skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What people need to do is make a crowdsourcing app for the next time this happens to better focus all that willpower in the right direction.

we have an app-like thing for that, it is called a browser. I think the larger issue is that regardless of which medium being used, if the people are using it irresponsibly then there will always ALWAYS be the same witch-hunt.

There was a great comment on one of the few Boston bomber threads that I remember seeing on the front page (I'm browsing on my phone and will link to it when I get home). The crux of the commentor's thoughts were that if the internet community doesn't take responsibility for its actions then all it does is enhance the argument for tightening regulations in relation to the internet. how long does the government wait before censoring reddit and other message boards naming names?

When someone is wrongly accused and is arrested by citizens on a crusade?

When someone is wrongly accused and is lynched by citizens on a crusade?

all any of us can do is play our own part. Don't take part in witch hunting and call out those who do.
Ask HN: why CISPA is not #1 thread on HN?
I was thinking of services I use, not necessarily physical products, but you're right.

That was just tongue-in-cheek though. I'd still like clarification on the second part.
I should probably use <joke> </joke> from now on.
I'm the submitter (not the author) on this story. I searched for "futurama" before submitting, and didn't find anything related to this cancellation (or "not renovation", as some threads here would prefer).

I haven't flagged your submission (I've never flagged anything, around here). FWIW, though, I still find the article I linked to much more interesting that the EW one, because it focuses on the science and geeky aspects of futurama. I don't see it as "a 3rd-level derived article", but as "a scientist's take on the show and its cancellation".

Under that light, then, I'm not sure it should be prevented.

Edit: By "not sure it should be prevented", I don't mean that I think your submission should have been flagged. I mean that I think the same fact can allow for multiple submissions, and a derived article may be more interesting than the original source.
So, you treat the entire group based on the actions of individuals? Do all the people who use your software behave in this manner? Do you think it's possible that people researching your software will see any of your possible bad behavior (I don't know if you do or not) and decide not to bother?

I never said that someone like you were telling people such things by not doing what they request. I'm describing people who's immediate reaction to almost anything is "only contributors may complain!" and if you don't fit that category then good for you. That means I'm not talking about you.

If someone submits a bug report or feature request that you feel you cannot get to in a timely manner or don't feel is necessary then you can politely explain why. If the person responds to this with an entitled attitude then the problem then lays with that person, not you. If you respond to a bad attitude with a bad attitude then what picture are you painting to everyone else?

It's classic customer service, you are polite to everyone but firm in your decisions. No one says that you must cater to every single person who says anything about your software, but you should be polite in saying no. How you say no provides a much clearer picture of your project than how you say yes.
Nope, aside from the Lunar Excursion Module and its simulators, NASA did nothing like this until the 1990s, with the Delta Clipper. And that wasn't really NASA - it was a BMDO project which later got taken over by NASA. (NASA then crashed the Delta Clipper on their first flight with it, and promptly went back to their preferred innovation strategy: very large contracts which result in absolutely nothing).
I don't understand how SQL injection still exists as a problem. Isn't it pretty much completely solved by using an ORM or prepared statements? Is it just laziness that allows it to fester on, or is there something I'm missing?
Agreed, but it still hurts. Also, the upload goes down from 10mbit to 0,5, which is quite severe.
Because they are literally selling you a machine that just sits around and 'makes' money.

If the amount of profit from using these machines was greater than the profit from selling the machines.. then the company selling the machines wouldn't sell them to you..
I'd love to hear a confirmed insider's view. Because I've ONLY heard good buzz about what they've been up to. Everything has been anonymous sources only (albeit many from journalists who promised anonymity), but I've yet to see any anonymous upset sources. It really seems like Yahoo's got swagger back. So I'd love to hear a confirmed insider's view.
If you're in the mood for constructive feedback, there's something that makes that page difficult to read. It could just be font rendering at that tiny size, it could be the contrast with the line spacing given the text size. Either way, taking the font-size up to 15px makes it readable, for me.
I agree that the Acrobat plugin was a pain (and I always made sure to disable it in Firefox), but I absolutely love the Firefox in-browser PDF viewer. It doesn't lock up the PC while loading, and it has a convenient download button that doesn't seem to redownload the PDF when clicked (much like saving an already loaded image).
Toward an ideal geoportal
Mobile Chrome often gets this correct. For many file types it will ask what you want to do if you haven't set a default action. Just never set a default and it always asks.
Because I'm disagreeing with you above I just wanted to explicitly state that I agree with this. Particularly the second paragraph.

Profanity needs cultural weight not just a certain tone of voice.

In English at least. Can't speak with any authority on other linguistic cultures.
Not sure to be honest. Maybe an integrated login?
No - I don't. However, this was the biggest story on reddit for several days. This wasn't happening in some podunk subreddit that nobody watches. The mods/admins could have shut down the posts of personal information. Instead they apparently decided they were being helpful and let it continue.

