skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any idea which destroys information exclusivity.

e.g. searching for houses online as opposed to offline eliminating brokers, destruction of politics and law in current form for smaller states with better control over resources, food recipe sharing, establishment of online communication forums for every industry, be it agricultural, scientific or cola production (whose exclusivity should end soon)

Increasing cost of transport driven by reduction in oil production. Force optimization of mass transport. Will force improvement in distance communication tech.

Improvements in food distribution driven by intelligent agents. Resource optimization at every level of community driven by smart agents.

As far as language goes, I expect local scripts to die out, replaced by the English script. Motivation will be to avoid reinventing the wheel.
While this is probably very helpful to Chromebook owners, it doesn't make me want to use a Chromebook for development, or understand the choice.

If the hardware is particularly good (is it?), why doesn't someone make it easier to just straight up run Linux from the hard drive? I mean no weird scripts, SD cards, etc. but just a proper distro like Debian.
"I know that a lot of people on this site think that if you add the words 'on the internet' you should be exempt from all regulation and taxation, but that's just not how the world works."

Yeah dude, you're right, it's this point you made up that no one is upset about that people are ACTUALLY upset about...?

Oh, I see, because your experience has been negative you should definitely make up a strawman and beat it to death for no good reason. We all know that projecting views on everyone on an entire site is a super healthy and productive way to make a point.
Is that really the case in real world loads? I have always thought that the moment you avoid blocking io and code almost any language is fast enough. And usually the problems come from bad design.
I don't know if the whole oracle/sun debacle is to blame for the complete stagnation of the jvm and the java language, but the development pace is laughable these days. We're still waiting for proper lambda expressions after all these years. We still have a runtime without generics. And so on.

The irony of the article is that ZeroTurnaround not only make money from the java community, but does so by selling tools that work around shortcomings of the jvm. So not only is it in their interest to have a large dev community on the jvm, if you are a bit mean you could say its in their interest to have a crap jvm :)
> the most popular .dk domain

google.dk obviously :)

Or if you want real local websites, I would assume a newspaper or tv channel website (unless they all live in the .tv domain). Alexa seems to confirm this for Denmark: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/DK.
I have never commented anywhere about Capistrano. But, it has been part of a toolchain that has brought me success and improved my life. Thank you very much for all you have done.
Libertarians have no problem with someone dealing drugs, in general.
Public launch of HTML5 Game Engine - MightyFingers
VF Profile - Randy Parker and His New Project, PagePart
> A question to ask yourself: does it make sense to require hotels to adhere to these safety regulations but not apartment buildings?

It might. It might be reasonable to assume more familiarity with fire exit locations in an apartment building than in a hotel.
AppSeed - From sketch to functioning prototype
I think the fundamental problem is that on your laptop you use the system's package manager to manage gems and dependencies, while on the server you suddenly are forced to use RVM.

Here's my take on using rbenv to have the same kind of environment on your laptop and the server - damn fast : http://www.lambdacurry.com/damn-fast-production-ready-ruby-s...
I'm sure they'll look into it after they fox all the glaring simulation issues graphical glitches and severe city size limitations. The bigger problem, and I realized this after just a couple days of playing is that the game just isn't fun like the previous ones were.

Being sick in a tiny city, yet completely overwhelming every public transport option with teens of thousands of people hanging out at single bus stops, with no ability to build a subway is a huge simulation failure.

So many game regressions replaced with dumber alternatives. I ended up uninstalling it after a couple weeks and loading up sc4k instead.
I didn't fancy running it on clunky Vista and my copy of Windows 7 was still the Beta version, so not legal anymore. I actually thought I'd go and buy Windows 7 but no.... you can't buy Windows 7 anymore, so I had to settle for 8!

As stated, I use Linux day-to-day.
I really like the layout of your site and its a great idea.

Did you start from a template or from scratch? If you used a template can you point me to it?
I live in Prospect Height in Brooklyn, at the very edge of gentrification where rent is booming on one site of the street and cheap on the other. The people that live above me (they have been on the lease for 30+ years, so they have cheap rent) have been illegally subletting their apartment for months now to a group of 20 or so loud and unruly people. We know this because the landlord tried to evict them and hired a private investigator to look into the situation. The thing is, no matter how much we complain about them being loud, they still pay their bills on time, so my landlord has been at a loss as to how to remove them. He would love to kick them out and renovate the apartment and charge many times as much as is currently being paid, but he can't.

My point is, rent-controlled apartments are being subletted. The situation in my building is not a fringe case. Craigslist and word of mouth illegal subletting is common. AirBnB is not the only name in the illegal subletting game in NYC, but they are the only name in luxury illegal sublets.
So I take it you are an Arch user?
The NSA has financial resources but it's short on political capital. If all the big tech companies were to collectively and publicly decide as a matter of principle to stop adhering to gag orders and cooperating with wholesale monitoring regardless of what FISA says, what is the administration going to do? Shut down Facebook? Shut down Google? Could you imagine? Public opinion is already firmly against them on these issues. Actions like those would make them utterly despised.
I have a minority view: Climate change is now in a positive feedback loop (thawing tundra, forests burning, ocean acidification) and ceasing human activity won't stop it.

