skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article's last paragraph mentions bridge & tunnel fares and congestion charges as a suggested way of making up the lost revenue.
Show HN: SnippQR - A Custom QR Code Generator
We just launched SnippQR (http://qr.snipp.com) – a free custom QR code generator.

We first built our generator for internal use to create QR codes for clients like ESPN, Taco Bell and Sección Amarilla but quickly realized that this could be a great tool to share with everyone.

Yes, QR codes are still relevant. According to eMarketer, 36% of adults aged 18-34 have used a QR code at least once – that’s greater than the percent of people who have used Twitter. QR code usage in China has quadrupled in the past year, to over 9 million scans per month.
I think this would make much more sense in Los Angeles than NYC. But the taxpayers there would never go for it, they love cars too much
Magic 8 Ball says "try running SurfaceFlinger or Mir on all ARM desktop machines so you can reuse Android drivers".
Well, you do have to leave the extension running, but it does the same thing. As mentioned on the site, this has the benefit of offline reading capability because the rss content is saved locally. If the feed in question only contains links or a synopsis this is not much help, but for feeds which contain the full article it can be very nice. I'd also like to integrate readability.js to cache a readable version of the link for feeds which do not contain the full article.
This would indeed happen if the issue of homelessness continues to be brushed aside the way it currently is in many places.

Interestingly, according to this study and others, it is actually cheaper to provide social housing for homeless people than dealing with the side-effects of brushing them aside.

http://www.homelesshub.ca/Library/View.aspx?id=55023
You can always make the buses free with an NYC ID, and require tourists to buy a pass to use them.
> Why should employers be responsible for the transit habits of their employees?

Because an employer is responsible for the transit habits of an employee which determines the capacity and cost of major arteries.

We have payed for these roads at the federal level first for the defense and now to allow the DOT to bully everyone. Transparent, eh?
"There’s no indication that anyone is working on sandboxing the Windows desktop version of Firefox at the moment."

Yes, they are. The comment quoted is from 2012.

"Comments on Firefox’s bug tracker indicate that developers will be looking at sandboxing the Windows 8 Modern Firefox app, Firefox OS, and experimental Servo browser on OS X"

"will be looking at" is misleading. Servo is sandboxed, today. Both at the OS level (through the same sandboxing primitives that Chromium uses) and through Rust's memory safety features, for two layers of defense.
The credits at the end state that most of the actresses were hired through a firm in Portland, so I'd assume he's in Oregon, where summer days aren't 90°F.
We are adding contact & privacy policy info to the homepage footer today, and non-US countries should be getting different, much less US-centric topic recommendations -- in both cases I was the guy that insisted that we do it that way! :-)
For some reason they never say what percentage of (unique)queries are answered by which source though...
I think it should be dependent on the credit of the students. And, yes, this is almost none.

Furthermore, make the students able to declare bankruptcy to escape student debt.

The reaction from the schools would be to make sure their students don't end up more than (very roughly) $10,000 in debt.
To an extend yes. Absolutely true up to and including high school, but at some point diminishing returns kick in.

The idea that all education at any cost carries positive externalities is exactly what got us into the mess that is education today.

Edited to add: Also, my proposal isn't incompatible with neither financial aid nor grants to institutions. But like underpriced mortgages caused a housing bubble, underpriced student loans is causing an education bubble.
Self-sufficiency is the route to poverty.
Sadly, I have seen this myself. Expensive "gifts" for doing odd jobs for charities (that far exceed the value of the task), first-class travel plans and ludicrously expensive hotels...it's sad, really.

Of course this was a while ago. I don't know if the tax laws have changed to make these sorts of things more difficult to do.
It would be nice to have encrypted DNS, but it is pointless if the server is untrustworthy. This defaults to Open DNS, a commercial service that gives false results (replacing NXDOMAIN) unless the user signs up giving personal info!

And for the same reason I don't want to use my ISP's DNS. I did a quick websearch for public DNS servers that give honest results without requiring an account, but did not see any mention of encryption compatible with this.
This smells like gamesmanship on the part of the Russians. I assume our State Department would do the same if the shoe were on the other foot. In any .case, I'm sure the Russians, and everyone else finds the irony delicious. As far as I am concerned, I welcome any negative influence from any source WRT spying on everyone, all of the time.
That doesn't account for the recycling of the aluminum which by itself is quite efficient.

