skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (just look at the differences between neighborhoods that are primarily owned versus primarily rentals to see a very real example of this)

Rental works for nice neighbourhoods in Germany. But Germans tend to rent long term. That makes a difference.
Because of regular expressions? I've seen a few frameworks do routing that way and it seemed clean to me. Are you saying nightmare because regexes are nightmarish, or something?
We secretly annexed Picostan before the war. Unless you destroyed yourself as well, we're still here! Or maybe there... I can't remember :)
Of course not. My whole point was about middle ground, a "well-regulated market".
Fair question, but I'd imagine it's not worth spending time migrating users to a different system if the attacker can simply update the servers they're targeting to follow you there.
They are one of the producers of Firefox OS developer phones. ZTE being another one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone
Super happy customer here. Not many analytics companies give you raw SQL access to your data - it's pretty clutch if ever you need to get insights that you can't get from a service's web dashboard (which is basically all the time if you're doing any serious analysis).
https://gandi.net / http://doc.rpc.gandi.net. For DNS I sometimes use AWS' Route 53 because it provides some unique options regarding S3 and CloudFront.
The financial sector did not want to make bad investments that caused a recession.

They were forced to knowingly make hundreds of thousands of fraudulent loans? (Loans on which they profited mightily, personally and corporately)

As far as the bailouts go, look at the players in the decisions to give them. It looks a hell of a lot like the finance industry gave itself the bailout, out of the national treasury.
It's really not a big charge, and being upfront about it doesn't make it acceptable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelgate

That was the one time someone actually caught them. Anyone who thinks that is the only time it happened is very bad at statistics.
We had a MotionLoft installed in our store and while it was not tremendous value to us, it struck me as a pretty decent idea. Crazy story, though.
Gentoo's build script for tmux has more tricks up its sleeve: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-...
Winklevoss Index
that's silly, people at Google don't have access to your data, and even if they did, they would not have your name attached on
I was there as well, definitely one the best talks there, which is saying a lot as Strange Loop is amazing. I didn't realize he died until I saw this thread/comment :(. RIP.
Venture capitalist in bid to split California into six states
The 4th through 16th floors are office space. The hotels up top.
For those of you wanting to see this guy go away for a long time, you are most likely going to be disappointed. It sounds like he stole less than $1 million and will be charged with mail or wire fraud. He will be released on bail, will plead this out a year or so from now, and will be sentenced to somewhere between 18 and 36 months in a minimum security federal prison. He may get a little less than that if he can convince the prosecutor that his conduct was the result of a drug or gambling addiction (my guess is gambling was an issue here).

He will have a chance to redeem himself in the not-so-distant future. Hopefully he will capitalize on it.
Surely the interest rate has more to do with the Fed than the bank?
The Internet has changed the way we think, feel about the people who passed away.

We leave so many footprints online about our existence which we don't think about much. But they have a special meaning for people who care and think about us.

It just reminds and gives some sort of illusion that maybe we are still here, maybe just taking a walk, we will come back home for dinner like every other day.
Would Sikuli count here? I fully expected to see it mentioned.

(www.sikuli.org)
There are actually more than a few themes:

* Structured editing environments beginning with the Cornell Program Synthesizer [1] and including environments like Alice Pascal [2], which introduced code completion (I think). You could even include Scratch in this area, though it might be more about rules.

* Data flow languages as you mentioned

* Direct manipulation environments (e.g. Morphic)

* Spreadsheet environments (e.g. Forms/3 [3], Excel, AgentSheets [4])

* By demonstration (e.g. Chimera [5])

* Rule-based systems (e.g. KidSym [6], Kodu [7], ToonTalk [8])

* ... some of the more unique systems based on other paradigms ...

