skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't view the video from here in China, but...

I've noticed lately developers/local govt tearing down buildings after evicting tenants, then canning the new building project ("running out of money", maybe), instead turning the land into a carpark. This creates more demand for unsold apartments nearby, (as well as giving vehicles somewhere other than footpaths to park on :).
How many apartments are vacant in the US, just as a comparison, does anyone know? That would make the number much more meaningful.

Also, are these apartments dirt cheap and do they speak english in these areas at all? Maybe they could be a haven for startups, which are somewhat less bound by geography, if they were extremely cheap. I might just be dreaming though.
Besides just circles having different interest targets, they also vary greatly in character depending on size. After adding in the HN circle^[1], I see it streaming fast with diverse posts. If I click on my family circle it acts more like live journal did, slow but personal. I imagine that apps will need to be diverse in these ways as well.

[1] - Hacker News Circle: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2717503
Ask HN: Are there any CS students that would do a project for $500?
Hi everyone, I'm working on a startup, and we're looking for a student or recent graduate in computer science that would be interested in bolstering their portfolio by completing the MVP or functional prototype for our idea. Our asking price is $500 dollars for the completed project, with any changes that we felt were needed with the final product. All of the intellectual property would be ours after the project was finished. Any students with mobile/web app experience that are comfortable with the facebook places API and PayPal API or Venmo API, feel free to contact us at selfey.sw@gmail.com Thanks!
What UX considerations were built into Google+?
+1 especially to 'more descriptive, less prescriptive'. And I wish there was a way to include what the interesting unsuccessful/less successful startups did.
Sometimes a little surprise can be good. I wonder if it's too much overhead to specify what kind of flavors/candies/snacks you like and have it "surprise" chosen from there. This means you can't go for the same Pocky or hard candy or whatever you know you definitely like, but you can always order that extra on the side on top of the surprises.

I subscribe to a service called Birchbox, which sends me a handful of beauty product samples every month for $10. I don't get to choose what's in my package, but depending on how I fill out my profile (e.g. I care about ways to achieve a low-maintenance classic beauty look, I'm young so I don't want wrinkle cream...) I'll get surprises in my box but things that I want to use, instead of things I can't or never had any interest in using. This leads to finding out about products I end up loving, since whenever I do go shopping for beauty products I gravitate towards the same brands and items and ignore the rest. The surprise factor overcomes my biases.

The other thing Birchbox does is they sell the full-size product of their samples. They're much more expensive than candies of course, but I wonder what that kind of business model would be like for these snacks.
Awesome!, thanks, it runs great
Today's small hack: an embed.ly plug-in for Jekyll
I love the idea and the implementation, I've been looking for something like this. If you could filter by language it would be a lot more useful. Is that possible?
As I read this article, it's mostly non-technical reasons that come to mind as reasons to discourage someone from sticking a bean up their nose. Technically, it's an interesting challenge to get that bean up there, but it just doesn't add any business value.
Internet of Things, high-level talk Manchester, UK in September.
What I like about Google+
Is there a free app on appstore? Who cost less? Web browser can stay in a unobtrusive way in your status bar, visible on all spaces? My time is free? You know me? You know how many open sources lines of code I released? Before say something ask it to yourself and get your adjectives right.
Or the development was found unsafe (after a number have already fallen down), or they realized that the permissions were not done correctly (or at all).
Why not write it in Markdown, makes for easier reading on GitHub and provides the possibility to parse and publish later on.
Hey there - great suggestion. We'll be adding a batch of features Mondayish...
This looks pretty damn cool. It seem like this is the missing front-end to Backbone.js, and a potential alternative to the powerful but learning-curvaceous Angular.js.
Maybe one day, too busy now and I don't really enjoy writing. Have some good stories though. I'd probably start with "How I turned a $60 bottle of scotch into $2mm".
I follow the standard "git init ." route, except I follow it with a very long and delicious nap.
It's always funny to see this kind of selective deference accorded to biology. Though there is no mention of an adult control group in this "study", I guess we are to extrapolate that one group (children) has neurological advantages over another (adults), even as we are enjoined from noting even the possibility of similar neurological differences between any other two groups (such as 20 year old programmers and 40 year old programmers...or geniuses and neurotypicals).

Hard to predict when and how a true egalitarian will allow for biological constraints on their ambitions.
GitHub Growl Watcher, get instant notifications from your repos
Unlike Polymaps this also supports IE6 & 7 which is a big win for orgs that have to support a wide range of browsers.
Awesome. I'm a happy user of lua-apr and would recommend it to anyone.
Wow. Just wow. Compile this. Run this. Just wow.
Ah, this isn't actually a student writing an essay, this is a high school policy debater. Their topic this year is space. If you aren't familiar with this activity, it has some pretty outrageous elements--300 wpm speed-reading, often surface-level analysis, and preference for gamesmanship over quality of argumentation. But if you put the right kind of work into it, you do learn alot.

