skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regular bikes are just as likely to pose a hazard. Ebikes (limited to 20 mph) aren't usually the fastest bikes on the road -- road bikers cruise aster than 20mph.

I think NYC law here is seriously misguided
I wasn't aware of that. It's called Elite: Dangerous now :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous
...maybe, however, can anyone think of any others that gave their name to something? E.g. the Hoover family...?
Tesla REST API: /vehicles/{id}/command/honk_horn
yeah we've used stubs in the past and it's often awkward and creates silos within the team. I'm not a huge fan of this approach.
IWork ’13: A Huge Regression
they dont improve PHP. you still have to deal with PHP shortcomings even with a framework. But since you dont deal with low level stuffs your code might be more secure yeah.

PHP has too many unsecure apis accessible to beginners.

With Django for instance you have a view layer with auto escaping by default.You dont write unsecure SQL queries ,..., That makes a huge difference.
The link is to Dan Drezner's blog post about the article, and it appears perfectly accessible to me (I don't have a FP subscription).

Also, the quoted essay too appears to be free now (worked for me) - http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140155/henry-farrell-...
This is exactly what's wrong with comments on the internet and it makes me mad to see it! Someone makes an argument, then someone else comes and derails the conversation by nitpicking at random stuff just to one-up the person instead of focusing on the overall argument and doing the least bit of reading between the lines.

What the author is doing is called "pulling numbers out of your ass". Whether it's 5% or 6% really doesn't matter! He's making a point. You get the point, don't you? His main argument is "You can do whatever you want, the ball is in your hands--not your employers." And this is absolutely true! Any engineer with a bit of people skills and some self-respect (which is like only half of us) can get his/her way. The other half need some personal development before they'll get anywhere in life. It's the sad truth of engineering.

The thing is, what each person wants is different. If you want work-life balance, go work for a 100-person revenue-generating startup. They go home at 5pm. If you want to build your personal brand or get rich, go put in the crazy hours at the latest hot big startup that's trying to prove itself.
Well, the momentum of the pieces means that if anything goes flying off, it will travel in a straight line i.e. outward, away from your head :)
Surround yourself with people that can do what you can’t do
There was also the guy that made jogging famous - 'Jim Fixx'. Surprised he does not get a mention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx
As a counter-point, I've got it installed and I like the UI and haven't had issues with functionality.

The only issue I've had is that adding a user by email address opens your email client and makes you send an email through it.
The End of Hypocrisy
Agreed. Very well researched book, covering a number of topics that would be of interest to the HN audience - all joined by the theme of smart people - 'hackers' really - struggling to realize their ambitions in the context of a declining world power. While some of the projects covered are well known - Concorde, Beagle 2 - others are much less studied, like the Vodafone signal modelling project, and I found the overall mix of topics covered fascinating. And the full Elite chapter is an excellent look at the 'bedroom coding' phenomenon of 1980s British 8-bit game development.
This thread along with the wiki article reads like a punster's/stand-up comic's wet dream.

Speaking of which, the next stand-up comic to adopt an aptronym (or an inaptronym) stands a great chance of being immortalized on a Wiki page, quicker than most others.I wonder if I should start trying for gigs using the stage-name Mei Q. Laffard...
Do you have any stats on the downloads or user engagement? I just released my game two days ago, and here are the live stats:

http://slagalica.tv/drones.php

Can you compare yours to this? Am I doing any good?

Thanks.
That makes a lot of sense. I know Yammer does something similar, albeit with Puppet instead of Chef.

Sounds like this could be a whole blog post on its own. Over-complicating the local developer story is a big reason that us and many other firms have punted on SOA in the first place.
No MVS or z/OS!?
That's true in many places. In the Philippines, you can hire a live in maid for $50/mo. Same with drivers, cooks, and caregivers. You could probably hire a full time nurse for less than $200/mo.
I'm guilty of nearly everything you listed at the end - on a single project. I've been working on a WWF/Scrabble type game (with some unique gameplay elements) since early 2012 and it continually gets picked up and put down again. I've ended up building a component-based ui engine behind it, keep adding features, try to pick it up without clear goals or tasks in mind and am probably trying to tackle far more than I should be on my first game.

