skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It did however offer a very easy standard way to share and parse data back in 1999.

Not 1999. 2004. JSON wasn't on anybody's radar in 1999.

>JSON is incredibly easy to read and write by hand, in comparison with XML

Maybe for small shallow objects (and for those XML is also quite readable). Once size or complexity get a little higher, you're done.
I'm a bit wary of the second and fifth one. You could add an arbitrary amount of datatypes. Also I think the common argument against comments makes much sense: they could get abused easily for parsing directives etc. JSON isn't that nice for configuration files anyway IMO.

I would actually take away a feature of JSON: Unicode escaping. It's not needed anyway and astral plane characters being encoded as surrogate pairs is an added complexity for encoders/decoders. The selection of escape codes for control characters also is rather arbitrary.
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Sure, taxi drivers will be in trouble some day (maybe soonish, but picking up a person on a busy street seems like a hard problem) when their jobs are actually automated away by autonomous.

In the meantime, though, the issue is not one of jobs lost to automation. And I'm left with a lot of questions (some because I don't live in the city):

- If people prefer Uber/Lyft to taxis, then why don't the taxi drivers just become Uber drivers?

- Have the taxi services not yet made a ride-hailing app that you can use to summon them? Why not? They do it in China. If they did, would they be able to compete perfectly well with Uber/Lyft?

- If you used used the CallaCab app to summon a taxi from a traditional livery service which side of this new Massachusetts law would the transaction fall on?
Most antibiotic use in animals is not for treating disease, it's for weight gain.
Upstream xz supports it too, but not until a relatively recent release. If you're interested, I have a PPA for Ubuntu Trusty which includes up-to-date xz-utils + dpkg-deb set up to use it. This is a lifesaver if you deploy large bundles of software in the deb format:

https://launchpad.net/~mikepurvis/+archive/ubuntu/dpkg
> They have a lot further to run - smartphones will go from close to 3bn to over 5bn users, for example - but there's nothing very contrarian to them.

The author addresses that literally one paragraph later.
I'll assume you're kidding, but surely there is someone who doesn't know and will find it useful --

AFL = American Fuzzy Lop
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_fuzzy_lop_(fuzzer)

A tool which helps to find interesting and exploitable bugs in compiled programs.
> introduces no new evolutionary pressure on worms' lavae living in water

not being able to reproduce (by infecting a human, which is required in the reproductive cycle) is just as real of a new evolutionary pressure as dying is.
this move seems like a desperate attempt to revitalize a dying dream... Taxis are dead, ride sharing killed it. End of story. Typewriter manufacturers werent given subsidies when the computer f*cked them over, were they?
What is ambiguous about drugs being illegal in almost every country on the planet (with a handful of exceptions)? Just because the police doesn't catch all the murderers doesn't make murder legal. That's crazy logic.
Wouldn't this work:

(destructuring-bind (a b c) '(10 20 30) c)

? Destructuring is also supported in the LOOP macro (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node252.html)

I don't think this article was written for the non-users of Lisp, it uses too many advanced language features without any explanation to be accessible to non-Lispers.
DK = domain knowledge?
In Missouri you get fined for having mismatched blinds, and not having money to pay that fine will get you into court/ private prison.
Isn't there natural refrigeration in those countries most of the year?
Your premise is wrong: There hardly is any innovation. At least in Europe I've never had any kind of trouble just picking up the phone and, you know, getting a competent cab driver very quickly.

But The U.S. seems to be some third world country that can manufacture nukes and computers but is unable to get the most basic things right.

This apparently applies to banking, the electricity grid, health care and lots of other things that are solved problems in other parts of the world (i.e. no innovation is needed).
New Flophouses: Chinatown's Internet Cafes
I came across this formatting pattern in Haskell, but I still prefer trailing commas for one reason: I can trivially apply line-wise operations (e.g. sort or align) on the key-value pairs without breaking the syntax. When I sort your first snippet line-by-line, it becomes

, "age": 229
, "appearance": "Tree-like. It's a tree."
, "sex": "monoecious species"
{ "time": "3 minutes past four"
}

and the syntax is broken. With trailing commas, the syntax always stays valid:

{
"age": 229,
"appearance": "Tree-like. It's a tree.",
"sex": "monoecious species",
"time": "3 minutes past four",
}
Islamists Target Kali Linux: An Operating System Designed to Thwart Attacks
I bought a Haswell Xeon (e5 1630) just this week for a new workstation build, because it was the only Xeon with high ghz that was available at a reasonable price (ie comparable to i7). E.g. the e3 1280 is a skylake xeon but 'only' supports avx2. Maybe the e7 skylake ones have avx512? I didn't look into those as they were out of my budget anyway :)
Efficient Fuzzy Bayesian Inference Algorithms for Incorporating Expert Knowledge
Leaving the EU could cost us even more than staying in
I think JSON is great, because it's simple. Who really needs something more oriented for humans, take a look at HOCON.

