skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this before by exporting the KML of the data and importing it into a Fusion Table[1] which has a built-in heatmap view. I tried to do it just now and not only have they nerfed it by only allowing you to download a 30 day range, the KML file they export doesn't seem to be readable by Fusion Tables. Disappointing.

Looks like you can still download all of your data from Google Takeout[2], though. The format is pretty easy to read, converting it into something that Fusion Tables can read should be pretty easy.

[1] http://www.google.com/drive/apps.html#fusiontables

[2] https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/custom

EDIT: I modified a json->CSV jsfiddle I found so it converts the data I got from Google Takeout to something that is readable by Fusion Tables:

http://jsfiddle.net/evan/5w9Hz/embedded/result/

However, Fusion Tables thwarted me again by only showing a heatmap of the first 1000 location records, so I'm giving up on this for now.
CGTalk (now CGsociety) doesn't seem as active and lush as it was back in 2002 - 2007 or so. Has everyone moved to some other community?

Can anyone shed some light on other communities?
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Anybody else have hits from Beiliu throughout October / November? I've not kept enough up on security news but it seems like there's been sporadic access through there.
Used it on a regular basis, but since I owned multiple Android devices this tool became pretty useless. You can't filter on devices, so when I'm out with my phone leaving my tablet at home, the location history only displays a bunch of spikes of me traveling with tremendous speeds.
When I joined I had completed a few courses in open university. It was a start, but would have been much easier, if my level was higher.
> Yes, quantum mechanics is important to some biological processes.

I'm not quite sure how to parse this statement. Wouldn't quantum mechanics underlie all biological processes?
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>> I know that we don't agree about morality but god-dammit my one moral principle should still be the basis of everything

Ah yes, "we just disagree on morality" is a classic avoidance-technique for a Statist that refuses to accept reality. But actually, no we don't. Not if you're sane and not a sociopath. We've both got a conscience, and it usually warns us when we're doing something even somewhat wrong.
true. However, there were fabulously successful railroads (e.g. great northern) which were entirely privately funded, even down to securing property easements (which these days would be done using eminent domain). IIRC the great northern was really one of the few railway that didn't suffer a downturn and shutter itself during that era... It's now a part of BNSF.
Just because a company's funding pitch begins with "The Uber of health care" does not mean that company is a copy of Uber.
I'm happy that it doesn't work for me. Not that I doubt that google knows my whereabouts anyway...
"You have no location history" (cycled various points in time)

I assume this is because I've never given Google permission (eg on my Android phone or otherwise)?

I see occasional attempts to compare what the NSA does and what Google does, as though they're similar. Well this is precisely why Google is nothing like the NSA. Google doesn't have my permission, and they don't have my location history accordingly.
>> Please stop coercing him using appeals to emotion and false authority. It's paternalistic and condescending.

Tell me, do you think that when say, 330 million people are systematically punished for attempting to keep their property, something just might, in fact, be wrong?

What about 7 billion people?
Any statisticians want to chime in here? How many wallets should be dropped in each city before you can reasonably rank them? Or, is it statistically significant that Lisbon was 1/12, while Helsinki was 11/12? In other words, even with the small sample sizes, are those two values far enough apart to state the difference with 95% confidence?

On another note, that site sprang 20 separate trackers/beacons/etc. in Ghostery. I know at least one was Disqus, but 7 were different beacons, and the slideshow itself didn't work correctly without disabling it.
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This is most likely a fake web site.
I briefly scanned the PDF looking for "base stacking" because this seemed so analogous. The only mention of the phrase was in the title of a reference. It would have been nice for them to address this.
Looks like I turned off permission for recording my location history on June 9th. They've got plenty of data before then, but none after that. That was the day that Snowden's identity was made public. I guess I must have had a sudden onset of extra paranoia around then. In hindsight, I was right.
Yet the temporary housing market in NYC (and probably in other places) is deeply, fundamentally broken-on-purpose. Public perception attributes this to the actions of a hated group of entrenched stakeholders (landlords/hoteliers/etc) who use their economic power to buy political muscle and distort the market to screw the common man.

This public perception is perhaps near-isomorphic with reality in the most extreme cities, which is precisely where AirBnB is the strongest. Regulatory objections aside, this suggests they are a boots-on-the-ground solution to a real pain point.

At what point must the law be recalibrated to follow norms and good sense?
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>more extreme possibilities like 4chan/Reddit doxxings

I've actually had that happen to me. I was generally respected but had rather strong opinions on (relatively uncontroversial) subjects, so one day someone who didn't like me that much decided to go all internet detective on me and dug up various data about me, like my name, address, phone number, names of relatives, Facebook pictures... Up to that point I had been generally pseudonymous (though I had been a bit careless with my info - some domain whois data was my undoing, and while my Facebook account is shut up tight for strangers, this isn't the case for some of my less technical relatives).

