skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know anything about Project Meshnet? http://projectmeshnet.org/

I discovered it a few days ago and it sounds promising but some of the cjdns whitepaper was over my head. Apparently there are a few hundred people participating in their alternative internet on a daily basis already.
I used to love rackspace... but had a really bad experience recently. I was using Rackspace Files as a CDN for my ecommerce site. One of my customers emailed me saying that the graphics were missing from the site. Turned out 2 of the 3 zones were down, according to status.rackspace.com. They fixed it about 12 hours after it started IIRC. They never sent an email notifying me of the down time.

Then -- and this is where they destroyed my trust in their service -- I took a look at the status panel the following day, and they cleared the history of the downtime (it shows 30 days of issues). Instead of showing the issue, they marked it as green and deleted the messages describing the issue.

That day, I stopped using Rackspace for everything. (This was about a month ago)
For the uninitiated, PIM apparently stands for personal information management (calendar, address book, etc).
Turnabout is fair play!
Direct democracy isn't automatically good. Just look at California.
A suggestion for the visual area widget: Count the boxes for the user. So in the first box you'd write 1, the second 2, etc. Then it's easy to verify that the numbers are indeed a counting (they increase by 1) and that the calculated are indeed checks out.

I'd write the numbers in gray so they don't dominate the image.
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Really nice.

Rediscovering Lisp and Smalltalk interactive environments.
I think you are misunderstanding. Nobody cares about voluntary unemployment, if people dont want to work and just live of some other source of income family, saving or something like that. There is no economic argument about that.

The problem is people that can work, but dont because the gain of working is not big enouth to overcome the lost of safty net payments.
>People have been saying they're good as dead since N64

Gaming, and specifically console gaming, is a different business than it was in the 90s.
If only they localize Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem...
So driverless taxis will be cheap.

Taxi medallions are licenses by the city for taxi companies, to prevent abuse. But if the software is certified, you don't really need the medallions. Drop $500,000 off the cost of a taxi.

You don't have to pay the 2 drivers that normally share a cab. Drop $80,000 a year off.

Assuming the cars no longer crash (version 2.0?), drop $10,000/year off for taxi insurance.

Combine that with Google-quality routing, and smart-phone taxi ordering, and you're looking at a major price drop for taxi service, assuming some sort of competition. I'm guesstimating a 50-75% drop.

Most people in cities will opt out of owning their own car, and use robo-taxis.

You are looking at an 80-85% drop in the required number of cars in cities (even accounting for current peak traffic volumes. see the KPMG report. I also came to the same number back-of-the-envelope).

Obviously, this will destroy GM and Toyota. Might be good for Tesla as they are still tiny, and I'm sure Elon and Larry have discussed this.

Some other interesting outcomes:

- should increase the total number of trips and miles driven, as lower prices lead to higher quantity demanded, so more wear and tear on cars, and more gas consumed (though less for idling).

- with many driverless cars, they can communicate with each other, driving faster and closer together, and co-ordinating intersection crossing. price of oil change is ambiguous.

- fewer deaths and injuries from accidents, or none at all. The organ transplant industry dies.

- more trees and less concrete lead to cooler cities?

- you can probably get away with more single-lane streets, with no parking, increasing usable land areas in cities by 25%, significantly dropping housing prices.

- in your driverless car, you can talk on your cell, use your laptop, read a book, not be stressed from driving. people may be willing to drive farther to work, increasing sprawl, and also dropping the quantity demanded for housing near the core, dropping prices.

- public transit disappears? though driverless buses would be cheaper too.

- more people bike to work, as it's much safer

- software requirement: interior management for driverless taxis. some video or image recognition for lost purses, people having heart attacks, people throwing up in the back seat.
That fall is from the high of the Wii's unprecedented success.
Yeah, I don't get it. So they are going to argue against secret laws, at at ... secret tribunal?

