skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife has used Fixed in SF a couple times, so my data is purely anecdotal. By in my view Fixed deserves to be banned. In the two cases we used Fixed (both of which were valid tickets btw) they sent the exact same form letter disputing the ticket, even though the two tickets had nothing in common. From what I could tell the business model seemed to be 1) send entirely generic form letter at very little cost to dispute every single ticket, regardless of merit 2) assume that you can overwhelm the system and they'll just give up on some percentage of the tickets 3) profit. It didn't seem like anyone at Fixed was reviewing tickets or coming up with legit justifications for disputing the tickets. If you parked for 3 days in a handicapped space that blocked a hospital emergency room they would send in the same form letter to dispute the ticket. If Fixed was successful then by definition every ticket issued would result in a dispute. That's simply untenable for a city to deal with.

To me it felt entirely like a "this is why we can't have nice things" scenario. Give legit people a way to dispute tickets and up springs a startup that takes advantage of the limitations of the system and fucks it up for everyone.
Neat!

...could you use it as an init system?
This is great! Having worked with serials a lot in my day job (and finding the history of them interesting as a publishing platform in general), I love this project.

What was the inspiration behind the project? Did Joshua reach out to you and @leyawn?
Thanks for the transcription feedback. You can look at this as a problem but we think it's a cute demonstration of our search ability. We didn't really set out to make transcriptions perfect (that's very, very hard), we wanted to make search very accurate. Having a better transcription model would be great though (we are working on that!).

We'll definitely work on the site. (We should have done that earlier.) Thanks again!
The distillation is that they (and other similar institutions, actually) select for "interesting" answers, rather than "correct" ones, and ideally interesting answers that comport with their favored ideological framework.
It isn't. Users have flagged it.
Worth looking into if you are interested in early history of computers. The reason why ENIAC is called "first computer" is that it was first fully electrical computer. These are elecro-mechanic computers predating ENIAC.
which reminds me of episode 1--

eeseetah oida-- oo, bah...ooooo bah....

eeseetah oido! oo bah...oooobahh...
This is really cool! I really love it when authors take a stab at new ways of writing / integrating tech into writing in unique ways!

A friend of mine is doing something similar except less realtime than this. Instead his take on it is a chapter is published for every time the main character writes in his journal (usually every night). It's an action / adventure / fantasy so it's really fun and climactic when the main character thinks he's being pursued by an enemy and then the next night the journal entry is missing, and then the 2 or three nights in a row there is no journal entry! Oh the suspense! If anyone is interested it's called Into the Nanten[0]

[0]: http://intothenanten.com/
Relevant: Majority of ISPs not ready for metadata laws that come into force today

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/majority-of-isps-not-r...

>but 84 per cent say they are not ready and will not be collecting metadata on time.

>A majority of ISPs, about 61 per cent, are requesting exemptions or variations from parts of the legislation, for example, the requirement to encrypt retained metadata

Cool, so the data isn't going to be encrypted
I think this would depend on your specific use case.

If you're app is basically managing data (managing bookmarks, note taking, etc...) then a stateless architecture makes sense

If your app is reacting to data in real-time to do some work (monitoring system, chat system, sending alerts on conditions) then using a statefull service makes total sense.
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I dunno if the Windows OEM headed by the Guy Who Said Mean Things About Apple would have ever gotten any traction with SV startups.
New York City has 2 programs where companies with vehicle fleets can just pay the parking tickets automatically, often at a discount http://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/vehicles/commercial-stipula...

Just the cost of doing business... http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130526/ECONOMY/305269...
This is a non sequitur.

(more specifically: we weren't arguing about my first assertion, we were arguing about my second assertion. So the fact that you're trying to refute my second assertion, that there is no evidence he have out A's more freely, by attacking my first assertion, is irrelevant. I fully acknowledge that absent the department's response, we don't have the full picture of whether or not the department's issue was with the actual teaching content, but that was not what you and I were discussing)
Having spent a lot of time in this domain, you have to (and most seem to be coming to the same conclusion) just assume that everything that connects to your network is untrusted and likely owned and work inwards from there for your threat modelling.

You have to really forget about trying to secure the client (and this includes campus supplied gear) and up your monitoring game.

ISTR that Google has also taken a similar approach with its employees access to their LAN.
Yes,R&D is technically paid off as soon as it completes, but paying off the R&D is an investment and the company obviously wants a return on this investment.
The next math class in the calculus sequence. That's about as direct of a measurement of how well they did in Math 1A than anything I can think of.
If you come to Brazil and you can spare a couple of hours it would be very nice to have you in one of our meetups for our local community http://meetup.com/Germinadora/ we are fans of YC.
Not yet but this is a pet project that I would love to get going (time strapped now, though). I used the Lexika API to get the times from query results (i.e. when the words were said), then used some hacked together python along with ffmpeg with a lot of auto-generated seeking command line arguments to splice together the video feed. Then the title screens were done in a normal editor.

