skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok well the article is about eliminating cars within cities, so why the non-sequitur?

edit: Regarding your point about commuting from extremely outlying "suburbs"--Richmond is over 100 mi from DC!--I agree that such insanity is only "sustainable" with the automobile[1]. This is why as our cities start to invert (again!) with the more desirable areas tending towards the center and the outlying suburbs becoming less and less desirable, it is important that we develop good regional rail links.

1. I note, however, that Fredericksburg, which is a "mere" 50 miles from DC has VRE service. It may even be possible to commute from Richmond to DC via Amtrak, but I'm not sure of their schedules or if a reasonable person would want to attempt that.
In Germany, many people take the train to another city. I had a coworker who did this, specifically because it was an economical way to take the whole family on a trip.
Yes, the "all writing must be clinical and concise" comments are one of those absurd nerd memes that I wish would die. The Atlantic is not the primary literature, and you can't impugn an entire research program based on a pop-science summary written for mass consumption.

If I could teach nerds only one thing about the world, it's that dismissing non-technical forms of communication as useless does not impress anyone with your intellectual skill -- it just makes you annoying and hard to tolerate.
Twitter invented in 1935?
This is a strange argument, because Netscape was the market leader, and made hundreds of millions of dollars from their browser... until Microsoft (not Cello, not NCSA Mosaic) deliberately killed the product by cloning it, putting the price tag at zero, coupling it to their operating system, and inking deals with all their OEMs requiring it to be showcased.

The price was the least of the issues here, but even if that wasn't the case, your argument doesn't work.
It's cold because I'm right.
Given a good transit system in-city, I don't understand why you have to have cars. I only see your point as an argument for good parking at outlying transit nodes.
They knowingly ignore massive copyright infringement. They have negligently let their service be overrun by copyright infringement. The primary use of justintv is for copyright infringement, the UGC content is secondary. Pretending their site is just another average UGC site is intellectually dishonest.
The tools of information/speech suppression are worse, as a rule, than the information or speech being suppressed. Even if you don't agree in this case, you should hope that suppression doesn't become the accepted tool, because those without scruples are far more likely to be able to use it effectively. Don't support the building of the tools of your own destruction, to reduce it to a soundbite.
The answer would tend to be "not what you think." I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Daniel Gilbert's book Stumbling on Happiness (see more about it here: http://jseliger.com/2009/04/23/stumbling-on-happiness-—-dani... ), which discusses the role of income, perception, consumption, and more.
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Raise hand, I'm a Hypertable developer.
A solution to (trans)personal space exploration might be synaptic level brain imaging with blue brain -simulation and becoming V-ger yourself. But what comes to capability of seeing all the possible new Star Trek technologies, the only good solution is eternal life as movie audience. ;)
In Sweden we've used a similar system. The state has provided financial support for creating economic associations (not sure of the term there, but it's what my dictionary tells me) that build and own fibre networks.

It's been very successful in the country side, where the people of e.g. a village formed the association and then built their own network. These networks are then connected for municipality's backbone, and it's done.

Prices per month for Internet access in nets connected to my local backbone, symmetrical: 10Mbps for $24, 30Mbps for $34, 100/10Mbps asym for $35. There's also an additional $10 or so for access to the backbone.

Each member of the association pays something like $5000 for their part of the network, but that's tax deductible to some extent.
If your company has an acceptable use policy then you could be convicted of a felony for something as benign as checking Facebook or Twittering.

I'm technically breaking our never-enforced acceptable use policy right now by posting on News.YC.

I wonder if it only takes an over-zealous DA or if the company has to be complicit. Ok I'm aware I'm not using complicit appropriately - it's intentional. This is crazy. This guy had some REALLY bad judgment, but this amounts to the government being thought police.
Steve Yegge turns wine into blog entries.
It's funny you should mention ZipCar. I use their service, and it's very convenient for me in some cases, but really it just reminds me of how obnoxious it is to drive around the city (I live in Boston). Before I moved into the city, I never drove within it: it was always easier (and cheaper, considering the difference in parking prices) to park at one of the several T stations at the edge of the city and ride in. When I use Zipcar, I don't get that option.

I usually get there faster than I would on the T, but the time on public transit is not wasted (I can read), while the time driving is. Unfortunately there are still things the T can't do, but I find the hybrid approach works well for me. The few occasions where I do drive only remind me of how well.
Object Oriented Programmer’s Productivity
"Efficient in what way?"

Time!
This is quite rich coming from CNet, which intentionally destroyed the largest cache of legal online music.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/15/hungover_cnet_wakes_...
Where do you work?? I would love working in a place where I overhear things like that.
Did Microsoft miss an opportunity to open source Axum?
Given real conditions that the minimal slot for VM is a 256MB RAM instance, with a physical server having 64 such slots, the educated guess is that the distribution might be similar to the normal distribution with a centre of a 2-slot VM, as 512MB VM is the most popular choice on our target market.

