skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the price is artificially low taxi drivers will just stay home rather than go out and make the same amount of money as any other day while fighting traffic and dangerous road conditions.

Furthermore, getting a taxi will degenerate into a lottery of being in the right place at the right time instead of going to the highest bidder (which is much more fair and forces people to re-evaluate if they really need a taxi or if maybe they could walk)
Nobody is exempt from the need to consume resources to survive. This is how life is.

But which way of obtaining resources is the best?

1. Trade (a voluntary interaction from which both parties expect to benefit from)

2. Charity (a voluntary interaction from which one party expects to other to benefit from)

3. Extortion (an involuntary interaction achieved through force or threats)
To a limited degree, yes. Biologists study divergence of isolated species all the time; panspermia would give us a difference in degree, not kind.
Here there is a clear distinction between citizen and person

Yes, there is. There is also a clear distinction between which persons it applies to and which it doesn't;

> ... nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
It bothers everyone because the teacher never _stresses_ the fact that the host doesn't open a door at random. It's purposely deceptive.
I support the NSA monitoring.

No, not a troll.

At this point, the USA has a ton of enemies. Filtering through emails, phone, etc. is a good way to catch these. We need to give law enforcement the tools it needs.

Seeing how this access was abused to hunt down Tea Party groups convinces me that the NSA needs to be de-politicized, not shut down.

I think we'll find that this monitoring is inevitable because the technology is there and also, since the technology is there, if it is not used and a terrorist incident occurs, people will be held responsible for NOT using it.
An Homage to Douglas Englebart and a Critique of the State of Tech
By the time you start hiring full-time non-founders, it would be a red flag to not have an office. A lot of potential employees would be put off by it.
I don't think this is a problem with GitHub, it is - if you want to call it a problem at all - a problem with git itself because noone stops you from using any email adress and name as user.email and user.name in your git config. You could do the same thing on bitbucket, your companys git repositories, git repositories on your own server etc.
I don't think that "advertisers" are as homogenous as you portray them here; generally, they have specific products that they are marketing to specific demographics, which sometimes includes denture paste.
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Wait, is there an interesting answer to this?

I'll label the four outcomes 1Y, 1N, 2Y, 2N.
Let X = probability person cheated on spouse.

If I flip heads first, I get yes or no equally.
So the first two outcomes are: 1Y(50%) or 1N (50%).

If I flip tails, I answer 2Y (X) or 2N (1-X).

So the distinct pdf is:
1Y (25%)
1N (25%)
2Y (0.5X)
2N (1-0.5X)

And combined, Y = 0.25+0.5X

What am I missing?
(Wait, oh, is this a stupid joke about whether they lied about cheating on their spouse? Dammit.)
I have never said that war is virtuous.

'Some people' do not make an army.[1]

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/army
(Slightly offtopic -- but could you actually say a little about the accredible.com site itself for a moment? Was it constructed using Zurb's Foundation?)
There's spying in the abstract, which is known just from the existence of intelligence organizations, and there's spying on specific targets (or everybody), which hasn't been subject to public scrutiny or debate until now.

It's one thing to "know" from movies that someone is being spied on. It's another thing entirely to know from NSA documents that you and people you know are being spied on.
What's humorous is that many apps are just HTML5 webpages loaded in a "app" frame, so there's very very little difference.

That said, in the case of a Bitcoin wallet, Coinpunk is unique because it's implementation is primarily in client-side Javascript. Most of the wallet services either rely on server-side crypto, or native apps.

Because of that technological dependency, either the service controls your data, or the mobile app store controls the distribution of the app.

With Coinpunk, no one can control it. No one. It's yours and always will be.
If I wasn't interested before, now I definitely want to read this
Being a critic is trivial. "This sucks." "That sucks." "Everything sucks."

