skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People face investment risk all the time, but medallions are a case of a city setting explicit expectations when selling the medallions and then changing the terms of the deal post facto. Chipotle devoured a huge chunk of the fast food market, but the city didn't collect money from McDonalds for a guarantee that Chipotle wouldn't be allowed to enter.

Notably, this is illegal by federal law for auto manufacturers and other franchisors: if you promise a 25-mile exclusivity radius and get a franchisee to build a dealership, you cannot renege on that without being liable for damages. Interestingly, it's auto manufacturers who lobbied for these laws, wanting to kickstart a dealership ecosystem and knowing that franchisees would not invest money in building and marketing dealerships if they did not have suitable protections. Taxi drivers are a form of franchisee, and they are asking for similar protections.

One possible solution is for the city to buy back all the extant medallions at some fixed price, do away with the system, and finance the purchase with an excise tax on all types of transportation going forward, whether rideshares, taxis, etc. You can imagine how Uber feels about that, and how they can mobilize their vast PR capabilities against such a concept.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no guarantee that the version you'd be downgraded to would be able to read project files from the current version, right? So if JetBrains decides to up the subscription price by a huge amount, you'd potentially still have to pay for a year at the new, extortionate price in order to be able to continue to build your existing code - and worse, they could remove the option to actually buy the version you're using altogether before you get the chance to do so.
Yeah, I just looked and that appears to be true.

Wells Fargo and a couple others allow anywhere from 8-16 as their maximum, though I reduced mine to 12 because some ATM's were kind of finicky at the longer lengths.

Luckily (hah) working for a US company so I don't get enough time off to actually go overseas, so it's never been something I had to worry about.

Edit: It doesn't seem so weird anymore either. I used to get questions all the time from Cashiers, like "Wow, I didn't know your PIN could be longer than 4". But I haven't been asked about it in 1-2 years.
Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
Your points are all valid. I want to add that the equivalent for a tunnel for parts of Florida is an elevated roadway. When State Road 84 was built through the Everglades, it blocked water flow and generally had poor environmental planning. The upgrade to I-75 included 'bridges and culverts designed to let water and wildlife pass underneath' (quoting Wikipedia).
Karma Police – British Government Surveillance Program
If I am a meat eating animal like a wolf or something, Do I just have to wait at this bridge to hunt?
I personally executed several first-time transactions with multiple government agencies (mostly IC) while our start-up was still less than 100 people. It's not fundamentally different from typical enterprise sales, just involving different tactical obstacles.

The follow-on transactions, however, were much more challenging as the Beltway Bandits (prime contractors) dramatically increased the friction for us to be able to expand our footprint. We still succeeded, mostly because our technology was superior and we had the right agency (not contractor) advocacy.
From the link:

"Keystone - Processing over 550 billion events per day with 8 million events & 17 GB per second peaks, and at-least once processing semantics. We will explore in detail how we employ Samza, Kafka, and Docker at scale to implement this pipeline."
Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers
Can somebody explain the difference between NaCl and PGP and why I want device-specific NaCl keys instead of device-specific PGP keys?
Instead of Markdown file, you should consider creating a set of scripts that will fetch, cache and process upstream data into the desired formats. As someone interested in using this data, I really need to be able to easily run the entire build process myself.
If you'd like a invite, shoot me an email at aianus@coinbase.com and I'll send you one.
To me it sounds like a practical decision. Go buy a USB wifi adaptor and plug and unplug it 100 times. Then tell me if the adaptor works correctly after that; the kernel driver is probably in some undefined state now.

The reality is that the chip/firmware/driver combination is tested by turning the power on once and then making it pass a few benchmarks that reviewers like. Doing something new and exciting may or may not work.

Certainly, some drivers are way better than others (ath9k is pretty good), but I imagine they tested the power up/power down method, noted that the kernel panics 1 time in 10, and decided nobody would buy their product if they implemented it that way.
and when curl supports it; not every distro will ship it. Might take a decade for it to be fully supported.
Clearly we should be using Victor Borge's phonetic punctuation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA
I think blogs really overdo the amount of links and nav they have (this trend is changing to minamalist now) but this is a bit too minimalist. They have a tiny footer with a link back to the blog, so they do have it, but a person curious what keybase.io is, would likely want to head to the homepage before reading a company update top to bottom to find that link.
The way you phrase it is as if one of those things follows from the other, but it doesn't.

Would you say "You don't have to be religious to recognize that people want ice cream, thus working towards giving them ice cream is a worthy goal"?

