skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline for that article was astoundingly misleading. They created a fear response in the mice to a place that the mice had never been.
Yea...no. The problem with being a habitual liar is that people can't trust you even if you tell the truth. That 300 number sounds as much bullshit to me as all their other claims.

"We don't gather any data."

"We only gather metadata."

"Ok fine, we gather everything."
Why not write a driver for Sequel Pro that supports PostgreSQL? I'm not hating, I'm just saying they're both open source. Sequel Pro is, according to their roadmap, interested in supporting PostgreSQL and SQLite.
I think this is a very naive and somewhat wishful thinking writeup. You neglect a major reason why Rockefeller was able to obtain a monopoly: he controlled literally every part of the process of extracting oil, from the wells to the pipeline to the tank cars, in an industry that had high startup costs/barriers to entry.

You basically look at every way in which Uber is doing a great job and then declare they will have a monopoly. It's not like they are the first successful business that is killing it and you don't have any truly remarkable arguments for why no one else can go do EXACTLY what they are doing. They have a head start: big whoop, so has any great company.

For Uber to obtain Standard Oil style monopoly they'd have to do something very different that you don't mention: buy a good portion of the cabs and cars and black car services in the world. In the end those cars are the actual supply, and Uber DOES NOT OWN ONE CAR. Do you know how many of those companies exist? Do you think that 1) Uber is even interested in acquiring them and 2) that'd even be possible if they did? Do you think that every single one of them would come onto one platform and that Uber could convince them to be that one platform? You don't think that in certain regions or countries other companies, the Lyfts and Sidecars and Hailos of the world, won't make a move and lock down certain markets first and become the defacto option in those cities?

You also neglect the fact that in many cities (downtown new york?) getting a cab is super easy. In some cities there aren't enough uber cabs going around at any one time to have an on demand app work necessarily, and for other trips private transportation in the way Uber offers might be exorbitantly expensive (getting to certain airports, etc.). You neglect the fact that they are targeting one behavior, a massive one, but still one behavior: the on demand ride. Lots of people like to plan their rides in advance.

Overall this reads like it was written by a fanboy, little real analysis of why, despite the fact that Uber is an awesome company that is doing extremely well, they have any real chance of having a monopoly.

It is a transportation planning and booking app. Orbitz, Expedia, Kayak, Hipmunk, you name it are all in the transportation planning space (but for flying) and everyone has their preferences etc. There is room for more than just Uber and the idea that they will just take over everyone is ridiculous.
Just because someone leaves their car door unlocked and you tell them about it, doesn't mean they are obligated to give you any of its contents.
FlightCar is a business that uses another entity's property and services without permission and for profit,but without remuneration. This is not at all comparable to a private individual doing a friend a favor for free. I would imagine that the airport would start with a cease-and-desist letter, perhaps along with an offer to come to to some sort of revenue-sharing agreement for continued access. Failing a voluntary resolution, a lawsuit might follow.

To address your last point, let's use another example. Football stadiums are public facilities often owned by local municipalities. But that doesn't mean I can go in and start selling hot dogs.
I agree with you that BTC is more merchant oriented than consumer oriented, but #2 causes serious bugs: credit card transaction limits and additional fees to combat fraud (like those aforementioned). These fees function as an inefficient tax on both merchants and consumers.
Glenn Greenwald's commentary/journalism since a few years after 9/11 is basically such a list
I can certainly see how the harsh realities of the job market might force one's hand. It sounds like your friends' priorities were the same as mine though...
In Germany we solved this problem by converting the XML into readable markdown first:

https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze/commit/f90e8fc8eb20f081...

(see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6137337)
Business Model: We have an API that companies use to add two-factor auth to their sites/infrastructure. We charge for that. see www.authy.com/developer/pricing

2. The recovery process enables your phone. If you decided to enable backups(which is optional) encrypted versions of you accounts are stored in our servers (that's why it called backups). Authy employees can't gain access because only encrypted version is stored, you chose the encryption key and have to remember it.
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At least in the US, a lot of the laws that get passed are in the form of diffs.

That is, the law that they enact says "This law is to do blah blah blah.

Subsection 1373(a) of the US code is replaced with the following text 'blah blah blah'"

The wording used is pretty standard. So you can actually parse it in most cases to see what the actual changes are.
I had to go look what server header reddit returns. For the lazy:

Server:'; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
Concern over MPs' lack of Internet savvy
A Look at the U.S. Code XML format
im pretty sure it's thin
Actually, no. One of them actually preferred a data science position, and was scheduled to interview for this very program. But that person's spouse was not okay with moving to California, so that option was out, and a post-doc position came through.
True today. But Uber's value is in the human component and the alternative's cost of ownership. Google and Elon Musk look well positioned crush Uber in the 5-yr timeframe.
The Killer Google Glass App: Natural Pattern Recognition
Tricky coding questions are a bad idea
Control of the oil in Iraq is more strategically important than in the one scenario you describe.

