skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? I prefer Uber/Lyft because it's convenient (both in arranging the ride and payment) and auditable (account records) and accountable (driver and rider ratings). Being cheaper is a benefit, sure, but I'd still use it nearly as much if it cost the same as a taxi, which I rarely (if ever) used in SF before Uber, because their service level is so bad that I preferred to drive myself or suffer the discomfort, dirtiness, and trip length of Muni.

Yup, I'm merely one data point, but my POV is hardly unique.
I wonder if there is any sort of protocol for this or do people make it up as they go along.

I can imagine that a spur of the moment search like that would be chaotic at the outset.

Seems like a great space for a smartphone app that could define a grid direct searchers and use GPS to track their movements.
> We want the theories to be unifiable because we're human.

It could be a cultural thing, going back to Plato at least. But perhaps the whole of Existence cannot be reduced to a simple formula.

Perhaps at deeper levels there will be a sort of federation of theories, each with its own domain, interfaced somehow but not overlapping much.
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We live in one universe

That remains to be proved.
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Sweeping through large swaths of data on what people do in order to single out one potential person in the data.

Once you're good with that, it leads places.
The baking soda is the key to enhance the maillard reaction and decrease the time it takes to caramelise. It causes the onion to lose a bit of consistency if you use too much (softer), but once you get the right ratio (or if it doesn't matter, for example in a soup, chili or dip) you can speed it up a bit and keep them intact.
That's potentially an answer if the judge decides that the browsewrap notice was not sufficiently conspicuous to constitute a binding agreement, etc.

I would guess that most judges would not be charitable to someone pretending that they've circumvented this by rotating through proxies pre-emptively. In fact, this would likely work against the defendant as it'd be evidence of willful infringement, which is typically 3x damages. If you can convince the judge that you were just incidentally rotating IPs to protect privacy or something, you might get away with it, but it's definitely not a simple answer, and that still only gets you up to the point of receiving a C&D.

I'm not sure why you're trying so aggressively to mislead people about the legal precariousness of data scraping, but at this point it should be clear that this is not a simple matter and it's not something to approach lightly or dismissively.
Web desktops are back again! It seems it's been a long time since I last saw one. This topic always generates a big debate whether a cloud os is the future or not. In my opinion, the idea of running a universally accepted "computer" accessible from anywhere and any device is actually really powerful and centralizing all our internet lifes in one place so we can control our data is huge.

EDIT: I've been playing around with horbito for a while and it's pretty badass, it works quite fast and integrates really well with Microsoft Office, kudos for the team
Animal rights might be a more philosophically interesting motivation than concern with, say, climate change both because it's more controversial and because it's harder to sort of trade off with other interventions/solutions. Like with climate change, maybe a random person could, in practice, focus their efforts elsewhere more productively. (I'm a vegan but I fly a lot, so my carbon footprint is far larger than even the developed world average; I could make a bigger impact in that regard by just flying less than I do by being vegan.)

With animal rights or welfare, not engaging in or supporting specific uses of animals seems like the most obvious thing that one can do to promote or respect these values (but if papers like this are right, maybe that's an illusion!).
mixedCase is likely using HTTPS everywhere which redirects this page to the https version.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Can't reproduce a problem with Firefox and don't have a phone handy. Maybe you can post a screenshot? The sidebar zooming too is what I would expect. At some insane zoom level the sidebar goes away, which is probably due to CSS and could be intended.

I don't see a sidebar covering content. Of course the sidebar takes some space, but as long as it's not over the content that's a different issue IMO.
Probably the most significant addition in this release is the cargo check subcommand, which does all the type/safety checking part of rustc, but skips the LLVM part of generating the actual binary.

If you just want to make sure you code compiles, this is the command for you.

There's also a bunch of API stablilizations around Strings, Vectors etc, complete changelog: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md#ve...

Congratulations to everyone involved on the release!
Many people have ethics like yours, but these are not consequentialist ethics, which is what the article is discussing. In consequentialism, an act's rightness is determined by the goodness of what happens, not other factors.
Yes. Exactly. This is part of my point. Modern America pathologizes and medicalizes all kinds of things that are well within the norm for human behavior.

But, hey, doctors and other experts don't get paid the big bucks to say "He's just shy." You can't prescribe expensive meds if you respect people's differences.
Even for scrolling page-wise? Or you mean the keyboard is not needed when scrolling is smooth? (Die hard keyboard fans will tell you otherwise :) )
I am one of the very rare people that thinks the two sequels were better than the first film on every level, but I also hated the first film the first time I saw it. I'd also love to see the short film excised from Enter the Matrix and edited back into the sequels. I think there is room maybe even for some animated recap of important parts of The Matrix Online's story edited into a coda at the end of Revolutions...
Exactly. Too many people trying to push all starts into a Delaware X corp for their own gain. Not great blanket advice for everyone, do your own research.
But they (in particular, Google) also have experts in quantum physics and computing on staff, so they're much better equipped than most to determine the validity of the claim.
One here. Firefox mobile with ghostery, ublock origin and ddg search engine.
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Http isn't good enough anymore?
But when will it be equally distributed?
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That's a big giant "it depends."

It depends on what your service looks like: CPU intensive, Memory Intensive, Storage intensive? (In reality some unique mix).

You probably won't see a huge savings year one, as you'll be spinning up a lot of new things and have a fairly large CapEx expenditure. Now if your growth pattern is steady/predictable then you should be able to plan out your hardware buys or do a hybrid solution to handle traffic bursts.

One of the nice things about running your own hardware is that there are some costs that are easier to control. Don't need new hardware? Don't need to spend on new hardware for example.

You also have much more control over your environment so you are able to really optimize your code, and infrastructure so that you don't need to scale as large system wise.

But, back to the question on how to model it? You just gotta dig in, and make some educated guesses about performance,test and repeat.
Ask HN: What are some good home gardening tools and resources?
It's this time of the year. I'm trying to do a better job of planning my home garden. I usually just wing it and plant as many things as I could possibly fit, and I don seem to have some success with it. But this year, I want to do it nicely. Do you guys have any handy tools or resources for garden planning and such?
It's about 1 MPixel / minute on a typical desktop. The other paper mentions that it's extremely slow, but truly we did forget to give actual numbers there.
I was the opposite. I've always preferred ancient history, and wasn't interested in WW1 or WW2. Ghosts of the Ostfront and Blueprint for Armageddon completely changed that for me.
Ok, that's a great point. You're concerned with the effectiveness of the evidence in a later trial. You cited a good example of how this could backfire on the police.

Having said that I am concerned with the alarmist tone this article takes and the clickbait nature of the headline. The police are not doing what the article makes it sound like they are doing. This kind of thing undermines the fair criticism of police evidence collection and a productive conversation about privacy.
I have to disagree with you on the avocados. In certain climates (the KZN region of South Africa for instance) they grow wild and produce prodigious quantities of fruits. Most of them don't get harvested and end up on the ground, at least until the dogs find them.

A similar thing happens with guavas, to the point that they have been classified as an invasive alien species. They often grow under bridges, apparently spread primarily by homeless people eating the wild fruits.
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> The application ends in 10 days.

What can you build / do in 10 days? Mention that timeline when you submit 10 days from now.

To expand: The problem with paper prototypes are that they're easy, because anyone can do them you're inherently not separating yourself from the pack. But getting in or not getting into YC doesn't mean it's not a good idea. It's just that very few accelerators today take in a company at the paper prototype stage [not because the idea is bad but because too many other competing ideas are way further along and have proven more about their assumptions].
> You think "raw" meat is unprocessed?

Your reading comprehension needs work.

