skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice!!

And unlike Chicken of the VNC, this one actually supports the scrollwheel! (maybe there's some way to get Chicken of the VNC to support the scrollwheel but I didn't find it. I did find "Chicken", a fork of "Chicken of the VNC". It's got various connection bugs.)

No luck with copy and paste from Chrome OSX to Ubuntu 12 but maybe I'm doing it wrong
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> Do you not get compensated well from other ventures?

He can likely get compensated much, much better for an original 0day on a big site.
Depends on what the computations are. Pathing, for example, could be shared among multiple clients and even if your PC is powerful enough to do it without degrading performance, not everyone's PC is as same as yours.

PS.
I understand the rage against EA. I have not bought an EA game since 2002. I also had been laid off from a studio acquired by EA. So please don't imagine I am Johnny Riccitello trying to save his "reputation" or something. I am just addressing technical misconceptions. EA is evil and has to be put down.
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Does anyone have any idea of the costs of building vertically?

I ask as I generally love the idea of sky-rise buildings and high density housing. To me, Hong Kong feels almost utopian - like some sort of architects' playground. Stick thin apartments rising up through hillsides. Super dense housing, but the ability to travel 30 minutes and be in remarkable countryside. It really is remarkable.

I'd love to think this is the way forward, and regardless of opinion it seems the way the world is moving. People are migrating to mega cities, the world is urbanising. I guess the efficiencies you gain living this way are part of a real draw there. You don't need a car. Mass transport is cheap and efficient.

Which makes me wonder how Hong Kong's housing situation can be so dire. Even for the well off, the costs are prohibitive, and I dread to think how the poor manage.
The Sierra Club is not a 501(c)3 and hasn't been for forty-five years. And it hasn't been for the reasons you mention.
You don't have to decide to misrepresent in order to be misrepresentative. If your material is wrong, it's wrong, and depending on the jurisdiction you may be on the hook.

Ridiculous? Well consider that it gives a strong incentive to ensure that claims made to customers are somewhat accurate. Reducing the cost of caveat emptor makes society richer by reducing transaction costs and so encouraging trade. Sellers have a strong informational advantage over buyers; in general the cost to them of making a correct statement is much lower than having each customer having to find out the truth independently.

Not that this is the purpose of torts law, which evolved mostly to fill glaring, unjust gaps in the remedies of the older forms of common law. But that is the social and economic function that it has come to serve.

(IANAL, TINLA).
This seems very reasonable to me, because this is how the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C4%81pple was accidentally discovered. Birds don't like the taste of artificial grape flavoring.

If you're looking for an interesting, but light read, I'd highly recommend http://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Hunters-Adventure-Commerce-Obses...
Good video. I disagree that the government should do anything about it though. What's the alternative, make them homeless? If there is both supply and demand, let people do what they want. If San Francisco allowed this, there would be far fewer homeless people, but the only options they give them are $2,000 a month apartments or living in the streets. So lots of people live in the streets.
I'd find that argument a lot more compelling if the speech afforded the group (corporation) by its 1st Amendment rights were a reflection of the will and judgement of the members — that is, everyone at the corporation, and not, as seems so often to be the case, merely an extension of its owners speech rights.

Corporations are incredible concentrators of wealth, and consequently power, and those concentrations of wealth and power can espouse actions and principles that are frequently at odds with the well-being of that corporation's employees — the very people whose speech the Citizens United ruling purports to prevent being curtailed. Witness the allegations during the last Presidential election cycle of a mining company in Ohio (Murray Energy) requiring its employees to use an unpaid workday to attend a Romney rally — or lose their jobs.

How, exactly, is such "group speech" at all reflective of the political views of that group's membership?
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Think of it like this, if a food restaurant has a vegetarian burger on the menu. After a while they find that as they grow they can't keep producing the burger that way anymore. So they decide to use a beef product in the burger, but they don't tell anyone. They just keep selling it as a vegetarian burger. Do you think that is blatantly lying? I don't see a lot of difference here.
#2 and similar situations will be _well_ mitigated by the plethora of data collected before and during the accident. It's no longer a question of who-said-what, where the impact was on the car, and estimates based on skid marks.

Between recorded lidar imaging, video imaging, and all the telemetrics needed to automatically drive the car:

Driverless car impacting other driverless car; probably a software error.

Driverless car impacting / being impacted by a piloted car, and it will be fairly easy to see which driver made the error which led to the crash.

