skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA addresses that: "The average number of Uber cars in Manhattan’s central business district between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays is 2,000, Mohrer said in a telephone interview."
The big takeaway for me seems to be that you can no longer just be a PC manufacturer. You now need to manufacture PC's as a loss leader to sell your cloud solutions and your server management solutions and your virtualization solution and.....

Oh and the average consumer is about to be able to trade Dell in more ways now that when it was public.

Tracking stock, which is what Dell is proposing to use to partially finance this deal, is usually a bad deal for investors as it usually trades a a discount to regular stock and has inferior voting rights, unless that investor is an HFT who now has one more arbitrage target, the tracking stock vs true VMWare shares, for their algos:)

Since Silver Lake is involved and they know how to acquire public companies, I'm pretty sure they've already secured the votes required from EMC shareholders to force this deal through.

So going through the checklist......

- Leveraged Private Equity deal, check

- merging two companies that don't really seems like a reasonable fit, check

- spinning part of the merged company out immediate to help finance the deal, check

- deal creates a huge company, check

This has all the hallmarks of the Compaq/HP merger of 14 years ago.

if you work at EMC or Dell, I'd be making sure my LinkedIn contacts are up to date and starting to rebuild my network. It looks like its going to be job hunting time soon.
It's a bell-shaped icon in the task bar, which also now includes Google Now style cards.
What a drag this is. It's pathetic that humans always manage to misuse a tool for evil.
Cabs in NYC have in-seat, self-service CC machines for years now. I don't visit NYC often, and when I do I almost always take the subway, but the few times I've needed a cab, I've never had a problem swiping my card.
I doubt the numbers are accurate. It seems like that's a tough thing to measure accurately.
This looks really clean - however the only thing that would prevent me from using it is it doesn't seem to have any privacy controls. Can I sort photos into a password-protected album?

Spotted a typo.

>Please check your email to confirm singup.
I disagree that a Unix shell has few advantages. :) It's critical if you're trying to work in a cross platform environment. If a colleague gives me a .sh script, I need some way to run that.

There's also a huge benefit to having access to the ecosystem of Unix command-line apps. A few of the major ones have been ported over to run natively on Windows, but there's a lot that will never be.

As I mentioned in another comment: Every modern OS except Windows has a Bash-like shell and environment. I can move easily between MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Android, and iOS, and it feels similar. But every time I use a Windows machine, nothing I've done elsewhere translates. Cygwin helps bridge that gap.
> do you mean all forms of feminism? Or just the 3rd wave?

Different forms of feminism differ in their views on specific issues, not on the basic idea that women are allotted less power in society. Differences stem from various sources. One is historical or circumstantial: when women were overtly discriminated against by the law, targets and priorities were clearer. Another is awareness: leaders of movements for change always tend to be among those who are relatively most powerful in their group. They can therefore be blind to the plight of those who are qualitatively less powerful than them. Yet another is that inherent difficulty in interpreting wishes in a society which shapes them. I'll just note that some anti-feminist views that try to simplify things, say stuff like, why not just assume that everyone has free will and everyone's choices are equally free? The answer to that is that research has clearly shown this is not the case.

> Even if someone would be brainwashed and completely programmed to destroy the world, then IMO that person would still contribute to destroying the world if acted towards that goal.

Absolutely, but there is no clear programmer and programmed. We are all equally programmers and programs, and equally “emotionally” innocent of the situation. Everyone, of course, is responsible for their own actions, but they’re actions at once are shaped by others’ and shape others’. The only relevant distinction is that some have power and some don’t, and as change is better carried out by those with power, they carry most of the responsibility. OTOH, those with power, of course, are less interested in changing the situation. Not just because they don’t want to yield power, but also because they don’t see the problem.

> A pragmatic form of feminism that I have experienced myself is that feminists need to take care of their own personal development.

Of course, and this, BTW, is something that often gets them a lot of scorn. But it is important to realize that change is only accomplished when those who work for it attain enough power. That power could be in numbers or in changing the mind of the powerful.
Swiftie asking Taylor Swift to her 22nd
Is there any open source for the control system? It's not rocket science but from what I understand getting a control system running with dynamic feedback is not trivial either? Anyone experience with the theory? Any books/papers you can suggest?
Google search interest during the Democratic debate
I don't own a car and ride almost everywhere. In all the cities I've lived, my experience has been the exact opposite. Since the majority of accidents involve intersections, riding on the sidewalk doesn't do much other than put you in a less visible position, where drivers don't expect you to be and won't be looking for you.
IPFS looks good, but it's quite antithetical to Xanadu. It's more akin to a Plan 9 or Gopher idea of networked file systems, but backed by content addressable storage and a name service. Xanadu is the very anathema of that.