How can that particular fact be of help ?
"Many European cities don't have the American version of suburbs"

That's because most European cities don't have remotely this kind of population growth, let alone the space to accommodate it on the fly.
I'd recommend the materials we're putting together for students who want an excellent introduction to contemporary colloquial mandarin. This is presumably what the parent poster wants to speak:

http://popupchinese.com

DeFrancis has done wonderful work in the dictionary space and is great for disabusing people of the notion that the Chinese language is fully ideographic. His textbook series is dated though and the language in it does not reflect the way people speak today. I may have a conflict of interest here since Popup Chinese is my business, but this is also a genuine recommendation since we really are the best thing out there. Also, our podcasts are free so it isn't exactly a hard sell.

Going back to the parent post, I wouldn't take seriously any approach that suggests anyone will learn the language simply by memorizing the most common 3000 characters. That's a bit like suggesting someone will be able to speak English from knowing how to spell 95% of the most common syllables. It is a form of knowledge, but not a terribly useful one if communication is what really matters.
101domain has a lot of TLDs: http://www.101domain.com/ (I've never bought a domain from them)
Google silent on click fraud identification guidelines
A car allows you to travel anywhere with roads (which were constructed with public money). Road construction (like transit construction) was decided by the gov't.
There's no non-sequiter. Cities are not exclusively for city-dwellers, they support a sprawling metropolitan area that relies on cars.
There are network effects at play. With good transit, the "worthy" places gravitate towards the transit nodes, for the same reason cities tended to form in river valleys.

Cars really only allow you to travel where the Department of Transportation deems worthy. Also, the road network gets congested and is literally unusable in many large metropolitan areas for many purposes for about a two-hour span, twice a day. (Houston!) Rail has a much better record in my experience. (Commuting to work on the 7 train from Queens to Manhattan in the early 90's)

Not only that, but the Department of Transportation gets its money from taxes, yet I have only indirect input to where the roads go. If you are touting "free-market" philosophy, you're only going halfway.

That said, I love toll roads! I think the Westpark and Hardy tollways in Houston are awesome!
We like to believe

I think you're making broad assumptions about what we (by which I assume you mean world (or maybe just Western) civilization) want and believe which may not hold up to scrutiny. While they're often conflated, there are at least three different goals for what societies do to criminals: retribution, restitution, and punishment. Some of us think that it would be better to use the first two only, and that feeling "punished" should be only an effect of that. But that's another topic.
There are only a few neighborhoods where you can do it without really inconveniencing yourself: Belltown, Capitol Hill, and Downtown (Pioneer Square / Pike's Place market area). Other neighborhoods don't have as much density or public transit coverage.
Why journalists deserve low pay
Presumably, you're not being asked these questions if you remember your password.
Then flag it. That's what that's for.

I don't happen to agree, though.
> if the law doesn't give retirees priority over bondholders in this situation, then the law is an ass.

These bondholders recently made secured-by-real-property loans to GM, Chrysler, and Ford.

Because these loans were secured by real property, that is collateral, they were thought to be safer and thus the rates were lower. (It's sort of like the difference between mortgages or home equity loans and credit cards.)

Without those lower interest rates, the automakers would have gone under years ago. But, that's water under the bridge.

Going forward, if secured lenders aren't first in line, why will anyone make secured loans at lower interest rates?

Heck - why will anyone loan money to a union-dominated industry that is experiencing rough times?
What's the point of a Windows 7 ARM port?
Speaking UNIX: 10 great tools for any UNIX system
Not by the law. Or are you using "defamatory" as a label to dismiss ideas without having to actually prove them false? (Fact: Proving that the Holocaust actually happened is easier, and works better, than trying to change people's opinions through sheer outrage.)

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
A great lesson we should all learn from. His mistake was in thinking that money could buy him prestige, power, and respect. It hardly ever works.
Korea is a relatively small country.
BT did this with the ADSL rollout in the UK. They only upgraded exchanges where the demand from locals went over a threshold.

It actually angered quite a few towns and villages that didn't have sufficient percentage interest to get their exchange upgraded to handle ADSL. They had to do their own local canvasing etc which I guess was a good way to get people to do marketing for free.
Web 2.0: bringing new meaning to words like "acquired" since 2006.
"Pogoplug has put the source code for its servers in escrow. If the company goes bankrupt, the terms of the escrow dictate that the code be released to SourceForge as an open-source library."

