skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bangkok has many problems with taxis. Part of it is that the fares are set unreasonably low, so drivers try to drive >100h/wk and are very poorly trained. Market pricing would probably be higher for at least some taxis. (it was bad enough that whenever I didn't want to be seriously hassled, I'd use a hotel car, at a negotiated rate. I'm fine with spending $20/hr for an S320 with driver and then tipping him 100%.)

The big problem with regulation in general is that it sets a single value, static in time and across preferences, as both floor and ceiling. For some things, that might make sense ("levels of acceptable poison in baby formula"), but for other things it doesn't make sense ("housing").

For Bangkok, I think the right thing would be to encourage public transit over taxis, but to encourage taxis over private cars. Charging a per-day fee to have a vehicle inside the city (similar to London), combined with actual traffic law enforcement, open access to getting a taxi medallion once you pass minimum qualifications, and either market rates or at least fair rates for taxi rides, would probably go a long way.

If taxis substitute for several cars, increasing taxis should decrease congestion. That is the London model, but London taxi drivers are kind of the polar opposite of Bangkok taxi drivers. Other SE Asian taxi drivers are fine, though -- Hong Kong and Singapore -- and it's easy to convert taxi fleets to NGV or Electric compared to private vehicles.

While I'm pro drug legalization, testing for meth in drivers would probably be worthwhile too. I always checked the eyes of any driver I used, since so many of them were tweaked out of their minds and thus even more unsafe than usual. (I actually had one driver assault me, too, which was kind of funny afterward).
Yes, JB will be in CM10, while CM9 dev continues. pretty much like it is currently being done with CM7&9.

More info about CM approach towards JB can be found here:
https://plus.google.com/117962666888533781522/posts/PNJutPNh...
More fresh air. Less dust. Less noise. Shorter transport times for everyone.

Congested traffic makes everyone's trip longer and less convenient. Any individual gains from using a car as opposed to not using a car as long as the traffic is not congested. Too many individuals doing what personally benefits them make it worse for everyone. This is the definition of tragedy of the commons. In the sheep example, every shepherd benefits from using the field, but if too many sheep use the field, it's ruined and noone can use it. Same with congested traffic.
Not in the least: I want smooth scrolling that snaps to the nearest line. I don't see how this is mutually exclusive or even unreasonable (at least for a text editor as opposed to something more free-form like a web browser).
I use zapier to convert emails to a backlog list (using a "trello" filter for the emails).
"Limiting the time we spend sitting to just three hours a day could add an extra two years to our life expectancy, scientists calculate." -- I guess it's poor article. I think it depends on how much I sit per day, isn't it?

On the other hand a agree that people sit too much - they need more doing sports, walking, etc. Together with good diet it makes life not only longer, but happier too.
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Why do everyone always forget the small things when it comes to Apple? It's what makes them great, and it's why customers will choose the 7-inch iPad over the Nexus. It's about battery life, lack-of-lag, build quality, trust in brand, better camera.

When people ask me why i buy a mac i usuallly answer "because of the magsafe adapter".
I expect "to share their [the media's] opinion" as opposed to "to share their [the citizens'] opinion".
I like CapsuleCRM. Not sure if it meets all your requirements, but might be worh a look.
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The legislation is aimed at fighting child abuse/porn websites, drug use promotion, and similar content. (it never states to block copyrighted content nor can be used to block opposition presence in the internet media). Please read the actual document before discussing it.

The opposing factions overreacted and tried to distort the point of legislation by comparing it to the Great Chinese Firewall (there will be no centralized infrastructure to control all traffic flow).

This is the same kind of "censorship" used in western countries to block TPB and others, yet it deals with really criminal and abusive content.
What the hell did Google Groups just do to my back button?
I bet you over-engineered your startup
Have you tried Evil? I've heard good things about it.

I'm actually a die-hard Emacs user. I like the idea of Vim's modes and more efficient keyboard commands, but I can't leave all my Emacs features and plugins and customizability (I've even written some simple major modes). However, I'm really considering learning how to use something like Evil one of these days and (hopefully) have the best of both worlds.
I couldn't say for sure since I haven't studied it properly, but I think due to traffic, at some point we have a lower capacity to move people in a timely fashion. So perhaps the thing that there could be more of, in total, is "amount of people moved per unit time".

