skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe, from what I read in the past, that it actually bends the light around the object, somewhat like the way water will flow past rocks in a river.
This Haskell package http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/ansi-terminal/0.... does all of the hard work for Haskell command line tools looking to use colors, etc. I used it in my task manager, shpm, and it was awesome.
Copying for educational purposes is fair use. Are educational versions sold to make us think we cannot use software for free under fair use?
If anyone should know about funding military projects, it's a user named "politician"! :)
Was that on the homepage? What browser are you using?
Hey Barry, we teach an instructor led online Ruby on Rails course at http://www.railstutors.com - would like to be in touch.
I would be interested to hear how piracy can justified, not for multi-million dollar corporations and defunct organisations, but for small businesses and individuals.

Adobe and Microsoft can sustain their products being pirated wholesale partly because it undermines their smaller competitors.

It's easy to justify downloading episodes of syndicated television shows, platinum albums, or computer games from 1992, but as a startup-centric site, it seems more relevant to question the impact of piracy on small independent businesses/artists/producers.

Maybe they should be "grateful for the publicity", or "flattered" that their product has been downloaded thousands of times on thepiratebay.org. Maybe the losses incurred are made up for by a wider audience and more sales once the user has reached maturity...
For those interested, StaticMatic 2 is a similar, ruby alternative (disclaimer: I'm a major contributor): https://github.com/mindeavor/staticmatic2
Things are getting better... the top post on HN currently refers to 2011's 418 units, but this was following a huge economic downturn. Projects in the city take huge resources and require years of permitting and approvals, followed by years of construction. This isn't a 'flip-the-switch' type of problem like you can solve in the suburbs. This process could obviously be expedited, and I hope people work toward that, but things aren't as dire as they sound.

I really think that the current administration is much more pro-growth than previous ones have been. There are 370k housing units currently available in the city. The pipline report has some really good news as far as housing is concerned. (http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1691)

* 48,000 new housing units approved (including Candlestick, Treasure Island, and Park Merced developments, but still a 13% increase in available units)

* 4,200 units currently under construction

* 9mm sq ft of new commercial real estate approved

* 3mm sq ft of new retail space approved
San Francisco needs to work on its public transportation infrastructure before it even starts thinking about becoming as densely packed as New York, Tokyo, etc.
I had a Nintendo Power subscription for most of elementary school. To me, that era of video games seems nostalgically arcane -- when games weren't just intended to be finished as a function of time, and there wasn't an abundance of information available on the internet. I remember being "stuck" on countless games, until an issue of Nintendo Power finally told me that the way to beat Asura was to use the 'Wall' spell on herself in Final Fantasy 2 (or IV, or whatever the cool kids call it).

Nintendo Power's maps and tips weren't always that helpful, but they almost always covered good games. Most video games didn't have huge mainstream media marketing budgets back then, and without Nintendo Power I would have never discovered lesser known games like Shadowgate, Faxanadu, and Duck Tales. As other commenters have indicated, the magazine was basically essentially a vehicle for Nintendo direct mail advertising -- but one that actually worked pretty well for the era.

Hmm, might be time to find some emulators and ROMs...
I get that the OP is likely satire, but it's an interesting question after all. Can a game be art like a film or a novel can be art? I think probably yes, but the user interacting with the art when it is a game isn't really any different than the user interacting with the art when it's a play or a film - you're still "just looking at it".

And that's where the satire breaks apart for me.
> If everyone did this though many online products and services would cease to exist.

This is something I've been grappling with a lot. I use Adblock Plus and Ghostery and set Firefox to delete almost all cookies on exit. For that small effort, I enjoy a beautifully snappy, ad-free, privacy-respecting web.

With the sole exception of Hulu, no website I've used has denied me its functionality because I block ads. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Stack Exchange, the New York Times and many other ad-supported sites happily give me their content and functionality even though the ads aren't loading.

I feel no ethical obligation to a publisher or service provider to view their ads. Some will disagree, but I insist. It's my strongly held belief that it is always okay to say no to a salesperson, and blocking ads is simply saying no to a large class of potential salespeople in advance.

But there are other stakeholders than just, say, me and Google Inc. Suppose enough people blocked ads that Google was losing money, and had to become a paid service: $5/month to use the search engine, another $5/month for Gmail. Like most of HN, I could easily afford to pay that. Not everyone could. And for a lot of the working poor, they'd have a tough decision to make, and might have to give up access to a couple of great tools for knowledge and communication that, right now, we take it for granted everyone can use.

