skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's the case then it shouldn't be as easy to run up the debt, treating people like this is completely unjustified and wrong. Why do they flee? Is it because of debtor prisons like in dubai? Is it because the legal system is corrupt? Is it because the banks lend out money to irresponsible people with no collateral?
Looks to me like that's a conclusion, not a premise. What actual assumption that Smart Growth America et al actually made are you disagreeing with, and on what grounds?
I like this idea. Thanks. I think I'd still keep some of that in there, but more as an aside and not the main focus.
I'm so glad I don't have to be in this game anymore. I bought my domain 5 years ago; my name. It was free, clear, and a .com. I was surprised it even happened at all because my name is a pretty common chinese name. Unfortunately, when facebook was handing out aliases last year I was unable to secure my name or any variation of my name that I liked.

I've been trying to secure the .com domain of a friend for the last few years. They are currently using the .biz, .net TLDs. Just when it expires it is snatched from my grasps and the owner hasn't responded to my emails. I believe this is because they are in the same business in the same geographic area so are competitors.

I actually had a scare where I was on vacation when the domain expired, blog, and all emails were stopped. I finally got it back after 2 weeks of wrestling with my registrar. After that I pay in 5 year blocks. Cheers, until 2013!
Rubbish idea, sitting looking like a glass-fish in a bowl and at this price point Totally Rubbish.
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The word here is "encrypt" or "cipher" not "hash":

> But if they use a two way cipher and the server is compromised one would presume the mechanism for un-encrypting [decrypting] the passwords would also be compromised meaning it is almost as bad?

It might be. It is conceivable that a site may use public key cryptography and store encrypted passwords, but have password recovery done on an independent system which has the decryption key.

(For our purposes, a "reset question" might also be considered a password because it is still something "you know" and to be differentiated from an email address which would be something "you have")
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The problem is actually that lots of things that you can eat taste horrible. And you won't find much ripe fruit in the wild anyway, because they're eaten right away.
I think the point about "allowing people to get to work" is that people with no car (a much larger proportion of the jobless than of the employed, presumably) have more limited employment options, and improving public transit gives them access to more jobs. It seems a pretty good guess to me, at least, that public transit does more to give more people access to more jobs than highways costing the same amount.
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I don't know Houston very well but a cursory look at Google Maps indicates that it's extremely spread out, which would make what you describe difficult.
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That depends on what it spends money on.

Infrastructure spending _may_ increase efficiency such that the increased tax burden is less than the efficiency gains enjoyed by tax payers. In this situation the government has indeed created jobs by expanding the economy.

Of course if they pick the wrong projects then efficiency won't rise as fast as the impact of taxation, the economy will shrink, and jobs will be lost. This isn't a special characteristic of governments though - companies (and individuals) can torpedo themselves in the same way (investment ROI is too low), albeit usually on a smaller scale.
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I guess you could compliment it with a service like Zipcar, but you're right, it makes a lot more sense going city to city in a place like the northeast.

In France you can do Paris to Lyon in a little under 2 hours, and a similar system (a relatively slow one at that) would get you between NYC and Boston in about 1.5 hours. The current options are 4 hours (no traffic) on a $15 Chinatown bus, or 4 hours on a $100 Amtrak train.

When you're stuck on a bus in a gridlock in Manhattan trying to get to Boston, and it takes you 1.5 hours just to get out of Manhattan and over the bridge, is really the time you start to wish the public transit infrastructure wasn't so far behind every other modern nation in the world.
I apologise for editorializing the headline, but I hope you agree it was not gratuitous or sensationalist editorializing...
While this suggests that listing peoples "friends" publicly would be a negative, it does not remove the advantage of publicly using your name on a social website. Reconnecting with someone you know in collage but lost track of still happens in Japan. So, the best option for the 30+ crowd might be public profile, private relationships / conversations.

PS: Another option would be to allow sub groups of friends on a social site where each network has its own independent "wall" that they can post to.
High Speed Rail between cities make a lot of sense, but what if the city you are arriving at does not have a public transportation system? For example, what would be the point of a high speed rail between Dallas and Houston? How would you get around once you arrive?

