skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll probably need to do a little work to make it work. The Gameboy used a Sharp LR35902, which is kinda 8080-ish and kinda z80-ish and has some of it's own stuff as well.
I used to live in Idaho, and its interesting to me to be able to track back trends that we anecdotally could see happening, but had no hard numbers on. For example, one of the major trends has been the population volatility, and particularly California immigration due to the lack of population and low land cost.

In 1950, 1% of Idahoans were from California. In 1960, 2%. In 1970, 4%. In 1980, 7%. In 1990, 7%. In 2000, 9%. In 2012, 12%.

To me, this is particularly cool when compared to a state like Alabama or Tennessee. Literally no change in relative immigration from neighbors except for a slow loss of native children.

In fact, you could create a volatility scale for states (how homogeneous is their immigration over time) and it would go from almost zero in the East to crazy in the West. Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada being particularly interesting / volatile states.

I wonder if there's a correlation to the volatility and the general political leanings of those locations. IE, does politics diffuse along these same lines? If California, was 75% "liberal" and 25% "conservative" over time, could we estimate that Idaho has gotten about 7% more liberal in the last 40 years? or is the immigration self selecting? (people want to live near folks like them?)
Sorry to hear this. What were the properties? What was the full reason for the closure?
"Something I would pay for: a rolodex social network. No centralized feed. No useless info. Your profile is 2-3 sentences and your current city (with some sort of maps integration for when you travel, to see who's near you). Two buttons, one to request to view resume, and another to request to view email. That's it. With the idea being, you use the site to enable you to keep up with people. You add people you know or have worked with to your network, and you can easily get their current email and catch up when you're in the same city. Simple, no obnoxious ads, no slimy tactics to increase time on the site."

I really want this too. I need some sort of simple contact rolodex that simply shows who I know, why I know them, and why they're important (where do they work, how do I know them, who are they connected to, etc.). Just a simple UI, something that I would use most of the time simply to search.
Using the robots is a big step forward. Just because you can do something in a computer doesn't mean you can do it the same way in real life. The networking problems and dealing with mechanical errors are new issues that will need to be tackled when we start dealing with even bigger large-scale physical bot swarms... hopefully ones with more realizable use cases.
Thank you heaps for your comment! I'm not quite sure why I am being down-voted though. To clarify my browsing habits are at the point where if I do see an intrusive advertisement or something that is just words rather than a coherent bit of content I'm looking for.

I clicked your link and immediately closed it. Then opened, looked closely, and my eyes did not catch on to anything so I closed it again.

Your second link was very informative, interesting stuff though.

The rest of you can't tell me your browsing habits have not evolved enough to know what is which and this is that?
The examples were done on the most trafficked sources first since a lot of people visit these sites frequently. Anyone can contribute new rules for matching and detecting advertorials.
Next step would be to optimize the placement algorithm I think. The 'K' example is the post obvious. You could have robots start creating the lower right quadrant and correct their position as the rest of the group gathers.
Are you guys thinking in a crowdfounding campaign, I'll give money to help projects like yours.
Why should miles be the denominator? What if Americans just drive around pointlessly because their built environment requires it? Does that lower the impact of traffic deaths?

Urban form and the external cost of transportation are inextricably linked. You can't say that of course it's safer in Sweden because they drive less, because it's safer in Sweden _because_ they drive less! That's the point!
As this article alludes to: the heart of email's longevity, the thing that prevents it being closed by a single entity, is being a classical IETF protocol: federated, decentralized, open and interoperable.

The first two of those properties arise from being based on the DNS for SMTP endpoint discovery.

This is why every protocol needs to specify that it uses the DNS, and how.

And that is why I get so worried that the draft HTTP/2 editors so steadfastly refuses to do so.
Stochastic polling - i.e. ask me a user-defined question ("how are you feeling?") at random intervals (6x daily, or 3x daily, randomly).
http://mashable.com/2013/08/16/hdhacks-recap/?demo=kcd83fh

Ya, that demo is just repeating a home depot marketing campaign.
Makes no sense. The point is they've got a safe built environment and we don't.
Go back to Ferguson.
Legal pot is a public health menace
ASM isn't all that hard, just a little tedious once you understand the CPU architecture a little and the mnemonics. You can think of it like a low-level basic. ;)
This work comes out of Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which was not on my radar before today. Apparently just last week they released some even more impressive work (in the sense that I would not have thought it possible) on a self-folding mobile robot: http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/162/robot-folds-its...

