skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lower development and support costs. (In theory.) If you can ship one build and it runs on every device you care about, that's a huge burden lifted.

It's not there yet for all types of games or applications, for a number of reasons, but the performance aspect of it is gradually coming under control and most of the issue now rests on API functionality and browser compatibility.
Saying "one rogue account rep sanctioned this" (which even that I deeply doubt) is quite a world removed from saying that the company sanctioned it, which was your original statement.
I agree; that's one thing that I notice, especially in an email chain with a lot of people in it. What would you like to see Gmail do about it?
The default behavior for "Tab" on the web is to move to the next element on the Tab order.
The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass
It was terrible. Wage slavery lead to Marxist revolutions. Conditions weren't better in American factories, but we escaped bloody revolution by democratically passing numerous planks of the socialist platform into law. (Limited work hours per week etc.)
Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco
It seems like he's better. From the second page of the article:

>For example, the number of calls to the city’s “311” complaint hotline was considered to indicate which buildings were most in need of attention. More calls equaled more serious problems. But this turned out to be a misleading measure. A rat spotted on the posh Upper East Side might generate 30 calls within an hour, but it might take a battalion of rodents before residents in the Bronx felt moved to dial 311. Likewise, the majority of complaints about an illegal conversion might be about noise, not about hazardous conditions.
Make sure the mouth of the bottle is the proper size for your pump assembly. Sometimes 3L bottles have extra wide mouths.
Also, for an overview of all sorts of automotive engineering for the curious, I highly recommend the Bosch Automotive Handbook [1].

1: http://www.amazon.com/Bosch-Automotive-Handbook-Robert-GmbH/...
It's not "fake prices", it's really gamification since the buyers only go in if they have coupons.
My Dad was a police officer. Had he chosen to indict me for all the stuff I destroyed in the name of science, I'd still be in jail.

Luckily, when he was young, he did similarly stupid things (like chopping down a tree...onto his house). Whenever I'd cause particular mayhem, he'd take me to the local library to learn where my latest experiment had gone badly. Heck, thanks to his good attitude and interest in my passions, by the time I was 14, I could have gotten a job fixing VCRs, computers, televisions, radios, etc.
This i think is the very key point the author was making.

An 'entrepreneur' would look at investors as bags of resources, which he will leverage to enrich himself. To an 'entrepreneur' investment funding is not intrinsically an more important a resource than say the right labor team, etc...

The mindset of the investors have the money so obviously by rationality they must have the upper hand is a key fundamental world view difference between an 'entrepreneur' and a high paid labor.
Ah, you're right. I'm cheap and lazy but this car deserves doing it right. Perhaps the pads are slipped in after the assembly is put together so you don't have to juggle with them while putting it on? Alternate idea: a chunk of the caliper missing reduces unspring weight?
Are you saying Switzerland is not part of the "first world"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland#Gu...

Germany invaded surrounding territories in WWII, but left Switzerland alone.
Using OpenJDK is completely free, as far as I'm aware. Redistributing OpenJDK bits is covered by GPL2 with some Sun/Oracle amendments: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/
NASA smartphone satellites beam clear images of Earth
I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks
It is probably not too small given the prosecutors behavior.

Still, you can't say, "The sample size is too small" in this case. The trials are ruined human lives. It requires we be more proactive. Sometimes we will overcompensate, that's the nature of the beast, but we cannot accumulate a statistically significant number of ruined lives to make decisions because most people only get one and if you take that in the name of answering the question, "Is a prosecutor in sub-urban Florida REEEEALLLLYY Racist?" it's probably not going to go well.

This case doesn't exist in a vacuum. Google around; black kids are in general handled much more roughly by the police and prosecutors.
HN discourages formatting. We don't indent posts, we don't have nested lists.

Gmail and email encourage formatting. You're writing a letter, not a twitter post.
You're right, I didn't know that he hadn't already had a flood of hundreds of emails. However, it was about 4 in the morning in California, so I figured even if he had hundreds of emails, I wouldn't find out quickly. More, I figured that most of the other times something goes wrong at least someone posts to HN asking, and no one had done so.

I was hoping to find out if the problem was unique to me, and I suspected it wasn't. I was half hoping to head off the usual flood of posts that something was wrong and let there be just the one place, and I was certainly not expecting this reaction. I am bewildered at the hostility, and going away to try to understand it. I feel a bit like I've been kicked.
The joy of being 12/13 is that you're still in that cusp between child and semi-adult. You've got enough motor skills and knowledge to be dangerous, but still have the childlike sense of awe that can make things look significantly larger than they are!
I just bought two on an impulse buy. There's really no better time to be a hardware tinkerer.

There are so many awesome kits coming down the pipeline:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1106670630/mojo-digital-...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su...
I realize it's from a different product, but I find that these 'minority' cases in Google products are often summed up by:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=223070#c...

