skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! If only I had known about this before April fools!
Not quite as heirarchical as what you've got, but check out http://mapof.it/199-valencia-st-san-francisco
Yep, I came to post this. But you beat me to it!

India, meet your saviour. Soon, the water tables of India will be awash with... er... Diesel?

Hmm, not sure if that's that good a solution?...
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A few days ago I had to pass a in a row in order to google for something. I failed 9 in a row, and on the 10th, it was finally readable.

It totally wasn't the most pleasant experience.
Okay, I have used both but didn't find Disconnect(good too) even near Ghostery or ABP(have used this too); ABP is bulky that's true..

Though I've been uneasy since Ghostery went closed source[1] but it's so easy to use and light on the browser. Disconnect is partially open source[2] too, and ABP is fully open source. I guess I might switch back to ABP if complains start for Ghostery.

[1]https://github.com/jonpierce/ghostery
[2]https://github.com/disconnectme/
> supposed to be smart enough

You should ask Kevin Mitnick about that :)
Agreed, though enabling searches of such depth might create a considerable computing overhead.

For example, there are lists of cities by population for most countries; if you could manually select a subgroup for -a- country and submit that as a search group along with other terms, might be within reach ... but to do that for -all- countries, imagine the complexity. Maybe when WP gets a few more million-core supercomputers.

On the other hand, that would be a -great- project for some enterprising startup.
> Widespread public problems this this cannot be solved by individual citizens or organizations. They need the power, money and resources of a government.

More to the point, they need an entity that is both powerful enough to force change and not bound by the same incentives that the polluting companies are.

It's down to a Nash equilibrium, which is the stable strategy that obtains when everyone makes the best decision possible for them knowing what everyone else has decided. There's no way for anyone to unilaterally change their minds without losing something, which is why the strategy is stable even if it is completely insane.

In this case, the stable strategy is to pollute and not invest anything in cleanup, because the first company to unilaterally invest in cleaning up will lose profits relative to all of its competitors who aren't cleaning anything. That isn't acceptable. Therefore, Mumbai has brown oceans and Beijing has brown air.

The only way out is for some powerful entity that isn't bound by the same Nash equilibrium to step in and force a new equilibrium state by imposing penalties on the polluters. That's something that, realistically, only the government can do.

(What happens when governments get locked in a bad Nash equilibrium? Well, you get the Cold War, where Mutually Assured Destruction prevailed despite nobody really wanting to end the world in nuclear flame.)
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In situations like this, people should take an empathetic stance. Sure, what Stapel did was wrong, and he deserves no sympathy, but everyone deserves empathy, even criminals.

I'm not one who "blames the system" for malicious actions of individuals, as for anything to make sense, we must have free will. The system is not at fault, but it may be poorly constructed in such a way that individuals prone to abuse it can easily do so.

Regardless of whether I keep my front door unlocked, if I'm robbed, the robber deserves legal punishment. But this doesn't mean I should keep the door unlocked.

Ultimately, Stapel has paid for his actions. He's completely discredited as a scientist and researcher, and will never regain his reputation as an academic. But that's not the important question.

What we must ask is why and how this got so far. How can we change the system so people like Stapel will not be able to abuse it?
Ok, so thats kinda funny.
Domain Squatting is pretty easily remedied, but still...
Number called, no answer, anonymous voicemail recording. Message left, fingers crossed... star wished upon.

I'm sorry, you're still missing the point. You can and should do FAR more than this if you are truly motivated. I strongly recommend you read Think and Grow Rich:

http://archive.org/details/Think_and_Grow_Rich

Here's a taste:

TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

A little more than thirty years ago, Edwin C. Barnes discovered how true it is that men really do THINK AND GROW RICH. His discovery did not come about at one sitting. It came little by little, beginning with a BURNING DESIRE to become a business associate of the great Edison.

One of the chief characteristics of Barnes' Desire was that it was definite. He wanted to work with Edison, not for him. Observe, carefully, the description of how he went about translating his DESIRE into reality, and you will have a better understanding of the thirteen principles which lead to riches. When this DESIRE, or impulse of thought, first flashed into his mind he was in no position to act upon it. Two difficulties stood in his way. He did not know Mr. Edison, and he did not have enough money to pay his railroad fare to Orange, New Jersey. These difficulties were sufficient to have discouraged the majority of men from making any attempt to carry out the desire.

