skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take on this:

"Naturally, the FA's warning bothered me and I felt the need
to explain myself."

Why? The only appropriate response to being informed that you are not permitted to take pictures in a non-public space is "I understand" or simply "Okay". No explanation is necessary as it won't change the rule that the flight attendant is likely obligated to enforce. However, the author feels compelled to justify himself rather than just let it be by saying:

"I want you to understand why I was taking pictures. I hope you
didn't think I was a terrorist. Here is my business card
[offering her one]. I write about United Airlines on an
almost-daily basis and the folks at United in Chicago are even
aware of my blog."

This is quite ambiguous. The flight attendant is probably thinking "Oh great, here's some critic who is going to scrutinize and complain about everything I do and then write about it publicly. If he's so notorious that the guys in Chicago are aware of him, he must be bad news. Is he telling me this to try and con me into letting him take more pictures? Some disgruntled self-important writer is the last thing I need...". Imagine how the response might have been different had he said:

"Sorry about taking that picture. I just want to say that I love
United and everything you guys do. I'm really excited about being
in BusinessFirst class on this new aircraft and wanted to capture
the moment. Thanks for letting me know about the photography
restriction, though. I respect that and won't take another
picture."

But again, that whole exchange should never have happened. Then later, this gem of a sentence:

"Me: That's a lie, captain."

Ouch. Now the only way to get your way is for both the captain and the flight attendant to lose face and admit that, yes, it was a lie. What was he expecting? That the captain brings the flight attendant over and asks her "Did you lie?" where she responds "Yes, Captain, I lied about this passenger taking additional pictures because I was afraid that he might write about a negative experience with me." I could go on with how the conversation with the captain should have gone, using face-saving phrases like "she may have been mistaken" and such, but at that point the battle was long since lost.

None of this excuses the flight attendant's alleged retaliatory action. However, having the situation escalate to that point could easily have been avoided.
My math teacher worked on a MAV project in the US before he moved here to become a math teacher. scary shit.

He also designed systems for heat-seaking missiles and underwater torpedoes. He's amazing in a scary, lethal way
Who's going to buy your startup? Inforgraphics from LumaScape
LumaScapes are a great way to break down an industry. Added new ones on strategic buyers, digital funding and gaming. Check these out.
SparkleShare 1.0 (file synchronisation over GIT)
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Chicken Feed ain't it.

What's more the moon mission(Chandrayaan-1 http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/faqs.htm) cost just $76 million.

Its sequel Chandrayaan-2 is budgeted to cost around 425 crores(News sources).

Here is one more link, ISRO's total budget is JUST 3% that of NASA - http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-03/india...

Next time around you will be hearing US government outsourcing its space projects to India :) [That was a joke, obviously]
How to Turn Your Phone Into a DIY Photo Projector for $1
Hey, fellow failed entrepreneur here.
My startup failed about 6-9 months ago. It was a very difficult time, our business partners went back on their promises and with that 3+ years of my life went down the drain. It was a terrible couple of months, lots of lost sleep, high blood pressure, I'm still dealing with it.

I was unemployed for a couple of months, then finally took a job at a great company, where I feel great. Things were finally picking up. I thought I was fortunate because I had my wife who supported me through it all.

Then a month ago my wife, who I thought would be my partner for life left me.
Bam.
You think a failing company is bad, try this. I just got thrown back to being 25 and looking for a date, sth I thought I left behind me forever. It was I hope the final price I payed for concentrating too much on my startup the preceeding years.

Lessons learned? Too many, but I'll just say this. The buddhists are right, the only constant in life is change. Shit will happen to you, whether you're rich or poor. Companies will go under. You may lose money. You will be fired from jobs. Your partner may not turn out to be who you thought she is. Somebody close to you could get sick. Your parents will die. It's just life. You have to accept these things will happen and do your best to prepare for them.

It's though, some people are much better at it than others, but it's normal if you can't get over these things in a day or week. Medicine might help (eg. sleep, anxiety), but go easy with that stuff.

Don't lie to your parents. They're your safe harbour, they will understand and help you. Tell them what's going on. I'm 32 and although it doesn't feel very manly, talking to my parents about my current situation is what's keeping me sane.
Daily deal sites burn huge amounts of money on online advertising and a massive sales team.

People talk about these companies as if they are tech yet there is such a huge people component that does not scale. Groupon at peak had over 7000 sales people which is insane!
Black hat SEO alive and well in Google UK
Twitter's hacking problem
The other benefit of talking to an outsider is you very frequently benefit from rubber duck debugging[1]

[1] http://www.rubberduckdebugging.com/
Yeah, for sure, but there are also a few power users who like to make bold statements (I'm loathe to name names) which usually end up being shown to be bullshit, but still end up as the top comment of a thread.