Providing well-reasoned criticism backed by evidence is much more difficult. Providing constructive criticism or suggestions that are meaningful is even harder.
I wonder how QR codes will work with a webapp.
I know iPhones can now upload images from camera roll, but does the API allow access to the camera stream for QR reads?
>> welcome to the age of bulletin board.

Facebook was created as an online replacement for something that had been around in physical form for a long time. Welcome to Facebook.
One comment in and, bam, random religion bashing.

Stay classy, HN.
> And there's no indication that teens are using something else that will replace Facebook when they're in their 20's and 30's -- you can't organize parties on Instagram or Snapchat.

Today's teens do not use Facebook as much as teens did in the past. That's a fact. Will they use it more once they're in their 30s? That's pure speculation on your part, which is completely unsubstantiated, and we'll have to wait one or two decades to find out. I tend not to put a lot of weight in unsubstantiated technology predictions spanning decades.

In any case, if Facebook is transitioning from a site that is used by lots of people for long periods of time (which it was), to a calendar/contacts app that people check into occasionally and briefly (which it has become for me, and apparently others as well), that's a glaring problem for their business model. Even if they remain the absolute best party organizing site on the web for years to come, that's probably not good enough to support their current revenue model.

> Every indication is that teens get onto Facebook once they stop being teens, correct me if I'm wrong.

You're just making up a random fact to support your case, and leaving the burden on the reader to substantiate your claims, correct me if I'm wrong.

> I mean, I don't remember Facebook ever being cool ... Why people are suddenly constantly talking about this "lack of cool" is beyond me.

Facebook was cool. When it began launching in colleges around the country, "cool" kids (particularly fraternity and sorority members) were early adopters. Shortly thereafter, everybody on campus was using it and Myspace became a joke.

> It's always been pretty drab, a pretty bland boring blue, with an interface much like an OS.

If you're looking to the interface to figure out if it was, you're looking in the wrong place. But for the record, Facebook's interface was much, much cooler than the eyesore that was Myspace.
Experience can definitely overtake a degree if you can prove you know your stuff. I have a friend who spent a semester at college and hated it, eventually dropping out. But he's very tech-savvy, taught himself almost every language, and has been programming for over 10 years. He's making $90k a year up in Canada. No degree. So its possible, but you have to know how to market yourself.
Congrats guys! Well deserved.

I have been using RethinkDB over the last month in a new project. If you know that a document store is the right solution for you, take a look at RethinkDB. I evaluated it against some of its competitors, and I must say that I was really amazed at the deep engineering thinking that is going into RethinkDB. The ease and power of its programming model (use of AST/lamda functions and like abstractions are awesome), and attention to ease of deployment and manageability (great UI!) is unparalled in like products. RethinkDb is a young product for sure, but one with a very bright potential. In addition, being well funded should help alleviate fears and hopefully help it further gain traction.

Best of luck!
This isn't right though, it makes all the difference whether he acts knowingly or happens to pick a goat; it's a 50/50 chance on changing if he chose a goat by luck (see other posts ITT)
Point (a) isn't sufficient to understand the 4th amendment.

For example, the Supreme Court in Kyllo vs. U.S. decided that using a thermal imaging device to scan houses to find indoor marijuana farms is an unreasonable search, and reversed Kyllo's conviction for growing 100 marijuana plants.

You'll easily note that scanning a house from the street does not inconvenience the person being searched, take up their time, or involve a degree of forced submission.

For another example, the Supreme Court said that attaching a tracking device to a car without a warrant is also an illegal search. This also does not fit the criteria of (a). (While it immeasurably slightly worsens mileage, the court decided that it was a form of trespass. One does not need to be present in order for trespass to occur.)

For a more historical example, Ex Parte Jackson (1878) says "Letters and sealed packages subject to letter postage in the mail can be opened and examined only under like warrant, issued upon similar oath or affirmation, particularly describing the thing to be seized, as is required when papers are subjected to search in one's own household. The constitutional guaranty of the right of the people to be secure in their papers against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to their papers, thus closed against inspection, wherever they may be."

