skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotting it isn't really the problem - there's still nothing you can do about it. Anything we could try to do would be like trying to stop a blizzard in Chicago with hair dryers.

Even if you can't spot it you do have time to get out (it's not like all of the rain happens in 24 hours), but the consequences of something like this happening now in California would be enormous for the whole country just on the basis of food. In the 1860's most food was (relatively) local, but these days California actually produces something more than a quarter of the US food supply (quick googling gives widely varying numbers without any attribution, research is up to you), particularly fresh fruits and vegetables. Imagine the Central Valley losing an entire year or more of growing season, probably with the loss of a significant percentage of fruit & nut trees that take years to replace. The ripple effect through the rest of the economy would be ugly.
> example.com/sitemap.xml should point search engines to interesting parts of your site.

Really, an XML Sitemap should be used to show Search Engines ALL pages on your site, and should only be used when it can be dynamically updated via a CMS or database that knows of all URLs. Don't even get me started about the idiocy of using a random CRAWLER (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=xml%20sitemap%20generator) to generate a sitemap to be used by the best CRAWLER on the internet.

I know the tone of the post is informal, but this wouldn't be a HN comment thread without some nit-picking.
(obligatory comment regarding the fact that gender isn't necessarily a dichotomy) How about both (hermaphrodites) or neither?
Will we care about online privacy in 20 years?
"I can't tell you how many times I've seen an app, paid $2.99 for it and then found out it was garbage."

No offense, but if you can't take the time to Google around for reviews and screenshots of an App to filter out the garbage, you deserve what you get. Blind purchases are always going to be a gamble, and I don't get how you don't get that.
I'm quite aware in both cases, as I have FiOS now, and Comcast was the only game in town at my old place.

My point, which you seem to have missed, or at least not addressed, is that Comcast did substantially improve their offering while Verizon was rolling out FiOS, even though they remained the only real broadband provider in my area.
The city proper not so much, but the immediate northern suburbs are increasingly bike-friendly.

The necessity of driving is also one of my biggest issues with the area. My list is quite a bit longer than that, though. I would already rather be in Austin, and this announcement just makes that worse.:)
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You're forgetting LTE. I'd say that just the larger screen and inclusion of LTE constitute a major update.
d3 does work out of the box in IE version 9 and up. With some small modifications, you can still use d3 without even earlier versions of IE. New York Times routinely makes d3 graphics that run in even older versions of IE plus all modern browsers.
This assumes the presence of gender binary. This assumes a person fits into one of those identities, which is not always the case.
195:13 (now 195:14) at the time of writing.

I can't say I'm surprised, but that's more than 13x. I didn't know it was that bad.
Which is odd as you can install an SSD in the PS3 just fine and while it only offers a minor speed improvement (slow SATA connection) it still works.
Quick note: you have a typo on the Licensing page, where it says "Commerical" instead of "Commercial". Given the large font, it really stood out!
How much money did you make off of the traffic?
I don't understand this per-developer licensing model. Not only is it completely non-enforceable but feels really out-dated and out of touch in the era of FOSS.

I will pay for an awesome charting product, but I don't want to have to think about how many developers will touch the code, when, how or why.

Something like a license per production site or an unlimited license makes a whole lot more sense to me and allows me to quantify the cost in terms of the value it provides to my business rather than how many developers I have.
I thought about adding a 3rd option but don't want to start a controversial post/poll.

EDIT: Added it on public demand.
I'm really surprised that (AFAIK, haven't checked lately) no billionaire is funding Polywell, focus, and/or other fringe fusion research projects. I know, the odds of these panning out are not great, but if you want to become a trillionaire, seems like these are the kind of lottery tickets that could get you there -- and do a massive amount of good for the world in the process. I can tell you, if I had a few hundred million to throw around, I would be all over these things.
OAuth is still very useful if you need more data from a user than just that he's who he says he is. If your app processes user data from another source, OAuth is still the best choice.

