skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Barren wastelands. Empty city blocks, fields of grass and weathered concrete, and the ruins of entire neighborhoods. Exactly what you see when you Google 'Detroit slums'.

Just had a look on Google Maps satellite and street view in an area near the Motorcity Casino and - wow. There's a lot of nothing there.

Where did the grassy vacant lots come from? Did someone (the city?) bulldoze abandoned buildings? All of the grass is neatly trimmed. Is that the city too? Or does the casino keep their immediate neighbourhood looking neat?

Very odd indeed.
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They fail in their importXML limit to 50 queries
They fail in their limited feature sets that make it not a true Excel replacement
They fail in their inability to perfectly past data from Excel

I still use the Google spreadsheets all the time, but as a quick and dirty version of excel with importXML ability
Getting Started with Nanomsg
Hey, reach out to me. I might be able to help.

Do you have examples of iOS or Android apps you've made?
We're building something for this. Example: http://www.slant.co/topics/217/~best-css-preprocessor (we currently only have the pros, but cons are coming)
Here is a different perspective, all be it in a cynical tone:
http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-f...

And here's another, with much more objective tone:
http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm

My take on the subject matter is that:

- When getting into the PhD. track, one should be aware of what he/she is getting into, and be prepared for the resulting lifestyle.

- One should have an extraordinary drive (even to the point of personal obsession) to search for answers towards the unsolved problems in his/her field of study despite knowing the consequences that will be imposed onto his/her life by this intellectual journey.

- One should find a PI whose personality clicks with his/hers, and whose research he/she is motivated to work on. It is pretty rare to match these two parameters perfectly, but one can weigh trade-offs, and work with the best available while still maintaining his/her aspirations.

- One should realize that, regardless of popular belief, academia is business with its own business model: understanding the intricate business logic behind the model will facilitate one greatly in his/her quest.

- One should realize that like every human society, academia has its own fair share of personalities and egos, and intrapersonal skills matter, a lot.
Praised be lord of all code and such. I am not against IE8 - qualitatively it dwarfed IE6/7, but there are still way to many issues with supporting it. I am speaking from experience - I developed somewhat simple portal with a lot of AJAX/interactive elements. Getting all features to work on Chrome/Firefox was a charm, IE8 was harder. In the end I only managed to support IE9 and above.
Oh I didn't even know that. That's a great reason to prefer Wayland over Mir or Mir over Wayland. I'm a bit torn now..
And I still don't like the DRD either.

Another thing, hypocritical maybe, even if the EU is being "just as bad" in a certain sense, piggybacking on the US outrage on this topic may help matters in the EU as well. Even if it's just increased privacy-consciousness among the public. For real, like people have pointed out, we already knew about surveillance in the EU months (or longer) before Snowden leaked his info, it was public knowledge and nobody said anything because it wasn't really in the news. Now it is, and some of it may stick to what the EU is doing as well.
George Orwell: In Front Of Your Nose (1946)
Thanks for checking it out.

Yeah, the UI is ugly and overly complicated right now. It is really more of a technical demo and a project for me to experiment with Meteor on at this point (it has zero active users.)

I am presently requiring a login to post to (in theory) prevent flooding it with spam. The person who is receiving the message does not need to log in. I have thought about removing the Facebook login requirement either for now (when there aren't many users) or permanently (need to have a way to prevent spam.)
In all likelihood, few other distros will be interested in shipping XMir. Pushing upstream is usually a better thing to do because it helps reduce the maintenance burden - you're not maintaining a patchset.

Intel's decision is basically saying they don't want any of the burden of helping maintain (X)Mir. Canonical/Ubuntu make a rod for their own back every time they settle on these Ubuntu-only solutions imho.
As a Boulder resident I'm incensed by this.

The drone imagery in question would have provided us with more real-time data during a period where overflights were not possible by conventional aircraft/helos. Had I known what was happening in Lyons a few hours earlier, some of my friends might not have lost their possessions.

While I appreciate everything FEMA does, the idea that they can restrict harmless data gathering by well intentioned and well qualified engineers is infuriating.
Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick? Or Crazy?
Why would hardware manufacturers do anything other than their drivers?

They don't even have to contribute drivers, they certainly shouldn't be expected to go above and beyond that.
This is a jQuery plugin that makes it super simple to add random moments of zen from https://api.github.com/zen . We just added it to the navbar of our internal dashboard, and it's nice.
I suspect that the Stack Overflow community would agree that there's value in those conversations. And they'd also assert that they belong somewhere else, since Stack Overflow questions are meant to have right answers.
My tenuous hypothesis is that people think sharing news of an injustice will increase the likelihood that it will be redressed.
You can also go forward in time, to a hypothetical future. (That is, you add data and get back a new DB value, which you can query against. But the DB's source isn't modified.) Can be useful in analytics which deal with what-if scenarios.
The main reason for nicotines damage is because people smoke it. If you compare a nicotine user who doesn't smoke to a meth user who doesn't smoke, I think you'll find that it's very obvious that the consequences of nicotine addiction are very different, and has nothing whatsoever to do with _how_ people get nicotine or other drugs.
Bullshit. Everything he said.
At that scale there are other issues.

