skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but your grandmother could use the equity established in her property, and move to somewhere where the costs of living are within her means.

Isn't keeping people in the city the whole reason you want to raise property taxes in the first place? Reduce the incentive of people to hold empty condos, so people can live in the city. So asking her to leave is the opposite goal to raising the real estate taxes.
Seriously? Which machine is that?
Idea for business.. or umm.. money:

- A campaign by low pollution lighting using a similar set of images, except this time, with low emissions lights on. There'd be a before and after to show the difference between bright lights and less bright lights.
I think I wasn't clear enough on this point. I wasn't implying that Aaron's case was directly pressured by businesses, actually I said in my post that in his case the affected parts, i.e. MIT, JSTOR, et al, decided to not push anymore.

When I talked about "businesses" I was referring to the constant pressure they apply for regulators to punish these kind of practices, as the case of Andrew Auernheimer shows, he was also prosecuted for access publicly available information perhaps with the same severity they did with Aaron. Both cases demonstrate a common practice that initiated by the necessity of businesses of cover their backs against these "intrusions", and in both cases also the prosecutors went out of their ways to set an example.
When One-Way Latency Doesn't Matter
There's no "right" or "wrong" about NK doing nuclear testing, although for convenience we might phrase it that way. We don't want them to have nuclear weapons because we believe they're a belligerent, unstable regime. Yes, we opened the can of worms, but that doesn't change the power balance.
Bike mechanics already know how to live on post apocalyptic wages, so maybe it will all work out.
Interesting logic. The government is willing to go to war to obstruct Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, yet not when North Korea is actually testing and threatening to "target" the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/world/asia/north-korea-vow...
Jesus, learn how to write before, you know, writing so much.
NK v SK conflict is not that different to India v Pakistan. The difference is... there are US troops sitting on the border of NK/SK, so agression between those to parties involves the US.

So who is the destabilising force in the region? I'm pretty sure "stability" isn't the goal (for the US) it's "Democracy".
FWIW, with C#'s object initialisation syntax you can cut that down to once too. eg

public class Foo
{
public string Bar { get; set;}
}

var foo = new Foo { Bar = "Hey there" };
This is a cool idea, I like it. Especially as I use public transportation a lot.

1. Add a more dynamic ETA calculator including 3 dimensions instead of just 2. What I mean by this is, I want to be able to roughly calculate how long I can go up 15 stories if my commute requires that. (This is stretching the boundaries of realism for a commute, but you see my point. It shouldn't say I'm there if the actual destination is somewhere above or below me.)

2. I know that these kinds of projects have their hands full with one location, but can you port it to NYC and other metropolitan areas? You have a great market in San Francisco but there are also plenty of options you could incorporate in your app for places like New York. I live in NYC so I would be inclined in this direction.
I've often wondered about replacing HTML/CSS/JS with QtQuick and QML. Thoughts?
I really find it amazing how clean his writing is. It makes me wonder whether I shouldn't apply myself more often in my own notes...
That works fine for links and buttons, but what about microcopy?
I cannot thank you enough for this. Networking has been my weakest point in code, and finally having a C++ networking lib that's easy to use has enabled me to create much better apps than if I didn't.

Great work.
> One might suspect the same could become of other genres cough FPS cough ;)

Like America's Army?

I remember reading an anecdote about the development. Apparently the intent was a game that could be used to train real soldiers and it received millions of tax dollars of funding. However, as it was also intended to be sold to the public, the developers 'gamified' it because in playtests gamers saw it as 'boring' and even 'unrealistic' (because the basis for realism is usually Hollywood). This in turn made it too unrealistic for use as a detailed training program within the army.
You realize how much freedom people like you take from regular people? PayPal makes the Sopranos look kind and caring, as do he TBTF banks.

