skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, be Bayesian about it.

The incidents described in the full article include huge violent fistfights that led to curfews. Low income people are unlikely to spend lots of money. Lots of theft and violence is accompanied by lots of broken windows behavior that may not rise to the level of a criminal offense, but does scare away higher income people (example: screaming at the screen in a movie theater). And very few retail shops operate at 100% margins such that a doubling of revenue would exactly compensate for a doubling in theft.

All in all, it is highly likely that events transpired as predicted by the project's critics. No doubt the proponents like homosaur did not sell the project as "violence will increase, thefts will double, and your previous patrons like Johnny Fields will leave, but...". They instead tried to insinuate that "rich white people be crazy" to think something like this might happen.
Why not? Most companies do - since most webservers are configured to log every request by default. Of course, with facebook volumes they probably don't use "default" solutions for anything - but logging every click is a norm for most sites.
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Yes, I don't get it either. As far as I can tell it's just that people love Notch (he's pretty cool) so anything he does is automatically cool as well.

It's not like there haven't been games with instruction sets before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar
Although this is true, I just unpacked it to investigate, and removing @2x images reduced the filesize by 30%.
This has not been my experience, though I have never put much thought into it. In almost all of the gaming communities I've come into contact with, "X whore" is not gendered and not particularly insulting. It is used to refer to someone who employs X more than is expected, whether or not it is detrimental to the team.

I don't believe I usually say this, but I will be sure not to now.
I also recommend the podcast, "Trance Around the World" -- two hours of awesome trance. I program with it on, I go to sleep with it playing, we just had a party with it playing in the background.

(Also, if you are a Spotify user, try the Radio/Trance mix.)
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Looks like the same problems people have with eating: consuming a lot of useless stuff, not consuming enough of proper stuff, hurting their (intellectual) health by that. I wonder how soon people will start selling internet diets - some software that installs on your computer and controls your browsing and counts intellectual calories and vitamins for you. I'm sure there are apps like this already but not a major business like diets... So if you want to be a millionaire, make a startup doing this.
(dcpu16 llvm backend developer here)

That ABI is hard to implement in LLVM, mostly because of SP can't be addressed as [4+SP] in DCPU-16. So, DCPU16 LLVM backend uses C register as a frame pointer (to store local variables and other data) and SP as a stack pointer to store ret addresses.

There're other "flaws" in that ABI which increase the cost of developing an LLVM backend.

I am going to make the supported ABI closer to #0x12-dev ABI in v0.0.5 and report them the most annoying features of their ABI.
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There's a class of "X whore" insults floating around. For example, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=attention%20w....

The `whore' part refers to doing something regretable in exchange for personal gain, no gender implied. Here `awp whore' would refer to a player using http://counterstrike.wikia.com/wiki/Magnum_Sniper_Rifle predominantly, even in cases it made little sense.

Due to overwhelming power of this weapon, any hit kills instantly. That's a bother to other players, and may tilt game balance.
Why should it? A GitHub calling itself a standards committee is hardly, y'know, a standards committee.
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This is so incredibly cool! But how did you implement I/O?
Namespace pollution is not a problem if you are required to explicitly import all external functions into each file. And it's especially not a problem if overloading is supported.
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Question - How do you convert HN traffic into something more?
We are relatively new to HN and blogging. We have been playing around with various methods to drive and keep traffic to our blog (wordpress). This includes typical social media and a small experiment with Adwords. Traffic has remained low (zero).

Recently we posted a link in this forum and received a large spike in traffic (thanks!). However no one visited any other part of the blog and traffic has dropped off. We are aware this its a common problem. How can it be solved? Why did it happen?

Our own assumptions are that 1 content did not excite, 2 user behaviour (not likely to go past linked page).

How have you built up a following?How did your break through moment happen?
A lot of us intially entered the computer field to do something like program our spaceships' guns and shields, so this rings an important string inside us. Also, the CPU is so simple that everything around it (the spec, various emulators, assemblers and compilers) is quite accessible even to people who have little experience with this low-level stuff. In short, if the DCPU-16 and related technology do not fit the "fun hacking" label, then I don't know what does.
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There are a number of possibilities. It could be a promotion that is outsourced to an Indian company. Microsoft could be hoping to hook developers in India.
If you read his blog post, it portrays a lack of skill rather than a rational decision:

"Oh, and I’ve finally committed the Music Blocks to the repository.

