skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poor and elderly have some finite amount of money that they have allocated to spend on public transportation, right?

Perhaps it's a bit ideal, but Uber has already successfully penetrated a new customer stratification with Uber Cab...what's to stop it from doing so again -- whether it be via a more cost-effective Uber Cab, an "Uber Rickshaw" service (mostly kidding), or even a government subsidy (an amount to be added to municipal welfare budget, yet still far smaller than the inefficiency cost of a municipal taxi system) to service poorer customers at an affordable price?
And this one: http://www.opuszczone.com/ (in Polish).
Edit: ah, now it's loading. I mistook ten seconds with a white background to be a fatal error, not noticing the hundreds of files it was trying to download... It's hitting files named "test.php" and trying to grab an "undefined.mp3". Slick animation, but nothing else about this is impressive.

"Viewport argument key "http://www1.staging.mcdonalds.com/gtw/displayimage.do?image_... not recognized and ignored."
There goes my foolproof method of finding computing answers on Google:
questionhere "closed as not constructive"
Search Ranking Factors Rank Correlation 2013 for Google USA
The tax issue actually goes the other way--individuals can take a personal tax deduction on most donations to 501c orgs, but not to for-profit companies.
> I find it incredibly arrogant that a mod can come close a topic that has many upvotes.

Is this actually true? My understanding was that no one could directly close a question, but rather that you can cast close votes (and 5 of them closes a question).
Introducing Riak PG: Distributed process groups for Erlang
> Yes, some people will do silly things.

And yet you were arguing a few comments up that the keyspace that 1password etc use was too large to ever crack. But you have to remember some master password. Your crypto is only as strong as the weakest part.

> domestic computers (by which I mean, computers in the USA)

I'm sorry, I thought that you meant "computers in people's houses". In the USA or not, I could not care less.

> Voluntary cooperation by firms is not the same as the NSA surreptitiously installing keyloggers

The keyloggers is a logical endpoint of what they would do with the 0-day exploits mentioned in the two articles. Not directly related to the "cooperation by firms"
There are two parts to the product for publishers: website satisfaction surveys and monetization. They are separate and you can use just satisfaction surveys without any monetization at all.
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Who's Behind the Sad, Anonymous Truth of 'My Startup Has 30 Days to Live'?
As my wine (and Latin) loving father is fond of saying:

De gustibus non est disputandum.
Oxford Martin School pays tribute to Dr. James Martin on its website's front page:

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/
I've never been a wine drinker... It gives me headaches.

However, there are many goods which have traditionally inflated prices, such as diamonds, but there is no shortage of people who buy into the words of marketers.

That said, aficionado types often agree upon their favorites, so there must be something to the rankings of popular vintage.
That's really stand-up of you. Respect.
You are confusing the result of the thing with the thing.

Terrorism is not a big problem because we work so hard to fight against it. You've confused that with not being a big problem in the first place. (It's like Y2K - it wasn't a big problem because we made such a big deal out of it and everything got fixed.)

And detecting a hidden nuke coming into the country is not the same thing as looking for nukes from other countries.

In one case you watch the country, in the other you watch your borders.
Not of any substantial size, and not because of the possibility that they'll suddenly kill us all.
Not at all. I'm struggling to make a software business work. And I used to work for Microsoft.

The difference is that I don't hate Microsoft, I want to be the next Microsoft (to some degree). And eventually, if the opportunity cost (Microsoft salary) continues to outweigh the living I make from a business of my own, then I have two choices: continue to struggle or be better. Either way, bitching at Microsoft or trying to bring them down to my level solves nothing.
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Basically. One thing to consider is the fact that decoupling applications and services they interact with is generally considered a good practice. What services does a web application need? Generally speaking, a web process to handle requests, a database, and maybe some in-memory storage such as memcache. What docker can do is script the creation of these services as containers that can be deployed "anywhere." So say you have your web app now, and your 3 services are on a single server and the load is getting heavy because of database queries. Docker makes it extremely easy to reliably move the services between servers to handle the load better.

Albeit this is a very simplified vision, I don't think the complete use cases for docker have been hashed out quite yet. tl;dr dev ops is about to get magnitudes easier.
I suppose it all comes down to what you term consitutes "easy"

It's easy if you already have access to or can collect on and analyze metadata from as many sources as possible. Then it's easy(ish)

Without it.. where do you start?
I'm arguing it's better to build the duck typing features that foreach and initializers use into the language itself. Every hard-coded keyword and to some extent, feature, is a strike against the language. foreach and stuff like that should be part of the stdlib.
One thing that's still missing is editing CSS animations in angularJS. I'm finding that I have to make a lot of separate animations (hardcoded keyframes) and use those in code. No way to dynamically change the animation in the app.
"Last week NSA Director Keith Alexander told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that Snowden was able to access files inside the NSA by fabricating digital keys that gave him access to areas he was not allowed to visit as a low-level contractor and systems administrator"

What?? I call BS. I've never even heard of "fabricating" private keys. Virtually impossible, unless it's in a utility that every NSA employee gets installed on their desktop :P
You speak as if he thinks the government should have no programs to track terrorists.

