skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take a gander at this map, and you’ll see the red line marking the 50th parallel, a line of equal latitude that runs a full circle around the Earth. Every point on this line is the same distance from the equator, and the same from the frozen pole.

There are 360 degrees in a circle, not 400. 360/8 = 45. Of course, there's some slight variation because the earth isn't an exact sphere, but it doesn't add up to 5 degrees.

I'm going to read on, but that's really a very disappointing start.

Of course, the alternative explanation is that what they meant was that each of these points has the same distance to the pole and the same distance to the equator as every other point, but the wording doesn't seem to indicate that, and if that was the intent it was a badly written sentence.
I always remember that it is the opposite of Windows's mklink and then man it when I can't remember which way it is the opposite.
I absolutely love post-mortems like this. It clearly identified that there was a problem, what the author tried to do to fix it, and if it was successful. Even if it ends with the author not knowing too much about the solution that was used, it's still so interesting to see the workflows and be able to derive something from it.

It's also why I like to read pg's articles so much. They're so in-depth and detailed and it doesn't feel you left thinking something was left out for the sake of being hidden.
Maybe another account password was hacked and they used the same password for Twitter. Or their password was really bad, like "123456" or "password".
Weird youth of the animal kingdom
The me in 1997 would be pretty happy to know that the game would be playable by virtually every computer user in the world by clicking a link.
That's fantastic. I use IntelliJ for Android stuff, installing now. They should add a 'Duck' mode that just brings up a big picture of the rubber duck.
I agree with the skepticism in the other comments. But I still happy to hear the news! We need more research on human brain! The more, the better! How human brain works is still pretty much a mystery..
This was my first look at networking. Worked for me.
If anyone but you has the source, you no longer control access to it. You and they do and if they decide to upload it to BitTorrent, what are you going to do?
Do you mean they should use another license so someone else can re-use the entire code in another open source app, or use another license so others can use it in paid apps? What license would you recommend?
We're using this to reverse proxy websockets over SSL and it's simple and wonderfully stable.

https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy
Deja vu http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269924
What s/he said. Although keeping track of new updates is a bit of a pain, since there isn't a service like the one Rubyists have to get information about new gem versions.

Pythonistas will have to use something like pip-tools < https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools >, as far as I can tell.
Some friends and I muse about what it would take to create a home for people like John during their twilight years. Its very challenging. There aren't a lot of high tech jobs that pay pensions, and the retirement money is very unevenly distributed around.

Not a lot of folks think about that now, but someday, maybe sooner than we would like, some icon of computing history is going to get rousted out of a homeless shelter on national TV. I don't look forward to that day, not at all.
Yes, please.

I hate to use keyboard shortcuts for opening links in new tabs. This SHOULD be a default feature on a site like HN.
This was the go-to guide back in its times. Circa 2006?
Because you haven't read a SCOTUS opinion recently except the bits and pieces of Citizens United you saw on HuffPo?
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What startups can learn from Dr. Jerry Buss
It is, though. Killing the president would be reason for you to serve a longer term than killing someone else.
I'm curious why you think the calls were logged. Certainly, we've all come to expect that recorded, "For quality assurance purposes...," when calling tech support. Still, the Tesla employees named by Broder are not technical support staff. They are from the public relations department (and one unnamed engineer). I'd actually be very surprised if PR departments regularly recorded calls, if for no other reason than to give staff the option of claiming to be mis-quoted by reporters.

Still, not even Broder claims that Tesla advised him to end his Supercharge early in Milford. I'm unsympathetic to claims that he received bad advice from Tesla later in his trip. As several Model S owners have demonstrated [1], it is entirely possible to drive round-trip from Milford to Groton on a single supercharge. Moreover, they demonstrated that it is possible to do so with a comfortable cabin temperature, a normal highway speed, and, perhaps most importantly, without charging the car overnight in Groton (and they, too, experienced some range loss during the night).

Of course, none of this proves that Broder was malicious. It is still the case, however, that each time he had the opportunity to choose between following Tesla's advice or his own common sense, he chose the option that put him in greater danger of being stranded. Perhaps the test drive was simply a disastrous chain of honest, yet abysmal, decision-making, followed a well-written essay describing how the fault was everyone's but his.

[1] http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/13905-Recreati...!
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I've had this sentiment from 1996 on. I worked for a company creating Internet materials for use in classrooms (Internet-on-CD, books, etc.). I remember seeing a "frog dissection" thing on a website and everyone seemed to impressed with it. Why? You'd click a gif, it'd run a CGI and deliver a new image. Just what you could do with actual clients, just slower, more limited, and lower resolution.