Also, people recognize Facebook and Google as brands they already have accounts with. When a user sees a big blue/red Sign In With Facebook/Google button, that's an easier decision than hand-keying your credentials (especially on a tiny and slow mobile keyboard). Moreover, users trust Facebook and Google to know how to secure their passwords better than randomsiteijustfound.com, so they may believe OAuth is safer than trusting that randomsiteijustfound.com's developer knows how to properly hash a password.
You as the attacker can visit the page and get yourself a session cookie that is valid and set that on the victim's computer...
I don't see how the built-in encryption is useful to anyone. It's not auditable: how do you know if your data actually gets encrypted?

That is not something I'd trust.
https://www.digitalocean.com/ will give you a 20GB SSD and 512MB of RAM for 5 bucks a month. Perfect for those little side projects.
Does anyone have a suggestion/option for those of us with bigger disk space needs? I love Linode and have been running a privately-hosted email server on there for a while (yes, yes, I know, I know, Gmail, Gmail. I like running my own server.). But my resource constraint these days is disk - not memory or CPUs. Feels silly for me to get bigger a bigger instances just for the disk space.

A while back I spoke to the Linode guys (I think it was at SXSW 2011) and they said they were going to be releasing an EBS-like product "soon". But I guess not that soon.

Perhaps I'm just not a good fit for Linode in this case? Any thoughts?
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Looking around me I get the feeling I'm not the only Apple-fan that didn't get particularly excited about any iPhone after the 4.

I really couldn't be bothered with the 4S or the 5, still using the old 4. Android phones have never excited me because of their boring derivative design. Except as a useful tool, I'm pretty much over smartphones as objects of desire.

Unless Apple manages to rekindle that by making the next phone something more exciting than an upgrade on the iPhone 5, I might as well upgrade to something like the HTC One, just to see what that's like.

I won't love it though. Not in the way I loved my first iPhones.
Previous polls clickable:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22Poll%3A...
Good point. Although I'm in the UK, and so far you can only get LTE on one carrier—and the prices are extortionate.
I'm not sure it is just a naming issue. I think people are starting to get bored with the iPhone, myself included.
You already did (start a controversy). If you can add "other", I suggest you do so. It will reduce some of the fallout.
Ok. I added a clickable in comments.
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Ah, that solves that :)
I've seen recommendations of using Github Pages instead, but again I can't find any official Github stance on it. I'm guessing they reserve the right to cut you off if you start using large amounts of bandwidth.
It's a rant about how nobody does anything important anymore and an entire generation has been wasted over a post about a new iOS app made by three people. It's a total non-sequitur: the only thing to argue against is how over the top and off-topic it is.

And moreover, it's boring: the complaint could be registered on most of the posts on Hacker News. Not everyone's going to save the world with their work, and that's okay. Tearing down other people's work over some perceived social injustice is not.
Sure, now they'll need to do `cm = document.body.getElementsByClassName("CodeMirror")[0].CodeMirror` first.

(I.e. it's client-side, you can't prevent people from doing whatever they want.)
> To me this means south and east Austin.

Why is that?
No this doesn't solve great universal problems, but monitoring a flight and figuring out when to leave is definitely annoying enough for me to warrant at least trying out the app. Ultimately my time is my most valuable asset, so anything I can do (no matter how little) to maximize time efficiency will always be useful to me.
Yes (3 weeks ago). However when they wrote post about new hardware it was told, that new Linodes will start to land there after a week. It would be only reasonable, that after 2 extra weeks and migration to get extra RAM, Linode would land on new hardware. However it looks like it will take a while.
I'm not as much after more GHz from new CPUs, but rather than new hard drives which should be faster than old ones.
Will wait. :)
Oh, I guess the higher-ups had a bigger hand in this than I realized.
Well the problem is, as I mentioned in my comment that the owner of the world's biggest computing platform can shut down a 45 person company without even giving a hint of warning or telling them what needs to be changed. I think even you can agree that's not a good thing for us developers, no?

