skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believe it or not, this takes into account living expenses. Currencies are not converted using current exchange rates, but using PPP (purchasing power parity).

According to these figures, it takes the median average American on a salary of $50k two minutes to earn enough to buy a can of Coca-cola. The average Indonesian needs to work two hours to buy one, at local price.
The video has a music soundtrack ("Ring of Fire") which gets it blocked in Germany.

Wikipedia have an article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_G...
why condone this activity at all? why not just stamp it out?
For Rails folks, you can accomplish a lot of this with the excellent Twitter gem "secureheaders".

https://github.com/twitter/secureheaders
I've occasionally considered that most of my "engineering training" is all about working around human weirdness like this. On the bright side someone dropping out because of i vs j won't have to suffer through conventional current vs electron current, aka the same thing as the right hand rule vs the left hand ("FBI") rule. Even worse some call the RHR the generator rule and the LHR the motor rule. This is a cousin of people confusing right and left hand circular polarization of antennas vs waves etc.

Somewhat more practically old fashioned electrolytic capacitors pretty much always mark the negative lead with a black mark or stripe in excess of 99.99% of the time (yeah I've seen at least 10K and never seen an exception yet). However I have to crack open a datasheet every time for every tantalum because a "large fraction" of them mark the positive instead of the negative... lovely.

This is before we start playing games with some people talking about RMS voltages, some peak, some pk-pk.

I believe this is why many engineers don't care about imperial vs metric. Its just another example of standards being so desirable we'd like to have as many as possible. Whats one more?
Why you might share a cubicle with Windows Phone
I find this confusing. It's awesome, that's for sure. But it seems like lifting all the fuel needed to do a soft landing is inherently a tradeoff for less payload capacity. What is the benefit, then? Is it just so much cheaper to be able to re-use the first two stages?
Really? Most people in the US only have access to one, the same as cable providers. Government-granted monopoly, etc...
They've actually kept dozens from happening in the past, but you've gotta be familiar with the nature of the site to understand. Generally, those past witch hunts were built around small groups of people coming together to harass someone for an unpopular view- whether it was someone working for a company they hated, or someone who supports women's rights fervently.

This was a case where Reddit had mild success in the past, being able to figure out the license plates of hit-'n-run suspects, or thieves of various types. So, they thought that maybe they could do some good here.

Now they know otherwise: There is no right time for stuff like this. Ever. So, they go back to what they've done in the past to stop these, dozens, and dozens, and dozens of times: Heavier moderation of anything that could even possibly lead to someone's personal information.
Why do RFC's have to be so ugly?
Shopping on Amazon Could Soon Get Pricier as Sales-Tax Bill Advances
Fantastic project, and this absolutely sounds like an embarrassingly parallel processing task. To the original itch, so to speak-

"Then he plotted the Islamist indicators from 40 million tweets, ranging from August 2011 through March 2012, against 5,000 political districts from the Egyptian census."

So the core problem is that you have 5,000 non-overlapping polygons and you want to determine from an x,y which they fall within? I have to confess that I'm surprised that just 40 million such points would take several days.
Tokyo City Symphony - 3D and art project
Nail on the head. I can only remember one or two occasions where I've needed to copy a key and waiting a couple days for delivery would have been practical.

That said, I had a clever idea on my way to work this morning.

They've already got automated kiosks[1] all over the place, why not network those, give customers a login and let them save their keys to a centralized location. You'd then be able to get a copy of any of your keys without having the original present. You could even share keys with another account - visiting friend, whatever, so they can get a copy cut in their hometown. No need to save any info besides login credentials and keys (ie. nothing that could allow someone to trace a key back to a lock via a billing address).

[1] http://www.minutekey.com/
I agree. I was just about to write a similar comment.
Fallacies of Java Performance
The wpXtreme makeover: announcing our beta 4
Browsers (or site owners) could probably do a better job of differentiating links with download attributes. Maybe on mouse over show a little download cursor or something.
I've heard that more eyes on a problem can be very useful. Also it helps keep the government honest.

(And it would probably be really hard to "stamp" out anyway.)
they often do for many of the witchhunts that spring up with dismaying regularity.
Right click and save-as might be annoying but it's also a critical piece of our tinkering economy. I don't want to use a client that prohibits me from downloading the web unless it's specified as "permissible" by the author. This is a step in that direction.
I've stayed in bed and not fallen asleep until it got light again outside. I am almost never sleepy, it is very annoying.

This advice only works for some people.
I've actually found that the tesco machines are sneaky, they seem to give change in what they have excess of.

I actually did this yesterday, dumped all my coins in and needed 40p change. I got 8 5p's back
I think you're wrong here. The vast, vast majority of gun violence is directed against specific targets. And for the remainder who start randomly shooting people, they seem concerned with notoriety and don't make any attempt to conceal their identity or get away with it.