That seems very hopeless to me.
If you don't think they're out to get you, read this article.
I don't think it would be a big ask. Dependency tracking/resolution and two-way data binding is baked in, so you'd only have to create some ui components (e.g. a slider) to allow for altering of the values and everything else would just work. Though if you wanted to do it properly you'd probably encapsulate the functionality in a directive of some sort.
Automatic notifications of long running shell commands
No, really. India was hardly "on track" to becoming an industrialized nation roughly a hundred years before industry happened. Furthermore, India was actually the first Asian country with a modern textile industry, in the 1850s -- twenty years before Japan.

What you're thinking about is the Calico acts. They were two because the first one, passed in 1699 IIRC, was easy to circumvent -- as it only banned the import of some types of calico. The second one was passen in 1720. Neither of them actually had anything to do with the industrial revolution, which was still a couple of generations away. They were passed mainly due to the heavy impact imported cotton had over the national wool and silk production, and people were naturally growing weary about the toll taken by the national economy (both in terms of actual production, and in terms of workplace et co.); apparently, those guys realized, three hundred years ago, that outsourcing can have some bad consequences :-). There was also a more or less xenophobic component: other European countries banned cotton trade as well, while England still allowed raw and undied cotton, which drove many cotton manufacture workers to England, where their job was still in demand. There was a fair amount of "nationalism" in the Calico acts.

(Yeah: England was actually one of the last European countries to implement this. When the first Calico act was passed, France, for instance, aws already forbidding cotton period.)

The ban was later maintained, partly due to intertia, partly because the cotton processing industry later had to be protected, but that was hardly that much of a showstopper. There was no ban on cotton use or processing -- nothing that restricted either producing cotton for internal use, or export to anywhere except England. There were other factors at stake that slowed down the development -- and the first textile mills in India (with Indian owners, no less) opened in the early 1850s.
What Makes Houston the Next Great American City?
I feel HTML5 today's "Web 2.0" of a few years ago. It's an overblown term that doesn't really capture what it is. CSS3 is cool. Canvas is cool. More native video is cool, I guess. The other new html elements are... ok... but quite frankily I'm fine with <div>s and changing them to <sections> seems annoying more so than helpful. HTML5 doesn't seem to bring anything radically new; most of what it allows could be done before, just with more workarounds and quirks. It's being hyped up as some next great thing, and not really a radical new development, it's much more incremental really.

And plenty of people are still using IE8 and Windows XP, and will for the next few years, so I don't think it's really more critical to learn HTML5 than over HTML4. Actually, it's hardly even possible to learn one without the other.
Any HN readers of this post have any similar experience?

I know the bright team over at bit.ly made a successful switch from python to go-- anyone else?

The more I hear about go, the more I like it.
Great interface!
Nintendo has many great games and they certainly have great brands, but let's no go overboard here. Nintendo is perfectly willing to "rehash visuals and weaponry" by releasing yet another Mario or Zelda game.
I don't run xmobar or trayer...

It's nice that we don't need to write these things in C to be small and fast.
It would only increase choice for people who can afford a car, the cost of operating a car, and the extra travel time. For people who cannot, urban sprawl is a severe limit to their choice.
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not being familiar with python or django, i'm curious why writing a scraper would require an mvc framework.
You're 100% right. I just realized that unemployment statistics only include those actively seeking work.
Or they might keep the prices high and keep the difference in operational cost as profit.
Isn't it almost cliche to joke about your true self. Regardless, still a creapy thing to say to the parent of a toddler.
> Would that be idiomatic Clojure? :-)

Yes it would. Clojure is design with that idea in mind, make it connect really closly to java so that you can interop with no overhead.
Encouraging Gender Diversity at Tech Conferences
Uuurrghh - we have no idea the real practicality of driver-less cars, small technical / political issues such as needing own lanes for the first ten or more years, processing power and cost, all make this kind of stuff guesswork.

