skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the costs of sprawl aren't effectively conveyed to the commuter. The increased costs of infrastructure, road maintenance, etc aren't remotely made up for in vehicle, property or fuel taxes.

In which case, yes, it's a risk if it continues. Hell, it's a risk if it doesn't decline as the US approaches a GDP-growth situation not-unlike Japan's.

(Where per-capita GDP may continue growing, but net GDP barely moves due an aging populace and declining birth-rate.)
It's difficult to discover libraries, and we need a good delivery system for linking shipped binaries from these sources.

The next step would be true dependency management to manage version dependencies between multiple libraries.

Right now with both of these missing from Go, it's effectively two steps behind the mainstream languages.

It's not unsurmountable for early adopters and alpha geeks, but to break out into the mainstream these things are needed.
Ask HN: do you use specific artwork or fonts on payment pages
Hi,

I'm creating a browser based game, and I'm trying to find some research on this, but failed to find anything. Is the conversion better when the payment page uses the same style and fonts as the rest of the game, or is it better to use regular fonts provided by browser?

My game has a fantasy setting, so fonts are somewhat hard to read at the first glance because it's stylish (main font is Storybook Thin). I see that Zynga is using some regular Sans fonts in some of their games - only on payment page. I know I should not look up to Zynga and do as they do, but I assume they went crazy with A/B testing and probably found the best performing combination. I can't believe they were simply lazy to draw better graphics.

Has anyone got any experience on this or knows about some published article/research on the topic?

Thanks.
I just resized them there now.
Valve's apparent flatness hides real power structure, says former employee
Ask HN: Games like Uplink?
Does anyone know of any games similar to Uplink (created by Introversion software) ?

I enjoy them a lot and they help motivate me to program
Link to article: http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/07/hints-and-questions-about-t...
There's nothing there that says you have to wear a suit and tie to work. It's a guide for wearing clothes so you don't look like a bowl of oatmeal. Rules are always made to be broken once you understand how the system works. Male fashion doesn't mean you have to wear slacks and button down shirts. I wear jeans, sneakers and tshirts every day. But I've learned how to buy clothes that look like they fit me and less like a cholo gangster.
Dramatic urban sprawl is generally considered a bad thing by almost everyone, not just NYTimes.
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Lot of doom and gloom about the only gaming company that doesn't dump their product on the market at a loss. Sony and Microsoft piss away literally billions of dollars for years waiting for their consoles to become profitable.

And here's a redditor putting the Wii U game library in context: http://www.reddit.com/r/wiiu/comments/1gurfs/is_nintendo_pre... The Wii U receives slightly better than average third party support vs other Nintendo consoles.
Self-driving cars can completely change our cities, here in America, because our cities are designed around cars. When I don't have to fight for a parking space, I don't need vast car parks around everything. When the cars drive as members of the same team instead of playing cutthroat, we don't need more lanes, more automotive bandwidth. We can remake our cities on our scale instead. Whether we will or not is the question.
Is that a blanket term for everyone that isn't us, or do we actually have an official list of countries we consider trade enemies?
I use XFCE because I run debian in a VM inside MacOS and I don't see much reason to run two RAM guzzling window managers (I have lots of RAM so I can run scientific code that often needs 4-5GB at once, mostly for python code I intend to optimise when I have time). At 70MB by this measure, it seems like I made roughly the right choice for a window manager that leaves me lots of other space free for 'real' data (but still loads enough of GTK to run Eclipse as my dev env.)
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Yes, it also needs:

1. Analytical thinking skills (school/education is there for this)

2. Critical thinking skills (school/education is there for this)

3. Entirely free flowing information
People use it because they interpret it the wrong way.
Sensationalist headline. Disturbing maybe, terrorizing no. Terrorizing implies an active intent to cause harm - obviously absent here.
Also consider reading his seminal essay called "Magic Ink" [1] and afterwards take a look at the publication date and try to remember where the web was back then.

[1] http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
One important consideration: displacing the number of people who drive for a living in a community will be politically difficult. Ever notice how the vegas monorail stops short of the airport? We'll have to suffer a couple generations of protections before the long-run utopia I read in your comment.

Perhaps innovators will offset the protections by having +2 passenger seats in a standard sedan? Or a new car design altogether to side-step arbitrary rules?
The 1998 Netscape/Mozilla code drop didn't even compile, and it was nowhere close to being a functional browser.

They should have released the source of Netscape 3. In fact, even now I'd like to see the source of Netscape 3. It's nearly 20 years old but still a classic.
Small claims court, or hire a lawyer to write a nasty letter and hope he gets scared into keeping his word, or just drop it and move on.

