skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privatized public transportation seems to work in other countries. This particular plan sounds exactly like Hong Kong's minibuses. Also in other countries, private companies own competing rail networks, competing directly against the local government. (Tokyo is an example, compare Tokyo Metro and Toei. JR was once the government, but was privatized. Keio, Tobu, Seibu, Tokyu, etc. were always private companies.)

Meanwhile, the government-funded model of public transportation seems to be failing in the US. The MTA spent billions of dollars buying new trains and resignalling entire lines to run trains every 1 minute 30 seconds. But didn't actually schedule service that frequently, resulting in trains that are un-boardable during rush hours. (In fact, unresignalled lines have higher levels of service. The Flushing line runs at 33 trains per hour. The upgraded Canarsie line only runs 26 tph.)

Off-peak service is similarly abysmal, with trains running every 20 minutes as early as 11:00pm, that are often as packed as rush hour trains. They can't afford three more trains per hour to run them at 10 minute headways?

With more people using public transportation than ever before, it's a sad time for the government to be unable to justify expanding service to meet the needs of the new commuters. But they are doing a great job of being inept, so it would be great to see the private sector come in and fix things. I don't care who I pay to get to work, I just want to get there quickly and hassle-free.
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>and severely impaired people are signing documents they don't understand.

How many people understand their cell phone contract? The ToS for Facebook? Their work contract?

If we voided contracts that aren't understood well enough by both parties, we would fundamentally alter our society. (Though maybe that is a good thing in the long run.)
Apple Loses ‘Swipe to Unlock’ Patent in German Court
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That's totally great. Fits well into Mac OS X, which supports basic Emacs keybindings.

It uses a window for each buffer.
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> On one hand, that link provides pretty strong (implicit) evidence that plenty of stuff won't be possible after the switch away from XUL, whether or not Tree Style Tabs is possible.

From the FAQ, there's a proposal for a way to do things that require the same level of access that the browser chrome has here: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/proposal-native-js...

To me it seems like a decent way to say "Hey, here's an explicitly unstable way to do things that aren't possible with WebExtensions, and hopefully we can eventually get those things into WebExtensions, or you can just live your life as you do now with no hard promises about compatibility."

> On the other hand, Tree Style Tabs is far and away the biggest extension I care about, so that link does provide me with some level of hope. For which I genuinely thank you.

You're welcome! :D

> On the third hand, my cynical take is that apparently Mozilla really does take community feedback into consideration. When making a wish list of things that could potentially happen in the future to put on a wiki page.

I could talk about this _forever_, but the short version would be: That's not a false criticism of Mozilla in recent times, but it's also not entirely true. Hacker News, r/firefox, and others are very vocal minorities compared to our greater userbase. Sometimes we really need to listen more and change our plans and be more open than we have been, but sometimes the people doomsaying everything we do might have a different opinion if they had all the details and metrics and info (knowing how to navigate Mozilla to find info about something is a skill in itself).

> I've also heard that it's possible that Pocket could be moved to an extension.

I dunno if we've specifically made that decision yet, but it is certainly one of the primary candidates for Go Faster: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster
Brings up an interesting thought exercise. Let's say you do start a small mobile game company and your game blows up into a cultural phenomena like Angry Birds.

And like all of these things, you know that one day in the indeterminate future, that phenomena will fade, much like Angry Birds has.

How do you best handle this? Do you sell early and get out quickly? Do you try to build something larger out of the resources you now have?

I'd be tempted to cash out early and just enjoy the fruits of my success.
Sanders and Trump are doing well for similar reasons, they've both rejected the corruption which has become so commonplace in American politics. Trump is famously self-funded, and Sanders has a great grassroots campaign which has help keep him afloat. Neither has yet really resorted to corporate bribes.

That's why you're seeing them do so well with their own respective bases. While it is undeniable that the general public doesn't care about corporate bribery within politics, it is clear that enough people do to seriously bump the limited candidates that fight against it up in the polls.

Do I think either can win? I think, in theory, both could win their respective primary. But I also think that if either did win their respective primary then their "message" would be considered too extreme by the moderates which have the biggest swing vote in American elections, Republicans always vote Republican, Democrats always vote Democrat, it is the moderates that are the kingmakers.

