skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A vastly more effective approach would be to encourage and cheer those trying to wean America from its addiction to automobiles....

While that's true, it's also not happening: the only real way it might is through considerably higher density (which I support, both through the removal of urban height limits and mandatory lot setbacks), but across the world density has actually been declining for decades, as Shlomo Angel shows in Planet of Cities:

New empirical evidence on the average population density of cities across space and time confirms that these densities have been in decline almost everywhere for a century or more. The new evidence is counterintuitive, since numerous academic researchers believe that urban densities have been on the increase. Were that true, it would lend encouragement and support to those favoring densification. However, urban density decline has been persistent and global in scope, and it predated the automobile. It is not restricted to the United States or other industrialized countries, but is pervasive in developing countries as well. [. . .]

You should support greater density, bike lines, etc., but in reality we're going to be relying on car-based transportation for the foreseeable future—which means decades at the very least.

Again, I would like to see more cities that allow and encourage non-car transport, but I haven't seen much of it, and current property law prevents people from actually building those kinds of cities.
It's like googledocs, but for websites...this is brilliant. The potential reach exceeds that of WordPress and Tumblr as even advanced programmers will be able to benefit from easy, collaborative website building.

After reading the article and skimming their site, it's obvious they have more in their plans down the road, but the idea at its base is already quite promising. Simple, but appeals to the masses!
Is that "reactionary" though?

Maybe a bit unprofessional. They could easily rework this to host their own CSS/images, come up with a better name (The Garlic?) and tweak the appearance a bit.

Hardly worth the slight on another community. I expect better on HN.
Perhaps a Chromebook would work great for a Javascript or Dart developer, but what about C++, Java, or Android? Or even Go? I'm curious how well Google dogfooding Chromebooks would work out.
I wonder if this can be turned into a competitive version of Dual N-Back? "Magic" style card games could be given this treatment as well, but would have to be mediated by computer.
I have a feeling The Onion staff appreciates satire.
> Sure there are many buyers out there with good money to spend but there are far more exciting cars in that price range.

Really? I can't think of one.
The site should be back up. We were using https://www.site44.com/ , had to upgrade with increased load. (site44 is pretty awesome btw)
Urban sprawl. Time wasted via excruciatingly long commutes has now become the status quo in many parts of the States (certainly is around the Bay Area where I reside).

The only real alternative is either a) making the Bay Area a less desirable place to live or b) allowing higher buildings. The Bay Area has chosen c) neither, which leads to d) the concomitantly higher prices that go with it.

Edward Glaeser's book The Triumph of the City has a useful discussion of these issues.
X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete
Just go with The Garlic if available. Needs to be more obviously than Allium, and should be a .com to mimic The Onion.
Hype gets created automatically when someone credibly takes on a problem that most think cannot be done. The only way to sidestep is to do what Andrew Wiles did with the Fermat last theorem - but that might not be a valid strategy for a problem that requires more than a small team.
What Can We Do About Big Rocks From Space?
Do you have any sources on alternative systems of accountability for doctors? Or that go a bit more in depth about how they are unique in self-regulation? I haven't heard of this before, so thanks!
Get your eyes checked
Android was designed to run phones.

Google never wanted to expand Android even to the tablet market, but they caved to market pressure.

It was never meant to be a PC operating system.

Most of the things you're complaining about are things you would expect from a PC.
> Scala doesn't support top-level functions (only singleton objects)

This is neither here nor there. Scala has "package objects" and functions put into a package object are scoped directly at the top level of the package. They are not nested within any other object. The only downside to this that I can see, is that at the moment, a package can only have a single package object, which means all the top-level functions for the package have to reside within a single file.
There are quite a lot of people squatting on rpsls-related domains, sadly.

The app's 100% JavaScript, served from a static server, and backed by Firebase. https://www.firebase.com/ You include their library and create a reference to any point in your "Firebase", which is essentially a live JSON store that each client subscribes to. Clients can push data to the store and declare callbacks that fire when data changes at any given endpoint. Changes persist in near-realtime between all connected clients. It is very neat.
Chrome isn't the only major web browser. Google doesn't have the power to unilaterally decide what all the other browsers will do. Nor does it look like they're trying to get that power; they give hundreds of millions of dollars to Mozilla, one of Chrome's major competitors, and the Mozilla people don't always go along with what Google wants.
A high definition youtube video, transfers over 40MiB of data per minute.

If 100.000 teenagers decide to test it (obviously not all of them concurrently), then yes, it will possibly come to the point where it isn't justified for HE to keep the service up.

