skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of urban renewal is getting people to move back from the suburbs into core cities or satellite cities. Your contention was that this is ridiculous, because for "99% of the population" their urban living options are places like Camden, not NYC or SF. My point is that 25% of the population lives in metro areas where moving to the core city or a satellite city would not mean moving to a place anything like Camden. This is particularly true for places like New York or Chicago (combined, almost 10% of the whole U.S. population), where you can live in a little satellite town with a walkable, urban, downtown area, and commute to work in the core city on METRA/Metro North/LIRR/NJT.

Re: school statistics. Chicago also has 90% low-income in the school district, but there are tons of middle class people in the city. A lot of the gap is filled by parochial schools. For example, Chicago has ~400,000 school aged kids enrolled in CPS, 87% of which are low-income. But it has ~615,000 school-aged kids. There are 30,000 kids enrolled in Catholic schools alone.
Still waiting for Stripe support in Denmark. I'm getting seriously tired of having to deal with the old and rusty payment provider landscape here.
sighs Upworthy is not building on FB's turf. They need people to share their content in order to get pageviews and FB is just one platform where people commonly share stuff.

If you claim they are, then EVERY single content publisher is building on FB's turf because they rely on people sharing their content. You can't have it both ways.
For what it's worth, I've had the same type of issues with my Roku on Comcast. I have multiple Roku boxes in my house and all have the same issue. For the past two or three months I've had buffering issues out of the blue.
Good. Upworthy ads (and those of its many, many clones) are obnoxious.
100Kbps/subscriber is around 200Gbps for Comcast. And that's just 100Kbps! Netflix is going to keep telling their customers they're getting a suboptimal HD experience (and they'll be right!) until the average stream gets somewhere near Blu-ray's ~20Mbps. Maybe half that if you think codecs are going to get better, but by then 4K will be winding down the pike.

The point is that for Comcast and Verizon, there's no end in sight: A few more ports connected in a few more data centers isn't going to do more than make a few subscribers slightly happier for a few months.
Actually, it's a really interesting question.

The walkman needs to be safe for use in contact with the skin.

The water needs to be drinkable. Packaging directives look at things like phthalates in the bottle... but don't consider contents within the bottle which aren't part of the beverage or beverage serving mechanism.

So... they can, legally, pretty much do whatever the hell they want, as the Mp3 player does not need to be consumable, the water and bottle will be quantified as safe by themselves, and the thing as a whole (bottle + water) is just treated as packaging, so doesn't need to be consumable.

All in all it's the kind of thing that isn't quite covered by product safety standards, as it's so irregular.
> After reading /r/gamedev on Flappy Bird I got quite disgusted by their community

The /r/ should have been a strong suggestion that disgust is imminent.
You can get the list of allowed currency codes from the Stripe API: https://stripe.com/docs/api#account See: "currencies_supported"
Software power-off is a feature of ACPI, which didn't even exist when Win95 came out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Powe...
Brazilian Real \o
The quality of your mobile connection could soon be linked to your phone bill
Channel-bonding proxy written in Go
Why not wrap their supplied router in aluminium foil? For a few dollars the problem is solved (although I agree with everyone else....people could just as easily use their data connection on a phone)
PayPal President's credit card hacked for shopping spree
This lost all credibility when it said "Facebook is rumored to be worth somewhere around $100 billion." First of all, a public company has a specific value, it isn't rumored to be anything. Second, the current value of FB on the market is north of $160B.
Not to be too cynical, but I'm guessing Glenn would be delighted for the government to try to interfere with his publishing.

They managed to get to him via his Brazilian partner while he was in the UK. So what is there to lose at this point?

If the US government does want to mess with Glenn some more, he'll have the benefit of the fact that US courts do recognize some additional rights to being on US soil. And for PR purposes, being fully on US soil is also advantageous.

Not to say that he's fishing for it, but the US can screw with your Internet hosting no matter where it is, and he'll get more protection, more attention, and more sympathy if it's all located in the US.
What does it mean to compare Livonia to the Bronx? I've lived near both and don't see any similarity between the places you mentioned.
PoC: Reading minutes are a better metric for progress than a scrollbar
The divisive effect that Upworth (and BuzzFeed) have had on Facebook users has been interesting to observe.

Personally, the influx of links from these relatively content-less sites has really decreased the usefulness of my news feed--in fact, I get a little bothered whenever I see this stuff appear. That said, it’s evident that _someone_ wants these links to be on Facebook, given that _someone_ had to post them in the first place.

