skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to make jailbreaking sound "easy" or exaggerate the effort involved but my point still stands; to jailbreak iOS, the end user only really needs to do one step.

Sure, there are versions without jailbreaks and there are updates you can't use but that's beyond my point. I never said that jailbreaking an iDevice is easy for every version and that it's permanent; I said that only one button is needed to jailbreak a device. Remember, there are Android devices that can't be rooted, flashed, or updated, too. Risking the loss of updates comes with the territory of hacking any device (see Xbox 360, PS3, Hackint0shes, and more).

If you're talking about the exploits themselves, then I'd just like to say that I've watched the method to jailbreak progress from "one symlinked folder" to "6 kernel and user land level exploits." Discussing the complexities of how a jailbreak is achieved is beyond the scope of what I was saying, though.
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Hitting an arbitrary (and undocumented?) platform limit on the number of methods your app is allowed to have is hardly "painting themselves into a corner".
A gallon of gas has 30,000 Calories. An SUV weighs (technically masses) 2000kg and gets 20 MPG. Thus the kilogram miles per Calorie -- the efficiency -- for an SUV is 1.33.

A peanut butter sandwich is 600 Calories (with bananas and maple syrup on whole wheat, but corn syrup on Wonder bread is similar). A bicycle plus messenger bag and rider weighs 80kg and gets 10 miles to the peanut butter sandwich. Thus the efficiency of the bicycle is 1.33 kg.mi/C.

So far the bicycle and SUV seem exactly equal in efficiency and have equal environmental impact.

But that doesn't take into account cost. The peanut butter sandwich costs $5, or $3 if you make it at home. Call it $4. The gallon of gasoline also costs $4. But the gasoline has 50x the energy. The total cost to society is 50x higher to operate the bicycle, taking all process costs into account through the price system.

So in fact, biking is terrible for the environment. We'd all be better off banning bicycles and buying every cyclist an SUV and then having a mass lycra bonfire. Plus, think of all the cash we would save by not blowing it on extra bicycle fuel. It could save the economy.
There already is a bicycle tax, it's called sales tax.
Thats what drove me crazy about this website. You can't do what you're describing. You can with Hipmunk and apparently google flights.
I find it sort of ironic that everyone here thinks this would be awesome, but are completely opposed to hovering predator drones observing our every action 24/7. Obviously it's all a matter of who has access to the data, but essentially the data would be the same.
Yep, so every decision we've made about how we go about building this product has factored in profitability, and aligning consumer incentives with supplier incentives.
Is there any interest in a 'RES' styled enhancement suite for HN? I'd like to think that many of these (and other previously proposed) suggestions/wish lists, someone has already created something to deal with the issues on a client side level rather than trying to get PG to try and change something that works good enough for him.
You typically won't see so many UI controls on one page without content to balance it.
Given that Facebook doomsayers consider it "over" when FB loses the teenage/hip crowd, perhaps this is a broken-by-design feature to keep the elderly from making Facebook uncool. Kind of like a digital bouncer that keeps the uncool people from taking valuable space in a crowded club.

(I'm kidding, though I wonder when digital services really will do this at some point)
Ask HN: doctype geocities
I'd like to see how much push there would be to include a <!doctype geocities> in a revision of the HTML5 standard. "Features" including but not limited to:

- images restricted to animated gif
- alternate cursor must be specified in the <head>
- colors restricted to 216 websafe colors, as well as 24 extra shades of maroon and green
- backwards compatibility for Netscape Navigator
- require <!--[if IE]> shims on all documents

This just seems like an obvious, logical use case. Anyone else have any other feature suggestions?
"Avoid websites that rely on advertising dollars."

