skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all good and well unless you want to take a shower during the daylight in the summer. Just make sure that your apartment has water all the time, and you will enjoy Montenegro.
I've spent some time in the economics field and certainly found that getting access to quality data was an enormous challenge. In fact a good amount of the work is spent putting together data sets. This is probably the bulk of what econ grad students do.

Besides this, it's important to recognize the difference between identifying correlations and patterns in data vs understanding the mechanisms behind the phenomena. Krugman makes a strong point: "The problem is that there is no alternative to models. We all think in simplified models, all the time. The sophisticated thing to do is not to pretend to stop, but to be self-conscious -- to be aware that your models are maps rather than reality." [1]

Data-mining will help generate and support hypotheses, but this is complementary to model building.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/dishpan.html
So far the H.264 fans have been beaten back as well (because we are vicious statists who hate your convenience). The IETF WebRTC meeting ending inconclusively was helpful here.

The WMF does have a YouTube channel, FWIW: https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaFoundation
>So here’s my proposal: Every time you get on a bike, from this moment forward, obey the letter of the law in every traffic exchange everywhere...

Hahahahaha. I see a flaw in this plan.

I don't see why the author views a lack of criminal charges as evidence of some kind of travesty of justice. If a cyclist gets run down by someone who didn't see him, that's an accident, not a crime.
How can poor countries afford space programmes?
Check out this essay: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/9/98038-science-has-only-...

"I believe that science still has only two legs—theory and experimentation. The "four legs" viewpoint seems to imply the scientific method has changed in a fundamental way. I contend it is not the scientific method that has changed, but rather how it is being carried out."
But you can buy 1 bitcoin for ~ $300 today. That means in a few years, it'll be worth $148,090!!! No wonder the price is going up!

(presume bitcoin takes off this way)
>The US has always had a horrible "you are on your own mentality".

Yeah... we call it "freedom".
I think this is problem that's endemic in the UK too. Our love of the motor vehicle, and design of the city to meet the needs of the motorist just leaves little to no room to make cycling a safe activity.

Just take London UK for example, last week one person died and another was critically injured cycling in the city

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/cyclist-crushed-by-lor...

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/cyclist_killed_on...

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=de&msa=0&msid=207...

If cycling is to ever become safe, cities need to start embracing the bike like they do in the Netherlands, but it's no easy task.
I have no way of proving to you I'm really who I claim to be

Well, you could have printed the blockchain hashes of today and tomorrow...

Interesting. Brings to mind a question: How would time traveler scientifically prove that they are the true thing? I need something that I can verify immediately, i.e. not wait for the future.

Showing some (to me) currently unknown technology wouldn't work because "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed", i.e. he might just be working for a secret corporate or government lab today.
CouchDB will go multilingual - looking for contributors
Are you suggesting that banning cars is an appropriate response to cyclists being hit by cars?
I moved to budapest years ago, rudeness has been getting worse super-linearly with the increase in tourism.

I understand and speak a bit of hungarian now and I keep getting worse service in bars/clubs/shops/restaurants than I got years ago as a broke exchange student speaking broken english.

EDIT:

mind you, I still think the city has a lot of pros, and could be a great place to live in cheaply while working on your project.
The limit was set as part of the bitcoin protocol. You can change it by basically making a replacement to bitcoin. It won't exactly be easy to convince people to use your new replacement (because massive social change is hard).

There are many bitcoin fans who think the hard limit is a very good thing.
This is a popular annual event in Athens, GA: http://boybutante.org/

I fail to comprehend how they've operated for 25 years without being arrested or run out of town. Or maybe your statements are just groundless.
As a (somewhat rusty) pixel artist I'd say it is easier to draw lighting from, say, straight above, or from the right, than from some arbitrary angle. But it still takes practice and a good eye, certainly.
Just wondering, how does the ground clearance in a Tesla S compare to other cars?
Or society has de facto decided there's no point in sending someone to jail for a legitimate accident.
No, it is not. But it is also not OK to prevent cyclists to kill themselves by car. I've witnessed an accident recently when the car in front of me hit a cyclist. He was:
a) riding at night without lights
b) running red light
c) against the traffic
d) without a helmet

I'd say this guy (Stanford student, which IMHO implies some intellect) could serve as an encyclopedic definition of our Bay Area cyclist. Cyclists who do not obey stop signs are vast majority, about 50% cyclists run red lights, etc, etc, etc.
If you don't want to die, stop trying.
> "ATM, 1 bitcoin is worth ~350 times more than one Federal Reserve Note, making Bitcoin the most valuable currency in the world.

The value of the M1 money supply (all the cash) of USD is $2.5 trillion. The value of the BTC money supply in USD is $[handful] billion. Calling BTC more valuable because it happens to be denominated in a large chunk is missing the point.
The other discussions about comparing and contrasting the energy densities and relative safeties of fuel versus high-density batteries are interesting and relevant to safety considerations.

