skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good argument for communist ownership of real estate by the government. Not good enough of an argument, but a good argument.

the thing is, though, isn't that what makes new york so unique? you don't think the right and attraction of a billionaire to go there and spend tens of millions might have something to do with it?

isn't that the very thing that separates it from bumfuck, iowa?
Jarvis the PA That Goes Beyond Siri To Embrace The Connected Home
This is just pure gold. When I was younger, I always pirated stuff because I didn't have the money nor the means. But today, my Steam collection is worth over a 1000 dollars and I buy more games I could play.

It hurts me when people my age (27) don't consider buying stuff they like. I mean, you are paying the creators of the stuff you like so that they can create more of it.

No one wants to work for free, why should we expect others to do it? Just because there is zero cost to digitally copy something doesn't mean that it was made with zero cost.
#include <sarcasm.h>
> Dubai is having a massive problem with sewage

I don't understand why people always bring this up about Dubai. In 2010 a new treatment plant was completed that nearly doubled capacity. Dubai probably has a better sewage system than most US cities now (and the funds to expand it if needed). The controversy was that in 2009 there were lots of queues for sanitation trucks to dump their waste, so a lot of drivers just illegally dumped it. This resulted in some of the waste ending up in the sea water, so there were concerns over the health of beach goers (tourists). Where I'm from in the UK, up until around 15 years ago, raw sewage was dumped into the sea by design [0].

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-332000-90000...
That same grease make my cuts all red and inflamed. What gets me is that its rarely jobs that you know will be hard that result in cuts. It's the small simple ones. Switch a ram stick on this beige box, change a set of windscreen wipers. Adjust the temp on the hot water cylinder. Do anything maintenance related to a washing machine.
I consider myself as a professional programming language designer* . I try to explain what this means to my wife, a visual/interaction designer, and it's a struggle. We do talk a lot about color, typography, and grids, however, which actually is important in PX as it is in UX.

* who hasn't made it to the big time yet. I masquerade in the meantime as a researcher.
At first, I thought that the address indicated what Google assumed was my geographic location, but a quick search returned, "The Zeitgeist Bar" in San Francisco.
You got Berlin right and even split Kreuzberg off from Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. It's a little buggy and your URLs should probably convert ß to ss, but I'm impressed.
My last phone came re-skinned and with default apps replaced by branded, pretty poor carrier specific versions. After a few months some of these apps stopped working and because they ran in the background I was inundated with failure notifications for processes I didn't want and could not stop. It's madness for a mobile phone operator to apply their control so uselessly.

Fortunately being a nerd has its benefits and I installed Cyanogen to avoid the horror, but I can't see how the non-geek user would be able to sidestep the bloat and bugs. The process for rooting and wiping the phone was extremely long. If in future there is the possibility that the engineers of such mods could create a one-click route there would be many more happy users.
Actually you can combine middleman and dynamic pages to get fast static pages and still keep a few dynamic endpoints. We did this on our website http://hull.io for email registration, and blogged about it here : http://blog.hull.io/post/45912703356/the-perfect-almost-stat... - when 90% of your users only consume static content, you greatly benefit from this.
So true! Its beyond ridiculous when you are forced to enter captchas on tiny sites which hardly get 10 visitors in a day. Have seen this in numerous such sites.

Pure evil!
Opera sues ex-employee for $3.4m for suggesting Firefox redesign
It is the Universe from our point of view. All the observations span through an entire sky, which makes it the map of the Universe.
If you are paid at market or above though you aren't taking a outsized risk.
Yep that's in the first episode.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA8DC67D52968201
No, I think Google's ultimate goal is making money. They only know how to make money by selling ads. They have made squat by selling hardware.
A French love affair... with graphology
No, it is the view of the 'visible' universe from earth. Most of the band through the middle is the milky way but the rest is elsewhere in the universe.
It's kinda funny. 3 or 4 years ago, all the rumors were: advertising based free Android phones. But everyone thought Google was going to do it directly. Instead, it turns out to be "free" via subsidy (and via subsidy, advertising): carriers and their partners load cheap midrange Android phones up with their apps/ads.

