skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, this wasn't Denis Rodman or some other mindless crackhead speaking; it was high exec of Ford.

Think for a moment; why would he come on the record to state this and then back it down? Obviously, to protect the company! Its a PR stunt. Just like IRS learnt to scoop people's swimming pools that haven't been taxed via Google Earth, my bet is that the same way state/federalies are looking for extra places to milk you.

Everyone is speeding or sped at some point; the amount of money waiting to be collected must be humongous. Its just a matter of how they go retroactively with it. My bet is that they will make it "good news" that even if you speed 40 miles above, your license won't be suspended, we just gonna fine you $1,000. Can't pay? we leave it up to the IRS (the best mob to collect dues on the face of Earth).

But him coming out to say that is just introduction to "don't tell us later we haven't told u + you could opt out anytime by clicking some checkbox + we have to comply with Feds" combination.

Prepare for more.
PC shipments in 2013 see the worst yearly decline in history
Yep - any site I've seen hosted on GoDaddy is LAMP or just plain HTML/CSS/JS. I had to do some LAMP work on a site hosted on GoDaddy and it was pretty annoying to configure, with poor support. I can't imagine any Rails developer using them for hosting over Heroku, etc - so if Rails is maybe 1% of their hosted sites, they might save money by not having to support it.
"Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad (worth reading along with its sequels), proposes that rich people get rich by building their net income generating assets column (i.e. things that generate positive cash flow each month, not "buy and pray" investments like most stocks or houses)"

In short this is the equivalent of "find a good lawyer" type advice. Gee thanks for that tip. (As an aside I have those assets and I've done that type of thing with success).

The problem is finding those assets and not overpaying for them and making a good deal. Just like someone saying "you have to find a woman/man who is this not that!". Ok go find that person.

The other thing that I have observed over many many years (starting in college when I worked for a lawyer and dealt with some of the deals he was involved in) is that many people who have those assets got them by being turned on to them by people that they know (their attorney, a friend, a business associate) so they are out there circulating in the world and get presented (similar in a much smaller way to what Warren Buffet does) with opportunities. Could be a fraternity brother they keep in touch with etc.

That said you still (and this is important) have to know enough to take advantage of the opportunities (so it's not just luck obviously) and of course be the type of person who even is associated with others who have identified opportunities. See [1].

As far as investing in your house well I could spin that the other way. A nice house gives you the opportunity to entertain and meet people. People always like a good party. And if you have a vacation home people will always want to come to your vacation home and stay over. [1] In short, if you have nice things people want to be around you. You meet people. Those people are contacts that can help you with opportunities.

[1] I had a vacation home (actually still do) and had a boat. It is a great way to socialize and entertain. Regardless of whether those people are the type that are truly friends or not there is a business value to making contact with people like that in certain situations.
This is really a limitation on iOS, see my blog post on the subject here: http://debuggerdotbreak.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/apple-pleas...

It's a limitation that makes it quite annoying to build HTML5 audio apps, which is what my startup does. I have several hacks in my code to accomodate iOS's crippled HTML5 audio implementation.
Many of these points are partial truths or at least not as damning as it might seem.

IE has had long gaps in the past because of IE being tied to larger updates and many people having invested in old technology depending on them changing that slowly to allow time to change. The IE team at MicroSoft is clear that they intend to do more regular releases and push updates out automatically. While it won't be monthly like other vendors, it's certainly a huge change from where it was.

Software still installs toolbars on Chrome too. I recently tried Windows again for the first time in about 13 years and I'll tell you that I was caught off guard. Toolbars ended up in Chrome AND IE. Not sure if this is a browser problem as much as a software installation problem. Wish I would have learned about Chocolately earlier.

Open source isn't something that makes the browser better at being a browser. It's possibly important in other aspects but you should be complaining about other browsers then. Many include lots of proprietary code on top of open engines like WebKit (i.e. Safari is really not all that open source) and then custom engines like Opera mobile.

WebRTC isn't even half baked yet. Complaining that they don't release it to millions of devices as a feature is silly. It's great to see browsers experiment with new APIs that become standards... which leads me to: touch events.

Touch events were a proprietary outgrowth of the early mobile web. While they've become defacto for mobiles, it's a limiting API that doesn't really help unify the way we handle input at all. MSFT released a vendor extension called pointer events which is a much better API that has now been proposed as a standard. It handles touch, mouse pointers, pen digitizers, and has space to interpret more kinds of devices. Much better than where touch events left us. It's sad that more developers don't demand this unified API either since it makes it far easier to implement cross-input-device friendly content.

