skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is it. There is not much challenging to the new SimCity. It is just not the same experience as SC4. Even with all things fixed, offline mode etc. it makes fun for just a couple of hours.
> but it is rare that you see Wall Street bankers rioting in the street

That's more about privilege than about class. I'd love to see what Wall Street bankers as a class would come up with if they felt their livelihoods were at risk.
I always got the impression that Branch had a very talented team, but that the products were very over-engineered. By that, I mean that the interface was very polished, but also very confusing. So I'm sure it's a good deal for Facebook to add this very focused talent to their stable.
If you want to call Uber from the desk of the George-V you don't have to wait; if however you're calling from Hotel Ibis in Pantin then you do have to wait.

I'm sure lobby groups had nothing to do with this at all.

How does this work with the app? Do they geo-locate you and make sure your phone is sufficiently close to a 4/5 star hotel before sending you a car without delay?
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Under Linux there is a similar command: xdg-open
> we can have communications security or surveillance, not both

With all the smart people in the industry, I don't see Google, much less Cisco, internalizing this fact. They want the toothpaste to slide back into the tube so they can sell to normal users as well as law enforcement as well as spy agencies. Nobody, especially not overseas customers, will believe that is possible.

Any product that accommodates surveillance is not secure. Too much of the tech industry, and especially the security industry, is too impressed with helping catch "bad guys." They will have to leave that to real-world person-to-person police work if they want to be credible about secure communications and storage.
It is only interesting if you want to buy english books most of the time. The prices of books are not excessive in France despite this law.
I was a lock to give them my money - and that's extremely rare for me to be committed to buy a game. But their delayed Mac version, the botched launch of their PC version, and the outright lies from their executives changed all of that. I've moved on.
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Nobody seems to have posted this yet:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

I'd recommend an alias like "serve". It basically puts the current directory online (binds to 0.0.0.0:8000).
One presumes that the Uber driver isn't part of their union.

Yes, he's in the same business, but radio cabs are a competing arm compared to licensed taxis.
To me, it implies they have even more ability than if I saw them build it from the ground up. They were able to read the garbage written by the other developers and make something useful out of it. Pretty impressive!
English major's gut says: "95% less" should be "95% fewer" in the case of "buttons" and "things to learn".
"The impossible fight against change and the inexorable march of technology."

The internal combustion engine?
Be warned, though, that these do not work inside of a tmux session without special steps being taken. I believe that they work in screen, but tmux requires some additional work.
They commit acts by other means. Why risk your pretty face when you can hire a thug? Why Protest in the street and risk bad publicity, hire someone else to do it. I'm not trying to pass judgment on which is "better" or right/wrong. Simply trying to indicate that different classes have different tools to achieve their aims.
You don't need to riot in the street when you own the street.
This is why regulation is more often bad than good. It always starts out with great intentions and often works well in the beginning, then crumbles over time either do to it's own bureaucracy, it's selective enforcement, or it's crippling effect on technology or markets.

In addition, it's always difficult to evolve the law with the times, or remove it entirely, than to create new ones. So we're left with an ever-growing legacy of non-productive policy.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Oh wait... It was just the worst of times.
I was in an Uber this morning headed to Charles de Gaulle airport and got to see this all first hand. Hundreds of taxi drivers stopping traffic and flipping off the police while stalling traffic for a bunch of unlucky motorists.

My driver pulled the car over as we approached the airport. He asked me get into the front seat, and then told me we had to act like friends if we were forced to stop and end up getting harrassed. He then went to the trunk and pulled out a pair of his normal clothes and changed right there on the side of the road (Uber drivers are easily recognizable thanks to their fancy attire). Upon settling back into the driver seat, with a big smile and a thick French accent, he said, "I am Batman."