You would still be able to see the comments from a particular user by visiting their profile and going through their comments (I know that that's not ideal), but assuming that an opinion is the right one just because of who said it is dangerous.
Windows Smartphone forecasts for year 2012
No other comments in this thread make this point, so I'll bring it up. While the passenger should not have been booted off, he was absolutely in the wrong but only based on what he told the crew.

Here is the photo policy:

http://cdn-img1.upgrd.com/featured/united-photo-limits.png

It says photography is strictly prohibited of aircraft equipment, and if not of aircraft equipment, prohibited unless of "personal events".

His explanation:

"I want you to understand why I was taking pictures. I hope you didn't think I was a terrorist. Here is my business card [offering her one]. I write about United Airlines on an almost-daily basis and the folks at United in Chicago are even aware of my blog."

This falls outside of personal use. This is professional use, and therefore absolutely outside of the personal events category. Taking pictures under his business card and related to his blog is strictly prohibited, and his arguing means he was arguing with the rules that were shown to him by the FA before he began arguing.

Aside from being absolutely in violation of the rules, perhaps this had nothing to do with "I am not a terrorist"; perhaps the FA and captain were disinterested in having their entire route evaluated and blogged about.

No idea what United will say in response. And frankly, I am shocked to be siding with United. But in this case, they handed him a printed rule, and he chose to explain himself in a way that put him in violation of it, and took himself out of the regular passenger category.

In their shoes, I'd point out that by his own explanation, he was wilfully breaking the rules.
like $283.00 for a “CHEST, PA AND LAT 71020.” That’s a simple chest X-ray, for which MD Anderson is routinely paid $20.44 when it treats a patient on Medicare, the government health care program for the elderly.

A 20+ times difference? how can they justify it
Like in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams :) Dolphins will govern...
I tried... But i can't crash my s3 and I've been copying and pasting for 5 solid minutes (which I'm probably not getting back)
You're a 23 year old boy who thinks too much. I hate to sound like a cliché, but, it's just a phase!
I'm a little skeptical here. It's easy to announce a Mars mission, it's a little harder to actually achieve the goal.

For a country that has not yet achieved manned spaceflight at all Mars seems to be picked for publicity reasons more than practical reasons. It's good motivational stuff but that usually backfires when the goal is eventually not achieved. I hope they will do this, I believe they will not, and the dates mentioned reinforce that belief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_human_spaceflight_progra...
We've slashed account hijackings by 99.7% - Google
I can't say that I agree with you that it's an idiom (well, because I've certainly never heard of it). It's a flat out socially weird thing to declare that you're not a terrorist. Social customs are hard to pin down, but if a passenger sitting next to me told the flight attendant that he wasn't a terrorist after the attendant told him to stop taking pictures (or to put away his cellphone), I would think of him as very odd.
ScienceDaily is just a press release recycling service, nothing more. Users here on HN think there are better sites to submit from.

Comments about ScienceDaily:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992206

"Blogspam.

"Original article (to which ScienceDaily has added precisely nothing):

http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/abundance-of-rare-dn...

"Underlying paper in Science (paywalled):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/05/16/science.1...

"Brief writeup from Nature discussing this paper and a couple of others on similar topics:

http://www.nature.com/news/humans-riddled-with-rare-genetic-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108603

"Everything I've ever seen on HN -- I don't know about Reddit -- from ScienceDaily has been a cut-and-paste copy of something else available from nearer the original source. In some cases ScienceDaily's copy is distinctly worse than the original because it lacks relevant links, enlightening pictures, etc.

" . . . . if you find something there and feel like sharing it, it's pretty much always best to take ten seconds to find the original source and submit that instead of ScienceDaily."
It's fine to feel down about failure but please don't feel bad about the investors for a second. They invested in your idea for success, failure is part of that investment.

If you're this far down the rabbit hole, stop digging, spend as little as possible, and try a different idea ASAP.

And remember, above all else, be true to yourself.
Can any boffins please explain what impact this might have in practice?

Is this just going to mean faster and more secure data transfer, or are there wider implications?
Someone's going to have a nice meal for two or be ringing two incredibly large attention bells:
http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-56.2662...
Libcurl as LWP backend (or "all your protocol are belong to us")
Powerful poem. Love it!
Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
They should have made that clear, that his job was exactly the problem.
These things always feel like they pan the reverse way than they should...
I'm all for innovation, but I become wary when a company that controls a sizeable proportion of the browser market-share and also serves a not insignificant proportion of all web traffic makes extensions like this.

