skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those two possibilities vary hugely in their time consideration! 1 considers the far future outcome ("you go on with your life") but 2 only considers the next few months. 2a you find out you can do it and enjoy it, great career path for the next n years, 2b you find out you can't hack it and either quit or get fired, 2bi you then do what you would have done in 1, not a huge opportunity cost, 2bii your ego suffers a huge blow and you fall into a pit of depression and drunkenness and self-doubt about ever learning anything again and you: 2biiα eventually get out and do 1 (larger opportunity cost and potential permanent damage), or: 2biiβ die soon after...

A lot of people really want to avoid the 2bii tree and will shrink away from any action that seems to have a chance of leading from the bearable status quo to there.
So, I can't tell from Uber's site, but is Uber doing similar things for their drivers that actually save them money, as opposed to finding new ways to make money off of them?
I think the best part of youtube-dl is its support for bulk downloads. Point it at a YouTube account or playlist, a podcast on SoundCloud, or even, if you can live with yourself, an album on Bandcamp, and it will snarf up every piece of media it can find.
native.js looks interesting. It almost seems like it's recreating micro-kernel type interaction within the browser.
A nice little tool. I'm a big fan of Youtube-dl as well. I've used it in similar chain-together command line tools to feed songs from Youtube into ffmpeg to slow them down to practice/learn songs. It can also swipe audio from NPR so I can stream to my Sonos system, which is nice, because they tend to make the Bonnaroo and Newport Folk content streaming-only on their portal.
What I'd really like is an all-in-one service that incorporated Docker Content Trust[0]. While I'd prefer that they'd used something a bit more mainstream (e.g. GPG), some image signing is better than none at all.

Doing this today requires a fair bit of extra infrastructure over a basic v2 registry, and really it'd be much nicer to have a single service that was able to manage this.

0: https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/content-trust-docker-1-8/
I have less than "recommended" (depending on who you ask) in an emergency fund (but I do still have one). Why? I have a spouse with a large income and it is doubtful crisis will hit us both at once. I also can reduce my spending without a problem in the short term - most of my spending isn't fixed expenses it is experiences that can be curtailed very easily. Someone with a large mortgage may want to keep more in their emergency account - that's all I'm saying. Age has a lot to do with it also - if you are young you can ride out large dips in the market.
This one weird trick on having your work critiqued
> I'd be curious how the hinge works, and although a whole section of the article is dedicated to it, I explains nothing.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/story-behind-surface-books-craz...
Except you cannot extend them in any way, unlike a real bash script (init.d)

Try having a dozen different types of config-test for different programs, there is no way to extend ala ExecConfigTest
Queen Anne <-> Capitol Hill

Glazer's Camera

Downtown to Eastlake

yeah.
"coming up with a definition of "web technology" that doesn't include Java"

What browser or server requires java?
Apparently! I was fooled at first but then started thinking how odd it is that the OP knew their whole company history and downfall.
Lyft doesn't provide the equipment, they've just negotiated special rates with Hertz so that Lyft drivers can rent cars at a special discount if they're going to use them for business purposes.
> with driving the only way to provide better service is to be faster

This isn't even close to the case - being friendly, having a clean and quiet vehicle, and providing a ride that is safe and not white-knuckle terrifying will all garner a lot more in tips from me than someone careening through traffic to save 30 seconds. I think your hypothesis is baseless.
I am a big fan of pixi.js (http://www.pixijs.com). I haven't explored its "erasing" capabilities, but it is a great library for performant 2d graphics programming in the browser.
The leaps here are just ridiculous. With one hypothesis (yeah I'm not gonna lie and call this stuff a theory) spcetime looks the same at all scales - the definition of fractal!!! Woohoo spacetime is fractal at small scales! Wheeeeee!!! Either something is really lost in translation here, or the people coming up with this stuff are. Either way I can read non technical articles on science or tech any more.
What would prevent you from just giving him some cash out of your physical wallet?

In general you are getting a ride from someone. Other than the fact that with legacy taxis you tip, (just like at a restaurant) where it doesn't really relate to quality of service, I don't see how much extra someone can do that would make a ride tipworthy.
Facebook Tests Emoji Reactions to Fix Its 'Dislike' Problem
https://www.shazam.com/

http://www.soundhound.com/

http://www.midomi.com/

http://echoprint.me/

http://the.echonest.com/
Yeah, if you have to drive the subsidized car and use the subsidized gas to possibly get paid the market rate, it's the equivalent of an employee.

