skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To help promote this new currency, Amazon is going to give away tens of millions of dollars in Amazon Coins to Kindle Fire users. This money will be burning a proverbial hole in customers’ pockets as they look for places to spend it. We’d like your app to be one of the tempting places to spend that currency.

That's such a weird juxtaposition of ideas - "promoting a new currency" by giving away "tens of millions of dollars". It just feels weird. I suppose it's ultimately no different than Google Checkout giving users $10 on their first purchase[1] but it just feels different when they say "currency" vs. "payment method". With the phrase "payment method", my brain does the mental switch, "Should I pay with my Visa or my Amex card? Or what about cash?" No worries - we do that often enough that it's second nature. But with the word "currency", my brain does a double take - "Wait - I have to learn a new currency?" and then there's all sorts of questions...

Oh well, nothing of value to my post here - just brain dumping.

[1] http://www.michikono.com/2007/03/23/the-importance-of-google...
Why not work to change the law since it doesn't make sense? What's the point of keeping it?
So you admit there are logical contradictions, just some people don't see them?
This guy definitely will leave gene pool.
I bet on diabetes.
Male beauty is mostly about height which one has little control over. E.g. if op is 5 feet, follows all your advice and looks like Brad Pitt in Fight Club, he will still not be more beautiful than someone who is 6 feet and does not follow it.
I'm a local. This is the first time I've heard of Uber, so in a sense the PR has worked.

Looking at the 20 or so comments (in Swedish) below Uber's original press release/blog entry (http://blog.uber.com/2013/04/25/transportstyrelsen-forsoker-...), they're almost all opposed to part or all of Uber's post.

The biggest non-tabloid newspaper, DN, hasn't mentioned Uber at all. The next biggest, SvD, hasn't mentioned the current spat, but had an interview (a month ago) with Simon Breakwell from Uber. Choice quote:

Reporter: You've encountered resistance from taxi companies in some cities.

Simon: Right, but that's mostly in the USA. Before we enter a new market, we conduct a thorough investigation into the local rules and regulations to avoid nasty surprises. We've never encountered resistance based on Uber itself being illegal.

(Source: http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/branscher/handel-och-tjanster/h... I translated it by hand.)
> Maybe the 998 were above average too. Regression to the mean would be the way to bet if you didn't have any other data - but how heritable is intelligence?

Yes, all valid points, but to some extent set aside by the issue that, on an overcrowded planet, ten additional intelligent people isn't necessarily better than one additional intelligent person.

> Wouldn't that only be the case if you take the population as a whole as their lineage?

No, any grouping larger than two begins to show the effect of regression to the mean. My choice of 1000 was rather arbitrary, just to show the idea, and knowing the "right" number would require us to understand more about IQ heritability factors than we actually know.

I don't think assessing the entire population of a species is required for this idea to work as it does in nature. Indeed, on the contrary -- in this example, all one need do is group people by the genetic traits that lead to a particular IQ, and the heritability patterns of those genes.

> I'd expect smart people to provide significant better for their children down the line than will stupid people.

I might be tempted to agree on emotional grounds, but there's some circumstantial evidence that this isn't so, if we accept mental illness statistics and suicide rates at face value. Also, arguing that smart people should be allowed to have more children (an argument you aren't making) has some obvious logical difficulties, not least of which is that everyone thinks their children are above average.

> If you're looking at the future of humanity a small, dominant group that better fulfils your preferences is going to be a lot more worthwhile for some people.

Not very clear what you're saying here, but a wide genotype has been shown to produce better (healthier, fitter) results than a narrow one.
That's fine, I'm just pointing out that dropping any/all regulation doesn't immediately make everything sunshine and roses, there are very real problems that regulation and registration seek to address.

It's not always (or not only) down to cartels and corruption.
http://www.polycode.org/ also uses Lua and is Open Source.

Different options but I think I'll be a really good platform (binaries are due to release really soon, you can build the code today though)
in Poland we have a similar situation, but it's just a problem of increasing (or lifting) the cap, not deregulating everything.
Hopefully next time a bunch of redditors decide to 'help' the authorities it'll get shut down before there is damage.

What a waste and what a pity. Makes you wonder what the liabilities are here, I sincerely doubt an apology will be enough to cover the damage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5608190

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609976

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5610260
> Even if that person is well known for being the best of the best?

There are too many subjective factors that enter into such an evaluation, including how that person is dressed.

> Even if their everyone knows that other companies out there would love to grab them because they are that good?

In human affairs, "good" can never be made completely objective, and human studies are rarely scientific in the classic sense. In this case, "good" might arise from the most superficial evaluation -- for example, just a picture of the candidate in his suit. :)
It's good you mentioned "same rules to everyone". Do you know that anyone on government payroll does not pay any income taxes? (Even if they do nominally, their salary is paid from everyone else's tax anyway, so it's just an accounting trick.) So the income tax is not an example of "same rules to everyone".

