skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or energy moving vehicals & people such great distances
> until very recently, San Francisco had a policy of randomized school assignments

San Francisco still does and middle class families continue to move away (not just due to public schools but housing prices) -- the others spend $25k-40k per year per kid on private schools. SFUSD uses a lottery approach and at one elementary school, 1210 children applied for 22 open slots -- a 1.8% acceptance rate. One of the major critiques of the city is how many of the tech workers in the city wouldn't be there today if they had gone through the SF public school system.

Until the US has a tiered system like Germany which allows high-achieving students to be challenged for the university and regular students to go through an extensive apprenticeship program guaranteeing well-paid jobs, people will continue to move to the suburbs for better schools.
So 840M that live on more than $2 a day, then. That's around the combined population of the US and Europe.
I am very curious about the zlib improvements. I would like to see more details about that.
Now that the suburbs people want to move to the city with all of their square footage, they're destroying my 100 year old neighborhood, bulldozing Victorian and Craftsman homes to build zero lot-line homes in their places.

It makes me want to throw up. Every time the council pushes for a Historic Overlay, it turns into a revolt with Tea Party style propaganda.
Anyone know if this would work with Mailguns cool email signature parsing library? http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-pa... as in, easily build an api for it?
I can never resist linking this whenever this comes up: http://classicgames.about.com/od/history/p/Playcable-For-Int...
The per capita rate of innovation (2004)
Eh? What do you consider "full line"?

I'm pretty sure Netflix uses it due to the highly variable usage situation. It never makes sense to have a server sitting idle for 23 hours a day.
> Inside a full mock-up of a nuclear launch control center, Andrew Beckner and Patrick Romenafski practice the launch of nuclear weapons with the turn of a key

"Hey people, this isn't pointing to production, is it?"
The problem is that advertisers' business model essentially relies on the silent cooperation of the consumer. The ads are rendered on my device which is under my control. I'm under no obligation to render any content from anyone who buys ads from anybody. Not to mention the advertisers are using my $'s to push content to my device.

The amazing thing is that this business model continues to operate reasonably successfully and that more people aren't actively working against it. On the other side of this, I think the "extortion" business model is limited because there'll be alternate providers of ad blockers. To some extent we've seen similar tactics in the TV world with digital video recorders that allow you to mask/fast forward through commercials.

Now one might argue that the way content providers can fund good content is through advertising, which is true to some extent but it's not a very fair or reliable business model.
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They also had minimalist infrastructure. I'm pretty sure if we went back to the days of outhouses and running to the local creek for water, that it would be more cost sustainable to be as spread out as we are. It would also be a regression.
I find that's mostly a function of how spread out LA is. Public transit is always going to be slower than personal transport - it's got to stop every so often, or what's the point? - and that's just magnified by the distances involved.

Also, we don't have great public transit through high-traffic areas from where people are to where they want to go, because we've got this weird kind of medium density continuous sprawl. There just aren't that many of the good high-density locations at which to place Metro stops, although that seems to be changing more because people go "Hey, let's get a stop here, and then we'll /become/ a destination location."

Also, I don't know of any city I've been in where the "Buses suck, subway rocks" relationship isn't true. I don't think it's just a "buses for poor people" thing, but I don't know what's going on to cause this anecdotally widely observed phenomenon.
I'm curious about what inaccuracies are you referring to? Coinbase is not a trading platform (no serious trader would pay 1% fees), Kraken does not accept ACH deposits and so on. Can you be more specific? BTW, I love both Coinbase and Kraken (they serve very different needs and do it well).
I would resist the urge to give too much credit to luck and marketing when it comes to indie game success. Notable outliers like Bastion, Sword + Sworcery, and FTL were all stunning executions. The FTL team did almost no marketing, but released a product that spoke directly to the target market of desktop gamers. Passionate people played it, liked it, and told others.

It's hard to achieve that level of success because it's hard to execute on that level of excellence with a concept that resonates with an audience.

There are other paths to financial success, surely, where monied studios can pump out derivative crap with in-app purchases and virtual goods. I guess the talent there comes from being able to tune experiences designed for shallow addiction, like food scientists creating the cheese dust for Doritos. But I don't think that's the only path.
Let's just say modern suburbs are quite different than they used to be. There's been lots of lessons learned and as a buyer, I won't buy in an area that's not at least of this style.

Is it as convenient as a dense city? No, but my standard of living makes the affordable parts of most cities look like tenement housing in comparison.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy cities as much as the next person. But economics is a major problem that cities have to overcome. Equivalent housing in a city is one or two orders of magnitude more expensive. Cities are great for lots of things but I don't use most of those things more than ever once in a while even while living in a city. May as well live someplace nicer the other 90% of the time and take the the easy access public transport in when I really want to see a museum or go to a concert or whatever.
Something like this http://www.vitvodka.by/catalog/49_142.html - vodka in 1 liter canisters?

