skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Health insurance is complicated because for most people, it's so much more than just insurance. It's prepaying $300 a month so you don't have to pay $200 to visit the doctor once per year. No, I don't know why people do that. You're right that paying $100 a month for "please reattach my severed limbs" insurance is more affordable. Terminology be damned, that's possibly what people mean by "self-insured". They pay day to day expenses out of pocket.
Isn't that also because rendering SVG on screen is way, way slower than using PNG or JPG images? There was a comparison done half a year ago between the same page full of icons rendered using PNG vs SVG and the SVG version was sluggish as hell. And that was on desktop, you can only imagine how worse would the performance be on mobile devices...
There's this entire platform of users who develop in a magical language called C# and run entirely on Microsoft platform. It might just catch on and get quite popular.

The Microsoft world might also be used by large corporations, who also happen to have lots of money, with which you can buy things like software.

(There's also these other platforms based on *nix, but meh :-p)
awesome, whats your email? Lets coordinate
Google AdSense At War With Kate Upton, Cheerleaders, Blogs, And GQ
Facebook fluffing social TV numbers?
Be Proactive, Not Reactive - how to effectively get on the maker's schedule
Got accepted! Anyone flying in from Toronto?
I feel you. A girl I dated passed away and her family deleted all of her social media accounts. I was already still coping with losing her in the real world and then she instantly vanished from the online world too. There were pictures of her and me that I no longer have access to, and our conversations now show up with a blank face (Facebook chat was the last way we communicated). The only remnant I could find of her online was an Etsy account. She had a wishlist on there with a few items on it and so I bought something she had picked and it is hanging on my wall right now.
In the bay area, Flex devs make > $100/hour, pretty much implying a 6 figure annual rate. Maybe the 5 figures are from another area or country.

As a former Flex developer, I must admit that Flex was the best thing that ever happened to web development, but unfortunately the Flash team wasn't strong enough to bring the runtime to mobile with enough quality. Building a RIA in Flex was so incredibly easy, and debugging was easy, and you really could use anything you wanted for a backend (I've used Perl, PHP, and Java). Bidirectional data binding, an excellent widget library, and a lot of help from the default IDE (custom build of Eclipse) allowed me to build software, full stack, with an engineering team of 1 on a weekly release cycle.

I've spent more time debugging HTML5/JS/CSS than building entire applications in Flex. The AdvancedDataGrid component alone was worth the price of admission.
Browxy reaches 2000 users and keeps growing
browxy.com an online java compiler keeps growing among US and India Universities.
Stealth Economic Trends
I think the advice of the others is definitely the side to err on; that said, I almost never have spam get through to my inbox on gmail. Once per month, perhaps.

I've had my email on display on my homepage at various times.
Where banks are both safe and profitable
Nice! I'll observe that they definitely spent more than 10 minutes making that.
I sucked at it for the longest time, but every now and then, I'd have an incredible run of luck. A 10-year-old Gordon Gekko, I crushed it on Wall Street, bought the boat, the houses, and even the family castle (why I bought the castle from my own family trust, I'm not really sure; in retrospect, I assume it was some sort of complex inheritance-tax-evasion mechanism).

Lots of fun! Unfortunately, I grew up to be considerably less successful and, at least for now, castleless. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney%E2%80%93client_privile...
So the instrument panel contains essentials, but lacks company specific procedures. For example: Each airline has a different 'start up' procedures for their planes, even the planes they all have, like the 737. It also lacks the thousands of pages of documentation and instructional manuals that are often never used, but required to have.

Those documents can get to be +7MB at times, which isn't great if there's no wifi or spotty 3G access. The reason you need internet is because the handbooks are changing constantly, and there are lots of them.

What they are adding, at least South West, is a place to mount your tablet in the cockpit, and it's pretty nice how it's positioned (I'd have to ask my gf's dad for the picture he showed me).