I'd go with small claims court. But that's just me.
I have watched this video a few times and periodically revisit it. Sometimes we get to far into the woods and need to be reminded where we can go writing software.
True or Fake? Snowden safely lands in Venezuela
Not sure if this is accurate, if you find additional sources please share
Great! Thanks for pointing that out. I had read through the tremendous number of comments around that feature a month ago, and didn't expect it to make it through committee already.

It's a killer feature and extremely useful.
Making Considerate Software (2006)
Using CSS Fallback Properties for Better Cross-browser Compatibility
I used this (I think) briefly for about a day on ChromeOS and was very unimpressed. Is there at least a way to turn off the weird character fade effect, or whatever it's called? I didn't look long but I couldn't find one.
Is it just me (Linux Mint 14) or does a lot of this just not work? Dropdowns don't drop and they stay on the screen after `clear` or input scroll, right click is broken, scrolling doesn't always stick to the bottom, you can't select text or middle click to paste (my keyboard doesn't even have insert), ps aux, htop, and a few other things break it, arrow keys don't work over SSH. Then there are missing features like tabs, hiding the menu bar, spawning new terminals in the current directory, settings that do more than color scheme, etc.

About the only thing that does work is the autocomplete, which is certainly nice, but not nice enough that I'm going to give up on a ton of functionality I've gotten used to.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the work you're doing and don't want to discourage you, the terminal is certainly due for a rework, and this is a huge step in the right direction. If more of the features on your website were implemented/worked I would be very tempted to make a permanent switch, but I spend 8 hours a day in a terminal window, everything needs to just work.
Until everything or everyone I interact with is within walking or public transit distance of me, I'll still require a car. Not everyone I know wants to live in the city with me. Not all of my service providers will be in the city with me.
that's a very normal reaction, lookup any 'funny' video of people not being able to hold the pain of getting tattooed... they wanted it done, they paid, they try to sustain what they're going through since they accepted it in the first place(which is not the case of your criminal country abductees) and then it explodes in a violent reaction when they figure out "I really can't take it", go, look it up.
Horribly. Even worse for pedestrians and bicyclists.
People didn't know that until some time after.

There were 40,000 people in the buildings when the planes crashed.
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You definitely aren't wrong, but it is worth noting that the PageRank is calculated based on all wikipedia articles, and not just those of movies (so influence into other areas will hopefully bubble up). "Birth of a Nation" actually does show up quite prominently for the pre 1930s era.
This is already the case in urban environments. Many people do not own cars but just use taxis. I think there are even some subscription taxi services too.

As for why this will probably never take on in less urban environments:

- 5-10 minute wait times (people are inpatient)

- Can't leave belongings in car

- Keeping the car clean would add cost to the service
Thoughts on Comic Sans from a Non-Designer's Perspective
Yay, the weekly driverless car puff piece.

> Imagine a city where you don’t drive in loops looking for a parking spot because your car drops you off and scoots off to some location to wait, sort of like taxi holding pens at airports.

What location is that? The magic one? Just "some" location that apparently will magically appear when the magic cars come.

Actually, your driverless car takes up the same room on the road or in the parking lot as everyone else's. YOU don't drive in loops, but your car still does.

Imagine a theatre at 10PM. The show is letting out. Traffic is snarled for five miles in all directions because a theatre's-worth of empty cars have been circling the block for an hour, making sure they are ready to pick up their ever-so-important passengers.

In effect, adding traffic to roads no longer imposes a personal cost on your time - it's only a financial cost on your bank account, which is highly affordable to some people. The same people who currently have 14 cars in the garage of their mansion can now take all 14 cars with them to the Hamptons for the weekend, in case they want to drive one. Just order them to circle the block near your beach house - well, not your block of course, the neighbors would complain, but someone else's block. Maybe the traffic on the Long Island Expressway is terrible, but your 14 empty cars don't care, they'll make it out to the beach house eventually.

Cost of housing getting you down? Just buy a van and a sleeping bag, and order it to drive around randomly all night and arrive at your work at 9AM. Now you've effectively perma-rented a 9'x14' spot on the nation's roads, without paying a cent.

The push for carpooling is a way to use our limited road space more efficiently, by increasing the number of persons per car up from the current average of 1.59. Driverless cars are the anti-carpool - cars driving with zero humans going anywhere, pushing that average down.

Driverless cars are a net negative for the way the world is going, not a net positive.
A class's __bases__ is a tuple of base classes. The length is not fixed, and there's no special name for [i] other than (i+1)-th; only its ordering is important.

Do believe that the use of a tuple here is a bug, like you do for Django?

The __bases__ can be re-assigned. Assignment to an instance is guaranteed atomic in Python. Some of the list operations are not. Thread-safe guarantees might be another reason for restricting list's mutability.
You get what you pay.

A international CMS, or a static .html ?

This is the same.

If you just need to throw a paragraph (or to "just manage "other programs" and forget about the "environment" and you don't feel it's slow, then... any of the two options is ok.
Relaying 'existing' traffic is the "random noise". It provides obscure, 'random' traffic between nodes but serves a purpose by providing bandwidth.

