skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone from Ireland comment on "ambulances having trouble finding the right house"? This seems to be the most compelling and succinct argument against the staus quo.

Addendum: I got throttled but I wanted to comment on the "everyone has an iPhone with GPS" idea.

I think "we" need to step out of the tech bubble for a little bit. The GPS alternative assumes that everyone has a cell phone. This is problematic as it is but it also assumes that the cell phone will never damaged in the emergency, always charged, it is not on the second floor of your house that is on fire, never travels within urban canyons or inside buildings that interfere with signal reception, uses an address format that everyone is familiar with and is easy to read/speak unambiguously, etc.
I suppose if you're being brave, you can nuke the built-in bash and symlink it back to brew's copy.
This one is quite fun: https://clojurecup.com/#/apps/rockets
And a shameless plug for my entry: https://clojurecup.com/#/apps/parade-route
> I'd gladly do so if Stallman wasn't part of it.

The FSF is a lot more than Stallman. John Sullivan runs the day-to-day affairs, Chrissie Himes organises a lot of the fund raising, and Jasimin Huang is the one who gives my GSoC students extra travel money from the donations that have come to Octave.

The opinions of rms are not the opinions of the FSF.

All I'm saying is, if you actually like the FSF, then you must like something about it other than rms. He's not the FSF. It's difficult for our primitive monkey brains to do this, but consider an idea independently of the person espousing it.
This is a complaint in London too.
Funny you might mention that:

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Mozil...

Well, more sad than funny.
Whats missing is a sensible property tax scheme. Just tax the non-resident owners, who don't vote, at a much higher rate than city residents. Then use the extra money for great public infrastructure for people who do live in the city.
The organized part in organized from refers to an organization. The crime part obviously refers to the crime but the actual definition refers to the fact that the organization gets its revenue through the commission of crime.

It isn't quite the same as committing a planned crime.
Say O(n²) Eighty Eight Times Fast
1. Presidents don't raise taxes.
2. There are far more loopholes and exemptions than there were in Reagan's first term.
Oh, the time I spend standing at the side of the road, flagging down Amazon deliveries and tradesmen. And Safari Books Online doesn't want my money because their CC validators won't accept an address without a postcode.
No, but they can just keep buying up a large share of the houses you build.

You probably can keeping building to a point where foreign investors begin to lose interest — but Americans do not generally like very dense housing, so this sort of becomes throwing out the baby with the bathwater. You're potentially making housing more affordable by turning the neighborhood into a ghetto.
I think Bill Gates has been trumpeting this as well. It wouldn't be the first species driven to extinction by human activity. How about it friends? In other news, pubic lice are already an endangered species:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazilian-bikini-wax-making-crab...
Announcement: PRICE DROP Note-ify app (formed FNotes) new version very soon
At some point you need to realize that American citizens deserve some sort of priority for the few jobs and services that are currently available.
Honest question here: did they promise that they wouldn't?
I feel sad for HK.

A protest led by teenagers? Where are the adults? If these teenagers were devised, where are their parents? Do they have any idea whom they are fighting against, fighting for?

Shame on all HK adults.
Mozilla's funding comes primarily from search partners (namely Google)[0][1] - I don't think they could do this and still survive as a company at this point, sadly.

At the same time, if every Firefox user donated even $1 to Mozilla, they wouldn't need to take this money[2], and could probably be a bit more carefree in these decisions.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2012/f...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
Confirmed. I have stood at the side of the road to flag down an ambulance for a critically ill person. That has at least as much to do with unmarked entrances on semi-rural roads as the lack of a postcode, though.
Deep Dive into Android State Restoration
You are just asserting the Windows 8.1 state. It is not frozen.

Given that it is based in what was going to be .NET (Ext-VOS), nothing prevents the API to be improved.
And Wave did not drive out any competitors. It tried and failed to open up a new market (perhaps competing with email).
As someone that grew up in South Florida, spending lots of time in the Everglades and Keys (shit tons of mosquitoes...), I find the whole thing pretty scary. As an occasional fly fisherman that uses mosquito fly's I find the idea scary. Mosquitoes present problems for humans, but this general idea of lets wipe out species to make life easier for humans seems shortsighted, at best.
Usually this would be banned because it acts as a Twitter client and doesn't show the ads. In this case you have to sign up for your own app ID, though, so it will just be banned piece by piece as the Twitter API enforcement bots catch each instance. I had a lot of apps seemingly auto-killed by Twitter, games that used to use the API to let you Tweet scores easily, mostly, so expect this app will be similarly classified.
OP Probably wanted to link to the Top post, which is about scheme on android: http://www.blogbyben.com/2014/09/more-scheme-dev-on-android-...
Yeah, curl is an option. It just kinda sucks when things that have worked for years break overnight because of an otherwise transparent upstream SSL change. My guess is since introducing an SNI-compatible version is outside the scope of a security release, it won't end up happening.
The power/electricity analogy here is what's really key - there will come a time when the ubiquity of being "online" will be the same as the ubiquity of "the power is on." It's so prevalent in modern society we really don't think about it.