The reason the student needs the source is that 'quals' are used to quickly legitimize a person's argument. In policy debate, unrefuted arguments are considered true. Thus, there's little time for intelligently evaluating what a person is saying, as long as they have 'quals' and you can get to the next piece of evidence ('cards'). The most outrageous argument from a PhD might be preferred in debate over a rational argument from an intelligent person, like Charlie Stross. edit: That's why he can't just say 'as Stross says...' like the commenters suggest. As an example, this past year my debate topic was mental health. I often cited Robert Whitaker, who is a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for psychiatric journalism, was the former director of publications at HMS, and has written two books on psychiatric medications. Yet, because he did not have an MD or PhD, debaters sneered at his qualifications, rather than evaluate his arguments.

I also find it highly likely that Stross's article is being used because of this paragraph "Historically, crossing oceans and setting up farmsteads on new lands conveniently stripped of indigenous inhabitants by disease has been a cost-effective proposition. But the scale factor involved in space travel is strongly counter-intuitive."

This is because debaters often don't respond to the other's policy proposition, but rather kritik their position by indicting the philosophical ideas behind it. For example, an affirmative debater might advocate colonizing a planet, and a negative debater could ignore this and talk about how the affirmative is really based on white-power dominance of other cultures, and thus they should lose.

My quals: debater in a different type of debate
Jared Spool: Anatomy of a Design Decision
Nouriel Roubini on the investment bubble in China, including these ghost towns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4yN00qGBbI#t=10m39s
Ghost cities also keep construction workers employed.
>>any real user<<

Scientists solving n-body problems are real users too.

>>doesn't use optimized compilers for ... C#/F#<<

What "optimized compiler" do you suggest for linux C#/F# ?

Meanwhile http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo/compare.php?lang=csc&...

>>many more than 4 language implementation<<

lemming wrote "Only 4 languages are faster", not only 4 language implementations are faster.
Sadly, many if not most people seem to confuse schooling with education and credentials with competence.

It's toxic in multiple ways. First is the assumption that those who have learned on their own as Charlie has are incompetent. Worse still, is the assumption that people with some certificate or degree automatically have whatever technical/language/business/artistic skill their paper says they do.

In some cases, especially the hard sciences, the connection is strong. In others, such as literature, it's hit and miss. In a few fields, such as business or film, a PHD is probably a negative indicator. Those headed for the top get lured away before going that far with formalized training.
Photo of the Day - Best Pictures of June 2011, Gallery - National Geographic
I imagine it loops though the full width of the image every time it is called, which is every time the loop reaches the check.

Since storing it will require width-1 less calls to im.getWidth() it is much more efficient no matter how you slice it.
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Then if you are guilty say of murder, the best strategy is to refuse. In that case, you'd be only liable for contempt of court.
It's sad that we don't seem to train young people to assess ideas themselves rather than trust in things like degrees (which can be meaningless depending on the quality of the institution that issued them)

But I think there's a big caveat here in that "numpty@gmail.com" doesn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed. That sounds harsh but it is important because stupid people tend to be more trusting in authority figures. For good reason.

Evolutionarily speaking someone who is lacking intelligence is less likely to survive and following someone who seems to excel in that area increases their chance of survival greatly. Less than intelligent people being in positions of authority seems like a relatively new development in human evolution since I'd assume it stems from the transfer of wealth between generations (which wasn't possible until technology gave us the ability to create and maintain assets of some significance). So for most of human history a stupid person was better off following an authority figure and I'm sure the instinct is still embedded in people like this.

Which in turn makes him trust in meaningless pieces of paper that convey authority rather than his own assessment of the ideas presented.
It's inspired from Structure Synth ( http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/ ) and runs in any modern browser that supports CSS3 transforms. With a little bit of effort, you can design some pretty interesting 2D structures and patterns.
i would of much preferred you submit this when there was some content or more thought out. There's not even anything to look at. You should of at least maybe brainstormed out your ideas further with a table of contents or further list of ideas for content you intend to write or want people to contribute to. Theres nothing to show here.
I'm totally impressed that

b[o] = ".,-~:;=!*#$@"[N > 0 ? N : 0];

is allowed in C.
There's a reason that Open Source communities often react to strange questions with "can you explain what you want to do?" or a similar request for the bigger picture. Too many people start down a chain of reasoning based on how they want to solve a problem, get to step 7 of 10 of a bad plan, and ask for help proceeding to step 8. Explaining how to get to step 8 solves the problem they think they have, but asking for the big picture can lead to a much better solution to the problem they actually care about.
Well, universities are accredited so whatever they say must be true, so if an institution like Harvard says that Forrest T. Whittaker the 3rd of Upponton Connecticut has a degree in Computer Science it must mean that he's really good at turning database records into HTML / Javascript.

