skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, at least for the cities in the southeast where I've lived, these maps are amazingly good proxies for gentrification. For example, have a look at Houston, TX or Memphis, TN.

In the Midwest, the trend is much less clear. For example, Madison, WI is covered with bikepaths, so there's no clear relationship. (Same for Anchorage, AK. You can see the main trail system, and it pretty much circles the city.)

In a lot of other places, the pattern is controlled by topography/parks (e.g. Birmingham, AL)

I'm limiting things to cities where I've lived, but does anyone else notice similar patterns?
Slightly OT, but I'd love any suggestions for books/movies that deal with this topic. Most post-apocalypse media deals with coping with stupid stuff like Zombies, but I'd love to read/watch more stuff towards how humans would deal with rebuilding our society. Would we keep Democracy?
Cool. Let me know how it goes!
Not just a human response, but one that matches theirs. Attempting rational analysis in the presence of an angry mob is not a good idea - your only real options are to actively join in the fun, or stay at home with the lights off.
I would be SHOCKED to see this go to trial. Not over $25k. The money is long ago spent (I'd bet) so the whole thing is a real waste of time.
The Code for India Global Hackathon 2014
Very cool animations and most fit the principals nicely but there's very little info on this page. I found the wikipedia page helpful and relevant - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animatio...
Will see if I can work on it.
I appreciate your views and believe they are sincere but when considering "the big picture", I don't think anyone can actually prove anything except there are fewer women in tech. In the big picture how can you show women as a group have it harder? I am a man. It is true I have not been asked to fondle someone under a table to close a deal. It is also true I have never been favored by a boss because he found me attractive. I am not claiming it's easier to be a woman, just that it cannot really be shown which group has it easier. Individual experience can get us closer to certainties but not all the way even then.
Presumably, any apocalypse would result in a significant reduction of human population, so I'd say running out of resources is not the primary problem. More like being able to use them
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Those are the official mountain bike trails at Theodore Wirth park. Google Maps is bad for finding mountain bike trails--it doesn't show the other Twin Cities trails at Lebanon or Murphy-Hanrehan either. They're the sort of trails you could find if you wanted to, though, by some searching or asking at bike shops.

I agree in general, though. Even if you have your own routes or know friends who have theirs, this helps break out of that rut and find some new rides. This would have been great for finding rides just across the river in Wisconsin (though as-is it wouldn't help find hills. I've always wanted a map similar to this that showed all roads in terms of both ridability and steepness).
I'm not sure how interesting this topic really is. As an example, look at Smalltalk. Crazy easy syntax, and made to be used in an IDE that dwarf what most of us consider an IDE.
Which had a lot to do with being in a military prison where joking with the guards about killing yourself actually could result in being placed in a Prevention of Suicide status. In any event, even with that Manning was transferred away from solitary in the first half of her detention and finished the trial outside of solitary (and thereby set the precedent for how later activist spies should be treated).
I went to a suburban high school in southeast Michigan. My high school had three tracks: College Prep, Business, and Vocational. Electronics was one of the Vocational subjects. They also taught "programming" to the Business students, though I have no idea at what level. I assume that these programs had been in place for many years before my time. I was in the College Prep track, so those other courses were pretty much off limits for me.

Nonetheless I got permission to sign up for Electronics. I discovered that the course was mainly going to revolve around TV repair, and the teacher even told me that I'd be bored. So I dropped it and learned that one of the math teachers had started a course in BASIC! It's not an understatement that the course changed my life.
> […]what they're looking for is a human response.

Well, considering that most people aren't willing to admit that words emanating from this account is the work of some amazing AI platform straight from DARPA, or a being not of this world that is traditionally accepted by the masses, what you really mean is that I didn't illicit a k̶n̶e̶e̶ ̶j̶e̶r̶k̶ reaction (human response: I was tempted) or provide more anecdota to illicit more k̶n̶e̶e̶ ̶j̶e̶r̶k̶ traditional socially accepted reactions?

Meta: But doesn't socially accepted reactions change over time? I wonder how that happened? Did no one try to study human behaviors and some how try to influence such, and we just magically change to the present?

