skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the payload is a nano satellite - STRaND-1 - developed by the University of Surrey (England), that amongst other things got a Google Nexus phone onboard loaded with a custom app which will test if "in space no-one can hear you scream"
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21577780
That's great, but a marathon by definition is 26.2 miles. He ran 10K (about 6 miles).
Grooveshark falls back on doing this in their third-party callbacks:

window.opener = window.open('', clientWindow);
He was making a joke about the risk of goat-sized spiders.
Did gaming change (me)?
...and then technology from Palm OS Cobalt, the Binder, migrated with engineers from that team to become part of the low-level system interface in Android.
All my relatives died before then. Give the man a break ;-)
Caching Django views with nginx and memcache
Phreeze - Backbone.js rapid code generator
What is a Non-Delivery Report?
Email systems support a service called Delivery Status Notification or DSN for short. This feature allows end users to be notified of successful or failed delivery of email messages.
I don't think it's "leaked" - it's available at their official page http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/
Actually, Windows 7 audio DOES do this - I see separate volume controls for applications if I click on the volume control tray icon. Likely requires driver support for the feature.
I get your point. Its summed up well in the article:

>>" “It just seemed ridiculous to the Machiguenga that you would reject an offer of free money,” says Henrich. “They just didn’t understand why anyone would sacrifice money to punish someone who had the good luck of getting to play the other role in the game.”"

I'll try and explain the counter point:
Lets say you me and the researcher are playing this game. The researcher ponies up $1m and asks you to split it with me. Now, I view $1 million as the total gift. I also think you and me BOTH bring something to the table:

a) You: The decision making - which you value at $xa.

b) Me: The veto powers - which I value at some $ xb.
The closer $(1m-xa) is to my xb, the more I want to do business with you. The farther apart the numbers are, I feel like you are not respecting the value I bring to the table. I don't want to do business with people that don't value my skills and respect my power.

I'm thinking that the Machiguenga and you don't really see (b) - you just see you at zero and anything above that as yay! Nothing wrong with that. I get that thinking too. Its the basis of the article - Americans are not the world.
Bought By Many uses crowd clout to negotiate cheaper pug insurance
Fun fact: people don't write books or articles in Cantonese. Except like forums or chat messages.
As I recall, calc should be avoided if performance is a consideration in your project.
I can get up to 51k before I start to notice a drop in Chrome (M27) and in Firefox (R19) I can only get to about 27k. So it might just be that Chrome isn't optimized for your Intel graphics and is better with dedicated cards?
I'd suggest that its the law that is bent.
Madrid is, however, a long way above the sea - which will reduce any tunnelling costs by a huge amount. Cost of living is also considerably lower.

(Not arguing with your basic premise that US costs are over-expensive, but a lot of that 30x difference can be explained away).
the people involved in these companies that love overcharging the Government pay taxes

One thing I've learned from Private Eye: many of our government contractors don't pay taxes -- or at least not British taxes, or a negligible amount thereof.
fwiw, it's built on Vumi which is Open Source http://github.com/praekelt/vumi. Feel free to join us in #vumi on Free for any questions.
That is an incredibly useful feature.
In practice he would have been fine.
> I've never understood it myself. Governments are funded by tax money, and the people involved in these companies that love overcharging the Government pay taxes. Congratulations on ripping yourself off.

Any additional taxes are diluted amongst the general population, while my sales commission is mine and mine alone...
Hey I sent you a message through your site. My email is on my profile as a back-up.
Too melodramatic, but I love the animation style.
Surely 'intent' only becomes material after some crime was actually committed? Otherwise prosecuting just for intent alone makes it into a thought crime?

Specifically, in this case, I do not understand how the shills are hoping to keep justifying the use of the manifesto as proof of intent to distribute the articles, when he has NOT actually distributed them? How can that be possibly relevant?

Or is it the case that we are not only not allowed to read research that we paid for but now are potentially all guilty of thought crimes as well?
This guy "starred" in Horizon's "Eat, Fast and Live Longer". His secret, good genes aside, is to eat fresh and not much.
Carbs are one of the three macronutrients. The two examples of carb sources you mention differ in that one offers a great deal of bulk fiber, as well as copious micronutrients, while the other doesn't.

This doesn't make either any less a source of carbohydrates.
Which is nothing compared to Samsung.
Ask HN: review my startup - Issue Pop
Hi, I've recently moved out of private beta, which was only around 20 users. I got some pretty decent feedback, but wanted to open it up to the wider world to get some honest appraisals so I know what needs work on.

Issue Pop is a simple issue tracker/feedback app. http://issuepop.com.

Thanks

Stuart
Nice hack Rick! Since we started Naymit, we've come across many lightweight/MVP projects of the sort, but yours is really similar in the sense that what you share is a (unique) name/string. We think this detail makes looking a place up much simpler (you named a few competitors' flaws yourself), plus it opens new ways of sharing locations (a name can be told or printed, you don't always need to email/text).