Luckily enough it didn't turn into any abuse in real life, as most people thought the doxxing was a stupid move. Now I just get some idiots occasionally spamming my name and picture and insulting my family in front of me. It's easy enough to ignore, but it's also kind of sad that my pseudonymity is basically dead by this point. The genie is out of the bottle, and I can't really put it back unless I start completely over - which I just can't do. As a result, I tend to avoid talking about some controversial issues altogether, as I don't want to "taint" my name by saying something that could be perceived negatively in the future. There's also some things that I just feel rather uncomfortable to talk about with my name and info out there, like the doxxing itself, which is why I'm using a throwaway account for this post.
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Out of most jobs in the Valley? Is it really that bad? I still have the illusion that being an IT professional gives you more freedom of having an 'unpopular' opinion than any other industry. As long as your work is in high demand, that is.
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I have a location in New Delhi, where I have never been. But I doubt this is because my account was hijacked. Both because I have two-step authentication, and because I have no log-ins from outside my city. Check yours here: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity?pli=1
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I have 40 promotional codes altogether. If you want one, please leave an email, I will send to you.

QuickViz is a simple and powerful data visualization iOS application based on GraphViz. With QuickViz, you can quickly create mindmap, flowchart, social network, workflow diagram, genomic hierarchy, etc. And you can also synchronize your graphics to Dropbox or photo album.
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>> my assertion is that this is not a "lifeboat" scenario. property "rights" are, at their absolute core, a use of force.

Nope. Our "rights" are an idea, but one that's aligned with our "intuitive morality". Force only comes into question when someone is violating your property rights. If no one ever does, then no one will ever have to forcibly defend his property rights.

In other words, if someone grabs your iPhone and starts running away, you have the right to try and stop him because he has no right to take your property. It's all very simple when you allow yourself to see it.
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The point is that, while quantum rules sit at the bottom of most macroscopic objects, quantum rules aren't important for most objects on an everyday basis. Similarly, if entanglement is important for explaining the behavior of DNA, that would be novel factual information.
ISTR the PS3's Cell processor had eight physical cores to increase yeild.
I have a lot of respect for Larry Osterman, but an official Engineering blog would not be a source of war and politics stories I'm sure aplenty. :)
I got to the bottom of the list thinking "damn it, rome is the most dishonest?", but it wasn't even in the list :)
My log-in history isn't going back to when the access was. I've got 2-factor reengaged so I'll see if it pops up. Bizarre that would happen as the closest I've been to China in a few months is northwestern Australia. Funny jumps from Perth to central China.
Someone's always gonna get shafted. Doesn't mean everyone has to suffer.
The data Google holds, across all of users, is an incredible wealth of knowledge.

This location data, connected to your other account information, provides the ability to see trends in where people are going - with accurate income estimates. I can only imagine how valuable this information would be to real estate investors.

And that's only a tiny piece of the pie. Google has so much knowledge now, that a lot of it probably goes to waste because they don't even have the capacity to take advantage of it all.
Nobody here is claiming that markets are perfect. However, the claim is that economic redistribution on the part of government will over time fail to help the very constitutents they are supposed to protect and instead enrich the rich. This has happened time after time and shows no sign of stopping because of fundamental problems, which you partially hit on when you talked about regulatory capture (and goldman sachs, which uses so much state privilege that it's not entirely clear how much 'free market' there is in that company). The point is, that regulatory capture is inevitable.

"[The socialists declare] that the State owes subsistence, well-being, and education to all its citizens; that it should be generous, charitable, involved in everything, devoted to everybody; ...that it should intervene directly to relieve all suffering, satisfy and anticipate all wants, furnish capital to all enterprises, enlightenment to all minds, balm for all wounds, asylums for all the unfortunate, and even aid to the point of shedding French blood, for all oppressed people on the face of the earth.
Who would not like to see all these benefits flow forth upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? ... But is it possible? ... Whence does [the State] draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?
...Finally...we shall see the entire people transformed into petitioners. Landed property, agriculture, industry, commerce, shipping, industrial companies, all will bestir themselves to claim favors from the State. The public treasury will be literally pillaged.

And here is the clincher (think very hard about the last sentence):

Everyone will have good reasons to prove that legal fraternity should be interpreted in this sense: "Let me have the benefits, and let others pay the costs." Everyone's effort will be directed toward snatching a scrap of fraternal privilege from the legislature. The suffering classes, although having the greatest claim, will not always have the greatest success."

