skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all sounds very complicated. A driver has to say they expect maybe some extra money, which then users can filter on with some vague cultural acceptance of the amount to add...

Isn't the simplest "free market" solution to allow drivers to set their own prices? Just give me a price, not a price + "and then maybe some more".
How many copies of Windows have you paid for but never used?

I have been running Linux on my personal machines since the early '90s. I try not to think about it.
WOW, it was disturbing even to read.

"i'm checking up on you every so often"
"don't write that down"
"you're lost in your own little world up here"
You'll find this relatable, then

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq6/visual_mental_imagery_training/
There is no incentive for separate SaaS companies to use a shared source of data.
Each system will have data for it's own needs and will manage that data as it see's fit.

The best you could do is to have a web page for the customer that shows all of the details from each app in the same place, using API's from each SaaS platform to fetch the user data from each.

If you take an example of an email address, it seems like you could just synchronise it across various systems but that ignores the different purposes that each email address might have. For example, you might have a legitimate reason to separate emails from financial apps from social networks, and games.
Fsn: an experimental application to view a file system in 3D
If your website breaks without Javascript, then it's the website's fault for not properly implementing progressive enhancement. Javascript is useful to enhance the page with better features, but the page itself should work without it.

If you tools/framework make this hard or generate output that incompatible with progressive enhancement, then I suggest you find (or write) better tools.
Schools in the developed world are doing massive notebook-sized buildout. Power consumption is the driving force in data-center buildouts. The big data center buyers have a major incentive to make sure they have more than one supplier.
Thanks for the response and article. I can only imagine how difficult that would be.

I'm not sure if you've heard of it, but there is a memorization technique called "Art of Memory" you can read about here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_memory. I think you'll find it particularly interesting since it explains how to process/form mental images in a very thorough & systematic way. It's all about enhancing memory by thinking about information in a visually, and contains examples of how to visualize different types of information.
Thredded: a New Forums Engine (Ruby on Rails)
Normal vision is your display, "mind's eye" is offscreen rendering/renderbuffer(s). Length, resolution, color depth, scene complexity varies by person. Not a part of your normal vision, just a readable/writable visual information in your brain. Can be overlaid into real world with some effort sometimes.

This topic is fascinating, what else some people have that others don't.
Boring C++ is often faster than boring Java code. It's safer to write hacky Java, but code reviews should not let hacky code in.

C++ costs more, but that's often a non issue for a trading floor. Security is much simpler in the Java world, but also possible in boring C++ code.

Making small changes is really more a question of your code than anything else IMO. There is a lot of crazy C++ and Java code out there.

Now for basic CRUD apps Java is a clear win. For high preformance trading that's an open issue. But, IMO there are much better languages to use.
My priority would be acquiring and amassing power through politics. Why? Right now, I don't worry too much about the politicians who screw things up because a few more years, I'm gone.

However, for hundreds of years... Living under the capricious whims of often thoughtless people? It'll be torture.
Are the people taking advantage of these arrangements non-people?
> By eating Linux's lunch I meant how good, reliable and capable the zones and lx-branded zones technology is.

Could you then use idioms in their proper meaning, please? Because I only
protested against claim that zones have taken a market share of Linux
containers, which is very untrue, and at the same time not the claim you have
made.

> As for those people, they had to learn Linux too; they can go back to the roots and learn a real UNIX the correct way now, and be glad that they have the opportunity to do so.

So, zones provide better platform because people can go back and learn
Solaris? Or what?

Zones need to provide something tangible over containers for people to invest
in learning different platform. Having just another tool, which merely does
what one already can do with containers, only slightly slicker, but severly
limited in applicability because parent platform is not familiar to all the
colleagues, doesn't look like a good trade.

And note that we were only talking about familiarity. There are still other
reasons, like little developers working on a given Solaris derivative, which
doesn't give much confidence that any bugs that occur would be fixed, or
a concern that the supported hardware list will be long enough.
Launching an App: 2 Basic but Baffling Steps
>were highly immoral

Your profile says you blog about porn. Personally, I'm a consumer and have no issue. But you have a lot of nerve lecturing people about immorality. That isn't the most "above board" industry, and it may have even harmed a person or three.

>but that people are ready to accept anything with a good PR.

Yeah, nobody "gets it" but you...
A program that segfaults at the wrong moment can ruin your day. It is a tradeoff. It boils down that bad memory handling produces bad results. In C++ these are memory leaks or dereferencing invalid pointers, in GC languages, you pay with performance impacts. And, very occasionally one technology is completely unsuited for a given task. But that should not lead to such blanket statements.
First digital computer by country (with sources)
There's also Graham Harman's take on Lovecraft as the patron saint of his object-oriented ontology, in Weird Realism.
Doesn't this depend on how big you make the drops?
> “Well why not get involved in open-source”, I can only say back “I’d love to, but with timezone differences, strong personalities and incredibly low self-esteem I don’t feel like I’d really be welcome there.”

