skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And around cities - Edinburgh has a rather splendid network of cycle paths built on old railways.
> That's a pretty strong, even in terms of your analysis.

You do understand the probability of the strongest hire in 12 separate rolls of the die being female and asian is absurdly small right?

We are talking thousandths of a percentage point here. The odds of that being a "natural" distribution is absurd.

Similarly, I know from one of them that he has engaged in the sort of sexual harassment behavior I'd expect from a guy who hired on a fetish.

> Would you have thought he had a fetish if all of his hires were black men?

If one of them mentioned sexual harassment and he was living in an area where they were a single digit percentage of the population? Yes.
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Same here. I do use adblock, but I had nothing block on (or referenced from) the article's page. Shame, guess I won't be readying Wired anymore.
So your problem is with for profit businesses being involved at any stage in the process?

Suppose a park contracts with a company to provide food, and that company makes a profit; is that bad?

We could also consider workers "making a profit" from their labor, and decree that government workers must make only as much money as the minimum to feed themselves; any more would be "syphoning off profit".

I just don't see how you can make a principled distinction that says publishing margins of 30% are bad, but allows for subcontracting to private companies.
That is false. Reviewing does not cost a cent to publishers, it is entirely the work of the scientific community.
> First, it depletes the pot awaiting actual no-shit real hard-working authors who supply a product people want.

It doesn't just deplete the pot, by driving the per-page price down, it discourages legitimate writers from making their books available via Kindle Unlimited.. which makes the overall program less attractive to customers.

Amazon needs to address this one before it enters the death spiral stage..
It totally is if someone else is paying for the power.
Would that be user-generated data?
I never really liked the the logic that the rest of us can't do a certian thing because there are some other people can't be trusted. Here's a thought, instead of messing with every guy or girl for an innocent joke, just you know, deal with the person who takes it too far?
I pity the fool JNI
If we had a roadmap
So what if there's a "sentiment against OS X"?

I've been using Macs for 30 years, including OS X since the 10.0 beta, and the recent changes have left me with a "sentiment against OS X" not unlike the "sentiment against Mac OS" that we had in the 90s when things went pear shaped.

There were people saying we shouldn't speak ill of System 7.5 back then, too.

OS X isn't a systemically marginalized group, it's a product that people are increasingly unhappy with. You may disagree as to why, or with the trade-offs involved, but we're not ignorant as you think we are; SIP likely isn't mentioned because it's obvious.
That sounds annoying.
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I came in to say this as well. I only this figure apply to restaurants not businesses in general.
Sorry. Not impressed.
My understanding is that this community is oriented toward technology entrepreneurs executing smaller opportunities, so same crowd as HN minus those shooting to build the next Facebook or Uber.

I'm not sure if "small business" is an appropriate word to describe a product/service without geographic boundaries. It is if you're starting a dry-cleaner or restaurant, but I'm not sure that's what this crowd is doing.

Happy barnacling.
> I suspect the community might become more Europe-oriented, because it’s more difficult to get funding here and there are more bootstrapped businesses as a result.

You underestimate the number of bootstrapped businesses here in the US. :)
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Hey, I work on React Native. I'm curious what you meant by setting up the dev environment boilerplate and how we could fix it. Was it the setup described here? http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/android-setup.ht...
I have argued that policies (laws?) with teeth would be better than replacing the staff. Even if the UC would not enforce the policies, it gives rival agencies something to hold over them should they misbehave in the future.
> A startup is just a new business

I've only ever heard of startup used to refer to a new business that hopes to become extremely scalable. In my opinion, starting a burger restaurant isn't a startup, unless you're hoping to be on every streetcorner competing with McDonald's in the next 5-10 years. It's just much easier to scale with a tech/software company.

The 8/10 claim is still baseless any way you define it though. The Forbes article this presentation links to only cites "Bloomberg.com" as the source, not linking to any specific article.
Here you go, Sankey diagram for the Netherlands (for 2013):

http://www.iea.org/sankey/#?c=Netherlands&s=Final consumption

0.5 MTOE geo/solar/tide/wind/bio/waste energy going to residential use
Imagine where you'd be if mathematicians had a similar thought process as yours. They spend entire lifetimes inventing methods and algorithms to solve complex problems.

I think all these problems arise from the way we pretend that information is property. It is not.
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Not quite, because in your examples the producer and consumer are different, whereas researchers are to a large extent the main consumers of the knowledge they (as a whole) produce.
Sure but so far this scam is in fake books,not fake kindles. It's hard to move the needle with fake Kindle client accounts paying $10/mo each.
Someone paid by the publisher needs to look at every paper.