I haven't spent much time with the IE developer tools but it seems that MicroSoft now provides free VMs that can be installed to run IE for development (http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools) and their developer tools seem to have been improved (most people now just complain they want chrome's developer tools everywhere).

So what is left is that I see people either stuck in the past or thinking that this whole thing is IE vs everyone else. IE's got the same problems as many other browsers. We just pick our check list with bias by telling all browser vendors they should just become Chrome. What's the point in an "open" ecosystem if people just demand we all do things exactly one way defined largely by one vendor which happens to develop these "standards" as proprietary extensions just like IE has for all sorts of things (XHR anyone?).

>_<
An architect, an engineer and a programmer are discussing God:

Architect: Of course God was an architect! Look at the world! It's so beautiful and well composed!

Engineer: Nah, you don't know what you're saying! God was an engineer! Look at the universe and all it contains!

Programmer: Pfft... who do you think created chaos?
> The person was killed -> violence.

>

> The woman was killed -> misogyny.

>

> The man was killed -> misandry.

Makes little sense to me. It's better to default to just "violence".
So the idiot who drives 50mph on my street, which is 1/4 mile long, and has children under the age of 12 in all ten houses on this road should be allowed to drive whatever speed he feels comfortable? There's a lot of externalities to his behavior. My intuition tells me that in your world where people drive a speed they feel comfortable is why we have so many traffic accidents. I don't give a rats ass about how comfortable a driver is.
Why would I want to "actually participate" when 4/5 of the stuff that interests me has already been nuked by a moderator?
RCloud might be useful to look at. It implements Ipython Notebooks for R, with added collaboration based on a github backend.
More annoying ads because they redirect to some random app in the store, blanking the page in the process so you can't even go back to it
Ruby's popularity is pretty irrelevant to using it as a tool. It's incredibly well-supported, and there's talent for it abound.
>but interest rates are currently so low that it's almost impossible to get escape velocity through low risk investments.

This period is not unique in this regard. Interest rate is always risk-related. There may been times of higher absolute rates on things like savings accounts, but the real returns and opportunity costs were similar.

What I'm saying is, there are plenty of investment opportunities; the stock market just rose almost 30% in 2013.
On SO, mod points are granted by how many "points" you have. The idea is that if you have that many points, you got them by asking good questions, writing good answers, and generally being a good citizen on the site. But if you allow jokes or open-ended questions, then people get tons of points and mod powers even it they don't really contribute to the content of the site.

It would help if they allowed open-ended questions that are marked "community wiki" (which means the author doesn't get points for the post). But you'd still end up with a lot of off-topic content getting upvoted on the front page which would be annoying.
Hahah. I just tested this on my Windows Phone, Nokia 925, and yeah, not only does it not vibrate, but it doesn't play the audio.

The audio was a surprise, since it runs my HTML5 radio software just fine. I'm guessing the demo used OGG or some other audio format not supported by mobile IE.
Author here, it would end up hardcoded anyway as it must be pre-loaded for performance reason.

But indeed, it could be compiled in a separate file to reduce the payload in case you don't use base templates, but at the cost of an extra http request, not sur the trade-of would be worth it.

I may add other build configurations at a later date, but for the sake of simplicity, I think it's best as it is for now.
Note that's only for DisplayPort.
I use DualLink DVI to my large screens, and it works great without any hacks.
This is pretty accurate, actually, and has been studied by economists, for whom this was a huge problem: If the free market is supposed to be so great, then why are firms not organized as markets internally? In fact, why do they exist in the first place? In a sense, the existence of firms is evidence that a free market is not the best organizing principle for everything.

You may want to start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
The european wheelbarrow is used for short distances at construction sites, farms etc, and the wheel is at the front to enable tipping the wheelbarrow forwards for full unloading.
Different use case, different design.
I'd rather paraphrase a great American speaker quoting an old English gentleman:

"The wealth of man is not measured by material computation."
That's not spending, that's investing, you still have the wealth; you can resell those antique Ferraris. Money is not wealth, it's a medium of exchange, assets are wealth and converting money into assets isn't spending, it's wise money management.
"American devotion to proportional representation"

Well, I didn't believe such a thing existed. :)
Ask HN: Survival planning for the Urban Condo dweller?
So when the power went out in Toronto, I found that I was woefully unprepared for life without electricity. My land phoneline , by Vonage ,was unusable. My neighbors’ phone lines , from Rogers and Bell Fibe were also dead. My Nexus 4 battery gave out soon after and it stayed mostly dead during the outage. We had a lot of food but without power it was useless , thanks to a modern electric range. And even though our condo has a gas furnace, it was not working without power.
Without TV, Cellphone and with a sick toddler( who got worse but is better now), we found the going rather overwhelming.

