skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see how this would work in the greater Seattle area, where year after year, the King County Metro system has to beg for money to continue operating at their current capacity. For the past two years, the threat has been that Metro will have to cut their service by 17%, which is huge.

From their site: "annual revenue will fall $75 million short of what is necessary to maintain current service after temporary funding runs out in mid-2014"
http://www.kingcounty.gov/transportation/kcdot/Future.aspx

Serious changes would have to occur for something like completely free public transit to become a reality.
That sounds quaintly conspiratorial, however it is incredibly complex to optimize bus routings, especially given financial limits most systems operate under. Any change will always be at the detriment of someone else, and the last mile(s) problem is enormous.
This is awesome. It's a legitimately game changing idea and in an industry that is still plagued by user dissatisfaction. They stand to change a lot.

I think if they make it a bit simpler to use with a less packed design it would be even more popular. It's already backed by a few big tech names...if they can get bigger, even more mainstream brands they'll be in a really good place.
The main issue is, in my point of view, fragmentation.
If you'd like to watch both HBO and Netflix series, then you'd have to subscribe to two services.
If it can talk to a socket, nginx can talk to it. Is there something I'm missing?
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While it adds little but perhaps a smile for a few readers, relevant reading - http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-98-percent-of-us-com...
That would prevent sleeping, but would have issues with people stepping off and right back on. No particular reason to stop my grandma from stepping off the bus, spend 5 minutes pickup up prescription, then stepping back on, while the driver takes a mandated 15 minute break. The driver could look the other way, until statistical analysis shows a racial difference in rule enforcement or whatever, then it all hits the fan.
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While I don't have a link to the studies at hand, I've seen it shown that being any amount of intoxicated generally makes people relaxed enough that they are able to handle better some of the forces of some types of automobile collisions.
I think for me, the opportunity cost of the bus is too high. My travel time in the car is generally half of the bus time. I consider that time lost. Since I am able to use that time to make money, I would have to be compensated for that money in order for me to want to take the bus. At my hourly rate, a bus ride of 1 hour that wasted 30 minutes of my time would cost me $25.

(for those thinking that I would waste the time anyway, I would counter that time not spent working is time spent with my wife and son, or learning, or sleeping, and I'd much, much rather do those things than be in a bus.)

I live in Los Angeles.
Sounds like London. I live in London and these days I just cycle everywhere, but I´m sure that walking wouldn't be much slower than the bus.
I liked the article plus the comments lead me to https://www.goodreads.com/
Is this a case study, or a way something "could" go bad? Specifically 6. Bus riders migrate back to cars due to lost advantage of bus seems to encompass some assumptions that aren't necessarily true:

1) Bus riders have cars

In SF, many people don't own cars because the city isn't particularly car friendly. If buses get too slow, I can see some riders using alternate transportation, but I doubt very many would choose to use a car (and most probably don't have one to use).

Note: I don't live in SF, but was born, raises and continue to live an hour North. My primary mode of travel there is in a car, and it's not ever pleasant.

2) Bus riders ride buss primarily because it's quicker

What about being cheaper? What about convenience (it's a different type of convenience, but it's liberating to not have to worry your vehicle is safe and whether you've forgotten keys somewhere).
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Can anyone upvote this post so that many HNers answer this?
Ok, then I hadn't misunderstood.

The constitution only "protected" the minority - by limiting government action - because the majority shares a democratic consensus that those rules should be followed, even if they go against some particular law they support. Otherwise, they could have simply forced the issue, even in violation of the constitution. Besides, the constitutions themselves have ways for the majority to amend them.

The constitution is just a mechanism for the citizens to have a better defined set of shared democratic beliefs. It doesn't have magical protection powers.
Even though the intent of this article is good, I dislike that the article starts out with the false premise that monopolies exist on the internet. A majority or even dominant market share does not imply that a monopoly exists.

A monopoly is properly defined by the lack of an ability to introduce competing options. If it was illegal to build another search engine or competing social network, then a monopoly would exist. There are clearly competing options for all of these services and it is legal to introduce competitors, therefore, no monopoly exists.
I'm curious... at a rate of $29, do you only get HNers that work from outside Western Europe or the US? In Holland I gather the 'average' rate is 50 euro, and that's for 'simple' front-end work. RoR or Drupal work can net you more.

