skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will never get tired of hearing that. Obviously have an enormous amount of work to do but thanks.
I'm wondering what happens when someone gets hit by a car and complains that the bike didn't include a helmet.

Don't get me wrong. I love the idea in every way, shape, and form - but I have serious questions about the legal safety issues.
Hardware/software wise they are rather mundane but with regards to consumer mind-share and brand recognition I'd say they're performing better than ever.
Yeah, my brain found it unreadable.
It was never required as a tradition. Of the first several presidents, only Washington even served in the armed forces. In modern times, William Taft Woodrow Wilson, and Herbert Hoover did not serve in the military.

Military service was simply a huge political boost. Soldiers like Grant and Andrew "Stonewall" Jackson used the popularity generated by their military successes to launch political careers. During the 2nd half of the 1950s, the constant state of warfare (real or cold) generally meant the American public preferred candidates with military experience over those without. Once the Cold War ended, that preference died.
I've had the pleasure of talking to the guys from ViaCycle. Koji himself is a UW grad. Apparently it's difficult to do bike sharing in Seattle because of King County's helmet law.
> 50% of their revenue goes directly to the company's running the campaign

False.

> sales are declining

False.
Like all methodologies, it has a formal name despite its informal nature:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeAndFix
I also wouldn't mind trying out a Windows Phone if Verizon had a decent one. You would think that Microsoft would have the cash to force the issue a little more.
Jesus, when will people stop posting this kind of "X faster than C" benchmarks? They are completely misleading and irrelevant.

Next time someone is tempted please remember:

- You are comparing apples to oranges (interpreters to compiled languages, bigint libraries to hardware-level ints, etc.)

- What a C compiler does on one particular architecture running under a particular OS is not representative of C performance

- You are most probably benchmarking just a tiny subset of what the language can do, and in most cases that subset is irrelevant in 99% of uses (e.g. "float comparison faster in Blub". Who cares if most people are using Blub to build webpages?)

- Finally and most importantly: WHO CARES? Unless it affects a part of the code I'm using extensively it will only affect performance tangentially, if at all.

EDIT: formatting
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But isn't LLVM written in C++, too?
In Germany we have a system like this called call-a-bike (it's run by the german railway!). It works surprisingly well. You're allowed to leave the bikes wherever you want and if they are left unused for a while a truck will come and move them back to a central location.

I really like what via cycle has done with the SMS unlocking. Back when I was in Germany, almost three years ago now (!), you had to call a service line to find/unlock a bike. Late at night there were usually wait times and it was especially difficult to manage the entire process if you were a little tipsy.

There's similar systems in many other European countries. I hear great things about a system in France called velib (I think).

Edit: I forgot to mention, the German bikes also have a second seat on the back. I'm not sure from the picture if this is also true for viaCycle but it's definitely one of the best features. Here's a picture http://www.pedelecforum.de/forum/imgcache/5382.png*
Interesting. I'm in Montreal, the birthplace of Bixi, which runs the London bike share program, and the upcoming NYC program as well as many others. Works fairly well, but apart from the cost the docking stations cost the city parking revenue.

One major administrative cost is moving bikes around. People tend to take them downtown during the day, and out of the town at night. Even if you don't need docks, you still have to move bikes.
I'm not sure which you take issue with. Do you think:

-she has no right to privacy?

-she deserves to be harassed?

-she deserves fraudulent copyright claims against her?

-or do you simply think the use of words not in your vocabulary makes her opinion irrelevant?

Doxxing is a concise term that describes a real phenomenon and it happens to be quite old in internet terms.

I would expect some informal language in a transcript to a youtube video. However, after reviewing the entire transcript again, I don't see much informal writing at all. I have no idea what you're referring to with "lulz" and I'm still looking for this "childish writing."
Ask HN: echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" ›› /etc/hosts?
Yesterday a friend asked to use my computer so that he could complete a show flyer for a band. I've also added 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com. He asked, almost cheekily, "Did _you_ do this to your computer?" -- He not being savvy enough to realize what was going on (He could have asked if the wifi hotspot we were on blocked FB, which, of course, is a wholly different, and more terrifying idea, but hey, the wifi I'm on now blocks torrentfreak.com...)

Usually if someone asks, "May I use your laptop to browse Facebook?" I will tell them that I have to re-configure a few things first. This usually steers the conversation to some other direction.

Generally, I don't want sites which use Facebook "like" buttons or Facebook's comments API to complete those requests from my system.