Or plan B: ABP.
Where? It talks about "improv[ing] Hacker News" by commenting and voting on HNW ideas--those aren't very concrete. It later admits that the chances of any of this making it into HN proper are "not very high". Half of the About section features the dev (righteously, I'm not complaining) advertising himself .
Focus on Project A, Not Projects A,B,C,D,E,F, and G
Ruby's nil ID is all of a sudden 8?
Simply disliking the lack of depth in this UI does not imply that he thinks leather stitching would be a better alternative. There is something inherently enjoyable about clicking a button with a bit of depth, even if that depth is subtle. The flat UI perspective often removes that emotional touch. Several prominent designers (@kerem and @craigmod, to name two) have emoted that adding a bit of depth to a button makes clicking it more satisfying. We are in the design business, but that involves making things more than pretty and trendy. Flat design does look beautiful, but there is a growing consensus that in many cases it also removes a bit of soul and energy from a design.
I'm confused as to why people seem to think that only designs featuring large blocks of color and strong accents qualify as "flat UI". What is this 'style' a reaction to? Gradients? Drop shadows? What for? Does anyone really think that employing this aesthetic will free them from some perceived constraints imposed by current fashion? Does anyone think that the elimination of drop shadows will free the user to think about computing in more abstract, powerful terms?

Look around the web, and it is apparent that "flat ui" is already the standard. Indeed, I find it difficult to find many popular sites that makes heavy use of drop shadows and gradients to simulate light. Why is this single aesthetic now being heralded as the way forward while computing has been predominantly "flat" for most of its history?

I think people tend to forget that exercises in style ( such as this ) don't necessarily equate to design. The choices made in any given design must consider content and audience. Anything else becomes decoration, not design.
Isn't 1 food calorie equal to 1000 physics calories?
This reminds me of the "Picture Zoom" sketch from "Red Dwarf -- Back to Earth". Youtube clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU
10 miles seems pretty low to me. I can easily get double that giving it 2.66 kg.mi/C
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I do some part-time work at a non-profit that, ultimately, does super-international (30+ countries) surveys. As you might imagine, this results in a massive database and my main duty is wrangling the data into a .csv-friendly format.

One of the quick things we learned that "normalization" in the naive sense was an exercise in idiocy.

Breaking names into 'first name' and 'last name'? Hah, right.

Breaking locations into 'country', 'state', and 'city'? Hah, right.

The big solution: don't constrain what someone types in. Constrain how you work with it.
Remind HN: Twitter API v1 Retires Tomorrow
You can read about it on the Twitter Dev Blog:<p>https://dev.twitter.com/blog/planning-for-api-v1-retirement<p>Make sure you are upgraded to the 1.1 API and calls to things like RSS/ATOM will no longer work.
As someone who sat through Bschool strategy class (which, for those who have not, is typically a near religious semester-long praise-fest of Porter and his 5 forces), I find strange pleasure in reading this. Can't put my finger on why.
Well done! The video shows off the doodling capability of @bubbles nicely! For me personally, showing a smile on the mother's face on receiving the hand-written letter with pictures and the daughter's personality wud have been the way to end..
They mention in the article that they tried.

I have a small background in static analysis of Java, and between reflection, the class loader, and the huge amount of polymorphism that you find in java, it is very very difficult to inline basically anything statically.
Actually, our primary objective is to release data under an open source license so it can be used by businesses, non-profits, or open source projects, like OpenStreetMaps. Since we are releasing it on GitHub, we're going to experiment with the idea of merging changes made by users. This is an experiment for the community and government, we don't know how many pull requests will be made and the quality of those changes. We're excited to see what happens with data on GitHub to see if we can improve data quality.
IR or ER? How much?
They don't have identical outcomes at all - but your expected outcome timeline sounds like it is unrealistic.

Changing laws (generally) takes years.
This guy should not go around publicly dissecting fake routes if he does such a shit job of it. Why would you write a blog post about a route without even looking at it from a second location? It's hysterical that he brags about his skills that allowed him to decipher that they were hosting a high traffic website over a sat link in the middle of nowhere.
If you need to take Adderall daily in order to keep your job, then the job is not for your or your employer is pushing you too much.

