skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be fine with that if it meant that the avionics software was cheaper because it cost less to develop. Your average private pilot in North America is never going to need their avionics to be able to deal with this, just like they don't need the GPS in their car to be able to deal with it either.
Microsoft Surface Pro ad debuts amid supply gripes
Author seems mistaken. Ortiz hit 25,000 before the White House raised the required amount to 100,000.

Since the Heymann petition didn't reach the mark before the cap was raised, there are another 75,000-or-so to go. Ortiz was grandfathered in.

edit: I thought only completed petitions were grandfathered in, but it appears I'm wrong and just having a petition started before the change is sufficient for grandfathered-status.
I don't know, the idea sounds nice, but I doubt that this a venture case and will scale and fits into PG's 'Startup = Growth' strategy since it's just a service which requires tons of manpower (except it pivots into a marketplace/leadgensite for lawyers offering a defined divorce package but we had similar models 10yrs ago and they just do not work). The landing page could be stolen from one of ClickBank's merchants (you know those shady ultra long landing pages which want to sell useless stuff).

I understand that YC startups are proud to be part of YC and thus, put the YC label on their site and everywhere else but often (and in particular here) it's the only USP such startups have.
I know you don't believe it, but that would be better than silence. I don't think we deserve a good response, just a response.

Also, nobody thinks the response is the end game...
Someone asked him what stuff he likes which is cheap/free. His answer was kids, cheeseburgers and open courseware.

Someone asked him where he got the kids from, to which he answered the stork.

If you are not familiar, the stork is a common answer given to children when they ask where babies come from without telling them about sex. The children are told that babies are delivered by a stork, something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfMv5oYa9k
Prop. 13 is a disaster in another way. Because commercial buildings are higher-valued, it is now common for them never to be sold. They are just spun out as a separate entity, and that entity changes hands.

Since they are never sold, their property tax base never increases (re-assessment happens most often after a sale). So there has also been a net transfer of property tax burden from commercial to residential property.
A sort of love note to github
"Waiting at a red light, I look up at the large glass windows that are the eyes of Park Avenue. From a population-density point of view, this is the Midwest of Manhattan. Towering above me are rooms - rooms and rooms and rooms. And they are empty. There are powder rooms and dressing rooms and piano rooms and guest rooms and, somewhere above me, but I won't say where, a rabbit named Arthur has sixteen feet square all to himself."

-The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma Mclaughlin, Nicola Kraus
NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
No eBook readers on HN! Let me know what you think guys
I'm not sure why is it the top comment.

EU democracy may not be great, but it's a lot better than American, in terms of social justice. Lobbying, especially its American variation, is well known for its corruptive quality. And the mentioned cookie law, though an oversight, still, in essence is a preferable direction protecting our privacy, in contrast to we own all your data defaults of the US.

Although, I agree with the closing sentiment that a wider awareness of the legislative process would be desired, I think the focus in the scope of this article should be on the US lobbying practices in the EU and the Data Protection reform, in particular.
It's blown out of proportion for the normal use case, but I still think it was a very interesting review. I didn't expect them to be great road-tripping vehicles at this point, but was a bit disappointed by how the weather affected things. Even Musk's comments so far don't change my impression of that: so it's fine for a road trip if you make sure you don't get stuck in traffic, and make sure you never ever miss a chance to get it fully charged up, especially if the weather is cold? That's just not going to be competitive convenience-wise for long trips right now, no matter how much spin you want to put on it. The open question to me is just how fast the driver was going on the highway (90+ would make me raise an eyebrow or too), I'm not really sympathetic to the rest of Musk's claims at all. And unless he can provide some conclusive log evidence, collaborated by outside evidence, that's far more damning than what his comments so far describe, it reflects pretty poorly on the company to me. Much more poorly than the original review, since I expected that to be pretty much a worst-case scenario—and was very interested in just how well it would handle that kind of stress test.

