skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The changes that are producing the change in sea water volume, also have other effects on some of the things that influence sea water distribution.

For example melting freshwater ice not only adds volume to the ocean, it also adds mass, and changes salinity, which changes temperature, which itself affects volume, and also influences ocean circulation patterns.

And since winds are powered and directed by heat energy in the atmosphere, changing the amount and/or pattern of heat in the atmosphere will also change the wind patterns.

The shape of the ocean floor is slightly affected by the weight of the sea water on top of it. Changes in sea water distribution due to other factors might also result in changes in relative ocean basin depth--areas with more water mass will depress the crust a bit farther into the mantle; while areas with less water mass will rebound slightly.
This article presents no data and does not feature any discussion of economics. It simply lists off a couple of different hackathons, namedropping Mastercard, Disney, and Dropbox. I haven't seen a good article from The Economist on HN in a long time.
I think "Northern Europe" usually means Scandinavia, really.
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Arrogance is telling someone they don't understand something, when they tell you "no."

> "User needs"

Do you actually design anything?
I don't think the added JSON.parse (which is very fast these days) is a "lot" heavier weight. Also, although I haven't looked, I would assume a more rigidly structured format like JSON for multiple fragments would be easier to programmatically reference different ones instead of parsing HTML or making some other assumptions about how the disparate fragments are delimited.
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On Mac Classic, if you wanted to ship a custom font with your application, you'd put it in the Resource fork in a resource of "FONT" type.

So why wouldn't a stand-alone font file consist of a Resource fork with a single resource of "FONT" type? Otherwise, the OS engineers have to develop two entirely different ways of reading in font data. Why duplicate the effort?

The system made perfect sense, both then and now. It bothers me that so few people know anything about Mac Classic, it really was an amazingly well-designed OS for its time.
I used to use Meteor a lot. However, I ran into problems with Meteor eating up lot's of memory for a very trivial app. Maybe things have improved now, but I prefer to work without the magic.
Ah, hmm. So I guess you don't see it if you're using it headlessly… that's mostly how I've tinkered with my Pi.
> It's possible that the existing laws and regulations aren't necessary.

Who gets to decide that? Should I get to break the law because I have $40 billion and want to?

> People seem to be able to conduct themselves properly without being licensed and bonded.

Do you have any data?
My super-hand-waving explanation of why machine learning works:

MNIST is a handwritten digit database. Each 784-pixel image (28x28) corresponds to a digit from 0 to 9. As a pure mathematical construction, there are at most 2^784 inputs possible, and a small number of possible outputs.

So if you have 784 completely different ways of analyzing the image, and you combine them in the right ways, you will get roughly an approximation of an answer. This is a tautology if the 784 ways are "the value of each pixel" and the combinations are "magic", but if you have more "intelligent" combinations you should have combinations that are less magic. And in this case, since humans can generally determine the digit value from a 7-light display, it seems reasonable that there exists some way to have "intelligent" combinations such that they combine to form a neural network that solves the problem of digit identification.

And that (still hand-wavy) explanation can also plausibly describe how a human would describe identifying a number. If I ask you "why is this a 1 and not a 3", you might say "because it's straight" or "because it's narrow" or "because it doesn't have a point in the middle" or any number of other descriptions of the object. So you can envision a 2-layer network where the middle layer calculates this (and due to the structure of images, in practice it might better be a 3 or 4-layer network. but the important point is that the search algorithms don't rely on it or you knowing what these middle layers are ahead of time)

Which only leaves the question of how "neural network learning" is supposed to find this. And there are a few heuristics which combine to (in practice) be a very effective search. We have back-propagation (which is much easier with automatic differentiation), so we can adjust the entirety of the network based on the output. (and it's an axiom that if you have a lot of things, they will be similar in the ways they are the same, and different [hopefully in some regular way] in the ways they are not the same). We have drop-off, where we attempt to prune connections that are irrelevant. We can add new connections to see if they are relevant. We can do any number of hill-climbing algorithms on the output of the fitness function. And, as a valid search algorithm, it tends to converge to a valid result.

Obviously none of this is at all rigorous, but if you know the math here enough I don't think you're asking the questions in this article.
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As a bay area native, I've always felt that BART ending at a bit after midnight has surely caused DUI deaths. It is s frustrating when we are so close to having good public transit, but we're held back for whatever silly reason.
So the answer to the parent poster is a clear yes. How about the more difficult question: Do monopolies innovate more than competitive industries?

