skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One critique I have of elastic tabs is that you need to read the whole document to know how to lay out just what you see before you. That's not an issue with files up to a couple of thousand slocs, but I've had to work with 60ksloc autogenerated source files and waiting for one of those to be parsed and laid out would be a pain in the ass.
I am not to worried about Stapel. He is an outlier, and just as all outliers he is getting his share of attention in the media.

I am in general much more worried about the dubious statistics and protocols that are deployed on real data. The torturing of the data, shoddy experiment design, the unpublished negative results, and the somewhat sobering realization that research is actually hard. Ioannidis formulates this quite elegantly in "why most research findings are false" [1]

One thing that is painstakingly obvious, is that this whole affair was only possible because people do not, and are not obliged to, share their data and code.

[1]: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
>You can't become a nicer or more thoughtful person quickly
Why not?
There is an amazing citizen led initiative called the "The Ugly Indian" to clean Indian cities. They've been having significant impact in Bangalore.

See some of their work here,

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ugly-Indian/12345979104661...

http://www.theuglyindian.com/about_us.html
http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/united-kingdom/greater-lo...

Whilst it is a nice idea to put textual labels in, and whilst it may work for grid-based cities such as those in the USA... it's really going to have a problem in Europe where many large cities are the result of growth over centuries and the merging of villages and towns into cities.

London has so much duplication in things like High Street, Church Street, Chapel Lane, Market Place... and the system outlined will just fail to disambiguate.

The only thing that could truly work on a global level is some geospatial identifier in the URL, with text that followed it. But then if the place itself was large it could span multiple geospatial points and result in duplication.

Duplication of URLs is probably better than ambiguity over what the URL points to.

PS: I tried to do a query on Open Street Map to discover how many High Streets there are in London but I hit the limit of their disambiguity service. And there are High Streets from one old village that have been extended to the point that they touch the High Street of another old village. 2 different High Streets with an almost identical postal code.

PPS: Perhaps a post-code? 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... fine for most of the Western World, useless in India maybe, etc.
Why did he color certain characters? It makes those chars standout which defeats the purpose of choosing a font for distinct shapes.
So make IE8 and 9 do full page refreshes rather than compromising on URL quality :)
Thanks. Just pushed support for that...

https://github.com/bnolan/nice-map-urls/commit/2fee561a61ede...
If a developer is designing and creating software solutions, then he or she is a designer. The characterization of software development as something other than design is incredibly unfortunate and misguided.

What's actually happening here is that many people now erroneously use the word "design" to mean "visual design in the tradition of waterfall-centric, industrial graphic design where ideation and production are separate," which in the context of software is extremely ambiguous, anyway, since it could refer to illustration, user experience design, graphic design, information architecture, and plenty of other things.

Yes, there are specializations. But the stereotypes of technologically illiterate "designers" and neckbeard, tasteless "developers" are outdated, though unfortunately still pervasive in the industry. There's no reason that anyone identifying as a "designer" can't gain a deep understanding of modern web or native development technologies and environments. There's no reason that someone identifying as a "developer" can't learn about "design" and the creative process.
I can completely relate to this.

On the one hand you need a broad scope, an interest in everything that affects and inspires your work. But on the other you need the ability to focus and use all that information to create better work.

Compare it to the scope of an architect. An architect needs to be knowledgeable about all facets of building creation: from the limitations and innovations on the engineering side (a new type of concrete, etc), to art history and trends in design. Therefore, an architect's education is often much broader in scope than that of a programmer or designer.
There's a whole field called creative computing that is chock full of these types of unicorns.

Memo Atken is one, http://memo.tv/
John Maeda
etc.
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I'm using iconv to convert from utf-8 to ascii, but the transliteration isn't as complete as I'd like. :( Sorry it strips out prague addresses.

I tried using utf-8 urls but I couldn't work out how to handle them in rails.

Actually, looking at the search term you entered, I must have a bug, because the iconv output is correct, it definitely shouldn't be stripping letters out of the url.
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I loved the full screen-ness of it!
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A possibility could be if your email shows up in your friends' contact list which FB gets from their email accounts.

FB continuesly harrassing me to give them my email password - of all things to ask for! - is something I will never get. 'We'll check your contact list for friends! We won't save your password!' My email password! You wanna install a camera in my room while you're at it?

