skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spacehunt and gotrecruit are on the money.

Even if you spend 3-4x more than the average household's entire monthly income so that you live in a flat that's almost got half as much usable space as a typical suburban home in, for example, the US, you've got your neighbors to contend with.

The exorbitant rent or mortgage that you're paying only buys you a bit of extra elbow room (likely translated into more bedrooms and a coffin-like chamber into which your domestic helper, i.e. maid, is supposed to be banished at the end of their workday) and a better address. That money doesn't translate into a higher quality of construction. Everything is built as cheaply as possible and buildings begin to degrade pretty much as soon as they're put up for sale. There's no insulation and floors/ceilings are very thin.

Upstairs neighbor's child practicing piano at midnight ahead of a piano exam that they have to pass so that they can cram another cert for another activity into their portfolio for school applications? Their dog(s), which they keep in a cage or exile to the balcony at night, barking or whining? Deal with it. Down-the-hall neighbor having an epic, all-night mahjong tournament and the neverending ka-lakka-lakka-lak-lak sound of the tiles driving you bonkers? Watching a football/soccer match on their TV and bellowing every time that "their" team scores a goal? Deal with it. Condensation from someone's air conditioner dripping from a great height and impacting one of your air conditioners (or a nearby neighbor's) with a loud twang! every few seconds? Deal with it.

Then, there are the sidewalks. Thirty-floor (and taller) highrises are the norm, but the sidewalks tend to be the same size as the ones in a low-density suburb ... or smaller. At peak periods, trying to navigate the sidewalks without getting elbowed or shoved into a railing or wall or (worst case) off the curb and into traffic, is an adventure. At off-peak periods, you'll play air conditioner drip Frogger and try to get to your destination without being slimed with a melange of condensation, pigeon poop, and algae/mold/bacteria by inferring a safe path from the locations of puddles on the sidewalk. Aiyah! Look out! Here comes a guy pushing a metal cart laden with 3-liter cans of corn oil barreling towards you down the sidewalk!
PowerPC is unlikely to be for low power cores, although it could be. They are still attractive as high end cores, perhaps in networking applications.
Why are you allergic to "anything tor related"?
Whenever I pass someone in a quiet street and there's often that awkward moment, I think about the thousands of years we've evolved in smaller tribes and communities. And how poorly we are prepared as animals for purposeless encounters with others.
Oh, I was just thinking that it would be nice to visualize lisp in a more two-dimensional way, something like this:

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4063582

I'm not really a lisp coder at all (a bit of clojure experience), but the relentless self-similarity of lisp languages is both a strength and a weakness, IMHO. But it's regular syntax would make it a good candidate for a treemap. Just sayin'.
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It goes much further back than that.

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

And if you want you can go back all the way to the 1920's.

What the US and the UK should have done is to let the Iranians govern their own country when it mattered.

So much for exporting democracy.
Sample size has nothing (not strictly true) to do with whether a result is statistically significant. I imagine they chose this sample size because it could potentially yield a statistically significant sample.

A larger sample size means that a smaller average increase is required to show that it is a statistically significant deviation than a smaller sample.
Agree with win mobile 7 point.

However WP7 is basically WinCE 7 with CLR (compact framework) and a new UI. Good move with bad timing.

If they released WP7 in a form close to what it is now in 2007, Apple would have been laughed off the scene.
This is spot-on and very depressing.
I don't have a need for tor. I am not a political activist, I'm not a journalist.

I'm not convinced that supporting tor is also not supporting criminal activity, such as child pornography and money laundering.

I don't want software on my computer that I don't need and I don't like. If Firefox wants to dive deep into controversial and politically complicated topics, that's their right, but I don't have to have them on my computer or support that.
Because it wastes water, which is something a lot of areas cannot afford: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/us/to-save-water-parched-s...
wireless fiber?
You seem very upset. Calm down. I just had an idea that it might be fun to represent lisp code in a treemap. Or rather a zoomable treemap like this:

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/treemap/
While quiet time is good for concentration, it totally discourages collaboration. I end up over-analyzing things and procrastinate due to the fear of breaking the silence and collaborating. In my eyes team productivity actually drops in quiet environments. And all lone wolfs head off in their own direction. In short, a recipe for disaster.
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First,
Don't take such a dim view! There is no reason why the buildings can't be twice as high and twice as roomy.

Secondly,
We be living off soylent
Can't we say Microsoft is a software platform company ? in the 90s it had a platform feel to it, that's how I perceive the win95 era :

- graphical desktop user os for other vendors to develop on
- monopoly driving device manufacturers around it

It seemed scaled just enough to be the core of an ecosystem.
Interesting, when you're a quite successful company - why should you be critically dependent on such 3rd party services?

