skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been my experience in Europe with Star Alliance. By the time you pay all the fees you're paying the same as in a low cost airline.
In the article, Crabapple describes Guantanamo as "a factory consuming money, morals, and decades of human life." The counterpoint that governments (plural, not just the US) are making is that Guantanamo is now a factory for seething hatred that, given the opportunity, would produce new, fanatical warriors for violent jihad. No country wants to take these men on because of this perceived risk. Honestly, given the nature of indefinite detention, most humans probably would harbor a deep-seated hatred for their captors. I'm not saying it's right, but that's the other side of the argument.
Here is the actual site: https://upsource.jetbrains.com/ Although it appears to be down right now.
I see people are asking why build a website. Maybe they want to build a userbase and expand to other skips too(such as hulu skip).
Isn't what google does against human rights?

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Huma...
Yochai Benkler on the NSA
Isn't it exactly a very useful benchmark if you are going to use the phone primarily for browsing webpages with javascript on them?
>The point of punishment is to make the victim feel better.

Why should taxpayers have to pay for stone-age, eye-for-an-eye vengeance? Harsh sentencing is expensive.
When Having a Job Doesn’t Mean Having a Home
Sort of, except in that analogy people like Dijkstra and Knuth are saying "this is a big deal, let's take a closer look".
So, he took advantage of a promotion in a way the manufacturer did not intend, lied to grocery store employees to explain why he was depriving hundreds of other customers of delicious pudding while concurrently ruining pudding as a treat for his children, and caused his wife to physically harm herself peeling product codes from plastic packaging which he then I guess sent to a single landfill? Just so he could travel for free? And we're lauding this accomplishment?
Unix/Linux Tutorial
A few weeks ago I attended a party in that penthouse as part of Puppet Conf, which was held at the Fairmont. It is an incredible place, but the advertised rate of $15k/night made me quite certain that would be my only visit.

Unfortunately the "secret door" in the library was locked so it was not possible to take a look at the helipad.

$2k for lifetime membership to the Fairmont Platinum club is a good deal, nice one!
Dear parents, you need to control your kids. Sincerely, non-parents
Rsync Practical Examples of Command in Linux
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Corona. I did a couple of games natively on Android, and now trying to make one in Corona, and it seems to be an easier route.

One big negative (if it applies) is it's 2D, whereas Unity is 3D.

It also doesn't support as many devices, for example doesn't support windows mobile, but still majority of users will be android/iOS.

I'm mentioning it only here to see if there's another thing I'm overlooking, and should switch to something else.
Surely YouTube's lawyer-sense must be tingling.
A Green Car Named Desire
Well...

First of all, the fact that this promotion earned miles which could qualify for some type of frequent-flyer status (elite-qualifying miles, or EQMs, to use the jargon) was basically the dumbest thing ever. And EQMs these days are difficult to come by through means other than actually buying a ticket and getting on the plane; typically, only promotions which will actually earn money for the airline can earn EQMs, and even those will have strict caps on them (I have a US Airways club membership and credit card, for example, and IIRC I can't pick up more than about 15k EQMs/year from the combination of them).

That by itself gives a lot more flexibility in dealing with "abuse" of promotions, since non-qualifying miles are only useful to be redeemed for travel. And there are endless ways to cap that:

* Blackout dates to avoid too many "free" seats during peak paid-travel times of the year.

* Dynamic fare-bucket management, allowing the number of redeemable seats on any given flight to be adjusted up or down on the fly, along with confusing schedules for when the mileage-redeemable fare classes open for booking.

* Limiting availability of redeemable seats on alliance partners, making it impractical or impossible to plan longer itineraries as mileage awards.

* Fees for mileage redemption, ranging from simple processing fees up to things like British Airways' stupendous "fuel surcharge" (which can make a "free" business- or first-class ticket cost roughly as much actual cash as a fully-paid economy-class fare).

etc., etc.