In Europe high speed rail makes sense because when you arrive there is a dense network of trains and buses you can use. In the U.S there is none.
Silly me, I read "search professionals" and thought he was hiring people to make collections of information easier to search, but no, he's trying to make search engines less useful for everyone.
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To the best of my knowledge, git is for smaller teams that need more of an ability to be dynamic (maybe web apps dev) whereas subversion is for larger teams that need centralization (network/server; maybe large systems - however Torvalds would disagree here since git was initially for kernel dev).
You can already visit the page of any app to see what friends are using it, and the app updates are the same as what would appear in the newsfeed. So this page reveals no more additional info than what was already available to you, although it does make the info a bit more accessible.
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That's my point: why waste time trying to make places like Houston work with public transport. Concentrate on the places with a high enough population density to make it function.
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Have you tried FF 3.6?
BART was always planned to go to San Jose, but one of the municipalities down there didn't want to pay for it 20+ years ago, so it didn't pass through. These days everything seems more expensive and voters are leery of bond measures. It probably will eventually go to San Jose, but not in the next few years.
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It seems like an obvious choice for such services, but there is a big difference between a service being good enough since it is free and being good enough to pay for (if you have to pay there are a lot more alternatives than if you get it for free).

Itunes is good enough to pay for, but I can't imagine I am going to want to see an entire movie in flash quality on youtube and pay for it. I will much rather pay for the DVD and get it in a good to great quality.
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Ask HN: Could Conan-NBC breakup be a marketing stunt?
I am not suggesting that it is. But if it was, I think it would have been a brilliant strategy (only as long as not everybody starts doing it). It would have gotten NBC all they wanted - a spike (and who knows, maybe even long term improved ratings) in Conan's and Leno's ratings and a final make up to end the day nicely.
The simple rule I was taught that if you can find anything that moves, cook and eat it before eating unknown plants. Your odds are generally much better with animals than plants -- you can probably find dozens of examples of inedible or poisonous plants on your back yard alone, while poisonous (as opposed to venomous) animals whose poison is still dangerous after being cooked are quite rare.

An even simpler rule is to start with anthills -- ants live almost everywhere, and while many ant species use poison as a weapon, none are poisonous after cooking.
My favorite quote that's actually not in the list:

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

—Alan Perlis
I wonder if this is a tactical error. While the Wii sells well, there really isn't a lot of compelling software for it. Often the interface adds little, or even takes away from gameplay. Perhaps it's just really hard to get right.

disclaimer: I own a Wii
Having your own car is extremely convenient. It can carry all your stuff and be reasonably secure against theft. If you're worried it's going to rain, toss an umbrella in the trunk. If it turns out not to rain, you didn't have to carry an umbrella all damn day, etc.

In most Texas cities, there's ample easy and free/cheap parking. Parking in NYC or DC is a nightmare. Those two cities also have very high densities and reasonably good public transit systems.

It seems there's a naturally inverse relationship between parking convenience and public transit convenience. I believe that's driven from environmental factors (cutting it back to only one factor, it's probably the cost of land as #1 driver). If your public transit system has to cover all of Dallas/Fort Worth at the same transit density/convenience as Manhattan is covered, you're going to spend an ENORMOUS amount of money on that infrastructure and that's not likely to be paid back by the moderate/low level of usage that would occur. (Because parking would still be plentiful and convenient in those cities...)
> That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

And Sapir-Whorf rears its ugly head again.
So, to get involved in this "TDNAM," all you have to do is pay GoDaddy's $20 backorder fee and wait for the expiration date to hit?
Not being much for Facebook apps myself, I'm trying to think of what might be embarrassing. If I add an app to my FB account, I expect it might make itself known to my friends anyway.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll make the text boxes more visible and work on error handling for sure.
Ignore the code is a pretty good design blog in general (http://ignorethecode.net/blog/)
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There is a saying that, "you can travel across the land or live off the land but not both."

You may be able to improve your chances over the short term by concentrating on finding food but if you want to survive long term your best chance may be to get back to civilisation and get back quick.

Having said that as with most situations the optimal strategy is probably somewhere between the two extremes.
Another method to snatch a good/great name is to actually contact the owner (if possible). You might get lucky and reach a person who is not a domain pro and is willing to do a fair deal. I'm currently buying a very brandable adjective word domain from an individual. When I did a bit of research before contacting, I found out the business was no longer a going concern. From a superficial glance, most people wouldn't have bothered contacting. Hell, on another day, I might have stopped as soon as I saw a live website.
The PDF spec is rather long but the basic format is simple enough. Check out http://yob.id.au/2009/11/12/intro-to-the-pdf-file-structure.... for a short intro.
If you wanted accuracy you would have used days and then first post, so people that registered a day early would always have a lower ID.
Cool, but don't just take my word for it set up an A/B test, there are many great ideas friends have suggested, that the internet at large was not too thrilled about.
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no, that was actually not a pun.
Did you email Facebook security and tell them?

http://www.facebook.com/security
Did you even read the article? This isn't a visual scripting environment, it's an intuitive way to use Python to do image processing.