(Oh, wait, no, I didn’t.. Doing so broke git, so we’re changing to svn because git is horrible and evil)"
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As an FYI: the canonical URL is http://news.ycombinator.com or in this case: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145857
That you would apply it to men to belittle them, as well as to women, doesn't change that it's deploying a term used to degrade women in order to degrade others.

This seems like some really contorted logic. You're saying that using a term on a man doesn't change the fact that it's a term used to degrade women? Sure, that's true. But if it is being applied to men, it is also a term to degrade men, at which point it is hardly gendered.

You might be a little more right if we were talking about a word that is inherently related to women and only women, but both women and men may be considered whores in the original meaning of the word.
Dude seriously this is awesome. Good work. DCPU-16 is perfect for learning about all these cool aspects of computer science. It's so stripped down (lacking, for example, instruction pipelining) that it's easy to get into and see what's going on at a very basic level. I look forward to looking over the repo later today (after I've slept).
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Just one note related to hotswapping, he's likely using JRebel.
If you did dynamic downloads you cold then run out of storage while doing this,mwhich would be a terrible experience.

Vector graphics help in some cases.
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You'd be surprised: the assets take up about 50% of the total. It's simple enough to examine the contents of an IPA file:

iBooks used to be under 20MB. Over time it's expanded to its current size of 50.8MB when it's uncompressed (the extra space it's taking up on your device is probably the books themselves).

The vast majority of that is images. Apple have at least been somewhat smart about it, choosing in certain cases to use lossy JPGs rather than PNGs where the user won't notice (the startup image, for example).

The app also ships with some custom fonts, which take up a few of those MB. The languages, which you suspect take up a lot of the space, actually don't represent that much: each language is about 45KB.

The executable itself is 25MB: so basically, 50% of the app size consists of assets. The percentage is probably higher on most other apps, because the iBooks executable is rather large (unusually so).
The blog, which others have mentioned and which is prominently-linked on the Sourceforge site (http://punix-os.blogspot.com/), would suggest that there is new news, and it's fairly significant. It has actually been run on real hardware rather than in-simulator, it would seem.

I find it not a little jarring that the kernel has been pasted together from code from other systems, not just inspired by code from other systems, in places. Is there a clear license statement I've missed? I'm assuming it's GPLv2, since it includes code directly from Linux, but it's hard to say even for those files since the license statements have been stripped.

Still, at least as neat as all of the excitement about the shocking new news that is a game including an emulator for a trivial, fanciful, microprocessor, and other things that Hacker News goes nuts over at great length and in a sustained way. If this is too old news for you, perhaps you'd like to read another iteration of how to hire software engineers (answer: don't), whether culture fit is racist (answer: probably), or how best to cloud your cloud cloud cloud Ruby cloud cloud bro cloud.
Meh. It would not surprise me if notch fails to consult this "standards committee" when he finally communicates how this CPU will interface with game components.
Groupthink is human nature. You find different kinds of groupthink in high-IQ communities because their common cause is different.

Groupthink different.
As much as I enjoy Dan Ariely, I think it's important not to think of him as some kind of demigod that knows all there is to know about human behaviour.

How are you affected by the knowledge that our behavior is an open book to you?

That question is a very dangerous one, because our behaviour is NOT an open book to him. There are far too many variables to even count.
In certain parts of Ireland, calling someone a "cute whore/hoor" is actually something of a sideways complement, and is usually applied to men:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cute_hoor
Malpractice insurance is something like 2% of the overall medical costs in the US, and at least some states have caps on liability lawsuits. Looking now, it seems malpractice insurance premiums have stayed pretty constant over the last couple of years.

Are you sure that malpractice is one of the major factors "driving up medical costs in this country", and if so, do you have a pointer to something which reinforces that statement?

Personally I thought the big increases in liability insurance coverage 5 or so years ago were because the insurance companies were so invested in the market, that after the market crash they needed to hike rates to build back their reserves. Those hikes were then used as justification in advocating liability caps.
https://github.com/krasin/llvm-dcpu16/
What you describe is "franctional ownership" for owner-pilots and there are already equivalents of that in the airspace (i.e. AirShare Elite - http://www.airshareselite.com/).

The difference between SurfAir and fractional ownership is that the latter usually have a fleet of semi-identical vehicles (boats, planes, whatever) that are available at your disposal and that you are able to operate them... With SurfAir, it seems like there is only one plane with a pilot, which greatly limits flexibility and availability of the program.
I've just been using my hosts file for the same effect, but this sound like a more elegant solution.
Just added a couple more dynos. Should be better now.
Thanks for the link! There is a lot of useful JavaScript knowledge over there that's begging to get on http://www.tiljs.com/
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I just tried to refer to the fact that I like to use a window manager separate from the desktop environment. You can't change the window manager in Gnome 3, except in the Gnome 2 emulation mode which I'm using[1].