This is so obviously an employee status I wonder if they're doing it to try to draw a clean line between employees and contractors somewhere to their liking.
>, and even if they tried, they probably couldn't

For instance near as I can tell it takes like 10 grand to get into an index fund. Even if that didn't represent years of savings for most families there are so many things that 10 grand needs to be used for before [[2-5%/y return on investment over 20-30 year period IF the market doesn't crash shortly before you need to start drawing on it]] is a compelling proposition
It's stressing the network, but it's not a test - it's an attack.
Article says:
...but what if they don't find anything? Fair question. It's possible you've already found the cheapest rate you're going to get. Flystein has a beat-my-price option where you only get charged if Flystein actually saves you more than their fees.
The issue is, this is how profitable it is effectively – any driver following the law will have to pay this much.

And this is why uber can only currently provide their high margins because they provide no insurance between rides (only during rides), because they don’t follow laws, etc.

It’s unfair competition, and sadly, people expect Lyft to offer the same.
Maybe they've fixed it since I tried it, but enabling Hyper-V on my Surface Pro 3 messed up sleep. It would only Hibernate and not reliably. Took me a couple weeks to figure out what happened.
They actually did have an answer to "How did you do it?"

The idea was that only DEP and EGR was needed for the smaller TDIs simply because they burned less fuel so produced less emissions across the board. That's not enough to meet current limits, but VW claimed they had better CDI that solved it. They got many patents related to that and other companies even licensed it. But how did they get such good performance, the lines was due to the turbo and the tests did not really spool that all that much.

Turns-out it was baloney, but that's how they explained it at least.
Report of Traffic Accident Involving an Autonomous Vehicle
That's probably why Hertz does longer leases instead of rentals for this program. It would probably be worth it if you got it from locations outside of urban centers, but drove in the urban centers.
Nope. I don't think we were even aware of this project. It's pretty slick; I'd probably experiment putting it into Sentry.
Call for a Data Bill of Rights
Agreed. Driver's should be paid a real wage, which prevents the need for tipping.
Did you get the best chip in your iPhone 6S?
The problem is as soon as you throw debt and rents into the mix it all blows up, because debt and rents are 'paper'

If I loan creshal $5000 at %5 interest, I have basically a note on $500 worth of income a year. I can turn around an use that note to buy something. Now someone else owns the debt worth $500/yr. Until the crisis hits, creshal loses his job and flees to Argentina and now that note isn't worth diddly.

Short: Modern economies are rife with way to turn physical assets and rent streams into something akin to cash. So even if you think you're on a gold standard, you aren't really. Your on a gold + this bond entitles the holder to £500 per annum from the Village of Shlopshire. (Because in 1804 the village borrowed money to replace a bridge)
He's using 'enforce' to mean there is a social obligation to tip, not that it is required by the app.
>I've long maintained congress would be much more representative if eligible citizens were randomly selected for 1 term.

This is the way government worked in ancient Greece (or rather, Athens, but other Greece city-states copied the model).
Fastlane forum is pretty good - more entrepreneurship oriented.
there's a balance there: people are less likely to tip if they are driving dangerously as well. Of course, this is all assuming people's tips are really based on better service. I'm sure tips are like that in some cases, but in general I think the customer's general mood and generosity are far bigger factors.

Tips can be nice in certain situations, but I think people would prefer to just be paid more, so their income is stable and dependable.
After a bunch of mess getting it installed on Mac OS X, I get it to find a song, which is a bit of trouble in and of itself, and am then stuck with this error:
sh: youtube-dl: command not found
You may want to ask /r/tipofmytongue if they'll put it in their sidebar.

A few people ask for music. They could have shazaamed it, but they don't.
What Happens Up to 24 Hours After You Are Bitten by Zombie
30 films fits nicely on one large screen or scrollable list. It's also worked out quite nicely for licensing as it allows us to squeeze stuff in to short licensing windows, and just generally softens the negotiations a bit.

We definitely have a million other ideas about how to expand this model in many different directions, but I won't comment on any of those yet as its all speculative at this point. For now we are trying to get people familiar with the model and improve the design because it is a bit unintuitive at first.

As far as downloads, we only offer them on Android and iOS for the time being because those are the two platforms that it was feasible to implement easily. We are always looking at the possibility of bringing it to other devices and even the web, but so far it's too much effort for our small engineering team.
No it's just a simple, direct assessment of a situation. There is no technical difference between "streaming" or "downloading" the bytes. In each case, the exact same thing happens, the numbers are copied to the local machine. The distinctions are a legal fiction that doesn't actually have a reflection in the real reality, and as most imposed fictions end up, there is very little respect for the idea on the ground.
Well in 2009, during the real estate crash and subsequent Great Recession, people were out of work for a lot longer than 6 months. Of course financial planners don't really talk about those sorts of seismic events. That historically hasn't been an issue for engineers, but there are groups that are disproportionately affected (like older engineers).

