skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it appears that the ATS process is a fairly standard complaint process. Why doesn't somebody make an app for that, get the taxi number and time then allow somebody to enter the rest of the details (or video/photo) and submit.

Feels like worth doing to make the world a better place.
Unfortunately a band-aid solution for a deep-rooted problem (not saying that one shouldn't do it).
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm
I can understand that position, but dealing with inquiries outside the hard sciences gets complicated Keeping some things taboo is the better path especially with something like evolutionary biology which is no where near a hard science.
Males remove a specialized mating arm in order to mate. You wouldn't think that would be enjoyable, but there's clearly an instinct for it.
Isn't that the GP's point? The article elides the reverse case, features that postgres lacks but MySQL/MariaDB have. "It behooves someone who is comparing the projects to mention this fact."
Url changed from http://www.widewalls.ch/ai-weiwei-lego-ban/, which copies this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine
Too much drama. They write these articles and people believe them. There's no such thing as "the darknet".
Evolutionary biology is absolutely a hard science. It's rooted in both empirical evidence and models derived from statistics and game theory.

You haven't presented an argument: you've presented a fear-based assertion. I absolutely disagree that it is ever better not to know. Every single time someone has made that argument and tried to enforce it, it's retarded our progression as a species.

The Catholic Church in medieval Europe did tremendous harm, and all it was trying to do was save our immortal souls. It was doing good work. It was better not to know, right? How much progress might we have made in mathematics had Hippasus not been murdered for providing the existence of irrational numbers?

People who share your views do us all tremendous harm. We could make life better for billions of people if we gave up our taboos on researching ourselves.

That said, I do appreciate the honest. It's not often that I see people out right admit to wanting to ban certain lines of research. Your doing it is refreshing.
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Customers are people who pay you.
I've been waiting for something like this for a good, long while. If it works half as well as the description implies, it's worth way more than $10.

Feedback:

* Help me figure out how to get at an access key and secret for my account. That could be as simple as including a button that opens up Safari with the IAM console, or as awesome as working with IAM. Right now, this is probably your product's biggest stumbling block, as Amazon's user experience is atrocious.

* "Do you want to initiate inventory retrieval for all non-empty vaults of region US East (N. Virginia)?" — I dunno, you tell me.

* They're always "OK" buttons, not "Ok"

* Inventory and Transfers visibility shouldn't be mutually exclusive
It's pretty naive to say that '“changing the world” meant being a communist arsonist', when thousands of activists and organizers have a long, documented history of other methods.

Read a book.
The problem for me is that I have seen Amazon tablets before, struggled to do basic tasks on them and wondered what the point is. So I will stick to standard Android when it comes to tablets and not even give this device a second glance. I wanted to believe with the Amazon tablet before but I couldn't do it a second time. Notice they only have bargain price to compete on which is a bit sad as Amazon could do so much better. I just don't believe this is it.
>Crititcal..

Apologies for the misspelled word. It is suppose to be "critical" and I don't see an edit option as too much time has passed.
It's likely that this is due to corruption in Panama with pressure from Nicaragua and Hong Kong. The official reasons given don't make sense:

> Marine Traffic Control said the backlog is primarily due to weather conditions, including several days of fog at the canal. But we spoke with a canal insider, who said that in his decades of experience he has only seen it like this when there is some other issue going on – not one that’s weather related.

Thus, something is happening behind the scenes that they don't want to talk about.

Maybe there is political pressure from Nicaragua/Hong Kong proponents of the Nicaraguan canal. The biggest reason cited by the WSJ not to build the canal is lack of demand:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-wants-to-dig-the-nicaragua...

It's quite possible that Nicaragua/Hong Kong are putting pressure on Panama to increase the wait times. Perhaps they scheduled the "Dry chamber maintenance" during a high-shipping seasons on purpose:

> A statement provided to us Friday from the Panama Canal Authority said that a high level of arrivals during the last in September coincided with schedule dry-chamber maintenance.
Homogeneity. Japan has been shut off from the world for most of its history.
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It seems like the app for these situations is Uber.
I vaguely remembered seeing it and mucked around with searches until it came up.
"The Darknet (sometimes called the Dark Web) works on the Tor browser,".

Nowadays when people say darknet they mostly just mean the marketplaces
The "darknet" can't be that big. Tor has limited bandwidth. Total bandwidth exiting from Tor is about 7Gb/s.[1] That's about 1000 video streams for the whole world.

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/bwhist-flags.html
> But in this scenario BigCo isn't the one needing outside financing, is it?