Conversely, I wonder if there isn't also a sort of elitism going on in terms of who blocks ads. I can't find good stats for all ad blockers on all platforms, but out of over 450 million Firefox users[1], 15 million use the Adblock Plus extension[2]. I'm not sure whether that is a high or low number. It's certainly significant, but it makes you wonder why the other 96% of Firefox users aren't blocking ads. I know there are people who actually like ads and find them helpful, and there are more who would consider blocking ads unethical, maybe even tantamount to stealing (though I disagree). But I wonder if a larger cohort aren't simply unaware how extensively advertisers track them, and that they can stop it with a free addon.

Weirdly, I feel as though there is probably inequality built into the use of ad blockers, where my use of Google services and the like is being subsidized by those with less technological savvy (and possibly, in many cases, lower economic class). But if someone ran a successful education campaign to spread knowledge of ad blockers, for equality's sake, then free services would shutter or turn to paid, and economic inequality would increase.

It's a conundrum I don't know how to resolve. I don't really have a conclusion yet — I'm just dumping my internal conflict here for discussion's sake.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/press/ataglance/ under "Fast Facts"

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
Oh yes, lets look to Bloomberg to show us how to run a city. Shitty rent controls, banning all sorts of things, cops stopping people in the streets for security checks. Brilliant.
I'm pretty sure I'm exposing my extreme ignorance on the matter, but how does the ITU have the authority to take decisions like this? Shouldn't W3 have a say? Or somebody else?
A program like CrossFit only works if you stick with it for a decent amount of time. If you stick with it, you will see significant gains in endurance, strength, and overall fitness. I would definitely recommend at least trying out the CrossFit gym nearest you and seeing how it goes.
Faxanadu was really great, but nobody has heard of it. My first RPG, depending on how you want to classify Zelda.
I didn't about wok till today. Seems great
I don't buy the taller buildings = more wealth, creativity and energy argument. New York and Tokyo are easy examples to refer to but they are in scale and history completely different. What about other cities that build high and are on a smaller or average size scale? Good examples? And you couldn't double SF's size by building higher easily anyway. City and county is 800,000 people now, doubling would bring it to population of Manhattan. That's lots of floors in lots of buildings. Tokyo is 13 million: 16x the size of SF. Not a relevant comparison.
Not related to the article, but if people are interested in the "economics" and "sociological" aspect of gangs and other illegal activites, the book "Gang Leader for a day" is a very compelling read. Check your library. (EDIT: I ended up liking it enough to buy a copy.)

http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org/books/gang-leader-for-a-day
I converted my site (http://www.tapnik.com) from Django to use Wok and it's been a great move. It's much simpler, and easier to add hooks to do stuff like cropping/resizing images. I don't update it very frequently, so I don't miss the admin interface at all, and even when I do it's usually on my laptop where the site code lives anyways.
Are cities obligated to grow forever? I don't want SF to turn into Tokyo or Manhattan or Hong Kong. Why not draw a line?
Probably a long shot, but should online gaming ever come back to the US (and perhaps this will work in other markets), maybe Zynga can position themselves as the choice for casual gambler. If they can convert a bunch of their Farmville, etc users into playing poker, it could make for some very soft games. I don't think you'll see them as the place to be for serious players who want high limits or lots of different tournaments/options, but something that even the most casual of poker players/gamblers can be very lucrative (as well as draw in low/mid limit sharks who want easy cash). This all depends on the premise that the friction from being a player of one Zynga game to being a gambling player on a Zynga game is less than being a player of a Zynga game and also joining an unrelated gambling site.
>I don't buy the taller buildings = more wealth, creativity and energy argument.

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index

The Skyscraper Index is a concept put forward in January 1999[1] by Andrew Lawrence, research director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein,[2] which showed that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns.[3] Business cycles and skyscraper construction correlate[4] in such a way that investment in skyscrapers peaks when cyclical growth is exhausted and the economy is ready for recession.[5] Mark Thornton's Skyscraper Index Model successfully sent a signal of the Late-2000s financial crisis at the beginning of August 2007.[6][7]
> Anyway, I think its fun that they used
> essentially the same covers for their first
> and last issues.

Just like Seinfeld[1]? (first joke of first episode as the last joke of the series finale)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Finale_(Seinfeld)#Part_two
That sounds horrible. All of the added complexity of a heavyweight framework without any of the advantages. Most frameworks have an option to cache the output if you want to go that route, then you'll get the performance of a static site without losing the flexibility.
Everything you should know about Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors
In case you haven't noticed sf is bounded by the Pacific Ocean. It can't just grow and it already has a very high housing density. The only area that can absorb new housing is china basin (3rd st) and that is being developed. The rest is already full.

