skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow. I have been walking since my childhood living in two different cities (Taipei and NYC). I really enjoy walking hours just to look at streets and scenes in different hours of days. I feel that I can perceive the environment while walking in much higher resolutions and bandwidth of information flowing into my brain than driving.

I was interviewed once in Mountain View in 2006 and I remembered walking on El Camino Real rd between Palo Alto and Sunnyvale on 100F July. I was the only one walking on the road and it is pain in ass to cross road since the traffic system is designed for cars. But I still remember vividly the scenes along El Camino Real between Palo Alto to Sunnyvale until now, even just one day in my life.
Great point. The whole notion of the "gated community" is patently offensive and only possible by virtue of the automobile.

Walk through an old city. Even in the victorian era, where families were packed in single rooms with no running water, they were just a 5-10 minute walk from stately townhouses of the well-to-do.

Now, we feel the need to separate ourselves with berms and fences.
As usual, YouTube doesn't do this demo justice. If you have the hardware for it, you really should watch this demo as it was intended: rendered in real-time! It's available from pouet.net http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59107 Just click the "download" link. You can see the binary is exactly 65,536 bytes :)
Because of Android's intent system you can share it over literally any social vector installed on the phone.

Here's a screen shot of the sharing options shared via Dropbox.

http://db.tt/w456Cv47

It's a little faded because the screen shot button combo includes the back button on my phone... not the greatest design.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0hF0cbw8E

Retinal scanning display. Hm… I wonder how good this really looks? I didn't find a review video by a independent party. So I remain doubtful as long as I don't experience it myself.
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I started doing the same thing last year, at least when the weather is pleasant. It's an amazingly liberating experience.

It makes you look forward to spring. I live in a place that typically has bad winters, so the prospect of breaking my neck on ice is not very appealing!
No offense intended here... but it sounds like you could easily become the victim of a DoS attack. All that's needed is for someone to create their own front end and you'll be back to normal.

Have you investigated some sort of solution on the server side, and not the client side?
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I like that I can post content through email and text messages. That said, do we really need a single app that manages multiple 'circles'?

When I look at my phone, my apps are my 'circles'.

For close friends and family, I have text/email/Path.
For my significant other, I have Pair.
For college/social friends, I have Foursquare/Instagram.
For mass distribution, I have Facebook/Twitter.
Etc.

With more and more apps offering Twitter/Facebook login, I can quickly pick and choose who I want to share an app with and form a 'circle' around that app.
That reminded me that the last Sony product I purchased was an expensive, bulky, CD-playing alarm clock. Every morning I woke to the excessive noise of the CD spinning up, rather than to my music. :-)
Keep in mind that the number of U.S. cities where you would want to live within a couple of miles of downtown can be counted on with 1 hand.
I wouldn't invest in an old-media newspaper company in 2012...
Another thing I thought of would that something like this may be best as an open source / distributed project to where there isn't a central point they can shutdown / target, I'm not sure how viable it is, however, to make something like this work without centralized servers (sort of like torrents, I guess)
c is a fundamental constant of the universe, and as such, is not subject to incremental improvement through Moore's Law.
My gripe with Sony has been their insistence on proprietary technologies. I was happy to hear that the PS3 uses Bluetooth for its controllers, but it seems like they waste time engineering and manufacturing their own solutions for everything they possibly can.
Is mutex more readable than mtx? Readability only matters for the programmer that is supposed to know what mtx/mutex is (regardless of the name) and the name itself of course, naming it mtx rather than mutex incurs no extra overhead to learn or understand. If anything the code is less cluttered and more to the point (without sacrificing anything (IMO)), but I don't see why I'd care.

Designing for people that don't know anything about what they do isn't a goal worth pursuing, the only thing you might succeed with is tricking someone into thinking they know something - in which case you've just made it worse.
Seems like an algorithm designed to list cliques by popularity.
For all the "script kiddies" writing PHP they don't have to setup a server. Sign up for a $5 a month LAMP web hosting site. Done.

Even those that do run their own server many linux installations have options to install the AMP part of LAMP by default. Again, nothing to do
In NYC, I think nothing of a 30min to 1-hour walk to get to dinner. In my hometown, where there are sidewalks connecting my house to the "downtown", I can barely walk 3 blocks without feeling weird. It's not just the practical distance, or how "safe" it is to conduct the walk... it's the strangeness of walking through something not as dense as NYC.

