skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have in no way, shape or form "hacked" Atherton or its police department to produce this site.

I think it's sad that the author felt compelled to include that.
when jogging in Atherton, I'd sometimes not make it home before dusk, and on multiple occasions I had a police car follow me, shining lights in my face to make sure I'm "someone" that belongs in Atherton.
This is great. Thank you for sharing.

I've been planning to create a Python script to help me automatically label my older emails based on content. This is a big help.
Here we're discussing the Consistency in CAP, not the one in ACID. Here's a good introduction to the concepts involved: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/12/eventually_consi...
Don't forget the requirement that the site must use SSL/TLS in the first place!

On the other hand, if you're saying that we just take this for granted these days, you have made me very happy. :-)
Beautiful chrome new tab extension
Yes, exactly that one! Thanks!
That's a pretty silly objection. With the common three replicas, I have to lose two Cassandra nodes to be unable to achieve quorum. I have to lose just one regionserver to be unable to read from HBase.
Well this comes as a surprise to no one.

Though I am slightly taken aback that a police officer would even give a ticket to an FBI car, I guess this is for unmarked cars... which lends the question, why does the FBI have so many unmarked cars in DC (as compared to any other large metro area)?
You are correct, for about another week. :)
Actually I thought of the caning they use in Singapore as a form of punishment for crimes. Pretty cruel, but I guess it beats getting raped in American prisons.
Heap fragmentation hasn't been a big problem for me. Using multiple JVMs means to reimplement all data structures in shared memory and create my own memory allocator or garbage collector for that memory. It's a huge effort.

Many applications can distribute work among multiple processes because they don't need access to shared data or can use a database for that purpose. But for what I'm doing (in-memory analytics) that's not an option.
It seems pretty natural that if the serious penalties are for being unlicensed drivers (14602.6 VC, the $1800 thing), and most of the unlicensed people have Hispanic names/are Hispanic (which I think is generally true, in California), most of the people who get serious penalties for being unlicensed drivers will be Hispanic. There's no particular racism there on the part of the Atherton police in that. You have to have sufficient cause for a stop (other traffic infraction) to pull someone over in the first place; if the initial infraction isn't worth citing, no big deal. If the initial infraction is valid, but still not worth citing, and the driver is unlicensed, then 14602.6 VC applies. There's no particular way to tell if a driver is unlicensed otherwise, and "I thought he was unlicensed" wouldn't meet the standard of suspicion needed to do a stop, as a result. Even if someone were unlicensed and caught, if you didn't have the cause to stop him for something else, he'd walk on the unlicensed driver charge.

(There's plenty of other racism in society, and maybe in Atherton, but I don't think their traffic stop stats necessarily show it.)

Otherwise, it seems like a pretty amazing place to live. A little far from SF, perhaps, so there's a point in Hillsborough's favor, but if I could afford it, I'd be in Atherton or Hillsborough for sure. Maybe Woodside as an outside choice.
OT: hahahaha Cloudflare has really improved their image on HN by posting those technical blog posts. Who else remembers that thread where they got super-shat on?
> What would make TypeScript awesome is support from more IDEs (Eclipse especially).

There exists a plugin for eclipse, but I have never tried it. I'm mostly an Intellij IDEA user.

http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/typescript
Maybe I should add more context.

You know what the best ebook reader is that I've ever laid hands on? The e-ink one I installed Android on. In absolutely every way (except for the weird soft-buttons) it is a superior experience than the stock system.

The software is the problem here, not the hardware, and the software on every single one has been at best stagnant and poorly thought out.
Sure but hey, if you buy the version from Amazon, you're only getting 1/3rd of the product, too. I can't guarantee you get updates I push to the book, and you also don't get the epub and PDF formats.

But yes, I get more money because there's no Amazon middleman. Even if it was the same price on Amazon, I'd get less royalties.