Add to that the combination of other shifts - a move away from everyone into the office at the same time, distributed remote working, shifts in employment vs freelancing - and it all adds up to massive change, but not predicatable change at this level of detail

Fasten your seatbelts, its going to be a bumpy ride, but no-one can tell which bumps we will hit first.
Let's be honest here, Korean food's not that exciting - it can be good, sure, but there's not a lot of variety. Plus, if you eat too much of their chilli and vinegar dominated kimchi, you wind up with stomach cancer. ("It is the leading cancer type in Korea, with 20.8% of malignant neoplasms.") That probably contributes to less fat people. Also, they're more image-centric than Hollywood! (I used to work above a Korean plastic surgery in Hollywood, it was a veritable production line)
OK, but is there an estimate I can do in my head? Or on the back of a napkin?
If you ever do finish it, go and wrap it in a book via some online self publishing platforms. I'll be the first one to buy a copy.

Or, if you're not interested in making some money out of it, maybe turn it into wiki style website, so that other people could chip in and you would moderate the submitted text.
I don't know if you could use Chrome's SSH extension -- it's actually a super good terminal emulator -- if you check out the source they wrote some code to run tricky sequences through xterm and figure out what it does.
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I'm curious why you choose i3 over Awesome or Xmonad. I recently started playing with tiling window managers myself after I saw a i3 presentation on Youtube. When started looking into it I found much more documention on Awesome wm. That's why installed that one on my machine.
Entrepreneurs, here are some basic guidelines to start your online business
Hey arunoda. It would be nice if only the creator of the blackboard would be able to clear the board.

Where are you hosting the meteor app? Don't know what is the current load but it looks fast.
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Agreed.

Xorg + a few fonts is more "heavy" (in memory numbers) than the 90% of those dm/wm,

There are tools like x11perf, glxgears, and more, and at the end of the day, you cannot compare "fluxbox Vs a desktop environment", because you should be comparing fluxbox + cups + a desktop search indexer + a graphical filebrowser + a calendar service + this + that + ...

It's nice to see "the data", as "numbers", but you make a proper point about how it should be interpreted.

When I had more spare time (this is more than 14 years ago), I did test a lot of desktop environments. I did start with kde 1.X, and have use many version of many desktop environments and WMs... my tip is: pick the one that makes you "forget about it" and focus on your tasks.

Now living out of home and al the hardware I carry, and have access does not have any problems. When I loved at my home, I had recycled computers, and repaired by me ones, and if it was not ok for a graphical ENVIRONMENT (I don't care if I don't swap after boot, I care if I swap WHILE USING) I just did use such machine as a "headless server" and everybody is happy.

Other approach to low resources machines as the blog seems to talk about, is to enable remote login (xdm, gdm, kdm, whatever) on a powerful machine, and use the old one to just launch the X (raw) and the remote login/desktop client in full screen.

A few years ago, I did see this numbers on my own for the environments I was interested, and people used to tell me "xfce is light!!!", obviously, they did come from lighter environments, maybe because they were used to heavier desktops. I was used to fluxbox.

I was used to _forget_ about the WM and the backgrounds, and focus on useful things (unless you are preparing a your screen for a Hollywood film or something like that).

I just ask a responsive workflow. Most system do not provide that "by default" and you have to "setup", "cleanup" or "shortcut"... you can do it in many ways at many layers.

I like fluxbox by the following reasons: we did meet years ago, recycling computers with low resources, I did learn the configuration (behavior and keyboard) in half an hour and a few days of tweaking, performance/resources never was a problem, I did forgot about "it" and "it" did let me "do stuff". Until today this never failed/changed. That are my "numbers", I'm a happy customer.
Correct, hence the competition assumption. City managers will need to be wary of any long-term deals offered by taxi companies in the coming years. Or buy yourself a taxi company now!
I had to use my daughter's modest ASUS AMD C-60 All-in-One (2 Gb RAM) until I could find a replacement for my laptop. Using Ubuntu's Unity with a LAMP and/or Rails stack sometimes brought it to it's knees. Switched to i3 and it was like having a new PC. No kidding.
Truth be told, it's worth that much. One of the best games on a tablet ever. Not just visually, but the entire experience - Gameplay, Character progression, Replayability, etc.
Ask HN: Former salesman stole company property, what to do?
Hi guys,

A former salesman for my company was asked to return a tablet and 3G dongle that was provided with his contract. He failed to do so, claiming it was lost in the post. He then said he would cover the costs when he got paid in June. He has not done so and now does not reply to communications.