Do we really want or feel that more people in sf is a good thing? Why not live down the peninsula or the east bay where there's an unlimited amount of space.
Isn't that kind of stating the obvious? They are on opposite sides if the country with very different cultures.

I don't want SF to become another NYC. I like our culture and I'm sure the New Yorkers like their's too.
> I don't see how "most elegant" or other superlatives are different from "best for X"

I've already argued about this way too much but let me give you an example : P

If I asked you what are your strengths, what distinguishes you as a person, what would you say?

Now if you're like a normal person, reasonably modest and yet confident of their merits, you might say you're an ambitious person who's serious about their goals but knows how to have fun, you're an excellent communicator and listener, you're a good friend and you bring a genuine passion to everything you do.

You'd come across as a really cool guy.

Now imagine if you just crossed your arms, assumed a smug grin, and said, "well, I'm the best".

What do you think people would think of you if you did that? Well I don't know about you but I'd grin and nod and think "this guy is a fuckin' douchebag".

I'm not trying to say I think every marketer who ever wrote "X is the best Y" is a douchebag; I'm saying that claiming to be "the best" is a very, very big claim. Coming from a giant of software it would be questionable; coming from some tiny unknown startup it is simply laughable.

Stick to pointing out your merits, strengths and focuses. Don't make a claim to be all-categories, all-uses, undisputed best thing in the world. You are almost certainly not, and to this engineer, it raises questions about what kind of person would even make such a ludicrous boast.
San Francisco has lots of great qualities, but constantly telling ourselves that it is the greatest place in the world home to the greatest (or, in the author's words, the "smartest, most creative") people is tiresome. As South Park memorably put it, San Francisco has an abundance of "smug." The city has real problems, of which housing is only one.

The SF Weekly (an alternative newspaper here) has published several thought-provoking articles on the state of the city over the years. They are all titled, "The Worst Run Big City in the US."

Those articles include:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...

http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-04-14/news/the-muni-death-spira...

http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-06-13/news/muni-sfmta-buses-pub...

http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-10-20/news/let-it-bleed/

http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-01-26/news/premium-pay-san-fran...

http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-07-27/news/san-francisco-commis...

San Francisco also has a civil grand jury that periodically issues reports on topics of citywide concern. These are generally ignored, even though they point out significant present and future problems (I'm thinking specifically of looming pension issues).

http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/general-info/grand-jury/jury-...

I've lived and worked here since college, so I'm not immune to the city's charms. But we shouldn't be blind to its faults, either.

Edit: formatting
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City:	Santa Monica

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My experience was very positive. However, the instructor I had was also my martial arts instructor who is very good natural teacher. I have heard the quality of a CrossFit instructor can vary a lot.

Try it out, but don't buy into any faddish aspect and don't overdo it.
"just lift weights" is a good way to injure yourself. I found it surprisingly technical and there's no substitute for good, personal (not necessarily one on one) instruction.

Of course, crossfit is only one source of instruction.
If that's so, how come the city still has rent control? Not that I think rent control is a good idea, but property owners hate it and by your thesis they should be able to get it abolished because they have the city government in their pocket. In reality, it's usually residents and tenants who raise the largest objections to new developments, either on environmental, value-reduction, or affordability grounds.
Typography. I'm still not sure which types of fonts to use for different situations (titles, paragraphs, attention-grabbing).
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With regards to Quality of Service, what's wrong with letting the packet flags decide QoS, with customers paying for a guaranteed percentage of high-QoS bandwidth during peak network load?

In other words, when the network is underutilized, all packets would be transmitted with high priority and low latency, with QoS flags allowing packets to jump ahead in packet queues. When the network is heavily loaded, high-QoS packets beyond the customer's quota would be relegated to best effort.
1912? Alcohol, party, anal sex... You could be talking about Rome and it would still be the same! You think it's different just because there's techno? Come on!
I don't say this boastfully as I feel a lot of it was a waste of time

I try to read a few "classics" now and then, and I definitely read more than just sci-fi. I like history, philosophy, biographies, etc., as well. But you touch on something we all have to struggle with: Time. There are only so many hours in the day to read, and every time I sit down to read, I have to make a decision on whether or not what I'm thinking about reading is a good use of my time.

