skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying that only two participants in a space does not typically yield the benefits of true competition.

The stronger may use competitive pricing in the short term to weaken the other, driving it to withdraw from the market or be acquired, but this hardly provides long-term benefits to the consumer like true competition would.

For example, note the Office Depot / Officemax / Staples relationship. Though competitors, they never really did compete on price on everyday products (and in fact often charged the exact same price for common items -- a price much higher than, say, mail- and internet-order sources such as Amazon), hence the ability to advertise local price-matching without genuine risk to profit.

The result? Three became two, and two are becoming one, resulting in no competition between them at all. The Uber / Sidecar / Lyft relationship is tracking very similarly.

Can you name any retail space with only two players of significance that has not ended up having the same effect on consumers as a cartel? I honestly can't think of one.

The Cellular One (now AT&T) / GTE Mobilnet (now Verizon) relationship is another example of this behavior. Prices of entry and of usage stayed high until additional, independent competing networks (e.g. T-Mobile, Sprint/WiMax) entered the space.
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If you watch the video, one big win for Jighere was to play QUIZ (93) on a triple word score field. This was right after a round where he did play 8 letters, which, according to the short word strategy, he should not have done.

So while he did manage this well, there was also good bit of luck involved. Or maybe it's good to have a strategy, but sometimes you need to ignore it.
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A few more infos:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-...
You'd use this if you ran your environments as immutable hosts: you can't add users' public keys to the hosts when they change/join the team, so you let the log into the bastion (which presumably does get updated with new public keys) & let it create the certificate to connect to the target host (and also immediately use it & proxy your connection to it).

I think you could compromise on immutability for the SSH CA key file, or else every time you rolled keys you'd have to reprovision your environments.
You still only get 2 colors (bg & fg), but you get to chose for each of the 4 sub-pixel, it's a bit like DXTC texture compression
FreeCharge from WhatsApp
So freecharge now allows u to send or request money from WhatsApp chat. There is a disclaimer that this has nothing to do with WhatsApp brand. Tried the feature out and my fear came true. They wanted explicit permission for accessibility to be given to Freecharge.

Based on which they'll now listen to ​
certain keywords​ u type in WhatsApp and a dialogue appears from Freecharge.

Not sure if I should be excited about the new feature or worried about privacy / potential malware threats.
Let's simply take what Netflix recommends: 3 megabit / second for HD video, that means 32GB for 24 hours. Not too bad given you can get a 32GB microSD for below $10.
Oh wow, when i think about that you are right. But i wasnt aware of it. ( why i hung up so quickly) heh.
Might battery the more limited resource when it comes to body cameras? After all, given that these are mounted on someone who has a job to do, they have to be pretty small/light and batteries for always-on devices that last that long tend to be pretty big.
turnOffEngine();

The engine turned off can be used very effectively as a brake.
What country are you in? What industry? This does not sound like an American experience...
No, use npm. Thats the hot sauce now :)
One small thing really stood out for me. I live in the Northern US where its cold 4-5 months out of the year. Sometimes 10-20 below zero Farenheit. I have never, ever seen gloves nested inside gloves. Maybe its a Swedish thing but I can only imagine how cold it must get there.

If they're building a new city I hope they learn from the Canadians and connect the buildings with underground passageways.
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I see you magically added the "maintain the same income level" gem to try to move your goalpost.

But even considering your goalpost-moving argument, why do you assume that preserving a high income level is a priority over not neglecting your children?

If you and people like you constantly prioritize maximizing your personal income level over not neglecting your own children, it is rather obvious that you will end up neglecting your children to pursuit a larger paycheck.

But that doesn't mean your job demands it. It's you that is demanding it. You neglect your children because you opt to pursuit a higher paycheck.

But that doesn't mean anyone is forced to neglect their children just to keep a well-paying job. That's only your own personal choice, and you don't justify your personal life choices by throwing blanket accusations and baseless assumptions like you've been doing in this thread.
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Ask HN: Wrong to use another group's name?
There's a crypto-currency I dont want to name explicitly. Let's call them ZenCoin. I want to use that name for an arcade game site that uses ZenCoins as tokens. The crypto-currency appears to be in progress, however its Twitter hasn't updated in over 2 years, and its Facebook only has 50 likes. Also, they're based in a foreign country, and I'm in the US. There is no trademark on ZenCoin.

So, is it OK for me to use this name? I might piss the crypto people off. Maybe they'll ddos my site or send me threats. And maybe people will confuse my site for another bitcoin.

But I really like ZenCoin. It's a cool name.
Personally I never really liked bonsai as it reminds me of a sort of disability. Tbh, I would be much more impressed with a bonsai at least the size of a man. Not that I'd ever own one. I prefer plants au natural, especially flowering or the edible type.

This is just another perfect example of making oneself happy using ones hands, similar to many things the japanese are known for. My favorite example personally is Scott A. Roush, a true artist:
http://www.bigrockforge.com/
Try taking a cab in Düsseldorf, there they don't have the slider and type down the CC number with a pen. Payment takes a couple minutes..

They also complain about you paying with CC, even after they had introduced a credit card surcharge last time I was there
Near the bottom of the "Data Only" page:

> We’re working hard to add support for GSM devices. Enter your email and you’ll be the first to know when we're ready!

So it looks like they're trying to support GSM, which probably involves deals with large GSM carriers, I would guess, since Sprint only uses CDMA.
Yes, I know that's the US concept. Around here the view is a little less binary, as the law recognizes a difference between being seen (or even being filmed occasionally, by an handheld camera) and surveillance cameras, which can be used to track your movements.

The hotel could still have them, mind you, but transmitting them in the clear would be a clear violation of the law, which in fact specifically cites the "transmission of the recordings over a network" as something that must be secured.
Unfortunately, it's quite true for Ocaml, which is mildly annoying.
>Chen said it's just "an interesting kind of psychological fact of human behaviour." He stressed the company is not going to act on the information to set fares.

...but battery optimization of the Uber app is now a lower priority, amirite?

takeaway: giving your battery status information to apps that do not explicitly need it for core functionality is a bad idea.
And God responded "Shush, I'm speaking with Steve Jobs and have no time for mortal affairs."
Great article! I wouldn't mind if you were even more opinionated. If I was looking for a charting library I'd very much like to know what you consider really good and what stinks. Especially with this much research.
I've interviewed many "failed' entrepreneurs for jobs, and having started any kind of venture or project is almost always a benefit.

My guess is you are jumping to negative conclusions about yourself based on incorrect assumptions about how hiring works. How many jobs have you applied to? How relevant are they to your qualifications? Rejection rates for jobs are very high, and it's common to be rejected for multiple positions.

You might also want to look at other factors such as your interview style, perceived ability to focus, fit with a company's culture, and other factors that also highly influence hiring decisions.

And finally, instead of thinking about, "What doesn't anyone want me," why not think about, "Who would want me and why?"
And while talk only allowed for 2 people to communicate, ytalk allowed multiple people to talk at the same time.
Could you tell the driver a GPS address?
because not millions of 13 year olds will read them
Does Xi have full control of China? Does he have the power to do things like, give cities away to foreign nations? Is his term unlimited? Is it inherited?

In the U.S., you've had Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and strong chance of Clinton and Bush again next term. It's a Republic in name, but it is also where a political system where political power is often inherited, arguable even more so than in China. If U.S. qualifies as a republic, I'd say China does too. We might know Xi was going to be president before the election was going to happen, but that happens in Westminster parliaments too - we are only electing our local representative, but everyone knows there are only two candidates. Same is true for China, where it was Xi and Bo Xilai. The latter lost.
Seems to be the same author, but an earlier book?
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Very strongly disagree that understanding statistics is a prerequisite to learning R. There is a lot you can do with R with understanding statistics.

I also dislike the claim that R is not a real programming language. It is. Just because it makes different choices to other popular languages doesn't make it a toy.
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And on a log scale you probably want to set the minimum value to 1 since the log of zero is negative infinity (I suspect that's the root cause of your ggvis problem)
One of the advantages of all wooden buildings (as usually used in New Zealand) is that they are relatively easily moved. It's not uncommon to see trucks moving houses at night, or to see them jacked up ready to go. There wasn't much to a 1900 Villa here - wooden framing, weather boards and a tin roof.
Here is a nice one. To put the cost in perspective, the floor alone would cost at least half that to do now. http://www.houseremoval.co.nz/buildings-for-sale/yeoman_vill...
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I thought that HN loved the "price for vague, not for cost" mantra. That's what they're doing when they charge you more on low battery.
It wouldn't seem like any kind of hacking went on if some of the communications were actually un-encrypted (reading plain-text is not the same as decrypting something with a weak-key)? The article makes it sound like something you can check just by grabbing packets via. wire-shark. Some details are missing here...
You're also about 20-30 years behind if you're considering an East-West dichotomy. If you want to create a (Manichean) divide, consider Global North vs Global South.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_divide
I love Amnesiac, but the omission of the jazz intro on "Life In A Glass House" was a crime IMO. The extended version is beautiful.
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Applied to more than 200 I guess and I believe most of them are relevant to my qualifications. I have worked for a company for straight 4 years so that kind of proves my ability to focus.

One thing that could matter that I am looking for a remote job from a third world country while even most of the remote companies say they hire candidates from everywhere but it seems their primary choice is US and Canada or Europe. You can read my story here,
https://medium.com/@msuworld/desperately-seeking-a-remote-jo...
I will spare everyone the click bait: he argues that since the programs were approved by random parts of the government, and not just the product of NSA running on its own, that everything was legal and he had no reason to doubt anything.
Thanks a lot for your comments, here are the details https://medium.com/@msuworld/desperately-seeking-a-remote-jo...
rigth. maybe in the 90s. now its mostly dictated by apple and google.
I am based in Bangladesh but I am looking for a remote job in SaaS startup preferably.

You can find more details about my experience here,

https://medium.com/@msuworld/desperately-seeking-a-remote-jo...
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More counterintuitive Scrabble facts: the French Scrabble world champion is from New Zealand and doesn't speak French.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/...
Wikipedia's "Cultural Definition":

"From a cultural and sociological approach the Western world is defined as including all cultures that are directly derived from and influenced by European cultures, i.e. Europe (at least the European Union member states, EFTA countries, European microstates);[31][32] in the Americas (e.g. Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela), and in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand). Together these countries constitute Western society."

I don't think I've ever heard any definition include any African country.
Are all data plans in the US so expensive? I live in Poland and I pay around $12/month for unlimited LTE (32Mbps down, 20 Mbps up in my area). $13 per month seems absurd.
Was talking about presentation not content.

for anyone outside the san francisco bubble (ie not using Chrome on a last model mac) this article only shows mojibake.

if you want to talk about broken rendering, always take screen shot.
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Have you considered that maybe because you've put so much thought into this you have disdain for people who haven't? I can tell from your first post. Your first thought is to blame those nasty people who dare using they phone on low battery.
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I have completed my profile and enlisted several gigs that I can do in 5 dollars, but how do I market myself? Should I knock individual clients from outside to go to fiverr to hire me or wait to be identified?
Another example of the genius of Radiohead comes from the fact that in the early days, Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead's brilliant guitarist, used to write software to generate sounds the band would use in their music versus using standard DAWs.

"So when I started on Max I felt like I’d got past all that, and didn’t have to use someone else’s idea of what a delay, or a reverb, or a sequencer should do, or should sound like – I could start from the ground, and think in terms of sound and maths. It was like coming off the rails. Before there was all this padding between the computer and me. Now there was a blank screen as a starting point….." - Greenwood [0]

[0]: https://cycling74.com/2014/01/02/mini-interview-jonny-greenw...
You are referring to "popups" (that is, if a site by itself opens a new window/tab, not if you open a link in a new tab).
Or perhaps the article is just poorly researched.

Example:

"Meanwhile, ten thousand drivers are out of a job—or at least a second job."

Ten thousand? That sounds ridiculously inflated, given that Austin has fewer than 700 actual cabs.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_States
If you're going to release this kind of thing publicly you want to do your damndest to do it anonymously.
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Sure. Absolutely. But if they'd been straight PSTN lines the abject process failure you've correctly described wouldn't have been able to put lives at risk because we'd have had to call the telco who most assuredly would have known what the lines were for, and we wouldn't have been able to shut them off. Safety critical systems need to not rely on humans doing boring, complicated things correctly for long periods of time.
Very interesting, but how does requesting an optimized version of seemingly a gazillion different pages by a billion different authors magically make any of that happen? From what I've seen, web devs throw the kitchen sink even on mobile.
In the context of what you are saying, "noney" is a great typo.
Scrabble quite literally was invented by and belongs to an American company.

And you're basically just asking for the definition of "the West" to be rewritten for some reason:

- culturally, I think it's a disservice to Nigeria to call it "Western", which usually means descended from the European tradition. Nigerians have their own ancient history, whereas direct descendants of European immigrants (e.g. most Americans) do not.

- religiously, Nigeria is >50% Muslim.

- economically, Nigeria's per-capita GDP is 10% or less of most "Western" countries

As you said, it's vague, but it remains a pretty useful adjective (what else do you call Europe + the Americas + Australia etc. without a long-winded explanation?) as long as it's not being redefined for who knows what reason...
It all started with the misguided bombing of Serbia. And tearing Kosovo from Serbia for no good reason.
I used to work for a body worn video manufacturer as an SE.