If I took to the forums for all the ways people treated me for the color tint of my skin or other groups I may be subscribed to (black, male, college dropout [some of the things some people would describe me as], etc…), will I learn that all these people behind the their internet connections really give a fuck about me (and vise versa) and that will some how magically change the world now that my ego would have been pandered too? Sure, maybe more people would know that such things happen, but then what? We just keep on keeping on after we log off? Shame on me to even suggest that is/will take the form of actively maintaining the status quo?

Was that human response enough? Now what did we learn that could forward our understanding of such dynamics that take place in a society and change the way people interact for the "better"?
Why the hell is everyone being so offended and gossiping around in this industry as of late?
Matt, as always, thank you for taking the time to clear things up. I'm sure the back-and-forth here had to have felt unbelievably stupid, and it was, but I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that it's still a pleasure to read your comments, so at least something good came out of it.
I'm submitting this not just for general interest (as a fascinating cryptographic account system) but because I'd like to hear about any analysis experts have done on this protocol. Does this protocol really provide the properties it purports to provide? In particular, does it protect against the server or attackers with access to the server, as the old Firefox Sync protocol did?
In realworld, people barely use "MapReduce", they use a high-level wrapper, that provides a more friendly user interface similar to SQL, like Hive, and to a lesser extent, Pig.
A newly primitive society would use at least an order of magnitude less energy. I think coal would be easy enough to come by (if you live in Appalachia), but petrochemicals would be troube.
The word "women" is unambiguous, whereas "men" could mean "males", or could mean "people", depending on the age and/or ideology of the writer.
Sure, fixed.
wow! I just found some trails right next to my house, didn't even know they existed!

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#16/-122.11865/47.78666/gray/...
Retreating to a dictionary definition doesn't argue against the point of the GP comment, namely: a white guy being called a cracker doesn't resonate with the kinds of cultural practices of oppression that that using racial slurs against a minority carries

If you're interested in arguing against that, do so. Posting definitions of words from dictionaries is the height of pedantic laziness in non sequitur form (unless the argument is actually about what the dictionary definition of a word is, of course).
Samsung found to infringe Apple patents for over $119 million in damages
Palo Alto Fry's still has a few aisles of electrical parts and tools.
What makes you think we understand Russia better than we understand Kazakhstan?

Maybe you wish to have imparted your culture or something, however I don't expect most people have any reasonable idea what the culture is like in neither Russia nor Kazakhstan.

Are you just hoping they know where it is on the map?
The nuclear accident at Chernobyl has created a natural laboratory
It is not 1974, and people are not limited to typing the characters molded into the type wheel and keytops at the factory. At the moment, it's as easy for me to type × or † as it is to type + or _, and I would happily make it as easy to type λ or ← to get the benefit of reading code as such.

The situation with ~ is simpler; it's used by plenty of programming systems today, and any programmer who uses it and can't type it as easily as on a default US keyboard (i.e. with one modifier+key press) is not using their tools effectively.
In NYC, you can check out Park Audio, Tekserve, and B&H (although B&H had horrible amplification last I checked).
I tend to agree but not completely. Someone mentioned further up that there are multiple categories of murder and also manslaughter, the conviction of which depends on intent.
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Because you're funding a project that may or may not work out. The whole point of crowdfunding is supposed to be, "You give us money to develop an idea, and you might get a reward in return", not, "I'm paying you $35 for an order that includes a bumper sticker and a t-shirt with your logo on it." It's less like your carpenter example, and more like a VC firm dumping money into a startup.

It's supposed to be speculative investment. Whether or not Kickstarter and others have decided to backpedal and pretend they have some kind of legal precedent for holding project owners to their word, in order to make their own business seem more legitimate than it is, is another story.
> As a concisionist, this change stinks.

Hardly. As thestinger argued so eloquently, legitimate use of the ~ are few and far between: typically, recursive data structure definitions, which are rare even when you go Recursive Crazy. (Functional programming would even avoid unique pointers, since they prevent sharing.)

From an information theoretic perspective, giving a special syntax for such an uncommon use doesn't make sense. If you want your language to be concise, you want the short-cuts to be used for frequent cases. Before we give a special syntax to unique pointers, we should address everything that's more often used. That would turn Rust into APL.

Since we don't want such a combinatorial explosion of special symbols, we're back to the good old Huffman encoding: short cuts for the frequent use cases, more verbosity for the rare ones.
Yes, but it isn't about going after $25K. It is about protecting everyone else who lives in WA and wants to participant in Kickstarter. The AG is hoping to set a precedent with this case.
So that's what happened to Smalltalk and Lisp.
> He doesn't give a shit about the US.

I didn't say hostile to the U.S. I said hostile to the West. That doesn't mean cutting off contact or anything so silly, but let's not act like Russia has not long been at odds with the general foreign policy of the West.

Even post-Cold War, it dates back to stuff like Bosnia and Kosovo. Remember reading the "TIL" about that singer who used to be in the British armed forces and claimed to have avoided WWIII by not attacking Russian troops at an airport in the Balkans during Bosnia?

The way Russia views it, the West has certainly been antagonistic towards them, between the NATO expansion, possible construction of missile shields in east Europe, intervention against their Serbian brothers in Bosnia and then Kosovo, open talk of friendship between the U.S. and Georgia, the difference in perception over what was authorized in the Libyan intervention, and later the EU trying to influence Ukraine away from Russia.

You are certainly right that there are domestical political reasons for Putin to play up an external enemy, but his behavior is certainly consistent with, at best, an antipathy towards the West. Sure, they'll play along in international politics as it becomes convenient to them, but the USSR did that too.
but it's about language. we can all speak, so we're all experts, right? right?

I see this phenomenon a lot, also with topics like education.
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Given that their full scale solar concentrator could produce 20,000L per day. I think it would take around 10,000 of those concentrators just for aeroplanes to be carbon neutral. To be honest, that isn't too bad considering how much money we waste collecting other fuels much more dangerously. This would be worthwhile if we could construct them quick enough before our transition to our battery powered future.

To be honest this sort of technology would be better used for recycling agriculture fertilisers.
Is there something that I can run locally for the data storage yet still hit from multiple computers? I've considered writing a CLI interface to the Etherpad API for just this reason. A lot of what I do depends on code/script snips but I can't store my employer's stuff in someone else's system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Some definitions consider that any assumption that a person's behavior would be influenced by their racial categorization is inherently racist, regardless of whether the action is intentionally harmful or pejorative, because stereotyping necessarily subordinates individual identity to group identity.

Some people disagree with you.
> Attempting rational analysis in the presence of an angry mob is not a good idea - your only real options are to actively join in the fun, or stay at home with the lights off.

Probably great advice for the meatspace, but I question if such needs to be the lowest common denominator for online interactions. But I guess some people must be thinking: "How could this person not derive any pleasure/fun from deriding another human being (or in this case, anonymous men who abuse their position in power or in society for a variety of reasons not made apparent but must be inferred by the audience, but human being nonetheless), especially when its socially accepted to do so?!?! How dare he (go figure, but he's admitted to being black [gasp!] so now I'm confused!?!?!) not partake in a sadomasochistic expression of the human condition!?!?!"
That is amazing. I used a Dallas Semiconductor 8051 with a JVM on it. Can't believe you fit a JVM into 4k of ROM.
I've taken to calling them heisenbugs.
U.S. jury orders smartphone maker Samsung to pay Apple $120 million
Yeah, there are a lot of parallels. But for every person who is genuinely concerned with government overreach and that alone, I see 50 more Bundys who use government as rhetoric to play up anti-social/selfish ends.
That at least has been answered, on Raymond Chen's excellent blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/16/25822...
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In the nature vs nurture debate, the pure nature and pure nurture people are extremist views, and most people are somewhere in-between. The articles you have presented are talking about mild effects - and the first article is chock-full of weasel words... and ultimately talks about morality as being a way to controls our 'evolved selves' (where the author uses 'evolved' to mean 'genotypical').

I mean, let's keep it in context of the article: they began to find research suggesting wide cultural differences almost everywhere they looked: in spatial reasoning, the way we infer the motivations of others, categorization, moral reasoning, the boundaries between the self and others, and other arenas. These differences, they believed, were not genetic.