In other words. It's perfectly reasonable for society to want to do things that go against the precept of "profit first". But if society should want to do such a thing, it should do it through private charity and not through the coffers of the state.

I practice what I preach. I volunteer every week feeding sick people and personally run a non-profit scientific corporation.
I guess the rate would also vary widely depending on which part of the city or time of the day you drop the wallet.
This is awesome in every sense of the word.

Really wish there was a service like this that only stored the data on your computer/server and not at a place that has an open door policy with the USG. In the mean time, where do I go to turn this off?

edit: found it. On Android, Settings -> Location (under "Personal") ->Google Location Reporting
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Or doesn't show you that it has your location history.
Where's the complete list of cities they tried it in?

... or did they only try the 18 cities included in the slide show, almost all in Europe?
In some cases it makes sense for sure. I'm guessing that or something like that is probably why Lucentis is also a blockbuster drug. If the price makes sense then what's the point in thinking any more about it? I would just go with the most affordable option.

In my case, he prescribed it and I asked for an alternative after a small case of sticker shock at the pharmacy (and the pharmacist was the one that mentioned it's practically Zyrtec). The next visit he dumped a couple months worth of samples into my lap and told me I should just stick with it and pay for it because it's worth it, so have some manufacturer coupons - you know, the same doctor that prescribed Zyrtec to me before Zyrtec was OTC, hahahaha. I'm still assuming that he wasn't after a kickback as much as it was just sticking with anything that worked at all in the months that I had bronchitis and sinusitis at the same time (with existing allergies and asthma, it was a terrible hell). Except he kept telling me to give it a chance after all that was over. Then I changed insurance plans and he wasn't in network so that was that.

I think the most unfortunate thing is that pricing is pretty opaque. Outside of that and a couple other situations, my doctors have been really helpful in trying to find cheaper alternatives but they don't know what is cheaper other than having someone spend time with the pharmacist going down a list of alternatives. Another anecdote from helping my dad: I used to set aside 2 hours every time he got a new prescription from his ophthalmologist. There were eyedrops that were literally $5/bottle/month, and then there were eyedrops that retailed for over $500 for a fucking 10ml bottle ~1 month supply (I'm looking at you Alphagan P). Every insurance company and plan would be different so someone from the doctor's office had to call the pharmacy and dealing with this took a couple extra hours on my end. Sometimes some brand name would be drastically cheaper than the generic (this happened with Adderall with my old insurance plan). Sometimes the price changed for no discernible reason (not even like anything to do with deductibles). It drove me nuts.

tl;dr don't be sick. it sucks.
It's not easy to get a CPU chip failure reliably diagnosed in the field. Even if you manage to do the trial and error component swapping dance pointing to the CPU, you don't get very good confidence. Might be that new CPU taxes the power feed less or there was misapplied cooling paste or a bad contact in the pins etc.
(Your first link doesn't go anywhere.)
> I think these companies are acting on pretty high principle.

These are the same companies that stand shoulder to shoulder with the same US government when it comes to putting immense pressure on foreign governments to give up their civil rights protections when it comes to privacy.

I can only guess as to their motives, but "high principle" definitely isn't one of them.
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Is the page rendering properly for others? I currently see the list of companies right justified, then the bar graph part after all the companies have been listed.

Chrome 31.0

(edit: displays fine on Firefox)

edit2: 12:09am looks like they fixed it
There has been an on and off big deal about the so called Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex. Some people were big proponents of quantum coherence playing a role in its photosynthetic energy transfer mechanism (based on extrapolating from close to 0 K measurements, mind!)

Others (http://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com/2012/07/details-do-mat...) cast some doubt.
Well you can opt-out from Google but can't from your telco. They have been tracking you for over decades.

Mobile device = tracking device.

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protecti...
> This may be true but it inevitably makes you dishonest. There are things that you believe or feel about certain things that you will never post. These omissions equate to a lack of honesty (you are not voicing your full opinions)

Disagree. I wouldn't post them anyway given that I assume a sufficiently dedicated person could link them back to me one way or another...And we're always dishonest somehow or another. Only a person dishonest to themselves would ever claim they're entirely honest online.

> This simply is not true. What forum or internet based messaging means today does not have email, twitter, Facebook ETC. where anyone who just read your info can contact you?