OpenPublish just looks like a simple insertion tool for a distributed public ledger (i.e. the blockchain). There's not an actual "system" to it.

Worse-is-better is (ironically) hard to get right, because, as it turns out, designing systems so that they can be properly evolved from 50% of the right thing to 90% of the right thing is almost as difficult as building it correctly in the first place.

(I don't think IPFS is even about hypertext or hypermedia per se, so much as content distribution which then would be interpreted by whatever local reader is relevant. I do not think it has any intrinsic understanding of hypertext.)
Homebrew Cask
That's definitely one interpretation of at least some of the increasing millennial urbanization (such as it is) that I've read. That it's more about delaying moving to the suburbs/buying a house for a variety of reasons including marrying and having children later and the economy (especially of a few years back where of the currently available data is from).
As best i recall, the first time i ran into HTML was as a content index on a demo CD attached to a magazine.

Basically each demo was presented with a screenshot, a text blurb, and a link that would start the installer.

All of it static pages using frames.
Very cool. The Ken Burns effect application of the algorithm is particularly impressive.
Just for reference, Wikipedia has a page on large transport projects that includes their cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transport_megaprojects
> Using Rust on iOS is pain.

Is there something more specific than the general fact that cross-compilation is a bit involved at the moment? Just curious :)
This is why Linares tournament was so successful; the organizer wouldn't put up with these quick draws.
I am pleased with progress but it does seem like Uber is on track to be the next PayPal, eBay, Facebook.

Ten years down the line are drivers going to be complaining about the Uber tax after a price hike?
Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift
Will Automakers Be Doomed by Self-Driving Cars and Car Sharing?
Exactly. When the negative intent is absent or entirely of a casual "in fun" nature, our language and meanings can flex, borrow and outright steal for the occasion at hand. For the context at hand.

Timing is everything though. Where and when words are used matter a lot. Not everyone will always agree on that.

Dare I say it, but this happens with the word "faggot" in certain places such as violent online game chat. Terrible word in almost all circumstances. But in some violent action games where all the virtual characters are male, you may wish to sledge an opponent with something stronger than "sissy". Suggesting the opponent does not meet the standards of the male gender role, requires a word fit for that occasion. "Faggot" steps up, phonetically punchy, scalding, indecent, it is for a moment free from the usual derogatory swipe against homosexual men, and for a second inspires fun and laughs. It can't be over-used however. But with the right timing and placement, it can be used by all in the game, male, female, gay or straight, without repercussion or the burden of having done a bad thing.
Logz – a simple persistent logger for Node.js
Worked well with the pictures I dropped in, very nice.

Wish someone would make a solid angular dropzone+cropper.
I don't understand how health care "economists" can even imagine that Doctors are fungible commodities. Last I checked we're still using actual humans for the task, we haven't invented good, working medical droids just yet. From that perspective of course people aren't going to shop for a Doctor like they shop for a dishwasher: most people pick a general practitioner/family practitioner based upon their social culture. How many people's GP is an old friend or a family member? People develop attachments for their GPs. Their GPs are generally a part of their extended community. It's then their GPs that recommend their Specialists, typically through the GP's own social network/community... Shopping for a Doctor as if they were a dishwasher is a bit like trying to shop for a new pet or spouse on the Home Shopping Channel.
LinkedIn Debuts Referrals, Relaunches Recruiter with People-Matching Algorithms
I don't really know much about how Uber works, but is there something in place to stop taxi drivers from using it while driving their cab?
Let's not call them hoverboards until they actually hover.
i'm forced to use windows as a host to my dev environment at work and i have yet to find a fast enough console/shell. even when you remove plugins and whatever else babun provides to the standard zsh setup it's still not fast enough to do simple things such as cd with some tab-completion a couple of times a second as i'd normally do at home.
the closest thing to somewhat useful i've found is "git for windows" but it too sometimes get stuck sometimes just changing directories and tab-completing.
i'm using a reasonably new i5 thinkpad and i don't think close to instant feedback in a text-only environment is too much to ask.
I don't know if this is justified, but if I'd gotten death threats I'd be more worried about snipers than someone coming at me at close range. Your safety in numbers advice would be very good in that case too. The issue I have with Tasers is that they're as expensive as a gun and you only get one shot. I was thinking of non-lethal options because I don't know if the person can carry a gun if they aren't a citizen or if there are strict laws where he lives. If the person can afford it, I'd suggest looking into a lightweight bullet-proof vest as well.
So where will Google Now Cards go?
But that doesn't address whether those 2000 cars displace 2000 personal cars that would be on the road, or whether they just add 2000 extra cars, or whether it's somewhere in between.
Really awesome, and the test cases look just as good as I could do.