Peter Thiel's argument brings to mind similar arguments about billionaire philanthropists such as Bill Gates. Would we be better off if it simply weren't possible to amass such a fortune?
By an "Uber we don't like" I mean "an uber that comes into your industry" (or an industry of your family members, etc).

As far as The Free Market, I agree 100% that Uber provides a good service. However I feel bad for the people who made investments in the taxi industry by following the law and then had those investments completely devalued by a lawbreaker with good PR.

A ton of america's certifications are not necessary, I'd bet. But the proper method for removing those certifications is not to just ignore them with a fat stack of money. One day that will go wrong.

Tangentally, I think AirBnb will one day get bitten by this. They're gonna have some shady AirBnb burn down without a fire alarm or give a bunch of people an infectious disease and everyone will realize why we have hotel regulation. Again this is another service of which I am a happy customer, but we are playing with fire.
Which? Apple won't adopt anything GPL, so BTRFS, XFS, JFS, etc--basically every Linux project is right out. It was almost ZFS, years ago, but Apple backed out when Oracle bought Sun. What out there is modern, good, and under a compatible license? HAMMER?
Another fun issue in OS X HFS+ happens due to unicode normalization; any filename containing an ignorable unicode character is first normalized:

cat /etc/passwd`python -c 'print "\xe2\x80\x8c"'`

This led to a security issue with Git (http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-a...) and one in Apache a few years earlier.
People don't know what they don't know.
Talking down to people who think something is strange for being the way it is, instead of explaining to them why it is, is so counterproductive and serves no purpose.
Everyone has things they don't know, just provide an explanation instead of an arrogant comment.

He even says "I'm sure there's an Apple-y reason for the existence of this feature, but I can't imagine what it might be." That's literally a "i'm not sure why this is" right there!
Is it possible that Apple are waiting until all of their computers have 100% flash storage before switching to a new file-system?
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Let's hope it's not a huge disappointment like broken age :(
I would say that the average Uber driver is, as you said, better than the average taxi driver.

But I have a few counterpoints:

1) That's a good argument to adding a rating system to taxis, not trashing the industry entirely.

2) I bet if taxis were much cheaper than an Uber a lot of people would go for the cheaper ride over the better one. Sort of like how UberBlack is so much less popular than UberX.
The social safety net surely helps, too. Improving the worst-case for failing to stay employed gives workers more power to define the terms of employment.
Buy some of the stock, you'll feel better :)
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They're approximately the same age, but regardless, it shouldn't factor into your decision.
Do you think that a flag for irrelevant content would help? Or just plain flagging?
Agree. The only city that I've used uber/lyft is SF, basically because the taxi system in that city was completely broken. In all other places/cities I don't even think and just use taxis: NYC, London, Paris, Berlin, Beijing, Santiago, Buenos Aires. In all those places even though the experience is not perfect, I have to say that for some reason I prefer it to the current lyft/uber experience. (I live in SF and use uber/lyft pretty frequently)
The article is about JPMorgan Chase, but I think this Taibbi quote about Goldman Sachs applies:

These banks are a 'great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.'
> magnetic healing devices of no clinical value are "a billion-dollar boondoggle".

Still going strong today.
Working an hourly food service job is an experience I think a lot of people could benefit from having. I didn't work at mcDonalds (have some friends who did/still do) but I worked at a pizza chain instead because my consultant business was failing (teenagers can't run businesses well).

The experience taught me a lot about what it means to be employed and have a job. You experience the day to day grind some people will experience for the rest of their life. You work with people who work 40 hour weeks and walk 5 miles home to their low-income housing supporting a family of 4. You realize these are the people who will be directly affected by legislation that may allow them to continue to live, or die.

How can we vote on these people's livelihoods without experiencing their position? How can someone who graduated high school, got paid to go to college, and graduated into a comfy high paying desk job empathize? They do not know the struggle. They do not understand the life these people live.

I work a desk job now where I don't do anything hard in exchange for a decent pay. I'm able to visit my family during holidays because I don't have to worry about being scheduled. When I'm told to go meet with a client I don't have to worry about being hit in the face with breadsticks, or worse... I try to think about my food service job frequently and how blessed I am to not be doomed to continue it for the rest of my life.
This article by John Siracusa was written right around the time Apple was ditching use of resource forks in OS X and contrasts some of their uses with how it's done today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678261
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> we're talking about lowering the 20% fee, not a huge deal in the scheme of things.

