skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We found that using landmarks in directions helps for two simple reasons: they are easier to see than street signs and they are easier to remember than street names. Spotting a pink building on a corner or remembering to turn after a gas station is much easier than trying to recall an unfamiliar street name."

The Third and Most important reason would be that most of the time, you won't find a board with a road name :). I don't mean it in a bad way, and it has never stopped me from going where I want in india.

The best way to find a route in india (and i guess in most of the fdeveloping countries) is to just stop and ask. and if you are in luck, people will even travel with you to show you the place.

But wonderful thinking from google. they clearly know what they are doing.
I'm glad I looked at this list, hadn't seen a couple of these projects before.

It should be called 2009 Ruby Top Ten, but interesting all the same.
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Only three of the ten relate directly to Ruby (Unicorn, Gemcutter and yajl-ruby) - Homebrew also happens to use Ruby but is useful outside the Ruby community.

As a non-rubyist, I think it's a pretty good list.
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Yet it's still more regulated than bottled water:

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/09/09greenwire-fewer-re...
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I'm not from India, but I somehow find this a very exciting feature. Such strong attention to customers is rarely seen.
"posted: 24 April 2007
04:23 pm ET" ???
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is it just me, or is the author of that article trying too hard? there's the conspicuously correct use of a semicolon; long but perfectly structured sentence with many subclauses (followed by a short sentence for contrast); etc.

i agree with the author's general comments (although I haven't read "that book"), and i am sure there's nothing incorrect in what he's written. but it's not a comfortable, relaxed piece of writing, is it?

(edit: rereading that i realised i never made my point. which is that this happens a lot. it seems to be very hard for people to write well about grammar - they always end up writing something that feels "overworked".)
What do the brightest and poshest students at Oxford and Harvard want to study? Business.

as an Oxford alumni, i'd love to know what she's basing that statement on.
Well, I never claimed to have a solution. I was just remarking that "privatize it!" is, alone, not a solution either (although a viable solution might very well involve privatization).

But yes, the eventual reality check of competition, stock prices, &c. is why market-based economies work out better in the end. But that's only a statistical guarantee, and doesn't necessarily help with specific cases, particularly when destruction is somewhat irrevocable, as with depleting wildlife populations. When a massively dysfunctional corporation couldn't really do any permanent damage, giving the market free rein is probably the best choice for average expected outcome.

And actually, in some ways regulatory agencies have more incentive to "protect" whatever it is they exist for--they wouldn't have jobs otherwise, and there's less likely to be the destructive short-term incentives pushing in the other direction. The flip side is that they also have incentive to complicate, prolong and expand the scope of whatever problem they're supposed to be "regulating"--eventually "protecting" it to the point where no one wants anything to do with it because of the mountains of paperwork involved.

As an aside, this is why unchecked monopolies are so dangerous--no competition means no reality checks and nothing to keep the company from going off the dysfunctional deep end.
I asked a reviewer on the phone once. He said this:

There are 3 levels of review (Technical, policies and X). Random reviewers test different aspects. There is also 'Escalation', which is when the reviewer is not sure and the internal policies are unclear.

Furthermore, he says that the policies in the review team change every week sometimes. Examples of policies:

- No women with things in their mouths are allowed

- If a butt is shown, a reasonable amount of torso has to be shown

- You cannot make fun of religion, you can only talk about religion in a neutral manner

So the reviewers have a long and complicated list of rules they are to follow, and this rule list is dynamically updated when an app comes in with new type of offensive stuff.
If it's your true vocation, the thing you're so passionate about that you must do it, nothing so trivial as what strangers might think is going to dissuade you. Anything else merely keeps a roof over your head while wasting your time, so it doesn't really matter what you settle for.
the correct singular is alumnus

few things bother me more than blatantly incorrect usage of Latin next to supposedly prestigious institutions
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What would I do? I'd continue to make money by selling hardware, which is exactly what Apple does now. Sure, ITMS, App Store provide nice revenue too, but the bulk still comes from hardware.
I really cannot fathom the kind of confusion necessary to regard empirical knowledge as "elitist".

I don't particularly like the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but calling it elitist and voting for people who promise to ignore it really wouldn't accomplish much.
Evidently it worked for the author. He got you to buy his book.
For me it's the exact opposite. If I use twitter I can assume by default it will be checked less frequently than email, so this would be the slowest way to get my message across, if gets across at all.
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another data point here (i have been wondering about what is happening ever since this thread) - i just noticed that archive.org's bot has crawled my web site in the last month (or, at least, something identifying itself as such in the logs).
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Same here, mac os x snow leopard
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Does anyone knows the minimum requirements? I was planning to deploy it on a low cost vps, but I suspect that it's going to need at least 1GB of ram.
Good article but he digs too deep. I would be happier if students just learned to use "should have", not "should of", and related constructs. This seems prevalent even among the college-educated these days.

Does a programmer's spelling and grammar correlate with the quality of his[/her] code?
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I don't think Netflix is going to release their customer list the first reduction is not directly possible. Also splitting the population into equivalent size groupings is a normal approach, so you might start with 18-21,21-26... and end with 85+.

Also, it's normal to add / remove ~1% of your sample to remove some edge cases and muddle the waters.
Actually, it's prestige, not presige :)

But the point still stands.
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I am only an Arabic speaker, this what I see

"Banam Khuda

Beh Inwan Eik Irani dur basikh dakhalat hai shatanat Aamiz ai sarwis dahunda beh dastur maqat Amrika'i dur amur dakhili kashrum.

Aain sait beh `inwan hashadir hek ma shod"

I just parsed out whatever that seemed most Arabic-like; and that is "Amrika dur amur dakhili" ;-)
No, you're not the only one. I came over to say the same thing. Highly irresponsible and self-destructive. (He's going to have to interact with these folks on some level during subsequent approval applications.)
I don't see why it's worrying. Half the reason to do something like 'make an etherpad competitor' would/should be to learn how it works. Once you have that, there's a ton of different products you could make/morph into.
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Thorium produced in breeder reactors are object of research for many decades, but very few (if any) commercial examples exist. I remember something out of India, but I am not quite sure. There has been some movement around them in China lately, IIRC, but it must be something on a tech demonstration level or we would all be hearing a lot about it. I believe that when someone pull this off, they will brag about it all over the media.

The General Fusion, TriAlpha and Polywell are all a bit far-fetched. GF's thingie has a couple practical problems, like, for instance, extracting tritium from their liquid lead-lithium mix. There are a lot of problems with liquid-metal heat exchange itself, specially on a scale like the one they propose. Radioactive liquid alkali metal exchangers elevate the NIMBY complains to a whole new level. I would give them a 1%. The TriAlpha approach requires higher temperatures than Hydrogen-Deuterium fusion. I would give it about 0.5% chance of success in the next 100 years. If the conditions the GF machine are to operate can be called extreme, I lack superlatives to name what happens inside a Tri Alpha device. As for Polywell... I am an optimist. I would give them a 5% chance. There are some issues on the geometry of the fields (they had some leaks in the "corners") but I expect them to improve steadily enough for sustained operation.

But we are not aiming at technology demonstrators running sustainable reactions. We are aiming at commercial production on megawatt-scale generators. It's not just rescaling your AutoCAD model, even if you don't consider your whole supply chain.

As for solar, you seriously propose replacing the roofs of every home in the planet with solar panels. I live in an apartment, on a 50's building that's not very tall. There are 40 people living in the same building that has about 200 m2 of roof. That's 4 square meters per person on a not very dense arrangement. It's one of the least dense blocks in my region. Most of my friends live on 1 square-meter of roof per person or less zones (taller, newer buildings). This math will hardly work out. As it is, we have a pretty green energy matrix - mostly hydro. Even our cars run on sugarcane ethanol, but, still, ethanol production takes up a lot of land that could be used to grow food and that may be needed for that if the climate goes south and agriculture takes a hit.

You are more optimistic than I am. Things change, but they change slowly. Unless there is a huge political drive behind this, I don't believe we will see much of it before it's too late.

We need politicians who can focus on periods longer than their terms. I am not sure where to find them.
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Thanks, that does seem highly useful.
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an interesting idea, but is the 3D really necessary? I would think a multi-stream voice / video chat in normal window type interfaces like we're used to online would be better.

Even better would be to integrate with existing voice chat apps, like voice chat in googletalk, but with support for "conference calls" in video and voice.

I just don't see this as a good idea, the implementation looks great though.
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Do the control mechanisms depend on a secure authentication system, at least? I mean, some of these drones carry weapons...
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The author's obsession with panning S&W reminds me of crazy Joe Davolla in an old Seinfeld episode ("Jerry, I've got a hair on my lip and you put it there" or something to that effect).

For me, S&W was helpful in some ways but also led me to feel that I was in a straight-jacket as I tried years ago to follow its prescriptions.

It is good to be simple, direct, brief, and clear. But simple, short, and active can become simplistic, monotonic, and rigidly unnatural. A bad writer may ignore good-writing rules, but an equally bad one will apply them one-dimensionally in arty or mechanical fashion. A good writer will do neither. Thus, while ill use of passive voice can lead to stylistic pomposity, a categorical exclusion of passive voice can lead to a staccato and unnatural style. The same can be said of any arbitrary attempt to use exclusively short words or sentences. Attempting to follow S&W without thought can lead a writer into this trap.

In my view, the best was to master English grammar is to master a highly stylized (inflected) language such as Latin and to work backward from that to the "analytic" rules that govern English. Anyone who does this will have a much greater grasp of technical points of grammar than one gets through memorizing a few prescriptive rules such as those found in S&W. Once the deeper technical points are well-understood, one can "let them go" in developing a natural writing style that nonetheless reflects a high degree of excellence for having the technical mastery underlie it. This is akin to learning to do algorithms after having mastered deep principles of mathematics. With the deeper technical understanding, your work will be far more robust than otherwise. All this is another way of saying that, to achieve excellence in grammar as in anything else, there is no substitute for plain hard work and perseverance.

