skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maintaining 30 mph in a dense city, such as downtown SF is probably high (although then enough time is spent idling that my costs-per-mile estimate becomes too low). Fair point. I pulled the 30 mph out of someone else's guess in the AMA article mentioned, and from the most recent Lyft report I read, saying it wasn't uncommon to drive to the airport (removing the Mustache first, of course) during which time 30mph is low, and the time-between-rides becomes high.
The IRS is definitely lowballing it though.
While they may got the part about the history of AREXX wrong, most of the article is spot on.
Oh, well, if you're talking about the politics side I agree with you. It was a Florida case and the federal government should never have been involved.
isn't that what Obvious is?

https://medium.com/obvious/3cb1d19eae8
But he calculated his per mile costs using 12000 miles per year. A taxi driver is going to drive far more than that, so the fixed costs will contribute a smaller amount to the per mile cost.
Here, use this: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I disagree. Native ads are extremely cynical and turn off users more than regular ads, which at least have the dignity to admit that they are ads. They're far less palatable (which is pretty amazing) because they seem so forced. They're like the uncanny valley of ads. They look close to the real thing, but something is so off it's creepy.
Urban driving incurs a higher cost per mile driven, and unless you're driving a hybrid increases fuel costs.
Young languages--and young programmers. I find myself having less time for holy wars as I get older, anyway.
Whether federal reserve policy is blowing up a software bubble has more to do with who gets the money than with the fact that money is being printed.

Hyperinflation's been around the corner for 5 years now. Obviously the doomsayers (and classical economics) are failing to account for some massive deflationary pressures. If current policy gets us <1% inflation, it stands to reason that normal policy would have us in a deflationary state. Hyperinflation is not about to show up and wreck everything.

But as far as who gets the money.. there's certainly the possibility that capital's being allocated in a suboptimal way due to banks getting the money, as opposed to I dunno, public works programs or handing out $100 bills on the street. (IMO fed policy-makers would be fine with the latter two, but they're less politically palatable in some sick way)
I use an app called Bandsintown for this.
Not really, it appears Ripple is just hiring PR firms and lobbyists (like one of the women at the Senate hearings: https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/402918026968039425)
Lyft drivers could surely benefit from the tax deductions as well. I assume they report their Lyft payments to the IRS? This complicates the "how much they earn" formula further.
It is also possible to drive a used car, which can drastically lower the initial and operating expenses. This way, even "luxury" cars are a viable option to drive.

Also, most people tip their drivers, which is basically tax-free income (at least in Germany).
"... and stuff"
You're looking at the glass half empty aren't you? Instead of never getting the right answer, (in this case) you'll now get it at night. How is that not an improvement?
But they were involved, and the reasons for that were entirely political. Those congressmen and President Bush didn't give a crap about the dispute at hand, and they didn't have deep feelings about the jurisprudence. It was entirely about 'right to life'. You flip the script and they'd have been supporting the husband and slandering the parents.
Same here! I don't even have kids and I can barely fit in 8-10 hours per week. For my demographic, they're claiming 30+ hours per week. Next time my friends with kids complain about "not enough time in the day," I think I'm going to smack them!
This has all the symptoms of a race condition.
And the worst part is you can't get your profile deleted. I've had several male friends personally email the founder and she won't delete ratings or profiles.
They don't exactly have a clean history

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5630449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632934

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563016
... are Apple's manpages never read?

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

"For applications that require tighter guarantees about the integrity of their data, Mac OS X provides the F_FULLFSYNC fcntl. The F_FULLFSYNC fcntl asks the drive to flush all buffered data to permanent storage. Applications, such as databases, that require a strict ordering of writes should use F_FULLFSYNC to ensure that their data is written in the order they expect. Please see fcntl(2) for more detail."

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

"F_FULLFSYNC - Does the same thing as fsync(2) then asks the drive to flush all buffered data to the permanent storage device (arg is ignored). This is currently implemented on HFS, MS-DOS (FAT), and Universal Disk Format (UDF) file systems. The operation may take quite a while to complete. Certain FireWire drives have also been known to ignore the request to flush their buffered data."

OS X has aggressive file buffering in memory, and it's getting more aggressive all the time. For example, cfprefsd, introduced in 10.8 (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/DataMan...) made it so that when a system application read a preferences file, it stayed in memory and ignored the disk version, until cfprefsd eventually synced it back to disk. In 10.9, the behavior is much worse to the point that as soon as a pref is in cfprefsd, it's unlikely to leave it until the user logs out / the machine reboots.

In this instance, OS X has, for quite some time, had "defrag on the fly" for files under 20MB in size. On access of the file, it's read into memory and kept there in its entirety until memory pressure from other processes triggers a sync it back to disk. When it comes to writing a small file back to disk, OS X will "get around to it" when it's damned well ready unless you force its hand using the fcntl options above.

