skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terminology isn't fixed, but in my book, a traffic circle is where traffic on the rotary has to yield to traffic entering, whereas traffic on a roundabout has priority over traffic entering.

Roundabouts are typically smaller (down to a mini-roundabout with an island just a metre or two across, compared with traffic circles which can be hundreds of metres in diameter). As a result, roundabout traffic typically moves slower, and they're MUCH safer.
OSM doesn't have "terrain" (as in hill shading and mountain slopes), but it does have streets and roads. Apple and OSM match up in lots of places.

Apple are not using OSM in USA (maybe canada, i dunno), but are definitly using it outside there.
There's always a trade-off somewhere. Does it take 3x more RAM/storage? Does it make record insertion extremely slow?
Tiny versions of these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_bead
This is an excellent post by the foundation. I'm pleased they're showing people the actual parts. (After the launch I have no doubt there are some people vigorously complaining about this too.)

It would be really nice if they now link to some good quality electronic engineering page to explain what "magnetics" are, and how they work, and why they're used in network connectors. Teaching people about computing is great. Teaching people about electronic engineering would also be great.
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There's arXiv, which famously hosts the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, among other notable papers.

http://arxiv.org/
How about... we start a kickstarter. Target 200k of which 185k is used for the application for a gTLD and the remaining 15k is for setting up an INC or LLP such that all those who have contributed can register as many domains as they want for "cost" (whatever that works out to be).

Obviously the exact gTLD we chose is subject to a bit of democracy, voting etc etc but I'm sure with a bit of an open forum then they'll be an interesting debate.
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Why is that, that if Apple ignores credit/copyright (on a massive scale), that everybody loves their move.

But if anybody would rip of an Apple product, the descendants of mighty Steve would come raining down with swords, axes and lawyers.

Do you really think they did it, to support OSM. Or should I ask myself: "Where is the money?"

The money, they do not have to pay Google anymore for the use of maps, while not crediting all these people, who supported OSM with their time and data-collecting.
Microsoft Bizspark program provides free software for startups.

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Default.aspx
The quality is poor, but these appear to be from that presentation.

http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7183/Sim-City-5-Inside-th...
http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7186/Sim-City-5-Inside-th...
http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7187/Sim-City-Inside-the-...
http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7188/Sim-City-Inside-the-...
"You're much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession."

Awesome. Well, I am a classical violinist, and I will use programming to aid me -- now with confidence!
George Dyson is the son of the physicist Freeman Dyson, who worked at the Institute for Advance Study from 1953 during the time when von Neumann et al were building the IAS computer. He (George) gave a talk [1] in 2008 where he mentioned that he used to hang out at the IAS as a child and met von Neumann, Kurt Godel, and others. This probably explains his emphasis on the IAS and von Neumann.

I do agree with the opinion expressed in the article, though, that the British contribution tends to be downplayed. But as a brit myself we're used to that...

The Manchester Baby is in the science museum here in Manchester and its worth a look if you somehow find yourself in Manchester. The long-now talk is interesting, but you might want to fast-fwd past the stuff about canoes and tree houses.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jan/09/theres-plenty-of-ro...

EDIT: typo
> I disagree. I've met a lot of non-programmers who knew a little programming. They were more dangerous than effective.

I'm sure you're well aware of this, but there's a ton of opportunity for even very simple programming to help in cases where people have never thought of programming as a possible solution. (This is how I contributed roughly $3MM of value to one company as a kid who barely knew how to program). On the other hand, it takes a lot more sophistication (I assume, don't have first-hand experience) to add value to a place that already recognizes the value of programming and automates their work.
Congratulations on your success!

I recommend this article for tips on a less direct approach to seeking a cofounder:

http://joel.is/post/15604799978/avoid-the-50-50-co-founder-m...
Somehow I prefer we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there over Apple are thieving bastards.
Usually the most intriguing part of any genetic-algorithm type optimization is the fitness function. In your case, what makes a good or fun game?