The video of the robot self-folding (and walking away!) at about 1 minute in blew me away, highly recommended to anyone who missed this story last week.
> sometimes amounting to over 100 gigabytes each second.

So that's 800 gigabits per second, nearly a Tbps. Which is a lot of network throughput. Although this is not impossible, it seems surprisingly high, and I wonder if the article should have said "100 gigabits each second", which is still a lot of bandwidth but a little more reasonable.

The article describes the data being transmitted as largely telemetry. Let's say they are sampling each of their metrics every 10 milliseconds (100/second), and they need a 32 bit integer to store each value. So, that's 100 * 32 / 8 = 400 bytes per second per metric. Divided into 100 gigabytes, that would be 250 million metrics. Even if you change these assumptions, clearly this link is used for more than telemetry.

800 Gbps requires a large number of computers to generate and transmit, then another large set of machines at HQ to ingest all that data and then run analytical models against it. Just to handle the network traffic, without any data analysis, if you assume servers have a pair of 10 Gbps network interfaces, that's 40 machines.

If you assume hard drives can write at about 100 megabytes per second, that's 1,000 disks just to handle the write IOPS. But, with those 40 machines, that's an average of 25 disks per machine, so not unreasonable. With SSD's it would be fewer devices.

I do not know if a way to get this much network throughput over a radio link, so I can't imagine it's all coming from the car itself.

It would be interested to know what other data is transmitted over this link during a race other than telemetry.
I understand your view but not every "fresh-out-of-college" individual looks deep into their career to spend nights and weekends polishing their programming skills. Balance is key. (It seems you have a cynical perspective toward programming)
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How has it done over 10 years? And that's with mega gov't help.
Wow fantastic. I can't wait to see it complete. Great art style and control feel. Lots of nice subtle details.
Surely a quick glance at a website and the content will let you know immediately whether it's worth the time to read it?

What you've said is interesting too -- isn't that what Ssvbtle tried to create? A network of honesty, journalistic integrity etc...
Excellent proof-of-concept. I want to say Nintendo had a patent that implied something like this for the Wii Virtual Console, but they never delivered on it.

Anyone have any idea if Christian Whitehead's Retro Engine[1] (used in the recent Sonic 1/2/CD remakes) does something like this?

[1] http://christianwhitehead.com/?page_id=51
MathBox 2
Well I guess the fundamental disagreement is that I don't think these biases are best classified as illogical. Yes, if you are being completely objective, two job applicants should be judged solely on the basis of their qualifications. Yet, the one who is more polished is going to get the job ten times out of ten. Perception is simply a fundamental part of decision making, and I think the naivety lies in thinking that any of us are above catering to that perception or that we can somehow convince people to not rely on their perceptions.
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I've always wanted to see this algorithm implemented in an emulator: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/...

You wouldn't want to apply it to the entire screen, but rather to individual sprites and background images separately. The design of the graphics hardware on the NES and SNES should make that mostly possible for the majority of games.
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Facebook Messenger will eclipse email. Social network is the perfect spam filter.
"it's easy to treat workers illegally in the US" is irrelevant here - because this actually isn't illegal in the US to start with. There is no federal or state minimum time between shifts, although there are minimums within specific industries, like pilots.
My apologies mate, I sort of went off on a tangent. My main point was really that advertisements are (as evolved from my Internet usage) that most are completely invisible to me.
c.f. the old Heinlein canard about how 'an armed society is a polite society'.
No such thing as a free lunch, though. Plenty of people's savings went poof that way.
How to be polite IN NORTH AMERICA.

He talks about North American obsession with touch like a normal thing, but in fact it is the exception in the world.

Being polite changes with the culture. In Morocco it is totally ok for male friends to hold hands in the street.

In South America you touch a lot other people. The same happens in Africa. I had India children and adolescent jump over me just after meeting them just playing.

I had played soccer all around Africa and touched shoulders of my playmates, grab their head and hug celebrated with them goals without a problem. Also it was very manly thing to do.

In China or Korea people to burp is ok. Using a kleenex on your nose is not.

In Spain we kiss women when we meet them and we touch kids we recently met a lot. I used to photograph kids a lot. In the US or UK with the obsession in sex they have they can put you in jail for photographic a kid smiling.
Interesting idea - the main thing I would object to is because it's the one place where you can have $4 million of "wealth" tied up in a house and not raise an eyebrow.