Edit: here's a paper with examples. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/sikuli/sikuli-uist2...
Just go to Godaddy.com and click on Domain Auctions. Their dropcatching of deleting names isn't that good, however, it's the place to go to get a name that was registered at Godaddy/WildWest.

For expired names that were registered at Godaddy/Wildest, the name goes into a 10 day auction around 25 days after expiration. At the end of the 10 days, it goes to the highest bidder. Then the winning bidder has to wait another 7 days before the domain is in their possession.
There's more to this project than is hinted at by the "picture-driven programming" label. This scripting system is driven not just by pictures, but by screenshot snippets of the GUI elements that you want to click on / control. The language uses computer vision techniques to match things on the screen (and I'm guessing to prevent programs from becoming overly brittle if minor visual changes happen to the screen). Check out the video on the project's actual page, it's actually kind of interesting:

http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/
unsafePerformIO is part of the the Haskell 98 Foreign Function Interface, which is "An Addendum to the Haskell 98 Report". (See chapter 5 Marshalling <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/ffi/ffise5.html...) All haskell compilers support the foreign function interface, and it will be a required part of the next haskell standard.

Use of unsafePerformIO (or any other unsafe function) should rarely be needed in real world programs though.
Actually, you can click a little "Use Keyboard" link to let you type it in. Thank goodness.
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That sourcesafe is the second most used SCM scares me.
I think that the fact that Natal is coming out several years after the 360's introduction will help. The Wiimote/accelerometer-based-control has been marketed as an integral part (probably the most recognizable part) of the Wii experience. In keeping with that, most people don't own Gamecube-style controllers, so making games that use a more traditional interface is a losing proposition on the Wii.

In contrast, Natal is a purely optional add-on, and I'm not sure on this but I'm not sure it will be possible to control non-Natal-enabled games or the Xbox 360 dashboard without a traditional controller. This way, game developers can choose the controller paradigm that makes sense for the game, and the Natal ecosystem can grow organically, rather than have it foisted upon people. Maybe this is a recipe for languishing and fragmentation, but I can see how this strategy could work out better for Microsoft than Nintendo's did for them.

The technology could also be intrinsically much better, who knows?
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"China's constitution protects the right of citizens to free speech"

Yeah... I'm sure it does.
Nice quotes.

While its "negative/funny" I'm surprised Larry Wall's famous quote about Lisp didn't make it on this list:

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

Here's the ref: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/7700fb02a2... (the whole thread is a good read).
Promoting on forums is a huge waste of time
This. I think that the question that most large software companies are asking is "Is there any reason to move to git over subversion?" And in a large software company, that's a pretty big question. In fact, discussing it would likely take more time than actually moving to git.
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I agree that short-haul and long-term public transportation systems are very complementary, and as you allude to, there may be a chicken-and-egg problem with building one over the other. However, I think of long-haul rail networks as an alternative to air travel, and in the short term, can't people get around in their destination city the same way they do now when they fly? Rental car, taxi, friends, family, public transport such as it is (you're right that the US is far behind Europe in this respect, but most major-ish cities at least have buses).
Plus to pay for a system like New York's or D.C.'s in Dallas, the fare would be astronomical, such that people simply wouldn't ride it.
Wasn't that what Ray Bradbury said about his own first million or half million words?
I second voting. Being new to a lot of these languages, I would not in the slightest figure out which one of these reviews is the best to look at.

Glad to hear that it is on your radar!
We need to export more goods, not import.
For the record (though as other commenters have pointed out, this rant on LabView is off-topic): LabView is a very successful tool that is used by many programmers in various fields, not just instrumentation. LabView does have compiler errors and syntax error highlighting; they don't look the same as in a text-focused language, but since G is a programming language, it has its own syntax and errors can occur.

Programming languages are an abstraction. G is just another abstraction. I've used BASIC and C compilers with terribly cryptic, useless errors too; the errors had more to do with flaws in the compiler and IDE than the language itself. If errors in LabView are cryptic or obtuse, I would assume something similar.
A better carrier.
Ask HN: How would you make public transit profitable / create more value?
Reading the discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1069703 got me thinking about the fiscal crisis I keep seeing transportation authorities having. Both the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay) and MTA (NY Metro) systems, in my area of the world, have staggering debt and frequent problems, and I've heard about similar problems elsewhere.