Same goes for certification. There are people who get the right to define certification rules and use armed police force to make you comply, and there are people who cannot do that.

Whenever you have a democratic vote and 60 persons outvote 40, a new "fair" rule is applicable to everyone, however 60 people are okay with it and 40 were against. In other words, 60 people think it is fair to force 40 persons just because the numbers look good. Is it an example of the rule that applies fairly to everyone?
Also, using disruptor (efficiently) forces a certain threading model onto your app (at least downstream of the ring).
Words are more powerful than aesthetics
Heartbreaking story. Law enforcement may very well be the worst form of justice, except for all of the rest...
I believe he went missing and was almost certainly dead before the bombings. I suspect the reddit witch-hunt had nothing to do with his death, although something to do with how his family feels now.
Of course, because instead of trying to understand libertarian arguments it's easier to say "oh, but they're just bananas".

There is not an objective reason in the world to regulate taxi-services. None.
Sometimes it would screw over the drivers, sometimes the customers, and depending on how it was priced you could force that to one side or the other.

Distance + time is the most fair solution, as if there's no traffic and you get there super fast the driver still gets a fair fee (unlike if it was time only), if there's lots of traffic and it takes ages to get there then the customer doesn't have to pay a huge fee (like if it was time only).

Personally I'd never use a taxi service that charged only by time. I'm OK with time+distance, or with distance only (which is also used in some places).
This is pretty slanted. The man had been missing for over a month and had to be identified with dental records. Obviously he was dead long before getting accused. There's no need to make this more than it is.

That said, Reddit did overstep its bounds but lets not continue this trend of false accusations and blame reddit for this.
Went missing two weeks before the attacks...
> I believe he went missing and was almost certainly dead before the bombings.

In a strange way that would be the best possible outcome. I'd really hate for this to have happened as a consequence of a bunch of vigilante activity on a forum. And even if he was dead because of other causes that still makes me wonder if it should be legally permissible to stir up an unsanctioned witch hunt. It's not at all inconceivable that such an activity would lead to mob (in)justice.
Windows high speed logging: ETW in C#/.NET
Reading their press release (the Swedish one, I'm a native Swedish speaker) I get a feeling that they are, quite frankly, not a serious business. It's filled with paranoid tinfoil hattery where they claim the Big Nasty Government is out to get them without actually pointing out what rules they're asked to comply with.

Sweden is fairly big on consumer protection, and price comparisons is generally a mandatory part of that (all groceries are mandated to list price per weight/volume/appropriate other unit so you can find out, say, which bag of rice is cheapest per kg, for instance - the same goes for taxi services and price per km). That they're being asked to follow those rules is hardly government bullying - in the eyes of most everyone here that definitely counts as "consumer protection".

It doesn't get better when they start spouting complete lies - the gibberish about certain unmarked taxi like services being exclusive to "royal families or prominent business leaders". Not related to reality at all.

To be honest, I'd never heard of this story before I saw it here. It certainly hasn't been covered by mainstream press. I don't live in Stockholm though, so it might be bigger there.
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Maybe the Hacker News take on Facebook is similar to the Yogi Berra quote on Ruggeri's restaurant:

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
If you are going to pull out a dictionary, make sure to read both definitions. :)

decimated:

past participle, past tense of dec·i·mate (Verb)
Verb

1) Kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage of.

2) Drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something): "plant viruses that can decimate yields".
The mistake(s) : Not researching local laws, not co-operating with govt when they come to know about the laws, and then not following a proper channel of communication if they thought its a dispute.
Unregistered and unregulated minicabs in London resulted in a lot of raped girls. This seems like a good reason for regulation to me.
KDE Announces the Akademy 2013 Presentation Schedule
Yes, the article only talks about what managers and company wants from employees - get them to do more and more work, put more hours by selling bs of "ownership", which even they don't understand what it means.
For news I like bbc.co.uk/news and france24.com

I have quite a few rss feeds that I read in the morning

Webcomics :
gunshowcomic.com
dilbert.com
smbc-comics.com
nedroid.com
whompcomic.com
http://invisiblebread.com/

http://lawandthemultiverse.com/ is an interesting blog giving a legal perspective on comics and science-fiction.

Some web/design blogs :
http://speckyboy.com
http://smashingmagazine.com
http://css-tricks.com

Hardware :
http://anandtech.com
http://bit-tech.net
http://hardware-canucks.com
http://youtube.com/linustechtips
http://youtube.com/timetolivecustoms
http://toolsandtoys.net
I just started using NuclearWinter for my own game, thank you for that by the way!
If the country is sweden and the company is american. Default value would be "laws are fair and company has some issues"
The article doesn't mention anything on date and time of death. Got any source?
You're right of course, quality, safety and professionalism are all subjective...
It's not an accounting trick it keeps budgets honest. Otherwise outsourcing would be at a huge disadvantage even if they also get that money back.