"Doesn't sound legit".... I hope you're caught into the other side of "inverted totalitarianism" and just maybe you might be able to see what the mirror has to show you.
Lord knows there aren't enough Bobby Sherman references.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7PLcHnMNKE
Iran is not presently capable of flattening a city the size of Seoul on a few moments' notice. Different situation, different response.
Possibly. But so does underused real estate, by reducing supply. And housing is a fairly inelastic good, so even a 5-10% increase in supply could have a significant impact.
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Honestly if by some Dr. Strangelove-esque mishap the entire NK high command were vaporized by their own nuclear test it would be pretty great.

I'm not sure if that's what the OP was saying though.
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Use bitcoin for anything that's not tied up in an inverted totalitarian regime.

And Dan, look up, check out for the drones.
That court case does not mean as much as you think it does. Just because Top Gear won, does not mean that they were truthful. The judge merely said that even if Top Gear lied their lie would not be legally actionable.
N Korea can NOT flatten Seoul in a few moments' notice because of the following:
1) Seoul is a HUGE city.
2) N Korea actually doesn't have UNlimited number of artillery tubes capable of reaching Seoul. There are hundreds (maybe a few thousand) tubes but these are heavy ones, meaning they would be lucky to get off a shot every few minutes. And they would have to be concentrated in a relatively small area near DMZ to reach Seoul, not smart move considering SKorea/US's jets.
3) You can BEN SKorea/US jets/artillery are already targeted for some/many of the known N Korean artillery sites.
4) N Korea's most interested in preserving status quo for their leaders and the elites that support the top leaders. Flattening Seoul would certainly mean they would be eliminated.

Yes N Korea can damage Seoul, but will not really 'flatten' it. Well, I hope...
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The "buts" that come with the ICEs don't tend to directly contradict the baseline purpose of the car, though.
Camp - beautiful Basecamp iPhone app
Sometimes you have to differentiate (e.g., between all the bookmarks and the user's bookmarks in a navbar).
It's mostly because we're in a bit of a bind as far as NK is concerned. As long as China supports/props them up we can't realistically 'attack' NK. Once China drops support for them you can bet that the regime will fall quickly, and/or China will smack them down before we even get the chance.
You missed my point, which was that well-used languages and platforms have vulnerabilities and we still use them. And Java web apps have had security issues too. Do you remember this one? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-...
Was it a personal or legal that you paid for your ex's fees?
If Paris/London/Berlin were somehow within 30 miles of Iran's border, nobody would think about going to war with Iran so easily. If any major city of western allies was a few dozen miles from Iraq, nobody would've gone to war with Iraq.

Yes, S Korea's not very lucky in the geography department. Actually the whole Korean peninsula.
> A meta toolkit for building such domain specific live programming environments may be very useful if live programming is to take off in the mainstream.

That's exactly what we're trying to do with LT, see my "The Future is Specific" post [1].

> they seem to be going back to being a traditional editor more and more (albeit extensible)

This is a necessary detour as we build a foundation that actually works and allows us to really make the more interesting stuff. If we can't even deal with files, what good are we going to be at dealing with the much more complicated scenario of groups of portions of files? :)

[1]: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/05/21/the-future-is-specif...
The threshold doesn't apply retroactively.
Absolutely gorgeous. Though it's still a major city, this is one of the reasons I'm grateful to have moved to the suburbs of Seattle from downtown New York City.
Indirection in a log-structured form is the best way to increase write IOPs and optimize write amplification. More sophisticated SSDs actually have multiple log heads, for data with different life cycle properties.

You get a write amp of 1 until the drive is filled the first time. After that, it's a function of
1) how full the drive is (from the drive's point of view—this is why TRIM was invented)
2) the over provisioning factor
3) usage patterns, such as how much static data there is
4) how good the SSD's algorithms are
5) other (should be) minor factors, such as wear leveling

Source: I used to be a SSD architect.
Link to the Manuscript.

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=arundel_ms_263_...

Not sure why the article was posted instead of just this link, the article contains nothing of value really.
Pretty sure OP works for theatlantic.com
Did you say 'SOME' human rights issues?
Please read this
http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0...