All in all, it's a great move, and I've heard great feedback from pilots using them.
I agree that getting up and moving is good for you, so having lunch delivered to your desk is probably not the best idea.

That said, it reminds me of a funny story. At Sun (Mtn View) we would go to La Cosentena[1] and get burritos, you could fax in an order for 'will call' and pick it up which made things a bit smoother. An engineer decided to show off the distributed object technology Sun was building with an example app called 'burrito tool' that you could select your burrito and it would fax it to La Cosentena for pickup.

It was great, and fun, and we bragged about it. Then some enterprising Sales Engineer made a copy and took it with him for use at a trade show. We showed up for lunch and none of our burritos were made, they explained they had been getting hundreds of faxed in burrito orders all morning and stopped making them when nobody came to pick them up. Sure enough, Burrito Tool, even from the floor of the conference in New York city, found the Object request broker back at HQ and forwarded Burrito requests to the real object back in Mtn View. Holy bogus burritos!

[1] http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-coste%C3%B1a-mountain-view-2
Windows Phone doubles share in Europe, trails iPhone by only 1% in Germany
If your SVG file is properly crafted (viewBox & maybe preserveAspectRatio attributes) then you can do this:

<object type="image/svg+xml" width="640" height="480" data="http://example.com/image.svg">
<img src="http://example.com/image.png"/>
</object>
To be fair, I think some kind of assembler (such as z80 or 6502) probably would be much easier to learn than any subset of C.
I think it's likely it's one of the top 100 by traffic, but (not to belittle the achievements of the Stack Exchange guys) I'm sure there's at least 100 bigger sites out there by code/infrastructure.

Flight booking systems come to mind. I don't know how many web applications Microsoft would have individually (I imagine they use .NET...) and whether you want to count those (microsoft.com, bing.com, accounts.live.com, Azure...). Not to mention in-house web applications.
I can put up a starving hacker or two for a couple of nights in North Beach, San Francisco. Email in profile.
>For example, suppose that for every user you store an array of cities they've ever lived in. RDBMSes typically can't do that, but document stores can.

?? What? Are you talking about a junction table?
From a life-safety standpoint, it's not a big deal if a social networking app breaks when the latest OS is pushed onto a computing device. It's a bit different if the preflight checklist software for a passenger jet fails.

Microsoft B2B focus and history bending over backward for backwards compatibility gives it a clear market advantage. Having a full technology stack continuous from servers to phones doesn't hurt either.

The weakness of the iPad is that it is a thoroughly a consumer oriented product. In the long haul, it makes sense for enterprise as a BYOD option. It's a little harder to build a stable IT roadmap upon.
Reproducibility seems like it could be a problem.
> Consumers have a vote on how the web should be designed, too.

Exactly the wrong-headed sense of entitlement I'm talking about. No, you absolutely do not get a say, whatsoever. You either get the product through the monetization scheme set up by the content owner, or you get no content at all.
I imagine they'll be buried in the desert next to all those CueCats, Atari 'E.T.' cartridges, and assorted drums of low-level nuclear waste.
Valve Releases Steam Controller
I don't know... a single, anonymous pilot's 6 word quote followed by a lot of editorial in Apple Insider. It's not like Apple hasn't done plenty of loss leaders.
I have joined the Facebook group, but wanted to post over here as well. I have a mini van (can seat 7 pretty comfortably) and have 5 seats available. I will be driving from my apartment which is a 5 minute walk from the glen park Bart station. Drop me a line if you need a ride and we can coordinate.
> How do I manipulate the DOM in java?

That's kind of Applet's 101: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/man...

Flash has similar (arguably much better) API's for this as well. There are graveyards filled with other attempts.

> Javascript absolutely is the only option, and people have no choice.

Being the most broadly supported and most integrated solution doesn't mean developers have no choices. It just means they JavaScript might be their best choice. On almost any platform there are going to be certain programming languages that are more integrated and better supported.

