skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk about missing the point entirely. Wow.
This method is well known and there are ways of making this more difficult. For example, servers add a hidden request cookie which is a random number embedded in the page that the user is coming from. This forces you to actually parse the page. Then they can move it to javascript making it even more difficult.
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To be fair, I remember handling HCl in chemistry and the fumes didn't dissolve my eyes, though I could tell that the fumes weren't nice either. It would depend on the concentration of the gas, which would also be a function of the concentration of the HCl that was vaporising.
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For me, the biggest value in emulation is playing the fan translations of games that were never originally made available in English. Some of my favourites:

Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki Dayo Zenin Shuugou! http://www.romhacking.net/translations/226/

Romancing SaGa 3 http://www.romhacking.net/translations/416/

Seiken Densetsu 3 http://www.romhacking.net/translations/440/

(Note: None of those links will point you at the ROMs themselves, just translation patches.)
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It's more of a chronic disease than a death sentence. We all die, and if you push back the final outcome far enough, your odds of dying from something else outgun your odds of dying from HIV/AIDS.

For example, those with HAART-treated HIV infection who have been treated for four years or more tend to die from a non-AIDS-related cause rather than from an AIDS-related one. [1]

[1] = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20380565
Perhaps. Except that much mental illness would be the equivalent of being hit by a car and needing emergency care and possibly months or years of intervention, not getting any of it and then being blamed for their inability to walk. Like they are merely lazy or something.
The auto industry is saying that fully self-driving cars will be on the market in ten years. The safety and entertainment benefits are enormous. Bullet trains require an entirely new track infrastructure, whereas self driving cars are an obvious upgrade to the existing auto infrastructure (which is already 1000x more popular than rail).
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The reality is not quite that simple, you need to consider the energy required by and environmental impact of building out and maintaining a high speed rail infrastructure. Rail efficiency is also highly sensitive to occupancy, a train carrying a small number of passengers could well be less efficient than transporting that number of people by auto. And cars are getting more fuel efficient as well

And if the government is involved, forget about it. It will be a massive mess of cost overruns and other financial shenanigans. And Amtrak proves that the government can't even run a railroad, let alone build one.
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I don't think busses, self driving or not, could ever compete with high speed trains. I have yet to see a bus driving 220 mph on a street crowded with other cars, busses and trucks.

And that will be even more true if the US decides that 220 mph is too slow (because it is just as fast as everyone else) and they might want to skip that milestone and go for 350 mph maglev trains ;-)
It's possible to preserve food with radiation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation It kills all the living beings inside, but don't make the food radioactive. (It's not exactly the same radiation, but it's very similar.)
Maybe we could kick it in the ball-pit at Chuck E Cheese then get a few beers at a good pub?
None of us are getting out of here alive. Last I checked, we are all born under a sentence of death.
The table is missing railroad unions-- the anti-efficiency factor that's ruined American passenger rail.
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If I take your meaning correctly, yes.

For SpaceX the actual costs they experience are quite low compared to their competition. For example, they don't use rad-hardened CPUs, nor do they use vxworks. This alone saves them millions of dollars. However, it makes sense for them to offer their services as close to the competition's prices as possible, because it maximizes their profits. You see the same thing on their launch services.
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There really isn't any data there though.

Pittsburgh has a lot of good data too, it's just not on github: http://pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/gis/
I thought half the fun was in NOT understanding the Japanese text ?
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>But yes, engineering should be the focus and people assume the worst with Apple.

Some people sometimes assume the worst of Apple, or Microsoft or Google, or [insert name of company here]. One of the things that can cause strong anti-Apple sentiment are the rabid fanboys (ie. postings like Nirvana's). They paint Apple to be patron saints - and when reality hits (like it did for me with antenna-gate), users are annoyed because of the unrealistic expectations, but also because of the RDF created by Fanboys.
For the record, I think Apple have shown the phone industry a thing or two about engineering excellent products while maintaining a strong focus and excellent compromises. I just wish the rabid Fanboys would shut up, or present a balanced view ... it would make Apple a lot easier to respect.
Of course programming is not "for everyone", if nothing else simply because the economy wouldn't work properly if everyone was a programmer.

I do think that everyone with a reasonable intellect can learn some amount of programming literacy though.
The point of having universal programming education is not so that everyone can become a software engineer, it's so that you can have a society where >50% of people in the workforce understand the difference between an if and a for loop and have some notion that you can nest computer programs inside each other using functions etc.

When I was at school we all had to play football (soccer), the notion that I would ever become a professional football player is laughable but I assume that I learnt something about fitness, strategy and teamwork from the exercise.
I think your viewpoints are completely inane.

