skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe ideas are inherently good or bad. A lot also depends on timing and execution. Twitter turned out to be a great idea, but I don't think there are many people who could have pulled it off the way Jack Dorsey and his cohorts did.
I don't know for the data, but I pay 8 times less (! 25p/min vs 3p/min) to call a mobile in foreign country than another mobile locally in the UK and only 2 times cheaper when making call in a foreign country.

I never really understood, that's just a pay as you go sim from a big player, yet it is cheaper to call a Spanish mobile in Spain with my UK mobile than the Pay as you Go rate from the same operator in Spain.
I'm a fan of scala-lang/scala-internals both of which are very interesting.
>Instead of just making a game in assembly

Not to discount what he did, but he didn't write the game in Assembly. He wrote it in C then decompiled it to Assembly and used that as a starting point for the Assembly code.

From the article:

>Starting in assembly right away would be a bit too insane, so I first wrote a reference implementation in C

As someone who started in Assembly right away creating several games with a much simpler 6510 CPU, I can vouch for the fact that starting in Assembly would be a bit too insane especially on modern CPUs.
> The old-money lifestyle is _designed_ to sit back, enjoy, and let the investment bankers handle the rest- exactly what she's doing so they're not parasites, they're living an elite's way of life.

Just because it is the latter doesn't mean its not also the former.
Some more info from the author on this release at:

https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2013-06/msg00101....
I believe this refers to HTTPS.
Real World Ocaml
github login required, but worth it
The only thing about HN I dislike is how quickly it times out before you have to refresh!
This is my list of favs. http://suhairhassan.com/2013/04/17/newsletters-for-hackers.h...
If they can raise them (without lowering the number of calls), why haven't they done so by now?
I'm not sure what the point would be though. You could build all the residential skyscrapers you want in La Defense and still be within 15 minutes of most of Paris proper.
The questions of distorted incentives and short-term decision-making are much more interesting questions! As to whether it's a problem or not, how would you argue that it is? Is there cultural value to having bohemians or artists or people other than high-income professionals clustered in city centers, value which isn't represented in their incomes? If so, wouldn't it be more efficient to provide a subsidy for their cultural output and let them choose where to live?
#slicehost on freenode. I know the company doesn't exist anymore, but I learned so much about setting up my first debain box from these guys/gals. It is still going strong 6 years later.
Good idea, but fairly useless, I think.

First of all, jurisdiction is a legal term, and the NSA apparently doesn't really care about what exactly is legal or not.

Second of all, the tentacles of the NSA reach far beyond the US alone due to all kinds of political alliances. You can set up a server here in The Netherlands, but I can pretty much guarantee that your data won't be safe here, too.

The biggest problem with this however are the end users. You can set up your server in North Korea for all I care, but as long as the end user is in the US, they can be snooped upon.

A 'guaranteed NOT in the US'-seal will only instigate a false sense of security.
That is just referring to SSL.
I find it highly unlikely he will reveal what his strategy for staying free is. This would kind of be a dumb reveal even though I am curious what it is.
It is in the interests of airlines to have longer flights to maximise in flight spending. Customers never had a say in this. Most people probably spend more time in customs than on the plane anyway. A 20% decrease of air time isn't that big of a deal to most.
Here you go. It seems to have gone on holiday

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QyDYz-s...
How to Not Feel Like an IT Geek When You’re Giving a Presentation
This book is now in Public beta [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5893304
Skips over the whole sonic boom issue, which basically prevents supersonic flight over the USA, and probably Europe. Anything that limits a plane's routes is not good.
text only google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:butuncl...
Their Sherlock entry system looks neat. And a better bet than a curated airbnb clone.
While faster flights would be nice, he is right in that price is more of a priority than speed. Besides, an even bigger concern would be safety.
My POV is that if you want to improve door-to-door speed, focus on the airport experience (more time-efficient security, check-in, more predictability to let people "cut it closer", faster baggage handling and outbound logistics [rental car, etc]).