But his was no ordinary desire! He was so determined to find a way to carry out his desire that he finally decided to travel by "blind baggage," rather than be defeated. (To the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train). He presented himself at Mr. Edison's laboratory, and announced he had come to go into business with the inventor. In speaking of the first meeting between Barnes and Edison, years later, Mr. Edison said, "He stood there before me, looking like an ordinary tramp, but there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression that he was determined to get what he had come after. I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really DESIRES a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. I gave him the opportunity he asked for, because I saw he had made up his mind to stand by until he succeeded. Subsequent events proved that no mistake was made."
Definitely. Working without pay is for founders, not employees.

Also worth pointing out that in the vast majority of the cases, no matter how much stuff the founders can produce out of the sunshine pump, if the startup runs out of money, it's dead and won't come back. Running out of money is a symptom of something critical going wrong, and that critical something means that no amount of shares is worth anything since the business is doomed.
And I simply disagree with that. Don't test it out. Use it. Take the canonical to-do app. Don't create a list and just test out your features. Integrate it into your life. Use it for your home improvement projects and your shopping list. There is absolutely no reason you can't depend on it the same way your customers do.
The developers I know are definitely opinion oriented. DIC, patterns, which NoSQL data store, whether this controller/view is logic-free enough; the list goes on.

Like design, there are definite development trends: some based on data and a lot based on emotion and feeling/herd mentality.

"World class" to me means the top 5-10 in the world, so is hardly worth talking about. I do believe you can easily be a good designer and 'X', where X may be Web developer, Systems Architect or PM. Even a programmer - occasionally.
Is there any source for this other then the wikipedia page?
I don't quite understand this either. Google have been doing this for ages and no one has said anything, but now all of a sudden its a thing?

I just want people to acknowledge that what Google has been doing and what everyone else is doing is essentially the SAME THING. No reason one company should get a pass over others.

Now as for whether privacy is a legitimate concern or not is another matter entirely and I think comes down to a bit of personal preference too.

I for one, don't care about my privacy -- to an extent. There I said it. I don't care if Google knows that I eat somewhere or do something because it's trivial to me as long as my data is SECURE and I have fine grained privacy CONTROLS. If you give me security and control, then I'll gladly hand over my data for a useful service such as mail, or chat, or photos or whatever it may be.

Privacy in 2013 is different, and we must acknowledge that. This is a new generation, a new era. If you want to stay disconnected, then you don't get to experience this new world and if that's your preference, that's perfectly fine. (note: there will always be a subset of vocal technically inclined people like many of us on the forum that will try to resist, but in the long run, we won't prevail; I have ghostery installed for the hell of it, but a large amount of people don't even know what it is).

I think moving forward, every individual is going to have some type of public web presence that will be as much a part of who they are as anything else. Some parts of this presence will be private and tucked away behind anonymous usernames and private content. Other parts will be open for the world to see. To an extent, all of this is already true, but think about all the kids born from 2005 onward. They're only 8 years old now and are going to be part of the new, always connected generation (meaning, they've never known a world otherwise).

Therefore I think security of data is more important than EVER. Every company should make security of user data a TOP priority. In addition, every company should provide FINE GRAINED privacy CONTROL to allow the user to decide what he/she wants to show and to whom. On the other hand, a user should expect that a web company pays its bills through targeting via user data, and should reflect upon his/her expectation of privacy on the web.

The web is the new TV, but different, and more powerful, much more powerful.
> but they would rather not care than care for the most part. Herein lies the fundamental problem...if you would rather not care, well there's no solution to that.

I concur. It is the Apna Kaam Banta, Toh Bhaad mein jaaye Junta (Translation - As long as my work gets done, I don't care) attitude.
Whether this works depends on the site's email validation script: many don't allow the '+' character.

Gmail filters out '.' within usernames (e.g., john.smith@gmail.com and johnsmith@gmail.com are sent to the same account), but this gives you a more limited number of options, and is even harder to keep track of!
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I like the clean interface more than the clean url :) Google should look like this...
I go to CMU (where he was professor) and we got an email about this yesterday evening.
Nicely done.

I'd love it if it also supported modifying the URLs, since they are so readable. For example, if I delete the 199 from the end of your URL [1], it should still show me Valencia St. on the map. However, in its current state, I don't think the app parses any incoming URLs from the location field.

[1] http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/united-states/california/...

[2] https://maps.google.com/maps?q=199+Valencia+Street,+San+Fran...