This I like. It wouldn't fly for all companies, especially as you get larger (or get bought), but it's a really nice simple idea. I'd imagine it creates an awful lot of trust between the company and the users, which is always a good thing.
Yay abuse.... you should see some of my other writing: dyslexia really takes it's toll when you cant see the difference between "many men" and "man ymen" (a mistake I made last night) even when you read it back. It makes teeny tiny grammar errors like that immaterial ;)

Take your abuse elsewhere: I am happy to debate my points but at least bring something constructive.
Heh, it was only my brain they were interested in.
A new benchmark of browsers with cool 3D. Results? Safari beats them all.
Again, you are mistaking the way people have set-up the system locally for some universal principle.

The combination of light rail and downtown bus zone are the most time-efficient way for me to get where I need to go when I am in Minneapolis, by far.

The time-efficiency of car travel is directly related to the city's layout. Cities designed for pedestrians and bikes tend to be more convenient for those modes of transport.

I am also reminded of the time I lived in the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati. Those few blocks were like living in a European city. Once I parked my car after work, I did all of my errands on foot. And let me tell you, it was far more time efficient than the same errands done here in the car-friendly (to a fault) city of Houston. There was no getting in and out of the car, no circling for parking spaces, no waiting at lights, no waiting on people who aren't really qualified to drive their behemoth SUV.

That, and there was the significant chance I'd run into a friend walking down the sidewalk, and maybe we'd go up to her apartment for a drink, spot more friends from the balcony, and we'd have ourselves a little spontaneous party.

Serendipitous human contact. I really miss it!
There's a difference between removing hate-speech from comment threads and such and removing the group entirely because we don't agree with it.

You're right, though, that the issue is deeper than free speech. What I gather from Facebook's position is that it wont shut down a group just because of the beliefs of it's members... that doesn't prevent them from moderating the content itself according to their terms of use.
And if you have your own computer then they will soon argue that you used the network in an un-authorised way. So you need a handheld with 3G network, but they'll probably not let that in the door. ;)
Project management is a fairly broad domain and includes a bunch of different tool types. If you're using sites, you might be interested in pbworks (was pbwiki) or 37signals basecamp. Pivotal tracker provides a very focused (and thus intentionally restrictive) workflow that expresses their agile development philosophy. Similarly, thoughtworks mingle is shaped for their flavor of development. Personally, I think that managing documents and tasks are two very different domains unless the documents are directly linked to a task.

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There's also the issue of how tasks are prioritized and how new ideas are merged into the work queue. Stormweight is a product in private beta that allows your team to merge their preferences democratically for brainstorming and team decisionmaking. Email contact@stormweight.com if you're interested in the beta.
[Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder and chief engineer at Stormweight]
I love the movie previews in cinemas. Nice to see trailers of what's coming out soon.

What I absolutely hate is adverts in cinemas, and the previews/non skip items on DVDs. To subject people to advertising like that when they have already paid is indefensible.
I also support Facebook's right to remove them from the virtual, private premises for expressing it.

And Facebook has decided that it will not remove them. Issue closed. They've made their position pretty clear.
The New York Real Times
I mis-spoke. He actually said that blub programmers found it hard to see certain things.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
God bless Amory Lovins. Every time I hear about something new he has done, I wish the story had been heard instead by someone who wasn't already such a fan.
I think it's understood that only serious misuse is going to wind up in court. What are they going to do with an encrypted stream?
Well.. perhaps "trap" is the wrong word. Or rather "designed trap" is the wrong concept.

But when answering a question there are, surely, natural traps an interviewee inevitably has to avoid. And not doing so is a potential black mark the interviewer has to watch out for.

That said your argument is fair - and I'd probably agree. But I di think laying intellectual traps can be appropriate. It really depends on your candidate and the interview: if you go into an interview (either as the interviewer or the interviewee) with any form of fixed agenda then, yes, things are going ot be fake and plastic (90% of the interviews I went to were like that). You adapt to the situation: if you candidate is showing intellect and sharpness you test that and start a sort of push-pull intellectual "battle of wills". If he detects that and doesnt like it he is not the candidate for me - I would hope he detects it, calls us on it and avoids the "traps". THAT is a good candidate, for me at least :)
He was interviewing at (guess:) google.

My guess is that the culture there sortof enjoys these kinds of "traps".
If you're hoping for a great domain hack, I think you're out of luck. I don't think you can register at the second level, so you'd have to register a .com.er or similar. The Wikipedia article seems to indicate it's not a well-supported TLD at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.er

Here's the official registry:
http://www.tse.com.er/aboutus.htm

They are your best (probably only) contact. It might also be worth searching namepros.com/dnforum.com to see if anyone there has had experiences with the TLD.
Wonderful article!!
Beyond high score list nicknames:  automatically generated images.
Being asked to enter your nickname can be annoying, especially on the iphone/ipod touch. Moreover, you also need to worry about having a language filter.

Instead of asking for user input, you could use something like anonymous-1, anonymous-2, etc... but that's not very interesting.