I just pulled up a number of around $1/kg for scrap aluminum. That's 55% of your cost. I'm sure that's wildly optimistic but that drops your fill up to under $10. That's in the ballpark of the electricity costs for the Tesla.
Probably the biggest problem with OSM (that the likes of GM doesn't have) is inconsistant coverage within a country. GM will be pretty consistant in how well mapped a country is all over the country, whereas OSM might have one city mapped very well, but another region be very blank.
Keep in mind too that the Americans did not know it was a commercial airliner. It certainly was not a deliberate targeting of a civilian plane.
I think there's also an argument that it's not particularly unfair for drivers. One current trend is to charge drivers for access to congested areas: congestion charges in city centers, toll roads along congested routes, and fast-track toll lanes on non-toll highways. An alternate approach is to spend that money on getting other people off the road: subsidize transit so that some percentage of my would-be fellow drivers get off the road and onto buses or trains, leaving a less congested road for me.
Every map is a subset of global - it's inevitable that there are newly built roads, private roads that mapping companies can't reach, dirt tracks that no-one has reported as missing from maps, temporary roads, roads that can't be seen in aerial photographs and so on. OSM also has omissions in areas where there aren't any OSM volunteers nearby to do the mapping.

The question is what distribution of omissions is acceptable before a map ceases to be global :)
On the systems I work with, it's easy to walk your grandmother through "click on the black square, now type apt-get install chromium, now hit enter."
What I'm working on for the next 20 years.
It's a question because we shove a lot of people into college that don't belong there, and then they can't cut it, and end up with the worst of both worlds: no college degree (employers can legally discriminate against them based on that) and a bunch of debt.
> there's no way I would want to study pre-med or engineering or the like there (even if disregarding the costs).

NYU's Courant Institute is the top ranked applied math program in the States...

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
Don't forget link owners. NSA and other bastards can force data centers and link providers without knowledge of DDG. They can split, sniff and store all that data, even if they atm don't know how to decrypt some traffic. One day they will know. It's friking 1984^2
About 200,000 people. So about 2 or 3 orders of magnitude smaller.

But again, Google offers a similar functionality to enterprise Google Apps customers: Google Vault. (https://support.google.com/vault/answer/2462365?hl=en)

Also, for criminal matters law enforcement has been able to obtain search history from Google with a search warrant. So they have the ability to search search history, which is a dataset several orders of magnitude larger in size & scope than GMail.

If you seriously believe that Google doesn't have the capability to perform discovery on the public facing GMail, that's fine, but the capabilities that Google has in production today suggest that your belief is not quite correct.
OpenCV Face Detection For Cropping Faces
Heh, you must not have gone to the BMW dealership in SF then.

The most I've gotten out of them is a one way shuttle, which is only available until about noon each day.
Congressional Humanities Committee Sounds an Alarm
so is dependency...

that's the great aporia.
Never before seen? Uploaded on Oct 6, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
Maybe you're on a Macbook that doesn't have one, but the 'End' key serves this exact purpose (jumping to the end of a line).
That's kind of where I'm at right now. Normally all of my side projects are hosted on PAAS (Appfog is my current choice, but we will see since their acquisition).

I really just want to practice setting up and tearing down configurations. I think DO will be a good choice for this.
If a doctor learned his material properly, he would know that humans evolved from a type of ape. The fact that he believes otherwise immediately puts in to doubt whether he has or not learned his material.

As to whether or not someone can just learn what has to be done in a specific situation or not, let me ask you this: do you prefer working with developer colleagues that work with Cargo Cult mentality or because they understand the underlying technology that they use? And which of those two developers produces better work? Yeah, I choose doctors that understand evolution.
Preview Build of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer Released
Couple points there:

#1 The article is very vague - the Obama team may have actually made a very common mistake and stopped the tests early when they hit a significant level (they were in a big rush at the time, they had days to get everything working, not months). We don't know anything about samples sizes, etc.

#2 The main detail they talk about changing was changing from a movie to a still picture. This is a lot different than changing a button's color - many people will see a movie and close the page if they are in a quiet environment such as work or a library.

So it could very well contradict the A/B testing article by Wired and still be correct - or it could be wrong. Contradiction itself is not a red flag here in something as new as A/B web testing.
The key point that is likely tip the scale in one direction or another is the positive externalities of converting a driver to a rider. This externality will differ by city, line, time of day, etc, and it would include external costs of traffic, parking, car accidents, among others. Economists can approximate this sort of thing.
We are often really bad at accounting for externalities because they aren't immediate dollars in or out of our pockets and lack certainty (pollution controls, infrastructure improvements, etc), but this case may be a bit more straight forward.
Pentadactyl (Vimperator fork) annotates links with letters now, I think on the home row.

The very first instructions that you saw when opening Vimium were "How do I unhide the address bar?" It takes two clicks or just a few keystrokes.
But the desktop readers do have syncing. Unfortunately, with google reader and tiny tiny rss usually, but it is far better than an ad-hoc solution using dropbox...
As somebody from Germany, it's slightly entertaining to see that most comments in this thread have something to do with homeless people seeking shelter on public transport.