As an aside I never read that Hussein had threatened to flood the market, I read that he threatened, as a negotiating tactic, to withhold oil. Do you have a source for the "flooding the market" claim?
We use Elliptic Diffie Hellman when you are pairing your iPhone to your Mac. The key is stored on both iPhone and Mac KeyChains. Every message between them is encrypted/signed using that key.
The only problem I see is that binWriter is poorly named: it should be called unreliableBinaryWriter (alternatively, and possibly better, its Write method should be called UnreliablyWrite.)

The purpose of the type and its method is to provide a mechanism to (1) abstract different writing methods for different data types, and (2) silently swallows but records errors to provide a try-but-don't-care-if-I-fail write where you can check for errors later.

Its not a problem that adding logic after those writes that assumes that they were reliable produces incorrect behavior, though it is a problem that the code where the type and its method are used doesn't clearly reflect the intentionally unreliable nature of the operations.
> he controlled literally every part of the process of extracting oil, from the wells to the pipeline to the tank cars, in an industry that had high startup costs/barriers to entry.

If you read his biography, Rockefeller didn't become successful this way. He started doing vertical integration (buying the supply chain, rail roads, etc) only after he was widely successful dominating the oil refinery part. Then his competitors were not able to compete with his prices and went out of business.

Although I agree the oil industry vs taxi one has limited analogies outside of government regulators and highly entrenched industry encombants.

The futuristic domaination of taxi's probably won't involve owning the tradition "black taxi" style businesses. The real opportunity will be whoever dominates automated car taxi services.
It would be much more fun if this was hosted on YP.
Too expensive. I got the app and priced a ride home from work: $37-42. I don't do discounts.

at $18-20 dollars I'd do it.
LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme
LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme, supporting Android, iOS, OS X, Linux, Windows and OpenBSD.
I suspect that might be under represented by people using Lighttpd for serving static content, with something else like Apache serving the main page html (Ive got a bunch of clients in that configuration with WordPress running on Apache, and all the images/css/js/etc coming out of Lighttpd.)
I really like this, please make more videos more towards Python and Javascript.

I would love some PHP but that's asking for to much.
Your last point is interesting because I feel the exact opposite. Facebook I don't have a problem with because I just post throwaway stuff on their anyway, and all my RL friends so they actually have a better chance of seeing it vs on my blog or twitter or whatever.

But Medium feels like it's taking the part of my online presence that I want to be most unique and commoditize it into this mass website that will only ever make the founders of the site famous. I know that sounds extreme because they do provide you with a great tool and some means of exposure you wouldn't otherwise have, but it just feels so dehumanizing somehow. Like it's taking the very best part of the internet and attempting to privatize for the benefit of some heavy-hitters in the silicon valley old boys network. And I think I put my finger on something with that last bit, because Medium is really kind of the same thing as Tumblr which never bothered me; maybe because it didn't have that patina of tech insider design perfection bestowed upon us in private beta as if from the gods themselves.
Is SFO a public facility? It would not surprise me if the roads within the airport boundary were private roads.

If so, they can prohibit your friend from dropping you off just like any house owner can prohibit your friend from entering their driveway.
Mint and salt in a cold brew is incredibly good.
I find the author's righteous indignation that he did not receive the ransom he thought he deserved amusing at best.
Yeah exactly, if the attacker has complete control over the computer, the least of your worries is Bluetooth.

He can steal your cookies, keylog your password/token, poison your dns and compromise your SSL Keys or simply steal a session.
Indeed...This seems rather petty to me. They did offer him some money, which he's not even automatically entitled to in the first place...companies can chose whether they do bug bounties, or how much they pay.
I think the Cubieboard is OK on this but: Which boards are speed limited by using USB internally? (I'm thinking of my Dreamplug, mainly)
On the other hand, if you find a wallet, you are entitled to 10% of the cash.(1) (Bad fit as an example, I know, but the question is what is a good comparison..)

(1) at least in Germany.
Her agenda masquerades as something genuinely good and productive, yet pushes something orthogonal and unrelated. She's on a crusade.

Most of the women I know in tech loathe these sorts of concern-trolls for giving feminists erroneous reputations of being hard to work with.

Also, who's angry? I just think it's stupid to engage with such destructive people, but then again I don't participate in the Django community in any way so it doesn't affect me one way or the other.

Also, giving them credence and strengthening their brand serves to help them undermine actual equality in our industry, but, again, I'm male, so it doesn't directly affect me. It's still stupid, though.
you wouldn't write in English, you'd write it in Lisp.
I've been playing around with Rethink for a couple of days now, and I just can't get over how nice the admin web UI is. Scaling up machines is quick and easy, and it's pretty simple to resolve master/secondary issues when one of the servers goes down (or it's shut off).