[I attached google's original link just for reference]
Google's marketing has done a better job of presenting themselves as "not evil". I won't comment on the accuracy (or not) of that; I'll just note that I only log onto Google accounts in an incognito window.
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I am not a biochemist. Is this doing an end-run around the energy density problem by converting useless hydrocarbons (which already have a lot of energy stored, but not in a usable form), or does this still need an energy source - be that solar, heat, whatever - to provide the energy to be stored in the biodiesel?
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Sadly that's not always an option, given the proliferation of Facebook amongst the "older" crowd. My entire extended family basically communicates entirely (barring face-to-face meetings) via Facebook nowadays.
Overpopulation is a problem because one government can only properly manage a limited number of people (by "properly manage" I mean not control, that's easy to do by controlling the upper class and having decent police/military/intelligence systems, but provide adequate living conditions for, actually solve health and education issues etc.).

Compare to the US ratio of population of ~300M population to 1 government (even ignoring that in the US states have real autonomy and are mostly self governing!) to India's ratio of ~1200M to 1 government. Similar ratios for European countries too. India should be at split in at least 4 different countries, with different governments, internal and external policies, armies and maybe even a "healthy" dose of conflict/competition between them. It would be worse for some new countries and for some people, but on average better for most. Sticking together is not the way to solve a poverty type problem!
As someone who's started and run a few companies, I am not someone who's going to ask anyone else to work without getting paid. Paying someone in equity is legitimate, but it has to be wholly agreed to beforehand. Sure, there may be exceptions, but I would like to be as proper as possible with everything that I do.

If you're going to accept an IOU I guess thats something else entirely, but as most taxpayers in California know, you can't deposit an IOU in the bank.
For fun: a quick way to grab the crapchas on the page (that aren't protected by cross-origin)

$('.crapcha').each(function() {
console.log(['Crapcha',
$.map($(this).find('span'), function(letter) {
return $(letter).text();
}).join('') ]);
});
Thanks for confirming this. It is very sad news.
Depends.
If you want to blame someone else for actions you take/do not take.
Witch hunt never ended, nor it will.

This is life, in whatever form it takes, it all comes in waves and goes.
Look at this all on different scale.

Look at India(any place) from space, where some parts are healthy, some parts are like cancer an some parts destroy themselves.

After time it all passes and something else comes into place.

Only way for you to survive is, if you voluntarily do it yourself.
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Btw it's cutting out some special chars to make the url pretty. Test this: Pitești, Argeș, Romania
DirectX is pretty efficient already. I don't think you would be able to push many more polygons going to the metal.
And which is by the way exactly the negative incentive for governments to pass this sort of legislation, as they love to get their hands on this kind of data via legal (or pseudo-legal) means.
maybe one can apply a magnetic field to the surface of the silicon blanks to help with placement of the dopants?
The biggest problem with geocoding is that not all places have addresses. Especially in the developing/third world.

It also lacks a lot of things I normally link friends to in Google Maps. For example when giving directions I always link to the street view of the main entrance.
Nice, but I would make it realtime:

.../#united-states--california--
spdr has etfs for all sectors. xlk, xle, xlf, spy, etc.
They're sub youtube level. 80% of those people are either illiterate or spam bots. It was cringe worthy.
Well are you sure, that this is not only, what they tell you. Are you sure there is no table in their database called "deleted_unrecoverable_profiles"?

No one can be sure if it is that way, or if the data is really deleted. And knowing their take on user-privacy, I tend to believe, that data is never deleted by Facebook.
Polymaths, a.k.a. renaissance men, do exist.

To me, it actually seems absurd to claim that people can only be great in one thing.

Just because I'm a great developer doesn't mean it's the only thing I can be great in. I'm learning to be a great marketer as well, and so far it hasn't taken away from my programming skills.
Predictions based on partial data could be problematic.

One example: I pay for fresh food and staples in cash, and buy 'grocery' items on a card. A data collection system that tracked only card purchases would give the impression of a very unhealthy diet.
Yes the mindset switch is a big barrier. The only way people will do both at the same time on a large scale is if you automate large parts of both professions, to the point where the job is just picking answers in web/app building wizards.
the wells Fargo PMA account gives you 85 trades/yr for free (min acct balance of $35k) so that is enough trades for most people
Not necessary - http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html
Yeah, its a bit ranty, but snipe has a point. Everyone has anxiety about looking like a derp, some people embrace looking bad and move on, some just cower away.
Its probably a lot better to learn to deal than to hide.
no worries I get that all the time. apparently my Japanese writing has a strong resemblance to his style though.
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Terminus starts looking slightly bad in bold and slanted variants and their editor looks like uses it bolded for some reason. Personally, I love Terminus and use it for my terminal and text editor with GNU Unifont as fallback for Asian scripts.
I have zero faith in that ever happening so I'd rather preach an attainable alternative
the whole thing is all about human-readble URL debate.
yeah, a definite lack of utf-8 character support -- but this could get a bit ugly from the implementation point of view.
> documentation

There was a submission a while ago [1] about why you'd just read the code is documentation is not good enough or simply inexistant. When working with your company's product you often have direct access to the source code or the developers, and you can solve in minutes problems that would cause days and days of pone/email back and forth with the support team.

