skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice anecdotes. Your comments and links are good at triggering fear, but the data doesn't back you up that football is an usually dangerous sport.

Women's soccer has a higher rate of concussions than men's football at the collegiate level, and it has 75% of the rate at the high school level [1]. Similarly, men's college soccer has a higher rate than high school football. In fact, football is higher than the average sport (high school or college) by less than a factor of 2, an average which includes non-contact sports like volleyball.

Will you be preventing your girls from playing soccer?

Yes, football has a somewhat higher rate of concussions than most other sports, a fact that should be considered before participating. And yes, the recent improvement in concussion treatment and monitoring is a great thing which will naturally focus on football since it has a higher concussion rate and since more US high schoolers play football than any other sport by far.

But the idea that football is in its own category of danger is ludicrous. If you're withholding your children from football, you should almost certainly be withholding them from all contact sports.

[1] Table 1 here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2140075/
I was just thinking around the word 'bug' and it came to me. It made me chuckle and I couldn't believe the .com was available, so I went with it.

Occasionally someone finds it offensive, but most people love the name so I'm sticking with it.

My product is called BugMuncher
He's sensationalist, but he occasionally has some very interesting insights. I wouldn't take his word as factual gospel, but it will be an interesting read, and it may provoke you to think differently about the tech industry and look at other patterns you may have missed.
Edward Snowden Wins EPIC "Champion of Freedom" Award
- Track down the car owner

- Call about the kid

- (Optional) Visit owner (grandparents) in person and take an official statement

- Drop the case

And what is the danger we're protecting the child against here? People seem to like the 'baked in car' setup. You seem to fancy the 'kidnapped wholesale with car' idea? I mean - your neighbor is taking the kid to the car, and gets back in (probably forgot a thing). 30 sec later you look out of the window and the car is gone. What happend?

a) The car was stolen, kid inside

b) The owner of the car and responsible person for the kid inside moved it outside of the viable area from your position

Really?
The U.S. has a tradition of litigation, which forces all these issues into the public. Do you think there's less influence-peddling in say France or Italy? In places where the decision-makers can't get sued over every little action, you don't even need to have a lobbyist make a law.

Take something like bribing officials in developing countries to get contracts. European companies are far more likely to engage in such behavior than American ones. What do you think that says about their behavior at home?
Judging by all of the head tilting in the video, perhaps something with 3D or "holographic" projection?
I live in Germany and changing your name here is only possible for a small number of reasons. If you have a normal name aren't marrying someone or are transgender and transitioning, changing your name is effectively impossible.
No offense, do you subscribe to EMH? Because:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Timeline_of_downf... ($90/share to bankrupt in about a year)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns#Fed_bailout_and_sa... ($140/share to $2 in less than a year)

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723527/00009317630300... ($90/share to bankrupt in 2 years)

These are just egregious cases. The stock market as an oracle is thoroughly overrated. BlackBerry, the late 90s market bubble, the mid-00s financial products bubble... stock price movement says less than you think it does.
Did you mean Barack Obama? Or Bill Clinton? Or Ronald Reagan? Or Richard Nixon? Or Lyndon Johnson? Or Franklin Roosevelt?

They all abused their power, often to extremes.

The illegal war Kennedy and Johnson put us into in Vietnam was drastically worse than Iraq.

The only reason spy agencies under Nixon didn't do what they have under Bush and Obama, is they lacked the technology to pull it off. That's the sole reason it didn't happen sooner.

J Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI for 48 years, under numerous Presidents, all of which were complicit in the abuses that took place. They knew what he was and didn't stop him. Hoover would probably be doing worse today than anything the NSA is doing, he lacked the technology, not the willingness to violate the Constitution.

If FDR was willing to intern Japanese Americans during WW2, what kind of other vile police state measures do you think he would have happily gone along with had the technology existed to eg spy on every single American in 1941? He absolutely would have brushed the Constitution aside, all he lacked was the technology.

None of this mess began with Bush. And the Bush mentality is the opposite of unique among Presidents. He's just one of many involved over decades of abuses leading up to this point.
Who's hiring a UNICORN?
I've also made something similar, a demo of CORS uploading directly to S3 in node/express.

http://dropdot.alfg.co/

https://github.com/alfg/dropdot
I didn't say they don't have the right to choose (though there's a discussion to be had about how informed their consent really is), I just said that their choice horrifies me.

Coincidentally, I've worked with a former Pac-12 football player (who left the game after I think freshman year), and in fact I have sought out his opinions on optimizations for database wrappers (among other subjects). Beware of who you write off with your stereotypes!
I second the vote for Twilio, adding NPR to the list
http://dev.npr.org/#story-lists-api
I appreciate that, Jason. I hope Product Hunt can help both large VC-backed startups and some kid that built a cool product, get the attention they deserve. It's early but we're seeing examples of this already. It's exciting.
Introducing the Proximity API
_RPM,

Can you share the filecode with me? I'm happy to take a look and see what the story is.

UPDATE: I uploaded an executable binary myself and can't reproduce the problem. Can you share what browser and platform you are running on? Have you tried a different kind of file?
The police would have been completely justified in assuming that a parent had taken the child, and that the child was safe. Abductions (especially unreported ones,) by strangers are so uncommon that the officers would have to be suffering from acute paranoia to believe that a stranger had abducted the child.
Is it a fact that SC doesn't actually delete the binary image files, and does store them on disk somewhere? I'm assuming they do, because who would actually delete them?
What is the evidence that they don't?
It strikes me that IBM has become full of the sort of people that can see how to cut fat from a business, but without any of the sort that know how to grow one, or at least if they are there they don't have much influence.

One of the most important lessons I learned in big corporate America was that in the end the cutters always lose, even if they can make small gains in the short term there is only so much you can cut. Upside is potentially larger, but finding it is the core of the problem.
The history lesson was nice, but I actually thought this was more interesting as a description of the challenges that Mozilla faced with their original CI server and the replacement that they designed.
Is it just for products that people have created, or do people suggest products they have found or are aware of hut not involved in?

EG: a friend of mine created MicroMuff, a windmuff for DSLRs. I have no connection with that, apart from knowing him. Is that a product welcome on product hunt?

I do like the idea of product hunt and I look forward to reading it.

Do they have an "AskProductHunt" feature? I'm looking for "contextual mapping of large organisations" - the user enters a bunch of stuff about an organisation and then other people can interrogate it to generate diagrams of the organisation. This would prevent similar information being used many times to create similar but slightly different charts. (If it helps: imagine an NHS health trust. There are exec and non-exec directors and then managers under them and under those people; and a bunch of different services; and a bunch of different staff; and a bunch of different patients. So a chart could be "management structure", or it could be "you are here, and in future we'd like you to progress to there but if things get worse you'll move to there" etc.)

Micromuff: http://www.micromuff.com/
Well said.

University is not Job Skill training. CS Students are not Engineers because they have a degree. It takes years as someone's junior to learn "how it's done in the real world".
"the U.S. legal system lacks people, particularly judges, with technical backgrounds, yet at the same time are intensely unhappy with the decisions of the Federal Circuit"

Agreed that what we need are smart generalist judges who care, not technology specialists. Tech specialists are as likely to become corrupt as any other specialists that set and expand the limits of their own power. The CAFC is bad because abuse of its power is in the interest of the judges, not because of ignorance. The result is the worst technology decisions we could fear.

Sometimes technical illiteracy seems to shine out as a problem as in the recent EU decision on "forgetting," but the problems there are obvious to any educated layman. It's not tech ignorance that leads to bad decisions but plain old ignorance and corruption by personal interest.
Bootstrap 3 Less Workflow Tutorial
I think there's a distinction to be made between Computer Science and Software Engineering as separate disciplines.
Wish somebody had an up-to-date guide to installing Mavericks on Xen.
Good feedback! I was just chatting with a founder earlier today about this topic.
pd89b I haven't tried a different type of file. Chrome Version 35.0.1916.114 m Windows 8.1
"Do you expect Chemistry students to walk out of school ready to begin work in a lab?"

Erm, yes? In fact, the folks I know who made it into industry and graduate school openly hated people who had come into their workspaces without that knowledge.

It is simply not possible for teachers to be able to keep up to date with the latest flavours in industry"

Then why the hell are we paying as much as we are for tuition? Every professional programmer I know worth any salt spends at least 5-10 hours a week in continuing education of one form or another (even if it's just reading about the new JS whatever on HN).

"I really have no time for developers who go on about how we should be teaching lambdas or mutability or tail recursion to 12 year olds or that kind of high horse gubbins."

A simple analogy will usually get the point across, and a simple disclaimer of "This is a better way of doing things, but don't worry about it" means your job of showing the door without getting sidetracked is complete.

~

The author mentions A-levels, so perhaps they aren't looking at college-level students, but even so that's no excuse for dumbing-down the subject matter.

That said, it is important to be able to explain these concepts without being technical--anyone who has dealt with piles of dishes understands stack semantics, anyone who has lived with other people in close proximity has a few intuitions about mutable state.
A lot of people here(Brazil) using your tool god job guys!
Which isn't as trivial as you are implying because it requires a feedback back trap handling parts of the core.
You do know this violates the EULA for OSX?

No OSX version allows for virtualizing it as a guest VM.

(just pointing it out)
Thanks, cmadan! Lots of work to do but I have some good people helping. More on that later!
There are not many businesses that are more of a household name than Big Blue Chip.
The author points out in the text that the NFL result is statistically significant and the NBA result is not.

A larger random sample ought to fall closer to the line than a smaller sample: it would be statistically highly remarkable if the graphs did look similar with zeroed axes - the larger sample should look much flatter.

Starting both graphs from zero is unhelpful if the goal is correct visual interpretation.
Show HN: Endless Nameless, a delayed-response HTTP listener written in Go
I found myself in need of a way to test my HTTP client timeouts in a Rails app I'm working on, and I thought it'd be fun to build a configurable listener in Go. The crossplatform binary distribution is a nice perk of Go's.
> would you leave your four year old alone in a parked car for 5 minutes while you ran into a store?

Yes. No, not really, but yes if I lived in a different time and day (a time and day I wish we did live in).

As another commenter pointed out, the biggest reason many of us don't do this these days is purely the fear of running into ridiculous situations as described in this article.

It really seems odd that you're avoiding the biggest data-driven argument that's raised in the article and has already been put directly to you. Namely, why do you assume that it's safer to take the child with you?

Parents make tradeoffs regarding safety, risk, convenience, happiness, cost, temperament, health, development, etc. ALL. THE. FREAKING. TIME. It's great that "society" cares about how parents do their jobs. It's not so great that society mandates in great detail how that job should be done.

Every parent, every child, every situation, every tradeoff is different. Until it's proven that they're no good at it, let's leave that work to the people who signed up for it.
I find that surprising; of all the systems we're maintaining (hospital), our AS/400 is the one system that's been pretty much rock solid. I've generally been a fan of IBM's hardware.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847351
I hope Product Hunt can help both large VC-backed startups and some kid that built a cool product, get the attention they deserve.

There's a huge opportunity for you to do that, but only if you open up participation. Because submissions and comments are limited to a few users, the kid with a cool product will only get eyes on it if she gets the right person's attention, which defeats the purpose.
It worked out okay for Python.
"Take something like bribing officials in developing countries to get contracts. European companies are far more likely to engage in such behavior than American ones."

It's legal for European companies to bribe foreign governments to get contracts. The Europeans don't consider their laws to apply outside their borders, so their companies can comply with local law.

The USA has the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that punishes US citizens or companies with criminal penalties on return to the USA for ordinary business practices in foreign lands. An ambition to clean up foreign corruption keeps US companies out of some countries.
Not true.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua...
generally agree. however, 10k is a pretty high estimate unless you want to patent something extremely complex or in operate in a complicated area (generally limited to SC fab or pharma with some others along those lines). most small to mid-sized firms will be more in the 2-5k range, although it will vary depending on location etc.

also, many (most?) firms will charge a flat rate for certain services (e.g., drafting and filing) or a capped hourly rate (e.g., $250/hr but no more than $3000). something to keep in mind if an attorney insists on an uncapped hourly rate (which, i hope, would be rare).

[edit: after filing attorneys will also charge for responding/arguing with the patent office. this part ('prosecution') usually varies firm to firm but often is very similar (e.g., a set fee for each type of response, which there should only be a few of)]
Ah, yep you're right. Deleted my comment.
> The metastatic growth of the patent system was a goal of the patent bar.

Back then, I was a baby lawyer in one of the largest patent-law firms in the U.S. I don't remember metastatic growth being discussed as an explicit goal, but there's no question that patent attorneys, on both the plaintiff- and defense sides, welcomed the greater prestige and income that went with litigating bet-the-product-line infringement lawsuits.
A good part of this is that almost all software engineering is vocational, right? But it isn't always taught that way, and somehow in the public mind CS has become equated with "able to program computers".

This sucks two ways: first, it means that people with solid theoretical foundations in CS are derided if they can't--for example--get an iPhone to print to a wireless printer, and second (and worse!) it means that people who want to do something with computers think they can't because they don't have a CS degree. It's a sad state of affairs.
Ask HN: How to deal with an uncooperative registrar?
How does one deal with an uncooperative losing registrar? In this case, Network Solutions, which refuses to give up a domain name?

I have the AuthInfo code. I can receive email at all of the WHOIS contacts. The gaining registrar has sent me the authorization requests and I have accepted them, but Network Solutions persists in insisting, alternately depending on what CS rep I talk to:

1) "We never got the request from the gaining registrar."

2) "We don't allow transfers within 120 days of domain expiry."

3) "We don't have a procedure in place for transferring domains." [Yes, really, they told me this.]

What do I do?
SEEKING WORK: Remote (based in New York, NY)

I'm a Sencha specialist looking for Sencha Touch and ExtJS projects. I code full-stack (Rails and Node.js on the back-end) so would be interested in full-stack projects as well as client-only projects.

