skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived in SF and worked on the peninsula for 5 years, I can say that a lot of the earthquake proofing stuff is bunk.

Even if one agreed that limiting building heights to 10 stories significantly reduced quake-related casualties, there are plenty of places around San Francisco that should have higher-density buildings -- I'm looking at you, Mountain View.
> Having Rob Pike reply is a good start, considering he's the primary author of Go

According to himself and the Go FAQ he's just one member in the team, the beginnings are described as "Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson started sketching the goals for a new language on the white board on September 21, 2007"
Hardware just works on OSX. I have never been required to compile any drivers from source for OSX. I have had to compile drivers from source for Linux for: Keyboard - Black Widow Anasazi; Wireless-N dual band usb dongles... in the last year.

the keyboard and the dongles worked out of the box, but both were missing some of the functionality they have on other os'.

Specifically, the usb dongles couldn't work on their 5ghz band. The driver that was compatible with their chipsets needed to be manually updated because the hw ids weren't in the headers for the driver. The keyboard has additional keys that were unrecognized by Linux that had to be made available.

support is likewise troublesome. You can use these things-just not be fully as on OSX.
Link to actual code in the article appears to be down.
Zombie-proof depends on which zombies you're talking about. Faced with the shuffling Night of the Living Dead zombies from George Romero's movies, perhaps a suspended tent would keep you safe enough. Against the running, climbing zombies from 28 Days Later though, I'd be much less inclined to feel secure.
Nothing in the article talks specifically about the word list coming from either scrabble or crossword.

I wrote a scrabble / boggle solver web app and used the built-in dictionary provided with my Linux distribution.

Check it out at http://words.gumyum.com [source-code]

The hotspot cracker appears to use a similar algorithm.
I somewhat disagree. It will disrupt a single complex that's been perpetuated, and yes, it will create and allow for a lot of innovation - however producing product and developing resources into buildings, and other systems, cause tons of pollution and non-renewable destruction of our lands. It will actually be bad IMHO in certain circumstances if non-polluting energy comes too soon to us.
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The Democrats died when they became centre-left.

They thrived when they were genuinely centrist: neither left nor right.

The Democrats used to win Senate votes approximately equally from both Labor and Liberal supporters. When Meg Lees negotiated to introduce the GST, Stott-Despoja deposed her and yanked the party towards the left.

In doing so she alienated all of the Liberal voters who'd previously given about half of the party's vote. The Democrats kept trying to lurch further left to shore up the votes that were left, but ran smack into the Greens, who had already hoovered all those votes up. Then they died.

The Liberal centrist vote, incidentally, has nowhere left to go. So the coalition has outperformed all the others in the Senate -- that's how Howard wound up with a Senate majority in the first place.

If Stott-Despoja had stuck to the Democrat formula, there's a reasonable chance they'd still be around.
Please call it Go, not golang. Golang is the domain name of the language's website, a useful hashtag, and an occasionally useful search term. It is not the name of the language should not be used as such. The language is Go, it should be called Go.
Rxactly. I felt the same when, as a teenager, my parents moved from Surrey to rural Lincolnshire and I had to go along for the ride.

15 years on, I now love living in such a rural area (and also married with kids!) but it's pointless if you want to easily see the latest bands, have a large and sophisticated social circle, easily meet people you do non-rural business with, enjoy the latest in fashion or food, easily travel to other places without driving, etc..

On the flip side, I can easily go off roading, take my daughters to see farm animals every week, zero traffic jams, low crime, low cost of living, etc, so it's all swings and roundabouts! (And we even have fibre Internet, oddly, so it even ticks my geek box ;-))
Agreed, although I used http://feedly.com. Google Reader's interface was never particularly good IMO.
What would be the point of harvesting raw internet traffic when any half-intelligent person would be using an encrypted connection?
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There are a lot of good channels on Freenode generally, but it's a bit like saying one's circle of friends are good.. they're not so great until you know them, etc. #startups is probably one of the better ones for strangers, but it's certainly worth branching out into several at a time, particular technology specific ones where newcomers are expected and frequent (e.g. #redis, #rubinius, #ruby-lang). You can then get invited or drawn into the more cliquey but interesting channels that no-one talks about as much.
"if a bank would sign a contract with you then it is valid."

I still don't understand - I think you might be confused about how mortgages work. Every loan is a contract. There is no such thing as the bank just giving you some money and then deciding on the interest rate later. Adjustable rate loans adjust according to a formula in the contract. Fixed rate loans are fixed, and the bank enters into the contract because they estimate that they will make a profit. If they don't, they are still stuck with it. It's a contract, they can't change it.