I believe we need to proactively remove atmospheric CO2. Retool our economy and industrial might for that job.

To do that, we need a strong economy.

I'm not saying more, cheaper fossil fuels is a good thing. I just think we should play the cards we're dealt (to ourselves).
Entrepreneurial DNA: Either You Have It or You Don't
To go along with "work anywhere" is "live anywhere." If you can live anywhere, then you will pick a place where you actually want to live. Croatia or Kazakhstan might be nice for a visit, but I doubt you would want to live in either of these places unless you had substantial roots there (you were born and raised there.)

Given there are so many independently wealthy people living in San Francisco, it must have its charm.

Edit: Edited city
EA on not allowing larger cities: "The system performance challenges we encountered would mean that the vast majority of our players wouldn’t be able to load, much less play with bigger cities."

Seriously? If they had allowed offline play in the first place, the city size would only be limited by the player's own hardware.
I believe the $80mil estimate is from the criminal complaint, which derived that estimate from the data they collected from the seized server. The complaint specified that from Feb 6, 2011 to July 23, 2013, Ulbricht collected 614,305 Bitcoins in commission, which is $84,159,785 at today's exchange rate on Mt. Gox.

So I'm pretty certain that the $80mil estimate is derived from the actual number of Bitcoins in commission that was logged on SR's server.
Your analogy breaks down with "USA" and "growing wealthy middle class". If anything the result has (intentionally?) been the reverse. Other than that, not bad.

Africa is the key for cobalt, chrome, and platinum, everything else is meh on the world market. I acknowledge they make plenty of money off copper, but they don't control the world copper market like they control the world cobalt market.

Historically the resource stripping strategy in Africa resembled the middle east, put up a crooked strongman, keep him bribed and happy, and its all good. Occasional coup here and there. Not seeing why that successful strategy would be abandoned for a global war so not so impressed with that idea.

Another political/cultural issue you missed is its hard to give money/support to people in, say, Namibia, when their distant cousins in Detroit have a perception of a worse economic situation. I say perception because they probably are numerically better off in Detroit.
Considering the intention behind the Google document is to enable support for existing Ajax applications, and not the cornerstone of crawlability of newly built apps, probably not.

Also, the same document that's quoted in defence of these Web (unfriendly) Apps is https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

Where in the first section of that document: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...
There is this:

"If you're starting from scratch, one good approach is to build your site's structure and navigation using only HTML. Then, once you have the site's pages, links, and content in place, you can spice up the appearance and interface with AJAX. Googlebot will be happy looking at the HTML, while users with modern browsers can enjoy your AJAX bonuses."
The good news is that so far climate models have all been dramatically wrong in their predictions of global mean temperature, and that all of them have erred on the high side. It's striking how little knowledge climate activists have of relevant evidence.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2157446...

[2] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/16/lomborg-climate-models...
I felt (and still feel) the same way. A 13" Chromebook would be the sweet spot for most on-the-go developers. I've seen the HP 14" Chromebooks but couldn't get myself to pay the price difference.
It's true. After just a couple plays I figured out the simulation and could basically do whatever I wanted and make loads is cash and everybody was happy. It was like playing a crappy sc clone on good mode.
As the guy says he is writing music software, Mac OSX would be a pretty important platform to cover.

That said, I'm a recent convert from Linux to OSX, and I like to tinker with Garbage Band from time to time :-)
I don't believe that guarantees can be provided in the same way by private third parties, sorry. Not with the same strength as can be provided by statute, not with the same consequences for those that deliberately transgress.

Better/more efficient is also up for argument, but the main statement is not simply true. Sorry.

Edit- by "not simply true" I mean up for debate and open to argument, not "false"
> Honest question: Are their refactoring IDEs for Ruby, Python, or other dynamically typed languages?

Yep, Intellij IDEA does it pretty well, or one can get their language of choice individually as WebStorm (JavaScript/NodeJS), PHPStorm (Webstorm + PHP), PyCharm (Python + Webstorm) or RubyMine (Ruby + Webstorm).

The refactoring and type inferring abilities for dynamic languages in each are pretty amazing. Types can also be inferred by docblocks and return types as well in each IDE for code analysis to avoid silly mistakes. That, along with refactoring has saved me tons of time and a reason to use a full IDE over a more lightweight editor. They also have an open source version of the Python IDE if you want to try it out.
> If the hardware is particularly good (is it?),

With the exception of the Pixel the advantage of most Chromebooks is that they are cheap and fairly nice in terms of portability.