I rated the trip 5 stars.
Don't know why it's not working in mine then: http://d.pr/v/mgsi
Any methodology that forces a founder out of his/her comfort zone into the real world and have him/her talk to real paying customers is a great start. Lean Start-up methodology gets a lot of things right ; however the event which the author attended where people voted on ideas is not actual customer development. The author's contention that PayPal etc. did not use Lean Start-up Methodology is misleading. Lean Start-up methodology, from my limited understanding, is a distillation of what the successful companies got right.
Retiring as BDFLs
A nice trick. It could be used for generalized string search as well as compression. And if you indexed bigrams instead of single characters, it could be even faster.

I especially like the clear, easy-to-understand, well-written presentation along with links to prior art. Wouldn't it be nice if most academic papers were written like this?
Flash may be declining, but it's still one of the best remote administration technologies available.
Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net (2011)
People who buy their electronics that happen to have data caps? They could at least load it all that image data on demand.
But this image of nerds existed way before the Big Bang Theory first aired. They just picked that up, stereotyped it and made a comedy show around it.
> Their pitch to us was: "Build Branch at Facebook scale!"

Or was it closer to: "Want $15M?"
it would be nice if this could somehow be a banner across the top of HN...

hope he is found soon.
Under Konsole/Yakuake (KDE) its: Contextmenu -> Open Link
Useful, but why create a top post when there is already an active OSX quick tips thread on the front page right now?
Didn't work so well with Ho Chi Minh during the Vietnam War. When there's nothing left to loose but pride, I'm quite sure that the "mad" metric is a little off.
UK DWP Blames Cancer Patient for her Illness
Visualize your iphone text messages (open source: flask, d3.js)
i broke my phone and got interested in hacking hacking into iOS's backup bundles. after finding out how easy it is to get your hands on all the text messages I did a couple of interesting visualizations for my messages.

figured i'd release it as an open source (MIT) project.

enjoy :)
> How does this work with the app?

I'm not sure, but I believe you always have to wait, except if the hotel calls on your behalf and asks for a pickup in front of said hotel.
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I was aiming more at the "my body parts fall off and I feel like death if I spend more than an hour driving" or whatever, because I know field techs who spend a multiple of those commute times on the road without any real problem.

I'm not enthusiastic about my one hour commute, but I flextime and although paycheck / 11 hours is less than paycheck / 10 hours, I'm still pretty happy with paycheck / 11. With an hour lunch thats a 12 hour work day every day. The way to survive a decade or so of 12 hour days is to never work more than 4 in a row, with (at least) 3 off in a row.
iTerm does not support OP's tip though.
Comfort with tradeoffs and ambiguity
From Target's press release, this happened between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, so it's closer to three weeks. Dec. 15 was just the first day they confirmed the problem.
I'm in a similar position.

I'm currently in a polytechnic high school (I don't have a high school degree). This is the third high school I'm in, because I always struggle with non-programming classes, in which I have absolutely no interest in and in programming classes I'm far ahead in terms of skill.

Everyone around me says I should get a degree, which I can absolutely understand, but I just want to get a job in software development, I just fear that I will later have a hard time without any degree.

I'm programming since I was 13 or 14 and since then I've invested most of my free time into open source projects (this is my Github profile: https://github.com/flagbug)
I think they use something like namecoin to store usernames and public keys,and laso increasing the number of registered users from 20 millin in namecoin which is quite limited, and combine it with a distributed dB for message storage and anonymous networking.

Also adding advertising as paymemt for security is smart and I could see it enabling companies in that area.
I've b een using vi-mode in the shell for a while,but haven't been able to get the <ESC>v behavior you described. Did you have to do anything to make that behave?
> China will have free reign to do whatever along the Pacific Rim with impunity

So what? The intermediate term impact would be massive capital flight to the Americas. Asia as a reliable place for manufacturing would be over. Americans would think hard about what's really at stake.
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So crappy performance and bad customer experience is okay as long as the software involved was not proprietary and free?

I don't understand what you're statement means in terms of what it is replying to.
Small correction : taxi licenses worth 230.000 euros max (in Paris)
I believe that they used online mode as an excuse to limit reviewers to only be able to play for 8 hours, so many of the limits were not apparent.