And maybe then someone will take you seriously.
Soulver seems mindblowing; I wish the article included more examples of radical divergence from dominant UI trends to reach something even more usable.

Mostly I wish Soulver was available on Android or PC...

http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/
>> You seem to think having nuclear weapons is some sort of national right or something.

Well if it isn't a general principle you are defending then simply acquiring nuclear weapons is a good thing. Now if you think North Korea should have the ability to gain nuclear weapons then you certainly support any other country also getting access to nuclear weapons.

>The US opened this can of worms and created an imbalance in the world. North Korea is surrounded by nuclear enabled countries (China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan).

Hardly. Multiple states were developing nuclear weapons at the same time and the US developed them first.

>>What exactly is 'unstable' about North Korea...

A country that keeps 200,000 of its own citizens in camps doesn't exactly seem to scream stability. Now given that China is worried about a collapse of the North Korean economy and political structure your assertion is flatly ridiculous.

>>North Korea (from all credible reports) is a mess

so it is a 'mess' yet also not unstable. Countries that can't provide basic resources to their own citizens seem to be also be unstable. I wonder why that is...

>>and quite horrible for A LOT of people, THAT needs to change.

I'm not sure how getting nuclear weapons fixes that issue. In fact, North Korea spends upwards of 50% of its GDP on the military including its nuclear program.
I think you answered your own question. It's a lot easier to prevent a country from developing nuclear weapons that it is to confront one that already has them.

Also, different countries and different geopolitical situations. Iran has a few allies among the superpowers (Russia, China), but they aren't very strong allies. NK has pretty strong backing by the Chinese and the US also has to deal with it's allies in Japan, Australia, South Korea, etc.

It's much easier to play hardball with a country when no one is really opposed to you doing so.
I don't know but it wouldn't be a great story if we just called him an anarchist.
>“Heymann saw Aaron as a scalp he could take,” she wrote. “He thought he could lock Aaron up, get high-profile press coverage, and win high-fives from his fellow prosecutors in the lunchroom. Aaron was a way of reviving Heymann’s fading career. Heymann had no interest in an honest assessment of whether Aaron deserved any of the hell he was being put through.”

I get that this girl is upset and feeling vocal, but she's drawing these conclusions and painting this picture for a person about which she knows nothing. I feel like everyone is doing this a lot lately: talking about Aaron like he is a simple, sweet martyr, and about Heymann like he's the warden from Shawshank Redemption.

I'm really trying not to come off as contrarian for contrarian's sake, but this kind of demonizing seems really counterproductive to me. It goes without saying that the prosecutors of this case took it too far, and that the justice system is incredibly unbalanced. Why can't those facts alone be enough without turning the involved people into charicatures?

Everyone was playing their part, and it got messy. It's like Tommy Lee Jones responding to Harrison Ford's "I didn't do it!" in The Fugitive: "I don't care." I doubt Heymann was sitting in his office cackling about "scalping" Aaron. It was just another case on his docket that he was trying to put to rest. The real problem is that his incentive is not to be fair or find truth, but to convict and incarcerate at all costs.
NYT says the author drove the first 114 miles in 84 minutes (~81 mph avg)....
it looks promising for sure.
I disagree, I think if the OP was attempting to make a fair analysis, he should have acknowledged the third option. My immediate thought was the same expressed in this comment, as My & Your add wordiness. I suppose it depends on the overall tone & genre of the software you're (I'm?) designing, but it's an obvious alternative.
D is a language with operator overloading and function overloading (no keyword arguments however), at it compiles even faster than Go.