> That is why people invest so much time in writing LANGUAGE_X to javascript compilers, so they can write code in a less terrible language even though it has to be deployed as javascript.

And there you have it. JavaScript wins by virtue of being a better deployment platform in the browser space. At one time Java used to enjoy an even broader advantage. Acrobat, Flash, VBA, Bourne Shell, MSI, Unix DBM, SQL, sendmail, PHP, MySQL, Windows, Linux, C, POSIX, PostScript, XWindows, etc. have all ridden these kinds of waves. Some are more successful than others, and certainly the web browser is probably the most ubiquitously deployed runtime environment ever, but really, if anything this is normal and the broad diversity is not.

It's not unfair or unusual, so much as inevitable.
> “Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X.

I'm guessing most (all?) the developers you know work in the US?

Mac OS is close to nonexistent in that area in the rest of the world.

Trying to sell an app competing against a free product from Google is already challenging enough, you should seriously consider the original advice and extend your tool to work on Windows as well.
my ipad crashes more than my windows desktop
I agree, locks are a pain. I would be more excited about bike storage co-ops in the city than this too. I only commute by bike when I can keep it in the building. My bikes are never locked outside unless its for a short duration or very close.
Sending an email to the address in your profile momentarily.
I write my e-mail address on my blog, on public profiles, and all over the web. I have done so for almost 20 years. I don't have a spam problem. Spam filters work, and spammers do not really have to crawl for e-mails, they'll get your address eventually anyway.
> In our company, we are sending out some _marketing e-mails_

So you are sending spam.....

Maybe the AOL and Yahoo users are clicking 'report spam' because you are, in fact, sending spam.
To the Tessel team: please do not allow the negativity reflected in the above comments to deter you. You're onto something. Enabling 20,000,000 JavaScript developer to take the jump into physical computing is huge.

One suggestion: there are now several successful platforms for prototyping embedded systems: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Board/Bone, etc. What has yet to emerge is a platform that is actually viable for low volume production. If you want to be truly disruptive, find a way to build the other components that are necessary to create real solutions: 12 volt interfaces that can be plugged into a car's accessory port and fire up when the car starts and can cleanly shut down when the power cuts; cases that not only mount the Tessel and its daughter-cards securely, but which pass standard RF emission tests; simple but secure methods for updating firmware on production systems. Make something that not only helps people get started, but helps them to build a business.
It's probably "allow friends to post on my wall" (or anyone).
Comparing against Impala doesn't change anything, Impala is still well behind even on a cluster with just 600 million records :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgQ09vI0R_wIdEV...

Your other considerations are still valid though. Although the point was to show the inefficiency of Hadoop/MapReduce when it comes to relational operations.
> So why not ask to be moved somewhere else?

What kind of utopia do you live in? Just getting out of a cubicle on the wrong side of the building with three extremely loud people took months.

> I think you're making the problem bigger than it actually is.

I'm so happy that you are omniscient and know exactly what it was like and can authoritatively state how big a problem it is. You make my life complete. Please continue to tell me which other things I just imagined to have destroyed my psyche, since you are obviously so qualified to dictate what I have or have not experienced in my life.
Totally read that as "BSOD option".
No, but the way MS came out with WinRT and excluded existing .NET code from executing on it certainly didn't reassure anyone.
Anyone coming from Edmonton who wants to drive down?
How do you roll back "There are no more security updates available"?
Yeah, I pointed some of those out to him... but I don't think that's what he's getting at.
While that's nice, what about actual innovation in the CLR, like a more expressive type system? Or access to performance basics, like SSE?
Looks cool, but currently just seems to be a "web developer" search engine. Seems they aimed purely for HTML/CSS/JS, which tells me there are legal hurdles getting anything but freely public facing code. Plus the whole credits thing? holy balls $99/month. Pulls my wallet out... buys coffee.
Meth use as a whole, according to a 2009 RAND Corporation study, costs the nation anywhere between $16 billion and $48 billion each year.