Please email me at barry[at]barrypeerless[dot]com if I could be of help. Thanks!
Something that requires 1,221 F (660.3 C) doesn't seem like something you would want to sit on or pump without serious protection.
Sure, will do. I was actually looking at that just before I posted.

My initial thought (before seeing your FAQ) was a no-op compile, but you rightly point out that this may not be the best approach due to littering the production code. I will probably go the separate devcards files route and have the production profile exclude these.

Maybe src/ test/ and devcards/ ?

But I'll experiment with it and see what works best for me and let you know.
Not that the burden of proof is necessarily on your claim, but do you have any data on this? I know it may seem obvious enough that the burden of proof is on the other side, but given that the costs of all the essentials (healthcare, education, childcare, transportation) have tended towards increasing costs while "toys" have tended in the opposite direction.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/its-expe...

The data in this article is on the timescale of the last decade, but it's enough that your claim doesn't really stand on the basis of being self-evident.
Your typical software developer at IBM has 7 or 8 levels between him and the CEO. They're good at cutting, but I'm not sure "fat" is what they know how to cut.
The point is that you don't flag down cops for parents driving their children down the road, which is the bigger risk to their safety.
That would be consistent with previous reports of 3D "sensing" tech on the phone (not sure whether that means gestures, glasses-free 3D screen, or something else).

Sources:
http://bgr.com/2014/04/22/amazon-smartphone-specs-details-ki...
http://bgr.com/2014/05/01/amazon-smartphone-photos-kindle-ph...
It's a very messy system, no doubt. It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. But it's remarkably public, and there's usually a clear challenge path.

I'll put it this way, if I was suspected of a crime, I'd rather be tried in the U.S. system than just about anywhere else.
Non-Safari iPhone browsers will soon have access to Apple’s full-speed JS engine
Probably something I should learn more about if I ever have a four year-old.
As long as it is Apple hardware, as defined by[1], then it can be run, virtualized or not. KVM runs on an OS X host and therefore this is totally acceptable.

[1]: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua...
"It is a school’s job to churn out students who will be able to walk into a job in industry on day one and work in whatever language/paradigm is flavour du jour.

WRONG! We’re here to teach children the core concepts of Computer Science"

Am I the only one ticked off by the "WRONG!" in this post?

If you can tell me that it is your job to accept payment yet not create useful people, in my opinion, you're committing some form of fraud.

Schools like Waterloo in Canada do a great job of providing core concepts while providing the workforce with useful people. I'm an employer (who didn't go to Waterloo personally) and we love to see their interns come our way, as does LinkedIn, Facebook, Google and many others. The school realizes they're not good at making people useful, but they do what they can to help the student become useful by connecting them with the real world, while providing them with the core concepts to enable them to be successful in that position.

Maybe you're frustrated and getting a lot of opposition because you're WRONG!?
Well, iOS does offer a hidden Field Test app that can surface a subset of this cellular base station data.

The code is * 3001#12345#* [1]. Tested on an iPhone 5S running iOS 7.1.1 that is not jailbroken.

[1] http://www.cultofmac.com/128306/access-the-hidden-field-test...
This Printable Lamp Can Fold Itself Up for You
> In a unicode language we might use ⊞, ⊟, etc.

Nope.
How do I Check Linux's SSL Is Not Heartbleeding and Not Relying On Version Number?
> and share new products.

Can you explain this? I've looked at the site a long time ago and again today, and I still don't see any way to sign up (for an account, not the newsletter) or suggest products.
If you are unable to find a log-gamma function lying around, rewrite the above equation in terms of factorials using Γ(z)=(z−1)!, and notice that there are an equal number of multiplicative terms in the numerator and denominator. If you alternately multiply and divide one term at a time, you should be able to arrive at an answer without encountering numerical overflow.

Something about the right side of the equation immediately preceding this quote seems to indicate that many of the terms in the numerator would cancel with equivalents in the denominator. I'm not really familiar with CAS systems, but is this the sort of thing they could do? Doing this simplification once when one writes the code seems to be a win over calculating the original expression every time the code runs.
Actually, it is:

> The grant set forth in Section 2B(iii) above does not permit you to use the virtualized copies or
instances of the Apple Software in connection with service bureau, time-sharing, terminal
sharing or other similar types of services.

http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX109.pdf
Is solar really ready for prime time?
Author here -- this is correct. I think it's a pretty good tradeoff though!

At OpenCNAM we handled billions of API requests, and some of our internal services actually ran on a single dyno (async stuff, mainly) -- but still, it was pretty awesome.
Already posted a bunch of times, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2415761 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4555677 have some conversation.

More tricks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google%27s_hoaxes_and_...
I found myself in need of a way to test my HTTP client timeouts in a Rails app I'm working on and I thought it'd be fun to build a configurable listener.

The crossplatform binary distribution is a nice perk of writing in Go.