There's something neat about "X in Y" for some technical novelty (like emulators) but I don't get the excitement in general.
Remember that A/B testing is a tool for refining the local maximum of a specific design. It works wonders when you are at scale (with some sense of product market fit) but is not a cure all at a small startup.

Going out and talking to 15 of your target customers in person will get you more learning at an early stage than a month long A/B test
For the record, I 100% agree with you, and still I am left with this question: How do I, as a producer of a product worth money, find customers for my product without contributing to the advertising system I loathe for all the reasons you mention?

I have a product and there are people out there who want it. How do I connect the two in an ethical and moral way that doesn't make the world worse?
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I think the point "blindly following A/B tests is bad" is valid, but I don't completely follow the path this article paves to lead you there.

For part one, regarding forecasting, you were A/B testing within the segment you were targeting, whether you realized you were targeting that segment or not. You saw improvements within this segment, but were further alienating a blind spot. Strict, purely statistical A/B testing isn't a great mechanism for testing out segmentation strategies, business models, etc. A/B testing isn't a strategy to get you more oranges, it's a tactic to get more juice from the oranges you already have.

For the second part, regarding the map, I'm still not sure if this is a good candidate for A/B testing, or if the implementation of the A/B test really isolated enough variables to reach a business conclusion. I suspect that may be difficult. Critical portions of your user interface are most likely another area where A/B testing is a bad idea.
It's ambiguously worded, but I don't read that to imply that he thinks every point on the 50th parallel is equidistant from the pole and the equator. Break the clauses into separate sentences and you'll see what I mean:

Every point on this line is the same distance from the equator.
Every point on this line is the same distance from the frozen pole.

These are both true sentences, they just don't refer to the same distance.
The download using Mega looks interesting. Seems that it is using the HTML5 FileSystem API to first download the file to a temporary location, without even showing a browser download dialog to the user.

Someone created a thread on stackoverflow about this, but unfortunately it was closed: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14923098/how-does-mega-co...
However, if someone were to use the same process they used for gene insertion (which is more likely to be an invention than a gene they simply discovered), they may have grounds to sue.

The process for gene insertion for insulin was the Herbert/Boyer recombinant DNA patent that was widely licensed by Stanford:
http://www.genome.duke.edu/centers/cpg/case-histories/semina...

If I had to pick Genentech protecting their drug via a patent on an E.coli bacteria containing human insulin gene vs. the method to move the gene I'd take the former for sure. The method was much more broadly useful.
Sorry about that.

No worries.

So, are we back on the new server? Or was this too much for one transition :)
"The solution is to queue because this removes the latency" - what? Queueing when your workers aren't at capacity surely adds latency.

Agreed that routers need to be aware of whether workers are busy. This might be really simple if the dispatcher receives the worker's reply and forwards it, or you could have the worker explicitly signal.

Why would you have a single global dispatch? While it is "optimum" if the dispatch were instant and infallible, presumably you'd have random assignment to any of a handful of independent dispatchers, each perhaps with dedicated workers, perhaps not.

(also agreed that fault tolerance is tricky if your operations aren't idempotent, and costly in any case)
There is no contradiction between those sentences. The Gulf Stream contributes to those differences, but is not the only cause.

Incidentally the basic explanation is obvious if you know something about climate. The powerful upper air current in question is certainly the jet stream, which at that latitude blows from west to east, and carries weather patterns with it. (The source of the jet stream is a Hadley cell.) The result is that Labrador gets weather off of land, while Europe gets weather off of the ocean. If you look at pictures from space, oceans are darker than land, and therefore absorb heat better. (This is doubly true in winter!) Thus the surface of the ocean tends to be warmer on average than land. (As well, water holds heat better, and so tends to fluctuate less. This leads to milder winters and summers.)

The moral? The fact that someone doesn't try to explain something doesn't mean that they don't understand it.
I graduated from high school in Bothell (just north of Kirkland) and I'm a Microsoft employee, but I've never been based in Redmond before. I find your post is a bit weird, bizarre, and maybe a bit biased.

Yes, suburb Seattle is quite different from urban Seattle, but ALOT more people live in the suburbs. You also have to compare it to San Francisco and San Jose, how many of your friends from the city will visit you once you moved to San Jose? Honestly any?

Seattle is fairly international and non-isolated, its in the same category as the bay area, which is to say: we have a lot of space between us and the next mega-cities (Vancouver or Portland), but that is true of any western city.

As for Redmond, I remember when it was just a bunch of trees with a filming lot for Northern Exposure. It never had much of its own identity, like Kirkland, Bothell, or Lynwood; they are just part of the suburbs. Even Bellevue is a bit souless, they have an urban core but its mostly a shopping mall. Not much difference from any other big city in the states!