But some people apparently actually use the service, and thus FB can find out you exist and who you're friends with. They might also mention you etc.
> Development has several modes. One mode is "hacking",
> just hashing out what you want until it works and is
> elegant enough as a solution, perhaps changing your mind
> frequently when you see how it works in practice.
> Another is "polishing", carefully annotating, cleaning
> up, documenting, burning off loose threads, making sure
> the test coverage is top notch, etc.
>
> The problem is that Go's compile-time strictness lends
> itself to the "polishing" phase, but not to the
> "hacking" phase.

When I write Go, or indeed in any programming language, I generally start with, and stay in, what you call the "polishing" phase. Experimentation occurs in my head, and what makes it through to my fingers is the polished form of that experiment.

That Go is not conducive to writing sloppy (or "hacking" phase) code is I think only a good thing.
It's non-obvious, but if you click on the check-mark instead of the slider button, it'll be allowed on one domain only. Annoyingly, it doesn't use a tooltip but tells you what the button does after you click it.
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Even if true, 20%-30% of that is probably taken as a winners fee by the politicians. So the contractors have to buy substandard materials and labor, causing this "infrastructure" to last a decade or two, at best.
In theory there should be only one high street per locality. I didn't try the app with london urls (only berwick street which worked fine [1]). In theory if you can unambiguously write the address of a place without relying on the postcode, then you should be able to construct a unique url for the place.

1. http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/united-kingdom/greater-lo...
TL;DR We're all in big trouble.
Reminds me of the horse manure crisis in NYC http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/16/09111...

Not that any comparison can be made, they are really completely different.
Entry Q13: triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13)

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I got this url, I'm not sure if it's correct (I don't read japanese sorry). :(

http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/japan/tokyo/adachi/
>These are problems with drug prohibition, not drug use. This is like blaming whiskey for Al Capone.

You are partly correct(except for on overdose deaths). If illicit drugs were legal, they would be a lot cheaper - thus less crime to obtain them. But there are plenty of Alcoholics today who do these same things for LEGAL alcohol.

The real problem though lies in what would happen if illicit drugs were accepted and available in society. Drugs are bad. What good comes of them for normal healthy people? How will they improve society? By letting people forget about their problems for a while rather than deal with them? I don't understand how they would make things so great.

>Children follow the vicious drug cycle because of genetics. Most personality traits are fixed at the time of conception.

Whose almost always end up in prison? Lifer junkies kids, or reformed junkies kids?

I have known two sets of identical twins (genetically identical) where one became a junkie (went to prison, homeless, etc) after falling in with the wrong crowd, and the other twin became a very successful person. The difference? one twin was convinced that it was OK to use illicit drugs, the other was not.

Do know that Native Americans are almost all ore-disposed to alcoholism, yet there were none before America was colonized by Europeans?
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Yes, it seems like Cassandra is suffering from compacting too, although maybe not so ugly as LevelDB.

The only solution I've found is Castle backend from Acunu [1], but there were no updates from 2011 [2] and it looks really heavy (with kernel module and all that)

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/acunu/cassandra-on-castle

[2] https://bitbucket.org/acunu/fs.hg
Theory meets practise.

It is not possible to unambiguously write all addresses in the UK without including the post code.

The post code and door number are the primary key of the data.

Edit 1:

A fine example: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=high+road%2C... Zoom out one level and you'll see that High Road is surrounded on both sides by High Street. And yes, that is correct.... High Street > High Road > High Street = One road in one very old town.

Crazily if you look down a little further you'll see the Southern High Street (A408) goes East, and what is technically another High Street heads on Southwards.

3 High Streets, and 1 High Road... in less than 1 mile in 1 town.

I was actually looking for the Church Road in Uxbridge that comes off of Church Road, but I think Google Maps incorrectly has both of them as Church Lane.

Edit 2:

Here you go: http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/ub5/united-kingdom/englan...

Church Lane coming off of Church Lane. One is the A312, the other is just Church Lane.

Google is wrong on this, they're both called Church Road. And historically they were the same thing, but as it evolved from a way to get to the church to a market thoroughfare one main road emerged and left the other road as a side road. Over time this actually led to both roads being distinct, and with their own door numbering schemes, even though they meet each other.

I find the history of places as fascinating as the history of languages.
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I think it'd be cool to have urls like:

http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/congo/kasai-occidental/ka...
> "why is there a hardcoded date marked 2006.01.02-15.04.05 there??"

That's actually how datetime patterns are defined in Go. I shit you not.
If you are using Java, you may want to try MapDB. It uses memory mapped files and has interesting performance. Redis server protocol implementation is on roadmap.
That's why you don't have a lot of sales then.

