skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a culture of no respect of negative results in science. Although they are as important as positive, for some reason even scientists are actively avoiding to, for example, test old results to confirm them right or wrong, and instead they feel like they must do something absolutely new. After that there comes many contradicting studies and nobody putting much effort in resolving them.
Nice to know! Thanks for the link...
>it's possible that the various proxy wars that have been fought since WWII have killed more people than a hypothetical knock-down, drag-out WWIII would have

Mmm, no, I'm pretty sure that's not possible. It would be possible to have some kind of super-low-casualty 'world war' with fewer deaths than those, but not a knock-down, drag out world war.
The link is not down for me, I'm able to access it even if it takes some time to load it.
I live in New York where the subway and bus system is pretty extensive, and taxi and livery cabs are relatively plentiful in Manhattan. I take public transit every day, but I still take cabs and own a car as well. Subways get me to work and home every day. Taxis are nice for me and my wife to have a pleasant evening together. I've even used a Uber on days when the subways are failing me so I can get back home in time to relive my babysitter. The car is nice so my wife and kids can go shopping or take trips out of the city. These are all valid use cases equally applicable to living in San Francisco (where I've lived as well.) I see no hypocrisy here, nor any room for someone else's judgment that I'm a hypocrite.
With enough income, riding taxis daily becomes feasible. I think the question is distinguishing the two, instead of accusing everyone who uses them.
People in this type of situation usually volunteer. Your local library, school, or place of worship are the most common.

It's not as much fun as building a huge network, so you have to replace that part of the experience with the people - get to know the people there, and enjoy having them appreciate you (i.e. quality of interaction instead of quantity).
I used to live in Los Angeles (talk about Carmageddon) and I moved to New York 4 years ago. Since then I've sold my car and use subways, trains and my legs to get me to almost everywhere I need and once in a while I use a taxi or car service to get luggage somewhere or if it's late and I just need to get home without subway hassle.

I'm deeply considering moving to the Bay Area for reasons I won't go into here but I am really concerned that I will need to buy a car to survive. I spent 10 days there recently and I clocked almost 4 hours a day on the road to various places. In all fairness I had to commute in from up north (think Santa Rosa) for family reasons but I still had flash backs to my life in Los Angeles and the absolute necessity of having a car.

I’m doubtful that if I do move that I can find a commute to work as sweet as my current job. I walk (by choice) about 9 blocks and subway 9 more and can make the entire trip in 22 minutes anytime of day I like regardless of other commuters. In SF you have to consider traffic, bus overloading, being in just the right place at the right time to optimize your commute, or just buy a car or just use Uber and get there when you want on your schedule (still fighting traffic but that's the driver's problem).

Having grown up in Los Angeles I used to think SF public transportation was pretty advanced, but having lived in New York and the area here I realize trains, subways and the like are just much more effective here. My uninformed guess is because trains where ingrained in the local culture investments in subway, commuter trains and the like where easier to justify. In California the car was able to take hold early because of the sprawling nature of population distribution and since then it’s been near impossible to convince tax payers to build public transportation in face of all the other priorities for public tax dollars.

I think the “advent” of the electric car has made people feel they’re “doing the right thing” meanwhile it will not solve traffic issues and will only stall investment in public transportation by another fifty years.

I acknowledge the fact that many factors feed into transportation choices (Children, Luggage, Time, Schedules, Costs) but I also think underlying issues in a locality have a greater impact then individual choices. Walt Disney and Ray Bradbury both tried to fight the “good fight” for years in Los Angeles proposing Monorail systems and you can see where they managed to get.

To condemn individuals who use Uber and Lyft is like treating the symptom rather then curing the disease. Until we have real plans to make better transportation options available to the public they will continue to solve their daily problems using their own resources however they feel meets their needs. If you doubt this consider how many people ride horses to work these days…
I can't help but think of Howard Aiken's words, "don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
All of this looks awesome: http://jdh.hamkins.org/category/math-for-kids/
When I was a child, we had set theory in elementary school. They dropped it shortly afterwards, though I still think it's very elementary.
I think you have to think of the twitter experience as a progression where you start with people that you know/have heard of/can relate to, and over time you discover new interesting people in areas of your interest to connect with directly. So I feel like it makes sense to first suggest following a list of people you may recognize and want to hear more from, and from them get drawn into using the service more deeply. This applies to recognizable celebs / media / etc as well as friends. the company can do a lot of analysis to only suggest celebs, etc that do a good job of hooking users over time.

That said, having worked on some even earlier versions of this process (and with Ben too) it is a constant work in progress and set of changes needed as more and more people join the network. Today's users are later to twitter and probably don't want to just start and get drawn in following individuals but probably want content quickly that is personalized to them and would be open to learn twitter from there. But following accounts may itself be too much work. Or the challenge is just that mobile Signup is so common now that no one gets the experience and starting point from the web. In any case, the biggest challenge and opportunity with onboarding is just to constantly be changing learning and trying to improve it.
Automatically triggering an apk download is just that... a download. An install (from opening said apk) triggers a fullscreen dialog of what you are installing, it's access, and whether you are sure...?

It isn't dangerous at all, you can't 'accidently' install an apk. It is a very intentional, multi-step, action.
How the Raspberry Pi Foundation are hoping to change education (interview)
I dunno. I get the same feeling at my work a lot of the time.
Priceline to Buy OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
Fantastic! I'm going to print this out for my 9-year-old daughter to play with, and to teach to her friends when they come over (she loves to play school teacher). This is the kind of intuitive math games that I've been looking for to challenge her a bit without scaring her off with dry, boring stuff.

There's also the game of Sprout (or Sprouts) that is easy for kids to learn and has interesting mathematical implications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)
Actually the problem is that PT (there is even the word public in it) should be owned by the state and not by a company trying to make profit out of transportation.
This is mostly the same as https://github.com/appcelerator/hyperloop

I’m very, very curious to try it.
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In the "not completely fungible" part.

It is apparently hard to trade that many bitcoins for the equivalent amount of government-backed currency or goods.

To be fair to Bitcoin, it's not the only "currency" with that problem... during the Argentinean crisis, many local governments paid their workers with alternative currencies ("patacones" and others) which rapidly devalued.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patac%C3%B3n_(bond)
It's clear that Rust isn't stable yet, and won't be for a long time. It's impossible for me or anyone else to be incorrect when we point out that very real fact.

If you feel the need to vote down perfectly legitimate comments merely expressing a truth that you dislike, so be it. I can't stop you, and the others you've chosen to target can't stop you, either. However, reality will be reality, regardless of the voting. Rust will still remain unstable no matter how many down arrows you click.
> urban sprawl, a planning problem

No, it's not a planning problem, it's a "people don't want to live there" problem.

In the US people are simply not interested in living in a high density low population city.

They want either high density, high population, or low density, low population.

They would love low density, high population, but those don't exist much, so urban sprawl is the next best thing.
What SaaS will be valuable in the upcoming Google Glass era?
No value is inherent? The universe, say, has no value? I can certainly see possible frameworks in which this is true but they don't really appear to be useful in assessing relative worth. If we agree that things which can be utilised in order to provide gains in efficient production of fulfilment, happiness, [sense of] achievement, etc., then it seems that there are many things with inherent value, no?

For example, Gold is more readily worked than other metals and it's relative inertness makes it useful for carrying charge without causing a reaction (such as oxidation), additionally it has low resistance - these innate properties give it an inherent value by virtue of it's suitability for electrical connections.

If you're speaking on a the level of "value is a human construct"; well that's as may be but doesn't really aid in the discussion of human economics. I'm more than happy to discuss that but it seems we should stay within the locus of human experience here.

Or ...?
Having worked on various versions of this flow, I think this is backwards. Taking the user step by step to follow their first people teaches them the important of following and starts them on the path of that as a long term habit. Simply dumping them into the product with a few pointers and tips is a much worse experience. Most companies miss the power of onboarding as a teaching experience by walking new users step by step through the actions that will matter long term in using a product
So I've got to ask - what country?. Riots and a controlling government doesn't narrow it down. Is there any chance of emigrating? How are your dad's language skills - how's his English for example?

What things has he tried? Sending out speculative letters? Taking unpaid placements (if possible) to get a foot in the door?
Can he do these things remotely?

Can you help get overseas projects?

Can you setup a profile on eLance/etc where he can get projects?

Can you get an investment from Kiva or another crowd-funding site?
The microarchitecture of the MIT/LMI/TI machines wasn't particularly complicated, it had pipelined 3-address load-store instructions just like the first RISC CPUs. Apart from the functions to handle each Lisp instruction the microcode was basically a simple RTOS. In my view, the clever part of the design was in picking the minimal features needed from the microcode to allow everything else to be writtin in Lisp.

There was a proposal from Sun for a Java OS that seemed to me to copy the same split.

