skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is feasible to live in the city, there are rents from £70 to £50,000 per week. It is an expensive city, there is a shortage of housing and the options may not suit your aspirations or expectations, but they do exist.
"I'm sure there were plenty of skateboarding companies that tried to stick with the old style and simply went out of business."

All of skateboarding came to the brink of collapse in the late 80s and early 90s. No company was making any kind of money off the sport, only a few made just enough to keep some small sliver still alive. Major brands went under, skate parks went under, shops went under, contests ended, ramps went into disrepair, "vert" was declared dead and anyone who still enjoyed skating was harassed and ostracised as outcasts.

It wasn't until about a decade later that modern skateboarding, as we see it today, saw some hope of resurgence and was able to rekindle itself from the ashes of its former glory. All thanks in part to the those that trudged on during the rough times just for the love of the sport.
Of course it's not an excuse. But you should not expect to get results that defy statistics.
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This question from the AMA directly answers your point:

Question:
Mr Snowden, do you feel that your worst fear is being realized, that most people don't care about their privacy

Answer:
To answer the question, I don't. Poll after poll is confirming that, contrary to what we tend to think, people not only care, they care a lot. The problem is we feel disempowered. We feel like we can't do anything about it, so we may as well not try.

The full answer is worth reading:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_s...
>That pesky "democracy"

Apparently some people are a fan of the type of democracy that limits voting rights to property owners.

Would you like to return to a time when blacks and women couldn't vote either?
One part of this I've never understood: I'm often told that I shouldn't buy or enjoy helium balloons, as it's a waste of important helium. But such a balloon costs almost nothing, if helium is so scarce and so important, shouldn't that be reflected in the price?

At least that's how stocks work. If something will be in high demand/price in the future, it will shift and be in high demand now.
Stoke-on-Trent was giving away houses recently. Of course, the reason they're so cheap is there's no jobs there, little culture and poor transport links.
Ask HN: How to find a non-technical cofounder?
There has been a lot of stories on how to find a technical cofounder, but I don't recall any on how to find a Marketing or Sales cofounder, for example.
There's still a big problem with just upping the speed. If we have a chip running at 1THz then in each clock cycle light can only travel 3mm.

Moving to more complex 3d chips could help improve performance, but there are limits to the number of dimensions we have too.
No, and to be fair it is the top salary I could find publicly. But I have a couple of friends who are compensated not far off that. Another twist - they're both humanities students, that HN loves to claim will never get a job with their classics and literature.
If we're doing anecdata, I know two people in England with peanut allergies.
> Regardless, this is something the market can correct for very, very easily.

This is something I don't really trust. We see that with oil and environmental concerns - when things get scarcer, subsidies start, distorting the price. Should we really put our hopes in the market, praying that it will save us?
I think this is possible.
Ask HN: Selecting editable text on HN, using Firefox on Android
Selecting text inside the textarea works pretty wonky, do others have this too? If you want to add a word somewhere in a sentence, a single tap selects the previous word. Also I can't paste anything without having to replace a word, unless the textarea is empty. For some reason the cursor is yellow instead of the normal blue color. It's just really wonky.

Do others have the same issue and can it be fixed? Why is this even happening?

This is Android 4.4.4 (CM11), btw.
The lack of reasonable property tax is a big part of pushing valuations into the stratosphere. Look at the outrage over the "mansion tax", for example, which would only apply to million-pound homes.

Apparently socialist New York has a 1.8% property tax? Edit: Austin, Texas has 3% property tax! If you tried that in the UK you'd be denounced as a Communist.
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Right. I forgot that they have to pay (hopefully) 4% interest for the next 25 years. That's an insane amount of money for a flat.
To say "privacy vs. progress of mankind, pick one" is rather naive and not helpful.

If you take the aspect of watching gay porn alone: people will lose their jobs over this if their boss is conservative or they work for a conservative institution. People will lose their families or be beaten up or killed for that in fundamentalist societies or regions. Look at russia, the middle east, african countries.

And even if sexual orientation would be no problem at all in our society, perhaps in five or ten years from now that may change. All over europe right-wing political movements are rising and in the USA, well...

So, it's great that you have no problem. And yes, people should be more relaxed about watching porn. But in reality they aren't, and the decision whether someone wants other people to know about his sexual preferences or orientation has to be his and his alone.

