skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can watch a similar thing unfolding in Hamburg at the moment. Following a demonstration that ended up in street fights and an alleged attack on a police station, large parts of the central districts were declared a "Gefahrenzone" (danger zone) where the police has special rights to check persons and deny them entry into that area. This is a special provision in Hamburgs police law that allows the police itself to declare such a zone with very little judical oversight. AFAIK this is the first time this has happened on a large scale, it's interesting to watch events unfold.
Patrick, thank you for another enlightening writeup. Sometimes I feel the HN crowd take the honesty and transparency of these 'internet-famous' entrepreneurs for granted.

Posts like these have been a great source of inspiration for running my own startups and whilst each individual business is different, I have gained immeasurably from them. Thank you.

I've also learned from a few others who have written on this subject:

http://www.startupclarity.com/blog/bootstrappers-2013-year-r...
The more that you know about the setting of Ulysses, the more sense it makes; yet with very little context you can get a great deal from it. Early on, a character remarks that Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of minds that have lost their balance; if Joyce aspired to supplant Shakespeare there, he did pretty well, which is to say that there is a thriving Joyce industry. I haven't read much of its production, but I recall Hugh Kenner's Joyce's Voices as pretty good. If you haven't already done so, read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, for many characters from both crop up in Ulysses.
Just to clarify to our American friends, in the UK "tramp" means homeless, not prostitute ;-)
How many people are afraid to walk down a dark alley at night? That's a freedom we should have

It is also a freedom that a group of 15-year-olds in fashionable clothes, a homeless person, or someone who just bought a bottle of wine from the shop should have.

If someone demands money from you in a deserted street, do you have the courage to refuse?

If they demand money from you, they are almost certainly committing at least one criminal offence, and you should probably call the police.

If they ask for money from you, and you don't want to give any, just say no.

If not then you need something

A spine, perhaps?

A little recognition that not everyone in the world is as fortunate as probably everyone reading these posts wouldn't go amiss, either.

There are good reasons to create and enforce laws, but I don't think prohibiting otherwise harmless activities because someone in a more powerful social class doesn't like them should be among those reasons.
Not all "independent" schools are "public" schools:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_school_%28United_Ki...

Also, just to confuse things, in Scotland they are generally called "private" schools and are extremely popular in some places - Edinburgh has 25% of kids attending private schools.
Four paragraphs of lamentations about exclusion, inequality, sanitization, poor, young, etc. before any hard facts and seven before the actual topic is brushed. Oh, and no sources or references for the events he describes.

Asbos have been granted which forbid the carrying of condoms by a prostitute, homeless alcoholics from possessing alcohol in a public place, a soup kitchen from giving food to the poor, a young man from walking down any road other than his own

OK, it's not a news article but there are blogs much better than this.

Apart from people who already know what he's writing about and agree with him, who would want to read this piece of pure mood affiliation? No wonder they're in the red.

EDIT: This https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/libert... [pdf] is supposedly the source, according to the "fully referenced" version on his website. The word 'soup' is not used there at all.

I will not shed one tear for a profession that cannot master a hyperlink.
Isn't that again just recentralizing? The P2Pool nodes could be malicious
Companies don't like having their costs in one currency, and their revenue in another. It's called currency risk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_risk) and companies generally try to avoid it or hedge against it.
I guess this also means that Go wouldn't have the success it has if it wasn't built and used by a group of engineers who are used to the pitfalls of complexity and value tools that help you to get the job done and yet produce maintainable code.

This also means that it's not a good fit for everybody. It's certainly less exciting than most of the things that you find around; that's ok, that's the point. Less focus on the language, less focus on the magic and more focus on what you do with it.
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What do you mean they are in the red? Are you talking about their financial situation?
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Sure. This is very temporary, I'll be removing the links sometime tomorrow:

http://www.associatedtechs.com/tmp/hn_submissions_7015126.sq...

http://www.associatedtechs.com/tmp/hn_comments_7015126.sql

After a semi-random sampling, the comments file appears to contain nothing but comments pre-crash.

The submissions however got clobbered a little by the crawler at some point. There are some submissions in there pre-crash and some post-crash; I think everything's OK from 7015172 on, which only leaves 15 possibly damaged rows, and of those, I'd expect most of them didn't have id collisions. Sorting out the old stuff from the new stuff could be manually done.

(Please let me know if there's anything I should be concerned about in those, or if they shouldn't be posted for some reason, or something. I'm recovering from flu and am still not entirely all here.)
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I think the prices are typical for gaming PCs. They are not really building a new console, they are reviving the "Branded PC".