I've done far less formal exercise these days than I ever have at any point in my life, yet I'm still about the same weight. I owe it all to walking, including the four-story walkup.
That's a pretty short view on Facebook's role in users' lives. Facebook definitely has some challenges ahead, but advances in NLP and sentiment analysis could be a boon for them. What happens when Facebook is able to use their data set to extract implicit information about search subjects.

For example, I recently engaged in a discussion on Facebook with a friend who is considering a career change. He had some questions about Linux system administration career choices. Right now, that conversation is opaque to the systems at Facebook. It has no meaning beyond the strings that are stored on disk somewhere. What happens as NLP and sentiment analysis advance to the point that they're able to extract real ideas from conversational threads? Multiply that by 845 million active users.

In that scenario, Facebook is sitting on a gold mine of monumental proportions. It's almost unimagineable the amount of data Facebook has. What questions could be answered using that data? I can think of more than a few inventive purposes for this data.

The fly in the ointment may end up being consumer privacy concerns. If the government passes the right/wrong (depending on your view) legislation, it could destroy Facebook or Google. Google didn't roll Google+ to have their own social network, they rolled it for similar reasons as they did Google Voice. They want the data.

I know it's common echo chamber fodder, but big data is the future.
So, who's going to be first with a hardware implementation of the DCPU16? :)
This is actually one of the biggest reasons why I do not want to move. I love Nashua, New Hampshire because of how lovely it is to walk from the north end of town.

I walk to work every day in seven minutes[1]. The city maintains a large forested park that is a 5 minute walk from main street.

Every single weekend I walk to one of the fine cafes that exist on or around main street for breakfast. On workdays at lunch I have a wide array of restaurants, all within very reasonable walking distance. I purchase the fine beers I drink from the same building I work in[2].

Simply taking walks I can peruse downtown, or head north to the historic district and walk among the Victorian-era houses (I am living in one, built 1840, renting out the extra rooms to friends to make a kind of communal house), or I can go to the northern park and follow rail tracks through the woods, maybe swim in the Merrimack river (dangerous to amateurs but very fun), or go to Mine Falls by main street and stroll through the surprisingly deep woods in the heart of the little city.

I can go days without needing to use my car. I see walking as the norm in my life. My friends treat it as an eccentric novelty. I fear the day that I won't be able to walk to work anymore, and the simple walkable pleasures of my town are a big factor in not taking a job in SV.

Suburbs don't have to be horrible places, but as designed they seem very lacking.

[1] http://g.co/maps/8kvxg

[2] Warning, a lot of NH businesses have websites stuck in 1995! http://www.boomchugalug.com/
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Instead of being introduced to a world full of self determination and limitless possibilities (as early computer adopters were), modern day users are shown a standard no-free-lunch world where "they either get you coming or going". Developers are still able to seek out freedom, but the goal of empowering an end user to solve their own problems couldn't be farther from sight.

I couldn't agree more with this. However that dream seemed to die with the breakup of Alan Kay's original group. Nobody is even approaching this problem except perhaps Kay's own FONC group, and even that seems to be more academic than practical now.

That said, I think that as digital culture matures as more generations grow up with digital creation, programmability will become the primary constraint, and then we might see progress in this area. If Apple doesn't keep up (although I expect they will), this is the domain I expect the killer app to emerge from.

I'm not sure why you bring up the device-id thing. Apple corrected that issue without external pressure. Also, in the real world, I think that expecting end-users to manage a second cookie-like entity with subtly different semantics to cookies is unrealistic.
This makes the data much less interesting to those who come from communities that are generally not signed up.

You can't rank people without having them register?
The lowest radiation doses for dental x-ray are from modern digital systems, so if you care, it might be worth asking your dentist if he would upgrade. (The digital ones also give better images, are easier to work with if you need to send the x-ray offsite, etc.

This particular cancer is probably a non-risk, but there are a lot of reasons to go digital.
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That's 6.4 Instagrams!

