skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco is currently limited to 1494 taxi medallions. That means, legally, there can be a maximum of 1494 cars making street hails at any given moment.

Car services are licensed by the state instead of the city, and are not subject to medallion restrictions. However, they cannot legally make street hails.

Source: http://www.sfmta.com/cms/xind/medallionsissued.htm
Rails and Django both are vehicles for consistent design patterns and have "testing culture" surrounding them. Frameworks, good ones with solid community, can be an excellent vehicle for learning patterns and practices.
If you complain about the lack of polish on existing features on the official forums you just get told to shutup by other users. It's sad.
Or you give up the amount of points that you want the question to be worth, and if x number of people answer it, then you get your points back?
More likely that in the world of game development, hard work is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success.

While I had not heard of Glitch until this, I can appreciate the wrenchingly painful admission that this venture has reached its end; and must be wound down.

I tell myself that I am allowed to fail as many times as is needed to succeed. But it hurts every time.
Joke time

I wonder how many people who have followed IDF since this attack are terrorists.

IDF Twitter status: Following @terrorist... with my laser! LMAO

They might as well setup a FourSquare account also. IDF is now mayor of license plate xxxxx.
The scary thing is that I heard "some expert" recently on NPR that Iran does more harm to us (e.g. 1979-1980 hostage crisis) when the Democrats are in control, because usually the Democrats don't have the strong military stance of the Republicans.

This could be extrapolated to "if Israel doesn't do this sort of thing, then it will be a sign of weakness to the Palestinians, Iran, and others", however I don't think that is true. There is a line between an aggressive posture and just downright being awful, and they crossed it.

Also assassination is wrong no matter who it is done to. Geneva convention or not, life is sacred and even those that have committed the utmost atrocities deserve only to be separated from everyone else so they can do no more harm and perhaps learn from their mistakes and repent. I know that I would be just as angry as the Israelis or Palestinians if I had to experience what they have, though.
What I'm saying is that after six years, there is still no support for something as basic as classpaths, which I'd consider part of the MVP to be using something like this full time.

It seems you disagree, but many people have popped up in this thread with the same complaint, and workarounds they should not have to be making.

I have no problem with the 3D rendering part of Unity, it's fully featured and works well. Especially for the price tag.

Agreed that age being bad is a nonsense metric. I was saying the opposite - it should indicate polished workflow.

Ticked off at one feature is not an accurate assessment at all. If lack of classpaths were my only problem, I'd be in love with the product.

I don't think it's a bad engine either. I was just expressing my concern for where they're choosing to spend their effort.
Interesting, how people hold the world's only Jewish state to a different moral standard than every other country. There's a word for that.
Regenesis by George Church and Ed Regis.

Mind-blowing future possibilities for synthetic biology from one of the main leaders in the field. I wrote a full review here: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/11/george-church-and-the-poten...
Traffic prioritization is an important issue that does hurt businesses and users to the benefit of telecoms and ISPs. It is better known as the "net neutrality" issue. https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality

To your larger point, the disgusting part is the behavior of the regulators, who should not succumb to the lobbyists and campaign donations of the livery industry. However, it's also absolutely wrong to attempt to influence government for personal gain. We all have a moral duty to do what's good for everyone including ourselves. Taxi unions need to recognize that protecting incompetent systems to enrich their members at the expense of everyone else, by using government as a weapon, harms every user of public transportation and several businesses and in the long run sets the drivers up for an unnecessary catastrophic collapse of the taxi system when it becomes completely unbearable by the public.
Completely agree! I see no payout in poking the enemy, they are making it sound like a game and probably as a way to keep the youth attracted to the IDF.
Erm, I haven't seen this at all. In fact, most of the people I know who are most critical of Israel are also critical of Obama's foreign policy (though most begrudgingly voted for him anyways, because, y'know, Romney).
"Support Israel" is such a vague term. You can oppose individual policies or decisions while still supporting the basic existence of the country.

The American right tends to be supportive of Israel. The American left is slightly more split, but since American Jews tend to be left-wing they exert enough of an influence on the rest. This doesn't tend to be as true in Europe, where anti-semitism never went fully out of fashion.
I had the syntax fear when I started learning Erlang, but I think the syntax is tailored to the language itself:
- Recursion
- Pattern Matching

The problem occurs when you try to translate the Erlang syntax to the language of your choice, which isn't the right approach. C, and Java don't use pattern matching, so naturally their syntax is not designed for it.

Maybe one should write a small program to demonstrate the key functionalities of Erlang, like write a TCP packet decoder etc, then try doing the same in your prefereed language and then see what makes sense.
I'm not saying the engine is dated. The renderer is fantastic.

