skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the dollar value of getting 14% of the city's cars off the roads?
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Will Obamacare Hurt Jobs? It's Already Happening, Poll Finds
The ACLU, The EFF, EPIC.

It's unfortunate that people make such value judgments, but I've worked at places like that too.
Can't speak to android but I love their site on my desktop and love the articles I have read there so far. So, I guess I might be the reason why they are still in business.
Gaming Company Skillz Announces $5.5M Series A
If people aren't aware, the free ride zone went away because Metro got strapped for cash, not because of the homeless shelter issue.
1984 has world wide surveillance and control through the media. Can you not see why people are using these reasons to bring up 1984?
"I am accusing liberals and conservatives of that. So what? That is not personally insulting, rude, or anything else."

Because I couldn't possibly be one of those? Because my friends and family couldn't possibly be liberals and conservatives?

95% of the country fits into the "liberals and conservatives" slot. How can you not consider that to be personally insulting?
"Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as Obamacare. And almost one-fifth—19 percent— answered "yes" when asked if they had "reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act.""
See also: "Politics and the English Language", Orwell, 1946. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
Give someone freedom (to create, inspire, dream) & they will give you hope
Oh and nevermind that Chrome uses Firefox' NSS.
It looks awesome, however I'm very hesitant to download free apps at this point. I would rather buy something for $5 or $10, because then I have more confidence I'm not going to have popups or have to endorse or recommend it for rewards or something.

I still don't mind in-app-purchases. Free always sets off warning bells though.
What I find the most surprising in this story, without having to take sides about the merits of any of the discussed papers, is that the initial refutation of the work of Bellgrau et al. was reviewed by Bellgrau et al.

If this fact is true, then there is a clear conflict of interest: Bellgrau et al. should have declared it and declined to review, or, barring this, the editors should have noticed it and ignored the review.
The quote was indeed referring to the government acting as the agent of the majority, if that's the misunderstanding you are referring to.

Yes, of course the Constitution is simply a piece of paper. It has no special powers. You can find plenty of people, perhaps even a majority, who are in favor of incremental abuses of the government such as this latest NSA scandal. You would find very few who would support wholesale dissolution of the constitution. The government could try absent consent of the people, but would face certain rebellion.

The Constitution can of course be amended, but requires more than a simple majority - a super-majority of the federal legislature to pass and ratification by 3/4 of the states. This of course does not happen often.

But fundamentally, of course the Constitution and the government exist at the behest of the people. It does not have magical protection powers. It does, however, have the protection of an armed populace willing to fight to defend it, even though some of those same people support laws that infringe on other's rights.
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Dear Twitter: How come when I click Follow I can't add people to a list?
It's somewhat of a negative spiral, and IMHO, it's nothing to do with price.

If your area has a service where buses are coming in every 15 minutes at least, then there's a benefit to it. I live good sized city in the Seattle area, and to get to my work, 20 minute commute becomes 90 minute commute.

Particularly in the Seattle area, what making whole issues nasty is that the lack of transit backbone -- the problem is that are people commuting between the city of Seattle and neighboring city often separated by the lake.

I don't know if this is the case for other cities, but as far as my observation goes, making buses free doesn't solve much problem at least where I live.
I understand that there were way more geopolitical considerations than just "Iran bad Kuwait good". Whatever other problems Iran might have with Kuwait, didn't justify closing off the whole Persian Gulf.

And if the U.S. wanted to re-enact a modern form of the old "Cash and Carry" plan they imposed on the U.K. before Pearl Harbor, then they were within their rights to do so as well as long as they obeyed UNCLOS.

The additional U.S. direct intervention on the side of Iraq (e.g. weapons, training) has been pretty conclusively demonstrated to have been stupid and unhelpful with regard to geopolitical stability in the Middle East (several times over, by now).

But in any event, if Iran had really wanted to blockade Kuwait then they should have declared war and blockaded Kuwait (it doesn't exactly have a wide coastline), instead of mining international waters. At least then they would have the moral high ground should the U.S. still have decided to intervene.
" nginx (pronounced engine-x). "

I have literally never heard anyone call it that.
Is their stink harming you? Honest question.
Just FUD, but I don't think it's sufficient to /intend/ to protect user data, you must also have the /capability/ to actually protect it.
For static file serving, Nginx can bypass BSD socket overhead with the sendfile (or sendfile-like) syscall, though it is disabled by default. On FreeBSD, the sendfile syscall accepts not only the fd to pipe, but can additionally be passed a header/footer such that you don't need to call write(2) at all, though this is not true on either Linux or Windows (AFAIK).