"contracts do NOT have to be witnessed"

I know; I never said they did. I just said that witnessing can help establish the validity of a contract if a dispute arises, and that TOS click-throughs lack this. I'm pretty sure that any serious contract, involving a lot of money, is witnessed. All of the house loans I've ever signed for have been witnessed, and I had to prove my identity as well.
Reminds me of BIOS status beeps
Couldn't agree more - here are some photos for anyone who doesn't know what we are talking about http://stu.radnidge.com/post/42107133867
In the Senate, voters may vote "above the line" or "below the line".

If you vote "below the line", you must number every candidate in order of your preference.

Every. Single. Box.

In some states there are hundreds of candidates. One NSW ballot paper was nicknamed "the tablecloth".

If you vote "above the line", you are required only to tick or mark one box. That box delegates your voting preference to a party, who have registered a preset order of preference with the Australian Electoral Commission. Your vote will be counted according to that party's scheme.

Almost everyone votes above the line in the Senate, so the arrangement of preferences by different parties can have surprising effects on the final composition of the Senate. As you can imagine, this leads to a lot of horse-trading, known as "preference deals".

I vote below the line because I like to work backwards in order of craziness.
That's fascinating that a telegram to a court claiming an illegal detention is taken as a "writ petition" (for habeas corpus, presumably). I can see now why this system's loss would push someone to hunger strike in protest -- seems like a super cheap way to access the courts.

My experience has only been in the US, where court filing fees are pretty high and can run hundreds of dollars unless you can jump through quite a few hoops to prove you're poor enough to get those fees waived (ideally a lawyer working pro bono would do it for you). The filing fees are a combination of user fees to the government + fees paid to private vendors who set up the sites you upload the PDFs to for filing.
A million pounds would go far toward advocating Edward Snowden to win the Nobel peace prize?
To be clear, before I start: I'm not in the anti-immigrant, finger pointing, blame every one else camp what so ever. Call me a mental hippy, but I believe people should be able to go, in a country sense, where they like on this planet.

What I don't understand here is that there have been reports and articles about how the white working classes are being forced out of London (That would be Greater London, not central London, which one would expect to be loony priced) by immigrants, who are supposed to be either dole scroungers or taking "our British jobs" from our "British people" by working for dirty cheap, while changing London in to Londonistan. Well, if that is true, then how do they afford London?

OK, I can already pick all that apart myself, I didn't work to hard at fleshing out such insanity, but clearly there is some contradiction there, right? There are a hell of a lot of poor people, born and immigrant, who manage to live in London.
How do we know it's Snowden?

So are more documents going to drop?

If yes the the former, why can't The Guardian do an all-out dump instead of piecemealing it?
Ask HN: Focus on website idea
I have a web app idea I'm looking to pursue, is it "good logic" to not focus on how im going to make money first and just worry about how I'm going to get people to use the app?

I've seen successes with both worrying about money and not worry about money upfront.

Any thoughts or advice are welcome.

Thanks!
I've been on this site as long as you have, Jason. I know the rules, so will bow out gracefully at this point except to say that I was responding to the valueless comment "you should quit while you are ahead", which assumed I was trying to "win" an argument when all I have been doing is stating my concern that the agreement terms seem overly broad.

The commenter didn't feel any need to address this actual point, not sure how it contributed to the discussion in any way. I was quite annoyed I got downvoted, because I am genuinely interested in seeing an actual response to this particular concern. Also, it felt like bullying and groupthink.

Good day to you all :-)
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I have an idea, and requires lot of coding hours , I feel if i start coding , By the time i finish the product will have many more competitors :) , Should i do a Proof of concept and look out for investors ?
Yes. I guess this is (was) the main use of telegram in today's time in India. It serves as a perfect legally acceptable proof that you sent a letter to someone and that they received. Normal letters/posts wouldn't have that value I guess ... May be registered post does.
link for those who didn't get the reference (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer)

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky
He will be online today from 11am EST/4pm BST today. An
important caveat: the live chat is subject to Snowden's
security concerns and also his access to a secure
internet connection. It is possible that he will appear
and disappear intermittently, so if it takes him a while
to get through the questions, please be patient.

Hah, nice. Reading that just made me smile. Loads of people are going to be patiently watching out for the lag, for the possible periodic disconnects/reconnects, and they will be vaguely internalizing why Snowden has to do this. And this is pretty mainstream news at this point, people are going to be on edge listening for his words. I like the cyberpunk feel of these happenings. We live in interesting times.
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You're ignoring the physiological 'cost' of knowing some filthy stranger will be poking around your nice house. Also renting out a place means you cannot store anything of value in the place. For many people who can afford top end apartments in central London, those two 'costs' will be much higher than any income they might get from renting.