Microsoft employees are actually brutally honest. We internally criticize our own stuff all the time, there is not much of a reality distortion field in Redmond or Beijing. But we aren't going to hang our dirty laundry in public, what company would do that?

Finally, Microsoft has many offices around the world, many are deeply involved in core products; Silicon Valley for example. My own office has a 1000 people I think.
1. Please do not write your own headlines!

Your title: "Human experimentation in the United States"

The article title: "Unethical human experimentation in the United States"

Notice the crucial missing word?

2. The article unfortunately left out pre-frontal lobotomy, a disastrous procedure that was almost always administered without informed consent.
They seem to concentrate in areas with the means to record them
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> But then I have to hit the Back button. Who hits the back button on the Internet anymore, especially techies like myself who live off of keyboard shortcuts? Why make me go from using my keyboard to using my mouse or trackpad just to go back? No one uses the Delete key to go back, let’s be honest.

I don't know what SEO-flavored koolaid you've been gargling, but FYI, the Back button is _still_ the most-used part of browser UI, beating out even _the address bar_: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/firefox-heatmap-study-20...

I'd think "techies like yourself" would also know that there are also at least four ways to open any link you want in a new tab: ctrl-click, middle-click, context menu, or ctrl-enter while it has focus.

As for the Back button, I tend to have one hand on my mouse while browsing anyway (so I can, you know, click links), and I usually go back by clicking mouse4. That's the bottom of the pair of buttons on the left side of the mouse, where my thumb goes. The top one, mouse5, even goes forward. I think this is default behavior in every browser by now.

Opening in a new window by default is a crappy idea anyway, but it's particularly bad on a news aggregator site line HN, because I almost certainly want to read _more than one article_. Why would I click a link and alt-tab back ad nauseum, when I can just scan down the front page and middle-click anything that looks interesting, then browse through the collection of new tabs at my leisure?

The only remotely compelling excuse for this behavior is that users may not know how to open links in new tabs, but they absolutely understand Back, and one would assume HN has a reasonably technical audience anyway. So that just leaves us with: spawning new tabs forces me to look at the origin site at least once more so I can _close_ it. Well, fuck your cheap tricks and fuck your "engagement". I'll do my own window management, tyvm.
I can say when I saw that I candled out and just started torrenting it. It is a large file and I rather know where it was going and not on my ssd system drive.
Fucking classic, i learned to program using these documents: https://github.com/therevoltingx/rootscan
More accurately described as "where people were located since 2,300 BCE that were capable of recording meteor strikes and recorded them in a form that survived until present day and made its way into a database of meteor strikes." Latitudinal variations in the density of meteor strikes wouldn't surprise me; longitudinal ones should be entirely explained by the observational effect. Hence we see a ton of meteor strikes in the continental US and virtually none in rural China, though both are on similar latitudes.
Even Homer nods!
The populist notion of the noble yeoman suggests that most people don't know any actual farmers. The contemporary farmer isn't a very sympathetic character.
If I'm not mistaken this original document was on Chico State's computer science domain. It was my understanding Beej went to Chico; does anyone know for sure? This was around long before 2006, I remember reading it around the year 2000 when I was first getting into C++. (miracle this quality of a document escaped anyone's brain in Chico -- I know, I went to CSUC. Let's just say it was hard to concentrate there :)
Partly tongue in cheek. However, we know that Google, Apple and Microsoft will do what is best for their companies, however they dress it up. Mozilla, being non-profit, does have a better ideological foundation for doing what is best for the web.

Of course, it does come down to individuals in the end, and
open source has pointless turf-wars, so nothing is guaranteed....
Improbable.

However, there could be a favoured plane of arrival, like the solar system plane, and with a circular cross section of the Earth I'd expect less debris/area near the poles.
(I don't know this, I'm just extrapolating from what I actually know.)
Ask HN [Developers]: Recruiters on Linkedin
When recruiters contact you on linkedin with a job opportunity - what do you do?

Additionally, if they ask to forward along the job to someone you "might know who would be a better fit" if you dont fit the job description - what do you do? Do you ever refer?

What are your thoughts on this approach by recruiters on LinkedIn ? Do you find it effective or aggravating?
> the simplest summary question I can think to ask is: What do you think Richard Feynman would do in your situation?