Just being honest.
I don't have access to a pauseless garbage collector (Azul costs tons of money) and reimplementing all data structures in shared memory is unproductive.
I think augustl just used person-centric language for ease of expression.
I will support DRM free where possible.
I have to say that I really like day one's new logo. I also really like what is happening at Yahoo at the moment. I'd like to see them balance out Google's dominance.
Light twin piston engine aircraft have can be difficult to control on one engine, and may not even maintain altitude in some conditions. A PC-12 uses a PT6 turboprop engine, which is one of the most reliable turboprop engines available.

Light twin piston aircraft are not exactly cheap either.
> Texture upload is a great choice because it means your particle update routine can be a pixel shader that you run the current 'state' texture through to produce a new 'state' texture.

Yep. This is how GPGPU programs were done some 10 years ago when there was no API to deal with GPU buffers in a more flexible way.

These days we've got Transform Feedback (aka. Stream Out in D3D) and Compute Shaders that are more flexible. And Cuda and OpenCL, of course.

One thing you should be aware of when doing this kind of texture-to-texture GPGPU is that the internal GPU pipeline in GLES2 (and thus, WebGL) may be less than full 32 bit floating point. Also the texture formats being used are not full floats. So watch out for numerical precision issues!
I actually cant manage to get this page to work for me. Could it possibly be something to do with the fact im running Linux? Does chrome for linux support WebGL yet?
This appears to be a way to gauge public reactions to different logo iterations, without actually committing to one. Smart.
Future incompatibility and TypeScript. You're funny.
Defeat Public Speaking Apprehension
Billionaires Battle for Spectrum
I believe Marissa used to lead the front page Doodle stuff at Google -- interesting to bring a similar branding concept over to Yahoo!
> I assume if your app needed load balancing, there is justification to shard it across different DBs too.

Having 2 or more web/app servers sharing a db is a very common setup. Db sharding is more of an exception than a norm.

Even then, db sharding doesn't affect sessions unless your sharding parameter is if the request is on web server 1, then load from shard 1(which doesn't make any sense). The code which decides which shard to query is common on all web servers and it will hit the required shard regardless.
Friv 12 - Friv12 - Friv Games
That might be a good idea, assuming they do listen to user feedback.
Cheap IBM PC clones make possible having a lot more computing devices in every home, which allowed the dot com boom in the late 90's.

The clones were possible because IBM due to various business, legal and other stuff could not stamp them down. So we got to the point where computing penetration was fast and high enough for the whole net thing to make sense.
Shell Scripts and CPU Frequency Scaling
Well this is something great. (i just gave you an standing ovation)
Egg Minder Smart Egg Tray(seriously?)
A device to check exactly how many eggs are in your fridge at home from anywhere in the world?? Why would someone want to know that?
Maybe it could be an idea to be able to comment the sites. Thereby you would get some retention of the users.
New app Clipp takes the nuisance out of bar tabs
Whatsapp Introduces Push-To-Talk Messaging Feature
I'm glad you did: I'd love to talk to you, what you're doing is exactly what I'm looking for for my startup right now!
You could use the word "ordinator" like the French « ordinateur ».

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinateur#.C3.89tymologie
except Cupertino itself is now predominantly Asian so they wouldn't be profiling drivers who are more likely than not actual residents :p
This is really awesome! :) I submitted our iPhone App 7-Minutes Workout (http://www.tapelicious.com) I'm looking forward to see it on your site!
> What I really like about sessions is that it allows for isolated contexts which are easy to switch (prefix-s get prints you a nice list [1]).

I always end up doing the same as the author (out of bad habit), when I should really be using windows more often (to split out dev work, irc, uni work, etc). It's good advice and stops the too-many-windows problem.

Also: what theme are you using in that screenshot?
if you * really * don't wan't neighbors they should move to woodside or portola valley where lot sizes are even bigger. :p
Indeed; I've had this conversation (in favor of a Grand Caravan) with lots of crappy C-23 (Shorts 330) military pilots. And the "oh, let's put fuel above the passenger compartment in a plane we're flying in a warzone" question, too. The C-12 King Airs were somewhat better, but tiny. I'd take a PC-12 > King Air anyday, and a Caravan or Grand Caravan in general (due to superior cargo capability, even at the cost of range), but that's my preference.
wowow wait... screw the police and story. How do you find these dirt cheap mansions for rent?!
Traceur Compiler is good alternative:

https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler

however its development kinda stopped in last months
Insightful.

However, since we live in such hyper-partisan times where news outlets toe the political line and play to the cheap seats, this story will never be picked up by the national media.

I'd be astounded if (or especially) a Krystal Ball or Tamron Hall or Chris Matthews gave this even a passing glance or the sundry treatment in one of their segments.

Why? Because this is Northern California. Scratch that. This is the Bay Area. The No-Daily-Limit ATM for the DNC.

Facts unchanged, if this were to have happened in a wealthy exurb in Florida or Texas, then any news producer who stumbled on this would have just struck prime-time Nielsen gold.

Every two-bit Latino Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow coalition would be all over the story.

Since this happens to be in a hyper-affluent town, the residents of which bundle and bestow generously to all sorts of progressive causes, both political and societal, they make an exception.

I'm certain this sort of thing happens in the toniest parts of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and other liberal bastions in the Northeast as well.

It is precisely for those like the residents of Atherton who presumably demand tough law enforcement within the city limits, for everyone besides them (and yes this is largely a presumption since there are no facts to suggest that the residents have any say in this selective enforcement), the terms limousine liberal and champagne socialist were coined.

This is why I heavily loathe all forms of partisanship and frown on extreme positions to both the left and right of the center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limousine_liberal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_socialist

Edit: Additions
Turbulenz migrated their WebGL game engine / platform over to TypeScript and seem pretty happy with it.
It's a highly inefficient market. Very few people want to rent anything for >$5-10k/mo -- they'd usually (stupidly) prefer to "not throw money away on rent" and either pay $50k/mo for a mortgage on that property, or spend the same amount on a much cheaper house mortgage. (or, in more reasonable cases, pay $2-5k/mo on rent).

If you can keep your neighbors in check, I think $10k/mo mansions make awesome startup offices, too. That's what everyone does in the Middle East/Caribbean/etc., and works well enough in the Bay Area, too, until you hit a lot of employees.
Object-Oriented HTML, and OOCSS
It's no less applicable. During a partition (you know, the 'P' in CAP) it's a nightmare to identify data that's been dropped AND recover from it without strong transaction guarantees. Transactions are the heart of consistency and I wouldn't consider a piece of software to be CAP consistent as opposed to available without transactions.
This demo certainly uses texture sampling from the vertex shader. It's a feature that enables a lot of fun effects, but is not required by the spec. Check this page to see if your MAX_VERTEX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS is > 0 http://renderingpipeline.com/webgl-extension-viewer/
Programming Concepts on Github
>Could it possibly be something to do with the fact im running Linux?

No.

>Does chrome for linux support WebGL yet?

Yes.

I can run this on Linux with Firefox and Chromium.

Check that you have OpenGL properly set up (e.g. correct gpu drivers).

In addition use the WebGL extension check to see that your OpenGL version (ie. GPU and drivers) can access textures from the vertex shader. It's a feature that was added a few years ago, there may still be hardware/software versions that doesn't allow this.
Here's an even cooler idea: instead of listing emerging ideas, ,and beta projects, what about creating a website service for finishing almost done apps (alpha projects if you like). That would be a more interesting list. People could upload their started, but not finished projects and outline what's left. There must be millions of good ideas that has been started, but never finished due to the fact that the developer didn't find the problem interesting anymore. Specialize in one thing, like iphone-apps.
It's a bit confusing that near the beginning it says that on a Mac Python is already installed (yay!), but as soon as you get to the meat where PyGame is installed, it basically says you'll need to re-install Python if you're on a Mac. So the "already installed" bit isn't all that useful, or did I misread?
This awesome man. How muuch traffic are you getting to the site. Pre-HN post?