What should I do now?
How Email being Opened More on Mobile Devices will Impact the Success of Surveys
A months-long siege over a home poker game!?
> Twitter knows a lot about you from who you follow and what links you click on.

No kidding. But we don't care as we live in the glass house of a celebrity culture.

PS: downvote the quoted text if you must. My point is not obvious.
I think that is a rater optimistic timeline since the next gen consoles will probably still struggle to do 1080.
Taxi medallions are a byproduct of a past age. They should not exist as they do today.

Great article, with research, here - http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of...
The argument is: "For law to be law it needs to be at least in principle knowable by the people to whom it applies."

My point is that even if the law applied specifically to the NSA/DOJ/FISC, it still applies to each individual, because the laws in question specifically govern how that NSA/DOJ interacts with individuals.

No one here is saying that the NSA is acting outside the law. That's the travesty of the thing. They are not. They are doing what congress allowed them to do. But the fact is, congress intentionally setup a system which has, in essence, unbridled power. When you tell a group of enforcers "the law means what you think it means", this is what the inevitable result will be.
Hey Kyle, looks good. Tis the season of the notes applications, as if the rest of the year was not enough =)

As you said, it has similarities with Giantpad no doubt about it, although my main differences are the markdown and the projects part. These apps don't vary much from one to the other, at the end it's all about the details.

What is that 1 that appears at the end of the notes list?
If the USG believed that Snowden had set out to aid America's enemies, he'd have been charged with treason.

And the US government would try anything to get him, like grounding the planes of presidents of other countries on suspicion that he might be there. Er, wait, they actually did that!

Are you really sure that the treason charge won't happen once he's jailed? The treason would expose him to the death penalty, one more good legal ground to give him asylum.

Still whatever the charges against Snowden are, they are going to claim on the court that he aided the enemies, just like in Manning's case ("bin Laden himself wanted to read that, that automatically means Manning aided bin Laden.")
Yes. That is a needed feature.

This is hosted on meteor.com, just used a CNAME. This should be fast since, nothing goes through Mongo.
Today's electric cars would be used for many of these things even they have 80 mile batteries, since the taxi company can manage charging levels very easily. They will end up using it just on a cost basis alone since the cars are cheaper on a marginal basis than gas. Most people don't need a gas car for most of their driving. A tesla model S would do even for most people in large cities today. It's only when you would want to go on long distance road trips that you would need a gas car.

Just this weekend, me and my roomate went on a road trip to san diego and we rented a car because he didn't want to put the ~1200 miles on his car.
How about "How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Car Ownership"?

Why bother owning a car at all? Couldn't I just subscribe to some service that will have a car drive to me when I need it? And when I need a two seater, or a five seater or a seven seater I just tell the smartphone app that? And when the car is dirty is just drives somewhere to be cleaned?
Thanks for the feedback. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done to improve the UI for these tools, but our goal is to build a library of such visual tools for tens of relevant topics.
Well, I might still want a car, personally. Remember horses. They went from tools of transportation to pets and recreational 'vehicles'
please make an AMA mr fountain of the truth, I'd like to know more.
I kind of liked the guitar schtick. Better than a laser pointer or pp slides, IMO.

The overall data spread is about what you'd expect, but I think the real value of something like this comes at analyzing how the bigger successful outliers are different from the mean average project as well as those that weren't successful.
Traffic lights could be less common because hidden sensors in cars and streets coordinate traffic.