I call BS. Even $16 billion is totally ridiculous. According to Wikipedia, NASA's budget was $18 billion in 2011.

This article is just a straight ahead Moral Panic, trying to polarize a situation, and then punish some party while there's a big fog of crapaganda around. Mother Jones should be ashamed.

And just a side note: how many Moral Panics over drugs do we have before we just get over it?

I'm old, I can recall a late 60s moral panic about LSD - it supposedly made you have babies with lobster claws, if you survived the mandatory dive out of a 2nd floor window. There was an early 70s panic over heroin, and then the Angel Dust thing in the early 80s. After that, it was Free Basing, and then Crack. It's been Evil Meth for a while now, isn't it about time for a New Drug to Panic over?
Makes me want to commit some code in antarctica...
The disk time was subtracted because it is in-memory system and when your compressed datasets fit into memory your disk subsystem hopefully will be irrelevant.
Python builtins
Windows itself virtually never crashes. The only thing that'll cause a 2005+ system to crash is hardware failure, or a hardware driver failure/bug. I have a 2010 laptop I use daily that's not once BSOD'd. My Surface Pro has never BSOD'd. My older desktop has, but the message has always been related to the graphics driver, and I sometimes have to reseat the card to get it to boot, so it's probably a physical world problem.
It really does suck on Mac, as does Word. I'm guessing this is just Microsoft sticking it to Apple, but it's disappointing for their users who work on multiple platforms. Just make it the same everywhere MS!
The Happiness Metric
As do engineers, for that matter.
Goodbye, government? Shutdown would affect science, the environment, and health
Google wants to help web designers take over the world
How do you protect the compartment containing the electronics, battery and motor?

Is there some mechanical interlock so the lock must be unlocked before opening this compartment?
Emoji in iOS 7
I was eating at a bar the other day and this guy next to me was telling his girlfriend that he wanted a new iPhone. He planned on giving his mother his current iPhone, but he wanted to make sure that she wouldn't have any problems with it so he intended to break it somehow and give her the replacement. He demonstrated a possible technique for doing so; repeatedly slamming it flat against the bar (firmly, but not violently).

I did not catch his girlfriend's reaction, but I was disgusted. I'm sure Apple plans for and can afford this type of loyal customer, but everyone ends up paying for it.
Thanks for your nice feedback. The design isn't anything special since it's just for me at this point, but here's a screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9229925/Screen%20Shot%20...

I'm planning to share it via Github soon, at which point I'll share the code.
What does the President use these days?
Microsoft has had a desktop monopoly for two decades (90% market share) and they see this being threatened by mobile. In a few years, mobile will evolve and many people will be happy with simply using tablet devices. If they can't make any inroads into mobile, they are going to contract quite a bit because they really only can lose desktop market share.

In addition with their Office Suite cash cow not running on iOS or Android, their earnings with be impacted even more.
Ask HN: How do "digital nomads" incorporate?
How do "digital nomads" incorporate a business (LLC, etc.) without a permanent address? Are registered agent services commonly used?
Linux runs the web, this is a "web design" application we are talking about. Imagine Ford releases a new car model but just for Airplane pilots.
Hmm... on a completely unrelated note, I may have just figured out how to convince the world that 5GHz processors and oodles of RAM are necessary in phones, thus keeping them on that upgrade treadmill...
I believe the friend was committing suicide and did not want the police intervening.
If I haven't looked in my desk drawer, this is not evidence that it's empty. It's only evidence that it's empty if I open it and don't see anything.

Or, put another way: The real world isn't boolean. A and Not-A are not the only options; there's also "I don't know."

The last case there is what's generally referred to when people say that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Great to see you guys agree, I'll call the SEC to tell them they can skip the proceedings and save everybody time and dough.
Not too useful js since most results are minified js.
I've been meaning to start up my idea for years and have been too lazy/secure/whatever so far to do it. I applied on a whim, was rejected before but this time got accepted. It may be a sign!