Car / AI manufacturers will have more of a liability for making certain their vehicle is safe, no doubt. This is a win/win situation for the automobile owner. Safety is now an economic force not dictated by regulation.
You're saying housing prices on the mainland are only slightly more affordable than in HK? That's absurdly inaccurate. Housing is cheap on the mainland outside of prime areas of big cities. The job market is another story, the earning power in Hong Kong is much better - along with the other things you mentioned.

Many of these people are trying to make a better life for themselves and especially their children. To get there, they are dealing with horrible living conditions. I salute them for that. My grandfather did something similar coming to America from Italy and his whole family is eternally grateful. Future generations of HKers are going to feel the same way.
I'll throw my hat in the ring here and point out daemon-manager: http://porkrind.org/daemon-manager/

It was designed to be simple (creating a new daemon conf file is trivial), low over-head (it's very init-ish in function so it needs to not take a lot of memory or processor time), stable (can't crash or it loses track of everything that it launched), and secure (lets you launch your daemons as different users--usually at a lower security level).

I've been using it myself an almost every server I administrate (I wrote it to scratch my own itch) for a couple years now and it's been very stable.
Tip to those farmers: you can now sell your products as organic food, at a higher price.

The article is quite misleading, though. Sugar isn't used as a pesticide. It's a way to control the ecosystem, like introducing a new species to prey on another. Coke doesn't directly kill the insects (as far as we know).
They are using EC2
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Either way, each accident will have orders of magnitude more data to describe the situation than we have now. Imagine an airplane black box on steroids. Blame will be efficiently placed, I think.
Actually I suspect something more like this is happening: your local copy is running the simulation, while it's also being run on the server. Running it locally means you get no lag at all and running it on the server prevents cheating. The two simulations sync from time to time.
Hehe, first thing that came into mind when I read this title.
It's a bit disturbing.
> It's akin to saying that pizza encourages eating it for every meal.

I am also fine with passwords, but I really dislike useless parallels:

Passwords have to be remembered and therefore having many different passwords cause inconvenience. How does this apply to pizza?
This is really very old news. This bbc news article is from Wednesday, 3 November, 2004.
Yeah, I agree. To this end, I just added support for specifying a logger process, and angel will now pipe stdout/stderr to it ala daemontools. Definitely don't want angel in the business of being a log rotator.
That's assuming their architecture is horizontally scalable like that. What if the bottleneck was at the db layer? If they didn't architect that out to be easily horizontally scalable, then simply adding more servers isn't really going to do much.

(I'm also assuming here that when they say "more people logged on than we expected", the bottleneck wasn't on the login servers, but on whatever it is Glassbox does with all the accumulated city data. Because login/auth severs are relatively simple to scale out horizontally)
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" All speakers, including individuals and the media, use money amassed from the economic marketplace to fund their speech, and the First Amendment protects the resulting speech."

Not true for individuals. An individual does not to "fund" his speech, he simply speaks. Note that the entire decision is based on this false truth.

None of this has anything to do with the original post.
This is how urban poverty looks. It looked similar in Europe too. They called them Tenements here and every self respecting character in Irish fiction grows up in one.
It is common knowledge that Apple mainly uses PC hardware in their data centers. You can get an idea of the third party products they use by searching the jobs postings at jobs.apple.com. I'd bet they would be open to using non-Apple hardware in other areas if they thought there was a good business case.
As someone with an undergraduate level education in physics I find this stuff pretty cool. Having a number of homework exercises for my graduate level classical mechanics courses end with the fact that the solution degenerates into a three-body problem, and therefore an unsurmountable task, this kind of news gives me hope :)
What extra functionality is available in networked X that is not available over a VNC pipe?
I actually ran wayland on my laptop a few days ago. I'd be prepared to try switching full time once they let me configure my touchpad.

As for acceleration - you can actually run wayland on fbdev with a fully software compositor. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like E18 running as a sw compositor for wayland.
Just because a bounty policy isn't disclosed doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
It uses low broadband levels of bandwidth, from what I've heard. So it's pretty iffy for a lot of people.
Is the game any good?
The largest dorm I had in college (in suite style where I had my own room) was 130 sq ft. If I had my own place, I'd at least want a bathroom and kitchen (I'd go crazy and ask for a laundromat set), but I could work with ~100 sq ft of other living space easily for just a bed / work desk / clothes basket or 3.
And there's no reason we can't have the same kind of library on linux, except one that would render using OpenGL. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Qt already supports rendering using OpenGL.
The median income in HK per household per month is HKD 18000 in 2010[1] (USD ~2300). Everything you can buy in HK is essentially NYC prices. You can't feed your family with this income, so they are living in HK, taking advantage of free education and healthcare. There is also no "Chinese rural areas" anywhere near HK. HK is an island and a peninsula. North of HK is Shenzhen, also a big metropolitan area. There's no commuting to these "rural areas" that's feasible. Also, to commute to China, you essentially have to leave your children in China, otherwise you'll be leaving your children in HK, and take a job in China instead, which defeats the purpose.