(However, I can understand why Adderall is necessary occasionally to meet certain deadlines.)
Car2Go EcoScore Sucks.
PG could do all those things on Reddit. YC folks could do all those things on Reddit. Just redirect news.ycombinator.com to reddit.com/r/hn2 and that's it.
TPB is the largest public torrent site.

TPB is "constantly under attack" only because it managed to be so resilient. They've already killed other huge torrent sites such as isohunt, demonoid and others, and it didn't take them that many tries.
I like this hypothesis a lot.
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry...

Please elect more people with a clue. More politicians with a background in science or engineering would be a good thing.
Yes. Food calories are actually kilocalories.
This seems like it will paint the Android core developers into a corner, supporting this particular hack for years to come, like the way Microsoft had to for Windows. If I were android core developers, this would not be a good day.
> The whole point is that, as bad as North Korea is, it still doesn't go after torrent sites.

You might be unlucky at thinking.
They're rarely "only one button" these days. Last time I jailbroke, I believe I had to, approximately, restart the device while holding down buttons in a precisely timed sequence (the jailbreak app actually had a built-in timer to help) while sacrificing a live chicken over the dock cable. (I did make that last part up.) I had to try it several times before I got it right.
This is middle school civics drivel.

Nice... so now text book writers aren't quite liberal enough in their slant of America's history. Glad you know better than the academics who've studied the subject.

The dominant force in the Constitutional process were the federalists, who wanted a very strong central government.

I'll grant you that the Federalists had the momentum when the Constitution was written, but why do you think the Articles of Confederation were implemented in the first place? It's because the Founding Fathers erred on the side of an extremely weak Federal government. It was so weak that it couldn't really function, so the Federalists gained the upper hand in drafting the next version.

Even then, it wasn't intended for the Federal government to completely overrule the states using the Commerce Clause. The Commerce Clause has been totally perverted to mean pretty much anything that Congress has wanted it to mean. It's a damned shame.
Suporterwall seems like a great tool. How many paying customers out of the 150 active accounts? How many of those are repeat customers?
"For a week or two" became "For a week"

Looking forward to using this. A lot. :-)
This guy's just another falling brick from the edifice that was once the Republican Party.
> But the gasoline has 50x the energy. The total cost to society is 50x higher to operate the bicycle

I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but energy content =/= cost to society.

The health benefits alone of cycling make it a net win given current costs.
My thinking exactly. Cool science project, but doesn't resemble a real life pit at all. The circle pit and people pushing along the perimeter are required.
They were covered on Techcrunch in October. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/07/juniper-monthly-subscriptio...
For as nasty as the hack is, it still boils down to twiddling with a few numbers.

Also, inlining is probably easier said than done. It's not enough to inline the methods, you need to make them entirely disappear, and ISTR reading within the last few days somebody else commenting that Java still has to keep the metadata about the methods around (which is the problematic part, not the methods themselves, if I'm reading this right) because reflection may demand them. You'd need something more sophisticated to do it at the source level, and with an imperative language with unrestricted side effects, while that is certainly possible, it's also very much easier said than done. That's not a weekend hack either.
Vision tests for joining Instagram?
By my definition, Manning is a whistleblower, not sure why you make a distinction.
Chicago has released over 400 datasets using our data portal, which is located at http://data.cityofchicago.org. The portal will remain the primary way we release data to the public since it provides a great interface, easy way to download data, and the ability to make maps and graphs. The datasets posted on GitHub have an MIT License and which we hope will be widely used by open source projects, businesses, or non-profits. GitHub also allows an on-going collaboration with editing and improving data, unlike the typical portal technology. Because it's an open source license, data can be hosted on other services and we'd also like to see applications that could facilitate easier editing of geographic data by non-technical users.
As Arctic ice melts, full steam ahead for shipping?
The political process doesn't work like a business. If you're the CEO and something Bob knows how to do needs doing, you just order him to do it.