The content of this traffic could easily be a useless packet, IRC, HTTP, etc.
Thanks for the link and heads-up, it's shortly to gain 2 more Swiss-resident signatures. Going to post it about to a few other Swiss here too, to try and get some more signing up.
If you are using facebook and "rah rah-ing" about Obama or the latest political fever you probably are at very little current risk of long term data retention.

I'd go further and say that at present everyone (rah-rahing Obama supporters included) is currently at risk of long term data retention, given the facilities currently being built and the policies of the NSA/GCHQ/DGSE etc.

In the UK at least the ambition is complete surveillance, and the present reality is the ingestion of ALL data entering and existing the UK, so the vast majority of internet traffic is already monitored, and stored for as long as they can manage. Snowden claimed in another video released today that the same situation pertains to the US, though I don't think we've seen documentary proof of that yet, just that they're collecting all metadata, which is bad enough. They can probably store metadata indefinitely already, and why wouldn't they? In the next few years as long as they can manage will be 1 year, then 10, then soon after lifetimes - that will easily happen within the lifetime of a person alive today, if the current policies persist. And one day as you say all that data will be used.

So to extend Obama's assertion and make it less untruthful - no-one is listening to your phone calls, but someone will, one day.
for someone preoccupied with living life to the fullest, waiting till your older to have children, and increasing the chance for a down syndrome baby is a bit counter productive

In what way? Increasing the odds from 1:1000 to 10:1000 in exchange for 20 years of carefree living seems like a pretty good tradeoff to me.
If there is, I would love to hear of it. However, I have to wonder if you really only make decisions based on randomized controlled studies with over 10,000 participants...
Favorite quote: "I have to be very careful when I'm driving"

Well..... yeah.... so you should.
In regards to powershell, check out PowerGUI for a better experience.
I think you meant 'he'.
The whole article used the pronoun "she". Several pictures of women complaining or generally in a bad mood. I removed the pictures and ads first thing when visiting that site. Talk about a "client" not a "gender". When you use the word "she" you are referring to a person's gender, not that person. Since we had no idea who "she" was, other than "some client" it may have been more appropriate to call her "Penny" or some other such name (to protect the identity of said person).
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I use last pass to transfer my private key to the PGP app on my iPad (and elsewhere) (as opposed going through Dropbox or whatever).

Relies upon trusting last pass and trusting the iPad of course, both of which are questionable.
very few foreign films here, a large number of which have been decisively influential on even the US cinema. so, in the end, it think we understand wikipedia better, rather than understanding film history better.
Exactly so. The right way to think about these "secret laws" is that they aren't laws at all. Take the most pessimistic interpretation you can come up with, as long as you stay within the framework of "this is what Congress authorized NSA to do". FISA : Article III Courts :: USDA Inspection : Certified Organic.
The way out of this Catch 22 situation is to encrypt your facebook blather.
"He made me feel like a bad mother if I didn't do it."

Ya know, if you have 5 kids and you're in prison and a candidate "likely to return" then guess what? You ARE a bad mother whether you prevent fucking up a 6th, 7th, nth child in the future won't change that.
what!! no dude
Career Today, Gone Tomorrow Cartoon
Just don't advertise it as "super-quick installation", that's quite simply taking the piss.
The USG could tomorrow transform itself into a despotism dedicated to the proposition that all men should wear loincloths made of cheese curds. You can't falsify that argument either.

I'm not making a substantive argument about Snowden's charges, except to point out that the notion of "aiding America's enemies" has force only when coupled with intent. Treason isn't a strict liability crime.
Computational art: Processing 2.0.1 is here
To "toastedzergling"'s comment also (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6007986), the term "HTML5" seems to always be used in the wrong way. People use it as a buzz word, when they don't actually realize what they are really describing. In the context I usually hear it, they typically mean CSS3 or javascript features, not actual HTML5 features.

While I think HTML5 does offer some exciting features, I also think people need to know the differences between what HTML5 is and more importantly, what it is not.

Because even the graphic they show in the article (“HTML5″ is currently the #1 job trend based on the fastest growing keywords found in online job postings...) says just how recruiters and job listings use that specific term. 90% of the time I see that used, it's a keyword as just wanting you to know general HTML, but they use the phrase HTML5 over "HTML" because it sounds better.

For kicks, this site probably marks the biggest confusion that I always hear with HTML5: http://iscss3partofhtml5.com/ spoiler alert: NO.

