skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it's just a matter of time before people look for correlations between this gene and race.

Boy is this going to open a can of worms.
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But as I mentioned, 5 drivers per car is overestimating considerably the actual number of drivers you need for practical coverage. You don't need your full fleet 24/7, the demand just isn't there for it around the clock.

Call it three drivers for practical coverage. Now we're at
$120k for labor (3 x40k). But we've added 50k to operations in other areas. So now we're saving 70k in overall costs. Which is good, but a long way from 200k.

If you just needed 1 driver for the car, then there's a net loss with the driverless version (with these theoretical numbers anyway).

Perhaps the most efficient method would be a base fleet of driverless cars that operated 24/7, with peak times adding in cheaper cars with human drivers....
Indeed, I think first-mover advantage is generally quite overrated. It helps to have some forerunners soften up the market to make your penetration smoother, and I can't think of many major players who are there simply because they were the first mover.

It can take some time to undo a company's market share if they were first to market, but better products generally win out even if they're comparatively late (as long as they're not too late).
Flickr is something completely different. It's basically a suite of fun things you can do with photos, and designed so that one activity leads into another - searching, commenting, groups, tagging, searching, curating, apps...

Flickr failed to get into mobile partially because of Yahoo's interference -- but perhaps our approach was too complex for mobile. In the early days of Flickr, it was incredibly absorbing - people would waste hours on the site, just like Facebook. But that may require a bigger screen and more free time than someone has when they are on the go.

Flickr is to Instagram as Facebook is to Twitter.
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Unrelated to the topic at hand, but who else here on HN actually contributes to Wikipedia? Lots of technical articles in the algorithms & data structures field are very lacking, and you aren't likely to encounter the much-discussed editor drama wars there.

I myself have started expanding the articles on string search algorithms, and have found it is a great way to incentivize learning things while also contributing meaningfully to society.
First you laughed at their pitiful loonie

Then it reached parity

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Wikipedia has many, many issues, but the reasons you provide aren't their real problem. Wikipedia provides most of the information needed for free and unfettered dissemination and distribution. This is not something that Encarta could ever claim. A lot of the media on Encarta is licensed and costs lots of money to publish, assuming you can get the publishers permission to do so.

No, Wikipedia's issues are, sadly for me, abuse of admin power, an inability to deal with trolls or people like Giano (who are experts in their field but don't play nicely with others) and a lack of enforcement of core site policies.

This, unfortunately, infects the project and causes problems with the actual content. There are many, many more folks who want to participate the in the admins notice board than there are those who want to work on articles. As the person who actually came up with the idea of the admission notice board and who started it, that makes me very sad.
Linkbait title.

TLDR: Wikipedia needs more images, videos etc. In a bid to rile up emotion he compares wikipedia unfavourably to an ancient version of encarta.

AFAIK: there are no technical restrictions on adding videos and images to the pages. The reason there aren't more videos/images etc is because of copyright concerns. It just isn't that easy still to find images/videos with clear copyright.

Since text is literally created by the authors, wikipedia automatically assigns themselves the right to use the text you type in on.
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Is this seriously something people think would happen? Wouldn't the internet at large be up in arms at Google for this kind of behavior?
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What the DoJ wants is an easy, flexible statutory framework that will let them shortcut prosecutions in cases like this, where you have a clear bad-actor for whom non-CFAA cases would be complicated and expensive to pursue.

This fails to reassure me.
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http://irvingruan.com/post/21193158790/its-okay-to-suck-at-things
Can anyone tell me what, if anything, is added to this article by the profanity and obscene references? The point made here is good, but the language detracts significantly.
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Fails to reassure you of what? I can't help feeling like you stopped reading at that sentence.
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That's the other problem. A very low tolerance for failure in the context of "trying something new". If you start a business and it succeeds? We love you. If you start a business and it fails? Forever Pariah.

You are right though that as things grow dire, folks will be more willing to take risks.
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I didn't play it much but the bug did only happen once.

It runs at 60 f/s.

Seems like some debugging keys are enabled. Currently L and Q skips the current level and P freezes the game.
A service that doesn't count towards the cap is perceived as "cheaper" and thus more desirable.
I enjoy linked lists like daringfireball.net and parislemon.com

While the commentary is frequently biased (whose isn't?) I find being able to read the original articles helps get a great overall view of an issue.

Also, theverge.com
Why doesn't distributing the source satisfy all of these? Can't users do anything they want with the program itself? Couldn't jailbreaking (or paying $99/yr for the developer program) to run your own apps be considered the same as any other step you need to run programs on other platforms? On Windows you need to put it in an .exe file, on iOS you need to fork over $99.
> But it's still a greater degree of privacy than having it indexed and merged with other info Google may have.

Sorry but I fail to understand the logic here: If you put something on a blog or whatever, it's indexable by Google and other search engines, if you put it on Facebook, it's indexable by Facebook and it's partners.

If you post your data on Facebook it's searchable on Facebook(unless probably if it's marked private, that way it's only used for advertising), so basically if I want to add your data to my results, I just have to search twice, which is inconvenient but I wouldn't call it privacy. Heck I could probably write browser extension in a day that does this automatically.

> indexed and merged with other info Google may have

Facebook has your personal connections and a subset of your browser history, what can Google add to that to make it even creepier?

FYI: Bing incorporates the Facebook data, they have permission from Facebook, which means you have precisely zero extra security on Facebook.

But let's talk about security: do you really think your private stuff are really private on Facebook? If you want to control access to stuff, you are better off hosting a blog on a private server on an encrypted drive, that way your private info is really private.

> There's no monopoly since I can delete it and eventually FB will have to delete it too (now they hide it instantly).

You seem to confuse monopoly with consumer rights or control. If Facebook holds 90% of the social data in the world, it's a monopoly, period. Monopolies are illegal because they have the power to abuse. Also your deleted picture won't be hidden instantly, it will probably linger on a CDN for years to come. :)

> Not so on Google or when snippets are posted over and over again in blog after blog.

Are you implying that I can't copy paste your facebook post and repost it over and over again?
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... which makes sense, because the WSJ of 1912 was far more narrowly aimed at financial news than it is today.
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Looking forward to "see" what the HN community has to say about the whole idea.
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Trusting artificial intelligence to make up for human stupidity doesn't look like a very good idea to me.

ASI is supposed to work in exceptional scenarios where you would have ended up making a mistake but wouldn't want to be reminded of. And that is supposed to be in rare scenarios.

Now if you make exception the norm and expect tools to make up for bad practices then its not going to help.

And this is why I think Python's forced indentation is in some way bad. Because it makes the code from a bad and good programmer both look same. And merely forcing code indentation won't magically transmogrify a bad programmer to a good programmer. There are many things to good programming and indentation is just one of them. Worse it will make both's code look the same.

Forgiving or masking or making bad practices look good doesn't help on the longer run. It only encourages such behavior. I am sure bad programmers can slip in easily into these communities than else where, because they are difficult to flush out and their mistakes are often forgiven or made look good.
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Not necessarily the top projects, but rather the most visible in each area. For example, if you are going to try building an app in Ruby, then there will be a bunch of things you will use to build that app. Most of those things will probably be on Github. Those are the projects to watch and perhaps contribute to.

Establish yourself as an authority, or at least create some visibility for yourself. Again, you do this by writing code, publishing code, writing articles, meeting people, etc. Another way to do this would be to make a name for yourself in less mature but trending areas. For example, NodeJS is very new and there are a lot of problems which still need to be solved in that ecosystem. Pick a problem, run with it and then if you can nail it then you have just established some authority for yourself. Keep building up this profile and you will have no problems landing work.
To Google:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

threatens their ability to index and serve ads against the open web, which is really what they mean.
Awesome

One thing I really want to see get out of a universe/solar system app, though, is a better sense of scale -- to me, having enlarged planets makes it difficult for me to understand the strength and range of gravity, or the challenges of the distances involved.

Perhaps this could be done by adding a window showed a magnified view of (the) space under the cursor, rather like a telescope/magnifying glass?
Too bad the article didn't mention the specific SNP.
And the answer to that is another question - are you building a large money making business from scratch or an attractive acquisition target?

To each his own, basically. First-to-market advantage, coupled with an innovative, actually useful idea and polished execution is a sure way to build large user following quickly, which is typically one of early-stage startup's top priorities. Large money making comes afterwards and it requires an established business, which is a different context where first to the market advantage is of a lesser importance.
That's pretty awesome, I could see myself helping my friends with chemistry with this application. I would recommend cleaning up the UI a little though, it seems cluttered.
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I definitely agree. It's useful as a way to analyze a competitive space, not an absolute.
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I been at both sides of the table, had every idiot out there with TNFB ("the next facebook") ask me to sign a poorly written NDA before sharing their half-asses ideas.

But it stops being funny when you consider how much it would suck to get not only your idea but your entire plan for a startup stolen.

I heard this story at TheFunded about how a certain well-known startup began in that way. The original founders pitched it to some investors who liked it, but had doubts about the team, so what they do? they give everything (biz plan, doc, mockups, etc) to their EiRs and they launch an exact copy of it, sans the domain name for obvious reasons.

For me it was just another story, until I talked to one of the investors at that fund and instead of flat out denying it he said "how do you know that?"

Consider that whatever verbal contract you got with investors or other entrepreneurs is not legally valid, so if they actually copy your ideas you are SOL.
I wonder how much information Encarta had on the Pitjantjatjara language(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitjantjatjara_language) or evolutionary approaches to depression(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_approaches_to_depr...)? I imagine fuck all.

How much does video add to your understanding of a subject? I don't imagine people who watch the History Channel would have a comparable understanding to those who read about similar topics through Wikipedia. Video is often just a distraction.
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I have hired programmers who "learned in 21 days" just to be open minded. Never again. I am NOT elitist. I am not saying that a CS degree from a top-level university is necessary. Not at all. I've worked with college dropouts that can run circles around PhD's. No question about it.

No, what I am saying is that becoming a good programmer requires a lot more than what is covered in these 21 day books. To be clear, I don't want to pick on those books, I've used them myself and they are excellent. However, I come at it with twenty years of having worked on everything from assembler to, well, all kinds of languages.

It's one thing to be able to to hack at a language. It's quite another to be a good programmer, regardless of what language you happen to have to use.

It's the difference between Luke flying the Starfighter with instruments and using the Force. One focuses on the mechanics, the other just flows through you.

OK, maybe I went too far on that one...
Happened to me twice, and Google once boasted about advertising for python to filter for devs at the forefront - not that they'd actually be doing much python. I guess one could check in the interview.
rs10784502

"In addition, the C allele of rs10784502 is associated, on average, with 9,006.7 mm3 larger intracranial volume, or 0.58% of intracranial volume per risk allele and is weakly associated with increased general intelligence by approximately 1.29 IQ points per allele."

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2250....

[Edited to provide a more useful quote]
It's from the article, "Smartphone apps, as led by Apple: “all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can’t search it”"

When you run the second biggest app market in the world it makes you sound like just a bit of a hypocrite.

And my issue with WebM/WebP is that Google just seems to release these standards with a complete disregard for what the rest of the industry is doing or has done.

True openness happens when you have established open standards that everyone uses.
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What a load of rubbish.

1) Google provides NO API for extracting all my data from Google Plus.

2) Facebook has a download my information link in the Preferences panel.
Original articles:

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2250....

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2245....

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2237....
According to the abstract on the Nature Genetics paper, they were looking at this SNP in HMGA2: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=1078...
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Is there a place that lists the projects that ended up being a failure? I'm curious what the failure rate of Kickstarter is, and if fraud artists are attempting to rip people off via it. Also, if the failure rate starts increasing, would that jeopardize the entire business model, if people lose confidence that the projects will see the light of day?
The article is total spin. I fail to see how the egregious number (and detailedness) of factual errors in this report could be blamed on faulty wireless communication. Is it a case of just overzealous filling in the blanks, or was the Edwardian-era WSJ the Fox News of its time?

Incidently, by coincidence I happened to see the 3D version of the movie last night at the exact hour of the hundreth year anniversary of the collision. Didn't realize it til later when I was reading about the disaster on Wikipedia, at what turned out to be, after triple checking my calculations, the centennial of the final sinking, to the minute, 2:20am ship's local time.

It was a bit surreal to say the least, inspiring a long night of contemplation about technology, nature, society, love & honor, and the brevity of life. So terrible to see how the facts were initially so thoroughly misrepresented...
Of course. I wrote "YMMV" and "I am not so sure" -- those explicitly expressed my doubts about the wisdom of absolutism on either "side" (there are several sides, actually).

NPM fans can use the NPM style well, I've seen it. Whether it scales to the masses remains to be demonstrated, but that may be true of any coherent style.

JS is used by many hackers who do not know all of its rules. It seems to work, mostly (an amazing feat, no?), but I have heard eyewitness testimony from people burned by statements starting with ( that ended up preceded by an unterminated statement, and the kingdom was lost for want of a ;.

Under maintenance, edits tend to make Murphy an optimist. I suspect the NPM crew selects for the best and gets the best. How that would hold up at scale with regression to the hacker mean is an open question in my mind.
How does this correlate with West Coast startup culture? Is San Francisco really replacing Silicon Valley in terms where the companies, and so where the people, are going?
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Cool. Please by all means show me how to get a list of my circles from Google Plus ?

Because last time I checked their API was very, very basic.
Nice idea, but seems to lack of any input escaping.

=> Humanize.truncatechars("<script>alert('yo');<\/script>", 30)
"<script>alert('yo');</script>"

=> Humanize.linebreaks("<script>alert('yo');<\/script>")
"<p><script>alert('yo');</script></p>"

Bug filed.
The most important quotation from the article for establishing context on what the latest finding means: "It is generally accepted that genes, a good education and environmental factors combine to determine our intelligence. 'If people wanted to change their genetic destiny they could either increase their exercise or improve their diet and education,' said Thompson. 'Most other ways we know of improving brain function more than outweigh this gene.'"

And it's important to remember that the study here is based on data-mining

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

and has the usual defects of unreplicated studies of this kind.
In criminal court? I can't think of any jurisdiction that charges a fee for pleading not guilty, going to trial, and being convicted.

In civil court outside the US, the loser pays attorney's fees. I don't know about court fees, since those are usually relatively tiny compared to attorney's fees.
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I totally agree. i.e. plural should be handled by i18n libraries. Same thing for the thousands separator, different locales use different separators/styles.
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Facebook doesn't provide a way to search for other users based on content on their page and AFAIK neither does Bing.

Do you have some evidence for this ?
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There's already Internet carpool services. I'm wondering why none have taken off like Zipcars have.
I misspelled FYI - "for your information". You said there are only downsides, and no advantages; I just told you what the claimed advantage is for "abusing" ASI.

I hope you're not just being snarky.
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Really, Sergey? Isn't Google a little... young to pull the whole "My inability to compete with a competitor makes them a force for evil" card?

They must be in worse shape than I'd guessed.

Eh, then again, at 14 years old, it's about time for the crustiness to start setting in. I guess it shouldn't come as a shock.
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Out of genuine curiosity: did you miss the movie the first time, or did you think the 3D would add something more to it? Either way, did you enjoy it?
What are the universally accepted style rules for C/C++? Every organization I have worked in has had to develop their own guidelines around style in C/C++.

What really surprises me is that such a large number of people are quick to attack someone for writing legal code simply because they disagree with the style used. It feels awfully close to attacking someone for using a different bracing style from your preferred bracing style.
Why? Do you think this is insecure?
I've enjoyed everything up to where he starts bad-mouthing the benefits of competition, where he claims that if there's perfect competition "nobody makes any money".

That's about as sensible as Yogi Berra's "Nobody goes there any more -- it's too crowded".

With more competition, things are significantly better for nearly everyone, and only slightly less awesome for the erstwhile monopolists.