/tmp/dmd2/src/phobos/std$ wc -l *.d | grep total
162688 total
/tmp/dmd2/src/phobos/std$ time dmd -c *.d > /dev/null
std.cpuid has been deprecated. It will be removed in January 2013. Please use core.cpuid instead.
std.md5 is scheduled for deprecation. Please use std.digest.md instead
std.perf has been deprecated. It will be removed in January 2013. Please use std.datetime instead.
Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.regexp has been deprecated. Please use std.regex instead.

real	0m1.210s
user	0m1.016s
sys	0m0.188s

1.2 second to compile 162k LOC. Not too shabby!
As someone whose parents divorced amicably, I must opine that this is a great idea. The difference between my experience and those of others whose parents fought bitterly is considerable.

Done right, this idea can be a force for good.
I assume that you know that the OPer has no personal linkage to, or understanding of, the Korean situation? Or did you make a convenient assumption?
'The US opened this can of worms'
No it was Germany, and specifically Japan. US didn't decide out of the blue to build nukes.

US was expecting 0.5 to 4 MILLION casualties (just on US side) to invade japan as WW2 was nearing the end. Casualty on Japan would be many times bigger (most of them civilians).

The 200,000 deaths (mostly civilian), however regrettable, by the 2 nukes was considered a 'deal' compared to what an actual invasion of japan would've been.
But versions of Windows before 95 didn‘t have the prefix. In Windows 3.1 it was just Program Manager, Write, Paintbrush, File Manager etc. So they took a step backwards in 95. It took them a decade to get back to where they were in the 80s.
New Bungie Release ARG?
Statement by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation: http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/press-releases/2013/statem...
> NK v SK conflict is not that different to India v Pakistan.

Uh, maybe if you ignore the magnitude of severity?
What is North Korea's motivation? Given the UN's predicable past responses, North Korea must gain some political benefit from these UN responses.
I agree, cars and horses fail in many similar ways to bikes. Feet can handle a lot.

Horses and dogs take a lot of maintenance (more for horses obviously), but unlike a bike, car, or gun, anyone who owns one and thinks of taking it on a long trip is more likely to know how to keep it alive.
This is a classic concern troll. If you're not interested in RoR, don't click on threads about RoR. If you do, don't come in and tell people to stop thanking people for their hard work to fix security issues.
Right, but that's pretty standard. This is a strategy that has existed since, well, before I was born. Nuclear weapons give you a seat at the grown-ups table. It isn't ideal, but it works. North Korea isn't the fear, nor really is the Iranian government. The fear is Iran will leak a weapon to fanatics that are not part of the Mutually Assured Destruction paradigm. That's problematic. There is some old saying about this, but I only vaguely remember it. It was something like You don't fear a country with 10,000 nuclear missiles you fear the lunatic with the small suitcase bomb.
The op was referring to "flatten" in terms of using a nuclear weapon not conventional artillery. Regardless, I think either way is so improbable it probably isn't even worth speculating about.
Seems like he's asking for modularization so we can make special-case adjustments to libraries without completely monkey patching or rewriting them. Seems like a reasonable ask of a mature library.

On the streaming verus resident working set argument... Most of what most programmers deal with doesn't have to scale to deal with huge streaming datasets, so it doesn't get the attention.
There are NO US troops sitting on the DMZ. There are a very few US GIs acting as sort of UN monitor type near DMZ. Most of the US troops are well away from the DMZ.

Btw, N Korea has a regular standing army numbering a million. S Korea has 550,000. US has just a few thousands.

And let's not forget who STARTED the whole Korean War.
>> Which of these two apps is skeuomorphic?

That's still not right. This still suggests that only one is skeuomorphic due to use of "is".
One annoyance with the website:

The row of icons under the title "Keeping it simple. Tools you need and nothing beyond." are clickable, yet they just take you to the top of the page. I wasn't expecting that.
I sit partially corrected:

http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-the-day-how-north-kore...

http://atlanticsentinel.com/2012/06/north-korea-cant-really-...

https://www.google.com/search?q=north+korean+artillery+capab...
Can anyone explain the statement about simplejson for me please?