I flew my family on a our current vacation on a multi-leg trip in a 175 mph airplane, and beat the 560 mph airlines door to door on every leg, because my ground logistics time is almost non-existent. (Rental car or family pickup waiting plane-side, no security checks, no waiting for bags, and no sense "getting there early" because it's obviously not taking off without me.)

Suburb of Boston to suburb of Pittsburgh: 3h30m. From there to suburb of Cincy: 1h45m. There to Lexington, KY: 52m. There to Livingston, TN: 1h. Only on the BOS to PIT leg do the airlines have any hope of competing.

Speeding up the airline experience doesn't have much to do with speeding up the airliners themselves, IMO.
Asked: http://discussion.guardian.co.uk/comment-permalink/24386192
Yeah, I'd be interested in how this would be implemented as well. I'm guessing it's not as simple as "ending roaming charges" as that would be quite easy to game - setup a single-mast cell phone provider in the middle of a Finnish forest, and demand that all other providers carry your clients traffic for free. Clearly, the network in which another networks' clients are roaming must be compensated somehow, it's just that the price will be capped at some level.
Why is that even a feature of browsers? On my desktop I can zoom whenever, wherever I want. Why should it be any different on mobile...

Edit: In mobile safari I have a bunch of bookmarklets (javascript bookmarks) for enabling zoom, and to zoom the way desktop browsers do (increase text size and reflow text).
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I am very skeptical of this. The cost of fuel should dwarf the chance to buy an extra sandwich. Cite?
Hey Hadopi, You’re Breaking The Law.
I don't do TDD all the time, but I used it in a few strategic projects in daytime jobs. I was taught TDD in college by an excellent professor that used a similar approach as the one in the article (write a test, then write the least code that will pass it, then build from that) and I think it's a healthy and interesting way to look at TDD.

Another view of TDD that I share is that it can be considered as a spec of (some strategic parts) of a system written in a programming language, which makes it unambiguous and - obviously - automatable. I've had good results in using this approach to introduce TDD to non-technical managers.

I've also found that writing tests for a few corner cases and typical cases before coding is a good way to make the problem itself (what comes before the design of the first solution, as the author treats in his article) clearer in one's head.
The two are tightly related, although physical movement is more important because in absence of it you waist a lot of time to get a Visa and there's always the possibility that you might not get it, whereas with roaming charges it's only a matter of convenience and price.

Btw, whenever I travel within EU one of the first things I do after landing would be to get a PrePay card. In European countries PrePay offers are really good and sometimes better than PostPay contracts.

If anything, I fear that this will favour an oligopoly of the big ones, like Vodafone and Orange, with no real benefit to me, a user accustomed with searching for good local PrePay offers.
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Repeating a grammatical error 1000 times does not make it "more better".

Douché.

If you look at actual statistics, they do seem to back up my impression ....

You're either confused about my comment or making a completely non sequitur argument for the heck of it. The claim I agreed with was that there are actually a lot of (largely minority) kids and people with average jobs in SF.

That is true and can be shown so by inspection, at that.

There are plenty of kids and families who live in my neighborhood (I'm on the cusp of Union Square and the Tenderloin). If you take a ride on the T towards Bayview in the middle of the afternoon, you'll also see plenty of kids.

Are the public schools in San Francisco just empty, waiting for families to move in and send their kids there? Of course not. As for people with "average jobs," who do you think is serving you that latté, helping you at Macy's, or cleaning your office? They don't just ship all of those people in from Oakland.

That San Francisco has no children or working class is a preposterous idea, mostly advanced by those who fail to step outside of the high-rent parts of the city.
Let's run some numbers.

It looks like the average round trip the last year it flew on the New York to London route on the Concorde was $12,000 and lasted 3.5 hours. You could fly that route on a regular plane for around $1,000 in a trip that takes 7.5 hours.

