skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you could mount one phone in the windshield of an Uber driver's car that could recognize a flashing light pattern from a held aloft cellphone of a person who needs a ride, such that the backend system routes that user's request to that driver. So the actual 'reservation' is functionally identical to how it is today, it just so happened to be facilitated by line of sight.

Although honestly this becomes legal masturbation as it's quite clear the intent is one of circumvention.
I guess it depends on how you define uninhabited - if I've got a 50,000 acre ranch with a 2800 sq ft house on it, most people are going to call the bulk of that land uninhabited.

Even if you're going to be really picky about the definition, Almost 45% of the census blocks in the US have a population of zero, which is pretty stunning if you think about it. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/nobody-lives-here-a-beautif...
It's so tempting to imagine Google just shutting down operations in France, blocking all French traffic from using its products.

I wonder how CNIL would feel about its stance then.
Ask HN: How big effort do you think building a top quality OS would be?
Starting completely from scratch with the latest theories and long term planning of what an OS actually should do.

End result should be a forward looking Windows or MacOS or Linux equivalent.

I want to know your estimates of
1. Costs
2. People needed
3. If you think there will ever be another major OS gaining popularity.
is this because some people (companies) are just not bothering to plug their rigs in?

(i.e. some hash power is just leaving the network despite existing as dedicated hardware good for nothing else.)
this reminds me of all the cloud based enterprise tools that depend on AWS that proudly shows 'HIPAA compliant, Securely hosted on Enterprise Grade Cloud from AWS'.

>Insurance Authority area, there are nearly 3 million payment entries dating back to 1987 that contain the following fields:

that is insane
You may be thinking of the Northern White Rhino which is found (or was found) in Northern Parts of Africa. These are Southern White Rhinos which are still endangered, but not as bad off as their Northern brethren. Southern and Northern White Rhinos are different species (or sub-species).

Not an expert by any means, just sharing what little I know about it ;)
Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design (2012) [pdf]
"Or the government passes a law capping how much you can raise the price of a generic drug over so many years."

Congress, controlled by Rebublicans, right now, won't let government get involved. I don't even want a cap. I would just like governmental over site/approval on Pharmacutical accuisition.

I asked my pharmacist why my generic drug(not orphan drug, noting fancy) is going up in price.

I don't know if she's right, but she told me big Pharmacutical companies are buying out generic drug companies, and raising the prices of the generic drug, or shutting the newly bought company--so they can keep supply down?

I don't know if this is going on, but i've heard it, from at least, two sources. I know it sound extreme, and hard to imagine, but these pharmacutical companies are loaded with cash? Plus, they have government protection--can't buy from Canada, etc.

So, in the end, we are going to be at their mercy?

As to just effecting Insurance Companies, my prescription formulary excludes so many drugs, or makes them difficult to buy; I pay out of pocket. These drug prices are coming out of our pockets.

(It's not just this future bottom boy at some federal correction facility, it's most of these Pharmacutical companies, or hedge funds? I can't tell the difference anymore. Oh yea, Biomarin seems just as shady, but because people don't understand what they do, they seem to just get a pass?)
If you use this tutorial to publish anything other than the example index.html, then attempt to view it through the proxy, it will fail with "Path Resolve error: context deadline exceeded." You need to run "ipfs daemon" on your local machine in order for it to be visible to the world.
This line doesn't really make sense:

"You'd have to look really hard not to see Steve Jobs in Elizabeth Holmes."

How can you look hard to not see something?
I love Obj-C (probably because I love Smalltalk). Before Swift 2, I didn't see what the excitement was about. Since using Swift 2, I want to use it everywhere. I will miss some of the dynamic features of Obj-C, but there are other ways to get to the same end. The terseness of Swift while maintaining Obj-C clarity, is wonderful.
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This is why there's a dearth of reasonable funding these days. VCs, the bad ones (which most of them are), are flock-driven creatures. Nobody wants to step out of line, and that's a problem when something new, novel, or actually different walks in your door. The flip side of FOMO is "if nobody else is doing X, I won't do X either."

Startups can get $100k in seed money by yelling on the street in soma.

Startups can get $100 million by tickling andreessen in the right spot and chanting forbidden words from the before time.