I'm happy to have always purchased Nexus or something I knew was well supported by CM. As long as that continues to be true, I don't care what Verizon sells, I'm happy.
I wrote a related post a while ago to answer to anyone who says MBAs can't start companies: http://wannabevc.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/mba-startups/
If these processes ever go into production and create cheap fuel, the world will really change. Presumably it will stop oil extraction industries from the top down, i.e. high cost producers first. So tar sands, shale oil and deep water sub-salt are the first to go (Canada, offshore Brazil, ...).

Even though Saudi Arabia is the lowest cost producer, it gives a lot of the profits away to the people, in free health services, education, housing, low cost fuel, and, increasingly, in bundles of cash, to reduce dissent. Of course, the extended royal family takes a huge piece of the pie too. The break-even cost of oil to balance current budgets in the GCC states is in the range $80-130, with exception of Kuwait at $55:

http://www.businessinsider.com/breakeven-oil-prices-2012-6

The current price is around $100 for Brent, so it would only take a 25% price fall to put the whole region in recession and turmoil (note Bahrain is under water at the current price). The 'curse of oil' often means there is not much other industry to take up the slack in these economies, although the UAE has done a much better job than Saudi Arabia on that score. If you add recent news stories about deep sea methane hydrate extraction, and fusion research at Lockheed Martin SkunkWorks, the leaders of the world's oil producing nations must be getting just a little bit apprehensive.
The article is titled "An Insider's Educational Experience" so it is mostly based on one student's experiences.

Living here in Japan now, I sometimes wonder how my life and beliefs would be different had I grown up and gone through the education system here. Since it's impossible to go back and re-do that, the next best thing is to get the impressions from people that have gone through another education system and the Japanese one because they can easily compare the two systems.
Is it Time to Update Your Website Content?
monofur for life. It's a pretty quixotic font but I haven't seen one that has better clarity of distinguishing between characters as it.
Okay, Awesome. Now find something else that will eat up the carbon being released from burning that diesel fuel.
Does this
日本東京都足立区足立２丁目
look like this?
japan/tokyo/adachi/
Hint: It doesn't.
You bring up a good political point actually, glad you brought it up.

Apple doesn't use it's most mass-market product, the iPad, to develop the next iPad. But it does use Macs, probably even where they're slightly worse than PC's. If some kind of developer at Apple really needs a Laptop with 64 GB of RAM they probably can't get away with it without a very good justification.

This does, however, have objective benefits as far as company image, esprit de corps, promotion, etc.

But Apple might be a special case.

I guess it comes down to whether you're building just a tool or a lifestyle image.

If you're building a lifestyle product, then sure homogeneity or self-promotion has a huge objective value to the company.
UK Government passes “Instagram Act”
For an excellent book on sanitation, I can recommend "The Big Necessity" by Rose George.

http://rosegeorge.com/site/books/the-big-necessity
He lp, the kerning in your eva lua t ion screenshot looks terrible. I prefer other Op t ions. ;)
> (What happens when governments get locked in a bad Nash equilibrium?
>Well, you get the Cold War

Except M.A.D worked. It's an example of a beneficial Nash equilibrium because the stable state was a military stalemate.

If one side had the bomb and the other didn't you get Hiroshima and Nagasaki all over again, and if neither had the bomb you'd get a conventional WW3.
Same here.
But when I edited the URL to include my hometown, of which there are 3 places sharing the same name, the inclusion of a zip code returned the correct map.
The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I)
The 3.9 kernel is out
Using technology in the classroom
Now make it work internationally.

Good luck with all the address formats and disagreements about addresses (and places like Ireland where the address can be in either language).
The issues with eroding privacy and with the amount of data needed to create targeted advertising are well explored, thus to expand the discussion a bit, lets talk about the subjects outside the scope of privacy.