If you go to any first world capital/metro region you can spend that money easily at a decent apartment. No matter if it is Hong Kong, Paris or New York, $4m are actually not that much money for decent real estate.
I think you need to (1) find a significant other and (2) partake in debauchery. I say this because you seem to be myopically focused on business/success, and despite doing pretty well for yourself, you've derived almost no satisfaction. Maybe you need someone to share your life with. And maybe you need to step outside of your own thoughts. Live!
Your first point is simply a statement of reason why a gene for zero children (under some circumstances) might be selected. Obviously there are such reasons, since there are such creatures! In no way does that make it a bogus example - in fact, it's quite relevant to the parent conversation, with an acknowledgement that the selection pressures would be weaker.

The second point, I'll grant - though with the qualification that your language is tremendously imprecise. Genes don't select at all. Evolutionary pressures (plus happenstance) select between genes. That messiness is partly why it got a "notwithstanding..." aside, rather than a full example.
Not only that, but with fulfilled by amazon you can have them keep your entire stock in their warehouses and ship it out for you.
I would think in low volume a supermicro chassis would be more cost effective, they have many 4U models that support 36+ 3.5" drives.
Ask HN: Why don't you pay for a news website subscription?
Recently on HN @typpo showcased a slick Chrome extension to identify and shame -- fair diction, I think -- websites that show native ads. [1]

ABP, AdDetector. Every stab at making journalism faintly economically productive seems to meet with at least some measure of backlash.

Do you pay for news content? Why or why not?

[1] http://www.ianww.com/ad-detector/
Ask HN: What music do you listen to while programming?
Maybe throw some spotify playlists here?
I absolutely agree. Transparency is critical. IIRC, that was the primary focus of the FTC proceedings, as well - to make sure that where content was sponsored, it was responsibly disclosed to the reader. It's a matter of concern to publishers, advertisers, and regulators alike.

> if the editorial process of the nation's "paper of record" is so amendable to the interests of the state, why should anyone believe a tech publication like Mashable is any less amendable to corporate interests?

Well, for one, corporate interests can't legally destroy the company, throw its employees in prison, seize their assets, or do the other various things that the government can. The other thing is that if Brand X won't agree to play by the rules, we can go do business with Brand Y. It's a legitimate concern, but I do think it's fundamentally different.

My concern with things like Ad Detector is that I think it feeds a fundamental misunderstanding of what native advertising is, and breeds mistrust that isn't necessarily warranted, because of the lack of distinction between advertorials and advertiser-not-involved-in-content-production articles. Having more information is good, but if the plugin leads people to believe that not-advertorials are advertorials, then it's not doing anyone any favors.
I think you should be suspicious with any content, sponsored or not. Always check multiple sources before forming and opinion.

In my opinion, an article that is influenced by the political view of the writer or the editor is exactly as bad or good as influenced by a sponsor. Even if it's not on purpose. I once had a long talk with a journalist friend about how it's almost impossible to write a completely objective article because so many things influence how the story is perceived. Like the order in which two sides of an event are presented.

I think native advertising has great potential and I hope media companies that do it deceptively will be punished by their users. But i guess that's naive, since people don't really do that with those whose editorial content is just wrong and or inflammatory.
Because their competitive product can be sold without throttling versus the throttled Netflix.
I think he's keying off of the "know the rules so you can transcend them" idea. It's used in a lot of PUA material.
I am not trying to learn Go, I have been using it for years (without exceptions :) ) i believe clever hacks are usually helpful to open people's minds, don't you?

another examples, (not sure if you know objective-c).
primitive type generics using macros + blocks:
https://github.com/manucorporat/obme-ios/blob/master/obme.h

another example or a clever hack to break the limits ;)
But it is centralized and closed. It will not eclipse email for anything serious and long-term.
No, monetization is, like the rest of capitalism, intrinsically evil. As a counterpoint there are plenty (actually, significantly beyond the bounds of "plenty") of websites and tech companies that operate entirely without revenue. I think you'd find, in fact, that these collectives are the ones with real creativity and humanitarian interest. When you're beholden to investors, users become second-class citizens. Showing them advertisements or having board meetings to talk about how best to exploit them is very far from ethical.
"why I know them" is a crucial feature missing from many services (along with "what name or alias I know them under").

I have hundreds of contacts from church, school, work, video games, etc.
We don't. http://readwrite.com/2014/08/14/github-government-ben-balter...
You are right in this case. The only one who must be informed about how the system works is the client. In this case, the F1 team should know how is this security achieved, not the attackers or the general public.