Unless you are buying a PC for a company, buyers fall into two categories today. Those that buy a $300 "Office PC" from the shelf, and those that build their own. High-end preassembled PCs are basically gone (save for "all-in-ones").

Since the PC market is generally shrinking (or stagnating), it makes a lot of sense to join forces and collect the big gaming PC assemblers under a united label. It's a little bit like people don't want a Sony or an Acer or an Asus anymore, they want an "Ultrabook".
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One obvious advantage: a service that supports live TeX document editing could run TeX for previews on the client side rather than the server side, freeing up a huge amount of server resources and making it possible to scale much more easily.
The answer to that is proper policing force, not custom laws that ban individuals from begging. It's not a beggars fault if a non-harassing "got any change" makes you feel uncomfortable.
> Oh, and no sources or references for the events he describes.

Did you see this part?

> A fully referenced version of this article can be found at monbiot.com
So why can't that behaviour be directly outlawed as a class? From what I understand of an asbo, it targets an individual directly.
Sounds just like the UK:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/23/police-terrorism-p...

"It is being misused because the police have the power to impose a blanket area, where any police officer can search anyone without reason for suspicion on the basis that a senior police officer has thought that there might be terrorist activity or terrorists operating in the area."
"Watches >$20 will always be jewelry first and functionality second."

I'll heartily disagree with that. I would eagerly own a pebble, even the ugly plastic models, because it has utility to me. I work a small number of shows per year where I spend a lot of time busy and where my team has to keep coordinated, which we do so using groupme/text messaging, and the value of reducing latency/friction of keeping coordinated is hugely valuable in those circumstances.

Also, I own an altimeter watch which I use for hiking/backpacking. It's perhaps not as useful as the GPS feature in a smartphone (or a GPS handset) but it has the advantage of working even if I'm surrounded by tall trees and it gives me useful data just by looking at it (time, altitude), plus I don't have to worry about the batteries running out. It definitely doesn't look like jewelry.
This is like arguing that accepting credit cards means you don't accept dollars, because no green pieces of paper are being exchanged.
As in 'Commissioning'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_commissioning
Why is portability a bad answer?
The MIT guys generally do a pretty good job with their articles. Definitely not blog spam.
Thanks, I'm Italian, but I was really wondering why one would call Orwell a "tramp" :)
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Would there be a bigger picture, showing us, how these behaviour comes into being? How it could be addressed or prevented in other ways? "Ingrained" seems to indicated, that you feel (yes, it's an emotion , not an established fact) there is no help anyway, so lets get rid of them. Society, after all, does not exists. It's you or them?

In the light of the recent complaints on this blog about homeless people in SF: maybe there is a completely surprising "disruption" lurking, if you do not address this subject with a "we" mindset.
I understand why people where offended it was a gift at a tech conference. Its not that it matters if you paint your nails or not (man or women) but there is usually a lot of inappriopiate to venue advertising to women (think pink biros, and pink science stuff) and I understand the feeling to nip that in the bud. Btw to all the straight males report they paint their nails, anyone use nail art blogs? I've hear of someone thinking about a program for designing nail art. It seems a technically interesting problemset. Scan nail size by finger, or input it. I've not read of any studies on how much variance is there on fingernail size. (though im sure someone has). Then consider what is the smallest paintable size for the users "brush".
There's one coming this year. Can't necessarily claim Orwell's talent, but having taught with a professor who made this very point a couple of years back, I've been working on a sociopolitical novel on this specific topic (with bells on) since then on and off and now it's getting into shape. The autumn's events (Brand v newsnight, NSA) have for me been very encouraging in demonstrating that I've not just been barking up my own tree.
Thank you! I too quickly forgot that JS makes client-side computation easy.
Because TeXLive is already pre-compiled for any distribution you may want to typeset LaTeX with.
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Exercise for the reader,
write a regex to distinguish random noise from English

EDIT: possibly down-voted because someone though it was sarcastic???

I was actually thinking of this problem before the XKCD comic, for detecting hashes on hardrives efficiently...
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That article dates from 2009, but section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which allowed for stop-and-search without suspicion, was suspended following a 2010 ruling by the ECHR that it violated Article 8. In various developments since that suspension, it doesn't look like anything as sweeping as the previous powers will be coming back any time soon.
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Reddit has some relevant subs.

http://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLaqueristas/

Amoung others.
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> Advertisers, who cause plenty of nuisance and annoyance, have nothing to fear;

Why not? Can I not pursue an IPNA against these parasites?
> such actions to reveal government surveillance are still possible.