Since them I was been figuring out what gear I need to be comfortably set during the next outage; gear that can be stowed a corner in a condo without posing a fire hazard or taking up too much space. I am not looking to outlast the next apocalypse ; I merely want to comfortable through the next urban bureaucratic fuck-up

So far my list has only few one -- super thick comforters . Can HNers add to this list ?
Not really fond of Bootstrap's collapsing system, but there is a pending issue regarding this, so I might tackle it very soon.
Ditto. I stopped contributing to Stack Overflow because of this.

It's a classic example of cart-before-the-horse product thinking. Users aren't there to follow your orders; they're people with actual needs that you're trying to serve. I get that they don't want the site to be overrun with goofy content, because that prevents you from serving other actual needs. But there are better solutions than tasking a large number of people with running around and jerkily stomping out anything that doesn't fit the owners' precise vision.

I think this is the exact mistake that Friendster made. And really, the same one Google Plus made. Neither of those products were built for the users; they were built to serve the owners' desires.
Because some people just need to get around in a shell, not obtain an unofficial doctoral on it.

Here, let me quote from the first couple paragraphs of the first page of the book:

I wrote this book really quickly as a way to bootstrap students for my other
books. Many students don't know how to use the basics of the command line
interface, and it was getting in the way of their learning.

This book is designed to be something they can complete in about a day to a
week and then get enough skill at the command line to graduate to other books.

This book isn't a book about master wizardry system administration. It's just
a quick introduction to get newbies going.

That said, I always like to see a brief introduction to commands like cut and awk, as they are tremendously helpful for pulling stuff out of text data files and they kind of show off the (simple) power of shell. But I've read the first paragraph of the first page of the book and know that wasn't Zed's goal here.
Yeah, it's like the crash is depending on something other than Windows version or IE version, but I don't have any idea what.

One commonality seemed to be Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, but I see someone else was using Windows 8 and reproduced it. Hmm…
There's another whole thread devoted to cartoons: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite...

Yes, it's locked too, and it too was deleted for a year or so before the current crop of moderators undeleted and locked it.
I've definitely come across VM bugs in the past. Perhaps this could be related to VirtualBox? IE does use a number of fancy mmu features when JITing JS that might put pressure on some of the more complex parts of a VM.
Tool for investing in smartphone apps as Assets
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As a side note to web developers dealing with audio: MP3 is really the "plays everywhere" audio format for HTML5 audio.

Firefox was the last holdout, and they capitulated last year [1]; FF for XP and up and FF for Mac now support MP3. There are very few practical reasons not to use MP3.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4923136/why-doesnt-firefo...
That's a cop out and addressed nothing I said.
Feels like GoDaddy tried desperately to gain mind-share of ruby/rails developers, realised it was costing more than it was making and hence shutting it down.
Police Assault A Man Aggressively For Parking Violation – Caught on Video
Tell us how kids and teens are using open source
My personal theory is that this is mainly about the primate dominance dynamic. Markets really do work better, but too many people would rather be the alpha monkey to care about little things like organizational effectiveness.

Of course, to bring this back on topic, as a software guy I'm inclined to think it's a hardware problem.
By the way, this is written by the sixth-place winner of last year's Kaggle Competition for detecting Whales. [1]

I think another very interesting point brought up was when that even such a well-ranked model on Kaggle did a poor job when applied to an different dataset and had to be retained, which is a nice example of over-fitting.

Excellent article and nice details, thanks!

[1] http://www.kaggle.com/c/whale-detection-challenge/leaderboar...
How does this model work when people block ads entirely online?

Disclaimer: I'm 31, block all ads online, and don't own a TV. I haven't seen a TV commercial in years.
How I'd Change Girl Scout Cookie Season
Why don't they offer a cookie of the month club for that sweet cookie crack? What about teaching them ne skills relevant in today's workforce?
Why is there not a "flag post" button?

This is pretty clearly spam.
Yes, but its all made in China. (Nothing wrong with that.)
In other words, don't stand up for your rights because it will only make them mad. Better just accept your fate and don't rock the boat.
>> I think the lack of 60-120Hz has more to do with keeping costs down

That's exactly what I meant - there have been displays for years that can do really high refresh rates at 4K, they have just been quite expensive.

Due to Moore's law, image processing ASICs with that kind of processing power should be as cheap as what's in the Seiki in a year or two.
Is it really the hardware that is making the difference though? I suspect it would be the change in OS is the biggest change (unless you're running Ubuntu on your mac)
> When development is complete record an explicit merge

This is so important I felt it necessary to quote it and restate it as a comment.