You'll understand there is a problem, but you may not have the same sense of urgency since it was so fast to solve.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5601511
Yeah, I saw an external link to some of the speakers, Definitely something I'm considering checking out.
I can't see any conflict of interests. Skype would lose x>1 customers mistakenly locking out one users who blogs about it. When in doubt you can tell the user the identity verification test didn't go well and ask for extra information about the account, for example checking the IPs.
Cool. I'm working on something similar: http://addressaddress.com (be gentle, still work in progress). I've mostly tested it with Swedish addresses, so might be problems with US ones.
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Or,... the stuff I built in the first 10 or so years of my career is classified. I'd have to kill you if you saw it. Some of it was pretty cool stuff, though.
The impressive graphics (for the hardware) on current gen consoles showns what is possible when going to the metal, bypassing several layers of WDM, scheduler, drivers and DirectX.
I understand the need for a nice URL, perhaps indicative of RESTfulness, but I see a few problems with this:

1. From a REST point of view - the map is the resource. The adddress is well, not really a resource (the logic goes like this: if the address is the resource, the browser as a resource getter should only get the address, not the surrounds). IMHO the address should be modelled as an element of the resource, accessible by Maps' javascript.

2. Of course you can have nice URLs without being indicative of RESTfulness. 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

3. Consider that some places do not actually have an address. Like my former residence. Due to changes in the roads, my place had a new road with no name, and no actual address (well, eventually it did, and the road still has no name. Getting pizza delivered was tough)

What can be done of course is a bit.ly kind of thing, which I think will work. Something like /maps/199-valencia-street-san-francisco-california-united-states. The current google maps url is already kinda like that (with ?q I believe)
About two months late?
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For the curious: http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/home-india-billion-forbesli.... Tastes differ, let's say.
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and said company's other chip partner is building huge capacity in the same country for 14nm process.
small nitpick, it does not hook into dpkg and rpm but into apt and yum (there are surely hooks for other package managers). so when you install a package without these higher level package managers, it does not get recorded...
Cool, I would love to see the source.
I also remember it being called "Demoscene," (one word) as far back as the mid 1990's.
GOOG and MSFT market cap both roughly 265B
This might seem nice for the USA but it would fail miserably in other places (or require different URL schemes). I could not find a bigger discussion I remember on HN but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2588289 might work as example already.
paysafecard
offers various possibilities

or skrill (moneybookers)
If you are a startup writing time-reporting systems, you will never be able to use it like the big customers. No startup will ever need time-reporting system consisting of thousands of charge numbers. No startup needs to worry about government compliance of charge numbers, or tax codes across all 50 States.

Hell, you probably don't even have 50 employees, let alone a reason to have all 50 tax codes in your time charging system.
As someone that wears both hats on a daily basis (Creative Director at a startup, spending 65% of my time coding, the other 35% with design and animation) I think that what it takes to get there is a huge amount of time and a general appreciation of aesthetics.

I have been programming in one way or another for 32 years - all the time basically building creative programs, UIs, programs that help me make music or do graphics and now I don't need to program those - I can concentrate on what my business needs.

People often mix up design and usability. Usability is something that is tangible and measurable, code is tangible but also highly creative output and good looking design is neither something that can be measured (expect in sales) or can be actually taught - its a factor of a good eye plus extreme amounts of practise.

I spend my spare time at the moment looking at design, architecture, or reading about chip design, and languages so that I can understand better how my code runs and how my environment around me is beautiful.

It takes an almost obsessive willingness to learn to be good at more than one thing at once but it is possible.
Is the talk's central idea that abstractions are bound to leak and we'll just have to deal with it? I did skim through the beginning of it, but then Youtube's player suddenly skipped to the end and stopped, and I moved on.

The thing is, SQLAlchemy's SQL Expression API is a suitable-level abstraction: high enough to be useful, but not high enough to guarantee leaks. I'm happily making queries with one-liners, and haven't had to circumvent it yet, but I bet I'd have run into trouble with any ORM already.
Do you want to be? The only way is to practise design, and you will hate your output for 10 years... If you don't then you are doing something wrong.
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Same with Opera (the decent one, not the webkitified version), simply copy-paste the text :)