Thanks for sharing.
I don't see how this helps launder money.

Dirty cash -> bitcoin via these machines -> legitimate goods and services -> clean money.

"From anonymous donors via bitcoin ATMs" is not a plausible answer.

I very much agree with you - and that is not what I meant. It's worth remembering that money laundering is not cheap; getting 50% of the original amount in "clean" money would be an incredible deal. So the aim would be to make use of services that either convert bitcoin to ready goods, or better yet, run a service and create fake customers who pay via bitcoin.

It's the same principle as running a second-hand car showroom (although, in the UK at least, that is no longer a realistic option) or currency exchange (I believe this is more difficult, but is still an option in some countries). Both are cash-heavy businesses, making it very easy to mix in dirty cash with clean, and account appropriately. There's a reason why many years ago casinos appealed to mobsters.

Edit: Just seen that you're based in Warsaw as well - if you ever fancy meeting up, send me a mail! :)
Using Apache HttpClient properly to avoid CLOSE_WAIT TCP connections
Firefox alternative I personally prefer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-backg...
Nope, there's an even simpler way.

Say f(x) is the expected value of the number of draws to get to value x.
Then f(x) = 1 + integral_0^x f(x)

Hence f'(x) = f(x), so f(x) = c exp(x)
The constant is of course 1, and f(1) = exp(1).
Ok, this one is a genuine problem in that the method is expected to only deal with column names and is not supposed to accept full SQL, but you made it sound like the page was a list of security issues that Rails should deal with but isn't, which on top of the recent discussions about Rails security sounds a lot like FUD (maybe unintentionally); this is actually a page listing Rails anti-patterns.

If you actually learn Rails and aren't just piecing things together until it works, it isn't a secret that most methods accept raw SQL as the first argument, with optional placeholders for expected values, so if you want escaping you either pass an array ["col1 = ?", params[:val1]] and the values will be quoted or you have to quote explicitly. Methods like .where(), .joins(), .having(), .order() etc. would be crippled if they escaped this first string argument so I am not sure how a "fix" should like here, you have to demarcate somehow which input is trusted and which is untrusted and those methods are 95% of the time used to deal with trusted input.
I'd say it's no easier to launder money with one of these machines than it is to shoot a man with a gun, and we still have guns.

Are there well-funded lobbyists actively campaigning against money laundering regulations?

This is a ridiculous argument against an equally ridiculous comparison.
I've got the Astrid app on my phone (liked it so much I paid for the premium features), and it syncs with my Google Tasks, Calendar, etc. I mostly handle TODO items on my phone, which sends me frequent (!) notifications when things are overdue.
It is build around a model of process input, spit output, exit; which is not what you want for long living processes. There are many articles about it's flaws, my favourite is this one: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...
Kids are mean, grow up.
This doesn't suprise me.

I am related to an ex-sales exec at Cisco UK. They are a bunch of shysters who will desperately oversell anything to anyone. The person in question was responsible for selling such kit to managers who didn't even know what it was but they apparently needed it. You know the sort who populate senior positions in the public sector. They are rife in the healthcare and council sectors in the UK. Incompetent morons waiting to be milked for our cash.

The asshat is now selling VoIP and video conferencing solutions to medium sized businesses (via their executives) which is the next cash cow he can milk.
Isn't it the same as walking into a bank and asking for a cashiers cheque?

Does anyone with ill-gotten gains keep them in a bank account? So no.
One issue that I see with this, as with the Leap to a lesser degree, is how to signal the start and end of a gesture to the device. With a touchscreen this is pretty straightforward, but here it seems running a classifier on the entire stream of all your movements might give a lot of false positives? Or am I missing something?
In case you think all European transport projects are wonderfully run:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/9345650/No-s...

About £1 billion for a tram line where the end points are about 11 km apart in a city that has excellent taxi and bus services....
I can relate to this website and cause. I was bullied throughout my entire high school life, in the UK that's a total of 5 years. I hated every single second of it and my academic skills reflect this. I wasn't a troubled kid, I wasn't someone who looked to cause trouble and I wasn't in trouble except a couple of occasions. I found myself being physically beaten almost every day for being the runt of the kids.

I didn't hit puberty till I was 16/17, I was about 5ft 4" during high school and now I'm 6t 2" at 21. I was your typical victim, glasses, braces, good at computers. None of it helped me. If I wasn't being beaten I was being called names, and as much as the phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me" is thrown around, it's not true.

Honestly, I thought about committing suicide time and time again. The teachers all but provoked the bullies and my parents - who know better now - assumed the teachers would deal wit it. They didn't. Eventually I gave up mentioning it to be people. I was pushed down stairs, burnt with glue guns, you name it.