From what I can tell, their main sources of revenue are vehicle / station advertising, fares, and in-station rents for business venues.

How would you improve or add to these revenues?

Update: There's a lot of (possibly justified) cynicism in some of the responses received so far. Maybe a better way of looking at this is:

How would you have public transit create more value?
constructive solid geometry seems good, but boundary representation looks better.

I've found some resources:
- an online course on Geometric Modelling

http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab/G_mod/FYGM/

- a book about boundary representation

http://www.amazon.com/Boundary-Representation-Modelling-Tech...

I think these will suffice to start.

Thanks for the comments!
Exactly, building infrastructure doesn't improve our trade imbalance, that's my point. China loans the US money and pegs the yuan to the dollar so we can buy their goods. That's not a sustainable model. Building transit doesn't affect this model.
Spoken like an engineer who thinks engineers are undervalued, not like a project manager who understands that the 10x productive engineer is incredibly, incredibly rare, and that all businesses must ultimately seek to maximize their profits.

Seriously, I've never heard of a company paying a single engineer (that is working as an individual contributor, and not in a leadership role) 10 times the salary of a "typical" engineer. If we take the salary of a typical engineer as merely $60,000 (probably an underestimate in most regions) that would imply a $600,000 salary for a "rock star" programmer.
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There's no such thing as 'intuitive.' An intuitive design just means that it fits the user's mental model well, which is just a broader way of saying 'familiar.'
there's no control here. he probably just boned himself.
I remember always using a cleverly named utility called "list" instead of NC. It was faster and lighter weight. I had it renamed to "l" and stuck in my path somewhere on all of my machines so I could pull it up in 2 keystrokes.

Finally had to get rid of it somewhere around Windows 98
A similar argument actually goes for experiments that are somehow affected by computer networks.

If scientists use grid-computing, cloud-computing, or just the plain regular Internet, there is no way to accurately reproduce results for distributed applications.
Luckily, some researchers are aware of this and there are now some projects starting to make testbeds and infrastructures to make environments where experiments can be reliably reproduced.
As a colour blind person I appreciate the attempt, but this system does absolutely nothing to help me. The kind of place where my colour blindness is an issue, would be a map like this one http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/jeoparmap.jpg... where Trebekkies and Casual kibitzers are the exact same colour to me. Go ahead and label them as `/ and / in the legend, it doesn't help me in the slightest to determine where I need to go in the US to engage in a lively conversation about Jeopardy.

To really help people with colour blindness, I recommend that before you publish anything, do this to it. http://erik.wiffin.com/stuff/graymap.jpg If you can see the difference between all of the categories, then so can I.
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I don't think the biggest issue is money. It's more about space. Not everyone has an extra room that they can dedicate to having an office. And they may not even be able to add one for $25k.
These are all very good points. However, I would take one over a cubicle in a heartbeat.
I love this:

> One anonymous source with knowledge of Apple was quoted in BusinessWeek as saying, "Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy. Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle."

An "anonymous source with knowledge of Apple"? That could be me! Or you!
Whoa! Awesome. Prawn is "fast for Ruby" but still not fast when compared to lower level implementations. How is performance here? (If it's decent, I'll definitely need to steal some ideas :)
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They taught a computer to perceive the world? Most misleading title ever.
Originally HT was supposed to be transparent.

According to whom? I don't think anyone with a clue would have suggested that. If you care about writing high-performance code, you care about the behavior of your processor. Obviously, multiplexing the execution of two program threads onto a single physical core is going to affect performance, whether in the form of scheduling differences, caching effects, etc.

they should have dropped HT and go for actual cores instead.

Well, you can do both, of course. If HT gets you better utilization of a single core, then fair enough. The question is really whether the transistors/power you burn on HT would be better spent on additional cores (or bigger caches, etc.).
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True enough. I think the easily accessible part is somewhat important though, at least for apps that you would not look for otherwise - it's like checking if a key exists in hash, vs given a list. For the former, you can find it if you know what to look for, the latter it gives you a free look.
US government spending reached 45% of GDP as of last year: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.ht...

It peaked at 52% in 1945 (WWII). Just how much of the country's wealth does the author think our governments (Federal, state and local) can consume?