Advertising, be that targeted or not, are problematic. In return for redirecting how people spend money, they distract people and steals time.

A child growing up is in average spending 133 hours watching TV commercials[1]. Add that with commercials on the web, games, and other media and the time spent on commercial is maybe longer for a child then what they spend learning a subject like math in school. If you then include the time lost from the distracting effect while reading email, or accessing a news site, and the cost of advertising to the individual goes up. People who's main problem at work or school is the ability to focus should strongly consider using tools such as ad-block. It could be the difference between graduating or not.

In contrast, opt-in advertising like recommendation services do not have those issues, and are in my view the only form of targeted advertising that are morally on the OK side. They use primarily legal methods in their businesses model, and do not need to use exploits and legal trickery to work.

[1]: http://www.statisticbrain.com/television-watching-statistics...
Iraq unrest prompts TV channel ban
How that would work globally I do not know... fine for most of the Western World, useless in India maybe, etc.

Forget India, Ireland (right beside the UK) has no postcodes.

Even within the UK (Fermanagh) postcode usage can be spotty.
Ah, turns out it is one-time.
Ask HN: What's the best book to learn Python for Financial Applications?
Can someone point me to a resource that explains Python and libraries from the perspective of financial applications like Trading apps.
> Consider an address in Japan. They do not have road names, instead, they use building/block numbers for naming/addressing. While that can still be modelled as a nice URL, the convention is now flipped, and people will be confused

It's not flipped at all. Japanese addresses go big -> small, just like the URL. As a matter of fact, the US addresses are flipped since US addresses go the other way.

For example:

Tokyo-to (city), Taito-ku (ward), Yanagibashi (neighborhood) 2 (area)-20 (block)-2 (building) 602 (room number)

It would fit into the proposed URL scheme perfectly: Tokyo/Taito/Yanagibashi/2/20/2/602
Chat apps overtake SMS for the first time
In theory there should be only one high street per locality.

You will have to throw out assumptions like that as soon as you start dealing with addresses in any serious manner.
> Couch Map/Reduce is a toy (just like Riak) and is not to be trusted.

Really? How so?
You can block it on your router.
When converting from utf-8 to ascii with iconv, try specifying "ASCII//TRANSLIT" as target encoding to avoid removing foreign characters.
Building Strategic Partnerships: The Piggy Back Theory
Anyone got even one example of a startup "coming back" from the "I can't pay my employees" hole ?
I believe the biggest issue we developers face is that we cannot wrap our heads around what makes good design good. We look at a web page and think "wow this is beautiful and clean", but when we have to create our own, our mind blanks out. What we fail to see is that design is made out of patterns, just like programming. The problem is we cannot name those patterns.

I strongly recommend the reading of The Non Designer's Design Book[1]. It does a good job of explaining the basic principles of design (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity) and constitutes a good start for those like me who have no prior formal education in design and want to learn how dissect a web page in its parts.

[1]http://books.google.it/books/about/The_Non_Designer_s_Design...
Just because your native language can be expressed in ASCII, your name can be split into a first and a last name and you live in a country with grid-like streets doesn't mean that internationalization and anything related to location is easy.

Apple learned it the hard way.
I think you see movement to higher end processes even in non-high end stuff.

There are lower-end[1] and higher-end[2] microcontrollers moving to more advanced processes. And due to the unique manufacturing requirements of those(building flash memory on chip), only a few companies can manufacture those.And this especially true since micro-controllers don't make that much money for fab owners.

You see the same story in medium-performance-asic's, fpga's, memories ,etc.

In the end, even when you don't have to move to newer(and rarer) manufacturing processes , it give you better prices, lower power and more capabilities. So it tends to happen.