[1]: http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/populatio...
Cloud computing is just cruise control for scaling. You still have to steer.
trust me, it doesn't exist.
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I enjoyed reading this story. Hunting down those kind of bugs is not something most of us will ever be able to do.
Beautiful mathematics, but... wow that website could use some antialiasing.
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I had a small feature - importing ratings from Netflix in my (now abandoned) application "Movie Galaxy" http://5000best.com/movie-galaxy/
Yeah. Fotolia does have cheaper pictures - but hard to find the variety that istockphoto has. Thanks.
The problem is there is no supply and lots of demand. I'm too lazy to google for this, but the latest figure is something like demand is 2-3x greater than land supply. The government absolutely have to do something about this or this city will implode.
> I want a strong mainstream OS alternative to Windows - one that is popular enough and gets support from all major software vendors for apps. If Ubuntu got at least as popular as Mac OS, it would be amazing, and I don't really care what they have to do to get there.

I can understand that Canonical wants to become a "mainstream alternative to Windows" because this means money for them. But why do you care how many buggy Windows or OSX clones are out there if you can just pay few bucks and get the real thing?
Nothing is wrong with that. However the actual Perl open() would be like this...

open my $fh, '<', 'file.txt' or die "file.txt not found";

open(my $fh, '<', 'file.txt') || die 'file.txt not found';

Above two lines are equivalent.
> That's certainly a consideration, but every PAAS is "unique" by definition.

I don't see how this is true.

There is nothing about PaaS that says there can't be compatible competitors. Hell, there have been PHP shared hosting platforms that were very nearly identical between providers for a decade before anyone started saying PaaS, and really, the "Innovation" that made shared hosting PaaS lies in per-usage billing.
You don't really need a developer just yet. I'd say crystalize your idea to it's essence and make a one-page website looking like the real deal. See how much people find you because they're having the problem you're solving. How much actually sign up? There are one-click services that can help you. Have a look at http://launchrock.co/ It's free.
>civil liberties the trend has been negative.

Other disturbing degradation of civil liberties:

- SCOTUS declining to hear the AT&T case of warrantless wiretapping emails, texts and other communication.

-SCOTUS holding the Political Question Doctrine prohibits the Court from reviewing the Constitutionality of the President's extrajudicial targeted "Kill List" of US citizens nor can they review the Constitutionality on the criteria to get on the list.

Recently a US District Court held Indefinite Detention of US citizens without due process to be Unconstitutional. However, I think SCOTUS will uphold this ruling 5-4 prompting Congress to re-write the law with the same effect, prompting the legal process all over again.
Did this news precede the allegation that both Pepsi and Coca-cola (at least in India) contained pesticide in their drink?

I remember there was a huge uproar when that news broke and both companies had to invest heavily into PR campaign (involving several movie mega-stars) to play it down.

Update: Looks like it is. The Pepsi/Coke pesticide brouhaha took place in 2006.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-08-09/india-pestici...

http://www.occupymonsanto360.org/2013/03/06/india-press-repo...

Update #2: News of Pepsi/Coke being used in lieu of pesticides is also making the rounds...

http://consciouslifenews.com/coke-pepsi-being-pesticides-ind...
I like the old Disney cartoons better, and they obviously weren't written using those rules. I feel that nowadays movie get more and more similar. Could we still get something as atypical as the Robin Hood cartoon or Snow White by following those rules?
Does this mean all domains which allow arbitrary JS on subdomains are vulnerable? Is this why heroku app domains are x.herokuapp.com and not x.heroku.com?
I'm watching this, sipping a cocktail and waiting for the crack to come out.
I've reported several vulnerabilities to GitHub. There is no bounty policy.
What are the odds. Friday my task was to implement this for our project that uses Django. I learned it all the hard way, even the South trick. The only difference was that we are using MySQL and _django-mysqlpool_.

If almost all solution are using SQLAlchemy components and SQLAlchemy is NOT DBMS-specific, it should be possible to create one package that works for SQLite3, MySQL and Postgres at the same time. In theory, of course. :)
Same goes for Vietnam. There're houses like 1/1.5 meters width. No bed, furniture whatsoever.
I was thinking in terms of moving instead of commuting. If your job prospects elsewhere are no good though it doesn't really help.
>I sincerely feel someone should take the 10.04 and spin it off into a new better OS, polish it and give it back to the community

Do you have any particular objections with Mint? It's what I went to after 10.04 (well, after a couple months trying out 12.04 and deciding it definitely wasn't for me).
What's really terrifying about Diablo 3 is that it's the most in-piratable solo game yet. I think that most of the logic is server-side. So if Blizzard decides to pull the plug, you have no choice but to reimplement the whole server-side. Fortunately, Blizzard seems much more serious about the follow-up of their games than EA ever was (consider that Warcraft 3 patches are still being put out).

