skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well if there's just a bunch of old retired people, who's going to end up doing all the work?

I think population decline issue is more of a "retired:working" ratio issue than a size one
Well, 40 is the traditional time to worry about these things. It's when you have to finally face up to the reality that you're probably not going to change the world yourself. Most people don't.
Alan Davies pays Lord McAlpine damages over tweet
What makes you assume that those who upvote Linux are writing desktop apps?

There are certainly people who work in QT or GTK on desktop stuff, or even those who work in Java and target all desktop platforms, but I would posit (based on my own experience) that many more work in the kernel on device drivers or on the CLI writing utilities.
Exact, We should perhaps change the title.
In the context of a video game character who happens to be a plumber from Brooklyn, yes.
'Electronic blood' could power next-gen computers
There is actually a trend to retire into certain parts of Mexico for those who need living assistance because of "cheap labor".

I remember reading about a city built around this concept.
Show HN: We are trying something a bit different with our media kit.
Unless American tax laws and financial regulations are changed, it is not so easy anymore. Americans overseas are subject to many unusual financial reporting requirements imposed by the USA which make it (1) expensive since a tax accountant/lawyer generally has to be retained annually to cope with them, and (2) difficult, since foreign banks are less and less willing to open accounts for Americans (they get subjected to reporting requirements themselves if they do that).
>When the Twin Towers fell, President Bush finished reading the book he was reading to a classroom of kids.

Which is one of the few things I respect him for, and I never understood why he got so much hate for it.
that's the issue, PHP should be secure(ie restrictive) by default, Linux style... it is not. PHP+Apache => recipe for disaster. PHP is a templating language yet doesnt do html sanitizing by default !

95% of compromised websites are PHP ones.

That's the reason why PHP will die eventually,when businesses understand while it's cheap to go online with a PHP cms, once you get hacked , it will cost you your business.
Growing up as the child of a videogame junkie
Oh right, I see they want to add LinkedIn profiles to all emails, not just ones coming from LinkedIn? Well... why!?
This could hopefully prevent the death part!

As a snowboarder, this could be very useful to let people know if I'm not back from the mountain.
Founder with 3 kids here.

Your perspective completely and unavoidably changes once kids come along.

Your desire to leave your mark and influence on the world has a new target - the one who is looking at you in the morning, asking you for breakfast.

Still, people are people, people want to build great things. You can do both. It is harder. You have only so much time. Social life gets squeezed. Anyway you're no longer in your twenties with your tribe of friends. You have your own tribe now.

Managing people and managing children has a lot of similarities. Andy Grove in his book High Output Management highly recommends one-on-one meetings with both family members and colleagues.
I was about to close the tab with quiet "meh" when I saw this: "Richard Smalley, Rice University pioneer in nanotechnology" and it made my day :)
If you use just "Linux", then there's some ambiguity. If you use both "GNU/Linux" and "Linux" to refer to the same thing in consecutive sentences, then that's plain misleading.
I love the idea and the value prop. Excellent concept!

Imagine the press attention and resulting warp speed growth you'll be able to muster when this works just once for someone.

You might get criticism over the design of your landing page, stock bootstrap look and lean nature of your current site. Apart from those simple aesthetics, it's very solid. I would imagine improving those aesthetics is likely necessary if you want to get results from showing it to potential users and stakeholders, however.
Adopting Continuous Deployment
What are blue plaques?
Thanks for posting this.

I've already changed my search engine and homepage to startpage.com. I guess I've been looking for an excuse to do this for a while now...
Simple ZSH tips. One's you may not know
Few ZSH tips and links. Some most people don't know about!
He is setting himself up for some fairly easy mockery ...
Chrome autocomplete sending more info than it should
Very cool. I know some journalist in dangerous parts of the world and this would be a very cool service. Some thoughts:

Does it support phone calls? I would think it is cool for when someone is abroad and without data and have periodic phone calls to a number they have updated when traveling once they land (through SMS or whatever). Don't pick up the call? Check for a data connection and get data ASAP about location and other metrics. No data? Try to build a phone app that will wait for SMS (probably SMS, so Android only) that will try to send this data back to the center via SMS so that person can follow up.

(I work abroad and I know my institution would pay for that service when people come to more dangerous areas, for sure.)

Also, is the site designing Foundation or Bootstrap? Looks like the former AFAIK, and it looks nicer than the Bootstrapped sites I am used to (granted I have not checked up on the new hotness post-v3 rollout).
Forum is here: http://www.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/

Full BAA is here: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2d589ae...

Shorter Rules document (includes open track info): https://dtsn.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/CyberGrandChallen...

There was a discussion about it on Reddit netsec a few days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1ozoiy/darpas_cyber_...

