skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already have Google maps on my phone. If I want to find an ice cream shop nearby, I will look up ice cream on Google maps. If there are two equally close I may be inclined to go to the one that has an add saying 25% off, but that is basically Groupon with a search nearby feature.

One feature that could be useful is "Siri/Google what restaurants have less than a 15 minute wait near me?" or "Google what bars nearby have Sam Adams on tap?" I'm not sure how much a bar would pay facebook/google for this feature though?
I've created a parallax viewer for lens blur photos. It's an open source web app available at http://depthy.stamina.pl/ . It lets you extract the depthmap, works on chrome with webgl and looks pretty awesome on some photos.
There is quite a few things you can do with this kind of images, so feel free to play around with the source code on github https://github.com/panrafal/depthy
One nit on LA: it was suffering from photochemical smog (I think that's the term) when white men arrived. Local geography and climate + lots of reactive hydrocarbons released by vegetation as a byproduct of photosynthesis.

Reagan wasn't off his rocker when he mentioned the contribution of trees to "pollution", and it's ironic that the easiest way for a lot of cities to meet EPA smog limits (which use an insane measure, not tolerating more than a few days per year of high levels of ozone) would be to cut down a lot of trees.

Heh, any worries the EPA would harass my home town were "solved" by an EF5 tornado in 2011....
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Yeah ;-) There are solutions. Members clubs. Plain old hotel rooms. But mostly the price-point is way to high for an hour or two. The overhead and friction in booking and checking in is also substantial.

I've got a Regus gold card. The number of times I've actually used it in the last 18months - zero. Because the friction in actually making a booking and getting something sane out the other end is so high. I find especially memorable the time where I was running on EST in London and wanted to work at night, was told verbally that Regus has 24 hour office space at X address, only to show up to find a confused security guard and no access ;-)

So it seems like a gap in the market to me !
My European Ritual: What compels people to experience the same place repeatedly?
Terrifying. But like you said, basically kids during the war forced to do a lot of things most modern day guys could never even imagine.
Some of us just don't buy Apple devices at all.
Not at all against paid software, but if I were the freelance programmer, I would write one for myself :)
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That's a very readable reference, thanks.
On a much larger scale there is Ringworld, which incorporated a Dyson Ring, which is a variation on a Dyson Sphere[1], which was apparently inspired by a 1937 novel (according to the Wikipedia link).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
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I don't think this article is really helpful at all. The author attacks blog posts that state the current best-practices, but then goes on to recommend several books that are even more out of date than the blog posts. (Some of the books are 'theory' books and so presumably remain 'current' for longer, but not all of them).

Second, instead of allowing sysadmins to find and follow simple, well-researched best-practices, the author instead wants each person to thoroughly research the annals of cryptography in order to then come to their 'own' conclusion. Most sysadmins won't do this. Or they will miss something or make rookie mistakes (this why you're always told not to roll your own cryptography). To put it another way: "you should not roll your own choices about which cryptography to use".

So for the other 99% who just need to get it right and move on: find the current best practices from a reputable source (like Qualys) and use those.
In the build 2014 they announced a list of 12-14 vendors that are about to ship some new wp8.1, so I think that's not the case.

Surely the fact that now MS control also the HW and can produce phones directly will not encourage, in the mid-long term, other manufacturers to use that os, also if it is license free.
"And of course these could also expand to airports. With some good design one could probably fit in a decent room in pretty small place. Knowing that I have my personal space booked at the airport, I could actually go there a little bit earlier instead of trying to kill the time at the city."

You mean things like http://www.yotel.com/ ? ;-)
The jailbreaking scene seems to do a pretty good job of it.
Stripe and Square don't remotely compete. Stripe is in a low-volume, high-margin world (flat fees), which is the opposite of Square's situation.
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I am not sure I trust someone disproving a book that they didn't read. I mean, come on.
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It's 5$ per month — how many years will it take to break even?
When did I edit my post? Further justifying my belief you don't comprehend what's in front of your face.

I'm really starting to believe this is no different than Reddit.
We certainly didn't let it rot in the US before this debacle. The corn is dried using propane or maybe natural gas if the farm is lucky enough to have a hookup, the husks, or sometimes the whole plant, are used for silage and fed to animals, as is most of the corn, although that's generally sold to middlemen and bought by feedlots for cattle, and those who specialize in feeding other animals.
Following incorrect guidelines is "cargo cult" now? Or are the guidelines themselves cargo cult? I'm confused.
Apple has amazing profit margins in their hardware business. Don't forget that they run iTunes and the App Store on razor thin margins and have made that work better than anyone else.
I do have access to 3D printers if I wanted to, but I can't really figure out what sort of little plastic doodad I'd like to print out and spend a few hours on how to design.

