skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A self-driving vanpool / paratransit service would likely be most optimal.

Single-occupant vehicles simply occupy too much lane space, especially at peak use hours. Transit routes are most efficient when structured as point-to-point. I've seen several commuter systems in which buses collected riders over a small area, then travelled to a (preferably concentrated) business / commercial area where riders disembarked. You limit loading/deloading and dwell times, and maximize time-in-motion (which increases net average speed). Most urban transit systems achieve net speeds little over a walking pace (10-15 MPH isn't uncommon) due to frequent stops and congestion.

The real killer with transit systems though is transfers. Having to wait 5-10 minutes (or 20-30) for a connection really extends your commute time. Realize that at highway speeds, that translates to 5-30 miles of commute distance, and even at urban speeds, 3-10 miles of lost travel distance. To say nothing of the stress of wondering where the bus/train is and when / whether it will arrive.

So: with an autonomous self-driving multiple-occupant vehicle, passengers could flag a ride, the dispatching system would match requests with livery by start and end points, and route accordingly.
Logic For Fun
I agree with you as well, which is why elsewhere I said I would definitely take a large high-DPI display and make it work.

Even with no change whatsoever to our current operating systems, my enjoyment of my desktop computer would increase tremendously if I could scrap my multi-monitor setup, replacing it with one high-DPI very large monitor.

But I think the point still stands that interfaces could be improved (and probably quite a bit) to take advantage of this kind of hardware. As dragonwriter said elsewhere in this thread, it may start as just simple things such as providing more flexibility on top of existing quality of life improvements that have been added to window managers based on the recognition that these monitors are larger and you can view more information at once. I would like to see such a monitor coupled with gesture input (along with mouse). I'd love to be able to do gestures to pick up a stack of windows and arrange them in a quick hand motion, for example.
XMLHttpRequest is a facility provided by the browser - when you are making a request, you are just accessing objects and functions provided by the host environment.

In Python, the "host environment" is generally CPython with the standard library. In JavaScript, the "host environment" is typically the browser with the DOM.

This is a project that translates code in Python syntax to JavaScript, so you would use XMLHttpRequest just as you would in JavaScript, but with Python syntax.
> {Q: What do you call a database without indexes, transactions or security? A: A file system!}

Mmmm... I'll take ZFS over MongoDB any day of the week. :)
in terms of benefits you list - let's not forget a job at bristol-meyers.

somehow a phd faking data, and working at a big pharma company, seems like a good fit.
The original post was decrying the limitations of a specific library. If you can implement the map in a better way while still allowing the freedom I/we need then fine. If you can't then get out of my way and hand me the map.
I quite dislike any format that does not provide me immediately with a 2 or 3 sentence general description of what the thing is about, of the sort like you would find at the beginning of a Wikipedia article or in the parent comment (but with a bit less detail).

Taking BRCK as an example, I see "It's the easiest, most reliable way to connect to the Internet." and some picture suggesting that this is a hardware device. Insufficient. If I page down it gets even more confusing.
Momentum on side of NSA reformers despite Boehner’s push
Is there an online transpiler to compare the Python source to the generated JavaScript as on the CoffeeScript site?
I'm a dev at HubSpot and though I have no way of knowing this for sure, I don't think our CEO was involved in this blog post.

We have a lot of blog posts, and I don't think they're meant to represent the views of the company.
Swiss air is top notch. I can understand people wanting to fly very cheap, but come on Ryan air ? tried once , never again...
Ah if you read Intelligent Investor you are ahead of most and The Warren Buffett Way would then just be a light fun rehash read (usually the book I recommend before Intelligent Investor). The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing at least for me was a good book that explained reading financial reports. I'll check out 4 Pillars of Investing, thanks
Streak (YC S11) Hiring Early Engineers
Streak.com (YC S11) is hiring full time engineers. We’re a small and nimble company working on email for businesses.

We're growing fast (our user engagement has been doubling every 4 months).

We’re trying to make email better for business users by adding a layer of metadata and UI to existing email systems.We’re built on top of Gmail and we help business manage all their processes (sales, hiring, fundraising, etc.) inside of Gmail.

