skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's particularly fantastic is that they can maintain this PR shtick in the face of the fact that the thing that makes uber possible--surge pricing--is exactly the kind of "gouging" government-regulated rates we're designed to prevent. "Oh, it's raining? Well that's going to cost extra!"
What's the difference between a tram and a bus? Rails? Dedicated stops? Having to share the route with other vehicles?

Well we could solve the second two problems, and not needing rails seems like an advantage.
"They're not our slaves"

They are slaves, but not ours. Look at taxi drivers - they belong to unions and license owners. Those, in turn, have local governments as their masters - government protects their monopoly in exchange for fee/favours. The whole arrangement looks like old good slavery - drivers do not starve, accept current order and have no incentive to change anything. Now, here comes Uber! You would imagine that taxi drivers would jump at the opportunity to become their own boss, but ironically they became the most vicious defenders of current corrupt system, where their place is strictly at the bottom.
In that case it's still neither well ordered, or even 'ordered' in any mathematical sense. I was merely pointing out that 'well ordered' doesn't convey whatever it was the author was trying to say.
To avoid them being used as parser directives.
In that case identity theft will just go up - plus people who are not trustworthy will now have absolutely nothing stopping them from being criminals, since nobody is going to trust them anyway.

It also doesn't deal with the background trust level in society - which is what you consider when you decide whether you should lock your door or not.
There was a Planet Money episode about insurers paying patients to choose cheaper options[1]. That helps reduce the burden of shopping around on the end user, so seems preferable to me.

In both cases, it's really telling to see that you can just go to another facility and get (presumably comparable) care for a third the cost. I don't know the best way to address that, but it shows it's something we need to work on addressing.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/02/445371930/episo...
I would be pretty shocked. Imagine if Facebook did have a process for handling these kinds of requests directly from friends/family/romantic partners rather than working with law enforcement. This could be an excellent way for abusive partners/parents to track down runaways and bring them back under their control.
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You used past tense in talking about a project last committed to less than 3 days ago. I have no horse in this race but it seems to me like you might.
In what area of the world are you suggesting that commercial vessels false flag as American? Do you have any references? Because the goes completely against known behavior in major shipping areas. AKA it sounds like you just made that up.
The Indo-European expansions?
Tales from Nelson's Navy (2013)
I'm not an OS X user, but Wikipedia says that the latest release is 10.11.6, last updated 34 days ago [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X
As somebody that consistently does good in these geography games (even competing with other HNrs), I wonder if is there a way to capitalize/use this skill?
It's a PRNG, so you fix the inputs and make sure the output is correct for all possible parameter sets.

Matthew Green has more on this here: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/03/how-do-you-k... ('Known Answer Tests (KATs)' section).
Kodak and Polaroid should have thought of that. Get governments to tax digital photography, cameras and memory cards, in order to save their business and all those jobs they provided (as opposed those newly created, because pfft!). Never mind any benefit to the paying public.
Im not sure i understand why this is a big deal. As the guy said, it was designed to send a message. As far as drugs, youd have to be insane to do drugs in china. The laws on drugs are really harsh. As for the reason, presumably the organizer hadnt paid the right bribes.
Here's a short interview with Dale Luck, discussing the Boing Ball. I like how they came up with the sound for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJcO628yCcU

For readers following along at home, R.J. Mical [1] was a co-inventor of the Atari Lynx [2]:

"Under the auspices of a game company called Epyx I was co-inventor of the first color hand-held game system, the Lynx, which finally was acquired by Atari.

I was co-designer of the Lynx hardware system, and I implemented an entire software development suite including a run-time library of hardware interface routines and a celebrated set of debugging, art and audio tools. We received many patents for the Lynx.

In addition, we developed 6 games to be available at the launch of the system. I produced these 6 titles, was co-designer of several of them, and managed the programmers, artists and audio/music designers." [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Mical

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx

[3] http://www.mical.org/workhistory
> If you're smart enough to get into an elite university, you don't have to worry about the cost. Full stop.

Absolutely not. Financial aid is dependent on parents' income and wealth, regardless of parents' willingness to actually bankroll said school. The cost is significant, rivaling the average annual gross household income, but worse because you pay high interest rates on top. Don't kid yourself, worrying about the cost dissuades lots of people.
It depends on how much damage you open yourself to with your trust. People can be counted on to be trustworthy most of the time, but not all of the time.
Apparently the vulnerable mix_pool function was added in 1998 in this commit, citing a Peter Gutmann's Paper: "Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers":

https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commi...

If you look at random.c before this commit, what it did previously is either return bytes read from /dev/urandom or /dev/random (which is fine) or some fall-back code that used the awful standard C rand(3).