[1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~fischer/papers/synthesizer.pdf

[2] http://www.templetons.com/brad/alice.html

[3] http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/Forms3/forms3.html

[4] http://www.agentsheets.com/

[5] http://kurlander.net/DJ/Projects/Chimera/resources.html

[6] http://www.sigchi.org/chi95/proceedings/papers/ac1bdy.htm

[7] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/

[8] http://www.toontalk.com/
I basically disagree with the article, here is why:

Although it's true that disruption is not always caused by technology - you could argue that the Sears mail-order catalogue system was a disruption through the business/distribution model -, many disruptions like the radio, the internet, the smartphone etc. have been made possible by technology.

There is also a third area of disruption; namely in product design. Simply making a new consumption paradigm feasible (lack of frustration in use) for the majority of people can cause a shift in the market. Which is very profitable. Ask the guys at Apple.

I really still do like my Ipod, even though I don't have it anymore.

So I think the article paints a misleadingly simplified picture.
Time Warner Cable Bringing Faster Internet Plans across Austin Service Area
If society didn't exist, maybe. But in real, functioning societies, people care about their standing, and being seen as a fraudster is not a positive outcome. If "being seen as a fraud and outcast for life" is a possible outcome, people in normal societies don't give that risk zero value. So it doesn't always require actually imprisoning someone to deter behavior. Keeping someone locked up in a cage is a pretty extreme sanction, both expensive and odious and best reserved for really rare cases where there is no other alternative. Usually that means violent crimes with no reasonable prospect of releasing the perpetrator without recidivism, in which case imprisonment is a last resort to protect society—Breivik type cases. Beyond that, imprisoning someone is prima facie evidence of failure, a knee-jerk reaction to not being able to run a financial (or other) system properly.
Bitcoin mixers can make it almost impossible for people to follow bitcoin transactions, providing that the number of coins in the mixer far exceeds the amount you are trying to mix.
This has applications even for, uh, "normal" people. For example, online real estate portals. People who are house-hunting would probably appreciate floorplans or a 3D tour. Agents, landlords or property developers would be able to easily create those with their mobile device.
Not that it does (or necessarily should) matter to customers, but Ally isn't a startup; it's the renamed GMAC bank, spun out of General Motors in 2006, and recipient of over $16B in US Government TARP bailout funds in 2008-2009.
If you or I had called the FBI in the matter of $100s of thousands of dollars being fraudulently obtained we certainly wouldn't be redirected to the local police. Check section 7 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate
It's one of those virtual office services. The "new" address is also their original address which they used to use before they moved to their current, now former, location.
I wouldn't call http an api. Http is a protocol.
Should we expect Docker to go to 1.0 (production-ready) very soon then?
Something I wish was here was the spread-sheet style event programming interface in the old Clickteam programs, Multimedia Fusion/The Games Factory. I used to make so many complex games and other programs using that in the early 2000s; it was very powerful and I'm not sure why it never caught on in a big way.

http://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/0...

The rows are events and the columns are objects; you fill in a cell with how the object should react to the event.
Every industry has it's charlatans. If you invest, do you due diligence even it concerns a friend you're investing in. It's just business, not personal as they say.
RCTV.
There are a few that use graphs and time lines to actually apply visual elements to programming. Those may be good for something.

For the ones that simply replace text with flow, and aren't aimed at small children, I only have pity.
Debian does have an impressive list of packages, but I'd rather use Zypper than Apt any day. It's the only mainstream package manager that actually lets you choose what to do when a dependency can't be satisfied or there's a version mismatch.
So, you're okay with the president decreeing protests as illegal, military killing people and sending the opposition leader to jail? In a country where the state controls the media outlets? As long as the president is elected democratically, the guy should just shut up and put up with the lack of coverage from international media?

Nice rationalization.
I had a similar experience with Klik'n'Play. Before I ever wrote a line of code, I made a bunch of (crappy, tiny) games with it.
Zoning is politics, not finance.
Got to say, your Madoff comparison is annoyingly good.