And while Metacity could be used as an emergency replacement with a good configuration, the Metacity/Mutter in Gnome 3 had serious trouble emulating all the keypresses I needed. Especially Mod4 (or win key) was very problematic and unfortunately I've settled on that key for anything window related many, many years ago.

[1] Now that I think of it, Unity also has Unity 2D which might support a regular window manager instead of a compositing one.
but they're saying 'this is paragraph by paragraph equivalent' and the analogy is 'but the cpu is from the same component manufacturer and the closest we have, the graphics card ditto, the cdrom ditto,' etc etc, with the form factor as close as 'dell' (in the analogy) can get it. same screen size and resolution, different manufacturer 'dell' uses. I think component-by-component matching is quite an analogy to what the publisher claims is going on here. The final difference (the 'design' of the software and the form factor) might be one the buyer doesn't care about enough to justify the price difference. The final 'design' in this case is having one author cohesively write the textbook (style and tone). In this case the students might not care enough to justify the price difference, and will take 'components' matched chapter by chapter from all over the web...

the 'dell' analogy is even worse if you mean 'reuse' as it's literally the same or equivalent component (the very same or a functionally equivalent a 15 inch screen at such and such resolution). I mean, in the analogy they're by the same suppliers!

the point is that you are saying 'put in the name of the textbook" and we'll try to get as close as possible chapter-by-chapter (component by compoinent) obviously without quite hitting the actual original autho's style? Isn't this what's being claimed?
PG: There might be a bug. I was able to upvote my own submission (on my submissions' page). Points were increased, I think I didn't get any kharma from it tho.
https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftTechStudent/app_1903225443... Microsoft offering student developers a free Windows Phone after publishing two Windows Phone applications.
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It cracks me up that you haven't tried Go but you're still recommending it, is there a web framework?

Edit: Found web.go. Screw it it's a long weekend, I'll give learning Go a go.
> Yikes! No! This is a complete waste of money. Our cities are just not built to make use of something like this. The various stake holders (environmental groups, politicians, industry, unions, etc.) all but make sure that these projects will cost ten times more than they should and end-up in exactly the wrong places. And, because of this, not enough people will use them.

Our cities are not built to take advantage of rail infrastructure because for half a century we have been heavily subsidizing the car industry instead of the rail industry.

Also, that's not even true. Lot's of parts of the country could take advantage of rail infrastructure. Amtrak's northeastern line runs at a profit, even though it's a shitty shitty excuse for a high speed rail line. A Europe-style high-speed rail connecting DC, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston would connect a huge urbanized corridor with half the population of France.
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Same here. I consider a productive use of meditation time.
So this doesn't work for any of the UK carriers you list as the api cant handle UK MSISDN's. I am assuming your not doing submit SM to an SMSC and are abusing the email to text apis?
I haven't had a pressing need for using it, and I'm considering it as something I want to learn on the side for now.

As for frameworks, it seems the http package comes builtin with a server and a url router. Also, Google's AppEngine supports Go.
Over on NPR Planet Money, there was an episode that suggested that looking at how much money airlines have lost, cheap flights are a function of shareholder largess. it is one commodity that hasn't made their investors much money. Timeshare is an interesting business model, especially if they can achieve required scale, upon which they become defensible.
Part of the problem is that checks became "free" some years ago but all other alternatives charge fees.

What economic force keeps the checks "free" and charge fees on the more efficient solutions?

Checks were phased out here exactly because it's expensive and labor-intensive to process checks instead of wire transfers that have been automated for decades. It's the same reason nobody goes to a physical bank anymore (except old people): it costs a lot to do anything over the counter, be it withdrawing cash, paying bills, or... cashing checks :) You can do that free over internet. Usage of cash is going down as well but I think cash is fundamental enough that it will never disappear, though.

Wire transfers are free here and can be initiated thru internet banking and be completed the following banking day. Before internet, we had wire transfer machines, similar to ATMs. Debit cards don't cost anything either (some banks charge a yearly fee, similarly to some credit cards). It would probably cost tens of euros to cash a check here, and rightly so given the amount of labour.