Finally, the program manager running it, Mike Walker, is going to be giving one of his first public talks about the Cyber Grand Challenge at THREADS in NYC on Thursday, November 14th: http://threads.isis.poly.edu
Boffins hide supercapacitors on silicon chips
A Linux appliance that happens to have a Web UI is not web platform.
"Being Fired was the best thing that could have happened to me"
Coinbase launches iOS app to buy, sell and send bitcoin
Historical markers: "on this spot in 18xx something happened" kind of thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_plaque
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_plaque
It's simply not cited.It is in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
The sad part is they really think they are going to be able to find/maintain employment after 50-60 years old.

Unless you are self-employed or working as a Walmart greeter, you aren't going to find too many positions maintained for 70-80 year olds.
Best of luck - the greatest inventions were created by those with blind optimism :-) interestingly, it's also how they started Wikipedia...
OTOH, in the US, you use a robot arm to load a piece into an automated machine. In China, you use a person.
Fortunately the technical details of how to determine the user agent to block are included, along with a reference to LinkedIn's own support explaining that 'LinkedInEWS' is the value to add to the blocklist!
Yes, adding the ability to Check-In using an SMS number is on my wish list too. The SMS provider I am currently playing with allows this but not looked into it seriously yet.
For a moment I read the title wrong as the following and got super excited: "How to make a 2-year game in 48 hours!" :)
I mean it looks amazing in the video, because robots and automated manufacturing are more impressive looking than people doing the same jobs.
Competitors- Jealous, Nervous or Ready For Battle
As a snowboarder who has spent a lot of time alone on the mountain I agree :D
> These things move fast and people on bikes are pretty awful at paying any attention to traffic laws. (Mostly because the roads aren't engineered for them) These things are great until you get run down by some idiot cutting a streetcorner on a sidewalk

Punish the crime of running people down, not of people wanting an alternative form of transport.
And this comment probably is too; who can we trust - am I the only one seeing this comment? Will it disappear after reload? WOhaa.
But while they were still sorting out the mechanics of combat and docking, they
started to worry about the adequacy of what they'd be giving the player (whom they
imagined, of course, as a hypercritical consumer like themselves, bored with Space
Invaders after the first brief rapture). It wasn't too hard to come up with a
solution. They could keep the player interested by letting them upgrade the weapons
on their ship to ones that made bigger bangs and allowed you to use different
tactics. But this little alteration perturbed the universe of the game. The classic
action game of the early 1980s - Defender, Pac Man - was set in a perpetual present
tense, a sort of arcade Eden in which there were always enemies to zap or gobble,
but nothing ever changed apart from the score. By letting the player tool up with
better guns, Bell and Braben were introducing a whole new dimension, the dimension
of time. They were saying they wanted the player to hope, to scheme, to plan. Also,
to play for much longer than a slam-bang 10 minutes. And that was only the
beginning. The solution threw up a further problem, as each of their solutions
would. How would the player get a bigger gun? They should earn it, Bell and Braben
decided. No free lunches in this universe. But that implied money, in a set-up that
a moment before had existed quite happily as an economy of pure explosions. "We put
a bountyon the pirates. Then we thought even that would become quite samey..." They
kept following the implications of each invention until they arrived at another
invention. A money economy with more sources of income than just bounty for shooting
pirates implied trading. Suddenly, the player's spaceship wasn't just a nimble 3D
firing platform: it was a cargo hauler as well. And trading implied places in which
to trade. The game needed serious three-dimensional geography. And things to trade.
And prices. And markets... The new wishes multiplied. They kept going.

I played Elite and Frontier on my Atari ST as a child but looking back I don't have much of a sense of what the rest of the games market looked like. Does anyone have a feeling of just how original and innovative this sort of open-world RPG style game was back then?
I think the OP's point was that python 3 was never intended to be backwards compatible and intentionally broke compatibility in several places. For this reason, 2.7 continued to be supported for quite some time. I don't know a lot about PHP, but I'm guessing this was not the case for their minor version updates.
> Game mechanics aren't protected by anything

I fear the US case law does not agree with this statement. (And we are talking about US in this specific case.)

It would be quite easy to describe game mechanics as the game counterpart to novels' plot. Now, the US have a tradition of considering certain aspects of the plots are copyrightable [1], for example certain non-stock abilities of characters like "having the ability to grow when receiving a powerup, shrinking when touched by enemies, being able to kill enemies by jumping over them but being killed by them if touched by them". Obviously this is a very grey area, but one doesn't get to easily dismiss the problem because "they shouldn't be".

[1] http://www.copyrightcodex.com/infringement/16-infringement-s...
Please forgive the pedantry, but I'm on a one-man quest: s/it's full potential/its full potential/. P.S. Congrats on getting into YC!
Great idea. Have you considered if you are taking on liability by running it?
Web has always been the most appealing platform, because it is free, open and easy to develop for. Most other platforms are proprietary, the tech is more narrowed down and developer needs more resources to start creating apps.
Sure, Apple has trademarked Apple. MS has trademarked Windows. Why not Mario? It would have to be limited in use to video games, electronic entertainment, or whatever the narrowest category for such things there is.
I'm not sure how your proposed solution is supposed to fix the problem you identify. The "idiot"s will still cut across street corners, even with a plate attached.