I figure this probably began with the domestic violence conviction that derailed the older brother's plans for his life in the US. If you come from a society where a given behavior is considered normal and you move to a new society which think that not only is that behavior wrong but that it makes you an intrinsically bad person, well, that's a hard pill to take. More so in that to accept that this is so bad you now have to accept that everyone you knew and respected back home are then bad people.

Or you could just listen to those who say that you and your people are fine, it's just America that's corrupt and decadent. And here's a template for acting in a way that'll make you the hero, rather than someone who blew his chance.
That's just tearable! haha It's actually pretty cool!
There is an estimated 40% reduction in payload to become reusable but since the fuel is only less than 1% of the cost in launching the rocket it is pretty acceptable.
The current Falcon 9 first stage doesn't have landing gear. That would make landing it on anything solid... problematic.
Take a lesson from the user backlash that happens every time a browser removes a feature: Don't do that. The best you can do is encourage developers to use an alternative. The worst you can do is to force it on people who don't share your point of view.
A pipe bomb has been legally considered WMD for almost two decades now. They didn't change the meaning for 9/11 or Iraq.
Will I be able to upgrade the OS/firmware when FxOS is "ready"? Do I need to "root" the phone to upgrade?
The site gives an Over Quota error. Can someone who's actually been there and read it over give us a summary?
I wonder if it'd be worth implementing this in my URLObject library (https://github.com/zacharyvoase/urlobject).
Why do we glorify tech development in startups so much? Just because it is a scare ressource?

You can copypaste from stackoverflow into your rails app. Great, but please stop bragging about it. You can build the best iphone apps the world. Awesome.

But let's be honest - it doesn't matter.

Imho: Millions of startups are in the earliest stages of product innovation/development.

And in that early stages there are million of tasks in product development you need to do. Writing code usually comes very late - if at all.

Millions of assumptions/feature/startups ideas that can be killed without writing one line. Millions of customers/ideas/dollars that can be commited before you write the first line.

A business guy without his first customer searching for tech co-founders is a failure.
A tech guy without his first customer writing code is a failure.

I am a tech/product guy and i do not understand "idea guys", "business guys" or "tech guys" who reduce startups/product innovation to shipping code. And by that basically stay in their comfort zone.

Imho: the hard thing about startups is not how to build stuff. It is figuring what to build.

And here "business"/"tech"/"idea"/"design" people are all equally needed.
We already have many of the bad parts from cyberpunk books.
The first stage of almost any launch system wouldn't need a heat shield for reentry. The second stage absolutely would.
because you can't stamp it out?
If you have trouble falling asleep all the time, it is a problem that must be solved. The "go to sleep" step simply doesn't work for me much of the time. If I did nothing at all to try to sleep, I would stay awake for days, then sleep out of exhaustion (which has happened in the past).
Also check for this dangerous configuration bug if you are using FastCGI and PHP (I'm not sure if this also applies to other FastCGI applications)

https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/04/setting-up-php-fastcgi-an...
Fuel is very inexpensive (~2% the cost of a rocket launch), rockets are very expensive. If you can trade off fuel for not having to build a new rocket you drop the cost to orbit by orders of magnitude.

Additionally you can build more expensive rockets that are more efficient since rocket creation becomes a capital rather than a reoccurring cost.
Actually, they do take into account differences in cost of living. The basket of goods used to calculate the PPP rate includes things like cars, vacuum cleaners and electricity. (I don't know the details, TBH) See my other reply to kalterstern.
Look at this as a SaaS opportunity. Create a clearinghouse to manage all of the "software". Fairly simple API, you give me the State of the person, perhaps ZIP to find County level taxes and out comes a {"state":".08", "cityX":".01"}. Leave it to the client to handle exact cost calculation.

As for the states that don't have sales tax, they can pay the clearing to provide a {"state":"0"} for all requests.
Analogizing Ethernet and HTML5
JBoss is now WildFly - The H Open
Basically, yes. Fuel costs make up a marginal part of the rocket's cost. One reason the Space Shuttle was such a massive failure was because it was supposed to be "re-usable", yet it really wasn't. It threw away most of its volume every time it launched, yet it still had to carry more fuel into space for the soft landing. It had downsides from both sides of the equation.
Tearably nice
This sounds really amazing but unfortunately doesn't run on my computer: Win 7 64 bit, i5-330, 8GB RAM