[1]infeneon manufactures cortex-m0 on 65nm.32-bit , price: 0.25euro-1.25euro. Included for example a math co-processor for better motor control.
[2]Renesas manufactures higher end microcontrollers on 40nm and working on 28nm.
[3]Marvell does 55nm microcontroller with large ram, which it targets to internet controlled home appliances.
How Skynet Might Emerge From Simple Physics
People are making great points about ways to improve the service based on the way addressss vary around the world.

Could we present these as helpful suggestions, especially including one or more examples based on our local knowledge? Rather than everyone piling on with dismissive one-upmanship?
Design is neither art, science, or engineering, rather it is...design! Everyone practices design in some aspect of their job, which is developed mostly through experience.

Design is about communication, and science invariably involves design, but they aren't otherwise very equivalent. Nor is design equal to art, though some art activities involve design and vice versa.

As a researcher, I've practiced much more design than development, and would definitely go the IxD path rather than the SDE path if I ever left research. I've never felt like I was actually doing science.
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The thing with India is that roads didn't necessarily have names or numbers.

I navigated more by "When you're past the ornately carved and colourful chapel go straight on and do a right, turn left when you see the blue building, we're in the red one third down with the blue door.".

Some places have such details, but a lot of the towns and villages just added roads organically and wouldn't stop to centrally register them, name them, number them, assign them identifiers, etc.
It would be very interesting to see the age demographic of people that pirate this kind of thing. I used to pirate (allegedly) stuff when I was a kid too.
Said company is also well known for investing in and reserving capacity from their partners, so it's not like they don't take a direct role in ensuring they have enough chips.

Samsung can't just divert capacity away for their own use if Apple basically owns it for N years.
Where can I find the source for this? Supposedly with an explanation on when (and by whom) to expect this?
The dangerous seduction of the Lifetime Value profit formula from a customer
New imaging technology could reveal cellular secrets
One thing that I think is sad is the poor Dalit ("Untouchable") girls who have it as their job to collect other people's shit using bits of cardboard or tin :-(
I thought AMD sold their FABs awhile ago?
Wow I never really knew what these were as a kid but always found the demo intros amazing.
I had an Amstrad 6128 at the time and a cracked version of Bloodwynch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodwych) had the most amazing demo with an incredible sound track.

I used to just load the demo and listen to that track over and over, it was awesome.

Which I could find it now.
When that day comes it's going to be awesome. I'm going to walk up to various people in the office and say something like "Hey, I was at the mall yesterday and midget donkey porn I thought I saw you".
The Freight Train That Is Android (2011)
Programming is not easy
Learning to rank in a very Bayesian way
I took another approach to this. I have been meaning to post it to HN for a while, though it is still a little raw. I call it geokode - https://geokode.com - it is meant to be like bitly for location. You can essentially choose what your url should be for any location. This makes it very user-friendly and you can also brand your location link. Currently, you can only use English characters and numbers. I have pre-populated it with some entries (see examples below), but the goal is to get users to create their own 'geokodes' as I like to call them. I am also working on a API to make the location data available once the geokode is provided. You can even link a geokode to GPS coordinates, which will be especially useful in countries where addresses are not simple. Obviously, the site needs a lot more polish, but let me know what you think. It is currently free to register a geokode - I have to update the demo video.

Some examples to highlight use cases:

https://geokode.com/*abckitchen

https://geokode.com/*disrupt

https://geokode.com/*joneswedding

https://geokode.com/*dormroomfundhq

Also, I will be at TC Disrupt in NY today in the Startup Alley in the Mobile category. Feel free to come by.
Interesting article, even though I rarely play electronic games, except the free games in the FreeBSD ports tree.
I remember those too :-) Great!

Zooming I mostly did with applying Bresenham to drawing bitmaps instead of lines (And then obviously repeating lines with BLPxMOD).