Also the value of having a flat like this is knowing that when business requires you to fly to London on 90 minutes notice, at least you'll have somewhere nice and familiar to crash. That is completely lost if there is a chance the someone else might be staying in your apartment when you arrive
The article misses the fact that telcos are about to raise prices locally in return.

Personally, I welcome this step since plans are cheap as hell in most countries anyway compared to, say, the US.
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"Make it up as you go" may be fine for kids bedtime stories.... but when it's used in software development (which is often the case when "agile" is mis-implemented) it's a recipe for disaster. It ignores all the hard-learned lessons that history has proven about what does and doesn't work.
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That's in line with what I expected, thanks. Specifically to read:

"Of the 15 individuals served, 11 did not comply with the notices. Of the 11, seven were charged and two convicted."

Whilst they may have been incarcerated since the report, at the least it would seem that there is some evidence based procedure to determine "guilt" in terms of whether you are able to produce the key or not.
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This has huge psychological implications, similar to not carrying a passport while crossing borders and paying with the same coins everywhere:
All these measures help to get the feeling that Europe is indeed one place, one community. Weekend trips to other countries are not a privilege of the 1 percent over here, more like the top 30-50%. I love to see what is happening right now, and I'm confident it will survive any current crisis. Maybe without the UK, but continental Europe is sufficient great for me ;)
I love that the author decided (if my interpretation is correct) "Writing a software rasterizer is annoying...fuck it, let's use a raytracer." Very nice!
The first comment seems rather harsh. Right tool for the job. TDD invariably is in my domain, platform and language, but I wouldn't dogmatically insist on TDD being mandatory for every software system written ever, anywhere.
I am also an American living in Paris, and while I would agree with you that you can find affordable places, as well as different ways to save money here, the fact is that rents are going up significantly each year. An area like Père Lachaise that would have cost €750/month for 30m2 4 years ago, now costs about €1000/month for the same surface area. I wouldn't say this is due to the so-called 1% (after all, combining several tiny apartments to build one big one is quite rare). I chalk it up to the bobo-fication of areas in East Paris while the west gets gobbled up by the super rich.

I ended up moving to Bagnolet, 500m from the périph (beltway). As soon as your area code changes from 75 to 93, prices often fall by half. Because of the '75 or bust' mindset here, lower earners like myself will be forced to seek a place outside of Paris. But that's not necessarily bad because in the Paris metro area, values are based more on the beginning of your postal code as much as they are on proximity. So while the 93 is associated with a ghetto communist suburb, it affords people like me the ability to take advantage of Parisian stereotypes and score a great deal.
The language was conceived under four years ago, and only quite recently was considered production ready.

Yes, in the pantheon of programming languages it is very new. Further many of us have stayed at a distance until the ecosystem of supporting libraries and supports are robust enough (I love everything about developing, but my primary concern remains paying the bills and pulling in the lucre, so exploratory or academic languages don't get prioritized).

I am quite sure that a large percentage of HNers are interested in the language, but haven't yet taken the dip and thus are intrigued by things like this.
Here's a set of default templates I wrote. I respect the reasoning for not providing them, but implementing 15 templates to get started out of the box is a bit onerous.
https://github.com/yourcelf/django-registration-defaults
How do the financials work after the app is created? Do you keep profits, does the idea man keep them, is it a split (at what percent)?
Agreed!

Also very subjective, in that you're a fan, or not. I've written maybe 10 or 15 tests[1] in my entire career (which formally started in 1989), and have little use for it.

[1] Testing the water. I saw nothing I liked.
Everyone I know in London who is < 30 (I moved here 7 years ago) has the same notion, that it is temporary.

The wages are so good here, so long as you don't blow it on a £2k pcm flat in a tendy part of town you can save a lot of money, very quickly.

Myself by having a 35-50min (depending on traffic and my exhuastion!) I find my accomodation costs are comparatively very low, despite still getting a London weighted income. This means I can not only service my modest flats mortgage easily, but am also buying a place in the middle of the mountains, so I can be a hermit.

Last time I looked outside of London, I would earn less than half what I get in London. I'm happy living in Zone 4 (where 1 is the central area), which means my rent is cheap. Going for a meal out or similar probably costs less than up north. At least comparing it to Manchester / Leeds / Lake District.

However, it is very non-terminal. I think five more years, then rent my London place, move either to subberbs and expensive commute, but house. Or hopefully, give up working for someone else all together. Not only did I meet my business partner via London network of friends, but also I built enough of a cash pile to be able to work full time on it.