I wonder how motorcycles would fare.

I'd hate to give mine up, unless driverless cars were faster and cheaper than motorcycles. Perhaps cheaper by means of a partial ownership model, a la netjets.
> The only one I was surprised to see on there was Juno. I've never seen it, is it really that notable?

No. It was zeitgeisty in the way that some films are, and it got a lot of buzz among important demographics, but it's not "important".
If you don't understand key management and public/private keys, signing, etc., you either have to depend on someone that does, or cargo-cult your way through using it. And it's not difficult given a little "want to". Alton Brown could teach the concepts in a single show.
Nintendo being Nintendo has served them well for decades. It's not reasonable to expect them to throw their entire corporate identity out just because they have a huge Wii-shaped bump in their stock chart.

What makes Nintendo unique among console makers--and what carries them through each generation--is focusing on making fun games, not abiding the latest trends. Nintendo does roughly what Apple does: let the competitors make all the big mistakes and take the PR hits, then come behind and release something that gets it right on the first try.
"Nicer" is relative.
Not as much as I would have thought.

2TB can be one server: http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/system/5U/5086/SYS-5086...

An expensive server for sure... but it's just one server.
> This is also interesting:

>> "Switzerland’s cooperation comes after the Justice Department prosecuted 11 Swiss banks on suspicion of aiding Americans in evading taxes, creating deep uncertainty for the country’s financial sector."

details in case somebody missed that:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20907359

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-01-20/news...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/04/swiss-bank-wegel...
The quote is "Tuples are for heterogeneous data, list are for homogeneous data. Tuples are not read-only lists." Guido van Rossum March 12, 2003 in python-dev.

However, don’t treat Guido’s statement as a mandate!

"Yes, taking Guido too seriously can have that effect on people <1.1 wink> The trick is in knowing when Guido is proscribing dogmatic law, and when he is describing his intent when he designed feature(tte)s of Python, or his point of view at this moment, or how he wished people would see it, or reacting to what he had for lunch. He's just human, you know, and no more infallible than the best of us." Thomas Wouters March 12, 2003 in python-dev

For example, consider object.__class__.__bases__. That's a tuple of homogenous data. It's not of a fixed length, and the base class at a given position has no intrinsic name, other than "first", "second", etc.

Do you think the use of tuple here is a bug? Should it be a list instead?
You'd move the signaling to the vehicle. I too own a motorcycle, and could see a day when the bike warns me at intersection approaches that I have to give way to an automated vehicle.
It sounds like you're doing OK financially. My advice is to pack up your stuff, rent out (or terminate the contract on) your place, quit your job, and travel. It will change your life, and when you come back you will be more you than when you left.

The rationale is that an office-work centric lifestyle in a city is only one option. Quite frankly; the way many of us live is stupendously artificial, and it's not surprising the body sometimes rejects it. In the west people are raised to follow that path, with tremendous social and family pressures to continue. Soon, you can find your self-worth tied up in what are essentially the worthless trivialities of a treadmill existence. There can be a tremendous amount of social pressure to keep going. However, that's not for everyone ... it's tremendously valuable to see and explore others and meet people from other backgrounds before committing yourself to 20-30 years more of the same. You can always come back to it. Trust me, I took 7 years out of the rat race and unexpectedly that experience helped me to come back so far on top I quit after another two and don't expect to ever return. (PS. I'm not fabulously wealthy, I'm just a different person than I was)

Try it.

Another thing to check is diet, exercise and environment - it's easy to get depressed if you sleep weird hours, don't move, don't get enough sunlight / fresh food (hint: a lot of what is sold as fresh isn't really, eg. pretty much all juices, much fruit, and prepackaged salads/sandwiches. Ban sugar and sugar-with-caffeine). You seem like a rational person - if in doubt, try changing some aspect of things awhile and see if it doesn't improve.