Perhaps it’s just evidence of the split between newsfeed presence and wall presence (i.e., it could be consistent to argue that those who post Upworth yadn BuzzFeed links don’t necessarily want them to gain attention beyond the Wall on which they’re posted), but I prefer to see it as a microcosm of two contrasting groups of Facebook users: one that sees Facebook as a way to share “fun”, “light” content, and another that wants it to be a meaningful exchange of personal information and ideas.
What are the sources to these rumors?
Wow nice touch with the cursor image changes! This is cool, I love old computer stuff.
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1. What exactly does MtGox prevent? I never used it, never relied on it and almost all of my friends don't care about MtGox. Yet all of us were able to buy, sell, trade and write software for Bitcoin without a problem.

2. Free market for me is about protection, not aggression. Bitcoin network is a free market in a sense that everyone's property is very cheap to protect and very expensive to extract. No matter what I think about how government should work, your BTC is safe and same for my BTC regarding your opinions. We simply have no other way, but to stop arguing and start cooperating voluntarily or just ignore each other. With BTC scripts we can fully insure our contracts without any need for neither "law", not its "enforcement". You can be very-very rich guy, but it still will be more expensive for you to steal my coins than just to trade honestly.

Expanded argument: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/71410377996/crypto-anarchy-doe...
Wouldn't this be the same regulations that cover the "secret toy surprise" inside CrackerJacks? Or cereal boxes?
Ownership of content doesn't require a monetary interest, it can be about wanting to control how that content is used.

And wow, nice angry sting on the guy. Must really burn to see someone hit success like that and not care about it.
The tools for debugging have changed yes. But the high-level process is the same whether it is fixing a NAND gate, figuring out the cause of a segfault, or finding a the location of the leak in a water pipe.

There is a problem. Many of the interns and recent CS grads I have worked with or hired have struggled with debugging. On a day to day basis, debugging is one of the most important skills. I would argue it is also an important skill in research settings, not just industry.

I don't know the answer, but maybe somehow integrating debugging into every CS class over the four years would help. Because you are right, it also requires a lot of practice/experience to get good at it so it is unlikely that just adding a class would solve the problem.

That is what the Purdue psychology program (I have a minor) does in its undergraduate program. The first 2-4 weeks of every class is spent on research methods often specific to the particular topic of the class. After taking the 4-5 classes to complete the minor, how to reduce bias in surveys, usability tests, etc was beaten into my brain.
Great point. Situations like this make it abundantly clear that folks out there are more than happy to bash away at some poor indie the other side of the world, as well as making demands, publicly vilifying and the like. I guess it's the Internet. It's trained us to be angry in public at anonymous faces, so when the faces are other people, it's a lot easier to treat them like they aren't.
I am experimenting with "reading minutes left" as a better indicator of progress on a page. This is similar to what medium.com is doing for their articles, but it could be extended to any web page.

The extension does not work everywhere, but it works on wikipedia and articles from theatlantic.com if you want to try it out.

What do you think? Is this useful to you?
Today that makes sense. But the react guys (at Facebook) have a point, Angular (developed for LOB apps at Google) can be slow unless you write optimizations for update looping, etc. Eventually Angular directives might be better supported natively as polymer-style components (those are slower still now, and lack IE support), or Dart might rise in popularity, at least beyond that of Angular. And then you've Google Closure, which, like any company-sponsored project/library will get the job done but at the expense of some amount of lock-in, since these projects tend to already have lots of internal code to build with. I'm not sure the answer's that simple. That said, I agree that for today's mix of browsers, Angular has the best compatibility if you want more than React.js. Ember just took too long to settle down and still has oddities in data handling.
Are you suggesting that all non-Western countries civilians are living in fear for their life? This is a new level of ignorance. Even if you just meant Vietnam, believe or not, a lot of things have changed in the last few decades.
Javascript games = cheating?
No, this URL points to the /international page to which non-US(?) users are automatically redirected. The other one is the root URL.
I believe the term is "poverty porn": http://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/12/12/rolling-stone-camde...

Thanks Taibbi for stoking people's fears needlessly
The Day We Fight Back, Worst thing i've seen this year
"Though the device itself was launched a while ago, Sony turned to Auckland-based ad agency DraftFCB to help market the product in New Zealand. And so they came up with the Bottled Walkman, which is sold from vending machines in public places such as gyms. Check out the demo video for yourself."

That's what's most interesting to me. Have we heard from anybody who's actually bought the player from a vending machine? This seems to me to be one of those cases where you don't actually need to do it to get the marketing value from it- all you need is to make a video of the idea. It's a more sophisticated form of "This Ad Was Banned!!"

I could be totally wrong, of course.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm saying I don't think Sony's actually selling their walkmans in bottles of water, they just made a video of the idea of it. Can anbody disconfirm this?
Jaguar-blog, the simplest possible static blog
You don't have to actually copy assets to be guilty of copyright infringement. Copying the look and feel is sufficient. See any of the Tetris or Pac-Man cases, for example.
That's a completely worthwhile cause, imo. One of my colleagues, Aaron Zinman, (hi, Aaron!) spent a lot of time thinking about that. You can find some of his work at [1] and [2].