For example, our current economic model is completely unsustainable. It's not going to prevent the "peasant revolts" you talk about. It's going to guarantee them. Yet you seem to be calling for more of the same.

I wasn't talking about the 1950s, but pre-WWI. And, yes, isolationism did serve us well pre-WWI, though I am not an advocate of isolationism at all, as a principle.

Now, to get to the interesting bit.

> having a decent moral government that evens the playing field between rich and poor

Pray, tell me where you have found a rational, reason-based morality that makes you so certain that the rich need to be punished and sacrificed to the poor? Where have you found a rational, reason-based economic philosophy that can prove that doing so will be good for the economy, instead of furthering its destruction?
Github is ridiculously unsuited for one-time publication of blobs. Seriously.
As of January 2013, CloudFlare is number two, second only to Dyn:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-fastest-free-dns-among...
This would be better titled "The 'What Schools Don’t Teach' video does not accurately depict the median life of a programmer".

Which is true, and he gives a lot of points to support it, and I'd nod my head for the entire article if that was the title.

From my perspective though none of his points seem to support his chosen title, "Programming is not for everybody."

(It gets a lot sillier when you realize that nobody would title an article "Logic is not for everybody.")

John McCarthy (AI, Lisp) once said something akin to: "I think everyone should learn programming. It's the language we'll use to talk to our servants."

I think there is something in programming for everybody. It doesn't have to be compiler design or making the next facebook. Even if its just understanding what an algorithm means, so that you can write clear directions (a recipe, after all, is just an algorithm for preparing food, complete with for/while loops, etc).

Programming is just logic plus communication. And being able to convey ideas more clearly and more accurately is a delightful skill that will find uses all over life, regardless of if your job is programmer, EMT, chef, etc.
E.g. in Portland, Oregon you have to show ID to buy spray paint.
People starving today aren't doing so because there's not enough food nor because people don't know how to grow it.
Friction losses aren't significant. These cars are limited by aerodynamic drag power -- this scales as speed^3, and dominates all other losses.

No.

"Of the energy output of fuel in a car engine, 33% is spent in exhaust, 29% in cooling and 38% in mechanical energy, of which friction losses account for 33% and air resistance for 5%. By comparison, an electric car has only half the friction loss of that of a car with a conventional internal combustion engine."

So, meh, even if magic self-driving cars had zero air resistance, they're only 5% more efficient than non-self-driving cars.
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I read the article but did not listen to the audio. I'd like to know if he's referring to all universities - online, brick-and-mortar, hybrid; private, public; for profit, not-for-profit; and any other categories I haven't thought of. I think a lot of the private for-profit ones will bite the dust, along with some of the smaller private not-for-profit schools. I think most of the public schools will still be around; from a market perspective, maybe some of them should bite the dust, but I don't think the state legislatures and other constituencies will allow that to happen. At least, not in the next 15 years.
Most likely related to behind the scenes algorithms (e.g. combating spam, ranking the front page, etc).
Sean Gorman did a lot of work around critical infrastructure and national security at GMU.[1] He ruffled a few feathers at the time. His research at GMU later turned into GeoIQ/[2]. I am not sure if you are interested in actual fiber mapping or the level of paranoia. If its the former there are some publications listed in the research section specifically about fiber mapping.[3]

[1] http://gembinski.com/interactive/GMU/

[2] http://www.geoiq.com/

[3] http://gembinski.com/interactive/GMU/research.html
That's because americans drag their feet. Look at what happened to ShangHai in 20 years: http://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-1990-vs-2010-2010-6

Or Dubai in 17: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/187773/

Or (in the US): South (new) Las Vegas: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=37228

Or take the 1994 LA Earthquake where the freeways were repaired 2.5 months early: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-06/news/mn-42778_1_santa...

Or you can even go 150 years back to when the London Sewage System was built, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_sewerage_system in a matter of a few years

Or Chongqing: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=172962 ... their rivers glisten brown with progress (I guess)

Or take the Chinese High Speed Rail which went from 0 KM in 2007 to 9300 KM in 2012.

Or take the German Autobahn which went from 108 KM to 3736 KM between 1935 and 1940.
Yes and No. You/We should not classify the cancers by "locations". It makes as much sense as classifying a leak in the house as "bathroom leak", "ceiling leak", "stairs leak". There are different cancers happening in different locations of the body and some share the same roots no matter where they start. The fact that they affect a specific organ is not necessarily related to the cancer type itself. There are often several mutations even for a single "cancer location" identified.
You just have to be around for some of them. Sometimes pg has done things to the UI of the site, then there is a large thread of community commentary, then it's kept, modified, or removed. If the feature shows up, and then goes away over the course of a day or two, you might miss that anything happened.
A lot of the cost of the ATV comes from the development cost and the low number of missions (for clairty I've amortized that cost through the missions planned up to 2014 in the above). Even so it costs about half a billion dollars just to build and launch each one. To be fair, the ATV is able to transfer propellant to the station which is something that only it and the Progress vehicles can do.