I'd guess that at the time there were some crappy UNIXes that didn't have a working /dev/random, so they wanted to make the fall-back less awful, and accidentally broke the "working" case at the same time? Hazards of writing portable code...
I do the same – write down a long password where upper and lower case letters a mixed liberally. Type it a many many times but don't memorize it. Now you have the password as muscle memory but have no way to tell anyone what it is. Make sure to save the password in a password manager!
How would you have preferred the shopkeeper acted?
Well imagine the economy was based on sports. And people who weren't very strong were poor and had to exercise twice as much. Such a world would be terribly unfair, and then of course we should give people performance enhancing drugs. Or at least the weakest.

But it's more than that. The world isn't a zero sum game like sports. One person winning doesn't mean someone else has to lose. I think the world would be much better off if we could increase the IQ and focus of everyone. So much stuff doesn't get done, so many people don't reach their potential, and the whole worlds productivity is much lower than it could be.

If shit drugs like alcohol, which causes tons of deaths, or nicotine, which is incredibly addictive, are legal, then why shouldn't much less dangerous, actually beneficial drugs be legal?
Project Malmo, which lets you use Minecraft for AI research, makes public debut
So, they're matching the capabilities of DSN (Deep Space Network)?

But it's a good reminder of how not trivial this is, even though it looks easy
You only have to write the kernel stuff in C (which is a small part, since you are just collecting data), for the front end you can use BCC (Python/Lua)

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

Personal favorite: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/sslsniff_ex...
As a social experiment years ago, I interviewed 1000s of NYC taxi passengers. Just zillions really over a few years.

My conclusion, based on my data collection (WASP here).

The most friendliest people on the planet were Pakistani. Number 2? Egyptian.

Always found that kind of interesting for a 5th generation New Yorker. Of course your mileage my vary. But that's what I discovered. As far as I know, no one else has ever conducted that survey, before or since.
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I got an HP Spectre 360 .. loving it. Get a USB docking station, an external keyboard and mouse. Awesome dev setup. Oh .. I was an avid Mac user before. Was in the same situation as you. I also thought the only alternatives were Mac or Dell XPS. I then had to waste an hour at a best buy and spent time with all the machines they had in stock. Liked the HP one the best. It has a finicky touchpad but I was able to adjust the trackpad settings to make it usable. Finally ... I recommend Windows Signature edition so you don't have to deal with too much third party bloat.
Maybe a better explanation (including source): http://amiga.filfre.net/?page_id=5
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I do hope this is facetious. It's people like this who have built every utopia this Earth has ever seen, and we know the consequences of those.
A bitplane is a region of memory rendered as pixels. The Amiga hardware allowed you to (basically) define a width and height for the region, as well as a x,y offset. So by e.g. increasing the x-offset you could scroll horizontally through a bitplane with a width larger than the screen's.

The ball is in the middle of a large empty bitplane. By simply changing the offset values it bounces around the screen. The graphics hardware does the heavy lifting. No pixels need to be erased, no polygons rendered. You're just looking at the same ball, but the window through which you look has moved.

Colour cycling can be used with palettes. Lets say you have 32 colours in your palette. Draw a row of 32 pixels, each in a different colour. Now change the palette so all colours are white, except for the first, which is red. Your pixels still refer to their respective colours in the palette. A frame later, make color 1 white and color 2 red, etc. This way you get animation without redrawing pixels (expensive), but simply by resetting the palette (cheap).

Anything else?
I'd have to look it up but if I recall correctly in the UK not disclosing your password carries a penalty of 2 years maximum.

Which if you think about it is stupid since in a situation where you have encrypted data that proves your are a terroist, paedophile or serious criminal, 2 years for not disclosing your password vs 10+ for disclosing it is simple game theory.

Not to mention the stigma of going to prison for not disclosing your password vs the above mentioned crimes.
How to Set Up and Run a Node.js App in Docker Container
"Airbnb makes personal connections but uses online reviews to keep people honest: after our stay, we reviewed our host and he reviewed us."

The host reviews you after you have reviewed him/her. This is a big disincentive to leave a bad review, especially when you haven't already established a good reputation for yourself.

I've used Airbnb 3 times and, if I were being honest, I wouldn't have given any of them a good review.
This reminds me of a fantastic book, "The City & the City," by China Mieville. The setting is something like this, where a city that should be whole is split by two countries. Here, it is illegal to look across the border, even if you are looking at a car driving down what would normally be the same street.

I never considered that something similar (albeit simpler) existed in real life. Very cool, thanks for sharing!
It seems less people are involved or interested in solving the Darwin related issues. I have more issues getting things built and installed on OS X compared to a year ago. This mainly because it seems people aren't really interested in maintaining the OS X part of nixpkgs and some simply lack the resources to do so.

In the end it seems that this will get better if it can attract enough OS X users so that patches start rolling in but right now it's just a few people fighting that battle.
> ...25 people who had tested positive for drugs were let go and not held. They were probably connected somehow, or paid a bribe.

There are plenty of perfectly rational reasons why one might test positive for drugs but not be held.

In the US, at least, your levels must be high enough that they are unambiguous when factoring in margin of measurement error, but any amount is enough to get a warrant or have just cause to search your person/vehicle.

Alternatively, I take a prescription medication which causes me to test positive (hilariously high actually) on some drug tests. I carry my prescription and doctor's note on a prescription pad whenever I travel, and it's not that uncommon.

Jumping straight to corruption is unfairly stereotyping China, which, though it may have a problem, has many more honest cops/prosecutors than dirty ones.
The paper contains the following link to the supplementary material which contains BOM, PCB drawings and some code:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/102942

Edit: spelling and a little more info.
She may be racist, but if in the course of her shopkeeping she sees that a much higher portion of kids from certain backgrounds break glasses, what is she to do? She's obviously seen more kids handle sunglasses than you or I ever will, and she can draw whatever conclusions she likes from that sample. She could have phrased her conclusions a little better though.

Of course she could just be a racist with a bias against minorities which she chooses to express through the medium of sunglass handling rules.
Man, I feel the same way.

I grew up in Peru, and throughout my life it was very common to talk about "gringos" as if they were incredibly naive, trusting idiots that could easily be swindled every which way. I swear the national motto could easily have been "el que no es conchudo muere por cojudo" (if you're not trying to take advantage of someone, you'll get punished for being an idiot).

I was intrigued by this because, being pretty bad at haggling and swindling, I thought that trust is what let these "gringos" carry on with their business with a bit more focus, not look behind their backs at all times, trying to haggle everyone lest they get swindled by someone.

Eventually I moved to Canada, and I was sort of validated in terms of things being so much better when ie: you don't have to haggle with every cabbie, or cop. Unfortuantely, in terms of social trust, I cannot really tell whether Peru is becoming more like Canada, or Canada more like Peru.
Rating inflation is always a worry, but maybe they hope it will come out in the wash once you have a large enough population?
Robert Putnam's research on trust and diversity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...

Japan's backward immigration policies may change:

http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/ready-or-n...
> No matter how much money you have, you can't buy a better coke.

You absolutely can though. There are lots of premium soda brands out there on the market that cost significantly more than Coca-Cola that are made with better ingredients (such as real sugar, not HFCS), that are healthier for you, that use better artificial sugars, that have real flavoring so they don't need as much sugar to taste good (see GuS), etc. Or compare the homogenized product of "Simply Orange" (a Coca-Cola brand) to real non-additive orange juice that costs several times as much but is way more delicious. Or hell, look at how insanely expensive kombucha is ...

My point is that you are introducing a completely artificial rule by limiting things to Coca-Cola, when in fact there is an entire spectrum of drinks out there, and you can spend significantly more money to get a significantly better product. The very rich do not drink nearly as much Coca-Cola as the poor; they have the money to afford better options, and so they do.
Oracle funds a group trying to tarnish Google's image
You'd pay $5 more a night to avoid having to buy an extra tube of toothpaste at the store every once in a while?

Sometimes, I feel like I'm so cavalier about spending money that my depression-era grandparents must be rolling in their graves, but then when I see comments like this, it makes me feel much more frugal. ;-)
One alternative is to also push to gitlab/bitbucket/private with some layered snapshots for backups. I still remember all the "free press" github when they nuked all the repos.
I'm a "rules are rules" guy, so I would have preferred the shopkeeper to enforce the rules the same for everyone.
Sports-worship is an accepted sect of American Civic Religion.
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The shopkeeper sounded like the sign arose from previous incidences. Sure, maybe it's wrong to generalize, but I can understand that she wants to protect her wares, and it seems that in her experience, children from different cultures behave in different ways.

> That someone would be so comfortable being so overtly racist in front of a complete stranger who is also a customer.

In the spirit of the article, by being so open, the shopkeeper demonstrated trust in a complete stranger.
Does domestic violence affect trust in society?

Is there less domestic violence in the U.S.A. then in Somalia?
The Human Cost of Zoning in Indian Cities
The solution is a basic income, paid for by taking the rich and middle class. Not a basic income limited to taxi owners, paid for by taxing their competitors. Perhaps subsidies for schools and technical training so people can get better jobs easier.

This doesn't benefit poor people. Maybe a small handful of them. But it just raises the cost of transportation, a service the poor depend on as well.
I imagine the store keeper had enough experience with arab kids breaking stuff that wasn't paid for by their parents. So it's not a call on clumsiness of one set of kids vs another but personal experience on whether their parents can be trusted.

Which seems to be the point of the article.
> One alternative is to also push to gitlab/bitbucket/private with some layered snapshots for backups.

Can you explain what you mean by "layered snapshots for backups"? The convention is to push to several remotes because that's part of git's dna, so what's the improvement you're suggesting?

> I still remember all the "free press" github when they nuked all the repos.

What "free press" incident are you referring to?
Word! The picture you paint, drives a powerful point.
How did you measure friendliness?
Put it into a usb stick, or a keychain, and we could all be collecting data. The internet of things
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Deploying Django, Python 3, PostgreSQL to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (updated)
23 Easy Ways to Turn Your Room into a Cosmic Getaway
Edit: could we get the title changed here? The blog post is called "Sharding a multi-tenant app with Postgres".

---

I'm dense. Took me a minute to realize this was a product offering blog post.

From the title I was quite surprised to not see mention of the fact that Postgres databases support multiple schemas which allow a nicer way to segment data in some situations (such as multi-tenant).

If you've not heard of this check out https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Database_Schema_Recommendat...
The energy involved in radioactive decay is far less than that of cosmic rays. If the goal is to protect ICs from bit flips then indeed putting them under concrete or natural rock will reduce them.
If you like fixed wheeled cycles, great! But this piece uses statements that depend on a survivor bias. Eg, those who stick with a fixed wheeled cycle will be stronger than those who do not. Perhaps it's true - it gives no real evidence - but what of all those who would give up cycling if not for gears?

It makes the the unsubstantiated claim made that "Keeping your legs in motion keeps the muscles supple, and promotes good circulation." On my long trips I'll often stop to read roadside sign or historical marker, or look at something interesting. Are my frequent stops also unhealthy?

If taking a break from pedaling is so unhealthy and leads to unsupple legs and bad circulation, then maybe I shouldn't bike at all, and stay home?

Because fixed wheel or not, the fun for me is to see what's out on the road, not "feel a closer communion with [my] bike and with the road".
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So Why Fruits and Veggies Happen to Be So Crazy Cheap in Chinatown
Microsoft shares Powershell, expanding shift to open source
It's unfortunate, but if you think it's heartbreaking you're missing the point of the article. Trust structures are highly cultural. E.g. consider the example of Japanese people leaving their cell phones on tables to reserve them and walking away, mentioned above. Obviously there is going to be a lot of friction and resentment when a poorly-assimilated group of immigrants, who don't have that same cultural indoctrination, is introduced into a high-trust society.

I'm Bangladeshi. There are a lot of things I do here in the U.S. that I wouldn't do in Dhaka. Is that racist?
> flash, perhaps we'd instead have links that opened up native video players, or whatever, and we'd be better off for it.

That's a hilarious mother of all assumptions. Kool-aid has taken a full effect on you! :-)
I'm Scandinavian and live in Romania right now.

I have quite good experience with the computer people, but the other locals...

If I go to two dentists and ask what needs to be done, it is ~ 30% risk they both insist on expensive treatments -- but different ones...

If they don't realize I live there, the stores often screw themselves out of a good customer. And so on.

I'd describe it as the locals like more to screw people over than they like to earn money.

I assumed it was some remaining cultural damage from the dictatorship, with short sightedness a good strategy since they couldn't plan? But maybe it is a more general thing?
It's hipster programming kitsch. It's unnecessary and indicative of the culture of its developers and early adopters.

There wasn't a problem with MacPorts / Fink, they are built on top of proven mature tech (FreeBSD ports and Debian's apt), but why not reinvent the wheel? All the cool node kids are doing it.
Nice! Just added to https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api-wrappers
I don't like the lack of software diversity, but I see running Linux based containers on OSX as a viable solution to not having Nix support. Run nix in a container, create shimlinks so that everything is "transparent"
Except this had nothing to do with using a VCS system for package distribution, and everything to do with indirection provided by the index.
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One can only hope hat they get behind KDE...
To add some anecdata from native speakers (not me), I've noticed many simplifications like 机車 in "Traditional" Taiwanese handwriting, but I've never seen 机车.
A Wonderful (and Secure) Router from China
This is incorrect. The host cannot see your review until they have left you a review and vice versa.
How the US will end its 30-year history with private prisons
The article is not written for those of us who don't know what Charles is, so it is being taken out of context when linked to from HN. The link title could have been been improved with a couple of words of context - but we followed the link anyway...
The icon is not particularly evocative of "HTTP proxy" either.
Demos of various techniques found in malware
Survey Ranks Citi as Most Customer Focused Wholesale Bank
You're supposed to just know how to use it, apparently. Looking at the code the comments aren't that helpful either, focusing on explaining what the next bit of code is doing.