skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great vision, but building higher building is very controversial in peninsula. That blocks transiting from car culture to more urban environment.

E.g.:
Proposal of ~ 8 floors high buildings in Palo Alto near the Caltrain.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=26860

Protests:

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-proposed-high-rise-...

Sounds like they are protesting against highly toxic waste treatment in their yard, but it is only a bit higher building in one of the most suitable place in Palo Alto.

Tech will tend to move to places which are more pro-development like Redwood City.
I don't think the BART could run past 12 even if they wanted. It's a system that's stretched to its very limits - for example, only a maximum of 3 cars can be out of commission (for repairs, refurbishment, etc) at any one time due to how over-committed their fleet is. The soonest replacements are still years away.

There's also a substantial crime problem to be solved in the East Bay (and SF, to be fair). The West Oakland and downtown Oakland BART stops are in the middle of neighborhoods with very pronounced crime and poverty - similar to Civic Center or the worst areas of the Mission. These places are a fair ways away from becoming places where working professionals want to settle.

Culturally and politically speaking, I do not believe either SF or the East Bay have a realistic chance of effecting a NYC-style crime turnaround, which was based around fundamentally conservative tactics that's very far from the politics of the Bay Area.
How Americans consumed media in 2012
What challenges did you face (I am sure you did) to make this low cost?
I used to use Delicious and Xmarks, tried out ZooTool and Evernote, enjoyed GimmieBar, Kippt is the only one that I have stuck with.

One feature I miss... auto completion of #tags. Then I wouldn't have #learnd3 #learnd3.js, #d3 and #d3.js. Their search more than makes up for it and all in all I have nothing but positive things to say about Kippt.
>> Driving the uptick: The scheduling of a Jan. 15 event...

Huh? Seriously? The Dow and S&P are at 5 yr highs. Every stock is up.

What is the point of a 56 word article that mentions the stock price of one company?
> A lot of content is being consumed through Netflix, Amazon, or other streaming services, and most of those don't offer 1080 streams for everything.

And don't forget video games. This will probably change with the upcoming generation of consoles, but many Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games run a much lower resolution. Halo 3 runs at 640p [0]. Halo 4 runs at 720p (finally technically "HD") [1]. Black Ops 2 on PS3 appears to run around 720p [2].

[0] http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid...

[1] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-26-frank-oconnor-o...

[2] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-black-ops-2...
Nono's Amazonia size is indeed a nightmare...

The day we tried to launch the first upload failed, because it was 60mb!
#waywire is hiring a Team Lead - Ruby on Rails Engineer
Well then they're idiots. The raspi consumes ~500ma of current even when it's idle.
People are judged for their relationships in general.

People are judged for who they have sex with based on all sorts of physical characteristics (sex, skin tone, size, looks, etc.) as well as social attributes (economics, religion, behavioral awkwardness).

People are also judged for not having sex with certain people (being monogamous, or especially being a virgin over age 30). Or for people they hang out with in non-sexual relationships in general (friends from different race, class, religion, or sports fandom).

Relationships of all sorts are important anywhere and everywhere and never not a big deal.
That's not what mining is. Mining isn't deflecting. They would use and ideally process the material they mine. Not blow it up, not deflect it, possibly strip it down entirely and use as much of it as possible. Could be trillions of dollars of materials there.
then you have an error.

user=> (+ "a" 1)
ClassCastException java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Number
clojure.lang.Numbers.add (Numbers.java:126)

then you look at a backtrace...
Nope, just actual.
Are you referring to my comment? I'm not quite sure if you're agreeing with me, or just going off on a tangent and not actually refuting my point.
San Fracisco is half the size of Brooklyn. It seems silly to compare it to all of New York (which is 6x bigger in land area).
Germany, or just that V.A. system. It's not used in the rest of American healthcare because it lacks all that billing.
I have to be a little skeptical about Microsoft's claims. I was one of those active users in that I'd registered my hotmail account when I installed Windows 7, and Messenger came along for the ride - as with tens if not hundreds of millions of others - however it had long been replaced with other services.

Not least because it became more and more obnoxious. It was a very self-important little IM.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/cory_booker_rel...
I attended a talk at SXSW a few years ago, mostly about the Millennial generation and their desire to work with you, not for you.

I'm no longer young, but I've bounced around to quite a few jobs because I've always run into a wall in terms of growth, personal growth within the organization, or professional growth - not expanding my skill set fast enough while limited to one employer.