I wouldn't be rushing to spend big on ads until the site was settled and smooth. If you can get a few niche products running at once and get some ads promoting that field, you might have some luck.
Accepting an IOU as a startup employee is about the dumbest thing anyone could possibly do. You're effectively placing a bet that you'll simply get compensation owed on a company who obviously has money problems.
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what you guys think about this?
Why are people disturbed by this?

Simply put, because the corner stones of democratic societies are built on the assumption that peoples lives are private.

Take voting without privacy. Can voting work if everyone is fully known by the state? If the people in office known where the oppositions voters are, new actions become available. If you can redirect road work, sporting events, sales, and so on, how much work would it really be to get the oppositions voters to spend the day doing something other then voting on the election day? Knowing who votes for who allows those already in power an unfair and destructive advantage over those not yet elected.

Take politics in general if we have no privacy. What happens to politics if every to-be political rival is known to those threatened? If we can identify which kids are going to be political active, those could be discourage. Alternative, they could be influenced, drag into the party line before reaching a independent view.

Or lets leave politics and go to justice. Can you have a working judge and jury system if everything about their life can be fully known? If one party know that a jury members spouse is cheating, they can rephrase their statements in form of betraying. If someone know about economical troubles, one can redress statements as being "down on the luck". If the judge dreams about leaving the bench and begin some childhood dream project, one could phrase statements in favor of startups. Knowing the dreams and thoughts of people, and you get boundless possibilities to influence others.
Real (not estimated) figures for 2011 and for 2012 & 2013 would be shocking (there have been a lot of firings of non-permanent workers).
How about write an article on 10 Reasons You Should Get a Job, and then let's see if what is better. :)
Some people in the USA tend to forget that there are other characters besides the ones the use, a little encode_url would be enough. Special Spanish characters don't work neither (áéíóúñ).
More what? Real visitors of spammers?

/s
Not much to say other than LOL, maybe because it isn't that far off from the supposedly real and readable ones.

Maybe put this at the last step of something the person really wants?
How do they know that the people said to be behaving better in the surveys aren't actually better at not being caught?
If spammers and service abusers went away, CAPTCHAs would go away. Service providers don't use CAPTCHAs for the giggles. And the bad guys are getting better with OCR (or using sweat shops) so CAPTCHAs need to get harder to read to keep enough of them out.

If you can come up with something else that can distinguish legitimate users and bad guys, you'd be a very popular guy.
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They exist, but they're extremely rare. Which just so happens to be the opposite of what the post claims.
Is this for India? Or the world? I'll assume you mean world as that's somewhat less harsh and less NIMBY. Alternatively, education, good government and a decent economy and birth rates fall. And there is then the bonus of no fascist/pseudo communist population control bent.
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The beauty of being both a coder and designer is that you can conceive, build and launch a product completely on your own. This makes setting up your own start-up (or lifestyle business) a lot simpler.

My advice for any developer who wants to do their own start-up is - once you have reached a good standard - to forget honing your development skills and start learning to design.

Learning another programming language or mastering another object orientated design pattern does not bring you much closer to being able create a product yourself. Learning an entirely new but relevant skill like design does.
There's no reason that someone identifying as a "developer" can't learn about "design" and the creative process.

And vice versa.
I still may not want to make the purchase via that channel. In fact, I find most important to be able to enter any web to read its content without those distractions. If I want to buy something, I'll go to any online store, thanks.
If people who already work in software feel the need to study for an interview, it's a pretty decent indication that the interview itself is... not ideal.
Second that.

But many people have a narrow view on _design_.

They think of it as something graphical. Like deciding what something should look like. So a software engineer won't call himself a software designer. It just sounds like he makes wireframes all the day and won't programm one line of code.
Neurocriminology is disturbing when you think about the ramifications.
The science and experimental data keeps getting better, the supporting
evidence keeps improving, and the findings have become the proverbial
elephant in the room. The science doesn't bother me, but the
implications are just frightening.

For example, in the stated case of Donta Page where the testimony of
neurocriminology experts was used to avoid a death penalty sentence,
the opposite is just as feasible; neurocriminology could be used to
support a death penalty sentence, just as it would have supported
denying parole on his previous incarceration for robbery.