Just because other people want something doesn't mean that you value giving it to them, without some other unstated belief.
I'm not associated with this project, but your questions are answered in the Urbit white paper: http://urbit.org/preview/~2015.9.25/materials/whitepaper
>Prop I is a moratorium on building new market-rate housing

Are these people completely insane? Shouldn't there be propositions for denser zoning, land reclamation, or other measures that would increase the SF housing stock? Houston has famously lax zoning laws, and as a consequence has seen much greater population growth (31% vs 18% from 1980-2010 per wikipedia) yet experienced none of these same problems.
Just want to point out that some of us have read the full text of the Proposition, know exactly what it does, and the rationale, and still think it will be completely ineffective.

For example, SF's Chief Economist:
http://sfcontroller.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid...
You complain of OP being judgmental and then insult all Americans...

Anyway, that you believe another local government body making a neighborhood stabilization plan is any sort of solution at all tells me all i need to know of your cognitive powers.
The compatibility test is not an open standard, and Google unilaterally excludes anything that it doesn't like:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...

Relevant bit:
> Switching to Skyhook's service meant Google would not be able to collect location data from users. This was bad for Google, so Skyhook was declared "incompatible." OEMs that wanted the Google Apps were not allowed to use them. Skyhook sued, and the lawsuit is still pending.
Thanks for the note. Switching to VS2015 just worked its way up my to do list.
You can post it on Show HN. You can self promote on Twitter. In other forums, you can have a link in your profile and participate as a regular member a good bit and once in a great while link to it in an answer where it is relevant. If you are only answering questions where you feel "link to my Thing" is The Answer, then, yes, you are frequently going to be in violation of some community guideline.
I wonder why the creators of Mathematica didn't aim for a pure functional language.
I have found bugs on that installation guide. For example it tells you to install the certificate chain to

/etc/ssl/certs/zulip.combined-chain.crt

But nginx looks for it in

/etc/ssl/certs/zulip-combined-chain.crt

Also during your installation you download this deb file to

/root/zulip/python-django-guardian_1.3-1~zulip4_all.deb

But the script then tries to install it from

/root/python-django-guardian_1.3-1~zulip4_all.deb`
I love the 'But Uber is illegal!' argument. A government protected industry is forced to face real competition after years of ignoring their customers needs. Boo Hoo.
Highly unlikely. Chargeback rates for a free trial with autoship offer is usually upwards of 3% on a transaction basis and upwards of 5% on a volume basis.
The game changer is the uber/lyft drivers are doing in their free time and generally __want__ to do it. So they show up when scheduled, have a pleasant demeanor, and make the whole experience one that isn't uncomfortable.

Cabbies are there for the cash and their attitude and style reflect that. Cab rides are typically reckless, the drivers rude, and the cars uncomfortable.

Of course, these are sweeping generalizations, so take it with a grain of salt.

Regardless, the game changer is the experience from app to to destination. Not just the app.
Twitter maybe, but LinkedIn really isn't, unless you define the market to be "connecting anybody with anybody else on the Internet".
You should ask your friends at Opera about code review systems ;)
The city has found that the temporary moratorium would have no effect on pricing. http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2015/09/long-term-effect-...
> my Keybase key is an ed25519 key

Could you explain how you did this? I was under the impression it was impossible because Curve25519 encryption isn't implemented yet.
The crucial property in question is a tunable energy bandgap, according to the article.
Right now Uber offers better service in every way which matters to me, and usually has much lower prices to boot.

The cab system is an entrenched monopoly with a lot of inefficiencies and people stealing value along the way.

Being able to lie on the phone and say "the cab is 15 minutes away!" when it's going to be half an hour is a feature, not a bug - for the industry. It's the equivalent of asking reform from the music industry or Hollywood - not going to happen.
Agree with Cieplak. Kinesis is very Kafka-esque, with less flexibility (which makes sense for a managed service).

Producer/Consumer semantics are pretty similar. Partitions in Kafka are Shards in Kinesis terminology.

One big difference is retention period in Kinesis has a hard limit of 24 hours (no way to request increase on this limit).

Kinesis IMO is easier to use being a managed service. I have performed a Kafka to Kinesis migration & have found Kinesis easier to use. Plus, AWS Lambda makes consuming Kinesis a breeze (if your usecase suits it).
Utah? The NSA hire Mormons because they do as they are told and believe in stupid things. So you might be onto something.

I grew up in the shadow of the doughnut (it was sheds then) and they recruited 'second 11' folks from my school, the ones that didn't get A's. The buy in is that they can pay a mortgage, brings some more kids into the world and not have to leave Gloucestershire. They are all kept in little boxes so none know the big picture, except they believe they are protecting the world from Osama/kiddie porn.