EDIT: No clue why I'm being down-voted? As the perspective of a front-end designer who just recently was very active in the job market, this was ALWAYS the case. None of the companies were actually using true HTML5 features or wanted to use true HTML5 features, they were just using CSS3 or jQuery. Obviously it was just a recruiter trying to use buzz terms to describe knowing general HTML.
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On company culture, values and ethos
I have meditated daily for months and never experienced any sense of interconnectedness. Have you ever meditated?
If you haven't seen the Binney video, note the date the video was published, then watch it. Try to identify the claims already public then that you first became aware of just by following the story about Snowden. I was surprised.
It doesn't matter where you're coming from if the destination is zero (or negative, as it was last year).

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ntdoy/financials

Can anyone honestly look at these numbers and tell me Nintendo is doing "just fine?" I can see, "might be OK," or, "will not definitely die," but "just fine," is a total self-deception, especially with the recognition that the bump at the start of this year includes the sales of a new console.
On one hand, I like the "politics" posts (especially the Snowden-related ones).

On the other, I also agree that they mostly detract from the "unique" HN topics, BUT I like discussing them WITH the HN crowd (not with whomever might hang around on other sites).

I also feel like I can contribute more to these kind of posts than to others that I also find interesting and more on-topic (Javascript library for reactive documents, how to hack a high-performance board for a notebook, etc...)

Would it be possible to "wall off" the politics posts from the HN "main topic" posts? Much like what's done with the Ask HN posts...
It will be really interesting to see, if Apple can emulate the Nintendo 3DS experience with a bolt on controller for the iPhone. And if the game developers are willing to compete in a much smaller market of iPhone users who actually have, and are willing to carry the controller with them. And games that, go both ways, won't be able to compete with games designed for D-pad + buttons control.
I think that Juno is notable mostly as one of the most commercially successful "indie" films. It exposed a lot of mainstream audiences to films with a lower budget.
It's complete overkill. I didn't find an Active Record library for python, and figured knowing django better wouldn't be bad.
If I recall correctly, they always go in or near negative when they launch a new system. Launching something like a console is expensive and causes much trepidation in a volatile place like a stock market. You can't judge a 124 year old company by the occasional bad quarter.
Windows 8.1: Close, but no cigar
That's certainly a downside. I've been meaning to run this on non-english Wikipedias to see the similarities and differences. A subject for a future blog post :)
This article reminds me of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html - no concrete numbers are mentioned of the company's increased usage/customers, and the only quotes presented are from this company's CEO, who obviously have a lot to benefit from an article touting the benefits of a Swiss data center.
I consider myself a civil libertarian and nothing else. I don't much like the idea of coercing others to pay for things I agree with, much like I don't like paying for the bombings of foreign countries.

But economically I'm fine with most forms of governing if it meant that we stopped killing people.
This argument often pops up and I am confused as to why people think everyone can subscribe to this kind of service.

Owning a car is completely different from renting one temporarily.
I live in Tower Hamlets and I have a hard time believing that figure. I guess there are plenty of super-rich in West India Quay, Canary Wharf and Pan Peninsula.

The median salary is probably around 1/3 of that.
You should emphasize the "overblown term" part of that. Non-engineering-types who say HTML5 aren't literally talking about the W3C's HTML5 spec in isolation. What they mean is "frontend web technology". Non-engineers lump Backbone.js and HTML5 in the same bucket.

<section> tags have nothing to do with a normal person's understanding of HTML5. :)
100% uptime is technically impossible. For eMail its not even necessary as failure to deliver will result in automatic retry for some time.
There is a fair chance they're holding off on any charges that potentially carry the death penalty (which as far as I know still holds true for treason in the USA) as long as there is a chance of getting Snowden extradited.

No country in Europe for instance would extradite if a death penalty worthy charge was made beforehand.
If you expect others to misunderstand you, perhaps try to better represent your thoughts?
Hah, feel free to add me and I might share with you a couple more tricks :)
Avatar and The Social Network? Give me a break! That says a lot about... something... I think...
Here is a similar talk that Jeremy Cloud gave at QCon NY a few weeks ago: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/twitter-soa

Jeremy Cloud discusses SOA at Twitter, approaches taken for maintaining high levels of concurrency, and briefly touches on some functional design patterns used to manage code complexity.
Wish there was a cool reason to tell you, but it was just because somebody happened to be extolling the virtues of i3 in a similar HN discussion a few months back, so I gave it a whirl. I'm sure Awesome and Xmonad are great too, but all my needs are met so haven't really had a reason to shop around.

Looking back on all the hours I used to spend tweaking and fiddling with configs for things that I no longer use has made me sort of a setup minimalist -- anything that's not broken for me usually stays pretty close to stock these days.
Linux != Debian
There are different variations of the idea. Whether or not it is income-based is basically irrelevant. People will still stop working, because the marginal value of employment will plummet.
I know, that's why I've been such a fan of it. In theory it sounds almost perfect, but I haven't seen anyone put it into practice yet.
So when I click "There are no seats left", that changes the display for everybody, right? So what's to stop me from clicking "No seats left" when I want to be left alone?