No, I was refuting the idea that only defendants stretched litigation out. The entity with more money stretches litigation out, doesn't matter which side they're on.
At 1:1 I'd bet every dollar I have.
I really don't think there is any hard science to say 60-80% is heritable. It's all soft science as people can disagree and agree on that all they want. Until someone can build a computational model of brain function related to the genome (inc. RNA) it is an open question.
I have to ask, did you read through the entirety of the article before making this comment? I found it fairly balanced, compared to previous coverage I've seen.
I noticed you removed the part of your comment where you claimed that everyone is treated equally.

And no, I never said (or implied) "it's okay to conduct research so long as you like the findings." It's perfectly ok to conduct research even if you are disgusted by your data. (and I've heard some researchers say they have been disgusted with their data) However, this type of research has a long history of being conducted solely to "prove" racial inferiority.
I've always seen that referred to as the "Deep Web".
I identify as John.
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my bad, how do I delete a comment? :/
Ask HN: Are startups diluting their own market?
Some of favorite quotes from Sam Altman's class at Stanford (CS183B) were:

1. Don't start a startup for the sake of starting a startup.
2. Product should solve a personal pain.
3. Build something users love.
4. Live in the future.
5. Learn powerful things.
6. Get users.
7. Dominate small markets.
8. Make everyone do customer support.
9. Do things that don't scale.

Particularly though, I thought #1 was the most interesting, as every college now has an entrepreneurship course and PG says that college students shouldn't be starting startups. I'm curious about the dilution of real (whatever that means- can be measured by future success metrics) startup ideas with ones that people are coming up with just for the sake of starting a company. Will this have any effects on the market, funding attainability, customer acquisition? And will the pot of ideas get so saturated at some point that it drives innovation away?
I always thought that Dark Web was sites that weren't indexed by Google, etc al., but reachable via a standard browser & Dark Net was sites reachable only via Tor. Do I have it wrong?
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> similar to how 13 is skipped sometimes

Sometimes?

"Based on records of buildings with Otis brand elevators, as many as 85 percent of the high rises in the world don't have a 13th floor, says Dilip Rangnekar, spokesman for the Farmington, CT-based elevator maker."
- http://realtytimes.com/todaysheadlines1/item/15685-20020913_...

Superstitions are alive and well around the world. In the U.S., the number of people who still turn to astrology when it comes explaining success or failure in dating and relationships will astound you. Even in places like New York City.
Don’t Fear the Robots
While he's lambasting a caricature, it is a caricature that exists for a reason. For example, when is the last time anyone saw a street protest and took anything about it seriously?

Politics is mostly trench warfare and startups are cavalry raids.
My first thought too.
Having worked with MySQL for years, my mind was blown using Postgres for the first time this year (mainly due to HStore, CTEs, and transactional DDL statements). However, one constant pain point for me was the lack of an upsert. Glad to read Postgres will be getting it in 9.5!
Title of the article is missing an important prefix... "Reported". We have no idea if pot use has doubled. In fact, we know that it hasn't doubled. The real question is has it actually increased at all.

I actually think the real question is, why has the (reported) number changed so dramatically? Has actual use changed, or are people just being more honest? I tend to think it's the latter, and I suspect that one driving factor is the shift of public opinion in favor of legalization.[0]

Whether use has increased, or it's now just more accepted, the bigger picture, I believe, is that the tide has shifted. Personally, I think that's a good thing.

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/21/ga...
Interesting. I am developing a desktop app using nwjs because a) many popular apps were made using nwjs and b) I like their documentation.

It is fascinating because both of them are quite similar in nature and picking one instead of the other doesn't mean you're missing out on a major feature.
Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity
We took "Show HN" out of the title. If this project is your personal work, let us know and we'll put that back.
I suffer from the problem of languages changing over time as I became disabled in 2003, been in hospitals a lot, recovering at home a lot. Trying to get back into programming after 13+ years of recovery and medical debt that forced me into bankruptcy.

Any book I own is way out of date, I bought books in 2008 that are out of date already. I might as well code in COBOL and FORTRAN on an old Mainframe that didn't change since the 1970s as I still have books from college on those. I tried to work in retroprogramming in writing code for old languages like Visual BASIC 6.0 and ASP 3.0 and VBScript, but found no takers.

I read the LYAH book and found I couldn't get the code to work, Functional Programming is still new to me, so I struggle with it. I was contacted by someone on Github over the debate they had about a code of conduct and she writes in F Sharp and wanted to pair program with me. So I had to learn F Sharp, which is another functional language. I took an EDX course that Microsoft offered on it. I have Visual Studio 2013 Community edition, and I found that even if they say I can use 2013, the course is graded in 2015 which made changes to F Sharp. Some code won't compile and has to be rewritten, code that I write that passes tests may not work in 2015 so my homework assignments got points taken off. Had they run it in 2013 it would have gotten 100% on a score. I was two weeks behind due to being sick and I caught up on everything but the last homework program and I scored 66% needing 50% to pass the course. Even Microsoft changes the way their languages work. What few F Sharp books that exist, are out of date just like the Haskell books.

