skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Belgium, I don't know any house that doesn't use bricks/cement/other form of stone material. Maybe sometimes something softer on interior walls, but even there it's mostly stone.

I assume we don't go for the easier-to-rebuild because we don't have any strong types of nature force affecting us. There's no earthquakes, tropical storms, tornados etc here. Our summers are "cool" (going over 30C is pretty rare), our winters are "warm" (5 cm snow already feels like a lot to me). In short, we have a pretty moderate climate.

Edit: Pretty much the same as ugh[1] said in the other comment.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3324587
I wouldn't touch Ghostery with a long pole.

Their parent company - Evidon - is suspicious. The FAQ on the site is choke-full of weasel words and wishy-washy statements on how they are not an "ad company" but rather an "ad assurance company". Skimpy on actual details too. They have changed their About summary now, but not long ago it basically said that they are in business of delivering better advertisement experience to the advertisers. Just ask yourself if instead of being tracked by multiple entities, you are OK with being tracked by one that gets your data resold to others. They are not a non-profit, so - as cliche as it sounds - you are their product.
I think [Racket][1] does this.

[1]: http://racket-lang.org
I started using IDEA with this latest version, and it's the version that has convinced me to come over from Eclipse.

I don't particularly like Eclipse (I don't hate it either, but it's not exactly winning best coding environment for me), but in the past IDEA has just felt "clunky" to me. The text always looked off, the environment itself seemed difficult to use, and the whole experience just seemed jerky and slow. Then I tried out 11 on my MacBook, and man, they've really taken the time to clean things up. I haven't tried it on Windows yet, but it really fits in well with Lion. It's also WAY more performant than past versions, at least from my subjective experience.

Combined with the fact that it works really well with Maven out of the box (and that it's been one thing after another with m2eclipse), this'll be the first time I purchase an IDEA license.
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Fun environment for hobby 3D game?
Can you recommend a game dev environment that is 3D, cross-platform, and (ideally) open-source, while being actually fun to code in?

Defining fun: I love coding in Ruby and Lua. Learning new languages is fun - it might be neat to do a game in Erlang or something. But I hate coding in C++ and am getting pretty tired of Java.

My girlfriend and I started coding a game together as a hobby. It may never see the light of day - we're primarily just trying to have a good time. To that end, we'd like to do it in a fun language.

So we started it in Lua, using the Löve framework, which has been awesome. Unfortunately ... it looks like we're definitely going to need a 3D environment, with proper 3D acceleration. As soon as I started doing a little vector math for lighting some simple 3D meshes, poor Lua was brought to a crawl. We have a very simple demo of structures floating in space ... and we only get 15fps out of it. Ouch.

I've been looking at 3D game environments, but the thought of having to go back to malloc() just makes me sad. Any thoughts?
In windows I use Microsoft Security Essentials, otherwise, nothing else.

I don't use NoScript, and have never had anything install itself on any of my machines (to my knowledge at least - and as a dev I actively monitor CPU/Memory so hopefully would notice).

http://xkcd.com/552/
What's funny is how SoundCloud shows up in articles about London's startup scene as well. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/27/tech-city-dig...

For the record all their jobs are in Berlin so score 1 for the Germans and -1 for british journalism :-) http://soundcloud.com/jobs
I suppose I am. Still, a really powerful optimising process will find a way to escape if any such way exists, so to claim that you could properly box the AI is to claim that you could box it such that no possibility for escape exists whatsoever, which is a big claim.

What's more, the AI only has to beat you once, so to keep the AI boxed indefinitely, the advantaged human has to beat the disadvantaged super-intelligence every single time, forever.
Scala's version fragility makes the enterprise argument near impossible
It does honestly seem like Google stumbled into a goldmine. Google basically set out to create the Sidekick 2.0 (I don't really get the constant "Android started as a Blackberry ripoff" claims, when there are much more obvious Danger roots). I really don't see Page/Brin/Rubin in a room in 2006, rubbing their hands together thinking they were going to shock the world. It seems more like the Google guys were big Sidekick fans and saw the chance to work with Rubin for relatively cheap. But they kept their options open, made a lot of cautious small bets rather than going all in. They didn't make the iPhone, no, but they placed themselves in a position where they could react to iPhone. By being open to the opportunity and a lot of luck, they essentially became the only choice a monster sized industry had in the face of huge disrupting new competitor.

Google often get slagged for the unfocused, perpetual beta thing. But laser focus is overrated. For example, given the choice of only picking Chrome OS or Android, a laser focused Google would have never gone Android. Overall I think it is much better to admit the future is unknown, and be prepared (especially for a large company with Google-sized resources).
Seriously? Are you implying this (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-ed...) is somehow equivalent to this (http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/features.html)?
Wow, as I write this, it's 560 points for Yes. and 292 points for No.