So ultimately what I think will happen is that both will continue gaining in popularity, but when it comes right down to it, someone more "electable" will win the primary since neither party can afford to actually lose the presidency completely. That means maybe Hillary and Marco Rubio.
If a small group of people gets rich off of Uber's solution (eg via stock), while everyone else gets to benefit from the drastic improvement in the taxi or transport system - it's everyone else that is getting the extreme majority of the benefit, as with nearly all similar scenarios.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin have given me an extraordinary benefit to my life. I've maybe given them a few dollars over the years. It's clear who got the most out of that trade. They got $30 billion total (much of which will no doubt go to charity), the world got how much in benefit from what their search engine can do and how well it can do it? The same will plausibly be true with Uber in concept.
> If it was so trivial, why did Apple have to acquire a company working in that field?

Why do big companies get outfoxed regularly by 10 man startups? The reality is that most large corporate entities are inefficient and acquisitions aren't usually for talent, but for other purposes: buying before a competitor does, buying the patents and firing the talent, burning through a cash reserve that, if left alone, will be given up as dividends,etc.
I believe this guy http://c65gs.blogspot.it/ is doing something like that, recreating the Commodore 65 that never was.
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Wow, StartSSL will give me a free certificate that browsers accept without bugging the user? Are there any downsides to this?

Is that possible for the whole domain, so that when I get a cert for mydomain.com it also works for development.mydomain.com etc? Even when development.mydomain.com has a different IP then mydomain.com?
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He favors European style social democracy. His whole point is that there actually exist functioning countries where health care is universal and free, college is accessible to all, gay people have rights, etc etc., and that America could be one of those countries if we wanted to. Btw I learned this by spending five minutes last night reading about him and watching a short interview, so I think your comment gives him the short shrift.
This is good stuff: I've already added it to my dotfiles git repo that sync between machines I use. I would like, however, an option to turn off the 'git:' bit. Chartjunk is exactly what it is :)
Same as Amazon, Google, Github. Basically technology monopolies, or technopolies as I like to call them. They have become so powerful that they are the de facto government in certain areas. Thrn they get in bed with the government and its hard to say where one stops and the next begins.

The endgame is for America to become the next China.
In my experience, German was a piece of cake. Sure, it's a bit difficult at first, but pronunciation is easy once you figure it out and the grammar is not that hard.

Dutch, on the other hand... :)

I've been trying for five or six months now to pronounce 'Groningen' right, but I never succeeded. If there's one 'g' in a word, I can pronounce it. If there are two letters 'g' in one word, it's practically impossible for me.
Pocket to save subscription articles
If you get the error message on sites like NYTimes that you need to sign-in for viewing an article or that your limit of 10 articles per month has run out, just save that link on Pocket and it gets saved into your reading list!
Sanders is going to end up like Ron Paul: he'll make a big splash on social media (well, he already did), but he'll crash and burn in the primaries.

There are actually a lot of similarities between Sanders and Paul: they made the splash they made for the same reason (they're honest politicians who put their values before the party line), and they'll crash and burn for the same reason (no support from party elites, most "supporters" are just people who share Facebook posts and don't vote).
No, to build the chrome extension from source.
Most of America is for the ACA, but against Obamacare, it all depends on how you phrase the question.

The issue is that most of America isn't represented when it comes time to vote, only a small subset of people do, and those who do are not going to be voting for Sanders when it comes time to choose which Democrat to get behind.
In reality, governments enjoy low accountability compared to private companies that must compete for business. That is why failed government programs hardly ever get replaced.
My favorite Rovio spin-off of the Angry Birds franchise was Bad Piggies, sort of an Incredible Machines take on the physics game, where you had to build a contraption to complete the level objectives. So yeah, they certainly tried.
I miss this, post-90s kid but really enjoyed the MUDs I played, its great to have a game you don't need amazing graphics for
Should, can, will: how your speech can determine success rates
In Germany, if a Youtube video isn't available - it shows that the video isn't available due to an organization named GEMA. I wondered what GEMA was and promptly searched to find out this. Sigh!

> Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization)
One fixes the other through redistribution. Tax the billionaires, close tax loopholes, etc. Use that money for a fiscal stimulus, and also for public benefit.
Yet she has rights that a child does not. Perhaps we should base childhood, both the protections and restrictions on rights, on mental ability instead of age.
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The founding fathers knew this [...] and that's why they intended on having a very limited federal government that had little control over social programs and whose main purpose was to see that states take it upon themselves to enforce rights provided by the constitution.

Hardly. The Articles of Confederation only lasted some 12 years and was very quickly superseded by the Constitution which granted a much stronger federal government with executive and taxing powers. Nor were the Founding Fathers in any harmonious agreement in the slightest. Since the beginning, there had been persistent debates from the federalist side (like Alexander Hamilton) and the anti-federalist side (like Thomas Jefferson), the debate still going on to this day.