Not knowing this ahead of time caused me to have a serious problem on ship day that most source control solutions make trivial to fix - it got solved in the end, but that hiccup was unwelcome. The result was that I threw git out as a viable option for source control (until hg screws me I have no reason to switch back beyond its popularity).

Bad defaults are bugs imo...

EDIT: to be clear i'm referring to the advice to use --no-ff for a merge. i am of the opinion that --no-ff should be the default, because using it causes no damage, but not using it can cause problems.
Show HN: The linkedin Killer
> as well as implementations in Objective-C, Java and JavaScript.

Factor the ObjC version out to plain C, and call into it from your Objective C implementation. Make the plain C version the canonical version. (Things like Emscripten may be useful here for your JS use-case.) This is how libotr does it, and for good reason.

Then, others can use it, and perhaps you will get meaningful free auditing. What you're doing now probably won't attract that because unless your bug bounty is six-figures, nobody competent will spend any significant amount of time auditing it because they have no incentive to do so.
Very good comments, though I disagree on just one point: Money is a medium of exchange for wealth, it is not a store of wealth.

It actually is a store of wealth. Money buys investments, which is where you store wealth. Money is easily transferable in and out of interest bearing accounts, which is a way to store wealth.
Inside a VM? It's a really important information. Maybe you should try this on a real machine. Virtualization can change many things, for example, GPU-Z crushes my Windows 8.1 VM.
An mechanical engineer, physicist, and computer programmer are in a car driving down a steep mountain when the brakes fail. The careens around bends picking up speed until they finally reach the bottom and the car rolls to a stop.

The engineer hops out of the car and begins inspecting the brakes for the source of the failure. The physicist grabs a pad of paper and starts calculating the maximum angular momentum and friction coefficients.

The computer programmer looks at the car, then at the mountain and says, "let's push it up to the top and see if it happens again."
Bitcoin Comes To Overstock After CEO Locks 40 People In A Room For A Week
Yes indeed. And programmers should get multiple screens too. This will only get better over time too.
I bet you can't provide a quote to back up your claim.
I think a lot of people misunderstand what a pain in the ass buying and renting property can be. Unless one is wealthy enough to own multiple properties and have a full-time management company doing all of his work for him, he's going to be taking a fairly hands-on role. Most tennants are flaky. Our perceptions of such might be colored by the fact that -- I assume -- a lot of us here are white-collar professionals making respectable incomes, or who could quickly arrange a steady enough job if needed. Most people aren't like that. Those people are your likely tennants, again, unless you're wealthy enough to afford higher-end rental property.

Then there's the legal minefield. Being a developer or landlord makes one person very rich very quickly, and that person is your lawyer. Especially in the Bay Area. People here pretty much threaten lawsuits if they made eye contact with a teenager on the sidewalk, or if their cat's not eating its food, or if they don't care for the weather on any given day.

Source: I own a small apartment building in LA and sit on my HOA board in SF. I am the definition of a small-time real estate owner in the uncanny valley: not poor enough to not give a shit, but not nearly rich enough to do so, either.

I'm not a full-time landlord; it's more of a nights-and-weekends thing. But it sucks up a not-very-fun proportion of my nights and weekends, and every now and then, it eats into my workday as well. I would recommend landlording to people born into significant wealth, who can buy multiple properties and let a management company deal with the headaches. I would not recommend it as an upward path for those who aren't prepared to make real estate a full-time job, and who can't afford to jump a few rungs up the ladder at the outset.
On a real machine OR inside a VM?
Ask HN: Why would one use MongoDB over PostgreSQL?
Thank you for sharing. Very good for bringing back some old (positive) memories on learning this the first time around.
> Rails version 1.1.6 is supported in the default directory

So yes, I doubt anyone is still using GoDaddy for Rails hosting.
The (money-theoretic) paper that most affected me during economics education was "Money is Memory"; https://research.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/sr/sr218.pdf

It doesn't have much to do with getting wealthy, but it is a very elegant explanation of money as a technology to track members' contributions to society and their deserving of the fruits of society's labour.

Money can be modelled as a shared memory, track record, of contributions.

If it was evident to my grocer, that those abstract thoughts and lines of code I created had value, I could then have credit for adequate food; if the whole value chain was transparent and inherently obvious to everyone...

Can cryptocurrencies displace this (outdated, imperfect) technology?
https://thinkpenguin.com is the address (u before i)
First personal thermal-imaging device for consumers
The Lost Art of Exception Handling (Ruby)