skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment is the only one using the word "absurd" so I take it you're talking about it. Let me try to defend it.

I called the title misleading, so I shortly described the gist of it. I also opined it's absurd because the idea doesn't seem to have been thought through (because of the large amount of space dedicated to bikes, as I wrote). This was just a warning to other readers, so they aren't baited like I was.

Notice that even the submitter (geezsundries) wrote "I'm confused as to why they created bike paths in apartment building hallways." This really isn't a good submission.

In my opinion, you're just picking the wrong article to seek great discussions about bikes and city planning. I'm looking for the same but this thread isn't the place. When the reporting is done by someone who's just trying to grab pageviews cheaply on someone else's bad content, then comments will be mostly negative. If it was a "Show HN" by someone who's poured reasonable effort, then negative comments would be more significant to gauge gratuicious negativity.
India Proposes Legal Guidelines for Ridesharing Apps Like Uber and Ola
CocoaSeeds – Git Submodule Alternative for Cocoa
So what? You know your phone visited a website, but if that site had a zero-day, would it matter?
why use macs (or Dells) instead of a cheap china-built off-brand PC? Why use fancy Pilot G2s instead of 10/$1 bic pens? Why use ${SuperiorProduct} instead of ${InferiorProduct}? Because it has value outside of the immediate short-term economic value.
I think it would help if news reports always used the same units. "This project would cost 0.1 Gigabux out of a total agency budget of 18 Gigabux." Switching between millions and billions and trillions can obscure how small, or large, something actually is in relation to the whole.
This is good-one of my current projects for a customer is entirely AJAX/JS rendered and we were worried that Googlebot would have a fit with it.
For a deaf or deaf-blind person, Uber is a godsend. As many would tell you, getting into a random cab is a tough task. Often we have a written address only for the cab to kick us out, ignore the address, or just can't read it.

Then they would try to rip us off by driving long routes when we know it's bs. It's hard to argue with them afterwards.

Forget about calling a cab company for a pickup. They almost never show up. It's maddening.
Her code got humans on the moon, and invented software itself
Robots Learning Judo Techniques to Fall Down Without Exploding
thumbor is an on demand service that hosts and responds to image requests. this is a JS based smart cropper. they're not quite the same thing.
Uber is a superior service compared to NYC taxis. If NYC taxis want to compete, they should use clean cars (!!) and get an app on the market!
The article addresses this possibility with the fact that they would expect more infrared radiation which they don't see.

As with everything, they're looking for more data.
https://kotlinlang.org/
From what I understand there are differences in the quality of the components, but it's impossible to tell which brand has which set without doing a teardown on it.
I got a 404 at 20151014 21:21. ET
I've spent a couple of hours trying to get Docker running on my linode Ubuntu server to no avail.

A non-docker implementation would be nice.
If the address is linked to your credit card, then that counts as verification too. Unfortunately, even if you move and change your CC's address, I don't think they have a process to remove people (or re-verify them periodically).
I can't comprehend why the author of the article couldn't come up with this glaringly obvious reason.

In every other aspect of my life, the price tag is attached to the item. If I want the item, and the listed price is good, I can either buy it then, or keep shopping.

With U.S. medical care, I can go to my general physician ($30 copay) and complain about a specific symptom. She can then refer me to a specialist ($50 copay), or send me to the lab for a test ($???), or prescribe a medication ($???) and schedule a follow-up (future $30 copay). After my pockets have been emptied, I literally have no idea about the size of the bill I will be expecting in the mail, because my insurance rejected the claim or my deductible hadn't been met, or whatever bogus flimflam.

It is easier to shop around for 20 mixer-truck-loads of concrete than for one blood test. It is easier to shop for, finance, and buy a new car than a new hip joint. It is easier to plan a 30-destination worldwide vacation than it is to plot your own cancer treatment.