From the first paper it looks like you tried to achieve steady forward progress (in terms of power ups and "reachability"). Did you consider any alternative fitness functions?
So 'boring' programmers are there to fetch food and essentials for the 'sexy' programmers!? ;)
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Raspberry Pi are acing customer relations by turning a little bit of bad news into something really interesting and engaging. Kudos
Not sure current technology is capable of yielding real creativity. Perhaps as we enter the era of quantum computing.
But fun level design and infinite gameplay generated using AI/ML techniques are a welcome addition to casual games.
All our development and staging systems are essentially free, mongolab/Mongohq have free plans that are enough for dev. That being said I'm definitely not looking to save 20$ as I bill 110€/hour so one saved hour I can devote to actuall work pays for half a year of payed heroku dyno;)
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Combat flight sims aren't popular, but recent ones do exist; DCS currently has nice A-10 and Ka-50 sims.
Methinks thou dost protest too much TSA
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Why do you say he doesn't understand how switch works? What is he "obviously" misunderstanding?
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Just to clarify the "don't read blogs" comment... what I meant was that tech blogs are disproportionately written by engineers. You don't see, for instance, many middle managers at Apple or Amazon blogging about their work. So if that's all you read, you have this skewed view of how a company should work based on what a bunch of young, small startup engineers tell you.

There is a disconnect between how the world works and how you think it works if you spend too much time reading these blogs, and that disconnect hurts you more than it helps you.
> Some flawed results from Google

> When searching for the word “Air” in Google there are so many results that could have come up in the SERPs: Adobe Air software, Nike Air trainers, the French Band, Apple Air laptop, any Airline, a science page on the make-up of our atmosphere.

> But no. In second place is the Wikipedia page, not for any of the above, but a disambiguation page for the term “Air”.

What's wrong with this? Surely when somebody searches for "air" it's of more use to find encyclopedic information about many things air can refer to, than one or another company site?

If user wants Adobe Air or Nike Air, she would include it in keywords.
Apple should of bought t-mobile or another wireless company with 4g capability. It would allow them to have "apple" plans and could allow them to profit big from data plans. At&T is getting it for $39 billion. At this point, Apple has over $100 billion in the bank that they apparently don't know what to do with. SMH
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One of these is far nicer and clearer than the other:

http://alastaira.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/image3.png

http://alastaira.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/image4.png

Apple's version comes up really lacking in comparison to the default OSM one, which I would call gorgeous, personally.
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Apple data is about one year old, this is the reason behind the spotted differences.
As I said, I didn't know what the license was. But thanks for letting me know.
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I'd be interested to know what kind of x-ray device they used to get those images? How much does one cost, and are they affordable (and safe) for a hobbyist to use?
"I speak with an accent, I don't think with an accent" (bonus points for knowing the movie reference).

Grammatically correct phrases are proof of mastering the language, not of IQ. Specially if English is not your mother tongue.
Exactly. Don't attribute to malice what can easily be explained by ignorance. Getting a company's back against the wall will not endevour them to OSM.
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No, they're real transformers, electrically separating board from network. Here's a schematic (first picture from the top, the box labeled Integrated Ethernet Connector): http://www.conformity.com/artman/publish/printer_139.shtml

Alternatively these can be mounted as as separate component[1] on the board in conjunction with the "plain" type of connector that the Raspberry manufacturers used by accident.

[1] Looks like this: http://www.alliedcomponents.com/lan.php
"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."

That is the best thing in his advice column.

It's hard to pull off though. I started programming at 5 and am at a skill level comparable to this poster, but I studied biology in college with an eye to doing exactly this sort of thing. Then I discovered that bio is a Ph.D's only club and that you cannot get any kind of job in the industry if you don't at least have a Masters'. I didn't want to do this for various reasons (money, not liking school), so I found myself back in IT/programming where the pay was 3X higher than what I could get in the bio world with a BS only.
Run uPgades, monitor servers, especially free sPace etc. when u upgrade stuff breaks sometimes, write installation scripts, fix them when new version of something comes out. Etc etc etc. we run about a dozen different projects in multiple configurations and since the move to Heroku I'd say we saved amour 20 monthly hours.
If I could make one weatherproof, it would be neat to use one outside in my back yard to take some weather information from the internet over wifi and then control some relays that turn some water spigots and save a ton of water for my garden.

In my head whenever I think about a 60 year old version of me in the year 2040, I've sort of burned out on writing code but still bust some out whenever I can use it to save water. And the kids will think I am lame for writing code that saves a few gallons, but we'll be right on the brink of that starting to matter a lot.

Also it would be cool to use the same machinery to drive those little windows and fans to make a greenhouse stay perfectly the same temperature during the day.