I think (I hope) that's what they are apologizing for.
Shouldn't everyone learn to embrace a "good enough" life? That's called being happy and appreciative of what you have. Americans especially are striving for more constantly; much of that has to do with the winner-loser nature of capitalism and the fact that the stakes are enormous in this country. Even the wealthy will stress about not being as wealthy as their richer neighbor. It's hard to take a step back and feel content with what you've accomplished so far because you always feel like you could be doing more, like Person X you read about in Blog Y who is founding his fourth successful startup while still managing to spend time with his 5 children.
Of course Windows does, $TEMP!
I believe your tax would be based on billing address, so vpns wouldn't help. And no, this isn't a new tax, just one that virtually no one pays. When you buy stuff online from a company with no physical presents in your state they aren't required to collect a sales tax. You're still suppose to self report it and pay it when you do your taxes at the end of the year, but very few people do.
I never heard of roll20 before, but it looks really cool. I'll have to give it a spin.

As for designing components and actions, maybe open ended to too far of a stretch and instead maybe have a "subset" of open ended. As in not cumbersome enough to prevent people from using it, but still open enough to make some creative card games possible.
It's a combination of laziness, ignorance and a reluctance to migrate/fix legacy code.
GoGo in-flight wireless in the USA is using a terrestrial network that piggybacks on cell towers. I've had 1.5 Mbit with ~400 mSec ping times, which is a lot more usable than the satellite systems.
Fedora 19 Alpha released
I've been using Sumatra for a long time, but it's been supplanted by Firefox in most cases recently. Sumatra is great and lightweight though, and it uses a robust and open source rendering and parsing engine.
It's not so much that the company cares so little about their employees, but that they have so many responsibilities for the data and systems they are entrusted with.

Seriously, though - what everyone I know does in this situation does is just bring their own laptop into work for personal stuff, and treats the work console for precisely that - work activity.
First, declaring everything WebP is bad at as "non web" assumes that everyone uses the web only for things they don't care about, which isn't remotely true as the original article shows. People save what they can see - and normal people don't want to switch tools for each situation.

Second, it's still not the case that WebP offers a significant advantage over JPEG-2000 or JPEG-XR, both of which are standardized, better supported, more flexible, and have much better designed file formats.
There is nothing new about the Knapsack problem. Why is this relevant?
Shame this isn't an unbiased/independent report.
Indeed: I've only watched a couple of episodes, and never got into it. But I was fascinated to read about the "Futurama theorem".
Yeah, I was going to mention the DC-X. The video you link below shows what is probably a future grasshopper test, where they take the vehicle off of vertical to show it can really reorient itself.
The article was intended for very specific audience, for very specific context. It's not telling a tale of everyone under the sun.

Thanks.
Or, they could make money.... ignoring the price of electricity for generating said money.
I expect it to die in the House.
Can't edit the parent post anymore, indeed I was wrong, but only about the year. The project I've added however is around 20 years old, so I still don't find Grasshopper revolutionary in this one aspect - reusable VTVL rocket.
15 bitcoins in 20 hours. Whoa.

You could make a fortune at the factory just doing the burn-in test for 24 hours.

In fact I am curious why they would even ship them from China, you'd lose money the weeks on the boat, just plug them in at the factory...
I'll give a dissenting opinion. I've loved the Comedy Central reboot. The material is quick and snappy in a way that the earlier seasons weren't, packing in rapid-fire jokes. And it still consistently throws in bits of real science and mathematics, like the famous brain-swapping problem and solution. The movies were uneven, but season six hit a new and sustained peak starting with the fourth episode.

I often felt like the earlier seasons got too caught up in their own worldbuilding and forgot the funny. "The Why of Fry" was my personal least favorite, retconning the entire premise of the show and Nibbler's nature, and straining on a single joke of Fry's stupidity for the entire episode. Other low points included the forced Amy-Kif relationship that had little comedy content and less meaning, Leela's retconned family, and any time filled by Zapp Brannigan's one-note attempts at jokes. Futurama can't credibly do gross-out or shock humor in a world where Family Guy cranks it up to eleven every week.

