skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how big newer housing is, and in location that aren't that far from older, smaller housing that costs only slightly less.

For example, in my area, there's a sizable development that was built during the 50s and 60s. The average home is under 2000 sq ft and pretty nice for the time (lots of split levels). 3 or 4 bedroom etc. Lots are .25 to .5 acre. But being older homes you can't, for example, fit a king bed in any of those homes. Or modern bathrooms, where 2 people can get ready in the morning at the same time don't exist there. You might be able to cram a grand piano into one of the larger basements, with nothing else, or replace the family room with it in a tight squeeze.

The crime rate is up in this area, and last year a woman was found chopped up and stuffed into a set of suitcases that were dumped behind some dumpsters at the nearest McDonalds. Schools are old and run down, they just shut down the last remaining library, there's 1 public pool and though shopping is plentiful, it's all a 15-20 minute drive away.

The next area over was built in the early 2000s during the boom and the town houses start at 2400 sq ft. It's almost insane. A smaller single family with a finished basement starts at around 3200 sq ft and the average size is pushing up on 4000 sq ft. Lots are about .25 acre.

The difference in price between the two locations is $0 for the town houses and about $100-150 for the smaller single-family.

I'd also add that the schools in the newer area are all new and very nice, shopping is better, there's convenient walking to local town centers, public transport to the metro system and the nearest cities. The neighborhoods are all fiber internet have in-neighborhood police/fire "public safety centers", several neighborhood pools and plentiful community activities -- among other amenities.

So all things being equal, you may not be happier with the larger home, but it doesn't hurt, and the neighborhood is a lot nicer.
I realised that my morals weren't as quite a strong as I thought they were when I read of the Frankfurt Torture Case - where the police threatened to torture a kidnapper (without any intention of doing anything) in order to get the location of the kidnapped child, who they thought was still alive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/world/kidnapping-has-germa...

I realised myself that although I abhor torture, if it was my child (or indeed any child) I would probably do anything to get the kidnapper to talk.
Mixed feelings about this.

As a Android user, I like Google's interface and several of the apps. Samsung's apps are extremely poor quality. I own 3 of their devices (two phones and a tablet) and I don't use a single Samsung app on any of them. I would actually pay extra for a Samsung device with stock Android installation modified for Samsung hardware support and nothing else.

Not to say I don't have problems with Google, I do. Privacy, in particular the lack of granular control to lock down feature access by application, the scenario is this:

You're looking for a app particular type of app, you find a simple one that does everything you need, requiring only access to store data locally. Perfect! You install it, then a month later an update comes out that requires additional privileges, network access, because the developer has decided that everybody must want to store their notes in the cloud. Obviously you can elect to remain at the previous version for something as simple as the notepad, but when you move to more complex apps that's no longer an option. If you stopped updating apps a year ago for instance, you'd now be vulnerable to a myriad of attacks due to improper SSL implementations that've since been corrected.

I'm aware that in that context I could install a firewall and remove the apps network access, but how could you prevent an app accessing your contacts, messages, SD card, etc.

Surely there's a market for guaranteed apps that guarantee zero feature-creep? No updates beyond security and hardware support. I'd buy it.
Thank you for the feedback! Encouraging comments like this really help keep me motivated. I'm glad that the emacs tutorial was useful for you :)
Really? Gotta be honest, I found it sad. Not on behalf of the troll -- it is a clever sort of social commentary (if it was intentional social commentary). Pointing out with a bright light that we will apply insane patches rather than even be lightly brushed with the label sexist.
It appears that the same comment is being made over and over again, so it's worth putting a brief summary of the answers:

No, this is not yet peer reviewed. This is breaking news, and it's not had time to be assessed by experts in the fields, or even people who are tangentially acquainted.

However, unlike P vs NP, this problem does not have a long history of a "proof" per day by cranks, and a paper every year or so by established mathematicians. It's unusual to see a paper claiming anything substantial about this problem.

If you're interested, here's a link to the actual paper:

http://www.math.kz/images/journal/2013-4/Otelbaev_N-S_21_12_...

It's in Russian. If you can read Russian, and are acquainted with the math involved, then feedback would be most welcome. In the meantime this might be the solution, it might be an ultimately flawed but useful advance, or it might be nonsense.

It is, however, news.