I mean, why not have an in-house hosting with the appropriate staff? Is this so much trouble, even for rich companies?

Another side is having a several in-house servers in different locations.
Of course they do. The cost to run fiber to a building is largely independent of the number of units in the building. So it makes perfect sense that higher housing density leads to lower costs and higher speeds.
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I agree about wire formats. However, programming languages that use UTF-8 as the primary string representation tend to have inferior Unicode support to those that use UTF-16. I think this is because with UTF-8, a lot of stuff just seems to work and so it's easy to ignore the issues, while UTF-16 forces you to come to grips with the realities of Unicode.

For example, consider a function to open a file by name. If your strings are UTF-8, you can just pass your null terminated buffer to fopen() or something and things will work fine for most files. But if your strings are internally UTF-16, you have to think about which encoding to use, and you research it, and you discover that holy crap, this stuff differs across OSes, and so we better take this problem seriously.
> Only recently have they began working in hardware, and developing full products. I don't believe they would have even had this capability had it not been for the extraordinary work that Microsoft Research does.

Unless recently means after 2000, you're ignoring the xboxes/zune/etc.
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You mean Photon? Yeah, that was never going to happen.

> But they inexplicably killed the project

Oh, it was definitely not inexplicable. Check out Apple's doomed Copland project, e.g.
"Or startup weekends"

Having been to a couple startup weekends, I feel like this behavior would be pretty atypical?

I am aware of how Zaarly was started - Ashton Kutcher was a 'surprise' judge, happened to be a good friend of a co-founder, and subsequent investor. Both founders were Startup Weekend board members. It seemed like a staged event for a company launch.

http://startupweekend.org/2011/03/09/from-zero-to-1mil-in-3-...

Aside from that, have there been others?
See also http://noodlejs.com for a Node-based web scraper that also handles JSON and other file formats.

It was initially built as a hack project to replace a core subset of YQL. (I helped to guide an intern at my company Dharmafly, Aaron Acerboni, when he built it).
The post you linked to is from October 2009. By that time, it was far too late for Microsoft to "fix" Windows Mobile by simply updating the UI of the built-in applications to be more iPhone-like, which is what the screenshots show.

This approach would have left most of the OS and third-party applications stuck in the stylus-oriented 2002 look and feel. I don't think anyone would have been happy with the resulting compromise of an operating system. The Windows Phone 7 reset was unavoidable.

For comparison, Nokia tried doing what you advocate: instead of starting over, they updated Symbian to be modestly touch-friendly and proceeded to improve the apps and libraries piecewise over several OS iterations. It didn't work out, the resulting products were a mess (even though they eventually managed to get it to a pretty good state with the 2011/12 releases, it was far too late). Nokia ended up throwing away the entire Symbian OS -- a project whose R&D costs had accumulated to tens of billions of dollars by then.
Besides I think since it would be quite local networks, it could be easily jammed by few NSA stations in the area.
People will enable this and think they are safe while they are suddenly routing all their cleartext through an untrusted third party (that is, very often, malicious).

So wouldn't the fix for this be to have the browser warn/refuse to send cleartext over Tor?
Did someone try (and possibly succeed) converting it to epub, by chance?
Oh, if your goal is to learn one of the Lisps, then don't spend any time on Common Lisp. It's old and ugly.

Similar, if someone asked about a modern scripting language, I'd send them away from Perl in favour of Python or Ruby.

If they goal was explicitly Perl (or Common Lisp) that would be a different thing, though.
A good solution to this is to go with a language like C-- (if you are too scared of LLVM).
I can't help but think that's not a good sample.
I really doubt it would become a one-click privacy measure: If you like to participate in an onion-routed, privacy enhancing, anonymity network, why put it in an browser?

A browser accesses that network, it is the weakest and least point in that setup.

Because tor has no gui? Use vidalia (see https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en).

There are so many ways to track an individual, independent of the network, with java-script, extensions, addons, plugins, client-side-caching that even if tor becomes a feature in firefox, the slightest unmitigated problem, even your behavior may compromise your privacy.
Would it be possible to make it so it just won't connect to a website unless it's encrypted or a .onion domain? You could get past it by going through said warnings and nagging, so users who know what they are doing wouldn't be troubled.
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Yes, then the competitors are forced out of market and close their activities.. and then Google shut down the service.. and then new competitors launch replacement services and then...
The countryside consists of the hilliest bits, which the government and developers pretend that they can't build on (Don't look here or there at the hilltops with towering apartment blocks perched on them, it'll spoil your suspension of disbelief) and the flat spots which the government hasn't yet chosen to build a "new town" (i.e. insta-city) on and which tend to be non-trivial to reach since mass transit hasn't been extended that far since the government hasn't yet chosen to build a "new town" there since...