https://github.com/typesafehub/config
Rural hubs -- Utah has an interesting one where small town rural residents are being trained to do work as subcontractors for techy metro-based companies.
That makes me feel better then!
People who initially win in gambling will kick around money for longer than those who lose on their first play.. So excluding immediate dropouts can make a gamble look like an investment.
I have to agree, I've been working with JSON for 10 years and nearly never touched JSON by hand.
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Massachusetts is literally run by tyrants. No one cared when the attorney general trampled over the constitution by banning the sale of built to compliant "assault" weapons and now this. The disarmed populace has to just take it. The rulers know best.
With prefix commas it also always stays valid

{
, "age": 229
, "appearance": "Tree-like. It's a tree."
, "sex": "monoecious species"
, "time": "3 minutes past four"
}
Ad blockers use the extension API, which is not going away.
Are those JS not breaking the default behaviour then?
If Gitlab is listening (like they often do), I think we just figured out a solid plan:

1. Fix the speed problem

2. Build yourself such a meta search engine for OSS projects
Totally agree. The only part I think you are missing is the part in which one stops being accepting on regulation because always ends in some form of distortion to what's best.

Taxi drivers need to become one of the providers of these new services and things wil go well
Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T are equivalently useful. It's a shame there isn't some consistent way to TAB your way through the page.
This isn't exactly Python on Pebble, it's transcribed-to-JS Python. I'm a bit disappointed by the premise...
Gawker.com will shut down next week
Future inv Просто заработок на чем можно за
Weather Now, the no nonsense Weather app for Android
There aren't enough of them. And regulation limits the number, solely so they can profit more. No way is the taxi industry going to 'go well' with a little more automation. Well, not for the public anyway.
Instead of meta-search, git needs meta repositories. I should be able to specify an alias which represents multiple repositories, not just URLs like it does now. This way I could upload to e.g. @myrepo and have it upload across github, gitlab, and other git based hosts. Sure it could be done pretty easily with shell scripts, but it would help the cause if it were built in to git. I'm a git novice so it may already have this feature, but if not it seems like it would help with this problem.
Attributes of a good microservice framework
This is where I have to point out that this would have been unlikely to happen with BitKeeper. :)

BitKeeper doesn't provide a 'pull --rebase' and instead puts this in separate commands 'bk pull; bk collapse -e@; bk citool'. By default, collapse will refuse to replace an already released cset.
Yeah less powerful, but we believe more predictable.

Also, tags are fully revisioned controlled and propagate with every pull. You can move a tag to another revision and that operation becomes its own cset that propagates.

www.bitkeeper.org
The taxi drivers in this story are not being "forced into jobs". They're forcing others (app developers) to give them money. Or they're forcing customers to use their services over someone else.

Don't equivocate on the word "force". If you get the government to make people do things, that's force. If people aren't giving you money they are not "forcing" you to work for your money.
Doesn't "pick up the phone and get a competent driver very quickly" describe Uber perfectly? So America gets it right and still can't win.
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This sort of raves violates all sorts of environmental and health and safety codes. It only takes one fire with a couple dead to make them all go away. Look, I used to like raves when I was younger, but it's silly to claim that anybody should be allowed to organize anything anywhere without regard for the neighbors, safety of visitors or work load of emergency services.
Multi-tenancy and co-location, a perfect pair with Postgresql
Miller 4.5.0: Customizable output format for redirected output
The capitalist model, the concept of 'disruption', Adam Smith's precepts work well when they allow individuals to control their choices, their fate, their destiny. When the transactions exceed human scale - when they become so big, so far reaching, so expensive that the participants are powerless to make changes, then capitalism fails. It fails because the 'losers' suffer even if they try to adapt. They cannot compete because the the 'winning side' is so new with fewer legacy costs. The losers necessarily must die and become assimilated by the winning strategy. And the winners who skirt the regulations will close shop and disappear at the first sign of trouble.

I disagree with the concept of entitlement-taking money from the winner and giving it to the loser. But the winner MUST abide by the same rules as the loser. If the ride sharing industry has the advantage of venture capital startup money and newer (less costly to maintain) infrastructure, then their benefits to drivers should be GREATER than what the taxi industry provides, not less. The 20 cent tax should go entirely to the health care and insurance of the drivers of the ride sharing industry's drivers. Not the welfare recipients we call 'politicians'. That HALF of this tax goes to people who are ALREADY living off of money made by people who actually work really bothers me.

