skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's tons of space to do this in without compromising the quality of the city. Bayview and south from there, all the way to South San Francisco where there is tons of undeveloped space, and where the combination of new large developments with high-speed commuter rail (i.e. modern fast BART, with a couple of branching lines - CalTrain is decades past prime) could end up being cheaper and faster to build. It doesn't have to be the heart of the city, nor does it have to be the suburban sprawl you commute to/from +2hrs per day. It should be a menu of options.
The reason it's hard to parse is that random amendments can be added late in the game which totally change the meaning of the law (of course, they could be added to any bill). And, I was trying to be charitable.
It does stay responsive while scanning a large (200k) [Gmail]/All mail folder, but apparently it has a single connection to Gmail because no other folders or messages can be obtained during the download. After about five minutes it has a basic list of headers (but not the subjects) and there seems to be more concurrency. It would be better if it chunked the large scan and allowed other operations to complete (assuming progressive scanning is possible).
If you abolish the patent, you would then become like China and Russia and a few of the other countries where lots of STEALING takes place...Hence, a dive in creativity would happen, just like you see in China and Russia for the last 100 or so years since socialism and communism.

Also, China, only very very few are rich, definitely less than the USA's 1 percent. And only those in power make the decisions, those little guys ideas are easily walked on by a number of "market competition" methods.
Once you settle, other trolls see you as a target. Kipling's Dane-Geld [1] explains this pretty well. "Getting on with life" is not something that paying extortionate patent settlements will always allow you to do.

By spending more resources to not only defend themselves, but also destroy the weapon that the patent troll is using, Rackspace is advertising that not only do other trolls risk spending money in court, but they also risk the invalidation of their patents. Anyone trolling is unlikely to want to risk that.

1: http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.html
Make an announcement and color their names pink, so everyone knows they're dealing with under-10-year-olds when reading their comments.

Or maybe a little dunce cap icon next to their name.
Yup. They're not because people fought back in the 60's to preserve large amounts of land in Marin. Don't expect any different in SF. The existing residents don't want more density and rightly so since it lowers their standard of living. This article just seems like a bunch whining. If you can't afford an apartment, just get a roommate.
Same thing I said in another thread, but it is relevant here too:

Books like this should really offer a money back guarantee.

Why? It signals quality and enables speculative purchasing.

The quality signal I think is obvious.

The speculative purchasing is an incremental sale. Emotionally, I'm not going to purchase this book without a guarantee unless I've decided to commit time to read it. However, with a guarantee I can buy it on the chance that I might read it. It's not logical, I know, but it is how customers work emotionally.

Also, economically your guarantee is basically free. 99% of the time its not worth my time to request the refund even if I don't like the book. The 1% is if your book has made me emotionally angry due to its poor content (1 book I've ever read).

But, people will game the system? No they won't. At least not in sufficient volume to make it worth worrying about. If I want to scam a free copy of your book, it's likely I can find a pirated version faster than I can get my wallet and enter my credit card number.
In addition to the points I made below (pit bull isn't a breed, but an umbrella term for six different breeds, et al.), a few paragraphs under the portion you pasted on wikipedia:

Several studies determined that pit bull owners, and owners of other "vicious" or "high risk" breeds (most commonly identified as Akita, Chow Chow, Doberman Pinscher, Rottweiler, and Wolf-mix), are more likely to have criminal convictions and are more likely to display antisocial behaviors. A 2006 study compared owners of "high risk" dogs to owners of "low risk" dogs. "High risk" dogs included “vicious” dogs by breed (e.g., pit bulls) or “vicious” actions (e.g., any dog that had bitten, attacked, or killed a person or other animal). The study determined that "high risk" dog owners had nearly 10 times as many criminal convictions then did "low risk" dog owners.[39] A 2009 study[40] and a followup 2012 study generally supported these findings.[41]
"To use Route in Internet Explorer you need to Install Google Chrome Frame Plugin"

Practically speaking, the site is broken for a large segment of the Project Manager population. This suggests a disconnect with your intended customer base.

<edit> change "intended" to "potential."
That is in fact more or less what the law allows firms to do: when their database is compromised, they are allowed to cooperate with other service providers and with law enforcement to track down what actually happened to their systems without spending $50,000 to ensure that they aren't violating, say, DPPA.
Big ups on your use of GGplot--best R graphing capabilities around!
In response to your update about the QQ Plot, I didn't compare against normality like you did (the article is comparing exponentials, so a normal QQ isn't the best choice). The QQ Plot just compars the quantiles of one distribution to another (could be an ecdf against a hypothesized cdf, or an ecdf against another ecdf...). Essentially, by plotting one set of points against another, I'm suggesting that the empirical distribution of Annie is the same as the empirical distribution of Brian, or any other pairing.
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I worked at Lehman from 2004-2008 in investment banking and on the bond trading floor and I think I have a little more balanced view.