I would warn web designers to not blindly apply this to everything though. It scans all the pixels of an image, which can take up to 100ms each, especially on mobile devices. A good use case would be a file upload box with a suggestion to crop the image upon upload.
The ; makes this statement sarcastic. Too many driving.
Cycling on sidewalks feels safer, but it's actually more dangerous. [1] The problem is that cars don't expect something moving quickly on the sidewalk, and so hit cyclists at driveways and intersections.

[1] http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Library/riskfactors.htm
Hi wbond,

Sure it's a big mess, and at the moment our MVP was only functional and available for Europe and Australia.

We differentiate digital goods and standard services, and compute VAT rates on-the-fly according to the following location proofs:

- Customer billing address
- Buyer IP
- Credit Card country

On more than 100k transactions, we never had 3 different locations, so our algorithm is for the moment pretty accurate.

We also validate VAT numbers for B2B if asked to by our customer - we let him choose if doing so or not -.

We handle invoicing regulations in Europe, for instance we convert the tax amount in the local currency at the European Bank exchange rate, and print the right annotations on the document.

We store the previously quoted location proofs, and are able to provide the tax administration a SAF-MOSS XML file they can require during an audit.

We have plans around digital signatures, it would be through a partnership, but as it was still not requested by our customers, it's still an ongoing feature.

The main issue concerning our MVP is that we relied a lot on Stripe API calls, and the way our customers implemented it.

Our plan with Checkout is to determine prior to the transaction which rate has to be applied, being able to retrieve easily all the evidence we need.

Doing so, we also plan to support the US/CA cases, that are also tricky; and we will be able to help businesses collecting payments, being fully compliant without having to develop a backend.
I had a similar experience. I don't understand how people find use out of Nextdoor - the signal to noise ratio (where "noise" is borderline crazy people) is just way too low. When I used it, I was instantly reminded of that Far Side cartoon where God is sprinkling "Jerks" onto the Earth, thinking "And just to keep things interesting..."
On the one hand, applying valid generalizations is not bias. On the other hand, when dealing with individuals, one rarely has to rely on generalizations. On the gripping hand [1], treating individuals fairly can look like bias when iterated over a large enough sample size.

The solution: be rigorous about treating individuals fairly, be willing to apply valid generalizations cautiously and only when necessary, and remember that seemingly biased results might simply be reflecting real differences between groups. (This last point can be grokked by meditating, Zen koan–like, on the question "Are women underrepresented in the NBA?"—a question to which both the answers "yes" and "no" are defensible.)

[1]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/O/on-the-gripping-hand.html
Yes there are plenty of apps that use a lot of C and C++, and we all join in the Anonymous NDK user group meetings.

- The bug tracker is full of NDK issues

- GDB works, eventually. If one has the right set of versions and mobile firmware

- Integration with the first official IDE (Eclipse CDT) kind of worked, after one turned off indexers, did a few plugin customizations, and even then not really

- When Android Studio was announced, silence ensued about NDK future. When Jetbrains announced CLion, there was the hope that it might came to Android Studio, still silent all the way up to Google IO 2015.

- No pre-defined templates for mixed code applications

- Even today Gradle support for NDK builds is flaky and not final. I am yet to be able to have the samples build out of the box.

- The set of official C++ libraries is quite limited, most game related APIs are exposed. Even C++ libraries used by the Java layers like Skia are not exposed to the NDK.

- By limiting NDK to a few basic POSIX APIs and Android game related APIs, everyone has to pack into their APK everything from JNI wrappers, image loaders, network access, the whole stuff.

Now compare this with using C++ in iOS with help of Objective-C++ or on Windows Phone with help of C++/CX.

First class tooling support, mixed debugging that works and no need to keep on writing wrappers.

Even Microsoft's tooling for Android NDK is looking better than what Google does for their own platform.

As for Djinni, I am yet to make it work on Windows.
I was following the logic of this post up until this part:

> In 2008, Dropbox hit a key milestone on the path to their MVP when they released a video demonstrating their product. Tens of thousands joined the waiting list. So actually, the minimum viable product was the video itself

I'm not sure if I agree with this, because its suggesting that all you really need to prove your idea is smoke and mirrors. If Dropbox didn't have anything behind its video, we'd see a huge backlash from angry viewers wondering why they made the video before the product. I was under the assumption that an MVP allows you to get your product out quickly and change it with feedback. Not just for proving that your idea is widely desired.
How does Bonobos get around the fact that you're just getting a similar style, and not tailored pants?

The biggest issue with buying mass produced clothing online, is that two pairs of the identical style have wildly different fits and shrinkage behavior. For example, Levis. I have to try on about 10 pairs of 501s before I find one that fits. After the first wash, all bets are off.

I think Bonobos is going to have the issue. Except, now you have a customer that is angry because they spent an afternoon finding pants that fit, only to have those "same" pants shipped and not fit. Unless Bonobos steps up tailoring on demand (think Black Lapel), I think they are going to have enormous trouble satisfying the customer.
Other than all the other people that outbid you for less distant homes, you mean. Or those who consistently NIMBY-veto any potential development of high-rise residential buildings near their existing homes. Or the zoning boards that outlaw the very concept of homes being adjacent to businesses.

Actually, there are quite a lot of people who force me to live further away from my job than is strictly necessary. They are the very same people who would almost certainly undermine--and eventually destroy--any bicycle-oriented development. It would be unwise to dismiss those factors as mere whining.
...with stalled progress. Right now I rather inline R code (with %%R in IPython Notebook) and use the real ggplot2.
In various places the green man will start to blink when there is seconds left before it changes over.
It's more than that. There's a finite number of people seeking a ride, it's a zero sum market where the supply of rides will crash, and Uber will jack up the rates.

Uber ultimately will have enormous leverage to submarine any meaningful competition and even to displace public transit. Their national scope will make them a force to be reckoned with.
Better entrepreneur ? Not so sure yet (recently struggling entrepreneur) but working at a large company gave me a lot of reasons to become an entrepreneur.
Virtually every economist I've ever seen write on this subject over the past several decades has pointed to the same features (required expertise to evaluate quality of services offered against cost, lack of pricing transparency, major needs being unpredictable, lack of the luxury of time to do price shopping -- even if it was possible -- when a need arises, etc.) that has been pointed out in this thread as reasons why health care did correspond to the assumptions of the rational choice model on which the conclusion of the efficiency of free markets with direct user purchasing rests.

So, I'm not surprised by the results of the study, only with the fact that there are "health economists" that find it surprising.
the best way to get the entire numpy/scipy/numba package is anaconda[1]

[1] https://www.continuum.io/downloads
People whom get outside and actually examined "suspicious behavior" may be shocked to find normal, harmless people and that it was their own hobgoblins of their minds criminalizing people based on nothing more than their own fears, ignorance and prejudices, probably from watching too much TV and Hollywood movies rather than experiencing the real world.
Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]
What a big shocker!
You are telling me that a sick person would not try and spend many hours comparison shopping for doctors with poor metrics for quality and low pricing info and then make a possibly large upfront payment based on a guess?
That they would just say - forget it; and get much sicker?

Universal Medicare with single payer systems is the way to go as most of Europe and Canada seems to have figured out decades ago.
What neighborhood are you in?
Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
It is absolutely true in the case of both medicare and medicaid for certain things (not everything). My dad ran business and R&D for pathology ta state level hospital at a major university and he often had to figure out how to continue offering services to medicare patients by making up the money somewhere else when medicare wouldn't even cover the cost of materials.
I don't have the right experience to answer that.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10380194
I believe the correct term is "swegway".
You need to write your bridging yourself and it might not always be possible because you need to bridge Rust <-> Objective-C.

Swift with Objective-C is bridged automatically.
It was quite handy, what would be the replacement?
Yup. R is supported by MS, Oracle, IBM and others, and companies like Twitter and even the Python shop that is Google use it.
Let's not forget RoboVM, which is free (with paid options): https://robovm.com/

I've used this before and was amazed how well it worked, particularly with libgdx: https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/

Not affiliated with either, by the way.
It's not clear if you've missed the point or not (edit: reading your other response on this sub-thread it appears you and the point are on different planets, so this response probably wasn't worth typing).

If "ballsy" is a positive description and you literally don't have balls, then it can be seen as obliquely ruling you out from ever really behaving in that way.

Whether it's something you'd say in a business setting is a different conversation entirely.

I was trying to find an example of a part of anatomy being used that only applies to women, but could only come up with the negative example of "hysterical".
I suppose it reflects just what a desensitized and putrid person that I am when I find the words "fag" and "faggot" so mundane due to their highly frequent usage that has eroded them to the point of being akin to grunts. I've seen a lot of usage by openly gay and trans individuals, as well.

(Fun fact: Faggots are a traditional British dish made from meat offal. Its existence frequently horrifies Americans when they first learn of it.)
It's just an eyesore. If I see some random ID, I won't be bothered, but to see my name with some suffix to it - it's ugly and not a common practice anyway. There are better ways to generate unique IDs and hashids make them pretty short as well (shorter than their numerical counterparts, I mean).
This is not going after xamarin, it's just a toy problem.
Everyone saying "If you don't know what Slack is, they're not your target market".

Wrong. Slack has a target market. Mattermost should specify that market, along with its desire to be an open source Slack.
I prefer Lina Wertmüller version of male/female co-existence: : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swept_Away_(1974_film)