Some journals calculate internal costs of up to $40,000 per paper (see http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie...). You seem to be skeptical of such claims, but simply asserting that the expenses don't exist isn't enough.
It was something of an administrative nightmare in that it was paid for by Holyrood and project managed by the local council. There's an inquiry into the causes of the failure which has also run over budget, absurdly. But I don't think it's entirely dead, there are still noises about extending it into Leith sometime in the next decade.

Meanwhile the Borders railway appears to have opened successfully - and is immediately full at commuting times. I hope they left enough space to double track it.
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Can you elaborate? It seemed like reasonable music from a first listen
Although this is a Lobsters instance, it's not invite-only:

https://barnacl.es/invitations/open

Go forth and sign up in a veil of secrecy!
What was unstable about it and when did you try it? Was it iOS or Android? Curious about the details so we can fix that (I work on React Native).
I wonder whether the cleanliness discipline of Islam (washing before prayers, etc.) has made any difference to public health in Muslim-majority places? Conversely, does the vast yearly Hajj gathering ever have the unintended consequence of spreading epidemics worldwide?
If this was your friends who worked out, would you feel happy for them or scold them for setting a bad example for everyone else?
Accidentally down voted instead of up voting, so I'll just pipe in to say that this is exactly my impression. It's as though they felt like putting an Ajaxy new UI on top of their collapsing backend would make things better, when it really made them worse because it's harder to tell if your request has been sent or the system is lagging out, or what. I was with Namecheap for something like ten years, but now I'm migrating everything away as they start to get close to renewal.
Wasting hours of your time could be another definition.
Even the North Cambridge station would be a great improvement, as Cambridge traffic is badly limited by bridge capacity.
Read "American Holocaust" The Conquest of the New World by David Stannard. You will have a different conception of that period of history. After reading it I was convinced there was an official policy of wiping out the native inhabitants, which was largely successful. The smallpox may have been accidental, but beyond that it was genocide, in both South and North America.
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Market opportunity? =) BSO (Book Size Optimization)
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The only thing stopping you from writing a novel was KU?!
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Isn't this site engaging[0] in brigading and vote-ringing?

[0] https://barnacl.es/s/bwd2dt/please_upvote_the_show_hn_on_bar...
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It seems like it's just kind of randomly playing chords inversions & lines without any real voice leading or melodic sense.
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I made a project in college like this that utilized the Windows API to enumerate the rectangles of the windows and you could create shapes and other things that you can throw around your desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qWXZ0hDv4
don't sweat it, the great state of new jersey is hard at work on the opposite
Analytic tools should record when their readers manually adjust font size, and give a hint to the developers that they need to fix their design.
Big Science is broken
It does if you are claiming it is a full scientific publication.
In terms of operations, the carriages were sold off for a song as 3 theoretically competing rolling stock operating companies (ROSCOs), which the francisees are pretty much obliged to lease from. These remain a license to print money.

The stations were all sold as part of Railtrack, although with a few exceptions they are operated by the train operators.

The initial franchises were largely for 7 years - the 14 year model came later. There was also no involvement from other national operators at this time - North-east and GWR were management buy-outs, although they fairly quickly sold themselves on to bus companies, Bus companies took over most of the rest of the franchises as well, leaving the rest to Sea Containers, Virgin (working 50-50 with... a bus company), and Connex which was basically a French bin lorry company.

National Rail is effectively just the remains of the BR branding, and was passed alongside the Rail Settlement Plan (which is very broadly the ticketing operation) to the Association of Train Operating Companies.

The East Coast line was abandoned twice as being not-profitable within the constraints of making the required premium payments to the government. Nationalization was reasonably successful, and the nationalized company did make premium payments, but they were not as much as National Express would have had to pay to retain the franchise.
Sorry for a double-reply, but I missed this bit before…

> I think at this point there is a political consensus that its been a complete mess and a botched privatisation that either need to be redone or just be re-nationalised, though Conservatives try to not talk about it if they can (they implemented it).

Regardless of whether they're willing to, the non-ministerial Competition and Markets Authority undertook a project to "looks at whether increasing competition in passenger rail services could lead to better value for money and improve service quality"[0]. Nobody is bound to the results, but it seems compatible with what the Conservative policy has been: keep the privately run operators, but have them compete on-track (i.e., both run services) compared with the current status of just having them compete off-track (i.e., bidding for the franchise).

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/passenger-rail-services-competi...
Did the NYT help propagate that moral panic?
are you talking about SPXL ?
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This got me thinking about other ways in which this stuff is a problem. Yesterday I found a podcast that I could only download as an mp3. I loaded it up in safari but there is no way to "save" the file because iOS doesn't give access to the file system. Consequently I couldn't listen to it on my subway ride this morning because i didn't have bandwidth. This is supposed to be a device that I own and that makes my life better, but then why is it standing in my way when I want to do a very simple thing? It's quite frustrating.
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> Most people writing Haskell code for real problems should never write their own instances of Monad.