Added in edit: This comment looks useful, but is not encouraging:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7042941

Having said that, if it has been solved by someone who is primarily in a teaching (as opposed to research) post, then it's plausible that they would spend some time (12 pages? Hmm) setting up the problem and notation.
Given that most people's computers are a cesspit of malware, I hardly think that Bitcoin is going to save the masses from theft. In fact, it makes it worse because there's no recourse if your wallet gets sent to an address you've never heard of. In the article's situation the issuer just leans on their insurance and the user doesn't ever see a negative side.
'personalised' has connotations of just how you want things, not just 'different just for you' (possibly worse). If you don't like the results of the personalisation that might be a reason to quote the word.
Ah okay, guess I misunderstood.
I would argue that changing language to be gender neutral hardly counts as insane.
It doesn't matter, they are being so ironic they are helping the cause of feminism ;)
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Fear? Or perhaps empathy? If someone claims to feel excluded by my language and it doesn't pain me to fix that, why shouldn't it be fixed?
Nope, I do not mean to imply that. Just that with wikipedia as influential as it is, it will surely happen again at some point, eventually.
The first thing I did was search the 300-item list for "The Power of Myth". Little Dieter is really great too, thanks for the list.
With power comes responsibility, and he has more than most.
Gender warfare? Tell me you are practicing your hyperbole cbeach!
I thought this too, but apparently "They's" is correct? I'm not all too sure, but all in all none of it seems like a big deal to me.
The whole affair reminds of how Larry Summers was taken down. Basically, there is a type of gender activist that takes pleasure from dragging down males, especially White males, in positions of power because they have been indoctrinated to believe that White male privilege is the source of all evil.

Thus, if one considers the whole Game, the White male is the Evil Boss : if you take him down, you get, like, a bajillion points. There is immense psychological satisfaction in witch hunts for this type of neurotic persona.

If this were not the case, any normal person would be red-faced with embarrassment and profusely apologetic when they discover that they previous rant was due to the misinterpretation of a quote out of context. Anyone interested in being truthful, that is.
Just search HN for [women construction] and you'll see a bunch of MRAs making the point that there are no programmes to get women into construction, and people giving examples of such programmes across a range of countries.

Your inability, or unwillingness, to perform a simple websearch even when given suitable search terms tells me all I need to know about your desire to find facts and make corrections to your weong statements.
I considered this when I typed my little comment.

I would like to respond to your insightful comment about celeberties moving over to another platform.

I think this is just not going to happen very soon. I would like to compare a twitter account a lot more to a e-mail address. Celeberties and brands ( lets not forgot about brands ) have worked very hard (or waited rather long, at least) to get their millions of followers and their @username signature.

I think this is what causes a kind of lock-in: moving away would mean that your messages would get a lot less attention and having to wait a long time to be back at a million followers AND abandoning your @username, which many people have come to know you by.

Now I don't know anybody by their Facebook profile URL, while I know many celebrity @usernames, even though I don't use Twitter. Finding somebody on Facebook is the same as finding anybody on any profile site. You have to use the search, there is no added value. Twitter has a very strong weapon here with their @username offering.

Also, I don't think a new platform could offer enough extra's for them to take the step. Another platform would have to offer something so special that it justifies leaving a million followers behind. I don't see this happening because the strength of Twitter is its LACK of features. You type something and move on. You see how that cancels out any newcomer?

I'm from Europe, and I see a lot of people using Twitter. If I look at my Facebook stream, a lot of the status-updates are coming in through Twitter, or at least apps that post to multiple networks.

Also, I think that I should add that both you and me are commenting from own experience, neither of us is saying anything based on market research. So let's not keep doing this :)
They wanted song lyrics changed, they wanted libraries that are provided upstream changed (which the author has no control over).

Both of those requests are insane.
> Sure, they have their bad moments (pun intended), being caught uploading users' address books, spamming user's friends with invites and perhaps paying for downloads. No one's perfect and some of us sometimes do try to stretch things a little to see how far we can go. Don't we?

Are you being sarcastic here? I can't tell. Uploading your users' address books to your servers without permission isn't just 'stretching things a little', it's a textbook privacy violation.
Considering it's entirely predictable and I've seen ones just like it a million times before, no, it's not. Relevant xkcd, esp. panel 2: https://xkcd.com/568/

"You will never find a programming language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas."
They're basically a hostile lynch mob that further divides people on the issues in question and intentionally causes controversy. Many women do not consider them an ally because of the negative attention they bring to gender issues.

http://maradydd.livejournal.com/525773.html?thread=3918797#t...
If you think they are helping the cause, feel free to support them. When the line between legitimate complaints and open insulting mocking is so fuzzy that a developer can't tell the difference and applies that patch out of fear, I think that is an awful thing for feminism.
I use it in Firefox on the computer and only occasionally use Google. I raised a bug with Apple to request the ability to set it on mobile Safari. At the moment you can only use Google or Bing (or Yahoo-Bing)

File duplicates if you want it as Apple counts dupes as up votes.
That's a good point, thanks for clarifying. In case anyone else is still reading, it's (ideally) a fast-forward merge. Fig 3-30 shows this:

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing

So I guess I'm starting to see how these are somewhat the same thing in the end, just from different perspectives. Thanks again.
does it bug anybody else that the alt text is in the stress level screenshot?
It did pain him to fix it. As he said, it was other peoples code that is included (and will be replaced on next pull)... and other parts where even song lyrics (from Monty Python Lumberjack). Changing others people code or song lyrics makes no sense.
First, it should be noted that pythonxy is for windows. Second, I find it hard to continue recommending pythonxy because of it's lack of 64 bit support. This limits the memory consumption of the python process to 2gb, which is unacceptable in a lot of modeling scenarios. I'd recommend Anaconda, or Spyder + 64 bit versions of the python packages you need (available here for windows users: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/).
From the house that you described your friend buying, it's probably in the downtown part of Kansas City. The Kansas City School District lost accreditation 2 years ago, meaning colleges don't have to accept diplomas awarded by any of the schools in the district. Not exactly the sort of place you'd want your children growing up, if you have any.
It's a numbers game. Most candidates have 20-80% chance to ace an interview depending on a number of factors and preparation. So to ace N in a row your chance is pretty slim. Companies only see the big picture numbers and say "We only hire 1 in 1000, we are that good". In reality they just hire the statistically inevitable person who beat the odds.
This is doublespeak. You are conflating the words freedom and choice.
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This is really helpful. As someone who's never worked with a JVM language (or Lisp, for that matter) or Emacs, braveclojure is really enjoyable. Thanks!
I was responding to the parent comment, who referred to Soldat as being open source.

EDIT: though I've now realised that my reading comprehension is really lacking - he was referring to teeworlds, my bad!
OpenLieroX is not Liero. There is an open source Liero on the site (I'd suggest https://gitorious.org/lierolibre at the moment).
So when you're mad at someone or a group of people, you break their stuff?

Why are we cheering for this? I'm strongly in favor of EFF, Doctorow, and others to shed light on what they did, but this the electronic equivalent of covering a building with paint of a group you don't like.

The people left to fix it/clean it up had nothing to do with it, and it does nothing to help those trying to break the system via legitimate means.

Come on HN, stop cheering for these events.
I hypothesise that if it was written in another language, we would just see bugs appear in a different form.

Exactly! Programming is hard to get right, no matter what the language. I hate these people who come along saying "hurr, durr, C sucks, project X should have been written in language Y!" All the while ignoring the facts that a) they can go and rewrite X in Y any time they like, and b) if it was written in Y, people would be bitching about issues with Y (eg, speed). Shortsightedness and lack of will to put your code where your mouth is are two of the most despicable traits a programmer can have.
I'm most curious about cryptocurrency algorithms that can be optimally run on FPGAs, but not ASICs or GPUs. Is there anything along those lines floating around already?
Physical plant costs are material, yes. However, the issue is specifically the incremental physical plant costs of having nice things like brand new athletic centers.

My university has a new $51m gym. $51,000,000 / 12,000 students / 30 years = $142/student/year. Roughly the price of a single science textbook, and that's assuming it only lasts 30 years.

Not pocket change on a student's personal expenses budget, but compared to the $65k sticker cost of attendance, it's a drop in the ocean. If administration had refrained from spoiling its students with nice things, cost of attendance would not be markedly less.
>especially with a (less than insane) commute

Worth noting that this is quickly going away. Traffic is projected to get far, far worse over the next few years at current growth rates and public transit is still very disappointing in comparison to other large cities.

That said I love this city.
They are trolls. They are disappointed that project maintainers are empathetic and merging the pull requests. What do they do? They ask for an impossible request and demand it again and again in the hopes they'll piss someone off.

The aim of it all?

To make all feminists look like crazy women who you just can't get along with!

How does this help anti-feminists?

It will inspire you to just tell your woman[1] to get in the kitchen whilst you pick the chili dog out of your neckbeard, dust curmbs off of your formidable beer gut, and submit your newest groundbreaking post to /r/theredpill.

Forgive the rant, but I've seen way more sexism today than I care to see. The apologists are just as bad if not worse.

1. Because owning people is definitely ok and part of being a man
China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation
This years challenge seems more difficult, breaking an RSA-400+ bit length key is no easy task for most people to do at the drop of a hat, and normally the group get very annoyed when people work collaboratively on puzzles (last year there was a point where the group said people in communication with each other would lead to disqualification).

Its far from over yet, it'll be interesting to see what puzzles are yet to come.
Thanks for the info. Both positions were remote, actually.

I've been working remotely for the last 5 years now and wanted to keep that up.

I'm pretty comfortable with relocating and don't have the life-baggage that would make it expensive but I'm not going to do it for the career I'm about to leave. When I start looking for dev work I plan to do exactly what you said.
Why Tablets Won't Replace PCs Anytime Soon
Down The Rabbit Hole We Go a quote from Alice in Wonderland.
The book Alice in Wonderland was written by a Oxford Math professor Charles Lutwdige Dodgeson under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol.