That site would be awesome.
Great article! If you get paid to produce software for a living, it strikes me as pretty crazy to happily rip-off other people's work.
It worked because it was short enough not to work.
ramnode has a similar benchmark figure to digitalocean.
the catch in these cheap vps providers is that the ram isnt really dedicated which you only come to know once you consistently use a high % of it
It is becoming very, very rare. Given that the source for the 50% figure is graphologists, I wouldn't give it too much credit. As a french person, last time I heard about someone that needed a handwritten cover letter was in the early 2000s. At least in the tech circles this is definitely something unseen.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't!

If you pass more stringent copyright laws, people roast you on a pitchfork for fucking creators over by restricting how they can use other people's works.

If you pass looser copyright laws, people roast you on a pitchfork for fucking creators over by not restricting how others can use their work.

In such a situation, where the geek world is the first to shout abuse at politicians the minute they make any changes, it's no surprise that the smoother-talking Disney lobbyists win.

As a community, we have got to get our shit together and start having a clear position. For myself, I think any step that weakens copyright is good at this point, so I think this is a great move. It opens up a huge realm of creative activity.

Now they just need to apply this to music, movies and text too.
In theory there should be only one high street per locality.

There was a story on Russian news a few weeks ago how there are multiple streets with the same name in the city of Sochi. They are tackling the problem before the olympics arrive, but your assumption is probably violated elsewhere as well.
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> In the UK it's good enough to give someone a post-code and door number and you can get to their front door. How that would work globally I do not know

We do have post-codes in Romania but nobody ever uses them. But at least now I understand why one of my first bosses, who was from the UK, was insisting so much that me, the programmer, would implement a reverse geo-thingie that would associate a post-code to a specific physical address (this was back in 2006-2007, the golden days of web-mapping).
It's a bit of a stretch to complain that so many people 'stole' the game when they put their own cracked copy on BitTorrent.
Wow, this is brilliant. One of the biggest complaints that pirates have is DRM. If a game is DRM free then why not purchase it? Especially if you really like it and it's only $8!

Great post guys, good luck.
Stop it.

I know, nice idea, 'REST' etc, good looking.

Stop it.

As all the other comments stated, this will break down around the corner.

Country name. How do you locate a point in the ocean? What about Österreicht (easy level). ประเทศไทย (hard level)

State name. Not all countries have states. Or they're not used day to day. So in case of Ireland, do I put 'Dublin' or 'Leinster'

'Mission-dolores'? Street name? Street number?

Oh and by the way, the street numbers match the google maps position if you're lucky (it's getting better)
For us native speakers of German, using ss instead of ß or ae instead of ä seems like no big deal. But by accepting this when dealing with Americans, we strengthen the belief that everything can be forced into ASCII, which really fucks over people from countries that are smaller markets but either have different character sets or where diacritical signs are semantically relevant. edit: spelling
> You can't blame the government

It is hard to believe that this words are said my some Indian.How can you,aren't you aware of indian political culture ? If Indian politicians stop playing politics and start concerning about Indian,this type of thing may not occurred it,atleast not in such phenomenon .
I'm not saying it dismissively. "It's a theory" is not a negative thing to say. It does not mean that I doubt it in any way.
The bacteria will be fed with sugars from crops that pulled carbon out of the air. The whole cycle would produce energy from sunlight without netting out any carbon release.

Given that liquid hydrocarbon fuels aren't going away anytime soon (or possibly ever) finding non-fossil sources for them like this is pretty important.
Also known as faceted classification.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification
I haven’t bought any game released after 2004[0] – simply because in my opinion, gameplay has suffered a lot lately. I can recall spending years building stuff in Pharao when I was a kid and recently had a lot of fun (months!) playing Patrician II/III, bought from GOG. Where are these games nowadays?

[0] The latest game I bought on Steam was Counter Strike: Source, mostly because it was on sale and bundled up with some other stuff that actually works on my computer.
From this thread, sounds like the second point: "It's currently a research project for us and we have an intern from Uppsala University working on the HA features including paxos leader election and multi-master conflict resolution."
I wonder what those "rainbow" like lines are that show up from 30 to 70GHz.