This is probably total overkill for one of these devices. But I could code the perl up in an hour or less and it would just work, and having something exist and just work is so much more satisfying than "this thing I keep saying I will do some year".
Thanks, Jonathan!

P.S.: Love what you're doing with HowSociable. Wish you the best.
This is so true. You may have a great password, like this:

9rIqIiGByCzcWq

But, it may be considered too long by some services, or not complex enough by others (as it lacks special chars), or it can't begin with a number, etc. Adding special chars breaks it for some DB apps (oracle can't take some chars in the password). It's really frustrating that it's 2012 and there's no global ISO password standard (or something similar).
If people haven't read 1984 recently they should give it another go.

> But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

This appears to describe behaviour of a small[1] number of border guards and customs agents seen in a number of recent HN threads.

> If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

At least Big Brother worked. I don't know what's worse about the jokey incompetence of the blog post: the fact that it hopelessly missed the mark for correct tone; or the thought that maybe they actually believed it; or that most people will just shrug their shoulders and think "meh, so what?" and do nothing more about it.

[1] for various values of small, possibly including "most of them".
For those that have not seen the real Bob Saget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HW4mPZmKPM
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You are aware Das Capital doesn't actually present a vision of any future society & is simply a historical analysis of the formation of capitalism? Most economists accept the materialist dialectic.
Pastebin from the attack: http://pastebin.com/LM9vdNWy

Some interesting data on there...

Si prefieres LogMeIn Free:
https://secure.logmein.com/
Login: PSISuport@pandasecurity.com
Contraseña: panda01

...

El login de Windows, puedes usar cualquiera de los nuestros
Usuario: nombre.apellido
Password: Panda12345

Secure? Not so much.

As big as this might be for Anon I'm afraid they must've just guessed at passwords if that is the form of password security they used.

The root passwords were more secure but I'm willing to bet that the Windows logon(s) provided above had a file somewhere (Desktop perhaps) with the passwords in plain view. PasswordSafe or the like may have been used but chances are it had a password of similar strength to those above.
Show HN: FolioSpace.me - a portfolio for hackers to show what they make
I built FolioSpace after I tried to create a portfolio of my work, but found that all the existing sites focused on photographers/artists. A few friends had hacked together personal “project sites” using WordPress, but it was far from ideal and a pain to set up.

After thinking about it, I realized how interesting it would be to have “who made that?” data publicly accessible (similar to IMDB or GitHub, but for anything), so I built FolioSpace.me. I focused on making it easy to embed images/video/music using image/youtube search. It also allows you to tag co-workers/contributors.

Here’s my portfolio as an example: http://foliospace.me/scosman

Share some projects and let me know what you think! Thanks!

Note: I heard about geekli.st after I was 95% done. It’s cool, but I think FolioSpace is very different beast.
Ignoring the Bootstrap aspect, I don't really see the need to explain how you added the Twitter/G+/Reddit buttons. I mean, they're just a script you copy and paste from the websites.

On the other hand, the dynamic Repo/Followers count was a nice touch. Didn't know about that one.
I think methoddk meant GitHub does not allow you access to a database.
Better to approach these things positively, than assume the worst case and risk creating resentment.
Sounds like on the new iPad the max has further increased to 4096x4096
Clickable links: http://foliospace.me and http://foliospace.me/scosman
Absolutely no axe to grind I've contributed to open source projects and will certainly continue to.

What I don't like is that people overstate the importance of open source and think it's the solution to everything.

Open source is great for some projects, useless and even counterproductive for others.
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I think the thing you might be witnessing here is what earthlings call "sarcasm," or maybe "a thinly veiled threat". I'm not entirely sure which one.
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I searched high-and-low for a way to make sense of Jekyll for anything other than a blog. It nearly drove me mad. I ended up abandoning the idea of hosting notes on github as a website, and ended up cramming content into HTML manually.
Another more romantic, less useful idea is that a raspberry pi mounted outside sampling the sky quality and scraping a few astronomical forecasts could come up with a composite of "this really is a night you should go outside for an hour before bed" - it would send a txt message to me at a certain time (or even be allowed to wake me up! [for a meteor shower or solar flare report). It seems I can write code and work on house chores 7 days a week and never remember nary a bit of it, but if I spend just an hour gazing at constellations and trying to figure it all out on my own, I remember that slice for a good long while and I dont feel like I missed out on something as much; this would be like a watchdog timer for my distracted life.
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I agree; however a particularly alluring component to an arduino is driving it with a 9V battery and throwing it up into the false ceiling and letting it do its thing. (Or whatever your use case may be.)
2 years old actually. Dated to about first week of April 2010 (based on "this road added on $DATE1 is there and the road added on $DATE2 isn't"). They are also using non-OSM data for the USA
Are the industrial chemicals on our food to blame for obesity?
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You have fallen into the common trap of seeing apps through developers' eyes. Please consider that almost no one in the world has heard of Bootstrap. Though it's captured our mindshare as developers, most of our users will not know nor care.