And are people paying you to feature them? Or just companies you like

Great job again man. i love it. Def bookmarked
Marissa mayer wants people who wouldn't otherwise visit yahoo webpages to come and see what they are upto. I think this one and the announcement that they would delete old unused yahoo email accounts, all fall into this category.
My [non-Hispanic] girlfriend lives in Atherton. Hispanics run that city. At first I thought it was great for my taco habit, but after our second or third burrito date I quickly realized the locals were not as thrilled to have us. We were glared at often, and my rusty Spanish was good enough to pick up murmurs of "puta madre" and other various obscenities as we walked by. Needless to say, she's moving up to the City soon, which means less $1 tacos for me...

On a happier note, she drives a brand new luxury SUV. I don't think I've even seen a cop drive near us.
Is there a RSS feed?
I only have half an answer: Markov chains. It's probably going through text and using Markov chains to create "similar" text.

Then question then becomes what text to go through, how long the Markov chains are, how you vary them, etc.

Not long ago I took a workshop on algorithmic music where the lead professor had published a book of haiku. The vast majority of the haiku were algorithmically generated via Markov chains, while a very slim minority were actual haiku from 17th century Japan (iirc) translated into English. Guessing which haiku were "real" and which algorithmic was very hard to do.
Some ideas from the guy who created @nytimes_ebooks: http://harrisj.tumblr.com/post/23737140672/nytimes-ebooks
Did you test your assertion?

Go to amazon right now and try to change your password without having to enter your password first.
Geekboy Reader
Twin: a Textmode WINdow environment
Curate - content, redefined
You might also want to take a look at http://photo.net -- not everyone sells prints directly on the site, but it is a great way to discover photographers.
Unbinding DOM Events in Backbone.js
Nice idea, I am also submitting our new launched app http://justprecious.net

Btw found a silly bug. When I signed up by mistake I used myname@Gmail.com and now I can't login with myname@gmail.com
How is 'just ditch Windows' an honest and good recommendation?
Obama to Leno: 'We don't have a domestic spying program'
Do you show how to make it (or the terminal?) less ugly, without resorting to stuff like byobu?
You can disable grouping, change the size of task bar, etc. I guess nowadays "hackers" prefer to bash Windows on HN, rather than learn how to use it effectively ...
Here's an example, for one:

http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/

(talks about a CSS/divs solution, but as it mentions there are differences between the two). In general if you're dealing with a design that involves centering something with a dynamic size vertically, or one which involves having the height or width of two dynamic elements add up to the width of a third adjacent element (ie. "rowspan" and "colspan" in table-speak), there's a decent possibility that using a table might just be the least-hacky way to implement something. Bearing in mind that hackiness is a bit subjective :)
Day 1: Drop Yahoo mail and start over. Then maybe I'd come back to see what you have for day 2. Worst. Email. Evar. OK, wait, I just went to Yahoo mail and it wasn't the horrible pile of stink I remembered. So, someone got the memo and you really did start over. It looks strangely gmail-esque but kudos for ditching the old design.
I wonder how the duration-limited "all you can fly" JetBlue deals worked out for them.

"Unlimited airpasses" for international visitors to places like Southeast Asia are pretty common, combined with long-haul international flights, too.
Mapping antimatter with CrowdCrafting application
The designs are less important than the fact they can change every day for a month. I remember having to wait 6+ weeks to get some things changed.

