skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're forgetting that all of Apple's digital storefronts , online services exist for only one reason - as accessories and support systems to their hardware ( Macs and iGadgets ). The only reason iTunes on Windows exists is to increase the addressable market for iPods, iPhones and iPads ( not to increase the addressable market of the iTunes Store itself - but it comes as a side effect of the first one).
The compromise they have in Ontario is that infractions get you demerit points as well as fines. Get enough demerit points and you lose your license.
Casual Acquaintances on Twitter Are Better Than Close Friends on Facebook
'As usual'?!?!
The cat says, "oh really? how much and at what cap?"
Very interesting.

In typical state-planner fashion, the Chinese government completely misses a critical component of the rich-country population distribution: people (more or less) choose where they are going to live, i.e. it's not just a question of available bedrooms. Detroit has plenty of available bedrooms, and so does the most of the South and mid-West.
This seems like a good video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZofY286FyQ
About 10 years ago, a friend of mine wanted to lease out an old building on an old decaying street in Stockton CA, so he could build an indoor soccer field and start a league. The building was unleased, and the owner was happy to lease it to him at an excellent rate (it had sat unleased for 4 years). He had pre-orders for his first league session for almost 80 teams. He had a local investor that was willing to front the cost of the indoor field. He could comply with 100% of the local health and safety regulations, and only had one deterrent: The city planners. They insisted that this entire city block was to be used for upscale retail...no restaurants, no office space, no mini marts, no grocery stores, no movie theaters, no coffee shops, no used book stores, no NGOs, no news stands, and especially no indoor soccer facilities. The owner of the real estate declared bankruptcy a year or two later (it appears most of the other owners of property on the block followed suit) because he couldn't find a single tenant to get past the city planners. I believe the property has now been seized by the city, where it hasn't sold anything since. The zoning has still not changed.

This is what American cities would look like if American city planners had their way. They wouldn't tell you that though...they think they are way better at playing Sim City than their Chinese counterparts.
Venezuela seizes toilet paper factory to avoid shortage
I think that's a typo for 24.000, which is how UK people render "Twenty-four thousand"
Not saying they must list every one. Rather it's always interesting / fun too see to see when someone releases a player w/ genres which ones they'll offer.
I presume they wish the state had more effective means to redistribute the deadbeat's assets.
Coming from Turbo Pascal background I tend to be very critic of unsafe by design nature of C and C++. Specially given my focus in compiler design during the university, which allowed me to have a broad focus and experience in many languages, the average HN crowd might not be aware of.

Having said this, I was already coding in C++ in MS-DOS around 1993 (Turbo C++) and only used plain C when forced to do so.

So I have been part of the C++ community since the early PC compilers were available, and experienced this C vs C++ for quite some years now.

The funny part is remember the performance complaints back then about C and C++, that nowadays people state in HN about languages trying to replace them.

Oh, and I really like Boost.
This guy built a data center with Lego and Raspberry Pi
That is a big feature of any language that is multi-paradigm.
> Snowden killed the USA-centric internet.

I am quite okay with this.
Things I didn't know about Google
seanmcdirmind did not accuse you of saying anything. You asked a question and then he answered it. Are you replying to the right thread?

>>I only observed...

You didn't ONLY observe, you observed and then asked a question, and then the question was answered:

r0h1n>>"I'd be more interested in why two such different countries as the US and China seem to have independently arrived at the same problem"

Seanmcdirmind asked you if your question was genuine, you responded that it was, then he answered your question. There is no conflict here.
This is only tangentially related to the article but where I live there is a lot a wildlife, including many different species of birds. Some of these birds now sing songs that mimic common mobile phone ringtones. This is obviously not as bad as pollutants effecting birds behaviour but I think it's a great example of technology having strange, unintended consequences.
Interesting. I've seen a few seasons of this and the international versions, and found it odd how different valuation works compared to with valley VCs.
Are these "generic" bonds, or does the government issue bonds explicitly tied to the development of one or another city development? Are these bonds to be paid out from new-city tax revenue streams? (Not enough plugged in to the China finance system to search for myself.)

If so, I'm surprised that financial institutions would buy these bonds, despite their high ratings.
I've never been with a traditional bank, even though I've always been able to afford it. I prefer credit unions. I can get all of the "bank-like" services that I need at a credit union and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I'm not further enriching a bank CEO.
There have been plenty of studies that suggest the most optimal behavior in terms of getting people to their destination quickly and safely. Specifically, when in traffic congestion, use your lane until the last second and then merge taking turns with the other lane(s).