Now comes the fun part, the book is supposed to be about holographic universes. One could say the author was quite ahead of his time.

http://emergent-culture.com/alice-and-the-rabbit-holographic...
Mac OS X Flashback Trojan recently infected 22,000 Apple machines
Google UI today or Google UI a couple of years ago?

Current Google UI features every block with different margin and content which is neither trivial nor worthwhile to copy.
Buried beneath a stack of preferences it makes little sense for founders to make any sacrifices to save the company (i.e. not take a salary for a while) since all money will go to investors first.
Node core has fs.watch, and I know that grunt has a -w flag. I assume gulp does as well, so this is pretty easy to get with any of the solutions.
Well, I could guess your sentiment even though I thought it was wrong.

It just made me think of those stupid 'you wouldn't steal a car' ads before movies and I thought I'd point out that they have every legal right to re-sell GPL code if they want.
Just listing / watching these things without making it clear who the authors are is crazy. Many of these topics are the sorts of things that the usual perverters of objectivity (lefties, conservatives, religious people, etc) are interested in.
How much did LinkedIn donate to EFF? They talk about transparency, yet I can't find their donors list? Or any info whatsoever how they are funded... Strange
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How not to design an API
> There is this crazy effort underway to make every linux process serializable: allow not only memory be [un]dumped but all open file descriptors status (including bringing socked in the same mode) and other environment too.

Anyone got any pointers on this?
And the late Hunter S. Thompson. It's the first thing I thought of too.
Cool, I was looking for something that plays nice with windows!
Original title: EFF gives LinkedIn 5 out of 6 stars for protecting your privacy (sourcefed.com)

I guess the update is since your comment.
Finding the R community a barrier to entry, Python looks elsewhere for lunch
hey great tutorial! really easy to go through, super helpful.

My only suggestion : it would be great to have a small reference/cheatsheet/table to convert equivalent data structures and other syntactic details from closure to other languages. I found myself scrolling back up a lot to remember what "def" meant (coming from python this was confusing), whether "vector" was a dict or a list, etc. It interrupted the reading for a few seconds every time until "ah ha!" I found it.

I remember spending about 50% of my time learning Mongo syntax just checking out their mysql <-> mongo syntax table - I assume most people checking out your tutorial will have experience with some previous form of programming (like me).
Why Do Fighter Aircraft Cost So Much?
I cannot begin to understand how a person can be subjected to that much pain/torture and yet still remain defiant. It is unimaginable to me.
Legal in the U.S. a lot of dealers started doing this in the 90s as an add on to the spoiler.
Are all the improvements 'Public Works', say, highway/freeway construction? That was the feeling I got spending many months of the last two years in Austin & Dallas. Every freeway was being built, expanded or repaired... my GPS was constantly telling me to exit when nothing but dirt & Jersey barriers existed. Cannot recall the source, but I believe all this work is done w/ Fed stimulus + taxes from all the oil/gas they're pumping & petro refining.
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Hacking might be the wrong word. What they do is quite underhand though.
I was wondering the same thing. While I don't think Emacs users will ever say that LightTable is better, they should consider:

1. LightTable might be better for new Clojure users who aren't yet attached to Emacs

2. You can use (some) Emacs key bindings in LightTable

/not to start an editor war/
Since C99 so 15 years, which is older than ffmpeg.
The lesson of the first dotcom bubble is that making money is easy, holding onto it is hard. I actually know a few ex-billionaires... That never saw actual dollars. Now they are working schmucks like anyone else.
"The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place.

[...]

The Struggle is not failure, but it causes failure. Especially if you are weak. Always if you are weak."

So untrue. You are not weak if you quit ! And conversely, you are not strong if you don't quit.

Sometimes, you should quit, and it takes courage to do so: when you gave so much to your project that quitting breaks your heart.
Xenon lights actually have a lower cutoff on the drivers side because the designers were aware of onlooking from the opposite direction (and on the left of the car in the U.S.)
Adrian Piper, "Ideology, Confrontation, and Political Self-Awareness"
The main problem I have with this workflow is step 6, after a pull request has been approved:

> (At this point if you have rewritten the history of a published branch and provided that no one else will commit to it or use it, you might need to push your changes using the –force flag).

I don't think it's a great idea to institutionalize what most would agree is a Bad Git Practice, especially in a multi-user environment.
I think most FP's will wince at the notion of a 1:1 comparison with any imperative language.
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I love the pacing of this tutorial. It has a wonderful no-nonsense delivery, and the pacing is fast enough to feel excitingly informative, but not so fast as to be intimidating.

This is really great writing. As an Emacs user who hasn't yet gotten very far into a lisp, I look forward to having time to sit down and really dig into this tutorial.

Thanks for creating this!
Scanadu, makers of a cool "tricorder" will give you a $10 Amazon gift card if you send them your spit.