And as someone else already mentioned, all this pricing data is already computerized. We are not allowed access to it, because it people were able to shop around on the basis of price, they would do it, and prices would immediately fall to actual cost plus reasonable operating margin.
But currently Uber is cheaper than cabbies anyway. You're saying Uber will drop rates even lower?
Why Your Links Need a Hover Effect
A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming
Take that and multiply the width by a couple of times and you've got Heinlein's rolling roads.
I hope they integrate with the native Notification Center on OS X and the "Action Center" on Windows 10. This would make it more consistent with how Chrome works with the native notification lists in Android and iOS.
Cropping images is a massive problem for social media. Here is a talk from 2013 by Christopher Chedeau a front end engineer at Facebook describing some of the problems with their image layout algorithms.[1]

Initially, they tried to solve the problem by getting users to tag people inside the image and then use location of the tags as parameters to crop. If someone is tagged in a photo, Facebook makes sure that person is always inside of the cropped version.

Here is the write up from Christopher's blog.[2]

Was Instagram only using square images at one time? That would have been a brilliant way to have solved this problem.

1. http://blog.vjeux.com/2014/image/image-layout-algorithms-htm...

2. http://blog.vjeux.com/2012/image/best-cropping-position.html
Visual Information Theory
3 is illegal. You can report the taxi for not picking you up for any reason if their on-duty light is on.
I can't say I'm sorry to hear taxis lose business. Uber is being innovative and I like it. Taxi drivers, from what I understand, have been getting shafted for a long time by a corrupt system.

Uber drivers might not be making bank, but from what I can tell they are doing better. If I'm wrong about please correct me, I'd love to hear some feedback on that.

I often ask Uber drivers if the pay is worthwhile since I don't want to be supporting something that is screwing people over. So far it all seems positive for the most part.
This is very illegal, and you can report the taxi's that pass you.
Thanks. I flagged the link because of the previous title without even reading the story behind it. I'll unflag it now.
Everyone is inclined towards adding features; it's just in our nature I suppose. The experienced folks know how to exert discipline in this area so that you aren't working on vaporware.

Eric S. Raymond said it best back in the day: "Release Early, Release Often"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often

I personally like to say, "Ship and Iterate."
At least there is a feedback mechanism in place? That and cabs that will not pick up in certain areas or certain times are the biggest problem with taxis I have experienced.
>Initially, they tried to solve the problem by getting users to tag people inside the image and then use location of the tags as parameters to crop. If someone is tagged in a photo, Facebook makes sure that person is always inside of the cropped version.

Do they still do this? A lot of the times people aren't tagged by where their face is, but just tagged off to the side or something. I feel like this wouldn't work in a lot of cases.
During the transformation corruption flourished.

Straussian interpretation: "Pole can do it" resourcefulness of polish people do due to limitation of communist state. No customer support, no warranty - something breaks you have to fix it yourself. Inefficient economy causes lack of services and products which require people to hack stuff.
Don't Be Blinded by Big, Scary Numbers
How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
How to level up as a tech conference presenter
Not sure if you caught the interview but John Carmack recently said he'd still love to re-visit it, but he held firm to his "10 years, that's it" plan. He said it was "binary" - didn't make it, close it down. If you did catch that, then sorry for being redunant!
I don't think cabbies are rude because they are not paid well. I think they're rude because they aren't held accountable for their rudeness and before Uber, there was no meaningful competition. If an Uber driver is rude and got a negative review, in the current system, he would probably be let go rather promptly. It could be that Uber will have to lower the minimum acceptable rating in order to keep enough drivers, but with a system of accountability (rating system) rudeness will be discouraged.
I have never taken an Uber in NYC that was cheaper than the equivalent cab ride. Somehow it always manages to work out to more.
Study: Sitting is no worse than standing without moving
I don't think there is an app, but yes, there are certainly a ton of yellow cabs still in NYC.
Don't give me that crap. I can't count the number of times I've been nearly run over by cars who refuse to give me my right of way and try every possible trajectory just so they won't be in any way impacted by a person on a bicycle. The only good part about riding on the road is the satisfaction from hearing the honks of asshole cars. I'm taking my right of way and we're paying with our lives if we have to. Fuck cars.

And before you start saying I'll be endangering pedestrians with the same outlook - no. Pedestrians have the ultimate right of way. If there are 8 walking abreast and don't make way when I ring, then so be it, I'll go at 2kph until it's safe to pass them. I'm not in a hurry.
It doesn't as far as I know, that's why re-targeting is such a boon to these types of practices. Google Maps searches can trigger re-targeting campaigns, and when they are somewhere else on the web and get a re-targeted ad you might have a change to get that fingerprint/drop that cookie.

Often it's not even the same group doing all these steps either, there are opportunities to buy your way in and/or cash out partway through.
Not rate to customer. Rate to drivers - which makes the good drivers leave.

In a new market Uber will pay something like 95-110% of fares taken in to drivers (not exact numbers, would need to look). Over the long run I think it drops to 60-70%, or something significantly worse (as clearly paying drivers 110% of income is not sustainable).
But drivers must maintain a 4.5 star rating, which means the cabbies would at least have to fix their behavior or suffer the consequences. There are no consequences for bad taxi drivers.
hmmm, can I call it a smegway?
Totally agree! Our goal was to work with Insight Data Science to build a lightweight, simple keyword extractor in 3 weeks.
I think you misunderstood what I meant, people are less capable technically, but more capable from a "relationship building" standpoint will often spend as much time becoming friends with management so they are not laid off.

This probably doesn't happen in smaller startups, but I've worked in several medium and large size companies and have seen it happen.

It doesn't matter if you're getting along with your coworkers, they aren't the ones making the layoff decisions.
I consider myself to be a person of reasonable competence and I find Docker to be confounding.
...what about the Unabomber?
This USB stick will fry your computer
That's really only needed if you want a custom domain name... imho, I don't think it's really so bad if your resources (not your main content) comes from s3.amazonaws.com ... Most people don't look into the developer/resources section of their browsers, and most of those that would/could would figure out pretty quickly it was s3/aws if they wanted to.

It's kind of sad that people, and amazon itself felt the need to push towards that... Of course Amazon is big enough at this point, they could/should have their own intermediary setup (like cloudflare) for use with s3.... Of course they probably just want to make the money from cloudfront.
Okay, but Uber literally cannot put enough cars into the city to move five million people around every day, and they're sure as shit not going to dig their own tunnels.
In the spirit of avoiding code duplication and making daemontools-like process supervisors happy (that includes systemd for these purposes), I greatly appreciate when logs can be sent to stderr

If the admin wants the logs in syslog, 2>&1 | logger or similar. If the admin wants to use multilog, s6-log, or journald, that's also easy.

(For the same reasons, daemons should not include daemonization routines but should run in the foreground. If I want it in the background, I'll arrange for my process supervisor to start it.)
I doubt many people actually go to the effort of reporting these taxis. Just ask minorities in outer boroughs who have been complaining about this for decades.
I often ask Uber drivers the same and the response is generally:

* the pay is decent (ranging from a hair above minimum wage to a healthy and sustainable source of income)

* the benefits are non-existent (most don't seem bothered by this)

* the job security is guaranteed (a huge plus)

* the work schedule is at their discretion (another huge plus)

* the work environment is quite good (passengers are usually very friendly, you work from the comfort of your car, the on-boarding process is quick and painless)

All in all it's a net benefit for most people, in terms of quality of life and financial stability. What's not to love?

Note: this is all purely anecdotal and most drivers I have spoken to have been working for <1 year, in most cases <6 months.
Perfect! RIP Yogi Berra.
Bicycles may not be allowed on the sidewalk, but you'll still see plenty of them on the sidewalk anywhere there aren't good, separated bike lanes.
Interesting idea :) we calculated the top 20 stopovers to make flying around the world cheaper: http://www.blog.questorganizer.com/stopover-travel-guide/top...

Maybe one day we'll do some $ per mile calculation to show best prices for long distance flights. Thanks for suggestion.
Appfog Service Retirement
Did Centurylink just layoff the Appfog team?
http://www.centurylinkbenefits.com/docs/pdf/000883.pdf
This looks awesome. It's a huge book though; this draft is 824 pages! Still, definitely looking forward to reading this... eventually.
Wow, I built a project that rendered JS built webpages for search engines via NodeJS and PhantomJS. Rendering webpages is extremely CPU intensive, I'm amazed at the amount of processing power Google must have to do this at Internet scale.

I really hope this works, lots of JS libraries expect things like viewport and window size information, I wonder how Google is achieving that.
would have only been 500m if they were agile... /s
Oh. I have Ubuntu Linux, and I don't see any icon like that anywhere.
> and that carries a MAJOR limitation, because the instance of ImplementsFooer (f) inside your function is a copy of the object you called it on. That means you cannot manipulate data-members in interface-functions, even inside your own struct.

You can, by doing it like this: https://play.golang.org/p/5yXfOf6Y_3

EDIT: I'll just file an issue as I doubt the OP is the author.
I'm with you on most of the metric system: but there's a good argument that Celsius is decidedly inferior to Fahrenheit (of course, neither are SI).
It isn't justified. Excluding nation-state assassinations and a couple of serial killers/mass murderers, people in this country generally aren't killed via sniper rifle. The majority of gun-related murders involve small caliber handguns like .22s, .38s, and 9mms.

>I'd suggest looking into a lightweight bullet-proof vest as well.

If you are worried about a sniper attack, lightweight bullet proof vests aren't going to help you. They don't stop high-powered rifle rounds. The only thing that stops high-powered rifle rounds would be the kind of body-armor the military uses, with ceramic plates. I don't think OP wants to spend the rest of his life wearing a 35lb vest. Fortunately, lightweight vests will stop small caliber handguns.
Yes, we took that out. It implies that the company was funded by YC.
I sincerely doubt that the video runs in the bottom corner, and I'm not going near the program at all. I'm criticizing from far, far away. I like to think I'm on the high ground, metaphorically speaking, after reading what he says it does.

He's just been sued by 3 majors, immediate injunction type of case. My guess? He'll be toast by the end of 2015.
Another thing is is if you do work in fields considered "fringe". No matter how diligently you follow the scientific method, you'll be ridiculed if you find the "wrong" results.

I've come to the opinion that scientists are ideologues, but the ideology is based in the current understanding of physics rather than the results of experiments and the scientific method. A famous example is Arago's dot (aka Poisson's dot), where Freshnel was ridiculed for his wave-based theory of light by Poisson despite the latter not even bothering to do an experiment.
Also, if that 43 miles consists of bumber-to-bumper traffic, you'd be foolish not to whoosh by it on a bicycle, even if doing so takes two hours or more.
Computer Science Curriculums Are Abysmal
The people who hit pedestrians are assholes. Pedestrians have the ultimate right of way. If they refuse to move, then you have to go slow. Just increase fines for hitting people and the problem will go away. Responsible people shouldn't be impacted by assholes who have to shave that last second from their hipster commute.
What it's like to write for content farms, from Brooklyn to the Philippines
Algorithms and Stock Tickers with Apache Spark
In Chicago

4. They pretend that ccard machines are not working. Demand cash.

5. Cars are so old that someone of them have no Air conditioning.

6. Drivers often have BO and are often chewing gutka(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutka)

7. Rude. This needs to be said again.
It's a very strange time, when anyone can reach anyone else (or any knowledge) instantly, but many use this as an opportunity to isolate themselves even further. It seems to happen a lot when the exceptionalism common to young white men runs straight into the reality that they are in fact unexceptional and what power they have is not just unearned but waning. The cognitive dissonance that results is, as we see over and over, lethal to themselves and others.
"Job security guaranteed"... That's so ludicrous, I don't know where to begin. Forget driverless cars for a moment and think about the fact that a few bad ratings can remove your ability to earn income from this source forever.