It seems pretty clear to me that it is the magnitude of resources devoted that concerns him (and myself).
He didn't say anything about 4 or 0 stars in his review.

> I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-human-centipede-2010

I haven't read most of Ebert's reviews, but I would be quite surprised to read a 4-star review in which he clearly expresses that he didn't like the movie. Maybe Ebert is not typical of connoisseurs? He did say that giving 4 stars to Superman is not the same as giving 4 stars to Ben Hur (or something similar), but he still liked both of them.

I assume you're a connoisseur of something. Pick two things that you dislike, one that is good, one that is bad. Do you dislike them equally?
Nothing difficult about it--they are plainly wrong in throwing out discussions if they want to encourage answers.
A nice hover scroll effect (not sure if that is the correct term) like browsing netflix would be great.
> in the case of the Tea Party they delayed applications through the election

Which shouldn't matter if they actually are social welfare organizations. If the election is that important to them, maybe they actually were hidden political orgs after all.
As with any "subjective" pleasure, one's tastes change the more the subject is objectively understood.
"No one knows how many lives bedbugs will claim in the next decade. The government does have to plan for the worst case scenario."

The above is nuts, right? Yet both bedbugs and terrorists account for a negligible number of American deaths historically. So the above can't be nuts if the equivalent statement about terrorism is non-nuts.

Please explain where I'm wrong, and don't just say I'm "intentionally obtuse".
In another thread it's mentioned that there are different rules selling in various locations. For example, longer warranties. You can't just take a standard US warranty and use it everywhere. That will increase the cost. I lived outside the US for 10 years, and I had to deal with the same thing. You can't just look at duties/taxes/exchange rates, etc.
Researchers study 18,000 hours of deep sea footage
Oh, Tesco stocks a lot of crap in the £5-10 range. I often pick a random bottle and only one or two have been OK.

Their generic bottles (e.g. 'Australian Red'/'Spanish White' or something like that) are pretty good for the price. Most are under £5.
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Wow, it's loading 30 pngs to be frames for animations. No longer impressed by the animation...
C'mon. I'm launching a product soon and am very hard-pressed for spare cycles for project development.

Your observation is a perfect example of a fact which is not an answer.
If they are trying to avoid divulging capabilities to foreign agencies, what does your citizenship have to do with anything? "I know it's Top Secret, but I'm a citizen! It's ok, you can tell me"
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The criteria for discoveries is that they solve real customer issues and solve them fast. This may be direct or indirect, elegant or inelegant, simple or complex.

Last night I helped analyze an issue on Manta regarding job run time, and used DTrace to measure all process run time from all servers. It was a lot of data, but easily awk'd (in this case, not enough data to warrant map reduce), at which point I found run times from a certain set of processes that were equivalent to the job latency - taking us towards the fix.

That's just last night. A large number of real fixes have come from being able to quickly gather and process performance data, and from that spot latency outliers, unexpected workloads, and patterns over time.

I have spent time modeling systems. I wouldn't say I was left feeling skeptical of data-driven analysis, rather, I was left appreciating how complex real computer systems are, which defy accurate modeling. That's not to say that modeling is inferior or not worth doing -- it's another tool. I'll use whatever I can to fix my customer issues the fastest.
They responded. They just denied the request.
Interesting! I built yUML and have an iOS apps company, we should use your plugin. And add it to the yUML community page :) Thanks -- Tobin
I wouldn't listen to tptacek. I'm not sure what he's going on about.

I found your comment(s) very insightful. Thanks a lot for posting.
>A concept for a web browser building upon the features of Spotify, centered around making lists of and sharing links, following people, and having open web apps and the discovery of them built-in.

A "social" browser.

Yes, just what the world needs. We don't have enough ways to follow people and share BS links.
Why is it so bad to know each other's salaries? I've never understood this at all. Salary transparency is, to me, a way to keep management from being corrupt and manipulating harder working employees from getting their fair share
I'm not familiar with Angular.js. But I am very familiar with CSS3, jQuery and the Greensock animation platform. Greensock (TweenMax) is without a doubt the best animation platform I've ever used. CSS3 animation gives you nowhere near the amount of fine grain control over animations that greensock provides. CSS3 is great for simple stuff, but for complex reactive timelines it's basically impossible to work with. jQuery is OK for basic things that don't need the performance, but is clunky is feels restrictive.

http://www.greensock.com/transitions/
Both are fine. If you use an OS X-only editor like TextMate, that may be an issue.
They're not just any undergrad students, they were Oenology students -- they might not be experts, but they certainly know more about classifying wines by scent, flavor profile, etc than a layperson.
'Patent trolls' could meet their match in the crowd
It's a clever sophistry but your "no" isn't really a "no" to the argument.

