skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a fascinating book, among other things about the history of the first footbridge over a road in the UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leadville-Biography-A40-Edward-Platt...

There is a picture of it here, with a summary from the book below:

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/justincormack/256217251/

In 1938 the inhabitants started to protest about the rising death toll on Western Avenue, the "Avenue of Speed and Death". They petitioned the Ministry of Transport to impose a speed limit of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. The ministry said that would be an "ingenious provision" to save lives, but it would be against "the whole object of constructing a road free from congested traffic".

On 21 July 1938 the protestors filed across Western Avenue from the Approach, and then back, causing a huge tailback. The next day the Ministry arranged to build two bridges, one here and one by Gipsy Corner, much to the disgust of the protestors, who thought it would encourage cars to drive faster and to force pedestrians off more roads onto bridges and subways. A week later a thousand people demonstrated again for "their right to cross on the level".

In September the hastily erected bridge was complete, and five hundred people demonstrated against it again. The bridge became a tourist attraction and it was "quite usual to see people from other districts coming to look at it".

In October torchlight processions were held on the road every evening for a week, with a dog with a red light attached to it and four bearers carrying a coffin, and placards saying "We want crossings not coffins".
Yeah, if the proposed payment flow was ever implemented there would be abuses, there's a limit to how much interaction you can hide away. Especially in payments at the /very least/ there has to be some form of approval and usually there needs to be a payment method selection.
No interface is nice but some things have to have interaction you can't magic away.
Not mention, considering the imitations of this article, I don't see young Americans being able to support their aging parents.
Yes, by all means, let's sue the schools! I was promised a six figure job if I finished this expensive law degree, but there was a recession and now I have to shift gears.
I have a tendency to think, that here we need a rather precise meaning of math. On one hand, I tend to view mathematics (and logic) as a special facility of our brains, which evolved to make sense of the surrounding world. For example, we essentially call geometries flat, which look like our local geometry. On the other hand, a intelligent entity which evolved in a curved spacetime, would have a brain to make sense of a curved spacetime and therefore would use a curved space as basis for its mathematics (in a similar fashion as we use |R^n as the standard example of a multidimensional space).

But we can proof theorems about curved space (and this entity would be able to recognize theorems about Euclidian space as true. [1]) So to answer your question, mathematics [2] the craft, is very much shaped by nature. However there are apparently fundamental rules of the universe, which we would also call mathematics.

[1] This sentence needs a qualifier, which should express that I am certain, to the extent that humans are a general intelligence.
[2] Greek, something like 'the subject of study'
Have you tried https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial

was pleasantly surprised seeing "my flights", "my hotel reservations" etc ..
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The lighted crossing indicator was invented in 1934, before the zebra crossing (1949) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon
I don't understand why everyone wants housing prices to go up. As a person looking to buy a home in the near future I certainly do not hope the housing prices head towards their prerecession levels.
Don't they notify you if they remove your app?
Wouldn't you want to own a Roombamower that could automatically mow your lawn after a few times around manually? Or a microwave that could recognize types of food with an internal camera, and suggest optimal cooking times based on total times you've done in the past?

Maybe you'd rather stick with what you're comfortable with right now, but don't count out great ideas that you might not have thought of yet.
Interesting that IBM left it in that case! Nevertheless impressive for young-in :)
Just to echo some of the ideas mentioned here...

Enjoyed the keypress noise.

Expected word wrap and "ka-ching" sound.

Love the minimal interface.

Markdown support would be really cool.
> That, and also, that by limiting my ability to limit other users' freedom you are in fact limiting my own freedom

Nobody ever said that you had a right to infringe upon others' rights.

> leave GPL folks to play their hypocritical games with semantics, definitions and freedoms.

There's not one ounce of hypocrisy anywhere here. You may not like it, but to call "GPL folks" hypocritical is absolutely ridiculous.

Finally, it's remarkable that you managed to take a comment my comment, which was originally highlighting the similarities between the two schools of thought, and turning it into a jumping-off point for how one is clearly better than the other. Well-done!
Note that Hemming is using the word "training" precisely, to contrast with "education":

> * Education is what, when, and why to do things
> * Training is how to do it
> Either one without the other is not much use.
This idea is a really powerful concept in my opinion. The street goes two ways, and there are definitely awesome investors out there. Giving them a premium deal is so worth it if they will really be involved and move the needle overall. A great, well connected, involved investor can mean the difference between a 10x result and a 100x one. These sorts of people tend to have highly robust deal pipelines and can pick and choose who they want to work with. Remember, honey tends to attract more people then vinegar. Giving a few more percent when the pie grows geometrically is so worth it in my opinion.
One obvious, safe way: set up an API on their servers, abstracting away the need to send actual MySQL calls over the Internet.
It is jarring just how different tech (and SFBA) are from the rest of the country.
Yep, all over Berkeley.
Good ol' consumer vs. creator
While I was working at Earthlink in 1999, they had a similar clause and I had a similar thought.