> why doesn't someone make it easier to just straight up run Linux from the hard drive? I mean no weird scripts, SD cards, etc. but just a proper distro like Debian.

That's what Crouton does for you.
If it's like the MacBook Air 11/13 models, the keyboards would be basically identical in size.

The 11" form factor is just another level of portability.
Learning from Steve Jobs, 2 years on
is there any feedback from rich hickey on your work on core.typed, are you guys aligned on how it should be designed/implemented?
Vulnerabilities & Attack Vectors
The prize for Schekman and Rothman has been a long time coming - well deserved! For anyone unfamiliar, worth reading their groundbreaking Cell papers from the early 1980s.
(or look at any cell biology textbook!)
Just want to let you know that i've changed search code so now it should work almost perfect.

Additional features comming soon!
Seizing the assets of alleged criminals is something for which there is broad bipartisan support and consensus.

I do however agree that an actual amendment is unlikely.
HP is coming out with 14" Haswell Chromebooks next month that look fairly nice. Usual HP caution applies.
Our Information Diet: feeding our intellectual hunger
Lawyers are very careful not accept money that may be related to a crime. I doubt he has significant savings that he can prove was earned outside of Silk Road.
Sorry, but as much as I want them to succeed too, the "alternative" energies just do not have the capacity to replace the "traditional" fuels. The problem with America is that we have a problem with glut and self-destructive greed, which is why all of our "green" efforts are nothing but window-dressing, facade, and self-delusion while be destroy and consume our way into disaster. There is never any real sacrifice or pain (which comes from withdrawing from pernicious and bad things that feel so good in the short term), especially in things that would actually make a difference.
Unfortunately, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and all of those other guys are surveillance poster boys. It's best just to not use their services, and vote with dollars.
The brute force approach is only feasible for small amounts of data. For larger data sets, often it's an iterative approach using general-purpose algorithms, combined with some degree of randomisation. I'd argue that describes how the human brain operates as well.
Great list of names and number of IPO exits in 2013. I would really be interested in a stratification of # of years the investment was held. This would give a clear picture of who were the early investors and who were the late investors as well as follow-ons.
We are meeting up on Friday evening - details are in the Facebook group.
How Designers Destroyed the World
> Among the 50 countries that have Facebook listed as the most visited visited website, 36 of them have Google as the second most visited, and the remaining 14 countries list YouTube (currently owned by Google).

Does that mean they aren't defining Google as Google properties? What would the map look like if they did?
Light noise, full control templating for JavaScript
I'm a little confused by the "Main action" and "Cancel" buttons. Shouldn't the Cancel button have the red text and not the other way around?
IPhone 5s vs LG G2 - which is the right distance?
Ruby is 18, Python is 22, what's your point? I'd very much like to hear your valid criticism towards Java. From my point of view that language and ecosystem is alive and well and newer iterations of Java EE have been giant leaps forward in terms of productivity.
I think calling Go a simplified Java is pretty far off the mark. Aside from both aiming at the niche of being sort of "medium-level" languages, for lack of a better term, Go's approach seems very different from Java's.

Objects vs structs and functions, exceptions vs multiple return values, required static vs required dynamic linking, implicit vs explicit subtyping/interfaces, etc.

Go is C with added convenience.
And GnuPG 2.0.22 — http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/00033...
One can wonder if they act anti-social due to being glued to their phones, or whether they are like that from themselves and it just showed more obvious because of the phones.
You spent a lot of time to simply say, "The US doesn't have an extradition treaty with Croatia."
When I add to the stencil palette in OmniGraffle 4, it ends up super tiny http://imgb.mp/jk2.jpg

Maybe time to reconsider if I use OmniGraffle often enough to pay $50 to upgrade to 6... I don't really need any new features, just to fix all the bugs that have cropped up.
One could argue that in this case the server's file system acts as the database.
If the prediction is good enough, and general enough, then I'd argue that is figuring out the physics behind the data.
The little pointer arrows on the "Select | Select All" and "Select | Select All | Paste" tooltips are a different color from the body of the tooltip.

But it looks really nice overall.
Bad Indian Programmers
I was looking at it from a more general viewpoint: there are more and more valuable things you can effectively protect against seizure with a password. This was not foreseen in the constitution, which thought of seizure as a physical process.

I was looking at it from a more general PoV than simply DPR's fate: the practical need for the judicial power to be able to seize stuff is threatened by the 5th. There must be many people in the system who badly want to carve password rendition out of the 5th's no-self-incrimination protections.

Coming back to DPR's case, given the political importance of the case (it's about sovereign states' ability to police Internet on their own turf), I don't think the central problem is to recover the BTC600K as actual dollars. And I don't even know whether they could easily and legally sell them off, would they get the keys. The problem is as follows: if there are copies of those wallets, if they're spent from one of those copies, feds will look like fools powerless to confiscate millions of dollars from an imprisoned and convicted guy.