It's clear that taxi industry is broken. The existing legislation you keep bringing up doesn't protect the costumers the way it should (and maybe, at some point, was supposed to, until it was perverted via medallion system to protect taxi business more than taxi customers).

Uber's self-regulation (via comments, for both drivers and riders) is a better way to provide good service than the regulation which is routinely violated and not enforced.

By which I mean:
* taxi drivers routinely avoid picking up people they don't like, who also happen to be minorities/black people. I don't think they are allowed to do that by law but there you go: it's impossible to enforce that law so it isn't. In Uber, a given client can be banned but only because it behaved badly in the past. There's no pre-judging based on his color of the skin
* forcing cabs to service undesirable areas - you've got to be kidding me. I once spent an hour phoning different cab companies trying to get a cab to less populated area of SF. Extreme frustration when you call them, they say the cab will be there but isn't and you don't know if it's because they blew you off or the cab is really coming. With Uber - again, no problem. They would be stupid to to not service you and they can manage the fleet effectively to dispatch cars where there is demand. Plus, you get real-time feedback on where the car is - there is no guessing

Ultimately your arguments are dishonest because you present a binary choice: either Uber complies with existing taxi laws (which in most cases means their business cannot operate the way it does) or doesn't, in which case you automatically assume that it's unfair to taxi companies.

How about third option: create laws that allow both taxis and Uber, on equal footing?

I'm all for laws protecting the customers of Uber and customers of taxis, but as of today, it seems Uber does much better job with self-regulation than taxis with government regulation.

I'm all for fair competition but as of today Uber is being denied even ability to compete via government regulations lobbied for by taxi companies. We don't have to rally to protect "poor" taxis that provide bad service, from Uber, which provides good service, but rally to allow Uber to compete at all.

Maybe when we do have competition, taxi companies will be forced to finally improve the service they provide, something that decades of legislation haven't been able to achieve.

Maybe when that happens, we won't have to have laws to force companies to service all of Chicago and they'll do it because there's demand and they will do it to profit from that demand.

You know, the way a free market is supposed to work and not the way it currently works when we have law to artificially restrict supply (medallions) and (ineffective) law to "fix" the problem created by artificially restricting supply. Which, if we were to believe you, was done for the benefit of customers and in the spirit of fair competition.
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> It's depressing that this article is so high on HN right now

Not to pick an ad hominem - but if you've only been a HN member fro 4 days, it seems strange you'd be "depressed" that a certain story grabs the various members of this forum's interest.
Firstly, it's not uncommon for billionaire stock owners to shift big money around. Since they're such big traders that the market follows, they can also apply to the FCC to have transactions temporarily withheld until completed so as to avoid running the price of a stock up. They could see a better opportunity to invest, and be in the process of buying up a US stock right now. Maybe not, but this alone is no reason to sound the alarm. Buffet and the others still have a LOT of U.S. investments.

Second, the "historic performance" of stocks currently is a bit over-hyped. The S&P 500 is just back to 2007 levels, and we've seen some brutal drops since the middle of the month. [1] The stock market is NOT sunshine and roses.

All said, though, I personally believe Wiedemer is correct, though perhaps not to that scale. We should be terrified about "federal easing." It's a fact that the Reserve can't keep interest rates this low indefinitely, and trying to "stimulate" the economy in this manner was never supposed to be a long-term strategy.

It's a fact that interest rates will rise, and when that happens housing prices will fall. Gains gains in real estate, construction and manufacturing, which have just started coming back online, will tumble and fall. The Fed has been reckless, fearing criticism that it's not doing enough.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?cid=626307
Ya. I'd like to see better support for that. The problem is the ruby/javascript bridge.
It's not much of a rebuttal -- the OP has facts and experience, you offer aphorisms and come close to invoking Godwin's Law.
Sketchbook Pro + Wacom for sketching ideas and pasting in Campfire/Email/Whatever.

yUML for auto-generated diagrams or where I need something more pretty.

Sometimes a notepad + iPhone camera to capture meeting/whiteboard diagrams.
A wonderful post. Jenna Wortham is writing some of the most thoughtful stuff on how and why we share the photos that we share.