I worry for how long it will remain so.
How come Google plays a good part of Go's popularity while the language per se is open-sourced and a fair amount of its contributors don't relate to Google at all? If you had observed what's happening around Go and Google since the language was released, you would have noticed that everything that happens inside Google is due to its creators motivation to push the language into the company rather than Google being "behind it". Dart on the other hand is backed by Google for good. Go? Except Google App Engine, i don't see it.
Why would they?

Personally, being taxed close to 37% (in Australia) already, I don't have any issues with my tax money being spent on that cause.
I found it really confusing, because it looked (superficially) like facebook but wasn't.
Thanks - I've edited to clarify.

I originally used the word "tramp" because (from memory) that was the word Orwell used to describe himself in Down and out in Paris and London; corresponding to the meaning described at [1]. I was aware that it is considered pejorative, but not the different meaning in US English.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramp
> Orwell's thoughts and writing were shaped by his experiences of the British public school [1] system, serving in the colonial police service, living as a tramp in Paris and London, fighting on the republican side in the Spanish civil war, and (late in his life) seeing how the second world war played-out. These experiences honed his conscience and anger.

I disagree. I'm sure education and lifestyle was important in shaping Orwell's world-view, but I believe that he was inspired by the Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union and not by the Spanish civil war or his schooling years.

He witnessed first-hand how totalitarian governments operate and a possible future outcome. A book that played a major role in his understanding of the Soviet Union was Darkness at Noon[1] by Arthur Koestler written in 1940, a book which gives an insight view of the Moscow Trials[2] in 1938. Orwell's 1984 was published in 1949.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_Noon

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_show_trials
Australian childcare software provider.

I imagine an outsider wouldn't equate "childcare software" with "database intensive" but the online reporting childcare services have to do is quite involved [1].

Their online reporting to the government is a separate concern to day-to-day tasks in their childcare service. So childcare software has to do more than just interface with the online reporting interface.

[1] http://docs.education.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/service_... (The attendance information of children is the most complicated part, see page 160 for what an attendance record looks like.)
Nimrod and Rust both look good. Currently leaning towards Rust due to wider backing and support.
He is probably referring to the fact that the Guardian newspaper does not make a profit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian ). It's not relevant, as I'm sure that George Monbiot does not care about this, the Guardian is aware of it, and none of these parties would give a flying feather what spindritf's opinion on this topic is.
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It also helps that C++ doesn't have nearly the number of implementers in position to screw stuff up. Unlike any number of webservers, SSL libraries, load-balancers, firewalls, proxies, etc.

How many C++11 compilers are there? This support matrix[1] seems to indicate there are 2 compilers in the lead, with 5 providing fairly decent coverage. How popular is XLC++?

And anyways, adding another compiler is something you choose to do, and usually run a bit of tests for, right? Unlike networking protocols where it's invisible to you that someone has some idiotic inspection hardware that segfaults on certain packets and drops your connection.

Edit: Also, even if two compilers are feature complete, it doesn't mean they implement the features in perfectly compatible ways, right?

1: https://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C%2B%2B0xCompilerSupport
I grew up in the German town of Baden-Baden, which has the highest millionare percentage in all of Germany, and this is exactly what that town turned into:

> Street life in these places is reduced to a trance-world of consumerism, of conformity and atomisation in which nothing unpredictable or disconcerting happens, a world made safe for selling mountains of pointless junk to tranquillised shoppers.

No special laws needed (other than one to disallow gather in public to drink alcohol, just for B-B, to move the homeless out of sight). It has 5000 shops for jewelry and designer clothes, while the last place where you could buy a CD closed in the 90s.

Sorry, I don't have a point, but this whole article struck me as a description of the spirit of that town. It's carcass now, while steadily getting even prettier on the outside, and rotting even further from the inside. A race to the rock bottom of lameness and soullessness.

But hey, that's just Baden-Baden, it's always been lame... to see that spirit seep into cities like Hamburg or even (some parts of) Berlin, now that is creepy. Where-is-the-nest-and-can-we-please-burn-it creepy.
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To further clarify, a tramp is someone who travels around but works only if/when he has to, a hobo is someone who travels around mainly looking for work and a bum is someone who does neither.
NASA / ESA found a bacteria that lives in 'clean rooms' in space craft and space stations, feeding off the scattered remains of the less resistant bacteria.[0]

the air is stringently filtered, the floors are cleansed with certified cleaning agents, and surfaces are wiped with alcohol and hydrogen peroxide, then heated to temperatures high enough to kill almost any living thing.