It would be a massive change of our justice system from punishments
matching crimes, to punishments matching both crimes and criminals.
Is there a linear time solution? The normal solution is O(N^3) in the number of windows (and does not depend on W,H at all).
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Wet doesn't mean pipes to a processing plant necessarily though. Ive seen an amazing system that used a moderate sized pond, masses of reeds and somehow this processed the water and filtered it. There were fish and ducks swimming in it. That said, if dealt with waste from one house. I'm not sure this would scale very well.
I am both a designer and a developer, and the central point of the article is very true - design vs development is a false dichotomy.

The problem is that people confound "design" with "artistic styling". Real design is at its essence a left-brain activity - whereas successful art evokes emotion, successful design communicates a message. The practice of design is about communicating something to a group of people, in a way that is repeatable and quantifiable, it should be more science than art.

The basic tenets of design are quite simple, anyone can pick it up. I've tried convincing the developers around me to give it a go, but the most common response has been "I'm a techie, I won't be good at art, thus I won't even try". The same kind of thinking that causes the imbalance of women in STEM fields. We should all try to broaden our horizons, I think many developers would be surprised at their design skills if they could only break through their bubble.
> Give some examples, please

You connect to an old friend of the opposite sex on fb. He/she is a silly git and the first thing he/she does is post an old photo with you and him/her visibly drunk on your fb wall. Your current partner sees it and assumes it's a relatively current photo and thus thinks you're cheating on him/her.
>Why are you assuming he made a conscious decision? Why are you assuming he even knew what the penalties were, or contemplated being convicted, before taking on the endeavor?

I am not assuming anything. I am basing what I say on facts that are easily available.

>Crime rates have been on a gradual decline world-wide over the same period. Moreover, this is a good overview of the research into the cause of the decline: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li....

TL;DR: It wasn't "tough on crime," it was phasing out leaded gasoline which had been causing neurological damage to children on a mass scale that was causing them to be irrational and violent as young adults.

Cool story, but I am talking drug abuse violations. These have quadrupled in the US over the last 25 years.
http://bjs.gov/content/dcf/enforce.cfm while steadily dropping in Singapore over the same time period. The deviation clearly began when they got really insanely tough on drug crime.

So what does this have to do with lead?
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Share what?

What legality concerns?

Why would tens of thousands of sites from google be of interest?

And of coure microsoft has the font. It's their font afterall.

"Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation" [Wikipedia]
I still remember my first sin scroller, copper bars and the easy water mirror effects with a negative bitplane offset.

I wonder if there is a site that explains copper bars, vertical bars, endless blob, glenz vectors etc.? Would be interesting to read about that again.
Most countries would, I'm pretty sure, have waterways contaminated with shit. Mine does (New Zealand) and most I've been to have had warnings about not drinking stream water, even in remote ares. Open defecation though? Nope.
Oops that's an American keyboard layout.

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Each phone may have different hardware and need different drivers, so hardware support can be hit-or-miss. If the phone manufacturer provides an acceptable version (possible), and the carrier allows their update (never seen it personally), then that might be an option, but even then (assuming the equivalent of root access) - in all likelyhood - it would still be half a phone (from incomplete hardware support). A lack of drivers is only slightly less immediate an obstacle than the lack of an open bootloader. In fact, it's often the bootloader that prevents that type of side-loading (won't boot something not signed by the carrier, even with the right drivers) and development of alternatives (chicken vs egg), so it usually amounts to the same obstacle. If I could truly reset the software, I could replace it... I blame Djikstra for bad-mouthing GOTO. Resetting hardware is just an unconditional jump. :)
I've done hiring for designers at my company, and one of the things I've found is that good illustrators tended to be horrible at design.

Not sure why, just an interesting anecdote. I suspect different types of thinking are required for each, illustration is quite a bit closer to "art".
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I just won't work for free. That's also why I shun overtime.
Some service providers seem to do it, because everyone else does it. Tiny blogs, obscure niche sites. They are afraid of spammers and never had a real look at it how necessary CAPTCHAs really are.

Oftentimes, a simple JavaScript-based spam protection is enough.
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True only if the masses care. And (worldwide) they don't (otherwise there would be ~99% participation in voting, and so on)
I never understood the "fake unsubscribe" thing. In a previous life I did infrastructure consulting for people with ROSKO listings and they collected and processed every single unsubscribe. They even traded unsubscribe lists.

Back then everyone was using pinks (contracts with an allowed quota of complaints per day baked in) for mailing. If you scrubbed your lists against unsubs and bounces, you got less complaints and could negotiate better rates in the future.