None of the entities with the legal authority to fix this problem work directly for the president. He cannot fire them because he doesn't like how they're doing their jobs, nor can they fire him for that reason.

There is one, and only one person with the unilateral legal authority to fix the unlocking ban. His name is James Hadley Billington.
Is it any less of a copyright violation?
You used a lot of words to make strawman arguments, gave anecdotal evidence, then berated the same strawman, but really said nothing at all.

This is data dump, much like how there are data dumps of CSS styles, gradient buttons, and WordPress themes all over the internets. People use it if they want to, or not.
The amount of comments here claiming being diagnosed with ADD and taking pills for it made my head explode. ADD can't be a real condition if suddenly everybody is diagnosed with it, can it? Because if it is, we have an epidemy going on.
I remember reading (but don't have the link handy) about a gentlemen who did lots of analysis about his switch from car commuting to bike commuting. His conclusion was that bike commuting is more expensive for him, because he ends up eating more to compensate for the calories burnt during the ride. The cost of additional food was higher than the cost of gas saved (as someone below already pointed out that food energy is more pricey than gas energy).

The guy with the data analysis nevertheless decided to stick with the bike because he suspected that this decision will have positive long term health effects saving him a lot of money in future. I am inclined to agree but in my case the parking fees at work make the decision a no-brainer anyway.
You asked "what's the argument of the site?". The About section makes it very clear that this is a fun side project built as a way to showcase what Telescope can do, and that I don't really expect these ideas to be implemented into the actual HN.

You seem angry at something that HNWishlist isn't trying to be at all.
My peanut butter and banana sandwich costs less than 75 cents, and I buy the fancy bread and peanut butter.
So individual soldiers now get to decide which information is actually sensitive and which is not?

Not even remotely what anyone who argues in favor of Manning's actions is arguing... there should be a limit to the amount of morally questionable information an employee should let happen before he/she decides to blow the whistle.

Manning committed a crime, quite willingly, because he viewed the end result as being worth some amount of personal sacrifice/inconvenience.

<jest>I must admit your style of argument (smart but bizarrely tangential) makes me wonder if you are part of some kind of astroturfing campaign targeting the HN discussion of this topic.</jest>
The data is not the same - they vary greatly on spatial resolution and latency. Better than 10cm resolution with effectively 0s latency (in the drone case), and ~5,000-12,000km resolution (assuming you can get back only a couple of pixels from a MACHO) with yrs of latency are two very very different things.
Congratulations for demonstrating once again that it's worth trying to do something about it. It's the only alternative to taking it in the neck over and over whilst crying in bitter beer.
Somehow I was able to guess he was a Republican before I read the article, imagine that!
1 Calorie = 1000 calories. Yes, the unit is differentiated by capitalization.
Is this meant to be ironic or am I totally missing something? Sure the kilogram miles per Calorie look similar, but as you noticed the SUV is a lot heavier than the bicycle. You should only include the weight of the payload, i.e. the passenger, in the calculation because that's what you want to move. Having to move an additional 2000kg of SUV around is what makes SUV-driving so inefficient.
Another advantadge of client side is that you can work offline for some time, if needed, acting as if CRUD operations as working, say.

OTOH: is any of the big complex successful websites, the ones that would most benefit from being written as SPAs, written that way?
Funny, mirror-image story. In the early 1990s I was writing utility software for Macintosh, then on the 68K platform. The utility basically had to patch the OS as it was running, a common practice back then. To figure out where to place the patches, I spent lots of time looking at disassembled 68K code in MacsBug, stepping through the OS as it ran.

One day, I was tracing through the OS code that handled a context switch and was surprised to find a bit of code that looked up the 32-bit creator code of the current application and compared it to 'WORD'. What the heck is this? I wondered. Turns out it was a hack added by the OS engineers at Apple to keep some other hacks in Microsoft Word working. If I recall correctly, they had to determine if Word was getting switched in or out so they could enable or disable the necessary hacks. So, in effect, they had a hack that would live-hack the OS to add hacks for Word's hacks and then live-unhack the hacks for everything else.