Also, I'm dubious that the purported problem is a big enough problem to society that it outweighs the benefit (healthier populace, reduced traffic, reduce pollution).

Do you plate requirements also apply to rollerbladers? They go at least as fast, don't even have brakes, and are much more likely to be found up on the sidewalk than any electric bike will ever be (sidewalks are annoying, they're full of these obstacles called pedestrians - much better to ride on the road where the obstacles move faster than you for the most part).
Congratulations on shipping! We may be distant cousins, because aside from anything that takes longer than a weekend, I can't ship a side project for the life of me.

This will hopefully change soon however, as I have been diligently coding a game spending an hour or two almost every morning since September 1st - and it is very very close to completion, and aside from a couple features is completely playable now.

So thank you for the inspiration. I hope to soon join you in the ranks of Enterprise developers who managed to ship a non-trivial piece of entertainment...and then on to the next adventure.
The PEP actually says "recommended" and "for the time being" -- there's no mandate that it be done one way or another:

"For the time being, it is recommended that python should refer to python2 (however, some distributions have already chosen otherwise; see the Rationale and Migration Notes below)."
^hurts^changes

Headline says one thing; final paragraph says another: "Bottom line? The Internet is quickly changing the way we allocate our time, but there’s no call to panic yet. You might want to stop reading this thing on the Internet and get back to work, though."
Cartography? Hasn't everything already sort of been discovered, though by, like, Magellan and Cortés?
Facebook clearly had something two years ago. In 2011 they managed to generate almost $1 billion in free cash flow on almost $4b billion in revenue...obviously there is a business model in there somewhere, even if its valuation is debatable (when isn't it?). Pinterest however, as I understand it, doesn't generate any revenue let alone any profits. It's the whole minor formality of zero freakin revenue that's the tip-off that something is hugely amiss with Pinterest as a capitalistic enterprise.
It sounds like you need to step up and put some structure around this project you're working on.

Pull out requirements, prioritise, make weekly iterations, and put yourself somewhere where they can't come and interrupt constantly.

Most importantly, change something. If you always do what you've always done...

Good luck!
Don’t go into programming if you don’t have a good thesaurus
So pedestrians in New York City are able to J-walk, ignore walk signals, weave around moving cars, buses, and trucks, but it is asking too much for them to avoid a powered bicycle? How about we hold cyclists responsible for hitting people -- regardless of what kind of bicycle they ride -- and leave it at that?
Germany summons US ambassador over claim NSA bugged Merkel's phone
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"A server who doesn't want to know your secret is more trustworthy than one that does" - I totally agree here, in many ways that's why projects like http://openpgpjs.org/ are fundamentally MORE important that more/newer layers of centralized encryption like TLS that are fundamentally bust in that we have to blindly trust the server. yesyes, i know JS on untrusted/leaky browsers isn't totally bingo but at least someone is TRYING!
Whether or not I would be taking on liability by providing the service has been discussed, yes. I'm not exactly sure where the conversation will end though.

Do you have specific thoughts?
I was referring to the practice of buying an apartment and leaving it empty. This is a bad way to invest because there is no rental income. The article you linked refers to buyers who only care about rental income.

The point I am trying to make is that there are two phenomena. First the very rich who buy an apartment that they rarely use just because they can. The second is more high paying jobs in the area driving up demand.

What I am arguing against is a third "macroeconomic" phenomenon where foreign investors looking for somewhere to "park" their money drive up prices directly. The only thing that makes NYC attractive to foreign investors is the local demand for housing.
To expand a bit on what Shinkei has said, and mostly this applies outside the brain as well:

CT is basically xrays in the round. You'll nominally use a radon transform (the actual approach is usually a back projection algorithm) to reproduce 3D position from a number of individual images. There are many good properties of this, it is relatively fast and cheap, it has very good spatial accuracy (e.g. a distance you measure on the image corresponds to a distance in the subject), but you have very little flexibility with tissue contrast. If an x-ray won't differentiate the features you are looking for, mostly you can only hope to add a contrast agent (typically expensive, fiddly, and more dose) where that is applicable.

By comparison, an MRI is more of a programmable imaging machine. You can get a lot of different contrasts by use of different pulse sequences, so you may be able to see features that are completely invisible in CT. On top of that, you can do interesting things with the time dimension and how things are changing while you image. This leads to approaches like functional MRI mapping which most people have heard of, but also diffusion and perfusion imaging. This can give you an idea of what is happening functionally, particularly in the brain. Downsides: time consuming (hence expensive), poor spatial accuracy, artifacts.