The intl properties don't seem to be joining in on the fun, eg http://uk.yahoo.com/ http://mx.yahoo.com/
Woodside certainly isn't a consolation prize. It's beautiful, and features the stunning Skyline Blvd drive and Alice's Restaurant!
The author is cherry picking his data. He has a pool of 12,500 tickets, and is looking at a very narrow type of infraction that affected 182 drivers of 12,500. In that small pool, why do hispanic names show up disproportionately? Maybe they are more likely than your typical Atherton resident to not have a license due to immigration status.
cause with Rails, a web application is developed fast and very easy and the cost is very low. You know start ups need time and money.
Have you played around with markov chains? They're really easy to build and produce very entertaining results - a few years ago I tried feeding all of the SXSW Interactive session titles in to one and got results like "Participatory budgeting crowdsourcing for real time marketing growing a digital culture".
patio11's Appointment Reminder is on a .org as well: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/
Bitcoin is the ideal match for Soylent, since it does not allow any chargebacks.
Imagine the investment opportunities.
Guess I can potentially use this as a module in a tornado/Django web application for scheduling email, without having the user to sign in to gmail explicitly or opening up a separate pop-up/browser window.
Why would developers who aren't interested in a problem any more be interested in documenting the code enough for someone else to take over? Color me skeptical :-)
Where do you buy tacos in Atherton? And $1 tacos at that?
basically you can rent a mortgage from home owners who bought their mansions when they were still reasonably priced. the rent/mortgage ratios are still reasonable - however, the baseline is just a lot higher than your typical 2 bedroom condo.

many times the actual home owner lives in a much cheaper place. maybe in an apartment in the city, maybe in a bigger house in south carolina where they have servants and a fleet of classic cars. who knows.

it's how rent vs. mortgage is supposed to work.
Hispanics run that city. At first I thought it was great for my taco habit, but after our second or third burrito date I quickly realized the locals were not as thrilled to have us. We were glared at often, and my rusty Spanish was good enough to pick up murmurs of "puta madre" and other various obscenities as we walked by.

That wasn't Atherton, that was Redwood City. I know, on the peninsula it kind of all blurs together...
Or just shorten it to only the exclamation point.
Kaggle
How many top data scientist use pre-written libraries(such as scikit,libsvm) to generate better models ? Want to understand if using libraries is enough to be on top kaggle ranks ?
I also like Portola Valley, but while I like driving on winding roads sometimes, I think it would get a bit lame to do every time I wanted to come home late, etc. And the cellphone reception/internet access/etc. thing, although I suppose a lot of places have decent LOS for a point to point free space link.
Where we can see how's your service different from other recommendation services (there are a lot of it nowadays) and why it's better ?
If that 'hack' story interests you, try this one about the amp found in a skip (dumpster) by Queen bass guitarist and electronics engineer John Deacon:

http://www.brianmay.com/brian/briannews/briannewsjun05.html

http://www.deacyamp.com/index.php?route=information/informat...

Link2 is to the slideshow of a booklet
12500 refers to the section of the vehicle code under which 182 tickets were issued: http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d06/vc12500.htm
Due to the latest gmail redesigns I've gone back to Y! mail full time and am having fairly good experience with it. It hasn't had major updates recently, but it does just seems to work.

I find the keyboard bindings I use more similar to outlook, which is what I have experience with unfortunately.
I wonder what the "Chinese rules" are.
Atherton is all of the mansions with huge yards, gates, tons of trees, and no commercial zoning. Driving north, you hit little mexico or whatever, then Redwood City.

Learn to baylife.
The overwhelming majority of people who would leave reviews on Glio have Facebook accounts -- their penetration in Brazil is very high as jaredsohn said.
This. He is ignoring the rest of the data and looking only at "vehicle code violations" - and then irresponsibly reporting it to seem like Hispanics driving without licenses is a disproportionally large drain on police resources when in fact, as you say, this is only a narrow violation comprising a small minority of total tickets issued.
While we are tearing down the whole article, in some corner of the world, Jeff atwood is neglecting us by having donuts and building discourse (http://www.discourse.org/) on rails.
Syncany: open-source cloud storage and filesharing application
Well, technically, I'll grant you that it's impossible to rule out. IMO it's highly unlikely that someone came up with these rules: http://holacracy.org/constitution, but I'm not going to argue that, the novelty is not my main point.

I'm interested in whether it's working. From what I've seen, it is. Perfect? Of course not. The be all and end all of running a business? No, you still need to do work. But it's a much better framework to do so that anything else I've seen. Many people seem to share this opinion, too, and it seems to help them to their work better (and enjoy it more). That's pretty cool in my book, I don't need to convince the world that it's right for everybody. If you find the same benefits with another system, or a similar one from thousands years ago, who cares, run with it.