So the implied value of your time if you took the Concorde was around $2,750 / hr. If you net that up to a standard work year (2000 hours) it's $5.5 million. 1 in 1000 households in the US declare income of more than $2 million a year.

It's not that we are too cheap, it's that we aren't rich enough.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768938
I imagine that today will be a very interesting day for the Guardian's operations team.
Can't wait for the twitter pic of him holding up a piece of paper saying:

"Hi Reddit!
17th June, 2013"
Yeah, all the times I have camped with a hammock the cold spots have been unbearable.
The fastest way to calculate the Fibonacci sequence (with integer math) is a simple loop, just like you'd do it on paper. This version is slower and much more complicated. With so many relevant good examples of recursion and dynamic programming, it boggles my mind to see the Fibonacci sequence used as an example for either.

def fib(n):
a, b = 0, 1
for k in range(n):
a, b = b, a + b
return a
If you want to go ape with transitions, I use this little guy for extending JQ and adding a '.animate()' like function for any selector:

var defaults = {
duration: 700,
easing: 'ease-out'
};

$.fn.transition = function(props, opts){
options = $.extend({}, defaults, opts);
props['-webkit-transition'] = 'all '
+ options.duration
+ 'ms '
+ options.easing;
props['-moz-transition'] = 'all '
+ options.duration
+ 'ms '
+ options.easing;
props['transition'] = 'all '
+ options.duration
+ 'ms '
+ options.easing;
$(this).css(props);
};

Should work for FF, webkit, IE10.

Usage would be $('selector').transition({left: '10%'});

I really need to extend it for auto prefixing transforms as well.

edit: if you like, I also wrote a little js plugin for injecting animation keyframes into the CSSOM so you can create keyframe animation rules in JS. Not sure if it has any use, or if the code is even good enough for ridicule, but if you think it's something you'd like, I can release it on github.
mm. also, http://discussion.guardian.co.uk/comment-permalink/24386031

upvoted your link.
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If a few people are staying in your six-bedroom apartment when you touch down, surely you can either tolerate their presence for a day, or pay them to go away. You're right to bring up psychology, but it's more abstract: one might trust strangers not to make a mess, or the maids to clean it up, but having one's apartment listed for short-term rental is unthinkable.
Wow, that's not at all what I said. I like how you're deliberately taking things out of context.

We, the public, have no way of knowing if indeed its Snowden answering. It could be any number of persons, we just know that The Guardian says it's Snowden (probably). I'm all for calling the USG out on this matter, but I'd like if we could get some public verification of who is answering.
I'm not sure I buy this. I think it's in the airlines' interests to minimize costs (fuel) by flying as efficiently as possible (maybe slower - maximizing air-time). I would be surprised if in-flight spending increased meaningfully over a flight that is ~15% longer.
Some times back, I stayed telling my kids a series of stories about a little old man. They were all of the cuff and spontaneous and I have the kids opportunities to suggest things in the narrative. The stories were always silly.

I think my kids probably have the best memories from those stories though. Imagination is a powerful thing to encourage in your children.
Is inflight spending that big of a profit center for airlines? I would think that being able to do (for example) 20% more trips full of paying customers in the same span of time would be far more profitable for the airline.
For some reason, HN isn't picking up the duplicate URLs being submitted. Annoying since it'd be better if one makes it to the front page. Would you upvote the following?

[removed]