On one occasion, I was beaten in class, my teacher turned around, saw what happened and looked away. She knew full well what happened.

Eventually I dealt with it myself, I beat the crap out of the main bully. I wasn't proud of it, but I sorted it myself. It was that moment my life changed, the last month of school - yes, it took me that long to sort - was completely different for me, I had a couple of friends. I happened to muse the other day on Twitter that if I could do one thing differently, it'd be school. I'd sort my problems on day one.

These days however I've achieved quite a lot, I'm proud of what I've done with my life and in some ways grateful for the bullying. It pushed me to better myself, I pursued computing, I'm now Lead Developer for a travel company. I have plans for a startup. I'm engaged. Life is awesome.

I donate to Beat Bullying each year, this looks like a great project.
Saw that, but I don't know how each aircraft category correlates to capacity unless I guess. Hopefully they'll unveil full info soon.
I think what a lot of people are missing in this post (and maybe this is my fault for not making it quite clear) is that I do know marketing is the missing ingredient. I'm entirely aware that you can't build something and just hope that people will come and use it. Even if I didn't want to think about this initially.

The problem with saying "you're almost there, you need marketing" is that I am done. I don't have the effort for marketing. I started the site for fun, to scratch an itch, and that has passed. Maybe I'm close, but in all likelihood I could've done everything right and still got nowhere. I need to draw a line in the sand, and this is it.

However, it's nice to have people acknowledge that the problem is most likely marketing oriented, rather than a fault with the site.

It is a pretty nice site.
8 Unforgettable Examples of Land Art
Eat your own dog food.
I believe developers should use their application before others. If you feel good about what you built, of course users feel good also.
> (Not arguing with your basic premise that US costs are over-expensive, but a lot of that 30x difference can be explained away).

A bit of it can be, the 5x difference between Madrid and Berlin/Copenhagen/Paris seems acceptable by the differences in environment (Copenhagen's lowest point is 1m above sea level) and costs of living or complexity of the city's "cellars". The 6x increase on top of that is harder to justify.
This looks awesome, what a shame you're closing it. You've made front page of HN - for the wrong reasons - you've had positive comments and people are interested.

You need to focus on marketing the product you've made so well. Try it. I've signed up to this too.
Could just be regional idioms; I think I picked that phrase up from some British folks who made a habit of understatement. It isn't especially friendly to the reader, I'll admit (there, I did it again!).
Ask HN: how to ban aggressive web crawlers
They don't respect robot.txt. They have hundreds of different IP addresses. Sometimes they hit our server heavily, so it's easy to spot. But most of the time they maintain a well designed crawling speed such that they won't be easily detected.

Are there any solutions to ban bad bots?
I don't know her, but I wonder if Taren S-K is going to define the rest of her life w.r.t. being Aaron's "widow". That can't be healthy, either.
This doesn't really make any sense..
Can it really feel finger muscles through your arm? I don't get how that works
Where in the manifesto does it advocate breaking the law? In fact it mentions that it should be public domain or purchased in the manifesto.
Most importantly, it doesn't even appear that the "Y" with orange background is even trademarked by YC.
Bad sleep 'dramatically' alters body
You sound just like... Oh now I know: a bully!

This is not helpful advice, at all.
Mozilla CEO: Android, iOS leave lots of room for Firefox OS
I think 2012 was the year that real world analogies for digital cases stopped being seen as useful for discussion of legal issues.

The Simple or complex circumvention of rules, which cannot themselves be considered valid expectations of usage, should be weak grounds for prosecution.
Faces of our Ancestors
Very impressive piece of work.

But what the hell with the UI of this website? It can't find a link to the respective Youtube site, nor can I click the annotations.

It looks really nice, but it's not very usable like that.
FUORI LUOGO, FUORI TEMPO
The sole contribution of the journalist is the value that the reader extracts from his writing.

This is overly idealistic. For example, journalists are quite adept at massaging public opinion for vested interests, often without the reader being aware that this is happening.
I want to see a screenshot on the front page. Show me what I'm getting for my money. I clicked around a few links - nothing.

How is this different to GetSatisfaction, GitHub Issues, or even a shared GoogleDoc?

No https - so I'm not typing in a password. Why can't I register with GitHub, Twitter, Facebook logins etc?

Your sign up form doesn't tell me what the validation criteria are. How am I meant to know that the password has to be 6 characters or more?

I'm not saying it's a bad idea - but your landing page doesn't convince me to sign up. Show people what you're selling and make it easy for them to trust you.
It's odd, people always say things like "violence doesn't solve anything" but I've heard so many stories like yours where the bullying only stops when the victim retaliates with force.

