skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We just pick our check list with bias by telling all browser vendors they should just become Chrome.

Now this is the scary part - seeing "only for Chrome" everywhere just brings back those memories of seeing "only for IE". Another browser war is looming on the horizon.
Probability of death is not an interesting stastics. A relevant number is the percentage of traffic accident deaths caused by speeding.

>The contributory factor report in the official British road casualty statistics show for 2006, that "exceeding speed limit" was a contributory factor in 5% of all casualty crashes (14% of all fatal crashes)

I remember reading that about 10% of fatal crashes in Finland are caused by speeding.
There is an About page, which is somehow more confusing than having nothing at all: http://www.jizie.com/home/about
2014 is Going to Be a Breakout Year for ... Openbay
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I suspect the downvoters need to have more of a sense of humor.
Michael Hartl's immensely popular Railstutorial.org was registered thru GoDaddy. (Definitely doesn't use them for hosting though, as per http://builtwith.com/railstutorial.org)
Ok, naive question, what would make one registrar better or worse than another. They all do the same thing, no?
1) validation (length, null, alphanumeric, alphanumericanduppercase, etc.) common elements (date, phone number, email [allows for + e.g. whatever+label@gmail.com is a valid email], country [supply full list - https://gist.github.com/Keeguon/2310008], states

2) Common Forms
- contact us (name, email message)
- contact (name, phone, email)
Use basic types (number, string, date)

3) Install/Embed - 1 line of JS e.g. <script src="http://www.domain.com/form.js"></script>

4) Export to CSV, JSON, Excel

5) s3 integration (append to file)- (upload file)

Good Luck - Hope that helps :)
A rousing "pick the best tool for the job" towards the end. Ho hum. That's what they all say, but of course, how that is defined is where things get interesting.
> Also, I'm not sure if you've seen a Mac inside lately — most recent ones do not have a SATA flash drive. And even in those that do, finding enough space to place your device would be at least very challenging (if not outright impossible).

This is just details. An attacker isn't limited to not modifying the device. If you need space you can remove half of the memory (or all of it and replace it with fewer higher density sticks), or remove the cooling fan, or install a slightly smaller battery. Do your key logging directly on the physical input device instead of using virtualization if that's easier, or go the other way and do it entirely in software by altering the necessarily unencrypted code on the device that bootstraps to a password prompt.

In the worst case the attacker can just take the entire device and replace it with one that appears identical up to the point where the user types the FileVault password, then transmits the password to the attacker over cellular.
First things first, and this is more for the edification of those commenting, not the group posting, the correct spelling is:

H I P A A

The acronym is the "Health Information Portability and Accountability Act."

Again,

H I P A A

I can't stand how many people mis-spell it - it exemplifies the fact that really and truly, people don't care about the regulatory standard enough to really learn about it ...

Not to hijack the thread, but I'd love to hear people's opinion on this question:

Which type of data is more important, health data or financial data, and why?

I'll start, financial data is more important than health data. Why? Because we all use money at least 100+ times a day to get things done - outside of a doctor's visit health data is virtually worthless.

Outside of obtaining your soc number in a medical record, would you be more afraid if a person got your bank's routing number, or your insurance ID?

Your credit card number, or the fact that you have erectile disfunction?
I'm going to go with B. Just because "everyone is doing it" doesn't mean they know what they're doing. Coke spends a ton of money on advertising because they want more sales and common wisdom says the way to get more sales is to spend a ton of money on advertising. It might work, it might not, but it isn't a simple 1 to 1 thing and it works differently on different people.

On a personal note, I grew up drinking Coke (because my dad preferred it), and I generally prefer the taste of Coke most likely because it's what I grew up drinking. I've seen Coke ads, and I've seen Pepsi ads, and neither one makes me want to drink one or the other or go buy one or the other. About the only thing it might do is influence me to go get a Coke if I was already feeling a bit thirsty although even if it was a Pepsi ad it would probably still make me want to get a Coke. In this case it would be a win for Soda vs. some other kind of drink like say a Starbucks coffee, not specifically Coke vs. Pepsi.
It's been clearly documented that women are subject to lower wages(1) then men and while I don't have statistics about online harassment, women accounted for 84% of potential workplace harassment victims in 2007(2) which may or may not be similar to the online harassment gap. USC also did a study noting that men are less empathetic to discrimination(3) which can cause even more harm.