For myself, I'm merely an enthusiastic amateur, I've been studying spaceflight closely since I was a child and I've come to pick up a few tidbits of trivia along the way.
The Wikipedia article shows that passenger trains use about 35% less energy per passenger/mile than the average car. If fuel efficiency for cars rose to 40 mpg (less than a Prius), they'd be equivalent.
easy access to handguns has transformed communities like the South Side of Chicago

There is just no evidence that easy access to handguns has done any such thing. There's easy access to handguns pretty much everywhere in the country. Why is it to blame in south Chicago, when it hasn't had the same effect elsewhere? If anything, it's harder to get a handgun in Chicago.
http://www.ci.buffalo.mn.us/Admin/Citycode/1004.htm

> Subd. 14. C. Notwithstanding the language contained in Subdivision 6 of this section, all “potentially dangerous animals,” as defined in this Ordinance, which are outside of the owner’s residence, must be kept on a suitable leash, or in an enclosure which restricts the animal’s ability to egress from the owner’s property.

Buffalo buffalo are not buffaloed by fences, but it might buffalo a Buffalo buffalo to see another Buffalo buffalo on a leash.
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Looks like a very customizable widget. :)
I would just like to point out that not all sites do the following (and I'm unsure if OKC does), but watch out for tripwires as chacham15 said. Some sites that I've had the misfortune of "getting to know" use insignificant or blank inputs as a form of detecting unauthorized access.

One rule I follow is to: Retrieve, Analyse and Regurgitate Everything.
Does anyone know what Homecoming Week is?
Thanks, Steve.
Really insightful integration of the best new API's in APP.net into a mainstream app. Many of APP.net's API's are truly superior, a jewel in the rough.

I agree that it's even better than Apparchy - the best hack at last Oct's hackathon.

It's devs like you (and others) which belie APP.net's long-term strength and genius.
That's only partially true-- Amtrak owns the Northeast corridor. Amtrak's only innovation in forty years (!) on the NEC is Acela, a "high speed" offering that is marginally faster than regular service (shorter times mainly because Acela makes fewer stops) and is more expensive than private air shuttle travel along the same routes.
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That is really good to hear - all it took was probably a single checkbox in their email marketing software to not rewrite all emailed links.
Merging user contributions comes with a number of problems. It'll be interesting to know how they'll manage it. Or, they won't, and this is entirely token. For example, if the city tenders for engineering works, they will likely be required to supply the consultant with source data like road centrelines and road reserves, as-built water networks, etc. That has to be the official, verified, accurate data. User supplied just won't cut it.

I'm also dubious that GitHub is the right way to release data. There are a huge number of people interested in civic data, and GitHub is probably one of the least accessible ways for 99.9% of people to get it.

For example, a number of city and regional councils in New Zealand publish their data via Koordinates.com. Wellington City Council alone publishes over 50 key datasets:

http://koordinates.com/maps/wcc/layers/

(disclosure: I work for Koordinates)
AR-15s actually make excellent home defense weapons. 30 rounds on tap, very effective ballistics. And people don't realize it, but 5.56 typically has less overpenetration issues than buckshot.
As the person that convinced them to use GitHub, I suggested it to them because they were looking for an extremely easy way to bring changes from the community back in to the city's data. I suggested GitHub and GeoJSON because I envisioned them taking pull requests from citizens interested in adding more detail to their data or correcting existing data.

You're right, though: GitHub is horrible for large blobs of data like this. At the time I didn't know how big the data releases would end up being.

Tom and I have plans to talk more about future data releases and how they might be made with a more appropriate tool.
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"Your goal = prove that the product can be sold"

Noooo! This makes it sound like you can start with a pricing model that is way off and change it later. When you change it, you better be charging for something different, or customers will be pissed. Netflix is perfect example. Great service, great product, and then they lost a lot of customer when they said, "Instead of paying A and getting X and Y, we're only going to give you X for A, and you can pay B for Y." If you do change pricing, you need to change the product package in a way the customer can justify.
Node will perform better under high concurrency too for most sized responses.

Can you share evidence supporting this claim?
Hindsight bias. These didn't become complains until many months after launch. What phones had GPS, cut & paste (?) or a Maps application at the time? Except for BB and maybe Bada, the other "smart" phones only offered primitive low-res Java apps. The Nokia N series was the only one with decent cameras, everyone else had VGA 640x480 toys.

I also bought a 1st gen iPod touch on the week it was released and never had any serious issues with Safari other than browser compatibility.
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I'm all for a HSR system and I think it sounds AWESOME, but I have doubts if it would ever catch on.