Although not around a sex tape, I though about a computer virus released from my Earthlink corporate email account. If I sent it out the virus technically belonged to Earthlink and not me. However, after talking to a lawyer about it years later, he explained there is ways the corporation could get out of the clause.
Terrorist plots are what get the budget money from Congress...
I haven't tried running it on my development machine; last time I tried installing it, it was on the server we use at work to host our git repositories.

Since it was already a dedicated server machine (which we even use sometimes to host some small web apps), I thought I had my work cut out for me.

It was the amount of system work required (sudo-ing, chmod-ing, installing mysql because we only used postgres before, creating users) that made me give up eventually.

I want to give GitLab another try, so I'll see into using Vagrant for that.
But I still believe some install scripts would be very much appreciated and help the project gain popularity.

Btw, re Python - I still see the paragraph "Make sure you have the right version of Python installed" on:
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/4-0-stable/doc/ins...
> the code I am writing does not have GPL compatible licensing. Thus it limits me as a developer.

So, you're saying that you want to choose a license for your code that infringes upon its users freedoms. That's not a problem with the GPL.

> I care about the software I write and of what the users want

Free software isn't about what users want. It's about what they deserve.

Rights are inalienable, so regardless of what users say or how they act, the rights are theirs, and neither you nor anybody else can infringe upon users' freedoms.
I have no problem with self-learning devices, so long as they come with and SDK that will let me override its settings.
http://freesound.org/people/keithpeter/sounds/123344/

Some end of line bell sounds here.

I liked the application - totally minimal! I'm out of date on Javascript, local storage data I assume ends up in the browser cache?
Two word domains are a dime a dozen. You should build something that would sell, and not base it on the domain name you owe.
Nice.

Would be cool to be able to store things in a more secure feeling way than local storage.

Also, the already made comments about ka-ching and word wrap.
Why, they're investments. Of course you want prices to go up!

You're sinking a huge quantity of money - presumably, above that of an equivalent rental unit in your region - and by golly, you need returns on that or else you're just fritting it all away.

It's all compounded by the fact that housing is the only major asset investment that the vast majority of people ever engage in.
You are both missing the plethora of articles about how every breaks at least 3 federal laws a day (unknowingly). We are rapidly approaching a state where everyone is a criminal, and all it takes it putting your life under a microscope to cart you off to jail.

If the FBI are creating a file on everyone that goes to a protest, then fewer people will be willing to go to protests to avoid having their life under the microscope. This has a chilling effect on a free speech.

[Note: This is the result of a system in which very few people are looking at the bigger picture, rather than a system of some 'elite evil masterminds.' Also, no one in power is incentivized to fix it.]
Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing: Wordwrap would be a nice addition, as others have noted.
The sound is so satisfying that I spend 5 minutes writing a bunch of senseless stuff just to hear it.
They answer to the President, and partially to Congress (as they hold the purse-strings). How much they answer to the President is anyone's guess.
This is missing the one thing that all other "let me explain monads to you" articles is missing: a real example of what problems monads solve. As far as I know, a monad is some kind of mathematical construct that is very useful when solving mathematical proofs, but has no use for the every day programmer. The examples in these kinds of articles are always completely abstract. You can very easily describe a database by using the "customer/phone number" example, yet I've never seen such an example with monads.
I don't necessarily disagree with the argument that a free market enthusiast should desire unions. I disagree that a free market enthusiast should desire unions in their current form, which we both agree is far from a free market.

In other words, I don't think it's unreasonable to say "Device X would be desirable in ideal situation Y, but as the current situation is far from ideal, device X currently does more harm than good".

And again, I don't necessarily personally believe that to be true of unions.
Those lectures from Hamming are available online on video:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30&...
please ignore the folks asking for a mute button. they can mute if they want to.
It's been doing EXACTLY that. It's not that selective.
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I think its dead for white people, for many foreigners I know its as real as ever.
I often cite this as one example of how I find the Android interface more efficient and usable. "Go back" applies intuitively to such a broad range of apps, and benefits enough from a constant, ergonomic placement and tactile feedback, that that alone makes a difference in feel.
Short term, he is right. Long term he's like that patent officer claiming that everything had already been invented.

http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/08/pascals-apology.html
Someone please make me understand why this end up on first page on HN. I saw similar apps many times earlier here. What's the big deal? Why not regular editor in some 'guru' distraction free mode?
For instance Sublime Text can do that (including autosave and quick startup).
It does not send SMS automatically. Just open SMS client
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/blob/master/insta... might help
A few things come to mind, strictly for discussion/entertainment and w/o knowing the level of seriousness in your comment. Although there is a hint of truth obviously I'd love to be part of YC as well.