(Sorry, I saw an editorial talking about a tax proposal and the budget deficit in terms of Instagrams instead of billions. Yay for trendy new units!)
When has there ever been "unbridled capitalism?"
I've thought the same thing. I've never been stopped by anybody, but I've had local sheriff's deputies drive past me really slow and look really closely at me while I'm taking a walk through a nearby community during my lunch break. And I'm a pretty non-imposing white guy dressed in business attire. This wasn't even a gated community. Walking just isn't considered a "normal" activity in some areas, at least by people who aren't up to something.
Amazing the lengths we'll go to just to satisfy our simple evolutionary incentive to live, no matter how ludicrous from an outside perspective :)
So you disagree strongly. Fine. I happen to totally agree, but that's not an argument I'm going to get in to to since it never gets anywhere.

I am confused by why you think this is "anti-PHP snobbery". What about HN's attitude to cold fusion or to VB? How can you tell which criticism is valid criticism from experienced developers about which tools are good and which are bad and which is "snobbery"?

It's not like experienced developers who dislike PHP for being poorly designed and having a poorly managed community is a rarity. It's very common among respected developers. I suppose that to be a respected developer you must conform to the anti-PHP bias? Does the conspiracy go all the way to the top?

Or maybe a lot of these criticisms are valid, but you disagree for your own specific reasons?
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That's a value judgment that millions and millions of people apparently disagree with.
I will cede the moral high ground if you can honestly declare that you have done so for every purchase you have ever made online. Ever.
Yes, it definitely matters I think. It's just an extra little bit of work to understand, which when you are debugging you needs as little mental clutter as possible. Why make something more work than it needs to be? Code is read more often then it is written therefore one ought to optimise for reading.

Also, "mtx" could just as well be "matrix" as another posted mentioned they had used in their code. "mutex" can never be "matrix"
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Looked at the book.

We had an article recently about (technical) books being blown up to fill pages - this obviously wasn't.

I don't doubt that this might be a great work, but I have to admit that I felt the '88 pages?' thought coming up. The price isn't too bad. I just found out, while checking out the pragprog site, that I fell for the 'Seems thin' thing. Maybe a conditioning I need to correct - I don't know.
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I live in southern Ontario and commute on foot year-round. There's no weather that appropriate outerwear can't handle.
Many people here on HN mistake it for winning the lottery. Almost as if that is the only reason you can and did succeed.
That is a good point, I've always been impressed that Sony could go further than even Apple in its wedding to proprietary techs.
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Circles! Woo!

Not really.

I am completely underwhelmed by this. Not impressed. At all.

I fail to see what this adds to the social network landscape that's unique or can't be easily replicated by FB, G+, etc. Just seems bland. Like white bread.
:) . Typical . I never mentioned anything about Windows. All I said was w.r.t computer security you are most venerable when you don't have the fear of bad things happening to you.
Thanks for sharing. We are really interesting in this sort of stuff.

We are finding that: i) site driven to specific posts very rarely results in visitors checking out other parts of our blog. ii) twitter drives close to zero traffic.

This may mean that content has to really excite, menu/side links have to drag visitor attention, and the right people need to be tweeting/sharing the message.

We remember reading that some visitors may spend less than 5 seconds on a site before moving on. StumbleUpon visitors especially just given the nature of the platform.
You may be right, but on the other hand F#'s toolchain isn't that hot on OS X and Linux (being facetious, but I'm half-serious). Anyway I was really only talking about the presence of a "first-class" REPL.
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There is even a built-in for that:

>>> "foo".find("a")
-1
Good points. I suppose I'm just being nostalgic about instant-on computers with a welcoming BASIC prompt. My Timex Sinclair 1000 even came with a couple of BASIC manuals!

My point was that you now have to go out of your way to learn to program. There are a lot of options, and casual programming involves a lot of libraries (which usually themselves depend on libraries). Those microcomputers were very inviting in that regard.
I agree with this concept, it is also one of the reasons I have conflicted feelings regarding IP protection. Nothing we build is truly original, merely synthesized by the concepts and ideas of our predecessors. The unique aspect comes from the combination, but in the end, we are all “standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Really like your landing page. However what is your conversion rate is a visitor comes into your site via another page? How long do they stick around for? Do they visit any other pages?
I can think of quite a few... San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Boston, Dallas, Austin, Houston. Even Los Angeles and Atlanta have nice "new downtown" areas, though the traditional downtowns are sketchy (Wilshire and Midtown, respectively).
Funny. I'm at the point where I'd trade that convenience to have a proper yard. Or to not be startled by giant rats when I walk down an alley. Or not to have to wait for 4 trains to pass you by because they're too full in the winter. Or to not have to park 3 blocks away from my apartment and worry about whether or not it is a street cleaning day or somebody got a permit to block off the area I was parked at because I haven't driven in a day and a sign may have been posted that lets the city tow any car in their path.