Also, if I build an Android only app I limit my audience. It's like saying I should create a website only for Firefox in 2005 when IE was dominating.

But to your point, I as a developer will absolutely shy away from the iOS platform after reading this and I hope others will until they change their policies.
Seems like it's too late for that.

You should just add another option and ignore the haters.

(edit: thanks)
Would like to see a demo with a larger data set size (say, zoomable scatter plot with thousands of points). And an option to edit the demo in jsfiddle.
And it would be fair to say that most of the climate scientists talking about climate change would say that this could have happened anyway, but that climate change might well have made it worse. It's basically impossible to link individual events to climate change, the "change" part of it refers to trends.
It's not about being afraid of investing time, but rather assigning more value to time than the licensing fees.
GitHub's Make Me project might be close to what you're looking for. https://github.com/blog/1368-releasing-make-me
the last 2 polls also had only 2 options. so for comparisons sake it will be better to leave it at that, i think.
AT&T jumping on the 1Gbps fiber bandwagon in response to Google Fiber is a Google win just like other browser vendors getting really interested in improving JS speed in response to Google V8 was.

Google keeps introducing things that are designed to push the web (at all layers) in directions which support expanding the range of viable uses of web-based applications -- it doesn't hurt Google at all for others to compete with it once it leads on these things, because they end up with competing with a peripheral effort of Google's to see who can do a better job at expanding Google's core market.
Probably one of the better SEO articles I have read in a while. I wish clients could understand this.

Just want to point out that your Twitter share button should point to the article's page (current page) not your main url.
it happens: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394621
I'm laughing at that :)

Life pretty much sucks without some jokes and a little laughter.
>perhaps they should consider the downsides of living in the sprawl.

I'm sympathetic to this point of view, but in many places it's not possible for everyone to live in the city center because of development restrictions that drive up prices (see here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... one discussion that I've posted before, albeit about California).
Not sure if it would be a big deal. Some things are bug deals if treated as one. Transgender has been a long existing thing, the awareness of our particular civilization might not be high.
created an account just to vote!

update: yes, female here! and long time hn reader, like years.
Opposite im looking to pair with someone who has the OP skill set
If you have a linode512 plan with backup, they will automatically upgrade your backup from the backup512 version to backup1024, which is $10/month, where the old was $5/month.

I'm sure it's a good deal all around, but it seems like a slight of hand to me: Linode, now with more RAM, AND more expansive backups for the same disk space.
His profile connects to a blog of some "Yash Chandra". The name suggests he is a Hindu male. Most probably an Indian or a PIO.
Content Standards may not be the solution for CMS Interoperability
Pregnancy in a hermaphrodite with a male-predominant mosaic karyotype.
"I actually started doing Udacity's CS class when they teach you how to design a search engine, however half way through I realized that this can be done twice as faster with tools that already exist."

I may be misinterpreting your claim, but they're not trying to teach you how to quickly build a search engine. They're introducing fundamental concepts of computer science and showing their applications via a search engine.
He's not naive; you're being overly cynical. This is like pointing out that an SSD could technically be programmed to work much more slowly than a 5200 RPM drive and thus be a worse value than Linode's spinning platters — unless you have a reasonable belief that somebody is actually doing that, it's just FUD.

Based on the benchmarks I've seen, it appears that Linode really does give the kind of concurrency you'd expect from four cores (i.e. if your problem is parallelizable, you can scale up on Linode better than Digital Ocean, whereas Digital Ocean will work much better if your program is serial and needs to hit the disk a lot).
Another awesome plugin in ST2 is WebInspector https://github.com/sokolovstas/SublimeWebInspector
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With a 99% conviction rate in federal court....

"They only find the bad people. What's there to be ashamed of that?"
I don't see a way to comment on that thread, but I'm female.
I don't really need it, it's just a point of interest. But yeah, I feel bad for people who have to live on this. Especially those with decent skills, it's very hard to compete in an environment that is polluted to the brim.