One source of many: http://www.edmunds.com/driving-tips/car-merging-psychology-d...
No, it's how some European countries write 24,000. The UK (like the US) uses . as the radix point and , for digit grouping.
Why does nobody ever mention HTML Dog? I learned all the basics the right way reading from it, the ideas behind them, and what to avoid. It's a seriously great website (and formerly a book, I think? I was a penniless teenager back when I read it), serving as both a tutorial and reference, and it's been around for a really long time.

http://www.htmldog.com/

For everything else, there's http://www.quirksmode.org/ and Stack Overflow ;)
I'm publishing my first novel one chapter at a time on Facebook.
What to do when you've nothing to do?
Hi, I'm Nikk and I have unlimited internet, lot of free time and a never ending thirst of knowledge, but right now I've no idea what to do and I'm sure some of you might have been in the same situation too, so what you guys did? I've been in this situation before and I used to learn about HTML, CSS, JS, Go, Python, but now I want to do something else. Something fun.
Do those CS degrees exist? I pity those students.

Back then when I graduated (1999), at least in Portugal there were lots and lots of languages to use for assignments, during the degree (5 years long).
DANE is an interesting concept for sure. Not 100% viable in the short-term but going forward we need to start thinking of a better solution. It would still be cert based and just add a layer of complexity. The cert model works it's just controlled by the wrong people and lacks regulation.
I'm not saying that whole Lumia with inretaction done with pure CSS3.
Rendering (!) of Lumia and it's icons made in pure CSS (as I write in the title), interactions and few other things - with the help of JS.
libc++ (the Clang project standard C++ library) doesn't use COW for std::string, and I'm pretty sure GNU stdlibc++ will also drop it the next time they have to break ABI. C++11 move semantics and the 'small string optimisation', as it's known, blow away any performance benefit of COW for most sane uses.
Yeah that provides great incentive for governments to have their police follow around wealthy people waiting for them to accidentally go over a yellow line by 2 inches.

If you get a $10 fine from one person and a $1MM fine from another person, you have every incentive to make sure the latter person is the one you catch.
Err, I see no way in which the activity life cycle is like paging.

In typical paging the application's memory is taken from RAM and placed onto a slower storage medium to free up RAM.

In the activity life cycle, Android is just telling the app "you're in RAM, but you're not running" or "you're going to get killed because I need the space, if you want to give me a bit of state information I'll hang on to it in RAM for you".

I don't see how the two are comparable at all, and I don't see how you could have paging without using a secondary storage.
I don't understand why a city needs to keep "growing" to keep it alive. Keep the height restrictions because it keeps the city beautiful. Why don't we develop the parts that are run down before we screw up the view.
For inadvertent or pragmatic violations, but to say "Go ahead and fine me, I don't care" is pretty flagrant.
He made their products commercially unviable. We could all be using Lisp machines now, the PC would never have happened, no DOS, no Windows, no x86, no Linux either for that matter. We would be 50 years ahead of where we are now.
Sometime ago I finished Codecademy's Web Fundamentals. I learned enough to understand what's going behind the scene but not enough to start hacking on my own. Since then I have started learning Python, also on Codecademy. There's Java for Android. And I would also like to learn C++/QML to hack my Arch Linux/KDE box.

Is it common for programmers to be proficient(reasonably well) and also be able to work on multiple projects requiring multiple languages at the same time? Or do most folks learn many things but tend to work with one language on one project.
True, we need a better way to control it. The wrong companies are becoming authorities for the wrong reasons. We at least need more transparency on the verification process. I would also like to see a public list of cert requests that failed the approval process. It could be interesting data for incident responders.
I love that they did this as a model to demonstrate certain aspects of their fail-safe system. I can see how that makes for a very approachable demo at a conference or trade show. Imagine turning up for a sales pitch and pulling Lego out of the boot of the car?! Awesome. Wanna see what happens when one of your cluster suddenly becomes a Tie-Fighter? No problem.
> but is a complete non-starter in my country where retail bank accounts with a positive balance usually are usually fee-free,

But not penalty free. A few months ago, I clicked a form twice in my online brokerage and accidentally doubled a ACH transfer from my bank account. Since I was transferring more than half, the double transaction was too much. My bank hit me with a $25 fee.

No big deal to me— but to many poor people a $25 fee could start a spiral of overdrafts which would leave them hopelessly short money. To someone in that situation an arrangement which charged them 5% per transaction would be preferable to one which carried any risk at all of an overdraft spiral of doom.
Why would you reference a wikipedia article to support your position without reading it through?

from the article - "W3Schools is not for profit, while maintaining normal W3Schools operation is very expensive."

The holding company may be for-profit in some things, but it would seem that w3schools itself is not a for-profit concern.

