skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To have a really usable public transit ... you have to coordinate zoning with transit.

+1

My position is a bit stronger: It all starts with zoning.

There was a geek news item recently that note the difference in USA and Canadian sprawl, which the authors believed started with how parcels of farm land were measured out. In the USA, parcels were squarish, requiring roads everywhere, requiring everyone to have automobiles. Whereas Canada made theirs long and narrow, to optimize farm-to-market transportation. Subtly different initial conditions causing very different land use.

In the jurisdiction I live, better transit has been actively thwarted for decades by the suburbans. For example, years ago, we got an Oregon-style Growth Management Act, which tries to slow sprawl, preserving farm lands and habitat. The suburbans frame it as anti-growth. But in fact GMO is pro urban and opposition is anti-urban.

I am fascinated by the increasing urbanization of the under 30 demographic: It's happening despite the pro-sprawl incentives and policies. An example of society way out in front of policy.

Locally, I think this is perfectly captured by the head quarters of Microsoft and Amazon. In the 90s, Microsoft created a campus atmosphere in former second growth woods (Bellevue/Redmond). Having nearly everything newly minted university graduates would need right there on campus. It was very desirable.

Now in the 2010s, Amazon is transforming an urban area, South Lake Union. The area now has housing, hip food, great access to parks, culture, etc. In fact, in order to attract the young talent they need, I can't imagine Amazon locating anywhere other than an urban environment.
Again... only as good as the Internet will allow. (Unless of course you consult offline docs)

But these common online dictionaries disagree with you. These are the two that I usually use and they both agree so I did not go looking further. I'm sure there are other dictionaries that might not define them this way.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/glove

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glove

and

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mitten

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mitten
When you move from the US to the UK you have to stop doing it immediately or you'll drive yourself insane.
Perhaps it's just me, but I find surreal how discussions on the internet 16 years ago were pretty much as they are today.
Xenophobia != Racism
ENTREVISTA: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, de malo de 'Juego de Tronos' a bueno en 'Mamá
FYI, the name of this logical fallacy is "poisoning the well".

"He made X before, so Y must be Z"
This is extremely simple, actually.

Just set your web server with SSL mutual authentication and require the client certificate to be an A3 (smart card or usb token). You can even restrict the CA or roll your own.

This is not rare, in fact, some countries require all companies to have at least one A3 certificate. Using A3 certificates for authentication is inherently a two-factor authentication, it can even be three if you require password for the actual service.
Querying Objective-C Data Collections
Not only is it interesting, it's a better metric when determining the value software brings to society. This is about the optimum in 'promoting the arts and sciences'. The project count is irrelevant.
Basecamp finally launches an official iphone app
I was about to just make the same comment. I think the "tech boom" has done a lot for SF, but it's a great example of how wealth and investment is highly concentrated in just a few areas of the country.

Ideally, startups would look at those costs, do the analysis, and make the decision to locate elsewhere in order to minimize risk. But SF (and NYC) have a kind of legendary status as being where successful tech companies begin. I think that status makes it difficult to consider the value of location based on a cost-benefit analysis.

Paradoxically, the sector that has the knowledge and employee base to be geographically independent are also the ones that pay the most for their location. At a gut-check level I feel there is quite a bit of "Irrational Exuberance" going on in the VC/Tech sector right now.
I agree, it was so nicely done and fluid.

This is the reason you hire developers, and not "UX experts"
No one other than a really good developer would have made it so fluid and nicely.
Hack days move to online delivery with Rewired State
http://alrt.io/2minutes50seconds <- works just fine, or at least it does now.
I don't think you read his article very well. He doesn't give a shit about making money. He's just pointing out that in the Disney comic system there are no royalties and artists get exploited.
This seems like a problem of terminology. It is valid to desire a better acquaintance with the theorems others have proven, just as it is valid to desire a better acquaintance with the user-facing features of Chrome, iTunes, Excel, etc. I guess "using math" is different than "doing math", and most people are more interested in the the former.

There is a bit of a continuum, though. Using Excel effectively involves a smidgen of programming, similar to how "using math" effectively really means using other peoples' theorems to "prove" things, very informally, about your own domain. Maybe that's why people are more likely to get confused between "using" math and "doing" math.
Re:Fixing Google Analytics for Ghostery
I'm curious if you could link to any stories about Google's or Apple's (or other company's) offers to help the public system? Not that I don't believe this, but I am curious to read more about the topic.
Wait..so you're willing to do whatever it takes..EXCEPT code?
What other "chinks in your armor" are you not willing to do?
The article says:

> A Monad is an object whose methods return monads.