I would love to make this an app though. Just search for phrases, choose clips, and output a cute video. You could just have a thousand people saying a "thousand", or something equally weird.
i had a friend in a similar position a few years ago (but living in the US) - he ended up having most of is money locked up when poker stars and the other major players we out of business - im not sure if he got it back ...
Way more of a social life then I originally thought I would have. There is a pretty good sized community of likeminded folks living the same way. We seek each other out via blogs, instagram and facebook and hang out constantly. For new years there will be a gathering of 100 or more out in the CA desert.
Limit data usage on cellular hotspot
“You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century”
I run this thing called Useless Press (http://uselesspress.org) - we publish interesting/unusual internet things. We came up with the idea of a real-time novel and then asked Josh and @leyawn if they wanted to participate.
The current batch of ARM microserver parts are indeed pretty primitive compared to x86, but each year they will copy more & more of the tricks and optimizations that Intel implemented 10-15 years ago, including the superb virtualization tech. Still I agree they are most likely going to fail due to the inevitable patent infringement lawsuits, the fab gap, and/or customer reluctance WRT deploying ARM SW.
I think toolz was saying we should try to fix society,
rather than pretend this is only a problem in tech

Who's pretending the problem is only in tech? Attacking the problem in our industry is part of fixing society as a whole (it's a subproblem).
A comparison with Erlang/OTP:

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/papers/2015/05/03/orleans.h...
Actually, winter is by far the most beautiful time in the North. Everything is frozen and extremely peaceful. Also Whitehorse has on average more sunny days per year than anywhere else in Canada, so often in winter it's -30something C and perfectly sunny. Gloves, a toque and a good jacket, and you're good for hours outside.

Winter is also the best time to get around, because all the rivers and lakes are frozen, meaning you can go places where there are no roads (and there are very few roads - I've driven them all). So you quickly get into snowshoeing, cross country skiing, downhill/backcountry skiing/snowboarding, ice fishing, snow mobiling, etc. etc.

The days are short, so you do whichever of those in the dark you have to. Snowshoeing at 4pm in -35C crunchy snow looking at the bright stars/northern lights is a magical thing [1].

Basically, you get outside and do stuff. If you don't like winter, you'll likely leave, which is another amazing thing about the North - everyone that lives there loves it.

[1] My latest attempts at Northern Lights Photography http://theroadchoseme.com/northern-lights-2
For some use cases it does make sense, but even realtime/push systems can be made relatively stateless by isolating the stateful parts (e.g. into a message broker).

The way I see it, nothing we design is truly stateless. There are stateful pieces everywhere (such as TCP, beneath HTTP). What we can do is minimize the effects that the stateful pieces may have on other parts of the system.
You can only create a little trust by reading source code. You really have to analyze the whole compilation processes.
Excellent! The system is obviously broken. And it's not self-correcting. So we must exploit the brokenness to force it to heal.
It's not a high horse, so much as it's an avoidable problem. $59B/year in the US is spent on alcohol-related crashes. (Just crashes, not the insane amount of crime that's alcohol-related.)

There's a death every 51 minutes from it. 31% of traffic-related deaths.

17% of children under 14 who die in a car crash involving an alcohol-impaired driver. Over half of those are in the vehicle driven by the drunk driver. That's utter insanity, and I wonder how many of those people were close to the limit and something you'd deem just fine.

I'm not naive enough to think everyone at the restaurant took Uber or have a designated driver, but I trust you're also not naive enough to think that it's not a serious problem, and it's one that, more often as not, kills innocents.

The problem is that people can get away with it, and largely do. (As you allude to.)

Please don't pretend it's a small problem, and that discussing whether longer/harsher/different sentences would motivate more people to take Uber or get a designated driver is the problem. That's as counterproductive as adopting a smug tone when discussing policy.

Edit:

> I suppose at some point you can create such massive penalties for every possible misdeed that people become too terrified to leave their homes, but I don't want to live in that world.

Enough with the straw man, BTW. I'm pretty Libertarian. But the moment you demonstrate that you can't safely manage the responsibility of driving, then I'm all in favor of strongly limiting your ability to do others harm. It's the height of American selfishness to think that the current system is sufficient relative to the problem that exists.
One time I parked in chinatown at 5:30 am on a Sunday in a spot that has free parking on Sunday. At 2:00 pm when I left there was a protest, with a full band, bleachers, and a dancing dragon around my car. Along with a temporary no parking sign, and a ticket. That sign was definitely not there in the morning, but I had no proof, so I just paid it.