One main difference is Madoff wasn't alone. He needed the help of a group in on the conspiracy over a long period of time. Combined with the overall magnitude and the regulatory failures I'm much more persuaded Madoff had criminal intent. This case sounds a lot like he was lying to absolutely everyone all the time (and especially to those closest to him), not that he was trying to orchestrate some group conspiracy to fleece outsiders of their cash. The whole story isn't out yet, so maybe there is more, but it sounds to me like he's one of those people that genuinely believes that if you act rich you become it.
Maybe the post was edited afterwards?
I think the grandparent's point is to focus on things that are actionable. If you are worried about the information Google collects on you and so choose not to use Google products - fine, that's your right. But if you're worried about the information Google collects on you and so choose to plaster that all over message boards every time Google is mentioned - exactly what are you accomplishing? Do you think the people reading your comment don't already know what information Google has available? Do you think Google's going to change its practices because you complain?
Don't let the "Clojure" theme scare you

Actually, I use Clojure quite a bit, so that won't scare me at all!

I've already got Programming Clojure (and The Joy of Clojure - not on the list), Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs and Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming. Purely Functional Data Structures and How to Solve it have been on my list for a long time too. Some other books that I haven't heard of before on that list look very interesting though!

I didn't really mean that I don't get value from books - I do - just that I find books to be only the first stage of learning and most useful in telling me what it is I don't know, which I then can study and try for myself and its the experimentation and tinkering that actually makes it sink in.
Acquisitions provide liquidity for startups that hope to realize value only in the long-term. This is actually a good thing because it can actively encourage more ambitious startups.
I think there is a balance to be struck between visualizing various aspects of a program (control flow, data flow etc.) and retaining the control available to developers writing their programs as text stored in files. It does seem strange in some ways that we're still dumping text into files in 2014. A given function might interact with classes and functions defined in 10 different files, and we can only view two or three files at a time.

It seems like programmers compensate by creating a mental model of their program as they try to memorize how it will execute. (The comic This is why you shouldn't interrupt a programmer comes to mind: http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...)

I'm actually working on a plugin for Visual Studio roughly modeled off of Code Bubbles to see if it's practical to solve this problem. (http://codeconnect.io) I think text is the best way to express exactly what you want out of a program, but the way we're interacting with that text can be improved.
The laws effectively codify commercial agreements between the public (who gets very little representation, IMHO) and various moneyed interests. As they had the better bargaining spot, I'm not really inclined to give them anything we did not specifically agree to.

It's sad that their response to imaginative new technology is "we didn't think to outlaw that, so we're changing the rules." Might as well be a "right to profit" in my view.
I just won a bet! Thanks! As predicted, the top post on an HN thread about the FBI arresting the fraudster behind Motionloft found a way to criticize law enforcement; here, because even though Motionloft seems self-evidently to be an enormous fraud, enforcement of the laws against fraud are merely a tool of the rich.
This "office" isn't "new". It is their old address before they moved, I sent a document there in 2011.
This. I hadn't seen this app before and as I soon as I saw it I clicked "Install". Lovely stuff. Look forward to putting it to the test tomorrow and the foreseeable future.

As an aside, do you expect to monetize this in someway, or are you just doing it for the good of man?
> Marketing sucks.

So why are you going into the business of it?
The author is using the MtGox price. MtGox is one of the smaller exchanges, and due to their incompetence, their trading system was hacked and Bitcoin withdrawals are disabled. As a result, the price of Bitcoin on Mt. Gox is about 1/5th what it is on all other exchanges. The author is using the mtgox price.
I suspect a single-person LLC would count, and in most states (other than CA) you can set that up for less than the cost of a phone.

http://www.andysirkin.com/GetDocument.cfm?Resource=224&Hit=1

[this is not legal advice]
> Here I feel almost like what this does is takes an existing 'API' (http - the internet) and refactors the interface in highly specific ways to make it easier to use...