However, as a great (and I believe unaccredited) playright once said, a fool and his money are soon parted.
I've used DailyBurn.com for much of what you are talking about, as far as tracking what I eat. But I haven't used the specific mail planning feature as I am not a paid member.
Floating Point Determinism
A well-executed interactive guide to the history of electronic music.
Dead Media - Finn Bruntun 2011 USENIX [video]
You may be dreaming, but you're not the only one.

What would be the hurdles to get a startup running in China? The Great Firewall?

It's a big country so it's always possible to find a place that fits your personal taste. For example Sanya is a tropical island. Not much infrastructure there yet though.
"I often cited Robert Whitaker, who is a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for psychiatric journalism, was the former director of publications at HMS, and has written two books on psychiatric medications. Yet, because he did not have an MD or PhD, debaters sneered at his qualifications, rather than evaluate his arguments."

Why didn't you just cite the research he is talking about? All of the authors of the actual studies have PhDs.
Not a fan of the intro, but bear with it and poke around. I think you will be pleasantly surprised, especially if you like techno and the like. The author has a pretty good sense of humor too.
Ask HN: Any Christian software engineers here?
I have a passion for the Church, and the tools it uses. And I think they all, for the most part, suck. I have half a mind to make something better, specifically a sort of Church Management System.

I'm wondering if I can find any kinship here on HN, the best hacker/engineer community I've ever found. Though I have a feeling the community here is largely non-religious, or at least hesitant to express it openly.

Is HN a good place to find people like me, or is there somewhere else I should look?

[edit] I'm not looking for a co-founder -- just someone to maybe bounce ideas off of.
Naming your kids based on domain name availability
I'm ok with apps on G+ if they provide an option to turn off all notifications / spam. You can "turn off platform apps" in Facebook but still have to hide the posts individually. I've probably manually blocked 30 apps at this point, which is annoying.
Evolution doesn't say that at all, evolution predicts that the fittest for their environment will survive. Given that the number of children one has is inversely correlated with 'intelligence' it would seem that the stupid are more fit to survive by nature of their willingness to pass on their genes.

Social Darwinism is not the mode of operation for industrialized nations so it's debatable whether there are any significant evolutionary fitness functions in place in the first world.
Obama: Fix Unemployment by Fixing the Patent Process
If the founding fathers of the USA were alive today, would the be entrepreneurs?
Google+ Circles: agonizingly close
How to Hire a Great Web Designer, With Y Combinator’s Garry Tan
It wasn't clear to me that the $49 quote was after the locksmith showed up - otherwise why would the woman have paid $400?
Meta: It's always strange how few people question the dogma that evolution influences every last detail of human behavior.

But I wouldn't make that statement outright. It is heretical.
The problem with debaters is what one becomes after achieving mastery of the art.
>>I don't think there has ever been a point in history which it [C++] doesn't cream Java<<

Still waiting for that faster C++ fannkuch-redux program (and still waiting for a C fannkuch-redux program that uses multi core).

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=fa...

>>when you weight by funding<<

Please show total $$$ amounts spent on the development of each programming language over the last several decades - so we can weight by funding.

(Should funding for Plan 9 compilers be accounted as funding for Go? Should funding for GCC compilers be accounted as funding for GCCGO?)

>>I find their Fortran statistic suspect as well ... At least in scientific computing...<<

When you don't look, you won't find -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=...

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=...
His entire blog is a pure obfuscated goldmine. Just look at his footer:

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"MC-M/NZGB6Q,I0VGB6a0FbN<VG.6Q\\bNb7^@`X=N@`XQaOVX:^]NX=:Z8PY]B`:>P"
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About Idea 2, Streema (http://streema.com/radios) offers a curated set of stations from around the world although not plotted on a map.
I'm glad I skipped any sort of debate team experience and instead spent my college years engaging in real debates on scientific usenet groups like sci.astro.tech, it seems to have been a vastly better use of my time.
In fairness to the OP, he does talk about this very issue (including just doing this via email). We're all a little blinded by what we're good at.
What this says to me is you're really not ready or wanting to do something else. Sure, there's some risk- but trust me, you probably underrate the risk of your megacorp job.

Losing my lame but safe job was the best thing that ever happened to me. Go for it if you really want to do something else, and if you don't? Stop fooling yourself.
Adventures in Bitmasking
Does it matter? While I would bet that of the few thousand registered here, at least a few consider themselves "Christians", what you need is someone who is interested in building a system that you have envisioned. Good luck in your search though. If you can get your whole mind into the project I think you will be half way there.
If you aren't already familiar with or using OpenBSD's pf, then you're right, it probably won't be very interesting to you.