Yes, there are people on wall street that hate their jobs. Yes, there are people obsessed with money. That's easy to point out. But there are also some people that are there because they like working with their friends and making big bets, and getting proven wrong or right. It's actually similar to the culture of being a contrarian that I see in SV. And as to the point where the guy felt shorted by a million dollar bonus, wouldn't you feel shorted if you made the company 10x that in profit on your trades, and all your friends at other firms that made 10x got a bigger check than you? That's human nature, not something specific to wall street, even if it's easy to throw up your hands and say how shocking it is because of the amounts involved.

Anyway, I don't mean to be overly harsh on the article. It's possible my additional time there put some blinders on, and I still have a lot of friends that work on the street (a good percentage of whom actually like their jobs). It was really interesting to get Nick's perspective, and it's especially awesome that it's from someone else who has jumped over to startups from wall street. Just throwing my 2 cents in.
Do I have Aspergers if I fit the description of one almost exactly? The author seemed to be describing me.. I am pretty socially capable and I can look people in the eye, so I don't know.
"How are you doing?" - "Keeping Busy"

It's an answer for original sin or low self-esteem or something; or fta : guilt. By default, I suck. But if I'm busy then you can't yell at me for doing nothing to alleviate my sucky effect upon the world, because I'm busy after all.

A busy person is worthy of existence. Call them a disgusting , lazy, stupid, stinky bum guilty of a thousand shameful sins - but at least they're busy.
C/Ada/ObjC/C++/Fortran cross compiler for Android
It's funny you should mention that. Random amendments were in fact added to CISPA 2012. They did things like, for instance, ensuring that terms of services violations wouldn't constitute cyberthreats, or making it clear that bill wasn't intended to stop piracy.

The amendments are public too. You can actually read them.

As you can see, I'm not very charitable about this. Nerds are to online regulation what the Michigan Militia is to gun control. I respect and defer to fact-based objections to CISPA, but I have no patience for the (large set of) people who simply make things up about it to try to win arguments.
That's a pretty nonsense sentiment. How can a database be "faster" than a language?
I was very surprised when I took it too. And I just did it after my son was diagnosticated with PDD-NOS. So I guess it is true it has a genetic component :)
I had that problem on Chrome 26.0.1410.63 as well. If you refresh the page (or just go directly to the URL that gets produced after you specify a repo), it won't be there.
"You guys need to understand that these guys are super Japanese, complete with the culture of never wanting to show dishonor."

Then why have a Reddit Q&A about their failures?
I have been following this project for a while. I remember seeing a comment around here, referring to it as "vaporware" so I am glad to see they have some working samples now, and I hope to see their Flying Squirrel user-upgradeable tablet soon on the market.
Ironically, I am creating this thread to test if I'm hell banned. Please respond :)
India's Solution To Drug Costs: Ignore Patents - Except For Home Grown Drugs
If you abolish the patent, you would then become like China and Russia and a few of the other countries where lots of STEALING takes place...Hence, a dive in creativity would happen,

You have no way of proving this connection. Practice even shows completely the opposite - absence of software patents increases creativity. "Stealing" is using the patents to extort money. Or should I rather call it robbing to sound more appropriate? So abolishing software patents will reduce robbing.
"Which, it turns out, is a trader’s field day. What this meant, in its simplest form, is that these traders (or salespeople) could buy bonds at the "market" price from intelligent hedge fund managers in NYC and sell this same crap at much higher levels to unsophisticated (but legally considered "sophisticated") pension funds and insurance companies in middle America. What I discovered, quite starkly, is that the part of Wall Street that I worked in was simply transferring wealth from the less sophisticated investors often teachers’ pension funds and factory workers’ retirement accounts, to the more sophisticated investors..."

"'We are important providers of liquidity that create stable financial markets. We’re a crucial part of a system. And besides, if we don’t do it, someone else will.' These are the lies that people tell themselves so that they can buy larger homes."

Both of these things are completely true, and that's why American public policy is having such a hard time grappling with Wall Street. We try to rationalize the state of affairs by pointing out all the ways that Wall Street has an "unfair advantage" but the fact of the matter is that: what do you expect in a free market system that rewards every marginal advantage other than wealth to flow from less sophisticated people to more sophisticated ones? We like the idea of letting everyone transact freely, but we are uncomfortable with the "winner take all" implication of that policy.