The other day after meditating, I had in insight into why the hate comes out. It has to do with when we go online, we're trained to imitate characters, not ourselves. This thought will require additional unraveling. We also need to steel ourselves to inflammatory comments and inhibit ourselves from escalating them, too. But I can't believe people threatened the Flappy Birds guy.

[1] http://defuse.media.mit.edu/

[2] http://azinman.com/
HTTPS by default with a good score from SSLLabs[1], a SecureDrop implementation, and public keys posted for all of their staff. They clearly are taking this seriously. Good for them.

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=firstlook.org
Can't verify the parent story but can verify that Camden was a stinkhole in the early 70's.
Auto shutdown (and wake-up) was an improvement of the ATX form factor standard introduced in 1995, replacing the previously AT form factor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX
I guess it worked. Waterproof MP3 players have been around for a decade, but the average consumer probably doesn't know that.
Oh for fuck's sake, it's not even a product, it's an ad for an ad agency. What a waste of time.

But apparently HN commenters are not immune to being fooled...
Yep, Glimpse is spelled differently and in a different market.
Yes because indie developers lead such horribly unique lives. Another pompous piece of shit Jeff Vogel calls his blog. Get off your ivory tower. People go nuts every day and every place.
Apple iTunes as a standalone Co. would be #130 on Fortune 500
Isn't that just a pronunciation difference?
ah ah, in France, we kinda had the same problem with the eu 'constitution'. the referendum result was 'no'. So, the name was changed, and it was voted by the parliament. Democracy at its finest. never bothered to vote since.
The point is roughly that the metro area of New York isn't whole lot safer than the metro area of Detroit.

Parts of each are safer than parts of both and so on, and the comparison of the consolidated units probably doesn't tell us much.

Edit: A different way of putting it would be to say that Wayne County is a better thing to compare to Chicago.
To my eyes, it's a simpler difference. There is group A, which is drawn in and compelled by Upworthy and BuzzFeed articles. Then there is group B, which has quickly tired of the constant stream of ultra-evocative titles from Upworthy and BuzzFeed.

(Guess which I belong to)
Wait, so if I tell you 100 GBp, is that closer to 100 dollars or 1 dollar? Is "gbp" pence or pounds for you? The "smallest unit" of some currencies may be ambiguous (e.g. 1 BTC vs. 1 Satoshi).
Title: "Technology Still Sucks"

Content: "The batteries of Android phones don't last, and Apple's phones don't play with the web well." There are other minor details.

Conclusion: none.

Frankly with such a title, I expected more. Wasted my time. Don't waste yours.
after reading your comment again. I took it in the wrong context. sorry about that, my bad.
Wow!

Awesome. I see Naira. Phew! :)

So if I make my charge in Naira, how do you pay me in Naira considering Nigerian banks are yet to be supported. Of course same question apples to other non supported countries whose currencies are supported.
Why Pagination will always be relevant
That would be a good side-project if you were to start a "hate filter" company who's sole purpose is to filter the hate for a client, and present it to them, perhaps, as a dry statistic. You could then take the content and expose it. Now the haters become the brunt of the joke - it would be great to associate their real names with their hate, as well.
First, no, Chicago is not the most dangerous city in the US. Per capita, it's not even in the top ten. People have a bad habit of looking at Chicago's totals while forgetting that the city is gigantic. The logic that says Chicago is the most dangerous city in the US also says that Camden is safer than Dallas.

Second, it is not true that Chicago is only safe if you live in rich white enclaves. What is instead true is that two large tracts on the south and west sides of the city (Englewood and Lawndale, respectively) are currently lost to gang violence. But Chicago also has huge swaths of lower-middle-class neighborhoods that are no more dangerous than those of any other big city. A huge portion of those neighborhoods are hispanic, and there are many majority-African American neighborhoods with low crime stats as well.

It is possible that your friends who live in Chicago don't realize this, because what is also true about Chicago is that the 20-something hipster demographic lives almost exclusively in just a few neighborhoods on the north and near northwest sides.
The revenue model is currently "we don't care, Omidyar has committed to spending at least the $250M he didn't spend on the Washington Post". At their current staffing, that probably goes quite a ways.
Oh my god, if someone wrote a bitcoin wallet that protected you chats from the NSA in this List that compiles to GO THIS WOULD BE THE PERFECT HN POST.
I'll hand it to Sony, they can come up with some sweet marketing campaigns.