(Honestly curious)
Scalability just makes me want stability all the more because the stakes are that much higher.
Deniers like that publish in publications with a lot less integrity and peer review than the journal Nature, so they shouldn't use incidents like this as a basis for their delusional beliefs.
NEXTSTEP (now OS X) is over 20 years old. I programmed for it and much about it is still the same under the hood.
And keyboard shortcuts!
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Never got time enough to read a book completely... the only problem is that i am not able to concentrate that time into reading... i feel watching TV is better stress buster than reading... what say?
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I haven't tried it myself but the mono guys have an article on getting nginx up and running with fastcgi-mono-server2

http://www.mono-project.com/FastCGI_Nginx
So that someone between you and http://get.docker.io doesn't decide to replace the script with their own special version that runs as root on your box.
Interesting that depression is more common in rural areas. Do you have a link (or links) to studies that support this? I expected much the opposite.
:-) True! (interesting fact about ankle bracelets for house arrests: they were inspired by Spider-Man comics)
Nice, here is the current progress of my Silvia / PID monitoring: http://i.imgur.com/mis4L.png.

I'm using Arduino + TC4 shield for PID and interfacing w/ thermocouples, SSR, and opto-isolators (for front panel switch sensing). Serial to RasPi to web sockets for the frontend.
You sure stepped up in spite of your distaste. The word has been in print since 1795? Yep, better chastise this guy!

Also, double negatives are common in many languages, and were common in English in the past. It's a relatively recent evolution that it's considered bad practice.

Additionally, there's no authority on words, so to speak. "Proper language" is a reflection of how people speak the language. Irregardless isn't going anywhere, it's in widespread use.
Do Millennials Give A Damn About PRISM?
I tried to spell out why giving away $2,000/year licenses actually helps us make money.
I was a prison guard in Texas for a few years (TDCJ, not private). AMA
Meanwhile, the DEA is teaming up with the CCA.
Wow. It's quite possible to make more than 60K in Berlin (in Euro's) while paying around 400-500 for an apartment. Crazy how much difference there is between cities.
This article has a lot of numbers but it doesn't seem to answer 2 questions which are far more important:

1) Are privately run prisons better for the good of society than publicly run prisons? What does the research say? How biased is the research? etc.

2) More importantly, regardless of whether they are private or public prisons, how do we get less people to be living in them? What are our other options?

Last time on HN I asked this and the answer was, "support NORML". I then went and tried to find other organizations looking to make sweeping changes. I was not successful.

The problem with NORML is their image. No serious person in business can support an organization that uses a POT leaf as their symbol and seems to be primarily an organization for hippies to sit around and talk about the government. I realize that their image may not be their reality, but I can't write a company matched check to them without people wondering "what I'm smoking".

So... The question I am asking is, what can I do about one of the largest human rights atrocities ever committed by the United States, my country? Its obvious that at the very least we can move a lot of people to different types of facilities. We can probably do a lot more than that, possibly reversing 45 years of discriminatory drug laws and possibly taking increased societal risks to reduce the amount of years the average American spends in prison.

I'm somewhat distraught that this problem exists but I haven't come up with a solution yet.

Anyone out there have any ideas on who I can support or what can be done?

[ADDED] The Norml image problem is probably bad on the west coast, but is a deal breaker on the east coast.
5 => 6 seems odd. The advantage of the bus is basically never that it gets you to your destination faster. Buses stop every couple blocks; they're not going to beat cars taking the same route and not stopping.

The advantage of the bus is 1) it's (hopefully) cheaper; 2) I can put the time to better purpose than staring at the road and listening to NPR; 3) I don't have to be frustrated by parking; 4) if I meander from where I started I don't have to make my way back there; 5) (addendum to 1) for my commute I can spend pre-tax money on it, making it cheaper still.

For me, I find 2 the most important, though sometimes 3 is substantial.
Isn't it ironic that the x86 instruction set gets more 11-like over time?

The 11 instruction set is quite a marvel of simplicity, orthogonality, and effectiveness.
NYTimes: The New Encryption Universe (1996)
I've seen this come up before and I wonder, why do lifestyle businesses have such a negative connotation? It seems like building these sort of sustainable businesses would be a lot more appealing to most people (or at least to me) rather than the VC-funded/start-up lottery approach you refer to in the US.
Actually, according to the WP article sources they did.
Can't a link click open in a new tab??? since there are lots of external URLs, whenever i click the link, it takes me out of HN... and i am still trying to select the ones i want to read... so everytime i select one, i have to do right click and open in new tab...

P.S: May be i am a new guy here...and there are other methods there which i dont know
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I like the term that spooks use for people holed up in a situation like Assange finds himself in right now:

"Treed."

Not dead or in solitary confinement. But constraint to very narrow resources and living circumstances, indeed.
NOW HEAR THIS: NAVY ABANDONS ALL CAPS
I'm not really interested in either Mir or SurfaceFlinger. Wayland on native glibc EGL drivers, that's something already. Besides, Mir is relying on the same drivers that Wayland does, so they are facing the same issue.
Right but if you are modifying and existing server, then this needs to be taken into account. We have several servers who are constantly serving connections and we can't have any of them drop otherwise it will result in a poor user experience.