It doesn't need to bring their network down, it is enough to cost them more than what they get in return.

Since the youtube pages mentioned are permanently banned from Germany, this could be a pretty sustainable spike.
Suffix arrays – a programming contest approach
Give us the twinkie!!!!!
Two words: reading maps.

A high-PPI screen is heaven for using Google Maps. I always get so frustrated on my 1080p screen: even with the browser map in full screen mode, I can't seem to see "enough" of it when browsing random geographical locations and trying to get a sense of how the surrounding area looks.

A 239 PPI screen allows displaying a character in an 8-pixel font (eg. "fixed" on Linux) in a 1x1mm area. You could have all the tiniest roads and cities labelled on the map, even if barely readable.
I feel there is far too little discussion here on the screen.

This laptop screen is amazing. Since we today have light, fast, power efficient and sturdy laptops. The next big thing, is the screen.

A TN screen on a laptop is just sad. My first Macbook pro felt horrid just because I was used to a PVA desktop screen. I kept adjusting and adjusting the screen.

If you take a moment to appreciate your crummy laptop screen you will notice a few things.

1. The screen has a tint to it. Ranging from green to purple from the top of the screen to the bottom. Put the screen on its side and this is very clear.

2. The viewing angles are horrendous. Put on a black background and try to adjust the screen so that it's evenly black top to bottom. At arms length this is impossible, and really annoying when watching a movie.

3. Try having a friend stand behind you while you work and show him a picture of your girlfriend, he'll be shocked at how pale she has become.

I'm currently on a Macbook with retina screen. I have an iPad with retina screen and I have a normal 24" 1920x1200 desktop which used to be my best screen, but is now only better than the screen on my old ipod touch.

People complain about their laptop keyboards. I complain about laptop screens.
There's something between "cloud" and "build your own servers and rack them yourselves" -- I think managed colo/dedicated hosting is probably the sweet spot for most companies which don't need the burstiness of cloud servers and aren't in the dedicated datacenter business themselves (or with unique hardware, performance, security, etc. needs).

e.g. SoftLayer dedicated servers, or a quality local/smaller/industry-specific provider. IIRC hackernews runs on a SoftLayer dedicated server.
Not invented by Sheldon which makes me think you didn't read original HN link or the wikipedia article that you linked to...
There's chrome plugins to opt out of ad-tracking and you can delete your search history.

Everything is optional. You don't have to be signed in or using cookies to search using Google.

That's how I like my information privacy. My only issue is the lack of encryption in gmail (and email in general).

Personal privacy is the users responsibility. There's a technology knowledge gap regardless if the user is using google or any other site. That isn't one websites responsibility.
>"I want you to understand why I was taking pictures. I hope you didn't think I was a terrorist. Here is my business card [offering her one]. I write about United Airlines on an almost-daily basis and the folks at United in Chicago are even aware of my blog."

(emphasis added)

Reacting to a command given by a flight attendant with anything along the lines of "Whoa, sorry. I hope you don't think I'm a terrorist," is a terrible decision. Even if you're not, saying it will immediately make them wonder if you are.

Don't think of a pink elephant. How's that mental image of a pink elephant looking?

Terrorist. Bomb. Threat. 9/11. These are things you don't go saying on airplanes, these days, unless you're expecting some sort of discomfort from anyone within earshot. This is especially true for someone in charge of ensuring the safety of people aboard the flight.

I don't think the traveler would have been removed from the plane if they would have just complied and not mentioned such a charged word.
This post, like many contrarian posts, tackles the "problem" by swinging the pendulum all the way to the other side.

It's up to you to decide which parts of you you're not willing to compromise on, and stick to your guns on those parts.

Sure, if you find that too many people dislike you, do a little soul searching and perhaps change your stance, but don't allow yourself to be boxed in by other peoples' expectations of you. They're human just like you are, and their expectations can be just as unrealistic and unfair as yours.

Ultimately, YOU decide how you live your life. How much of that you allow other people to influence is your own concern, as are the consequences. Just don't go whining about it when things don't go your way.
Do you mind me giving me an explain it like I'm 5 for DDP?
Add a "hyperlink" option so that when people are discussing on a thread, they can point to other sites more easily. Will make for a cleaner and more efficient way of communicating thoughts.
I don't know what benchmark would give an unbiased comparison.
Capture the flag generally implies "transport the flag."
I hear you and I applaud just about anybody who builds just about anything.

But, it should never be a step (baby or otherwise) to completely take someone else's work. It's one thing to take cues from them. It's another thing to literally take their code without permission, even if it is "only CSS". That is really, really poor form from the start.