Another possibility is to generate fake names, but getting the gender wrong would be annoying to the player.

Another idea is not to use text at all, but visual images generated automatically such as these:

http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Work/VisualIDs/visualids.html
It goes to web start-ups heaven.
I'm not sure how they calculate the 'value of property or services stolen'. One could buy a laptop for under $500 and surf the web, no?

The services stolen in this case are the employee's paid for time. By surfing porn on city time he was depriving the city of $500-$5,000 worth ($2400, it looks like) of their employee's time. Ridiculous, I know.

From the article: "...theft of services in office (essentially for depriving the city of his paid services while he conducted the unauthorized activities on a city computer on city time)"
The fact that you're tunneling into an encrypted stream to a computer offsite is not going to help your case if they find out.
"The input data doesnt matter..."

Absolutely untrue. In the business world, software developers primary reason for existence is to improve the bottom line. Sure, writing good code for existing business processes is the primary route. But due to our nature of not being encased in the traditions of the departments we are creating applications for, and having knowledge and workings with various parts of the organization as a whole, we get to see a lot more of the big picture in minuet detail than almost anyone else in the company.

Numerous times have I been in situations where no one stopped to break down the problem before jumping to a solution. I've seen people so fixated on a solution that they cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars for a problem that upon minimal scrutiny became apparent that it did not apply to our organization (hurray for tax codes.)

Users come to us describing a solution to the problem that they are experiencing. We can take their word for it, and hop to on making the solution. But it also presents an opportune moment to get people to wait a second, to look at the business process, and possibly to solve the problem through a minimal change in process as opposed to the creation of a whole new software application.

Pushing the issue in such a way takes a fair bit of self confidence and even a touch of ego. Maybe the original poster was a bit over zealous in his questioning of the problem, maybe he could have questioned the problem in a more constructive way. But the fact that he was questioning the problem, IMO, is the sign of a good developer.

It is a fine line though. And putting up too much resistance or negativity will quickly get your resume round filed.

-Rick
Do you have a link/title for any of Appel's better papers?
This isn't only a free speech issue. Nazis are using social networking sites to recruit, organize and build political strength.

In the current economic climate, the threat of white supremacist idiots being able to pull their shit together is something to take seriously.
It seems like a lot of good programmers have hobbies to help get out of the all-tech, all-the-time mental rut. Balance is healthy.

Also, the information bandwidth of social communication is incredibly high. Much of our mental resources are dedicated to social decisions (friend or foe? are they lying?), which computers tend to handle very poorly.
Apparently, I'm working on something like a madman all day. Wish I knew what it was...
The Korean peninsula is about the size of California. (Which is about the size of France and Alabama together.)
an outsourcing company in india. QA is reasonable. larger company. growing pains, yes.

in my experience, one of the bigger issues we have is with the staffing cycle. the product is older and complicated. testing it isn't easy for someone unfamiliar with the industry as well as someone who has english as a second language. it takes time for any new team member to get adjusted.

on top of that, the turnaround on jobs in india is quite rapid, since their tech industry is (or, at least, was) growing rapidly. so its a constant cycle, new person -> learns -> experienced person -> quits -> new person
Imagine if Woz had to get a license to do what he did?

The key thing to keep in mind is that a lot, and I mean A LOT of innovation is the result of a brute force search, the more people are searching the faster we find things. And while regulation may have some benefits the costs are often devastating.

I also happen to know that big pharma has a huge backlog of promising potential drugs. But the years and hundreds of millions of dollars necessary for even early stage testing are a suffocating bottleneck. The end result is that there is absolutely no point in trying to find new cures, there's already a glut of them on the shelf.

Suffice it to say, I think the risks are worth it and regulation is a blunt weapon which eliminates most of the bad AND the good.
Simple. Effective.

Combustible.
It's a broken model if you're pissing off the people who helped you obtain that billion downloads, and subsequent 30% profit/sale.
His stolen time is under a separate charge of 'theft in office'. So this $500, afaics, is specifically for the computer/network.
Sounds intriguing. Although most of my team is not emacs based, but i personally will take a look.
Tell HN: looking for RoR developers or any bright developers
There's an important difference you're glossing over. If I post a photgraph to Facebook and Facebook takes it down, that's censorship. If I don't post the photograph in the first place, that's not censorship. That doesn't mean it's a violation of free speech or the first amendment, but we shouldn't redefine words like "censorship" just to gloss over all these issues.
The Google Wonder Wheel
Just in case it isn't clear, that order_by actually digs into the database layer to do the sorting there. It's a query that returns an iterator that gives you stories in that order one at a time.

To sort an existing list, over a particular member, it would be

Stories.sort( key = lambda x: x.score )

That lambda has certainly confused a lot of people I know. Probably because they used the word "lambda" and not "function".