The journalist said "don't worry, feds have seized the wallets, they won't be spent". That's almost comically false, but that's telling as (conservative) wishful thinking: if only this was true, then no major social/legal adjustments would be necessary to cope with the emergence of crypto-currencies.
Leap Motion capable JS STL Viewer
I never understood what's the big deal about runtime generics. It's clear that some minority of people thinks that it's so important that it's almost the sole reason why "java sucks", but it's just a tradeoff that's decision that is controversial at best, with lots of people being completely happy about that.

For lambdas, I agreed though. Also, basic type inference, at least in a form already provided by project Lombok, is still sorely missing.
Just to clarify, I'm not claiming the US is the first constitutional democracy, just the oldest still standing. And agree with you about all the oddities. As far as presidential veto power, the US Constitution predates the first French Republic, so it couldn't have been influence by it. It's my understanding that the presidential veto was a concession to the monarchists who were afraid of the popular will.
librsync is a library for building rsync workalikes. It is not compatible with rsync itself.

librsync and the rdiff binary that wraps it can create a signature from a destination file, create a patch from a signature and a source file, and can apply a patch to a destination file. And that's about it. librsync doesn't concern itself with the networking. That's up to you.

rdiff is a thin wrapper around librsync. librsync can easily do anything rdiff can do, without having to fork a new process. You might wish the rsync executable were built this way, but it is not.
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Don't speak for me.

I'm upset about the lack of taxation and regulation. I care about it in the AirBnb context, I also care about it in the Lyft and Sidecar context. These are all cases where we have a massive provisioning of services, in a context where caveat emptor is not actually practical, in industries where vendor-side abuse has been historically endemic.

We regulated the slum-hotels of the 20s and 30s out of existence. We regulated gypsy cabs (mostly) out of existence. I personally still recall living in a time where unregulated cabs would hold passengers for ransom by driving them to the middle of nowhere. Thankfully I no longer live in such a time or place.

I'm concerned that in our obsession with "move fast and break things" we're doing a lot of the latter. Some of these regulations are powered by vested interests. Some of it is historical and represent hard-learned lessons. The tech industry's collective attitude towards them seems to be "all laws are archaic and outdated, ignore all laws that don't benefit us". I for one don't believe in this for one second.
Disconnect Search:  Search privately using your favorite search engine
There is already a tax rule just for those prices, that "picks winners and losers"; it would be a matter of removing conditions from that rule (that the prize must be donated), not adding another.
Take a look at DuckDuckGo (if you prefer independent entrepreneurial upstart) or Bing (if you prefer massive well funded corporate competitor) to see what getting in the ring with Google looks like.
I completely agree (see my comment along similar lines).

The online/offline debate has diverted far too much attention away from other, more important aspects of the game (at least to players) that badly missed the mark. I'm certain SC5 would have been slated as "the disappointment of the decade" even if 'online-only-gate' had not happened.
Giving time to thought.
Regarding #1, Java 8 allows for static JNI linking. http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/178
What are the odds of programs like SublimeText being able to run on ARM in the near future? I'm sure Eclipse would be far too heavy.

Most of the 'Chromebook as a developer laptop' make it into a fancy SSH terminal - which is fine. But I don't really see a 'terminal' as a 'developer laptop'. I understand you can still access the internals of Linux along with the shell and other languages, but it doesn't work for a lot of people when you can't use the same apps/devices as you can on a your 'normal' machine.

A $999 XPS 13 or MacBook Air looks pretty inviting, even at 3X the price of a $299 Chromebook when you realize how much productivity gain there is when you don't have to dink around with the OS and aren't limited in your app selection.
Will Automation Technology Replace Some Jobs?
For an example of lawbreakers inexpedient to prosecute, in NY, see this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/nyregion/charitys-fired-ch...

You have to read the story three times -- for some reason the NYT didn't want to be clear. But the upshot is that an embezzler was using a nonprofit to recycle state grants into political contributions. His wife works for the Speaker of the State Assembly.

Any investigation of her? Or the Speaker? Prosecutorial discretion doesn't seem super interested.

There are real reasons to regulate rental activity like AirBnB's. It would be nice if we could believe the regulatory apparatus was interested in protecting ordinary citizens' rights in their ordinary residences. Seems like a stretch.
Just a second. EA is one of the big publishers when it comes to the Windows platform. Meaning they have quite a few franchises that have followers. However they have been vilipending their paying customers as potential thieves for a very long time with quite a few blow back and under delivering compared to the customer's expectation. So, sure you can enjoy 'indie' games on other platform, but as publisher go, I would advise to look and think twice before you buy any games from EA.

On the technical side, I am far from surprised at the BS official answer from EA regarding the feasibility of offline mode, and bigger playground.