Someone might make a business in importing or making such products to USA :)
Fast track what? Per the article this research still has a long way to go both in terms of efficiency but more in terms of recharge cycles before it is even near usable. It isn't even on level with Lithium Ion batteries yet.

Even if the US military and Tesla got behind this who are they going to bring in to help? This Stanford team is near the best we have right now (if not the absolute best).

Now when they're producing batteries which are better than what is already available on the market AND are near as safe (if you can call current Lithium Ion batteries "safe") then, sure, fast track away.
Startup Cities: Can entrepreneurship save politics?
Yeah, I know that. Specifically bright blue lights. I wondered what people did to avoid blue light in the few hours before they went to bed. Turns out dim, orange lamps are one answer.
Simi Valley is a special case in LA. It is far from downtown (almost 50 miles), far from Santa Monica even (40 miles), and in a valley of its own, just beyond the farthest reaches of the San Fernando Valley ("the Valley"). It is deliberately isolated from the rest of the LA basin. In general, people live there because they want to be away from anything urban.

If you're into NYC comparatives, its isolation and ethos compares to Staten Island. Lots of cops and firefighters.
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You should be able to register. To start trading, can you please email us the email address you used to register. Email address is no in our profile.
Donations is not a business model.
I'm fascinated by this idea of a deep web only accessible by the cognoscenti. Presumably if a link slips out then the deep web becomes a lot shallower?
Define walking distance. If you're talking about more than 15 or 20 minutes I think we have different definitions.

Most people cannot get more than a grocery store from a walk away if they live in a suburb.
I'm not opposed to people expressing their opinions. I'm simply explaining why I disagree.
I'm surprised nobody is talking about the actual game!? It's really not standing out. Another "Word" type game that barely innovates on the genre.

I guess people are so focused on marketing, user acquisition and not .... wait for it.... PRODUCT!
I retract my "anybody old enough to remember" comment then. :)
If I use this to play music, will my computer still go to sleep and stop playback like when I use a brower-based music app?
Do you have a source or some insight you could share as to when a company should move away from AWS? A quick google search turns up $1000 per square foot[1] for a buidling a datacenter. There's also a nice discussion on reddit[2], but there's no talk of cost. I think this is an interesting economics? problem and would like to hear more on it if anyone has the time.

[1]http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=920078
[2]http://redd.it/16m9pq
I know a family with two young kids that do not have a car. The use public transportation and try to live near a grocery store. They seem to be more of the exception than anything else. It's not impossible, just difficult.
This is an awesome usecase! All it needs is the 'talon' python library to work? If so, I'll add support for talon right now.

PS - to see the libraries we currently support, check out: https://api.blockspring.com/documentation
> AWS is unbelievably lousy at support.

Compared to whom? Google? How many times have you seen tickets like [1] for Android, Gapps, etc? Additionally, the google cloud platform onboarding was so bad, I almost gave up a $500 credit in frustration.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/HTX9cLb...
mine was wrong to. I am 34, my friends average 32.XX. I put younger and was told wrong.
After having spent a month in Russia, another large country with significant distance between cities, it appears they have solved the problem. Instead of building out, they've built dense vertical cities where everything you need is within close walking distance. And around 40% of Russians have a dacha, or 'summer house', located in enclaves within pubic transit distance from their city where they can stretch their feet and/or work the soil.

My guess at the reasons Russian cities developed this way is due to central planning and costs to build and maintain roads. Now, I'm not advocating central planning. The reasons suburbs exploded were due to the subsidization of once unaccessible land by the federal government via interstates. Take away the pricing distortions from land and we'll have to build up. A solution to this is market based - sell of the interstate system and let users fund them.
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The one thing to add to this is that usually each state doesn't emit a single token ("I am in state 1" then "I am in state 2") but instead you assume that each state has a range of possible actions and the likelihood of a choice of action varies with state.

So if might not be that your model is sunny versus rainy but instead cold front v warm front. Since rain is more likely during a cold front your observation of rain increases your belief that the system is in the "cold front" state.
In a neighborhoods with similarly aged houses the roofs are going to need replacing pretty much in unison aren't they?
To be fair, the stuff you are talking about is targeted malware. The odds of people being actively targeted rather than passively surveilled is orders of magnitude in difference.

Everyone is being passively watched at some level, even if it is just for billing purposes.