Any ideas?
Nope. Public paywalled hotspots often have ip whitelists while you didn't pay. So they'll let everything trough that goes to THEIR dns. Openvpn on 53 won't help you here. Iodine will.

I don't know why they serve full dns to unpaid users. Maybe to avoid os dns cache issues.

I've used iodine a few times in the past while traveling. Works like a charm.
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With the way Square has designed its business, it only makes sense as part of a larger company to whom the business is about adding value to themselves. Youtube is a great example: it couldn't survive in the long run unless acquired. Nothing wrong with this business model except that you have to find the right buyer before your model kills you.
The papers linked in the article don't actually say that, and I'd like to see the papers that do - have you a link to them?

And is it so hard to think that the more progressive regions might do several things earlier than the less progressive regions? I'm not saying this is the actual mechanism at play, just that it's a plausible mechanism that is causal for both trends - something that's always overlooked in thees articles.

Anyway, I spent an hour looking at crime graphs for Australia this afternoon, and I can't see a common pattern at all. Australia banned leaded fuel in 1986 and it was completely phased out by 2000. But the crime graphs are all over the place. Homicide is stable-but-downward. Assualts are rising. Robbery has been both up and down. If lead is the 'silver bullet' against violent crime 20 years later, why the increase in assaults? I just don't see the preliminary patterns required for this "causation" to work.

http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics.html
I grew up in a sleepy little town and I lived about 800M from the DOW plant that made 245T and agent orange components. Apparently surplus was dumped in and around the surrounding areas which as time went on became populated with people raising families.
Proving the effects of chemical contamination is no easy feat.
http://www.bhopal.net/worldmap/new_zealand_more.html
"VP of Culture" sounds like a dystopian business card title.
did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?
I don't think any of that is necessarily true. The Henry Ford that we know of is a myth, an aggregation of ... "process engineers" and engineers-in-general that worked for him, not to mention the army of line workers. He's a "macro".

The real Henry Ford was modestly ... nuts. But in a good way... well, mostly a good way... the Rouge Plant is the Neuschwanstein Castle of American industry...

But who gets identified with a machine that is as iconic as a horse? Perhaps you have to have know someone who used a 40-horse Ford in anger for decades - there were a handful of my paternal grandfather's brothers, who I knew, who did ( guys who were fully adults at the onset of the Depression) . As a suburban brat raised by somebody who was not going back to the farm, they were like priests of the Old Religion.

In order for a narrative to make any sense, we have to have a two-legged archetype. The truth is closer to "we (collectively) stumbled into using tractors and Haber-Bosch* process related fertilizers to make Malthusian scarcity/crises go away as a potential force of history."

*yes, that's James Burke's "Connections" voice you hear there.

Of course, the equal but opposite counter to that is these things also made way for machine guns and tanks. Might some extra CO2 outta it; we're not 100% sure...

Even modest wealth has a lot of fantasy tied up in it.

The whole point of markets is to enslave Vast quantities of inscrutable information. When we make up stories about this information, we should expect to fail.

I don't think it's been said better than by Talking Heads - "You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife
You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? "

If anything, what hubris it is to think we can shape that to order.
Lack of storage capacity was the problem. Even more capacity wouldn't really have solved the problem though. There was still more coming in that was needed to be used.
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As GoDaddy and Yahoo Provider dont offer .io websites, I am planning to buy a .io but from where ??? There seems to be no cheap place to get it, name.com, it amounts to around a $160/year and at gandi.net, the total hosting and domain costs are also around $150/year and the interface is also not superb.SO, any .io Hosters and Domain providers...
Is there anything new in this article? There was another piece that I think I remember reading on HN about a year ago on this same topic.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
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Not really - a little while in the drying rack, maybe. It seems to be all inside the tube, which would seem so indicate something to do with the hot water, or something. I wondered if it were the water being too hot - but figure that that can't be it, as the top part, which I put water into first from the kettle to cool down to 80 deg, isn't cracked or scratched at all. I'm hoping its just a one off issue.
One detail is that the EPA's excessively stringent smog metrics require the addition of oxygenates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygenate) during the summer (when the US gasoline market Balkanates into close to 20? separate regions, each with its own blend). Refiners used to use methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) but that was declared icky in comparison to ethanol.
Some very pricy real estate in Washington, DC, the Spring Valley neighborhood, was once part of a chemical warfare station. When WW I ended, the staff followed the approved disposal method--dig a hole, roll in the shells, cover the hole. A lot of nasty stuff, mostly as I recall mustard gas shells, has been dug out and disposed of more properly over the last 30 years or so. But one reads now and then of concern about arsenic levels in the topsoil.
Seconded! (what gwillen said)
Are enterprises using C++? If they are, what UI library are they using to write user interfaces?
Perhaps I didn't fully characterize the situation. Certainly we had other uses for corn, but around the year 2005-2006 there was so much corn being grown it started to exceed the storage capacity and immediate need for the crop, so it was being dumped outside because there was nowhere else to put it. Exposure to the elements started the process of decay. The ethanol programs came in to use up those excesses.
It's the same as CMS/Todos/PM/Crm software, most of small companies create their own... and after wasted year on broken, non tested software they look for something commercial. $5 is a good price for simple software.
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If anyone wants to know more about the Red Hook Wifi network mentioned that survived Hurricane Sandy:

http://jrbaldwin.com/tidepoolswifi/

http://tidepools.co

Also: "Get started on building community networks before a disaster hits and ensure that communities prone to disasters are aware of mesh technology beforehand."
Many are still waiting for that "solution" that Steve Jobs had before his death to come about. The disappointment I have with Apple TV is that it wasn't a revolutionary as the iPod or iPhone were. It was apparently only created to be minimally sufficient to support delivering the limited iTunes content that was available.
There are articles claiming that the Syrian government have started to bomb civilians using chlorine gas instead.

At least that will be easier to dispose of -- I assume the international community in typical style will help the Syrians dig swimming pools. At least the civilians that aren't starved/tortured/etc to death...

How can Russia/Iran/China get away with supporting this horror militarily? Why is no one upset about these new attacks?

Edit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1...
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You would like Storm

http://storm.incubator.apache.org/
John Siracusa had a rant on this very topic: http://hypercritical.co/2013/01/07/ces-worse-products-throug...
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doesn't seem like a recent document...

those chemical don't seem to come in large quantities so they're very diluted, but even then, they somehow solidify and reach the shore...
LayerOne is one of my favorite conferences every year, and that talk was one of the best I've ever seen. The depth, clarity and cleverness contrasted nicely with the ever increasing intoxication.
I've seen them on Hover for ~$35/y, still too expensive imo.
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And don't forget infrastructure. We have a very well developed one for gasoline and diesel, we'd have to spend massively to enhance the electric grids to accommodate this new usage, right down to neighborhood transformers, which are sized to heat up in summer days and cool down at night.

California is already dealing with this problem, where the addition of as little as 2 electric cars in a neighborhood could cause the transformer feeding it to blow.

And right now the anti-coal jihad is focusing our new power plant creation on replacing coal fired plants with natural gas ones quickly enough so that we don't suffer brownouts and blackouts. The really serious net increases in power generation would take some time to accomplish ... might be possible in "10 years", but I think it'll be demand driven vs. proactive for something that might never happen, so again I think that timetable is wildly optimistic.
I'm finishing up B.S. in Information Systems, which is pretty much a business degree with a couple of programming classes. I'm getting to the point where I need to make a decision about a graduate degree, so I have a question for you.

Do business classes ever get to the point where they stop feeling like literally every aspect of running/managing a business is a common sense decision that someone should automatically know the answer to? My economics classes were pretty enlightening, but pretty much everything else was a waste of time and money. Does it get better?
I can't give a precise date, but you might compare what a homeless person would get for a heart attack in 2014 with what Eisenhower got for his heart attack in 1955.
I think you should give credit where it's due for that joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Brigstocke#Pac-Man_joke.
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Just make anything, like a desk toy or a phone case. It's just a great feeling to watch it print at your command.
I've read that Thorium and Fast Breeder technology pushes that out to somewhere beyond 50,000+ years - http://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=21247
I've often considered C++ as a mandatory requirement for game development. Java is fine though, but I just don't use it, and if I have to choose between java and C++, I go for C++...
This was a concern for the armed forces who have conducted studies on lead-alternatives for ammunition. (Aplogies if I get my bullet terminology wrong - I have little idea about this stuff. Here I'm talking about the lead slug projectile part of the round of ammunition).

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19116438

I think that alternatives cause other problems by stripping the gun barrel and etc.

On a gentle tangent I sometimes wonder how many rounds of ammunition were fired during Iraq and Afghanistan wars. And how much brass and lead there is for local populations to recover and sell. And whether that's worth the risk of handling unfored ammunition or finding cluster bomblets or similar.
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I do remember that, but it was a temporary problem.

E.g. right now at least my part of the Midwest is suffering from 3 years of drought, and we haven't had even 1 inch total of rain this spring since snow stopped. Save during the fat years, consume during the lean years and all that.
Heh, I was thinking the same thing for Policenauts.
The issue with chemical weapons is that they are very reactive. Mustard gas would react with the organics floating around in the ocean very quickly.