Edit: the thing that really bugs me about the response is that it's empty so far. If you've got conclusive evidence, show the evidence. Don't go all he-said-she-said in the meantime.
This is silly. It's like buying a toaster and then complaining when it fails to make panini.

You don't get an electric vehicle for the purpose of driving from DC to New York.

I have always plugged my EV in on a 120 volt circuit. It gets about 50-60 miles of charge per night. My commute is 10 miles. The car is full every morning, no matter how cold it is.

YMMV
Making time by outsourcing yourself
We setup a repo for you to use with 3.0.20+patch = 3.0.20.1 Maybe it will save you some time: https://www.assembla.com/code/assembla-rails/git/nodes
Don't be lazy, just consider the case of crossing a discontinuity and deal with it correctly, if you're on a roll developing it doesn't increase the cost and it offsets liability later.

The standards for avionics software are not geared towards average use in any case. They are geared towards worst case scenarios that have actually happened and could actually happen, even if the odds are low.

Are you honestly claiming that a popular bit of avionics kit will never find it's way to the region of Fiji? Ever?
> No Content Found

> Quite flummoxed. Terribly sorry.

I assume that's not what I was supposed to see?
How Much Money Apple Makes From Google For Every iOS Device It Sells
Forget looking at this from a moral perspective and try the utilitarian approach. It is not socially desirable to have underutilized real estate in a place as crowded as NYC. Put it this way: Renting out an empty space is effectively the equivalent of building a new space!

I normally disapprove of using tax policy to modify behavior, but in this case it makes sense. Property tax is like the "rent" citizens pay to the government for using land. If the rent is too low, people overconsume the scarce resource.
one reason i really love Visual Studio is VsVim[1], which is the best Vim emulation I've seen in any IDE. i don't have to choose between convenience and superspeed like i used to in the past... that was really annoying

[1] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...
I really like the design. I wish this became a trend, designing a page around a single article. (I've tried it myself but I am no designer).
Strangeloop has joined Radware
Perhaps when we can race real cars via remote control (with ultra low latency obviously) the gamers will rise :)

One might suspect the same could become of other genres cough FPS cough ;)
There is no excuse why downloadable content should cost more -- economies of scale, shipping costs, and differences in taxes and exchange rates are all irrelevant. Even in the case of physical goods, the disparity is often drastically more than can be accounted for by the above reasons. This comment sums it up quite well: http://news.cnet.com/8618-1001_3-57568633.html?assetTypeId=1...
In 2010 I developed a search engine using Google's API(Search 2.0?), after launching I had to scrap the search engine and start over with Bing API because queries accumulated over 300k the first 4 days. Contrary to another poster who says Bing API now charges, at that time Bing's API was unlimited - you may want to personally research Bing API queries limit.

Long term, be wary search API's have notoriously left developers high and dry when releasing new versions. Old API versions get deprecated and are not compatible with new versions, you need a new key API which requires coding your engine from the beginning again.
Google's Private Planes Could Get $82M Complex at San Jose Airport
Is anyone else entertained by the fact we finally have decent support for rounded corners for web design, and everyone is moving towards right angles? :)
Block By Block Income Analysis of the USA
Recycled Knowledge: Flow, Stuckness, and Interruptions
You make it sound like cars are somehow easier to repair. They are fantastically more complicated in comparison, with specialized tools required for particular models.

How popular were bikes in Argentina before the collapse? How popular after? They haven't really taken hold in the parts of central America I've visited even though the weather is almost always suitable and the roads aren't that bad. People just take the bus, drive their car, or at worst, a small motorbike.

It's like bicycles don't even come up as an option.

Speaking as someone who lives in the bike theft capital of North America, it's possible they're too easily stolen and therefore people don't bother buying them in the first place. Cars are harder to steal since the police will at least pretend to investigate an automobile theft. They're also tagged with license plates and VINs to provide a small deterrent to theft in the first place.
For some reason, I find it harder to find what I'm looking for in the R help than just about any other language. That's why you end up not knowing about useful packages for a very long time. Is that just me?
Where this simplicity breaks down is when you have two kinds of a thing. For example, a user may have documents shared by a group and then documents that are yours/mine.