And the trend now is toward revenue-based status programs, where qualifying for frequent-flyer status requires not just a minimum number of miles but also a certain minimum number of actual dollars spent, on that specific airline's flights. That eliminates the more lucrative type of mileage-run since low-cost but high-mileage itineraries no longer help with reaching status.

More generally, though, I think the airlines have moved toward no longer considering "frequent flyers" as important as they once did. Frequent business travelers are relevant, of course, but the strong preference is for the types of folks whose corporate travel department just pays the fare the airline asks for, rather than people who spend hours on travel-search sites trying to find the optimal combo of high mileage/low fare.
I'm not remotely qualified to comment on the content, but I was very lucky to have Nima as a professor in college. He was an incredibly exciting lecturer--he practically glowed with intellectual energy.
Ask HN: Has the HN article ranking algorithm changed?
Over the last few days, I've noticed that fewer new articles appear to be hitting the first and second pages of HN each day. It's as though the attrition rate has gone down. So, what's up?
Insomnia sucks.

"Sleep Hygiene" is excellent, and helps many people. (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Insomnia/Pages/Treatment.aspx)

This is, put very simply, 'avoid stimulation, keep to a routine, fix the environment'.

Personally, if that's not working I had good experiences with Zopiclone. (Use it for 4 days to kick myself back into a routine. Don't use it for more that 14 days running or you get rebound insomnia).

Obviously, this isn't medical advice and I'm not a doctor and some serious conditions can affect sleep or wakefulness.
I hear you.

But as we all know it's been a ripe area for disruption since the 1970's. :)

At the moment it's less to do with software as it is to do with the way we share the resultant information, of which there are emerging international standards. MCAD is not my speciality but I don't think I've seen a standard for handling parametrics. Unfortunately closed standards are hard enough to get governments and industry to adopt let along open ones.

If you want a solid object modeller with parametrics that's open source and you can compile yourself, check out BRL-CAD.
Link to original submitted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390829
So they passed the same certification level (FIPS 140-2) that the recently broken smartcards received?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/fatal-crypto-flaw-in...
This would be work great as a university course. New grads usually don't know a lot about designing and building a production system and this can certainly be a lot of help.
Pretty sure that means the government can get the data at any point they want, right? Sounds secure to me!
https://thoughtstreams.io/glyph/they-lives/
Firefox on OSX now supports MP3 files
Ah, missed that part. Personally I'd still like to have the aesthetics of a case without the 5.25" slot, though if I had a way to hide it away from view it wouldn't matter.
Indeed. It's a pity DTrace is not available in Linux (there are two ports, none work for real work). It's also a pity DTrace in OS X is starting to bit rot.
I think the thing is that you cant change policies on your users companies
"And they’ve started a transition to platform-wide 64-bit computing years ahead of their competition."

This guy is really awesome predicting years in advance what Apple's competitors will do.
HN effect :) Thanks, guys, working to get it up now.
Kaiser charges a $100 copay for ER visits. $50 does not sound too outlandish.

The bigger question is why GenY thinks a simple fever is cause for helping to overcrowd our emergency rooms even further. A thermometer costs $20 and will help determine if the fever is severe enough to require medical intervention.
"Obama claims his hands are tied"

Its a pity he's not Commander in Chief of the military. Then he could issue orders to soldiers in charge of a military facility. Perhaps whoever is the Commander in Chief should step forward and solve the problem.

I am well aware of the true arguments that he would be unable to defund or outright eliminate the facility, Congress would have to do that. It is WELL within his ability to, say, directly order all prisoners released, or order all troops to leave the facility and no troops to re-enter the facility.
Not necessarily. Technology can go from 'gimmick' to 'wow' in a few years. For example, faster CPUs or improved software may have decreased both the false positive and true negative probabilities.