Also the 60:40 vote issue this is why we use a representative democracy backed up with a constitution. It's harder to stay in office when you regularly piss off large voting blocks. A politician will often consider more than just what percentage of the population would vote for something but how much people on both sides of a issue care about it.
It’s time to feel better.
Whether you are single or in a relationship, there comes a time where things are not going smoothly. It seems like the harder you try to feel better (or make a relationship better), the more stressful things are. It can feel as if you are walking on eggshells.

Sometimes you think that things are entirely out of your control. You aren’t sure how to make yourself (or anyone else) feel less stressed, happier, or more peaceful.

It is time to feel better. Yes. Right now. You deserve to feel better.
http://www.ocrelationshipcenter.com
Ok Governor Schwarzenegger, I think you are missing the point. There are three factors that determine your healthiness:

1. Willpower/discipline/ (i.e. if you want too!)

2. Habit (nurture)

3. Environment (income, climate, work schedule, nearby grocery stores)

Any deficiency in one factor must be made up by another. Yes, (1) is good enough if you have a lot of willpower/discipline to spare, but not all of us do. (2) is ideal, but maybe our parents didn't do such a great job. (3) allows perhaps allows you to overcome (1) and (2), but not always.
> I believe he went missing and was almost certainly dead before the bombings.

I haven't been following the story that closely, but I'm amazed that this is the first time I'd heard that reddit likely had nothing to do with his disappearance. From what I've skim-read, the story was "reddit wrongly accuses guy, guy goes missing, now he's dead. Nice job reddit".

PS: I will reply to your email one day really I will.
So if government was really concerned with its citizens well-being, maybe they should have simply launched a campaign informing people that it might be dangerous to take private cabs. Then private cabs industry would respond by introducing new business practices that would ensure more safety. Your reply suggests that young women have no brains of their own and should rely on government patronage solely to avoid potentially dangerous situations.
I don't really visit websites as such. I use Google Reader as my jumping off point for 75% of what I read online. I hope that once Reader goes dark that I'll find something that fills the void well enough for the transition not to be too harsh.

The rest of my reading is done here and in the accompanying comment threads, of course, and also NeoGAF, a video game forum that (I only realized this week) I've been frequenting for well over a decade.
I suspect the angle of an Ayn-Rand-quoting American who sees himself as Galt won't play quite as well in Sweden, either...
Thanks for posting. I would have thought narrow lines would produce the problem that those specific lines would become unavailable for study, or would be freely mixed with the "real" data in confusing ways. It didn't occur to me that they could simply be subtracted in a deterministic way.

On that basis, I might have argued for high pressure sodium (to smear the lines) instead of low pressure, and I would have been quite wrong.

Given these issues, it's no wonder that a mountaintop in Hawaii, and another one in the Atacama desert, are now the preferred locations for optical astronomy.
They did the same thing in USA. Here's a series of articles penned by Paul Carr documenting what Uber did in the US.

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/31/assholes-shrug/

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/17/whos-the-real-bully-uber-or... [written by Nathaniel]

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

http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/02/a-final-word-on-uber-and-th...

http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/04/shock-uber-scores-victory-a...

http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/13/what-a-difference-six-month...
BlackBerry Invents 007-Styled Wearable Computer Accessory
> "I am male and not a feminist,... But I am all for equivalence"

Actually thats Egalitarianism, not necessarily Feminism.
Actually, they are. But, more importantly, you are trying to decide for other people what's good for them. Some people might prefer a less safe ride with a less professional driver for less money. Now, I don't see anything wrong with informing people that private cabs might not be as safe, however the decision to use one should lie with the customer, not with the government.
On Copycat Whales, Conformist Monkeys and Animal Cultures
The "free market" doesn't work in the idealized way you think it does, and does not react in a way that solves such problems. The Scandinavian social-democratic model, by contrast, does work. Very few Scandinavians want to trade it in for the US model, and certainly not some kind of Tea-Party-sounding paranoia about Big Government like this press release oozes.
Falcon: supersonic micro-framework for building WSGI APIs by Rackspace
I switched to Feedly from Google Reader, and have more or less adjusted to it.

Its main problem is that it demands you use their browser extension, which makes it far less convenient than Google Reader.
"who loves hacking to find solutions to different pains/demands in market"
I like your enthusiasm and your mindset.Would you be interested in a little challenge?I would like to have a talk with you.I don't see your email but if you are interested send me a contact id on my mail address.Thank you.
or you can find builds in the forums from users
1. That campaign was launched

2. Regulation was also brought into place that made it illegal for private cab drivers to hang around touting for business, they must be called up and dispatched to you. This way you get a cab from a registered business, not some shady guy hanging around saying "I take you home seven pounds".

3. We consider it, in communist europe, part of the government's duty to protect its citizens and to enable them to live lives free of constant worry about assault, rape, robbery etc etc. I know you brave libertarians consider us childlike for not constantly considering personal defence, but it makes life a heck of a lot more pleasant.

4. The libertarian model disgusts me. If you get food poisoning you won't eat there again? If you get sexually assaulted or the car falls apart then by gum, you just won't use that firm again and you'll give them a jolly poor review! The rest of us like safety standards and rules to prevent these situations in the first place.
You may also develop a commercial product and still care about it. Profit does not mean a product is doomed to be milked. Its the attitude of the business towards that product. In case of Parse, I always thought they would strongly grow into an independent companny. Maybe bought by someone else, though not Facebook.

Another point is that developing businesses as products is aslo neccesary. This allows bigger companies with cash flow but without the talent to simply shop around for their next offering.
Firebase and Stackmob, to name two. Stackmob even has a big "Migrating from Parse? It's quick and painless..." hero banner on their home page today.
I find it fascinating that when the subject of gun control arises, the opponents of gun control talk exclusively about gangbangers and muggers when the real problem with guns is unhinged and suicidal people with no previous criminal record (except maybe for assaulting/stalking a spouse).
This is just a smoke screen, it has nothing to do whatsoever with Uber and taxi regulations in Sweden.
I recently decided that I could probably really enjoy Reddit again if I did some Spring cleaning.

First, I went to http://www.reddit.com/subreddits/mine and clicked the link in the sidebar title "multireddit of your subscriptions". I backed this up, mostly because maybe I have a problem with letting things go.

Then you can either manually click all of the "Unsubscribe" buttons, or use some javascript to do it for you (make sure you use a setTimeout(), otherwise once you refresh you'll realize that it only clicked one of them).

Lastly, I subbed to a small handful, making my frontpage a lot more interesting, and definitely more focused on my current interests:

http://reddit.com/r/truereddit

http://reddit.com/r/truetruereddit

http://reddit.com/r/cerebral

http://reddit.com/r/scifi

http://reddit.com/r/futurology

http://reddit.com/r/philosophy

http://reddit.com/r/programming

http://reddit.com/r/python

http://reddit.com/r/depthhub

http://reddit.com/r/foodforthought

edit: already I want to add more, having read Peter Cooper's comment with some, reminding me about ones I have forgotten! I'll spare making this list larger though, as I'd probably just keep filling it and filling it.
I ported the TAPL code to F# a while back; if you want to check it out: https://github.com/jack-pappas/fsharp-tapl
Inside the Cycleplex: The Weird, Wild World of Google Bikes
Kickborn will be part of smartphones
How does the average person know if the cab they're getting into is in good mechanical order?

What you propose results in a race to the bottom, where cars and drivers are dangerous but deceptive about it. You create incentives to lie.
No idea, but you can start here: http://www.norway.org/studywork/work/work/
I'm using the common dictionary definitions I find, which granted is by no means a guarantee of what the word "means".

dictionary.com gives me "the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men", which to my mind suggests that if someone is "all for equivalence" then equivalence for women is a subset of that, so includes feminism.

So yes, I stand corrected. Being "all for equivalence" includes feminism, but is more than feminism; the OP is a feminist, and more.
"Gun crime is so miniscule in this country compared to other types of crime ..."

30,000 gun deaths a year is minuscule? Wow.
Taxis tend to be locally regulated. Regulations are good and bad. In some places, they ended up with plainly stupid rules. In some places the are about protecting drivers' revenues. But, they also protect consumers. IE, some of these regulations are not net bad, even if they are inconvenient or have some bad side effects.

Even good regulation creates inflexibility. It's just a cost. It takes into account the way things are now and makes it difficult to allow new business models to develop. It makes it difficult for companies to operate in multiple regulatory regions. They can lock in revenue streams and/or profit margins for companies, drivers or taxmen.

Uber's a new player threatening income streams. That will rattle cages. But they are also a global company and an innovative^ one. Being innovative means they clash with existing rules and policies by not fitting into existing classifications. Being multi-regional means they have a hard time being flexible themselves. They want to be able to drop in their system in every city they operate in.

They want to represent themselves as on a collision course with bad/corrupt regulation. But, they are really on an unavoidable collision course with all taxi regulators everywhere.
I think that no. GPL permits to keep one's changes private and doesn't force to make them public, that is bad in the case of scientific software. However, it forbids to distribute changes under the terms of other licenses, i.e. non-free, that is good.

I believe that an enforcement to share source code should be imposed on provate modifications of open-source scientific software.
His public identity for the preceding month or so was "missing Brown University student". It was all over the alumni and university networks on Facebook and other places.

He got more famous once he was erroneously accused of being the second bomber due to a faint resemblance, but by that time he was probably already dead.