EDIT: Actually this one is older (and just made it to the front page) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5893168
That is what they seem to be promising (and we all know that then politicians promise something, that's how it's going to be). It's not clear how it will be implemented, and it's not clear why a dutch provider should honor a commitment for unlimited data that a UK provider has made to you.
While I would like to agree with you but the fact of the matter is no one cares about this stuff in India at the ground level. The govt. is already collecting bio-metric data of the billion plus population, apart from a few, no one protested against it. Heck, only a few asked how they will store this data and keep it secure. When more than half of the population is worried about their next meal or a place to sleep, it does not care about privacy.
Xbox One E3 demos were played on Windows gaming PCs
If he is afraid of being charged in the US, I would think he wouldn't have done this in the first place. Initially, it is said he did this because he cared about Americans. But by working with the Chinese, he is no longer a patriot in the eyes of many Americans. Overall, it appears like he was manipulated or at least fueled by the Chinese operatives.
So if Herschel leaves L2, will it go into a permanent heliocentric orbit or will it decay?
Exactly, this coupled with it's very limited range kept it from taking anything other than east-coast to Europe routes.
The crap on my disk may be restore points. There's no hibernation file - that's off (it's only necessary if you hibernate; you don't have to live with it)

How does start8 stop pdfs from fullscreening or older software from failing to install? Isn't it just a start menu replacement? I didn't have a problem with that. I had a problem with opening a pdf from the desktop, then win8 forcing me into fullscreen view - I couldn't fix the installation problem side-by-side with the tech notes.
You could always write a simple proxy in python and simply route all of your traffic through that.

See: http://voorloopnul.com/blog/a-python-proxy-in-less-than-100-...
The article actually talks quite a bit about the additional challenges introduced when approaching Mach 1. Agreed, though, that additional regulations regarding those speeds weren't discussed.
Tech Can Make Immortality a Reality: Head Google Engineer
If I recall correctly (I worked in the travel industry once), the price for a one-way from Paris to NYC was about 12K. An astonishing price, and you'd have to be a really well-paid executive to justify the price difference between a regular flight!
How did costs line up?
The city planners did allow some unchecked redevelopment in the early 70s and 80s. Most of those buildings are still considered ugly and time hasn't made them any prettier, trust me.

I wouldn't say it's the traditionalist but the the people have, collectively, have decided that they want a specific aesthetic and most of the buildings being proposed aren't it. The Forums Les Halles was erected in the 70s, the architects thought it was pretty, a majority of the population didn't like it. It was built and, 30 years later, demolished.
Air travel is one of the least efficient and most polluting forms of travel. Going slower and burning less fuel is great, even if it isn't as fast as technically possible.
Except only sort of.

I really want to be able to fly supersonically. When I picture myself on a transcontinental flight (which I take quite often), I picture an asthmatic plane wheezing it's way across the United States. Plane speed is an issue. It does not take 2.5 hours to fly from San Francisco to Denver. It should take under two hours(rarely it does, but barely).

Then there is the last mile issue. In one hour of travel I can get from San Jose to San Francisco or from SJC to LAX. In two hours of travel I can get from San Jose to Berkeley or SFO to DEN.

I already have my airport time down to a science (PreCheck + airport locations + not checking bags). The overhead on me being in an airport is easily less than an hour. Now just give me my faster planes.
He doesn't say anything about decompiling.

> Then I began slowly porting everything to handwritten assembly.
It depends on the company, some would lose out on government contracts, I dare say a few anti-trust investigations would popup or some new laws that the company wouldn't like. They can make life very difficult for them.
LinkedIn profiles of people working on #PRISM or affiliated programs
#Techendo (http://techendo.co) on freenode -- a lot of good people there from the SF tech scene, but I'm biased because I started the channel.
"he will appear and disappear intermittently"

How frustrating a taunt to those in the NSA who would rather make him disappear permanently.
Impressive. I also like his approach of prototyping it in C first (I chuckled at the thought of C as a prototyping language). That reference is also in the repo and I hope to at least read that :)
Joe Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest, is in prison for insider trading, which he was charged with after refusing to hand over customer data without a warrant.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...
Technology isn't intrinsically good or evil. It's how it's used.
Technology isn't intrinsically good or evil. It's how it's used. Just like in society, we have pockets of evil, who abuse platforms & media. What are examples of the abuses? ie Spam bots, etc

Btw - the first line is from Futurama :)
It's not just a case of being too cheap, but also it having negligable effect.