Put another way, if a few someones you give a ride to rate you low, you lose your ability to earn. That's hardly "guaranteed"... I would certainly contrast it with the current model of "at-risk" employment we have now, but the certainty of your word choice feels facetious at best.
Damn this is cool. It's kinda amazing that it is all done in a few hundred lines of code. I see there is a skinColor method and setting defined as

skinColor: [0.78, 0.57, 0.44]

I was curious how it worked with darker skin (I admittedly don't understand what the numbers mean without further analysis), and It came out pretty well (it may default on lighter skin, i don't know)

http://imgur.com/a/CKUIo

images found on google
William Rapaport has just won the 2015 Barwise Prize for significant work on philosophy and computing -- http://www.apaonline.org/news/254862/William-Rapaport-is-the...
It took DropBox about a year after publishing the video before they had a launched product that the general public could use.

I used to be similarly uncomfortable about the "publish a fake product before you've actually built it" tactic. But I've since signed up for 3 products that didn't actually exist at the time - DropBox, RescueTime, and some analytics SaaS done by ex-Googlers - and each time my emotion was more mild annoyance rather than harsh anger. Heck, there's a whole industry (crowdfunding) now based around the idea of selling a product that doesn't exist yet and then using the money to fund development & manufacturing.

This is also not a new tactic - in the 80s, it was common for enterprise software companies to find an initial company, sell them the product, and then use the money to build the product. Microsoft did this with DOS - they sold IBM an operating system that didn't exist and then used the money to find someone who had written an OS for the 8088 and buy it from them.
> I think they're rude because they aren't held accountable for their rudeness

In chicago you can call 311 but you have to register a case and show up in the court on the hearing date.
This is the frustrating thing, right?

We have the means and mechanisms to save all written work, for everyone, for forever, for negligible cost, and yet we aren't allowed to do it.

:(
I was picked on in school a fair amount. Some of it quite violent, and pervasive. At some point I got really fed up with one particular kid, and got myself a big stick. Luckily for him that stick broke cleanly in two upon first impact, otherwise i'm not sure what would have happened. After that things subsided somewhat. That kid threatened me more, but never did come after me again.

Growing older I realise two things. First, those "jocks" that get all the girls, have (generalizing here) other very serious problems, are often emotionally stunted, angry at their dads, or whatever. So we all get weathered differently by life, and actually it's kind of heartbreaking to see. Second, I just think too much! It drives people crazy when i do that, and instead of that, I just need to turn my attention outwards, and feel what is going on outside of my own head. Then things become relational, and people can also sense that I am here too.

Wish I could tell all of this to my 14-year-old self.
I've been on Nextdoor for well over two years and have seen literally zero of these types of communications. Maybe because I'm in a racially diverse area (North Brooklyn, NYC)? All threads and replies I've ever seen are: mass transit notifications, crime notifications, lost animals, free junk, stuff for sale, asking for recommendations for local merchants.
Making an Umbrella Stand That Knows If It's Going to Rain – Core77
My experience was with NYSEG[0], which is a private company as I understand it. I've heard similar reports from others in other parts of the country but can't answer specifics about them.

They did not provide customer information like names/phones, it was simply input address, receive usage. Of course, with property tax records and such, we already knew who owned the place.

[0] - http://nyseg.com/
When will people realize that they live in a "society" and they need to co-exist with others. The stone sculpture story made me chuckle; if this sculpture was on the creator's property why the hell would you ask him to bring it down? And how about letting children be what they are...children. This whole protective bubble in which they grow up is shocking to me. Talk about growing up with zero life experiences.
Indeed - I'm working on integrating this into the static site generator I use, so it's only run offline.