At Streak, you’ll be able to:
- work on incredibly challenging front end infrastructure. We’re a sophisticated web app built on top of the most sophisticated web app out there - Gmail. We’re also planning on exposing our Gmail infrastructure to 3rd parties so you can help build a platform to build apps on top of Gmail.
- work on a product that people use everyday for 28% of their day.
- work on iOS and Android apps for email that are integrated into apps people already use or by building our own

Obviously:
- Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)
- We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing
- We’re well funded by elite silicon valley investors

Our requirements:
- you love working hard, not just for financial rewards, but for the opportunity to grow personally
- you are intellectually curious

We’d love to hear from you at ychackers@streak.com, please send us samples of anything you’ve built.
Yes, perhaps so! Thanks to the early adopters who have made these things affordable to cheapskates such as myself.
The MailPile page (https://www.mailpile.is/) mentions GMVault (http://gmvault.org/) as their method for backing up Gmail. I haven't heard of GMVault (or MailPile) until just now. Both look promising. I'm glad there is a push in this direction.
I didn't realize that asking for clarification made me look "jumpy."
The more I read about patents, the more I think we should have "I thought of that first" rights, whereby people who thought about patenting something before the person who patented it could get their fair share of any licensing revenue derived from the patent. This would protect the small inventors from the big lawyers who dominate the patent scene

I know some might deride that idea as rewarding people who contributed very little, but let's not forget: thinking it up is the hard part. After all someone who doesn't know as much about gaming theory as this guy wouldn't know what to do with a pseudo-random if they had one. And actually making things is mere grunt work, hardly befitting someone as important as an inventor. ~
> Truth is always somewhere in between.

Good thing we agree about globalization otherwise I'd grab one of your goalposts and run with it ;)
I guess the title "Only 240 languages are used online" doesn't sound like a problem? That probably represents 5 or 6 of 7 billion people?

I think the world should move towards even fewer languages than 240. However, it would be very sad if we didn't capture the complete grammar, vocabulary, etc. of those other languages before they die, along with lots of audio, to preserve them.
A few weeks ago I transferred a domain I bought from Google for AppEngine to my 'usual' domain registration service. Very easy to do, but it took 5 days for the transfer to kick in. I wish you had posted this earlier because this could have been a solution for you. That said, try it right now, and maybe it will work OK when Google/GoDaddy drop your domain.
Carlos Finlay
Who cares about your super awesome Haskell library? You have meandered our of context. My response was in response to a defense of this particular implementation. If your abstraction sucks then I don't want it as it will cause me more headache than it is worth. That's the point.

EDIT: Eh... looking back at my original comment I don't think I got that across at all. It reads as more of a rant against a typed system in general, which is not what I intended.
Wikipedia - Please Accept BTC Donations Silly Goose
I actually liked the picture, it illustrates one segment of the target audience very well. A bit like the camera GoPro showing a picture of a surfer in a wave.

The website misses more specific details about how it works, when it will be available and how much it will cost. I can't wait for this thing to hit the market!
Satellite Extravaganza: US vs. Russia
So much this.

I found myself in a number of discussions on G+ with 1) Libertardians and 2) climate denialists (among a few others).

What I came to realize in the case of both after a time was that both tended to exhibit very similar patterns of iterating through various logical fallacies and/or mythical arguments.

Your Logical Fallacy Is (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com) is one of many decent collections of common fallacies (tu quoque turns out to be one of the more common as it happens). Another is reiteration of tired old arguments.

Every so often I'd run into someone who actually had intelligent objections or arguments to positions (generally not on either of the topics above, I eventually used them simply as weeders for people not worth wasting my time on -- which I suppose is yet another filter). In particular there's the problem of what I'm coming to call "lies of distraction" -- various forms of argument and/or presentation which serve little purpose other than to divert your time and energy from stuff that matters. And yes, HN can fall into that category at times.
Indeed. To get a rough idea I added up the first table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of... , it seems that about 85% of the world population are native speakers of one of the top-100 (top 1.6%) languages.
> That isn't "physiotherapy." That is quite clearly chiropractic medicine.

And that's where we vehemently disagree. Look up the definition of chiropractics. Read Wikipedia. If you want to be associated with that garbage, use the name. If you don't, don't.

> I refer my clients to chiros all the time

Why not refer your clients to physiotherapists who can perform the same techniques, and have actual qualifications to do so? At the very least you know they're not at risk of being handled by a "subluxation believer". You'll also have the peace of mind that the practitioner is licensed and regulated by non-quacks, and held to a higher standard of ethics.
196 countries and 240 languages are represented online. The other 5000+ languages being used aren't national languages.
I've been trading on this site for about a week. It does indeed have dozens of cryptocurrencies, many more than any other site I've seen.

That's good and bad. It's good to have a marketplace for them all. Nothing wrong with offering a place sell whatever. It's bad in that the vast majority of them are junk coins and will die in short order.

You shouldn't even consider trading in this world of alt-coins unless you know what you're doing. You should research each of them thoroughly and do your due diligence. You stand a very good chance of losing most of your investment in this sort of market.

They're really like pink sheet stocks, which I traded back a decade or so ago. I enjoyed that world, with its community of traders researching tiny, tiny, TINY companies to invest in. But like Pink Sheets, altcoins are the very definition of high risk. Even worse than pink sheets, altcoins are wholly unregulated and some may be outright scams.