That's what all libraries do. If we can't call that an API, we'll only be able to use the name for bare I/O operations.
As my dad is fond of saying, "He who takes what isn't hisn must give it back AND go to prison".
I have 2 similar Ikea desks in a L shape, though it was something like $20 for the table top and 4 legs since the tabletop is pressboard. Ikea has a more expensive height adjustable leg for $15 a piece, which I would recommend over the fixed height legs so you can make the desk the right height rather than try to adjust everything around the desk (chair, footrest, etc).
The David and Goliath Guide to Innovation: Don't Solve New Problems
Cool!

It has Morphic with a snapshot of Squeak which is fair enough but it'd be nice to also include Self[1] which is where Morphic came from and which has I think a nicer implementation[2] of visual programming.

[1]: http://selflanguage.org/
[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYEKO7JcmLE
I didn't realize Europe was so much more violent than the US. I'll be sure to steer clear of that barbaric continent.
Free market economies routinely bury slave based ones. If slavery was more profitable, it would be the other way around.

Modern human trafficking is prevalent in industries that are themselves illegal, so there isn't free market competition.

The problem with slave labor is considerable expense is necessary to guard them, and the slaves not only do as little as possible but they will actively sabotage the work.
The cash value of Bitcoin declined since last fall, meaning the hacker is making less 'real' money now, if they try to trade the Bitcoin for cash. By hardcoding the asking amount of 0.4 Bitcoin, they are susceptible to the many ups and downs of the Bitcoin/$ ratio.
While this may be painful, it will be better for Bitcoin in the long run to shrug off the dependence on Mt.Gox.
>So, things were clear: the cybercriminal wants 0.4 Bitcoin, which made about 260 Euros at the time of infection, but only 89 Euros at the time of writing (Once again this shows how unreliable the Bitcoin money is, but that is something else).

Sigh. The author is using the MtGox price. Mtgox is one of the smaller Bitcoin exchanges these days. Due to their legendary incompetence, they got hacked a while back and disabled Bitcoin withdrawals. As a result, their "Bitcoin" trading price fluctuated from 1/2 to 1/6th that of other exchanges. The current market value of Bitcoin on all other exchanges is actually 400+ euros right now.
I'm sure I'm suppose to know who the other guy in the picture is (I don't), but when you feature a person in an article and then show two people in the lead photo... you really should give that photo a caption so we know who was arrested and who has nothing to do with the story.
One alternative is to go the LSA route (Light Sport Aircraft) they are substantially cheaper to buy and operate, plus the instruction requirements and Medical test are easier too.
The only way for search engines to get better is to model the mental state of the person making the query. If you were asking another human being to help you with a query, they'd take into account your mental state, conversation state, and what they know about you and the situation, to narrow down and disambiguate the query. When people can't do this kind of social modeling, we perceive them as autistic.

If you could fit an entire Google data center into your mobile phone, maybe this kind of digital personal assistant could be taken offline, but for the current state of technology, big data requires the cloud. Even in the 24th Century, the Enterprise Computer is a centralized data store which tracks queries made from com-badges.
I'm curious, what is it that Flurry does not do well? Most of our customers are very happy.
Mineral Resource
Largest mineral resource ever discovered. More gold than worldwide wealth. Disclosure ageement required. Any interest here?
He forgot that those big acquisitions give employees enough money to start their startups independently and be crazily innovative.

If I get $500M I might work on my good bad idea. Good bad ideas like Space X
There are gift limits set by FINRA: http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/series-26/supervisory...
Moustaches are twirling as we speak...
LoL oh god! thank you, I haven't laughed that hard for a while, especially with all the terrible global news out of venezuela, thailand and ukraine.

the w twins are an infinite font of folly! i look forward to the inevitable crash and burn of their bitcoin adventures

:-)
To the ground ! So here is MtGox owners exit strategy, vulgar theft.
If you have 120k with an interest rate of 1.0%, you are basically losing out on about $3.33 a day. In one year, you end up losing out on the amount of money you would need to buy a nice UHD monitor. It's simply not worth it, IMO.
I love how the screen shot of labview is literally the shot NI uses from an article giving an example of what not to do [1]. Labview has its quirks but its not as horrible as that screen makes people believe

[1] http://www.ni.com/newsletter/51735/en/
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world: "What I would give to have problems like that"...
There's one or two on this list of dataflow languages I compiled some time ago that you don't have included: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/461796/dataflow-programm...