Do you trust all the people that work on your factory, and all the people that touch the design? By the way, do you trust the manager of the factory? And his manager (and so on)?
Dropbox provides massive utility for laptops and desktops as well.
The Coronado Company
I used to visit DreamInCode.net for my question/answer needs.
Hmm, I definitely agree it's entirely due to human behaviour, that's where my confusion came from. I'm confused about how you expect this "meme" to die. It's never going to. It's inherent in any system with a disparity in power between the involved actors if the actors are even remotely free in their choice of actions and even a single actor is willing to act selfishly.

An economic system with the controls in place to stop the Matthew effect would look nothing like a free market.
There's room for disagreement about whether this is atrocious. But at its core, do you think that the 33% attrition rate is a problem?
Simple made easy has my vote for the #1 spot, it isn't about clojure as much as about general principles. I really love that talk.
Should really have a demo link somewhere.

You can click through to github, to be told that it's what their Fargo tool is based on, and from there you can click through to that... to be told that you have to link it to your dropbox account before you can even try it.
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Congrats Dave and team!
the EE answers were never really behind a paywall, simply they were so hidden at the bottom of the page that a normal user did had the idea to scroll fully. After all, they needed to present the information to the google bot.
Except he's not dictator and favor debt is just as real as money debt. The members of the NYC council have their own interests, corruptions, etc that he need to work with.

There's this idea that a mega-rich politician will be incorruptable. I'm not sure that's ever been true. The system is bigger than just one guy making decisions and even the head of an organization needs to keep a lot of people happy.
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Congrats SO; continue to rot in hell expert sexchange (expertsexhange.com)! ;)
A quick and dirty way to get karma is by taking an already existing answer to a similar question and just tweak for the new question.
Maybe you're looking for http://www.discourse.org/about/
It gets even more interesting when you put the machine into suspend, and time starts passing without timer interrupts getting serviced.

Or when NTP notices that your local clock is drifting, and attempts to discipline it.

As they say on the time-nuts listserv: A man with one clock always knows what time it is. A man with two clocks is never quite sure...
Well then you're better than some of us. Congrats.

I also occasionally leave the restroom without washing my hands if I'm in a really big hurry too. Gross, I know, but I'm a flawed guy.

The only "excuse" Bastian has offered is context. He's taking full responsibility though. I'm not sure what more he can do but wait for this to blow over. It doesn't make him a bad CEO, it just means he got frustrated and said something he shouldn't have.
If you think it's complicated in Linux, just try writing a mobile drag racing game for Windows 8.

If you try to index a GPS trace of a car driving the quarter mile by the system clock, good luck, because you can experience astonishing precision without accuracy.
But those underlying benefits don't hold true when you have so many scarce resources. That's going to be the case for a long long time.
> Overall, at the end, I'm not getting much new from it.

The trick here is to pretend for a bit that you're not yet as amazingly well educated and developed as you no doubt are and then to realize that there are a large number of people like that. As one of those I'm really happy he takes the time out to do these. To you it would obviously be a waste of time so no need to watch them, but I definitely get some value from them. I like that 'much' in there.
The code they give looks a lot like my Balsamiq serial ;)
Great read, you feel the love in your post :)
It's just a base64 encoded string.
Almost all of Sony's accessories, even the lens cameras, have tap to pair.
I wasn't clear. The service knows your IP and then can resolve DNS queries for you.

If your IP isn't in their system, they can ignore it. That prevents non-paying users from using the service.
http://littleoutliner.com/
Ask HN: Should I build my MVP or Outsource?
I'm not a great developer but can hack together Ruby on Rails. I'd like to launch my MVP but feel time must be spent on the business end. At the same time, do I want to pay $$ to build an MVP? My clients are large corporations. Thoughts? Also, if I decide to outsource...any suggestions on companies and pricing? Thanks.
> Linus Torvalds' creation has expended [sic] to 17 million lines of code.

Not to worry: the same code can get used over and over without being consumed.
That's probably a big part of it. But I believe people also sometimes enjoy the feeling of being indignant.
I did a PhD exactly for that reason. I had an offer from a company, I was sort of bootstrapping a company with a friend, and I had an offer for a PhD position[1].