You argue that choosing any subset is arbitrary but it is clearly not if we choose that subset based on a set of data that shows behavior which society disapproves of (attaching criteria to our subset inherently makes it non-arbitrary).

Now, you could argue that choosing women as a subset is arbitrary because you don't think that the representation of people on money should be correlated to population statistics. However, why are you arguing against correlation for pictures on money but not also arguing that nothing should be correlated to population statistics at all (or perhaps your comment wasn't perfectly written? same as the article?).

In general, it seems that you are also choosing to be arbitrary as well. In addition, you seem to lack compassion for other people who are expressing their concerns about their right to live a happy life, free from harassment. Whether or not you agree with the small details in the article or whether or not they are 100% accurate is not important. If you can't read the article for the overall concept it purveys, and feel some sympathy for the author, I feel sorry for you.

(1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21698522
(2) http://www.workharassment.net/index.php/sexual-harassment-in...
(3) http://www.livescience.com/2428-men-discrimination-women.htm...
Yes, I thought it might have been that, except co-workers could easily reproduce it on their machines that aren't VMs. See the DxDiag in a sibling comment.
Could you put your point on HN as well?
> You might prefer to write your builds in Node because you write your app in Node as well. Your team might not know bash.

This is a good point. In the example I linked to, I am actually planning on switching it over to node specifically for windows users. The reason I have not yet is that I handle all the builds so it has not really come up.
I'd love to see large penalties for cops who could be proven to have lied about situations.
I think http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ is simpler and more robust.
In case anyone is wondering, it doesn't crash in IE 8! :-D
The problem is the requirement for athletes to have a degree. Why can't the athletes be separated from the rest, and only those that truly want to learn, attend lectures/exams? Professors wouldn't have to pass them and the degree would not be an empty paper.
The Linux Command Line is definitely a good book. It's actually available for free here if anyone is interested: http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
You can do that with the chinese wheelbarrow as well. Here, its design enables more use-cases.
Quit your job for a year and write a book about getting rich.
They don't all kill elephants for fun.
> You can rebase all you want as long as you didn't make your private branch public.

True, but the big benefit of git comes from those branches being public, IMO.

> and even then some communication with the other people makes it pullable: tell them to first git reset --hard xxxxx

If other people are actually using the changes on your branch (and if not, why did they pull it?), you end up having to do staircase rebases, with everyone fixing the same conflicts again every time they rebase. It's not the end of the world, but it's noticeably worse than using merge.

> yet doesn't suffer from sometimes hard to read history

IME the only difficulty comes with tools that try and display a linear view of history, and with rebase you sacrifice an accurate time-ordering of commits, making it very hard to find a commit if you were working on several branches at the same time. As long as you configure your tool to show a tree/graph of commits, merged history is easy to follow, and keeps the time-order correct.
Everything pedalpete[0] said, and a few more things. It's hard to say some of this without sounding condescending - it isn't. Please take it at face value.

You need to spell and grammar check your work. I applaud what you've done, and you've clearly worked hard in difficult circumstances and have done well. I will spell and grammar check up to 1000 words for you for free, just to help, no obligation.

I also didn't know why I should give you my email address, and I nearly just closed without looking further. I saw the "About" link only at the last moment - you need to give me more.

Good luck.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7037218
A single data point is too small to reason about. But lets say there was an ad campaign that was blocked at a high rate, or even just placed poorly where nobody was seeing it or something. Our scheme would assign those impressions a low value, ie it would come out that cranking impressions or lowering impressions isn't effecting conversion rates anywhere else, so why not turn the ad off.
Bill Gates is a special case -- I would imagine the vast majority of stock (surely over 95%, maybe 99%) does not have value because of who owns it.

Also, if the rich are sitting on wealth which loses values as soon as it is spent, perhaps quite a lot of the "wealth" was never really there in the first place? (although there we are perhaps getting into philosophy)
The "Unix Programming Environment" book by Kernighan and Pike is still the best source for a UNIX command line "course". I love the elegance of this book, I learned most of what is in it already by "osmosis" before buying it, still love to skim it just for how masterly it is written and how nicely the problems are approached, definitely something to aspire to.
GPS is receive-only. The article to which you linked involves a man with a GPS jammer that prevented reception of GPS signals in the local area and hence prevented derivation of location.

What the parent poster was asking is how Ford upload the derived location.
Learning anything is never a bad investment. It might detract you from an immediate goal but in the long run, learning always helps even if not directly related. In your case, I say go ahead and learn data structures/algorithms as you are fascinated by them. If something fascinates you, go figure out why.