Lesson so far: If you want to reach the HN community, don't bother with a web advertising campaign.
I was making a point that Chinese courts generally don't award large lawsuits. The peasant sued for 4 rmb but the court felt that was too much. Here is the news article if you are interested: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2010-02/04/content_942...

Here is another case dealing with trademarks where the Chinese courts awarded nickels on dimes.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2006/01/11/afx2444090.html
I wonder how different the market would be had Apple not given AT&T exclusivity. Honestly, I think Android still would have done well, but does anyone think the exclusive deal with AT&T hurt Apple in the long run?
I used an adblocker long enough to be bitten, multiple times, by false positives. Now I just deal.
If it's where they do most of their explosives testing, it's the county sheriff's bomb range.
They pay mine, too, but that doesn't mean I have to like them. It also means I try and not view them on my own site to cost our advertisers money.
Flipboard is great, but…
I block ads on all websites, except those that ask me to stop blocking ads. The first site I stopped blocking them on was Reddit.

There are a few more now that detect that you block ads and politely ask you to disable it to conserve their business model. I gladly oblige.

But for every well run site politely asking you to view their un-scammy non-crappy ads, there must be 100 full of whatever advertising program offers the most money, linking to all kinds of information stealing, questionable ethically companies.

When your business model, advertising, begins to threaten the safety of my system, you better believe I'm blocking it!
I don't think that Android's success is relative to the iPhone- in many ways, it's a greater reflection of the failure of Nokia and, to a lesser extent, Blackberry.

To explain: Apple generally tends to be happy making more expensive, premium products that command a smaller section of the market. They're happy to sacrifice greater market potential to do so- like not allowing carrier customisations, making multiple models, etc. They've compromised this somewhat for the iPhone (they clearly didn't want to have carrier-subsidised handsets originally, for example) but it has worked out for them in a huge way. Still- historically, the ubiquity of the iPhone is in some ways atypical for Apple.

Nokia, on the other hand, has always been more than happy to play ball with the carriers. They should be where Android is now- the ecosystem with a ton of different phone models, carrier-bundled apps, cheap phones and a huge market share. If they had played their cards right Google might still be relegated to teaming up with Apple on mobile. But Nokia left the market wide open- Apple compromised a little to move into the space but Google saw the gap and went for it 100%.
Based on my research, the Bomb and Firing range was built in 1996. The homes in question were placed there in 2006. I wonder if you would consider it reckless to build a neighborhood next to a well-established bomb detonation site?

Where would you have suggested they fire the cannon, and why do you feel your choice is better than the choice of 3 layers of experts, especially considering this is about the 10th cannon-based episode they've done at this location?

Is someone at fault? Maybe. They likely won't use this range anymore. But its really hard to look at what they've done and say it was reckless when its what they've been doing for years with layers of experts greenlighting things every step of the way without any dangerous problems.
Don't hire 20 developers of a single language. Got it.
This, in concept, really epitomizes an unfortunate trend towards making programming and development "easier" and "more accessible".

As I see it, this is no longer "Node.js, JSON, MongoDB, and Cloudfoundry". It certainly uses all of those technologies, but in reality, you are learning "Fire.js".

Even with a polished version, it doesn't seem like a developer would ever learn how to use the underlying technologies in an expressive, applicable manner. It just comes off as another excuse for developers to side-step learning about and getting into "the thick of it".
FYI, 1 Tb = 125 GB, and 128GB USB keys are already available: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220...

EDIT: although Anandtech says they'll be able to fit enough into a usb key to achieve 1TB.
I think people here are grown-up enough to cope, especially now that we've both warned them.

At the very least people should watch them simply for the treasure trove of historical accounts and strange characters contained within, even if they don't believe a word of the conclusions he draws from them.
I think that it is extremely unfair to block all ads as they are a lifeline for many people. I do however, try to avoid sites that have annoying ads as I expect that my loss in traffic will make a difference, no matter how small it may be. I also watch a lot of Justin.TV and Twitch.TV people and that is really where I base my beliefs. If someone gives too many commercials I simply turn off the stream.
That's the beauty of Google's spaghetti-at-the-wall approach, isn't it? To me, it's kind of a refreshing, child-like approach to things, with an investigative curiosity and implicit acknowledgment of an ignorance of what will become important.

While I think Larry Page's new focus on focus is great, and I think most of their products are getting better because of it, I do get a bit scared that it comes at the cost of the explorative nature of the company in its youth.
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I'd argue that college is the perfect medium for learning about creativity: creative opportunities don't fall into your lap. Your first novel, album, or photography exhibit won't materialize from air--you have to work towards them. (That explains why I haven't made music yet!)