"Why was this closed if we're leaving it for future consideration?"

"Because it's asking for an option and we don't do options."
http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/the-case-a...

P.S., How many young black children's lives being unfairly altered is "a significant dataset" for you to answer the question, "Is a white prosecutor in sub-urban Florida _really_ racist?" I'd like to know the actual number.
That's a pretty broad statement. It seems like what he's written is that it's gotten worse for someone with his use cases, which I'm not arguing (and I fall in that camp.) But we're also not representative of the average email user, which we sometimes have a tendency to forget when judging product changes.
It solves the problem for the most part, which is what's important here. We're not building a rocket.
Ah, I remember seeing the Bose videos and wondering when it would hit the market. I'm also waiting for those airless spoked tires!

Mercedes and BMW have their own active suspension systems that are standard in the high-end models, not sure if they look as magic as Bose's.
The government wants those things, so long as those who make it are white, nerdy guys with a perfect school record.

In other words, people who are not the least dangerous.
No Starch joins in "Day Against DRM" (50% off all ebooks)
Surrounding Yourself With Other Startups Won't Accelerate Your Company's Growth
Thank you for sharing those great lists.
My concern is not (just) with respect to video streams. Introducing DRM in turn introduces an avenue for locking up content wholesale.

And, akin to mandated security backdoors, once a feature is introduced, it tends to be used not just as planned or anticipated but in every fashion someone can conceive.

For many concerned about the Web and the Internet, the malicious abuser in this case becomes private entities using such DRM channels to balkanize and privatize the Internet on a wholesale level.

[Aside: In writing the previous sentence, I experienced an interesting typo: "wholescale". I didn't immediately notice it, in part because it at a term makes a certain amount of sense, itself.]

Let's return to the video stream paradigm. Anecdotally, my streaming Netflix experience has, rather than becoming better with time and presumed advancement, instead become increasingly crap as content providers have declined to renew contracts in favor of their own separate distribution channels. As the consumer, I'm looking at 3,4, 5, and more separate accounts (each at at least circa $10/month, and sometimes significantly more) now in order to stream the same content.

I fear that with "ubiquitous DRM", combined with other changes happening in surveillance, legal prosecution, et al., we may be looking at the privatization of the public communication that has, to this point, made the Web and the Internet what they are.

TL;DR: I fear that integrated DRM gives entrenched parties too large of a stick to use in insisting: My way, or not at all.
Not Just Child’s Play: Video Games Could Slow Mental Decline
If the VPS is automatically provisioned and billed by the hour, it is "cloudy"
In a debate between what the government wants and what the rest of the world needs, I'm going to go with the latter, pretty much every time.
Ugh, been contemplating the same question for a few months now. I want to do this so bad I can taste it, but the fact is, I don't have any ideas on how to spend the time yet...
The Real Reason ARM Will Menace Intel in the Data Center
Has the UK abolished copyright? Analysis of new orphan work legislation
I appreciate the effort the mods take in curating titles, I really do - but please spare articles like this at least?

I clicked on this link at work (part-time at grad-school) and now I have a "how to run a pornographic website faster" link logged in my name.
Rapportive works great for me, it is an awesome tool.
Visualisation of travel patterns of bikes sharing system in Paris
The gas expansion is extremely fast - you're basically turning a few pounds of dry ice from solid to gas + water vapor in a matter of seconds.

With the pressures involved, if the top isn't on securely, shooting the top off is the path of least resistance.
I agree. Though only if he used a plastic bottle. My father and I did this when I was in middle school. He (stupidly) held it in his hand. All it did was make a very loud boom, and not a two foot hole in his arm.
Why Balanced is an open company
This is very cool. It is kind of a fiddler on the web. It is interesting that I saw something similar but with fiddler in the morning: http://www.devcurry.com/2013/05/testing-crud-operations-in-a...
>>The total paid to them was $40 000 for a new truck and that's it. Both these woman were struck by bullets from cops just spraying them with bullets, its amazing. Sorry for going off a tangent but this irritates me.<<

According to this article[1] they are getting a 4.2million dollar settlement. I think it is fair.

[1]http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/04/just-in-latina-...
yes, they are. What I meant to get it is that the OP is probably talking about equity-based employment benefit programs, not trading options in the open market.
I've been getting into reading about science lately, and I also wanted to learn responsive design.

This isn't much, but I thought it looked nice, and now I know media queries!
I just launched something almost exactly the same a fortnight ago - e.ndpoint.com - POST/PUT/DELETE support coming soon.
An open letter to frustrated 20-somethings
It's interesting how internet companies are taking authority over many things away from official entities that nominally should have that authority.