I would really like to see silicon valley startups that offer a new and better forms of local government. I would like to see our political system get improved by disruption. I really believe politicians are vastly overpaid for the non-service they provide.
So we should prop up the robber barons running the shitty industry just to save the little guys who don't want to do something else?
I meant the back-end. Noone bothers to write the front-end with these languages ( ASP.Net is an exception ) when there are tons of great JS libraries avalable.
The pebble is just a normal Cortex-M processor, so Python should already run on it.

(https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki)
Semile: a profiling framework (currently support c++)
Ok I'll try. You are right I misread that - I didn't think 'tested' meant in-situ, and that plus the later statement about not trying it complete was where I was coming from.

Its just that curtness in writing is in the eye of the beholder. I strive for a concise style. That clearly isn't taken well by everybody.
I support researchers of the humanities by developing different services like registries and restful apis.
But you know, everything has it's cost. I am definitely underpaid but at some point I decided time > money for now.
Paper that shows techniques to create animal-like objects [video]
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12325943
Try Googling for Chef Knife when you're lot logged in as well and it's a total nightmare.
Knights tour was one of the earliest Java programs we wrote at the university. Fun times, even found an old jar with some cool Swing visuals: http://i.imgur.com/6Q5ODT2.mp4
> Once size or complexity get a little higher, you're done.

And what is better than JSON, when it gets complex?
All hail the glorious US free market...
The world doesn't exist for anyone's personal comfort, nor should it. This is the argument of luddites, nobility, and the lazy.

The slave metaphor makes no sense: slaves have a master who cares for his investment. Free people have none and must care for and provide for themselves. To assume they cannot is degrading.
I realized that because uBlock Origin indicate so.
I know we're talking about Canada in the article, and that there are differences in the laws around this.

There's a guy currently sitting in a US jail, I think in Georgia, held on contempt of court charges. He was originally charged with murder, and during his trial, he managed to goad the judge into an absurd argument, part of which involved the defendant wanting to defend himself. I'll skip the details. There's a Rick and Morty cartoon out there about it...

Anyways, to my point. The judge has the power to keep this guy in jail more or less indefinitely. You can argue with the cops, you can argue with your lawyer, but if it's in the law and you try to argue it with the judge, you're staying in jail.
I live in Cyprus where the current temperature is 38c and eggs are not being sold refrigerated but we dorefrigerate them at home to extend their lifetime.
Although it is usually wrong to argue by definition, in this case "goes against the law" means it is a crime by definition. Just because you don't like the law doesn't it make it less of a law.

I think a lot of your examples are a little bit misguided, a case of not understanding the reasoning behind laws. Sometimes, things are illegible because we lack the correct perspective, not because they're fundamentally wrong.

For example, at least in some parts of the United States (Texas is the one I'm familiar with, but others might exist), it is legal for minors to consume alcohol, even in restaurants, with parental supervision (https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/APIS_State_Profile.html?...).

The reason children can drive cars relatively young in the United States has several factors, but one of the big ones is the distance between places. I had a roommate who started driving to school when he was 14 or 15 because it was the only way for him to efficiently get to his school, which was still a 25 minute drive. There was some sort of special licensing in Iowa for children that young to drive to and from school unsupervised, because it wasn't efficient to try to bus everyone in. Now, you might still think this is a bad law, but it's not like they just made up a driving age for fun. The social, economic, and political reality of certain areas of the United States makes driving far more valuable than in many other places in the world, simply because practical transportation alternatives do not exist.
>The London Underground is a good example of these dynamics in action.

DLR on the other hand has been driverless for ages.
Generally you rent a permit/work for a company that owns them as a taxi driver. If there are taxi drivers buying medallions then they're 1) a small minority and 2)effectively business owners that are making a capital investment. Part of why one gets a return on investments is that they're assuming risk.
No actually you don't what a programming language is! PHP is a web programming language ( Not a General purpose one though ) which is completely a different stuff from a framework. Laravel is a framework written in PHP. Like the fucking Django framework which you can't think of any other modern technology. I loathe dinos who just stick to an old programming language ( like C )
Or TOML, if you find YAML's syntax too messy.
Is that enforced at all? Regularly?
How many keys do you feel is sufficient? Already the number pad is an extension that is adding a few keys. And a lot of laptop keyboard are using a Fn (function) key to access additional keys.
In fact, when they first came out the salesmen would use them and get fatter, then have a weigh-in at annual sales meetings! What a vivid demonstration of the benefits of antibiotics. Imagine trying that today.
You could use "line-break" instead - but I also don't see really the point in removing comma's in the first place.
Right. Or like in France wearing a burqa will get you in trouble, or in Australia if you watch porn where the woman's vagina isn't state approved you'll get in trouble. There are all sorts of laws all over that just insane.
Completely agree with you. None of them could beat one another. In fact,I believe one should learn all of them and choose to work with the one appealing to him/her.
Let's take a white 40-50 male...competing with immigrants who see nothing unusual about putting four to a bedroom

Juxtaposed without a giant wall of text in between to highlight the fundamental complaint: a white 40-50 American male somehow deserves a dramatically better life than a Mexican.
This is a little backwards.