I'm seeing some performance issues, and I'm definitely going to spend some time messing with my test data and optimizing it for Rethink. Right now, a couple of basic counting queries take ~1 second when the MySQL equivalent takes milliseconds. The other issue I'm having is that I simply did an import of existing data from MySQL that contains dates, which are treated as strings, so I'll need to convert the dates into a native format (integer based timestamps) before I can get some more performance numbers.
Then they should say that's what it's for. I think that would be simple enough.
Brett, the creator of dpxdt, gave a talk on this project a few months ago at Mozilla's SF office. Video can be found here:

https://air.mozilla.org/continuous-delivery-at-google/
> EDIT: Here's something specific: I'd like to get better at using metaphor. I'm finding that even though I've been writing a lot, I seem to have reached a "plateau" of quality. It's.. well, it's just dull. I don't use many metaphors, and I know my writing comes off as very dry. So I'd like to get better at whatever skill or mindset that lets me spice up my writing, rather than my writing plodding dutifully along its lackluster course without any flair in presentation. Has anyone else found themselves in a similar situation? How'd you overcome it?

I am not going to comment on why metaphors are a bad idea. Especially if you want to get into prose. One trick that would work is writing pastiches [1]. Pick up a few writers you admire. Reconstruct material in their style. The same paragraph in several different styles will help. Repeat, re-do. The hardest thing about writing is not writing well. It is about being ok with your writing being utter shit. You have to climb that hill. Maybe write 'n' pages every day or so.

Everyone goes through this. I read Bukowski's Ham on Rye a few weeks back. Loved it. Today, I opened Post Office, his first book (I think). It was utter shit. Read like Hemingway. Yet, over twenty years. The man's prose had changed into something beautiful. Something uniquely Bukowski. You will find your voice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche

P.S: Feel free to get in touch. I am fascinated by both the pedagogy of writing and writing itself.
But isn't that like telling people not to make money?
It's just copying the current TOTP token over Bluetooth to your Mac. Nothing fancy. Simple yet very useful.
"Recursive programming"... as in, programming using recursion? Why would this be important to "data science"? Surely loops are just as effective.
According to Wikipedia "SFO is owned by the City and County of San Francisco but located in adjacent San Mateo County". That should give them standing.
Keep in mind that many localities utilize car rental taxes at airports to subsidize public bonds unrelated to the airport. This a particularly good way of paying for publicly financed stadiums. Airport Car rental taxes are popular with local voters because they don't actually tax local voters. Hotel taxes are also popular for this reason.
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For a long time I thought medium.com was the blog of one single ambitions, epic tech blog writer.
I've been at the beeb for the best part of a decade and can say that thi used to be the case, but no new sites have been built using Perl for a very long time.

Nowadays the vast majority of sites are built using Java services and a PHP frontend. There is still some legacy Perl about running some fairly critical systems, but there are very few people in the place who could regard themselves as full time perl devs.
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Good info. Do you have any sources online you can point to?
Thanks for the feedback, I just created a CL fixing it.
https://codereview.appspot.com/11967047/

I think it's a good idea, btw :-)

You can run code on your slides, check http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#14
> I speak at one of those universities almost every year, primarily so that I can talk in opposition to the NSA recruiter who is always there giving a talk at the same time.

Wow. That's really above and beyond the call of duty. Thanks for being one of the good guys. Sometimes it doesn't feel like there are any left.
I use online psycotherapy to treat my Internet addiction. I can tell you it works great. I always feel better during a session. Coming back down is a little rough so I found another online psycotherapist for that.
That's not a ban. Nobody is turned away, even feds in uniform.
Were you there? That would be a terrible reporting job by Andy Greenberg.
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I'm not sure why whoever did it decided "They shall" should become "...shall"... but there's two complete and mostly separate ideas here, separated by a semicolon.

1) They shall in [most Cases] be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and from the same;

This obviously doesn't apply here because of the bit you highlighted, and because they probably don't care that much about not being arrested only while Congress is in session...

2) [F]or any Speech or Debate in either House they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Which is the bit that seems to quite clearly forbid punishing them for what they say on the floor.

While semicolons are sometimes used to separate items of a list, in this case the grammer wouldn't work at all if you try to do that - "They shall in all Cases, [...] for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place". The repetition of "They shall" in particular seems glaring. I'm wishing I remembered my linguistics well enough to pin it down in more precise terms, but hopefully it's clear...