It took me a while to realize that this is where Google is headed with ChromeOS/Chromebooks. Ultimately, "applications/apps" will not exist, there will just be the web and all personal computing devices become thin clients. What to use photoshop? great, go to //photoshop.adobe (or something); Office? //office.microsoft; play the latest COD? //callofduty.activision. [EDIT: also note the importance of search in this scenario...]

I think google's bet is that just like CompUSA and other computer retail outlets have died, so too will "app stores" that sell digital equivalents of physical boxed apps. All apps will become services available openly on the web.

It's definitely exciting, though I realize it makes a lot of people scared and there are definitely security risks that need to be kept in mind. But overall I see it as another step in the democratization of access and knowledge. A few hundred years ago, only the privileged had access to resources enabling them to read and write and create things. A few years ago, only those with some serious cash could (legally) purchase a license to operate a copy of Adobe's products. Now, any kid with 100 bucks and a decent laptop can spend 3 months with the entire Adobe catalog available to them. Pretty soon, that "high-powered" hardware requirement will be gone and the market opens up even further and pricing will drop even more.

That's pretty awesome.
Note-ify (formed FNotes): colorful notes with Reminders, TextExpander and Dropbox synchronization

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id675708914?ls=1&mt=8

screens

http://res.cloudinary.com/paganel-studio/image/upload/v14120...

http://res.cloudinary.com/paganel-studio/image/upload/v14120...

http://res.cloudinary.com/paganel-studio/image/upload/v14120...

We have changed the name, now FNotes is called Note-ify
- Support for iOS 8
- Fixed bugs
- Color for notes
- Lined paper
- Reminders
- Long password for the notes
- Improved performance
- New themes (+50 themes)
- Support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

COLORFUL AND CUSTOMIZABLE INTERFACE
- Color notes
- Lined paper
- More than 50 themes
- A variety of fonts, colors and font sizes

EASY MANAGEMENT NOTES
- GTD methodology
- Incoming
- reminder
- favorite notes
- color selection
- 3 options of sorting the list of notes
- folders to organize your notes

SECURITY AND TIMING
- protect notes with password
- automatic backup
- synchronization of your devices via Dropbox

AND MORE;-)
- Universal app: Pay once - use everywhere
- Fast sending to the selected email
- Share your notes via AirDrop, SMS
- Publish your notes to Facebook, Twitter
- Quick typing using TextExpander
- Nice and easy interface
- Support: you will never be left with your problem

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Sounds like a failing of the order form, not the post office.
How will people selling to ireland have to update their web forms? lots of US-centric sites have Zipcode as a number or 7 digit serial.
How do irish people fill them out now? I'm really curious.

When I drove around ireland in 2009, I used a trusty paper map + the car had a GPS which sort of worked.
It seems to me that the obvious answer to the question of why rumors are spread more than truth is that spreading truth requires using enough effort to discover the truth and spreading rumors requires no such effort.

It takes someone two seconds to click share on some garbage article, it takes another person a minute or two of Googling to see if something is true or not. Laziness is going to win out with more people than effort.
This looks amazing, but unfortunately is missing some core features I need for my workflow.

- Import via an open API - I have many inputs, including Email, Kanban boards, bug trackers etc - I want to write my own integrations.

- Defer dates - I have a lot of stuff, I do not want visibility of stuff until I can actually action it.

- Reviews - this is critical to handling large quantities of todo items, regular reviews is a must, I want to be able to tag items/headers with a review schedule.

- Recurrence - I do things once a week, I need to be able to schedule this. Alternatively integration with Google Calendar so it can trigger recurring items.
A repeating field is a field that contains multiple values of the defined type - eg. the column is of type integer, but the field contains multiple integer values.

Mainstream relational databases does not support repeating fields, so any table will be in 1NF by default. Some non-relational databases supports repeating fields.

You can simulate a repeating field in a relational database by e.g. having the column be of type string, and then have multiple comma separated values in the field. But strictly speaking this is not a repeating field, since the column type is string, and there is only one string. It is still bad design though!
Can you explain more about the troubles you have in the distributor search tools? I assume you're speaking of distributors like Digi-Key and Mouser, right?

What kind of projects do you work on that finding things at Digi-Key and Mouser is not easy? What kinds of components are difficult for you to source?

If you're looking for specific types of components within a broader range (such as you want a < 10 ppm SMD crystal at a strange frequency), sure, I can see finding something like a suitable crystal being less than easy. But for normal components (everything Digi-Key sells is "normal" to me) I have a hard time understanding how changing Digi-Key's search tool would make it better.
The article says they put in random numbers of Xs now.
With all due respect to the proposed postal code system, in the modern era of cheap, remarkably accurate GPS devices, couldn't you just send a service like an ambulance your latitude and longitude?
I read the title to mean someone proposed the law as parody only to see it come into effect. Such a jaded and cynical world!
Didn't Google show off Chrome extensions that were low-level like C code a few years back? If I remember correctly, they even showed off an in-browser image editor and video games, what ever happened with that?
Very cool project you have! Well as I wrote in the other comment, we're very similar to Parse right now but we are about to release our analytics API that will allow you to perform learning analytics on top of the data that you store in the backend and deliver for example custom dashboards to teachers. This is something specific for education and you won't find anything like that in other BaaS providers products.
Thanks eksurfus, that's a great idea and definitely something worth investigating!
Thanks again
Actually you can, see:

https://github.com/sferik/t/blob/7f1fcac61047dcb703e9519c837...

this is because the OP's own twitter ruby gem can do that, this CLI app is basically a front end for the ruby gem

client.update_with_media("I'm tweeting with @gem!", File.new("/path/to/media.png"))

https://github.com/sferik/twitter/blob/48efb642beaa19355a4c1...
You get a chicken-egg effect. The already resident majority homeowners like the rising property values, so they have a built in incentive to be NIMBYs and block development. They also chose the city for it's specific characteristics and do not want it to change into something else.
> ... but you can't really argue that it is healthy behavior.

Of course you can. Suppose you've been told that you have inoperable pancreatic cancer and that the end will be painful even with the best medications (often true). How is it healthy behavior to suffer through such an end?

The bottom line is that suicide should be accepted as an option in some cases. The fact that it isn't (generally) accepted only shows that public ethical thinking is primitive, shallow and indifferent to the needs of individuals.

This is slowly changing. A few U.S. states have adopted assisted suicide laws to deal with scenarios like the example above:

http://euthanasia.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=00...
It's not the reporter's fault. I don't think any of the official documents discuss what kind of radiation is involved. http://data.ecosystem-management.org/nepaweb/nepa_project_ex... The only information I could find is "(3) the beam
pattern emitted is directional, which minimizes the area exposed to radiation". http://a123.g.akamai.net/7/123/11558/abc123/forestservic.dow...
You're kidding right? Kids coming out of Courant are in decent demand, especially in NYC tech departments.
Usually 00000,XXXXX or 90210.
I work in a moderately small office, and at least once a week we get semi-random visitors from other offices. At actual parties, people bring their significant others and sometimes their friends - I wouldn't really be surprised to see a new person at a party. In fact, I'd be surprised if only familiar faces were there.
Haha wow thanks for the info. I had no idea that they're almost entirely funded by an ad company (Google); so much for that idea!
Working for the Public Health Sector, I am yet to see any advantages to being unionized (beyond a few additional health benefits), so far I've pretty much only seen drawbacks. My salary is far lower than most people on here (mind you, I was aware of this going in), getting an actual pay-rise is near-impossible, but by far the worst is how everybody is put in the same basket, and I can't emphasize this enough.

The work conditions (and associated politics) reach ridiculous levels, particularly since the union (which I was forced to join...) seems to only be concerned with the clinical side of things, of which I take absolutely no direct part in. So for instance, I won't be allowed to work remotely, because "it may affect patient care"... > I'm a programmer.

So as far as developers/engineers are concerned, I would say no to unions.

PS: I'm aware the public sector is a bit of a different beast (I worked in the private sector for a long time before that), but I think the point remains.
I thought the API didn't have ads? That is why all 3rd party clients are twitter ad-free.
Is it me or does the second figure look incorrect? I don't see a key to differentiate between solid lines and dashes either, but I'm mobile now so I can't easily check.
I would LOSE MY MIND if this happened! Wahoo!

EDIT: I am literally giddy with excitement over this prospect. Had to come back to add that
Adobe has spent decades worrying about color accuracy in their applications in every path it can take to your eyeball and they're not just going to screw up the last hop because it didn't occur to them to take the effect of whatever remoting technology they're using into account.
This a pretty worthless blog post without any sort of analytics/measurements except for the author claiming the site needed 40 servers for Rails and 2 for Go.
What I mean is that it's purposely restrictive (a la iOS) rather than merely being incomplete.
Paul Krugman received a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. It is rather unlikely you can find contradictions in his arguments... http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped...
Christina,

Firstly, I applaud your efforts, and I ask that you continue!

Now, I took APCS in 2012 as a senior in high school. It allowed me to place out of the introductory CS course at the University of Virginia, and it placed me onto a path of being a CS major.

We used a website known as eimacs[1]. This was quite similar to what you are doing (I believe). The textbook would introduce a concept, and then it would ask us to play with it in a built-in compiler. Immediate feedback was great!

Additionally, there would be a variety of the dry puzzles which you describe. Luckily, my APCS teacher realized the dullness of these tasks, and he assigned labs which were more fun.

I agree with the user "teach." Your process creates students who are 1) interested in coding and 2) can solve puzzles with code. It does not create students who are ready to take the AP CS exam. The difference is akin to students who do well in high school math courses but have difficulty with the SAT.

[1] http://www.eimacs.com/
> To me this is a major flaw in the design of Windows.

As much as possible, I use PortableApps on Windows. When I migrate to a new machine, all I need to do is copy the PortableApps folder.

I don't see this as a flaw in Windows. If every application developer/packager built portable apps, there wouldn't be a problem.
Two quick things:

I want to first off say that while on paper US Zip codes are more precise than UK Post Codes, the reality is often very different. The majority of people write their zip code without the "+4" which only gives you a city block, or roughly the same precision as a UK Post Code.

Secondly, I feel like Ireland missed an opportunity here. If they are only adding zip codes now then, yes, going with a US-style system (with the +4) is the correct decision. However why not invent a "person delivery code" rather than a "location delivery code" system?

I know, I know, crazy. But imagine this: Each address is assigned a unique code (e.g. starting with 0-9) and each person is also assigned a unique code (e.g. starting with A-Z) which is this mapped to a address when a letter is routed.

When someone moves house they give the post man a card, which says "Bob Smith (A123456) has moved from 87654 to 838449, please forward my mail indefinitely to that address."

That way when you move house your mail automatically follows you.

PS - I am suggesting that the "people codes" be an add on, so traditional "send to address" mail methods would work (e.g. sending "remember to vote" to every house on a street, rather than every individual would still work).

PPS - Calculating shipping would be no harder than today, just select your city and enter your "person code" or zip-code/house number.
Yeah it's not a change I'm excited for if it does materialize.
I'm not sure I understand. I have 1000 points, but I only have 400 points for this week? When I spend my points on a bet, my available points don't decrease? There are only three polls I can bet on, the rest are just free opinion polls?

Not sure if I'm missing something.
Do you mind expanding on what exactly you do?(in an anonymous fashion if necessary) As someone currently looking for a career this sounds intriguing.
Every operating system is guilty of this. Each has its own upsides (Windows has uninstallers; Linux has decentralized config; OSX has centralized application storage) but they all commit the sin of complicated painful installation.

A lot of the responsibility for that lies with the application developers, by the way.

The reason it doesn't work the way you are dreaming is of course because the OS provides more abstraction than ever. In the old days, DOS just handed the whole machine over to the application you launched- that would not be acceptable today.
Circle so far elucidates nothing of a product on this, it's shop front. Barnes & Nobel had a window full of books.
He uses other people's phones because it doesn't give any information about him when he does that. If nobody else around him had a phone, he just would get on life without making that phone call, or he would wait until he found a landline to make that call. But if the convenience already exists, he'll use it.

He's actually quite internally self-consistent. The principle he's adhering to is (1) he doesn't want to be tracked himself but (2) if someone else is already tracked, that doesn't necessarily track him. He still thinks you should choose to not be tracked yourself, but if you already made the choice to carry a phone, it's too late.

He will use servers or devices which aren't entirely free software because it's not practical to modify them. This is why he makes a big distinction between free software and hackable hardware. He considers these to be two different things. He believes that once you have the actual device and it's modifiable, you should be allowed to modify it. If the device is soldered and hardwired from the beginning, then it's simply impractical to require that hardware manufacturers allow you to modify it. This is why originally free BIOS wasn't such a big deal, until all BIOS became flashable, so now Coreboot is one of the causes of the FSF.

Saying that he will use any server that runs non-free software is a simplification of his position. He considers that sometimes you are merely being provided a service, and you should consider the conditions under which this service is provided. That's why he eschews the word "cloud", because it conflates a bunch of different things and makes people stop thinking about their relationship to a server. He does think that merely requesting a web page from a server running, say, Microsoft Server is ok, because that's just information the server is sending him, and it doesn't matter how that information got generated. He might consider that Microsoft Server would harm the sysadmins using it, not him.

His positions make sense. He's a huge aspie, so he spends a lot of time making sure everything he says falls into place logically. Part of his aspie condition is that he has tantrums and eats toe cheese. You should view those acts as that: a condition he has to live with. But this condition also makes him think very long and hard about the ethical and technical implications of the decisions we make about our computers.
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Read and extract data from NFC Visa/Mastercard