Futurama is best as a joke turbine playing off the future setting, and IMO strains for misguided impact whenever it brings up how Fry's family lost a son. I never bought in to the heartstring-tugging. The characters are too broadly drawn and fantastical to care about, unlike the Simpsons. The Comedy Central seasons seem to have figured this out, realizing that it's too late in the game for any more meaningful character material. Instead, the show has seriously stressed the pacing and density of the comedy, which for me really shines now.
that's definetly a very good idea. Customize your filenames with a relevant name , adding the date is a very good practice, and why not the user/customer name too ( for invoices,etc ... ).
DotDotDot - The Future of Reading Is Neither eBook Nor RSS Feed
Isn't that exactly what browsers ask you when you click in "Save as"? Ok, it's not "display in browser", it's just "display" (or "open"), but what's the difference?
Original article here:

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-...
The Last Psychiatrist has an excellent article about why women are encouraged to become like "work-consumed men from a generation ago". You might find it interesting.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/03/dont_hate_her_because...
Open Source & Commercial Support
Seems like a direct bank transfer might be your best choice. At least that's the route I'm taking right now.
> The only saving grace being that at least states would be required to provide "software" - I can only hope that translates to APIs - to calculate taxes.

You're talking about the government. They'll put it out for bid which will end up costing 3x as much as it should and be an ActiveX control that no one can use.
For reference, the term "PR Submarine" refers to pg's essay, "The Submarine" - http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html.
Without wanting to sound overly sarcastic, I'd like to point out that if it's "hard be certain" that CUNY would profit from €100m, how can you be certain that the money would benefit Cornell? Heck, following your line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, why don't we just stop funding education altogether?

There is the saying that the US has the world's 50 best universities --- but also the 5,000 worst. While this is an exaggeration, there is quite some truth in it. Just to reiterate my point: if you, as a foreigner, address a bus driver in Oslo in English, he will quite possibly reply in proper English. However, talk to a shopping clerk at Sainsbury's in England, or Target in the US, and you may have to concede that the language they speak is closer to pidgin than English.

Lastly, I'll let you know that I have attended graduate school at a top UK university, a place you have heard of. Interestingly enough, only about a quarter of the grad students were British, and according to the rector this was because many British schools and universities don't educate their students properly. Now you may also know that the UK school system does quite a good job separating the children of the plebs from the children of the rich.

Can you see what I'm getting at? Well, I'll just spell it out for you: a very large part of my fellow students in graduate school earned their undergraduate degree from public universities in Europe, which normally implied the complete absence of tuition fees. Yet, for some reason Britain's own talent found it difficult to compete with them. This mirrors the point another commenter has already made regarding the situation in the US, but since you're from Europe, I thought you might appreciate this perspective.
The browser is enforcing that, unless you tell it not to, like you always can with a browser.

At least it's not Javascript.
Keep your CRUD off the Internet
ICloud servers again experiencing major outages for a growing number of users
Why does the BBC feel the need to plaster the terrorists faces all over their website? Honestly its the last thing I want to see, and yet they continue to burn this image into my head.
Nope, I'm <25 and I love them too.
Super Mario Bros in Shell Script
> On the day (of my release) that my wife, Carole

Wow
I always thought it was more along the lines of taking time away from everything work related so you can focus leisurly-ish on pet projects ... or invent a new programming language or whatever.

Wikipedia backs me up: "In recent times, "sabbatical" has come to mean any extended absence in the career of an individual in order to achieve something. In the modern sense, one takes sabbatical typically to fulfill some goal, e.g., writing a book or traveling extensively for research"
Source code: https://sites.google.com/site/doriedsonago/trabalhos-academi...
> Congress had a hands-off approach to the internet for some time, and it took off like wildfire because of it. All that's changing now, it seems.

The internet would've taken off regardless of Congress's level of involvement with it.
It's also a good idea to use font-size:100% let the browser/user decide what font size to use , yours is a bit small. It should not break your layout. nice article.
Because it is inevitable?

Ebay is one of the few large entities fighting it, I think they are trying to get a small sales exemption.
Instagram was burned for telling a story about their ToS which didn't match what they wanted to claim and then tried a classic non-apology apology rather than admitting overreach. If the new ToS had only claimed what they said they wanted this never would have blown up.
I looked at my state, Florida. They require a class on alcoholism and drunk driving. This can be taken online and it's for all first time drivers. Teens only have restricted operational hours, which exclude school and work.
I certainly do -- I almost always want to change the file name to something that makes sense at my end. I don't often care what makes sense at the creator's end; I want to find the file quickly when I need it.
Re point "a", it doesn't make that much sense. Why would they be permanent? It should be permanent for very serious offences (murder etc).

For minor offences I agree there shouldn't be a case of imprisonment. I'd send those people to do some community work and maybe learn something good from it.
Meh, and the next job posting is going to look for the 120% committed software engineer who has no higher priorities than creating the next big thing in mobile|ads|facebook apps.
Interesting opinion. I hadn't considered it like that at all, but I will give it some thought. How much of the non-standard stuff is getting any use/traction (honest question)?