As for the hydrolysis product of mustard gas, thiodiethanol, it's not very toxic. The MSDS claims acute toxicity in rates starts around 6.5g/kg. So a human would need to consume ~500g in order to see toxicity.

Also, thiodiethanol is quite reactive itself. It would likely be oxidized to the carboxylic acid. Wouldn't surprise me if bacteria could metabolize it.
EDIT: Mods have fixed the headline.

--Headline is inaccurate and sensationalist.--

They're not being dumped. They're being destroyed onboard ships at sea.

The linked article even says as much, but here's an earlier article describing the situation in a bit more detail.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/01/a-look-at-the-...
Why don't they just eject those chemical weapons into outer space? Even though its expensive, it's safer than just dumping it into the sea. Our generation might not suffer the consequences of this. But our children, and grandchildren will surely suffer from these environmental pollution.
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Hi HN, OP here. This was a small side-project I built recently with the intention of fostering more collaboration across HN. Hopefully this can help connect people with similar interests.

I'm pretty green so I would appreciate any feedback. My primary goal with this is to build something that can actually be useful to people - is there anything I can do to better achieve that goal? I'm also planning to add features over time so if there are any requests please let me know.
I have nothing to do with yay or yaymicro, just read about it a while ago, thought it relevant. geir said he works for the company behind yaymicro.com...
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Although this may seem like a massive mistake, that's because we all associate Microsoft as a negative brand, I think you're forgetting that it's associated with negativity in tech circles only. 95%+ of consumers see Microsoft as a huge corporation they can trust. If you asked your parent whether they think Microsoft is a good brand, the answer would likely be "Yes".
Could you describe this massive upheaval in the way people raise their children? How is it different from, for example, Dr Spock's book and similar?
>hypothermia accompanies the deep hypoxia, preserving nervous system viability

That's fascinating. I wonder if it means a stowaway who kept themselves warm somehow would actually suffer more damage than one who was cold?
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Which is still the belief in some parts of the world as well as some people.

Silent Spring was published in 1962. It brought environmental problems to mainstream Americans. As a result of new awareness the EPA was created.

What seems "obvious" now might not have always been obvious.

Lets not forget there have been over 2,000 (known) nuclear weapons test in the world. 1032 done by the US alone, most in Nevada. It is well known that these tests released massive amounts of radiation that affects human health. Clouds carried the radiation across the United States into the Mid-West and Northeast and deposited it with rain.[1][2][3][4]

[1] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=390963

[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/220/4592/18.abstract?sid=e...

[3] http://www.ieer.org/latest/iodnart.html

[4] http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/fallout-from-nuc...
Nope, the Yotel in New York is a hotel. They rent for overnight stays only.
Dropbox keeps stuff synced between drives, so my files are on the hard drives of multiple devices and on their servers. Every time I get a new device, new copies are made.
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...wondering why I would want to share a network with a bunch of devices I had no reason to trust. I know I can isolate them on my home network...

Unfortunately, it's actually quite difficult to do that properly with a typical broadband/WiFi box as supplied by most ISPs (at least here in the UK) by default. You need to step up to business-grade gear in most cases, which is both more expensive and beyond the technical knowledge of most consumers, and even then some otherwise respectable devices are regrettably lacking in flexibility when it comes to VLAN configuration and the like. I'm looking forward to the day when standard home user boxes allow you to do things like isolating certain physical ports or wireless networks by default, so hopefully running untrusted devices on independent networks becomes routine.

Even then, there's still the problem that if you want to watch some sort of streaming content off the Internet, whichever device(s) have that external connectivity could also pose a privacy risk if they have access to whichever devices are acting as home media servers. DLNA seems like a step in the right direction for connecting up home media devices, but I haven't seen much evidence of a robust security model being implemented so far.
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I've been using this. It's extremely useful. I wish they did this for every subject.
You keep using terms like "radical environmentalists". Most of HN are not in any way "radical" in terms of environmentalism. That alone is going to attract downvotes.

You say that the article is easy to disprove, yet you have made no attempt to do so.

Attmepting to have a discussion might have got you less downvotes than merely saying "this article is wrong".
I do not know, from the webpage, how this works. This sentence:

> "Are you tired of counting the time you have actually worked? Let Freelancy do it for you."

Leads me to believe it is automatic tracking, is that the case? It does not look like that.

I am currently using an fully automatic time tracker which I am extremely happy with. I will note that the one I use does not include any form of money etc. But it does give you an HH:MM breakdown of each days work, based on project.
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