It is a pity that all the Ivory papers that were in journals still seem to be behind paywalls.
Maxwell 5 – An Introvert’s Path to Disinhibition
Priceline is buying OpenTable for $103/share in cash, or about $2.6 billion
get a bike
I agree. I share the author's sentiment that public transit needs to be improved. And, my view is more radical that private vehicles need to be all but abolished (except for conducting work, like carpenters, delivery people, etc.). And, Uber and Lyft are deeply problematic organizations, built on an ask-later "disruption" model that bakes in all kinds of shoddy assumptions about safety, working conditions, and so on.

Yet, the author's view that Uber/Lyft = taxi is just plain false. The author asks us to "imagine" the future, and suggests that there will be no taxis. Not in my future! Insofar as there are still roads (perhaps this is 100 years in the future, not 1000 years), I would like to see no private cars (again, other than for work), but having vehicles for hire makes a lot of sense. The environmental savings of having occasional taxi use with predominant transit, bike, and pedestrian traffic would be immense.
Here's a constructive response: We come together as a society and agree on some rules. Some people break the rules, (and they also withhold money that rightly belong to the community), so the rules say that in that event we take their money and dispense it for the greater good.
Crypto Law Survey (2013)
Universal Typeface Experiment [video]
What developers can learn from roller coaster engineers
I live in Shenzhen and would be willing to visit a factory and see if they're any good.
Please note that the "war on cryptography" is not over. There are still export controls in most of the world (including USA and EU).

For an up-to-date reference see http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls-sum.htm
I disagree. Berlins transport system is nice, but it is far from perfect. Ever have been there in the winter, or try to get on a bus when you are the only one waiting on a bus station? Berlin is famous for having many problems with their transportation system, some result form bad planning and technical and financial debt, some are cultural (people are unfriendly).

The metro in Paris is way nicer to use - more reliable, cheaper, drives very often and has a far reach. Same goes for Vienna and Hamburg.

I even prefer smaller middle sized cities systems, in France and Germany, at least on the day when they are working - and if they are not completely stupid, like causing themselves to be always late by letting the bus driver control the bus ticket.
But I disliked Berlin in general.
Could he start a hacklab? Find an old warehouse, put in some big tables and some equipment then invite people to come in and learn about engineering?

Some people got together nearby, got a government grant and setup a building to do just that. Charge a monthly fee to members and BAM! He's a business owner doing what he loves.
I went with a financial advisor because otherwise I know I would just leave the money in a savings account, or even worse, spend it. Working with First Command was what I needed at the time to get set up putting some money into an IRA plus some other investments every month. If you want to dedicate the time, and have the willpower to invest yourself I have no doubt you could do better, but not everyone is in the perfect situation to do that.
Well, nobody is forcing anyone to participate in the pool. People can just switch to other pools. But here again greed will win, because those who participate in biggest pool can expect most reward.
There are entire countries where the modus operandi is finding a position of some power, then finding a way to cheat there so you can get something for yourself. Corruption is a measure of success.

Knowing the loopholes and exploiting them means you're the smart one among a sea of clueless idiots. People get "secret" respect for being corrupted. Former Soviet block countries are one example of this mentality.

There's a reason certain countries can't make quick progress, while others can. Culture is the operating system of the mind, it affects how we perceive the world, how we make decisions, and ultimately where we're dragging the entire society with us.
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Yes. Yes it is. The country is Bulgaria.
There have been large tsunamis caused by underwater landslides - notably the Storegga Slide off Norway that inundated a lot of areas in what are now Scotland and Norway ~8000 years ago.

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

The Storegga Slide might also have been, at least partly, responsible for the disappearance of Doggerland under the North Sea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
> DON’T: Put FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and CHECKSUM.SHA256 onto the same FTP server and think that you’ve done something useful.

Actually, this is a bit wrong - it's just that this is not cryptography and security-related and doesn't have anything to do with authentication. It's the same reason why some fansubbers still include CRC32 into filename - basic unauthenticated integrity checking. Totally insecure, but still better than nothing.

I had case where downloaded file was broken - for some weird case either software, storage or a network had failed but TCP/IP checksumming didn't help and the fact was, I had wrong bits on the hard drive. I hadn't broadband connectivity at home and that cryptographically-pointless CHECKSUM.SHA256 (well, actually it was MD5) helped to find that out before I left the library.

And recently, the same concept had helped me to validate files with a faulty cloud storage service that managed to lose some chunks and silently replaced them with zeroes when I tried to download the data back.

Obviously, a signed file stored on another server would always be a better idea.

Just nitpicking.
In times of crisis sometimes is good we try new areas, maybe your father finds happiness working with something else.

A small business, something that he can be independent, owner.
Ah! I didn't realize that. Here's the direct link:
http://obeautifulcode.com/doc/Learn-REST.pdf
Who? Fundies assert that the world won't be flooded again (as per God's promise after the original flood). They are waiting for the world to be destroyed the second time by fire, not water.
Are there any screenshots showing side-by-side comparisons between the same app implemented using this technology running on the different platforms it supports?