And compared to tofu, a cut of raw meat is far less processed.
If the "designer" only cares about the look of their site, then they're an artist, not a designer. Usability and accessibility are intrinsic parts of web design.
That whole blog is worth a good read through. Lots of interesting stuff, particularly if you care about dynamic language implementation.
Ask HN: How to get the ease of SPA on the back-end?
Does anyone have experience with a Handlebars like equivalent for the back-end? It would be great to get the ease of which you can produce components/reusable modules on the back-end without necessarily being tied to a specific back-end (e.g. Rails templates, C# templates).

In Ember there's Fastboot which would give you both (a single way to write all of your templates, but are served from your back-end), but it's not ready for prime-time quite yet. Another nice thing about Ember in particular is that your templates are standardized with handlebars, so theoretically you could switch from Ember and not have to do that much work on the template-end.

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I'm a fan of keeping your back-end and front-end decoupled, but it would be nice to also have the advantages that back-end served templates give you, as well. It might be a pipe-dream, but I folks here might have some experience.
disclosure: I'm a founder of Mesosphere.

For most people k8s (like any other distributed system) is pretty hard to operate and wrap their head around. The goal of DC/OS is to make building and operating distributed systems easy. Mesos is pretty different from k8s. It doesn't have an API for microservice developers for example, instead it has low level primitives similar to an operating system kernel, on which you can build any software. We recently launched an SDK to make that even easier, along with a bunch of open source and commercial software that uses it, for example Cassandra/Datastax, Kafka/Confluent, Redis, Elastic, Couchbase, Alluxio.
So DC/OS ends up looking a lot more like an entire cloud platform like GCP, which offers managed k8s, a managed database (BigTable), machine learning and so on. Under the hood it all runs on Google's proprietary Borg, which has some similarities with Mesos (Google is a sponsor of the lab where Mesos was created).
A friend of mine was annoyed that a small service he liked was shutting down.

He contacted the developer who said that they were shutting it down because the server costs were higher than the money they were making.

They were spending 5k a month on AWS crap and claimed it was impossible to get any lower.

He helped them consolidate everything onto a single rented dedicated server costing 400 a month. Now the service is profitable, and will stay up.

It runs way faster on the single server. It also has required less maintenance after the move too.

This kind of shit is everywhere. At this point simply not using AWS is a competitive advantage.
is it just me or does anyone want to see something of substance and not speculations?
Last night I had a dream that I was telling someone to check out Michel Foucault. I specifically remember spelling their name and telling them they should look him up.
This is the kind of argument your anti-social prick brother gives at Christmas dinner for attention, and they gave him a prize for it? Really!?
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«Uh, what is this author railing against? A possibility that exists only in his head? Is there any evidence this is even in the cards?»

Warner Brothers announced just recently that they had a script and a lead actor in mind. The Wachowskis are not involved at all (and can't possibly be, given their already full dance card with Sense8 and other projects). WB owns the rights out right after producer Joel Silver sold his majority share so they can pretty much do what they want. The scuttlebutt is that they want to full and completely reboot/remake the franchise, starting from square one, which presumably means a new Neo, Agent Smith, etc.
Man, I'm pretty convinced that Vim macros have single-handedly saved me years of my life. They're so incredibly useful that it's made Vim one of the first things that I install on any machine.
The charities themselves rarely do that directly (unfortunately, as the OP said, the incentives are really messed-up so they would never do so), but GiveWell does it "by proxy" every year, so if you donate to GiveWell's "general fund" you can be sure that they're iterating and correcting for failures.

In terms of other feedback, I have to say I really like the clean separation of "ends" and how you can pick which one(s) you want. TBH, I've been getting increasingly annoyed at how the X-risk people are gradually taking over EA, but I don't want to just quit or blow up at them either (they mean well even if I think they're misguided). This looks like a way that everyone can be happy. Please don't let them needle you into adding that stuff into the Global Development or Animal Welfare funds.
Microsoft will finally be able to compile their C++ based Office.

Now web browsers turned to Java WebStart again.

It's a very dumb thing. Browsers will waste a lot of battery. Lot's of DRM and binary blobs.

ASM.js was at least based on Javascript. Now Javascript already got "class" syntax thanks to Microsoft, now they hit the Web with another nail. An inside job, we may see another propriotary closed web with pay-to-view and ISP whitelisting certain services like is already reality in third world countries in Africa (and sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook).
Thank you very much!! We also think web desktops are the future, there have been many attempts in the past but they never really worked, technology has advaced a lot since then and has enabled us to create for the fist time a really good user experience
> hallway outside my apartment is currently trashed by an airbnb guest, the host doesn't care

Can't you sue?
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But that's the thing, though: unlike many Uber/Lyft drivers, you have chosen to put yourself into this situation. The onus is on you to figure out how to support yourself while you have no income working on your startup, not on the random people who ride in your car while you're driving for Lyft.
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Hi Seth! I'm reminded of an Aaron Swartz story that I suppose we could share:

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During my first few years in Cambridge, Aaron was one of my favorite people to scheme with. We started and — then usually abandoned — a whole string of projects. We would argue for hours and hours about sociology, economics, technology, and ethics.

I remember one time I took Aaron to the Boston vegetarian food festival to see a talk by Peter Singer who is an ethicist at Princeton who many people credit as the intellectual founder of the modern animal rights movement. Aaron went to ask Singer if we (humans) have an ethical obligation to keep animals from hurting each other?

As Aaron approached Singer, I sort of shrunk back a little bit. Embarrassed. The question just seemed, I don't know, “troll-ish” and I figured it would just annoy Singer. But, to my surprise, Singer sighed, thought for a bit, and said something like, “yes, if we can do it without causing more suffering in the process, I suppose we should.”

That that's the Aaron I knew. A recklessly creative intellectual refusing to be hemmed in by what most of us take for granted. And in that process, always thinking about the greater good.

-- Benjamin Mako Hill, https://mako.cc/talks/20130311-bmh-aaron_swartz_memorial_rem...
Though I disagree with the basic premise of your argument--I've never once gotten the same driver, and doubt that Lyft is building a tipping profile of me for the purpose of sharing it with them--I totally, completely agree that tipping should be replaced by living wages for service workers. But that's just not the world in which we currently live. Until such time as it is, I'm more than happy to spend a little extra since the marginal utility of my $5 Lyft tip is, presumably, way higher for the driver than it is for me.
That appears not to be the case.

pwillis@windows:~/Downloads$ wget -q -O allitems.csv https://cve.mitre.org/data/downloads/allitems.csv
pwillis@windows:~/Downloads$ ( for year in `seq 1999 2016` ; do TOTAL=`cat allitems.csv | grep -v RESERVED | grep "^CVE-$year" | wc -l`; BUFF=`cat allitems.csv | grep -v RESERVED | grep "^CVE-$year" | grep -i -e "buffer.*overflow\|overflow.*buffer" | wc -l`; PERCENT=`awk "BEGIN{print $BUFF/$TOTAL*100}" | cut -d. -f1`; echo "Year $year: $TOTAL CVEs, $BUFF buffer overflow related, $PERCENT% total" ; done )
Year 1999: 1573 CVEs, 307 buffer overflow related, 19% total
Year 2000: 1237 CVEs, 250 buffer overflow related, 20% total
Year 2001: 1540 CVEs, 278 buffer overflow related, 18% total
Year 2002: 2370 CVEs, 481 buffer overflow related, 20% total
Year 2003: 1519 CVEs, 346 buffer overflow related, 22% total
Year 2004: 2670 CVEs, 470 buffer overflow related, 17% total
Year 2005: 4686 CVEs, 519 buffer overflow related, 11% total
Year 2006: 7047 CVEs, 612 buffer overflow related, 8% total
Year 2007: 6510 CVEs, 868 buffer overflow related, 13% total
Year 2008: 7034 CVEs, 619 buffer overflow related, 8% total
Year 2009: 4888 CVEs, 589 buffer overflow related, 12% total
Year 2010: 4954 CVEs, 419 buffer overflow related, 8% total
Year 2011: 4441 CVEs, 428 buffer overflow related, 9% total
Year 2012: 5219 CVEs, 399 buffer overflow related, 7% total
Year 2013: 5731 CVEs, 382 buffer overflow related, 6% total
Year 2014: 7494 CVEs, 326 buffer overflow related, 4% total
Year 2015: 6526 CVEs, 357 buffer overflow related, 5% total
Year 2016: 7180 CVEs, 471 buffer overflow related, 6% total

According to this really shitty review of CVEs, buffer overflow is less than 10% (recently less than 6%) of tracked vulnerabilities. That's still a lot, of course.
It's even worse because the type of person who is Googling "What's the speed of sound" very likely doesn't understand that there are all these variables that affect it in the first place.
That rummaging, though, is extremely restricted from the perspective of traditional privacy concerns -- it's not like someone at Google gets to look up what John Q. Smith searched for on this day. The analogy would be more like, "would you consider it private if a robot could look at each safe deposit box and add a special flyer to the ones with gloves in them, and then only in special circumstances does anyone get to look at anonymized box/flyer pairings to see if the robot did it right?"
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General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are two astonishingly successful theories. They don't really have any massive gaps waiting to be filled.

Individually, you're entirely right about this: both general relativity (GR) and quantum field theory (QFT) are beautiful, self-consistent theories that describe things with tremendous accuracy in the domains where each is relevant. But nevertheless, there are fundamental inconsistencies between them, or at least, scenarios that we absolutely do not understand today.

That's why so many people are interested in black hole physics, as one example: those are objects whose gravitational properties can only be understood using general relativity, but which have profoundly complicated and interesting behaviors related to quantum field theory and particle physics as well. In that context, GR and QFT really do seem to contradict one another, as the famous black hole information paradox illustrates. (Rigorous theorems in relativity say that information crossing an event horizon is lost forever; the postulates of quantum mechanics require that every process in physics be "unitary" and thus cannot possibly destroy information.) So it's simply not internally consistent to postulate a universe simultaneously obeying the rules of both GR and QFT as we understand them today.

The universe definitely has no obligation to cater to our human aesthetic preferences, but I think we're justified in assuming that it doesn't actively contradict itself, either.
Off the top of my head, I'd probably say integration by parts in multiple dimensions. Generally, I see people given an outline of a proof in two dimensions for Green's theorem. I'd say it's an outline because the typical qualification is that the proof is for simple regions and that all we have to do is patch these regions together for more complicated areas. However, the details of how that works, in my opinion, are complex. The only full proof that I've ever seen for this result comes from Daniel Stroock's book, "A concise introduction to the theory of integration." He takes a little over 100 pages of background work to get there. This actually leads to my math confession, "I have a PhD in math and can't prove integration by parts in multiple dimensions."

By the way, if anyone has another reference or good proof for proving integration by parts in multiple dimensions, please let me know. I'd love to see it.

As another aside, I'd love to start using interactive theorem proving tools in my field, which tends to be related to things like optimization and differential equations. That said, I've never seen examples for how to prove results for stuff in calculus using interact theory proving tools, so do you know of any? Really, things like the mean value theorem or Taylor series would be great to see.
If you want something of substance, Kurzweil is not the person you want to talk to.

He has impressive technical work to his name, but his written predictions are wishful thinking.
You'd need 300*60 = 18000 film cameras to keep up with preserving it all, plus some spare capacity for when you're changing film reels. If a film reel lasts an hour, it'll generate 18000 reels every hour, which should fit in a semi trailer. Not cheap, but entirely feasible.