Your children comments are neglecting the battery cost (it's a lot cheaper to run a camera waiting to record than recording all the time). Device size is important to customers as is how often they'll need to refresh their hardware and both of these things are affected by required recording time.

>I'd taken it for granted that a police body camera would not require manual activation. I'd also assumed that they should be always on. Is there really need for better technology here, as opposed to just a change of political will?
When the government in area mandates the technologies use in an 'always-on' way then this is easy to sell, otherwise you tend to find that the enforcement officers give a lot of resistance to being monitored, it's not because they're doing anything nefarious it's just because people don't like being watched 24/7 and they don't want video evidence of them checking their smart phone (because maybe they shouldn't be) or taking a shit (because who wants someone seeing that?) on the job.
Or, you know, you can get the non monetary benefits written into law so they must be followed, funded from somewhere else, and things like that. Especially health care. And let union membership be an actual choice.
"Your call is important to us, you are seventh in the queue and the call will be answered in 41 minutes to 1 hour." Yeah, no it won't.
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If Haskell becomes mainstream, there will be some absolutely horrifying Haskell code.

But Haskell allows people who know what they're doing to also check that their code doesn't violate certain constraints. That means that the amount of work the compiler does is greater, which makes more guarantees about correctness.

It's not about making the worst code less bad, it's about making the median project take less time and have less defects.
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If anyone else is scratching their head about the references to The Girl From Ipanema in this thread... :)

> "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian bossa nova jazz song.

> Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché.
If you know it, probably. But if you don't, and if the navigation system doesn't know, it's going to be hard. The street numbering is different from the West.

In Japan and South Korea, a city is divided into small numbered zones. The houses within each zone are then labelled in the order in which they were constructed, or clockwise around the block.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering
A basic blockchain system would not necessarily change the feasibility of this attack, but it would probably make it easier to trace the funds. The crux of this attack is that the transacting and reporting computer were compromised. This means that fraud transactions were initiated and then notifications of those transactions were removed from the reporting machine. With a blockchain system I could see a similar outcome if the transacting and reporting machines were compromised. Of course, with a blockchain system there are many ways you could improve security to decrease the chances of this attack:

1. Multi-signature transactions could require a hacker to compromise multiple machines possibly on separate network segments.
2. Multiple reporting and auditing machines could be employed on several separate networks to again increase intrusion requirements.

I suspect SWIFT already allows for or could employ similar methods on their network to mitigate these types of scenarios as well.
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I'm pretty sure "Katti" isn't an English word. Did the journalist mishear "Catty"? Is this not a word Americans recognise?
Firstly a pedantic point, he played 7 letters not 8, but his 7 made an 8 letter word.

I don't play scrabble more than once or twice a year and am not great even by playing-it-with-family standards. But the concept that not using all 7 of your letters leaves you with a potentially bad next hand is one part of their overall strategy, according to the article. They also will be thinking about what letters are already gone and therefore what might be left to draw, they're thinking about what opportunities they might be opening up for the opponent, and they're thinking about their future opportunities too. And of course they're thinking about how many points they'll get, too.

His Bingo (I never knew that was a thing in scrabble before today) scored 72 points, so if he can find a way to justify it, it's something to at least consider. Looking at the board when he played it (and including the 7 tiles he put down), there are five clear spots where there is an open vowel with space to become a 4 or 5 letter word, which might make him worry less about not pulling a vowel if he reloads his letters. Add in all the other strategic thinking he has and I don't, I wouldn't be surprised if he made an intelligent rather than lucky decision. Of course, with his next draw, he was lucky that not only did he get Q and Z, but he also got a blank. But every time you get new letters in scrabble you're going to be lucky or unlucky, regardless of how well you play.
It's funny that I've always been annoyed myself that I need to click around to find the language sample all the time, and yet I've put all the examples on the Langauge page (http://www.json-script.com/language.html). Thank you for the suggestion, I will add some example to the home page.
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One way to add a more "authentic" feel on an LCD (but isn't very cheap) is to use a scanline generator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vscKaVByjRU
That was one of the stated goals but in practice it doesn't, according to some folks at Northeastern.* Uber says they're wrong, and Uber is certainly in a position to know, but I personally don't trust PR people farther than I can throw them, so who knows.

*https://www.propublica.org/article/uber-surge-pricing-may-no...