Privacy is a human right and it's _important_. Technology should aid people in every way possible to guard their privacy, their dignity and their personal choices. To hold this as a value is not going against the progress of mankind. In fact, it's relatively easy to change technology and there is no reason at all not to do it.

e: english grammar
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but he wrote a web scraping program for mining the data, bonded it together using wget, launched several aws instances with hadoop, and deployed a mapreduce job for cleaning up the data. It took three weeks and $200 usd, but damn, modern technology is awesome, it would be impossible to do this just 10 years ago.

Thanks google, thanks amazon.
Funny, I used Python for nearly a decade before ditching it for Tcl, and I
haven't looked back. I've used Tcl daily for years now, and haven't
experienced the issues you describe. I've never had any more difficulty in Tcl
than I had in Python finding the error locus based on error output. On that
rare occassion that a brace character conflicts with commenting a chunk of
code, some simple idioms come to the rescue. How often do you find yourself
commenting out just the first line of a proc definition, not the whole proc?
Everything-is-a-string is not any more dangerous in Tcl than any other
language, since the same rule-of-thumb, "don't execute untrusted code", doesn't
require any more care than any other language. It's also not inherently slow.
Look into the the "dual-ported" aspect of the design of Tcl and you'll find a
brilliant mechanism that provides everything-is-a-string semantics at the
script level while using structured representations on the implementation side.

Uplevel and upvar are powerful, and call for judicious use. People complain
about the dangerous things that can be done with them. I find that aspect of
Tcl liberating. It gives the script author total control, and the script
author is in turn expected to develop the skill to wield the tool.

The world seems to have embraced SQLite. It's less well-known that its author
designed it specifically for use with Tcl and is himself a proponent of Tcl.

Tcl is so unique that it's really difficult to discard all the psychological
baggage of other language traditions and catch the zen of it. But once you get
in the zone, it's a really fun place to be. It's the only language out there
that can be anything you want it to be. Someone recently challenged me to make
Tcl do this:

http://kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents/Crawler-tractor/index.h...

No problem:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/40445

I've taught both Python and Tcl to kids and teens, and have had had much better
results with Tcl. With Python, the lessons have more of a "learn Python"
flavour, but with Tcl the flavour becomes "learn programming".
hn could start grouping stories by "hot topics"

(i wish hn would provide competition for custom frontpage algorithms)
Defy what statistics? What statistics explain the constant decline in the last few decades? Are women getting dumber?
Isn't it kind of hard to simultaneously care about elders and "a lot of" kids?
How did you manage this? Was this daily? If not, where were you sleeping when you were in London? Where were you flying to, and how were you getting into central London? I'm really interested in commuting to London from other countries but it seems impractical and expensive. There seem to be a lot of people talking about how in theory it's cheaper, but no one is doing it other than weekly commutes, which requires a place to stay in the first place.
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Good incentive indeed.

Both of my parents are from Chinese families and grew up in Malaysia. Dad is one of eleven siblings and Mum is one of eight siblings. Back then, it wasn't from the government welfare, it was for the kids to look after the elderly parents. Of course, several things need to be in place for this to play out. The kids needs to be working in a relatively well paid job, the kids needs to have quite a smallish family, the kids must also subscribe to the same mindset as well. Some work out, but the majority does not work out as the mindset of the younger generation starts to shift.
Assuming not all the machines are compromised, the longer the path, the less likely any agent is to follow it along in its entirety. Even if the whole path were compromised (but by different antagonistic parties) this would still hold.
I don't think so - there is a widespread confusion about life expectancy. If, for example, child mortality was high compared to modern times, the life expectancy at birth was low.

However, for those who survived childhood, the life expectancy would not be very much different from modern.

Example: triplets were born, but one died at birth, another when he was 10, and another lived to 80. So, life expectancy at birth is only 30 years, but measured at five years of age it is 45 years, and measured at 20 years of age it is full 80 years.

This short article gives some explanation.
http://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2-...
It's actually a variation of :
http://www.ravikiranj.net/drupal/201205/code/machine-learnin...
The ideology and process is same. I've used FLASK+BootStrap to handle the front-end+server..
PS: try this. it might work for some time. before this fails too(..if traffic increases)
http://whatarepeoplesaying2.herokuapp.com/
It's hard to make $200/hour for 8 hours a day. You will have overhead eating much of that away. Like time not spent working directly for a client, or lease for renting your office. So one can't compare those hourly prices to what an employee make per hour.
Abbreviations gone crazy. AWS? No mention of Amazon Web Services you have to guess it if you're no user of Amazon cloud services, guess work done right
As a beginner, I can assure you that without someone explaining the point of the arrows, this is most certainly not for beginners.
So are we suggesting that we know the missing step?