Unfortunately, the bit about "This is currently implemented on HFS, MS-DOS (FAT), and Universal Disk Format (UDF) file systems" covers pretty much the range of filesystem types that OS X can natively read+write on - but one that might get past this is ExFAT. I'd be surprised if that was the case, but it is natively supported read+write on OS X and would be something quick and easy to test (set up an ExFAT volume for the database) and possibly verify this is the root cause.

(Additionally, third-party read+write access to filesystems like NTFS via Paragon / Tuxera may be able to confirm this as well.)

More reading material (MySQL has been dealing with this since 2005): http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2005/Feb/msg00072...
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Twitch.tv! Youtube!
Absolutely. I was just at a demo day where a group was making a Stack Overflow clone with monetary incentive and they didn't agree with this point.
PRC sure does seem to be compensating for something with this whole "power" thing and it's paranoia with people undermining it. The entire world just needs to calm down with this whole "power" thing, because frankly, it's pointless. Fighting for control and influence over a portion of a thin crusty liveable layer of a tiny molten marble flying through a deadly vacuum around an average star on the outer edge of a spiral arm of an average galaxy. Think about that and then about what the fuck are people fighting over. That's why the science and technology side of Hacker News is so much more interesting. Scientists have known of our insignificance for ages. Politicians still haven't realized, and perhaps never will. It's like what Edgar Mitchell said, you'd just like to take them by the scruff of the neck to the moon and show them the Earth and say "Look at that you son of a bitch".
Is Google Innovating with New Products?
Given what the drivers and passengers put into it, it does seem that Lyft's 20% cut seems high - but that 20% is also what justifies backing from the investors. If so, then there's room for a service doing the same brokerage deal for, maybe 10% or 5% (if they cut out the lattes), advertising itself as "cheaper than cabs, AND cheaper than Lyft". Maybe Craig will offer a really crappy UI and do it for free?
I wonder if it is still the case that Japanese Chess (shogi) is also considered "too hard" for AI. I'm by no means a proficient shogi player -- but found it a refreshing "variant" of chess. The main difference from chess, is that the board is 9x9, and crucially, that you get to play captured pieces.

I like the idea of Go, but I'm afraid it's a little too simple for my tastes...
In its emergent form, yes. They need to start branding it: Medium [brought to you by Obvious]. More importantly, the key is to reduce the cost of purchasing or coding the next Instagram, as the commenter above noted.
When OS/2 Warp came out, I remember it being insanely cheap ($20?), so in a what-the-hell mood I bought it. Took it home and tried to install it. It was a hopeless mess of disks, both optical and floppy, and I never got it to run.

One of my cow-orkers at Apple had worked on the OS/2 Presentation Manager at IBM. I tried talking with her about it, but she said the experience had been "absolutely awful" and she didn't want to say much else.

IBM never had a chance.
Looks like a free $10k for you if you're right! Let's see!
Yeah, true. OP expresses his concern over Facebook's ad revenue system, the clutter it creates and how it spoils his entire Social Network experience. Path, on the other hand gives a user a rich and a personal experience. I guess that's the trade-off there. For getting recommendations based on location and interests, I use Circle(discovercircle.com). Works fine for me. :-)
Who can crack a sef file?
What do you mean by "it"? There is only a p2p network, with each node acting independently. Nodes which are on multiple other nodes UNLs could be considered the intersection of a set. But it makes more sense to think of it as a directed graph. There's no such think as an "untrusted validator", if you run rippled and your node isn't on anyone else's UNL, then you aren't really part of the network because your votes aren't considered in anyone else's consensus decisions (but you would get real-time access to the proposals and candidate sets).

So the set of of validators which gets used is exactly the union of nodes in the UNLs. If you have two networks without any overlap in the UNLs, then you'd get two separate ledgers.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13330/what-is-the...

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10227/why-does-ri...
Thanks! It does indeed only give one move. I'm really just standing on the shoulders of the chess engines (GNUChess, Stockfish) and they simply tell me what the computer would do given a position. I'd like to get more insight into why the engine prefers one move to another, but my understanding isn't quite there yet.
This is a clever and practical idea, in the sense of having Indiana Jones just shoot the guy with his pistol, instead of engaging in an elaborate sword fight, but it violates the spirit of the problem. If we solved all of our problems like this, we would kill the patients instead of curing the diseases.

The premise of the problem is very clear: How do you tally the presence of 100 unique events, some of which may repeat themselves, when you may use one and only one bit to register the state of the system?
Yeah, it's a joke, not satire. It could have been satire if he had incorporated all the bad web practices that he was making fun of, like add jQuery UI just for giggles and have items that were hidden at different resolutions - that sounds like the start of satire...
The silver lining: As more of these kinds of DPI scaling issues crop up, hopefully developers will starting taking accessibility seriously, in order to make their applications usable for people with visual (and other) impairments.
If we suppose that it's not going to get /every/ thing wrong or right, but about an even mix between them, then I'd rather have the distribution of half always working and half always not working as opposed to all of them working half of the time.
It seems like you're implying entertainment : limited run :: tech : not limited run. But that can't be right, because plenty of bits of tech have had limited runs, and there are bits of entertainment that are centuries old and still going. So could you clarify what you meant in your first paragraph?

I think that it would be more correct to say the social networks that have failed have not had the kind of classical design that could make them long-term parts of society, unlike, say, Shakespeare. But then, that is a fairly trivial observation too. Of course social networks that have failed have lacked the qualities that could make them not fail.
Stockfish (ranked #2 on the various computer rating lists) runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android. It's also free and open source!

http://stockfishchess.org/

https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish
I have no idea what that is but I will be glad to leave HN if that is the case, you're managing to do worse than bitcointalk.
Also, Atari didn't get marketing (Jack Tramiel was very reluctant to spend money there). Atari really didn't get systems software, either, and never hired to the extent needed to make a good impact there. The world was basically safe from Atari being anything other than a low-end consumer computer company.

And the thing that probably saved Apple in the late 80s was the desktop publishing business.
You can use cpp.

As for "capture groups", you can use lex. I wrote a "code generator" shell script to produce .l files and another script that compiles .l files to one-off utilities.

There is perhaps more coherence to the whole thing than you are aware of. Whether "Linux distros" or "OSX" have maintained that coherency I do not know.
Drive 36k miles a year and the car will quickly have a resell value of 0 and repair costs become more frequent. Insurance is probably the only true fixed cost that benefits from scale
nothing like paying premium for a product because "it is designed better" and then having to redesign it :)

id have used color sugru, but then all my power cords have proper stress relieve...
The new social network should share profits with users who create the content. In fact, it shall only take a small commission, and offer the option to convert the commission to a fixed monthly sum in exchange for the technology services it provides.

An interesting idea, but won't that encourage spam?
what about the cost? :)
NSA-planted malware spans five continents, 50,000 computer networks
Woah! Didn't know about this at all.
I've definitely found that for myself, especially for smallish amounts of money. If it's enough money that I can justify it as freelancing, then it's a different category entirely: I'll do a good job in return for being paid. But I'd rather do things I'm interested in without any money involved (writing Wikipedia articles, answering questions I know something about, etc.) than chase $2 bounties. That ends up making it feel not like an interesting hobby, but like a low-paid job, like spending all day on Mechanical Turk.

As a proprietor of such a system you also end up with a whole category of new bad behaviors, as people try to maximize their hourly pay by finding ways to game the system, getting the most payout for the least input.
Being for grandparents makes Facebook stable - at least in markets like the US with greying demographics. Heck, the people who were on it when it was student-oriented invite-only and hook-up driven are pushing 30 these days.

And that means they''re headed into life phases where they buy high profit goods and services like stroller systems and financial services. And old folks like grandpa? Well he's buying pharmaceuticals and taking cruises.
some tech has short run; and some entertainment has long runs (like ER TV show), but these are exceptions to the rule. Your search engine, Google has enjoyed a 14 year run, and is going strong. Windows OS has enjoyed a nearly 30 years run so far.
Kardashians on the other hand, enjoyed only a couple of years of popularity. This is what I mean.
Somebody wrote the following but it is gone now. (Still had it in my other tab.)

It's actually just plain old web search. Search this on Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=vidyarthi+bhavan) or Bing (http://www.bing.com/search?q=vidyarthi+bhavan) or DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vidyarthi+bhavan) or Blekko (http://blekko.com/#?q=vidyarthi%20bhavan) or Yandex (http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=vidyarthi%20bhavan) or Baidu (http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=vidyarthi+bhavan).
Baidu is the only place where I saw it being the second result and not the first.
"Buy Gold" vs. "Buy Bitcoin" on Google Trends
I'm not sure why you got that conclusion, as leveldb already received that fix some months ago, see https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/issues/detail?id=197
I believe to claim the reward you have to reproduce the issue, there is already a patch out for the F_FULLFSYNC change.

https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/issues/attachmentText?id=1...
There are a couple of modules that do this kind of thing but Plumbum looks interesting, particularly

http://plumbum.readthedocs.org/en/latest/local_commands.html...

>from plumbum.cmd import cat

>>cat('tmp.txt') #invokes cat tmp.txt on the system
So is the iPhone at this point.
Sounds like a good ole fashioned race to the bottom.
I agree that would be a good feature!

Unfortunately Google probably can't ingest the data without the agreement in place. So unless Google Now actually ran on your phone (it doesn't), you're outta luck.
The Great Unbundling of Venture Capital
Does this mean I'm going to have to rescue my data every time a software/network is "retired"?
I agree that repair costs and depreciation grow (probably roughly linearly) with miles driven, but those would have been factored into the $9100 median separately from the car payment.
Big hit TV shows are extraordinarily rare. Most fail; most fail quickly.

You can just about list on one hand every decade, the number of shows that last more than five years and bring in big ratings (audience / users). Shows like Friends, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Roseanne, Mash, etc.

Hit TV shows are extraordinarily difficult to 'manufacture.' Out of thousands proposed and scripted by writers, one or two per year are hits if you're lucky. Out of those, a few survive five or seven years.

And that's all true even with the huge built-in audiences that companies such as NBC, ABC, CBS have that show up every night waiting to watch content. There aren't 100,000 other apps to compete with, just a few major deliverers of TV shows / networks; and the failure rate is still that high.
I absolutely agree with you and look forward to 4k displays becoming mainstream and forcing developers to support high dpi.

I think its inexcusable that a bare bones winforms application doesn't scale correctly, and that I'd never know about this issue without a high dpi device. This is one place where Microsoft has total control and they should be ensuring that everything built with visual studio works on their devices out of the box. Hopefully VS2013 will address this.
You mean that insurance can count in determining adequate capitalization?

The cases I can find that are most on point is Walkovszky v. Carlton, where a claim of underinsurance was directly at issue (unsuccessful because the insurance that was carried met an explicit statutory requirement) and Autrey v. 22 Texas Services Inc. (on a summary judgement motion finding there are facts in dispute, so not squarely ruled on).

A couple of relevant papers that discuss insurance throughout:

http://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

http://www.law.emory.edu/fileadmin/journals/elj/56/5/Millon....
There are two patches linked in the OP that switch to using F_FULLFSYNC on OSX. The OP says that people are still encountering db corruption even on branches with these fixes.

https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/b28d8b423bddc860c5858...
https://github.com/gmaxwell/bitcoin/commit/e7bad10c12ce9b5d4...
Crowdfunding for Independent Media
Play-i / Robot teaches kids to program
they probably wont sell it to you anyways.

few month i wanted to buy tempurkont or something from sherman willians. i did the research. i needed silicone paint or primer. they had a line of products perfect for my use. i got the info down to product number. cant remember now of course.

NONE of the stores knew about it. one of the stores took the trouble of calling some place. learned it was from the architectural branch. id have to order a minimum quantity of X gallons, x being a huge number i dont remember, and wait 2 to 3 weeks.

so, yeah, even if you learn the resin you need, though luck. they wont bother selling to you anyways.

so kudos to sugru. but shame on them for almost no tech info.
The ZODB is and was a Python pickle store in the first place. The question about what makes a "database" can be answered differently. Functionality like indexes and query languages are in the Zope world application level functionality build on top of the ZODB. The ZODB turned out being a database solution for many large scale projects (up to several 100 GB). There are options for sharding (mount points) and replications (ZRC, Relstorage). The ZODB is unlikely the solution that you would use nowadays for "big data" however keep in mind that the ZODB is already 15 years old and severed many people in professional solutions for more than a decade. We know of many businesses still using the ZODB in mission critical applications. But yes, the ZODB is an object store and not a RDBMS - it's a completely different beast - like always: use the right tool for each project. And the ZODB was already "NoSQL" by the end of the 90s of the last millennium. No need to hate the ZODB - it is just another database option - and in some case I would still use the ZODB today over tinkered garbage database solutions like MongoDB having a braindead replication and sharing model.
They probably misread the Wikipedia on OS/2, which says:

> In addition, IBM once made a deal with Commodore to license Amiga technology for OS/2 2.0 and above in exchange for the REXX scripting language.

In other words, IBM licensed REXX to Amiga in return for something else (we don't know what).

But who knows if this is true. Apparently IBM and Commodore already had an IP cross-licensing agreement at the time, and had access to their patents. And AREXX apparently did not contain any IBM code.
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Definitely agree with some of the points in here and I understand that this is the extreme.

One thing I would definitely say is that there is minimal structure besides for heading/paragraph and if I was selling something, this website wouldn't work.

You need a basic structure through brand recognition > wtf the websites is doing > convince > call to action. Or something along those lines.

Again, I understand this is an extreme so the straight up headings & paragraphs are there but I think a nice middle ground would work as long as people THINK about what damn content they put on their site instead of stupid parallax sites for the sake of it.

/end rant