The game really only starts showing it's shallowness once you filled up one city space and started on your next one, only to come out with a homogeneous clone of the first city.
Doesn't work in mine either (Build 1.0.0.20130319). So it appears that we just need to upgrade, as others report that it works in more recent versions.
simple solutions: a gasoline tax or car tax. These are problems with cars, not just taxis/ubers.
> it'd break runtime method replacement and all sorts of other stuff.

yeah, i thought as much. thanks for saving me the effort. :)
Because if they weren't traded openly, they'd be traded on a black market anyway.
> This is code replacement using preprocessor macros and the stringize operator to create homogenous containers.

Well, C++ templates are technically done by macro substitution, too, just they happen in a different stage of the compiler toolchain.

> And a generic/template instantiation phase has been added to the toolchain after the preprocess stage but before the type checking phase.

No, real generics are a part of the type-system; they should be part of the type-checking, not a magic preprocessing step. Therefore the compiler can do many cool things like imposing generic type constraints and also it can improve error messages a lot.

So actually this solution is much, much closer to C++ templates, than to Java/Haskell/Scala/C# generics.
You can also CMD+click and drag (or double click as long as it's not a URL, which will open) to add to the text selection (like multiple cursors in Sublime Text 2).

Also, Option+click and drag gives you column selection mode.
Thanks, doctorwho.

I do have some videos (https://vimeo.com/channels/snaplive/, look at https://vimeo.com/72776444 if you're interested), but I'm working on a new version that is not yet ready and they're a little outdated.

I didn't know if I should still show an outdated interface/features or just keep it like that.

Does it not work at all without a video..(I prefer that, too)?
Another useful tip is, in iTerm, map option+left and option+right to send escape sequence ^[b and ^[f respectively. :)
Yeah, because if anything hasn't been at risk in the last 5 years, it has been the livelihood of bankers. Oh wait, no, they just jump off buildings.
For me it's more about a respect for the struggle we went through a hundred or so years ago, to get through to what's really a more civilized time.

The early days of unionization, and the conditions that led up to them, were horrific. Forced labor, private and gov't armies shooting workers, beatings, below-living wages. Workers fighting back proportionally: strikes, destruction of corporate property, retaliation against scabs... The civilized workplace we have today -- 40 hour weeks, paid overtime, OSHA, banning of child labor, living wages -- was paid for with blood.
BDFHoweverLongWeFeelLikeIt
Saving 500k per month buying your own hardware cloud
Because crappy Macs have no Home/End keys (or they don't work as such).
> Sure you do.

No. I don't. I do not understand, cannot grasp any such concept of "money is everything" or such concepts of state, borders and so on. I am a human. I have fellow humans. Some of them are nice. Most of them are idiots. These are my categories, in which I view the word.

There is no such thing as homophobia, islamophobia, money makes the world go round, or any other of these so called "normal" ideologies. No such thing as "this god" or that deity.

So no, I really do not have the ability, to understand these concepts. I can analyze them rationally, I can look at them, like sitting in a lab, examining them, but I can never understand these concepts on a basis of experience or to see things from the concepts's perspective...

That was, what I was trying to convey...
I'm always telling people about ⌘ + `, it makes navigating windows on OSX so easy.
Welp, glad I didn't invest too much time or interest in Branch or Potluck.
Or you could set up your .inputrc to make arrow keys (eg., ctrl+arrow to jump between words) work properly. It also helps to learn the other Readline shortcuts (ctrl-A for home, etc.).
And you can Ctrl-Y to paste the line you killed. This is a separate copy/paste buffer from the normal Cmd-C one, which can be nice.
In this case, they ARE scabs.
Thanks! There are much better indexing algorithms if you don't have such tight resource constraints, but it may be a useful trick to speed up inner loops in some other algorithms.