I just wish the article talked about using reload as well as restart and when to use them.
I had a similar experience. The screen had been cracked in my bag, they ran me through a number of questions to determine whether it was my fault or just simple bad luck, determined bad luck and had a new one with me in 2 days (only day I could be in to swap the broken one). Great customer experience, it's one of the reasons I recommend people to buy Kindles over the competition.
The real reason Netflix is producing original content is short and simple: current copyright law make Netflix completely beholden to the big six media companies, and if these people, for whatever reason, feel they don't need/want/like Netflix anymore, Netflix will be over. It can only operate as an appendage of the major media corps. We caught a brief glimpse of this with the Qwikster debacle, where licensing costs imposed for streaming forced Netflix into a new model that was very poorly received, and ultimately had to be rolled back due to public panic.

Netflix are beginning to chip away at that bondage by producing original content, and giving people a reason to use Netflix that can't be taken away arbitrarily by external forces.

Netflix could be a great champion of copyright reform ... if that wouldn't cause all their content providers to immediately drop NF in retribution, that is.
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Like virtually every other collection of people, the biomedical sciences have their own drama and politics.

It is unfortunate that these occasionally impede the progress of science, and downstream, the eventual treatment of patients. Even so, much good work is done and will continue to be done into the future, despite politics.
It's not a problem on a new server of cause, but on a live server it makes a difference, so you might as well learn the "correct" approach initially, so you won't hurt yourself in the future.
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I remember when I first saw the movie Robocop, and I thought: Privatized police force? Come on, not even in the USA the "markets will fix everything" ideology could go so far.

Well, this isn't very far from that.

By the way, spending less on rehabilitation doesn't just save money now, it also brings higher recidivism and so makes for a healthier future market for these corporations...
In this case, since the possibilities are fairly small, you can solve this pretty quickly anyways.
I wrote a very naive algorithm in ruby and it solved it it in 7 seconds.

# Initialize it with the most we can need of any individual numbers, plus the maximum possible zero's we could use
# (Just picked 5, because it can't take more than 7, and we have at least 2 of everything. I know there are better ways of doing this, but I was just hacking something up quickly).
x = [2.15,2.75,3.35,3.55,4.2,5.8].map{|n| [n]*(15.05/n).to_i}.flatten + [0]*5
# Find all of the combinations that add up to 15.05
x.combination(7).select{|c| c.inject(:+)==15.05}.uniq

There are two answers to this.

[2.15,2.15,2.15,2.15,2.15,2.15,2.15]
[2.15,3.55,3.55,5.80]
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It's not a silly reason to not do a no-payment system. It's unfortunate, perhaps, but it's pragmatic. Unless you could somehow organize a massive simultaneous restructure of the city's welfare system and its public transit system, you'll have to concede these problems.
I was hoping that was the case for me, but their mobile version is nearly useless to me. I want a compact view of titles that I can expand to read what I want, since I really only want to read about 50% of the posts in my feeds.

With The Old Reader, I get to either choose between having everything expended or a list view that only shows the first 3 or 4 words of the title on my phone.

No offense meant to The Old Reader folks, they're not obliged to please me... I'm just venting... and hoping what I want actually exists :)
When a new feature is coded, who decides that it's ready to go live?
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Hey Nathan. CEO of Intercom here. We mailed all our customers this morning about a grandfathering deal we're giving you.
try this:

https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Hosting-Nancy-with-Ngi...

it worked perfectly for me on digitalocean
It's also important to note that not only do they run a Tor exit enclave, they also run a .onion hidden service, which unlike the enclave is not deprecated in the next version, and means that DDG can be accessed without leaving the Tor network.
I just got the popup twice...
1. What percentage of the inmates in your prison were there for drug related crimes?
2. What is your opinion on the "war on drugs" and the increased size of the inmate population that it creates?
Absolutely shameful. Nature editors should step down and issue a public apology immediately.
This is a little creepy and Skynet-ish, but compared to the massive CF that is NSA's unconstitutional, invasive, pile of private information, it's just a distraction.

It's no different than when the police fly over your house in a helicopter and look down.

EDIT: I should have said "no different, legally, than when". This does allow surveillance on a greater scale, and maybe that will change people's feelings about it. But the information asymmetry isn't as great as it is with NSA. Ordinary citizens are allowed to fly drones, so why not the FBI?
Compared to surveillance of the internet and phone calls drones don't pose much of a threat to privacy. It's technically difficult to recognise people from aerial photos, although when combined with mobile phone geolocations and unlimited access to personal metadata that would be possible.