I'm a believer that the market for sharing the mundane moments of life, in a private way with those closest to us, is an untapped opportunity.

Snapchat is only the first to find massive adoption by serving this use case, there will be others.
I just drink to get drunk.
Awesome. A comment on typography. :)
I suppose at least this means they have yet to pull "the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled" ("convincing the world he doesn't exist")
Yes, that's exactly the goal of docker: "build once, actually run anywhere".

Docker is a portable container engine. It gives you, the developer, a way to package your app and all its dependencies into a portable container which can be deployed on any modern Linux server: local VM, bare metal server, EC2 instance, doesn't matter. Containers are completely sandboxed and do not interfere with each other (think "iPhone apps for the server").

The specificities of each machine (location, distro, storage, networking) are abstracted away so you can focus on what your application requires (a known filesystem state, tcp ports to receive connections...) without having to worry about how those requirements will be met on each individual machine. This abstraction is based on common unix concepts - files, processes, tcp connections - and is therefore not language-specific, so it doesn't matter what programming language your application is written in.

To do this, Docker relies on a recent feature of the linux kernel called lxc. That's the part which allows sandboxing of applications from one another. The concept itself is not new - what is new is that it is now part of the mainstream kernel, which means almost every server in the world will soon be capable of running docker containers - hence the exciting possibility of "run anywhere".
I've added video support to my Mac Instagram client, InstaDesk, this weekend, and in order to test the feature, I had to browse for videos and play them. So after watching quite a lot of Instagram videos I've to say I think this is an interesting and cool feature. A lot of these videos were beautiful, or interesting, or captured a cool idea. Of course, there were also boring and stupid ones, but in general I found the quality quite high. I'd like to compare this to Vine, but I haven't used Vine in the last couple of months, so I can't really draw a fair comparison.

What I want to say is that even though this is probably just a measure to bug Twitter/Vine I find that the Instagram community does use it in a way that makes it a pretty cool addition.

Though one has to see how this unfolds, whether people will continue to use it. I've created a video too, and on my rather old iPhone4 it required a lot of waiting to get it done.
Fearmongering at its worst. No better than Jenny McCarthy.

Also mentions very little regarding the UK as stated in the title.
Russia spies may be chatting with 'tasty morsel' Snowden
Got mine when it was on kickstarter
Titan (https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki) persists its graph as records in a distributed Cassandra or HBase cluster.
> The core material is the important part if you are, say, Iran or North Korea. However, if you are in a cave with a box of scraps and no Tony Stark, there's a lot more to it.

Similarly, I suspect that PALs have traditionally been designed with the first in mind. They prevent a proper detonation as the bomb as it currently exists. They seem less concerned with someone using the bomb to cobble together a (relatively speaking) inefficient bomb, or even just a dirty bomb.

If you are satisfied with merely dozens to hundreds dead, and a massive clusterfuck of a disproportionate response, you may have to do nothing more than merely trigger the PAL's anti-tampering mechanism in a populated area. Worse case scenario there is that it doesn't work that way, then you just throw it into a truck with some fertilizer and blow it up anyway.

Nations are not interested in using a bomb like that, they would want the real deal in a form factor that is practical for military use. PALs seem designed to prevent that.
I'm not confusing anything. Please read what I'm saying rather than relying on your projection of what you think I think.

I'm well aware of the possibility that terrorism is rare because it's so heavily fought. I just don't see any reason to think that's actually the case.

Yes, terrorism could be like Y2K, in that it's a big problem that's averted through lots of hard work. It just doesn't look that way to me. Instead, it looks like a small problem that has tremendous resources devoted to it for no good reason.

Consider the following facts:

1. Terrorist attacks are pretty easy to carry out. Any motivated HNer could easily plan and execute an attack, on a programmer's salary, that would outshine the Boston bombings. (Something like 9/11 is obviously harder. But there's plenty of low-hanging fruit.)

2. Doing the above without getting caught is still pretty easy. There's essentially nothing in place to catch the "lone wolf".

3. Despite #1 and #2, terrorist attacks remain extremely rare.

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there are very few people who are actually motivated to carry out attacks. It's nothing to do with enforcement, it's simply that most people don't actually want to go out and kill a bunch of innocents.

As for detecting nukes, why do you think that smuggling a warhead into the US is a technique reserved for terrorists? There's nothing that says Russia or China or North Korea couldn't do it. They probably won't, but it's enough of a threat to be worth guarding against.
Well, it's not like there's any content in this letter to look at :p
Spotify versus thousands of music recommendation services, however, highlights why this would be different. Sending songs and making lists in Spotify is just so seamless and well-integrated, it's a wonder how it can actually feel like a new thing although the idea is old.