I realized yesterday that it can also be used as the basis for a linear-time sorting algorithm: https://gist.github.com/silentbicycle/8389129

Benchmarking indicates that it's probably not competitive speed-wise compared to counting sort (of which it is a variant), but the implementation should be pretty easy to understand. It may be good for pedagogical purposes.
Heres Jacob's comments as well - http://jacobian.org/writing/retiring-as-bdfls/
You mean just like setting fire to schools for girls will make it less likely that girls get educations?
Not being a member of the union and working during a strike is the definition of scabbing.
Am I wrong to have long dismissed this as little more than an easter egg, or, at best, a toy server to test basic webpage functionality?
Eh eh, I know :-)

I'm Italian, my wife's American, I told her that I wanted to use 'less' so that I could do things like "95% less this, 95% less that", while "fewer" would limit my choice in that regard.

She said it's fine.

Does it sound really bad/that I don't know it should be "fewer" I guess..?
I'm not sure that Kurzweil has ever gotten anything right that the majority of the industry didn't also get right. Every prediction of his that wasn't common was wrong. I welcome any citations that prove me wrong, though.
I think it has more to do with the choices in technology than art direction. It is cool, but if it sucks performance-wise for enough people then it sucks no matter how cool it looks.

I haven't been a big fan of these types of pages, especially the type that take over the scrolling functionality. I was recently tasked with building one. The creatives love it, I dislike these pages even more now.
But http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ (acquired by Amazon in 2011) offer free shipping worldwide
Command-shift-v pastes the current selection into Terminal (and anywhere else in OSX).
I started this up last week (first Monday of the year) but thought it would be worth sharing on HN for any feedback or comments. I've gone for the sort of coverage I find most interesting, with key inspirations being Corey Richardson's This Week in Rust (http://cmr.github.io/blog/2014/01/11/this-week-in-rust/) and the old Ruby Weekly News (e.g. http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...).

Mail delivery is provided by Mailgun, with the necessary dynamic parts of the website handled by a simple Flask app.
The solution is ctrl-left click (in chrome) so articles open in a new tab in the background, queue up everything you want to read before reading the articles, simple.
Nothing in particular, it is very similar to other languages like Java, I just wouldn't recommend it for saving the world. Unless the world is being attacked by Flash game loving aliens.
Congrats. I remember giving you some remarks on your Show HN post[0], less than two years ago.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3852049
Hindley-Milner in Clojure
I would lose years if I used the mouse in the terminal..
A free and open source PHP script for sharing code snippets
Here's a simple PHP script for sharing code and plain text snippets. Its licensed under BSD and is available on GitHub.
It would be interesting to see how things have developed since 1994. Could you recommend more recent references on the topic?
Nope, this doesn't work in iTerm.
I just saw a post on another site where someone did something similar with Chess:

http://imgur.com/a/dVgI4

He said he already has a lot of requests, so I can assume he'll probably do something similar.
Does for me.

iTerm 2.0 Build 1.0.0.20140112 (latest version)
Thanks for shout out to specter. Yeah it is not as polished as ghost but I am planning to make adjustments to it.

One of the fist things that I will do is to make it's editor(http://brislink.github.io/Abstract) easier to use by adding keyboard shortcuts for previewing and saving. I am also planning to distribute specter it via npm.

Also a new version of elastic search has come out and it has made taking backups so easy. I will have to experiment on that too.

Thanks once again.
Sure sure, but I'm not promoting its further use. The point being, to get to 100% solar you'd have to abandon it!
There's a free app called Go2Shell that adds a button to finder to open the current directory in Terminal/iTerm. Also works great in conjunction with "open ."
open -n is also useful: Allows you to run two instances of the same app at a time.
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Which version of iTerm are you using?
I use the HMAC hash of the username, the site, and a ‘key’ generated at random. However, this does mean that I'm screwed if I cannot access the keys [and cannot remember the password].
The US is on track to be the world's largest oil producer this year[1] and it has an outstanding freight rail system for moving bulk goods like corn or wheat.