For example owning the domain name is more important than registering a trademark for that name.
I feel like some of the icons (PayPal and WordPress in particular) are animated for the sake of being animated.

overall, I feel that making every little button wiggle when I mouse over it would be distracting rather than helpful. I can't see myself using these.
maybe charities can exploit the methods that games use? badges, avatars... something to differentiate paying and sharing users without scaring away the sharing folks while rewarding the donors.
Twitter and Internet of Things
Oh man. It seems like every company you wind up working for is totally evil. Sorry to hear.
If you have to do stupid tricks such as concatenate statements with ; and create long lines, it's not a useful trick.

In general, reading even the original code, the author doesn't understand Ruby or OO in general. A number of the items would be one-liners with an improved application of theory rather than syntactic rewriting. If the goal is just golfing, then #map and possibly rockets would be better choices.

If I wanted less maintainable code in a shorter line count, I would use a mechanical obfuscator.
Heck, my high school science teacher brought dry ice and a bunch of little plastic bottles to the last-day-of-school party!

My dad is the headmaster of a K-8 school (that's 5-13ish years old) and the graduating class bought him a .22 rifle which they presented during graduation in the school building. He said "Well, you can tell this isn't a public school!" :)
I thought this was absurd so looked it up. Apparently most cars these days have metal pads, so both the pads and rotor wear equally. I'd never heard of that, all the small city cars I've had always had pads made of rubber/ceramic material.
Oh wow, this is kind of fun. Might definitely use on some of my quirkier sites. Thanks OP
Show HN: Overlord - An OpenFlow control plane application
This shouldn't BE a problem in the first place... and that's just the problem.
The post I was replying to suggested that the government should not be punishing someone who could do great work in relevant chemistry work. My point was that the government may have a need for rockets and bombs, but that they will find the chemists with a conservative approach to science and work ethics rather than free thinkers. I do agree that the world needs more free thinkers, but the government does have substantial power in determining what sort of people will do society's intellectual work.

For what it's worth, this is a problem that goes back a long way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates
My biggest gripe is the lack of a shortcut key to refresh/check for new mail without refreshing the page... everything else is just background noise compared to the lack of a shortcut key for refresh/check for new mail.
Wow, that's a whopper. (the bit about cookie stuffing being normal)

As I understand it, they would do something like this: on every 1 of 10,000 page views (to Digital Point's forums, or other sites), they would embed a page from eBay (as the source of an image), which had their affiliate code in it. The visitor was none the wiser.

Keep in mind digital point gets a ton of traffic. Though only a small percentage had a cookie dropped, it added up to many.

Purely through coincidence, some of these people would later buy something on eBay in the next 30 days, earning them a commission. Its hard to argue they earned the commission, TOS or otherwise.
Anatomy of a Robocar Accident
This is actually pretty entertaining. I always thought of the Photoshop interface to "alright", but I may reconsider my position.
> Why? It provided absolutely no value to them. Actually worse, it cost them affiliate fees on sales that rightfully would have been affiliate fee free.

Well, it provided value to ebay's affiliate manager who could boast about how much revenue his affiliate program drives in. In a big corporation there are many factions. :)
I’ll make an exception to being vague about my personal details (although this is my personal HN account) and chime in with something eerily relevant.

At my school, we literally had a chemistry teacher who went by the name Bombe Bo (Bob the Bomber, if you fancy a quasi-translation of the Danish moniker). The teachers amiably called him by the name as well—possibly because he once set an adult’s hair on fire during one of his experiments.

He was, is, possibly the most beloved teacher at the school, and he was known for—you guessed it!—blowing things up. The man would seize any opportunity to make something go boom, and we all loved him for it.

At our final class with him before graduation, he assigned his students to mix, I believe, bromide and acetone (and some). The students just saw it as another experiment, but as some of you have already realized

... unbeknownst to them, the students
had created tear gas!

To add insult to injury, he had brought a camera to snap photos of everyone’s faces. The guy was a black-belt in pranks.

It was inconceivable for students not to love the guy—he was also one of the nicest people in the world and never had to scold anyone—ever. Because as hard as the course material could be, it was impossible to hate him—and chemistry.
There should be an additional choice for people who have options but aren't able to cash them out yet.

That would offer a view into the percentage of people who stay at a startup long enough to exercise their options.
Ask HN: On a 'contact us page', do you like e-mails or forms?
When you run into a website that says 'contact us', do you prefer

a) an e-mail displayed
or
b) a contact us form?

thoughts?
This was probably the most important discovery I made in the startup process. Helps guarantee that you make something people want.
I created a Github issue to address the upgrade to 3.2.13, and pfalls is working on getting this done.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/24...

I encourage you to benchmark Rails 4 yourself and see if there is a measurable difference from the latest 3.2.x, to get a preview of the impact it will have. When Rails 4 is released we'll definitely want to upgrade to that.