It's the same with commercial freelancer sites, by the way. Tons of lame projects, many of them quite shady or illegal, with absolute rock-bottom budgets and dozens of "developers" fighting over scraps.

Experiences like this make me think our profession truly is in the toilet right now. A view weeks ago I chided a commenter on HN for saying the software employment situation is a buyer's market and thus he has trouble treating programmers with respect. I can see why that is, though.
Sure. How about adding "This does not require registration in advance." (Or "previous registration" or "a previous account" or whatever is clearest). The problem is users searching for "Create Account" instead of "Sign In" when there is no "Create Account".

Edit: Sorry, on review this post was tangential to the point to which you were responding (about why the email is needed). It was targeted more at the point about user confusion by the login process.
To give them the finger, because he knows that no matter what Apple delivers for their updated flagship, it will be 100% better than anything else out there in all respects. Anyone disappointed? THE FINGER!!!

Samsung... 4?! That's 2 BEHIND LOSERS! i-f-ing-Phone-6.

Apoplectic at the first blogger that says, "They should called it 5S. Me disappointer."
AT&T and existing telcos need to announce these kinds of initiatives before their crappy service invites competitors, not after.
It's fortunate for "launch" iPad 2 owners that it's still sold in 2013, because that suggests that it will continue receiving iOS updates and not be left behind any time soon.
That's what I do now, but it's a pain to serve multiple HTTPS sites and an extra pain (practically impossible with default HTTPS in browsers nowadays) to serve mixed HTTP/HTTPS. I'd much prefer sandboxed Linodes for all my little projects, but if I bought a Linode at $20/month for each of them I'd be poor pretty fast :)
ok i added the "other" choice without trying to come up with a cute/smart description.
i agree..its easier to edit
16x now
I am going to guess you are female. Yes? No?
How do you enforce how many developers are using the library? Do they each have a unique key that you cross reference with their IP?

Otherwise, why wouldn't people simply buy 1 license and have as many developers as needed work on the codebase?
The wording hints more at a biological sex binary.
I think this post is the main problem Apple could face; their PR essentially falls into the Android ditch of promoting specs instead of ideas and features. It's the kind of thinking that results in gadget sites using side-by-side comparison tables, which helps no one buy their next phone. Buying an Android phone must be hell, since that's how most people have come to explain why one model is preferable to another.

Marco's description of the improvements is basically incrementalism: it's "harder, better, faster, stronger" - X% more Y.

The 4S was a bit of a disappointment, because Cook - and Apple's engineers - did a pretty measly job of touting Siri as something profoundly new. But otherwise incremental changes to hardware are just an opportunity to focus on the software instead in terms of iOS (which won't run on all devices, which directly makes the new phones that more attractive).

There's a reason we shouldn't see keynotes talking about how dashboard navigation is now 13% faster, and Spotlight search is 8% better at indexing and uses 7% fewer system resources.

In the Android world of PR, Retina was just a DPI number, whereas Steve Jobs sold it as a level of detail that met the limit of visual perception by the user. That made it a genuinely interesting feature instead of just another case of numbers wank.

I think in some sense the expectations game has been lowered ever since iPhone 4, and that it's suddenly O.K. to just judge an iPhone by its spec changes - and as a result, Apple apologists like Marco are just moving the goal posts as a subtle concession to the disappointed critics.

This also means that people missed how much better the iPhone 5 camera is in low-light environments, for one, which could just as well have been touted as a great feature instead of an incremental increase to the camera, or in whichever vacuous incrementalist ways people like Marco choose to put it these days.
Although I do agree that this is nerve wracking, I think the situation will resolve itself.