I looked quickly through the article and the NativeScript web site, but couldn't find any. All I saw was rather useless marketing imagery.
So far you've included university research (Google), large public companies (Xerox), state-sanctioned monopolies (Bell), companies taking advantage of network effects (Facebook), startups (Google's big innovation was in search before the company was born), and anything funded by governments in your definition of a monopoly.

If you define monopoly in such a broad way it's really not surprising that most innovation happens there, because your definition encompasses most of human endeavour.
DhtmlxScheduler 4.1 released
I don't think your father need any help. You will just waste your time trying and there won't be any benefit for him.

He is an adult. I assume, because he is a IT professional he has a good education.

I bet he knows that there are countries where he can get a better pay job. But for his own reasons, he has decided not to pursue this endeavor. I bet he made a choice of staying where he is now consciously. Maybe it's not his cup of tea moving between countries.

Of course no harm talking to him and reiterating the above. But I bet he knows and made up his mind already.
O.J Simpson didn’t kill, it was O.J.’s son
Interesting. Will experiment with it and will push changes if successful. I guess the API is relatively new (Chrome 34) and I hadn't come across it, till now. Thanks!
"Once retired, the mass affluent also seem to replace the time once spent online doing business research with gambling, trivia, card games[...]."

I'm not sure if this is meant to be taken literally, or in the same sense you'd say, "As people age, they stop liking rock music and replace it with big band".
I agree with the sentiment, but at the same time I think some widely metric for a nonprofit's efficiency must exist. Overheads is not a suitable metric, but neither is the 'size of their dreams' which is basically what he's advocating.

I want to know that my donation is being used to further the cause as effectively as possible. Find a way to communicate that to me, and I will donate regardless of overheads.
Not really, If I were to buy a 60ft yacht from a government auction for $100,000 I wouldn't expect every yacht manufacturer to drop their price for a 60ft yacht to $100,000.

Individual sales mean nothing to overall valuations unless the saleable item is truly unique. Bitcoins aren't.
Ready Contact List Shows Your Communication History with Your Contacts
What I'd like is a companion booklet that looks with a bit more rigor and formalism at the topics - but not too much! - that would suit a Y13 (17-18yo) or an introductory lecture at undergrad level. I've never really had a proper introduction to graph theory.

Incidentally this has come at the perfect time. I was just discussing with my 8 yo different fields of mathematics and which symbologies he's used and starting him on Boolean set operations. Graph theory was mentioned (by me!) so this will be a good flexi-day if he wants to follow up on it.

A nice accompaniment might be a lightbot like game for exploring Eulerian paths.
Woo...Daily Mail being used as a news source I'd avoid that comic in future, it's the UK equivalent of the National Enquirer.
The problem with that reply is that it's denying the antecedent. The original point was regarding a hypothetical country that jettisons its patent architecture, or never evolved a restrictive one to begin with. Using the US as a counterexample is arguing a different question.

As the original comment pointed out, the US has been successful, but it could be for many confounding reasons.
For me, the "discovery" of memristors felt strangely like predicting a fundamental particle based on known symmetries, where one of these symmetry slots has not yet been observed.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_Way_(physics)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
The country is Bulgaria. His English is fluent. He has developed a project which requires funding, yet no one wants to fund, because of the unstable situation.
And that such behavior it's detected and will ban you from battle.net.
I usually turn garbage collection off, and then explicitly call it just in places where I need to free up memory. I get a modest 5-10% speed boost from that alone.

Another trick is to look at your innermost loops, and make sure you aren't doing accessing anything fancier than a variable.

Example

Bad:

for i in onemillionthings:
for j in onemillionotherthings:
print SomeClass.otherthing.A

Better:
tempvar=SomeClass.otherthing.A
for i in onemillionthings:
for j in onemillionotherthings:
print tempvar
This is great; however, I don't quite understand how you can 'be stuck with' (i.e. choose) the second-best option if the very-best occurs in the first 37%... Surely you wouldn't be able to realise/decide that there is no one better than the best from the first group, if that is the case, until the end — by which point it's too late?

Am I missing something? Surely...
Naked flashmob protests against hidden bank charges in Central London
Priceline snaps up OpenTable for a tasty $2.6bn
I married the first girl I dated because I waited to date someone I was truly attracted to, that I felt was my mental equal and who could hold a real discussion (plus she's beautiful). We've now been married 27 years ... I hope it's not a fluke!