Thanks for the article and inspiration; it's making me take a step back and re-evaluate my approach a little bit. Congrats on shipping!
Al Gore's AMA on Reddit
The source essay behind Dan Drezner's post now appears to be free. Submitted independently.

The End of Hypocrisy | American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6605148
Does Our Industry Have a Drinking Problem?
Netbeans warns you if your method is longer than 10 lines
According to one of the people responsible for a software project that has been plagued by security holes for ~15 years, and whose website was hacked, and who hasn't fixed it...

Yeah, that's definitely a problem with google alright. Just because the entire PHP team disregards security completely, doesn't mean the consequences of that are google's problem. The fact that they just assume it is a false positive and don't even bother to verify their hacked site is incredible.
I imagine the US ambassadors are working overtime these days, in all countries, to make up excuses for the US government, and try to mend their relationships (hopefully unsuccessfully, since they'll just be vain promises).
James Grimmelmann, a legal scholar at the University of Maryland, believes Nintendo would have a strong case in court. He says the graphics and music from the game are protected by copyright, and the levels and game mechanics likely are as well.

To bad they didn't contact anyone familiar with copyright law or look at copyright.gov for a few seconds. Game mechanics have never been eligible for copyright. You can copyright the art and code but not the gameplay.

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html

Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing, merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form.
Actually, I was trying to be sincere -- our actions have consequences on other people and the world at large.

The flip side is that we become observers when we don't take any action in fear of affecting the world.

Other times, we may think that there may be a certain consequence, but the actual outcome ends up being considerably different.

Reference experience becomes important at some point -- it ensures that we take action, make mistakes, set boundaries, and live in the world.

You come off intelligent and thoughtful. I'm not sure where you are located but I'd love to connect with you.
I'm Sarkis -- skarayan@gmail.com
Surprisingly missing - Larry Page, who invented a machine that ranks pages.
on some slides text just blends into background. I guess you should darken background a little.
Italian teenager beaten to death in the UK by mob
The First Vertical Forest in the World
OwnCloud 6 will have document editing powered by WebODF
Reputational capital is just as precious as Financial capital
when it was revealed they spy on everyone of us, they said: ahh no big deal, americans are our friends. And now they found out they personally were spied on, it's suddenly super horrible and evil. Fuck them.
People think PageRank is an algorithm for ranking pages, but it's named after its discoverer.
Can you draw brightly colored lines on roads for a bus map? I like to mess around analyzing bus routes, but so far I haven't been able to find a computer-based tool for drawing them effectively.
> developing your game turns out to be the easy bit. Getting people to buy it ... well that's a whole different kettle of ball games

Getting your story listed on the front page of a site like HN can't hurt!

Less flippantly though: this is a significant problem a lot of people ignore or sometimes simply don't believe. "If you build it they will come" doesn't work if "they" don't actually exist, or you don't get news to them that you have actually built it, or they can't see your's because of the tens or hundreds of similar (or at least not obviously dissimilar: your app might have a key feature the other don't but that is the same problem: getting that message to your audience) apps/games listed on the relevant store.

If you intend to sell something (these are moot points for many personal projects of course, as the audience initially might just be yourself for the sake of learning/practising):

1. Know your audience

2. Make sure your audience actually exists in appropriate scale and isn't already over-served by existing projects

3. Find a way of letting your potential audience know that you exist, preferably a non-spamy way

Points 1 and 2 at least need to be part of your design before you get far into coding otherwise you might spend time on something no one wants
OK, could you ask Alex what the most common name for a developer is then?
Timeline: A history of the Patriot Act on its anniversary
The Way of the World, by William Congreve, is full of them: a wannabe funnyman named Witwoud, a servant called Waitwell, Lady Fainall (feign-all), Lady Wishfort (wish for it).