If you don't think so, then try asking The Onion if they mind. Then you can have a clear conscience.

But, if you are unwilling to even ask, well, then you really don't have to. You already know it's not cool.

BTW, good luck with it.
Mechanics post prices? The only reliable way I've found to determine the real cost of car repair is to comparison shop and look online in enthusiast forums. Even then, there is still room for haggling.
There is a repeating error in the first paragraph.
Kernels, and probably any kind of parallel user-level runtime like Erlang.
The fact that we got attacked by a few Saudi nationals 12 years ago makes one American lie to another American because shes scared an American passenger on their plane is a terrorist because he said the word terrorist. Is it really debatable whether we did exactly what the terrorists hoped we would do at this point? I don't want to say they won, because its not a game and no one wins, but they certainly accomplished some objectives here if this is the way people are allowed to act.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "nobody." There can be a small number of people that genuinely care about you. Most people won't. But that's what makes that small number of people special.
Firefox uses jemalloc, too.
These aren't exactly things that seem to have taken the web by storm as of yet. Maybe in 3 years.
So it's like Postel's principle (be liberal in what you accept no strict in what you emit) for relations?
Slightly ironic that SSH has features like reverse port forwarding and the built-in SOCKS proxy that allow easy circumvention of other network security schemes.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
>> If that's the explanation, I don't know why the label wouldn't be “trail” though.

Probably because there are many ways to say it eg. "ski trail", "ski mountain", "ski run", "on the slopes", "chairlift" etc. whereas a gas station is just a gas station. Also, it's pretty hard to have a "missed connection" on a ski trail, seeing as how both parties tend to be in motion and ski goggles obscure eye contact :)
Spill the beans! Tell us more. This is pretty intriguing.
Smart grenades?
While I agree that it is in your best interest to not say "terrorist", it's absurd that by uttering the word you could be kicked off a flight. People need to use some common sense. What happens if I accidentally use the word "bomb" when talking about how I did on my last test? Am I off the plane too?

This has got to stop. Maybe every passenger should walk on the plane saying, "Hello, I'm not a terrorist". Of course if you are, feel free to disclose that fact as well.
As noted by stcredzero, nitrile rubber performs much better when handling oil-based products.

Although its physical and chemical properties vary depending on the polymer’s composition of nitrile, this form of synthetic rubber is generally resistant to oil, fuel, and other chemicals (the more nitrile within the polymer, the higher the resistance to oils but the lower the flexibility of the material).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrile_rubber
Sweet. Glad I can help!
Google developers are not allowed to ever have any code copied to laptops due to security concerns. The laptops that they give devs are mainly for ssh, remote desktop and browser usage already.
Did it for me with ghostery only, chrome Version 24.0.1312.57
on osx 10.7. Escape stopped the insanity.
Blindly looking for a higher price is almost never worth it; high-priced products tend to be priced as luxury or status items. If someone goes shopping for a laptop with the metric of "pricier = better", they'll end up with some 15-pound plastic monstrosity from Dell.
I was going for something like the economy in StarCraft. You have a stream of poles shot into the arena from catapults, and scoring is based on how many get transported back to each team's goal. (Minus the exponential increase, though.)
The fact their blog doesn't have an rss feed is absolutely infuriating.
They probably use them to track the center of gravity of the rod while in flight.
Helicopter rotors are much more complex than just pitch control. Quadcopters fly fine with 1DoF pitch control - relatively easy and cheap to do, while helis have non-trivial 3DoF.
Also, there are quadcopters with 1DoF pitch control, your comment isn't exactly clear whether you know about those.
Don't worry -- we're in their circles ;)

But regardless! As I mention in another place on this thread: The point of this project is the blunt comparison to The Onion -- the copying of the name, look, and feel of a well known and well recognized satirical publication is actually a vital part of the statement about our world and the media.
Hm... (c) needs a little qualification. Certainly in a multithreaded environment it's possible to end up in a cache contention situation accidentally, simply because you or the compiler happened to put two "write often from a single thread" values in the same cache line. Think of things like global/singleton objects which doesn't really need to be shared but are. A multiprocess design that limited shared memory to stuff that's truly shared won't have that pitfall.
How do you guys create these cool little sites so quickly. I can imagine how you could create the script easily, but making the little icons, layouts, etc... must take a long time.