I'm saying that given the age of Unity3D, the basics should be 100% nailed.
Why not just create a snapshot and restore that every time the software complains?
It doesn't matter what a B 'is'. Students and hiring managers both know B's are worthless.
The Seven Mysteries of Life I read last November over the span of a month, and this book is probably the one that has most-defined who I am today, even though it's been just a year. The author, Guy Murchie, spent 15 years writing it. From it I learned the most anybody is from me is 50th-cousin. I also learned that there are insects so small they don't feel gravity, and for them flying through the air feels like swimming. Seriously, get this book, it is earth-shattering.

I'm also going to recommend another book but I hope not to undermine my first recommendation. It was written by Joseph Campbell and it's called The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I read it in January. In it Campbell writes of many mythological stories and then ties their common themes back to the journey the 'hero' must take. And from this journey the hero must take I got insights that were profound. I'm not kidding when I say I hold a deep reverence for this book.

I hope you check 'em out. :)

Edit: Here are the links to the books on Amazon:

The Seven Mysteries of Life:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Seven-Mysteries-Life-Murchie/dp/03...

and The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbe...
I dont think this matters at all. When their provocation of Israely soldiers fails to give them what they want the fake it. Israel exists is all the provacation they need.
Blue Brain Project Year Three Update
In March 2010, Wired magazine had an article about how the CEO (Howard Stringer at the time) was going to save Sony. The headline says it all:

"Saving Sony: CEO Howard Stringer Plans to Focus on 3-D TV"

It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Avatar, the film, came out in December 2009, was 3-D, and was hugely popular. You had to have a 3-D TV to watch it in 3D at home. Other movies were being made in 3D. 3D was the future. And then it wasn't.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/ff_sony_howard_stringe...
I doubt it'll work. Before this, I merely thought of the Israeli government as a bunch of nazis who believe that driving people out of their homes is god's work. Now, I also think they're barbarians.
Yes the water is clean, but that's only for sure until it comes out from what is basically inside the toilet bowl. If that opening is dirty, the water will be dirty.
The right thing to do is sometimes just to give it up. People will stop using the old browser, even if that isn't immediate in large companies that can't roll out new versions quickly due to the expense and time involved.

We gave up IE6 as soon as we could.
Aaaaaaaaaand chrome mobile fails once again. What's the point of chrome mobile if it's never updated? The stock aosp browser has seen more updates than Google's own browser. The only feature of this god damn browser is idiocy. /rage
> Before this, I merely thought of the Israeli government as a bunch of nazis

That's probably the least appropriate analogy ever.

> who believe that driving people out of their homes is god's work

Israel is actually a surprisingly secular country. If you don't know the most basic things about a country, maybe you shouldn't go around calling them nazis and barbarians. There's a word for those kind of attitudes.
So please specify how, in this case, what is beneficial about the regulation of the taxi industry for consumers who want choices and lower prices?
Don't worry. My feelings are not hurt. Thankfully I am not here to seek anyone's approval.

What you are failing to understand is that what you are choosing to focus on isn't the point I was trying to make.
I've slowly been working my way through Kitab Al-Hikam by Al Iskandari. It's pretty interesting, reminds me of eastern philosophies, zen koans and the inter connected nature of religions or philosophies which don't seem to share any apparant connection.
5000 human feelings in real time - from blogs
Thanks! I am hoping this program will allow me to develop a Windows Phone 8 app without having to buy a new OS and tools.
Most people I know who tend to criticize Israel, tend to also believe that America's self-assigned world wide license to kill is an atrocity.
Proprietary formats could be a manifestation of "Not Invented Here" syndrome, which is usually an engineer's vice. Granted, it's not often a good decision, but it's one that still gets made by engineers with regularity. The usual catalyst of NIH is thinking that the standards suck and you could do better. So, as you say, it requires that decisions be made not just by engineers, but arrogant engineers, with both those words sharing part of the blame.
Yes! We eventually stopped bothering with these because it was too much time to re-download and re-install them every time they expired.

Instead, we just narrowed our IE support to what we could maintain easily with a legitimate copy of windows installed on a VM.
Experience. When you have done the same thing multiple times then it's pretty easy to throw a number out there based on past projects.

Break the project down into the pieces small enough that you feel confident about each piece. This makes creation of an estimate a project in itself, but it's worth it in the headaches and stress that it will save you from down the road.

Make a gut check. After you have broken down the components and come up with a sum of all the parts, your gut will usually be a good second opinion. For example, you know that while breaking each component down came to X hours which could be done in two weeks, your gut might tell you that a full month would be more accurate. Take another look at your breakdown.

Keep in mind that you will probably always be far more optimistic than realistic. If you have range from your gut, then the top end of your range might actually be the low to medium range of what the project will actually require.