Students can be creative in writing or painting classes, robotics lab, go-kart engineering shops, or even on their political science papers or statistics projects. None of those are required (maybe the papers and projects), just like writing a novel isn't a pre-requisite for life, but students have the option to participate.

Again, to beat a dead horse a little further: college is what you make of it. If you memorize bold words, you're ready to file TPS reports; if you take that pottery class or join the robotics competition, you're ready to enjoy all of life's dimensions.

(Also, I flagged this because (a) it's another college-bashing piece and (b) it has possibly the worst argument against college I've seen so far.)
Watching it on Netflix, I assumed it was because the show was tailored for long commercial breaks. "After blasting 2–5 minutes of nonstop hyperactive advertising, let's recap what we were doing a minute ago!'
I don't know about you, but I use a lot of different devices for internet navigation, and I only use Adblock on my main home pc and work pc, so on the rest I see ads..

One ad I see all the time is Chargify (another is the local airline that absolutely plasters me with ads, as it seems it's the one that bought the Uruguayan market on Google adsense)
"1 terabyte is 1000000000000bytes, or 1 trillion (short scale) bytes, or 1000 gigabytes" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
You would be surprised at how many sites do not send a 404 response header.
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I hope you also enjoy paying a fee for every single website you enjoy, because without ads, this would be the only way anyone would be able to keep the lights on.
That feels like a situation that could easily end up (copy pasting something, someone adding another var, ...) in an unexpected global variable declaration.

var foo = 4,
bar = 5,
baz = 6,
sprinkles = 'wee';
qux = 'quux';

Making `qux` global.
yes, the small, annoying personal neuroses that everyone has, but for some reason we programmers like to wear as a badge of honor.
We probably lived in the same apartment complex then (late 80s, early 90s).

There were "A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books", "Computer Literacy" and Staceys.

For a while in '91-92, Computer Literacy was actually _in_ Infinite Loop building #1, and then they started to fail and went online or something.
> We care about impact. It’s the cure to everyone’s mid-life crises.

What does someone do when they feel invisible? When the open-source projects they create aren't having an impact?

Sometimes I feel I have to be the very best to have an impact. If I'm not doing something on the cutting-edge at the right time, it feels like I'm nothing. Whatever I'm working on I feel, "this isn't groundbreaking. This isn't going to have an impact. Somebody already did this or is working on this."

I can't be the only one?
When I worked for HP, they were constantly trying to shut down buildings or do things which made the office spaces less desirable to employees to save money.

It's good to see Apple making things better.
That's quite disappointing - I would've thought that desktop app package management would be useful for small businesses and end-users.
TV news has more in common with entertainment than journalism.

You could probably get the same amount of content from reading news story summaries for 5 minutes as you get from an hour of local TV news.
The thing is, as usual, a few ruined it for the many. There are a few extremely obnoxious ads that made me install Adblock.

I allow the Google text ads, though :)
A compromise position for those who don't mind ads is "Fanboy's Annoyance Block List" (for Adblock Plus). It blocks annoying social media buttons without blocking ads.
> Visual Studio is much more feature-rich than Xcode.

Now I am curious. There are many versions of VS available. Can you compare them with Xcode and point out what's missing?
No one got hurt, and I'm sure they were careful. It's something they are always very clear about on the show... but eh someone/people genuinely could have been killed... so not quite all precautions were taken.

Also how amazing is it that the canonball burst through a front door and then went UP the stairs and out the back through the wall on the second floor?! Seriously. I didn't know canon balls would bounce/ react in that way... Kinda reminds me why I love Mythbusters...
It was a freaking accident, dude. Accidents happen. Nobody likes it, and nobody is making excuses for them. But sometimes you have to acknowledge that you can't control everything. From the sounds of things they took what should have been the necessary precautions, including doing the test at a military firing range.

I'm not saying they shouldn't be held accountable for the outcome of their actions or anything. Of course they should. And they should be expected to learn something from this incident that will prevent something like this from happening again. But there's absolutely no point in crucifying them over this.

_I certainly hope that their celebrity status won't impede justice in this case._

"Justice" in this case would be paying for the damage they caused. I'd be highly surprised if that doesn't happen. I mean, surely they have insurance to cover things like this???
So I think what I really want is an add-on or extension (I use both Safari and Firefox) that selectively changes the user agent to Mobile Safari.

Most sites are pretty good with providing iPhone compatible content, which is magnitudes smaller than the desktop version.

For example the techrunch page from my previous comment comes in at 33 requests and 122 KB when I set Safari to "Mobile Safari iOS 4.3.3 iPhone".