As the founder of a company, you have a lot more control in pushing the envelope in lots of different ways, but I think the challenge is being able to create that for yourself vs. creating it for those that work for/ with you.

dhh can create 37racing, work from wherever he wants, push the envelope on technology as much as he desires, but I believe the challenge is giving the same to your employees, not just through profit sharing, but sharing the ways your company can grow.
How does Kippt compare to Pinboard? Is it just "more social"? Or is there additional functionality?
This is the main issue that people are concerned about with the donation. There was an excellent episode of Frontline on this same topic last night.
HOW TO: Determine If You Are Running 32-bit SQL Server On64-bit O/S
A very good point - it would seem that Noe Valley exists for families with pre-school aged families that eventually move south to better schools.

In my hometown of Pittsburgh, the city has enough housing for 700K people (currently 300K) and the county has like 2M+. Pittsburgh is where people go to have fun in many great, vibrant neighborhoods, but the school system is abysmal, so young, professional families have no interest in living there without being able to afford the private schools.
Employer provided care also comes out of pre-tax money. So employers get a big discount compared to what you would pay for the same plan.
Freshbooks introduces Automatic Expense Import from your bank
Trillian (at least on Windows) is a great Skype IM client -- much better than Skype itself, IMO (not that that's saying a lot).
No analysis of AB testing should ever miss this incredibly important fact about statistics.

http://xkcd.com/882/

When you make confidence tests on a continuous process, you will hit this 1 day in 100 on average for 100 days of testing at 99%. If you're doing multiple AB tests per day, well...

EDIT: And another important issue: if you are testing on Valentines day and the pink color/A test is beating out the orange color/B test, then this result may only happen on that one day per year. This applies to hot news topics and numerous other fads as well.

Also make sure your tests really are independent - if you do A/B testing off of fixed IP address hashing and have a small user base, by random chance you may have your top customer always being in 'group A' and giving group A a higher than expected base average - an extra bonus click for every group A test may skew your statistical tests as they assume independence.
Crackle-free audio on the Raspberry Pi with mpd and PulseAudio
Why do both of you pay $8 a month?
Well, 1080p requires theoretically 2.27x more bits than 720p. Though in practice it's a good bit less. HEVC promises to halve bitrates relative to H.264, so 1080p HEVC would need about the same bitrate as current 720p. So it shouldn't be too long before bandwidth isn't a significant issue for steaming 1080p.

Of course, 4k needs another 3-4 times the bitrate, so it'll probably take another codec standard (~1 decade) before it becomes as widespread as 720p is now.
Not an API, but I think they should also add classes on PHP/MySQL.
Nothing strikes me as unusual about that post. They said it is in the multiverse.
The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World
I don't consider using Adblock unethical.

What I consider unethical is sites which track you across hundreds of internet sites while trying to figure out your previous URL history of sites it doesn't track all the while hiding behind the fine print saying what it does is legal.

Internet advertising is nothing like newspaper or magazine ads. Internet advertising has a tracking component built into it and that tracking component doesn't stop once you leave the site. It follows you forever.
In my case (BCBS, Massachusetts), putting my wife and I in a group plan for our business was significantly cheaper than paying for a "personal" plan for my family.

My advice would be: price it out both ways.
UK online retailer Play.com to shut down its sales unit in March
The entire private health care budget in the UK is £5Bn. The second largest purchaser of private care in the UK is... wait for it... the NHS. The NHS budget is over £100Bn. The government has overwhelming control over the health care market of the UK.
> You are basically saying you don't want "big government" to tell you want you can't do, even though those rules and limitations would make your society better for everyone overall.

You're demonstrating a very common misconception, which is that people who don't want the government to perform a function do not want that function to be performed, or that certain functions can only be performed by a government.

> It's very simple. Everyone is equal. A billionaire is treated the same as a homeless person. A strongly classed society (like America) does not like this idea, because Americans define success as "better than other people". Public healthcare would take away this distinction.

Is there a competition being held in this thread to see who can make the most ridiculous generalization? Seriously, at least put forth a bit of effort into making your argument seem remotely credible.
It is! The US system, for all its faults, has a high cancer survival rate.
It still seems to contain an unpatched code execution vulnerability from 2010, fixed in CS5 and up [1], I'd say that's "bad enough" to warrant not using it.

[1] : http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-30.ht...
That may work for developers writing their own projects on Windows, but presents a problem when using other people's code.

Not many developers on Linux and OSX are going to hold out on using new features just to coddle Windows users.
Ada 2012
Vending Machine Dispenses MacBooks for Student Use
Full-time web analyst here. Total agreement.

Information is as useful as your ability to act on it--no more, no less. Real-time analytics is something that sounds sexy and gets a lot of headlines (and probably sales), but it's not particularly useful, especially compared to the cost to implement. Most organizations aren't capable of executing quick decisions of any significance. In fact, quite a few business models wouldn't have much to gain even if they were capable of it.