Because I'm built the way I am I've always saved in the context of how long I could live on my savings with the goal of increasing that number until it reached infinity. That first level I call 'Raman level retirement' where you could live forever[1] off your savings if you ate only Ramen, up to the the point where you can live off your savings and keep your current lifestyle (which actually takes less income than most people thing), to actually living a more lavish lifestyle without day to day employment.

[1] Of course you intercept the life expectancy line at some point, and you have to build into your model ever increasing health care costs or a one time lump sum to emigrate somewhere that has a national health plan.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Some make a explicit difference, e.g. German law speaks of (rough translation of the critical bits by myself) "temporary reproductions that are [...] integral and necessary part of a technical way of a) transmitting through a network [...]" which in practice means that streaming is ok in cases where explicit saving is not. For private use, downloading from not clearly non-legal streaming sources is fine though (again, in Germany)
Placebo is highly sensitive to trial design, which is what I suspect is happening here. This is an intriguing effect, meaning that trials are increasingly reporting that all sorts of therapeutic effects are apparently less effective than previously thought. Or are they?

More on this at the excellent Mind Hacks blog:

http://mindhacks.com/2015/07/08/cbt-is-becoming-less-effecti...
I 100% agree. This is entirely the reason why I use Caviar over other food ordering services, since they do not offer a means of tipping and even say 'there is no need to tip', as the cost/fees in part go to the driver/delivery person.
I mean, we're past that discussion aren't we? Uber and other rideshares are going to have to start classifying drivers as employers eventually (at least until self-driving cars get here). Legal determinations are already headed in this direction.
"Oh, we'll use the products you develop, just don't develop them in our backyard!"
Reminds me of this quote from John Adams:

> I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

>

> Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

...

edit: argh, formatting.
Does it enforce customers to tip? You tip via the app well after the ride is over. I usually don't tip, but occasionally I get a great driver and toss them a few bucks. They don't make great money so the tip is worth it.

I'm not really sure why you are against tips for drivers.
This is a picture of an industry right before being automated. Rather than relying on skilled drivers with knowledge of the area, the industry can rely on computers to do most of the work. Reduction in labor costs, which are partially subsidized by coupons provided by partner companies who also make money. When driverless cars become widespread, Hertz can provide the cars and Verizon the on-board WiFi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_scale
I prefer PixiJS (http://www.pixijs.com), it comes with a ton of primitives and renders efficiently even on mobile. I've created layered drag-and-drop webapps with Pixi, draw & erase would not be much different.
Why are so many people keen on defending VW with the claim "if VW are doing it, everyone else must be"? That dilutes the severity of this problem. I've seen several threads on HN meant to do this.
Speaking of insurance, I was going over the terms of the car rental insurance coverage in one of my credit cards. It explicitly states that if you rent a car in order to provide a transportation service for hire, you are not covered. Oops!
I wonder how long will other mBAAS service like kinvey survive
Yeah. That's what a taxi is.
Embarassing! This is for historical reasons, but rest assured the password is salted and hashed internally. I've put in a ticket to fix this.
Have you got any examples of this? I would like to see if you do.
Good catch, but what does climate-change denial have to do with this? No, really, your "science is settled" attitude detracts from your case.
I mean, not according to the law... my understanding is that in most jurisdictions ignorant != impervious. Perhaps burden of proof for a discussion is on the claimant, but it might behoove a user to check their local laws
I follow you. The formulations are indeed areas of distinction. As I'm not educated beyond layman's terms, do they work on different receptors?
The #1 dating horror story among women I've dated in SF is the introverted engineer who could only talk about work, engineering, or video games and otherwise required Charlie Rose levels of questioning to engage on other topics. I'm wondering if I can get funding for a Personality-as-a-Service startup in SF.
If you want the Adobe binary blob stuff to work, you can probably use the Linux layer in {Free,Net}BSD.
We've been around for the better part of a decade and are completely open source (and free). Everything from our clients (which a lot of the community started) to every piece of the server. The only code you don't get access to is our billing infrastructure.

We're also fortunate to call many of the biggest names in Silicon Valley (as well as outside) our customers.

What you'll quickly find is anything that looks like Sentry, acts a lot like Sentry, and usually was inspired by Sentry. What you'll also discover is that even with this in mind, they are far from the same level of maturity. For example, we've spent a lot of time tuning our grouping algorithms, expanding support for power users, and generally solving problems that aren't obvious until you've invested a lot of time into using the tool.

This is a long winded way of me saying that Sentry is the best in the business.
[Peter Latham] was more critical of how much the work had cost. He estimates that the simulation cost at least €100m. To reconstruct a whole rat brain would probable take at least €20bn. “That is probably too much, given that what you’re buying is a really expensive rat that might not even be a rat.”

I'm going to put this one on my fridge for a while...
Already live in Las Vegas, Hertz cars are available to Lyft drivers at special affordable daily, weekly, and monthly rates. Approved drivers can quickly rent cars on-demand and earn money as a Lyft driver with no long-term lease commitment.