When it comes to many open-source projects, you've got people from all over the world participating, so time-zone isn't an issue. And most of us have strong personalities, yet low self-esteem and suffer from the impostor syndrome. That's the curse of being a human being. Some communities are more toxic than others. In some communities you've got jerks allowed to do whatever they want, like conducting personal attacks on other people. But most communities I interacted with are very friendly and civilized, most of them have a Code of Conduct as well. So if you had a bad experience, just remember that there are other communities out there far more welcoming.

As for steps of getting started, pick a project you could see yourself contributing to, find the communication channels (mailing lists, IRC, Gitter, Slack) and start asking questions and answering the questions of beginners, which is a painless way to start getting involved and meeting people. Sooner or later you'll find yourself submitting PRs on Github and saving money to participate at conferences only to meet your peers face to face.
On the flip side, things like this[1] play out in severely rural areas. It always annoys me when people in rural areas paint a picture of how much "better" it is to be living there.

[1]: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/when-a-woman-is-raped...
I actually made a movie based upon the Jack Chick "Dark Dungeons" comic and tried my hardest to make a faithful to the spirit adaption. I think the results speak for themsevles; www.darkdungeonsthemovie.com
Laravel Generator – Get Your APIs and Admin Panel Ready in Minutes
Terrible headline; machines are already great at "lying"; recent progress in poker, for example.
Vim/LaTeX is way faster though. And there's no way to make that in any clean way with the web.
Blocking Ad-Blockers May Be Illegal in the EU Thanks to the Cookie Law
The last sentence is the best part of the article.
"When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, 'My God, that’s terrible. Having to KILL someone would distort the President’s judgment. He might never push the button.'"

From their response, killing through a button isn't killing.
Tangentially - if there's no tax rate competition which seems to be the desired goal of many, there's nothing to stop politicians continuing to bribe their electorate with bread and circuses paid for by that electorate's money. The gigantic debt mountains in the US and the EU demonstrate the degree to which they do that. And when it's all over, out of office, out of responsibility! Companies have of course to keep prudent accounts or go out of business.
Great article, its amazing how back in the days so many aristocrats and rich people were actually conquering the world, breaking the limits and sponsoring life saving experiments.

It was much different than we have today - get as much money, give %% of them to charity, hands clean.
Evolving Neural Networks for a Flatland Agent
Right, don't ever read anything you might disagree with.
Bill Gates reminds me a lot of John D. Rockefeller. He had earned $260 billion (adjusted for inflation) through standard oil and is said to be a ruthless business man. However, in the second half of his life, he turned to philanthropy and created a contrastingly positive image in the public's eye. I'm not sure the depth of their similarities but this is what it seems like to me on a surface level.
'Eugene Kim' should be Yoo-Jin Kim aka SoS.
I'm guessing a lot of people who are stuck on Python 2.6 are also stuck on old versions of pip.
Pro tip: don't get sick!
I don't think we can say they are "great" at lying. Complexe instant and continuous lying is far from great and that's why computers are very far from crushing human at games like sc2
The NASDAQ market, which AMD is in, and the NYSE require that the price of its stocks are traded at or over $1 to avoid delisting.
Well Java can crash and slow down due to GC pauses. But at least you get a nice stack trace.
Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods
With that kind of growing season, what do you eat through the winter?

Do you keep a giant pantry full of pickled vegetables? Is it meat and bread only?
I always suspected my internal experience was atypical, but for a long time I just chalked it up to differences in how people talk about it. I realized I was aphantasic by going to a Tibetan buddhist meditation class. It's all about visualization and a few sessions in, I was like, "Wait, do you really see these things in your mind's eye?!" The teacher/monk suggested I try visualizing a stop sign or a white square. Nothing. I sit Vipassana now.
This is fascinating. I have to test every single person in my life. I know my wife already has synesthesia so I'd assume she also can conjure up images at will, but who knows. I've heard of people who have no inner monologue, but never people who have no mind's eye! I wonder how common it really is? Thanks for this article.
Algorithm creates swath of patents: DDoS'ing US patent system
>It actually paid my bills 7 years ago (wasting half of the money before reaching me, BTW)

Maybe you should have taken the moral high ground and declined the money, rather than taking it, criticizing how much was "wasted", then bad-mouthing it on a public forum.

Talk about a sense of entitlement.
I reason about jumps like this in terms of two components. A 'real' component and an 'emotional' component. When a stock moves it moves R% + E%, for real and emotional. The real component in this case seems to be the 200MM+ deal they struck that. R and E are of course unknown, the big investors make their money calculating these values as best they can.

Calculating R is hard to do precisely for an amateur (such as me), but E has a nice predictable effect. E mostly consists of the uncertainty of the big investors, and the opportunism of the speculative traders.

I mostly do reactive investments based on stock that has just moved in some significant way that companies that I have a lot of fundamental knowledge in (mostly IT industry companies).

The way it works is I make a bet on whether the cause for the stock move has any fundamental effect on the future of the company. If I feel I can make that bet more accurately than guys reading the news sitting in cubicles analyzing graphs and industry summaries then I assume I can make a ~5%+ profit on a trade (with a chance of a similar loss of course).

For example: The launch of the Kindle Fire by Amazon was a complete flop. This was widely anticipated, I felt very confident in that it would flop. The AMZN stock dropped as people lost confidence (E) in the Fire and I bought when I felt it was pretty much solid that everyone agreed that the Fire had flopped. Unfortunately I was naieve, and a few weeks later Amazon released its earnings report that undeniably confirmed the flop, and E was eliminated, and R adjusted causing another drop. At this point I was in the negative, so there was a lesson for me there. Anyway, my bet was that the Fire was just some largely irrelevant side strategy for Amazon. Sure they invested too much, and their chance for rivalling Apples iPad or whatever insane plan they had was ill conceived, but it was just something they had to try. The big plan of Amazon however did not suffer from this failure. They were still on track to becoming the force of nature they want to be so the lack of confidence (negative E) of the daytraders was in my opinion unjustified. A few months later this showed, the dip of the Fire was gone, and if I sold then I would've made a cool ~10%.

I didn't sell though as I thought Amazon was a cool company to hold stock in for the long term, so the bet was just a gimmick to get some long term stock for cheap. I ended up making a lot more money on AMZN than I expected as for some reason the fact that Amazon makes a lot of money on AWS was big news to the financial world and slapped a big markup on the stock after which I sold, because I don't pretend to actually know what an Amazon stock should really be worth.
You could call Java a very versatile language :)
This sounds like simulating arena allocation in Java by disabling GC temporarily. Except it's worse than arena allocator, because it's still mixed up in a general heap and costs more at collection. Not sure I buy the argument that this is cheaper than C++. After all, in C++ you could just drop the whole arena instead, so you get cheap alloc + super-cheap free.
The correct one is whichever works best at the time. In English it is, or use to be, common to use different registers for different occasions.
> Now I want to use Emacs

Whoa, whoa, let's not go that far.
If someone wants to try it out, a modern version is available here: https://github.com/keymon/psdoom-ng.

I made a PKGBUILD of it for ArchLinux some time ago. You'll need freedoom or something else to have the game datas (yaourt -S psdoom-ng freedoom1; psdoom -iwad /usr/share/games/doom/freedm.wad).
Serious iOS/OS X image rendering bug could cause chaos
>> big engineering effort or a couple '10x developers' - pretty impressive

Or, being Mozilla engineer for quite some time he had enough domain knowledge to do that.

Or he found a clever way to reuse good parts of Mozilla code with just enough changes to avoid copyright infringement lawsuit.
And don't forget the Channel Islands and Isle of Mann. Lots of sorta-British tax havens there.
> I can tell you that when I am falling asleep there is a 'switch' that turns on in my brain and all of a sudden whatever I'm thinking about will appear before me in full detail, color, texture as if I were viewing an image of it.

Whoa, cool. Like the author, I rarely remember any dreams (last night, total blank) and they are never visual.
As I only have used Modula-2 and Go, what are the features of Modula-3 missing in Go?
What's the progress? Last time I checked, they were able to play slightly modified abc (i.e. take opponent's range into account) and have negligible winrate at micro to small stakes before rakeback.
I'm not sure if you are counting Houellebecq among academics, but he has a agricultural engineering degree and worked in IT for more than a decade before becoming a full-time writer.
It's not crazy. English speakers tend to use "they" when they need a gender-neutral option. This just sounds like some edgy teenager... ooh look at me, I'm using some invented new pronouns because of the injustices I've never actually faced myself.
Smart mirroring just got smarter with Git LFS support
Your point is definitely correct. And the post I linked uses data worldwide not just in the bay.

In fact even in my city (Cincinnti, OH) there are more Java developers than any other language, but they are mostly in corporate jobs.

So here still there are less Java developers working in startups compared to other languages.
"WASM

5.1 has a preliminary support for WASM. You can enable it via the flag --expose_wasm in d8. Alternatively you can try out the WASM demos with Chrome 51 (Beta Channel)."

The future is coming fast.
This is a too simple analogy. Some exchanges wont list a stock if it's under $1. Some brokers wont let you short under $5. If grocery stores took no bill smaller than $1 , would you really want to cash your $10 bill into pennies?
Very interesting, provide a newsletter allow me to get informed once it's ready :)
Personally, as someone who certainly tips in restaurants and some other situations but doesn't go overboard--even though I travel a lot, I'm never sure what to do in so many of these gray areas given that I don't want to universally just my wallet.

For example, I take a limo service that's pretty cut and dried. Pick me up, drop me off. There's a tip field when I sign the receipt. I don't add anything and I've never gotten a dirty look or a suggestion that I might have "missed something." I assume I'm not being horribly cheap.
Yeah, I bought some AMD stock when I thought it was undervalued at like $8. It just proceeded to fall a few bucks over the next year or two.

It is cheap enough now to buy a few dozen shares and get an easy return if it rises, without hurting too much if it falls again. And it's not like AMD is going out of business anytime soon. Certainly the value of their IP and assets would justify a floor in the stock price.
Missed that feature. Thanks!
I think so too. I think a lot of people in the US may believe in God but feel conflicted by the association with Christianity here. Certainly I would. Gay marriage is a really good example of something I support, but if I was in a church part of my tithe would probably go toward challenging it in court.
I get 30/40. I have very good visualisation of places and landscapes but have poor visualisation of people's face (especially relatives, it's much easier to recall the face of celebrities or people that are unknown to me or to recall imaginary people from books).

I'm also good at visualizing writing. When I was a student, during tests, I would see in my mind's eyes the place on my notes or in the book related to the question.

To go to sleep, I quickly imagine a lot of beautiful landscapes repeatedly, spending maybe a few seconds in each landscapes.

When I remember a book, I usually remember how I pictured the scenes of the book. Even 12 years after reading the dune books, I can remember the gom-jabbar pressing on Paul's neck, I can remember Alia's tapping her finger with the same rhythm as the baron Harkonnen. I can remember Siona running from the wolves.
It's definitely more natural. You'll never hear any significant number of English speakers saying bullshit like "ve, vis".
We've put one together very quickly using the data visualization widgets from Keen (https://keen.io).

Another option is the awesome Static Board app made by Panic (http://panic.com/statusboard/). Note that you'll need an iPad to project it.
This is really quite interesting. I realise now that whilst I can visualise things, it's incredibly difficult for me. Trying to visualise a beach, for me, is seeing a flash of blue, then a flash of yellow, then they're next to each other, and that's about as far as I can get. The sky is black.
Just a small tip if you think mtgx is right and want to bet on the Zen making it big to wait a few days until the stock settles from the jump its just made. There's sort of a springy-ness that follows a big jump as speculators and long term investors sort out the value of the stock with this new info, and usually that means the stock will drop a few % below the peak over the few days after it.

This is just for if you want to isolate your bet on the Zen from the jump in stock that it's just made (assuming that was not Zen related). Not a prediction that it will actually go down. (If you bought now, and it would go up the coming few days you might feel like you made a good decision, but it was actually due to effects that were outside your expectations, so basically luck which is something I feel should be as small as a factor in your investments as possible)
Considering that currently "tax rate competition" exists, and as you point out the US and EU have "gigantic debt mountains" anyway, the argument that such competition is important to keep states from accumulating too much debt seems to be defeated by your own claims.
No, Interleukine 1 causes depression-like symptoms in normal mice (they give up sooner), but not in mice KO for the IL-1 receptor in the blood-brain barrier.
It's as if you are describing the differences between Java and Scheme :)
More interesting question - why sing in English?

There is a huge number of bands around the world who end up singing in English, as if they never considered using their native tongue.
And it's not that they have anything unique to say in English!
You could make something that stands out but you end up sounding like a clone of clones.

This puzzles me to no end.
That makes no sense. The EU countries with higher tax levels are constantly pushing to reign in the EU "tax havens", whereas outside the EU, the UK will be free to use even lower tax rates and more tax breaks as a means of retaining and attracting international business, and may need to, in order to prevent an exodus from the City etc.
I think my visual imagination is quite detailed (I am a graphic designer) but I assume my aural imagination is pretty average. I can usually only imagine very basic melodies. However on many occasions, in the half sleep before waking, I have been able to aurally imagine multi layered music at a very detailed level, and it somewhat carries over for a few minutes after fully waking. I wish there was a way to tap into this during the day.
Thanks for the link. I didn't know about Orinoco, and I'm excited about WASM.

...and performance improvements are always good!
Great piece! It's a nice reminder that the real world was a lot more fantastic and steampunk-like than a conventional presentation of history would lead one to believe.
You can have a different political opinion without being hyperbolic and going all "wake up sheeple!".
How can one even say then that a spelling a punctuation is wrong in English if there is no authoritative ressource with which one can answer the question?
Interesting application of trauma/grief/persecution literary analysis to a leading European figure of the Western canon, as opposed to its more familiar role in literature of groups oppressed by Europeans.