skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need to be in Harvard, you can do the same thing on the Somerville border off Kirkland/Washington St - I used to live in Somerville and do that whenever it was too icy/snowy to safely bike.

Also, I believe you can safely ignore HUPD parking tickets until you get ~20 of them, or if you want to register your car with Harvard for some reason.
Actually, it says he is 24.2827266, in counting
Willpower is the greatest force in our world and 99.999999% of us have a limited quantity of it. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco addiction; overeating and lack of exercise; not working or studying hard enough. Are you really trying to say anybody can overcome those by "doing and completing something because its important to you"?
I love the design and feel of the site. What would you say are the most important insights from tracking your activities that lead to any significant changes in your lifestyle?
It sounds like a bitter over worked employee tried to retaliate in any way she could. I know I have no evidence to back this up but neither does this article.
(Sandstorm author here.)

Based on a brief skim of the Mirage docs, it looks like a really big difference between Mirage and Sandstorm is that Mirage wants apps to be written in OCaml based on a custom API whereas Sandstorm builds of Linux. Any server app that runs on Linux should be easy to port into Sandstorm, but it seems like a lot of things will need to be written from scratch on Mirage.

In fact it appears Mirage intends to replace the kernel entirely. I can certainly see the appeal of dumping legacy baggage, but it's going to take quite a bit of work to reach the point of practicality.
Advantages: Quick to apply for. Quick to integrate.

Disadvantages: Comparatively expensive.
Cambridge -> LA transplant here. (Westside) LA seems much worse - the overall number of tickets might be roughly similar, but each one is $65-80 here.
In the film industry, you always hear about some other city being the next Hollywood. The problem is, it's an industry, not a city. If you want to make blockbuster movies, the entire area there is built around providing the services to do all that. If you need a special, weird prop, they've got a guy who has two of them or can make you one in an hour.

The same is true in Silicon Valley. You need some special coding or hardware, they've got a whole subdivision of those guys on 24-hour call. No problem.

You don't find that in any other city for those two industries. You wouldn't want to start a wheat operation in San Francisco but cause they don't have the tools sitting in a store down the street with 10 farmers who know how to use it. Go to Kansas, young man.
Heard this idea a few times, e.g. a "Social time bomb". Very hard to actually make work, as it depends on friends to check achievements and punish the originator.
Hi,
I've got an iOS app that allows car enthusiasts to measure their car performances :https://itunes.apple.com/app/perfexpert/id549390700?mt=8
I would be interested for the translation in Japanese. I can send you a promo code to download the app for free, so you can see the amount of text to translate.
Thanks
Claude Joseph-Angélique
Founder at PerfExpert
Mongol rally trip (Sweden to Mongolia) mapped using only social network data
Levittown itself arguably embodied the best and worst of the postwar American story; it was a result of the entrepreneurship and ingenuity that has come to define the American spirit, but it also participated in the violent prejudice that has also been part of American history.

It really irks me when all the good stuff is attributed unquestionably to American Entrepreneurship, and for all the accompanying bad stuff there's a long and nuanced story with lots of historical context and no clear, single, indistinguishable cause.

This sort of thing is too common. Here's another instance of this sort of reasoning far closer to home: rugged entrepreneurship clearly explains the massive success of the US tech industry, but exploitative labor practices in hardware and device manufacturing are caused by a myriad of global geopolitical and economic circumstances that cannot be obviously explained by any one factor.

edit: to be clear, "the story is complicated and there's no one cause" is the correct answer in both cases. Obviously. But also, in many cases, entrepreneurship benefits either passively or actively from nascent conditions. For instance, large swaths of sub-urbanization were undoubtedly driven by white flight.
Customers are spending nearly twice as long at the restaurant because they are busy with their phones, yet the restaurant says "the number of customers we serve on a daily basis is almost the same today as it was 10 years ago." How can they serve the same number of customers if each is taking twice as long? Were half of their tables empty 10 years ago?
In this situation, not really. Bitcoin's proof-of-work scheme means that if you see two different versions of the blockchain, whichever chain is longer will (with very high probability) be the globally-accepted version. But that assumes you have the ability to communicate with at least one non-malicious node.

In this case, there's a single communications channel that could be spoofed by anyone with a transmitter powerful enough to drown out the legitimate signal.
I'm not sure they are exactly hidden. I'd consider them household names. BASF and Bayer are larger, Dow and DuPont are roughly the same same size as Monsanto, and Sysgenta is slightly smaller. In hindsight, it would have probably been better to say that Monsanto is a medium sized business, relatively speaking, in that agriculture space.
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I think it's cute, but the overconfidence bias bit in the beginning is frustratingly geo-centric.