Edit: pfalls is too fast for me, and just completed the upgrade to 3.2.13 and closed the issue. The next round will use Rails 3.2.13.
That was probably BananaBread (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread), which uses a different engine.
it's Ockham's razor time:

Cookie-stuffing results in a significant cost to eBay and no additional revenue. No sane company would sanction it (beyond maybe turning a blind eye to someone doing the odd bit of cookie-stuffing if they earned most of their commission on driving real sales). Of course, plenty of sane companies that have departments that don't talk to each other about ongoing investigations and sales guys focused on next month's commission...

The program managers' role was to encourage an apparently very effective affiliate marketer to drive more real traffic to eBay, whether that was because they believed most of his referrals were genuine, thought they could persuade him to switch strategy to actually doing real marketing for eBay or simply adopting a business-as-usual approach whilst waiting for the fraud investigation to conclude. Either way, by his own admission Hogan wasn't remotely interested in investing in actually driving traffic to eBay even if they provided additional cash to support it...
I've heard good things about http://apiary.io on this front as well...
Sort of? I can definitely see design elements from Wave in what I'm suggesting; maybe more like a collaborative/group version of www.mailboxapp.com.
> So, they take their free to play game, and add the ability to customize your characters in ways that don't affect gameplay that make them money, and they have all of a sudden ruined the integrity of the game?

I haven't played any TF2 and don't have any strong opinions on it, I just wanted to point out that it wasn't originally free to play. It was released as part of The Orange Box in 2007 and went free about 4 years later.
You are also paying for superior quality ingredients.

Agreed, that is part of it. But I will contend that a 4x increase in price does not reflect a 4x increase in the quality of the ingredients. Now, granted, that's all very subjective and hard to measure. And all I have is anecdotal evidence, but on the occasions when I have found myself paying $80.00 or more for a steak, I've never finished it and thought "wow that was 4 times better than the $20.00 steak I had last week".

If you're only getting grocery store quality ingredients at a fine dining restaurant, you're getting ripped off.

Fair enough. I agree that ingredients do matter, just not sure they fully justify the higher price of the nicer restaurants. Having grown up at the coast, near Holden Beach, NC, I got used to eating very fresh seafood. Now, when I have seafood further inland, I can definitely notice a difference based on the ingredients not being as fresh. That actually leads to a bit of a paradox... some restaurants, just due to their location, will never be able to replicate the best possible seafood experience, due to the need to transport ingredients. So the $50.00 seafood meal you eat at a restaurant in, say, St. Louis, probably won't be as good in some regards as a $15.00 meal you could have in Calabash, NC, just due to geography.
None of this has changed due to gains in womens' rights, so using them as an example to rail against the pursuance of womens' rights makes you appear more of a crank than interested in any amount of equality.

Asking for both of those to be examined? Fine!
Spitting venom towards gender equality because your pet causes aren't given enough interest? That reflects poorly on you.
Yes. IIRC they tightened up the laws about buying those engines after 9/11 but later loosened them again.

If you are launching large rockets then the FAA has some rules, but that is nothing new.
Right. But you didn't do it during school.

edit: Do I really need to point out that 2 felonies for this is obviously a gross overreaction by authorities and I hope all charges are dropped? That said, if you don't agree that it was universally horrible judgement to make a drano bomb during school, then there really isn't much to discuss between us and you can carry on downvoting (although I hope none of you are in charge of my future children). my longform response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5651593
Curse you off-by-one errors!
Why The Kiera Wilmot Situation Is Bad For America
Don't work for the fbi, they're fucking bastards.
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/6959/contact-form-or-m...
American exceptionalism, which amounts to calling America the best because "we're the best", not because of our product.
Uh-huh. Look, within living memory of people I've shared a siddur with at synagogue, a decidedly first-world population attempted to try and stuff my entire people up a crematorium stack.

And people wonder why I'm a life member of the NRA.
There seems to be this tendency for good UIs to degrade over time. A good UI usually comes from someone who knows the basic principles of good UI design: unit economy, intuitiveness, ergonomics, simplicity/minimalism, uniformity, etc. But then, later, people "improve" on this original design template.
this isn't any better than using a live server for testing.

Build a good client library for your applications to use, mock the client library and don't worry about tests failing because of availability problems.
Our app WebCode (http://www.webcodeapp.com) makes creating Canvas-based graphics like these much easier. It is a vector drawing app that instantly generates JavaScript Canvas code.
I disagree. Anything that improves the 'this is not spam' rating is helpful even incrementally. Then once all the email clients support it it's a huge win. Combine that with proper digital envelops (i.e. encrypt all email), and we might finally have a proper email system.
Ha no...I just randomly typed in symbols. Guess it does look kind of "wordish" though.