Further down, it explicitly states that this is not an analogy, that it is 'equivalent':

> That is, that the following definition is equivalent
> to the type theoretical definition of monads:

My Monad object has one (actually... let's not go there yet) method, and it returns a Monad. I happened to name it 'unit' but it could have been 'foo' and it would still fall under the definition given in the article. I've edited my above post to change the name.

Okay, now let's go there: another reason that this is even more silly is that my object has way more than one method:

irb(main):005:0> Monad.new.methods.count
=> 57

Many of these do not return a monad. Even if I inherited from BasicObject, there would be methods that do not return a Monad, and therefore, according to the above definition, it is impossible to have a monad in Ruby. However, you can have a monad in Ruby, so this further demonstrates that the above definition is incorrect.
This article raises interesting observations. I find it fascinating to see how technology might be perceived as a distant animal. The tech industry, like most schools of thought, regularly faces the danger of becoming an Ivory tower, disconnected from the real-world. After all, technology bubbles hurt us all in the past. Similarly, technology is hard to understand, it is magical in a way, an alien tool.
If you work in tech, don't be offended. Solnit is not claiming an absolute truth. She's raising awareness of potential collateral damage by tech companies.
In 2010 a green dot for Moscow begins to grow, but when you scroll down more, Saint Peterburg will never materialize, instead, a large yellow blob will grow from a middle of nowhere northwest of Caspian sea.
(I guess Volgograd is somewhere there, but why?)

So I guess it isn't any precise.
New Largest Known Prime Number Discovered
Great comment. Also: where can I subscribe to your newsletter?

My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. The "campus" tendency of old-line tech firms seems to be the result of wanting a smooth transition between college and work for new employees. But the newest batch of college kids is more urban and don't necessarily want their office to resemble a college campus or the suburbs where they grew up.
According to the devs, it's built with RubyMotion[1] https://twitter.com/qrush/status/299984920066002944

[1]: http://rubymotion.com
Great, another thread ruined by a lowest common denominator discussion.
I don't know why you were downvoted.

It is a very legitimate point as there have been examples of similar sounding names in the same industry counting as trademark infringement.
I agree with respect to writing correct scientific software. I think in many
cases though bugs are not found because who is going to download the software
and test the conclusions? Unless it's a very big result, e.g. an arsenic
backbone for DNA, few academics will spend the time to validate others results
in this level of detail.
This is great. My wife and I are always trying to decide what is worth watching on Amazon, Netflix, etc. Added to my bookmarks.
> I really hate free to play. Having tried a few games in this category, I generally realized about ten minutes after installation I didn't download a game, I downloaded a money funnel.

Widespread scammy/spammy feeling greedy money-suckage? Sounds like great news to me! That shouts opportunity.

I think Valve has a formula that could do well in a market like that described above. You keep the size of the company small, so expenses are low, thus minimizing the temptation to money-suck. On top of that, you emphasize user-generated content. This increases the game's value, harnessing resources to compete with content ground-out by larger shops' payrolls, while offloading development risk for content to the users. The game makes money as a marketplace.

Most importantly, build your brand on an emphasis on quality and playability. Steer clear of the mentality that you give people something for free so you can addict them using variable schedule of reward to suck money out of them. Be genuinely focused on delivering fun and build the brand on that.

It's those companies who will eventually stand out over self-deluded hacks who can't see up over their own swollen greed. (I like that!)

tl;dr - Be true to and work with the passions of your userbase, and you'll stand out from the crowd of self-deluded hacks who can't see up over their own swollen greed.
It's hard to make an argument with private/secret evidence.
4 Big Reasons People Love to Hate Apple
"Does it work in other browsers" is a standard question I've seen in templates in bug databases for open source browsers for rendering issues. Encouraging many bug reports probably shouldn't be a goal for a project with as large a userbase as Firefox or Chrome; encouraging actionable bug reports should be.
JBoss is juicy, but Vert.x could bring sexy back to Red Hat
If the gatekeeper (apple/ms/whatever) decides to tighten the screws, taking not 30% of your revenue, but, say, 70% revenue - then fsck the performance, it may be quite reasonable to do major changes in art, gameplay and coding practices just to fit to a more lucrative market model.

And, as is well known, simply the existence and theoretical threat of a plan B (in Gabe's case, Linux) ensures a much better negotiation position and a better (more fair?) plan A.
This is a very succinct breakdown of the problem as I see it. If only it were so easy as being able to rationally and empirically determine that X is the most efficient investment of time and energy.
With 400K-580K restaurants and more than $600 billion revenue and 2.5% fees, and the barriers to entry are not throughout network effects , but through data lockout and habits , you don't need to gain a lot of market share to have a pretty good business.
Exactly my point. Fractions of a bitcoin will become normal amounts in everyday purchases because since there is not even enough bitcoins for everyone the value of each coin will rise.
See my comment above. This is what I use for scroll animations: http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/. It's super easy to implement and use.
Enjoyable article! I don't play NES Tetris so much but I do play Nullpomino. I only do the 40-line clear race. 38 seconds is my best so far but I'm a long way from the WR.