Wall Street:
1) Hires some of the brighest people in the country (e.g. 40% of the author's class at Yale);
2) Aggressively weeds out that impressive pool by forcing out all but the most promising people within a few years;
3) Trains them rigorously and maintains a level of institutional knowledge transfer that tech companies can only dream of.

Why are we surprised that they disproportionately get the better end of every transaction?
What's wrong with Yahoo email compared to, say, Gmail or Hotmail?
There's even more cleverness you can do -- there are exact summation algorithms[1], which guarantee that the sum you get is the floating point representation of the real number sum corresponding to the sum of the real numbers corresponding to the summands (that's a mouthful!). However, they have superlinear runtimes and non-constant space (well, assuming you don't incorporate the size of the float into the constant). In Python, you can use math.fsum to use one. However, even these cannot recover already-lost precision, so these need to be used with care as well. For example, if you solve a quadratic and average the two roots to get the quadratic's maximum or minimum (stupid approach, yes this is contrived), you already have some lost precision in solving the quadratic and rounding results that isn't possible to recover. Also, if there is cancellation involved, there is error you can't recover from -- this is called the condition number of the sum (it is (Sum abs(x_i)) / abs(Sum x_i)), and it represents a error bound (of a complex sort) that it's impossible to improve upon.

[1] www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/quake/public/papers/robust-arithmetic.ps
In this case, the vendor should just increase their prices to reflect the interest on the credit that they're extending Amazon for those twenty days. This is equivalent to Amazon borrowing from a bank for those 20 days, but perhaps for some reason the creditor's interest rate is lower than the bank's.
Not exactly what you're talking about (I think the linked `juju` is probably closer), but I came across Docker[0] recently.

It's more of a framework for managing deployments locally. -- It seems really cool but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.

[0]: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/examples/python_web_app/
When I was a teenager I was interviewing bands with a tape recorder and printing the interesting parts in photocopied fanzines we would give away for free at shows and record stores. Nowadays kids interview CEOs via email and charge $15 to download a PDF of their responses. The times they are a changing.
Yes

Not to mention London and Paris have a very good public transport system

In the Bay Area you have Caltrain and company shuttles mostly.
Absolutely, but they comprise ~2/3 of this list.
I wish i could read it, sounds interesting but the font color just hurts my eyes.
They took you to pages of interesting web links curated by Netscape, on their servers. The URLs were hardcoded into the binary.
The Origin of Skunk Works
I clicked more than one options above
You just made an argument that is directly contradicted by the text of the bill.

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>Modern languages like JavaScript and Ruby are great, in that they do a huge amount for you under the surface, but then you don’t actually know what they’re going to do. Ruby got burned pretty badly recently when some systems listening on the network were a little too … friendly. Engineering is a game of tradeoffs. So, of course, is business.

That sounds... a bit... confused. Was there really such an issue with Ruby or is he getting his wires crossed with the Rails problems of recent?
Any two timestamps which surround this point in time will show the same discrepancy, when evaluated in this time zone. He could have started off comparing 2013 and 1822 for all we know.
Repeated security breaches with Yahoo mail over the past year.

A general focus on unsophisticated, non-technical users, which means users are much more likely to be easily victimized.
> Seems a little odd. Does Apple ever give official responses on these issues?

Does there need to be one? They're incredibly annoying, especially when high-profile apps get away with them.
In the past decade or so (basically since it came out) I've tried Thunderbird 3 times. Each time it lost some of my data. Granted only the first 2 times was I using POP; with IMAP having an e-mail client that completely corrupts and is unable to recover the local mailbox isn't nearly as big a deal, but it still makes me not want to use it.

Even Evolution, which had a history of crashing if I looked at it funny, and seemed to be implemented as a loosely associated group of processes, any one of which could decide to monopolize the CPU and/or disk IO at any point never lost e-mail messages for me.
If the text of the bill doesn't matter, the text of every other privacy-related bill doesn't matter either, and we can skip all these pointless arguments and let them pass SOPA. After all, they're just going to use milk safety regulations to combat piracy.
The Geary and California lines have upwards of 80,000 riders a day. It's absolutely insane. There's a lot of plans for Geary BRT, but really it seems like they should have done something about a subway for Geary. Geary itself is the most ridden muni line, rail or bus, in SF.

If you captured most of those riders for a subway (which should have been done instead of this central subway mess) that patched into the current MUNI system, that line alone would be the 8th most ridden light rail system in the US, and put SF to the top of light rail usage in the US.
*are social media worthless. Are, not is.
Look at the curve though. Age should be a smooth bell curve, but here it spikes on the ends (even when accounting for the fact that the end choices potentially cover more than the 5 years covered by the other options), which is clear evidence of error.
But with out patents there is no incentive for innovation.

This is quite obviously false, as there was innovation before patents were invented and not all innovations nowadays are patented. It isn't even at all clear that the existence of patents increases innovation.
Want to understand something about particle physics?
Sure. But you realize that reals are sometimes equal?

Also, comparison is also undecideable, and that's pretty certainly an operation you want to have at times.
Try harder:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...
OK, I get what you are going after. From your market research (and I'm curious here), do people tend to work better with such deadline-driven approach? My experience with Trello (and other PMs, is that they do not. But we are operating in different markets). Also, who is this made for (who is your market)?
Someone ought to point out that this response is definitive.
I thought it was a term of endearment and wasn't considered offensive by Aspergers folks... er.. "those with Aspergers"... seeing why the diminutive label is useful here. What do you call such a person? You don't call them an "Aspergers". "Aspie" seems to work.
There's a legitimate reason for the Internet Hate Machine to try to preempt bad law -- it takes a long time to power it up, and sometimes bad law is forced through quickly. The forcing through bad laws with minimal public comment and debate (epitomized by PATRIOT) is the real problem, there, though. There is no possible argument that CISPA, SOPA, or PIPA issues are so pressing as to not allow a reasonable period for commentary and debate.
Massive Brute-force attack Targets Wordpress sites worldwide
U. of Toronto Class Assignment Backfires in Clash on Wikipedia
Trading on Mt Gox has absolutely nothing to do with the bitcoin blockchain.
> Apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct marketing of any kind.

They do a very poor job of enforcing this. Around Christmas about every app I have sent me a "I'm still here!" push notification around that time advertising itself. And every zynga game I've purchased (a habit I've discontinued) does this both for itself and for other zynga games a few times a month.
Inventing the Mouse
Over the years I've evolved the strategy of asking very specific questions like that on forums. Precise code snippets seem to get precise answers. Broader code with the same problem attract many times more answers, but they are almost all junk.

When I stumble on some unusual behavior I pare it down to the simplest case possible, then ask about that problem. If I don't, the top several answers will invariably be "Why are you writing in X?! Y is so much better for this" and critiquing other parts of the code that aren't causing the odd behavior.
The best piece of all comes from their answer about new servers.

> Upgrading computer systems means ordering more servers (2 weeks timeframe), setting up (1 day), load testing (2 weeks) and deployment (1 day). It's a process that can take up to one month in total.
Quake 3 engine in Rust
Well, flowchart software isn't especially sexy, and unlike clothes or music or a game or something along those lines you're probably not going to be intrigued by the prospect of flowchart software unless you're actively looking to make a flowchart.

Pepsi's also a bad example, it's a 100-year-old behemoth of a company and it would be difficult to point to any single thing as responsible for a loss in revenue, especially a social media campaign. Pepsi also isn't especially sexy from a social media perspective, if you check their twitter it's a lot of "Hey, anyone drinking a Pepsi right now?" which to me at least isn't particularly compelling.

Social media can be extremely effective, local businesses especially can get a lot from not a ton of investment. Bars and restaurants can post specials, parties, pictures from past events, do ticket giveaways, etc. In SF at least a lot of nightlife promotion and engagement happens on Facebook, and you only really need a person or two per venue or production house to make that happen effectively.
You can try making that argument to the folks who handle zoning for the City of San Francisco. Seems unlikely that will persuade them to let you demolish half the city, but it's worth a shot I guess.
Oh yeah, people are swapping BitCoin for (old school) currency Y and then back again like crazy.

I thought you meant people using Bitcoin to do arbitage between (old school) currencies X and Y

I agree that speculation is harming bitcoin. It needs less volatility to be truely useful. But then when a genuinely innovative currency/technology suddenly gets a ton of press, I don't see how a spike could be avoided.
I personally feel this may be taking the "games as art" discussion a bit too far. Yes, some games are art, and almost all games have artistic value. But when I'm playing Quake, I don't care about any of that. All I care about is that it's fun and it's challenging and I'm playing with my friends. Just like when I'm watching the latest summer blockbuster, I don't care that it won't win an Oscar, or that the girl in the plot is really just there to stand around and look pretty, or that the hero is somehow surviving things that no human could withstand. It's fun.

I could go through Ico with this post and glean a lot from it. Taking the same thing to Battlefield 3 might yield substantially different results. I personally don't care. Not all the music I listen to is art, either.