The car, at this early stage of its evolution, handling the situation as elegantly as it did is just amazing.

However the various safety-related tradeoffs play out, it's obvious that the Model S is seriously and well engineered at every level.

I imagine the good folks in Palo Alto are already folding updates into the system. "Shit's on fire, yo! Pull over."
Well, there might be certain value in being able to transact in smaller fractions.

I don't see how accepting bitcoin impoverishes the accepting party (an permanently, wtf?). In fact, I guess most merchants who have accepted btc and hold it to date have probably gained some pretty good value from that to date. Of course that might change.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Mass surveillance is a terrible idea not because of the potential for personal embarrassment but rather for the countless ways it can go very wrong.
I'm not convinced by the idea that surveillance in Britain is worse than in America or other first world countries.

Yes there are a lot of CCTV cameras, there are a lot in most American cities too, in both cases most of them are operated privately.

What is different is that Britain has a much higher population density, so the surveillance appears more obvious, and makes for some skewed stats.

As for GCHQ, I would be surprised if they were notably worse than the NSA when it comes to snooping.
To achieve the American dream, you must be asleep. ~Lama Surya Das
I'm not sure, but I suspect the ground clearance isn't the major factor at play. I believe there are legal limits, such that cars must have at least a certain amount of clearance. So I'd be surprised if the Tesla S had a significantly lower clearance than other vehicles.
There will be projects that are succeeding and they will get more people.

Not necessarily. I've seen projects that were profit centers deprioritized for other projects that were moonshots. Due to forced ranking, this resulted in the important but less sexy project getting fewer of the nice evaluations to distribute across the group and the loss of important people. It was ultimately an own-goal on the company's part, but the whole process was too big for any one person to prevent it. It was like watching a slow train wreck.

How do you get rid of them and make the whole company stronger?

This is a good question. I don't have any clear answers, myself. I'm inclined to think a good place to start is a hiring freeze in the groups that are not contributing and then letting them shrink by attrition followed by a reorg once the project is too understaffed to be competitive.
Marbella, Spain is starting to get some attention from investors lately (http://marbellalabs.com). I really hope we will see more tech people here soon.
It's pretty amazing how quickly tribalism emerges in cases like this. As societies, we seem to require very little difference before it's ok not to give a damn about people being killed. A disagreement about the most efficient form of transportation escalates in a moment into life and death.
I grew up cycling in London. Came from a family of cyclists and motorbikers. My uncles taught me one rule, which has saved me on numerous occasions (on a bike and in a car):

"Ride like you're invisible. Drivers don't see you when you're on a bike"

And it's so true.
The Goya brands definitely do as a flavor additive, but there are other brands of Sazon that don't include any glutamate. Then again, Goya has always been the cheap/crap brand of Spanish food.
We're reading this on Tesla's site, and they obviously wouldn't have posted it if it weren't at least somewhat flattering, so we have that lens to view it through.

But, the letter does raise the important idea that before we decry how awful the failure mode is ("the car caught on fire!"), it's worth considering what the alternative would be---what happens in similar situations in combustion engines?
> Had I not been in a Tesla, that object could have punched through the floor and caused me serious harm.

Clever misdirection.
Yes its only really jobs requiring DV clearance that do the drug test thing - though Amazon is requiring it for warehouse workers which is taking the piss they really need to lose a court case over that.
If I am not mistaken, I personally maintain at least 3 distinct identities on the net. I think I might have more than that, one-off accounts made with a one-off email for some site that I've forgotten. And I make VERY certain to never ever mention anything about one identity on a communication channel used by the other identities. One of those I only ever use through private browsing mode to avoid leaking cookies to sites that track these things. Relatedly I suspect some of the people I know online are one and the same physical person, but since I know them through different channels, I cannot actually ask if this is the case, plus it would be extremely rude to do so.

I hope somebody some day comes up with a better way to keep threads of identity separate, so you don't face the situation where you're denied work or university because you woke up in a bad mood one day and said something angry about someone online to a friend of yours.
Answer: if I decided to point a camera out into the public street from my window and record everything I would expect to be allowed to do so. And as such, I extend the right to anyone else, so that when I'm in a public place, I'm fair game.

There's nothing anyone can do about it, so it's pointless worrying about or trying to control it.
This is a a classic tyranny of the majority situation. One way to think of it is the difference between a mere democracy and a principled, civilised society. The former is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. To get to the latter, you need three animals to decide on the dinner arrangements before they know which of them is the sheep.
It's considered a dangerous practice. The general rule is food has four hours outside of its proper storage environment before it must be thrown away. Eg, leave the milk on the counter for an hour, put it back in the fridge, leave it out another three hours, and now you should throw it out. I don't have a link, but I'm citing ServSafe, a program that nationally certifies people for food safety (targeted to federal and state requirements for food service).