So... I'm going to get a certain amount of raw "escapism", pop-fiction stuff, that I need just to stay sane. That's a given. Now, how much time do I have left to read Homer, or obscure French and Russian "literature"? And to what end? Just to impress hipster douche-bags and self-appointed "intellectuals"? Or because reading that stuff is actually going to add value to my life? Is reading Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina going to do more for me than reading Teach Yourself Haskell in 21 Days or Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy" books, or whatever?

The last few books I've read (other than technical books) include Run by Dean Karnazes, Born to Run by McDougal, The Belgian Hammer by Lee, Eat & Run by Scott Jurek, Racing Through the Dark by David Millar, Slaying the Badger by Moore, Running on Empty by Marshall Ulrich and The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton. Would I be better off if I'd spent that time reading "literature" instead? I don't know, but I'm sceptical.

OTOH, I have a whole pile of stuff lying here by Nietzsche, Kieerkegard, Hume, Foucalt, etc., that I'm planning to work through. But I'm reading it just because I find it interesting, not because I see it as having any more inherent value than "low brow" literature.
In this situation, what's stopping all traffic senders from marking their packets with the QoS flag? After all, they don't want their traffic getting stuck behind some other sender's traffic.
The W3 controls the standards used for the web. Web ≠ Internet.
It's popping up on all of the pages. I'm using firefox 16.0.2
http://i.imgur.com/xODBn.jpg
sharemywin thank you for your comments, Now we don`t have any badges and so on. We want to create minimal viable product.
I could send you an invitation, when we fihished.
I used roughly the same philosophy recently at work in dealing with a library that could block for intolerable periods of time (sometimes indefinitely). Basically, I used a pthread_mutex_trylock and a pthread_cond_signal to pass data to a worker thread that interacted with the library. If the worker thread was still holding the mutex when main thread wanted to send data to the worker thread, I simply say "f*ck it" and generate an error, rather than queueing up requests or locking up the system. The reason why it was okay to do this is that the library calls were to gather non-critical metrics, and calls into the library were fairly infrequent.

(I just drank an entire bottle of wine, so please excuse any apparent lack of reasoning, typing ability, or general coherence in the above comment.)
Ask HN:Who can help to spread information about new website?
How to spread the websites in order to make people visit this website, and then it would be clear to me whether is it interesting for people or not?
Maybe you know some blogs which could help to post information?
For one thing, the ITU is a governmental body (that is, its members are governments; it is an agency of the UN), while the W3C and IETF are open membership organizations that anyone can join.

In other words, the ITU is run by people whose job is to run things. The IETF and W3C are run by people whose job it is to do things. Groups of the former category tend to want to control those of the latter.

Edit to add: the different outcomes of the ITU vs. IETF/W3C can also be attributed to the purpose of existence of their members. People who run things (e.g. governments) want to keep running things. Thus, their work tends to result in new laws and treaties. People who do things (e.g. engineers) want to keep doing things. Thus, their work tends to result in voluntary, consensus-based agreements.
If everyone did this though many online products and services would cease to exist.

Speed the day. There's lots of stuff on the internet that is no better than junk mail and just as annoying.
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I was a little disappointed by the explanation – I was expecting this to dive deep into how ANSI code came to be, and how they worked. Not just "hey they exist and are neat."

You're probably better off reading the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

Some of the much more interesting codes are the ones that control cursor positioning and redrawing, and are used to create ASCII UIs by libraries like ncurses & readline, and programs like vim & tmux.

I've written a rudimentary chat interface using native ANSI code, which was quite a bit trickier than it looks, but a fun exercise. The tricky part was ensuring that an interactive line of input remained at the bottom of the screen, while the chat room history keeps scrolling above[1].

https://github.com/ChartBoost/zmq-examples/blob/master/chat/...

[1]: of course, if you're actually building something for production, don't be an idiot like me and use a real library like ncurses.
> It seems that many of the seasoned developers have forgotten why we stopped using C++ and moved on to Java, C# and other modern languages.

Did they? Somehow I didn't notice everyone moving to other languages :) C++ has its obvious strengths and is a widely used language. So it doesn't need to come back - it's already here.

> C++ is the wrong direction for the future

I could accept this argument only if author would focus on fundamental features that C++ doesn't readily provide - inherent concurrency safety for example and so on. So languages like Rust can be considered a better direction for the future which lies in massively multicore architectures. But C#? No, it's not a direction for the future in comparison to C++.
I had a sentence addressing this issue which I deleted before posting, because it seemed that the situation is the same as if the network is heavily loaded: if the upstream provider's high QoS bandwidth is exhausted, customer traffic beyond their guaranteed QoS allocation reverts to best effort (with the number of packets reverted proportional to the total upstream overage and the individual customer's overage).