The point is, there are advantages to living in an area that may not be as walkable...

But yes, the proximity is nice :)
Low-level lisps à la GOOL/GOAL[0] will probably gain some traction as well, or so I hope.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
I think the problem with my point is, that the scale at which Google and all these companies operate can compensate a lot of flaws in the business models.

And I dont really wan't to say that their Business Models are flawed, but you have to admit that Google really has advertising figured out.

I could not think of a better example, but the focus of my concern are the companies being built at this very moment, which seem to take advertising as a solution to all their financial problems, if only they can get enough users.

Mobile is an interesting factor. I think this will be won by the company with the best hyperlocal offering. Because this is in line with the whole idea of mobile - being somewhere other than your home. Neither display, nor search ads are really suited for mobile, who cares about some tax-management software when they're sitting on a train.

Time will show who that'll be.

Thank your for your comment (:
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I know you picked 'the older generation' as an example, but I think it's worth pointing out that I see far too many people under the age of 30 who are clueless, or worse, they feel they have a grasp of tech but can barely figure out anything other than Facebook.

Many people 60+ are feeling left out and jumping on the bandwagon. All ages who exhibit the Dunning-Kruger effect in this manner will likely never know they are clueless.

I'm 27, and the number of people I know around school (TAs included) is astounding, even in CS.

In my local (Fort Lauderdale, FL) best buy and apple store, there are plenty of these types of people too.

I think at BB when they figure out how to sell themselves they end up at the geek squad.
Why currency and not cycles? The VM is designed to give each CPU ~100k cycles per second (billed per instruction).
Not to mention, cavities and other dental problems pose a measurable threat to your health and longevity (not to mention quality of life), so I would bet a certain amount of radiation risk can actually be offset by the resulting improved dental health.
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There has definitely been a lot of IE hate floating around HN lately, but I think you made the right call. Release early, release often, constantly improve - worry about other use cases later :)
Any plans to roll it into an android or iOS app?
What's wrong with striving for a more 'mouse-free environment'?

And what about 'tmux and why it came about' is missing from the book, in your opinion?
"It's in PHP, absolutely full stop"

Well, you're the authority, but is that really a fair assessment? Has HipHop diverged from PHP enough to really still be considered PHP?
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> What makes it snobbery is how the author points out flaws and is so passionately anti-PHP with the subtext being "what I use is superior"

Not sure about the sentiment being present in the post, but what he uses most likely is superior - it's quite challenging not to.

> makes it seem like flaws in Python are acceptable but flaws in PHP are never acceptable

Flaws in Python are acceptable - or at least relatively easy to tolerate - because it's such a lovely, lovely language and environment in general. Flaws in PHP are on a whole other level.

> people who "point out PHP's shortcomings" are really just on a mission to make themselves and their preferences superior

Projecting some kind of superiority or an air of Being Right (when others are wrong) is an element in practically all comments on the Internet. Including ours here. Posting online is all just mental masturbation, pretty much. We just can't resist the temptation.

That aside, if someone's preference is Python, it's obviously a superior preference to PHP.

(Yes, Python is my preference. That doesn't change the way things are.)
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I remember being fascinated how cool supercomputers looked when I was getting into computers in the mid 90s. The Connection Machine supercomputers come into mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
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I still think Google made a big mistake showcasing their product a year earlier. It reminds me of when they showed ChromeOS one and a half years before it actually launched. What's the point of doing that? Sure you might get some benefit from the feedback, but I believe the disadvantages of showing it so much earlier are much bigger than the benefits.

And user feedback doesn't even mean that much when you're trying to build an entirely new product category (ok, maybe the basic idea existed for a long time, but I think we can all agree their concept of the AR glasses is a lot more modern and practical, and might actually turn into a popular commercial product if they do it right).