I don't know whether that applies here, though. I have no experience with either the 'old' and the 'current' technology, and this review does not give much info, either.
We're looking into it. It's still 'early' EAP :).
PHP Tutorial - How To Display Random Ads
Yup, looking forward to checking it out once it's up
On the other hand, if your development turnaround time is measured in seconds (due to fast compiles from a good toolchain) it really doesn't matter what you're programming in. C with a good set of libraries backing it up is probably just fine.
Oh I must have missed that in those T&Cs I signed when I visited their publicly available website...
Great article PG. I'd like to see more case studies on a successful fundraise at the individual level. How much foreplY do you need before you ask them to bed? How many initial meetings will here likely be? How long does this take?
> If you aren't smart enough [to safely code a website in C...] the first clue that you aren't is that you think that you are

Gee, isn't that epistemology at its finest. Personally I've never met anyone who programmed in C because they were too dumb to learn anything else, but who knows. You may however be aware that, before an HTTP packet even makes it to your shiny, scripty web page, it's often processed by a succession of "segfault-y" and "arbitrary-code-running" software such as Apache and Linux.
Incorrect. Everybody gets the government the majority voted forth.

If there are two smart people in the room, and eight stupid people, the stupid people are gonna get what they want. At least if they stay in the room. If they're smart and have money they'll leave the room and buy the whole building - controlling all rooms in the building. I'm talking about the banksters and the bankster's masters (and maybe their masters also, I'm unsure as to how many levels of control exist).

Us little people are all getting fucked, no matter the color nor the wealth. We're not as rich and powerful as the people who are doing the fucking anyways.
The typical redemption estimate of a mile is 1 cent. Often $250 tickets are 25,000 miles, $500 tickets are 50,000 miles, etc. When you find a $1000 ticket for 25,000 use miles. I've seen $600 tickets for 125,000 miles. That's a bad use of miles.

Many credit cards give you about 1% bonus (points, miles, whatever) and miles cards give you a mile per dollar spent. 1% of a dollar is 1 cent. So this math makes sense.

He got 1000 miles for 2.50. If each mile is worth 1 cent, that's a 4x benefit. Great, but not amazing. He got a tax deduction too, so maybe it was a 5-6x benefit. Sounds like a bit of a hassle, but the other perks sound great.

Anyway, the article should say $15,000 worth of miles. The airline might sell them to you for $150,000 but that's why you should never buy miles unless there's a tiny gap in what you have/need for a flight. For example, United will sell you 50,000 miles for $1881.25 which you can then redeem for a ~$500 ticket and not earn miles on that flight.
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule (In Plain English)
15MB of Big Data.
This seems like an urban legend to me, but your username made my day ;-)
>The American body politic is suffering a severe case of auto-immune disease: our defense system is attacking other critical systems of our body.

Great analogy.
I can't help it, but I could only envision the tiny stickers that emblazon every non-Mac laptop out there with a new, and proud, banner: MCB - Microsoft Certified Backdoor.

In all seriousness - it's in their best interest to push forward as if nothing has changed. Keep in mind the majority still has little to no idea regarding the extent of the data that's been disseminated regarding the NSA thanks to the way the US media deems things appropriate to report.
I would imagine that Go has the advantage of being significantly faster than Racket. Although if people still loves to do things in Ruby maybe performance is less than a concern in web development.
"How do you deal with your unproductive days?"

I use all caps and bold letters a lot.
SideTour has been acquired by Groupon
It's a hack if there ever was one.
Python's single dispatch, a step towards Common Lisp's generic functions
To an extent, I see what you're saying. However, I didn't take this particular linked "tapestry" as a "join this site" mechanic. Well, I think the last slide said join or something, but I don't get the correlation at all between the content of that slide set and desiring to join the site. Is Tapestry intended to show data visualizations like this or something? I didn't get that vibe from it.

If people had concerns like these, then maybe I'd agree with you. If all people can focus on is the UX of a site, as they tend to with ANY post, be it Show HN or otherwise, I stick with me original statement.
"It feels slick but not slippery".

Well I'm glad it not slippery like all those cheap plastic phones everyone else makes.

