skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Brooklynite.

I'd just like to another: The confidence of knowing that the driver will get me where I need to go. I have, on more than one occasion, gotten in a cab in Williamsburg (which is in Brooklyn), asked to go to Park Slope (also in Brooklyn) and after staring at my phone for a while, looked up to find myself on a bridge headed to Manhattan (not in Brooklyn and not on the way between the two).

With Uber, I punch in my destination before even getting in the car and they just follow GPS. No cabbies that don't know the city making mistakes and no sitting in unnecessary traffic jams that technology could have helped me avoid.

Now when I'm in a proper cab, I have to be on constant high alert to make sure that they're going the right way if not giving them turn-by-turn directions on my own.
I can't really make heads or tails of this, it's still fairly complicated and I'm just not invested enough in it to read everything with a fine toothed comb.

What I want to know is, will the sync (not async/await) methods be available on Linux on .NET Core? We've been struggling with that, the move to async/await is a major rewrite of our legacy application codebase and for what we do Mono has been a constant thorn in our side.

In an ideal world the old sync APIs would just work and we'd be able to move forward with .NET Core as it stabilizes and get off Mono without a major rewrite.
I'd strongly recommend you listen to Steve Silberman, Neurotribes author, on Fresh Air:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/02/43674237...

(Audio controls in the left margin.)

He addresses that a fair bit, mentioning that autism is one of the most heritable conditions, and talking a lot about the history of the diagnosis and how it was artificially narrow for a long time.

Personally, my bet is that we'll come to see a lot of autism diagnosis as part of a broader pattern of medicalization of deviance from the norm. And that even the forms we eventually decide are harmful have for nerds the same relationship that sickle-cell anemia does to malaria resistance: a trait that is useful in small doses but can be harmful in large ones.

If there is an actual increase, I'd bet on it being due to stronger assortative mating that has come as mate choice has less to do with geographic factors and more with education and workplace.
In practice rebase heavy-workflows squash a lot of commits away; in fact I think the standard workflow with phabricator is sqashing everything in the feature branch into a single commit and then rebasing that in. This has obvious downsides, but it means it's easy to revert and bisect works, which probably does in many cases outweight the downsides.
As long as you keep to the "edge" of the set, I think you're guaranteed to find interesting things wherever you go. I presume this zoom was guided, the exact zoom position manually adjusted every once in a while based on what comes up.
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I took the parent's comment to mean: the datacenter had a relatively fixed amount of power going toward the infrastructure, so they'd turn on additional servers to add more power to the compute side of the ratio. They'd be wasting power but the ratio of power spent on servers to power spent on infrastructure would look better.
Just need to add a Math.abs: https://www.dwitter.net/d/457
> local business owners

Uber is often locally-owned to the same extent. In both cases, the driver is your neighbor. Uber takes its cut, but the taxi medallion owner who rents the car to the driver might be taking a much bigger cut. Every driver I've met who has made the switch from taxi to Uber/Lyft says they're happier now and earning more.

The only folks you should feel sad about are the drivers who decided to take a loan to buy their own medallion. Those are the folks who need a hand because of the catastrophic collapse of their investment. But hey, that's what bankruptcy is for. Do you feel like failed restauranteurs deserve a bailout?
> Most of the people that I know who have needed hip or knee surgery are thinner people.

I'm proposing that weight loss is an effective and reasonable treatment for hip or knee problems in obese people, so this observation is consistent with my proposition.

> I know, anecdotes are not data, but there is essentially no data that supports the claims made about BMI, and there are known measurements that are more effective than this grossly ineffective ratio that is loved pretty much only by insurance underwriters.

People are focusing in on BMI as being an inaccurate measurement of fatness, but notably all the cases noted where people treated with weight loss instead of surgery are people who are fat by any measurement you want to pick. Look at the pictures, or read how the person interviewed says, "Do you think I don't know I'm fat?" Can you point to cases where someone who isn't fat was denied surgery due to their BMI?
OP here.

Funny how this conversation sided into vegetarianism. Because I am one who sides with the moral issues - as a vegan, Firefox, Linux user. I represent the ones mentioned here who will go the extra mile, which is typically the harder route to do what is right, not what is easiest.

However, I dont think this route is for everyone. And I think legitimate competition between browser features is key. I do use both browsers, but only when necessary with Chrome (Chromecast and Netflix, some Google products like Photos). However I think there is not a concrete answer which browser is a better user experience. And these things change over time. Yes, when Chrome came out it was a great fast experience (mostly because there were no addons and there was no cruft in the beginning), but Firefox overtook it in the benchmarks several times since. Its been back and forth.