Basically bacteria will evolve to survive in virtually whatever hellish environment you want to come up with.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bacteria-di...
Type system power really is the only question i have left relative to go. I've always seen go being used for low level very technical stuff, where you don't need lots of abstraction, but rather powerful primitives and libs. I've always wondered how it scales to business process modeling, and the lack of generics always worried me.

On another aspect, 2013 was the year of Go being unanimously praised, and i've got the feeling 2014 is going to be the year of the backlash.

Still, i don't see any other languages able to take the crown back. Rust looks way too unpolished and has not only one but multiple pointer types.
It would have been helpful if you allow us to take a dump of our mails before deleting everything.
Two things:

- a GPS lock can easily be defeated by the earnest with a GPS simulator, about a $2k fix. This isn't a great solution for the honest buyer, but anyone with ill intention could easily activate these in Kansas and re-export to a controlled state.

(edit: a GPS sim can't help with the gyros, so maybe its a better "lock" than I originally reckoned ;-)

- there are excellent "open-source" substitutes available. The Mechmate community is thriving (http://mechmate.com) and these plans make it possible for a DIYer to build their own 4 axis CNC with tolerances to a thousandth of an inch or better. My father-in-law is a a cabinet maker (http://woodforyou.net) who built one of these for his business a few years ago, here's a demo video showing his results... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU3-6AapV3I

(Edit 2: I wrote this before I had an appreciation for the difference between a CNC mill and a CNC router. The Mechmate is a CNC router and used for very different purposes than a CNC mill. Anyways, comment might still have some value for some. Sorry for the noise ;-)
I think they're not so much building "the steam machines", but they are developing a spec.

> 'm just curious on how Valve (or the HW vendors) are gonna market it. With consoles you have the idea that with that unit you can play everything. With a steam machine is different. I'd like a "with version A you can play X, with version B you can play X+Y, with version C you can play X+Y and have 3D"...

This is nowadays already not much of a problem. If you build a mid-high end PC now, you can expect it to play every game at least at reasonable settings for the next couple of years. How long it's going to hold is always a bit of speculation, but you can get hardware reccomendations from certain magazines or websites.

The same is true for the games' side. If I buy a new game, gaming magazines/websites will tell you how much CPU, GPU, RAM you need to play it on minimal, medium, and maximal settings (the hardware requirements on the boxes are usually rubbish, unfortunately). They usually also say something like "works fine if you've built your PC in the last 3 years". You don't need to match the specs exactly, because games have gotten pretty good at automatically adjusting settings.

So it works now, but it's only going to get easier with Steam machines. You'll probably see games advertized as "Works great with 2015 steam boxes. Best effects with a 2016 steam box, or AMD Radeon OMG9000. Minimal requirements: 2014 steam box or equivalent (Intel Core i5 xxxx, 8 GB RAM, ...)."

If I were them, I'd either have yearly revisions, or hardware levels. So in 2014, a low-end will be HW level 5, a mid-end will be level 6, and a high-end will be level 7. One year later, a new high-end will maybe be level 9. Games would then just say you need a level 7 PC to run (very much like the windows hardware index, except PC's will be built to reach a certain number).
You might think that at first, and it's probably true to some extent, but ultimately they would not oppose it too much.

It's good to see ideas of basic income resurfacing in Europe. Only a step towards a more distributed economy, but an important one for today's society -- which seems to be slowly crumbling for the most part.
This also happens occasionally in Copenhagen, Denmark, when the police decides to create 'search zones', where the police create zones, where they have the right to search anyone. They don't need political or judicial permission to do so, they already have it.

But at least, these zones are met with much public debate, and the police has refrained from using them lately.
The old joke: "Don't vote, it only encourages them" has been on the wall of London's Anarchist Bookshop for years. Sadly, the false dichotomy of American politics, the corrupt buying of candidates and parties there and in most places, a lack of desire of anyone who wants to be a politician to rock any boat and make lasting structural change means that sometimes you need to do more than just play the fixed game with already loaded dice, where the prize doesn't really do much for you anyway.

I'm working on several strategies in this space. Perhaps we should gather some constructive conspirators.

See, that sounds jailworthy already, even though it's in the spirit of opening up debate, discourse and emancipation...
Pretty sure this is all going to amount to BS. Humans like hierarchies and power. When someone realizes they can make themselves more important than others and as such curry favor with "lead links" they won't hesitate to do so.

Of course, I used to have a former Zappos manager as a boss and found him wanting, so maybe I am just bitter.
Some people where speculating that HN banned goodle and other search engines. But from at least /robots.txt I can't see that. Do they do any ip based filtering? Does any one have information on that? I'm just curios.
Don't forget that bitcoin is also a payment system.