No error message, the program just doesn't start
Yes, it definitely does level the playing field between brick & mortar business and online businesses, and to a certain extent amongst states. What would have been really interesting is if the taxes revenues went to the state that the business was operating out of. Unfortunately, that'd probably just mean more tax revenue for either Delaware or the existing tech hubs of America. I think it's because of this fact that a more complex system is necessary. It's much more fair to the states.
I wouldn't be surprised if the originals are lost.
You should check out the boost iterator library. Depending on the application, you might be looking for either the function input iterator or the counting iterator.
Face it or not, a great deal of programmers have no idea of how to market a product or even have the will to deal with sales, finances and etc. This all thing of "I'm a programmer and I'm much more worth than you" is an attitude that won't get anyone anywhere. A good product sells itself, but this is 1% of the cases yo.
Apple mixes up euros and dollars as well. Last time I checked anyway, a $999 device would be €999 in europe.
Sounds like Go adding more Erlang style features. Off the top of my head, some nice things that Erlang lacks in that department might include:

* A bit more security by default. Erlang was built for something where they presumed they were walled off from bad stuff.

* Some kind of routing mechanism, so that you could have A connected to B, and B connected to C, and the system would be able to send messages from A to C. I have no idea if this is actually a good idea, as this is not the sort of thing I use Erlang for myself. But it seems like it might be cool.
Quite possibly, but that's not relevant to this article.
1) I don't think your use case / preference is that common. I'd venture that most of the time a download is preferable; I know that's the case for me.

2) Even if I'm wrong about 1), it's hard to argue that there is never a good time to force a download, and so this is a useful feature to know about. I wasn't aware of it so appreciated the post.
A quick look at Twitter Music
Here's one that uses Selenium for recording the tour steps with Drupal used for managing the tour content (the site being 'toured' doesn't have to be running Drupal). http://walkthrough.it/
The Oasis is coming!
(Ready Player One)
A glib remark of "Just don't buy it", simply won't cut it. This attitude is harmful, both to consumers and to developers/producers, and to a lesser degree, peoples health.

First off, it harms consumers to not get what they pay for. This is simply wrong.

Second off, it harms developers and producers because people view software purchases as high risk. Ever wondered why people dwell on buying a $3 app, but can impulse buy a phone for $300? If the phone is broken, you go back to the buyer and get it replaced. If the phone is unusable in term of user-interface, you replace it with a different phone/model or return it to the shop (EU law enabled this option by law most of the time). In one sentence, the producer is responsible so the consumer view it as low risk. With software, if won't start, is buggy or simply won't fulfill the intended task, the consumer is to blame for doing a bad purchase. The consumer see this as high risk. Thus, risk aversion goes into affect. If you are in the business of software development, you do not want this.

Last, if the producers of software is never hold responsible for their product, that attitude creeps over to critical systems like medical instruments and airplane computers. If faults or security problems is viewed as the consumers problem, then the quality and trust in critical system goes down.
Over in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5594279

Seems to be a way of remote spawning goroutines and transparently(?) extending channels over the internet.
For everyone complaining that they don't want to be forced to download--just have two buttons:

March Invoice: View - Download

This is much clearer for the average user than a single link with hidden right click functionality. Currently clicking on a link you have no idea what you're going to get.
There are two shades of this attitude, one of which is good, and one is bad.

Good: technologists who recognize that business people don't deserve to hold all the power just because they control the money. Business people who recognize that they have something to offer, but don't try to turn it into interpersonal power over the (socially weak, often) engineers.

Bad: arrogant asshole brogrammers who think everything that isn't code isn't worthy of respect. Business people who think programmers are a commodity (news flash: we're fucking not and if you staff up with CommodityDevelopers, say hello to VisitorSingletonFactories and goodbye to getting anything done.)

There's a difference between the two. Business people add a lot of value, but there are a lot of arrogant schmucks in that set who detract, and who give the whole set a bad name.

I think the issue is that the correlation between wanting to code and being good at it is positive. For management, it's the reverse. Good managers are not people who want to be bosses, and the people who've wanted to be tech managers since age 19 are huge fucking douchebags. Good managers want to build great things and see management as part of the process in getting there. Shitty managers want to be bosses. Excellence wants to do great things. Mediocrity wants to be great (in title and reputation).

Management (as in, the work) is important and, when done well, worth a person's salary several times over. The problem is that 90% of the people who are trusted to do it, at least in private-sector technology, are fucking horrible at it.
Founder went on to found CircuitHub (YC backed)
He isn't saying that browsers should remove the "Save as..."-feature. However, he is suggesting that browsers and websites should implement the download-attribute, which he believes will make the need for "Save as..." go away in those cases.
Building Free Applications for Children with Autism
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/se7_JpbtPwA&rel=1

Version with different music. Heard it works in other countries.
Before vector notation became popular in the last 1800s, people used quaternions. The three independent square roots of -1 in quaternion notation are i, j, and k. Therefore the use of j or (in need) k as a square root of -1 seems natural to me.