Nobody can seem to get $5 million to bridge the gap between living-in-coder-poverty and being able to hire a real team for more than two months.
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If you cook it in a fatty vegetable broth it will be plenty juicy.
Well if demand is high enough, they'll run out of cheap illicit bitcoins and start getting into the more expensive legitimate supply eventually.
Fascinating. As member I've always thought it would be a lot of temptation to leave these cars around with the keys in plain sight, and assumed there was a cut-off capability. It seems like it would be pretty inconvenient for members if it happened that often while in use.
Economies of scale exist but they aren't a given. You can't just grow your sales and automatically have a lower cost structure. Amazon actually learned this the hard way, and they've had to relearn the same lesson multiple times. It is extremely common for people to overestimate how much they can lower their cost structures at scale, and to be caught off guard when they actually achieve that scale. Amazon Fresh tried the "scale your way to cash neutrality" approach, but ultimately it was price increases that made it sustainable enough to roll out to other cities.
This is already done in scanners to prevent scanning cellular frequencies as required by FCC regs.
This is precisely the point of an article titled Consistency
Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design[0]. CAP focuses on failures and not much else. There needs to be a richer vocabulary to describe all the axes of performance in a properly (or partially) functioning distributed system.

[0]: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/abadi-pacelc.pdf
Not at all. I've myself been burnt out from focusing too much on work. It sucks to be out of balance. If you feel that work is all that matters and you don't need anything else to be happy then good for you. I have a feeling that others might feel different.
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> Chrome's multiprocess and sandboxed architecture has significant wins there. When Firefox gets that,

Multiprocess is currently enabled by default on desktop in the Firefox developer edition. And the release version of Firefox on Android is multiprocess and also supports extensions.
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How much power does it consume to generate that quarter per day?
Mercedes would be my bet, luxury brand, steeped in history and tech long before the BMW ix series.
1. Subjunctive, not conjunctive.

2. Mood, not mode.

3. This isn't subjunctive anyway.

4. But it wouldn't make the article bullshit even if it were. (But funny enough, "were" is subjunctive.)
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>then you could presumably wait for your competitors' business models to fail

Isn't that essentially playing the market? You might be waiting until the bubble bursts - which puts you in the same position as everyone else trying to short this bubble thats supposed to pop any day now.

And even if you are profitable now, the effects of a bubble doesn't mean you will be profitable afterwards.
Yeah, except reality: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=477424
I wouldn't be surprised if the African poachers were already making around $100 per kg; a lot of that money goes to the cartels (and government officials who have been bribed to look the other way).
It's a particular problem in titles that use title case.[1] What I mean is that in any such title, 21 Bitcoin Computer will read like 21 bitcoin computer. I would argue that due to the extremely unusual name (Edit: see replies to this comment) our title should read "21 introduces 21 Bitcoin Computer" or "21 Bitcoin Computer from 21" or something.

[1] Though editors in all media are slowly moving away from title case, especially in newspapers (I mean as opposed to films and books) - the NYT and WSJ are both still on title case, but not the USA Today, Boston Globe, SF Chronicle, or, for that matter, FT.

HN is mixed: for example, out of the 30 articles currently on the front page, 22 are in title case, but 8 aren't. (There are no ambiguous ones currently, such as a single word or a single word and then only numbers or prepositions.)

Reddit has completely moved to sentence case.

EDIT: I missed one, "Netflix Lemur" is ambiguous. Here's my sample/dataset: http://pastie.org/10436384*
That's actually the exact opposite of what he says. He says that CA can be vacuously satisfied by a system by simply going unavailable. It makes totally sense, but is a pathological behavior. It's a confusion that many people have about CAP, which I tried to clarify in a blog post[0] a couple months ago, in response to some other articles were going around at the time.

[0]: http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/2015/07/09/cap-theore...
As an alternative to the subjective impressions of Peter Thiel or of people here, perhaps we could adopt a more objective approach, relying on empirical evidence. I propose looking at productivity growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity
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Good question, Caprinicus. The answer is, the kind of damage Jony has done since Steve Jobs' passing.

Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent people have said about iOS 7: The Verge wrote in their review: "iOS 7 isn't harder to use, just less obvious. That's a momentous change: iOS used to be so obvious." In iOS 7 basic usability features such as making buttons look like buttons are now stuffed under Accessibility options. About this, Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment wrote: "If iOS 8 can’t remove any of these options, it's a design failure." (And iOS 8 hasn't.) Michael Heilemann, Interface Director at Squarespace wrote, "when I look at [iOS 7 beta] I see anti-patterns and basic mistakes that should have been caught on the whiteboard before anyone even began thinking about coding it." And famed blogger John Gruber said this about iOS 7: "my guess is that [Steve Jobs] would not have supported this direction."

And what about Jony's other responsibility in the last few years, industrial design? The iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and other Apple products are all amazingly well designed and breathtakingly beautiful. But these products weren't designed by Jony Ive all by himself. He designed them under Steve Jobs's guidance and direction. Steve was the tastemaker. Apple's post-Steve products are nowhere near as well-designed.