You will often find two different types of clients. One client will choke over your estimate and ask you if you can get it lower. Another client will take your estimate and add more padding than you have already given it. The decision for which client to go with in this case is simple.

On the cost side, try going with a total project fee where you can give a hefty premium compared to what you would charge with hourly rates. Then if you go over your estimated time, at least you have plenty of wiggle room built in.

Don't give an estimate. In some cases product developers simply say "it will be released when it's done." This is more for developing your own products though.

This is my experience as a freelance web developer. The combination of what you can get away with depends on what sort of situation you are in.
There are two sides to the coin. One that they take the media personally and another that it boosts morale for a people who are bombed and hurt mentally and physically. It is my feeling that the latter benefit will outweigh the earlier cost.
Wow, that's fairly surprising (and disappointing) given how clued-in they seem to be from a UX perspective. Thanks for the heads up.

EDIT:

For whatever it's worth, I just emailed them asking what the deal is here. Hopefully it's something they plan on fixing.
We use Browersling for testing older versions of IE, runs out of the browser and significantly less painful then VM solutions.
I don't think he wanted an intro to CPP, he wants to know where to find work.

In fairness, if someone needs to know that c++ doesn't have a GC, then you'd have to be out of your mind to give them work.
Re-read what you just wrote. Now, do you really think you're the target audience?
The guy can only offer $5 for the challenge?
Is this still true?

"The language in which you'll spend most of your working life hasn't been invented yet, so we can't teach it to you. Instead we have to give you the skills you need to learn new languages as they appear."
At the core of We Feel Fine is a data collection engine that automatically scours the Internet every ten minutes, harvesting human feelings from a large number of blogs. Blog data comes from a variety of online sources, including LiveJournal, MSN Spaces, MySpace, Blogger, Flickr, Technorati, Feedster, Ice Rocket, and Google.

We Feel Fine scans blog posts for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling".

Once a sentence containing "I feel" or "I am feeling" is found, the system looks backward to the beginning of the sentence, and forward to the end of the sentence, and then saves the full sentence in a database.

Once saved, the sentence is scanned to see if it includes one of about 5,000 pre-identified "feelings". This list of valid feelings was constructed by hand, but basically consists of adjectives and some adverbs. The full list of valid feelings, along with the total count of each feeling, and the color assigned to each feeling, is here.

If a valid feeling is found, the sentence is said to represent one person who feels that way.

If an image is found in the post, the image is saved along with the sentence, and the image is said to represent one person who feels the feeling expressed in the sentence.

Because a high percentage of all blogs are hosted by one of several large blogging companies (Blogger, MySpace, MSN Spaces, LiveJournal, etc), the URL format of many blog posts can be used to extract the username of the post's author. Given the author's username, we can automatically traverse the given blogging site to find that user's profile page. From the profile page, we can often extract the age, gender, country, state, and city of the blog's owner. Given the country, state, and city, we can then retrieve the local weather conditions for that city at the time the post was written. We extract and save as much of this information as we can, along with the post.

This process is repeated automatically every ten minutes, generally identifying and saving between 15,000 and 20,000 feelings per day.
When the applet is first opened, the initial dataset consists of the most recent 1,500 feelings collected by our system. The applet's panel can then be used to arbitrarily specify different populations, constrained by any combination of:

- Feeling (happy, sad, depressed, etc.)

- Age (in ten year increments - 20s, 30s, etc.)

- Gender (male or female)

- Weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, or snowy)

- Location (country, state, and/or city)

- Date (year, month, and/or day)
Where does it timeout on? You can probably find out the router that is the issue. If it times out before it gets beyond your ISP, chances are it's your connection. My traceroute looks good here, so it's probably not their webserver.
I came here to post this; instead I'll mention more features:

- Handles interrupted downloads for you, continues them.
- Hilariously, each browser comes in a distinct version of the operating system. Windows 95 for IE7, Windows Vista for IE8, and Windows 7 for IE9. A trip down memory lane!
- Debugging for IE7 is not enabled by default on the IE7 image. Thanks, MS ... people mostly use IE8 with IE7 mode turned on, but it is possible to get a full debugger in IE7.

shiver

Now I'm going to go back to pretending those abominations don't exist. Until later next week, when yet another responsive web app needs to be backported to the days of buggy whips ...
Incredibly, some accredited universities have already taken the leap into offering college credit from truly online courses. These types of partnerships are astonishing, and hopefully just a glimpse of where we are headed in education.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/education/colorado-state-t...
A startup with a webpage offering employees for hire as opposed to hiring employees? http://www.glitch.com/hire-a-genius/ What a strange sight.
By your rhetorical question ("Do they also control the media?") I assume that you're trying to paint sk5t as some kind of conspiracy nut.

sk5t's comment was: "My perception is that Zionists are a very powerful special interest group." Which strikes me as a calm, rational opinion. (Whether or not you or I agree with it is another matter...)
does Hamas recognize the right of Israel to exist?

this is war.
It may be for domestic consumption but there are plenty of Palestinians who do speak English and I'm pretty sure at least some of them are on Twitter. After all, if a Danish cartoon in a newspaper can set off riots in countries where it is not published then I'm sure public posts on a very popular website will get some coverage.