Trust might be the cause of societal wealth. But it is also an effect of the system of laws. Americans are not more trusting/trustworthy because they are more cuddly and friendly -- Somalis probably have and deserve more of that kind of trust.

The kind of trust that makes America rich is the kind of trust you place in strangers who know they are doing commerce under the rule of law. The promimse made by Bitcoin and such is to add a new component to that sort of enforcement -- increasing trust.
Not in a historical sense, but Trump and Brexit are definitely a revolution in my mind. The magnitude at which they are breaking away from the political arc of the last 25 years is massive.
Data pre-processing can be faster
Why do you think medicine is ripe for disruption ?

Unemployment rate for doctors is around 1%.

The acceptance rate for medical school in the usa is 40%.

developers and cabbies are welcome to retrain.

To me, cabbies are local government employees. Let the government that licenses them pay them, just like they pay teachers and cops. So I am fine with this subsidy.
JSON is a beast to deal with for anyone who's manually editing it. All the comments here about special formatting strategies to avoid comma problems, or how to workaround the lack of a timestamp type just prove the point that JSON needs to fix these things.
Dufaq, Visual Studio is rubbish, Jetbrains is much smarter. Come on Microsoft, you have lost the game to Google. Even Windows sucks compared to Ubuntu.
What prevents taxi drivers from taking Lyft and Uber shifts? Are there some kinds of restrictions on official taxi drivers? Do they need to keep a certain number of hours? Do taxi drivers have benefits?
> Without people you can also do tricks like electrifying the chassis, so anyone who tries to touch it gets an electric shock.

Or a computer vision system connected to a machine gun. (sarcasm)
> Indeed, this was my thought too. I suspect that toothpaste is such a necessity that nobody travels without their own.

cough
No, it's Autoland Flight Tests injection of testcases.
Did you even read the "innovation" part?
Most pets also carry salmonella.. That's one of the diseases you can get by not washing your hands after touching your pet.
They are supposed to know about the situation the poor slob is in, and take that into consideration. Which the letter of the law can't do.
Maybe so, but have the licensing and philosophical reasons that led Torvalds to move the kernel away from BitKeeper been resolved?

Until that can be said and news of that disseminated widely, I think many open source projects will consider BitKeeper as simply not having enough of a technical edge over Git to discount the cultural penalties (namely, "bad" reputation withing FLOSS and smaller population of users).
> Why bother to steal when you are already comfortable?

This is more important than the author makes it to be. If nobody needs to turn to crime to eat and live, then they don't, and slowly everybody let their guard down more and more.

Edit: I should have said theft instead of crime. Need affect theft, theft affect trust.
"The world doesn't exist for anyone's personal comfort, nor should it. "

The world does not care if one is comfortable or not. We humans, on the other hand, do. Given our level of economic output the question is ethical and political, not ontological.
And advertise the built-in CI feature in a major way.
Are the guidelines clear on downvotes?

I think there's a misconception that they are, especially pertaining to up and down voting. I just reread the guidelines[1] and see little mention of up and down voting. The only mentioning is don't complain about or bait for down votes.

In the past pg has said it's okay to use votes for agreement/disagreement[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

Edits: formatting
Yeah I don't think the average taxi driver is some bandit-fighting hero that will save you. Likely they'll raise their hands and hand over their wallet too.
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It's the same darn argument as was used against the automobile when it started replacing horse drawn carriages (buggies) as the dominant mode of transport. "Oh, but think of the poor buggy horsewhip-makers! They will be deprived of their livelihood." Guess what? They adapted to the new reality and here we are, rehashing the age old argument for populist/crony politics.

Change is always hard, sometimes unforgivingly so, but in the end, you adapt and survive or you perish (however that is defined). As a bleeding heart liberal humanist, I feel for the poor folks who will be put out of their current livelihood. But the societal answer to that cannot be the continuation of the status quo. If we, as a society, feel the need to help people in such situations, we need to find them alternatives that enable them to transition into the brave/merciless new world, rather than keep their current job on the socially funded ventilator, just because.

Most importantly, I'd rather support the decentralization of taxi companies, i.e. turn them into car rental companies for free-agent drivers who then use them to pick up fares using uber/lyft/whatever. The taxi system is a bloody mess and some real competition will help clean out the systematic cruft that has accumulated over time.

So yes, take money from uber/lyft, but NOT to support the rent-collecting taxi company owners. Better yet, use the money to give short-term loans to people who'd rather buy a car to drive as a ride-share cab.