On a side note, do a lot of people really listen to music while swimming? In college I used to do 30 minutes of laps in the pool a couple times a week. I liked doing it precisely because you couldn't listen to music and you'd have to focus on keeping good form. It was just you and the water.
Why doesn't this have the same legal issues as Kinder Eggs? Maybe the watch in bottled water also can't be sold in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise
Not if you have a static IP. I talked to 5-6 reps to try and ended up returning the equipment to Amazon.
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> Nobody gets out of this world alive.

No kidding…
Impactful packaging, but seems gimmicky. Also, think about it from a supply chain perspective: water is heavy. Conservatively, assume the mp3 player in normal packaging is about a pound. 16oz of water is going to double that. And distribution channels for consumables is completely different from electronics. I can't imagine this is going to be widespread.
Here is great post from reddit by SomeKindOfMutant:

"Right idea; wrong methods. Let me explain.
An email to your legislators may result in a form letter response and a phone call to the office may amount to a tally mark on an administrative assistant's notepad.
But, if you want to get their attention, a letter to the editor published in one of your state's 5-10 biggest newspapers that mentions them specifically BY NAME is the way to go.

That is the crucial thing to know--the rest of this comment is an explanation of why I know this is true.
I know this because, when I interned in the D.C. office of a senator one summer, one of the duties I shared was preparing a document that was distributed internally both online and in paper format. This document was made every day and comprised world news articles, national news, state news, and any letters to the editor in the 5-10 largest newspapers within the senator's home state that mentioned him by name. I was often the person who put that document on his desk, and it was the first thing he read every morning after arriving to the office.

I began to suspect that this was standard operating procedure because several other senators' offices share the same printer in the basement of the Russell Senate Office building, and I saw other interns doing the exact same procedures that I was involved in.
Since the internship, I've conferred with other Senate and House employees past and present and determined that most--if not all--offices use essentially the same procedure.

Edit:
I don't mean to suggest that calling or emailing your legislators is worthless. It isn't--it's just not the most effective route to getting their attention. However, if you don't have the time to writer a letter to the editor, please consider at least calling or emailing them. In fact, there's no reason why you couldn't use multiple tactics by calling them, emailing them, and writing a letter to the editor.
If you would like to go the call or email route, tools to help with that can be found at https://thedaywefightback.org/"
US strategy :
-Make weed illegal in the entire world
-Legalize weed
-???
-Profit !
What currencies are unsupported now?
this is probably the best thing that facebook has done with its news feed algorithm. I've also started seeing a lot less of posts from friends who tended to overpost.. Looks like they're getting things right with that. On the other hand almost every second post is a promoted post or an ad - overkill.
NBC goes to bullpen, replaces Costas with Lauer for Oympics
At work (Switzerland) we use pcb-pool.com. I think it's cheaper than Fritzing and you have more options. (Multilayer etc.)
Why has it taken so long for someone to make this game?
The Research Problems of Implementing Go
> On a side note, do a lot of people really listen to music while swimming?

Well, as far as I know this wasn't really possible without getting some expensive equipment (both player and earbuds). Not that I really searched for it, but just nobody does it (and so nobody even thinks of doing this or searches for it).

Seeing how many people listen to music in the gym or while jogging, I wouldn't be surprised if there was an uptick in listening to music while swimming now. Although, I haven't actually clicked the link yet, they may need to ship earbuds/headphones with it, and I don't know how well they work when they need to be watertight.
Good things cannot be sold; they can only be bought
Including this one, ironically. x0054 called out the problem, no need to pile on with nothing more of any particular value to add.
I felt compelled to give a fake address for fear of automated reprisal. If the NSA builds up enough of an anti-surveillance (in their minds anti-American) dossier on me, I could be added to the no-fly list or worse.
2nd vote for Irix. Thanks.
If I were anywhere near being the richest guy on the planet I would have a hard time caring whether or not I was taken out of context. In fact, I'd probably just say all sorts of awful stuff that people would find shocking. That's probably one of the many reasons I'm not one of the richest guys on the planet.
100 GBP in the API =~ $1. (The motivation behind always using the smallest denomination is to dissuade people from performing floating point math.) The smallest unit is pretty clear in most "normal" currencies, but you're right that Bitcoin kinda throws things off...
How about we call it "Paper".
Why people mention how much they donated? Am I missing on something?
Copyright doesn't require pixel for pixel similarities.
I'm sure you could. I have glass break sensors throughout my home to detect someone entering through a window.
Programming is a very peculiar thing. Peculiar, because if you understand general concepts and ideas in programming, then learning various languages wouldn't be a problem at all (generally speaking, there are some exceptions).

That course you've picked is fine for basics of programming and even though a lot of people like to hate Java, it's a fine language and it'd be easy to start with it. As czardoz recommended, if you'd want to learn python, then learning python the hard way is also great book. I personally prefer that way of learning.
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