skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look at this: http://lightpack.tv/
My Microbiome In The Jungle
Most normal users.
They just have a weird implementation of the redemption:

http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/BevContainer/Recyclers/Director...

(I see California on all the returnables from my state (which requires stores accept any that they sell), so I wondered what you were talking about)
The 90%+ of computer users who have no idea how to install a different operating system?
I find that it depends on the person - I loathe Apple's restrictiveness in general, including the sometimes poor UX (no back button on the phone is extremely annoying and I have to make extra taps in out of the way places instead of quickly hitting back, as one example, or the mindboggling restrictiveness to manually created 30 second snippets for ringtones instead of allowing me to just use my mp3s, or the horrific text selection/editing on the phone).

My experience with both has me missing Android overall, the only reasons I am on an iPhone currently is for mobile development and because I am on a legacy family plan on Verizon combined with Verizon Android phones being polluted with garbage software & being more locked down than their counterparts on other providers.

Some prefer Apple's curation of the experience though. Some don't like configuring their devices to their liking and want an out of the box ready experience, even if it means sacrificing on some UX.
> Should be more like some areas in Germany where you pay for the amount of trash you have(weight), the more you throw away the more you pay -> encourages recycling!

With some regard, there are areas of the US that do this. The city i live in charges extra for more than 1 trash can and really limits what is picked up, while a neighboring city has tags that go on trash bags (charged by the bag). Then again, another neighboring city does neither and will pick up pretty much whatever you put on the curb. For a nationalized system there'd have to be consistent infrastructure and federal funding...and there's really no push for either. Rather, the current method is to incentivize the public to recycle on their own through bottle deposits (though most states don't do this) and/or education.
My justification:

Tamil: 3%

Malay: 12%

English: 32%

Mandarin: 50%

Why bend over backwards for 15% of the population? You can justify Malay at a push.

"We decided to opt for English as a common language and it was the only decision which could have held Singapore together. If we had Chinese as a common language, national language, we would have split this country wide apart, and we would be foolish to have Malay or Tamil." Lee Kuan Yew

I actually agree with the above. But Lee should have sought to replace minority languages with English.
I have to disagree with the article a bit... certainly "endless, absurd complexity" is a strong strange attractor (in the chaos theory sense) for this sort of iterative, ongoing story, but it is possible to escape from it. Counter-example, most of the Star Trek series, the vast majority of which has episodes that stand on their own, or as part of a two-parter. It's OK to make a big universe if it doesn't all intertwine and tie together and it turns out that in Movie #14 the real bad guy behind the apparent bad guy (from Movie #13) was a minor villian from Movie #2 who was secretly being mind controlled by someone who seemed like a good guy in Movie #9 but there was a small hint that something was wrong with him in Movie #11 and there was a side story in Movie #4 explaining the motivation. Also because time travel.

This isn't really that hard to avoid, you know? You just need someone with enough central authority to stop the writers from doing this. It's not clever or compelling storytelling, it's just complicated. Said central authority doesn't have to write the story, per se, just prevent this from happening.

I'd also observe there's abundant cinematic precedent for having to change actors, and the Hulk has already been changed without it being a reboot or "new character".

Handled carefully there's no reason this universe MUST become crufty, overpopulated, and stale. It's just... the natural thing that happens when you aren't careful.

And I have hope that they may be careful. One of the undercurrents of the article they never quite called out all the way is that the Hollywood blockbuster machine is broken. Look at how well Marvel is doing, and by and large, they're doing it on good, solid storytelling. Not uniformly across the board, no, but much better than the average blockbusters. Hollywood is apparently willing to pour millions upon millions into special effects but often appears to spend about "$5.12 + whatever the director has in his wallet" on story... or, more accurately, they treat the story like that's the investment they have in it. Marvel is not hitting it out of the park every time, but they clearly care more than the Hollywood machine. Right now, if there's anybody who can hold this all together without an endless series of reboots, it's the Marvel movie guys.
I know this is a long dead conversation, but pkg in Solaris 11 is quite nice. It's not your grandfather's SysV packaging any more.
Does Evernote suit your fancy?
100 million yen per year per store of sales, or roughly 500 tickets per day, is how Starbucks stays afloat.
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here's one: http://genomind.com/

Basically they give you a report of your genetic variations and how those relate to different medications or treatments.
>unexpected results and outright defects.

This seems pretty close to the original meaning of "hacking," before "hacker" became a synonym for "Dilbert with VC funding"
Understanding Python bytecode by implementing tail call optimization
In many municipalities, they contract trash and recycling collection out to private companies. Many times those companies charge separately for recycling collection.
Gist in node.js for getting a list of fly-bys of satellite (apparently every 16 days) for a lat/lon combination and then downloading the images for inspection. Tweak the 'dim' for zoom level.

https://gist.github.com/alexellis/0bb982253f3619e29f18
The Google Drive sync client had a major problem in that it used all your bandwidth when doing large syncs, they finally fixed that problem by introducing bandwidth settings. It is much more reliable now. https://www.synergyse.com/blog/prevent-google-drive-for-mac-...
I find this pretty exciting because of how much it lowers the barrier to entry - you can now go from not even owning a computer to programming hardware for less than $200.
Oh yes, I wrote to their support and forums many times but it was futile.

I'm using Mac Mini with HDD and Dropbox takes 90% of disk I/O when there are more than 20-30 files updating.

I used to keep my projects in Dropbox folder before but now it literally slows my work.
Ask HN: Questions on Swarm Intelligence
Dear HN community,

I'm dead certain I want to write some software that uses swarm intelligence yet I feel like I don't know enough to start. I'm hoping that there are some kind domain experts who can help guide me and shed light on things.

Q1: Are there any free educational resources or courses on Swarm Intelligence?

So far I've searched the web and can't seem to find anything.

Q2: What books are essential reading for a beginner?

From Amazon reviews I have identified two books I'm considering starting with:

a) Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems by Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo and Guy Theraulaz, and

b) Swarm Intelligence by Russell C. Eberhart.

Q3: What languages should I consider and why?

At the moment I'm leaning toward LISP.

Thanks in advance for any helpful advice.
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I would believe it. If the problem really is a supply/demand imbalance, the market should correct it. But nobody will pay me for my used plastic bottles.
Internet Security vs. Quantum Computing
That's a bit patronizing. Of course it is true that most people who support surveillance don't understand what's happening, but only because most people in general don't understand what's happening. Plenty of us understand what's happening and also support it - anecdotally, at least. Fully understanding is asking for too much, though. I doubt anyone outside of a select few at the NSA fully understand what's happening, and it seems reasonable to guess that they support it.
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Why the Flash Crash Really Matters
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In my city, trash service is handled by private companies. I currently pay +$15/quarter for a cart for recyclables.
They're an incredibly innovative company. As an innovative company they try out lots of different ideas. Most of those ideas are going to be relegated to the dustbin. But the ones that work can turn into billion dollar businesses.

Using car boots for delivery might not work with a single manufacturer, but it might work for all manufacturers. It might also work more effectively with driverless cars. Either way it's an experiment to push the boundaries of what can make their supply chain more efficient.
For many use cases, it would seem like container-based approaches are even better still.
Perhaps don't order items to be delivered to your boot if your car is parked somewhere seedy?

I imagine that this is more for people who park in a corporate, gated car park 5 days a week and want to get Amazon deliveries without taking a day off. My work used to take in small parcels when I worked in an office; the car-park was secure, gated with CCTV and I'd have had no problem using such a system which would require me to be on call to receive the delivery.

Personally I think lock-boxes in secure locations are probably better but there's perhaps more problems with personal security then - someone waits at the location and mugs you when you're picking up the parcel (that's not going to be so easy in an office car park).
They are abusing their position in the smart phone market to squash competition in the watch market, which has been a lightning rod for bringing down anti-trust action before. They will be quivering before the FTC before too long (I say as very much a non-lawyer). They have a history of overreaching before backtracking, like when they wanted Objective-C only on the appstore to lock out Flash and cross-platform toolkits.
Before anyone mentions it, I'd just like to say that the design of this extension is based off of momentum. I had used momentum for a few days and quickly realized it was quite undeveloped and lacked some basic features that they had been promising to implement for a while. The reason why leoh and momentum are quite different is in the functionality and customization options. leoh is still in development and will be updated frequently.
How many incubators in the area?
Hello,

I'm helping 'Youthful Cities' build a global index for cities across the world and the entrepreneurship incubators is one of the variables. Can you guys help me figure out how many incubators we have in the SF area?

Best,
Oscar
ownCloud will work in china because you run it off your own server.
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East Coast has reverse vending machines (bottle deposit machines) to put the bottles in. It reads the barcode - at least all places I've even lived in the East have them. When I was in California visiting family we had to go to a recycling center to get them weighed. The policies are regional.

I like California's policy so much better cause I buy a lot of beer that gets rejected in the reverse vending machines.
Haha you are absolutely right about the bag thing. Also people behind the cashier putting your stuff into bags was new to me (and convenient).
Are you happy with your choice of browsers today? Do you feel that browser innovation is moving forward quickly enough? Please sound off and take this quick survey.
"Indeed but Apple is aware that the FTC isn't likely to punish them enough that the behavior will be a net negative."

If we believe in what we write, then we should punish them.
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> My feeling is that these ideas are "not even wrong" enough that they'll incrementally come right back if you don't place a moral firewall around the entire concept.

Interesting concept, I haven't thought about that this way before. Thanks!
I use Notebooks[1] on iOS. The big draw of this application for me is the ability to synchronize via WebDAV. I do not want to store my notes on any 3rd party server, but want to be able to access them on mobile devices and this is the compromise that I found.

On Mac OS X, I use nvALT[2] setup to use the same directory.

The directory itself is inside EncFS filesystem, which is mounted over cyphertext directory inside Dropbox so there is continuous encrypted sync as well.

[1] http://www.notebooksapp.com/
[2] http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
Contrast this (Chinese eugenics) with our dysgenic system of subsidizing defective genetics for the profit of the medical industry, and, well, the obvious result is that western civilization is in big trouble!

More info from this link that shiven shared below:
https://edge.org/response-detail/23838
The majority of states lack bottle deposits, unfortunately. If more states added bottle deposit rates of 5 or 10 cents then their recycling rates would increase[1].

[1] http://www.bottlebill.org/about/benefits/waste.htm
Some apps have Pebble in the title, like PebbleCam, which is for controlling the iPhone's camera from the Pebble.
RocksDB is more compact storage-wise when records are small. Notice here http://symas.com/mdb/ondisk/ that RocksDB space is smaller using 24 byte values, but same or larger at 96 byte values. By the time you get to 768 byte values, LMDB is smallest.
Are you asking why America (along with most countries) spy? Or why they try to be good at spying?

America spies because it wants information it can't otherwise have. What are Russia's plans in Ukraine? Is Pakistan playing both sides re: Taliban? Can China shoot down a B2 bomber? We want to know and nobody and asking won't help.

Why we allow them to be better at their art is obvious.
Great job. I thought this is pretty good too - http://carlcheo.com/startcoding
May be its just me. But since you asked:

1. On the same machine, I find VS 2012 was dragging (but memory was always hovering around 400MB)

2. Couldn't stand for .csproj style solution files (may be I'm spoiled by pom.xml, but its way better)

3. We as a team working on the same project and merging those .csproj files are literally pain in the ass.

4. The windows layout in the IDE is quite un-intuitive. You should see how IntelliJ manages all those windows.

5. The disconnected namespace and folder structure is another pain.

6. Related to the point 5, looking the source code and namespace imports, I can't see from which file those Classes are being "imported".

7. Maintaining and adding references is PITA compared to Java projects that uses maven.

Again, as I clearly mentioned, C# as language is better, but the tooling and ecosystem are not.

Its not always about the better language, Software is mostly written once, but read, refactored, maintained thousands of times by dozens of people. So the tooling and ecosystem has its place, so as the backward compatibility.
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Looks like the output is random when you incognito.
Dropbox need to do a lot better job on space usage. It is trivial for Dropbox accounts to end up with more usage than many common devices have (cough MacBook Air cough). We had managers deleting content to free up space, not realising that deleted it for everyone. I guess their mental model is seeing the Dropbox folders as more of a cache than synced files affecting everyone.

Yes, there is selective sync. Now use it to reduce consumption by 10GB. It requires lots of non-Dropbox tools to try to achieve that. They do need an alternate way similar to hierarchical storage that brings in files as you need/reference them, rather than everything.
This Security Flaw Can Cause Your iPhone to Reboot Endlessly
For just one technique, read up on DNS rebinding attacks vs home "routers". Same works against NAS devices.

These devices are so common that it is cost effective to do against a bunch of device+vuln combos in a mass drive-by fashion (served by compromised or shady ad networks or any of the other 100 methods that get you to follow a bad link).

Or there's going to be another taiwanese device or PC compromised on your LAN and it'll automatically portscan & metasploit all your network in 5 minutes.

Also don't think getting "targeted" means you have to be James Bond-special. It can mean someone found a prominent blog they'd like to inject their rogue ads on. Or you pissed someone off online and they got some script kiddies to spend 10 minutes to ruin your day and get their laughs (or $20 in bitcoin).

Dropbox's security guys will detect these after they get used a few times (before they get to you), unlike your taiwanese NAS vendor who will only do something half-assed 2 weeks after it hits the news. Or nothing when it doesn't hit the news, as often happens.

All in all the mindset that you have "LAN" or "intranet" that's a significant security perimeter is outdated even if you're nobody. Don't make a network that's "hard and crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside".
Human embryos successfully modified via CRISPR/Cas9
If you were actually at the safeway in sf then the answer is that the bottle machine is in the parking lot. The one with the big queue of hobos and crazy people.
Not magic, but APIs like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kqueue

Pretty much all event loop based programs work the same way: instead of blocking on a single request for IO, they use system calls (e.g. epool_wait) that block until any of the many descriptors (sockets) has some event (data to be read, client connecting, etc). It gets a bit complicated when there are queued tasks for the thread pool and timers involved too, but its the same principle.
Volvo is doing a similar service as well, which seems to precede this. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/business/volvo-roam-klas-b...
Riiiight.

"Haskell is optimized for highly productive individuals"

"Java is optimized for teams of hundreds of mediocre programmers who are individually replaceable and insignificant"
The joys of privatisation.
Yep. This happened in St. Louis county a few years ago. They gave all contracts to one company "to reduce costs" and made the payment mandatory for recycling whether you used it or not.

I was forced to pay people to take my recycling, which I never had any of because I take it to the recycling center and get around 35-40 cents a pound.
This is the money quote: Coca-Cola committed to using at least 25% recycled plastic in its containers by 2015, but revised this downwards owing to scarce supply and high costs.

There is no financial incentive to use recycled goods. They cost more than 'fresh' goods, they require additional processing, they add risk from material contamination (not biologic, structural and chemical). There are a dozen different reasons for this but much of the blame can be laid at the feet of the amazingly interlinked municipal waste management structure.

Here is a situation where you could hire anyone from students, to sex-offender ex-Cons, to the mentally impaired to work at a recycling plant pre-processing material for effective recycling, thus providing jobs for anyone willing to work. They get paid and perhaps feel good about helping the environment, and the supply of recycled material goes up and helps push the price down on the spot market.

Financially you are going to lose taxpayer money running those plants because it is cheaper to make this stuff fresh, but its perhaps a better investment than other assistance programs.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/news/headlines/wastemgmt6.htm

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/us/mayor-and-trash-hauling...

[3] "Landfill company sued over bribery case" http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/2014/08/29/14405720/
Thanks for the survey responses everyone, and please keep them coming!
Is the main drawback about Elixir lack of support from Dialyzer?
I use Dropbox for notes and documents using terminal, VIM and markdown format. Beats Google docs every day if you don't need live collaboration.
True, but state actors are much more likely to have ISP/backbone fiber taps and DPI equipment in place to make the attack really effective at scale.
Perhaps someone better versed in economics can help me here:

isn't this the type of thing where a tax might be useful- for example, a tax on products that use 'new' plastic/glass as opposed to recycled? basically, convert the 'cost' of garbage everywhere into an actual cost?
How about making products that actually last?
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Is there somewhere which gives an explanation of what I'm being graded on and why a given grade was assigned?
The Runkeeper app explicitly mentions Pebble Support, and was released on the 20th of April.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/runkeeper-gps-running-walk/i...

I'm going to wait a little before passing judgement on this. Could just be a bad review/er.

I do feel sorry for these devs though, running to 'the press' is something Apple passive-aggressively warns you not to do. Their future app-approval life could be quite unpleasant after this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427667
I'm talking UK - guessing you're talking US, given flashlights and guns, as opposed to torches and tazers!
It's a game authoring environment. The example game is from 1977, so earlier games may or may not have been in Adventure style.
Someone asked what "innovative" means. It's purely up to your definition of the word... but feel free to add comments to explain your thoughts.
Never tried it, but Rick Strahl's West Wind company make a MS Help building tool. He's been working on it for years so should be fairly stable:

http://west-wind.com/wwHelp/

The only drawback for you might be the price, but you can download a fully functioning free version to give it a spin.

http://west-wind.com/wwHelp/download.aspx
BWAPI, the StarCraft: Brood Wars API has been used as the foundation for several AI programming tournaments, which may be if interest here. https://github.com/bwapi/bwapi
Actually...

What about "AirBnB for package delivery." I don't have this problem (UPS will leave stuff at my house if no one is home: they'll even put stuff inside one of the vehicles if it's raining or snowing), but it strikes me that "renting" out your house for the express purpose of letting UPS/FedEx/whatever drop off a package for someone who can't get packages delivered during the day might be a useful service.

Probably can't charge much per package, but if you're OK with random people showing up at your house to get packages, it might be a useful service.

And on another note, I just saw the first TV commercial for AirBnB. How long have those been running?
You added nothing to a non-conversation. AFAIK, you could have reported my bad behavior and that would have been the end of it.

I'm not even mad at you and your poor grammar; This thread has helped me test some things, so thank you.
random question - with a screen width of 320, how do you deal with screen coordinates in 8-bit variables?
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I assume they would have build in stipulations regarding how long you attempt the delivery, under what conditions, and at which point you simply drop it off at the post office or the persons house. Maybe they don't, but I would hope they've considered it.
Coca-Cola should go back to reusable glass.
Just about every grocery store in Oregon has those machines. I guess it depends highly state to state. When I was working for a summer in New Mexico, I was somewhat appalled how the waitresses at restaurants would collect beer bottles from tables and toss them into the trash.
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