Wire transfers are good. You can even buy from internet shops without a credit/debit card if they support a scheme where you make a verified wire transfer through your bank's internet service, and many shops do. The shops get online verification from my internet bank that the wire transfer has been made, so the payment is completed immediately and the shops just ship you the good.
That's what Hoogle (http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/) and Hayoo! (http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html) are for.
I was looking for Microsoft's Office 365 logo by searching on "We're all in"

Bing couldn't find it.

Google had it as the first result.

shrug
I've stated earlier that I'm more of a fan of the BSD license than of the GPL.

But no matter what philanthropic tasks you or I may have done, in software or otherwise, I don't feel as if others should make their code available to us under my preferred license.

Therefore, unlike some commenters here, I don't bitch when I can't use a piece of code due to its license, or go on tirades about how people release their own work under a license not to my liking, even if I think they are choosing the wrong license.
Homeless people, pee and graffiti are fairly easy problems to solve, and can be turned around quite fast. Lots of places have resolved this.

The sunk cost argument can be overcome if you make public transport faster than cars, less congestion and parking difficulties is a big change. But you do have to rebuild it first (yes the US had public transport in the past, you ripped it out).
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This doesn’t address the root problem, but liberal use of Imageoptim and ImageAlpha can drop file sizes for images by 50-60% in extreme cases. As a web guy when bandwidth matters I’m very familiar with these techniques, but maybe they haven’t got traction in the app world?
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Not everyone wants to go long distance all the time. Europe has airports too. Personally in Europe I usually prefer trains up to around 8 hours journey, but it varies and I do go for longer. You can work much more effectively on trains. That is say 1000 miles on high speed train roughly - you have places closer than that I think...
When creating iOS apps part of the process of transferring the app resources into the app itself involves compressing the images even further. There are ways to improve this, but at the base line you have it done for you.
Because most server side languages take a "throw away the world" approach to web programming; none of your objects persist in memory through requests, which means every time a request comes in you have to reload a part of the user's world from the db, service the request, and then destroy the world you've just created. For structural things like MVC, objects are great, but you really don't see much of the "object as vehicle for data encapsulation" that's drilled into every new programmer when they're first taught OOP.

The client, on the other hand, can persist data and objects through requests, and the only time it needs to be fully refreshed is on a full reload.
Because any sensible human being hates it. Apparently, he's sensible in this regard.
> You can kind of do this today by shipping a separate iPad and iPhone app (you can't separate non-HD and HD)

And it's bloody inconvenient for the user who has to buy and keep half a dozen identical applications.
So is war.
Dig a tunnel under the people if you think it is easier then.
"Scrambling to get a better grasp on the problem, the mobile industry last month joined with a maker of antispam software, Cloudmark, on a new reporting service that lets users forward mobile spam to “7726,” a number that spells SPAM on most keypads. Carriers will then use that information to block numbers."

I've gotten a couple recently. Will try to forward to 7726 next time.
Scratch that; Twilio totally works with Google Voice.

Thanks Kevin for following up with me! That was awesome.
Right that's the whole point of my post. I'm saying its technically possible to separate them - Apple should then do the presentation work of showing them as the same on the store and pretending they're one app.
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> The decrease in productivity with node comes from having to write everything with callbacks. Programming asynchronously is crazy, it makes very simple algorithms very annoying to write.

I know exactly what you mean, because that's what I thought a year ago. I was going on and on about this to everyone. Mea culpa.

Then I actually tried node and learned the functional side of JavaScript (I don't mean the semantics, which are very simple; I mean powerful LISPish design patterns). Now I don't think about callbacks anymore, because I have a functional toolkit that mostly hides them.

You say asynchronous coding makes simple algorithms annoying to write. So let's have an example. Read two files -- in parallel -- trap I/O errors and warn about them, otherwise merge and sort the files by line, write the result to a third file, and warn about I/O errors there as well. Simple enough?

My solution is 8 lines, formatted. It was very pleasant to write.

fork(
['lines.txt', 'lines2.txt'].map(function(name) {
return fs.readFile.bind(fs, name);
}),
check(console.warn.bind(console), function(a) {
fs.writeFile('linesOut.txt', a.sum().split('\n').sort().join('\n'), check(console.warn.bind(console)));
})
)

If you've seen enough JS to deduce what the lib definitions for fork() and check() might be, then this code will seem obvious -- almost trivial. Otherwise, you will probably claim shenanigans or 'spaghetti' because it doesn't look like insert favorite programming language/framework here.

So it saddens me to hear people whining about this aspect of node -- partly because it recalls my own naivety, and partly because I know from experience that they're missing out on something great.