Interesting side note, I recently had an Uber driver who worked for the PPA.
I assume you're American, because you're worried about health/insurance.

I've never lived like that, so excuse me if what I say makes no sense.

Can you not find an insurance policy that's affordable even when working part time? i.e. consider health insurance like other expenses that are very hard to entirely remove (some food, gas, car insurance, building materials, etc.).. i.e. most people wind up working something like 20-50% time to pay for those things, maybe after you add in health care you'll need to work 30-60% time?

Not possible?
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I think it's unfair to characterize football at MD for draining the sports finances, as it paints it in broad strokes. More often than not, football carries the other sports.

That said, it's about time football's preeminence is questioned. From the way it skews academics toward athletics and also contributes to head injuries which can result in brain damage to they way it provides false hopes of success to athletes.

It may be time to call it like it is and demote the sport and let schools educate and prepare students for more realistic professions.
Our legal system and bureaucracies are built on technicalities. Do you think they wouldn't use a technicality to nail you to the wall for something? I've got little sympathy for an entity getting upset at it's own rules being used against it.
How do they do it? With their Bezos-esque working hours, of course.
Yes, he is still the maintainer of a number of things in
the kernel.
Traditionally, they were "o-toh" for dad and "o-kah" for mom. You might add "-chan" or "-san" or remove the "o-" prefix, depending on your taste.

Personally, a phrase like "every language" immediately flags a BS sign to me.
Good point. It certainly wouldn't apply to everyone. Consider it additive. Don't take away the slow and steady stop every block buses. Just add more express options.

While there are many people who couldn't afford the calculator. There are also a lot people who could swing a $300 scooter but not afford a well maintained car. They would certainly enjoy to cut some time off their commute.
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You will recruit better offering 0.93X equity in a YC-backed company, compared to X equity in that same company that had just turned down YC.
San Francisco has something like this as well; http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Parking-tickets-by-the-tr...
I'm not the OP but doing something similar and feel like answering as well to promote the life style.

I'm near Hamilton, MT, a town of ~10k an hour from Missoula. Hamilton is home to Rocky Mountain Labs, the US's center for ebola research which attracts lots of scientists and post docs so it has kind of a collage-town-minus-they-undergrads feel. Also amazing outdoor recreation if you climb, ski, hike, hunt, fish, mountain bike or pretty much whatever.

We have ~4 acres with good water rights and a gravity fed irrigation system. We paid under 300k for that land with a large house in good shape on it. We do have electricity from the local rural electric co-op, a microwave link for high speed internet, a well for drinking water and propane for heat and cooking. You could pay under 200k for a smaller fixer upper in a less desirable spot still with enough land to grow some stuff.

We are basically at the level of having a (very) large garden but have some established apple trees and are putting in larger amounts of plum, appricot and peach trees and blueberries, raspberries and tons of strawberries. Maybe soon grapes...some people have had success with wine grapes in the valley we are in and we are in a good spot for it.

We grow things for for our own use though if we grow enough we will sell or trade...many of the species I list are just starting to do well in Montana thanks to global warming and newly developed varietals so I kind of view growing them as a research project. I plan on keeping engineering as my main money maker.

There are lots of full time farmers in the area and some great farmers markets and farm stands.

I work for a single company I connected with through hacker news. Before that I convinced my boss to let me go full time remote after working in the office for a few years. I work in a specific area of machine learning which is in demand at the moment and have enough open source contributions to convince people I can work from wherever.

I go into Missoula (70k people) about once a month for a Costco and specialty grocery store run. Hamilton has two micro breweries, a great coffee shop and good grocery and hardware stores and I could easily get by without the city but there are some things that are cheaper and easier to find in Missoula. Missoula is also a great outdoorsy, progressive, town with a thriving river surfing community.

Biggest drawbacks is that local politics at the moment is dominated by ridiculous tea party shenanigans. Even the conservatives seem to be getting fed up with the sheer incompetence of some of the candidates but there has been some elimination of local women's health services and other services like that.
The first thing that comes to mind is podcasts. That are a slightly different direction, but a great fit for our service. They're long, have well spoken words, and are regularly released, so there is a mound of searchable audio data out there just waiting to be liberated.
I was actually planning on that, seeing as I have little knowledge of lens other than the lens matters as much if not more than the camera used.

Figure if I like the output I may as well invest in similar tools and practice. :) (Unless most of those photos are w/ the vintage lens that went unnamed...)
>under those working conditions

Why do you assume those are the only working conditions possible?