I mean, when you're hacking the system to hack the system on behalf of someone who already hacked the system but for an older version of the system that's no longer there, now you're doing some hacking.

Oh, yeah. And then I basically had to add my hacks to that mess.

Good times.
> I'm confused as to why people seem to think that only designs featuring large blocks of color and strong accents qualify as "flat UI". What is this 'style' a reaction to? Gradients? Drop shadows? What for? Does anyone really think that employing this aesthetic will free them from some perceived constraints imposed by current fashion? Does anyone think that the elimination of drop shadows will free the user to think about computing in more abstract, powerful terms?

I think you might be over-thinking things. Personally, I like it because I think it looks nice.

Like all design trends it will eventually go out of fashion, be rediscovered and then go out of fashion again, and so the cycle continues.

> Look around the web, and it is apparent that "flat ui" is already the standard.

The web has certainly been moving in this direction for a couple of years. Go back 4-5 years though and you'd see plenty of drop shadows, gradients, wood grain backgrounds etc.
University of Waterloo is not in the top 100. Strange.
Exactly.

(ie, Money is important, but it isn't the only thing)
Yes but then it's also being developed by far more companies than Apple.

For 2012 Google submitted roughly twice as much code to Webkit as Apple (which came second), apart from them we have smaller yet notable contributors like RIM and Nokia (7% and 5% respectively).
Just goes to show how subjective design is. I feel the exact opposite way on all counts. I find this trend to be refreshing and utterly delightful :)
Even disregarding the resolution problems as brought up by ebilsten, and assuming we have some magical tech that would allow us spy-satellite-like capabilities with this... we'd still be looking at Earth decades in the past.

I for one could not care less if historians centuries in the future want to observe me through a black hole. Its effects on freedom and civil rights is basically nil, unlike predator drones.
> Your body acclimates itself to just about anything - the weather, sugar, MSG, even frequent shampooing or Chap-Stick usage. That doesn't mean those things are comparable to meth.

Yes, of course, tolerance isn't indicative of meth.

> Nobody I know feels that Adderall provides much of a high. Anecdotal, sure, but it seems like a heck of a statistical anomaly.

I would respectively disagree. Yes, typical therapeutic doses of adderall are smaller than typical recreational doses of meth. But that is comparing small apples with bigger apples ;-).

> Then again, I don't know anybody that's experimented with unsafe doses of Adderall. I'm sure that at dangerously high doses, the effect isn't unlike meth.

Or even just at non-dangerously high doses ("normal" meth doses). In other words, if the doses are similar, the effects are similar. You seem to be arguing that because meth is typically consumed at higher doses, it is different.

I agree that typical meth use is very different from typical medical adderall use.
To me, the reputation ranking is much less interesting than their "World University Rankings" which ranks on a lot more criteria than simply reputation.
There's a hilarious Stack Overflow thread about a guy whose family tree software collided with an incestuous customer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163683/cycles-in-family-...

If you go back far enough, beware February 30th, 1712. It was a real date in some parts of the world, and somebody's great^n grandfather was no doubt born on that day.
Considering that Plasma (on my install) uses 100MB of RAM to work its wonders (I have no idea what or how), that alone makes me suspect there might be a better way.
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So you're THAT type.

You feel entitled enough to just take what you want from a website while they pay the cost for your traffic.

Well, go ahead with that. And justify yourself with your "greedy advertisers ruined everything and violate my privacy" BS.

Feel free to have the last word here.
Don't put a buy now button if the product is not available. I tried buying it from 3 different links and was just greeted with a subscribe form. Also, raise your prices by 10 dollars.
Needs a login-with-github button - most of my side projects are on GitHub anyway.