As much as you and I may dislike it, Hamilton won.
In the US, public transit can't make major changes, in big part, because they're very beholden to the unions.

Here in the Philadelphia metro, tickets for the train are sold by SEPTA ushers (cash only) who walk up and down the aisle of the train. It's been shown numerous times that a major portion of the cost of running the trains are these ushers, but the union blocks every attempt to move all sales to ticket kiosks.

In fact, labor costs now make up $898,340,000 of SEPTA's $1,259,764,000 budget, but time and again any move to lower that cost is blocked outright.
What is wrong with that? It is an election campaign... you are visiting their website, they are going to ask for money. It is not like this is some "free" product that starts charging all of a sudden. Money drives the machine, doesn't mean I agree with it, just the facts. So why not throw the right hook?
Which of the other candidates, for either party, do not fit that description?
Game shop operators have wanted to do that for a long time. The challenge has been that ramping up at a game studio has been a much longer process than ramping up on a movie project. The tools, skills and processes are a lot more consistent between movies than they are between games. It often takes working through a whole game to figure out how to be really effective at a particular studio. In practice, game shops that grow and shrink rapidly have found it to be more expensive than just holding on to the staff. This also has made outsourcing difficult and limited in games.

The situation is changing slowly as the industry converges on a small number of standardized game engines. Knowing Unity or Unreal makes you easy to hire at a lot of places. But, if everyone knows Unity or Unreal, it also makes you easy to replace.
USB for TVs to block ads
It's time we build software / hardware allowing users to block the proliferation of insipid ads predicated upon profiting from acts of injustice and inhumanity.

Thinking about designing a UBS that can plug into TVs that does just that - block ads.
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As coldpie mentioned above, your rule of thumb is definitely up for debate. I understand that one can't be overly prescriptive in grammar, but it's still very common to append "'s" to a word ending in "s" already to make it possessive, depending on context, and this is recommended in many modern style manuals.
Cool thanks, always nice to have some theory behind it. When I pronounced 'federalconstitutionalcourt' I did it like I imagined a CNN news reader would pronounce it, with big emphasis on each word. When I try as you say with stress on the first syllable it does sound more like one word, not so awkward at all.
This is such an assumptive title. Angry Birds is still very popular with children. This is like saying that Mario is no longer relevant because Super Mario Galaxy sold less than New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

It makes me wonder if TechCrunch has a stake in seeing Rovio fail when I read clickbaity headlines like this.
I don't think there's anything wrong with staying at a company while looking for a new job. Do you disagree, or is it specifically the mention of "coasting" that's objectionable?

I.e. it's possible to continue to do your job within normal parameters while still looking for the next thing. Defining this as ethically dubious gives too much power to employers, IMHO.
A large part of overflows come from querying an array beyond its size. If the size of the array was already contained in the array (think of C# arrays which always have a Length property), developers could build more robust code that wouldn't rely on the size of the array being inferred from some other parts of the code.
Thanks for putting this out there for free! I think its an amazing thing to do, especially for the more academic books. Anecdotally, my friend, who is now a mathematics grad student in University of Western Ontario, learned mathematics entirely from ebooks and the low price editions that you find in India.
They making fun of how the "Blame Bush" crowd immediately converted to "Thanks Obama" in 2009.
The thing that indie devs don't recognize about gaming is that it's a hits business, just like film and music. _Success of your franchise is not an endorsement_. People consume hits and toss them away for the next big thing all the time. The reasons independent game companies make these mistakes is that they conflate the mass appeal of their creation with a personal endorsement and assume anything they do in the future will be well-received. That's rarely the case.

To be a successful player in the hits business, you have to be putting out new, formulaic stuff constantly, aware that some percentage of it will never make back its money, some may break even, and some will make a lot of money. This is what movie studios, record companies, and the successful game conglomerates do. As much as it may get tiresome to see the bi-annual CoD release break records, it matches the expected behavior perfectly.

But I digress. The direct answer to your question is pretty similar to what it always is: don't grow too fast, don't let it go to your head, and diversify. Personally, if I was in that situation, I think selling out to Activision or EA, who already have a functional hits apparatus, would be a path warranting serious consideration. A lot of game developers are eventually forced into that position anyway after they make the erroneous assumptions discussed in this comment and become financially distressed.
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Looking at the invoices, they invoke the reverse charge procedure, which is also mentioned in your link, and the german §196 MwStSystRL. That looks safe to me. What do you think?
> There's no reason to think consciousness is anything other than physical in nature

Consciousness is not the same thing as agency. It is possible that we are conscious but do not actually have free will / agency.

> By all means go on thinking there might be some supernatural thing called a "free will" if you want. But if it's supernatural, then the utterly natural laws of QM wouldn't have much to say about it.

I am not sure I agree. If QM implies a strict determinism, to me that rules out free will. For free will to be plausible, there has to be a place for non-determinism to "hide." If QM can rule that out, to me that rules out free will.
You're probably right, given the CIA fingerprints all over the current Ukrainian administration.

If you want a trip, check out how Arseniy Yatsenyuk rose to power. US "Department of State" is even listed as a benefactor to his political group.
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>but if you don't have automatic bounds checking like Java, I guarantee you that those 'A's are going somewhere unfortunate.

20 years later and we're still using C++. I hope Rust takes off. The status quo today is terrible.
It is on PyPy and CPython. Which ones don't? And when they don't support it, how do they behave? Return an empty dict or give an error?
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Judges on Tuesday said that the iPhone maker’s method didn’t reach a level of sophistication needed to award patent protection

Just so I understand what happened, can someone summarize German patent law? Is it the same 3 tests as in the U.S., i.e. statutory, novel, non-obvious?
The truth about Uber's background checks
Not sure what answer you expect here, but my tax advisor handles the paper work and just sends me notes on how much money i need to wire the tax office.
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This stigma is why General Motors invented the school bus.

Whatever you are driven around in as a kid you will hate when you grow up. The bad smells, bullying, getting puked on and feeling of being an effect rather than a cause that you get from riding the school bus will translate to you hating busses as an adult and wanting to get your own private car just as soon as you can.

Nobody ever talks about Generation X, but one thing about us is that we grew up in minivans so that the thought of driving a minivan is like putting your hand in a toilet.
Stop using React for everything
Build startup for $50K?
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I don't know about drivers, but if you've ever shared space with someone going through cocaine psychosis, you'll believe in bad passengers.
I believe the makers of Draw Something won this game. Sold right at the peak of popularity then faded to relative obscurity within a few months.
I realised long ago that the problematic quality of a problem stems solely from the perception that it represents a problem at all. If you consequently refuse to cast a situation as a problem, it ceases to be one.
P2P WebRTC file sharing app: Front end using React and Flux
Huh? You hold Uber accountable by not using their service. That's much more accountability than being 1 of ~150million votes.
The link isn't working...

Fwiw, Deeplearning4j has a list of free ML/AI courses here: http://deeplearning4j.org/deeplearningpapers.html
Pretty much all of those were de facto standards, as provided by X.Org, util-linux, wireless-tools, the syslog protocol, fstab(5) and so forth. The situation was nowhere near as grim as is often presented, considering much of it was just standard kernel and shell interfaces. Encrypted storage has always had multiple different approaches, and remains so.
Also called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
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Microsoft: More than 75M devices now running Windows 10
Totally free, you can use it on any device that has Google Play Services.
I'd like to know if you are considering to try riotjs.
Crack your code challange at Codility
You need to wait expiration time of your code challange and while the web app is saving the session close your browser.
Now click in the link that the company gave you for the code challenge
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Either you accept that this is a hit-based business, take the money and run.

... or you do what Rovio did and try to branch out beyond games and build a larger brand out of it.

That's probably easier than trying to find the next hit (see how that went for Zynga or how its currently going for King)
If the reply link doesn't appear, click the timestamp, and it'll be there. :)

As for french invoices, i use this phrasing:

--

You gave this contract using your VAT-IdNr.: *
As per "Art. 196 MwStSystRL" the tax liability is transferred to you as service recipient (reverse charge process / TVA due par le client).

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Since i invoke the same § for the UK invoices, i suspect that it's a germany-specific thing.

Notable is also, that, as others mentioned, i don't deal with non-business customers.

Also yes, i did sign a contract with him that specifically assigned liability as long as i follow his instructions and provide accurate information.
Make magazine's "getting started in electronics" is a fine place to begin. It is very basic, but has the advantage of making no assumptions about prior knowledge.
My guess is that native HTML5 is just h.264, and most modern systems have a hardware decoder that would be much more efficient at decoding than a software implementation. Flash video is a wrapper around a number of codecs, and if the codec isn't h.264, then you're doing software decoding, which is far less efficient.
Agreed. I ended up settling on RTEMS, which isn't an RTOS, exactly, but it might as well be.
>I feel that perhaps saying "cancerous diseases" is clearer than saying "cancers".

I would argue that it's not. People use 'cancerous' as an adjective describing things that aren't cancer all the time. Of course, if you're only using 'cancerous' to refer to cancers (I.e., in the context of pathology,) then just call them cancers.
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