The whitepaper's macrobenchmarks make no mention of sendfile; I presume their tests with Nginx run without sendfile enabled (since it would defeat the point of the benchmark by nature of it skipping all of the write(2) calls). The paper does not appear to detail the configuration used in their benchmarks. I believe that the performance benefit of Nginx+MegaPipe, when compared to an Nginx server configured to use sendfile, is much, much less than +75% throughput.

That said, sendfile has very narrow uses (it's effectively only for sending static files) -- I wish the paper benchmarked Nginx against Nginx+MegaPipe as a reverse proxy rather than a static file server.
Nice. One step I would add is after restarting ssh and before rebooting while still logged in as root is to start a second ssh session, log in as the new user, and verify you can sudo.

Your current instructions are predicated on success. By verifying your new user login and sudo capability before logging out as root (rebooting), you can fix typos or other Bad Things. Not that I would ever make a typo while editing sudoers. ;-)
Drugs might be easier to arrest people for. That doesn't justify the war on drugs, but it does raise the possibility of having more people who should be in jail not being in jail.
> Raising the dealers costs requires them to make it up somewhere.

This is faulty logic in these arguments. They can make it up by their shareholders buying a smaller boat.
Yeah - every tech company with talented employees produces results that are just as good. Management and CEO talent is irrelevant, as we can all see. Jobs deserves only contempt.
Why you're on a startup roller-coaster
Ask HN: How do you build metrics data for your startup?
Should I use ready solution like mixpanel.com? Or should I build it myself?

How do you build it yourself to ensure accurate data reporting?

Thanks.
"Set up Google alerts or sign up for RSS feeds using a content aggregation platform like Google Reader."

yet still, the ghost of Google Reader past haunts the web
Oh, here we go again. 14 times were not enough, you have to repost it for the 15th time!
Thanks for the feedback. I'm always on the lookout for ways to improve my design skills and going to design school is one of those ways. I wanted to get across - you can get good enough to get a decent job without going back to school, if that's not in the cards for you.
If you use WordPress, try this: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

It turns your WordPress blog into static html pages that load fast.
How do you know that Apple didn't prove their efficacy to the city?

You're comment comes off as incredibly naive - why should Apple have to foot the cost? Are you suggesting that all technology products should be given for free to educational institutions unless they're educational efficacy can be proven?

I fail to see how this is different from schools buying desktop or laptop computers. They're still computers running applications - which is where the true educational component comes into play. If the software is worthless than sure, it's probably pointless but with a working software solution than why can't this be effective?
I have a strange phobia. Even though I think I have an understanding of how Google works, I have this (irrational?) belief that no matter what I do Google can see it. That somehow, someway, even if I use DuckDuckGo, Google is aware of it and tracking me anyway.

Sometimes I see an ad on the internet that seems relevant to a private, in person conversation I had with someone, and that same "Google feeling" washes over me.
Yes, I got the season's pass for both Walking Dead and Breaking Bad so that's how we've kept up on them. I'm not sure how many shows they do this with.
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Should climate change academics lead by example?
step forward

Duh, thank you. I don't know why I was approaching it as if the clients had the DNSSEC keys hardcoded for each zone. It seems that there is not a lot of hope for a solution that is easily interoperable (BYO Browser/MTA) when your threat model includes nation state and sub-nation state threats.
Er, help the homeless get somewhere to live? If they are that much of a problem several useful services are affected, tells me there is a terrible homeless issue that needs dealing with. They are homeless "people" right?
My experience is that every host has it's pros and cons. I never trust these types of statements.

Just because you didn't perform backups, it doesn't mean that you should blame the host.

Even the best-of-the-best hosts will fail, but thing to consider is how fast can they resolve issues and are they proactively trying to improve.
Everyone (yes, literally everyone) gets a medal at the end of their service if they are not removed for disciplinary reasons (due process is lovely). The CO was by all measures a giant douchebag even without having the shootdown of Iran Air 655 on his hands but you're essentially not going to get a court-martial conviction on a CO that shoots down a plane when his watchteam was also convinced of the threat.

What you want to look at with medals is the type of medal they get, as that is where you can tell how much esteem they possess (or don't).
Isn't that because they famously implemented the broken windows theory?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#New_Yor...
> But please don't pretend that Apple is for the masses.

Not every Apple product is for everyone, but they have done a very good job of creating a product line diverse enough that anyone can afford something. Minimum wage laborers are certainly seen sporting iPods. iPads are still the most popular kind of tablet. If you can afford X for a product you want, if you put in the effort/take out a loan, you can afford 1.5X for a product in the same class. We're not talking about cars, where the luxury brands can easily exceed the expense of commodity brands by factors of ten or a hundred.