I decided to do a PhD, since it's much easier to roll in to a PhD right after finishing a Masters than ten or twenty years later, and I thought it would offer the opportunity to deepen my knowledge in a particular field. When I started my PhD I didn't have the ambition to start an academic career.

[1] In the Netherlands being a PhD candidate is a normal employment. You get a decent salary and benefits and you have four years to focus on actual research, with very few teaching responsibilities, or having to follow courses. It's just a researcher position where you also write a thesis.
Paul Graham Thinks You Should Exercise
Rich Hickey has great track record of being spot on. He seems to know exactly where the pain points of software engineering are, and proposes sound solutions.

In this talk he explains how Datomic works, but more importantly, what the reasoning behind it is:

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-datomic-cap

Everybody should watch this, as the concepts behind it apply to any system.
I thought Texas has high property taxes (no state income tax, so that's how government is funded), but $6700 per $100k valuation is steep. Plus a 2.4% local income tax, plus a tax on utilities, plus a tax on gambling. Just crazy.
This shouldn't be surprising, psychologists have known this for a couple of decades. See mood contagion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_contagion

Anger, being a highly negative, high energy-level emotion, is very contagious.

People respond differentially to positive and negative stimuli, and negative events tend to elicit stronger and quicker emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses than neutral or positive events. Thus, unpleasant emotions are more likely to lead to mood contagion than are pleasant emotions. Another variable that needs to be taken into account is the energy level at which the emotion is displayed. As higher energy draws more attention to it, the prediction is that the same emotional valence (pleasant or unpleasant) expressed with high energy will lead to more contagion than if expressed with low energy.
to suggest that the man believed he was relaying the Truth is to miss literally everything he stood for.

I don't think he believed that; I think he genuinely thought he was "deconstructing" the idea of Truth and putting forward a way of dealing with the world without needing such a notion. I just think he was in error in believing that. See below.

I can say that man having liberty to pursue diverse lifestyles is a good state of social affairs without having to believe I am stating a redemptive truth.

Either you mean your statement to be taken seriously or not. If you don't, then yes, you're not stating a redemptive truth, because you're not stating anything. So I can just ignore what you say. (I assume that wasn't your intention, but of course I may be wrong, just as I may be wrong in thinking that Rorty meant his utopia claim to be taken seriously.)

If you do mean your statement to be taken seriously, then, whether you realize it or not, you are committing yourself to truth claims. Perhaps you would not describe them as "redemptive" truth claims, but that's quibbling over words. If you're committing yourself to truth claims, then you haven't deconstructed the idea of Truth, because we all live in the same world, so all of our truth claims about it have to be consistent.

Similarly, if Rorty means his claims about utopia to be taken seriously, then he's committing himself to truth claims (not least about the possibilities allowed by human nature). To say that, well, it isn't "redemptive" truth because he's allowing different people to have different worldviews, is, once again, quibbling over words. Everybody has to coexist in the same world, and his claim about utopia amounts to claiming that there is a One True Way to organize society that will somehow magically let everyone coexist without conflict. I think, as I said, that that's a dangerous illusion, but whether it is or not, it isn't something one can believe without having a notion of Truth.
Great post. I wonder whether the admin interfaces for translating, inline translating in particular, are custom made or at least based on some open source libraries?
It is true that getting the client can be the "hardest" part, but I believe that is only in the beginning. What you really need to do is make local business owners believe that they A. Need an X SOFTWARE for their business immediately and B. You are the one that can and should provide it for them.

If you're the one that convinces them that they need this software for their business, and you provide this service, they're going to immediately come to you.

Don't think about it as getting gigs. This generally implies scanning through existing listings. Try to reach out to your community and hold that free (1-2)hour-long workshop on how (INSERT YOUR LINE OF WORK HERE) is increasing businesses revenue streams.
It doesn't take significant investment to create high-quality, innovative, original music - indie bands all over the world are creating such music without seeing any profit, as all the "capital investment" neccessary (good instruments, good recording gear, good software) can be afforded by mid-class people/students as an [expensive, all-consuming] hobby and the only thing needed is lots and lots of time from them and recording/audio folks, which can be obtained w/o cost, if the desire is big enough.

No, the reason for copyright monopolies was that it took significant investment to mass-manufacture and distribute everything even after the creative work itself was written. Starting with books and ending with CD mastering. Now a million-copy album is not the only way, as it's just as economically feasible to do 10 000 "prints" of albums that get 100 copies each, since distribution is free on the net.
Moto X uses F2FS.