But hold on a minute, doesn't slick mean "slippery"?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slick

The other meanings are strangely apposite too.
I got excited there for a second thinking that this will be, among other things, a continuous integration tool, but it is not presented as that. Yet?
... took advantage of ... in a way ... did not intend ...

At least this first part seems close to most definitions of hacking I know.
I agree on the car swapping thing. Still, this Formula e concept is in its infancy, both from a technology and business perspective. If this new motorsport takes-off, with big manufacturers & sponsors backing it, I can only expect positive technological breakthroughs.
Where does the screen go? Does he throw a large LCD in front of the entire thing or mount several smaller screens in the gaps?
Focusing on the fingerprint unlock thing. I'm curious how this is going to evolve. I wonder if this will be the new two-factor auth. If I want to log into a website (via Safari of course) on my Macbook Pro, do I have to swipe my finger on my iPhone? I wonder if something like this could start replacing passwords (long-term)?
They do already have that tool, you know? https://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/overview
(but I think Upstream has every chance of blowing it out of the water)
Apple iPhone 5s: Processor and Graphics Performance Revealed in Benchmarks
Least you get your video faster, YouTubes advertising is much more invasive and irritating
I think it's hard to say. Depends on the phone, the plan, and so on. Not a lot of transparency in the process -- An unlocked iPhone is $650, or $27/month over the life of the contract. That would likely make up a big portion of the monthly bill, were it to be broken out separately in the statement.
Why the US spends so much on health care, in one video.
It's nothing to do with T&Cs, it's to do with not being a leeching asshole.

Pay for the content you want. Don't pay for the content you don't want. Don't take without paying the content you do want.
Interesting choice in wording (emphasis mine:)

"I no longer have to sit at my desk pretending to complete tasks, as the only person I am cheating is myself."
It seems to me that Liberal America is fine with de facto concentration camp being run within its borders as long as it is run by a black liberal. The same goes with all the wars. Bush would promise that, you'd be all over him and you know it. Democrats are hypocrites as fascist as war mongering right. Talk the talk and then never walk the walk. Why to have a president then? Just to listen to lies?
Interesting thing that he mentions in the beginning something like "Amplituhedron is so simple I could explain it to high-school students". I'd sure love to hear that explanation as my knowledge of physics/maths is not much better than that of hs students.

edit: Also the hand-written presentation slides are lovely.
Apple stimulates brain's religious responses, claims BBC

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-stimulates-brains-reli...

I guess this isn't true just for Apple, but for other major brands as well.
Why would you need a beacon on the toilet when you could just keep one in your pocket or on your wrist at all times?
Congratulations on your first web app!

Here's my feedback:
-I don't like the stock photos... they make it look like a shady website in the 90s.

-The timer on the register page is too much. I don't see any reason for it and for the target audiance you are aiming at functionality should be way more important than speed.

-The design needs work, you don't have to hire a professional or anything, if you want you can find great templates for good prices. They are a good STARTING POINT.

-"Estoque de comprimidos atual"? I don't know what is this, I can't proceed...

While my feedback can be a bit harsh don't get demoralized! the first app is always a great adventure!

Good luck!
I answered this in my reply to pgcsmd, but additionally: I don't have kids but my taxes supplement education. I don't drive, but my taxes supplement roadworks. Likewise, my taxes also supplement justice.

Now the US prison system has become a corrupt business - and that's a separate and awful issue. But the fundamental ethical basis for punishment stands: you steal money, you pay it back - you deal emotional trauma, you pay it back.
Dropbox via Camera Upload, plus Time Machine, and a 2nd external hard drive I use to create bootable backups of my MBP.
So don't comment if it doesn't interest you.
that smacks of a lack of resolve

This is what political scientists call "green lanternism". That's the phrase they use to make fun of people like you, i.e., people who insist that leaders can break institutional constraints by sheer force of will whenever they please. American government is complex and has a great many more veto points than peer governments. This complexity is annoying, so there's a natural tendency to just wish it all away and assert that the President can do whatever he wants.

(such as threatening to resign

Is this a joke? Do you not understand that Obama resigning is the best possible outcome for the majority of the House and almost a majority of the Senate? You can't credibly threaten someone by offering to do something they desperately want you to do. You understand that, right?

if congress won't bend on this or playing hardball in return on every other subject

The Senate has voted 98-0 against transferring Gitmo detainees to the US. I don't think they'd vote so strongly against Hitler. Congressmen have decided that having Gitmo detainees in the US is political suicide. Whether they're wrong about that is irrelevant.
Was this a negative effect? I stayed in the same place as a child but I could see a major benefit from experiencing different places and having to learn how to interact with new people. it wouldn't be easy as a child but there could be some lo g term benefits.
Reality Editor: Programming Smarter Objects
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant, or if those aren't your cup of tea there is always piracy.
I'm not against ads in a general way, but forcing me to see an advertisement before letting me access the content, oh that pisses me off.

Looks like a great service, easier to remember and apply it (just typing 'skip' on the url, awesome).

I used to use the URL http://youtube.com/v/[video id]. Dunno if still works, but it didn't displayed those 5 second ads plus would still play a video that requires login even if you are not.
What this new series, with a lot of skeptics, do not need is an electrical accident.

So, I think is a safety reason. You can get one hell of a shock off these systems. Also, I'm sure the Williams' F1 KERS fire is in the back of many people's minds, even if not directly related.

I'm not sure weight distribution is the real reason since batteries can be shaped and conveniently packaged. They could fairly easily have long thin flat batteries running down the side pods, which could physically be swapped and secured. So, I do think its the disconnect/connect danger.

Swapping cars is clumsy, but I'm sure over time capacity and efficiency will increase leading to no stops for power.
Also a user. Another big use case is developing for mobile against the planned API while the API is still being developed.

And for systems where the API is provided by several different apps rather than just one, it's nice to have a centralized spec for everyone to conform to. Eventually it's supposed to test your api against your spec, which would be nice.
agreed, disco is really great becuase you can easily get access to the file descriptor which has your data, then you can load it however way you want
"5 certainly equals 2. Regardless of whether 5 equals 2, 5 is a number!"
Racket is not only a great language. It's also a great developing environment, a great community.

And unlike most other languages, it's out of box support for Windows is perfect.
> That is not possible with stateful systems, like those based in doing updates over a database.

Could you elaborate? This sounds like the NoSQL argument that relational databases are "not agile", which usually means relational databases complain that you have records that won't logically fit the changes you just made.
I couldn't disagree harder with your assertion that society exists independently of the humans in it. Remove the human element from society and you're left with an inhumane society. A system that comes before the people in it. That then leads to perverse conclusions such as the idea that a gross violation against an individual member of society is not a violation against society, and conversely, that there can exist crimes against society that doesn't actually hurt any members of it (such as non-violent possession of drugs).
New things to learn for ECMAScript 6 (summary list)
Why do we keep playing this like a competition? I'm sure someone could put together an equally valid post about why Go is "better" than Racket. It's frustrating how so many people forget that we're all in this together, how every language has it's pros and cons, and how our job is to pick the best tool for the job.
Wow. Why don't poor people just make more money? Problem solved.
are taking free seats and upgrades from frequent fliers who have actually earned their miles from BIS

"actually earned"? For reals?

I really, honestly do not get the various negative posts about this. Promotions like this -- just like "earned" air miles -- are all a battle between providers and consumers to optimize their revenue and to minimize your benefit.

Providers offer deals to get you to buy products (like pudding), with every hope of paying out the absolute minimum in actual benefits. They optimize every aspect of such deals, generally, putting just enough exclusions and annoyances that the actual take is profitably low. If someone on the consumer end is optimizing as well, bully for them.
Why should we pay for content? Surely, there's some other model.