If I have to be at Heathrow 90 min before departure, and it takes me 45 min to drive there, or 90 min on public transport, then at the other end it takes 30 mins for my bag to get on the belt, clear port control, and another 30-60 min to get to the city. I have a good 4 hours of fixed time involved with my flight. If the flight is just 8 hours, making it 7 hours isn't really going to change things, I've still lost the most of the day.

So I'd sooner be able to sleep comfortably (ie space!) or be able to do some work (11 vaio Pro, 22 hours battery).

Then we have the issue that even going supersonic, we can't just upsticks and do it. We have to get out to see. Climbing to FL390 takes a lot of time, descending from it does as well, otherwise people generally find it rather un-appealing. Add in busy hub airport traffic and we've got at least 2 hours that we can't really speed up.

So our 12 hour total journy (4 hours travelling too / waiting at airports, 6 hours of cruise, 2 hours of holding an NDB) speeding up that 6 hours, doesn't have much effect. Hell go nuts, make it take 2 hours, go for mach 3. It is still going to take me, door to door, 8 hours. 8 vs 12 for the cost of that just isn't going to be worth it. Because ultimately I'll have my own work schedule, I'm not rich enough to have a private jet, and the stuff I fly you wouldn't want to be in for more than 4 hours anyway (well the fuel would run out too). So that means I want a regular, frequent service. I don't care that superfastjet leaves everyday at 1pm. I need to be around till 5pm. Obviously the geek in me would take the fast one, but I couldn't do that everytime.

TLDR It isn't just about being cheaper. It is recognising the deminishing impact speed is having on being the deciding factor. We look at door to door time, not cruise performance. We want a frequent schedule, not one speedbird a day.
"neutralize"? Say what you really mean.
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This is great, but I fear that the big winners will be the big telcos that have a presence in multiple countries, like Vodafone or Orange. In my country these two companies formed an oligopoly with similar services, similar prices, similar everything, until Cosmote came along.
And this has to do with this comment thread how? When President Obama makes a statement, we know he's the one making it. It's publicly televised, he's the one saying it and we have very little reason to doubt that he is indeed saying the thing. This thread makes no claims about whether the things the person is saying are true, it's about whether we can verify who is making the claims.

But, by all means, continue to ignore what I'm talking about and interject your own sputum.
In the short run theaters won't survive if the don't.
Block PRISM-associated addresses
You're right: I chose the wrong word. My point was more about the allocation of housing to the people willing to pay the most. I don't see why housing ought to be special in this regard; most things money can buy are sold at market prices.
It is similar to the numbers calculated by Ivan Illich regarding car usage in the 1970's. If you take into account the car price, gasoline, insurance, repairs, etc, and the time spent to earn that amount of money, the average speed of a car for a worker was around a few miles per hour, so not better that simply walking or bycycling. It is an unorthodox but quite interesting perspective on the counter productivity of complex industrial societies. The better your pay is, the higher is your "average speed". The Concord is only the most extreme example of this trend.
Just that what drives people to live in cities is primarily jobs, not that they prefer living in cities. I am not arguing that is universal (plenty of people do prefer to live in a city) but the main factor.
that was scary-cool.
People would object to sonic booms over land.
Understanding the cyber threats you face
I stumbled across skrollr last week and are using it for our latest project Campendo (http://campendo.co/) for a cool star effect. It's pretty easy to use and the documentation is great.
Someone needs to publish a list of all these 11.5-month-vacant apartments that rich people buy and that take up so much space, so that burglars can get in when they're not there. There should be an app for that. I'm sure there are home security measures up the wazoo, but those are technical problems.

I could never hack the criminal lifestyle-- I have enough anxiety as it is-- but there are cases in which non-violent crime is a necessary social process.

If the law won't provide the 6-month-and-1-day law that these cities desperately need, then let the burglars do it. When legal measures fail-- clearly the Powers That Be have not shown an interest in doing the right thing on the housing problems-- then resort to illegal ones.