Defense is always about defense in depth. Always.
Welcome to Hacker News!

"Show HN" is a special category for sharing your work when there's something people can play with. If you don't have a publicly available release for users to try out yet, don't worry. Just make a regular post (i.e. don't put "Show HN" in the title) and then come back and do the Show HN when you're ready.

The Show HN guidelines are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. And you're welcome to email us any questions: hn@ycombinator.com.

The page you posted made it look like the app wasn't ready for people to try yet. If it actually is, go ahead and make another Show HN post (you may need to use a slightly different URL). I'd recommend that you make it more obvious from the web page how people can get the software to try it, or users may end up flagging it again. Good luck!
The article says that they've made significant breakthroughs and have solved some of the problems but there are still a few that they are working on.

The ones that are already solved need methods of mass-production, which requires funding and highly skilled researchers. Get a team together under the researchers to work on every part of this battery problem so that when all of the aspects of the advanced battery are figured out it's ready to be mass-produced as soon as possible. I'm not sure, just anything at all to increase the speed of this work.

Sure, being the best matters a lot, but it's also about trying numerous methods and having different approaches and specialties. Going from the lab to mass-production is something that the researchers in the article can't focus on if they are still working on other parts of the battery. I'm sure there are people who would be willing to help, but not for free.
This could be a good content marketing play as well for qualified lead gen outreach on other platforms -- offer clear value to developers in exchange for their e-mail addresses and accompanying data points about those developers.
> My problem with this is from the deception; imagine if it turned out that Dogfish Head and Stone brewing were actually buying their beer from MillerCoors!

Kona Brewing has the vast majority of their beer brewed in facilities on the mainland. Many people buy the beer thinking it's a brewed in Hawaii beer, but realistically it's just brewed on the mainland according to Kona's specs.

With consolidation in the craft beer industry I'd only expect more of this sort of truthiness in the future.
From the article: "In addition, they always end up competing on every front possible, hence the chatter about Dropbox moving away from AWS since AWS has now come out with a competitive product. It appears that it’s just not in Amazon’s nature to collaborate with others."
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Rackspace leaps to mind.
I find that surprising. Linode support never contacted me regarding resource usage. Not even when one of the servers has been under DDOS. I contacted them first notifying of such event. And that was it.

I agree with harpastum. I think you're confusing automatic email notifications based on your own settings with Linode support. I feel like you have to seriously abuse their infrastructure to get them to contact you.

Disclaimer: has been a happy Linode customer for over 4 years now.
You might think that, but practically the entire Scotch whiskey industry also rolls up into Diageo, Bacardi, and Pernod, and it might be hard to argue that the regulatory environment in Scotland disfavors distilleries.
Wow, I'm almost diametrically opposed to your views. That's actually fairly cool.

I abhor personal motor vehicles, refused to even get my license at 16 and have managed exceptionally well over the last 7 years. I've put several thousand miles on my bike(s) over the years as my main mode of transportation, though I do also use public transit quite often. Living near SLC, Utah our transit is fair, but stupidly expensive.

I grew up in the suburbs, and felt approximately 0 connection to those around me. Living in an apartment building I have conversations with people sitting on their porch/balcony quite often. I don't even particularly enjoy people either.

I have no opinion on the lawn to be honest, at the moment there is more than enough land for those who want it to enjoy.

I actually enjoy the close proximity of various buildings, which very very rarely can be called loud, ugly, or smelly. I don't live next to a manufacturing plant, so yeah..

Pedestrian infrastructure is necessarily improved due to the greater density of people, but this isn't really an issue that I've found in the suburbs either.

If I have a party there is more than enough parking surrounding my apartment building that it really doesn't matter. Granted I can't have a bonfire or blast music, but I've been there/done that and don't miss it.

I miss basically nothing about the suburbs. Always felt too hostile, too "fuck you, got mine." Maybe it was the people, maybe just the neighborhood, but I'd kneecap myself before I went back.
Stipulate that somebody has an exploit for libjpeg, and that's probably enough to own a phone by texting them. That said, with a libjpeg exploit, there's a lot more fun one can have.
I also was confused but I think he was referring to the constant (alleged) behavior of Amazon towards his portfolio companies in which they act like partners/potential acquirers and then just build the tech themselves.
My point was not that the lists are the exact same thing as search results, my point is that users don't care about the tiny details of whether a particular app is #7 or #8.

If you conducted a survey of App Store users and asked them to give you the numerical rank of a given app ("was it 8 or 9?"), I would surprised if many could remember, and shocked if any cared.

Why do users view those lists? As you point out, to browse for new apps. The precise numerical ranking does not help them very much to do that; therefore a user-centered design process should not care very much about how precisely accurate the displayed rankings are.