Still, even Blizzard could not avoid server problems at launch.
Regulation can help.

A good example is 3rd party marketing opt-out dark pattern. It is already legislated in a number of countries; and if a local business puts in an opt-out checkbox instead of opt-in ? Blam; this contact info is considered obtained without consent, please delete it and here is the invoice for your fine, thank you very much.

Another pattern that can be eliminated is hidden costs - i.e., in EU, you have to advertise the full cost, including the tax and "mandatory convenience fees"; so for some costs you can't hide them away.

And of course, the most effective tool is legally mandated rights for returns and cancellations - it gives actual teeth to angry customers, since if you succeed in tricking them, they can just cancel the deal [not neccessarily through a process that the company prescribes] and get full returns.
Why is the game online-only in the first place?
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I really hope that your point here was to underline that indeed, you don't.
No, the alternative is to have the government build subsidized housing and then enact strict price controls so that even poor families can afford to live reasonably. That's how it was done in Singapore for example and is why they can live in "spacious" 30-70 m^2 apartments despite having a higher population density than Hong Kong. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore.
> The standard combination lock interface is well-known, not intuitive.

Indeed. Over in this part of the world, I have never actually seen one. I once looked them up on the Internet just to figure out how to use one, but had by now forgotten about the starting reset.
Is it a dark pattern when companies like Dwolla walk you through a multi-step signup procees involving a significant amount of info and an email verification, then ask for ultra-sensitive info like SSN only at the very end?

Clearly this is done to prevent some abandonment that would occur upon seeing the SSN on the first step of the process. Their idea is that you are already so invested by the end that you are more likely to give up that sensitive info. But, whether it is technically a "dark pattern" or not, it feels really, really slimy.
I lived in a 9 m^2 apartment (with some extra storage) for 3 years (cheap rent in Paris was nice). It was mostly fine, except you end up hearing neighbors. If not for that, it was pretty good. It had tradeoffs tho, apartment was next to castle of Versailles so lots of nature near. If you are single and there are outside areas to escape to, small living was ok for me at least. Poverty vs choice of living small makes a lot of difference for how it is. Small isn't inherently bad, surroundings matter.
How much was that and how long ago?
I interviewed at this company almost 10 years ago who made this:

http://www.nextengine.com/

seems simliar and I'd imagine a 10 year lead on R&D is a big moat.
yeah +1. @joernchen also did I remember. And lots of other people.

Hey, anyone, is github that super profitable company with 100mln investments ? They got no money or what?
You are right.

That doesn't make the comments less shocking.
Note, the case of the Michigan girl killed by SWAT :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Aiyana_Jones

This particular incident made national news, but when it happens to adults (usually less privileged adults), sadly, it often goes unnoticed except by local news. And then usually it's just a sentence or two on the local blotter.
400 euro/month around 5-10 years ago.
That was the second thought that occurred to me as well (the first was to be absolutely horrified). The reporter said the rent for one of those cages is 12 (AUD I believe) per month. Likewise, that only left each cage dweller with 13 AUD per day from their welfare check for other expenses (which the narrator said was not enough to afford 3 meals every day after other expenses). So if the cost of living in a cage for a month is roughly the cost of 3 meals (though that must be calculated at the cost of eating out, because even in the US you can eat quite well on $13 a day if you are frugal and know how to cook and budget) then they are spending less than many U.S. homeless shelters charge (it's not uncommon for homeless shelters to charge anywhere from $5-12 per night here). It's by no means a comfortable lifestyle, but it's better than being homeless and I believe many Americans receiving welfare and/or disability actually have far less buying power with what they receive, considering it's usually not nearly enough to meet rent, utilities, and food and transportation costs).
Yes this. The HK govt is appalling in its disregard of the poverty line. (>6yrs in HK, and I'm no SG fanboy, but it is SO far beyond HK in this, there is just no comparison)
Sure it can. Just make the heating pipes inaccessible.
> not the nerds that care about the 1% of features 99% of their target audience had no need for.

What features, exactly, comprise this unimportant 1%? Why aren't they important? And what portion of the remaining 99% was written by the non-nerds?