Again, I just hopped into here, and haven't much evidence to back that up, but it's the sort of thing that seems likely.
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it does not. rc is a light web client. its fast, its reliable and doesnt 6ave so many features. zimbra does a million thing. calendaring for starters.
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It reduces the lifetime rental income from building a new unit. If I have to pay $600/ft2 to build a new unit, and can only price it at $2/ft2/mo it makes a big difference whether my annual income goes up by 6% vs. 2%, especially given other fixed costs.

Rents are supposed to be set at fair market for new construction, but if you finish the unit in a downturn, or if there is oversupply, and you ever rent for less than you'd like, you'll never get out of the hole (without a tenant moving out) under rent stabilization.

There's also the risk of additional regulation -- part of why I won't buy in EPA is that it has rent control now (the only place on the peninsula), which is sort of tolerable as it exists now but which could easily get worse. Unincorporated San Mateo County is effectively never going to have rent control, so even for 5% more (on top of the "not being in the ghetto" premium), it's a better deal.
jQuery is big and important and has lots of features that you can use or decide not to use. However, if you decide to implement simple animations yourself in a situation where jQuery would have been a fit, you are likely wasting time and effort.

Using jQuery for this does not mean that you like or dislike the language. That was the point I was trying to refute.

Animations is of course also not the only problem you can solve by using jQuery as a library every now and then.

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For what it's worth, I don't think jQuery qualifies as a framework in the definition on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework ), but this is besides the point.
Regular bookmarking workflow like in Pinboard or Delicious works fine for me, and full-text page search exists in Pinboard, I think. I just would like bookmarking service to be up when I save the page.

(It's not that bad if it's down when I try to access my bookmarks. If I were making my own bookmarking service, I'd probably make bookmarklet as independent as possible from the rest of the architecture.)
The concept is very interesting.. But this is a bad introduction =(

Saw a presentation a while ago that hooked me, can't watch it now, but think it was this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGCPap7GkY
http://www.slideshare.net/dings/meaningful-play-getting-gami...
Try Sublime Text 2 for a lightweight editor with Vi keybindings. It's not Vim but it's quite powerful in its own right and is cross-platform.

With some experience and the right mindset, Vim's language becomes second nature and a mapping like yours is very easy to understand.

The thing is that too many people, me included at the beginning, follow the "learn -> customize" path in the wrong order: "customize -> learn"; often because of articles like this. This lead to a non-productive mix of plugin-addiction and mappings-dependance that's rather obviously counter-productive.

The ideal path would be to first learn how to use plain Vim then use this knowledge to customize it. This path leads to a short .vimrc and a lightweight .vim directory while the other leads to a miles-long arcane .vimrc and a bloated .vim directory.
When the UK introduced Cleanfeed to block child porn, it was supposed to only be used for that. But when cases came up in court, ISPs could not deny that they had the capability to block individual websites, so it got repurposed to block things like TPB - which I think is wrong[1]. The fact that Western countries also misuse censorship is no excuse. All I expect that will be required is a compliant court, and further censorship may be applied once the infrastructure is in place.

[1] More widespread use also works against its original motivation, because it encourages people to work around the blocks with VPNs, proxies, etc. But that's generally restricted to very motivated and half-ways technically adept people.
It is utterly mindboggling to me that gerrymandering is legal in the US.
Great visualizations, wonderful typography, but uninteresting writing.
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>>just too cumbersome

If you're reading literature, yes. But for full size pdf docs, you generally want more than 7". (I've heard people claim they regularly read A4 documents on 7", but never seen it...)

Also, my iPad 1 IPS screen blew me away. My new iPad screen is much better.

(I'd prefer an eInk A4 screen, when they get better page turns.)
Sorry, this is not quite correct. The draft law states that any information prohibited for distribution by a Russian court can be blocked, and Russian courts are notorious for banning all sorts of data under the rubric of "anti-extremism" laws. The criteria in the draft law are extremely subjective, and coupled with the near-total absence of recourse (and such recourse as is given is to Russian courts, which does not inspire confidence in many) this is a very dangerous thing indeed.
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Quite a harsh tone, but I agree with all you say. It is telling that after reading their retrospective you (and I, and probably others) still don't know what their product does.
Also, Wikipedia was blocked without any notice in advance. It was an initiative of Russian administrators with voting taking place on July, 9-th. Vote quickly passed and Wikipedia was blocked on the next day (10-th).

It is an organized attempt to use Wikipedia as a tool for opposition's political means, not a people's fight for freedom.
How would you handle the UIWebView networking yourself? THe UIWebView is really opaque, doing everything by itself.

I guess you could download the HTML externally and get it into the view through loadHTMLString:baseURL: , but that would still make the UIWebView load all images etc.
Why the hell is required space indentation instead of tabs? Don't you know how to setup your editor? Don't you know that there are coders with special needs and they would like to setup another indentation, because they are using e.g. font size 20px to see your code?
What I would like to see is a `defconstant` macro, which introduces a constant that can not be changed anymore without restarting the JVM.

(def x 1) ; x = 1
(def x 2) ; x = 2 now

(defconstant y 1) ; y = 1
(defconstant y 2) ; Exception

Also a way of fixing functions would be good, so that no lookup is required. Calling such a fixed function has no overhead, it would be a direct call.
A finger is an essentially fat stylus, the raw space that your finger hits on the screen is always (say) .5cm x .5cm or so.

It doesn't matter what the resolution screen your finger touches that size is always the same. So Apple defined that no touch interaction should be less than 44x44 points. And then points map to pixels in different ratios depending on dpi etc.

Jobs was saying that on a smaller screen you either have a smaller number of touchable areas or you get small fingers and reduce the 44x44 points number.
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>who appear to be quickly running to the Nexus 7

Citation please? Has it even started shipping yet? Google is still talking orders, right?
It effectively lets the government block any site that allows any kind of public submitted content. All it takes is to post a few offending comments and then blacklist the site for hosting them. You don't even need a court order to do it.
Building android requires a beefy developer workstation. Does your friend have the recommended 16GB of RAM[1]?

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/android-building/N1exifTpP...
The difference between library and framework is quite subtle sometimes and in this case many use it interchangeably. You are correct though, jQuery themselves call it a library.

I don't agree to "does nothing to alter the language" though. It changes the way you manipulate DOM across your codebase. When one says 'library', I assume it's something you make calls to to achieve certain functionality. Like an image library or oauth library.

Also, that jquery is implemented in javascript is not relevant in my opinion. Rails is implemented in ruby. Does that make it not-a-framework?
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Actually the burden of evidence is on you. I know it's inconvenient, especially as you have little that you can cite, but they, them's the breaks.

Have you really been to Auschwitz? I don't believe you. I think you may have been near Auschwitz, or perhaps you're read about it. Prove that you've been there. Then explain how it's even vaguely relevant. At this point, I'll tell you I've been to more than one concentration camp, but that doesn't mean anything.

Oh, I just assumed that you didn't believe the moon landings happened. And it's amusing that you're pretending to not understand the point.
I use vim :D.
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Now, please, could you list any banned websites I cannot access?
I hope the Russian editors don't end up in prison, or worse; that seems to be a not-uncommon fate of those who dare publicly oppose the government.
Guess what. Wikipedia does what it wants to do. You do not like it, you might use any other wikipedia.
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Awesome. I don't have to run my tests manually every single time when my developers push some code.
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Yes, but isn't that easy to change? I work behind I computer 10 hours/day, 7 days/week but sit less than 3 of those. I changed that overnight and advice my employees to do the same thing (most do). Why cannot everyone do that? What's the 'unfeasible' about it? Only that people are lazy, don't want it or is there another reason?
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Exactly this. But Russian admins do not own Wikipedia and abused their power to pursue their own goals.
http://www.minjust.ru/nko/fedspisok
This list contains some URLs that ISPs are supposed to block.
Most of those are either dead or not blocked in practice (it's really hard to force it on ISPs), but it might become reality one day.
Gun.io already has that covered, at least in the States (for now).
Who owns Wikipedia? It's the people who spend time on it, whether we like what they do or not.

If they chose to oppose the law, maybe it tells us something, don't you think?
PL was more of an insurance policy to collect feeds and other listings directly (it helps people post them back to CL). I'd be happy to take PL down if those were the terms for CL's complicity in keeping the CL search results.
Ooh, I like Zapier! Looks like a useful service
Admittedly I have trouble channeling my thoughts :) I think the part that pushed me over the edge is that the product has been in development for ~2 years now, and they still cannot explain it.
Integrates with GitHub, doesn't drain my battery, notifies only when needed. Good job - keep up.
Hello World execution time benchmark with other languages:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/m...

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/m...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698579
Like I said, they did not give people time to vote, nor did they provide any notice of the planned actions beforehand.
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Battery life for the Nexus has been measured at over nine hours for watching video at 100% brightness, 100% volume. Not too shabby and probably hard to beat.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/divine-intervention-g...

There is no more lag in Android 4.1, which adds triple buffering and runs at a constant 60 fps.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/27/project_butter...

I think the price point will play a big role too. $200 is hard to beat and Apple will have to decide whether they want to continue serving the high end with more expensive products and big margins, or whether they want to keep their platform mainstream for years to come. For that they need more market share which the Kindle, Nook and now the Nexus are aggressively attacking on the low end.
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Like the search.
What search engine do you use?
I think the 'small thing' that will swing many people (who haven't yet got a full size iPad) will be bringing their iPhone/iPod apps over. I know many people that have a considerable number of apps and games that they are loathed to ditch when they move on to a tablet, and that will be the main reason they won't go Android any time soon.

I am the inverse - I've 'bought in to' the Android eco-system so much so that to set up an iOS device with all the apps/features I love on Android would set me back a fair whack - plus I know what works for me - I'd have to research the best apps etc. for iOS - and I'm just too lazy now.
> Unlike Twilio, which runs on Amazon’s cloud, Plivo runs on dedicated servers. “We know that when you run things like that on Amazon’s cloud, the voice qualities degrades, and you cannot guarantee quality of service to customers,” explains Venky.

Care to elaborate?
I think the point that (judging from the responses) I managed to miss is that I think that text editing productivity is bound by an entirely subjective measure that has next to nothing to do with the objective key-by-key efficiency of the editing commands the text editor provides.

It really does not matter why your text editor of choice is making you feel good, but as long as it does, you will be more productive in it than in any other one.
this wouldn't actually solve the problem for base 36, though.
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I was a big opponent of bitcoin- still wouldn't use it for anything that matters- but there are some great use cases.

With government bans on online gambling bitcoin could really take over(that market). And, of course, there is the illegal drug trade.

When people say that "it's not backed by anything" all they need to do is fire up tor and take a peak at silkroad. It's backed by one of the most in-demand products ever.
ISPs are not required to block this. It's a list of so called extremist materials, mainly some radical religious books, nationalist and racist propaganda and such.

Basically, to break the law you have to publish or distribute them, but I can access every url listed.
Some counterpoints and cases, anyone? I'm sure many of us would like to hear them. (I'm not at all qualified, just starting out myself.)
We'll be more than happy to hear any real wikipedia contributors' points on the subject. We're not happy to hear for random people who aren't active contributors to wikipedia but still think wikipedia owes something to them.

They don't technically need to have all the "85 rouble party" crowd to do the voting before deciding anything. It's not how wikipedia works.
And all that matters is the end user experience. Users don't care how it works as long as it works(according to their expectations).
It's hard for a lot of employees who don't have a manager on board. I think that's getting easier though, as standing it catching on.

It's also hard for some people to afford a good standing work station. I just use a bookshelf, but it depends on your computer.
I think the idea of the law is that now they would be required to block those lists.
Evil is absolutely awesome. It is hands down the best Vim emulation I have ever seen in any text editor and even manages to not clash with stock Emacs much.

That said, my mind is incapable of handling both Emacs and Vim at the same time. When I used Evil, I would forego all the greatness Emacs provides in favor of Vim.

Still, maybe Evil makes more sense coming from Emacs than coming from Vim (aka maybe I should try it again).
Great tip for using Perl/Python-compatible regex syntax:

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This will save me a lot of time. Thanks, Steve!
If traffic is so bad as you make it out to be, why do people still choose the taxi over other methods of transportation?

The pollution argument is valid and is a case of "tragedy of the commons", but the traffic argument isn't.
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My biggest grief is that most of the engineering meetings consist of discussions of how to get a piece of data from one system to another.

Instead of working on things that matter to the user.
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