If moral reasoning were genetic, then you wouldn't have people losing or changing religions, and there'd be no such thing as social movements. The article isn't talking about subtle effects on individuals from serotonin levels, it's suggesting that it was generally accepted that 'wide cultural differences' were genetic, and that the researchers in question were taking an unusual path in thinking they weren't genetic.
I just replaced Evernote with Justnotes. It's like nValt but I think with more features (tags, etc). Mapped to a nice keyboard shortcut and it's really fast to access old notes / make new ones. :)
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But that would be analog storage, technically.
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There's no requirement that the Kickstarter complete the core project - just that they provide any promised reward.

Many projects, where the project is highly speculative, provide explicit rewards and then an offer to get the benefits of the main project that's conditional.

Also, in what way is it not like an experimental house design using, eg, 3d printed concrete (in some new manner)?

There's a well established body of contract law about how to handle that kind of contract to build a house with a new technology, and the liabilities involved.
Sadly, most people don't use a sane layout. Instead, they use the default layout. It's just the status quo bias at work, which explains why the qwerty layout and staggered key still exist, despite overwhelming evidence in favour of alternatives.

(To anyone who feels the urge to educate me on the Fable of the Keys, remember that typing speed is not the only worthy criterion. Comfort, RSI, and ease of learning, matter much more.)
> Both Square and Box have expanded their product lines dramatically, often without a comprehensive strategy involved.

Could the same be said about dropbox and its recent moves?
Have this conversation with your boss:

You: “I have a hard time being around people all day. I can interact fine over IRC/Skype/etc., but in-person interaction drains me. It affects my productivity.” <I paraphrase>

Boss: “Would it help if you worked remotely, say, one day a week...?”

You: “Yes.”

Boss: “Then do that. And get some headphones for the other days. Never mind, here, take mine.”

If your boss doesn’t follow this script, or one very close to it, then you might want to get a new boss. No, I’m serious. The very best managers don’t care where or when or how you work; they care about your work. (And they also want to know they can reach you when they absolutely need to reach you. For, like, something important.)
I assume you are talking about easily extractable oil. That is getting harder to find without extreme technology.

You used to be able to find oil in Pennsylvania/Texas/California by waking around with high heels. These days you would want a map of Saudi Arabian oil fields that are known but not tapped. Drilling there will still produce shallow wells that produce gushers.
Also, check out the foxfire books. It is very different style and different purpose, I guess.

From Amazon:

'"In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and "other affairs of plain living."'

I learned quite a bit about living in a different 'time', good learnin'.
I don't get it. What am I looking for?
Honestly, as a guy who works on a lot of old code that I didn't write, IDEs are a complete godsend. Features like 'find me everywhere this method gets called', or 'find everywhere this value gets written to', and just simple navigation between functions/files. They're a backbone of my maintenance programming strategies, and I don't know what I'd do without them.

I do all of my javascript coding in vim and don't miss IDEs so much, but that's because I mostly only work on my own javascript code. For large, multi-person projects I massively prefer working inside an IDE.
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The Foundation series by Asimov comes to mind.
No, it isn't a legitimate question. In fact, in an employment setting, it's an unlawful question. It presumes that the interviewer can extrapolate from the probably irrelevant detail of someone's pregnancy status to their ability to perform after the birth; refuting that bogus extrapolation requires the candidate to explain and defend their child care arrangements and home life.

As a practical matter, if someone in my company asked a candidate a question like that, premised on the candidate's ability to perform a job based on pregnancy status, I would fire the interviewer --- both because they were playing games with the most important function of the firm, and because they'd have exposed us to legal risk.
I'm not generally a big Disney person but the books on animation theory from them that I've bought are quite enjoyable.

There is book that the linked-to animation is based on: The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Frank Thomas

Two other Disney animation resources that I've picked up over the years include:

* The 2 volumes of Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes by Walt Stanchfield

* Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Archive Series in 4 volumes: Story (about storyboards not writing), Animation, Design, and Layout & Background

I haven't seen the flip books they released recently for each of Disney's "Nine Old Men" but it sounds interesting.