SPDY, Dart and now this.
In their shoes, I'd point out that by his own explanation, he was wilfully breaking the rules.

He took one picture when he was unaware of the rule. Once informed of the rule, he immediately stopped. How is that "willfuly breaking the rules"?
why does google need to come up with protocols? does the IETF and other processes in place for over a decade not work for them? I know nothing of the protocol (the link only mentions the 'cheeky' naming scheme and the source in the chrome tree); I'm merely commenting on googles motives...
Hm I suppose it's not secret anymore. :-)

The file listing shows reliable_quic_stream.cc and .h files as well, so maybe it goes a step past UDP?
arguably, google are well positioned to see where improvements to traffic protocols can be made due to both chrome's large market share and their massive traffic requirements for google search et al.

Later on if/when their protocols are finalised and released, I'm sure one standards body or another will work to integrate them.
When My Best Friend Committed Suicide
Note how SPDY has proven to have limited benefits in the realworld vs a lab.

Not that I want to stop their brilliant minds from looking at these problems and trying to solve them, especially on their dime.
"You were not kicked off for taking pictures. You were kicked off for acting odd."

I agree - you can come a long way by just saying "My apologies, I dit not know that", give a short smile and look another way. Inside you might mean something different, and you can silently ponder on what a jerk the opposite person is.. but you need to let the opposite person feel that he/she is in control - especially it it's their job to stay in control.
Did you read the article? This is an unmanned Mars mission. I believe India is more than capable of pulling of Mars orbiter mission.
Simple MySQL query execution log to find your application bottleneck.
Agreed. If Bing could match google's accuracy in scholar paper/reference searching I'd not mind to use it.
Indeed, from my quick scan of the report it looks like it was done in good faith. It could be that MS influenced Network World to publish it. Even if I knew they had I'd still be more favourably disposed towards Azure having read this report:

Microsoft consistently performed better than the other
CSPs in the tests, delivering the best Write/Read/Delete
speeds across a variety of file sizes, the fastest response
times and the fewest errors. Not only did Microsoft
outperform the competition significantly during the
raw performance tests, it was the only cloud storage
platform to post zero errors during 100 million reads and
writes. In those categories where Microsoft was not the
top performer (uptime and scalability variance), it was a
close second.

In contrast, I'd much more wary of using Google Cloud Storage after reading this.
Low uptake as routers will not have built-in support, and admins will be slow to enable it when and if it becomes available (unless its tunneled over another protocol).

Why not just push IPv6 adoption?
The biggest problem I see is powering those little things. Their flight time will be measured in minutes with the current batteries.

However, given the already remarkable proliferation of military drones I'm willing to take even speculation very seriously.
For best results (!) try using the Chrome Browser.
I've found that it crashes in all sorts of apps - but Chrome seems to be the most common.
In Computer Science, at least, outside of teaching, a Ph.D and a masters for that matter is required for only a small percentage of positions, and here's some evidence:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22computer+science%22+and...

Relative graph to assure you that the dip at the end is just due to less data collected recently:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22computer+science%22+and...

I have only would have wanted to apply for one position in my life so far that required a Ph.D, and that company did not end up doing well. I also managed a Ph.D before (from China) and, in my opinion, he was no more productive than others on the team that had neither Masters or Ph.D. That doesn't prove anything, I know. But, although I have a lot of respect for education, I don't think it is worth it typically.
Care to point me to some sources on these limitations? I'm just curious.
> maybe I should never used the word terrorist in my explanation

That's obviously the problem. When I read he said he wasn't a terrorist I thought "uh-oh, this isn't going to end well".

The US have this very strange custom of having "forbidden words" -- words that can't be said on TV and/or words that can't be said in an ordinary conversation. Those words are alluded-to with their initial: F-word, S-word, N-word, etc.

The T-word needs to be added to that list.
If you search hard enough you are bound to find a few vanity tests where your product will beat the competition, im sure Microsoft also have a whole series of searches for Bing that totally own Google.

I dont buy into an isolated test funded by the company who will profit from performing well in it.
Depends on your definition of "a lie" but in any case, accusations of lying are confrontational. It's far better to at least appear to be assuming the best in others by framing it as a miscommunication.
Quadrocopters are still unfeasible today, because their flight time is very limited.
SMBs: Who Are They? Let's Get a Grip on This "Audience"
I used to implement RSS (or better, Atom) to any blog engine I wrote. Not on my last one.

I feel like the web has moved away from feed consuming and more towards consuming content curated through social networking (think Twitter or HN).

Still I do believe some sort of API is in order, so I now mostly implement dynamic JSON output. It's not standard, but at least I don't have to deal with XML.
Honest question: do you believe there any job where you are not being screwed? And do you believe you are an above average employee, or that you could be a founder yourself (as it's just like getting in on Manhattan early)?