Oddly enough I have Turbo C code I wrote in 1987 that still compiles on most modern C compilers. I got C4Droid on my Android phone and it compiles the C code without any errors and runs them just right as well. I saved my code on a floppy disk and the moved them to a USB drive and transferred them to my Android phone to see if it would still work.

I sort of wonder why most modern languages aren't backward compatible like C is, and why they break compatibility. I guess it is so they can charge more for the training in the new standard and write new books and teach more courses? Either that or the changes they made had optimize the language so it used less memory and ran faster but broke compatibility wit legacy code.

I find myself still using Python 2.7 instead of 3.X, because I have books that have code that still works with it, and 3.X breaks a lot of things. I found that a lot of GNU/Linux still uses Python 2.X and when you install Python 3.X it is called Python3 on the command line.

This video helps me understand Haskell a bit more, and looking in Github for FOSS Haskell projects to view the source code would help as well.

But I find as soon as I learn something, it has been changed and there is a new version available.
A few things:

* The article's title is "What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II". It's PostgreSQL focused, and part 2 in an N-part series.

* When a similar feature appears in MySQL, MariaDB, or Firebird, the author makes mention of it, its limitations, and provides a brief comparison of the implementation differences and/or limitations of that feature across databases.

Given that the usual form of these sorts of article series is to have a one-half or one article feature comparison in the reverse direction, and given that the author takes the time to briefly call out details of other DB's implementations of a given feature -rather than just proclaiming that "POSTGRES IS THE BESTEST!!1!"- I look askance at ebbv's claim that the article is making unfair comparisons.
Discussed in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3291153.
I believe it's Deep Web for unindexed sites and Dark Web/Net for Tor
The role that fracking plays in the rise of earthquakes has been hugely controversial in Oklahoma, where one in five jobs is tied to the oil and gas industry.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair
I'm skeptical this has any effect on poverty. Poor people who buy lottery tickets wouldn't spend the money on job training if they couldn't buy lottery tickets. They'd find a bookie and bet on sports, or they'd play the horses.

And I don't find your argument characterizing lotteries as fraud persuasive in the slightest. People who buy lottery tickets are well aware they're chances of winning are pretty close to zero. Yes, they have to pay taxes if the do win, but that's not exactly an overriding concern.
Basically the plot to Watchmen.
The most amazing part of this article is the U.S. would use this seemingly massive reserve in 3 days.
Try the "Island inside an island" test (put a blue cluster inside an orange island). Only k-means and SVM dealt with it satisfactorily.
If by "darknet" you mean Tor hidden services, then exit relays are not used. The circuits are client->guard->middle->middle->middle->middle->guard->hidden service. The bandwidth bottleneck for hidden services is probably guards, because all relays can be used as middles. Because relays with the Exit flag are used exclusively for exiting (due to the position weights [0], e.g. Wgd/Wed/Wmd), an estimate of the guard bandwidth is the weight of those with only the Guard flag, or ~40Gbps.

[0] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/plain/dir-spec.txt
A good article on this subject arguing otherwise http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-basic-science-144561.... Continuation of the ideas from the What Technology Wants book.
It's $10 and the functionality is obvious. Just buy it.
Why would Panama willingly do anything to encourage the Nicaragua Canal? It poses a huge competitive threat (if it were likely to be built).
Joomla: millions of sites at risk of remote takeover hacks
To answer your ostensibly rhetorical question: after demonstrations in Houston, Whole Foods agreed to pull from their shelves foods produced through prison labor.
Sure it does. It discourages using land for speculation. If the appreciation curve flattens out, some people buying property as an investment will look to other markets that don't impact the standard of living so directly.
Constructive feedback: If you've ran a business for 6 years and no one inside can run it, that's not very good. Please ensure your next business is not the same.

This being said, you can't shut it down. Simple as that. At $1MARR there are either hundreds of clients who depend on you, or a few big clients who depend on you. You can't let them down.

Look at your competition. Call their CEOs or COOs and either 1) either someone on top and give them 20% to 50% of your company or 2)sell it to them.
That sounds like it's nowhere close. Choosing to not self-identify with one's country of birth or naturalization is very different from the fear of rejection discussed above.
The article and the domain in question is too broad. You can't just try and paint a security solution on IoT. A dongle in a car with a wifi connection to a preprogrammed site is way different than the home Zigbee router I install to dea with my "connected light bulbs".