Does using Free count? ;)
> Religion (like philosophy and superstition) is probably just the precursor to Science

Or the universe was created and science is a way to explore the Creator by observing Creation.

Science was invented so that people could reach consensus about reality through dispassionate and rational procedures. These procedures are absolutely underpinned by induction (observable and reproducible results). Things that are not observable (spirits) or not reproducible (miracles) are logically outside the domain of scientific exploration.

To assume there is no supernatural because we've observed no supernatural phenomenon in the natural world is begging the question. In other words, to insist on the metaphysical claim that 'this reality is it', leaning only on Science, is to attempt to prove a negative.

So, I very much disagree with the description of 'Science' as a rational progression from metaphysical belief systems.

Anyway, all of that is a philosophical discourse, so I also disagree that philosophy is a 'precursor' to 'Science'. Early scientific inquiry was described as 'natural philosophy', after all.
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Another terrible catastrophe was the colonisation of India, resulting ultimately in it's economic destruction, massive famines of millions of people etc. In fact a great catastrophe the western colonisation of the rest of the world starting from about 1497 in general. It was extraordinarily brutal throughout the world. For an excellent overview of this history of European colonisation of the world see Noam Chomsky's book "Year 501, The Conquest Continues". It's available online.

But the black death was obviously a major global catastrophe. In fact Europe was for centuries a most brutal place with disease, warfare, and oppression.
Anyone interested in algorithmic jazz should check out Al Biles:

http://igm.rit.edu/~jabics/
Louis XIV died from a gangrene caused by a combination of gout and syphilis. Not from smallpox.
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Great for you. I personally care a lot more about sharing something with my family or friends. I probably wouldn't go anywhere if I couldn't share it with someone.
Very cool. I have been lurking to find a dedicated YC News-like Bootstrapper site for a while.
Just found out today, after a week of tests and six weeks of feeling gradually worse. I'll try to answer your questions. I'm on my phone.
Interesting! So every time someone buys an electric car, the government builds a new charging spot? That sounds like a great way to incentivize EVs, even more than a straight cash refund like in the US.
Motion detectors have a variety of usage, outdoor lighting, indoor room lighting, grocery store fridge lighting, etc. FIND is a bit more specialized because of the huge drawback of requiring each user to carry a specific device.

I can't use it at my work because we don't all have Android. I can't use it at home because my wife uses in iPhone. Cool idea but limited use compared to motion detectors.
I would guess the high megabyte charge is there to encourage authors to keep their file sizes down, and the reason for this is presumably because Amazon have to pay for book downloads run through their 'Whispernet' (3G) Kindle service.
Symbian and PocketPC are much older than Android.
"Approximately 100 pharmacies across the country were using that same account number. All of them were predominantly shipping the same three drugs: Fioricet, Ultram, and Soma"

Your article says the Russian sites mostly sold ED pills, which makes more sense to me, but it seems like Le Roux wasn't in that racket.

Maybe I'm just not up to speed on prescription meds, but I would've guessed people would go for recognized things like Vicodin etc. over random muscle relaxers
I like how in the closing paragraph the author says he will continue to be the douche with his camera out all the time, which is the real problem he outlines in the article, not the existence of Instagram. But that he sincerely hopes that others will be more responsible. This borders on shoe-gazing hipster parody.
Facebook started with a small highly localized target demographic.
https://barnacl.es/s/bwd2dt/please_upvote_the_show_hn_on_bar...

:( C'mon, aside from being uncool, doing this is likely to get the post automatically removed from the front page.
I may be wrong, but I think the point of this post is to show that all of these projects are losing a degree of portability by making the assumption that the `git` binary lives in `/usr/bin` on its target platform. There are many *nixes (like most BSDs, afaik) for which this assumption is incorrect.

EDIT: If that’s actually the goal here, though, I think this example doesn’t really make a solid argument. A ton of these results are from people’s personal dotfiles or from projects that have separate files for platforms that don’t keep `git` in `/usr/bin`.
It's the impact of mobile.
You are saying that DUI is not a meaningful danger?
> Meanwhile the Borders railway appears to have opened successfully - and is immediately full at commuting times. I hope they left enough space to double track it.

Not for all of it was — there's certainly provision in places, but there's also parts where doubling would be incredibly expensive (the viaducts especially, where the maximum dimensions of the trains it has been built for are larger than it was originally built for, are inherently single-track now).
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Attempting to precisely define and codify what characterises a 'religion' is neither useful nor a well-defined goal. I think it would be entirely reasonable to, under the law, accept that if someone claims something is their religion then it is. It doesn't matter if they invented it, if they are the only one who believes it, nor if it is obviously satire; treat them all the same because anything else must necessarily be some convoluted and fundamentally broken criteria.

Beyond that, the problem is that religions aren't just social constructs: they are granted special privileges under the laws of most countries. So the end result of this should be erosion and eventual dissolution of those privileges (though retaining the principle of freedom of religion and the designation of religion as a protected class against discrimination).
Even easier (or as a first step), Amazon could count the pages that were actually displayed, not the ones that were skipped past. I'm pretty surprised they're not doing that already since it would be a good way to account for books of short stories where a reader might skip over some stories naturally.
Trying to paint a critique of Instagram's effects on tourism as a lame re-hash of an old idea seems a bit off.

Sure, it might be the same complaint, but if the severity is 100x worse it holds more weight. And if Instagram is the main vehicle for this behavior, then it is a fair target of criticism.

For another example of the effects of smartphone-enabled-social-media, check out some youtube crowd shots from concerts before 2000 and ones from today. Obvious is emergence of masses of people looking through phones and holding up phones; a bit less obvious and a bit more worrisome is that folks seem generally less excited to be there.
> but the rail itself kept in a weird thing called National Rail

It's called "Network Rail", "National Rail" is the organisation that provides a joined up timetabling and ticketing system for all of the train operating companies (e.g. Virgin, GWR, ScotRail etc).

Network Rail operates and maintains the physical infrastructure upon which the trains run e.g. track, signalling, special trains (such as de-icers, permanent way test trains, leaves-on-the-line cleaning trains).

edit: prior to Network Rail there was RailTrack which went bust after the fallout from the Hatfield rail crash.
ideally the throughput of highway would be increasing with self-driving vehicles: no need for start/stopping when they can drive at optimum total velocity.
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R's "shiny" is a counterpoint. Obviously something that takes a week to run isn't going on the web. But a complex model and visualization that can be incrementally updated quickly and in real time? That would be cool.
Debian's system does not require developers to maintain older versions, only to clearly indicate security fixes. Debian patches its own older versions to include the security fixes.
My grasp of European matters is extremely good, though thank you for the insult. You offer no rebuttal beyond ad hominem.

By saying I arrived in the UK in 2001 I wanted to distance myself from the partisan nature of UK debate. That of Labour versus Tory.

You then underscore this partisan straightjacket by mentioning Jeremy Corbyn.
The Android team is politically against anything but Java.

I bet if they weren't forced by game developers to add the NDK on Android 2.2, the NDK wouldn't exist at all.

Even today, Android Studio barely offers a comparable C++ experience to what xCode and Visual Studio do and Gradle support for NDK is still work-in-progress that doesn't support all ndk-build features.
It learned from Pat Metheny.
Interesting, but probably not enough differentiation to fork the community, really.

Nonetheless, I've signed up (https://barnacl.es/u/sjs) and added it to my personal aggregator. Good luck!
Wow! That's some incredible gross incompetence on part of the people at Amazon who designed this system, and those who QA'd it.
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Though Susan Sontag has already been mentioned, I'll also throw out that Ayn Rand, a female philosopher of arguably lesser validity, was also not very fond of photographs [1]. At least, with respect to its status as works of 'art'.

> A certain type of confusion about the relationship between scientific discoveries and art, leads to a frequently asked question: Is photography an art? The answer is: No. It is a technical, not a creative, skill. Art requires a selective re-creation. A camera cannot perform the basic task of painting: a visual conceptualization, i.e., the creation of a concrete in terms of abstract essentials. The selection of camera angles, lighting or lenses is merely a selection of the means to reproduce various aspects of the given, i.e., of an existing concrete. There is an artistic element in some photographs, which is the result of such selectivity as the photographer can exercise, and some of them can be very beautiful—but the same artistic element (purposeful selectivity) is present in many utilitarian products: in the better kinds of furniture, dress design, automobiles, packaging, etc. The commercial art work in ads (or posters or postage stamps) is frequently done by real artists and has greater esthetic value than many paintings, but utilitarian objects cannot be classified as works of art.

[1] http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/photography.html
{Shrug} Jokes+microphone doesn't make it standup. The content was closer to a roast than traditional standup. Especially given the satirical style, I wouldn't consider this to really be standup. But I also don't really care. I was just providing a reference to the specific event. Call it standup if you want.
Ask HN: Feedback on GitHub badge idea?
The idea is described here: https://medium.com/@dengorbachev/github-badge-idea-how-many-users-12effadb9591

Do you think it's worth implementing?