HSR would have to compete with the current airline system. If it's cheaper, more convenient to ride, and the time required to travel is comparable to airline, it could catch on, but as it stands I'm unsure if there's enough room for it to survive while competing against the airline system.

Commercial airlines travel at around 500-600 miles per hour, so if a HSR system is able to reach 220mph, then the plane will get you there about ~2.5x as fast. Of course. People consider their time to be valuable, so if you need to get somewhere quick, you'd likely just take the airplane, unless you're traveling somewhat nearby (like San Francisco to Los Angeles). It would appeal to most people not having to deal with the TSA, but there's no guarantee TSA wouldn't decide that it's their duty to "protect" (terrorize) the people in the HSR system as well.

Somebody please write me a message to convince me my message is nonsense and that a HSR system is a great idea.
I'm suggesting applying that logic to commenters that have been previously identified as described above, not just individual comment threads.

In other words, be more proactive about it, when we already know said commenter spams the comment sections.
> Guns are weapons intended to kill.

Mine must not be working right then. Do you think I could get a refund? Seriously though, what does it mean or matter to say that an inanimate object is "intended" to do anything?

And there are all kinds of legitimate uses. Target practice/sporting uses, hunting (as you mention), self defense, defense against tyranny...
The infrastructure debt in the US is huge and it gets harder and harder every year to catch up. The idea that self driving cars, as some seem to argue below this post, will somehow solve this infra debt is IMHO just plain uninformed. The Economist sets the underinvestment at $94 billion / year.

If the US doesn't sort this out it will have a significant impact in growth in the future. You can maybe see some of the effects of this already in the faster moving Internet infrastructure.
Now now. Anyone named Tex would probably not hold such wrong-headed beliefs about guns :)
Why is any website less accessible than any other website? Further being realistic anyone who doesn't know how to navigate Github (or can't figure it out), is very unlikely to ever care about this data. The people who do care are the intermediaries who put it in a more consumable form (e.g. mobile apps, etc)
There's also the matter of the effect on the urban (and suburban) environment, something which more directly effects most people.

Widespread car usage is enormously destructive in this sense, because of insane amounts of space it requires (and the degree of danger it introduces). The bicycle, well, not so much (and pedestrians even less, of course).

The negative environmental effects of cars is well-publicized (and apparently politically effective) but it's hardly the only, or even the most significant, problem with widespread car use.
There are all kinds of caustic chemical that can be bought in small quantities though. We're not talking about needing a truckload of the stuff to do something horrific.
Are these self-driving cars expected to organize themselves into 'trains' that go 220mph or am I missing something?

Also, w.r.t. the spaceship, what happens if the time between the tech for spaceship #1 and the tech for spaceship #2 includes an extinction-level event? Why build spaceship #2 when we can just wait another couple hundred years and assume that obviously we will improve it even more?

Why buy a new computer when it will be obsolete within a couple of months? I should just never buy a new computer and then I will never have to worry about it being obsolete!
Just out of curiosity, would this reply — which is now deeply nested — be considered spamming if you had your way? How about your subsequent reply to this one?
>... though the Shuttle could also return significant amounts of cargo.

Just how much is a matter of some dispute. At one time a plan to return Hubble was under consideration, but even though the shuttle was supposedly designed to handle cargo that large, NASA finally decided it would be too dangerous.
I'm going to be visiting it for the first time this week (on business), I'm really excited. Except for the cold:)
They aren't super human, but then have more eyes on each line of code that goes into space than most code..
Ah yes, I've heard of that train. It doesn't go any faster than 100mph does it?
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HIV is also fundamentally different and difficult in that it is a retrovirus. This matters tremendously when it comes to eradicating the virus from an infected individual - it's not just a foreign body abusing the cell's replication mechanisms any more.
Oh, yes, I remember that one. Portuguese is not my first language, but I am fluent. I've been given that phrase before (and failed on the suar part despite knowing that verb). Tricky, indeed. Just a small correction, suar is to sweat.

I recall a protest sign that said "Veta Dilma!", or "Veto Dilma!" (the President of Brazil), but the protester meant to put a comma in there, as in "Veto, Dilma!" because the protest was about a bill running through congress.

Another one was "Mesmo sujo, governo quer rio Pinheiros sem cheiro" (Even though it's dirty, the government wants the Pinheiros river to be rid of the bad smell). The problem is the wording which makes it seem like the government is dirty, and not the river. Better would have been "Governo quer rio Pinheiros sem mau cheiro, mesmo que sujo" (The government wants the Pinheiros river without the bad smell, even though it's dirty.).
From your github profile, it appears that you work for koordinates. https://github.com/hamishcampbell

Why not disclose this in your comment?