Comedy gold, circa 1700.
https://github.com/thomseddon/hn-poll-rank :)
If you register the app in iTunesconnect then you have 6 months to submit a binary. That can help focus the mind and get it shipped rather than add one extra feature.
Would it be helpful if, given a list of symptoms you input:
- Based on the most likely solutions others with similar symptoms had, give you a list of the most likely things to try?
- A health professional with good allergy expertise respond to your questions?

Would that give you the support you need do you think?
Everyone woman I know uses Pinterest. I get that it's popular and a big deal.

It's still legitimate to question whether or not a company with no revenue is worth $3.8 billion.
So could this be the next step in forcing people to leave you good reviews? Set the app up so if you leave a good review there's a 70% chance it will unlock some optional features. You get a ton of good reviews and plausible deniability: I mean, it's not like leaving a good review always unlocks the app. Obviously this isn't some brilliant scheme to jump to the front of appstore rankings.
I would love to be able to unfold method calls in my editor, something like(best I could do in ASCII)

> hello_world()
--------------------
def hello_world
puts "hello world!"
end

and so on. Basically the code bubbles concept but inline. Maybe it'll be possible to get LT to do something like this in the future...
I've seen this sort of thing from the Darkleech apache module[1]. It also won't show the malicious Javascript to any IP that appears in the `last` log. It looks like php.net uses Apache too[2]. The easiest way I've seen to find the module (they come with a variety of names) is to do something like

strings /path/to/modules/* | grep -i blacklist

[1] http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-evil-came-bac...

[2] http://builtwith.com/php.net
Meal-sharing sites send hungry tourists to home chefs
Actual link: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...
also useful - 3D slicer: http://www.slicer.org/

This is a cross platform viewer that is fairly capable (although very limited in 3D) and has some dicom communication capability.
I thought that but I think it would influence voting
Codechef appears to use Python 3.1.2 for "Python3", which is pretty old (March 21st, 2010) and predates some significant performance improvements in Python3[0].

[0]: E.g., 3.3 adds a more efficient encoding for ASCII-subset unicode strings:
http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html#performance-and-r...
Last year was a good year for aptronyms in soccer, because not only did we have Arsene Wenger managing Arsenal, but Roberto Mancini managing Manchester City ("Man City").
CGI and other contractors testify about Obamacare website problems (live)
> marginalizing native will only make this platform a no-go for a lot of very good applications out there

Not marginalizing native, not going with JS+HTML5 for the whole interface, also makes it completely uninteresting.

You can't win market-share away from Android unless you target a different market (which is quite difficult, as Android and iOS are everywhere) and/or you're newsworthy. Notice the complete failure of Windows Phone, even with Nokia and Microsoft's muscles behind it. And at least Firefox OS is newsworthy in the sense that (1) it's building a whole OS interface around the web, which makes us web developers happy and (2) the browser is the best sandbox, so in regards to malware you can eliminate the need for "curated" marketplaces.

> NO, Emscripten doenst count.. its pure madness this is being pushed like if it were some sort of solution to all of our problems

Apps compiled with Emscripten run everywhere and they run fine in both Chrome and Firefox. Emscripten is targeting asm.js. On Firefox, asm.js is AOT compiled by the browser. Performance is pretty good too. Many Android developers don't seem to mind writing games in Java, so where's the problem?

> the Web itself its not there yet

Well, that's one the goals of Firefox OS. To push the web forward. As part of its mission statement, Firefox OS will introduce new APIs that will be then pushed for standardization. It's a win-win for everybody.

> stand against iOS and Android in terms of quality and usability

Quality and usability aren't the only things that matter.

