skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow - according to this, Spokane (#30) has more hipsters per capita than Seattle (#33). That's a bit difficult to process. Seattle is literally built around biking. I guess the actual bikes are more practical in nature and less hipsterish? As in, an actual means of transportation rather than personal branding. Still pretty hard to believe. UW alone should tip the scales.
I couldn't repeat more a thing that you should have read while browsing thread:
It's a very peculiar kind of vandalism: sneaky, personally unrewarding and affecting a niche service. Trolls like to do bold, rewarding and big moves.
I don't have kids, but have travelled quite a bit. I have come across some fairly adventurous parents travelling with kids and staying in hostels. It is not the norm, but it is possible. If you really want to do it, I would start with something like 4 weeks in Costa Rica, and stay in places that are ~$20/night. That is long enough that you will have to do laundry, buy groceries, and learn to live as a family of backpackers. If the family can handle that, then you could go to more adventurous places.
although it's already on the 4th page of HN's newest submissions, I find it extremely interesting and worth spending a couple of hours.
Strange for me it was he other way around. I had to replace https:// with git:// , perhaps it depends on the git version? mine was probably pretty old.
My single speed bike is 24 pounds. A racing bike is 15 pounds. A U-lock is not 10 pounds.

Anyway, I can't think of any time I've ever brought a lock along while on my racing bike. It's for riding, not for errands.
"In fairness the comment about teachers in suburban districts was that two teacher salaries would be near 200k"

Precisely, and it's false. Two teachers, the vast majority of them, will not be near 200k. Look at my link, and it's obvious that if you randomly select 2 teachers, the vast majority of them will not be near $200k.

"If you assume that people who earn >$400k or so marry people from other occupations more or less uniformly, you'd expect close to 1% of teachers to show up on this chart"

Right, but you're making my point for me. My point is that teachers are not showing up because of their own salary.
Ever heard the phrase 'you get out what you put in'?

Travel can give you most of the benefits most people claim it does without you actively trying because of how it forcibly takes you out of your comfort zone. But if you show up just expecting it to change you, or even worse; challenge it to, then you won't get anywhere near as much out of it.

I expect that your own experiences are more a reflection of your attitude towards it than what most enthusiastic travelers (including myself) claim it does.

You get out what you put in.
Couldn't this be changed in the 'less' files?
Clay has shared and unique pointer implementations in its library. Naive channels could be mostly implemented in the library as well, but I think they might need language support to pull some of the tricks Rust and Go do to make them fast, and Clay's type system would need to better guard against unintended sharing to make them safe. The Rust and Go developers are contributing the groundwork for lightweight tasks into LLVM, so with runtime library support Clay could potentially inherit that support. I think a region type system would fill in the safety holes; the Deca language (http://code.google.com/p/decac/) is very similar to Clay (no runtime requirements, variant-based dynamic dispatch) and successfully uses region typing to provide safe memory access.
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So pretty soon I might be looking for a new project to build, and I've always wanted to work with graph databases.

How about an app that allows you to compile a list of things you want to accomplish before you die. You can share your items and browse those of others. Each item can be commented on by anyone. There could be a list of popular items, powered by the HN algorithm iteself (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574).

I have a pretty good idea on how it would be designed, both in interface, and technologically.

Tech:
RoR, Coffeescript
Neo4j
JRuby (required for neo4j)
Heroku (see http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/08/25/java/)
oauth2, FB Canvas, twitter connect
Twitter Bootstrap

Also, jquery mobile is a piece of cake if we want a mobile site..
I think the point being made was that you can only do this if the owners of those works let you (or you intend to claim fair use). If they had been required to license all works that were incorporated, that would likely have severely changed the speech, so the fact that it is what it is is largely due to the fact that they were able to lift all that material. Yet that same opportunity is now being denied others.
> When you have a medical emergency, you call 911 or go to the emergency room, not peruse Q & A sites for answers.

Life threatening, yes, but many people have ordinary emergencies likes burns and big cuts and won't go to ER because they know they can't handle the bill and will attempt to suck it up and self treat; even if it's not wise to do so. Emergency rooms aren't free; they have to treat you, yes, but they're going to bill you as well.
Keep in mind that was before the Roberts Supreme Court, who had just recently declared Corporate Money == Speech (via Citizens United case).

If SOPA passes, I hold out very little hope that this Supreme Court will do much of anything to ameliorate it .
well it might be done.

Seems like congress people bend over backwards for companies that donate as little as $100K to their reelection campaigns.

There are 535 people in congress, so we'd need to raise 53,500,000 to make it happen. A small price to pay if you think about it

To be safe, might want to support both candidates, so double that number to 107 million. So if 1 out of 3 Americans donates a dollar to the goal, it could happen.
He said 'the bulk'. Sigh.
Now that we're playing their game, it's only natural that we get hit with the political soundbite insults that survive not a moment's scrutiny. Battle won, war ongoing... but maybe we can start shouting insults too.

Only ours will have the weight of truth.
Been exactly there, done exactly that.
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I still find it hard to find good-quality non-trendy track parts that aren't competition-quality. I want to pay $100 for a track crankset. When I last looked, that was not an option, and I paid $200-and-change for a White Industries crankset + chainring. Still better than a track-grade Sugino set, which would end up around $500-$700.

(Also, track parts fall apart on the road. The high-end Izumi chain is a nice example.)
It's actually really simple, it just looks complicated on the first pass. Try it, on a virtual machine test box if necessary, you'll see. 90% of the work in this method is getting the update-alternatives scripts right, and that's already done. And the ability to painlessly rollback is more than worth it.
Typical politician response: Speaking out of both sides of his mouth. He simultaneously voices support for the bill, while criticizing it. He then closes his letter with a vague "I'll keep your concerns in mind" and fails to indicate whether he supports it or not.
Would you do a hundred of such changes over a time span without telling anyone?
Would you do that in a map of city located on the other side of planet?

That's psychologically improbable and becomes gravely improbable if there were more than one vandal.
These contractors are a full continent plus an ocean away from the Googleplex. It seems pretty plausible to me that nobody high on the totem pole had any idea about the particulars of what they were doing. I doubt they even know everything that the thousands of full-time employees who work right down the hall are doing.
Haha, I'm well aware ... and pretty embarrassed. :)
Learning "how things are done" in other very different places does tend to make you smarter. In several ways, including but not limited to:

- you are forced to solve new problems imposed by your surroundings, which makes you a better problem-solver generally

- you become exposed to and aware of different ways that other cultures solve problems, which widens your own tool set

- you become more aware of some of your own default cultural/political/technological assumptions, and thus better able to set some of those biases aside when you face problems for which they aren't appropriate.

A weekend package tour won't give you much of that, but living for a few weeks or months someplace significantly different than your home country often will.
Did anyone else notice that you can't comment on their blog? Ironic that they're talking about free speech.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

This seems to apply to several levels of this incident, up to and including this discussion of it.

Most, if not all, of the discussion here in both directions is speculation. It seems to me that it's still early. The Google detractors here will be much more persuasive, to me at least, if they come back in a few weeks and Google has still not issued a strong apology and full, detailed explanation.
We had the same experience with them. Moved as well.
Server configs like this is premature optimization IMO.
I mean when you get millions of hits and the server slows down sure go for it, but in most cases apache2 with mod_wsgi does the work nicely with practically no config(beside the vhost file)
Yes, but how much bigger? whose getting the attention? that is what's interesting about this visualization.
SOPA is a crime bill, and we need to make sure any attempts to paint it as a "jobs bill" are corrected. We can then move on to how it's a crime bill where the costs are far out of whack with the benefits, but I feel we're playing from behind when their first card is the "jobs bill" card and we don't immediately call them on it.
Happily, the only reliable way to get that evidence is to go collect it yourself...
You should be a non native English speaker with a strong accent as I'm to see the big difference in speech recognition between the two. Android voice recognition works 99% of times, Siri 50% or less. Maybe with native speakers the difference is less radical.
a "sizable number" being two?
Yeah and what does Dodd and the MPAA call those stupid warnings and crap they add at the beginning of every movie telling us we are thief etc. ?

If you don't know what I mean, here is a funny parody of these warnings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

The Hypocrisy is at an all new level.
When a speechwriter writes a speech for a particular person, at that person's direction, it is normally a work-for-hire or employee situation, at the speechwriter does not retain the copyright. The speaker has moral and legal responsibility for the words that come out of his mouth. This is a well-known principle, and it was even mentioned in a Supreme Court decision last year: "Even when a speechwriter drafts a speech, the content is entirely within the control of the person who delivers it. And it is the speaker who takes credit—or blame—for what is ultimately said."

Also, King improvised the "I have a dream" and "Let freedom ring" parts--based on previously existing phrases.

This page shows the differences between the prepared and delivered remarks: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~public/civilrights/a0129.html
Marriott, Hilton, 4 other hotel chains partner to launch own hotel search engine
Create a local 'apt' repository for Ubuntu Java packages:
https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6

Just tried it earlier today on 11.10. Worked fine.
Probably the same way I did before Wikipedia: by Googling the topic.

It's nice having all the relevant references on one page, but search results aren't usually too difficult to master either.
From Mint to Votizen
Yahoo is way under valued. Yahoo was considering selling its stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group for $17 billion. Yahoo's current market cap is $19 billion PLUS $2 billion cash. Does that somehow make the value of its U.S. assets negative?
Why not just create a User model that has a null username and password field? If they sign up, you fill in those attributes. No need for a second table!
Thank you, ZFS, DTrace, LLVM/clang, ... are the kind of stuff I was looking for to understand the non subjective advantages.
I don't think it's terribly peculiar. Spend some time on 4chan (or better yet, don't). Perhaps you only notice the trolls who did big, bold moves?
sounds cool to me :). If you're lookin' for help I might even be willing hehe
It's true.

I hosted chifg.com after the great bikeforums schism. And that was prior to lfgss.com. I also helped quite a few other cities get up and running with communities, probably about 15 or so.

The first was NYC though. They were the ones who after the BF schism set up an invite only community for fixed gear bikes.

Tracing earlier than that and you only find messengers/couriers riding them, go back to 1987 and you pretty much end up with 1 Toronto messenger and Buffalo Bill in London.

By the time I set up http://www.lfgss.com I already figured that the fixie thing was dead, but if anything it boomed afresh.

As trends go, I think it ceased to be fashion a while ago and became utility. It wouldn't have survived otherwise.
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It always amazes me that there are people who make their money freelancing or working remotely who don't travel regularly. I'm currently working at a big corporation, but I'm currently spending my free time working on learning web related stuff so I can hopefully pick up freelance work to try to support myself while traveling in the future.
The temptation of White Labelling (and why not to do it)
So you think a bunch of contractors got together to sabotage a competitor for shits and giggles?

This isn't writing like 'dick dick dick' on Snooki's WikiPedia page. No one vandalizes OSM data for fun. They do it if they have an incentive to do so. This incentive must have been provided by Google management.
The next question: who will enforce it?
Neat Twitter visualisation - but is it really relevant?
Well, I'll tell you this. There's no corporate mandate at Google telling employees that it's OK to vandalize OpenStreetMap. In fact, we even sponsor OSM as a Google Summer of Code project:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

If you want some "Google is evil" fodder, this is not it. Sorry.
Can you say more about "The main problem is how much influence industry and lobby groups have on our politicans, and the vast majority of this isn't some conspiracy-laden secret-hand-shaking secret, it's just campaign financing." ?

I ask because stuff like this is used to abuse Google (see the Viacom vs Youtube lawsuit) and they have oodles of money and a super PAC and everything. If one can simply buy a politician why haven't they bought them all off? Seems expedient.

That they haven't has made me wonder how causative this problem is with respect to bad public policy. I'd be interested in ways to validate where the problem is.
That is specific to CS. I have one foot in CS, but the other two feet are in applied mathematics and natural sciences where conferences are not especially attractive publications venues.
Yahoo, like a lot of shitty corporations in death spiral, is worth less than the sum of its parts. It's not as if the stock price times shares = market cap is really a great figure, at least over short periods of time, but in the long term, reality tends to converge.

Sun was sitting on a cash hoard of billions when Oracle bought it -- plus MySQL, plus some actually valuable technology, plus a lot of great engineers, plus patent portfolio. The assets were probably worth 2-3x the acquisition price!

When HP split into HP and Agilent, the printer business alone was valued at more than the entire market cap of the company; the rest of HP was perceived as having negative value.

A lot of Yahoo's value is in investments in Asia, investments which are rapidly trying to divorce themselves from Yahoo.

Yahoo arguably has a sustainable display ad business, and some destination sites, (although I personally am not into advertising), but to make the turnaround, you'd want to axe the top several tiers of management. The new CEO is a good start; this is a great second step.

A rational world with honest and effective boards of directors, coupled with greedy and self interested PE firms of large size probably would have already broken up Yahoo, HP, and RIM. The biggest crime with these companies is the thousands of great engineers stuck there, not accomplishing what they could at more effective organizations.
Want to buy your medicine from an evil Canadian e-commerce site for much cheaper? Only if you know how to get to their site without a domain name or using a non-US DNS server, bwahaha.
Very cool docs, Thanks for sharing the link. I guess I have no excuse now, I have to take a closer look at and start playing with clojure
Put a bird on them. Then pickle them.
What value that Yahoo chooses to assign to its own divisions is kind of besides the point.
PIPA and why it will kill innovation
PIPA is bad for every Internet company, but its lethal effect on startup companies is perhaps the worst of all. Read here to understand why.
> hipsters ride single-speeds, or retro-bikes, which are actually more hipster than a fixie these days.

Is the difference between a single-speed bike and a fixie that a single-speed bike has a freewheel so you can coast without pedaling?
The problem is people don't invest in the present but invest solely based on the perception of the company's future.
They provide a link to a Java 6 Transition wiki in the end of the e-mail.
sweet! What kind of stuff do you like to do?
Ubuntu has a well defined update policy and process. It couldn't be farther from "randomly pulling installers... and installing them willy-nilly". It's documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Here is an excerpt describing what's eligible for an upgrade-

"Stable release updates will, in general, only be issued in order to fix high-impact bugs. Examples of such bugs include:

Bugs which may, under realistic circumstances, directly cause a security vulnerability. These are done by the security team and are documented at SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures.

Bugs which represent severe regressions from the previous release of Ubuntu. This includes packages which are totally unusable, like being uninstallable or crashing on startup.

Bugs which may, under realistic circumstances, directly cause a loss of user data

Bugs which do not fit under above categories, but (1) have an obviously safe patch and (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages (like X.org or the kernel)."

If you don't trust the packages Ubuntu provides as updates, why do you trust the packages they initially provided with the release? I think that in most cases the updates are going through a more rigorous QA process than the initial packages.
I'd also suggest a book to read on the plane: http://www.alaindebotton.com/the_art_of_travel.asp. A good read to explore some of the common, but not often openly discussed, feelings and responses people have to travelling.
If we make some conservative assumptions based on his actions and what we know of the man then it's safe to say he would allow the speech to become part of PBS documentaries but not used in corporate advertisements.

King's speeches are used in corporate ads. Did you watch the embedded videos?

Likeness rights, not copyrights, are what prevent the images of public figures from being used commercially in ways that imply endorsement. If I take a photo of the President (or any other famous person, in public or in private), I own the copyright for that photo. I can sell copies of it for a profit. But it can't be used in a way that implies endorsement. I need a model release for that.

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe it would be perfectly legally possible for the King estate to release all aspects of the speech into the public domain and still prohibit the use of King's image or voice in advertisements. Or it would have been.
At the rate MPAA/RIAA claims to be losing money due to piracy since Napster peeked its head in 1999, why isn't the music and movie industry out of money?
NO.

The trolls that you notice do big bold things; the bad trolls are the ones you notice.

Good trolling is a dead art; the single post that started a 400 message flame filled cross-posted thread that caused everyone to kill-file everyone else? You just don't get that anymore.

It is very easy to run into forum and post guro and yell obscenities.

Making long lasting subtle changes is hard. But that is why it's fun, for a small number of trolls.

(I should state that I don't think this is the case with the contractor; I think they're just stupid and misguided, and that Google needs to start thinking about how they provide oversight for this kind of stuff.)
Or it could just be that browsing the web, viewing videos, etc, is more enjoyable on a bigger screen.

Now, bigger doesnt mean 6", but the ~4" thin smartphones seems to be a very good compromise to me. Yes, my hands are small.
There are also sources reporting that four more board members may be following him: Roy Bostock, Arthur Kern, Vyomesh Joshi and Gary Wilson.
http://allthingsd.com/20120117/sources-four-more-board-membe...

Still rumor at this point, but the Wall Street Journal has a pretty good track record overall.
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I'm with you on secondhand sales being a poor correlate for actual ownership. It's completely reasonable that more for-sale listings indicate cities or places where people don't want their fixie anymore. Additionally, Priceonomics only looks at sales taking place on eBay, Craigslist, etc. So, not only are the numbers skewed toward areas that have more active internet users, the buyer may not even be in the same region.

This is why data shows fixies selling so often in Manhattan: it's all the hipsters that moved to Manhattan, who found less use for their bike, and then sold it back to somebody else in Brooklyn.
I tried this with BCC. It ended up being a colossal support expense to have guest accounts available as an option, and didn't lead to meaningful revenue. (Literally less than $100 in about 6 months.) I had every possible variation of "I used it at home and now I am using it at school and the evil computer lost all of my work!!1 FIX IT NOW!", despite telling people multiple times that exactly that would happen if they didn't put in an email address.

It is entirely possible that my implementation sucked or my customers are just uniquely ... inexperienced with dealing with novel usage paradigms, but test the heck out of this.
Yahoo is lost as a brand.

My children don't know what Yahoo is.

It is one of the million insipid content destinations on the web.
This Ars Technica story contains a quote from Chris Dodd (former Democratic Senator, now MPAA head), illustrates their attitude, and the misleading nature of their rhetoric.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesan...

Contrary to what he says, the blackouts were driven from sites' user-bases, rather than the reverse. And negotiation and planning for them began well before the Administration's statement (limited in scope as it was, to boot).

Of course, most of us here know this. Just remember, you're dealing with (consummate) liars.

In this statement. And when they say things are "dead". And basically, as the saying goes, whenever you see their lips moving.
Is there a specific lie you can point to?

To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America's intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy

Even this isn't technically a lie. SOPA would protect some businesses and jobs from some thieves.

I don't think it's a good way to go about it, and I think the other consequences outweigh the benefits, but as it stands your comment doesn't really make sense in this context.