skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this a very weak argument. You're essentially saying that we have to limit car usage because too many cars cause congestion.

Congestion has an explicit cost (wasted time) even if it is not priced in with some artifical time-of-use payment.

Ultimately people will get onto the road one way or another if they need to get somewhere at a set time. So by limiting cab licences, all you are doing is limiting the mix of cabs vs other cars. You can't honestly say that, at 5pm on a Friday afternoon, people are going to not catch a flight to the airport because there aren't enough cabs. They'll either order a town car (a different type of cab) or they will get a lift. Limiting the number of taxis is a very poor proxy for limiting congestion.

The issue of empty cabs driving around is spurious because it is explicitly fixed by the technology. If that's what the purpose of limited taxi licensing really was, there would be a different solution in place than limiting the overall number of cabs.

NYC might have said they're trying to limit congestion, but I think that's a very naive view of the situation where vested interests are clearly benefitting from a government-granted monopoly. Even if you rule out corruption, the status quo doesn't affect the people choosing the medallion numbers, so I doubt they would see a need for change.
Why do I need to login to look at your plans and pricing?
Dollar/Euro are backed by central banks who dynamically maintain money supply to maintain a promise of low price inflation.

Their fundamental value is derived from fiat.

It's similar, but not the same.
This guy's predictions have an eerie way of coming up: the unexplained Bloop sound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop) recorded near the Pacific pole of inaccessibility, very near where Lovecraft has R'lyeh, where Ctulhu sleeps; the recent discovery of mountains, hitherto unknown under hundreds of meters of Antarctic ice, just as described in The Mountains of Madness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamburtsev_Mountain_Range, no credit is given on the Wikipedia page to him), and now this.
Europe Takes Another Step Towards An Open Data Directive
Thinking of moving to California, but have a quick question...
Do the Jews run everything in Silicon Valley, like they do in NYC, etc.? I can't handle a place the Jews run, so it's important to know they're not in charge before I make the decision. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks!
I see in no way how this is an improvement.
To buy a bitcoin you need to buy it from someone?

Does that mean a miner can only 'create' a bitcoin (or partial bitcoin) when there is a transaction.

So how did it start in the beginning? Someone would have had to be able to create bitcoins.
> purely emotional reasoning?

That's a contradiction in terms.
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I'll echo the sibling commenter. We're in the process of rolling out a new site layout at $work and I suspect there is a LOT of leftover CSS rules which I can get rid of. Thanks very much for the link!
It's called PCI. Taking payment information in the context of the twitter.com same origin would pull Twitter into PCI compliance scope for Ribbon & possibly impact Twitters own PCI compliance state. For this to happen there would need to be contracts in place.
Sorry about that, we'll be moving that to a public page soon (now part of settings, hence login requirement)
Have you thought about possibly using your communications skills for profit via workshops? You could teach a business boot camp for techies that covers some common issues and pitfalls that tech folk may encounter on the road to developing a successful business.
>And regardless, there's absolutely no conceptual reason cost of production would represent any kind of floor.

Well no sane/rational entity would want to sell for less than cost of production because that would entail a loss (let's keep this simple and say there aren't any ulterior reasons one would receive gains/benefits from selling at below cost).

Since competition drives the price towards the cost of production it's reasonable to consider it or a price just above it as the floor.

Edit: I guess I should state, I'm not trying to say there is a 'hard' floor in which the price can't possibly drop below. I'm more saying it's a relative benchmark for where the lowest price would tend to settle given a healthy bitcoin market/environment.
See also: liquor licenses, various types of zoning permits, etc.

In certain states and cities with especially draconian licensing systems and quotas, the aftermarkets for permits and licenses tend to get ridiculous. Not quite as ridiculous as taxi medallions, but pretty ridiculous nonetheless. (Liquor licenses in certain parts of California have broken the $200,000 mark at auction, for instance).
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Are you suggesting that there will be not be an increase in the number of cabs in NYC if more medallions are opened up?
>Do you believe that SMTP authentication contributes to privacy and not authenticity?

Why can't it be both?
There are generally arbitration opertunity's that offer short term rewards well beyond the standard risk reward curve. Which is how many algorithmic traders consistently return high double digit returns with ought leverage. The simplest being having a mix of buy and sell orders that straddle the average.
A lot of good points have been mentioned here regarding the downsides of renting out your car. I'll add a more generic one: "can of worms" resistance. In other words, I'd probably shy away from using this service because there's a small chance it might turn into a hassle due to damage, tickets, or whatever else. Even if Flightcar adequately covers these costs, there is a non-trivial amount of hassle in the redemption thereof.

If the flightcars are listening: it's worth figuring out some way to counter this resistance...

As a side note, this is also the reason that I normally buy insurance from rental car companies even when my credit card already covers rentals as a perk. I've used that perk in the past and then had to make a claim; getting the whole thing approved and paid out was an exercise in paper pushing. Never again.
I think you're mixing up tail recursion with general recursion. Rust absolutely supports recursion: the implementation uses segmented stacks to allow for stacks to grow dynamically. Tail call support is about not having the stack grow but only in the subset of recursive calls that are in tail position.

So support for tail calls is not about safety but expressiveness, and Rust chooses to express iterative algorithms through other means, such as the iteration protocol that's built on top of higher-order functions.

EDIT: Maybe I'm misreading you and you only mean the imperative nature of loops forces you to use mutation. Rust does not eschew mutation altogether. Even as a functional programmer myself, I'd argue pretty emphatically that mutation, particularly of local variables, is not a grave safety concern.
> Driving taxis isn't a crime against humanity

The problem here isn't some people "driving taxis", its that these people, and organizations associated with them, lobbied for and bought into a system that prevents, by force of government, anyone else from driving taxis.

And of course, even that is not a crime against humanity. If it was, I'd be advocating the use of military intervention if it was serious enough, such as in the case of mass slavery or genocide. All I'm saying is that if/when we get rid of this system, we don't need to compensate medallion owners.
Early on in my career I was working for a consulting company at a parent company (the actual end-client) - we were based in the office as a small team of about 10-15 people.

The boss of the team decided that there were good fees to be had, and so went to key players and tried to bid for the contract direct to the client under his own banner, in effect trying to form a company and go into competition with his current employer. The plan was to stitch up the contract for the second phase of the contract by underbidding, and pocket a portion of the massive fees being paid by the client to the consulting company.

He came to me with an offer of more money if I threw my lot in with him. I agreed to do so, $$$ flashing in front of my eyes.

Of course someone leaked the entire deal to the consulting company management and we all got sacked on the spot and I learnt my lesson which is to be very cagey about these types of things. It didn't worry me about losing the job, I wasn't into it much anyway, and I did actually get paid out a notice period, which was generous on their part (perhaps it was go-away money). But at a more crucial phase of a career it could have been very damaging.
Don't boards like the Beaglebone already do something like this, but in a more integrated fashion (i.e: i/o ports show up as part of /dev)?
Let me rephrase that, then:

> there's no particular reason the free market can't provide such a service, but there's no guarantee that it will.

Still, I stand by my assertion that, in general, if such a service is legitimately valued and necessary, a provider will emerge. No, a free market does not guarantee an optimal outcome for every individual, not does it guarantee that well get what we wish for. But free markets are still generally better than non-free ones. Pointing out that there are pathologies in full fledged laissez-faire doesn't count for much, unless one contends - and can prove - that (one or more of) the other options has no pathologies of it's own.
Find a job but be sure to tell the father (and if you meet the replacement, warn him).
> I personally know several musicians who have a deep understanding of music theory, but don't read music

"don't" or "can't" read music? I think this is a critical distinction. If the answer is the latter I would still argue that they cannot have a deep understanding of music theory, since a major component of music theory is generally accepted to involve understanding notation.

Edit: I can accept that there are many aspects to music theory that go beyond just notation, but I am skeptical of 'deep understanding'.
I used to do freelance web development on the side in addition to a full time job, and I pulled in the income numbers you're aiming for, but I must admit it was hell. There's little worse than coming home from a stressful 9 hour day at the office and realizing you need to work another 5 hours for a bitchy freelance client. Or telling your friends, no, once again, I can't come this weekend because I have to work.

If you can design and code then you've got more skills than I had (I am code only), so I'm sure with a little effort you could put together a decent side business. Just be prepared for the life sucking that comes along with working 100+ hours/week. But it isn't all bad, working for yourself, sometimes, provides its own satisfaction.

Eventually my freelance business grew so big I quit my full time job--that was always my goal and it is the reason I was willing to suffer so much at the beginning.
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This is an absolutely terrible idea; I hate to say it, because it looks very visually appealing. First mistake is to remove the key signature.
Adobe has a monthly payment pay-as-you-go option with their suite of products. They have a pre-existing client base, but this also allowed for people to use as needed,as well as lowering the barrier to entry for product purchase.
The cornerstone of democratic philosophy is that there's a huge difference between a central democratic government and some lord.
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>If you understand how SMTP works, it's hard to argue that it's a private means of communication.

No. No. No.

The test is one of reasonableness. Is it reasonable to assume that an individual--who addresses a message directly to another individual by means of that individual's unique identifier--intends that only that individual will view the e-mail? Of course it is.

The suggestion that people should understand the vulnerabilities in the underlying technology is a red herring.

Perhaps this is why the Sixth Circuit concluded that e-mail is private.
>E-mail has never been like that, and it's always involved storing communications on a third party's systems.

Why should storing something on a third party's system obviate the need for a warrant? If I rent real property and use it to store my papers, does that mean the government should be entitled to seize them without a warrant because I'm storing them on the premises of a third party? If not, what's the difference?
Yeah man, add more syllables
Then it'll be billable
Send me an invoice and it'll be fillable
With more rhymes available
You'll need to make it scaleable,
'cause when a saas is failable
it'll be hard to pitch it
your users will ditch it
instead of pitching in to help
they'll be bitchingin' for help
sucking all your time away from development
yup, it's a crime, when you see where it hella went
I got deliberate rhymes inside the lines
I'm not illiterate, but words blow my mind
I'm here killin' it, but I'm not just killin' time
Because I'm willin' it: this creation is mine.
If there's a dispute between you and one of your developer clients, who has the 15% of the money the developer's client paid him/her until the dispute is resolved — you, or the developer? I ask because this relates to the much-debated "who is your real client" question.

Do your clients talk to each other a lot? Work on projects together? I think I'd want to work on a project with someone before I referred a client of mine to them at a moment that I was too busy.
Fixing the orthography of English language comes to mind. If that so-obviously-improvable notation is impossible to fix, this one probably is, too.

But good luck anyway finding something that helps students learn music more easily. It's clearly a goal worth fighting for!
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Yes, blame everyone but the speculators and deregulationists.
Quick question; thinking of moving to California/SV
Hi,

I've been in NYC for almost 4 years. I like it here, but the more I think about it, I'm not sure this is really the right place for me. I'm considering a change of venue.

As a coder, Silicon Valley is the obvious choice. It's definitely a better climate for coding than NYC, and I'm excited about it.

There's another thing, though, that I'm concerned with. I hate NYC's Jew problem, and I want to get away from that. They run everything here. It's not fair to us regular folk.

So, I ask: is it the same out there? Or can I expect to see an improvement if I move?
I would suggest domain name and website flipping, particularly to someone with your skill-set.

http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/03/18/the-neil-patel-guide-t...
http://www.dotsauce.com/2010/10/21/how-to-sell-domain-names/

Also, if you invest in generic term domains for the 2013-2014 GTLD landrush for quality extensions like .blog, .cars, etc. you stand to make a quick profit during the GTLD launches. Please do your research first, of course, I wouldn't want you to lose money.
can anyone tell me why the first "high c" in the example bassline has inverted colors? white dot in black circle vs the mapping table of black dot in white circle?
Your critique is spot on for those trained in music. Is that his target audience?

What about for those being exposed to music and its notation for the first time? What if you had never had a concept of putting your brain in G major mode.

But if complete beginners are his target audience, it begs the question why stop there? Why maintain the use of the staff at all.
Agreed. Hummingbird seems like a solution in search of a problem. I could see someone trying to learn to sight read music, get frustrated with how it is "broken" and then invent something like this, which seems far less clear to me than the old way.

sight reading is hard because of the cognitive work involved with translating, say, eight notes at a time into the appropriate finger-patterns, rhythm and pace; or translating fewer notes but at a faster rate. i don't see this making it easier.

i'm not sure why they would bother. anyone who finds sight reading too tough, might not really ever need sheet music, whether they do it by ear, or just listen to music. my friend has a disklavier - incredible. robot plays the piano better than i ever could. it makes me wonder why i still bother to try and play, and then i remind myself that every feeble attempt i make is intrinsically satisfying to me, so i keep trying.
I imagine the same people who complain about lack of TCO in Python are also complaining about lack of TCO in rust and Clojure.
Hey Jason, thanks a lot for your reply. Your answer is helpful. Since posting, I discovered investor's tend to be forthright with discount and cap expectations. Going into early discussions I wanted to avoid being caught off guard. Thanks again.
Recruiter here with similar ideas. I wrote about an agent model for perm hire last year, was on HN and ad some comments.
Part I and II below
http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/09/17/disrupt/

http://jotipsforgeeks.com/2012/09/26/disruptii/
Presumably you can pick a lock or attach a lineman's handset to the POTS phone lines outside of someone's house too, but aren't we talking about the expectation of privacy?
That experience in the financial sector in London would get you around 500-800 pounds a day (roughly USD 750-1200/day) if you go contracting.
maybe because it would turn twitter into a cheap looking barrage of pay links.
Complexity and stack space usage are two very different things. CPython does indeed place (very!) conservative limits on stack depth, and it also implements generators. I haven't looked at the generator implementation, but it has a number of limits that make it easy to implement — the main one is that generators don't have their own stacks, so can't yield from inside a function they call, the way e.g. Lua coroutines or (effectively) Icon generators can.
In healthcare many states require "Certificates of Need", before building any healthcare facilities or even buying equipment. I think it is cost control by granting monopolies. If you eliminate competition, the providers will be able to operate more efficiently and lower costs... I kid you not, this is the explanation.
>> No, it has not. Apart from stars and thermonuclear weapons, there are no fusion reactions that yield more energy than they require, i.e. the achieve break-even. It has not happened.

> That's true, but irrelevant.

That's the topic of discussion. Therefore it is relevant.

> Break-even does not necessarily mean that the reaction itself produces more power than the ignition apparatus ...

That is exactly, precisely what it means. That is how break-even is defined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor

Quote: "The fusion energy gain factor, usually expressed with the symbol Q, is the ratio of fusion power produced in a nuclear fusion reactor to the power required to maintain the plasma in steady state. The condition of Q = 1 is referred to as breakeven."

Any questions?

> You are implicitly assuming that some of the 250W surplus can be extracted, but that none of the original 1000W can.

I am not implicitly assuming anything. In the example, because 1000 Watts is required to sustain the plasma in a fusing state, none of that power is available for any other purpose -- it might as well not exist. An attempt to harvest any part of that power will extinguish the fusion reaction. This leaves 250 watts. Those are the facts.

> That's a physically indefensible assumption.

Okay, you need to learn basic physics. One cannot harvest more than 250 watts from the hypothetical system without extinguishing the reaction. The original 1000 watts is unavailable -- it might as well not exist.

>> To date, there have been no -- that's NO -- laboratory fusion generators that produce more power than they require for initiation.

> I made no claim that there were.

Yes, you did. That was your claim -- that fusion reactors produced more power than they required for initiation. Here's what you said:

> Thus, if you can do fusion at all, you will end up with more total energy than you started with.

It is false. While the reaction is underway, you do not have more total energy than you started with, you have less. I have explained why this is so, very clearly.
You can understand music without being able to read music. I know a fairly famous guitarist who can tell you all about voicings, harmonization, and any other bit of music theory you'd care to know about. He uses all this to write and improvise music. You put a piece of music in front of him and he'll take five minutes to figure it out. He'll be counting lines and spaces and humming notes to do that.
Good question. The article and wikipedia suggest not, but I don't have any actual data either way. Hope someone who knows chimes in.
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On a serious note, never stop looking for the next job. If it comes up, move. It'll add more stress to your life, but not only will you learn more about software, you'll learn more about how organizations work and what you can do to maximize your perceived value to the company.
Couldn't read the content of the post because I found the site to be too obnoxious to tolerate. Isn't there a better source for whatever information it was you were trying to share?
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Fair enough, but a founder of an agency saying that "standard fees are about 50%" is either an outright lie to get more business or just someone not understanding the business they run. Either one worries me.
Google isn't being "lovvy dovey" with Mozilla. They are paying for traffic. They pay for traffic from other browsers and from iOS as well. Do you think Google has a loving relationship with Apple? I sure don't.

It's a fine relationship for both sides that simply doesn't require love, or even very much like. That being said, there's a lot to like about a relationship that's been such a win-win for Mozilla and Google for nearly a decade. How many other business relationships between major Web players have done so well for so long?
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Are there currently any programs similar to hungry academy?
Link to hungry academy in case you're unfamiliar with the program: http://hungryacademy.com/

I am looking to become a developer, but I don't want to quit my job given how bad the economy is right now. Would appreciate any info you may have about developer programs (aside from App Academy, Hackbright, Dev's Bootcamp, and Hacker School). Thank you in advance.
Has the relative income of the residents changed since then? I.e. if the average income in 1937 was on par with the national average and now its 200x that, perhaps there's greater demand for a luxury service such as cabs from a greater slice of the population.
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> Rather than putting something out there, having developers throw things at the wall, then banning things you don't like after the fact.

I would think that being able to operate that way is exactly the reason you want to offer an API. So that your users can come up with ideas for you. Trying to anticipate up front every conceivable use of an API and publishing it with a huge list of rules based on conjecture makes for a pretty crappy API.
You could start by putting your email address in your profile ;)
He's not arguing against privacy; he's merely pointing out that requiring authentication to send emails isn't the same thing.
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