The first is "why buy the cow if the milk is for free"? The second is how I'm reminded of women that never get their long time boyfriend to marry them because there is no line in the sand, no deadline, no imperative to make a decision or do anything.

To wit: "I'm here until Paul Graham offers me...". People need a reason to make a decision and to do something. (Not that you can say "if/then" or anything.)

For all I know of course you have had discussions with Paul or someone else about a YC slot or are totally joking. (I can only speculate and offer thoughts in case anyone is still awake in the thread my thoughts).

I do plenty negotiating and I've never closed a deal w/o having a time limit (in which of course the bluff sometimes goes bust obviously but that's the risk of the game). I never ever leave something open ended unless I don't want someone to make a decision because I am trying to buy some time while waiting for someone else.

My point of course is not that you could ever say "make me YC or..". Just that there is no clear reason for PG to do anything and make a decision.
This is actually a problem in modern China as well. Called the four-two-one problem[0], China's one-child policy has resulted in many adults having to care for 2 parents and 4 grandparents, since they have no siblings.

This may not be as big of a problem in America, since it has a slightly higher fertility rate than China (2.05 children per female, versus 1.79 in China). But given stagnating wages and skyrocketing healthcare costs, it could very well turn out to be worse on the whole.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#The_.22four-tw...
Vehicle tunnels need to be huge and require enormous amounts of power for lighting and ventilation. It'd be more viable to put the pedestrians and cyclists underground...
...and by "Cisco IPSec" you mean "IPSec", right?

I would assume, based on the various anecdotal reports I've read, that IPSec tunnels are blocked under this new program, along with PPTP and L2TP.

They're using machine learning packet classifiers to identify the traffic running over tcp and udp, as well.
I'm in my mid 30s and have already noticed a slight decline in short term memory. I have tons more experience and am sure I am a much better hacker than I was at 21, but getting older has real costs.
I believe his thesis was actually that most languages are handicapped because they can not easily be called via the usual "load a .so file and call a function" ABI. Java, for instance, would be a more useful language to me if I could easily create Python bindings for useful Java libraries like Lucene, without needing to use something like Jython that runs on the JVM.
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Word wrap done.
Finding a cool ka-ching sound now.
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Right, Investors should be willing to pay any price. Except YCombinator who invests at a valuation of around $0.25M. Which isn't value investing, because value investing doesn't exist for startups. ;)

When a startup is crazy successful, it doesn't matter what price you paid to get in. But in terms of portfolio, price does matter. The higher the average price you pay, the fewer deals you can afford to be in, and the lower your chances of getting into that one runaway success. Sure, its far more important to choose the right companies. But it is rational for YC, and others, to be price sensitive.
Always happy to see some game theory on HN. If you're looking for a good book that focuses more on how game theory is actually used in practice versus the more computational exposition here, then I'd recommend a very readable and cheap book called "Game Theory for Applied Economists" by Robert Gibbons (Google Preview: http://books.google.com/books/p/princeton?id=8ygxf2WunAIC). The book has only 4 chapters which cover the 4 different types of games:

1. Static Games of Complete Information

2. Dynamic Games of Complete Information

3. Static Games of Incomplete Information

4. Dynamic Games of Incomplete Information

This segmentation covers all possible types of games. It's great because then you only have to decide if the game is static vs. dynamic and whether it's a game of complete vs. incomplete information (remember, perfect/imperfect information is not the same as complete/incomplete information). If you can answer those 2 questions, then you know what kind of equilibrium is relevant. For example, if it's a game of incomplete information (meaning that there is a move of nature, or equally, that the players don't necessarily know the types/payoffs of the other players) then you know that you are playing a Bayesian game, and hence the equilibrium (it if exists) will be some kind of a Bayesian Nash equilibrium.

You can always express a game of incomplete information as a game of imperfect information (see: Harsanyi transformation). However, here's something to think about: What do you lose when you transform a game from extensive form (a tree) to strategic form (a matrix)? The answer: Timing.
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Because people are fooled into thinking that houses are investments as opposed to places to live. They all feel like fools for buying high, and want the world to adjust to their expectations.
...not if you prefer to listen to music on the same device. Is there a mute per tab browser plugin somewhere?
Before travel to China, create a throwaway email account on a service, possibly Yahoo. Don't touch your real email accounts while you're there, if possible. The only time I've ever had an email account hacked is following use in China.
Definitely see the value in this. FYI small spelling mistake: virallity
i've worked through this article a couple times and his implementation never really sat well with me, the "with nice syntax for monad comprehensions" bit really obfuscates the implementation.

here's python source to a monadic lisp interpreter, which i wrote to follow along the paper "monad transformers and modular interpreters" [1]. i think this is a much simpler implementation of python monads than provided in the ValuedLessons article. https://github.com/dustingetz/monadic-interpreter

Study of this implementation will teach you why nobody actually uses monads in python for non-toy projects. A literal port of this code to clojure would feel so much more idiomatic and not hacky at all.

here are some smaller code dumps demonstrating the fundamental concepts to that monadic lisp interpreter:

http://www.dustingetz.com/2012/10/02/reader-writer-state-mon... http://www.dustingetz.com/2012/10/07/monads-in-python-identi...

[1] http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/POPL96...
This isn't remotely as good as Kayak.

Kayak allows you to search for flights that are +- a few days around your desired dates, and shows you fares on a calendar. Indispensable when you're just exploring prices.
I think this sort of view-bubble perspective adjustment is very healthy and helpful for understanding our businesses' places (and strategies!) in the larger economy.
A fellow cynic! I see FREE MARKET and straight away re-read the paragraph to see who is getting screwed. I'm rarely disappointed.
Hemming's point can be summed up with this pithy question:

Do you have n years of experience, or n * 1 year of experience?

Spending years on the job learning nothing or barely learning lots of programming languages does not make one into a great programmer.

My mother taught creative writing, and it's exactly the same. Writers got good ultimately by writing, not by reading books about writing or taking classes on writing.

(edit: Let me add that this is a central problem faced by educators: The good ones know that they can't teach/train success directly, rather that the students must take that training and educate themselves about how to use it to achieve their own success.)
Will meteor-based apps be accepted in the app store?
A demo would be nice, I'm not sure I understand the concept. Do I need to login with Facebook or Twitter to see how it works, or to get one of them (whatever they are)?
> The primary function of a legal department is to provide advice that prevents legally actionable mistakes.
This advice does not have to be sane, or efficient, (...)

Strong disagreement. As a counterport, would you agree to the following: ``the primary function of a programming department is to crank out code. the code doesn't have to run predictably, nor be maintainable nor indeed have any business requirements. KLOC is the king.''?

When I'm programming privately in my spare time, my code doesn't need to run, be maintainable or useful or anything. But as long as I'm clocked in during office hours, my work should further company's goals, in harmony with other teams and projects. And just as much with legal departments: those should consider the overall effects of advice they give out. If not them, who else is to do such analysis -- some meta-legal department?

Been there just recently; an employment contract template prepared for my company by a lawyer was so one-sided and full of risks for potential employees, I stood up to the CEO and voiced against its proposed form. I've warned the CEO a lot of self-respecting hackers would rather give up offer than work on such conditions. The contract, while legally covering the company, would have detrimental effect on our ability to hire good hackers in the first place.
"irresponsible ... [to] assume they have completely peaceful intentions"

Who is the "they" here? Protest groups in general? Or just PETA? You seem to be painting all protest groups with a single color.

There are oodles of protests groups in the US, ranging from anti-red-light-camera groups, anti-computerized-voting-machines and anti-waste-in-local-government to anti-abortion and anti-pot-prohibition to boycott-Israel, anti-nuke, and anti-anyone-who-isn't-white. Some of these have national scope.

Are all of them in the highest risk for terrorism? Assuming there were enough resources, would it be irresponsible for the police if there were a few protest groups which they did not monitor and/or infiltrate?

If the police hear of a group planning to protest the high sugar tariff, with organized demonstrations in DC, Hawaii, and Florida, should they monitor the group on the assumption that it's "one of the highest risks for terrorism"?
A microwave that can recognize food is not self-learning and I'm fine with that as far as it's predictable and does its job well.

Roomba mower that learns - that's where it gets a bit scary. I wouldn't be comfortable with it because I wouldn't know how and what it learns from me, also how it reacts to changes in the area to be mowed. What if it learns from me to ignore anything (or anyone) that wasn't there during the training phase by running over it?
Yea, the front page definitely needs some work, you only need either Facebook or Twitter to get started, not both.
No, not really. If they are in danger of having a lawsuit against them, they can usually just brush it off with the "state secrets" privilege, and if they are actually found guilty of doing illegal things, well...nothing happens to them. The worst that happens is that they need to change their methods, if that.

Now, if they get themselves in a sexual scandal, they are expected to present their resignation immediately. Because obviously that matters much more than doing something unconstitutional.
Perhaps so. Yet there can be great art in 15 lines.
I wonder if it would have higher audio resolution if phonograph cylinders were the recording holding device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder