skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It costs money because it's a durable capital expense that generates revenue, and can later be sold for as much or more than you initially paid.

Now as to why have medallions - taxis cause congestion, and a lot of it. You drive your privately owned car to work and park it, a taxi keeps circling the block all day and pulls to the curb to pick up fares. A single taxi causes as much congestion as 40 private cars [1] - and New York is notorious for gridlock already. You gotta limit congestion somehow, and it makes sense to limit the most congestion-causing vehicles first. And when you're talking about a limited revenue-generating asset then the price spirals upwards.

I personally think medallions should be auctioned on a yearly basis or something, to minimize the financialization.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/01/20/more-taxis-...
“God forbid any of you, in your years at this institution, are ever confronted with an opinion you do not share. But if you are, you will have a refuge on this campus.”

Being able to maintain a discussion and arguing in favor of your own point of view is no longer a remotely important skill?
If this is a real problem, addressing it at the college level seems far, far too late. Also, while the author hammers on their point that "education is not trauma", I am not inclined to agree without giving it more thought.

All I have is anecdotes but they are troubling. A couple of weeks ago I spoke with a second grader who was brought to tears at the thought of upcoming testing (state required assessment). My immediate thought was something along the lines of "Just do the best you can", but the question remains: where was this anxiety coming from: parents, teachers, both? In this case, education was very clearly trauma for this individual.

Perhaps the "helicopter parents" are doing more harm than good, that seems likely. At the same time, perhaps round after round of assessment testing is hurting as well. And universities seeking to coddle their students, perhaps to keep them "happy customers" but also to keep them ignorant of their overall costs.

In any case, it's not entirely clear that "education is not trauma", this article itself seems to contradict that thesis.
> Yet there was none.

There was. You were painting an overly ridiculous consequence of the argument, and then arguing against that overly-ridiculed consequence.

> Your very post, though, not only attempts to paint my comment as an "old person thing" (hilariously), it then attacks the speaker ("hostile dick").

As I explicitly pointed out, that wasn't an insult. It was a pointer as to how other people will likely interpret your comment. Which was more or less confirmed by the downvotes on it.

I wasn't attacking you. I was trying to make you understand how other people would read your comment.

The rest of your post again uses an overly ridiculous version of the argument to argue against (that really has nothing to do with my original statement), so there's really not much point in me responding to that.
Was the post a joke? She kind of resembles The Joker on her bio page: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/executives/016331.h...
Absolutely. This is surely more theoretical than practical. Solving a linear system of equations has cubic complexity but we still routinely solve systems with millions of equations. Billions are probably being done too. We just take advantages of special features that allow us to do things faster than the worst case - such as having a sparse matrix.
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Its more like selling someone a meal in a restaurant, and refusing to let them see the kitchen. You can, if you are skilled, infer how the ingredients became your meal, but you won't ever know if it was done in a clean an safe way unless you can look at the environment where it was created. You could hire an investigator to figure this out, but there is a good chance that they know that there is more money in bad news than good. So they take photos of the dirtiest 'chef' who turns out to be the dishwasher, and show you the pictures of deliveries from Walmart, but choose not to show you the pictures of the chef getting up at 4am after finishing at 1am to drive to the fish market to hand pick the best of the catch.

I understand the risks of eating in places with closed kitchens, but ultimately they make better food than I can, that requires less of my time. It may be more expensive for unjustifiable reasons, and maybe I don't want to know how the black pudding is made, I just want to focus on what is important to me: making my wife happy.

Do I prefer to eat in restaurants with open kitchens, where the ingredient list and their source is available on demand? Sure. Am I a zealot about it..? It depends how hungry I am.
There are car services that are generally reliable. The problem is, this is on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis. I know who to call to get me to the airport from my apartment, but if I'm in an unfamiliar part of town and I don't know someone who lives there, all bets are off.
Which is actually nice for the US, since Chinese buyers can't pick up a piece of real estate and bring it back home with them, and the ownership obligates them to pay taxes, etc.

It hurts the domestic home buyer, though, who has to compete with inflated all-cash offers from these foreign investors.
I believe this is a trait of the American mind : "we are the good guys so we can't do bad things, therefore everything we do is good".

But when you consider it, atomic bombs on civilian pops, military presence (to not say occupation) around the world, invasions of countries (but it's for democracy - yeah, right), dirty coups, financing of terrorists orgs, you got to wonder what kind of loose standards you need to be called the good guys.

In conclusion, no, Americans are not bad guys, but their government certainly is.
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They're only using Launchpad because it's a Canonical product and the way they always do distribution of this kind. I too would agree in your choice of Github as it tends to be more developer centric in it's social tools. I think it will get picked up more if it's there..
Education absolutely is trauma in a hierarchical society. The whole point of education is to beat children into the mold that fits society's expectations and needs, not their own. You can't expect anything else out of institutions based on domination and authority.

> Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens. Wardens' main concern is to keep the prisoners on the premises. They also need to keep them fed, and as far as possible prevent them from killing one another. Beyond that, they want to have as little to do with the prisoners as possible, so they leave them to create whatever social organization they want. From what I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage, and pervasive, and it is no fun to be at the bottom of it.

> In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to. The most important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the authorities fed you, prevented overt violence, and made some effort to teach you something. But beyond that they didn't want to have too much to do with the kids. Like prison wardens, the teachers mostly left us to ourselves. And, like prisoners, the culture we created was barbaric.

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Thanks, the link should now be to the referenced paper.
Haha, maybe they've given up on NTP. It never seems to work on Windows anyway. b^)
According to the very Wikipedia article you link, Standard Oil was found guilty of anticompetitive actions.

Note that monopolistic behavior does not necessarily imply rising prices. See: Wal-Mart. Also see this quote from that Wikipedia article again:

"The evidence is, in fact, absolutely conclusive that the Standard Oil Co. charges altogether excessive prices where it meets no competition, and particularly where there is little likelihood of competitors entering the field, and that, on the other hand, where competition is active, it frequently cuts prices to a point which leaves even the Standard little or no profit, and which more often leaves no profit to the competitor, whose costs are ordinarily somewhat higher."
Often times authors of articles are not the same people who write their titles ... it may even be changed without their knowledge (until the paper is actually printed).
The article was really about much more benign PC stuff like:

> by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,” because this implies that he or she is not a real American.

Some Asians would find this policy racist as it presumes that all Asians are American Asian.
If you want to run a custom AMO I'm assuming you're in a corporate environment or something like that where you can control what browser gets installed on people's machines.

https://addons.mozilla.org is an integral part of Firefox, if you set it up with an alternative you're effectively making your own fork.
I don't know about the mathematical result (the conditional proof), but I do know that it's easy to expand or limit the edit operations, or change their costs, while keeping the dynamic program order the same (so not e.g. allowing 'move this whole phrase' type edits - that would probably be cubic or worse). If you're considering the generalized 'set any costs you like for the operations' problem then you could set the subst cost as 2 and the insert and delete as 1.

Again, I know that's not precisely what you asked. I can't think of a reduction from "insert+delete only" problems to "insert+delete+subst" (all operations cost 1) problems (where solving the latter gives you a solution to the former, and the size is no more than k times the original).
The ethical issue is with regards to people reading all the content supported by advertising, but then blanking out all the ads. Marco's taking the position that, given the risk, and the general intrusiveness and privacy violations associated with advertising, that it's entirely ethical to do so.
Big Fish gave me the perspective that you can move around in small ponds and still be a great person; you don't have to start a company and change the world to accomplish this.
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The "feature" to worry about is the new SGX instructions. With those, the secure boot/TPM stuff is locked down at the hardware level, and we lose root access.

Unfortunately, given how many in this very thread are willing to apologize for MS's behavior and justify their power grabs, I don't expect there will be much resistance in this War On General Purpose Computing.
I've traveled to China about 2-3 times each year for the last few years. I strongly recommend that people who travel to China install WeChat. Not only is it guaranteed to work in China, but it gives you instant street cred when you're there.

It's very, very common for people to say to me, "Wow, you have WeChat? You are so Chinese!" (I don't look Chinese at all, and my Mandarin is still at an elementary level, so this is clearly a cultural compliment!) It's the easiest, fastest, and cheapest thing you can do to make a connection with any hosts, friends, or business colleagues you meet there.

WeChat does indeed have tons of features. I've used it for personal and group communication, but also for video chats (when Skype went crazy on me), and it was solid. My Chinese teacher and I use it to exchange messages and photos, either when I'm visiting China or when we're outside of class time. I'm on a few groups, and it's a surprisingly clean and easy-to-use program for group chat.

I also use WhatsApp, and while that has a much nicer interface, it's not obvious to me that it's superior to WeChat.
By calling certain people "crazy", and suggesting that they not be taken seriously, you're stigmatizing mental illness. Please stop.
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FOUR OH FOUR, Guess it's over....
Just downloaded this app and activated it. Now I can give all my info to chinese government instead of NSA.
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1. This seems contradicting
2. This is concerning given the jaded climate in our Country.
3. Out of curiosity I want nothing more than to explore the evolution of US crime over the last 10 years or so to effectively make empirical observations about facts relative to what the media communicates.
Well you say that but then you get Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists suing to opt out of learning how to perform safe abortions because of their political beliefs.

I am less bothered by them choosing not to do them once qualified than not even learning how to do it. There are times when an emergency abortion can save a woman's life and sure it's not likely there's no one around to do it in 2015 USA but what about in an emergency? A power cut after hurricane etc?

Several of my wife's colleagues have done this. It shocks me.
XMPP isn't a correct usecase for XML, though. It could easily be accomplished with a format like JSON without notable architectural defects. In a way, namespaces are a part of the JSON design - it supports deeply nested structures.

For a correct use of XML, I'd more suggest looking at static datasets with lots of complex inter-references and data types - for example, public transport data.
Yeah, in the FAQ of the article it becomes pretty clear how dead this code is:

------------

Do I have to sign a contributor agreement to modify the code?

No. This is no longer an active project, we are providing the code for public to read and use on their own.

Will you take patches?

In general, no. We won’t have anybody assigned to reviewing and accepting code. We’d encourage interested maintainers to fork the code and build out a community around it.

------------

So, I mean, er, thanks for open sourcing a dead project. But still under an AGPLv3 license.... meh.
Citizens (and occasionally residents) have ultimate control over the land, through control of taxation and regulation.
I wonder if it'd be possible to either blackhole all this nonsense, or to "quasar" their data servers with preset queries like "I like my privacy", "mind your own business" instead of your original query.
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Later in the paragraph:

> After a while Mr Assange had asked AA what she was doing and why she was squeezing her legs together. [...] Mr Assange let go of AA’s arms and put on a condom [...]

I can read this as being not that great at sex. Depending on how long "a while" is, he might just be in the habit of grabbing his partner. This doesn't seem malicious.
Always a good time to plug cargolaw.com. They have an incredible collection of container ship disasters. You just have to be able to withstand the awful website design.

Here are some good examples:

http://www.cargolaw.com/2006nightmare_hyundai_fort.html

http://www.cargolaw.com/2000nightmare_1_oocl_ameri.html

http://www.cargolaw.com/2012nightmare_bai_chay_bri.html
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Can Class B shares be traded privately between individuals? Or do they have conditions attached (right of first refusal back to founders/company, etc)?
How is it weird? Because a lot of people prefer git these days?

I would assume they're using bazaar as that's probably what they've always been using for this repository. Then again, only they know.
I can't speak for all GPU vendors, but Imagination is actively developing a Vulkan driver for PowerVR Rogue GPUs (this is what the demo is running on). Beyond driver availability, I can't guarantee that OEMs and/or chip makers will license that driver and build new firmware with it.
I very much don't agree, the only time I've seen writing like this is when someone is deeply frustrated about something.

I don't think it's an unreasonable fairy tail to say this is a person who is frustrated, who has drunk the corporate kool-aid in a big way, who is dealing with the detritus of a rather nasty security confidence scam industry, and is putting their views out there. Even if you or I don't like the message, I believe she meant it. I believe it. Maybe I'm gullible.
Calling some of this infantilization is kind of sad.

Walking around in slippers and napping wherever is a consequence of freedom from social conventions, or at least an environment where social conventions are anomalous and rapidly changing. So is promiscuity, once called free love. These are things that universities have always been havens for. Others things (puppy rooms) are experimental, also an artifact of a nonconformist and liberal environment.

Students and academics have more license to be quirky and eccentric than lawyers and soccer moms. That's a good thing.

I also cringe when I here about PC student audiences that can't tolerate stand up comedy. It all feels like a part of the recreational righteous rage, liking to be right and pointing at the kid that said the C-word.

OTOH, it's also a side effect of effective social movements that take place at universities. If I look back at social movements that universities played major roles in, I don't think they've been bad. Attitudes towards queers and trannies have changed so much in my lifetime. Amazingly. There is tremendous support and solidarity from the public. It's a breathtaking rise in collective conscience. If I'm going to be yelled at by 19 year olds for saying "tranny" but we get to a point where transexuals can work and live normally, homosexuals can have families…. I'll take it.

Part of the way that is achieved intolerance towards "assholes," homophobes, xenophobes, sexists. Students, being young and insufferable spray that all around. Long term though, it sticks mostly where it should.

But yea, I agree. Young people are annoying.
I think this is a good demonstration of the difference in impression you get from the press and what's actually going on.
An interesting summary. One of the things I think is missing is the bridge that ES6 modules provide: within an ES6 module you can obviously presume access to the ES6 syntax.

System.js provides a polyfill for ES6' System loader (and a configurator/value add on top of a browser ES6 System implementation) allowing you to bootstrap into your ES6 modules. It feature detects and uses Babel/Traceur/TypeScript (your choice) to load ES6 modules, if needed. (It also loads CommonJS and AMD and traditional "global" modules because there is a diverse ecosystem of module formats out there.)

JSPM is a further value add on top of System.JS that is a package manager that automates configuring System.JS for a complex ecosystem of versioned package repositories (JSPM registry, NPM registry, and even GitHub repository tags), and grabs local development copies for everything (and supports an HTTP/2 CDN in beta-ish) and helps automate using the System.JS bundler if you want to bundle everything into a single minified file.

This is a pretty good stack for working with ES6 today, and as browsers start to support ES6 natively it will transition right along. (System.JS will still be useful itself for its plugin/configuration work, including support AMD/CommonJS/global modules in ES6.)
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I don't think it's the lack of open-source code that is causing the grievances but rather the tone of the blog post and the overall theme of "Our IP is more important then your security concerns, no we don't care if you are a core bank".

Microsoft, SAP, VMware all have closed source software that is very prevalent in enterprise, often in entrenched positions just like Oracle. Sure they aren't exactly all peaches either but atleast they have a decent way of responding to security problems or plain bugs.

They also don't wield their license agreement as a weapon against their customers, they only use it to make sure they get paid.
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Some great ideas, especially the examples of breaking down UI into smaller components. Thanks for writing this.

I've been using Flux to manage pretty much all of the application state, and pass it to the top-level component and down through the tree of components as props. This idea was very well described in an older article[0]. I would add that this approach makes shouldComponentUpdate very important, since more of the tree is rendered on every change.

Your example of the dropdown state is a great counter-example where Flux is not necessary or even helpful, and in fact I've used the same example when explaining it myself.

One thing I'm not sure about is whether the save action should use a callback (or Flux ActionCreator), or whether it should be triggered by comparing the values in componentDidUpdate as you suggest. Making that behavior declarative is certainly appealing, but I'd be worried that an action like a save could be idempotent, with unpredictable side effects, and therefore makes more sense to be explicit/imperative? I'm not sure which one would be easier to work with at very large scale, and it looks like your application is larger than any of mine, so perhaps the declarative style works better. If anyone has more to say about this I'm curious to hear opinions.

[0] http://aeflash.com/2015-02/react-tips-and-best-practices.htm...
Thanks all for offering your perspective. This comforts me a lot. I guess I would start by stocking up supplies and checking whether the apartment I live is properly retrofitted.
> How is ad blocking an ethical issue?

Many people rely on ads for a livelihood without charging for content; ad-blocking would deprive of their livelihood. This was a contentious issue for niche video content creators (e.g. the nostalgic review craze that happened a few years ago)

Most of these content creators have switched to Patreon/Kickstarter.
So was Myspace when AOL acquired it.
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msgpack[1] or LEON[2] might be more useful alternatives, in that case, depending on your interoperability requirements.

[1] http://msgpack.org/
[2] https://github.com/raypulver/LEON
Not to mention the qualification of "... if the ownership rights were determined." Nothing like making a substantial investment and then -- if you actually turn it around -- having a couple dozen claimants pop up suing you for illegally occupying their ancestral/childhood lands.
rpc isn't free, you just did not encounter the situations that it matters...
Same here in Uruguay for EasyTaxi drivers (an Uber clone).

I was encouraged to apply for at position for Uber in Uruguay, but I'm really not cut out for the work (it involves fighting the extremely strong cab driver's union here, which isn't above kneecapping).
It's not an integral part of Firefox, though. You can install add-ons without it by just clicking a link on any page that leads to an XPI, same as how AMO behaves.

And no, I'm not in a corporate environment. I'm talking about decentralization.
From my experiences the idea of microaggression is more common in people of more suburban-like American lifestyles. As an immigrant, and friend of many different immigrants in America, the idea of anybody being offended, or taking things as a personal insult is nearly unheard of. But, people who may not know many people of different backgrounds seem to think they should be offended, and take things personally.