I can see how this would be an implementational detail, but I don't think that should be the primary argument.
Send them a cake invoice. Go to a bakery, have them decorate a cake just like your invoice, in red icing at the bottom "your invoice is past due, $10K due immediately". Have it sent to their receptionist. Everyone loves cake. The owner will be embarrassed as hell and pay up immediately if they can. The last thing they need is their employees wondering if they're solvent.

If they still don't pay, send another cake invoice, but instead of putting frosting on a cake, put frosting on a cardboard box.

I've had a friend use this three times. Two paid immediately. The third got the cardboard box invoice. All cheaper than an attorney.

If that doesn't work, perhaps a singing telegram?

Hope they pay you soon.
Wow that sounds like it was quite an issue. Where are you thinking about migrating to?
IMO, I can't really trust Linode anymore. MediaTemple is stupid expensive for VPS... Maybe SoftLayer? I've heard mixed reviews.
Exactly. I've never understood why proponents of public transit don't say this more often. The more people that use public transit the fewer people who drive. Which means less traffic for everyone else still driving.
My stomach churns at many of the outrageous over reaches of the US Government: secret kill lists; secret criteria to get on secret kill lists; indefinite detention without due process; warrantless wiretapping; warrantless collection of all electronic communication; illegal wars (perhaps the most debatable, but I would go toe to toe with anyone in a real discussion on this vis-a-vis the UN Charter)

I agree it is our duty to speak up, be heard and demand better of our government; however, my stomach churns equally at the notion of people thinking they grew up in a country so much different than it is today. It does not matter how far you go back there have always been these kinds of governmental abuses: the genocide of Native Americans; slavery; indefinite detention of Japanese in internment camps; apartheid (separate but equal/Jim Crow Laws); covert wars (support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan; Nicaraguan contras; installing the Cuban Batista regime; installing Saddam and the Ba'ath party); illegal wars: Vietnam (again debatable); war time atrocities (May Lai Massacre); torture (during Vietnam US military had interrogation handbooks that directed stipping POW's naked in the forest and covering their orifices with honey and allowing flys and bugs to swarm); Watergate (manipulated elections); CIA infiltrating organizations such as the ACLU.

We can not blindly look at our current state of affairs and yearn to be what we once were, because we were never anything different, it is far more important to look toward history and not allow the same mistakes to continually be repeated. I think one of the most important things to take away from Wozniak's words is how the dialogue has changed and we will not blindly fall in line to the tune of patriotic propaganda but ordinary citizenry will stand up and be the true check on the government that was always intended. When I look at the US Constitution I see two things, rights and powers, and I must say I feel a lot more comfortable when the balance is greatly in favor of rights over powers. Allow me to end with one of my favorite political quotes, “Every generation needs a new revolution.” Thomas Jefferson (Note, I believe revolutions can be accomplished through non-violent means)
Usually I'm one of the first to complain about such things, I don't like it when HN gets too political. But this is too important of a discussion to ignore. We can still talk about the latest JS framework or NoSQL engine and some quirky startup and still dedicate some mindshare something that threatens it all.
Where Online Maps are Taking Us
This could easily be a solid example in years to come of how a business should handle a negative event such as a recall.

For another really great example of this sort of thing, watch the Domino's pizza prank response (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dem6eA7-A2I).
How to test whether CCTV cameras are on
Facebook once again accessible via Tor
... that can be referred to in front of a judge and supersedes everything else.
I'll fully own up to my initial comment being not very useful - not because it was "arrogant", but because I didn't provide the backing reasoning. I'm not whining about the downrating there.

The flaming, however, was unnecessary and inappropriate. Downrating reasonable responses was inappropriate, too. Community behavior IS problematic here (and that includes my own community behavior, and yours as well), and that's the "tragedy of the commons" for public forums. A lot go so far down the newbie/flamewar rabbit holes that they become effectively useless. I know people who already consider HN useless for those reasons.

I'm not the victim here. The community is the victim. This shouldn't be so hard to understand.
Obviously you're right about WWII. However, it's my understanding that from the Cold War on, the story has been quite different.
My aunt's account was compromised, and she even had two-factor authentication turned on. Yahoo says the login occurred form Latvia so I don't think it was on her computer that logged in.
This Is How You Respond to an Unjust Cease and Desist Letter
He's quite good looking for his age.
I've been using it. It's a pretty decent search engine, but doesn't do quite as good a job as Google at prioritizing "canonical" content and finding the right entry points to things. Sometimes it'll land you deep in a relevant site but not at the front page, for example.

I have found one area that it seems to sometimes outshine Google: finding really obscure stuff. Google seems to be biased so hard toward more popular/stable/canonical content that it sometimes seems to overlook things when you really are looking for something weird, or a needle in a haystack. Try using DuckDuckGo to find some ultra-obscure reference.