Specifically: SCADE, AudioMulch, [BLOK], Shake, Max/MSP and Epecco. There are also some programs with visual programming elements: Voreen, Blender and ANKHOR FlowSheet.

Links/screenshots in the stackoverflow answer.
It's interesting that you are talking about "two-tiered search would decentralize efforts to improve algorithms". But you mentioned that "this solution does not need to be distributed: sites can share their local indexes and ranking algorithms with the routing search engine."

Can you elaborate a little bit about why it's not a distributed solution if sites share their local indexes with the routing search engine?
There's still a mandatory 10(?) day delay before the content can be reinstated.
How can it be? do you really think the people that got screwed will continue buying and have faith in bitcoins? I wouldnt.
Much of Washington, DC, and the close-in suburbs, was built for a certain level of automobile traffic. Dad carpooled to work, Mom did the shopping on the days that Dad wasn't driving, the kids took a school bus or walked to school. On the average, you had a car per household. The streets worked well for that level of traffic.

Now two automobiles per household is standard. Mom works, and the kids may well be in a private school that they must be driven to. Narrow streets have cars parked on both sides. Main streets don't efficiently handle the volume of cars on them. The configuration of the Beltway works miserably at rush hour volume, when many cars entering on the right from River Road have a mile or less to fight across three lanes to get to I-270.

I am not oppressed. I neither envy nor resent those who drive. I just think that after a certain level of traffic it is inefficient.
Forgive me - I wasn't speaking in general terms about what I believe should happen to any individual who commits fraud, which I think your reply presupposes.
It's not apparent to me that having the "most number of users" is a net win as I stated previously, especially so when the WhatsApp co-founder states unequivocally that "nothing is going to change" for its users.

This is directly at odds with Facebook's business model which requires mining users' information for serving ads. Something has to give.

Looked another way, let's say WhatsApp is going to grow to 1 billion customers who pay $1 for an annual subscription. It would still take 19 years just to recoup the acquisition cost.
More likely: Google have noticed users that search for "flowers" typically go on to search for "flower delivery", and started showing them results relevant to their intent.

The Google result page for "flowers" also includes the wikipedia page for "Flower", btw.
Thanks to both of you, I hope you find it useful and let me know if you run into issues.

I'm planning to monetize and I have a few ideas, hopefully one of them works out!
Sunbiz.Org, Florida is $125.00 for an LLC.
Why foreign leaders love Silicon Valley
where you get the 404?
Research Design for the Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs [pdf]
As WhatsApp's user base grows, the probability of users who are also on Facebook increases and vice versa. Which means you are supporting my argument that this is just a play for "number of users", since it's very likely a good proportion would be counted twice instead of uniquely.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it way, way, WAY harder to see what's going on in those screenshots than it would be if I had actual code to look at.
Google Now fo Desktop
But they haven't improved. Oculus is having these problems right now. Their best solution is having an additional camera looking at the user, and they have a much simpler task with a stationary user.
I don't know if calling it a SoC is right. It's a CPU and GPU on one chip, but far from what the Qualcomm ones offer (for now).
Newton and Pepys
The release roadmaps of docker and lxc are completely decorelated. lxc reaching 1.0 doesn't mean much for docker - other than perhaps requiring working around yet another reverse-incompatible change.

What's more interesting is progress in the kernel on user namespaces, and stabilization of the cgroups api. That has nothing to do with the lxc userland scripts.