My understanding is that this history is why people in physics - even today - frequently use i, j, and k as the names of the three spatial unit vectors. (The real numbers, of course, represented time.) However I've not personally looked into any of this history, so you should treat my understanding more as hearsay rather than informed comment.
But why not just use a parachute and airbags? They're going to be a vast amount lighter than the fuel you'd need for a rocket landing.
How shops can exploit people's herd mentality to increase sales (2006)
any_range covers the use-case of a generic iterator that doesn't care about the source: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/range/doc/html/ran...

In practice, it's not really useful all that often. It has non-zero overhead so it's not good default choice, and you rarely absolutely need it. Most situations where you'd want to return a value then do something with it can be transformed into passing a callback to the function instead, which lets you use a templated operator() to achieve the same result without the runtime overhead.
From the Firefox normal behaviour, I imagine it would ask you whether you wish to open the file in the OS registered handler or save it. If you tell it to use an external program, FF downloads to temp, not to the Downloads directory.

So, no clusterfuck. Anyhow you are right about the lag caused by downloading the whole file.
GCal will stop to provide CalDAV support come September (https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/caldav)

Google Reader will shut down in July (http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cle...)

I thought I read that Google Talk was shutting down XMPP syndication. However, I can't find a source for that, so that might be wrong.

GMail used to sync using ActiveSync, which is useful for contacts sync. It appears this has been shut down already (http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/winter-cleaning.html)
1 in 150 is consistent with what Wikipedia said (6 in 1000). As we all know, Wikipedia KNOWS EVERYTHING and is NEVER WRONG.

cough

As other people have commented, it's also unclear to what extent this represents increased diagnosis or actually increased levels of the condition; to the extent that it is the former, it's not clear what amount of driving-reduction that translates to. Finally, it's worth noting that there's a 20+ year lag between the conception of a kid who will have an autistic spectrum disorder someday and the day when he or she will be in the twenty-somethings statistical bucket; I'm not sure how that maps onto proposed increases in the incidence of autistic spectrum disorders but we are talking about cohort-1996 and earlier so insofar as there has been an increase in the past few years it's not relevant yet.

And even if it is 5%, and even if that is a lot given that it's a single disorder, what of the rest of the statistic that's 19 times as big?

I'll just go out on a limb and guess that at least half of the change is primarily related to economic circumstance and not incidence of some disease or disorder.
Do you know of any general forums that are thriving, have user-led moderator, and yet rigidly apply their rules to every post?

The previous large ones, like SomethingAwful, certainly don't.

In any case:

1. These aren't paid moderators. Reddit has paid admins, but not moderators, AFAIK. Expecting subreddit moderators to give a crap seems a bit far fetched.

2. I know of nowhere that rigidly applies rules. Even HN doesn't. I know the typical demographic for HN likes bright- line black/white rules, but it's just not the real world.
You misrepresent what happened severely. It isn't the case that this is simply about a bad game. This is about a game which didn't work for the people buying it. Which got great previews and reviews(!) before the issues with their servers arised. And which wasn't even a good game, because it was fundamentally flawed, which at the beginning remained undiscovered.

Furthermore, this is not even about the game at all. It is about the crisis management of EA/Maxis, who simply lied (I doesn't care whether she lied or not, in effect it was a lie) when claiming that the Always-On-DRM, which prevented people from playing the game, was necessary to run the game at all because of server-side calculations.

I think RPS is right to make a story out of this fact. Companies who get away lying their customers and the press should feel consequences of this. All too often, and in EAs case this seems to me especially true, companies who behave unethical create a growing mass of disgruntled players not respecting, and not buying from, that company anymore, which the company can ignore for quite a while when focusing only on quarterly results (and given the arrival of new players all the time), until the negative image becomes so overwhelming that their customer-base collapses.
> If that is a WMD then what classification do we give the bombs that level buildings that have frequently been used in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan?

"Conventional ordnance". Military materiel has long been treated separately from civilian scope though. Just try to buy a gun in Europe if you don't believe me, and then compare and contrast with a German Army armory. Military and civilian are two different worlds.

> The most troubling thing I find about the prosecution is how they listed damaging interstate trade, presumably to keep the death sentence open.

A Chinese national died due to this. That's not only interstate in scope, it's international in scope. "Damaging interstate trade" is the Feds piling on, they could probably easily come up with 14 other ways to ensure jurisdiction remained at the Federal level if they felt like it. Even as much as buying a pressure cooker online and having it shipped from out-of-state would be sufficient to allow Federal jurisdiction.
Have you looked at the methodology for Times Higher Education rankings? It has nothing to do with quality of education. It's based on reputation. I went to a top 20 school that was utterly mediocre and was ranked highly only because of its research prowess.

America having a lot of prestigious research institutions has nothing to do with the quality of primary and secondary education in the country. Half of the PhDs and faculty members in those top American schools got their primary and secondary education in foreign countries.