Holy cow, I just looked up the current record, and it was actually set today! MicroBlizz says in this video description (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUUKKuye24) that he finished a game in 20.28 seconds. It will be neat to see who is the first sub 20! (MicroBlizz or Lapsilap).
Available in Scandinavia? Europe?
Correct. The problem being the use of the word inherent to describe value. There is no such thing as inherent value unless you are describing a use and not the price someone would be willing to pay for something. For example, wood can be used to fuel a fire but that doesn't tell us anything about its' inherent value in exchange. That it has inherent value on these terms is obvious enough. For me it has almost none because I don't have a stove to safely burn it. Others feel differently.
UK power grid impacted by surges from kettles at tea-time
This is Objective-C Under the Hood
IMHO, they call that a flash crash because by 1962 standards, it was. But I'd say there was some significant qualitative differences. The Wikipedia article on the 2010 crash [1], for instance, talks about things like "At 2:45:28 pm, trading on the E-Mini was paused for five seconds when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ('CME') Stop Logic Functionality was triggered in order to prevent a cascade of further price declines." Emphasis mine. Markets have always been able to crash quickly, but without computers you're not going to get phrases like "paused for five seconds" to mean anything.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
Interesting. At the latest Rubyconf a few months back the Thunderbolt labs guys stated they didn't think RubyMotion was quite ready for production apps. Perhaps it is now.
I guess I've never thought of TF2 as a AAA game. It was just a bonus you got for buying the Orange Box, or a kind of goodwill offering that kept you hooked on valve/steam. I'm not surprised their revenue spiked after making it free, I'm surprised people paid for it in the first place. :)
I can identify with that... for better or for worse, the currency of academic (at least research-based academia in north america) today is publications in high impact peer-reviewed journals. Period. If there are exceptions they are exceedingly rare.

The most sickening part of it all is that who are the ones who perpetuate this system? It is us (other academics).
All I read from the author is a bunch of whining. My employer hires a masseuse once every two weeks and all employees who want to will receives a 15-minute chair massage. Should the "person on the street" whine because this isn't provided to non-employees?

My employer also buys us fresh fruit once a week. It's a perk for a healthier snack rather than a vending machine. Should the "person on the street" whine because this isn't provided to non-employees?
GgThis - Increase Sales , Increase Customers
ggThis is an own Ranking for Websites and Products. It will help you, to increase your sales and get more customers. By now, every 4th user will be looking for your rank to determine whether or not they should stay, buy something or leave if you have no rank at all. The ratio of users doing this is growing every single day!
Big Dell Holder to Vote Against Buyout
Wow. Very excellent presentation. And the numbers show tremendous growth by AirBnB.
Show HN: Eater-eaters, a thinly veiled metaphor
I used to work in the game industry. Recently one of my former co-workers was laid off, and he is using this time to finish a game he has been developing on the side over the last few years.

Kickstarter is the easiest and most socially acceptable for him to put his game out there and ask people to contribute to his development effort. After a couple of days, he already has almost $2k pledged of his $15k goal, and I am willing to bet he would not be anywhere near there without Kickstarter's platform.

If you would like to support Tom and his retro tactical rpg with a fully destructible environment, check it out here: http://kck.st/VVPEio
There's no indication that you should start scrolling the page. I completely missed that fact the first time I visited.
Generating thrust without fuel relies on missing details
Okay yeah that was not kosher, but I was more addressing his sense of entitlement that, how DARE they not give him everything he wants and more?!

When you buy an item that is capable of being tracked (iPhone, car) you generally pay for a service to locate it (iCloud, onStar). Otherwise you have to get law enforcement actively involved, not just you, which raises the bar a bit for those who qualify.

Imagine the Amazon nightmare: "Hey Amazon? Yeah I misplaced my Kindle, is it at my house or Grandma's?"
The first Community Generated Issues for APIs
Sure there's a risk, which can arguably (and subjectively) be weighed against the pros, such as receiving a discount, or the possibility that if you don't help fund it there might never be a final product to buy at a higher price.

As to your money being tied up for months - obviously it depends on the amount, and on the buyer, but I'm sure quite a few funders can tie up $100 for a few months without caring. If I'm going to spend $100 on something that's available in 6 months I don't really care if it comes out of my bank account now or then.
In honor of the Y-Combinator, here's a nearly equivalent fixed-point combinator named Gordan.