My understanding is that this was explicitly used by a Senator in releasing the Pentagon Papers, so it's not merely theoretical grammar nazism, either.
Alas, I've experienced a lot of this. A current project I'm working on, I've done in Mojolicious. Why? Because I had no interest in learning another toolkit that provided me no real benefits other than the language it was based on was more popular. And, the time spent learning another toolkit was time not spent developing.

The first question the rest of the board asked me was "Well, are we going to have trouble hiring?" To which, I truthfully replied "No." The interesting part about non-popular languages, is that you're going to have fewer unqualified candidates. (And yes, in my local market, there are still a lot of perl programmers, maybe not as many as Ruby programmers, but the average perl programmer I come into contact with has more years of experience than the average Ruby programmer I come into contact with.)

I think the argument "we can't hire people that know X" is nearly always the wrong one. Several years ago, when we looked to re-build core services for a product (replacing perl with Erlang, natch!) - we couldn't hire a person that knew Erlang to save our lives. So, we hired good developers in other languages and trained them. If you've got the right technology and the the right tools, you can always find the right people.
That's Outbrain: http://www.outbrain.com/engage/

In theory the ads are targeted to the content of the site, but I agree that they're often pretty crummy.
OK, I don't disagree with you but I will refer you to the stuff I was replying to -

"For starters this should only ever be a polite request, not a forced rejection of any tracking scripts. I have a right to track how people use my site."

"People get way too offended by analytics tracking when it's there for their benefit."

And the followup by the same OP -

"I'm going to keep an eye on you as I see fit whilst you are in my shop. Surely you can see that as fair?

You are an agent entering my property. This is what your computer does when you access my site."

It seems clear to me that they feel entitled to have their scripts run on my computer. I have no issue with them checking their logs to see what I requested and when. Scripts, cookies, 0px images, each of these are mine to block as I see fit because I own the client, not them.
Memcached has some rough edges (e.g. slab size management) that aren't there in Redis. Redis also gives you a couple extra useful primitives.
Or, McDonald's Could Double Wages For Employees, And Just Make Less Money
But you can deliver hot dogs to stadium patrons on public roadways at the stadium. The airport can C&D all it wants. Fine. Cat and mouse. FlightCar will simply match the letter of the law. Good luck.

Disclaimer: I have had pizza delivered right up to Solider Field in Chicago before a game. Using a public road.
I'd argue that CPAN accounts for quite a bit of "network effect", never mind that there's still a considerable amount of googleable "I have this error, let's see if someone else had it before me" type of dicussions out there. Certainly more than some hip, yet newer languages (e.g. Haskell, Go). So you're not really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

I think the YP people weren't just going for some senior developers, they wanted a huge pool, probably with easy enough replacement if someone is going. Considering that not everyone wants to have a porn site on their CV, or might want to quit once they start a family and would have to explain where daddy/mommy works, that seems like a good idea anyway. So you need the largest pool possible, which generally boils down to either PHP or Java, with the latter being a bit more expensive.
Hey, that is one quite interesting idea about law and code. Thanks!
It's truly amazing the amount of mental energy people will apparently spend dwelling on advertising, even worrying that if they accidentally click it their life could be forfeit to a scam, but yet they won't spend the five minutes it would take to simply install Adblock.
He didn't get credentials, they never secured their admin panels:

> A friend was looking for a hosting provider and wanted it all secure, I checked a network range and found the Jenkins panel of BitTorrent. This was all 100% accidental, truth! At the end of the day If I wanted to 'hack' BitTorrent I wouldn't even know where to begin. I mean, there is no real skill or talent involved in what I did to find the information on BitTorrent. They forgot to set a user/pass to the admin panel, that had access to github from a master account. Github accounts had user/passes that was linked to everything.

> No hacking, just random find. Mad huh?
Not really, as part of making the law - congress needs to go through all possible interpretations and rule out the ones not in the spirit of the law one by one. Then the law is defined by its tests.

Is it okay to collect all XYZ data?

Is it okay to collect anonymous XYZ data?

Is it okay to collect XYZ data and hold it for X days?

Is it okay to store and index but not search a collection of XYZ data?

The law would end up saying something like -

The NSA is permitted to store and index anonymous data for a period of 10 days. Attempts to make anonymous data personal are forbidden. Data may only be accessed with a court issued warrant subject to the following conditions:...
Ehh, nearly every city I've been to with a population over ~20k has had noticeably better coffee in at least one local spot. It's not just the major cities. But yes, comparing the average cup of coffee before/after Starbucks got big is a night-and-day comparison.

I just wish everyone wouldn't try to taste like Starbucks, now. They can't do it half as well as Starbucks does, so you just get worse everything.
We'd prefer if you'd parse your network packets on the CPU. We even built a special part of the chip to do it for you and hardwired your existing com ports to it! I'm sure you developers don't want to touch that stuff anyway.