Or am I just really slow?
I don't have the stats on it but the increase in bandwidth from people using the tunnel to watch YouTube videos is likely a drop in the bucket compared to people leeching Usenet binaries all day off the free IPv6 Usenet servers. I understand your concern but I think you are underestimating how much usage the IPv6 tunnels get right now.
It's the same as industry... good PR goes a long way toward acquiring funding. Would you be upset if (say) Apple, Google, or Microsoft's PR machine was intentionally deceiving folks? Academics are even more sensitive to this -- it's why we're always railing against "shitty science reporting."

Also, I suggest reading the article. I am an expert... I greatly admire this group's research(!!), which is why I don't mind giving 'em some tough love. But I also want the group that "cracks the egg" for self-localization and decentralized control to get their deserved limelight. This video makes that less likely.... as evidenced by the fact that so few people in this thread (probably) know what a Vicon is, how it works, or that it's being used.
I mean, this is the problem right here. You're claiming that because a plane ran into a building 12 years ago, it actually makes sense for an American citizen to kick another American citizen off a plane while lying about it. How about we get back to being rational sensible human beings who understand context and can have a thought process beyond "If I hear the word terrorist, that person is a terrorist and I need to call homeland security" /roboticthinking

I get that it is a bad idea to say terrorist on a plane, but if after 12 years, we still are unable to understand context here, people should be getting fired, especially if they need to lie to justify their bizarre, made up fears.
Sshd rootkit in the wild - check your systems
You can subscribe for email updates. Works pretty well. It's probably just because there's no meteor package for RSS yet, anyway.
The concept is quite old. It was first presented to the public in '02 when Ferdinand Piech drove it to the stockholders meeting.

The model they are now considering to build is based on a variation of the concept, that they showed in 2011. If I remember right the first concept was not a hybrid but only powered by a diesel.

The car is said to go into production in a small series and to sell for about 50k€. I guess it has been pushed by Piech himself who is famous for pushing out complex engineering concepts to production even tough the company will loose money on every sold product. (See also Bugatti Veyron)
> (which is not to say that Clojure or Racket are not great languages, but they are missing some of the nicer CL features).

Any examples? Just curious.
It continually and randomly decided what the outcome was for about 5 minutes before freezing for me. (On Chromium)
I don't see what's so improbable about it. If I found a set of keys or some personal property on the street with no identifying information craigslist is the first place I'd go, and so would most other people in an urban area. Sure, the probability that both parties felt a romantic attraction and still feel it a day later is fairly low, but if that is the case then CL would be the obvious first place to look.
Mosquitoes ignore repellent Deet after first exposure
How are you reading an opposition to involving the internet in any way out of my post?
I'm confused. Firstly, the text in the header is not readable on mobile because it's the exact same colour as his jacket. Second, are they flying the winners to SF? Third, is the $1500 implying that you get a Google Glass for free? Fourth, is this a Google event or a 3rd party? It looks like an official Google site. Unclear. This was after one readthrough on my phone. Maybe I missed a FAQ link...
Ssh rootkit in the wild
Limitations? What limitations?

They are overwhelmingly obvious. The simple fact is that 'filling up' is harder to do- there are far, far fewer stations, and the actual act of charging takes a not inconsiderable amount of time. The cost argument is valid, but the point is that luxury car owners are less likely to worry about the price of gas, given that they are already rich enough to buy a luxury car.

I'm not saying you are wrong in your assertions, clearly the car suits you well. But to suggest that there are no limitations flies in the face of all evidence.
Bills are killing us because it's a for-profit industry and once you are in that mode, it's a race for the most profit.

Doesn't matter if you are going to die or suffer from not being able to afford it, they know they have plenty more customers.

This is where society falls victim to yet another one of those myths that if it isn't for (massive) profit, people won't be motivated to help you.
This is fine for accessing YouTube from Germany, but it should be noted that IPv6 tunnels offer no encryption or authentication so don't trust them for tunneling out of truly oppressive regimes any more than you'd trust your native Internet connection.
It's a vision not fully realized. It's not any more anti-consumer than an unfinished bridge is anti-motorist.
Are you familiar with HE's network? Take a look at Google/Youtube's biggest peer:

http://bgp.he.net/AS15169#_peers6
Sorry about that. I skimmed the Wikipedia article -- I figured HN readers appreciate sources.
"We'll send you a draft report at 6pm Eastern. If we don't hear from you by 10pm Eastern, we publish."

I'm sure your out-of-hours deadlines were totally non-negotiable, and that holding off on the release til the next morning were absolutely essential, right?
I really appreciate the help! I've tried this in the past and it doesn't really seem to solve the problem, just compensates for some of them. It ends up being weird though when some elements are small and others are the size you would expect