"In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom." This is probably something that the younger guys here may have difficulty relating to. Maybe I'll be able finally make the sacrifice.
YeeHaw I am going! If anyone needs a ride from around the Lower Haight area of SF to Cupertino I have room for 3 passengers.
Maybe Delta just wanted to issue something that no one would want to steal?
Some nostalgia, then - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56IFFd43acU

That includes the full experience of loading the game from tape. I guess on those who had a ZX-Spectrum will bother watching.

For actual game-play footage , jump to 5:38 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56IFFd43acU#t=5m38
That would be one way, or

On Postgres, you could use arrays:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/arrays.html
also has some great contrib modules as well like: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/intarray.html

Mongodb documents their multikey indexes for a similar approach:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/index-multikey/

not to take away from rethinkdb, awesome to see a project move rapidly!
Oh, good question. I can see why you'd think that.

Nope, BB will be more like HN, but specifically for bootstrappers and related topics only. IOW: public-facing, free to use. (Although I think we're going to do a MeFi-style $5 or $10 join fee, to encourage good citizenship.)

It's not going to be a product. I'm not going to run it unilaterally, either. It's for the community.
Isn't part of the point of wifi to dodge your 4G usage limits?

For pcs and the like, very occasionally I do run into a situation where I am connected to two completely different networks. Windows automatically balances them, which is nice, but only at the applications level which is kinda a bummer. It should be by request. This technology which zippers the packets would be really cool.
That's not storing a collection in a table. That's approximating the storage of a collection in a table by using standard RDBMS features.

If you think these are the same somehow, I encourage you to think about the number of disk seeks required for recovering the full collection in both cases.
Whoops! I could've sworn that said "without", sorry :)

Though I'm not sure `__slots__` actually saves any time, as it's really a space optimization. I've tried it before for hot code and even seen very slight (probably not significant) slowdowns.
This is a good writeup about an extremely interesting subject, and the beginning of what is sure to be a major trend. But the author kind of lost me here:

"Chipotle Scarecrow will, without a doubt, go down as one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history."

Really? On what metrics? It seems extremely successful as far as reach is concerned, sure. It probably drove a good deal of positive brand sentiment, which is great. But how did this campaign drive sales of burritos? How did it drive gains in share against competitors? What was the actual ROI?

It always bugs me when people talk about "marketing" as though it's purely about reaching eyeballs. That's a big part of advertising, which is a subset of marketing. But it's not how a successful marketing campaign is solely measured. Especially when we're talking about marketing for a restaurant chain. Distributing a very engaging mobile game is a wonderful and rare accomplishment, but Chipotle is in the food business. It needs to demonstrate that Mobile Success A led to Business Success B.

This campaign was extremely clever, creative and innovative. It was a huge hit on mobile devices, and it garnered a great deal of attention. All of those things are to be commended. But unless the ROI was positive, unless this campaign really moved the needle in a major way on sales, we can't speak about how "successful" it actually was -- let alone speak in hyperbolic terms about how it was one of "the most successful marketing campaigns in history."

In time it may well prove to be a huge success. Perhaps even an enormous success. But the jury is still out.
Delta Connection flights?
Interestingly Delta was supposedly testing iPads for use inflight instead of paper manuals back in 2011.

I believe that at the time the iPad was the only FAA-approved Electronic Flight Bag.
>"Delta's Information Technology staff historically being "in bed" with Microsoft"

You do realise that Apple doesn't sell any corporate software, whereas Active Directory and other MS key server techs are a fundamental part of many company's networks. AFAIK, Apple doesn't make it exactly easy to remote manage devices - that's not their main target, while it is for Microsoft.

The deal is still probably more about PR, but it's not like IT being "in bed" with MS is anything new.
They do. Windows Update is an ASP.Net application, for example.