This broad generalization is great for headlines, but lacking in content.
http://dbeaver.jkiss.org works pretty well for me
We have a solution that works, right now:

- Potential passengers register with their name and personal credit card.

- Drivers are paired in a way that conceals destination and ensures equal distribution of bad ones.

- Passengers and drivers rate each other and bad ones are removed from the system.

- No tipping (or priced in a way that doesn't depend on it).

This reassures both parties that there are consequences to failing to do your part (criminally or otherwise).

It's just that the same people who were supposed to have solved this problem, also scream bloody murder at the Ubers and Lyfts who implement the above solution.
You're taxing profits, not sales. If the value of land more closely tracked inflation, people will look to other markets for growth.

To put it another way, why don't people sit on their cash? They're taxed on most cash transactions, right?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but de-dup and versions can't be done with the standard format. Which means Freeze can't do it.
> The article implies that...

The world would be a far better place if fewer people would read between the lines of a given statement, and more people would make a habit of carefully parsing statements that others make.

When one writes words for general consumption, it's oh so tiresome to front-load one's writing with a bevy of disclaimers and preemptive clarifications. You will inevitably fail to include one clause or another, causing someone, somewhere to successfully misunderstand your words.

It's better to write exactly what you mean, as clearly as you are able, and -when writing for capable adults- trust that your audience is capable adults who know how to read what has been written and know not to infer meaning in inappropriate places.
Note that sociology is deeply rooted in empirical evidence statistics as well. I think we can agree that that it is a soft science. Hard science requires no subjectivity, no hidden variables, and re-creatable experiments. Soft sciences have a place, but not in telling us what is true.

Until you can take a genome and build computational models of intelligence it is foolish to be so confident to draw any conclusions in IQ research.
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I only see one "group" on that list that's ever caused one of my friends to be blatantly delayed/denied service in the public square in the way the article describes. No bonus points for guessing which one.
With G.M.O. Policies, Europe Turns Against Science
It is not just Korea.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10445181 and marked it off-topic.
You seem argumentative.
?- X = 10.
X = _
no.

...this doesn't work like any Prolog I know. (Even defining equality manually as "eq(X, X)." doesn't work...)
"Market Boom!" Guile's theme goes with everything, but especially this article.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd2tIudSyR8
why is it important that you are a Clojure developer to use it?
I've noticed this about myself. Mental distraction helps with pain. Really useful when doing long distance backpacking and trying to push out the last few miles. I would whip out my phone and type into my journal.
It's going to be interesting to see which parts of these various cities suddenly have taxi coverage, when self-driving cars eat these taxi drivers' jobs.
And you can always get a refund as well.
I go to work in San Francisco every day. I'm not an entrepreneur but as an engineer I am benefiting from the rise of tech. I look around the city as I walk to the office, seeing all these new condos spring up, seeing the work done on the new terminals and all the activity around me and it feels like a city that's alive and growing.

My family and I frequently travel all over California to check out all its beautiful places and I love this state. I grew up in San Diego so it's not like I'm a tourist. With the exception of the drought, I think California is getting better all the time.
I know. But dennisgorelik's original comment was about prejudice against Zainichi Koreans specifically, so I was just addressing that. I probably should have commented up a level.
control

control temperature, atmosphere, light containment
I think this video is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKix-75dsg

I feel similarly to the video: My gender is not especially important to me, and it's therefore just kind of 'default', but that doesn't mean other people feel the same way.
> Because its not 1 study. Its 99% of all studies..and if the system is this way, how can you possibly trust any studies??

That's exactly my point. You're saying that the many, many studies that support the idea of climate change are meaningless, because science is a lie. But you still want me to trust your studies that say climate change is a myth. If your premise is true, then we can't trust anything, ever, not even the stuff you like.
This sort of discrimination is not limited to Taxi Drivers,
Speaking from experience, Uber drivers can and will reject a customer if they don't like the neighborhood you're traveling to.
Other than the one to two transformation, are there others? Was the formal system a response to these problems or how it has always been done?
> but de-dup and versions can't be done with the standard format

I really do not know.
Right, and it's extremely rude. It's the equivalent of the old grade school "I know a juicy secret but I'm not going to tell you" routine.
Growing up I read a lot of the Nancy Drew books that my sister would borrow from the library and her friends. I got hooked on reading because of these books. Short and fast paced, I generally liked them better than the Hardy Boys. Being a guy though, and out of the fear of being ostracized out of my already small all-male friend circle, I had to read them in secret and couldn't discuss anything related to the stories or the characters with my friends :)
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