Most people with cars are already making a car payment or lease agreement payment, taxes, insurance, etc. Having a car is typically not cheap.

Hard to say if this will really be a good deal for anyone. That always depends on a lot of details. But I am wondering if you were perhaps not counting your car payment and other expenses because you had to make those anyway, whether you drove for Lyft or not.

Perhaps there is only a big difference if you compare it to someone whose car is paid off, not to typical car owning costs.
> What would prevent you from just giving him some cash out of your physical wallet?

Perhaps this is just a difference depending on where you are in the world, but I'm not used to people in first world countries carrying cash.
Softmachines unveils Visc processor roadmap
Are you intending to use the author's program or youtube-dl directly?

This was sufficient for me on OS X 10.10.5:

pip install instantmusic
brew install ffmpeg

instantmusic
> ...some lyrics...

afplay foo.mp3
Is there anything in particular that makes handicap laws any different than, say, speeding or breaking any other law that won't land you in jail? People break speeding laws every day because a) they can and b) they feel they have a reason to and c) they don't feel the speed limit is just.

Have you noticed how many "not really handicapped" people use handicap spaces after getting a note from their Doctor? You seem to be indicating that there is something rare and special about handicapped spaces and that the entire idea of allocating them is fair to begin with. You know that's not the case, right? Also why the need to call Jobs "a rich asshole"?
Anyone who brings up sysvinit and the "30x 50-line shell scripts" is clearly one whose perception is limited to the ad-hoc LSB-based sysvinit setups that once permeated GNU/Linux, but which have always been merely one relatively inefficient approach. Even back when Debian first introduced their sysv-rc, we already had IBM SRC, daemontools, simpleinit and NetBSD rc.d which showed different solutions.

EDIT: Let me join in on the moaning about downvotes. Not that I understand why.
Yes, I saw a similar stipulation in regular car insurance. Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of drivers read the fine print.
I completely agree with you, but I think this is definitely making the water a bit murkier. Its a pretty fine line that Uber and Lyft are toeing already and this seems to be pushing it even further.
As well as a number of the Beat authors. When I found that out, "On The Road" suddenly made more sense.
The university did exactly what it should do. The fault lies entirely with the author: he had absolutely no right to disclose information whose disclosure will cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States (he has not, apparently, signed an NDA, so his behaviour may not be illegal; that it is legal does not make it right).

Top Secret information is not something to be used to make one seem wittier than one is; it's not something to display as a gag. It's a deadly serious matter.

Yes, I'm aware that a lot of folks are concerned about over-classification (that's a legitimate concern, but perhaps overblown; few in the public are aware that over-classification is as contrary to policy as under-classification). That's not really relevant, though: over-classified or not, that information is…still classified.

And I'm aware that many folks are concerned about the legality of certain programmes. They have every right to be concerned, but absolutely no right to examine those programmes for themselves, nor to disclose information about those programmes to unauthorised parties. A few seconds' thought will indicate why: sure, you may be a patriotic American justly concerned for your Constitutional rights, and if you examined a programme's details and found it to be legal, you'd never reveal it; but some other person may be an agent of a foreign state, and not care one but about whether something is legal or not, and immediately disclose it regardless. In the real world, secrets are necessary, and the essential thing about secrets is that they be…secret. One has to trust those who are authorised to examine the legality of such programmes. And of course, one must hold accountable those who abuse that trust. And of course one must also be humble enough to admit that one might be wrong about issues of legality, constitutionality and morality. Speaking of humility:

> By way of example, I mentioned that the NSA, CIA, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence “have steadfastly refused to give me a secure channel to communicate with them” about the Snowden leaks.

Who does this guy think he is?!? The Queen of England has steadfastly refused to send a courier to exchange secret keys with me so that she and I can discuss Battlestar Galactica—or at least, I imagine she would if I were so full of myself that I importuned her to do so. It's simply, literally, none of his business.

This guy disclosed information he literally had no right to disclose; he expects that people should be glad to discuss with him things which are literally none of his business; and he finds it remarkable that people who do have the right to work with that kind of information are doing what they are required to do?
yeah because being chauffeured around by a random taxi cab sounds so pleasant.
I really enjoyed my Acer Aspire S7 touchscreen, one-piece ultrabook. Really a fantastic, lightweight, great looking computer. I ended up selling it for a SP3, which I prefer. But after doing lots of research and testing out various ultrabooks, I liked the S7 the best.

http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/aspires7
Yep, this project depends on youtube-dl[1] (which is an awesome tool anyway, so if you don't have it already, you should consider grabbing it regardless).

[1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
But I have so many great memories of the past! I literally don't have any great memories of the future.