This is interesting as Google's index is almost certainly much larger... so it's got to be a PageRank artifact.
Most lines have a point that is designated as the "end". It would not be out of line (no pun intended) to say that everybody must exit the bus at the end of the line. For most people taking a bus from point A to Point B, that would not be an issue. But it might be enough hassle to keep some people from just riding it all day. It may not work but something might. Most of us are used to some amount of inconvenience when something is free. If you are taking your price down to zero, it can come with some rules.

Edit: ok... maybe not THIS exactly... but some sort of rules. It is not the bus operator's job to find a place for homeless people to hang out.
How Silicon Valley's Obsession With Narrative Changed TaskRabbit
Awesome, glad to hear it, it's been a bit of a bug-bear of mine for ages.

If you're anything to do with the mobile/android team, could you tell them their policy of aggressively unloading background tabs is annoying and that it frequently seems to screw up when you hit the back button, either jumping back too far or going to previous ...err... forks in the history tree.
> Most importantly, what happened to Mozilla that it stopped being an innovator and became an imitator? Is it something inherent in it's status as a "not for profit"? Is there something wrong with it's values and goals that prevents it from being truly innovative?

pdf.js, sweet.js, Persona, asm.js, Rust, and Servo aren't innovative?
This is old.

You can pick up the full video here - http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!steve-jobs-film/c1x...

I did a couple years back. It's like $5 & well worth it
It wasn't intended to be boasting, but that's how it came off. You're right, it was a lousy comment, and should have been more thorough.
SO hilarious.
The cons are exactly what makes Google Reader the go-to RSS reader. Synchronization is the key selling point.

Tons of other options if you do not want to synchronize.
> So you can't charge a whole lot for the toll because there are a dozen other bridges? Boo hoo! Have you thought of selling coffee to your clients as they pass?

If nothing else, I've gotten some fantastic imagery out of this conversation.
Firefox still feels a tad slower than Chrome, but it's normally fast enough.

The big problem I have with Firefox is developing extensions. Developing browser extensions in Chrome vs building them in Firefox is like night and day. While I'm not an expert, I've built a few extensions for each browser.

Building one in Chrome has been a very pleasant experience for me - the documentation is good and up to date and things work very logically.

But developing Firefox extensions is an exercise in complete frustration. Documentation is hard to find and out of date. Functionality that is needed is frequently changed and deprecated. Common things are made difficult and frustrating. There are code examples found all over the web, but most of them are out of date.

Purely speaking with my developer hat, I would not build another Firefox extension if not absolutely required to for a specific project. And I dislike a lot of Google's policies and love Mozilla's nature, but I think Google is clearly much further ahead in terms of offering a pleasant development experience.

I don't know what the answer is, but for me personally Firefox isn't working.
Good for consumers too. I wouldn't mind seeing... say... Indonesia's take on the app store concept. Growing middle class there that all want to teach their kids english.

These sorts of crises generate massive opportunities.

I think this gets filed under "Creative Destruction".
I wouldn't take it to mean that PCs are in decline. I would just take it to mean that nVidia recognizes mobile isn't going away, and that there is a lot of money to be made there. That's doesn't necessarily mandate the death of the PC. I don't think that anyone expects smartphones to disappear, and I'm still puzzled as to why so many are so anxious to see their counterpart machines that can facilitate serious work (or play, for that matter) go away.
I've been using DNSCrypt on linux for probably a year. The only issue I had a few times some months ago was that the first nameserver would stop responding, the solution would be to switch to the second nameserver. Lately though I haven't had any issues, for me at least it has been fast and reliable.
> This will never happen, for the simple reason that you have choice and as a result, competition. You can choose Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or any of the smaller ones.

You will not have choice with regards to exclusive content. If you want to watch Arrested Development (season 4) you will need to be on Netflix, if you want to watch Zombieland you will need Amazon Prime. Just like the networks where HBO, ESPN, etc. have exclusive rights to their content.
Nedstarkism
"a massive impact in terms of social equalization."

The folks who don't like that, can prevent the equalization by careful scheduling and have already done so. I live in a nice civilized town/city and the bus routes travel within one block of every square inch of the city hourly. So average transit time is one hour, max theoretical (assuming not missing the bus, etc) is a bit less than three hours. Unfortunately I can drive in my car between any two points in 10 to maybe 15 minutes worst case.

I can, and have, repeatedly out walked the city bus by walking direct pt-pt rather than meandering all over the city. Its really more of a bad weather service, or a service for people who can't walk.

Also I live in a civilized town/city but work in the neighboring uncivilized dump of a city, which has slightly better bus service, but schedules have been "optimized" to keep us separate such that my commute via bus would seem to only take about two hours each way, but careful optimization of schedules increases that to at least three hours with lots of standing around at the transfer point. Of course in a car its about 20 minutes, maybe 40 at rush hour.

And that's how you keep social groups separated even with low subsidized (or even free!) bus fares.