As far as the fact that they copyright things, that doesn't tell us whether they make profit from it or not.
There's no point. Just make your class movable.
Side-effecting Assignment
I agree with my 2 siblings. Itunes served a purpose, but that's long gone. If they would at least allow direct downloads to their devices, I might have less gripes with them, but as it stands...
This video is like explaining how to write software by pointing a video camera at a programmer's keyboard.
The best part was at the last where a card was reconstructed just by measuring the diffuse pattern on a book. Amazing stuff.
The primary reason when deciding whether a type should be mutable or not is psychological: mutable things are containers with independent identity from their content; things that are identified by their value should be immutable. The prototypical mutable type is an array; the prototypical immutable types are numbers: if you change the imaginary part of a complex number, you don't have the same number with different content, you have a different number. When you think about strings as arrays of bytes like you do in C, it makes sense for them to be mutable; in a higher level language where they behave much more like atomic values, it makes much more sense for them to be immutable – it can be really jarring when some called code deep down in the guts of a program mutates a string and you see the results at the top level. In C++, which is somewhere between a low level and high level language, it's hard to say which way it should be, but the STL approach does seem to treat them more like values than containers, which implies that they probably should be immutable.
I didn't think it was a hit piece simply because they didn't get creative with their building design.

The purpose was to show that regardless of raised height, you'd still be able to see the US capitol, and the tall monuments/government buildings will remain as iconic as they are today in the skyline.
Second iOS 7 Lockscreen vulnerability
Direct youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae20L78imO4
dylz: Because the moment Capital One 360 started becoming predatory, I'd move my money out to another bank. So far they've been fine.
It's still somewhat misleading. Like things like css3 transitions and page states maybe using :target or hash to keep state for "is phone on" and stuff, vs just using jQuery.
Same, I had to scroll down until I found out it was a polycarbonated biphenyl then had a sigh of relief.
Because we live in a market economy. You build stuff where people want to be, not where you hope they'll go. Unless you don't care if your building stays empty.
You mean Napster "invented" online [music] distribution.
«Structured Computer Organization » by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. I don't know the newer edition but the 3rd edition is the first computer book I have read and its layered approach is great (and I think, was new at that time)
Salinger Betrayed
Nope. They were in marketing. And I was a stock analyst.
I generally agree but there is the concern that the higher buildings would take away from the prominence of the historical monuments that the city centers on.

A good example of this is the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City. It appeared prominent and even formidable when it was built in the 18th century but modern construction has surrounded it on all sides and it's not even really part of the skyline anymore[1]. That's ok, but we have to decide whether the loss of emphasis on history is worth it.

[1] http://www.deseretnews.com/images/article/midres/315661/3156... (You can just see the six spires over an office building in the left-hand side of the frame).
> It feels like a dead place where people only come to work.

On that note, parts of Toronto like that feel the exact same way.
No doubt... Crazy complicated. Still a great video.
And at Intellicorp the machines were all named after famous disasters -- Johnstown Flood, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, etc.

Not realizing this naming convention, a confused Apollo Computer salesman once asked "Where are the other 12 machine?"
> These are really great resources, and I highly recommend them, however, they don't rank high in the search results. Like it or not, the googles is the gateway to the craft of web development, and anything more than an incremental improvement in learning needs to rank well to have an impact.

Wouldn't a much easier path be to help those resources cited improve their search results? If w3schools falls down to the second page on a Google search, no one would be having this conversation. There's nothing wrong with wanting to build yet another online learning resource, but if the goal is really to just get people to stop using w3schools, it doesn't require building yet another online learning resource.
Firmware is the most expensive thing in the universe.
You seem to be engaging in some revisionist history of Gatekeeper. The original concern was that it would be turned to MAS apps only by default, which it wasn't (and still isn't in Mavericks). By default the only thing you need is a free developer certificate to distribute apps outside the MAS (or to tell your users to right click to open, which bypasses the restriction).

Whether or not Apple does something in the future is a separate question, but accusing them of something they haven't done (despite several opportunities) appears more than a little biased.

Update: I am 100% incorrect about the developer certificate being free. You must be a member of the $99/yr Mac dev program to get one. So score one for "raising the walled garden" and I will gladly eat this humble pie.
This is never about housing. It's about corporations wanting to be pack in more and more lobbyists as close as they can.
> Stallman did a
massive disservice to his friends and
the entire computing community. We
are still paying for his sabotage
today.

I don't think I understand your argument here. Are you saying that free software in general hurts hackers because it provides free alternative implementations of their ideas that the original author has no control over? If so, why is it a bad thing? As patio11 would surely confirm, you can successfully compete with free and open source software.
I would bet both.