"The Moto X’s pseudo-stock Android 4.2.2 uses ext4 for all partitions with the exception of user data storage, which uses F2FS (Flash Friendly File System)"

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7235/moto-x-review/9
I don't really see why Ubuntu is getting bent out of shape about this. Maybe this is just a media/blogger generated grudge. Many very popular open source packages are maintained out of stream before getting pushed upstream. DRBD [1] was a very popular package which, after years of patches, finally got accepted into the kernel. I think there is a burden of proof required before asking someone to maintain your patch set upstream.

[1] http://www.drbd.org/
What he talks about may be obvious to you, but is probably not the reality for 90% of the industry.
cultural differences still doesn't make any of the commenters points relevant. Theres a better comment higher up explaining security.
It is probably best to just contact the author and ask their opinion about that. For example, proprietary linux kernel drivers seem to be in a gray zone (to put it mildly), but in practice they are tolerated (whether or not the FSF approves of that).
> On Linux it is actually the window server that provides
> the interface between applications and the video driver.

This hasn't been true for a long, long time. Modern Linux applications directly call into the graphics driver, either through OpenGL or an intermediate library such as Clutter.

> This means that every driver needs to interface with
> each of the window managers.

This is also not true. Window managers are driver-independent, and you can easily write your own window manager without any knowledge of the underlying hardware. You might mean "display server" instead of "window manager", but there's only one display server used in Linux, and that is X11.

X11 was designed in an era before standardized graphics or input APIs, so it doesn't use OpenGL. As a result, it needs its own set of drivers for nearly everything (keyboards, mice, graphics, overlays). That's why Linux graphics drivers need to have special X11 support.

Wayland and Mir are an attempt to replace X11 with a much thinner layer, handling only the bare necessities of getting the driver and user application together so they can talk OpenGL together.
Sun Surveyor shines with Street View
Putting scare quotes around sovereign "debt" doesn't change that fact that bondholders are actually expecting to get paid. Though there's no force of law behind that expectation, if the government defaults no-one will lend to it any more without hefty sweeteners. Similar deal if we debase the currency with inflation.
Ask HN: Choices upon graduation for a college student? (Warning: LONG post)
I'm a senior graduating from a top 10 university with a major in Computer Science, and I think I've shot myself in the foot in preparing to enter the CS industry. My GPA is not spectacular, I have few external projects, and I only have a small amount of industry experience. I imagine worst-case scenario I could find menial work as a software engineer in some company, but that's not what I want to do.

I want to make a disclaimer before I go on that I wasn’t always an underachiever – it’s my misalignment between my expectations and reality that’s causing me the most stress. I grew up in the slums of Boston, joined a gang as a young teen, and saw my best friend arrested for dealing drugs before I turned 15. However, I’ve always been relatively smart, and soon enough, I found myself with a full scholarship to a top 10 university even though I never thought I’d have the funds to go. With that in mind, I always felt like I had something special going for me, and I’ve always tried to do my best since coming to college.

However, “doing my best” never entailed doing things to bolster my paper stats – something that has come to bite me in the ass as I search for jobs. Instead, I’ve discovered here that I had a knack for creating “things,” whether it was a technical software project or intangible things like the organizations on campus that I founded, which is why I REALLY want to be a product manager since that seems to align well with my interests. However, it seems like only large companies like Google and Facebook have these positions open, and often they are so selective that I imagine I have no chances of getting in or require 5+ years of prior experience.

So the question is: What choices do I have besides being a product manager at a large company, but which would still allow me to use my abilities in innovating and delivering quality products rather than being a code-monkey? I’d really prefer to not be unemployed come this spring. Thanks in advance.
Well, what is stopping NVidia and AMD from cooperating on Wayland right now?

When you look at it from this perspective, a shadowy doubt is cast over Canonical's motivations.
I think you're overextending here and replacing the true argument with a strawman. I don't think Sokal wanted to prove all the humanities - from antropology to social work - are bullshit. He attempted to prove one specific stream in one science (understanding science broadly here as field of inquiry) is bullshit - and came pretty close when it turned out many practitioners of it, claiming to be masters of the art, couldn't tell a pile of baloney form legitimate research. That doesn't make whole dozens of fields of inquiry under humanities umbrella invalid wholesale.
OkCupid's Awkward Response to Boulder Floods
I always thought bump would be a compelling technology if it was baked into an OS liked Android. The main issue was getting past the hurdle of convincing others to download it - no one wanted to download an app just to exchange contact info in a moment of need.

If was already on your phone I could see users adopting it for things like contacts & photo exchange.
Yes, and the med school student will earn substantially more than the PhD student (or the PhD degree holder) after completing med school. So there is significant financial incentive to finish the degree (which has likely put the med school student deep into loan debt already).
Wolfram Alpha and MatLab integration.
You should look at Numba: Direct Python -> x86 and CUDA without touching C.

http://numba.pydata.org/