What's happened is that a small number of wealthy families have basically completely captured HK and "real estate" accounts for a huge chunk of the local economy. HK residents and, increasingly, PRC citizens seeking a way to smuggle ill-gotten money out of the PRC proper park their money in the form of tiny cement apartments which they have no particular need to rent out to anyone since there's a prolonged property tax holiday in effect.

The value of tiny cement apartments only stays high so long as there's the appearance of scarcity of tiny cement apartments. This requires the apparent scarcity of land.
Except that a lot of people never care about validating the peers fingerprint. "Hey, I am A, I am at another computer at the moment, hence then new keys."

(I know this is somehow mitigated by SMP in libotr, but some clients have not implemented it yet, e.g.:
https://trac.adium.im/ticket/9768)
Just to be clear, this is not the fault of some malign agency. Duverger's law says that two-party systems are the natural outcome of single-winner, plurality rule elections.
>perhaps you'd like to rethink them and offer me an apology?

I'd definitely like to offer you the advice to never indulge in this sort of passive-aggression, it's very unprofessional and should make anyone think twice about working with you.
> Sample size has nothing (not strictly true) to do with whether a result is statistically significant.

I hate to rain on your parade, but sample size has everything to do with whether a result is statistically significant.

http://sph.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/BS/BS704_Power/BS704_Powe...
So many unnecessary arguments crop up on this forum because of selective, incomplete reading of comments and misinterpretation.

If commenters took a minute to think about other potential meanings before going off on some misinformed rant it might make for a more productive debate.

Then again pigs might one day fly.
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Regardless of the real situation, it is to be assumed.
related question: why people on HN don't seem to read semiaccurate? these guys have some amazing insights, even if most of them are behind a paywall right now.
Yes, but P2P mesh networks that are built for security have an advantage. They're encrypted end to end, for every node, and there's no one to implement a backdoor for the government, like in the case of ISP's. The ISP's right now are giving the government access all the data, unencrypted.

It's going to be a lot harder to "tap" a secure mesh network that's encrypted at every node. I would look more into this one:

http://hyperboria.net/
>What went wrong? That's the real question.

I work in the OS world, so I have thought about this question.

What I think 'went wrong' with Microsoft - as is happening with other "Operating Systems" developers, is that they have forgotten that they are there to serve their users, not an onboard business-model.

Seriously, think about it. Let us take the example of shared filesystems, a common 'posession' of the OS in certain terms .. OS, filesystem, network, its all right there in the kernel .. but .. Why, on gods green earth, are we relying on 'startups' and 'upstarts' to deliver us peer-to-peer networking at the front-end user interface instead of actually having it, de-branded, at the operating system level as a matter of course?

Things Dropbox, if Microsoft was awake, wouldn't have happened, because the peer-network shared filesystem thingy was sorted out .. in the 80's, I might add .. and then promptly forgotten about.

Because the OS vendors have lost the plot on what is an operating system (hint: its the source, stupid!) and what is a 'branded service which produces other revenues for the OS vendor', and because the anti-trust thing happened, in the first place: OS vendors have lost the plot.

Also, the very first sign that things were going awry was when someone decided that a user operating system should not ship with its own compiler(s), onboard! The separation of those tools, and the sheer bloat that results from not having a tight Build/OS binding, means that things got out of control on the developer, developer, developer(s), side of things, imho.

I think this disconnect of the User-is-the-Developer mentality from the "what service is sold -outside- the box of the OS" profit excuse, with the ease of device manufacturing these days, OS vendors have new challenges ahead, and the crux of the argument is this: Its damned easy to make a new OS, for your own device, and then serve the hell out of your customers. In a very real sense, who needs a desktop if all you have to do is turn something on, and press play, in the first place.. ? With the way things are going, cheap light computing built-for-task is the new hotness, and .. well at least imho .. There may well come a point where the new hot OS ships with everything you could possibly need, already onboard and working, to build something new for the platform, itself.

Put that ethos back, and lets talk again in a year about it ..
"More jobs" doesn't really matter if you really want to work at a specific place.
If it's your first time at hack club, you have to hack.
But that doesn't really answer anything, does it? Blaming money (which is just an instrument of exchange) is not a useful starting point for any reform. Likewise with going further up the chain and blaming greed (or any other facet of human nature).