Honestly, I still feel it's an overwrought discussion about something that ultimately doesn't effect the user enough to change their general perception of the product.
I believe both petitions were grandfathered in. And the site does indicate the "fire Stephen Heymann" petition has met the requirement.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...
"Signatures needed by February 11, 2013 to reach goal of 25,000: 0"

So the Forbes author does not appear to be mistaken.
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4759466
"Bill Gates Answers Almost Everything In Reddit AMA": http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/02/11/bill-gates-...
Ask HN: How do you prime/start a community for your site?
I once built a Q&A site for advance technical questions. It didn't work out. It ended up having an overwhelming amount of bots instead of people using it. A while later, Stack Overflow came online and it became a success. While it was more advanced than what I had, it wasn't too different in concept from what I made.

Looking back, it was pretty obvious what Stack Overflow had that I didn't - a following. Joel & Jeff's blog attracted a ton of readers over the years and those readers turned Stack Overflow from nothing into something.

I'm not someone who has the talent to write continually write insightful blog posts nor do I have the mindset to hype things up in forums. I'm not sure what kind of options there are for someone like me to get those first few users.

How do you prime a community for your service?
I remember that! And look, even back then Microsoft was embracing Flat Design: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/images/press/t...

I think the moral of the story is that everybody's design sucked in 1999…
It's not just you. This was a huge problem for me at first. When you're googling search "R cran" + your query

You'll get way better results
Skeuomorphic realism certainly didn't start with the iPhone. Anybody who has dabbled in music production knows it's been around since the 90s. Here are some pieces of software I've been using for the better part of the last decade:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/16/92028519_6c7f4a6d50.jpg

http://www.migmusic.com/bin/pro52.jpg

Unlike apps for the iPhone, these virtual knobs and sliders don't benefit from a touch screen. No keybindings. No tabbing between them. Just reduced functionality and wasted screen real estate for the sake of looking ``cool'' to people with crappy taste.

For this reason, I've come to despise so-called realism in technology. Even the tried-and-true desktop metaphor seems like an outdated crutch for helping old people understand computers. How does imagining manilla folders help the next generation of computer users understand directory structures when they've seen more computers in their time than file cabinets? It's time to can the metaphors and let computers be computers.
Agreed. We owe it to ourselves not to worry about what the government is going to feed us. Every one of us is smart enough to know what needs to change.

Back away from the keyboard for a second. Take a deep breath. Get out there and work for change until you are exhausted.

Don't ask any system a question you already know the answer to. It will break your heart.
I am sure the Rover guys won't mind much if I jump in and say that we [InstantCab] are!

Send me an email or link to your github or resume or whatever at aj@instantcab.com.
My stuff is already released ( with more to come ) www.kidoteca.com
Yet Siri calls me 'you', and refers to herself as 'I'. Rules are made to be broken. Actually, on a recent road trip, I found myself asking Siri for an update on my progress by asking: "What's our ETA?". While she gave me the right answer, I kind of wish she'd responded by saying when "we" would arrive. An interface that is actually in it together with me - that would be a step forward.
Skeuomorphism in UI has been around since the original Macintosh.
Mirror of the interface hall of shame entry with working pictures:

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=qtime.htm&mod...
I disagree. If you keep a journal, life goes by just as fast at 30 as at 19. The key is definitely novel experiences. There's some research to back this up: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2228221/Scien...
CakePHP had an issue with unserialize() at one point. Since then we've wised up about using putting user data into unserialize()
This will sound snarky, but there's just too much that's wrong with this comment to let it stand. For people reading this: please don't do any the above.