It's all general knowledge questions using imperial measurements, dollar spending power and american supermarket stats.

This needs a shrug button.
Hello, I'm the owner of the blog, I have changed the blue bar now to be only in the header, should improve things and no longer get into the content.

I need to look into this in detail at some point, but for now it should be readable.
Fundamentally, we already have self-replicating robots with nano-level structures that consume materials from their surroundings and build new copies. They're called bacteria. The interesting bit over here is not the observation, but the question why we aren't all covered in bacterial goo miles thick like run-away nano-technology. (we do have them all around us and in us for what its worth)

I think a part of the answer is that if you have free form replication that isn't perfect, then sooner or later something is going to emerge from that goo that realises that it's just more efficient to eat the goo. Combine that self correcting cycle with hard limits imposed by nature (presumably they need to have a power source to make it work - the goo would start to die the minute it gets to a millimetre because of inaccessible sunlight. Then there is toxicity, what happens to the waste? Heat dissipation. Structural issues and other things...) and you have the recipe for a shorter sci-fi series than Firefly. (Dear Mark, today we succeeded in making self replicating nano-robots. They were exponentially multiplying within the petri dish and then they stayed in the petri dish, because apparently nano-robots are tastier than glass and metal. Doesn't matter though, we cracked open the crate of champagne anyway.)

Which is also an argument against von Neumann probes, btw. Perfect replication isn't possible, so sooner or later you are going to see a ton of weird errors accumulate to unpredictable behaviour... (perhaps a shark that goes around "eating" other probes?)
They're newer than hackreactor, but you should check out MakerSquare. They're definitely above average, but might be what you're looking for - a high starting bar, but emphasis on diverse backgrounds.
I'm sorry about that. That's on me. It was necessary to edit it to get below the 80 char limit for post titles.
After reading this article I can tell that the author does not understand the problems going on in Detroit and has not even been there. The city is a 3rd world country. Besides the abandoned/burned out buildings and crime the city has serious business relation problems. There are no grocery stores within city limits because of lack of customers and local crime rates. Go to google maps and look for meijer, walmart, target, etc and none are in the city. This is a very unattractive position for both businesses and employees since most other cities do not have this problem. Shopping in Detroit is not convenient at all.

Add to that the high unemployment rate, the police problems, the near infinite amount of house and building fires, the poor public transit system and the total lack of bike lines. The only positive to Detroit is cheap land and buildings in many cases. Almost forgot about the city filing for bankruptcy too, that never inspires confidence.
Non-gated MIT parking lots are freely available after 5PM on weekdays and all day on weekends and MIT holidays.
The next attack on journalism might be great curation, not robots. Why ? because no single human has the capability to write the best story in any given case.Add to that the capabilities of unpaid bloggers, industry insiders and the like, you get a serious threat to journalism.

Alas ,there are no great content curation tools AFAIK.But when there will be...
Ok, so this person did have sex with someone else in order to get a better job. She did not get it and then sued.

For me this is not sexual harassment, just prostitution that was unpaid.
Your Startup Environment May Be Killing Innovation
I'm 95% sure that javert was referring to "freedom" sarcastically. This is very common on Reddit and other sites.
We seem to have a similar mindset and interests. Contact info is in my profile -- drop me a line so we can chat (there's no contact info in your profile). I plan to participate in the MongolRally, take a look, perhaps it might be your cup of tea, too.
The real meaning of Amazon's FirePhone
Document shows that it was not NSA, but FBI that monitored 5 Americans
Today we are more taxed and more regulated than ever.

Say what? Tax rates in the U.S. have been trending down for decades, especially for the wealthy.

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

See the section titled "History of income tax rates adjusted for inflation".
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For instance, large swaths of sub-urbanization were undoubtedly driven by white flight.

Um, no. Not in the case of Levittown.

Just after WWII, suburbanization was driven by the fact that a) there had been a terrible, deep and long recession just prior to the war 2) during the war, with two income families unable to have kids because hubby was off at war overseas and wifey was working in a factory at home, savings rates approaches 50% for some parts of the war (in part due to rationing -- people were encouraged to grow vegetable gardens so that what farmers grew could go to feed our soldiers overseas) 3) women who had been recruited to work in factories during the war were encouraged to go home and have babies and be full time wives so the returning soldiers could get jobs (and many women were very happy to do that) 4) a very high percentage of men had served in the military and now qualified for federal help with getting a house, as well as federal help with going to college.

This is the roots of the sudden large middle class you saw in the 1950's. And that is the root of the high demand for housing, which America worked hard to meet in record time. We are still living with the legacy of that decades later when our demographic has changed and it no longer serves us that well.

I have no doubt that this benefited whites more than blacks. But it was not rooted in whites trying to get away from blacks/cities/whatever per se.

Edit: My point about Victory Gardens was about the impact on personal finances. They also rationed sugar, cigarettes and other things. The point is that there were a lot of two income families who were not having children and there were also no luxury items to buy during the war. So personal savings rates were crazy high.
It's nice to have metrics to measure your progress with an exercise routine (walking, running, strength training), weight loss effort (lbs lost, fat %), etc. Although there are always narcissists, I think many people just like quantifying their progress. Just like receiving grades to measure your understanding when you were in school, these metrics allow you to assess whether you are moving in the right direction, and if so, to feel a sense of accomplishment. Wanting to be fit and healthy does not equal narcissism.
(almost all of the TCB of an OS is the kernel, is what I should have said)
Thanks all. I created a new FAQ page for Funcgo, seeded with the questions and answers from this forum. https://github.com/eobrain/funcgo/blob/master/doc/FAQ.md
In metric:

25000 feet = 7620m, which approximates to 7.6 km ;)

6000 feet ~= 1800m

1500 feet ~= 450m
There's libbsd for Linux, although I can't comment on the quality of its implementation.
Can you expand on this? What would great curation/curation tools look like? I feel like I agree with this insight, but don't know much about the field.
I thought it was defined as "no use of pesticides". Other stuff is often included like fertilizers or genetic modification, but I don't see how that is relevant.
As a programmer and person in high tech, I'm in awe of the Iron Dome. The speed with which it has to make decisions, and with which it does so, and the number of rockets that it has knocked out the sky, demonstrate what an amazing piece of technology this is. I've been programming for a long time, but still can't begin to imagine the complexity of the calculations that these systems are doing, and how well they've managed to pull it off.

As an Israeli citizen whose home is in the range of the Hamas rockets, it's hugely comforting to know that this technology has been deployed. I'll be teaching a Python class in Tel Aviv tomorrow, and while I can basically expect that Hamas will be sending a bunch of rockets aiming to kill me (or anyone else they can), I'm happy to know that our interruptions will likely be annoying and frustrating, rather than lethal.

As an Israeli citizen who doesn't want to see our foot soldiers in Gaza (for a very large number of reasons), I'm also happy that Iron Dome gives our government time before sending them in.

The situation with Gaza, and with the Palestinians, is a pretty bad one, although I remain optimistic over the long term. For now, though, anything that reduces the threat of rockets that Hamas is sending at us strikes me as a good thing.
great suggestions already.. just a possible addition i'd suggest:

put together a public repo of your coursework, you could even guise it as side projects by personalising the work

surely your coursework had some practical andor mathematical algo exercises that can show your understanding of and interest in programming
Indeed, at the first sign of any harassments, employees should be smart enough to protect themselves by starting to collect evidence that might help to build their case for a formal complaint or lawsuit.

The article mentioned that she was coerced to have "oral and digital sex", it should not be hard to produce transcripts of such harassment.
Okay. I'm reading this: "Diamond also found that as cities increased their share of college graduates between 1980 and 2000, they also increased their bars, restaurants, dry cleaners, museums and art galleries per capita. And they experienced larger decreases in pollution and property crime, suggesting that cities that attract college grads benefit from both the kind of amenities that consumers pay for and those that are more intangible."

And my reaction is: yes, there is inequality, but what we're seeing here is that college graduates are improving their cities. Awesome!

And I really dislike this 30,000-foot view of humanity:

"""
"When you have more college grads, all of these amenities seem to improve in your city," Diamond says. "But that may be at the expense of kicking out lower skilled workers to other cities."

It also comes at the expense of other cities that may lose their college grads. What happens to Toledo and Baton Rouge without them?
"""

I'm not subservient to helping cities-- I'm going to cities because of my own interests, and I absolutely reject any guilt to bringing down those cities. I dislike this attitude that sees people as pawns that we should move around for political goals rather than as people who are just living their lives.
It has potential but they need to fix two things:

-make standard units available: liters, kilograms, meters;

-allow users to express full range of my beliefs; I have no idea how many reincarnations of Dalai Lama there was I guessed 1000 and wanted to set a straight line from 1 to infinity (or something going down to 0 slowly). It didn't allow me to; it's not overconfidence from my side, it's a bug on your side :)
BINGO! FPGAs, thank you!
Amazing site, I think I like the age counter most of all!
An offer of career advancement for sex would be sexual harassment whether or not the offer was accepted, and, if accepted, whether the promised advancement was granted or was not.
Try the share trick:

http://www.quora.com/Object-Oriented-Programming/Was-object-...
For modern cars, maintenance is not a significant expense compared to the purchase price and fuel. Insurance is cheap if one's not driving an expensive truck.