Facebook without users don't have anyone to advertise to. But obviously they want to be efficient to advertisers, too...
I don't understand why DC doesn't do a Parisian-style La Defense. The central historical DC core can remain at its current height, while skyscrapers and other high rises can be in a designated area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_D%C3%A9fense
Cool vid, but calling that a 'start up' is a little misleading. There's much more going on there than starting the engines. Modern turbine engines are pretty automated and don't require much more than the push of a button (starter) and flip of a lever (fuel) to start.
I was just checking project estimates on gun.io, they don't seem to be any higher than freelancer or odesk (e.g $1000 for an iphone app) especially if they are looking for "expert hackers"
Also, look at the scale of the Y-axis. One has a range of 1C and the other has a range of 15C.
Of all the problems Symbolics had, LMI and Stallman weren't two of the bigger ones. Specialized development workstations just lost to more general-purpose ones that could be built and sold in much larger quantities.

Rational started out making ADA development workstations; that didn't go too well either.
Sorry, it was per week, not per month. Must have remembered wrong from last time I checked. Here is a good summery for most banks in Sweden: http://mfc.elmberg.net/2010/03/07/kontantuttag-vad-galler-fo...

The 8000kr per withdraw is for ATMs on the bank buildings. More common is those outside malls/shop, like ICA (http://www.swedbank.se/privat/kort-och-betalningar/kort/om-k...). However, I have seen some who increase those restrictions to half, so its a bit 50/50 if you get 1000 kr or 2000 kr (divide with 6.5 to get US dollar).
"Sorry sir, but the system clearly says you're to be executed next Tuesday. There's nothing I can do about it. Please choose your last meal carefully from the touchscreen."
"Sad is happy for deep people" - 'Blink', Doctor Who
Meet people. There is a wealth of talented and interesting people at a good hackathon.

If you're joining a team, be very clear about your abilities and limits so they can resource properly.

Find people who need a break and chat to them about what they're working on, what they do normally. Again, meet people.

Talk to the sponsors, even if you don't need help. Those guys/gals are usually rad.

Presentation matters. Practice yours.
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THIS! The thing that really ought to replace W3Schools is MDN.
Private pilot here (who's also ridden in some full-scale airliner flight sims). A lot of the procedures in the video are going through checklists to test the various instruments and systems, both normal and emergency ones, as well as entering the route in the flight computer (used by the autopilot). This is what real pilots on real flights have to do.

If you just want to start the engines, taxi, and take off for a joyride (completely violating company/FAA policy), the steps are quite a bit less although still involved, depending on how old the aircraft is and the level of automation it has. This video seems to show a 737-800 or later, which is pretty new and most likely has a system that with one or two buttons handles the bleed air/ignition/fuel sequence of starting a turbine.
Question: why were these computers connected to the Internet in the first place? So the drone design engineers could check their Facebooks? Computers doing real work should be airgapped, this is a no-brainer.
oDesk.com perhaps?
Nothing it is just vaporware. they put a demo out with some music there promising the next generation html5 framework , but it was only to get funding. This is pure Scamware.

What is funny is the author of Three.js did exactly the same demo ( without the cheesy music ) with his framework, the difference is he has an real framework used by thousand of developpers and he did not need 2 million dollar funding to create it.
It's not because "start up" doesn't mean they're just turning on the engines, but means they're running through the start-up checklist. This is far more than just starting the engines, and includes configuring the plane and testing to make sure essential systems are okay.
The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History
On Internet, Brazil is beating US at its own game
I use a chrome extension to remove their entries from my search results, along with quora, experts-exchange, etc

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
Microloans Surging in Silicon Valley
Do you have a live exemple somewhere ? i'm curious about how well this technique performs.
Honest question though, and not meant to be argumentative (you already know my thinking on it). What does iTunes do for consumers that the other competing methods (online storefront, stream cloud to device, etc.) don't?
The only reason these short buildings are considered historic is that important things happened in them before we learned how to make rebar, and before we rediscovered concrete.

We can build tall buildings now. Some of those will become historic, if we build them. Many of them will be very nice-looking, like the new WTC towers. Don't let old building methods stand in the way of progress. I'm not one of those growth-at-all-costs people, but there's a lot of benefit in finding ways to put a large number of people in a small space comfortably.
Two.js[1] has a WebGL renderer and abstractions for basic vector graphics and polygons. I haven't had the chance to use it in a project yet but it seems promising. Two.js could even be used as a basis for a WebGL charting library (thus providing another layer of abstraction).

[1] http://jonobr1.github.io/two.js/
Banks have been continually inventing and raising fees on unsuspecting middle-class customers for decades. I wouldn't be surprised if banks made more fee revenue per customer than check cashers.
> I generally agree but there is the concern that the higher buildings would take away from the prominence of the historical monuments that the city centers on.

Most of the monuments are within 0.5 miles north or south of Constitution Ave, while the business district centers around K street a mile north of that. In fact, I think it would look quite amazing, the way Central Park does in Manhattan.
Because this is about putting more lobbyists closer to the capital building.