Some libraries manage to skip the token part. (I'm looking at you
simplejson, a library that even with the best intentions in mind
is impossible to teach stream processing)
These kinds of "you guys can't have nukes because they're bad, but we'll keep some on hand because we're responsible" disputes that the USA seems to love force me think "where are all the adults?"
The myth of Android dominance: how Google and Samsung fake the sales numbers
I am definitely going to have to sit down in front of a movie screen sometime soon. I've really missed out on how to think about stuff.

If I could only get someone to follow me around playing music, I'd have a soundtrack to help me feel stuff, too.
I'm in Scandinavia, and our standard household circuit is 10A@230V for 2.3kW.

But when you need a lot of power, you would install a 400V three-phase circuit (230 V between one phase and ground, 400V between two phases), something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_and_multiphase_power...

This kind of circuit isn't very common in households, but it's fairly simple to get one if you need it - most houses have three-phase power right up to the door, so an electrician can install it in a few hours. My grandfather had one for his circular saw.

But yes, hunting for these circuits on a road trip will be harder than finding a household circuit. Although that could change rather quickly if electric cars prove popular.
The US... what? How?

The North started the Korean war, not the US.

US troops maintain a balance of power in the region, which has allowed South Korea and Japan to develop into wealthy, stable industrialised democracies.

Regardless of the longevity of the Kim family, North Korea has an unsustainable and fragile economic and political system which is widely suspected to be susceptible to imminent collapse, with unknown consequences. They have also frequently staged unprovoked fatal military attacks on Southern territory in the last few years. They were caught trying to smuggle probable nuclear components to Burma. They were caught trying to smuggle an enormous shipload of drugs into Australia.

They are not in any way equivalent to the US in terms of odious behaviour in the region.
S Korea and Japan would LOVE to have their own nukes but they can't. And they are some of the most valuable/closes allies of US.
Good UI design is all about effective communication. If you have a UI that is pretending to be something it isn’t (a person) then it is basically lying to you. That’s hardly good communication. It’s confusing and dishonest.

And believe it or not there are some users who won’t understand that it isn’t really a person. Some minds are very prone to anthropomorphizing especially when they are dealing with something they find hard to understand and unpredictable like a computer.
IMO, the Flask example is pushing it - considering how large a job rendering a template is, the number of customization points is probably appropriate, but at some point you're going to get lost in a rabbit hole of wrapper functions that call wrapper functions and end up with three equally appropriate levels you might hook into because the code was written to keep you from having to duplicate a single line of code from the library in your alternative implementation-- never mind how confusing that makes things to the casual debugger (who wants to get to the actual meaty code to see what's wrong with it). Flexibility is useful, but it must justify the loss of simplicity.

But yes, in the JSON cases, having more flexibility than a single 'loads' is clearly justified.
Google Reader stops updating private feeds
Run jsperf tests in a bunch of WebPagetest browsers
God forbid you want to save the data for personal archival or bulk digital analysis. If they allowed that you might defeat the museums careful control and curation of the data and potentially even use it in ways they don't agree with!

:P
I've seen what some of them do, and it's not as impressive as you'd think. Most of it breaks and stops working inside of 24 months. Then it's on to the next scam. Not a lot different from fly-by-night snake oil salesmen.

Just the existence of spam doesnt prove it's a big oppotunity, just that it's better for some people than their opportunity cost.
I'm pretty sure he meant VB. I don't think anybody programs in pure QBasic anymore.
5) The Chinese don't have a reason to allow North Korea to flatten Seoul.
Given the official app has been released for free, why would we pay for this one?
Seoul had been the capital of S Korea for 5+ centuries. After Korean war ended, S Korea was just too poor to even consider moving their capital.

There were attempts to move capital city to central part of S Korea later but they've been a bit busy (assassination of president, industrialization, democratization, PSY, etc).
isn't this just a venmo wrapper that does exactly what venmo does?
Foreign aid so citizens of North Korea can eat.
Founder institute has the worst terms of all. You give them equity for no investment. So I wouldn't expect entrepreneurs with options to apply.