skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, my main issue is that testing in so many browsers, and making adjustments for each one seems to go a bit against the goal of standards.

The state of the Web is currently closer to a single standard than it's ever been in its history. Nowadays, it's fairly easy to make the adjustments - or even use libraries which abstract the most discrepancies.
It could be better, of course - but one has to work with the world as it is, not as it should be :)
I recently finished reading the Handbook of Technical Writing, by Gerald J. Alred. It contains excellent advice on improving grammar, and avoiding jargon and affectation in technical writing. I can highly recommend it.

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"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars, and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." -- Douglas Adams
Do you mind emailing me a list of questions, to make sure I address all of them?

My blogging has gone down, due to twitter mostly, but this is a good chance to talk about our open source work.

Cheers!
Miguel
U.S. announces new anti-hacking strategy to stem cyberstealing
Twenty Thirteen
I was thinking of Veek as I was reading the article. <IANAL> But my understanding is that model codes can by protected by copyright, but that once they are adopted as law, they cannot be. On the other hand, lack of public access is due to the particular option DC chose - Municode.com has been around for at least twelve years. We used it as the reference for city employees when I worked in city government.

http://www.municode.com/Library
Tango has identical address book auto friend finding and also does video calls on top of IM. And it's free. There are several apps that do that and are free actually.

Disclaimer: I work at Tango.
From Liberal Arts to Technology Jobs
They are also known to build difficult to make toys (air bubble vortex rings) to entertain themselves.

They have to discover how to make it. Sometimes they can be quite possessive, they would break the toy if someone not so knowledgeable wants to play with it. Once a dolphin figures it out how to make one, his/her peers eventually figure it out too. So it kind of spreads within a group like fashion. This behavior has been observed both in captivity and in the wild.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dolphin+vortex+ring (a time sink right here)

They also have what appears to be fratricide were they bludgeon another to death targeting vital organs (I dont have a reference to this, but I recall reading it on BBC).

I have seen dumber people on and around TV.

I am sure there are HN'ers who are divers and have first had experience with dolphins, we would love to hear the stories.
MIT Technology Review: 50 Disruptive Companies in 2013
The letter is a good example of the cognitive dissonance so prevalent amongst the privileged elite. In the same paragraph where he laments that the French government "does nothing" while the Chinese ship tires to France, he predicts French industrial degradation because "its government is more government." Which is it, is it too much government or not enough?

It's this deafness to the meaning of your own words that would allow a loudmouthed industrialist-type to shout "class warfare!" the moment new taxes are proposed on the wealthy. This letter is an unprovoked attack on French working people. And if French working people decide to non-violently retaliate against the company by petitioning for import restrictions, organizing a boycott, etc, it would be wholly justified.
That's a very specific diagnosis made from a quite widely interpretable blog-post.

I'm sure you mean well but these kinds of off-the-cuff diagnoses are, if not wrong, rarely of any benefit to the diagnosed.
Ah thank you. Not particularly surprising since I've never seen anything beyond the status code checked.
I swear Austin has to be the worst inner-city traffic light syncing I have seen of any major US city.
There's one paragraph that's sticking with me:

> Play keep away with a normal persons hat and you're just taking their hat. Play keep away with an Autistic persons hat and it's possible that it's his best friend named "Charlie". It's highly unlikely that Charlie enjoys flying at highspeeds through the air into greasy hands. You're not playing keep away with a hat, you are tossing around and abusing his best friend. It takes a damaged monster to play keep away with someone's dog or their younger sibling, but most will think nothing of playing keep away with the weird kids hat.

My four-year old daughter isn't autistic, but this morning we were running to her daycare. My wife had her blankie and was out-running my daughter. All of a sudden my daughter stopped and started bawling, when five seconds earlier she was loving the chase. I'm thinking that maybe the above paragraph doesn't just apply to autistic people, it applies to anybody who forms a bond with an inanimate object.
How to Game a Grading Curve
Skydiver of 14 years here. I am eager to see something that has information regarding how close you are to others in the air. About half or more of the 20 fatal incidents a year are due to people colliding under a fully open/working parachute. A visual warning system to remove the blind spot behind you would be great.
Here in Toronto the current standard for residential service is 200 A @ 120/240V (24 kW). Older homes might be 100 A. That would be the max that the conductor between the distribution transformer and the home's panel can handle without thermal failure. But you wouldn't size distribution transforms based solely on peak load because a mineral-oil immersed transformer has a lot more thermal mass than a cable and takes hours/days of sustained load to actually heat up. Average loads used for planning and distribution transformer sizing are more like 5-10kW/house.
This kind of report/chart would be valuable to some economist/historian/business professor. Because internet moves so fast and web sites can disappear completely (unlike physical books/magazines) in an instant, that kind of data could be lost forever.
There is a persistent ignorance about homeschoolers lacking socialization, an assertion I find laughable. Homeschooling done properly, frees up more time and increases true socialization. I was involved in sports, chess, and a wide range of homeschooler organized activities. 90% of the homeschoolers I have ever encountered were as equally if not more involved in social activities.

I was homeschooled and while it's true that homeschoolers tend to have cooperatives, and join social clubs, you're still more isolated than children in more traditional situations. To this day I'm more socially awkward than most of people I know and I wonder if the homeschooling didn't have something to do with it.
That isn't commonplace in the US which I assume that is where he is from considering the whois info.

In fact it would probably be much more expensive here.

The main choices probably are a family member picking up groceries for you, or a small market which still can deliver groceries, I know mine stopped offering delivery around 5 years ago because the community size grew so much.
SnowCrash showed a frightening future filled with Glass-like devices. Published in 1992. Still an instructive read today.
Differs by jurisdiction, obviously, but everywhere I've ever been it's illegal to begin crossing when the light is flashing, and legal to complete a crossing already in progress.
Founder/CEO TrustEgg - For most families the only option they have, or are using right now, are savings accounts which over time will lose to inflation. We offer a way for accounts to receive a market rate of return.
As for pricing, an adviser based 529 plan is going to add an additional 1% to the management fee, or ~6% load on deposits.
For those who don't know what Hyperboria is:

http://hyperboria.net/about

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1160466

https://projectmeshnet.org/
"This world does not function properly when supply goes to infinity."

Are you kidding me? The world would be so much better if supply went to infinity.
The benefit of hydrogen IMO is not needing to mine tons of potentially hazardous or toxic minerals to make giant swaths of batteries, not to mention that you can actually fill up the fuel tanks just like you would with gasoline, rather than needing to wait 30-60 minutes for a "supercharger", and the overall range of existing hydrogen vehicles is generally on par with or better than the range of gas-powered vehicles.

They've already "solved" most of the problems you mention; the "problems" are with scaling that sort of infrastructure. Scaling EV chargers is just much simpler.
No, I don't think 128 characters is enough to demonstrate any amount of competence or skill.

This idea is novel, but not practical.
Check out http://caniuse.com/ - it shows you compatibility tables and browser support for most of the functionalities.

As for "core functionality" - much functionality can be faked or unified through abstraction libraries (e.g. jQuery) and compatibility shims (e.g. modernizr).
If you love constant patching for the daily critical security holes, stick with Rails.
If you love worrying where they have stuck yet another Yaml parser, and where else they are eval-ing user supplied data, stick with Rails.

If you prefer a bit of an easier, less-stressful life, there is hope with many of the Perl, Python and PHP frameworks.
How about Emperor Penguins? When one of a pair returns from feeding, it finds the other by recognizing its unique calls.
I agree that they're ahead of their time, but I totally disagree that it's missing full viewports. In fact, I prefer that it doesn't take up my whole FOV.

For one, it gives others a clear clue that you're somehow using the device, and it can easily be ignored if needed. Not to mention that full viewport wouldn't really be that much of an improvement - AR simply isn't there yet, and for most of the uses (I don't suppose you'd go around reading novels with this), this suffices.
Another "2013 start up" guy here on the march towards a first public release and it really does read like a case-study. He's beautifully articulated the philosophy I've adopted to get from light bulb moment to something real and the resulting experiences over the last year.

Also, congrats on openexchangerates.org ! Idea's great and deliciously simple, the site is lovely and the API looks snappy and clean. By sheer serendipity my project has a major requirement for exchange rate data so I'll be getting my hands dirty with your API now I know you exist :)
I don't live in the Valley either ;) AFAIK NYC is not particularly cocoon-like, nor SF or Toronto where I've also done a lot of shooting.

There are strategies to shooting on the street - you have a tremendous amount of control over how people react to your activities. How you project your presence can be the difference between being bullied and harassed vs. being left alone or even being assisted.
It's not a fun situation, but there's an obvious answer: come to grips with the fact that the idea is valuable. More specifically, it is just as valuable as you and the rest of the world make it. Negotiate. If there is a project you really want to be involved in because the other person has a really great idea, then you should be prepared to let that person keep more of the company and, by the same token, accept a smaller share for your own work. Think of the opportunity to be involved at all as its own form of compensation. By contrast, of course, many ideas will be only somewhat interesting. In cases like that, it makes sense to value your time more highly in comparison to the idea and be prepared to walk away if the idea guy wants too big a piece of the pie.
Keepass (http://keepass.info)
KeepassX, a multi-platform Qt port (http://www.keepassx.org)
Password Safe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net)

All three of these write to a single database file. This means that sharing the database would require having file available via a network share, _or_ keeping it in version control.
Why are there so many posts about people selling ebooks? Is there truly an enormous market for these ebooks? Do Klout scores go up with ebooks?

Should I be writing an ebook?
Division of labor. In smaller places, people wear several hats. Some interesting and exciting, others not.

In large organizations, things are more segregated and stratified. If you aren't in one of the interesting/exciting roles, all you get is suck.

Better managements work to mitigate this. But it's an ongoing struggle, and the dark side calls.
But if you have large apps with multiple Ruby versions then dealing with rvmrc...

Why on earth would you do that?
I spoke to Tesla about this, they were not interested. Said I'd have to sell a few Roadsters to demonstrate interest.

Mind you I was talking to their sales team in London, who probably needed to offload unsold Roadsters.
Open source is not about smelly dicks, it's about transparency, reusability, philsophy, politics. It's a lot of things (and they matter, because right now, society and technology are changing fast).
> The pedestrian buttons are not placebo buttons, they actually work.

Not if the system is grid-synchronized. In places where the system has more than one mode and adapts to the overall traffic amount, yes, but only when the system isn't in synchronize mode.
> If I had to pick one moment when some of the criticism against Rails began to take hold, even among those who had once favored Rails, it was Zed Shaw's insane rant:

That's simply not true and not fair. Rails of v1-v2 era were much worse than what we have now. Tooling improved immensely since the rant (bundler, rvm) and the most popular ruby implementation itself improved. Granted, it's somewhat harder to start rails today than it was four years before, still we are much better off.
Sorry, yes, I was thinking about support in relation to the pod itself (the subject of this article) and not BackBlaze in general.
Recluse? I work from home, so I only leave to get groceries or go out to dinner with my girlfriend on an average week. I don't have any more IRL friends.

Going to try to make some when spring comes, but it's too cold to really bother right now. Being a recluse isn't so bad.
I don't think that's really an accurate picture. That rant is old as hell. IIRC it's about Ruby on Rails 1 — not even the now-venerable Rails 2, but the first version that nobody on earth uses anymore. It predates Rack and Passenger and all the stuff that Rails developers have taken for granted for years now. Surely you'll agree that Rails 2 and Passenger were not late to the party.

I think the biggest thing that made Rails fall from grace (to whatever degree it has) was the way it ground to a halt for what seemed like ages while they worked on Rails 3, and then when 3.0 came out, a lot of people found it unimpressive on its own merits, and even more so when viewed in light of how long it took. (This is largely because a big part of the Rails 3 work was refactoring and trying to make it less monolithic, which are good things, but the kind of good things that get you yelled at by people who don't care about them.)
And they already beat the US in Internet speed. http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/
Unfortunately, in such countries as Ukraine Google Glass is forbidden due to "spy devices restriction" :(
Ubuntu removed Tomboy from their default install due to Mono dependency. Tomboy is still a well used and liked application on Linux desktops. Just one example of many great apps "killed" that I am most familiar with.
Once you know how, Calculus is relatively easy and efficient.

Lots of very smart mathematicians predated Newton and Leibniz.
It didn't take me much hacking to enable native PDF plugin back. Searching in about:config for "pdf" quickly revealed pdfjs.disabled setting, which I set to true - and that's it.
Well said. I want to add a couple comments:

-For some people, writing it all out is therapeutic. That's probably the best time (most suggestible time) to suggest therapy.

-CBT is useful, and the #1 long-term cure for depression. A good CBT therapist is what the author should look for.

-Author is making plans for the future, which is a good sign that things aren't totally dire right now.
What Google Maps could look like in the future
looks actually better on mobile I think (iPhone safari)
Like the Django patch that was released yesterday? (https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/feb/19/security/)

The fact that the Rails team quickly responds to vulnerabilities should be reassuring not a disincentive to use the framework. All software is subject to vulnerabilities - the recent issues with YAML are a class of exploit common across many frameworks in different ecosystems (Django's TastyPie had a similar issue in the past).
The vast majority of games are made in Windows using an IDE. It's completely unremarkable.
A Startup Race: The Sprinting Marathon
The implication is actually that cat videos are more enjoyable per instant than opera. If that were not the case, people would always watch opera. But if there were a high fixed cost, such as a ticket price, or the mental energy required to pay attention, the opera becomes relatively attractive. Imagine driving to a movie theater and paying $10 to watch a 2 minute cat video. It would be absurd.

My point about the middle ages was that at that time, the fixed cost for all media consumption was high, so no one even considered short videos (preformances?). Now, when fixed costs are lower, you see a dramatically different pattern of consumption.

High cost/high benefit media is still around - just think about a long running tv show like Lost or Game of Thrones, where the audience is expected to put a ton of mental effort into the show. So I don't worry about a race to the bottom.
What are some languages in which it would not be possible to demonstrate a great deal of mastery in?
Just walk off with it.

Family, religion, friendship. These
are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. --Montgomery Burns
Not at all. Maybe for beginners but at the competitive level brood lords are so good due to their cost efficiency in that they create "free" units and have very good synergy with infestors which are also known for their cost efficiency.
In my humble opinion, firing off an email is a lost cause. HR folks are blasted all the time and it's really hard for them to "separate the wheat from the chaff" as they say.

Your idea of getting in touch with the employees is the right direction. You need to connect with someone personally from these companies. Connect with them on LinkedIn, hit them on Twitter, friend them on Facebook. Be wherever they are.

Also, consider posting your resume and cover-letter within a Hacker News posting asking for advice... oh wait...
Our society is also, easily, 100x more complex than ancient Babylon. Not least of which because it also has, what, 1000x times more people?
Why are there so many security vulnerabilities related to Java applets?

I always thought that Java's been specifically designed to sandbox untrusted code, and applets are mature technology: They've been around for 15+ years.
This is where I lost a lot of faith in the author. His argument becomes "Rails get's tricky when you frankenstein a bunch of gems and additional frameworks into an app." I'm totally with you, I don't get the Devise obsession. It's easy to roll your own authentication. In the app I'm working on right now one of my co-workers once said "we don't even have a gem for authentication" and I wanted to pull my hair out. Eventually I incorporated Warden into our auth process which moves authentication to middleware and provides some useful test functionalities. And the whole Warden library is readable. Devise is actually built on Warden and you can get a lot of good, simple implementation ideas from reading the Devise code rather than wholesale slapping their entire API into your app to replace what might be a few dozen lines of auth code for a lot of projects.

If you Frankenstein your app together at every chance you're failing to manage complexity because you end up dealing with a dozen APIs (or dozens!) all designed in different styles by different developers. At this point you not only need to know Ruby and Rails but also the API of every framework you have added.

I'm not saying don't use gems but eventually if you don't write any code yourself you're going to have a complex mess you don't understand. And that's not Rails's fault.
This post is not about ebooks, but yes i believe strongly in ebooks: they are products, relatively easy to make, and high margins
How to attend a Hackathon (SFW despite URL)
My favorite Kozinski work is the dissent in United States v. Pineda-Moreno: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/08/12/08...
Tesla misses revenue numbers
You are joking right, "Try not to stuff your app with everything you can possibly think of." Like providing a admin interface on Refinery as well as authentication with Devise is "everything and the kitchen sink".

I think you may be trying to defend something.
Mini Price War between Ebay and Amazon?
Tesla Loss Widens, Expects to Be Profitable in Early 2013
Purdue is B-tier? It's ranked top 10 in both undergrad and grad school (we're talking about engineering, of course).
Xamarin 2.0 reviewed: iOS development finally comes to Visual Studio
We have migrated the data from smaller pods to larger pods, then re-enabled backups on the new half filled pod to fill it to the brim. But we did not do this because the pod was necessarily old, we do this if a pod is unstable for some reason (usually it is a brand of drive we ended up not liking).

We have done exactly what you mention -> migrated off a pod and then disassembling the pod and using the older drives as replacements. Hard drives often come with a 3 year warranty, so for the first 3 years it is free to get replacement from the manufacturer if they fail. But after 3 years we have to pay out of our own pocket to replace the drives which can change the cost/math a little.
Yes, redundant boxes would probably be the best bet for data of that size. Remember though, raid is NOT a backup. When possible make sure to send copies to multiple places!
Please, tell us how you really feel :). Good work, I hope this gets back to OP.
As I understood the article, the bubble collapses at the speed of light.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're arguing that since we've had 15 billion years so far with no collapse, then odds are great that we've got billions more to go. My point is that if the bubble collapse is not instantaneous, then we don't actually know there's been no collapse so far.
No, because it adds an element of skill that was missing from the SC2 carrier. Here is the video that caused the quirks to be included and Nony makes a very compelling case in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rqx8s2qKXM
What saddens me in this comment is a very common overtone that Ruby is a synonym to Rails.

Admittedly, Rails had a major role in Ruby's ascension into the programming glory; however, in the course of this, it overshadowed the language itself. It created a bubble within the community.

But the real tragedy is that by virtue of Rails being most visible and vocal, the whole Ruby community is appraised and influenced by their actions and rhetoric.
HTC One Can Compete With Apple, Samsung
The most painful component of Java EE development for me is definitely the JSF side of things. Without building anything substantial with JAX-RX I cant really comment. REST and a rich frontend, JS based would be my choice. The sad truth is that I live in a world where usable is beaten out by sellable.