If only Safari on the iPad supported extensions :-/
Ghostery has a secondary purpose. It's also "the eyes in the sky" that the ad industry will use to monitor and enforce self-regulation. In other words, it will collect data to ensure that ad companies are complying and affixing proper opt-out mechanisms to behaviorally-targeted ads.
I think the presentation of content drove away a lot of users. Many didn't like their new interface. Personally, I left before that because I was tired of the "power diggers" that controlled what everyone saw. It didn't feel community driven any longer.
Frisbees and boomerangs in flight can certainly turn around way more than 180°. Or with sufficient wind, any projectile can turn 180° and come back the way it came.

I'd doubt a spinning cannonball would actually manage that, but it probably only takes a curve of 90° or even just 45° for some sensationalist journalist to exaggerate that into "spiraling back".
i feel bad about it, and keep trying to stop, but every time i disable adblock i end up turning it back on after a few days. if ads were less intrusive, i wouldn't mind them but so many websites get wrecked by the ads (verge, i'm looking at you).
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Google mantra of do no evil is at the heart of this success again. I really admire that they've kept it open source and not followed their competitors in creating ridiculous policies such as taking a cut of e-book sales, policing for adult content, banning all apps that interact directly with the hardware or try to do things outside of their limited API, etc.
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How about Unity? http://unity3d.com/

3D, cross-platform... free...
I use Dan Pollock's hosts file:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

which does the usual trick of 127.0.0.1-ing all kinds of unwanted URLs.

Some people seem to find my Github mirror of the hosts file useful:

https://github.com/chalst/pollockhostsfork
Thanks, removed that point, maybe that was too much :) Also, Coffeescript is totally optional in Wordless. There's Sprockets under the cover, so you can write JS just fine, with the "//= require" directive bonus.
Nowadays one can use GETBIT[1] and SETBIT[2] to do it efficiently.

[1] http://redis.io/commands/getbit
[2] http://redis.io/commands/setbit
Yes.
Why?
I am tired of ads with sound, hidden in one of my 50 tabs.
And Youtube is not usuable with ads before a video.
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Kevin couldn't write a line of code if his life depended on it. He routinely misrepresents that fact.
Diakonos console text editor - user friendly but powerful; written in Ruby.
How much do websites get paid for ad views compared to ad clicks? I never click ads, but I am still "supporting" websites if I allow them to serve me ads?
He couldn't fire them?

I've always thought his blaming the digg developers was pretty classless. He was in a leadership position, he needed to lead.
I can see you point but the kids mentioned in the survey are from the most obese 15% of the population so they really are chubbier then their neighbors.
I'm different in that I really enjoy a well prepared ad. Seeing how it is supposed to work on people is quite interesting. Even spam can be a good read as those guys sometimes really put such quality content together (from a writing POV) made more interesting by what they are trying to sell you.
Here in UT they use a couple 1960s-era Howitzers for avalanche control in Little Cottonwood Canyon. They once loaded a shell with too much gunpowder and left a crater in someone's back yard 10-15 miles away.
No argument on the Eclipse UX being bad; that being said

> "so it doesn't really matter what else it is good at"...

I think it is safe to say UX is really important to you ;)
terabyte != terabit
There're a lot of gems on Ilya Grigorik's blog, start there.
In a comment here on HN. the author clarified. What he means is that a whole bunch of builtin functions operate by calling methods on the objects they are passed.

int(n) --> n.__int__()

format(x, spec) --> x.__format__(spec)
Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays, winner = nearly double conversion rate
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That big diagonal looking structure seen in the site plan is a 4 story car park, with 3 levels sunken below grade (depending on which side of the structure you are looking at).

There are an additional 2 levels of parking below the main building, and a few other auxiliary buildings, including a remote physical plant.
my problem with digg didnt have to do with technology, it had to do with my perception of rating links as fake
Not really, no. I mean, whatever degree of "pop-up blocker" that Chrome has built-in, but no specific "ad blocker." Honestly, I don't see the point. Banner ads don't affect me one way or the other, and they're even (rarely) beneficial on occasion. As long as the ad isn't creating pop-ups and pop-unders and shit, I don't much care.

Edit: Oh, there is one specific type of ad I find highly annoying and could possibly justify blocking... anything that makes noise without asking my permission. I tend to always have headphones on and have the volume up pretty good when I'm web surfing, and any stupid ad that starts talking or playing a jingle is annoying as f!#k. Fortunately they seem to be fairly rare. Enough so that the pain hasn't been enough to push me to install an ad-blocker anyway. But if more of those started to appear, I'd totally look for a way to block them.
I find this idea that hobbyists don't need good tools to practice their hobbies interesting. It's like saying someone shouldn't have a good car because he/she doesn't drive a cab.
Not sure about pair programming... I got incredible bored when I had to share the keyboard. The time I did that I felt like we were taking turns to be slackers :S

EDIT: Adding a link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/291630/does-pair-programm...