There are also entirely legitimate kinds of drone surveillance, such as land surveys, detecting diseases amongst crops, monitoring livestock or shipping or general environmental monitoring (temperature, atmospheric gasses, etc).
I didn't say I definitely don't want a multiprocess architecture.

Just that a multiprocess architecture may not be the only way to solve the problem, and if Firefox devs believe they can provide equivalent stability without switching to a multiprocess architecture, I won't ding them just because they can't tick a checkbox that Chrome ticks.
"We do not wish to cause undue alarm, so it is perhaps worth clarifying that:

The weld has not actually detached on any car
There have been no customer complaints"

Hmmm, I know someone who had this fail and brought it back to Tesla with a complaint. She was told this would be the beginning of the first Tesla recall.
Huh, what's the Dutch government have to do with this case? Did I miss something?
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If they are a public good worthy of subsidizing, then yes!

For NYC, it has been estimated that every car driving in lower Manhattan incurs ... goddammit I can't find a reference so I'm going with memory here ... at least ~$3 in social costs due to increased pollution, congestion, road wear, etc.. That's in addition to the costs paid by the driver (car depreciation, gas, insurance, opportunity costs, etc.). If that memory is really true, then subsidizing transit to eliminate these social costs ends up being a huge net win!

If we want people to do something, we should subsidize it and (in the case of transit) make it free[1]. If we don't want people to do something, we should tax it (Pigouvian taxes FTW!).

[1] - Transit will never be as fast as driving due to the extra stops and walk required at either end, so we need to keep it free to minimise the total cost of fare + extra_time_wasted*salary, which corresponds to opportunity cost to riders. Riders whose total cost is too high will not ride, and riding transit is a social good (or is at least much less of a social bad then driving).
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of course public transit should be free.
What about working on the bus? I've only taken the greyhound but being able to catch up on email or quickly code out so stuff vs having to drive is always nice.
Kim DotCom seems to agree that they were wiped a while ago:

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/347346908462841856
I've seen several of these posts... is there a cross project website that connects developers to open source projects?
You'd kill for one but would you go into $200,000+ more debt for it? That's kind of a ridiculous notion. Study in a cheap small town at an excellent public university for $35k vs NYU at $250k+? No thanks, I could just fly first-class up to New York once a month and stay at the Waldorf Astoria and still come out ahead.
FBI admits to using drones for US surveillance.
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Porsche has done that.
It's not really a grandfather if it only lasts 6 months.
I'm not sure where the $300 million number comes from (yes, I know you said "Wikipedia", but there are lots of pages on Wikipedia, and neither the Mozilla page nor the Firefox page supports anything close to that number, nor does Mozilla's most recent annual report -- in fact, Mozilla's total annual revenue is only around $160 million.)

And the whole point of Google paying Mozilla is that that money is less than the search revenue Google derives from people using Mozilla's browser, which also suggests that its less per user than Google would derive from people using Google's browser -- or, IOW, that the the Google has more to gain by spending additional money on development, assuming they acheive as much in terms of attracting users.
Hmm, our goal is not to restrict what users can do. Can you email support@continuum.io with the specific clauses that are troubling you?
> Let's treat universities the same way we treat teachers -- let's assess the results.

There are dozens of legitimate ratings of colleges and universities and NYU rarely ranks at the top academically (except their research staff, which I know can be exceptional). That won't stop kids from paying $40k/yr from going there so they can party it up in the Village for 4 years.
Design your life - Read better, work better, sleep better, X better.
If you're running your browser as a privileged user then you deserve to have your system pwned.
Thats just overly cynical. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic

DNSSEC is only signatures for DNS. It provides no secrecy of queries or responses. In light of the current PRISM disaster, DNSSEC does nothing to protect you.

I'll copy a snippet from OpenDNS' original announcement [1] here:
Our support for DNSCurve doesn’t prevent our adoption of DNSSEC — they are not mutually exclusive. While we have reservations about DNSSEC, we can and will implement it when we see more demand and traction, but in the meantime, when we see a viable technology that can be quickly implemented to improve security for DNS users, that’s a no-brainer in our book.

1. http://blog.opendns.com/2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/
Possibly want to compare when to use restart and reload, and the drawbacks of both.
I'd tend to agree if we had some 3rd party verification of the inability to reproduce the results of the initial study. Right now it's somebody vs somebody else.
Huh, so the evidence against Mega/Dotcom was already gone since February? Why didn't they say anything?

How far was the case at that time?

While LeaseWeb should've given some advance warning (that would've been reasonable, considering Mega was probably one of their biggest customers), the destruction of all this data is on the US gov's hand, obviously.
By your standard, Microsoft was never a monopolist.
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