While I've personally never been on either end of bullying, what I've heard leads me to believe that for extreme physical bullying, getting violent can be the solution.
I suppose I am not the only one that browses unknown sites with JavaScript disabled (NoScript). That's what I was thinking about, more so than old browsers.
Indeed that equivalence is exactly what the researches attempted to do:

>the Machiguenga’s 20-soles stake equals about 2.3 days’ pay from the logging or oil companies that occasionally
hire local labor. To match this amount, I set the UCLA stake at $160, which is about 2.3 days’ pay for a graduate student working as a “reader” ($9 –$10 per hour after taxes).

However, this still fails to take into account the decreasing marginal utility of "2.3 days' pay". The typical UCLA student is wealthy enough that 2.3 days' pay is not a big deal (AFAIK most US students only work in the summer?), while for the Machiguengos an additional 2.3 days' pay might be a lot.
Oh yes. Could have been done for a lot less, in half the time, if they hadn't completely messed up the contracts.
Ask me about Loom.
> urban children appear to be developmentally delayed in this regard. Children who grow up constantly interacting with the natural world are much less likely to anthropomorphize other living things into late childhood.

I can tell this is true from personal experience. I spent my early childhood (before starting school at 6) mostly in the countryside, interacting a lot with animals and nature and when I used to interact with other children who've spent all their life so far in the urban environment I experienced a lot the "are they retard or what?!" feeling about their anthropomorphizing interactions with animals, dolls and even plastic toys, that I distinctively remember even now. I imagine that they probably felt the corollary about my competitive-social skills because, as I child, I was never good at "playing for winning" and using winning at a game to establish a higher social status.
The thing that strikes me about school is that people are pretty much locked into it. Once you get out of that system, if you are surrounded by nasty people, you can usually just leave. That's what I do, anyway. With school, not so much luck - it's possible to transfer to another school, but it's usually not very easy to pull of.

Of course the feeling of not being liked sticks, too, but perhaps it wouldn't even manifest itself so much if kids wouldn't have to expose themselves to so much nastiness to begin with.

I wish I could explain to all the depressed kids that there is actually a whole world out there, beyond the borders of the small environment they grew up in. With 6 billion people on the planet, there are many, many people you can relate to. The people you went to school with are just random.
Gabe Newell pushed the vision of steam onto the gaming market with brute force. You couldnt play the highly acclaimed HalfLife2 without Steam.
Many people hated it back in the day and were complaining aloud on internet forums.
10 years later it proves to be the right decision and shows that not always is listening to your customers need the best way to build a successfull business. The people back then didnt know they want it, just like Dropbox or the iPhone.
A major factor for his health is, that he follows the traditional punjabi practices regarding life.

There is a saying in Punjab "Eat and Dress Well, Leave Rest to the God"

Been to punjab myself, and after spending 12 years in a sikh dominated school, I know why they say, "You cannot simply return from Punjab hungry"

6:00 am morning, A traditional Walk in the feilds, Fresh Air (morning air also has higher Oxygen content), 7:30 am Breakfast, starting with a approx 600 ml glass of Lassi (Curd + Milk mainly), and spending 3-6 hours out in open each day, and a sleeping at night at 10 pm sharp, in Open Air. People would swear by organic things in Punjab.

Geez I miss those days. Punjab is a really great place to be.
No it wont.

After a decade, it will be a far fainter association, current trajectories of life being held equal.
Beyond that...say after 3 decades? There will be a new generation of whipper snappers saying all sorts of stuff that barely intersect with today's actors. (They will intersect with the issues and choices we make today)

She will not be defined by it unless she chooses to pursue that path.
Is the web socket story substantially the same? In other words, Rails just isn't that great a platform for it?

I think Rails is great, but this is one area where it's not a good choice.
I had a screenshot on the front page before, but replaced it with the intro video. I should probably create a tour page, with screenshots of various parts of the app.

SSL is coming soon.

Thanks for the feedback.
Why most of the time hacker news shows "Unknown or expired link" error?
it happens to me when I click more button for going to the next HN page
Violence is the last resort of the incompetent, the competent use it sooner.
You've it the nail right on the head there. Unfortunately "forced" violence seems to solve many situations.

I wouldn't fight for the sake of fighting. When I used to go clubbing there were a couple of instances where some drunken guys would kick off on me, I attempt not to fight every time, it's hard to talk a drunken mess out of a fight, but if an attack is thrown at me I'll fight back, solely to knock them down in defense and walk off.

I forgot to mention I started following Ju-Jitsu so that if I was thrown somewhere I could land safely. I now use it to defend myself or friends if we find ourselves in a situation like that. It's happened only a couple of times thankfully.
Please add an option to switch the "comments" link and the title link.

(Many people read the commentary on HN before actually reading the linked article)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=... if you would like a direct link (to watch it in 1080p, the animation is so superb you might as well :)).

I was thinking maybe it was a little too melodramatic... but perhaps that helps to facilitate a cathartic release. At any rate -- it's certainly a well-produced piece and worth a watch.