Is this good practice? Socially or technically?
Sure, I do like your phrasing better, less maintainable code.
How do they tackle the stolen/abandoned/damaged bike problems that plague every community bike program?
That sounds wild, you should blog about this if you haven't, I'm sure many here would love reading more :)
lol cracked me up. this is pure gold, thanks!
I know bandwidth is a problem, but isn't battery consumption a bigger problem? Whatever we lose in bandwidth usage, we gain in power drain, right?
To me, this comment is more proof that muslims are the new gooks.
He had said previously:

Joeyh: "One (git-annex) is a large-ish, serious work, and I have been very pleased with how haskell has made it better, even though there was a learning curve (took me two weeks to write the first prototype, which I could have probably dashed off in perl in two days), and even though I have occasionally been blocked by the type system or something and had to do more work.

One concrete thing I've noticed is that this is the only program where I have listed every single bug I fixed in the changelog -- because there have been so few, it's really a notable change to fix one!"
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Bonus points : when I first read the title being that I'm a French speaker, I read it as "si simple" since it's the same pronunciation, which means "so simple"
You do not necessarily need a Facebook account to post on the comments plugin. See the "other login providers" section on the docs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comme...
You are confusing MPEG the ISO working group with MPEG-LA the private company of lawyers. ISO has nothing to gain from patent trolling, they are financed by the purchase of their standards. MPEG is doing the exact same thing they have since 1988. That's saying nothing of the ITU, which is equally involved in this spec.
I think it's reasonable. I have a number of sites (reddit.com, facebook.com and google-analytics.com) blocked in the same way in my /etc/hosts

Since I don't have Facebook account I very rarely need to unblock it for anything and it's a bit of a pain to do so it stops me wasting time on sites like reddit.
Peteretep said that public perceptions on drug use have changed substantially over the past 2 decade, and I think he meant to say what he actually did say.

It was not a matter of how the media reports it.
The media gleefully reported on all of the presidential candidates' drug use (or lack thereof). Voters simply do not care any more.
I can't argue with that number much, nor provide any real defense in India's favor, but do consider that the cost of living and labor in India is far far lesser than in the UK.

Returning to my earlier argument, this isn't about any sacrificial costs. There is enough budget for everything including infrastructure development and a space mission as far as the Indian budget is concerned. The problems at the grassroot are not due to lack of spending power but corruption and broken implementation practices.
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First thing I thought of is Bixi up in Montreal (and in Toronto, London, and Ottawa).
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I wonder if a 10 year long war will change that in 10-15 years. Probably.
I really like seeing all of these companies like MobileWorks, Exec, Uber, et al that are solving problems that are very challenging but in more of an operational way than technical (although technology obviously plays a large role).
NYT is reporting a denial - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/world/americas/president-o...
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The people in the OpenBSD project seem pretty happy with their toolchain. pcc was removed from the source tree due to lack of progress. Making a really good c compiler is hard and I don't think they have the people or interest at this time.

I don't think they would switch to clang. LLVM is also c++.
Call a bike in Germany is definitely a great system! viaCycle strives to improve on this by geo-fencing the bicycles when they need to be checked back into the system (and so you are no longer charged for usage). This helps maintain distribution and gives users reliable, structured locations to get bicycles, so they're not just strewn across cities.
Glad to hear it! This is an important philosophical difference for us. Quality control in a cloud labor service should be the platform's job, not the customer's. The system should work correctly out of the box.

And yes, our workforce is separate from Turk's - part of the reason the quality is better.
I know that feeling. I was cruising along in my brand new BMW. Missed a couple of payments and I had to go back to my Honda Civic. It must be just like that.

Most people that I know use a mouse, which has better scrolling and is much more precise.
That was si intententional
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addfs.com is inspired by the mount command in Unix OS. Just as mount command enables the ability of accessing multiple external devices using the same API i.e. Unix File System, addfs.com enables users to access multiple cloud storage (Box, Dropbox and Google Drive) through the same interface (HTML and Rest).
A bit like having to protect a trade mark?
India has achieved quite a bit with its space exploration. It is the same space programme that has provided Indians with satellites that are applied to agriculture. The IRS-P6 Resourcesat has been deployed for studying cropping patterns [1]. I am sure other satellites have been used for various other agricultural applications. Frankly this "feed the poor first" meme of the western media [and some disillusioned folks] is quite irritating. The meme only goes to show that the western media does not really appreciate achievement from a "developing country".

When India was on its way to launch its first rocket [way back when], some parts of the rocket were carried by the ISRO scientists pillion riding on a bicycle. Time magazine, in true western style, ridiculed that inicident. (Unfortunately I am not able to find references for this. So recounting from memory here.) Now after the moon shot with Chandrayaan-1, we know who had the last laugh.

However, on this particular occasion, I think this announcement is a populist one. The Central Government has nothing to show in terms of achievement. The government's image is severely tattered, what with all the corruption charges, policy paralysis, lack of any real economic progress, etc. Nothing like whipping up some nationalism to distract the people from noticing the lack of government performance.

Without the political context, I am guessing this Mars mission might provide scientists with
1) Insights on developing long range space travel
2) Insights into instrumentation technology
3) Robotics related tech

And India has had collaborative associations with several space agencies from different countries. It is only adding to the already existing space related body of knowledge.

All the disillusioned folks who think they are entitled to dictate policy decisions on account of their country giving "handouts" to India, feel free to take a hike.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2025000
My guess is weight + money. Not sure how much a space hardened flash costs. On top of that could be complexity costs.
We just got a similar system in Boston: http://www.thehubway.com/
Their pricing structure seems super confusing. There's two full paragraphs talking about it.
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According to jgrahamc, it sounds like they driving software was finished en route and actually was uploaded to curiosity before it landed. Apparently, the past few days have been spent installing the software rather than downloading it from Earth.
> The best speed limits I've seen were on German highways - they were variable speed limits based on road conditions (that actually made sense !!! ).

And people are still breaking them.
I'm surprised Bcycle hasn't moved into Seattle yet to be honest. They're setting up bike-shares all over the country (started here in Denver).
Good luck

We have this type of system( Bixi) in Toronto. When I first heard of it I kind-of sneered at it. I wasn't sure who would actually use this system.

But it's pretty popular. Not sure if it makes any money though.
It would probably be great if the GPU support wasn't much more than something like Rootbeer but directly embedded in the JVM. It isn't clear to me that they will be able to identify things to run on the GPU automatically.
Relatedly, what's the correct way to install Python 3 on a Linux server (debian based) so I can try this? while keeping Python 2.x.

The last time I tried doing that I ended up in some weird quagmire with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH being messed up. There must be a standard way to install it?
5.4? That's actually pretty sad. But hey, at least they didn't put a "mini" version of the tab.
Not to be confused with SmartWater: http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/dynamic/press_center/site...

I know, I'm trolling. Sorry. But it's too similar. They should tweak it.

Moving on... for the most part it seems, big financial decisions like this are usually summed up as: "It depends." It's just hard to make reasonable recommendations since the answer is so dependent on each individual's situation.

For home buying decisions specifically, once you get beyond rent vs. buy calculations for X zip code, and into personal spending habits and discipline, work situations, family history, future plans, market trends, investment history and ability, and just general personal behavior, I can imagine it getting very tricky. (Not to mention how do you trust the information provided by the user without a personal relationship with that person or a decent history? Is it pulled from some source? Or are you just asking them?)

I'm curious to see how they handle that.

If they can give actual advice tailored to the individual based on all that supporting data, they have something. But if in the end it's just vague recommendations (essentially, "it depends") then it's just more of the same.

Not to mention the privacy challenges that would come with gathering all that data required to make solid recommendations.

Anyway, and interesting service worth keeping an eye on for sure. Tough nut to crack, but if they do it, they'll stand out.
Nothing is ever a new idea, it's all about implementation and marketing. It will be interesting to see how git-annex assistant compares to the other products linked here when it's finished.
I guess I don't really understand this, because I see just as much - if not more - spam in DISQUS discussions. Making it easier to moderate is nice, but someone needs to actively bother to do so.
np. One thing that is a serious pain point of mine right now is help selecting the right location to buy. Other than finances/budget, location is key in real estate as we all know. Do you have a plan to be able to build this feature later ? For example, I work in NYC and my wife works in Central NJ. We have to select a house that works best in terms of commute, preference of size, etc. You get the point. If I can get help with that, I am even willing to pay :)
A startup asks - Why can't you resell old digital songs?
But if GCC is now C++ as well, then it removes what may have been the motivating characteristic to use it, when clang is for many purposes an otherwise better, more freely licensed, compiler.
Does anyone know how they decided on that porting strategy? Why not move to Python three and run 3to2 for backwards compatibility?
Click fraud is not a crime in the U.S. It may be a breach of the site/service's contract with its advertisers, but it is not a crime.

Whistleblowing laws only protect reporting crimes or regulatory violations. Ergo, they would not apply in this case.

For this reason, NDAs are permissible. Note that if the friend was actually working for an advertiser, the NDA would be limited (but would stilly generally apply), because the aforementioned breach of contract would empower the advertiser to sue.
ViaCycle should sell its locking system then anyone with an unused bike can participate in the program!
The original title is, "Y Combinator-Backed Financial Decision Making Startup SmartAsset Raises $900K" which is better, because they aren't disrupting anything. If the title hadn't had 'disrupt' in it, I'd have been less likely to roll my eyes.
This comment is both relevant and a great pun. You win the day!
I'm a white dude obsessed with Indian food and your name made me giggle.

That's...that's all I got for this comment. Sorry.
And the fact pilots (in the U.S. anyway) make only slightly more money than a McDonalds employee.
it's about the captain (while there can be many pilots, the captain is one), he's in control of the aircraft and the last word is always his.

Yet I've heard they can get orders to wait f.x. for premium clients.
Maybe we need to visit more parts of the city. :)
It's not intended to be an init system, but it would make a damn fine one.
It actually bugs me the sense of entitlement- YT is a free service, technically can take stuff down for no reason at all and nothing anyone can say about it. I can understand why this woman is frustrated, but expecting YT to have human resources in place for DMCA takedown requests is totally unrealistic- chances are that channel would be flooded if it existed.

Either way, if you're not paying for something, what do you expect.
Yea, and logistical problems like that are what gets me excited about this.

In grad school I did research on a on increasing the average vehicle occupancy in cities and we took a lot of inspiration from the bike sharing programs.

Have you considered offering dynamic pricing based on the likelihood that the bike will be used in the near future? I.e. riding into the city should be cheaper than riding out of the city in most cases.
Maybe, but I'd prefer to see parents turn kids into better people.
5 bucks a rental though, kinda steep if you are only going a few blocks. Very good if you are renting the day.
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Definitely true. Redistribution is always a hurdle, though with viaCycle's realtime data, we can do some very cool things with incentives and pricing to help the system balance itself.

Bixi takes a lot of parking spots partly because finding space for large stations is difficult. By using existing bike racks, we can often put in bikes without modifying anything. Plus, although parking is lucrative, replacing room for one car with 10 bikes that 100 people can use is a good trade in our book.
This was a major factor we considered in our design. Every bicycle is GPS tracked, so you know their locations. The bicycles are designed to be rugged so they hold up to abuse, and regular maintenance is part of operations. There will always be issues, but nothing that can't be solved.

There are hundred of modern programs in operations around the world, and it seems the theft issue has been overblown: http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/149446485.html
What's wrong with:

apt-get install python3

It's always worked for me.
It's amazing to me that they even make it at all. There are so many bags coming in that have to be unloaded, scanned, sorted, transfered (sometimes cross-airline), and reloaded in such a short period of time with so much possibility of human error.

I make some pretty tight connections and my bags always seem to make it (knock on wood).
wow, i can't tell if its irony or not. who said you can't do trial and error coding without a certain amount of standards, which include coding standards, dry, peer reviews etc.?

sure, you can squeeze out some ok code from bad developers, by making them follow enough conventions. but are they really what you want in your company?

"i don't have a choice, that's not my company and not my employees" - sure you do. build your own
Thank you for this quick update! I'll quote it here:

> First of all thank you for such a detailed post. We are looking into possibly placing a heavier focus on multi-media, but that doesn't mean other filetypes will be disallowed such as ppt, doc etc... Also existing user uploaded files will not be affected by these changes. Nothing is finalized yet, Blake Barker is a community volunteer helping with moderating and answering questions on Feedback forum and is not part of the team. We are doing our best to improve the Minus experience and we will be actually making some very positive changes for the things you need to share ;) Please stay tuned.

I changed the link title accordingly.
India won't launch any Pu-238 missions. America and former USSR countries are the countries with any, and America buys it up from anyone in those places. The planet is probably going to run out unless we start manufacturing more.

And for an orbiter around Mars (like the article said), solar is probably the better choice anyway. I love nuclear power and nuclear propulsion, but it's often overkill. If we knew as much as we did now about Spirit and Opportunity we might have used solar for the MSL mission.
Good app but throws me an SSL certificate error in Chrome. You may want to correct that or else people may not access the app due to security concerns
Debian and Ubuntu have their own way of managing Python libraries and paths and I can't say I understand it. The modules are stored all over the place, with 'site-packages' being in one place, another called 'distro-packages' (if memory doesn't fail me) somewhere else, and user installed packages in yet another directory. It's hell.
About time. In the US, we seriously need more emphasis on bikes and encouraging people to use them for shorter commutes. We either have to drive or walk (mostly). I once met a european lady (from Amsterdam I think) who would not stop talking about how behind the US in terms of bike culture, hardly any bike lanes on roads etc.
This is me, all the time. I have awful vision yet never wear glasses unless I absolutely need them.

Glad to know I'm not alone ;)
> Look at what it took for them to get to embrace HTML tools, all of which are very recent.

Recent? I don't use Adobe tools one way or another, but recent is hardly the word I'd choose. It's been, what, over a decade now, or near enough to make no matter[1]. Yes, this starts with Macromedia, but it isn't like Adobe isn't working with a group to build useful tools. Just because they support their own format doesn't mean they aren't supporting other formats.

This doesn't mean they only focused on standards compliance. They are a tools company, and they build tools for people to use.

So, do you really mean HTML?

[1] http://www.webstandards.org/action/dwtf/ - Note the section "Release of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX."