skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wanted Tumblr to allow you to subscribe to external rss feeds for a while (I think it did at one point) -- some of he blogs I read are text heavy, some are graphics heavy, etc., and it would be nice to have separate readers optimized for the different types of content. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to "tumblrs" on the tumblr dashboard whether or not they're actually hosted on tumblr.

Reddit's kind of the same thing: it would be nice to have a reader integrated with the discussion.
I think I'm more in the littlegiantcap frame of mind and say I chalk it more up to greed of existing players and attempts to create an artificial monopoly. I honestly believe that an amendment that specified no level of government may create artificial limits on business licenses except in the case of natural resource usage would do wonders for competition in the USA.
It happens in chemistry too. In his book The Green Flame, Dequasie told the following story:

"The salesman had been selling hydrochloric acid, sometimes known as muriatic acid. The industrial grade usually had a green tint caused by contamination with iron. The company that the salesman worked for improved its equipment at considerable expense and proudly began putting out water-white muriatic acid. The salesman immediately began getting complaints from customers who did not want that weak white stuff. They insisted that they wanted that strong green stuff that they used to get. So, for those customers, the salesman arranged to have a small nail dissolved in each jug shipped to them. Result: happiness."
Not sure which decade you are talking about. If you mean the 2010s or the next 10 years we'll just have to see what the next 7 or 10 years bring.

But if you mean the past 10 years I would have to say that the "distributed storage and processing" revolution (Hadoop and others) has had a much bigger impact on data science than all of neural networks including deep networks.

Why the need to hype what is already a well publicized development? I'm starting to cringe whenever I hear "data science" or "big data" and I love this stuff.
>I was around for the prior round of neural network excitement and much time, effort and money was wasted. In that case it turned out that other techniques were more tractable and thus easier to use and improve upon.

And before 1980s style neural networks there were 1950s perceptrons. That was a much bigger mess, it took more than ten years for someone to point out how 'dumb' perceptrons were (they couldn't even model an XOR), which led to a collapse in AI funding that lasted more than 25 years.
I just tried sending an e-mail in Chrome latest public release and cannot reproduce.

Undefined might just be indicating that a javascript object is not set to a defined value. If for example the JQuery library wasn't correctly loaded onto both sites that could result.
That's my problem, too. There are a lot of cool languages for the JVM, but the target group are people who know Java, the JVM, and the whole Java ecosystem.
they could use dashboard cams a-la-russia to help with this.
>And I am saying that just because you want to pretend there's magic pixie dust that we need to live, doesn't mean it is actually true.

Another misrepresentation. I started the thread by saying that the human body can take a lot of abuse for many years without apparent ill-effects. That said, many would argue the difference between "living" (or surviving over a certain time period) and optimal health, is not an insignificant consideration.

It's quite possible to develop chronic conditions, that are not apparent at first, and only manifest themselves after years of nutritional deficiency.
Since a lot of us may be familiar with your old employer, it's probably worth noting that we're discussing your current employer.
Uber is mentioned for the same reason why Craigslist is mentioned when something goes bad with a CL deal. It adds context to the story.
It is an uber. The fare is automatically paid with or without her.
I agree. It will probably take someone making successful site and the word will get out. My experience with it was that it was super fast, very responsive, so I imagine it can handle more trafic then rails I am currently using. It is no rails as rails has features that are out of this world, but you often don't need those...
Imagine that a shared library were upgraded, and it contained a new vulnerability. This vulnerability now automatically exposes any program that uses said said library.

Production systems normally only replace shared libraries to fix vulnerabilities. So, that's a non-argument.

On non-production systems, it's far easier to replace one vulnerable library, than tens of vulnerable Go programs. That is, if you know which Go program was using what version of that package again.
That is a good point. It's always approximate, so 3/14/16 would be the closer approximation. Harder to explain though, like all those people in 2000 who thought they were in the 21st century :-)
Alien planet’s atmosphere contains water and carbon monoxide
Doesn't each content provider (Digg, Reddit, Tumblr, etc) providing its own RSS reader defeat the purpose of RSS in the first place? The reason I enjoyed Reader (or any RSS reader for that matter) is the fact I didn't need to visit X number of sites to read content.
Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader
The best use of "magic" I've seen came from a kids TV show where the protagonist would simply refer to new or mysterious things as "magic" even if the other characters offered him an explanation of how the thing worked. To me it was a perfect example of black-box abstraction.

Its magic because we know what it is doing, but the how is not intuitively obvious.
That would bum me out because I don't like their IMAP for grabbing emails. I've had a number of messages have weird issues where the rest of another email is appended to it at the end.
> No, I expect Google to offer free services that serve my every whim until they go bankrupt.

Because that was anyone's argument?
> After all, she was just kicked out of a bar...

What difference does this make?
Same reason e.g. American Airlines would be mentioned if something similar happened with one of their pilots.
Could you please submit an issue on our Github for that?
That's a nearly impossible question really. Who could have predicted that Einstein's research would eventually lead to cellular phones?
Attacked on Twitter by Russian Catbots - Have you ever seen this before?
IMHO, a biochemistry degree had little to do with designing better food back then. Maybe now everything changes.
Really great comparison chart. One thing that I, personally, would like to see is the relative sizes of each of the libraries (or at least their core, minified includes). While it certainly wouldn't control my decision of which framework to use, it would certainly be interesting to see which frameworks achieve what functionality with x amount of code.
Given the driver was not employed by Uber, but employed by a limo company that uses Uber's technology...
The dangers of cross-browser testing with IE9′s Browser Modes
At least one critic of the company warned exactly about this a long while ago:

"Laws don’t exist merely to frustrate the business ambitions of coastal hipsters: They also exist to protect the more vulnerable members of society. Back home in London (where such statistics are available), 11 women a month are attacked in unlicensed cabs, and unlicensed drivers are responsible for a horrifying 80 percent of all stranger rapes. If Uber doesn't have to follow licensing laws, then neither does any Tom, Dick, or Harry who chooses to paint the word 'TAXI' on the side of his car, and start offering rides via the Internet. A disruptive CEO will shrug (and there's a foreshadowing word) and insist that it’s not his fault that such criminals exist."[1]

It appears this critic was right.

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[1] http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/

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Edit: added "It appears," which more accurately conveys my position.
Why OS X in particular?
None at all, unless you make a habit of victim blaming.
I used to run my own foodtruck. I manage one now as well as a restaurant, so I have a bit of perspective from both sides of the aisle. Some of the numbers quoted don't really make sense to me, but maybe it's a location thing (I'm in LA, where the food truck industry is plateauing out). 200 orders for lunch is very, very rare here.

Our local food truck association actively addresses regulations that are unfair to foodtrucks on a city by city basis. Most have to do with the local business community trying to prevent foodtrucks from competing with b&m restaurants, usually by getting law enforcement to harass trucks with citations, tickets, whatever they can throw at you.

Do I see the foodtrucks eventually disrupting b&m's? Not likely, but I do see an impact. B&M's have had to be more nimble and creative to keep up, which ends up being a good thing for customers. I have been presented with business models that involve franchising our truck and concept across the country to different groups (ex-military most recently, from what I hear about the Grilled Cheese Truck) as a way to help develop small businesses. This is where I mostly see the similarity to startups. Foodtrucks are more accessible, financially and creatively. One can literally go from concept to launch in less than a month. Try that with a b&m restaurant. The thing is, I also see a high failure rate. (foodtrucks have been dropping like flies here in L.A., mostly during winter). Other similarities or takeaways, which also apply to most other business:

1. Know your market well. Cities have different regulations, population densities, competing restaurants, etc. If you don't have a very very very good awareness of where the bulk of your business will come from, you're doomed. I've seen trucks sprout and die within a month, clueless operators and the inability to pivot.

2. Know your product well and how to sell it. I've seen employees stutter through a dish description, with the potential sale walking away to the truck whose operator can spitfire all the ingredients of each of his dishes without looking up from the slider he's working on.

3. Streamline your operation to deliver your most important product as fast possible and as perfect as possible. Lunch crowds can be harsh. These are people who have limited time and limited budget and (depending on location) almost unlimited choices. If you're the truck who took 20 minutes to serve a rice bowl, you can trust that person is never going back and would most likely drag all their friends to another truck the next day.

Simple 'rules' but you'd be surprised how many operators can't figure this out.
It's not just jacking up prices; it's about keeping competition down to reasonable levels. If you have the world's best restaurant that everyone needs to eat at, then great; but most restaurants are going to be in the middling end of the scale, where they're vulnerable to having "too much" competition. If you serve decent Mexican food, then your revenue will be damaged by every "decent Mexican place" that opens in your vicinity.

Don't get me wrong; there's plenty of room for "decent Mexican places," but if too many of them open, then they might all end up with not enough customers to survive. Limiting the number of restaurants means that there will be enough customers for most of them.
I hear your points and thank you for making them, as my post is totally all over the place. As to your point about societal senescence, I was wondering if you had a ready example of regulatory capture in a non-mature market.
Yeah I'm agree, good idea. We'll add it for next version.
Kiosked Spearheads U.S. Expansion With New Partnership
Variadic templates and auto, definitely. The former gives you the flexibility of macros with type safety, and the latter just saves time :)
Seems the incident may have been recorded:

> Messages related to the incident on neighborhood email groups state that the incident was caught on security cameras mounted to the victim's home.

source: http://dcist.com/2013/03/uber_driver_charged_with_sexual_ass...
In mathematics, probability 0 means "almost impossible". Think about randomly choosing a number between [0,1]. Uh-oh, that set is actually infinite (cardinality aleph 1, technically). Suppose we consider only the numbers in it with 1 decimal digit, i.e. {0, 0.1, ... ,0.9,1}. Every one of them has 1/10 of probability of being chosen. Now, suppose we consider two decimal digits: 1/100 probability of being chosen.
Repeat this process and consider no discretization (i.e. there exists arbitrarily small epsilon>0 such that the difference between two numbers in the set is < epsilon).

Then the probability is.. 0! (you see how we divide 1 by the number of elements which are in the set)

But in the end you are going to pick one number or another in that set, so it is not "impossible". Surprise surprise.
Off the top of my head I can think of a doubtless unsophisticated way to recover the "stack" in this situation: namely, the same way you recover the "stack" in the factorial example, by using an accumulator hidden in the interpreter. When foo calls bar(), the interpreter passes along, when it makes the tail call, an explicit list of predecessors (in this case ["foo()"]); when bar calls baz(), the invocation of baz receives ["bar()", "foo()"], etc.
I don't think it does. If Tumblr had their own reader, you wouldn't have to visit X sites - you could just visit Tumblr.
Adblock Plus pulled from Google play store
Reminds me of Ron Conway's Google receipt investment story. Signing on a dollar bill is interesting. Small shops/cafes frame the first dollar bill they earned. Similarly, founders can frame the first 'dollar' investment.
I play on NA East 2 mostly and I have not had any issues with the server in a while. Not like the start. There are still lots of bugs in the game but what release like this is ever flawless? Simcity as a game is evolving and trying to become more connected. I agree that they shouldn't have lied about all the work require for offline mode when the game continues to function without a connection. I think offline wouldn't be that bad to add if they felt like the mechanics of the game still worked. TBH if it wasn't for the online mode I wouldn't still be playing. As I play mostly social games with friends. For me it is a plus. I have played other games such as LOL that have had several DAYS of no service but yet there is not much of an uproar about it. It seems like most the people commenting in this thread haven't had very much experience with SimCity 5.
Everything about this passes the smell test but that pitch video. Dom Perignon, gorgeous babe, party, "bro"... yuck.

That's half the audience tuning out in 30 seconds, and some more bailing due to the low-fi cartoon look, contrived 'problem', and ratty video compression. It's all out of place with the otherwise solid site design.

Checking it out nonetheless. Thank you!
Sure wish your blog had comments. :-)
Just straightforward blackmail and extortion perhaps?
You mean Google broke aaronsw's guess at google's understanding of evil.

Evil is a relative term, and if Microsoft is seen as the Evil empire then cutting off amicable relations (manifested by open interfaces) can be construed as "not evil"

Read the update to the article, where he points out that the entire concept of ads could be construed as evil by some.
Who are Your Users?
OK, but you also get no stack traces when you use a loop. I am not really seeing how this is an argument against TCO, it sounds more like an argument against anything other than unoptimized recursion.
You need to read up on what "copyright" actually is, and why it is not called authorisationright.
I'm with you on this. Its almost as if the op is blaming the victim for allowing this to happen.

Just think how you would feel if this was your mother, sister, or daughter. You would not have the same attitude. Women never deserve this, ever. It scars them for life.
I think in that case, the expectation is that you (as a founder) have no obligation to "keep a place in line" for them. If they never responded, you can consider it a "no."
Go is quite a bit faster and memory efficient than Python3? No unexpected. Curious how it stacks up with PyPy.

Looking at the Benchmark Game Go vs Java7[0], why is Java 2x to 8x faster than Go for many benchmarks? Is the jvm that optimized these days or are those Java7 programs super tweaked for performance?

[0] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
How does licensing ward off rape? I'm pretty sure I can warn that licensed cap drivers rape people and I'll be vindicated too.
> It should be either neither, or both, preferably the former

Entirely agree. Doesn't it contradict the notion of innocent until proved guilty to subject the suspect to a media circus? It's like getting doxxed just because a bunch of bloggers see a chance to get hits.
Was that Google+'s fault for not giving an easily-embeddable link or Facebook's fault for refusing to show the goods?
Show HN: Pheedr, Minimalist RSS Reader
Consumer behavior values a low pre payment higher than a larger after payment. Can't look up the articles at the moment but there is some legit research on survey response behavior.
Wikipedia: Comparison of feed aggregators
Facebook no longer supports CISPA cybersecurity bill, citing privacy
I see what you're saying but I am not suggesting that people would use all these services all the time. The point is that you would have a choice of "getting" your content in the application you are most comfortable with. Imagine if you are a daily user of TweetDeck and know how to filter your content (so you have relatively mastered the information overload already). Now, wouldn't it be better for you if you could pull in RSS feeds as well into TweetDeck?
The dashboard isn't good at telling you whether you've seen a post already and moves much too fast for traditional blogs that post once a day or less to even show up within the first few pages. I don't think Tumblr has the right UI for an RSS reader.
Three hackers make device to stop bike theft once and for all.
You can't just become an uber driver. They are licensed livery drivers registered with each state. I'm not sure it is any less stringent application than becoming a cab driver.
Haha, yes indeed! I think the first time I had a serving was 3 years ago and haven't looked back. I'm somewhat hopeful Bloomberg would let more of these (in sane numbers) back. It looks like he's friendlier to the premise as long as they're "green".

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/mayor-bloomberg-unveils-worlds-firs...
It's the word of one person against the word of another. If it were two men and you had to choose whom to believe, you would probably find it more likely that the lier is the one that otherwise causes more problems, and e.g. gets kicked out of bars.
I'm working on an opensource implementation of the API here if anyone is interested in helping out :) https://github.com/devongovett/reader
It seems there's an attitude that startups that are "disrupting" don't play by the same rules as "traditional" businesses. (See the many discussions re Uber and AirBnB as they relate to local regulations) Business can be a very scary place, with risk - even when it has nothing to do with your company, PR association can be a killer. Situations like this are careful reminders that it takes more than a MacBook Air, 5 Hour Energy, and six weeks at an incubator desk to launch a successful business.
It's not clear to me how government licensing would prevent an already illegal rape.
Hi, I had the same idea two years ago. As same as you, I'm Ruby on Rails Developer. So I picked up the Education First(http://www.ef.com/us-home/). It's nice school with great location and you can live in host family - its the cheapest way how to stay in SF. I paid around 25$ a day for sublet with breakfasts and dinners.
So is Google forbidden from ever closing down a service without being accused of being evil?
Yep. 'Leaving things to chance' is a good way to put it. Thanks, I'm aware of Marionette and have also used Backbone.LayoutManager [1] before which solves some of the same issues, though I am wary of the cobbled-together stack I might end-up with if I pick Backbone + Marionette + Some-Better-Router + ... That's certainly why Ember appeals, especially now they're beginning to nail the docs and there are great resources emerging like the recent Peepcode episode [2], which I'm going to have a watch a few more times through.

Very interesting work with Sails, as someone who's written (much more basic) REST scaffolding scripts before I'm especially intrigued by that angle. I'll be digging into it for sure.

[1] https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager

[2] https://peepcode.com/products/emberjs
Almost every single non-reply post on this article is criticizing how much the app isn't AirBnB. Maybe the new measure of success on HN is finding the excellent discussions under those criticizing posts? Those criticizing top posts always have a huge amount of discussion under them.
Sad to see Google Reader go? Come on, folks...it's 2013.
Uber doesn't really vet their drivers properly, or at least that's what I found with a little Googling. Uber should take responsibility because this person put trust in their service and got raped. Now, it could be that Uber did vet the guy and he came up clean, but they should make that clear.
There's really no need to. Given a single block of RC4 ciphertext and no known plaintext, the possibilities for cryptanalysis are slim at best.
Not to diminish what is going on but at this point all we have is heresy, we don't know what actually happened. She could have been drunk enough that she thought it happened when it didn't (knew a few people like that, men and women in college), or she could have a history of making accusations (rape or not). It is also equally likely that something did happen to her and that her accusations are accurate and something should be done (prosecution). At this point we must wait until at least a judge has heard the case and if there is any kind of prosecution going forward. Only then can we even begin to form any kind of cogent opinion on the matter given all the variables and unanswered questions.
Just like PG said in one of his essays, Google is now the new Microsoft. It used to be about giving hackers tools to build on top of their services. Now, its all about turning the search engine into a social network.

And before the Google army comes in, let me say one thing. I used to love Google. Used all of their services. Built stuff with their services. Each computer I touched got Chrome installed. I was a fan boy. But then they started changing. Ever since G+, they just seem hell bent on becoming a social network. That shit really pissed me off. How do you simply go from awesome company to this? I'll tell you how. Because its now being run by people who put profits first, and not the users/programmers. They seem to have forgotten that it was us who gives them the profits they get. Such is the reason I'm building Nuuton. Because fuck you Google.
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I think it's going to be more organic. This is the age of the internet. The internet is media therefore we have the best outlet possible to get the word out ourselves. We can do this by supporting each others causes. People have already laid the ground work, so support them. As numbers increase the visibility increases and all these other outlets will follow not because they want to it'll be because they have to. Think about the Negro Leagues. It's a perfect example of something that grew organically and made such an impact that it couldn't be ignored. Now there is no Negro League, just Major League baseball.

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The ability to play is the problem causing the outrage, it is not the outrage itself. It doesn't matter how justified the outrage is if people keep buying it, which they are.

Don't see how glib it is to point out the truth: internet outrage isn't translating to poor sales.