These reputations are strong, but dangerous. I'm a developer and still come up against the "Java is slow" argument. I'm no fan of Java, but I find it to be anything but slow these days. Yes, back in the early applet days it had a bad name and decades later it cant shake that reputation. This is technology! Things change fast. Dont get stuck in the fud.
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It's nice to see MS making this effort to involve a community of developers in an open-like forum. But the road to hell (MS) is paved with good intentions.
This is pretty sweet using a desktop browser, but the animations can be a little choppy on mobile. Is this more because of how mobile browsers work or are there parts of the library that can be improved performance wise?
I'm curious whether anyone can provide some scientific evidence supporting the theory that these people actually burn calories faster? Seems like it should show up very clearly on their core body temperature (thermodynamics and all).

An alternative hypothesis would be that these people have a less efficient digestive system, so more of the calories just pass through.
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You will notice a difference! If I am using the glasses for a while, then take them off and forget to put them back on, I can actually feel the difference.

Wearing them is really nice and when I do it all the time it prevents me from having any trouble focusing on objects at a distance, except for some specific things.

Looking through a scope on a rifle still causes the blurriness, perhaps because of its extreme closeness.
Venus' atmosphere is a better colonization target than Mars from every conceivable angle. I don't think they have really thought this through.
You might want to dig in and truly understand what a "3 star" establishment is and the insane amount of hard work necessary to achieve it. The trick to earning any kind of Michelin Star, even one, is to keep the diner from ever seeing that work.

It may seem "amazing and enriching" from the outside, and sous-chefs that work in these establishments surely have a resume that will open doors around the world, but to think it's a fun or entertaining experience is an incorrect assessment.

Here's some reading to get you started:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/09/top-chefs-michelin...
Also, minimum HD requirements to run this. Otherwise, all my Firefox windows went 'Han Solo' on me ... But I think this is an awesome project, author must have learned quite a bit getting this running!
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
Why should I care if Uber succeeds? I care if drivers succeed, whether taxi, Uber, Lyft, bus, or otherwise. How are the drivers doing in NY? (I don't need the Uber PR version.)

Uber goes out of its way to say it doesn't care about workers, my community, or our rules. Why should I care about them?
"most people in the US in tech will have access to credit cards"

YC is a tech site, but the original article was not geared towards a tech audience, necessarily.
Ryan Sleevi authored the report in his capacity as a peer of the Mozilla CA Certificates Module, not as a Chrome/Google employee. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Policy_Participants

Chrome does indeed use the platform CA store, but they can and do impose additional logic on top of it, such as requiring CT for Symantec, distrusting new CNNIC certs, or name-constraining ANSSI and India CCA.
My understanding was that Sega had intended to focus on 2D gaming for the Saturn, but after realising what hardware was in the PlayStation they bumped up the specs to compete by adding in extra processors.

The 2D performance of the Saturn appears to have been better than the PlayStation (the RAM expansion probably helped here too), but the 3D capabilities couldn't match up to the PlayStation (I suspect that would've still been the case even if the Saturn was easier to program for).
I love it that its finally booting. I wonder if they've considered taking all the probes off, and booting without debugging hardware attached ..
Great explanation. Thanks for sharing.
Somewhat off-topic, this article mentions a property of samples that has puzzled me for a long time. Maybe someone can shed light on that?

[...] Field A would receive Fertilizer 1, Field B would receive Fertilizer 2, and so on.

But as Fisher pointed out, this type of experimentation was doomed to produce meaningless results. If the crops in Field A grew better than those in Field B, was that because Fertilizer 1 was better than Fertilizer 2? Or did Field A just happen to have richer soil?

[...] The way around the problem, Fisher concluded, was to apply different fertilizers to different small plots >at random<. [...] On average, the soil under Fertilizer 1 ought to look exactly like the soil under Fertilizer 2.

The article talks at length about how randomisation was the revolutionary new thing that Fisher introduced. Yet, in the given expample, it's the repetition of the experiment with different combinations of fields and fertilizers that does the trick, isn't it? It seems to me I should get the same results if I repeated the trial 50 times with Fertilizer 1 on field A and 50 times with 1 on field B.

So why is adding unpredictability (randomness) so important?
They made one big bugaboo that doomed them for sure. They didn't make the Dreamcast black.

You think I'm joking? You should read about consumer testing studies.
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Do you think laptops are the dominant computing device?
Nudie Jeans company in Sweden offer free repairs on their jeans. So that's another way to go.
(I'm not affiliated with them)

https://www.nudiejeans.com/page/this-is-nudie-jeans
Well that's the other side of the problematic coin. The majority of my experience with SO is closed questions.

I generally consider myself a dumbass and not smart enough to figure out the rules to avoid getting topics closed, so I stick to reddit and HN (and it took years of lurking here before I started posting too!)
Cisco is big into SDN. We've just finished a rollout of ACI where I work.
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"Where does all that 'entropy' come from?"

Your scare quote suggests you may already know this, but for the benefit of others, the answer is that there isn't any. Fractals may look visually complicated, but their information content is fully captured by the routines used to generate them, which include the formula and the coloring system being used.

This is one of the ways in which "information" is a highly counter-intuitive quantity for people. Very small numbers of bits in a given encoding scheme can produce incredibly complicated pictures, but there's still no more information that what was put in to start with. Simply looking at something and going "Yup, that's complicated" does not mean it has a lot of information in it.
I'm up against the car issue in a big way. I wanted to change a clutch in my 06 scion xb I'd need to suspend the engine and trans separately to get at the clutch in the middle. That's 2 big lumps of steel hanging over my head while I wrench.. I can't pull the assessmbly out the top because it doesn't fit through the opening! And it's only by a few inches!

In my 1973 240z I can practically stand in the enginebay with the engine in place and if I want to pull the motor and trans it's a job a single person could do if they had practice.

It's weird
Works with arrow keys on Chrome / OSX for me.
Squashing everything is better than applying a series of patches that don't bisect, though it's not quite as nice as providing one logical change per commit.
They did more than abstract their own system calls, Microsoft SQL Server essentially runs it's own OS, aptly named SQLOS.
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I agree 100%.

So anyone care to take a stab at it? How does this differ from .Net Core?
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Well probably not a small task to support custom modules, and it allows them to get a pretty powerful tool with a nice core set of features out the door relatively quickly. If exponent becomes successful I imagine they'll add support for custom modules.
Right. I like anyone have my share of bad experiences, however, I am not shy at all, I am not afraid to talk to people, I just don't prefer it because it taxes on my energy.
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> I don't believe any company (not even AirBnb) can provide enough incentives to mitigate this kind of stuff happening.

They can't stop it altogether, but certainly they can and will mitigate it. We can't stop murder and rape, but we do work hard to mitigate them.
> isn't anonymous

They don't know who rated them what. All they know is their average over the last 500 riders.
BTW, Amazon seems to think they're storage devices, and is offering data recovery plans.
Why can’t our leaders learn from 30 years of failure in health and education?
Even Asperger thought that his patient/students had unusual gifts as well as issues. In an attempt to keep the then-new Nazi regime from closing down his school (and later, eliminating "defective" children), he suggested they might make excellent codebreakers. Steve Silberman covers that well later in this audio interview with Terry Gross, and presumably in his book as well:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/02/43674237...
> Every driver I've met who has made the switch from taxi to Uber/Lyft says they're happier now and earning more.

This was true initially, but is no longer true. Many drivers are switching back, or switching to Gett.

> The only folks you should feel sad about are the drivers who decided to take a loan to buy their own medallion. Those are the folks who need a hand because of the catastrophic collapse of their investment. But hey, that's what bankruptcy is for. Do you feel like failed restauranteurs deserve a bailout?

Medallions are form of corruption mandated by the city. That's a little different from a failed restaurant.
What do you mean by the app being more complete?
Wanting to receive medical care is bullshit? You are all over this thread throwing around vile "aphorisms" about big people being moral failures and that they "just need to eat less!", as if it was so simple. Your casual dismissal of people's lives is appalling, and your ability to dehumanize others is sickening.

I do not blame doctors for my weight. I do blame doctors that do not give adequate medical care to people because of weight.
The article literally states the difference.
Most people were simply far more active in their teen years, whether they realize it or not.
AFAIK many states require (and Uber provides) commercial insurance while a rider is in the car.
I get that you can jump through certain hoops to make cross-platform development possible, but the applications I've seen are 'all-in' with MS (even to the point of inappropriately depending on system services like ftp). Portability simply isn't the norm, and it's disingenuous to claim otherwise.
I'd think Common Lisp is the Lisp beyond Clojure.

Also, I just see slides that have (googleable) terms, is there a recording of this presentation?

EDIT: see mkozlows' comment (THANKS!!!)
Thank you, this worked. I just tweaked a bit to run through crontab and added a notification sound for the extra push :)
But the PlayStation wasn't black either...
The color of each point is the number of iterations it takes to "escape" past the (-2-2i, 2+2i) barrier. So if you start at a point and iterate 3 times before escaping, it gets one color. If you start at a different point and have to iterate 4 times, then it gets the next color. All the colored pixels are outside the Mandlebrot set, and all the black pixels are inside (or you haven't done enough iterations to know).
Mozilla and the other browser developers' position seems to be that issuing SHA-1 certificates when they've said SHA-1 certificates should not be issued is a cardinal sin - never mind that this would break payments infrastructure. They eventually agreed to an exception process after Tyro's payments systems would presumably have stopped working if WoSign hadn't issued them a certificate.
Big people do not want to be obese, and doctors are paid for their efforts. Nobody sets out with the life goal of being fat.
I see a lot of discussion in that paper about stigmatization, "bedside manner" type stuff, and other things that understandably affect outcomes because it puts the doctor-patient relationship on a negative footing. I'm in complete agreement with that being a problem. However, it provides no evidence that diagnostic tests or any other care are categorically denied.
It's the API definition that will be shared by .net Core/full framework/asp.net/xamarin.
If you pay attention to Cisco's communications and moves you will see what they are doing - moving from hardware to software (an operating system and related services) and letting go thousands of hardware engineers.
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That's nothing to do with Chrome though, that's how the HTML is.
Auditors and ratings agencies and their ilk are a fundamentally broken service in our society. On the one hand they have to make money and on the other they have to be honest. The two are simply not compatible, seemingly. Eg: ratings agencies happily giving top tier ratings to mortgages back in pre 2008.
When you have to ask "Why", you usually are not part of 'target audience' for this type of thing :)

All jokes aside,this is a pretty big achievement for a given programmer to complete and denotes quite a bit of technical chops on many level (hardware, systems, OS, and web dev).
No one is saying you wouldn't. The major benefit of bitcoin is a global currency with predictable monetary policy. Bitcoin works anywhere the internet does without any need for third-party. Just because I have the freedom to drive my own car doesn't mean I don't take public transit or taxis every now and then.
Don't feed the troll folks, they need to learn to buy tinfoil on their own.
We'll leave the probes on until we're done debugging since it's pretty tedious to reinstall them. Is there any particular reason you suggest booting without the probes?
The tax break for consumers makes it more advantageous.
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Do our brains have extraordinary untapped powers?
Again most people aren't trying to engineer their diets, what they need is simple concepts that provide a good outline of what they need to do to meet their goals. Self-monitoring and self-correction are far more useful than knowing a precise formula of how much meat, dairy, fruits and veggies one should be eating.
Oh my god the framerate. And the pixel density. I'm getting sick just looking at the YouTube video and thinking of being in there.
So, you're OK with unlimited immigration from India then? Otherwise your whole "personal freedom" excuse falls flat on its face.
Who said there was only one?
How do you configure it for the situation mentioned in the parent comment?
Taxing wealth would be the most efficient form of taxation. It would hit the poor the least, and the rich the most.

Hell, a flat wealth tax proposal might even get the support of economists.
Cisco's software has been utter rubbish for the entire lifetime of the company. Without the hardware why would anybody go to Cisco for software? CIOs are just stuck in a mental rut?
You seem to think it's easy for customers to switch. I think there's enough barrier that they can keep the network intact.
Forums + Youtube + Digikey for most electronics repair. The ICs were a little specialty, I think I got them on eBay. For most anything once you get a hold of the part number, you're good to go.
Yes, sir, you're definitely part of the problem. No other way to put it :)
Isn't that only E&Y Hong Kong, though? Really at this point I don't know why anybody in China, or any country known for its corruption, should be accepted as auditors.
I agree with everything you've said. I live in a Chicago neighborhood people might describe as "sketchy," and while cabbies were fine driving me there, getting a cab from my neighborhood was and is an exercise in futility.

Before ridesharing became common, I had the same experience flagging cabs for black people. One time I watched several cabs drive past a young black woman with a child in a stroller. I stood slightly up the block from her, and flagged a cab for her. The cabbie drove off with their trunk open after they realized that I had flagged them for the mother rather than for myself.

I've actually experienced problems getting Ubers and Lyfts in my neighborhood as well though. I live close to a highway, and I'll often get drivers who are on the highway heading westbound, towards one of the wealthiest suburbs in the Chicago area. I'll watch on my map as they "miss" several exits in a row and keep heading west. I've kept my map open long enough to watch them get off on the exit for the nice suburb. With Lyft and Uber, I have a recourse though, because I know their name, and I can watch where they actually end up.

I've noticed that as time has gone on, more and more of the drivers are from my neighborhood or other similar neighborhoods nearby. This has become one of my favorite things about ride sharing. My neighborhood has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the United States. In certain areas, more than half of the young adult males are unemployed. Lyft and Uber, and the gig economy, have created access to economic opportunities that they wouldn't have otherwise had.

That being said, I think "gig employment" is a poor replacement for normal (W4) jobs, since they don't come with the same legal protections and benefits.
I am curious if someone from the India can comment on what the coverage for this has been in the local media. I know its been a bit controversial.
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