To give you a specific example, around 2003 (wow a decade ago) when I was still in college, we had an assignment in CS class to build a web browser in Java and Swing. It was a fun project and I enjoyed doing it. Guess how I implemented the History functionality? I used linked lists to store the links that I visited. Not because that was the best way (probably not) but that's what I knew at the time. It was fun and I still have the source code btw :). Nothing like the real browsers of course.
Sorry, I put this in a sibling comment first as HN wasn't letting me reply until now:

Here's the DxDiag from a co-worker's machine that ISN'T a VM and who can also reproduce the bug: http://pastebin.com/e6auRbR8 He has all add-ons disabled except for Java.
How to Fall Asleep When All Your Gadgets Are Still On
Please finish the other books as well!
I would rather prefer to trust people who have actually been in a war (where I also was) and not a playground, and told me they preferred above all else AK74s, they had the option to use american made weapons, the colt or whatever its called, but nobodoy was really willing to risk their lives using those rifles, the jamming and difficult maintanence. I too shot with an AK74 in a war-zone. Have you done that?

The second option was Swedish made weapons, the heavier bofors especially.
Oh boy, these are awesome! :D

I'm especially fond of game #1. It reminded me of an old html game I played in which I had to use the mouse to drag a rectagle around, avoiding collisions with other rectangles that bounced around. I remember receiving this in an email that said if I were able to stand for X seconds (I can't remember how many) then it meant that my reflexes were above the threshold required for jet pilots — and obviously, as every boy, I wanted to fly a jet.

The only critique I have for you is to have posted it during my work hours.
I concur. Now that I use Ansible, it's been a long time since I touched anything Ruby.

My life is better for it too, I felt really agitated every time I had to touch Ruby code.
Two regular expressions are sitting at a bar and having a drink. A big, context-sensitive string walks over and steals the drink from the first regex. The second says to the first "Are you going to let him bully you like that?" The first replies "Yeah, I'm no match for him."
Stop Slicing PSDs Manually: Using the New Generator to Create Image Assets
The user experience of buying domains through GoDaddy is very grating. They try to upsell and tack on services and features literally every step of the way. If all you want is a registrar, there are less annoying competitors at basically equal prices.
Some of that is due to being older stadiums, though. U.S. professional stadiums used to have more capacity, because they were just rows and rows of bleachers. The trend in the past few decades in professional sports has been towards more of the space being used for lower-density "premium" seating like skyboxes and fewer bleachers, reducing the seat count. College sports usually have less funding for new stadiums though, and their market is a bit different (more regular fans paying out of pocket, less demand for corporate skyboxes). Hence you have something like the LA Coliseum, capacity 93,000, used by USC's college football team, but considered an "obsolete" stadium by the NFL and MLB, who used to use it but moved out.
Maybe he's a SQL programmer (a binary column can be true, false or NULL).
When launching something new about mid-last year, I went back on my long-standing feeling that FB was esentially worthless for companies (I generally don't believe that people really care about busineses on FB).

So, I went ahead and created a page, whereupon FB immediately began pushing me to buy likes (as I call it) or promote my page (as they call it). It felt extraordinarily scammy, especially given that I would then have to pay even more to reach those same people later.

But, I pushed through and tried it. The results were abysmal. Less than 100 likes, very little engagement, and a couple of conversions. Probably cost me about $1K.

Now, it can be argued that it was our message, service, etc. But, this story repeats itself all too often. I think the value of an FB like is highly overrated, even for "validation" purposes. People are increasingly turning a deaf ear to what their friends like and/or what shows up in their feeds. In fact, the very proliferation of like activity that FB and other companies push has diminished the value of likes over time until they are now completely meaningless or nearly so.
India's poll panel declines Google voting services offer over security concerns
This is hilarious:

"If you have Java enabled for your hosting account, it will conflict with Rails."

"Currently, Rails version 1.1.6 is supported in the default directory, while Rails 2.2.2 is considered an alternate "development" environment"

etc...
The flaw in your argument is, "I trust myself driving, but I don't trust anyone else."

I am a great driver and people had been present when I got myself out of 'sticky' situations--avoided red-light runner t-bones, people merging into me, parking lot fender benders who don't check their rear, etc.

Problem is, there are plenty of bad drivers out there who would happily go 80-90 and drive recklessly in their parents' BMW (Palm Beach teenagers, anyone?). The deaths due to traffic accidents are staggering and it's a huge public health issue. If speeding is not illegal, then it could be difficult to show wrecklessness or other mitigating circumstances should there be a manslaughter case. IMNAL, but I think it could have wider and unexpected implications.

