skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, after living in são paulo for a while going anywhere else in brazil lead to a slight culture shock.

In a sense this didn't hurt advertisers at all, as the demand for advertisement stayed exactly the same, they just had to change the available media. Think of it as a prisoner's dillema-like situation, where defecting is plastering a huge sign in front of people. It's better for everyone if nobody does that, but whoever breaks the law and does it can get an advantage.

Preventing people from defecting in these situations is exactly the point of a government (regardless of how much I disagree with Kassab's actual politics and would never vote for him).
If the modulus isn't prime, we can split it apart into two, much simpler modular equations, which is part of the reason WHY its so hard to come up with a good algorithm, and the other half is what you said.
The Companies Pushing SOPA Are The Same People Who Distributed Piracy Software
And it even has antialiasing! Very nice.
> So I am off to refactor my web app and take out the free journey...

Then there will be nothing left. The site is even a .org intended to scream "free".

I can't find any evidence of a pay model except in the last FAQ question about deluxe letters and PayPal. Nothing on the home page, samples, or as far as Step 4 where I'm entering the child's information suggests anything other than that the service is free.

This isn't how "freemium" is supposed to be done. Well done freemium is up front about costs and the value proposition of paying, while offering a free path to sample the service, get users invested, and drive viral growth. The Santa letter doesn't result in investment as it's one time use.

This copy and site flow is a bait and switch or come on tactic that calls into question just how righteous the rest of your indignation might be.
I'm sure Slate (and in turn other tablet/mobile users) would appreciate it if you took a minute to report the specific details of your issue:

http://help.slate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=15081
It may start corrupting them in ways unforeseen to us.

>> constant begging for money is far more invasive and offensive to the vast majority of users

Those users do not have to use Wikipedia if it really offends them that much.
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Or even:

return condition() ? 10 : 20;
I would be interested to see before and after shots. Was their advertising problem really so bad or was just about the same as any other city?

Edit: Found one: http://banbillboardblight.org/?page_id=4251
I would love to see Elsevier try to shut down the arXiv. That might be the one thing they could do to really turn the academic community against them. They'd be dead in a week.
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A response to Linus Torvalds on C++: You suffer from the C-hacker syndrome
I'm originally from Cincinnati, and the National Geographic Map makes better choices about what to show. Norwood and Newport are important. The Roebling bridge is not.
Seems a little unfair to judge the piece of work on a screen when it is probably better viewed "in person". Also a fairer test might be to try and use the map for its intended use rather than criticizing specific attributes directly (if you see what I mean). Anyway, monumental effort, 2 solid years work. I hope its a success for the guy.
There is an 'if' expression, it's just spelled '?' and else is ':'. Mentioned a few posts up.
Considering my habit of re-installing the entire OS every few weeks (I tinker a lot with no safety nets), I think I'm ok. I agree that for anyone else though, it isn't enough.
No, not irrelevant, unless "free" users also cost you nothing.
It's a bit of a trade off between symlinking mess and .git mess. I just prefer a cleaner home folder. I did try it all in home for a bit.
Show HN: Final round of Alpha testers wanted before public Beta
We're getting ready for our public Beta and, having rolled some changes, it would be really helpful to get a few more Alpha users in beforehand. Thanks.
yes if you kill it from the multitasking bar it completely kills the process and the next time the app launches, it is from scratch. That is why force killing an app and restarting it will often fix little glitches in it.
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Because ZipCar owns the cars, they're able to take stronger precautions to track and to prevent theft. HiGear's model opened a wide range of attacks against the customer cars, some of them hard to tie to HiGear.

I wouldn't be surprised if the total theft from HiGear is more than 4 cars, but that some of the other thefts either haven't happened yet, or weren't easily tied to the HiGear service.
Why should a business add burden of supporting additional users unless free users bring something to table in some tangible form like free press?

I am really curious.
I started a GitHub project for folks to share recipes they like, that are healthy (with a dash of "sinful" thrown in).

https://github.com/bitops/good-eats
This only happens when memory has become critical and not enough applications can free memory fast enough; initially, applications get a low-memory warning and they have an opportunity to deallocate things they are not using in the hope that the system will not have to kill processes. This includes things the developer may not even have explicitly coded, such as dumping video surfaces and sqlite caches.

I'm willing to believe (as I have never specifically tested this) that suspended third-party from-the-App-Store ("User") applications are immediately killed without this first stage (although then it would seem weird that they participate in the cross-application memory warning system at all), but the default Apple-provided ("System") applications (such as Safari, Mail, etc.) definitely get this opportunity.
We're getting ready for our public Beta and, having rolled out some changes, it would be really helpful to get a few more Alpha users in beforehand. Use the secret word: "magic". Thanks.
Couple of other things. Elsevier is $3 billion in revenue, not $10 billion (the author must be thinking of Reed Elsevier here, Elsevier's parent company.) So really they only have something like $3 billion reasons to not let the internet drive the costs of scientific publishing down to zero.

And to be clear, so far as I can tell, SOPA has almost nothing to do with arxiv.org, because arxiv.org publishes the manuscript, not the final version of the article. Elsevier's stated position is that publishing the manuscript version is not copyright infringement.

Even if SOPA passed, sure, it would be easier for Elsevier to shut down arxiv.org. But if arxiv.org started publishing the final version of articles for which Elsevier had obtained worldwide exclusive copyright, that would be copyright infringement anyway. So the key (it would seem to me) is whether arxiv.org publishes the final version of articles or not (they curenttly don't), not whether SOPA passes, that determines whether arxiv.org is to get shutdown.

And so if they did, the answer to the question "Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org?" would be "Yes."

Right now, the answer is "No."
How do you handle user comments ?
I don't think so. On my laptop, fully loading the CPU takes it from silent to screaming fans in about two minutes. That's clearly a big change in heat production and therefore power consumption.
What .git mess? I think the working copy in $HOME is cleaner as you don't have symlinks everywhere. The only new addition to your home folder is a '.git' directory. This is no different than the myriad of other hidden directories already there.
Perhaps they should have a popup when you first visit that would give users the option. It would set a cookie with their selection. You have a choice between seeing some highly targeted text ads off to the side of articles, or you can see a massive banner begging for money at the top of every single page that you have to scroll past to find what you wanted.

I know which I'd select.
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The Google cache shows a laminated, rolled version of the America map for $39.95.

Google cached a PDF of a speech he gave entitled "Geographic literacy for all North Americans"

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:nkZ4MXBys8EJ:...
I read a scholarly article on the subject that I unfortunately can't find at the moment but I recall that plausible deniability was one of the big advantages of that enterprise.
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That could work, but where would the .git/ directory be? If you have in $HOME/.git you are inviting disaster with an errant 'git clean...' command. If not you need to deal with managing the options/environment to make the git commands work (though that could be scripted).

I'm curious about this too since something dead simple (and reasonably idiot-proof) would be useful to me as well.
Google translate is wrong in one part. Rather than "... are not available on the territory of Belarus", "... если эти сети, системы или ресурсы не размещены на территории Беларуси" translates to "If these networks, systems or resources are not located on the territory of Belarus".

"Located" being the vital difference here.
I would think that the unspoken motivation is to at least have some sort of contingency plan for having free access to timely information should the political regime* shifts even closer to what used to be called tyranny. Obviously, if we find ourselves in a tyranny, it is game over if network infrastructure is a monopoly of the state and its corporate sponsors.

*: one can argue that it is appropriate to use the term 'regime' when government no longer reflects the foundational constitutional principles of the nation.
It's essentially a marketing expense.
Something is wrong if you have to opt out of something you never asked for.

Just as those dreadful browser toolbars you get with a lot of installation packages (even java updates, how pathetic). If I have to actively uncheck that box you are an ass.

There should be a way to punish such behavior, marking mail as spam seems to have some effect.
The process can be a very bad thing if it does not terminate at some point.

Don't forget to use your skills to actually build stuff!
This is a really well written article and does a great job explaining backgrounding on iOS.

Unfortunately, I've seen a couple of apps that have somehow been able to abuse the background APIs and have killed my battery. The only way to prevent this from happening is to force quit the app from the multitasking bar. The app I've noticed this with is GroupMe. If I don't kill it after closing it, my phone gets really hot and my battery dies. I have location turned off for GroupMe.
It's a dying art in a sense, however it's never been easier to produce your own map now, with all the neography tools and open data.
Fails to delete symlinks to removed dotfiles. Doesn't support splitting dotfiles amoung multiple repositories.

I feel that the right solution to this is going to be vcsh.https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh No symlinks to dotfiles, all the files live in $HOME, but vcsh can be used to switch between accessing different git repositories that contain different of the dotfiles. http://vcs-home.branchable.com/ has more.

(Also, rake? yadr? vcsh is a posix shell script.)
Wikipedia always gives you a small X button to close the donation request. It doesn't show up again in the session (though I'm not very sure of this). Ads wouldn't give you that option. If they did, suddenly everybody would want the ad-less wikipedia or would start using adblock, defeating the whole purpose.

I would say it is reasonable enough to ask users to just click the X if it irritates them so much, for providing such a fantastic service for free.
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Complaining about water bottles is a good thing
They don't have to cost you nothing, just little enough that you're net ahead. And since startups that use the freemium model invariably manage to make free accounts cheap, I assumed I didn't have to mention that explicitly.
At first glance Imus' map is more accurate as well. He has the location of the airport (CVG) south of I-275, and the location of Vandalia, OH west of I-75. NatGeo is wrong on both.

But like moultano said, he missed Newport and Norwood.
Out of curiosity, which would you select?
this should have been ideally brought to the notice of the public earlier...I'm at a well known US research university and my research is funded by NSF yet my advisor had no idea about this...
AngelList has just launched a talent-matching service: http://angel.co/jobs.

See exactly who you'll be working with, how much you'll be making, details on equity, who has invested, etc. All from some of the choicest, funded startups.
Adblock works for both.

I gave money the first time when I thought they needed it punctually, then I saw they planned to beg for money once every year. I am happy if they manage to make it sustainable but I don't know if I want to be part of this. If this was necessary, I would happily give them 50$ a year and call that an education tax well spent. This tax, however, is not well spent. With today software and internet, there is no need for a huge collection of servers connected to high speed connections. With 20 millions they should be able to develop a version of wikipedia that works in a P2P way : uncensorable, unstoppable and without huge costs.
I ended up having to unfollow him because he was basically spamming my feed.

I used G+ for maybe a few weeks - but I havent looked at it in months. I dont facebook either... I jsut dont get any personal value from social networks.

The only thing I need is a dead simple way to get my pics from my phone into an online gallery.

The G+ iOS app has NEVER once allowed me to upload a pic. I have 1600 pics on this iPhone - and 5000+ on disk from my older phones....

I just reinstalled path again - maybe this is what I am looking for.

I already have reddit, HN, verge, quora, SO to take up my time - the last thing I need is to read scoble constantly.
One should also remember that Belarus was the least affected by the collapse or USSR, consistently maintaining the best social and economic conditions: the biggest effective gdp/person after oil-rich Russia, gini, education reach, smallest child mortality, best life span among cis countries.

Even while it's a small country with no mineral resources, bad climate and no love from the West.

This is going to change, tho, because it was hit hard by the recession and clumsily moving central bank; money inflated 3x in the last year.
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So they didn't eliminate all signage, but it was rather dramatically reduced.

I grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis that had similar restrictions on advertising, and I can say that it is very nice as a resident. Now when I visit however, I find it difficult to locate some of the new businesses.

I'm curious how this law has affected business revenue from tourists in Sao Paulo.
I don't have time to watch a 90 minute talk. Could you tell me which cultures become obese on 600 cals/day, and perhaps give a non-Gary Taubes source for it?

I've certainly never encountered it. In my experience, people who consume insufficient amounts of carb heavy food tend to be quite thin (Maharashtra, for example - all carbs, and not very many of them).
Oh the Irony.....

You lost me on the quote above the picture:

"The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence."
Ask HN: Newish developer, no college, what to apply for?
A little background, I'm an aspiring developer in his late 20's. I first started programming by teaching myself C at age 13 to tweak a CircleMUD game. That lasted until i learned about women. I didn't do any more programming until about 21 when i taught myself AutoIT and wrote a bot to play the boring parts of EVE online. Fast forward a couple more years to 2008 and i taught myself PHP to write a program that reads in torrent RSS feeds and parses out TV episode name/season/episode. Once it has this in its database it applies user defined favorites to auto-forward specific titles/seasons/etc .torrent files to a download client. This was downloaded by a few thousand users while i was maintaining it, and is now being maintained by another developer as I have moved on.

I haven't been to college. Up until early last year i was working general customer service jobs. When the place i was working for went under i opened up my search and ended up working online for a small company doing PHP Development. In that time i have helped build the a penny auction system utilizing Redis for live auctions, various generic utilities to speed up our development of admin interfaces to e-commerce sites, and more. I love to dig through API code to understand what it does and I have become the go-to person for understanding framework issues on all of our companies sites.

Moving forward i'm very interested in dealing with bigger data. I've been learning about hadoop/cascading/storm and am very curious about Nathan Marz method for beating the CAP theorem( http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-beat-the-cap-theorem.html )

tl;dr: no college, some self-taught programming experience, almost 1 year employed as php developer. Interested in branching to python/ruby/<insert something interesting>. Naturally curious.

So this finally leads to my question, what am i qualified for? I live in silicon valley and would like to find a local job where i can work with smart people and learn more than i possibly could on my own. Whenever i look at job posting(ex. stack overflow) most postings say 'Must have BS from elite school' or something to the equivalent. I don't really feel that my one year of programming even matches the 'BS degree or equivalent work experience' that seems to be the minimum for local development jobs.

Should i be looking for Intern jobs? Should i be applying to average developer jobs instead of intern? Every time i browse the job boards i just leave feeling completely un-qualified.

EDIT: Also thought i should add i've been using linux on the desktop since the late 90s and also fill a Systems Administrator role in the company setting up/maintaining apache, nginx, varnish, mysql, elasticsearch, redis, etc. daemon configurations.
You can close the fund raising banner by clicking on the x.

>>You have a choice between seeing some highly targeted text ads off to the side of articles, or you can see a massive banner begging for money at the top of every single page that you have to scroll past to find what you wanted.

So you will instead have businesses begging you (trying to sell you) to buy their stuff or use their services.

Right now wikipedia exists only because of its volunteers across the world and because of individual contributions. It makes it feel like it really belongs to us, the citizens of the world.

My gut feeling tells me that having ads will corrupt the overall organization.

It will make people care less, more indifferent to wikipedia. The amount of money they raise each year is really nothing compared to the amount of time that tens of thousands of editors contribute each year.

It would probably alienate a huge number of contributors and without them no matter how much money they are able to raise Wikipedia would surely decline in quality and eventually cease to exist. So you see, selling themselves could and probably will corrupt wikipedia eventually. This is just a gut feeling though.
Pylons or Django?
Avg rates I see for everything/everyone is between 100 and 150/hr.
It's "supposed" to be smooth scrolling. Only way to get that easily is to enable natural scrolling (like Lion). - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/07/reverse-natural-scrolling...
Truecrypt has a simple benchmark that you can try (and I think it has a portable installation option so you don't even have to install it on the system to try it out).

My core duo 1.6 GHz laptop gets about 60 MB/s of AES encryption/decryption speeds on battery (which I think reduces the clock to 1 GHz).

I consider the impact negligible.

However if you have an SSD in your system and do full-disk-encryption you will loose potential TRIM-support which can have a significant performance penalty depending on drive.
Show HN: a HN android app (weekend project)
I've been playing around with Android development recently, and made this Hacker News app this weekend:

Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mellort.hackernews ($1)

Dropbox link: http://db.tt/jlqIcBg1 (free: if you like it, DL from the market, too!)

I used api.ihackernews.com for the data. Unfortunately, some of the pagination from that source is broken, so I can only return one page of results. In the future, I might play around with creating my own API server on App Engine.

I'm not sure what my plans are for the source yet, but I'd like to make it open source. If you're interested, let me know, and I can prioritize cleaning up the code.

This was a make-it-work-and-publish-ASAP project, so there are obviously a lot of things that could be added, but I'd appreciate any feedback, regardless. Cheers!
Can you provide a quote that caught your eye? I'll try to figure it out.
How do you read source code?
Big Nick's Pizza in NYC has a sign that says something like "NO LAPTOPS. THIS IS NOT A LIBRARY." To be clear, they can pull off such a sign with their persona.

Always cracks me up.
Don't forget people who have built a working manned submarine, sea-based launch platform and plan a suborbital flight at 100 kilometers. Their last launch had the biggest amateur rocket yet reaching 3 kilometers of altitude : http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
Links:

Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mellort.hackernews ($1)

Dropbox link: http://db.tt/jlqIcBg1 (free: if you like it, DL from the market, too!)
The greatest paper map of the United States I've seen is not this one (though I ordered this one), it is "USAtlas"[3] created by Richard Saul Wurman using early Macintosh design tools like Adobe Illustrator 88 and Aldus PageMaker 3.02 on a Mac Iici.

Wurman is cited in "Building Legible Cities 2 Making the Case"[1] and, oh yeah, created the TED conferences[2].

1. http://aprb.co.uk/docs/building_legible_cities2_0.pdf

2. http://wurman.com/rsw/ ( also http://www.ted.com/pages/16 )

3. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0139322450/ref=dp_olp...

The biggest innovation for me as a frequent long distance driver in the late 80's and early 90's was having every page the same scale. But the clarity of information on a given page or city was unprecedented, was easily glanceable while driving, and is still unmatched to this day though Google Maps' data view comes close while offering more details. But this was hand drawn.

Here's Cincinnati. Notice the state borders vs rivers:

http://imgur.com/a/MMTZk
Interesting.... I think i'll stick with user directory encryption, but thanks for those links.
I'm not happy either with the fact that it is hard to make money on the internet when so much stuff is free, but I can guarantee you going "pay only" is going to have one effect: it will kill your site for good. No one knows how good your service is till they try it, and you are competing with a zillion other free services.
Companies are always resistant to change. IE7 and IE8 are still prevalent in medium to large corporations. So I think the answer is yes.
I was a bit surprised when I checked out their hosting situation. Only in one DC (suburban chicago) and up until about a year ago they were only using one network provider. Now they're on three, apparently they had some real pain points before being multi-homed. I'm guessing the year's timing isn't accidental.

Still not bad numbers considering. Running multiple DC's can be quite a pain in the ass and a money drain, and maybe that's one of the advantages of having really loyal customers. A good example of there being many viable paths to a goal.