On the other hand, if it is my information you are securing and if I don't have good reasons to trust you, I want to know how it is being done, even if that means attackers also know. If everyone is your client (for example, if you provide public services), then everyone must know, so they can independently audit the system.

Obscurity can be a layer of security in one system, made ,managed and audited by trusted entities, but, generally speaking, it is a weak layer for a attacker with a great enough motivation.

On the other hand, obscurity is detrimental to a collective of systems made, managed and audited (or not) by a great variety of entities. Sure, on the real world we place trust on companies to handle their security well, but that has ended badly in the past. The knee jerk reaction to security through obscurity we have is beneficial because it is a symptom of security issues in the system.

In conclusion, regarding obscurity, the beneficial effect of an extra security layer is only greater than the potential malefic effect of hiding security problems if the entities behind it, including the auditor, are competent and trustworthy. As a rule of thumb it should be avoided or have its bad side mitigated by independent security audits.
A social network used explicitly for exchanging contact information would fill a perfect niche for me.

That idea is fantastic.
Just as a point of information, every single looter arrested so far has not been an actual resident of the area.
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Note the authors: WIlliam J. Bennet and Robert A. White.

Bennet was a "drug czar" under George H W Bush. This editorial is hardly news. "Ex drug czar thinks drugs are bad" is a more realistic title than the one given. It would be more newsworthy if Bennet took the opposite position.

Robert A. White is listed as "an attorney" in New Jersey. If he's a defense attorney, it might be newsworthy if he was against legalization. As it stands, he might be a prosecutor, or have some other ulterior motive to favor harsh legal penalties for marijuana use.

I finally found a way to read the article , and I find that this is more "reefer madness" moral panic. Bennet and White make a weak argument, the point of which is entirely predictable for Establishment White Guys: POT BAD. POT CORRUPT YOUTH.

As a person who went to public schools in the 60s and 70s, I can say that I have seen this "MJ today is FAR STRONGER than the 'tea leaves' of the Jazz Age" line trotted out many times. Get some new propaganda, Establishment White Guys: that one has whiskers on it. Even if it's true, it just sounds so wimpy. You're going to have to try harder to convince anyone other than the Other Establishment White Guys who read Wall Street Journal. And you need to convince a lot of people to preserve the appearance of rule with consent of the populace.
Wikipedia has a list of countries by traffic-related death rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...

Road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km (factors out the distance driven): USA is 7.6; Sweden is 3.7. I'm in the UK, we're 2.6.

Road fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year (a decent measure of "how likely I am to know someone who has died on the road"): USA is 11.6; Sweden is 3; UK is 2.7.
If you are considering the safety of the roads themselves, then death/injuries per mile driven is the correct statistic. If you are considering the safety of the society as a whole then it makes sense to consider the obvious advantage of driving less.
Doesn't solve the "This order is wrong I need to send email to support@somerandomcompany.org" problem though.
C++ has a zero-sized type too: it's called "void". But it's not first-class, which is a weird restriction.

Having first-class "void" is very useful. For example, you can make efficient hash sets out of hash maps by simply using () as the value.
The NextStep didn't work out for a bunch of reasons cost been one of the major ones.

The other project wasn't trying to create a product they where trying to capture a sense of what hardware would be on every desk in 10 years and design for that, in effect skating to where the puck will be rather than where it is.

I wish I could remember where I read it :|.
Londoners being priced out of their own city:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-04/londoners-priced-ou...

Here's another one.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-28/buy-london-...

It said a row of 10 houses worth a total of $122 million have stood unused since they were bought between 1989 and 1993, supposedly on behalf of Saudi royalty.

In other words, criminal motherfuckers who abuse their own people and finance religious extremism, now also fucking up London for the people who live there.

On New York real estates's appeal to the worst scumbags of the new (mostly criminal) global elite:

http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-y...

This is hard-core class war, and it won't stop until we end it on our terms.
Spoken like someone who hasn't been invited to play FarmVille 1,000 times. And yes, you can disable these notifications, but doing so isn't any easier or automatic than training an email spam filter.
That is, except for kittens.
Proposal for Python type annotations from Guido van Rossum
I can have structs/classes that are zero sized, sometimes this is used for interfaces, or for "namespacing" as alternative to normal namespaces, or for functors, etc.
When I was tinkering with gbdev 15 years ago, we had lcc targetting z80. It seems far less painful to write in C than asm.