Don't get me wrong, a US-China war would be absolutely catastrophic in both humanitarian and economic terms, but the average US citizen wasn't exactly starving even during WWII. Unless the war seriously damaged domestic infrastructure, (which it very well could) people would get by with ration coupons and price controls.

[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/01/12/will-the-un...
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I can't imagine the situation when driver-less cars will hit on the roads .
in windows theres something where you can press controll and it will shoot circles out from your mouse which is pretty useful, not sure if there is anything like that in osx
Just tried it, yes it does.
occupy the internet?
Jumping in Video Games (2012)
>Predicting when the next crash might be is much much harder.

Predicting when is just a stunt. Predicting why is more important. Predicting why can end up giving you when if the event is contingent on a few things falling into place that are being observed falling into place.
Yes. It's like a ghetto SCP for giving files to people on windows who don't have SCP. You can use it for basic web functionality, you can use it (carefully) as a mechanism for testing or serving test results. I wouldn't keep it running for days, but it's an amazingly useful tool.
Have you experienced "too many cabs"? How do you know the "social problems" aren't just imagined? How do you know they cannot be controlled in other ways?

You imagine "200 cabs clogging the airport" -- have you seen how cabs work in places where they are plentiful? There's no point in having 200 at an airport at once. They don't take passengers at random, they line up and wait their turn.

If there are a lot of cabs at an airport, the drivers will be better off going into the city and finding a fare there than waiting in a line of 200 cabs.

If there is actually such demand that 200 would "clog" the airport at once, they're obviously solving a problem that isn't being solved by alternative means, such as cheaper and more efficient busses and trains.

Why would drivers aim for CEOs? Cab fares are regulated, so that just leaves tips (something not even customary in many places). They'll get more in a couple hours driving around than waiting for the lottery in the form of an abnormally generous CEO.
He's talking about a different extension.
The leaks show the NSA had a hard time exploiting the Tor network. It's much more thought-out than this project, but in the beginning it too was just hacked together by a few clever people.
Or in Ruby:

ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8000
Every once in a while it's much faster to just reach for the mouse than to use keyboard shortcuts.
That's bash. Works on all platforms, all terminals, as long as bash has been compiled with readline.
Fair enough, I hadn't considered Thameslink: I'm more used to the tube, and would never, ever dare talk to anyone!
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A nice article. Needs some apps. My suggestion is in the mid-late 90s I was making dough by writing CGI apps in BASH. Yes, BASH. lots of

#!/bin/bash

echo "Content-type: text/html"

echo

echo "<pre>"

(Run some CLI status type app here, or du -m a file or whatever)

echo "</pre>"

exit 0

Doing "web stuff" could be exciting for the learner.

(edited to add, doing "modern" web development in BASH might count as one of the counterexamples, no matter how fun and easy it is)
great tip. on my system i added it to .bash_profile.
In Mavricks (only one I can be sure of) when you hover over spotlight results and hold Cmd, you get a (quite nice) file preview/info.
Fat Loss Factor Scam
I use it quite a lot to move files between my computers, stream content to my phone, test out web designs. I suppose it's like net cat, it's useful for some. I think "toy server" is fairly accurate, I can't see anyone using this in production but I can't see people installing nginx on their laptops either.
The servers/DRM ended up being one of the least of this game's problems. Tiny plot size and oversimplification of the engine made this beautiful game basically no fun.
This is exactly the kind of thing we really need to talk about more.
You want to A/B test your page - I think it would be better without the "95%" and saying:

"""

* Fewer buttons
* Less clutter
* Easier to learn
* Faster to implement

"""

You need to make it clear you actually have something - this looks like the usual "Lean Methodology" scammy page used to harvest sign-ups to assess demand when there's nothing actually implemented. Even if what you have is about to be replaced, you have to show something - possibly say "... and with your help it's about to get even better!"

Just my $0.02. Edited to fix formatting.