For me, currently, Chromium seems like nothing like a good thing. For example, their Linux sandboxing appears to be at least a step ahead of anything else so far.
I must admit my knowledge of content headers is lacking. Thanks for sharing your list.
I first heard about wingify September 9, 2009 when Paras sent me an email telling me that he'd got the idea from reading my presentation on A/B testing, and asking for initial feedback on the product that he was developing.

I'm glad to see how well it has done since.
Meta-Muckraking
Honestly, is this really that big of a concern? This sounds like something that may be necessary for the OBLs or <murderous drug lord>s of the world. But in general, this level of paranoia about being able to communicate with the outside world is just insane. It only serves as an easy excuse to exert an obscene level of control over these people's lives.
Facebook Exec: Things I Hate About Working At Facebook
Sometimes the press release is more accurate. There have been examples in the UK when something released by the Office for National Statistics[1] is looked at and interpreted by a journalist. Unfortunately statisticians get the numbers right and journalists don't, and so reporters make very dramatic statements that just aren't supported by the numbers.

[1] (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/index.html)
This is absurd. First you assume you speak for all of HN. Then you imply you're an idiot if you don't think it's "good and right for sales tax to be charged on sales."
Researcher's Serial Port Scans Find More Than 100,000 Hackable Devices
I wonder if it would be practical to install upwards facing antennas on cell tower and then have a tracking dish on planes track these to cut out the satellite when over (populated) ground. If a line-of-sight microwave link could be established, it should be possible to have high-bandwidth low-latency connectivity in the air.

What is the effective beamwidth of a microwave antenna that needs to maintain a 50-100km link? Would the ground antennas need to be tracking as well?
Prepared statements won't handle variable table names. Thus if your application builds a table name from user-influenced input, you need to do an extra step of sanitization that prepared statements won't do.
The video actually shows two stages and the Dragon capsule, which is payload. As to the use of staging, there are several reasons:

1) During the late stages of the boost, the one second stage engine is pushing only its single engine, fuel and tankage. You're no longer dragging around the nine engines of the first stage and their tanks. That weight saving means you get a lot more delta-V for each unit of expended fuel.

2) The engines themselves are also different. Rocket nozzles designed for optimal performance at sea level aren't optimal for high-altitude or vacuum conditions; those optimal for vacuum won't work at sea level (their exit pressure is so low that the exhaust has trouble pushing air out of the way). And compromise designs aren't optimal in either environment.

3) In the proposed SpaceX reuse architecture, they don't need to protect that long, thin first-stage tank from re-entry at orbital velocity. It's not clear how they could.
Why do people submit print versions to a website where people will be reading it on a screen? I shouldn't have to download a Readability extension to get your submission to have a reasonable line width.
I sent a test email, nothing happened. I think your idea/site needs explanation. I cannot tell what your site provides.
The fall of apple
https://my.doctape.com/s/zNTNMm

I'm rather optimistic ;-)
Here's some browser testing http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/

The link is from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93551/how-to-encode-the-f...
It was, four days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5572017
See [1] for a very comprehensive and up-to-date table of browser support for various encoding schemes. See [2] for browser-specific hacks.

Summary: most modern browsers including IE9 support RFC2231/5987. (Edit: see my other comment in this thread for IE6-8.)

Another option is to leave out the troublesome "filename" parameter altogether and use the last part of the URL to convey the same information, e.g. /files/uploads/2013/<file_id>/filename.ext. After all, most browsers already understand how percent-encoding works in the URL. With today's URL rewriting engines, this shouldn't be too difficult to achieve regardless of how your files are actually organized on disk or which language you use to perform access control. It would be as if the client were requesting a static file.

[1] http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7967079/special-character...
I think it's worth pointing out that the author recommends waiting to have kids, and she herself apparently had her first at 38.

This makes a ton of sense, but biology doesn't always care about rational choices like this. From painful personal experience: if you want kids, seriously consider having them by your early 30's, even if you're not completely ready. Otherwise you may find that no amount of money invested in IVF can help.
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Does it analyse every page I visit? I would prefer if it was activated by a button press only when I need it.
This level of paranoia is just insane. Let's not legitimize the war on drugs by elevating any sort of communication with the outside world into some sort of existential threat to civilized society.
It might be true if you are talking about market makers that have an advantage over other participants due to regulations.
However nowadays market making on liquid instruments is almost equivalent to high frequency trading. The tail risk might be low if you have very low latency and perfect connection to the exchange. Anyway your pnl distribution will be negatively skewed. You are unlikely to lose tons of money like Knight (their testing algorithm kind of actively tried to do it) but making a steady profit is not easy in liquid markets.
I got my license at age 23 in MA last year. For someone below the age of 18, you basically had to do formal lessons. For someone long-since above 18, formal lessons were a Good Idea because the teacher would coach you on how to pass a road test (as opposed to how to drive in MA, which is a separate skill).