Consider iPhone 5c, for example. The colors are horrid, and when you add those Crocs-like cases it looks more like a Fisher-Price toy than like a device an executive would want to be seen holding. Then they released some ads for the 5c, and I kid you not, one of the ads had sounds of bleating farm animals. (It was titled "Every color has a story", published on tumblr.) That the 5c didn't do well in the market shouldn't surprise anyone.
How about reprisals against people associated with consumers?

Your corporate officer buys rhino horn or elephant tusks, sanction the company. Put employees on no-visa lists, make money transfers painful, etc.
Wasn't that Apples strategy, to leak higher price points so when they revealed the price it seemed cheaper?
Is it?

Most software autopatches these days. Is this any different than the latest version of Chrome installing itself and working almost flawlessly on a huge number of different hardware platforms (rather than < 100 distinct device types)?
If your Swift app is using SpriteKit it might take a little longer to get it ready for the App Store: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/17463

Apple really screwed up SpriteKit badly in the new version. I'm experiencing almost all of the problems mentioned in the forum.
The reason this is complicated is that the burn rate of the business is determined its net margin (NM) and the viability of the business is determined by its contribution margin (CM) (NB I didn't say gross margin - they are slightly different).

CM is extremely hard to calculate because "fixed" costs - in practice - do scale with the number of customers. But on the other hand, if you have a positive CM, it may make sense to invest heavily in capacity, leading to negative NM.
Business 101 doesn't apply to Rapid Startup Knowledge 101.

Rapid Startup Knowledge only involves things like LTV, CPM, MAU, DAU, DAU/MAU, and (monthly employee cost / corporate bank balance).

After all, the entire YC thesis is: take technical, non-business people and convince VCs they can run companies. It's okay if the actual business knowledge is just smoke and mirrors for a few years until you hire someone to understand it for you or you study enough on your own to be less of a "business outsider/imposter."
Thanks for the heads up. I was hoping people would make their own board games; good to know!
It wouldn't. Stolen computing time is a negligible component of the current hash power.
Swift 2 seems to have fixed one of my biggest bugbears about Swift 1: that if you command-clicked a function where one of the parameters was the wrong type, it wouldn't take you to the closest matching declaration in the headers (as it did in Obj-C) but would instead tell you that it couldn't find the function declaration. Now it seems to work! No more having to dig through the docs for small corrections.

Dunno about exceptions, though. I've seen lots of great arguments against them on HN and elsewhere, and the error reference (or alternatively double-return via tuple, especially since you can name tuple slots) seemed more clear.
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Does anybody know if ZERODIUM is not the government/nsa?
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"It isn't a debt bubble like the mortgage crisis and hasn't infected the public markets like the 90's. Caveate Emptor and all that."

I've heard that a lot, but I wonder if it's as harmless as people say? If/when this bubble pops, won't that have a pretty tough spiral effect? Granted it might not be as deep as the late-90's bubble, but I'd have to think that this will be pretty grim when it happens too.

Along with sky-high valuations come sky-high salaries, which breed high rent & purchase prices for homes. Along with that comes high tax revenue and such.

If suddenly a young engineer's expected income drops from $150-$200k/year to $60k, that could be pretty rough. Granted it probably will affect the coasts a lot harder than the central US, but I'd think it'd have national effects regardless. Salaries drop, suddenly people can't afford their houses, so they either have to sell at a loss or try to hold on to it. What if a sizable chunk of the population is no longer able to afford college loans?

You also mentioned the pension problem; if tax revenue starts to dry up because housing prices goes down, that could exacerbate a problem that's already popping up around the US.
>Not sure how this system works though.

I'm sure the basic answer is very low labor costs. There are lots of personal services available in countries with low labor costs that aren't nearly as affordable in the US.
Definitely ready. I've had a Swift app out for 4 months and it's been quite successful[1], with no Swift-related issues.

I've just updated the app to Swift 2 and it's all working great.

The only issue has been related to the new Bitcode feature in iOS, which isn't Swift-specific. It's been very difficult getting third-party libraries with Bitcode support, but Bitcode is required for watchOS 2 apps.

[1] http://streaksapp.com
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That's not quite true. Regulation frequently aims to smooth out the booms and busts and I would argue that happens in the current taxi industry.
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I get the sense that small-business SaaS companies can usually charge (after a short free-trial period), but consumers are still very reticent to pay for software. There are some services that are the exception (eg. Spotify/Netflix), but generally those are industries that were very large before software came along, and they replace incumbents (eg. RIAA/cable) that people used to pay for as well.
Japan orders universities to end education in social sciences, humanities, law
I was incredibly confused by that page until I randomly discovered that you can display that red/green matrix thing by clicking the "+ requests blocked" text on the uBlock overlay. The wiki does not tell you that anywhere.
Depending on the merchant, it might be very plausible. I know I've got one shirt that's only sold a handful of places.
Haha, it actually looks like durian and I thought "fat chance, cockroaches or grasshopper smell less"
> This is already present insofar as hardware requirements in radios - radios cannot be permitted to listen on frequencies reserved for cell phones, and must not be restricted in such way as they can be easily modified to enable it (e.g., a header/jumper). This really just extends this requirement that it is non-trivial to enable illegal broadcasting or reception on software defined radios.