> If it wasn't for that logo, people wouldn't fork over the kind of money they do. Yes, they built up their brand on good service and quality, but then, every luxury brand does that as well.

The fact that other luxury brands do something similar vis-a-vis service and quality doesn't mean you get to slyly deduct it from reasons to buy Apple. Buying Apple gets you a pretty thoroughly integrated positive experience. The logo certainly has value, but it's a lot more than just the logo.

Expect to see Apple remaining in their market position for as long as it takes their competitors to develop an appreciation for the advantages these non-technical and semi-technical efforts bring.
It sounds like they're trying to solve the same problems that I/O Completion Ports and Registered I/O are, in many of the same ways. It would be nice to see a head-to-head comparison for CPU overhead and scalability between the two models.
Finally google will have a proprietary language to compete on a level playing field with Apple without having to worry about web standards.
Why would Microsoft sell the NSA exploits some black hat came up with against their own operating system? They can just install a backdoor.
I'm currently running Centos 6 on my VPS and it has this file structure.
Might be that there are a lot less homeless in Manchester, or the UK generally.

I wonder what the numbers are.
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The idea of Dart is great - but the 'Google' brand attached to it is very worrying. Dart feels like exactly the type of service that Google will just drop in the future if it doesn't get popular quickly enough, and with only Google supporting it, that makes any code written it in a huge risk. Google's track record is the single clear problem facing Dart at present. Personally, I've been holding off on Dart for exactly that reason.

I have no idea how Google could get around that - maybe a written promise to provide support for Dart for X years?

EDIT: Another similar worry: if Dart really does take off, will Google not just drop support for other browsers besides Chrome from stock Dart?
Curious how this compares to https://scoutapp.com/

The big disadvantage I see is that I still need to manually install these plugins on each server, whereas with scount my understanding is it's 1 click installs?
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I agree that some caution seems advisable.

What I would really like to see in such cases is not so much other people simply trying to reproduce the results, but an investigation into why one group got different results. Certainly it could be for a scientifically uninteresting reason -- ranging from outright fraud, to sloppy experimental technique causing contamination, to arithmetic errors in analyzing the results -- but it could also be for a scientifically interesting reason: perhaps they used cells from a different supplier that differ in some relevant property that nobody had previously noticed, for example.

In short, there might be some interesting discovery to be had, buried underneath the discrepancy. I hate to see us overlook that possibility in our haste to get the "right" answer.
Have you looked at ironworker? http://www.iron.io/worker
I've been waiting for someone to build this for a while but wow, that's stiff pricing.
how does this compare to windows overlapped io completion ports.
Zealous prosecution of drug crimes also raises the possibility of having more people in jail who aren't involved in any other criminal activity.
If a paper is being contradicted by another, it's quite common to send a copy for review to the original authors. Who better to look for holes in a new paper than someone who's expert in the field and about to have a big problem on their hands?

The editors are the ones who make the go/no-go decision. In my field, I've seen papers that are faulty and have been rejected by experts be accepted by major journals. There's a lot that goes into the go/no-go decision by an editor; I don't envy that job.

If the article is correct, then the editors at Nature may have made the wrong decision. Most of us are sufficiently un-expert in the field to make any conclusion.
"The lab tech advises us to backup our systems before starting the uninstall. Meanwhile McAfee has a lap dance and makes jokes about bath salts, a drug that it was suggested that he was both taking and producing."
From what I remember, Brave New World centers largely around the use of drugs to regulate the populace, so while it might fit the debate with current day mood stabilizers, it's nowhere near as much about surveillance and a police state. It's like the opposite, regulation through conditioned happiness rather than suffocating oppression, with a similar loss of liberty. So the surveillance part resonates with PRISM.
In case anyone is wondering why this hasn't already been implemented everywhere if it's such a great idea, I have an anecdote illustrating the political and cultural obstacles it faces. I worked with a guy who helped create a proposal to make buses free in Austin in the 1990s. The goal was basically the same as described in the article, based on the observation that collecting fares was surprisingly expensive in both time and money. Little net income would be lost, the buses would run faster and cause slightly less congestion because boarding would be faster, and numbers from experiments in other cities showed ridership going up significantly. It was very simple: voters and taxpayers chose to support the bus program because of the benefits the city gets, and eliminating fares was a straightforward way to increase ridership per dollar, thus deriving more benefit for the tax money being spent [1]. Everybody wins.