You might also consider the ambient temp of your kitchen. Pro kitchens run several hours a day, staying fairly warm the whole time (might have several ovens, tens of burners, and other hot equipment running throughout the day). Your kitchen, even with the rice cooker going, might stay fairly cool, and so bad bacteria has less time to grow.

Food safety is also talked about in terms of risk to different groups. Young children, pregnant mothers, and old adults are at higher risk than younger adults.
Berlin(relatively cheap, well developed tech scene, big), Prague(amazing city, cheap, well developed tech scene, not so big and not small(1.2M population)), Bratislava(small and quiet)
scratch off point d. Helmets don't really do anything to protect you unless you practically fall off your bike standing still.

I've seen brains on the street from at least two low-speed bike accidents where the cyclist was wearing a helmet.

Also, it's not that all cyclists are disobeying the law. Those are just the ones you choose to see. Drivers and pedestrians alike just aren't looking.

I always obey traffic laws on my bike.

Edit: All these anecdotes are great and all, but it's not like we're going to be reading stories from all the people with brain injuries or who died. Cycling lanes and infrastructure do significantly more to make riding safer than helmets and helmet laws do.

http://www.bicycling.com/sites/default/files/uploads/BI-June...

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19036/feds-will-sto...

http://bicyclesafe.com/helmets.html
So you're saying that 100% of collisions between cars and bikes are either the cyclist's fault or "legitimate accidents", and 0% are the motorist's fault?
From my local Chicago experience and we got Divvy recently, woohoo ! cyclists are the one who are reckless and endangering other traffic participants.

Obviously not all, but essentially driving bicycle is simply activity for which traffic laws were not made, it is hard to stop and go on the bicycle etc. Having cyclists whiz by you while you drive is often unexpected.

So there. Until we get something like Bogota, Colombia, these things will happen.

Did I mention we have Divvy in Chicago :)
I can't resist the urge: responsible government should still allow people to use cars, but full-auto cars should be banned!
:-)
> Are there any statistics what happens to drivers at fault that kill another car driver?

I would argue that cyclists are different because they are much more vulnerable than other vehicles and the law should reflect that fact.
I highly suspect that impersonating someone online fall foul of the CFAA.
I disagree, Nintendo has never distributed a PC- or browser-based version of this game. Also, it's debatable whether or not profiting from a thirty-year-old game is adding social value. Nintendo seems to fashion themselves after Disney, in the sense that they place extreme value for themselves on copyright protectionism.
These are usually the stories where people point out the submarine term.
And as more dollars come into existence, they'll continue to be worth less in comparison to Bitcoin's fixed supply.

Also, the accumulated transactional value of Bitcoin is increasing. All of the fees and other costs associated with moving money are being lost by banks and other agencies.
Yep there are places in the uk (NI) even today civil servants and others considered "crown" agents have personal protection weapon licenses.
One of my employees rents a 1BR in near the main square (Aliados) for ~360euro/month (~480USD), but you can find something much cheaper a bit more far away.
I'm assuming the task these guys have done is tiny portion of the actual work needed for the website.

I've been wondering for a while, though, why the federal government can't just buy/beg a copy of software running one of the exchanges for one of the states doing things themselves. Then they could modify it to work for other states. Maybe they'd then have to replace existing federal exchange with 26 different instances (one for each state that's a member of the federal exchange), but I can't imagine that the technical difficulties of modifying one state exchange's software to run with another state's data would be as bad as fixing what seem to the problems with the existing federal exchange website.
Mass surveillance is the natural state of man.

So is beating up your weak neighbour to take his food for your dinner. We're supposed to be more civilised than that by now.
Absolutely. I've been to both NYC and SF in the last 12 months.
So a guy involve with IBM is (honestly?) saying that it will kick the ass of its competitor?

Nothing here to see, move along.
Does anyone know what actually cought fire? Can batteries catch fire due to being struck like that? If so, why did it take 5 minutes and how did the car electronics know about it beforehand?
My favorite version is written in Clojure.

See examples in the Readme on github to see why: https://github.com/gigasquid/clj-drone
I wonder if the knowledge transfers to bare-metal programming.
I don't know about jail, but I find it hard to believe that people who have demonstrated incompetence with a motor vehicle, fatal incompetence, are allowed to drive.

Anyway, there really is only one long term solution: exclusive roads for non-pedestrian, non-motor vehicles. We should aim to solve these problems by making it hard for people to have them. I don't think a punishment deterrent really works in situations like these. Most people drive in a switched off mode, and they aren't going to change.
I moved out of a larger tech center where I had a on-location job to where I am now (back to where I was raised). However, I didn't move until after working from home for a year and knowing I was protected for the long term.
this guy got injured right where thickest part of the standard styrofoam helmet is. About half way above the eyebrow to the temple. He survived (but there was a lot of blood) but with the helmet he'd walked from the scene with a few scratches on his knees.