Go here for good color scales and spare yourself the risk of getting it all wrong: http://colorbrewer2.org

If you're going to not use colorbrewer, please, either know what you're doing (and if you're reading this comment, you don't) you either stick with black and white, or you at least use orange and blue (orange and blue is a combination that's safe with most common types of color-blindness, and also tends to separate well in black-and-white conversions).

Just as importantly: don't try to guess what colors look like for colorblind people, either (and don't do it in RGB space like the original post suggested either! RGB is a device-centric coordinate system; please use something like Lab or Luv). The rightest, simplest way to simulate different types of color blindness is to use define 2D affine subspaces of Lab space, like here: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/%7Eoliveira/pubs_files/CVD_Mass_Spri... (figure 2, in page 3)
When I bought the Zombie Survival Guide at my friendly neighborhood bookstore, the guy working there told me the bouncer at the bar next door bought both the Zombie Survival Guide and the Anarchist's Cookbook. He said the bouncer returned the Anarchist's Cookbook the following day because the Zombie Survival Guide was "more informative." :)

The Zombie Survival Guide also recommends motorcycles and machetes.
> You make it sound like cars are somehow easier to repair. They are fantastically more complicated in comparison, with specialized tools required for particular models.

Having rebuilt a Vanagon engine, I agree that cars are dramatically more difficult to maintain and repair.

> How popular were bikes in Argentina before the collapse? How popular after?

They're not very popular, although much more popular than in the US when I lived there. I don't know how popular they were before the last collapse; I assume about the same. Mostly the people who ride them do so because of some kind of antipathy to motorcycles. They are cheaper than even the cheapest motorcycles.

I should point out that if you have an income, bike repair services are cheap and abundant here in post-collapse Argentina, if often of low quality.
I'm building a fairly large web-product for my startup in Rails, and I'm really worried now. I'd paint the recent security vulnerabilities with one broad stroke -- someone trusted the client too much. Isn't that something really, really basic when dealing with data received from a remote client? Never trust anything?

Right from the Github mass-assignment [1] vulnerability to the recent YAML & JSON parsing vulnerabilities, it's the same core concept being violated.

This gets me thinking -- is Rails the right choice for a large project with JSON, XML, & regular HTML endpoints?

PS: I'm not sure what the code-review policy for Rails is, but now would be the time to call-out people who wrote this bad code and NOT auto-merge their future commits without at least two peer reviews.
Yeah, sure. But this is really not something that someone needs to reinvent, the basic 'algorithm' is even taught in private pilot classes. Did you ever had any problems with GPSes in that region? (I got interested)
Silence is a response. The idea that this communication has to be 2-way textual responses, misses the nuance.
Hayao Miyazaki Makes Ramen at Studio Ghibli
Interestingly, this guy http://www.amazon.com/Nova/e/B002YU0QTE/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=13... covers fairly extensive use of bicycles in his post-apocalypse USA novels.

I know many of these comments are somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but really, there will not be a survivable apocalypse. Sorry, survivalists, just. not. gonna. happen.
Based on Tesla's past claims against Top Gear (that turned out in favor of Top Gear in court), I would give the NY Times the benefit of the doubt here. Especially since Tesla hasn't produced any evidence yet.
That's the one, thanks for linking. I had forgotten the name.
Now that computers are ubiquitous in the our culture, I think that people have forgotten how non intuitive graphical user interfaces can be. Twenty years ago, an "introduction to computers" class or video would focus on how to interact with menus, open and close windows, and how to use a mouse with more than one button. If you want a good laugh, search YouTube for introductory videos to Windows 95.

I've found that people that are uncomfortable with computers have problems with flat design, often because it is harder to for them to find buttons. It seems like a trivial thing to people who are comfortable surfing the web, but for those who are not, it makes for a frustrating experience.