I disagree with both of these assertions.

No need to buy new, let some other sucker eat the depreciation. A 3-4 year old Corolla (or equivalent) shouldn't cost more than $10k.

According to edmunds.com, your typical 4 year old Toyota Corolla will cost closer to $15k+.
Paul Graham[1] and many others have covered the unique challenges in recreating Silicon Valley elsewhere. It seems like the author didn't address some obvious holes in Detroit that prevent it from becoming a world class focal point instead of an outpost for a handful of companies.

[1]Some old PG essays about factors to create a "Silicon Valley":

2006: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

2009: http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html
That is correct, if by "reasonable quantity" you mean, "not adding any to your diet that already has plenty of fruit and vegetables."
To be honest the copy looks fine. What swings the decision to download an app for me are the images showing the interface (generally a walkthrough) and the app icon. That and the reviews.

Possibly tie the random title generator to the 'pieces' idea? It is essentially writing prompts yes?
Ask HN: What book are you reading?
Years ago, I discovered many great books to read here in HN. I wonder if asking this question again, some new books or interesting lectures can pop up. TKS!
It's hard to rule anything out, but I think using non-atomic matter would be very difficult for a few reasons.

(1) Subatomic particles are not necessarily smaller than atoms. Even though in the particle sense, an electron is infinitely small, in the wave sense, an electron can extend over a volume much larger than a single atom. So it's not necessarily the case that a subatomic particle like an electron is smaller than an atom. (Also, the positive charge of the nucleus actually helps shrink the electron's range. So adding positive particles can end up making the system smaller.)

(2) If you want a transistor every 1.5 nm, then you probably need at least one particle every 1.5 nm. And the only way you can pack matter that densely is if it's charge neutral (a clump of singly charged particles would immediately disperse from electric repulsion). So you either need a combination of positive and negative particles (atoms), or neutral particles like photons/neutrons/neutrinos. The problem with neutral particles is that there's no long-range forces to keep them in whatever structure you design. Gravity is too weak at that scale, and electromagnetism has no effect because they are neutral. Perhaps photons could be used for computation, but without using atoms for mirrors/lenses/waveguides/etc it's hard for me to imagine how.

TL;DR: Atoms are an efficient way to pack particles and preserve structure. It's hard to imagine doing it with a plasma or gas or something else.
I am not sure how that could be prevented without reducing inequality. And I don't see how to raise the income of lower educated people in a world which is ever more automated.
Keep an eye on http://www.superious.com
I agree with you. This quote as well is quite dickish: "I'm a white male which is the most awesome thing to be anywhere on the planet. "
Video of the game on the Pebble for those curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD_jgNTzv5M#t=30
The newer data shows the same feeble trend as before. A little plus, a little minus. Press releases notwishstanding the signal has been weak and remains weak. Best to avoid confirmation bias here.
Now that the glibc leadership changes have taken place, hopefully we can see functions like arc4random, explicit_bzero, timingsafe_bcmp, reallocarray and the other stuff actually appear in glibc where they belong, so no glue will be required.

They are pretty damn useful when you're trying to do secure programming.

(Of course, arc4random should use ChaCha20.)
At that time, in those jurisdictions, you could only get divorced under very precise circumstances. One of the few ways was for one spouse, typically the woman, to assert "extreme cruelty."

I don't know any more about this divorce than anyone else here but I do know that at the time people did whatever it took to fit in the required "extreme" criteria.
> anyone who's worried about pesticides having residual effects on them (and doesn't get in direct contact with the stuff) has never tried to make pesticides stay on those god damned plants long enough to work.

Well, if we're going to be fair about it, the fact that it washes off the surface of plants so easily doesn't mean it's just gone and not causing residual effects elsewhere.
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"Robot journalism" is good for journalism in the same way that outsourcing is good for programmers and engineers: drudge code entry that needs to be done can be identified and contracted out at a much lower rate, therefore saving the in-house programmers to do innovative, business-expanding work.

However, that reality doesn't always follow, depending on the dynamics of the business and the forward-thinkingness of management. And this is in engineering/technical companies that are making viable amounts of money. Will the managers who run cratering news companies have the same foresight? Not going to hold my breath.

(note: I fully support the automation of writing/observation of digital feeds...I'm just skeptical that the journalism industry will apply it either efficiently or in a way that benefits their human workers)
I think you misunderstand what "oral and digital sex" means
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