> being in the low end of the phone industry chain; its a pretty harsh place to be

That's also the only place where a new operating system has any chance of winning any marketshare whatsoever. It's a seriously ignored market after Nokia dropped the ball.
I have to nitpick here and say that I don't believe this is at all a common thing in Europe.

It is true that smaller towns tend to have this feeling of community to them, but I find it hard to find it anywhere with more than a couple thousand residents.
Ask HN: What meds, pills, vitamins do you take on a daily or almost daily basis?
Just for curiosity sake since this kind of data is not so openly available. I myself take a daily antihistamine to manage my allergies.
So far it has been "not our fault, it was another subcontractor's problem".
Very cool, article. I've always loved maps and mapping and python is my preferred language. The only thing I would mention is that it would be nice to have a pic of the results earlier in the article, that's just from the "let's look at this article, seems cool but what exactly is he teaching me" angle. I'm more likely to try the code if I can see the results up front. Otherwise it was a really cool example.
I was one such person.
People have been "bobbing" dogs tails for a long time.
No need for new STDs, the patch releases for current STDs are scary enough.

For example, Gonorrhea isn't really a serious threat right now, but the steady growth of antibiotic-resistant Gonorrhea is a different matter. Back to the fun days of inadequately-protected sex giving you infertility, arthritis and blindness...
Warp directory - Jump to predefined directories
It's a bike that has more than just pedal power, so yes.
Ask HN: When are we getting better batteries?
I've read countless stories over the past decade of amazing strides being taken improve battery performance in the lab. What's slowing these solutions from coming to market? Large-scale manufacturing feasibility? Not enough R&D? Regulations?

Simply put, when should I (average consumer) anticipate being able to purchase a laptop with a battery that goes +2 weeks without charge? ~10 years? never?

Sources:

"Alluminum Batteries" -
http://machinedesign.com/news/goodbye-lithium-ion-batteries

"10x Better Lithium Ion Batteries" -
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57326889-76/same-size-lithium-ion-battery-10-times-the-storage/

"Nuclear Batteries" -
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-10/scientists-develop-penny-sized-nuclear-battery

"Bio-Battaries" -
http://www.dailytech.com/Researchers+Use+Bacteria+to+Create+BioBatteries/article30218.htm

"Paintable Batteries" -
http://news.rice.edu/2012/06/28/rice-researchers-develop-paintable-battery-2/

"Flow Batteries" -
http://www.naturalnews.com/041771_battery_breakthrough_membraneless_batteries_energy_storage.html

"Solid State Batteries" -
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/11/kumar-20091121.html
GPU-accelerated natural language parser
And it was so hard! It wasn't until "Elite Cheat" came out (they had reverse engineered the game-save format) that I encountered most of the purchasable weaponry, etc.
I was thinking that, too. There should be a term for when your name becomes synonomous with a thing. Like Steve Bartman or Frank Rollerblade.
Absolutely agree.

As a developer you need to have frank talk with yourself both before and during development to figure out exactly what the motivation is. Are you writing a game to sell? Or are you writing a game for the fun of writing a game?

In an ideal world the two would be compatible, but ...

For me, well, I'm doing this for fun first, money second. As is obvious from my choice to make an Asteroids clone - highly unlikely that's going mass-market.

So why isn't it free? On the off-chance that some money can be made and I can free myself to do something I enjoy full-time. Just like everyone else I can dream ...
Apple Still Hungry, but No Longer Foolish
F* sites that do this.
A 90% screen-size popup lightbox iframe that says
"create an account to read this article" and no close button.