Regardless of how the Palestinians react to it, it does just seem a very dehumanized way of approaching a conflict where actual real people are dying.
> though most begrudgingly voted for him anyways

Is there anyone in Israel running for office on the platform of "let's not assassinate terrorists"? Are these people under the illusion that they would vote for such a person, or abstain from voting if no such candidate presented themselves?

Once you vote for an assassin in your country, you lose the moral authority to denounce another country's assassinations. Romney or not.
Skataviz: software tool for visualizing skateboard runs
I was in the same boat.

It was missing purpose, I think. I could grind out levels, but I didn't have any reason to. There wasn't any compelling reason to actually play the game beyond just scoping out the art (which only lasts so long).
Is it any less surprising than someone taking the word of a corporate entity when they use the exact same phrase?
You don't lose browser support, since what you're dropping into the project is still .NET assemblies (they just happen to have DLL extension). So they aren't any different than what would Unity compile your C#/JS/Boo scripts into.
I'm sure there's people who do this, but I doubt there are many of them in this thread. The fact of the matter is that both the Israelis and the Palestinians consistently commit horrible crimes, in the name of some perceived God-declared right to a strip of desert.

On individual cases, you can't blame Israel for defending against hand-made rockets flying over the Gaza strip border. Similarly, you can't blame your average Palestinian for joining the resistance after an Isreali army bulldozered his village to make place for Israeli houses and theatres.

Both sides, in many ways, are equally bad. The main difference is that Israel can choose to stop colonizing, can choose to give Palestinians basic human rights to allow some sort of economy to develop. The only thing Palestinians can choose to do is to stop fighting. There's a difference here.

I don't see how all of that has anything to do with Israel being a Jewish state, except of course that declaring a single-religion state, in general, is asking for trouble.

EDIT: In a different set of comments here, it was pointed out to me that Isreal is in fact a "surprisingly secular state". I tend to believe that. So in that case, you can scratch my last line. In exchange, we all stop calling Israel a Jewish state.
I'm agape at such a bizarre use of social media. If I didn't know better, I'd say this was satire. Hell, this image alone is Onion-worthy: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/war-of...

Thing is, I can't pinpoint why, exactly, it feels so strange. Just... militant combatants pledging mutual annihilation, living right alongside a photo of your aunt's cat peering out of a shoebox. The dissonance is off the charts.
I have to wonder: If these files are never deleted, could this be used as an inefficient means of storing big blobs of data online? If someone uploads illegal content to Google Docs attachments, does Google have any means of removing it at all?
"blockade of the Gaza Strip"

Gaza strip borders Egypt on the southwest (11 km) and Israel on the east and north (51 km (32 mi))[1]. Israel can only "blockade" it's borders. The border to Egypt is open, and that where the rockets come from. The strip was occupied too long, true (38 years), but once Israel pulled you would expect something better than a fundamentalist militant Islamic regim that is focused on terror rather then encouraging better life after the occupation. One can hardly call "free from occupation" the Palestinians who live under this Islamic brutal oppression.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
I'm an American who is split on this issue (I find fault on both sides). None of the things you mentioned were ever uncertain to me.

If Israel is looking for more support from people like me, the question I'd like to see them answer is: how do they justify the West Bank settlements? I can't even begin to understand how Israel can claim to want peace with Palestinians while unilaterally moving into the land where 2/3 of them live. Where do they think the Palestinian state should be?

I can't even say I'm disagreeing with Israel's stance on this issue, because I honestly don't understand what theory Israel uses to justify this. Every time I read any news on this issue, there is a conspicuous lack of comment from Israeli leadership about why this is ok. It's like they don't believe it needs explaining. It's very strange to me.

Hamas is awful, but what space are Israel's policies leaving for more moderate Palestinian leadership?
>"I consider myself to be a self-taught programmer."

Weird way of showing off his degree.
A better title would have been '3 things self-taught developers should know/read'. Everything that the article mentions as 'missed' is fixable. As a self taught programmer, I admit that at various points in my programming career I was unfamiliar or didn't have a deep understanding of at least one these things. But I could fix it (and still trying to fix BTW) by reading up and taking open online courses. So as long as there is willingness to learn, no one has missed anything. OTOH, I feel that if there is anything I have missed because of not studying computer science in school, it's participating in things like Gsoc and internship opportunities while I was studying.