At the risk of getting downvoted for a silly comment, there's the Feynman Flowchart: http://onionesquereality.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/what-would...
Careful there. I grew up on a farm and have relatives that are yet farmers and are no more unpleasant than anyone else.
The projection (how the globe is represented in 2D) is still Google's. Technically it's Web Mercator / EPSG:900913, where 900913 is a rather clever choice by Google.
"evolving away from" is not transitive ("evolve our product" is)

his product is in the PaaS ecosystem, so why not "evolve"? :-)
I mentioned a solution in the discussion over PG and install monetizer. Advertising as a whole isn't bad but advertise where it makes sense (like a relevant trade conference or through word of mouth or in places that people would actually look).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094295
I didnt finish the article, but the video linked in there was really good.
The problem with this "wrap-up" of the drama is that it fails to leave the reader with a clearer understanding of if the Tesla Model S is an automobile that has serious engineering problems. Instead, it dives deeper into the "controversy" which isn't really the point. Politics and Musk/Broder egos aside, any competent third party observer can come to the conclusion that the review was flawed and hence should not should influence the buying decision of a potential Model S customer one way or the other. This is the entire role of the NYT in this issue: to inform the consumer. Instead of providing clarity for the consumer the NYT continues to prefer to dive into meta-talk about itself and its story (as the media loves to do, report on itself) and fails to call a spade a spade. Pathetic.
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Another trick nobody else has mentioned is to remember that the 2nd argument is actually optional, so you can do things like:

ln -s /path/to/some/file

And it'll create a symlink called "file" in the current directory. That wouldn't be possible if the arguments were the other way around.
C3PO: Common 3rd-party objects
Sorry, I just copied from the article title (which happens to be in caps)
Our investment is to make personal "computing" truly personal. How we merge our personal data with the apps and communities we share into is complex but has the potential to make healthcare more democratic and cost-constructive; teams more efficient, relationships more connected, information discovery more intuitive, etc. All of this for people while also lowering the economic and time barrier for increasingly smaller teams of developers who want to build these apps to get their product to their customers. We feel very purposed in our work and offer a product with an explicit model. Not sure I follow your trolling. I mean logic.
Gentoo is very similar.
What I read from that is that the stories we tell ourselves about why climate happens tend to be massively oversimplified and miss major things.

I read absolutely nothing to cause me to trust detailed computer models more or less.

My belief about computer models is that they are crap for detail, but still indicative enough at the level we're trying to use them for to be indicative. If you want to learn more, and to dig in yourself, http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/HomePage is a useful starting place.
No its not. Culturally, its very similar to the pre-Jobs Apple, just with a lot more focus.
I hate selling things on craigslist. When I tried to sell a comforter, I had to correspond via email with 9 different people before someone would actually come and pick up the damn thing. They kept dropping out silently. When I would ping them, they'd say, "Oh, I bought a different one." or "I decided to buy it from <blah website>."

The problem is there is no reputation on craigslist, so people can be as bad as they want.

I can't compare that to ebay, tho. Maybe ebay is worse for a seller.
>At a gas station, the time difference between putting in half a gallon and filling the tank is about 5 minutes. At the charging station he'd stopped off at, the difference between the charge he did and a full charge is about 9-12 hours. This is a fundamental, and currently inescapable, difference between gas and electric cars.

Well, hold on there one minute. The difference between a 72% charge and a 100% charge at Tesla's Superchargers is something like fifteen minutes. Not 9 to 12 hours. If Broder hadn't stopped the charge early in Milford he wouldn't have needed to charge the next day (even including the overnight range loss in Groton) at a slow charger. Some Model S owner's recently demonstrated that: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/13905-Recreati...!
Can coffeescript generate asm.js compatible javascript? Or rather, what changes to coffeescript would be required to support it, I wonder?
That's a very cynical view.

I, for example, support the ACLU's defending the KKK's right to free speech. In the long run... or as MLK might say, the arch of free speech is long but it bends toward good. The same I believe for open source.
Also notice: the only plotted strikes in Antarctica are right near the scientific stations -- but the intensity is very high at those points.

If you plotted theoretical meteorite distributions, there would be more strikes at the poles than the equator (due to the Earth's rotation, the poles receive many more meteorites) but at a given latitude the distribution would be even.

Could someone who understands this really well explain why the rotation of earth would change the number of meteorite strikes near the equator?

(It seems to me that strikes should be completely randomly distributed across the earth's surface and if a meteorite was headed for one area of the equator and the earth was spinning, the meteorite would simply hit another area of the equator.) I'm probably missing something here, but I can't figure out what.
Kinect was acquired and SharePoint is popular but it really did so on the back of existing infrastructure i.e. it was like an upsell.

And I am not saying that stack ranking is responsible for all its failures but I fail to see how it encourages co-operation which is so critical for successful companies.
Why simulate? For immortality and what VMs call snapshots and cloning, of course. ;p
The deception seems not about how to classify affiliate links, but rather deliberately leading the reader to infer that the blog's only income source is donations
That would be a good test to see if you made the right decision with giving a specific person access.
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"Upon request."

By anyone, it seems to read. Even by an anonymous requester.

Now anyone can be a censor.