I'm not saying "all". But I drive about 400 miles per week (long commute) and I can say that I've seen approximately 5 bicyclist last month which stopped at the stop sign. They really stand out of the crowd.
Sort of. Wherever there are two lanes or more, cars should be banned on rightmost one that should be separated with some concrete blocks.
I don't understand how people can ride bicycles on public roads along side cars and trucks. The average driver is highly incompetent. Most people don't get proper training how to drive. A lot of people are very distracted with talking on cell phones or eating while driving. Heavy objects moving at high speeds can be very dangerous.
Is there literally any reason to believe that Tesla's are more predisposed to catching on fire? Surely hundreds of cars burn and some explode in the U.S. every day. Where are the apologies from their manufacturers?
This is only one half of the story. To make an apples-to-apples comparison you also have to consider how much you need for the same effect on taste. Hypothetically, if you need 10 times as much glutamate as salt to achieve an equally tasty food, then salt would be a better option. Also LD50 only takes into account short term effects.

This is the same story with aspartame vs sugar. Aspartame has an LD50 of around 5 g/kg, sugar 29.7 g/kg. You can say "wow, aspartame is 6 times as toxic as sugar!", but you have to take into account that it is 200 times sweeter than sugar.

Of course in reality you can't really compare salt with glutamate since they stimulate different receptors. In the end we can probably conclude that neither salt not glutamate pose any real danger to a healthy person in doses that are not completely ridiculous, so add both to your food!
This comment is just spot-on, but the last sentence alone is worth multiple up-votes. Sums up so many very tangible pieces of corporate work.
Ground clearance on the Model S is 6 inches according to Tesla[0] which puts it at par with a Honda Civic Sedan.

[0] http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/images/models...
So the moral of the story is that first I have to get a personal assistant and then I get a Tesla.
It's not misleading. Adding decimal points doesn't change the value of current bitcoins. A bitcoin you buy today is still a bitcoin 10 years from now even if more decimal points are added.

Furthermore, I don't think it's as easy as implied there. The protocol could be modified fairly easily, but then every piece of Bitcoin-related software in the world would have to be updated to handle the extra decimal points. By the time we need extra decimal points, Bitcoin would have to be so widespread that the difficulty would be comparable to fixing all software that uses 32-bit Unix timestamps, or switching everybody from IPv4 to IPv6.
If you don't care much about a startup and tech scene (there is little) you can spend a nice time in the Canary Islands, Spain.

It's not the cheapest place in Europe, you'll find cheaper locations in Eastern Europe admittedly. Still, you can find a nice 1BR appartment for €400-500/mo in Las Palmas City near the beach or share an appartment for somewhere around €200/mo for a room.

The weather is really really nice throughout the whole year with lots of sun and there's no real winter. Temp. in the city during the winter can be approx. 18º Celsius. The summers are not extremely hot, rather nice temperatures around 25º.

There's some co-working places where you can get a desk for €100/mo (half days) or €150/mo (full days).

There's a lot of activities that you can do almost throughout the entire year: surfing, boadyboarding, scuba diving, swimming, biking, hiking, climbing and any other outdoor activity.

There's plenty of bars and clubs and the nightlife is very lively.

Please leave a comment if you want to know more.
I am not too sure about this narrative in general, but let's assume it's true that teens are leaving FB and not coming back. As "The Ad Contrarian" notes frequently in his blog, all the people with money are over 50. So, it actually might be awesome for FB that they have so many of those folks. Our culture is obsessed with young people and for some reason thinks that's where the money is, but it's not.
Even though I haven't alluded that I think Valve isn't the future of console gaming in any way, now that I think about it I am sure it won't be. There's a possibility they will be a major player in console market, but I don't see that happening any time soon. I am quite sure they will disrupt PC gaming market once again... console gaming? no.

So if you will, we can bet on that and come back to this 5 years from now for an 'I told you so' moment :)

You're on! :)
I see cars run stop signs and red lights all the time. I see cars speed everywhere, including neighborhoods with poor visibility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism
Things have changed. I went to visit a teacher at my old high school while I was back home, and was told I needed to apply for a visitor pass (w/ background check) beforehand in order to be allowed in the building. And even then, I needed the person I was visiting to escort me.

Your post is a baseless rant which generalizes the thoughts and actions of hundreds of millions of people.
You're more than welcome to say whatever the hell you'd like. Just don't be surprised if that comes back to bite you in the ass some day.
I am pretty sure the cells are compartmentalized so I would assume what happened was a slow process of each compartment heating up to a threshold eventually causing a chain reaction.