An eater, Ditto
who becomes Ditto's food eating
Ditto's food

An eater, Gordon
who becomes Ditto eating
an eater, Freeman
who becomes
Gordon's food eating
Freeman's food eating
Freeman's food.
I tend to agree. This document sounds really great but does not match up with the reality, at least based on the few samples that I am aware of.

Big companies constantly try to portray themselves as the enlightened place to work in order to attract great people.
1. I think it's fair to assume that data on websites is for them to use as they see fit and not how the customer sees fit. I expect nothing less of any corporation.

2. Yes, give police the data of someone who is in possession of stolen property.

He obviously could prove he had it in the first place. After that it's not up to Amazon to determine whether a crime took place, the police can handle that.

no money in helping law enforcement

It's a cost center only, I understand that. I doubt their 'law enforcement group' is heavily staffed or has any power within the organization at all. It's probably running as close to zero for resources.
Web Servers In A Can: Now In Stock At Mac App Store
Until someone makes a call to window.gaq which doesn't exist because you've blocked GA, which causes their JS to bail out.
I think contest math is the best kind of math for a programmer since it sets out to solve problems and not to necessarily come up with theories like regular math.
Anecdotally:

I've eaten at local places that used Square. I have no idea if they're happy customers.

I've seen increased use of Square at our local public farmers markets. The guy I buy my beef from loves his. It's lower initial cost, higher transaction cost, and super easy to use.

(I support any disruption that eats into the VISA/MasterCard/Etc oligarchy.)
Oh good, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who got about a third of the way through the article and said "well, yes, this is pretty obviously the way things work if you've read Manufacturing Consent or similar critiques."

The differences of opinion between different critters inside the Washington DC alternate-reality bubble are greatly magnified by how hard they pretend to fight over them.
GPS for the Soul: A Killer App for Better Living
As to the problem... Let's assume that they're not going to make major policy decisions based on just this one show and instead that it's a ramp up of what started with Lillehammer. We'll see them putting out content more and more frequently.

As they put out more and more 'original' content, it becomes more likely that even if there is a month you're not interested in something new you'll stick around for the next new thing. I've been a subscriber (and cable cord-cutter) for years and even without the original content it's been worth the small fee.

I don't think we'll know for awhile whether the strategy is successful, but I certainly think it's more promising then qwikster (:
Yep, that struck me to. A lot of previous long scroll examples have been "sexy" but lacked fluidity.

I'm not a massive fan of long scroll in most cases; but it has it's occasional uses, and this was a brilliant implementation.
I am using Laravel on multiple projects right now and LOVE it.
Dell's $24.4B Deal Opposed by Major Stockholder
You have to take a more general sort of view to things. To the median person making use of the value, how much are they getting out? How many people would find value?

For example not everyone likes shiny things but gold is also compact, protective, conducting, nonreacting, testable, etc.

Wood has a thousand and one uses but it's a bad currency because in addition to being bulky it's easy to make more wood. But in certain circumstances it would work fine.

There is barely any use people can get out of bags of sand, so it wouldn't work as a currency. Salt looks similar but used to be hard to get and is important to food and living, made a great currency.

Bitcoins by themselves don't have value. You could make a hundred knockoff block chains and they wouldn't do you any good. The bitcoin network as an entity that you can trust is where anything useful is actually derived from.
Does this work with Basecamp Personal?
Aren't we to the point yet that if you see a page with next to no content it's pretty much assumed to start scrolling? Not to mention the fact that most people use browsers that display the scroll bar..
Far-fetched and irrelevant. In the original case, a police officer isn't asking for information about a random person. They are asking about stolen goods and who now owns the account of the stolen item.
This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't live in SF, nor California for that matter, but this comes across as "I was living in SF before it was cool. Money is evil and so is anyone with it. Especially if they are young."

Every paragraph includes an insult, but one of my favorites was comparing tech companies to coal mining companies. Wow. Couldn't be further from the mark. The tech industry frees people to work remotely and is even willing to ship them in expenses paid in luxury. The coal mining companies enslaved people, paying pennies in fatally poor conditions.

Runner up was:

"...but still has a host of writers, artists, activists, environmentalists, eccentrics and others who don’t work sixty-hour weeks for corporations"

This insinuates that tech is less honorable than these jobs. Again, missing the mark, assuming that tech can't somehow help these people. Or perhaps people in the industry aren't creative or some other dismissive nonsense.

This is borderline bigotry.
For the last three elections in a row (at the very least), the will of the US' citizens has been very, very clear: "give us good health care, stop the war, keep the rich from killing us all."

No one has offered more than small parts of that, and the small parts that have been promised, have not been delivered in good faith. So yes, the US is a one-party system; Taiwan, your example, is not the only way to do it.
Is it worth paying 5$/month for the ad-free social network App.net? I think yes.