Although no hard evidence, I believe the doughnut people also have everyone's school reports too. Imagine the lengths or procedures in place to do that. Yep, the spy on kids.
Google Search unfortunately removed a great feature on Android: "okay google, search <blah> on Spotify." Now instead of opening the native app with the search intent, it goes to the web result. :/
See also:

Smalltalk faq: "Q28. What is the difference between chaining and cascading?"

http://www.ipass.net/vmalik/smalltalk.html#Q28
This presentation (GCHQ) specifically notes use of HDFS and Hadoop to process data: https://theintercept.com/document/2015/09/25/gchq-analytic-c...
The point of the moratorium is not to affect prices; it's to give the city a chance to come up with a plan that will protect affordable housing in this one neighborhood, without losing the ability to act.

Viewed in that light, this report is a vote for the plan, not against it: it gives a little breathing room, and probably won't affect prices either way. Whether or not it "works" is entirely speculative: someone has to come up with an actual solution in the longer term.

I believe the advocates of this proposition want the city to buy the remaining vacant lots in the Mission, and use them to build affordable housing projects, but I could be wrong about that.
Brilliant. Sent. Thanks a 10^6.
>Sad story but every economic change for the better creates winners and losers. You can't regulate away loss without regulating away improvement.

The government isn't a third party here. Compensating him isn't just handing him money for a bad investment. It's compensating him for the fact that SF scammed him out of a quarter million dollars.

The reason why the government should have to compensate here isn't because he lost money and pour him. It's because the government sold him a license and then devalued the license on purpose.

You could argue that the city never promised to prevent all sorts of transportation competition. And he took that risk knowing that, for example, people could take limos or whatever. But you at least have to have that debate. You can't just write it off as a bad investment. The government is the cause of his loss. Not the market.

>As for the government stepping in - live by the fake government market, die by the fake government market. I have no sympathy for people who build businesses behind government firewalls or with government subsidies, and suffer when those rules change.

You act like cabs were regulated for the cab drivers benefit, but that's not how or why they were regulated. They were regulated for the benefit of the city and the rides. The medallion system was the other side of a compromise between the city and the taxis. The city would regulate pricing and dictate key parts of their business model, but in exchange they would be protected from competition. It was a quid pro quo.

IF you think the medallions shouldn't have been sold in the first replace, why isn't just returning them for the price paid the best solution?
Sadly, you have to also start tackling religious issues: Catholicism can not further forbid abortion or use of condoms. This is seriously hurting humanity.
Mathematica has a bad god-object/spaghetti bowl smell. Wolfram demos might look appealing, but I've read few bits here and there that the abstraction don't compose well.
The data must be destroyed

History shows that the only way this is likely to happen is when the revolutionaries storm the building, such as the collapse of East Germany and the Stasi, or the Libyan security files blowing around in the street after the airstrikes.
I'm not a fan of Google or Chrome either, but this article was amazing, and the Chromium devs in this thread have provided some really neat info. Offtopic flaming isn't useful to HN.

(And as to your bug, I tried --no-referrers in Chrome 45 on Windows 8 and it worked fine.)
> For those cabbies who paid nearly nothing for their medallions...

I'd argue they did pay for them, they worked for below-average wages for 10 years in the hopes of a payoff. Long-term drivers tend to see getting a medallion as a retirement plan.
> I had high hopes for Google Wave but it was sadly stillborn.

Yeah me too. Google really effed that one up. RIP
Having always a +1 for a duress code seems like a bad idea. What if a criminal asks for your code and types in the code you gave -1? If it works he now knows you tried to to set him up. If it does not, he can still try the PIN you gave him.
But it would make them happy? And if it costs me less than it brings them, sure, I’d do it. That’s like the whole point why social nations in Europe can exist. Because everyone is willing to help, sometimes even at their own cost.
They don't need warrants. They'll just hack in like they did with Belgacom.

And even if they don't, they won't get a warrant. They'll get a certificate from the relevant politician that'll authorise them to do it.
In Toronto, it feels like the entire public is on Uber's side. But that could be good PR as well, since I can only poll my circle of friend-users.
Slack's IRC bridge is actually pretty good. I know that's not quite what you're asking, but at least you personally could still interface using IRC.
Great technology company, with special Security awareness efforts.

CloudFlare - defending those vulnerable Wordpress blogs for free.
The first piece of advice "don’t claim you’re changing the world until you’ve changed it" makes sense.

A tiny minority of founders really work on products that change the world. Many just hope that their company is acquired and that is how most "successful" startups "exit". The so-called "exit" is a badge of honor (even if the company had been through a fire-sale or acqui-hire)

There are other good points in the column, but I think Sam is a bit too defensive when he says "ignore the haters and work on whatever you find interesting. The internet commenters and journalists that say you’re working on something that doesn’t matter are probably not building anything at all themselves."

If someone is a "hater", does it really matter if they are building anything else ?

Tesla has its critics, social-networking-for-cats will also have its critics. Both companies may assert that they are changing the world. However, I don't think it makes sense for the latter to use the former as an example of why its critics are all "haters". Of course, I don't mean to suggest that the latter deserves its critics. I'm just saying that there is no need to circle the wagons against these so-called "haters".

If you think your startup is worth it, just work on it. Most startups don't change the world in a big way, but that shouldn't stop you from trying.
my credit union assigned me a 5 digit pin... most atms will accept it, but for those that don't, the first 4 digits work :/
> I don't use keybase because [...] I'm behind 12K people for their private beta

Sadly, this is the main reason most people (including me) aren't using it. I'd love to try it out, but until I can get a log in, I'm just going to ignore it. They are throwing away a lot of good-will by making these announcements, then when users go to the site they get turned away because they aren't one of the blessed few with an invite. If I don't get access soon, I'm going to file them under 'ignore', since it seems like I've been trying to get an account for years, now ;(
Matlab is not a computer algebra system.
How many of those sites actually run over HTTPS? Reddit doesn't by default, neither do WordPress installs, CNN the BBC or Channel 4.
reading the proposition would help, but that's beside the point ain't it?

Someone really needed to let us know how fantastic things are when the gubmint gets out of the way. Got it.
> He held the industry back in multiple ways, for years.

This is an oft-repeated meme, but outside of anecdotes where they were being mean to competitors, there is no evidence of the software industry being harmed by its practices on any meaningful scale. In fact, at least one study looked at economic data and found no empirical evidence for it:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269498
>There have been articles in the UK press about MI5 for instance covering up child abuse by politicians because they wanted to blackmail them with that.

Citation?

I've seen articles like this, http://news.sky.com/story/1523821/child-abuse-pm-tells-polic..., but none that give the reason for the coverup as being enabling MI5 to blackmail people.
They might be able to save a bit on costs by caching locally. Lambda instances can be reused if TPS is high enough. I think the limit is 500MB in the /tmp directory.
> Airports used to be like Amtrak.

I suspect our ideas about the efficiency and timeliness of Amtrak may differ.
The categorisation of "threat" is what we have a problem with. There was a scandal a while ago about the embedded deep cover agents in environmental groups: one had been there so long that he'd married and had a child with one of the people he was spying on. Further back there is the fairly terrible record of Special Branch et al in Northern Ireland.

Then there's the whole business of supplying intelligence to support the policy of invading Iraq, and the mysterious death of Dr. David Kelly. The Iraq invasion made us considerably less safe at the cost of about a million (non-coalition) lives.
Tell HN: Super Mario maker is the visual programming language we have waited for
I'm very impressed with this game. The concepts it teaches are exactly what developers need to know. I'm going to write up a more thoughtful review of this but I wanted to tell the parents of HN that this is a must buy for your kids. In 2 hours my 8 year old has figured out some incredible concepts of programming. I cannot understate how great this game is.
Good PR or superior product + service?
Cybercrime Week in Review 26 September 2015 – MailShark
"Are you suggesting that it is impossible to ..."

No, merely expensive. The Gotthard Base Tunnel is US$10.3 billion for "a route length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages". (Quoting Wikipedia.) That's $290 million/mile.

The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is estimate to cost €4.7 billion for 17.6 km of immersed tunnel, or $480 million/mile.

The boondoggle that is the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel is in the same range.

By comparison, a rural interstate road costs about $5 million/mile, or a factor of 50 cheaper.
It would be incredibly bad if it was true, but it's not. The willingness to believe EVERYTHING a tech company shill will publish online by this community speaks very poorly of its character and intelligence.
I bet that's the same experience some people have with an aqueduct - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Ie-akwad...
>I'd be fascinated as to how that's justified legally.

They don't feel the need to justify it legally, especially when oversight is sitting down with the head of GCHQ over dinner and asking if there's anything dodgy going on.

>Mass tracking has been accepted by the high courts

By the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, maybe - but that's not a real court and it's barely part of the court system at all.
very cool, proud to be hosting your API on The Mashape Marketplace :)
Out of curiosity, what is the actual "alarming rate" of people getting just-cause evicted from their homes? I know that Ellis Act evictions dropped from 2013 to 2014. I'm guessing that the trend held steady. The number of units city-wide is also still in the hundreds, not thousands. That doesn't sound like a crisis.
Teenager killed himself hours after Wonga cleared out his account
At least so far as police forces are concerned, they can't really be reformed. The police is fundamentally a paramilitary unit that serves the interests of a state, not private citizens. You can make the case that such an evil is preferable to abolishing it entirely, but ultimately the odds are stacked against it achieving any positive equilibrium, only trying to keep it as contained as possible.
If not already, you should read this article:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...
Really, you didn't read the whitepaper.
Curious if this is the YC incubated company or some other entity?