Edit to add: Users have no way to independently verify rankings anyway, so the concept of a "false" shift from 9 to 8 has no meaning to them. They don't know what's false, only what's useful.
Massive authoritarianism via social engineering and taxpayer funded government coercion to force people to live the right way, at least as defined by certain people, rather than being permitted by big brother (oh the irony) to live freely, the way they want to live.

I don't know if the ends are all that bad. The means being proposed is just horrific.

To some extent its inevitable, if decades of persuasion and experimentation have had little effect and prove very few people want to live that way, you're going to have to send in cops and lawyers, bankrupt some people, destroy some healthy and stable communities. Otherwise you'll never get the rush of "fixing" them.

I believe a lot of it is jealousy and/or corrupt real estate churn proposals. A couple blocks from company HQ there's a nice slum where I could buy an entire city block of crack houses for the cost of my one suburban house. There's people who aren't happy about that and want to make money off some real estate churn. Have .gov force the sales price of my house down to 10K and they can buy it, while I forcing me to move into the slum and pay $250K to them to buy their $10K house from them. I'm not interested in participating in that business model.

If real estate transaction volume is low and declining, and the purpose of .gov is to enforce the continuation of all dead/dying business models, and people are pretty much living where they want to right now, it makes sense to have .gov start forcing them to move, get some commissions, bust some blocks and redevelop some others (all with .gov funds funneled to the right people of course), etc.
Is it possible for your app (or any) to offer to revoke it's own access after it's finished?
Most areas don't really have very interesting or unique character worth preserving. Suburbs aren't built in interesting areas for the most part. Unless some local industrial corn farm or poverty stricken country town who's claim to fame was being near a rail junction (no longer used) is unique or interesting or worth preservation.

One of the reasons for the economic dominance of big box stores over quaint mom and pop shops is simple economics. Small store usually don't offer the best prices or selection. It's only at the weird long end of the tail can they exist, selling stuff that's not of a big enough general interest for the big stores.
I don't use them, but I have been impressed by the bus rapid transit lines through the Valley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro)

They run on dedicated right-of-way. Not just their own lane, but their own road. Not as nice as a subway, but approaching it.
Thanks for the transcoding tips: will look into that.

Wasn't actually thinking about github for this: if I develop a lot of free time I might tidy it up for public consumption, but by default its not particularly well commented or documented.
The fact that you may not make it to the 99th percentile doesn't mean you won't see any success. Not everyone who starts a business will make billions, buy many make enough to live on. Especially more traditional businesses. Most people will get married. And most won't win the lottery, but that's not really putting in work anyway.
How Facebook’s fancy New York office explains its management philosophy
Check out Ramen: https://ramen.is not for iOS apps/games exclusively but with a core focus on software projects.
Actually, "The less I work the more money I have" is one of my personal favorites, I think it's a brilliant quote.
The article doesn't mention it ... but can they still get around it by (what I believe is called) traffic shaping? Where you force the traffic to leave the US, then collect all the "foreign" data, and then send it on its merry way again?
If by 'we' you mean the users, I don't think it makes any difference to the decoding process.
Or use Plex or XBMC and control it from your smartphone
> what circumstances do you think it would make sense?

Increased cash-flow, future partnership opportunities, market validation, etc...
Same question as antsar. What would you suggest then?
Can a Stingray intercept iMessages?
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flipkart
what jewel said. I always read comments first.
You mean aside from them being EA games? :)

Doesn't matter to me, I got sick of EA's antics and stopped doing business with them years ago.
> the data only gets sent back and forth between your browser and fb

That's... actually a very interesting way to put it.

There should be a way to make a Facebook application that could guarantee it can't leak information to any other server.
Bulleit rye, like most American rye, is an MGP product. But Bulleit bourbon is Four Roses spirit, and Four Roses is no slouch.
Honestly, this service would probably be a good fit for someone like me. I own a console but rarely, if ever, buy a game. As a result I rarely play anything. I don't want to spend the time and effort to research games and figure out if something is worth my $30 or $60 or is just a steaming pile of crap.

I could see myself paying $5 a month to play a back catalog of games I would otherwise have not found. Discovery is a key aspect, but you know what, if I spent a week or two playing a less than stellar game I wouldn't really care all that much because it cost me what, $5 or so? No biggie. I don't care about the latest AAA shooter or playing the same Madden year after year with different uniforms. Just give me some decent entertainment at a decent price and I'll pay. Hell, I pay $50/month to run on a treadmill and sweat. I'll pay $5/month to sit on my ass and be entertained.