Praise the lord for adblock.
Even on Apple's App Store historical 5 star reviews help a lot, since they are still added to our cumulative average (albeit at a lower weighting). Reviews for older versions aren't visible individually on the store, but most people only look at the average star rating, not individual reviews.
Yeah, I ran across malware once that only injected JS for visitors from certain referrers, such as Google search. I believe the intention was so that when someone would tell me, "Hey, you have a bunch of weird links on your site" I would go to it directly and not see a problem. IIRC the .htaccess had been modified.
Teaching kids to code is a stupid idea
I wonder why they begin to settle there in the first place. After the first few houses were up, they were probably aware of the lack of sunlight. So why would they suddenly need it? Probably because it looks cool, which I agree with.
Yup, it's blog spam. Go here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6597256
Sorry for the late reply. I'd love to be able to plot arrays of floats or ints as 2d or 3d graphs. If you've ever used Matlab, this is the sort of thing it excels at.
Indeed. This article seems like they started with a premise, and then got the data to support that premise. (I.e. the completely wrong way to go about any kind of data collection).
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I can't be the only one thinking this is a bad idea - not because of what the site suggests their intended goal is, which at first glance is entirely reasonable.

Once they've automated defense, how long until someone automates offense... and then how long until everyone is caught in the middle of a cyber arms race?

If a computer system is designed to defend itself against attackers, where does that path lead? Before this project, I've laughed off the Skynet conspiracy theories, but given the recent revelations about the amount of trust we can put in U.S. government agencies, and a project of this nature in the hands of a U.S. military agency, this should be raising huge red flags in people's minds.
I would have thought it would vary by jurisdiction, and that you should be sure not to assume legal advice in one translates to another.
You sir, get -9,001 Internets.

There are huge repercussions for any website that gets blacklisted with the Stop Badware clearinghouse, the least of which is the inability to figure out exactly where the problem actually is because the company you work for's information for a webmaster to resolve the problem is ridiculously minimal. There are no notifications (unless you are signed up for Google Webmaster Tools) and restoring a website to normal globally can take anywhere from 48 hours to two weeks. There are millions of developers who rely on the PHP website daily for performing their day jobs and you've now made it that much harder for us to do our jobs.

Stop Badware needs a serious overhaul. At the very least, they should contact the contacts in the WHOIS record for the domain BEFORE doing anything. Give the website owners 24 hours to resolve the issue before blacklisting the site. And give them a heck of a lot more information to go on than some vague text.

Also, there are several anti-virus vendors out there who use the clearinghouse database for their products...6 to 12 months after the original blacklisting. So this will happen all over again 6 to 12 months from now. Finding contacts for anti-virus vendors for removing domain blocks is a lot harder than removal from the blacklist on the Stop Badware site.

The CORRECT solution for this situation was to find a contact at PHP who could resolve the issue quickly and amicably. Seriously, how hard is it to locate Rasmus' e-mail address? Always try to find a human contact before using Stop Badware. You can chalk using Stop Badware for the PHP website as being the dumbest decision you've made this year. Hopefully this decision of yours will raise the ire of the Internet just enough to force the company you work for to revamp Stop Badware so it doesn't suck, Google Webmaster Tools so they don't suck, and the reporting tools for sending information to Stop Badware so they also don't suck.
2y sounds about right. And your advice about avoiding featuritis is golden (and applies even to fulltime development).

I wrote a game in six weeks while my twins were still needing feeding at midnight and 4am (so I took those shifts and ended up using the 3-4h interlude to play games until I got bored of that, and then write my own). The game was intended for iPhone (but the tools didn't exist, so I worked speculatively.) When the toolchain became available it took me two years of spare time to rebuild the game for iPhone.

Oh, in case anyone's interested -- http://mantagame.com/
> But it's still just an assisted bicycle.

Depends on the country. In the EU, it can only be assistance (the user must be pedaling at all times), it must cut-off completely at 25km/h and the engine can not produce more than 250W, but that's not the case everywhere.

IIRC, the UK has a lower power output (200W) but allows power-on-demand, and in the US the top speed is 32km/h (20mph), up to 750W, and and AFAIK they don't require pedaling either.
>One of the reasons trolls have been successful is that the patent office is understaffed

this can be combated by making patent examination a peer review process, in a similar vein to scientific papers.
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