As my friend told it, the proposal was made internally inside Capital Metro (the transit agency; my friend was on some kind of committee) and the response from higher up was very simple: not gonna happen, not ever, and please don't ever mention this in public unless you really want to hurt the future of bus transit in this city. The symbolism of fares, he was told, is very important in two ways. First, the public image of bus riders is that they are people who aren't willing or capable of taking care of themselves (why don't they have a car?) The symbolism of giving somebody something for nothing is very different from making them pay to ride. Bus fare is a symbolic way of teaching them that they have to work for what they get, and they can't freeload off of other people. If we're forced to take care of them, we can at least make them play-act like they're responsible people paying their own way, and the lesson might sink in eventually. Second, people tend to incorrectly assume that the operating expenses of the bus system are covered by fares. Many people hate buses and hate the complicated urban society they represent, and the more of those people who became aware that buses run largely on their tax dollars, the harder it is for city bus programs to get the money and political support they need. Charging fares makes it easy for them to make the wrong assumption and prevents them from becoming vocal enemies of public transit.

Those attitudes are from 10-20 years ago, and one hopes they have changed since then. The idea seems fundamentally sound, so I imagine it will keep resurfacing until pragmatism overcomes the bias and stereotypes surrounding mass transit.

[1] As you can see here, passenger fares cover only a small fraction of expenses: http://www.capmetro.org/transparency/
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Tolls should go away as well. Everyone in the economy benefits from transportation whether you're on the road or not (people on the road the personal reasons are a fraction of those on the road for business ones.) That plus toll roads hurt local economies everywhere by suppressing the ability for people to start businesses off exits, and giving monopoly to businesses running inside rest stops. I'm sure everyone has driven on roads that become toll roads only to quickly notice the death of all residence and businesses along these roads.
Did you know Paul did a talk at Fluent 2013 just a few weeks ago where he revisited that talk and looked at how what he said had come true (or not)? It's also very good :-)
My city only got buses about five years ago and most times they're empty a lot is due to inefficiency but also the design of the city.

The city streets tend to go away from the city center/harbour but subdivisions are perpendicular to those streets, cross town streets are terribly disorganized.

It all ends up with buses going one way but the people who use it want to go 90 degree angle to where the bus goes. Add to that buses leave at times not suitable for the population e.g. people get to work at 8am but the buses arrive at 6am , it's a joke but at least we have a bus system.
But how much of that was due to HUMINT?

The German plugboard-equipped Enigma became the Third Reich's principal crypto-system. It was reconstructed by the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau in December 1932—with the aid of French-supplied intelligence material that had been obtained from a German spy. [1]

I guess we could go on and on over which was thus more important. But it must be acknowledged that, at least, HUMINT is extremely important, and can't be discounted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
> The same argument could be made to say the government should be in charge of running all the phone networks.

I would prefer that. Tax us for it and make it free for usage.
Ah I didn't realize it was so long ago.

Yes, Mercedes has really turned around their quality in the last few years. My wife owned a W204 C350 for 4 years that was absolutely flawless. A couple minor repairs. Now she's in an X204 that is too new to judge but so far so good.

I heard the W211 had a much improved track record from the W210 but I don't have any personal experience.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5720258
This is exactly why I'm not touching it. At least with GO they are using it in all there servers, so you know they will be supporting it for a while.
There's nothing particularly controversial about it as far as I can tell. They have a mechanism for optimizing systems fairly quickly using either "true" quantum parallel tempering, or a classical (perhaps analog) simulation of the same - either way, the speed at which they can optimize is the deciding factor, and not whether there are "true quantum" effects. It certainly doesn't seem to be based on the traditional model of a quantum computer and I'd guess it isn't technically able to implement something like Shor's algorithm.
I've always wanted to use nginx to build web apps in Lua .. does anyone know/can recommend any great tutorials with this in mind? It'd be nice if I could learn how to use nginx+lua to build a blog, and so on .. I'll use google, but on the off chance someone on HN knows of something already, I'm all ears ..
Science publishing is a classical case of the Market for Lemons [1]. The authors are like used car salesman in that they know so much more about the results in their paper than their readers and referees. Even if just a minority of authors abuses this, the value of publishing a paper plummets and honest authors don't bother any longer with the whole process. The well has been poisoned.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
How would you change the language to support sending fewer people to prison?
"We" is humanity.

The fact that you don't get to make the choice about what others do to you is one of the very big reasons we have the 2nd Amendment at all, as I recall.
New tech may let current graphics cards drive a $500 holographic display
You might want to consider PouchDB for synchronization. It is a layer on top of IndexedDB that adds sync.
How about an NPR style pledge drive, maybe everyone could win. If homeless people are mucking up the system, we could help them to not be homeless...
TripAdvisor tries the smorgasbord approach to hiring software developers