As for the site itself, it's had some serious growing pains the last few days. Nearly unusable at times, and last night entire order books were somehow wiped, which caused some confusion and some VERY sharp changes in price.

I think the founder is making a legitimate attempt at things, he may or may not be up to it.

I'm having fun, and making a bit of money, but I can't recommend anyone else try it just yet.
Technically neither does Ryan air.
I have to agree. Excuse my language, but I didn't know wtf it is precisely on the main page. I have to dig into the Specs page for the description of the device. Wasted my time with frustrated layout. Failed design fails.
I would prefer they get rid of waiters entirely and just have runners for the food. Then I can stop stressing about tips and grumpy waiters. In NYC, the waiter actually improves rather than detracts from my dining experience less than 5% of the time.
You're pretty much doing everything right. You have a respectful disclosure page. It tells people not to disrupt the service. You could, if bogus signups are annoying you, set up a crappy staging instance of your app and direct testers there.

I might further:

* Fix the disclosure page so that it doesn't reserve thanks for people who find "high or critical" vulnerabilities. Sev:medium in security-researcher-land is XSS and CSRF, both of which probably merit thank-yous. I'd just thank publicly anyone who sends you a valid issue.

* Post to Twitter (under a DoorkeeperSecurity alias) the SHA1 hashes of the titles of disclosed vulnerabilities, so you can "notarize" findings and settle grievances about who found what first.

* Go ahead and live with people sending you annoying security reports. People will do much worse things to you than that over the coming years. If your service does well, eventually people are going to stop "warning" you about DoS-susceptibility, and just start blackmailing you about DoS attacks.

But otherwise, I'm not sure I see the downside here. The alternative, of course, is for people to find flaws on your site and then write up hysterical blog posts about it. Think of the annoyance you're dealing with as a small payment in exchange for (some) control over the security story of your site.
Why new developers should write crappy code
Your site design choice seems to be taking a lot of heat. How do you personally feel about it? Do you think the cool factor of a "parallax" website outweighs any drawbacks that have been mentioned here?
Loss of a language also often means a slightly unique way of seeing the world and thinking/talking about it is lost. Many languages have cool or weird features [1], and I care about that even though I can't communicate with speakers of those languages and therefore will never know the difference. I don't care about the national heritage of others, it's theirs - I care about diversity for the sake of it existing, not for the sake of me experiencing it. If we all thought the same stuff in the same ways, without any barriers, that would be much worse than having disconnected pockets of diversity, IMHO.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYlVJlmjLEc
No security ever built into Obamacare site: Hacker
The notable factor for me is that it's not an iPad despite all the predictions a couple of years ago. Of course from a business standpoint that only makes sense. It also shows how quickly the market for tablet hardware has been commodified.
The selected Yahoo Answer is wrong. RJ11 is for phones, RJ45 ethernet, and RJ47 is either a typo or a part number or something.
The same company that takes 15 minutes to microwave your food.
This is fantastic, and long overdue.

You still want to talk the waiter for your mains (esp. for recommendations, special instructions, etc.), and summon them for complaints, but for stuff like ordering drink refills and paying your bill (the things where they never seem to be around), this is perfect.

Plus, hopefully it has a button where you can immediately summon the waiter, instead of spending five minutes trying to flag them down.

I agree that it doesn't have a place in fine dining, but for casual dining this is a complete no-brainer. (And I don't see it obviously taking away jobs either, since faster turnover will just result in more customers to handle, and more food to bring out.)
It's like shellgenius.
Most Millennial Comment of the Day.
I've updated https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode with more information, the beginnings of a project plan, and some research. I think I can get all the needed IEC, IEEE, and ISO standards through my school. The next quarterly meeting is at the end of January, so I have a few weeks to get the proposal written.

Do you know how to make a TrueType or PostScript font? We need a small one that contains only the new symbols.
If you take a closer look at the bus, it says "Powered by YCombinator" right by the door.
Looks like you just assumed that iOS drives all the traffic on every website?

Having some idea of 4chan user base, I won't be surprized if android is more popular then iPhone.
Thing is, last year several people reached out to the founders of Happtique, and their "Blue Ribbon Panel" with security concerns, and were dismissed or ignored. And now those concerns are in production.
> It would be unfair to group him with the subluxation magicians.

But then why does he call himself a subluxation magician? Is an alchemist still an alchemist if they're actually doing modern chemistry? The label chiropractic means something; the meaning doesn't change just because a few practitioners have quietly become closeted physiotherapists.
Carlos Juan Finlay celebrated in Google doodle | Technology | theguardian.com 
I would like to draw your attention to the last paragraph of the Guardian captioned "Carlos Juan Finlay celebrated in Google doodle on Tuesday, 3 December, 2013, 00:54 GMT that THE PHRASE WHICH WAS read "FINLAY DIED IN AUGUST, 2015 TO BE REPLACED BY "FINLAY DIED IN AUGUST, 1915. I GUESSED THIS MISTAKE MUST HAVE BEEN A TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR. THANK YOU!
It's kind of the standard for McDonald's in France (their second largest market per capita). Each restaurant has huge freestanding kiosks that you can order and pay from. It dramatically speeds up service, allows you to get an order just right, and gets your fingers covered in germs just prior to eating.
>"A trader makes money, on average, when they have knowledge that the market doesn't about a stock's valuation"

That may be true for an investor, but it is completely false when speaking of a trader. A trader need not know the underlying stock to make a profit consistently. The uninformed continue to think trading and investing are the same. They are nothing alike.
I used 750Words for a long time. After NSA scandal, I have had a hard time divulging my guts out to an online data center. I am thinking about setting up a client side encrypted Emacs/Org-mode journal system. Although I have to say that little strip on top of 750Words that tells you how many days has one written consistently and the analysis were very helpful in keeping up with the daily writing. Ultimately, I grew tired of writing 750 words daily about myself.
NASA Behind the Scenes: Launch Pad Photography
Great feedback!

A lot of these things are on the roadmap, including the free option for OSS, pitching at larger dev shops, and Gemfile.lock scanning without signing up.

Thank you.
It's an easy reaction to immediately condemn China, but is the US any different with the AP and Fox News (naming James Rosen as a co-conspirator) Phone Tapping, and NSA everything?
Because QR codes are terrible.
The toy gun had been modified to look just like a real gun, that's actually a lot more understandable than the myriad issues with this Hackathon.
How hard would it be for them to simply make the site completely responsive? That's not a huge task & still keeps things pretty simple.
I still prefer Texture Packer (http://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker) - it has a free mode, but the best sprites will be made with the paid version. While it seems to be targeted towards mobile and games, but works very well for CSS sprites also. Does a nice job generating both the CSS and the Sprite image. Really simplifies the ability to have multiple developers working on a single sprite.
Photorealistic portrait of Morgan Freeman created on an iPad
SpaceX Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission rescheduled for Tuesday 3 Dec 5pm EST
Well done! This is definitely something I will come back to repeatedly. It's very complete, but at the same time not overbearing. The scaladoc feature is awesome, I wish my IDE could do this so well. Can you give a run down of the stack and how it all comes together?
All RyanAir flights are non-stop? Maybe things have changed, but when I last tried to use them some years ago, they defined the term milk run.
It's always impossible to tell on the internet, but I would suggest that you would be unlikely to make this statement if you've actually had migraines.
I searched the classic sudo rm -rf /, too. Just to see if it would adequately explain it.
You might even get to talk to a human while you're there!
Let me reserve a table and place my order on my own touch device before I arrive. If I have to wait for my table, that's fine, but my food should wait as well. When I sit, my food arrives soon after.

The remainder of my visit, including how long I stay, is up to me and less in the hands of under-performing staff.
Pretty fulfilling recovery ? Well done maplebed, lesson learnt and problem resolved.

My least proudest moment quote a while ago was when I realised I just binned a directory I had been writing some code in few files in it, But had them all open in an editor. Recreated the directory and hit save in each tab. phew, disaster avoided
I doubt this will ever be a problem for me...
Did you read the statute he linked to before you wrote this comment?
I really don't think the FAA is going to be in a panic over stifiling innovation after this. Probably more people are annoyed with the idea of drones buzzing over their property.
Lessons From My First Year of Freelancing Full Time
Dec to Hex: Hiring for a start-up in India
GoPro is an established product, I've never met anybody from their target audience who didn't know what it is.

I am a target audience for BRCK, and from looking at their page, it's not clear to me at all what it is.
And yet here we are talking about it on HN.
But the scala syntax is so ugly
5 reasons why you should travel alone
I've always loved travelling and only in the last few years discovered how incredible solo travelling is. Some of my best stories in life come from experiences I've been able to say Yes to travelling by myself.
1) Yes, yes it very much freaking is

2) That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the story

3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I've always loved travelling and only in the last few years discovered how incredible solo travelling is. Some of my best stories in life come from experiences I've been able to say Yes to travelling by myself.
There's also a quick demo of Pythonium here:

http://pythonium.github.io/

The generated JS:

http://pythonium.github.io/js/app.py.js
What Apple App Store Reviews Can Tell You About Foreign Language App Users
This can certainly be a beneficial practice, and need not necessarily be carried out with anonymity.

One of the greatest thinkers of the Medieval period, Thomas Aquinas[1], honed this skill to a very fine point, and even in his own day was regarded as being able to articulate views which contradicted his own better than those who argued the opposing views in the first place.

His best-known work, wherein you can see this skill at work, is his Summa Theologica[2].

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

[2] http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1.htm

[&] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Theologica