1. Build something
2. ???
3. Profit!

We're suggesting that it's

1. Build something
2. Reduce convenience, increase price, piss people off, but get press
3. Profit!

???
OpenBSD's ktrace is similar

31144 date CALL readlink(0x3c001c16,0xcfbe7048,0x3f)

31144 date NAMI "/etc/malloc.conf"

31144 date RET readlink -1 errno 2 No such file or directory

31144 date CALL open(0x3c001967,0<O_RDONLY>)

31144 date NAMI "/etc/localtime"

31144 date RET open 3

31144 date CALL open(0xcfbde9d4,0<O_RDONLY>)

31144 date NAMI "/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules

31144 date RET open 3
Good ol' Julian Simon to the rescue, again. We will always come up with some alternative.

"We're running out of X" is always louder than "We've found another way to extract it, sound the alarms again in forty years." Then we'll come up with some other method, and they'll set back the Malthus Doom Date by another forty years. And eventually, someone will come up with a completely different alternative that doesn't use it at all, and a previously vital resource will only have niche applications.

Of course, in some cases, the alternative might require a lot of hardship. I'm sure we'd get by if gasoline was 20 bucks a gallon. It would suck, and all of us would be driving motor scooters and riding bicycles to work, but we would get by.
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not only are they ridiculously overpriced, they must not be very smart...

http://imgur.com/5zayW7P
The many billions of dollars invested in tar-sands in Canada were a market response to the increased price of Oil. They wouldn't have existed at $25/barrel Oil, but were inspire by $75/barrel Oil. I'm strongly arguing that if the price of Helium shifts from $100/1000 Cubic feet to $1000/1000 Cubic feet, that we'll likewise see similar market responses in terms of production of Helium. And we'll see radical moves towards recycling also.
Digging deeper into the grep segfault
The real problem with this type of technology is that you'll see great performance with a small number of subscribers.

So unless they will be able to get enough subscribers the results will still be questionable.
recompiling all of plan9 takes about 15 minutes
The 200k/year requirement feeds into the incomes discussion in other ways. Take today's scandal of Malcolm Rifkind, complaining that £67k is "not enough to live on".

Rifkind earns £67,000 as an MP, a further £14,876 as chair of the ISC and received £270,868 in directorships and consultancies between January 2014 and January 2015. (Guardian)

Rifkind's party instituted the "bedroom tax", taking ~£25/week off many people who were living on benefits and who have now been pushed below the breadline, resulting in a number of suicides and deaths of disabled people due to malnutrition.

One one level, MPs are perhaps not paid enough to not need outside payment. On another, we're constantly told that "austerity" is so necessary that we must withdraw the tiny amount of money that is keeping many people alive.
Salt is harmful. Salt is not harmful. Saturated fat is harmful. Saturated fat isn't harmful. Don't eat red meat. Red meat is OK. Low carb diet is more healthy. Japanese live the longest (I assume they consume non-trivial amounts of rice).

Nutritional science (not really a science, more research) hasn't been able to produce conclusive results about some of the most simple (chemically) compounds that we've been consuming for thousands of years. And people are claiming that anyone can say that GMOs, i.e. things we don't understand (cells) that haven't existed for even a generation, are safe (edit: not just safe to eat, but also safe for the environment)?
London is phenomenally expensive. Rent, tax, national insurance and transport consume most people's disposable income - even in well-paid professional jobs.
On a tour at CERN I was told that 1/3 of the worlds helium is 'stored' and used at CERN. Can anyone confirm this?
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Similar answer:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/27/what-grea...
Does this count?
http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/javafx/2/samples...
The ones that say, e.g. that if you have 10 men educated in software engineering per one woman and you change your hiring practices to be less discriminating, you shouldn't suddenly expect to have 50/50 gender balance among tech workers in your company. You should see that 10/1 proportion reflected in your staff, if you hire based on merit alone.
Easy, as in

1) take a few months to study about web technologies to develop an intuition about why and how these technologies are tracking you

2) click a button to block their cookies

You and I already did (1), but most people haven't.
It's not always as simple as that unfortunately.
I arrived in the UK recently and got a mobile sim card with a pay-as-you-go system.

When trying to view an adult content website using my mobile data connection, I arrived on that wonderful "blocked content" page.
To get it removed, I could use a credit card. Oh, but not any credit card. The one I have from my country of origin wasn't valid, not even the one from my previous country of residence. I needed a UK credit card, which I didn't have yet.
The only option was to go back in a store, with my passport, and say "Yes dear Sir/Madam I would like my internet with porn enabled please".
It was (almost) faster to setup a vpn.

Also, note that I say _adult content_, not even porn, as some website that do not contain specifically porn are blocked as well.
FTC shuts down skin cancer app scam
With proper bytecode you would have to do bytecode verification so no.
The thing is, since software can be so easily copied and distributed, the protection that 20 years of exclusivity gives is much stronger and more restrictive than in other areas.

I think some effort should be made to adapt the protection a patent grants to software, in order to incentivize R&D without completely hindering things such as free software.
Programming guru: “I would rather be efficient than say I'm hard working”
Generally, the period where your kids and parents are a handful don't overlap: 0 - 30 - 60.
Because the market will bear it. People have jobs in London, but can't afford to live there. Driving usually isn't an option either because parking prices and London traffic are prohibitive. Ergo the train companies can charge basically whatever they like and people have to put up with it.
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as a true geek, if someday something wrong happens to me, I hope that at least, someone jumps in and invents a story about how smart and bad ass I am, that I invented a teletransportation device, and translated the entire airplane/car or whatever to the anothe time and space, just because.

truly, those poor folks are probably dead now, and now there is this guy saying that they kidnapped the airplane and buried it just because they had this evil master plan "???".
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JSON API [1] is an attempt to standardise the request and response formats for JSON APIs, and it supports an extension which permits multiple operations in a single request [2].

Facebook have their own, similar method of supporting batched calls through the Graph API [3], and this even permits you to specify dependencies between operations in a single request using JSONPath [4].

[1] http://jsonapi.org/
[2] http://jsonapi.org/extensions/bulk/
[3] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multip...
[4] https://code.google.com/p/jsonpath/
I agree. That was badly worded. Sorry. Unfortunately, by now I can't edit the comment any more.

However, there is no technical reason why the old system would not have had exactly the same means for tracking the user as the current system has.

If you consider that Google is mainly an advertising company and that Google's investment into reCAPTCHA must provide them with some value, that lead me to conclude that the old system was doing exactly the same tracking as the new system is doing now.

The advantage is that now I don't have to type in letters while the tracking stays the same.
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What is this browser fingerprint? If you are talking about some cookies and the user agent string. I wouldn't be concerned.
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Is government regulation any less of a trust game?
A shame Detroit was not included. Salaries are similar to Chicago and CoL is much lower, although probably not as low as Raleigh.
My only problem with this is, that GMOs might be safe, but companies always try to min/max and modern diets show how man cheap bad chemicals land in our food, just to sell more of it, not regarding what effects it might have on our health.

It's about making safe GMOs. I am sure it can be done, but I am very unsure if it's going to be done.
Scarcity has little to do with subsidy in most cases.

People who run extractive industries end up with a lot of money and are tied to specific geographical areas. Lobbying government for concessions is a high ROI activity, and always has been.

On the other side of the coin, government can break these industries too. (And does so routinely) For example, the US/Saudi mutual strategic interest now has the Saudis pumping oil as fast as possible to hurt Russia and other players. If you're a driller in North Dakota or Alberta, you're fucked.
My own incomplete attempt at cataloging the issue:

https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/pentagr...

The types of actors looking to control the phone/computer, other than the legitimate owner/user:
<pre>
Phishers, fraudsters, harassers
Governments, policemen, censors & spies
The media industry
The advertising and marketing industry
Platform holder (controller of the company store monopoly)
Manufacturer (may be the same as the platform holder or may be rivals)
Network operators (telcos or cable companies)
</pre>
Offtopic

This post is a proof that the right time of a post is crucial to popularity. I posted the same link ( actually I'm not sure how HN passed this one through ) a couple of months ago [1] and it was not as popular ;)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8884999
From a Dutch perspective, it's curious how there are two "foreign" forces trying to drag our culture back to pre-60s prudishness and ultra-conservatism: Muslim immigrants IRL and Silicon Valley online.

Just this morning I was walking by a billboard from SuitSupply (one that wasn't defaced by religious fanatics), a company who's previous online campaign was already banned from Facebook and who shouldn't even try to run this ad campaign through any of the major US dominated networks. Because, OMG, breasts.
Lack of consistency in wp plugin design. You would have to have others buy into what your are doing.
I recommend checking out Corkami's articles/posters:

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/PE

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/PE101

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/PE102

It also has a section about the minimal size: https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/PE#minimal_sizes

Modern Windows versions refuse to run the 97 b and 133 b files from the linked article.