I agree that many speed limits are somewhat arbitrary, but I disagree with 'smart' means of reducing people's speed. People need to learn how to follow the rules or they don't belong in society... it's as simple as that.
What's your point, then? You are explicitly stating that you have interest mostly in passively receiving stuff that's out of the site's scope, not interested in actively participating, and not interested in changing the site orientation.

In other words, the site is not interesting to you, yet you choose to rant about it; very strange. Does the very existence of StackOverflow bother you?

(There are other sites on the Internet, y'know. It's not like SO is preventing you from visiting /r/ProgrammerJokes instead.)
We probably lost a $10K coding challenge because of a crappy UI
Since you're referring to the Wikipedia page, you are probably aware that there is a reasonable economic answer related to transaction costs and asymmetric information:

"Instead, for Coase the main reason to establish a firm is to avoid some of the transaction costs of using the price mechanism. These include discovering relevant prices (which can be reduced but not eliminated by purchasing this information through specialists), as well as the costs of negotiating and writing enforceable contracts for each transaction (which can be large if there is uncertainty). Moreover, contracts in an uncertain world will necessarily be incomplete and have to be frequently re-negotiated. The costs of haggling about division of surplus, particularly if there is asymmetric information and asset specificity, may be considerable."
Write drunk, edit sober.

http://ninjasandrobots.com/write-drunk-edit-sober
I have no idea if it's a common technique or not, but a couple years ago I met some guys similarly using image analysis of spectrograms. They were trying to diagnose sleep apnea based on of heart rate data. They had a company developing a device and claimed to have patents on the technique, but I forget the name. I just remember that it seemed like a convoluted algorithm to me, and they agreed, but they claimed it worked better than any traditional approach they tried.
Where is "Favorite that comment" button when you need it?
For the gamers in the house, this sounds quite similar to StarCraft and Magic: The Gathering.

In both games, unspent minerals/gas/mana is seen as a bad thing. Either you have your sights set on something specific a little expensive (battlecruiser/expansion), you are building an army for an upcoming attack, or you are reinvesting it back into your economy.

In none of those cases are you letting your money sitting around without purpose. An army of 500 mineral marines is definitely going to beat a player with no army and 500 minerals.
We should be worrying about Google’s assimilation and consolidation
I, as Bitcoin proponent, was never insisting that this would never happen. The risk I'm taking as an investor is that if someone takes even 90% of mining power, they'd have little incentive to play dirty (and kill the value of their own savings as much as everyone else's) and a lot of incentive to play nicely. Of course, that's personal evaluation of the risk and I cannot promise to anyone else that shit won't happen. Everyone should think for themselves and vote with their money for what they think it likely to happen.

I expect that until we reach a stable mining market when mining chips are deployed as soon as being produced, there will be quick accelerations in mining hashrate here and there. It'll be volatile like with BTC price. I take the risk that during such volatility there won't be a Big Evil guy to step on everyone's dreams, even if it causes big troubles only temporary.
It's beneficial to learn algorithms and data structures although you may or may not need them in your projects. Choosing the right data structures and algorithms help with writing clean code that's also more maintainable than a messy algorithm.

I think this knowledge even makes you more creative in coming up with algorithms. There's usually a brute force algorithm that's easy to come up with but it's not very good. By knowing more algorithmic techniques you can come up with better algorithms. Your algorithm x might do the job but in case it doesn't you're possibly lacking the techniques to make it better. By studying many different types of algorithms you get a better feel on how to approach a problem.
What TypeSafe Should be Working On
Quality of user experience: Can I register a domain without being bombarded for ads for other add-on crap?

Social responsibility: Am I supporting a company that relies on horrible and sexist and demeaning ads to get attention?

Social cachet: Would I be embarrassed to have people find out who I was using for my domains/hosting? It may be shallow, but working with GoDaddy looks as sophisticated as having an @aol.com email address.
Jizie? How'd you come up with this name? It's absurd.
Bing reports November 2012.

(The capture date is reported in an http header)
For a start, lines like:

"At this point solve any conflicts that come out of the rebase"

Hide (in my experience) huge amounts of complication -- this can get very hairy, and it isn't discussed at all how you do it (and it's more complex than any of the rest of the stuff shown here).
I really love the design and color scheme of the Atlassian website.