So for diagnostics or surgical planning, you get a lot more information from an MRI, but this also can take a lot more effort to interpret and understand.
I think readlines() is slower in python 3 due to unicode decoding. Python 2 did no decoding, readlines() returns python 2's str type, just bytes. You'd have to decode yourself (or decode the whole file in open()). Python 3 readlines() does decoding into unicode code points by default.

Do a benchmark after the file has been opened with an explicit encoding, to see if I'm right. If the files already been decoded, there shouldn't be as big a difference.
I had a BBC Model B, and was 10 when Acornsoft published Elite. I persuaded my parents to buy me the game, but we were on holiday that weekend, so I had all weekend to peruse the game box's contents without a computer to play it on.

For the time, the box that the game came in was also revolutionary.
http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acornsoft-Elite-...
It has a big thick manual, a novel, posters. I spent the whole weekend reading the manual. It was mind blowing, and hilarious - written as if you had just bought a Cobra Mark III and it was explaining the details of your new ship to you. Some parts of it had flashes of Douglas-Adams style humour.

Loading up the game and playing it was also mindblowing. There were so many different keys and controls. You could switch to side or rear view cameras from your ship - even just watching the parallax stars float by was amazing. The solar system you were flying around in was bewilderingly huge, with a planet and a distant sun that you could actually fly to. On my first go I mistook the space station for a Thargon (I had really taken the manual to heart) and fired on it. Big mistake. The police were launched and they shot me to pieces. The 3D combat felt very realistic, and the clever 3D radar made everything understandable. The fact that I could launch a homing missle and it would use its own AI to fly to its target was incredible.

And it was a _hard_ game. Trading was hard. Docking was hard, until you learnt how to line up properly from a good perpendicular angle. Getting more than a few systems away from your start point was hard. Flying to anywhere but the safest systems was very dangerous. It was hard to build up money and buy new kit or fuel. The manual said there were 8 galaxies with hundreds of systems in each galaxy, but it was hard to survive more than a few hops.

This was running in 32K of RAM. The game loaded from a floppy disk that had I think 100K of space on it.

The overall impression was a mindbendingly huge game of so much depth and diffuculty. The state of the art in those days was supposed to be Arcade machines, but they had nothing to compare to this - because Arcade machines were based on people playing for a couple of minutes. This was a game that could keep you busy for years. Nothing like that had existed before.
Sure, not terribly interesting, but I got sick of people adding random "facts" without a source so I decided to use a reverse footnoting system to highlight it. Normally you add a citation footnote to clearly show where you got your fact or idea, mine was the opposite - it showed clearly that there was no citation so use the information at your own peril!

I also did it to force the editors to get sources and not just make stuff up. There was also often an issue where the fact was good, but was extraordinary and needed a source to back it up. The tag allowed the good info to stay until a source could be found. Unfortunately, sometimes bad info stays too long but it has the tag so at the very least you know that something is potentially fishy.

It was basically more wildly successful than I ever imagined. I really had no idea I was creating an important bit of Internet popular culture - I was just trying to make Wikipedia more reliable!
Computers and Doctor Who: The First 20 Years
Don't View the World Through Google-Colored Glasses
Not necessarily true. My wife and I opened a bank account with BPI online with no problems. The only US requirement is to disclose the existence of an overseas bank account at tax time. No accountant or lawyer needed.
I think what they're getting at is that LinkedIn has a plaintext copy of your email password, not necessarily that it got there via some unencrypted channel. And because LinkedIn needs to be able to log in again, it has to store it in plaintext, which then leads to the possibility of another incident where they leak millions of passwords[0].

[0] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/6-46-million-linkedin-password...
yup, can we please have some official voice provide a bit of background data here?!
In modern parlance, cartography is more about information design. For example, what features appear at what zoom level on Google Maps? What color is an interstate?
A pipe that copies DNA using the heat of a lightbulb
Well, Archie or Amiga versions might be worth a look. Bell does say "regarded by many as the best ever version" about the Archie version on the page: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/game.htm

Though I was on an Amiga (and the then-poor PC with CGA or EGA in school, bleh), have never tried the Archie version:

Amiga Elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuWgLEQBxM

Archie Elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBuTU9ovP8

There's also Frontier: Elite II. By that stage, high-end PCs were beginning to outperform low-end Amigas at some brute-force processing tasks including software 3D rendering, so the graphics are arguably better on the PC version (limited texture mapping, edit - though OTOH it sort of looks out of place looking at it now, the amiga version with no textures is more consistent and clean visually if perhaps less technically impressive), you needed a pretty-much PC-priced-anyway high-end/accelerated Amiga model to run at the frame rate shown in the video:

Amiga Elite II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEj4Gq7fT4

PC Elite II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjoMq-H3b8o
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