>your new lifestyle necessitates that others have to fill in behind you

My lifestyle doesn't "necessitate" anyone to do anything. I buy solar panels because they are available and I can afford them. If all of a sudden nobody wanted to work more than 10 hours a week and solar panels were not available or too expensive, I would not buy them.

What each individual does with their time is up to them. When the world changes because of how people spend their time (i.e. stuff might get way cheaper, or way more expensive, or self-driving cars may or may not become a thing), I, and everyone else, will continue to re-evaluate their choices about how they spend their time, and adjust accordingly.
I didn’t mean people replaced IE because of its high memory usage. I was comparing them as 2 browsers that are both installed by default. People replaced IE because it provided an inferior browsing experience. On low-end devices, Chrome is now the inferior option because of memory bloat.
And yet profits continue to increase, as does the value of franchises.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with virtually everything you say, but none of it has hurt their business. Football fans don't care if the players are hurt, or have their bodies and lives destroyed (fun fact: the nfl is the only major american sport w/o guaranteed contracts. Get hurt and can't play? You're fired. Guess how that impacts reporting concussions.) Fans don't care if players beat their kids, spouses, or randoms. Fans don't care if players rape, particularly if you're a good quarterback, or commit murder. Until fans care, the nfl won't.
Ahh, but should one act in business to not get fired, or to do the right thing for the organization?

I personally couldn't look myself in the mirror , speaking as a former VP of IT ops at a large company, if I made a decision where the primary concern was for my job stability. In fact, the fact that I could get fired for making the difficult choice usually was a good sign. I'm not talking about making reckless decisions, I'm talking things like firing IBM outsourcing because they're price gouging and risking the inevitable call to our board of directors that is attempting to get me and my boss (the CIO) fired.

That said I do agree many IT people make the decision for their own stability first, and the company second. That usually is due to a poor business leader that promotes a risk averse culture - unlike a Reed Hastings or Elon Musk.
Hasn't Erlang & OTP already solved this?
This gave me the idea to use my Raspberry pi as a remote hub for Keyboard/Mouse.

Unfortunately, it seems it can't make it working, whether I use the official apt-get binaries, or try to compile myself[1] (either with the version available on sourceforge, or in the linux kernel src).

Anyone who succeed to make this running on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)? It would be a perfect application!

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1077...
Very cool. Somewhat off topic: I've been looking recently for a good way to host many GBs of photos and videos for my friends and family to browse and download. Basically an open source version of Google Drive's file browser, with thumbnails and image and video previews. Any suggestions?
In Korean "mam-ma" means food.
Japanese has 'chichi' (dad) and 'haha' (mom)
Doing what you love means staring failure in the face every single day
Charman is still here!
You can now send messages even if you don't have cellphone service (2014)
You should be able to hit enter in the search field on your phone's soft keyboard (or the button might just say search). Which phone/operating system is this?
The Placebo Diet
DHH AMA
I don't believe there are any hard and fast rules in the English language. It's all convention, some of which has a very high percentage of adherents, and some people in high towers claiming that one way is more correct than another. But you will find that every "rule" has some form in some region that breaks it. There's the concept of an official grammar and vocabulary in some languages, such as French, with the Académie française, but even then people don't follow the rules. English has no such official committee.
I totally believe that university password requirements are the strictest. The general standards for a "strict" password are >N characters, 3 of 4 character classes required, and sometimes a blacklist of passwords.

The standards for my university? The ones I figured out (they don't spell a guideline out for you until you violate it):
* >N characters
* 3 of 4 classes
* No substring of >5 characters can match a dictionary word (which apparently includes "anita" o_O)
* Can't have your name in there anywhere
* No three consecutive characters can be the same or a run (so no 111, 123, 321, ghi, etc.)
* Can't be any of your last 10 passwords
* Please change every 9 months

There's probably a few more that I haven't had cause to discover yet.
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I'm glad they're ending pay-to-play, and that article shows why it's terrible.

I am not really sure permit parking violations and tax on the poor are one or the other. Most people who are poor are not worried about tickets caused by permit parking violations more being randomly stopped for fixit tickets and the like. Again pay-to-play being taken out is a great first step. And there's just no real balanced way to handle this and thus the lawmakers balance the odds in their favor rather than the people they serve.
I agree with this. Facebook is a service with a business model. I'm all for people who have legitimate concerns trying to convince the company to adjust policy, but I don't like the way pressure groups try to strong-arm companies.

In this case, though, I will make one exception: As my extended family got FB accounts they started posting family pictures that included me, and identified me by name. If you go back through enough posts you could get a pretty good idea what my habits are just by analyzing what other people have posted.
Ok, we've changed the URL from http://pipan.org/mirror/lpd-mp3/ to yours. Was that an unauthorized copy?

Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10378327 and marked it off-topic.