Cough, cough, HackRF(https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/) + GNURadio(http://gnuradio.org/) don't seem to have these limitations.
If that occurs, that is only through Google's negligent implementation of the law, and not through an issue with the law itself. Bearing in mind that Google itself is in charge of deciding what links meet the criteria to censor.
For some reason the article itself fails to load (only WSJ page w/ comments). FYI for anyone running into issues: Apple News works for me.
In large the drug market is inflated, not deflated, because so many consumers don't pay anywhere close to sticker price out of pocket. Accordingly, one has to be careful in ascribing typical free market motives to either supply or demand side actors. In this case, I think that with such price hikes, one would expect a further than observed decline in demand. We don't see this because so much of the consumer side is completely insensitive to price. Essentially more than half of the market spends as if they were multi-millionaires, and Turing is arbitraging this market inefficiency. I really think that typical free market mechanisms are completely overwhelmed in this case.

Therefore it's impossible to say whether the long tail drugs that Turing is marketing would be considered under-priced in a free market. We can only say that in the current consumer-price-sensitivity short circuited market that the large pharma companies think that there are more profitable areas to put their energy than long tail drugs. And looking at it from their perspective, this seems fairly obvious. First off, these drugs represent a small part of the market. Also, even if they do covet Turing's margins, competing with Turing would diffuse the monopoly mechanism that enables Turing to secure these margins. The Nash equilibrium then would seem to be not to bother.
The Bitcoin computer by 21, maybe. I hate to come into a thread about something cool that someone built just to complain about the name, but it just doesn't scan.
I imagine the cost of shutting down datacenters/laying people off might even outweight paying any fines.

Google would take a huge economic hit (no businesses from an entire country purchasing ads...) but I can't help but wonder if the country would take a larger economic hit than Google would.

It's a very scary to know a company has that much power/control. It would be a huge economic setback for a country if Google decided to just up-and-go. Leave them with inferior search engines/products or force a population to use proxies/alternative methods to access Google at all.

I don't think its a good thing when a single company could strongarm an entire government.
https://github.com/mntmn/interim has 3 contributors and has commits going back longer than Jul 24th.

Seriously though, this might answer one of your questions https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/qfsob/rob_pike_on_...
Machine learning competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/springleaf-marketing-response

Trying to build a more generic and reusable system to tackle ML problems (competition oriented though, not real world)
Thanks - did not know about that case and am surprised and gratified to see it prosecuted.
Ask HN: What is the best programmable drone?
Not considering price what is the best programmable drone on the market?
Although I am sure my kids would love to be able to live in some Disney worlds, from my own experiences with VR headsets to date, have there been any studies done on what that type of sensory immersion can do to kids vs. adults? I know it will get better as the tech develops, but as my children's brains develop, I do wonder what the effects could be - obviously it's our job as parents to regulate and decide for ourselves. I can see the discussions coming though as Disney hops in the game.
Video makes it easier (to understand your product)
It also doesn't make any damn sense, given that "fiat" is Latin for "let it be done", not "I believe".
I guess that makes them pretty good bait cars for the police too (if they're interested). If every cop sat on a zipcar while they're doing their paperwork, they'd probably catch somebody trying to steal one every once in a while.
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Does your iPhone or iPad feel slow or sluggish after updating to iOS 9?
So you could be in favor of nationalisation, by way of making it common property, of the IP that supports his business, but not nationalisation of the business itself.
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Oh, I wasn't trying to make a massive point on gender, beyond pointing to the fact that fictional spies tend to be male. My interpretation of 'grey man' is not so much blending in, as not being the kind of person one would expect to be a spy. A person who 'looks like they can handle themselves' is probably less useful than an inconspicuous office intern. It would be interesting to see a fictional spy that was believable in that way.

I'm trying to remember where. It was a TV program in the UK, and I think the interview took place in an unused london underground station, I think. Sorry. ...

[edit 1:] Was it some kind of show where they trained people to be spies for the camera? I seem to also remember footage of someone having to plant a letter in their mother's handbag without being seen by them. Sorry for not being helpful. Like I said I wasn't trying to make a significant point: the discussion of spies just reminded me.

[edit 2:] Can't find a YT clip of that bit, but the show was 'Spymaster', or 'Spy'. I hope I'm not remembering it too wrongly.