Hacker News.
Sorry, it works for me. Google it if you're still having trouble. Maybe it's not available to you for some reason.
As an Indian both humbled and surprised to see Mumbai at top of the list.
You got clown dollars from Ripple. It just so happens that XRP has some value. It's pretty obvious that Ripple is buying back XRP to support the currency, despite its obvious scamware-nature. It is worthless and centralized, no different than some island coming up with a cryptocurrency and saying "trust in thee." No thanks.
They say that like it's a bad thing
Yes, exactly. You don't need to understand quantum mechanics to understand most biological processes (within the limits of our current knowledge). Biologists don't need to learn quantum mechanics.
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it would have been more accurate for them to have said "nonclassical quantum mechanics".
If quantum mechanics is truly random at that level, and these mechanics affect biological processes, would that mean we do not live in a deterministic universe?

So if we restarted the universe from the exact starting conditions (imagine this can be done for sake of my point) then does this mean the universe would be different every single time?
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Is this like hoodie (http://hood.ie/)?
that is not true at all. I'm engineering a better hydrogenase and had to explain marcus theory to the biology profs (i.e. all of them, since I work at a biology institute). Totally hopeless, because they didn't know quantum. Knowing quantum from chemistry, I taught the basic principles to myself in a few minutes.
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Well don't be to sure about that. Google locations is very inaccurate.
Domain does not exist :| Darn, after getting so many references, the site goes down. The website is missing out so much traffic.
It reads slightly different in context, but then you probably know that:

"There is no such thing as society. There is a living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate."
You have to enable it. When you have it enabled, they send you reminders every so often letting you know that it's enabled and how to disable it. It's so uncreepy. Customer asked company to do something, company does it but insists on reaching out occasionally to remind you that they're doing it and letting you know how to turn it off.

How can this service exist for customers who want it without being "creepy"?
Interesting, but may I suggest you use a table or graphic to show this data? As it is now, the labels and bars are not aligned in the three browsers I tried. It also breaks in narrow windows.
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> you don't want your investment to get hit by a bus

So take out life insurance on the founder.

And if two founders are essential for a successful startup, then there is actually twice as much chance of it failing by one of them being hit by a bus.
It would be great to see this methodology taken to its logical end. Decent sample sizes and some transparency in how drop sites were chosen, what the wallet contents were, etc.

The measurement of this kind of empathy seems intuitively valuable. I wonder what it would correlate with. Probably a higher average standard of living, but maybe more homogenous societal values? A smaller population?
You have to enable it if you want it.
Wouldn't it be easier and cleaner to just keep the private parts in a git submodule?
The website was taken down!!??
Samsung tries to silence user whose S4 caught fire
> I don't know of any language that has pointers and a GC. Are there any? C# lets you use pointers but only if you tell the GC to not move your object and promise to behave

Oberon, Oberon-2 allows you to use no-GC pointers via the SYSTEM package.

Active Oberon additionally adds syntax support for untraced pointers.

Modula-3 has unsafe modules which allow you to use untraced pointers.

D has unsafe pointers in system blocks.

Ada and C++11 have support for optional GC defined on the language standard. However so far, there isn't any compiler vendor that really offers them.

In Java you can do a bit of dirty pointer tricks via the com.sun.unsafe package, but it is Oracle's VM specific. Although there are plans to make it part of the official library after Java 8.
This looks awesome, thank you
I found that my particularly malicious ex-gf (restraining order was eventually required) was using my online realname-based content to "haunt" me somewhat. I am also from the 90s internet where nicknames were more the norm, but I actually felt somehow "mature" (for lack of a better word, and no offense intended to anyone) when I decided to switch to my real name back in ~04 or so. Since then though, social networks have become ubiquitous to the point where some services only allow you to login with social network credentials.. It's all gone mad; pre-interviewing and therefore pre-judgement based on your Google hits, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria.

I say head back to the 90s and obfuscate/omit your ID where possible.
You act like most of those phones aren't Java based. Android's GC is actually pretty nice these days.
Yeah, just those 18 cities, 12 wallets in each, for a total of 192 wallets.
I think the correct word to express m_rcin’s concerns should not be “dishonest”, but “manipulative”.
Hmm, only seeing a "default parallels" page: http://i.imgur.com/bUzBKn0.png

(midnight PST)
It's interesting to see this mapped out so clearly, but each step along the way is still entirely subjective.

Most investors, IMO, are not great evaluators of founders (e.g., are easily fooled by elite credentials), markets (they tend to chase shiny things), or founder / market fit (this takes a lot of operational expertise to realistically evaluate).
Be curious about finding new ways of doing/thinking/modelling things AND never ever ever be a fanboy of any particular language.
> They've got plenty of data before then, but none after that.

You mean: they're not showing you any data after that.