None of those things would have happened if I was on £35k with £700pcm costs. I'll take £150k with £1200pcm every time.
Thank you so much! We hoped this type of offer would be as attractive as possible to anyone with an idea by setting a price just high enough to discourage anyone who isn't serious while keeping it low enough to make it enticing to all. We would like to think it is a worthy investment, since everyone will receive professional feedback.

If you have any other thoughts/ideas, let us know!
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Thanks for your pedantry. It really adds some signal to the noise.
You are installing some devel-packages, but i don't see anything compiling? Does the selenium installation build native extensions? Then the commands should probably the other way round. Or is phantomjs compiling something on the first run?

Minor nitpick: I don't think it is a good idea to copy a binary directly to /usr/bin, without a package manager. You could just put it into /opt and symlink to /usr/(local/)bin.
As far as I'm concerned, this is bigger than the freedom of physical movement within the EU country borders. Now our data will move with us!
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Not sure about that, it has not happened after the last few price-limitations that were issued in recent years.
If mobile internet is 50-100x more expensive beyond national borders I will simply not use it, it's a lose-lose deal (that is hard for the market to escape from, due to the large fragmentation).
It's also the case that this course is designed as a follow-up to CS183. So it's expected that students have a full course that wasn't programming related on start-ups already. It's designed as 1-semester of non-tech skills and 1-semester of build.
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They strip out the details that can personally identify you. When the employer gets your CV, you are merely a reference number.

Think about it the other way. Search for a job and look at ads from recruiters, if you're lucky you will see a vague description of the industry.
I guarantee there a plenty of people living in cities who would be quite happy to live elsewhere if only there were jobs there. Many of those people live in the city to avoid a long commute, not because they enjoy living in a city.
Look at the tension in one of the pictures[1], it looks like if you rolled over with keys in your pocket you'd rip right through it.

Not to mention the price tag of $1,350.00, I'd be shocked if they'd sold any.

[1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0213/4326/t/1/assets/carou...
I was excited about this. But then I realized it was mostly about software development.

Something I've realized was that it's not even worth it for me to work on my own ideas. I might as well focus on taking all the money my clients are willing to throw at me and look into hiring people to work on my ideas for much less money than I can make.

I'd love to see a course along the lines of transitioning from software developer to small business owner. At some point it stops making financial sense to read about balancing photons in radioactive black trees when you already make more point and clicking on a DBMS UI. I need to hire a few people to start helping me out. So much comes along with that that I'm not prepared for.
That's why you don't make Hackintoshes. :)

You could say we're comparing Apples and Oranges here. It's not even worth the comparison. Mac is a better experience because it's integrated, but it will never have generic hardware support. Linux has open, generic support for a lot of hardware, but it will never "just work." Pick one.
Yes it does: "After retrieving several hotspot passwords by manually resetting the hotspot settings, we revealed a word list on the Internet, which contained all our collected samples. This list consists of around 52,500 entries and was originated from an open-source Scrabble crossword game[20]."
Oh absolutely I will, you definitely got my gears turning! :)
The joke here, of course, is that given the architectural choices for the console, a normal gaming rig PC may very much be considered a "dev kit".

Not that that will assuage the angry gamers. :(
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This is still at the very high-level discussion stage. The key phrase:

"“They agreed that this time next year we will have got rid of these charges,” a Brussels source said"

Also, it's not clear how this would be implemented. For example, Vodafone in the UK lets you pay £3 a day and use your calls, texts and data from Europe. Would that be acceptable? What happens to the smaller MVNOs who have been responsible for driving down prices who now need to make a whole lot of roaming agreements? Given that data is regularly more useful when roaming than calls, will this directive require free data roaming too or is it excluded?

If I was a pan-European mobile operator, I'd have been lobbying for this. It will cost them very little to provide the service, mostly some modifications to their billing system. For those operators that only have national presence, they'll need to start making alliances and integrate systems with other operators in countries they're unfamiliar with in a different language.

Original article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...

(Edited to make clearer why a pan-European operator would support this)
I don't know, Alex. It still smells like playing god. Research, formal or informal is at least ostensibly justifiable if it is performed with respect and in the name of furthering individual or collective knowledge. Do you really think that's what's going on here?

Doesn't it seem more like it's being marketed as an educational toy? Is it really appropriate to transform other life forms into our toys?
Agreed, that bug is quite a bit different from the impression in the blog post. Tim is completely right, however: Why can't he use the automatically differentiated leading underscore test? And the fix of the documentation is, as he mentioned, just as wrong as it already was. Now I wonder if his bug comment was sarcastic, because it would be had I written it.
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