If S&W has one primary fault, it lies in stating or implying (incorrectly) that mastery of a few rules can provide a good shortcut to this goal.
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Using Showdown[1] is much better as it is markdown implemented in javascript and therefor doesn't require an ajax call after every other keydown.

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There is no way that I would pitch to them. I wouldn't even pitch to any of the members individually because your pitch will likely get back to the competitor. And I'd be especially wary of getting a lot of interest, then going down the path of due diligence, only to get rejected later (while all of your IP and mojo got passed on to the angel).

Does it sound like I'm paranoid? Sure, but I don't think that doing my competitor's work for them is a good strategy. I've been around long enough to know that angels share with one another; there just isn't enough deal flow anywhere in the world that one or two angel investors can find and develop on their own. As an angel, you need to develop a lot of contacts and to do that, that means sharing deal flow and helping out friends whenever possible. Be careful.
JavaScript is "assembler with closures and broken hashtables", and I don't get why anyone would want to use it on the server, compared to richer languages.
It took a while, but I finally detected the sarcasm above.

I am not making this up: Just yesterday I went to reorder checks on-line, and got told "FAIL" and to contact my bank. So I called the main branch in this state and a human being answered. I told her my tale and she said she could help me right then, which she did. Are banks again serving (as opposed to "servicing") their customers?
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The whole idea of this is to allow large groups events. Think 20+ participants. Using 3D allows us to spatialize the event, while staying very dynamic. Groups can form, change, recreate just by moving. The sound is spatialized too, so it could scale to hundreds, thousands of persons. Just using regular voice would make an awful noise. 3D splits group very naturally, while staying dynamic and most of all, intuitive because it's very similar to regular networking events. It could obviously be done by creating voice groups on a "flat screen", but we strongly believe in the power of real world analogies, to make it immersive and help people understand how to behave in this.
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did they mean "transient" rather than "transcendent"?!
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The bigger the gap between you and the partner (in terms of revenue/size), the less likely anything positive will come to you in my experience. I wouldn't waste a bunch of time on this if I were you unless you have the time to waste and you understand the risk. It's fine to devote 'x' hours to getting the deal done but just understand that even if you get the deal done it probably won't amount to much for you.

That being said, I would be very hesitant in signing any exclusive contracts or anything that would prevent you from operating or doing what you want. If you aren't a deal maker, then you probably aren't going to be able/willing to put in big performance incentives. If there aren't valuable performance incentives for both parties, then I wouldn't sweat it.

My approach to things like this is to work out in my mind what I want, explain my case to the partner and explain that why this is win-win (and it had better be), and then to just politely decline all of the "Can we change this?" and "What if we added that?"

I spent large parts of 2008 and 2009 doing this kind of stuff and nothing of quality ever came out of it. I'm probably the end of the spectrum that would be "once bitten, twice shy".
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It's not a question of chance of failure but rate of failure. If 10% of your customers failed every 10 years then you could make a lot of money at 10%APR compounded monthly. You can also be extremely profitable with a 3% failure rate per month and 30% interest rate, because you can sell that bad debt for more than 0$.

PS: How it's called an APR when they charge you APR / 12 per month is beyond me.
Almost but not quite. This is textbook stuff in that it's actually using principals of wayfinding in built spaces. There's a great little research paper that goes into how we locate and orient ourselves in spaces

http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~max/wayfinding.pdf

These are the same principals that people use when designing signage for environments like airports and hospitals. I started a company (that I recently sold out of) whose product was touchscreen kiosk software for wayfinding. We used landmarking (and in the case of Malls, paid landmarking) to help people find their way from A to B.
If that's HTML 5 I remain unconvinced.
Good post but bad title. When I read "orders", I assumed "orders (from customers)" but that is not what it is about. Bad assumption on my end perhaps?
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Am I missing something? All I get is some boring paragraphs on the media, and some even more boring paragraphs on Jesus.
remember that the article could be written by or targeted at americans. in the us (and a few other places, like santiago chile), people navigate much more by blocks + compass directions. this is possible because the streets are grid-like (and here in santiago it is always clear which was is east because you can see the mountains). in the uk, which is much more "organically" laid out, that doesn't work.
What is this article about? Eventually, in the 10th paragraph, Costco is mentioned but I can't figure out why. Here are the final three paragraphs:

"Speaking of my newspaper — please, it’s the holidays, a time for indulgence in all things — they recently discovered a newsworthy item from the Mountain West: Jews in Montana. Imagine!

One more bit of news on this front: the nation’s first elected Jewish governor was a Western man. And a Democrat. In Idaho. Moses Alexander governed the land of famous potatoes from 1915 to 1919.

As a longtime Western representative of The New York Times, which is well read in these provinces, I feel the rub of faux-rube pandering both ways. Here, people are amazed I can find Twitty, Texas, on a map, and — more surprising, can vouch for the peach cobbler. There, the wonder is that I know which side of the plate to keep the salad fork. Sort of."

Why are people upvoting this article? Truly - and I am not being sarcastic here - I don't get it. I read it but still don't understand it.
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