(It has been a while since I've gotten armpit deep into a gnarly pf config file, so I might get part of the following a little bit wrong. I welcome corrections.)

pf has two different packet shaping mechanisms: CBQ, and prio. CBQ allowed you to allocate amounts of bandwidth, but didn't include prioritization. So, you could, say, set aside X Mb/s for ssh, Y for http, and so on, with lots of borrows and congestion management and other neat stuff.

With prio, you had to give up allocation, but you got to say instead that a particular rule always got bandwidth priority over other rules. So, if your web server is getting hammered, and you have ssh prio 7, you can still get into your machine no problem.

To use either scheduler, you had to specifically "turn it on" in your config file and essentially build a little structure for it. It sounds like -- having just glanced at Henning's messages and patches -- the "turn it on" and structuring steps have been eliminated for prio. Although on the surface that looks like a small change (and user-wise it probably is), it's still a pretty big change in the pf internals.

What I hope -- and can't tell yet -- is that this is going to get us a step closer to being able to use both scheduling mechanisms. They are complementary systems and it sucked a little to have to choose the features from only one or the other.

Either way, this is the kind of news that makes me really really miss working with pf. I prefer it, a lot, over iptables, which makes me grouchy on a regular basis.
Intuit Hates Apple Users
Embellished Donut in Obfucsated C
I'd be very happy if this developer, and all the others like him that are interested in "viral distribution" (read: spamming heck out of everyone's streams) were to stay right where they are, on Facebook.

If G+ never supports a single app, and everyone who thinks Facebook is the Internet stays there, I'll be very happy on Google Plus.
Three Little Circles
It sounds almost as if you're saying high schools now teach forum trolling.
Haha. I don't get why this particular one attracts so much attention, as it was my first one and is pretty amateurish compared to this one:

http://a1k0n.net/2006/09/20/obfuscated-c-donut-2.html
After Search, Google Shows Off New Look for Calendar, Blogger, Gmail & YouTube
(also, click on it)
Why not buy out a ranking lead gen site and then change up the content for Stroms business?
NinevehGL: a free 3D engine made with pure Objective-C for iOS.
From Yalie ‘disaster’ to startup guru
How to Log In to Windows Without the Password
> The problem with debaters is what one becomes after achieving mastery of the art.

A lawyer, of course -- need you even ask? <g> [EDIT: IAAL but I wasn't a debater.] [EDIT 2: Or a cable news commentator.]
The test is whether a mark has "secondary meaning". http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm
Like most of science, rhetoricians rely on a poor understanding of what evolution actually says to foster ideas that have no basis in any meaningful scientific understanding of the topic, but seem to make common sense.

The funny thing about evolution and rhetoric is that evolution is usually used to create acceptance for the policies that will make the fitness function a reality. (eg. mutilating the reproductive organs of those who score low on IQ tests)
Someone tried this on me once- they quoted me 80 and when he got there said it would be 210. I told him not to touch it, I'd just sleep in the hall.

He then asked "well how much can you pay?" to which I said "80"

Job done in two seconds (I still felt ripped off, but at least paid what I agreed to.)

Lesson being that once they drive out there, they'd rather get paid what they quoted than nothing at all, so just say no and you'll probably get your quoted rate.
What is the difference between a fiction writer and a troll?

One of them spins fictional tales which, while based on enough facts to help the reader suspend disbelief, are ultimately driven by the desire to create a specific emotional effect. Every word is calculated, every character (including the narrator) is designed with an eye toward eliciting a specific response from the reader. A successful work invites the reader to collaborate in the construction of a mental universe which is vivid enough that the reader truly and deeply experiences the emotional state that the author is trying to evoke. Of course, once the reader escapes the spell and gets a good night's sleep, he or she usually recognizes that any similarity between the fictional world and the actual world is likely to be purely coincidental... although some works of fiction are so powerful that the reader's personality is forever altered, only sometimes for the better.

Whereas the other one gets paid by a publisher.

So let me issue the usual warning: The reason we don't feed trolls is not just to discourage them. Feeding trolls is unhealthy for you. They drag you away from reality and (see xkcd/386) interfere with your sleep. We must be cautious about trying to conclude anything about the nature of education, credentials, society, or even the troll itself from the words of a troll, or while under the immediate influence of the words of a troll. All we can conclude is that we have buttons and those buttons can be pressed.
Agreed, it doesn't take a religious person to build software to spec, but I guess I'm looking for more than that -- someone who is entrepreneurial, a hacker, and has a similar heart for the Church.

This isn't an appeal for a co-founder -- more of pure curiosity than anything.
Surf the Internet, in search of related content. I find the need to become a temporary expert on the subject.
A 3D quine? I've considered it. I have a blog post about something completely unrelated to obfuscated C coming up, but maybe after that I'll make an attempt. If nobody beats me to it.
Is the Apple App Store available in Lithuania?