A 20% of your revenue is a huge deal for any business, and a bigger deal for people in the working class.

> Presumably the fee will not be that far from that 20% cut.

I don't see a reason to presume this. The development and operating costs of the app shouldn't be that high.

> Drivers' gains come at the expense of consumers and (often) other drivers.

And at Uber's expense.
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*each host, not site. But, yeah, I agree with you, I think just registering for all active hosts should be the standard (because if you example.com, you don't necessarily own waikiki.example.com)
I just read that about PARC. So many people could realize the impossible because so many resources and talents devoted to solve each others issues.

I understand market is as much of a benefit (competition) as a burden (competition). That said other monopolies ended up sour, Kodak for instance.
Do you have any plans to create something similar for renewals?
> I'm sure there's an Apple-y reason for the existence of this feature, but I can't be bothered to read the Wikipedia article that I linked to in my cuh-ray-zee blog post.
AND many Carbon apps, even ones which wouldn't run on Classic Mac OS, would still load resources from a resource fork.
Poll: Founders, when did you leave your day job?
Typically, I see people advise each other not to quit their day job until their side project is so successful that they don't have much choice. But I'm curious whether that's what most founders do in practice.

Please answer for your current or most recent startup. I left my day job:
Before I had decided on an idea
When I had an idea, but the prototype was not started or incomplete
When I had a prototype, but before I had a significant number of customers
When I had customers, but before I had outside funding. Startup was not yet Ramen profitable.
When I had customers, but before I had outside funding. Startup WAS Ramen profitable.
When I received outside funding
I didn't have a day job because I was in school before
I didn't have a day job because I was a contractor/freelancer/consultant before
I didn't have a day job because I was laid off or prior company failed
I didn't have a day job because I am/was wealthy enough not to need one
The problem is that *nix tools only support technology that existed in 1972. Anything newer than that is screwed.

Mac Classic's death knell was the increasing popularity of the Internet. Run by servers that couldn't possibly store Mac Classic files correctly, because guess what? Resource forks/alternative data streams/whatever didn't exist back in 1972.

And yes I am still bitter about this.
Searching for meaning rather than judging something over face value is a sign of an educated person.

You would expect more of those types on HN, but instead there's seemingly a crowd of predominantly hyperopinionated tinkerer-types.
ext4 deprecation hangs in the air and it's not very good filesystem, btrfs is probably the future and it's slowly becoming production ready.
Does it really work on iOS sans xamarian?
I take a few BCAAs before working out and the key it that you get protein and carbs after the work out. I've seen muscle increase during the period.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Exercise is not sufficient to lose weight. A single coke offsets an hour or two of exercise. Anything that focuses on altering diet will ultimately be much more effective.
It seems you are knowledgeable on the topic, why not make your criticism a bit more constructive? Why are "multiple data forks/stream" needed and what are they used for? (I don't know very much about file systems)
4G LTE that works without a single wire in your home, with no truck rolls, and throughout the USA is hardly "grossly inferior". Not preferred by some, definitely...but not grossly inferior.
So, there are no smaller telecom companies (internet providers) in the US?
I agree that with one meal a day you likely don't need to count calories. Then again, I can easily consume 5000 calories of more if left unchecked. So I built my own IF-specific tracker (shameless plug).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10540352

It even supports leangains style dieting.
Longer exercise windows and more info are great and all, but if you are still expecting employees to take less than market rate salary in exchange for options, you should be giving people the same equity and terms (e.g. liquidation preferences) that investors get for the cash that you forgo.

Founders I've talked to are sympathetic and see it as fair, but none have the courage to try it.
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I would think it would be during mate selection years, which for many pockets of society is well in advance of childbearing years.
Why is this funny?
When your server has several gigs of state. It's VERY useful on a dev server. Instead of waiting several minutes for reload, I just load in new code manually (typically I change only 1-2 files per reload). If something breaks - hey, it's only dev server. Erlangs other feature - almost everything works alone - helps with this. If something breaks, it breaks only in one place, so most of the time I only need to make small changes and reload once more. Rest of the system does what it needs without any downgrades.
We sold the technology to Western Digital and went along for an acquihire. In the end it approaches break even but even that's nearly negligible.
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Dave Cutler's team writing NT came from VMS which has multi-version files which are pretty much the same as multi-fork files.
Who cares if it's a fine idea in theory, when in reality it's completely unpractical. What you call 'worse' is a model that works.

Files showing the wrong size are a very small part of the problem. If people actively start storing critical data in resource forks (as it was done in the case of the font), a lot of other things will break. Just think of the humble HTML upload form or Git.

Almost everywhere a file is considered to be a name + it's contents. Meta-data is wide-spread, but it there's never any real data-loss when it's discarded.
How funny the server is down. This shows IBM cloud quality somehow.

http://m.imgur.com/dGNPBAr
> Age is unrelated to wisdom and I'm talking about the full experience.

That's not true; age and wisdom are quite related, just not directly causal. They are correlated. Older people are generally wiser, it's just not a guarantee, nor is it impossible for young people to be wise, but it's certainly far less common. With age comes experience and with experience, wisdom has fertile ground to grow, though it doesn't always.
Very cool. I have a similar python script that uses PushBullet to do this.

https://instapush.im/ is pretty similar to your project.
This is so cool! Could this be made into a little 3D roguelike?
They aren't the same job, regardless for how similiar the titles are.

My point was the skills required in architecting a solution vs testing a given specific solution differ. So, while you can more easily fall/move into a automated testing role, it's harder to do so into a core programming job. The bar for moving into the latter, rightly or not, very much higher.
This assumes that random people die each year. However, if you survive for a year, you are probably very tough, and your life expectancy might actually go up.
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Me too. ResEdit was magic to a 10 year old (myself).

The author clearly has no idea what he's talking about, except pointing out long known issues in transferring files with resource forks to other operating systems.
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Replace "fired" with "hit by a bus" and you can see the ex-employee was not entirely inculpable.
Also: anonymous function, file x, line y tends to be enough for me.
It seems to me Uber's management openly disregards their workers (but tell me if I'm wrong) and they openly disregard other social goods such as the law. I see this in actions and occasionally in words too.

If Uber becomes the dominant service, which due to the network effect would be the only place to find customers/drivers, what will they do to their workers?

There's no reason to think Uber will, out of the goodness of their hearts, do any less than use their full market power to take as much as possible from their workers.
Heck - at this point, resource forks are exposed as a "com.apple.ResourceFork" xattr with a large binary value. The primary remaining visible quirk is that they're also accessible via a magic path ("file/..namedFork/rsrc") -- the fact that the file system has a special way of storing them is irrelevent to userspace.
I dunno, I backed broken age and got months of entertainment (such as it is) from the vlog updates, followed by a beautiful but ultimately flawed game.

Isn't that way Kickstarter is all about? Boundless optimism, unrelenting hype, followed by an uneasy sense of disappointment?

Full disclosure: I backed ouya too. I even played on it once or twice before consigning it to The Shelf of Regret, alongside the Atari jaguar and the PIs I could never be bothered to do anything useful with.
Wow, that must be brand-new. I was looking for it a couple months ago, and all I found was a million support posts about "why don't you offer gift accounts?" and a few promises that it was coming soon, really, posted back in like 2009.
I feel like nobody cares about responsiveness anymore. (If they ever did.) My TV takes 20 seconds from pushing the power button before it's ready to show a picture. My Bluetooth headset takes a couple of seconds after flipping the power switch before it actually powers on. My iPhone (and I'd really expect better from Apple!) often takes 5-10 seconds to respond to a press of the Home button.

All over the place, apps and devices get faster and faster, and take longer and longer to actually do what you tell them to do.

</rant>
Other interesting Lavoisier facts:
he used to hang around the imperial gardens with a massive lens using it to burn things inside sealed chambers. This always makes me think of kids with lenses and ants, but the work was key to understanding the nature of oxygen.

his wife was a great scholar too, she diagrammed his work, and translated it and other works (french/german/english).
I have always found it rather hard to believe that Islamists would dedicate their entire lives to eroding your privacy. It always seemed like #1 an extremely egocentric worldview and #2 completely not in fitting with their style.
It would be more valuable to build this functionality into a linter that coders can use as they develop.
>Lambdas make code really easy to read compared to making the reader skip around the code.

You can have lambdas that are also named, e.g:

if(objects.find(function idCheck(object){ return object.id === id})

Not sure if it's possible with the new ES6 syntax [Edit: apparently it's not, although arrow functions will automatically be assigned a name in some common scenarios].
The resource forks of the Macintosh File System date back to 1984, significantly antedating OS/2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_File_System