My experience is that there are three types of companies, with very little overlap:

1. Companies large enough to receive statistically significant amounts of data in under an hour.

2. Companies small enough to make decisions regarding significant site updates in under an hour.

3. Companies whose name is "Google."

Fact of the matter is, any change to your site more significant than changing a hex value will require time overhead to think up, spec out, test, and apply. Except in the most pathological cases of cowboy coding, it will take at least a day for minor changes. Changing, say, the page flow of your registration process will take a week to a month. You won't be re-allocating your multi-million-dollar media budget more often than once a quarter, and you have to plan it several months in advance anyways because you need to sign purchase orders.

In short, you can usually wait 'til tomorrow to get your data. Really, you can. Sure, you can probably stop an A/B test at the drop of a hat, but if it took you a week to build it, you ought to let it run longer than that.

I have had one client who really did benefit from real-time-ish (same-day) data. It was a large celebrity news site. They could use data from what stories were popular in the morning to decide which drivel to shovel out that afternoon. This exception nonetheless proves the rule: Of the 6 "requirements" listed in the article, only 1.5 were needed in this particular case: hard yes on accessibility, and timeliness was relaxed from 5 minutes to 30.

(Note that when I say analytics, I mean tools for making business decisions. Ops teams have use for real-time data collection, but the data they need is altogether different, and they are better served by specialized tools).
Just FYI: this article is about C11, not C++11. It was easier in the past when their revisions came in different years ;-)
One of Clojure's goals is to interop well with its host platform, which it does in both cases. I'm not sure I'd count that trade off as a wart.
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I agree, Richmond is a great city and Charlottesville in my opinion is more tolerable than northern VA.
It seems like you really enjoy Ruby, that’s great to hear. I just started CS169.1x on edx, which will be using ruby as the language of choice, and have never touched ruby. (Except in the stripe ctf where I did not fully understand the code, just enough to progress to the next levels.) Now I'm even more excited to learn ruby!
This is why using Skype isn't practical. Do you really want to have that gigantic app open all the time?
>Is there anyway to FIX this?

No. It's a highly regulated industry with limited room for innovation. You basically have to wait for congress to fix it.
What I mean by that is, this workaround breaks application code that depends on other portions of Rails that use XmlMini. In exchange, it allows you to potentially expose YAML to HTTP requests, which is still an extremely bad idea.
What do you mean by that? All I can think of is taking user-supplied input as the length of the VLA, but I would hope anyone using VLAs are not stupid enough to think that giving the user control over the size of their stack frame is a good idea.
Would be my main usage if I had a 3D TV (well perhaps I would try Skyrim in 3D too).

I was looking at this some time ago (for my XBOX) and some TVs can force a 3D mode on a vertically split image and you can setup the glasses to only pick the left (or right) image. The only thing wrong was the aspect ratio obviously, it's too bad that simple setting is not available on most (any?) games.
"1) Given that the health insurance companies in America make billions in profit every year, I'm confident the government can be more efficient than that."

Given this theory, explain Indian Health Service.

Point 1 is bad reasoning and demonstrated to be false. On point 2, rules are not inherently socialist (Capitalism actually requires a strong rule of law).
This is the impression I got when I was curious and checkedout Google Streetview. I was a bit shocked by it.
This is not to say that CS2 is necessarily superior to the GIMP; it may or may not be. It doesn't really matter;

Oh god no. As someone who has used every image editor under the sun, a good image editor _does matter_. It has a direct impact on how productive you are.

I love open source. I really do, but GIMP is one of the most horrid applications I've used. Not just graphics applications. All applications.

GIMP is anti-user. You to get frustrated doing simple things, and expect to spend more time on Google than GIMP. And not in the good blender way where you learn a new shortcut and you become more productive. The "oh I'd never expect to see that option there" way. Even something simple as basic window management is a pain in the ass.

MyPaint, .NetPaint, and Inkscape make GIMP look like a joke. I hope the unusable mess that is GIMP either dies or gets it shit together.
Just as a factual correction, downtown Oakland is far, far safer than West Oakland. And has fewer insane homeless people than San Francisco.
San Francisco is charming, yet now grossly-expensive.

Except it's not charming at all... it's much colder than the rest of California (it honestly feels like a different planet), MUNI absolutely sucks compared to any transit system in the civilized world (NYC/Europe/parts of Asia), and the homeless problem is the worst I've seen in any major urban center.

San Francisco has a long way to go before I'd consider it a world-class city.
They've also made Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 available for download. How many security holes does that have by now?
How hubris put our health at risk
Where in the East Bay do you live? I'm currently in Santa Cruz but thinking of relocating. I haven't spent any time in East Bay, but the view from the 680 is that it's essentially the same as South Bay. I hadn't considered looking there.

But things are always distorted when you view from the highway.
> homosexuality is not surprising for me at all.

It's not that it "surprises" a lot of people (although often enough it does), it's that they don't understand it and they don't agree with it, and many feel like their religious beliefs justify being vocal about it. Being trapped in a car with someone like this is uncomfortable, particularly when they could leave you stranded at the drop of a hat.

A friend was recently sexually assaulted by a cab driver who was out on bail and back to work the next day. It's naive to think that because of their job that they are any less prone to having an opinion and saying or doing something socially unacceptable because of it.
Well you could try to write Rails in C, Crysis in JavaScript or device drivers in TCL, after all they are all turing complete.

Hence the need to know several languages and use the right one for the task at hand.
Health and Fitness Tech Explosion
I have yet to have this feeling for a company that I work at, but I do remember having this feeling for an online gaming "clan", back in the day. On battle.net, for Diablo, people would make clans and just game together, and eventually war other clans, etc. It was normal to "clan hop" around and join basically every clan until you're in the best clan. I remember the day when a friend and I jokingly joined what we thought was going to be a lame no-name clan, and we had intentions of sneakily doing something as members of that random clan. Turns out that we really enjoyed that clan and stayed with it. I remember the strange change of perspective that I had on clans when I realized that the clan I had joined was so enjoyable that it was without a doubt going to be better than any other clan out there, in my opinion. Because of that enthusiasm for the clan, we all ended up sticking together and ended up being like one of the longest lasting and well known clans of that time period. We moved off of battle.net and onto our own IRC server which we've all been on, every day, since like 2001. It's awesome what that kind of realization can lead to, if given the chance.
I've often wondered what might happen if Apple, Google, and Facebook joined forces, bought a couple of Tunnel boring machines, and bored a pair of tunnels from Cupertino to San Francisco, right underneath El Camino. If you looked at the number of people carried by private busses between San Francisco and the south bay it would get good ridership. If you threw in access to as much dark fiber as you wanted between those two points and added big fiber drops to PAIX, MAE-EAST and SF, you could offset costs by selling this capacity up and down the peninsula.

I also know if Google built the tube they could figure out how to do it for a whole lot less than the $1B/mile that these things command in the public sector.
"Building costs money, but the whole planet's technology business is centered in Santa Clara County, down the road from that other Gold Rush town, San Francisco."

It's an outlying concern, and I'm all for transforming Silicon Valley into to a metropolis (so long as it doesn't remove too many of the green preserves of the Peninsula and South Bay), but this sentence made me think of one long-term threat to development in the Bay, especially high-rises: earthquakes. Wouldn't the possibility of the Big One preclude too many skyscrapers from being built? And is it safe for the bulk of the tech industry to be located at such an area?

The counterpoint, of course, is cities such as Tokyo and Taipei, which already have been dealing with this issue on even larger scales.
The boomers are not the ones who got us into this mess. It was actually their parents. They paid for their parents and then expected their children (us) to likewise pay for them. In that time, the average life expectancy and cost to prolong life grew enormously.

I do not have hate for the baby boomers. What I have hate for is solutions which foist upon OTHER generations costs and expenses associated with THIS generation.

I see that public care is perfect in a perfect world. We are not living in such a dream. Policiticians are elected today. Tomorrow they retire. As such there is very little long term planning because the incentive structure is not there to promote long term thinking. Hence, the ability to actually have a limit or cap would never last. Just look at copyright to see the types of things that could happen.
This article was about TV though.
This reminds me: I'd love to see how many of CodeYear's sign-ups completed a term.

I have lots of friends who want to "learn to code" but get frustrated and quit. It's too easy to give up if you don't have "something bigger" continually pushing you forward.
At $15,000 a year, you have to take PO numbers, have a collections department, and be prepared to be paid 6 months late.
A Markdown Proposition
I think schools were included in the umbrella of "basic human infrastructure". Even if the author didn't intend it, that's where my mind went.
It doesn't seem to be possible to merge two Live Messenges accounts into one Skype account. I have merged one of my accounts in, but I have two accounts in order to separate people from different parts of my life. It also only seems possible to launch one instance of the Skype client at one time. How am I meant to continue using both accounts once Live Messenger goes away?
Google Flu Trends in United States
Whenever Lisp's history is mentioned we get another free replay of this classic "who's on first" bit:

A: Lisp didn't succeed in part because it was slow

B: What? Lisp isn't slow!

Do you see the problem? No, it isn't slow now, but it was slow and a resource hog and that is a legitimate variable that may have negatively affected uptake during key points in its history. Times have changed, implementations have improved, resources have become less scarce, but the past is still the past.
So far none of the available images use Windows. All are GNU/Linux, most Ubuntu.

Since this is Microsoft I had expected to see some Windows VMs. I assume Azure supports Windows?
Yes, and no. I switched years ago and my prescription has not changed, nor do I have any strain issues. I prefer glossy screens now.