Basically none of the general public will say "Hey, this is a Bootstrap'ed application, I'm not using it." They just do not know nor care what Bootstrap is. If it looks professional and works as they expect, they will be happy.
Seriously, no "PMT" in c# is listed?

Am I missing something or do you guys need to calculate mortgage payments so often that it needs to be a built in function of a language?

There are a couple of valid points in this article, the rest is hogwash.
Agreed. It is a lame explanation for sure. I thought I would aggregate everything in one place whether it was easy or hard. Thanks for the feed back.
I'm starting to use service objects, which are responsible for coordinating things when multiple models are required to perform an operation, or complex business logic is involved.

James Golick has a great blog post on that approach at http://jamesgolick.com/2010/3/14/crazy-heretical-and-awesome...
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they were only 3 monthsd behind if you took November as their shipping date, that was pretty much the earliest it could have been for a Q4 release, whereas it could have been as late as end Dec.
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You can actually remove the calls to slideUp(200) and slideDown(200) and replace them with hide() and show() respectively.

As well you can set the -hover class to not alter the looks if you don't want the hover effect.
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When you hire a structural engineer to design a bridge, you aren’t worried that your enemy has hired his or her own structural engineer to undermine your bridge at its weakest points.
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It's idealistic naivete to assume the best of everyone. But you're right, pretending to does make it more comfortable to operate in the world.
The hack-able body: Medical implants and the fight for opensource.
Karen Sandler, the executive director of GNOME, has been fighting to view the source code for her implanted pacemaker since she received the implant in 2008.
Meh. I love what OSM is doing, but IMO their tile style doesn't hold a candle to Google's (but then I dislike Apple's style here, as well).
That was a very long article just to say what everyone already knows, "Sometimes text formatted on the Kindle doesn't look exactly like the printed copy"
Tone is baffling... only explanation is the official blog is trying to spoof their spoof?

https://twitter.com/#!/tsagov (TSA satire)
Not very discoverable though, I wonder how many people ever found that one out.
I no longer allow myself to use backup solutions I invent. And that's just a calling to my own confidence in my code, but I have lost data that I liked because I did a home brew backup. It's all that logic that makes sure it's still working correctly over time. There are so many devices available for very low cost that provide this exact solution. For me, it's one of those things where it's dangerous to enjoy inventing because I am not a master tool maker.
> Why is that, that if Apple ignores credit/copyright (on a massive scale), that everybody loves their move.

It actually sounds very passive-aggressive to me.
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By the time James invented the vacuum tube that never loses suction, the transistor had already largely taken over that role in computing.
This is (for me) a very timely validation of OSMs efforts, congrats to them!
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Thanks for the feedback. I should have focused more on how open source allows us to now create and publish these types of applications more efficiently.
"Eventually though this just became boring and couldn't hold my interest anymore."

> "That may be because you're too focused inwardly and not toward your users."

Well, that was his point... it became boring because he didn't focus on what he was producing, and how it was going to be used. He became preoccupied with the technology.
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The Manchester machines were very significant for at least two reasons. First off, they were the first to feature "Williams tube" CRT memory, which was the high-speed memory of choice in any early computer effort that could afford it (including the IAS machine which is Dyson's subject, and for which he apparently fails to give Williams proper credit).

Second, it was the first machine to feature any kind of an index register, a facility that was quite widely copied. You can trace the influence from the spread of the Manchester name for the facility: they called it the "B-tube", a reference to the internal structure of their own machine. (Already having an "A-tube" for the accumulator, and a "C-tube" for control registers, they used the first free letter.) And if you read through the computing literature of the '50s, you'll find frequent references to index registers using terms like "B-boxes", which are otherwise inexplicable.