On another note, I found it curious that the author didn't mention Microsoft Bob and the other contemporary "real object" graphical shells.
Why does Firefox not report before crashing?
My computer has about 3Gb RAM, and Firefox often takes about 1,5Gb. The problem is, whenever it crashes because of unavailable RAM, it doesn't know about my computer RAM status. Why not have an alert when i create new tab ? Or firefox doesn't know RAM is full ?
I didn't buy his explanations when I saw him on CNBC and Bloomberg. The impression I got is that he's whitewashing the review, focusing on how fast he was driving and pointing to another NYT reporter who got 300 miles (and when the anchor pointed out that it was in different driving conditions, he sort of glossed over it).

Speaking of inconveniences, how can someone who lives in an apartment own a Tesla vehicle? Most parking garages I've come across don't even have a standard 110v outlet, let alone the 240v outlets needed for faster charging. Is the solution for them to hope that there's a supercharger near by? It seems like Tesla is only viable if you live in a house.
I'm not convinced. Horses, maybe, but horses are a lot of work, a lot more than bikes.
Usually the metal tubes last a long time if you don't open them. Usually I can also poke a hole in the solid block with a safety pin and get to still-liquid superglue inside.
It is rather surreal to see myself quoted. Especially something I wrote on my blog that I didn't think anybody actually reads.

Allow me to provide some context [1] for the quote. Shortly after the language was released, somebody was ranting [2] about how Go was not innovative at all in comparison to other modern languages. I was not suggesting that programming research is useless and that we should ignore several decades of progress. I was, rather, saying that Go was applying those several decades of progress to systems programming to produce a more modern version of C. Here is the whole paragraph that quote was lifted from:

"The point the author fails to see is that Go is not meant to innovate programming theory. It’s meant to innovate programming practice. This is an upgrade to C. It’s a language that applies the innovations of the last thirty years to the systems world, where the state of the art is still portable assembler. So no, the language isn’t introducing brilliant new ideas. It’s taking tested old ideas, and introducing them into a new arena."

[1] http://blog.alieniloquent.com/2009/12/15/newsflash-go-is-exp...

[2] http://monoc.mo.funpic.de/go-rant/
I know you mentioned Flask, but I haven't seen the same sort of stuff for Django, Pylons or Pyramid. Yes, some if not all of those frameworks use the flawed Pickle method for storing cookies, but so long as the secret is, well a secret, there is no way to get remote code execution on a very simple app built on those frameworks.
The most important question, of course, is how the never-shipped Gizmo Mac OS theme should be classified. :D

I rather liked the paper-like one, though. Drawing Board or something.
Peeping into Pixel – A micrograph of CMOS sensor
There is a phenomena of buying real estate in stable countries as a complicated bank account for wealthy people from unstable countries. It's like buying a pile of gold to them, except a house is harder to steal.

Vancouver is suffering from this with wealthy mainland chinese, leading to the second worst affordability ratio (housing price : average annual income) in the world. You see similar behaviors in condos in china itself.

It has very bad effects for the people who already live there, especially for the young and newly established. Younger people with better opportunities go away once they do the math and the cities eventually suffer brain drain. I would suggest a high long term unoccupied residence tax to avoid the problems of unused property in cities. Hopefully it will prod these people just a little bit to hire property management companies to avoid the tax and rent the places out.
Webex supports linux.
Both Nvidia and ATI have been caught cheating at graphics benchmarks. Their drivers would detect when the benchmark programs were being run, and go through lower quality fast paths. You can google "quack.exe" for details on one particularly famous case.
IncubatorIncubator
I mean, they don't have a news.incubatorincubator.com, but still.. :)
Mozilla uses django for many of our web apps, and there's a django app that integrates Persona (formerly called BrowserID). Take a look at the repo, and if you have questions, ask in the #webdev IRC channel mentioned in the readme.

https://github.com/mozilla/django-browserid
Does applying a review embargo automatically kill a game?
My iPhone's Dock is Being Taken Over By Third Party Apps
Here are Color Brewer palettes in CSS and JSON: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/tree/master/lib/colorbrewer