for that kind of bullshit.
Giving a take-home test and then remanding students for working together is just silly. You don't wave your ice cream in front of the monkey cage if you want to keep it.
I was less confused by his claim that the ruby community isn't security oriented (or whatever) by the fact that they decided to switch to PHP, which has a much, much worse track record.
5 Ubuntu alternatives worth checking out
I agree. I'm not really trying to launch a product or make a business out of it, but this would be useful.

I'm thinking my plan of attack would be to check if the sites who blocked the iframes were sending back specific headers that i could detect, then if those headers were detected, i could do a little javascript trickery to show something like "this website does not allow... blah blah blah" and then provide a download link to refresh that website via a bookmarklet.

With that said, I'm not trying to piss anybody off or cause any sys admin nightmares by having tons of people refresh their websites... Idk, I'll revisit the idea when I get there.

Thanks for the suggestion!
I tried to do the same, but I can't activate the plan because my sim card is not activated. If I go into a store, they can't activate the Walmart Plan. How did you do it?
Booking flights too early can be as expensive as booking too late
Sadly it seems like they get treated the same as pedo priests, just shuffled around somewhere else.
Microsoft, Surprisingly, Is Pushing The HTML5 Web Standard
What's with the only comments where I hear someone complain about a website looking like another website only ever asking about svbtle? What's so special about that site? Or in sites looking similar in the first place?
They are free to do what they want and rarely get any punishment. The only thing they get is Leave Without Pay for some time and that's only when they screwed up really bad.
This is the same company that claims that how they measure your usage to determine DSL data caps is Proprietary. I think the time to put them under full regulation has come again.
I'm always amazed though the extent to which that isn't followed through on. Consider the code for logging in and storing user credentials. The level of collaboration on this is at the level of a list of best practices. Why are we still letting anyone (re)write this code?
World population doubled in last 50 years and most likely will double again in the next 50 years:

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

Evolution and natural selection takes care of problem with declining fertility rate: if people or cultures or countries have high fertility rate - they survive and reproduce.
With 8m users in China, Mozilla’s Firefox is battling to gain ground against..
Also been using it for a while too. Solid app. Great job!
> increasing disconnect of the lessons of college with the needs of our modern professional world. Nearly everything meaningful is done as a collaborate effort

what's uniquely modern about collaboration? hasn't collaboration been important for hundreds of years?
After reading many of the responses, I am wondering if there is a difference between the 'business programmers' and the 'scientific/mathematical programmers'. Most of the examples below show code that could have come from physics or maths code. I have noticed that my code (scientific) tends to have much shorter variable names than the code of some of my "not so mathematical" counterparts. Also, 'business' languages like Java and COBOL seem to encourage longer names more than C and FORTRAN.
This conflict is interesting given Netflix is a large customer of AWS.
Your Javascript should expose APIs, too
Suggestion 1 - all on duty cops should at all times wear a chest mounted video camera recording all of their actions.
I don't want an accurate portrayal of Jobs. That would probably make for horrible entertainment. This is a movie that is clearly not intended to be accurate so much as entertaining, much like The Social Network. I would have much higher accuracy standards for a documentary.
I use this, when needed

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-reload/ofojbj...
Would it illegal for Amazon to refuse Netflix as a customer? (Assuming there are many players in the streaming space and anti-trust is not a concern)
Nice example of RoR user blinders.
Just to be clear. I also use StraightTalk, but here in Colorado, they are an MVNO for Verizon. Carlos Slim's organization has been able to cut MVNO deals with all 3 large US carriers I believe, and it's easy to understand the leverage they have (i.e. want your customers to be able to roam in Mexico?). I've thought about getting a smartphone and fooling the network to believe I have a feature phone, but I have abstained and simply use an iPod Touch (w/ SIP client) + a feature phone. It simply seems like too much effort for me right now.
Also, per xkcd, et. al., rate limiting login attempts on a per-user and global basis significantly increases the difficulty of brute-forcing access even given password frequency lists.
Avoid these 10 excuses for not starting up
The 10 most common excuses given by aspirants who avoid beginning their entrepreneurial journey.
So he didn't know some aspect of polymorphism. Is that pertinent to his book? It's not as if using if/else constructs is bad or wrong. In some fields of development it would be preferred, for blatant clarity.

Does it follow that his book is bad or wrong because it was not written with understanding of this aspect of polymorphism?
>Enterprise sales is undergoing the most radical shakeup since the turn of the century, and today’s experiments will be tomorrow’s best practices

Ok, so what are some examples of this radical shaking?

The author gives plenty of examples of the old guys "new ways" - back when they were new - but I am not seeing the new radical-ness described the article or the one linked.
"Scream Tacker III (Finland), Fast Tracker 2 (Sweden I think)"

Yeah, Scream Tacker III was made by demogroup Futurecrew, from which some went on to start Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne, Alan Wake) and other companies. Fast Tracker 2 was made by demogroup Triton, from which some went on to start Starbreeze Studios (Chronicles of Riddick/The Darkness). Also DICE (Battlefield series) has demoscene roots in the form of The Silents. Even Rovio (Angry Birds) got started after winning some compo at Assembly.
I don't fly regularly, and I'm not experienced at bargain hunting with respect to air travel. I'm not really sure what I'm looking at, but I'm thinking this means you bought four trips, sorted by date like this:

A : 11/20 : SFO - MHT

B : 11/25 : PVD - SFO

C : 12/20 : SFO - PVD

D : 12/30 : BOS - SFO

And you bought these in round-trip pairs, AD was one pair and BC was another pair. Which might be cheaper than buying AB and CD, depending on what's available, especially if the tickets are from different airlines.

Shouldn't those sites that compare a bunch of airlines have software that figures this out for you automatically?
"Beauty", in science and mathematics, is not a quality of the object regarded so much as it is a pattern-recognition response in the one regarding it. Patterns which are predictable are naturally pleasing to us because our pattern-recognition abilities evolved to harness the patterns of nature for prediction of outcomes. Predicting and harnessing outcomes based on patterns may be the power that humans posses in strength over the other animals.

It should not be the case that exploration of an outcome is excluded on the basis that it is not perceived as beautiful. However, that there are patterns among the laws of nature was one of the fundamental discoveries of our species and a guiding principle of modern science.

Richard Feynman said[1]: "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
It's not a casualty. It's a cause. What is there to lose? The laws are already imprisoning us. Might as well see it through.