The one question I have is ... why did they use push notifications to send a daily message, when they could have just scheduled them locally? Clearly Apple notices anomalous traffic for non-transactional notifications, such as one that's sent once a day to everyone, and that's probably what alerted some unrelated guys in the app store. I imagine the guy wanted to follow up and then, unable to reach the CEO, pulled the app.

I would say the company with so many employees should probably have other people to pick up the slack for the CEO when he is on a plane.

Of course, what do I know. We have a completely different structure, and are distributed around the world.
Regarding the diagrams: Why Comic Sans?
This helped me a lot when I got started with Sublime http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/perfect-workflow-in-su... Good intro to basic configuration, shortcuts & vintage mode
love it, the demo is great1
Just a note, "hermaphrodite" is a wildly inaccurate term to define those with an indeterminate sex within the dichotomy of male/female and can be quite offensive as well, especially when used outside of specific cases (none of which I've ever heard to be identified accurately as strictly hermaphroditic)
Thanks for you feedback, I did do some testing with multiple backends (4 different servers) but it didn't show any substantial changes. I'll see if I can do some in depth in a while.
Hi George! I'm glad you, Nick and Scott are working on something new. Looking forward to see CodeCombat grow.
I don't think the reason is unknown. You already stated the reason: it's an easy problem. Not just an easy one to solve, but an easy one to ignore because it's not just an easy problem, it's a small problem. It causes very little trouble, there is little loss of productivity, there is little to gain by solving it. It hasn't been fixed the way a ding on your car's door doesn't get fixed. That doesn't mean it can't be fixed, but I agree with OC's question, do we have so little other stuff to worry about that we have to go around looking for "problems" so small that most people didn't know they existed until they were told?

That reminds me, I wrote about this after seeing quite a few companies like this at TC Disrupt:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/14/how-to-disrupt-petty-inconv...
Glad to hear a voice of sanity in this Ponzi scheme for techies
Strange- I just pushed an STL file from a Lynx camera that was taken of me at SXSW and it won't view. Any ideas what's wrong?

https://github.com/tibbon/my-3d-models/blob/master/me-in-3d....
Oh, sorry. I did not realize that discussions automatically close at some point. Thanks for letting me know.
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what does fugitive do for interactive commits that beats git-cola? i love vim for single-file things, but once it comes to a global project view i usually prefer to use another tool.
>And it seems like much of California is following me here--we are even getting an In-N-Out Burger this year!

California has been driving people away for decades: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_71.htm#.UWRs1Bkhf... . My own family moved out of CA when I was 10 for the usual reasons: high housing costs and long commutes. Housing costs have stayed high and so have commutes; consequently, a lot of people are leaving for the usual places: Phoenix, Austin, Seattle. . .
I made a page listing that tracks the SSD available from Newegg sorted by price per TB.

http://edwardbetts.com/price_per_tb/ssd/

Ignore the hybrid SSDs and the refurbished drives at the top of the list. The best prices are on 256GB disks. For a 256GB SanDisk drive that is in stock the price is $169.99 or $0.664 per GB.

There is a 960GB Crucial drive for $649.99 or $0.677 per GB.
The sales data doesn't really support the notion that the iPhone 5 was a disappointment to anyone except the most picky of technical users.

http://bgr.com/2013/01/17/iphone-sales-comparisons-samsung-2...
could not agree more.
I think it's less calculated than that.

Most startups fail. That's scary. The natural response to fear is to run harder, run faster. And when the ride isn't scary, it's really exciting. Who can sleep when the growth curve looks like that?

And all this trickles down to the employees. And up to the VCs, the dumber fraction of which will try to measure progress by hours spent. If you aren't sweating, you aren't working, right?

Honestly, I think there's little economic benefit to all those hours put in. Especially for people writing code, where I think it's incredibly easy for tired people to be negatively productive. It's fear, excitement, and macho bullshit, not rational self-interest at all.
CEPA, the California Environmental Protection Act, is the most obvious, and IIRC the most onerous state-mandated environmental act in the country. It's (one) part of what makes building in CA so difficult.