The only reliable tools for effecting change in society are: education/information, policy/law and enforcement.
This initially sounds crazy and paradoxical, until you realize they'll surely be able to reach people who haven't yet installed AdBlock.
True, however, I also noted the sample was not just small but narrow. 72, female, university students - I would be surprised if over 6-8 weeks their cognitive capacity didn't improve in a measurable way - university can be a very demanding environment.

The study makes no mention of controlling for degree programs or a variety of other factors which would affect cognitive development, combined with the incredibly small sample size, It is my opinion that any conclusions from this research need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
I'd like to see some numbers there, opinion polls to back up your utter nonsense.
I don't get it. Surrogates in UTF-16 are when you have two code units that map to a single code point. In UTF-8, you have that same issue, except it may be two, three, or four code units. So how is UTF-8 better in this respect?
It seems there is a lot of "startup weekend" events masquerading as Hackathons. A Hackathon shouldn't be about business, or funding; no one should be leaving that room with investors interested in funding their 24 hour hackathon idea. It's for fun, collaboration and learning. When one of the judges took to stage at Hacked.io in London and banned business pitches, there was a small cheer.
You're probably looking for this:

http://www.utf8everywhere.org/
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To add to your answer. Yes, lawns waste water. They also require fuel burning machinery to maintain, causing pollution. And then there are the chemicals (fertilizers, weed killers, insect control, etc.). Go back one more layer and you have the sod farms which use water, fuel, chemicals, etc. And I am sure the chain continues for another layer or two.
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There is different _probability_ of having malicious network sniffer with different service providers. I would bet my left testicle that the probability with tor is higher than average ISP. If you want to speak about security _theory_, then please state so. Usually in these kind of discussions people speak about practical security, which means trusting different people different amounts, and trading theoretical security with trust.
Agree, BUT, people should not use absolute statements (like "just use" or "don't use") cause sometimes (sadly) it easily leads to a religious approach.
Depends on the robot.
forget ethnicity for a moment (there is a separate biological argument that is not sociological in nature), although we know what 'socio-economic' is a codeword for. The point is that posters above are saying things like "There is no discrimination in the public service." I can say for sure there is no way that is possible. If there were no discrimination, then there would be no reason why people are systematically avoiding the healthcare system. One ostensible goal of the French system is to rid itself of healthcare inequality. In that aspect it has failed. The numbers show that. And it doesn't matter that, maybe, the problem is 'education' or whatever, because that's still all a part of the state system.

I happen to believe the french system is better than the US system (as the US system is right now) but I don't personally believe that it is fundamentally the best system or in any way fundamentally better than a free market system (to include medical charities). But what I think is completely misguided is to think that the French system is absolutely equitable, infallible, or transposable to the US.
Look at the PDFs on the final page of the article. They each have a date for when they were released.
Are (many of) the apartments privately owned in this scenario?

If so, then everyone who has already bought an apartment and everyone who stands to inherit such an apartment will "lose" money or the opportunity to convert their real estate into money in the future if newer apartments are more spacious or nicer in any obvious way.

Real estate developers will have less difficulty selling the units that they build right now if buyers are confident that future apartments will not be nicer (and hence more desirable to future buyers) than the apartments that you're trying to fob off on them today.

It's a feedback mechanism that, unchecked, leads to what you find in HK: progressively slightly smaller, more unpleasant apartments being built with every passing year.
"It's not more dangerous than connecting through a regular proxy, or through a Wifi network at some coffee shop or hotel. And how trustworthy is your ISP exactly?"

Totally false claim. I would bet my ass that there is higher probability to have your traffic sniffed by tor exit nodes than by regular ISP's. At least for short-term malicious purposes, like email snooping and credit cards.

(For more long-term malicious purporses, NSA etc., you can't be really sure.)
Do you support The Internet? The Internet is used for criminal activity, such as child pornography, and money laundering.

ToR is infrastructure, and a utility for the masses. It's up to people on how they want to use it. Why is it worse than the internet?
I use Bootstrap. As a designer I really appreciate the pragmatism of Bootstrap Typography set of rules. I can't tell the other frameworks but by watching the docs of Foundation I see typography rules.

I like to use Google Fonts now (typekit on the past).

Big fonts for reading and headers, not so long paragraphs and you will achieve a good level of readability.
So only support TOR for TLS-managed connections and .onion sites.

As for TLS, something like http://convergence.io/ would be a nice thing to add by default.
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