If so, why not work in that job (rather than at a startup)? Or why not found a startup (rather than be an employee)?
see, the point is why send humans for missions that robots can do, what is the point of sending humans+oxygen+supplies for them, when you can have a lifeless machine perform whatever you need. See this is one of the reasons, manned missions are only being done by those approaching space for colonization. India's objective is not that.
Never ever directly accuse someone of lying. Mostly because it's usually a communication problem where they said it unclear and your heard it wrong.

This is generally helpful advice in many life contexts. I wish Elon Musk had followed it recently.
CNET Doesn’t Have to Ban BitTorrent Clients, Court Rules
I have a plan - we post the above link on Reddit then we put a hundred bucks on what the next Darwin Award winner dies of

:-)
Yikes! I live about 2 miles away and I can make out the garden tools on my balcony.
Can someone think about a practical purpose for this?
So long as it is available for everyone to use in a free manner, I really don't have a problem with it.
Deep Look to Playstation 4's New Controller: DualShock 4
I've experienced this many times, but not to the point where my phone get restarted. I used to buy a $5 prepaid phone credits through online banking, and I have to copy and paste the serial number onto the caller app, that's when the browser crashes and I literally lost my $5. What a frustration.

This happened when there are quite amount of elements in the page (text, images, tables, divs). So instead of directly copying from the e-banking site, I now choose 'Search <s/n> in Google' option after blocking the text, and then Google, with much simpler output will render the S/N once again where I can copy it safely. Not sure if this is the problem with Android, or Samsung. I have a moderate amount of installed apps and running background services, my phone is S3.
Awesome, thanks! I will check that out.
In general, NIH is a way of life at Google. Still, they solve problems at a variety and scale s.t. I can understand their tendency to work this way.
is it just me? or can you actually spot a human being in this photo? It's an incredible image though!
How do you think things get proposed to organizations like the IETF? Someone comes up with a working implementation, proves it to work & to be better than the existing stuff, and then they propose it for inclusion.

That's what Google is doing, and they're using Google Chrome as their test bed (along presumably, with a bunch of non-Chrome stuff internally).

This is the same thing they did with SPDY. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY#Relation_to_HTTP for details.

If what you're hinting at is that they should first start some wider discussion about what a next-gen UDP should look like before they start doing anything, then I suggest you look up "bikeshedding". Such a process would never get anywhere.
Love the very last entry. Netzero!
This article really reads as "Hey guys, we can finally jump down Samsung's throat for something, who's with me?"
If you don't want to fill in a form to read the report, there's an infographic:

http://www.nasuni.com/blog/193-comparing_cloud_storage_provi...
Still unacceptable on behalf of United. Using the word "terrorist" was unnecessary and downright unwise, but the fact remains that, regardless of post 9/11 context, it's just a damn word. May it heighten the senses of a potential fear-of-flying person? Perhaps. But by that logic, you would also say that anybody wearing a turban would have to remove it, for fear of triggering one of these people.

And, yes, United are under obligation to tell this passenger the real reason for booting them off. They are a business. He is their a loyal customer with almost 1,000,000 ffms. He conducted himself, according to his entry, calmly and in a very transparent manner. The behavior of the stuff was disgusting, humiliating and unprofessional.

If this seems okay to you; fine. But this is not the world I want to live in.
They aren't mutually exclusive, are they?
I think they're talking about this:

Not as SPDY as you thought:

http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/

The guy seems to know what he's talking about, and has actually run some tests but the test setup seems kind of weird.

Effectively he's saying "if you only change HTTP to SPDY and make no other changes, then it's 3% slower (though more secure)" or "if you only change HTTPS to SPDY and make no other changes, then it's only 4% faster" assuming your site looks like some kind of average of the top 500 sites.

And his conclusion is much more positive than most of the 3rd party coverage of it:

"I believe SPDY is still awesome, and is a step in the right direction. This study and its conclusions do not mean we should stop working on SPDY, but rather that we should work on it more, and make it even faster."
Poor wording on my part, but that's definitely not what I was shooting for at all. Degrees are still degrees - I'm not trying to take away from that at all, but as the successive sentence to the one you have quoted says - all I mean is nobody stands out because they've got a degree anymore, because it is the new norm to have one. Same for any kind of merit; if everyone has the same merit, then nobody stands out.
Sounds absolutely terrible on Firefox 18.0.2/Linux... I think it's sad MIDI isn't in the Web Audio API, the code for 95% of this is written already, just not accessible. The web really needs to reinvent everything in JavaScript I guess.