Again, 4th Amendment protection of letters exists even when the conditions of (a) are not held.
Yes, even if they have to pay for it themselves. Someone interested in being an off-world colonist will have little use for earth assets; they could liquidate everything. Even if you peg it at tens of millions, you would still have more willing volunteers than rocket seats for the foreseeable future.

Though I am not sure why you assume that would necessarily be the scenario..
I have a title for the previous story:

"the end of the Microsoft era"

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
Well facebook owns instagram, so in reality, they are probably perfectly ok with teens using instagram over facebook.
I agree with all of your suggestions, but I think a more pressing issue in the world of journalism is getting rid of the political agendas.

Though some of the bias might be naturally eliminated as the quality of journalists is improved.
So law enforcement needs all the tools possible, but the NSA's power is too great, so it needs to be depoliticized, although this sort of unconstitutional monitoring is inevitable?

Why do your own points contradict each other?

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Unless we have good reason to believe the standard CEO-as-monarch structure is perfect, experimentation is a good thing. Moreover, his basis for suspecting his particular experiment might work was reasonable, since he was basically applying by analogy a standard neoclassical model of how a market at large works to his individual business. Before he implemented the structure, would I have expected it to fail? Yes, but I expect most start-up ideas to fail, too. You never know. We can't forget that we learn as well from negative results as from positive results. Solid analysis of Lampert's failure here helps all of us, because we can see a little bit better what pitfalls to avoid in our own organizational structures.

Admittedly, however, it is probably unwise to play radical, untested games with the fundamental structure of a large and mature business, only because the losses can be so much larger and more catastrophic. Better to test the idea in a small or medium-sized business first. But it's a good thing for people to experiment generally, and we learned here nonetheless.

It would be unfortunate if the only lesson future business leaders took from this episode is never to deviate from the monarchical model of corporate governance.
Are you sure you just weren't waiting long enough for them to load? Phantom's onLoadFinished only takes into account the main frame, not any iFrame or AJAX resources. For that you need some sort of DOM based waitFor().
Wasn't Facebook the "next Friendster?" I feel like it was actually a relative latecomer to the social networking party of the early '00s.

A lot of industries also have early periods of extreme tumult, then greater stability as firms consolidated and success becomes more obvious and definable. Think about cars: it's become a commonplace that Detroit was the Silicon Valley of its day, but eventually a few car makers became dominant. When, say, GM first emerged, it might have seemed to observers that another rival would rise to take out GM—which didn't really happen until decades later.

Facebook may be the first of the "mature" social networks that isn't almost immediately superseded by something dramatically better. The fact that it now has so much lock-in inertia indicates that it may be with us for much longer than its day-to-day critics believe.
How is religion as superstition religious bashing? I'm talking about correlations, not morality or religious truth.

The stay classy thing is overused.
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If we stop hiring "professional" writers with English degrees to write everything, and replace them with a distributed collection of writers with industry knowledge, we'll have a much greater input from a variety of fields.

Much less likely to have bias or feel pressure from their newsroom bosses.
I added ocsp stapling to a new nginx based reverse proxy system at a shared hosting site. A few months later one of the sysadmins mentioned that it was now taking several minutes for nginx to restart and it was gradually getting slower.

Turns out whenever you restart nginx it fetches the ocsp information for each certificate one after the other. The system now had about 100-200 sites on it. I turned ocsp off and the problem was solved.

I still use it on Nginx systems that only have a couple of certs on though.
This is one of many reasons why we still use SVN. Every commit is authenticated against our LDAP server so is technically signed against a user based on their credentials.
I can't wait for the time when a new super intelligent alien race comes on earth and exterminates us all because to them we look just like a bunch of lichens under a rock. That's definitely the way to go.
I nearly choked on my water when I read his method for vetting it.

Also, I take a slight offense at that last part...
Good for him, I say. Opens up interesting opportunities.

Feel sad for BT employees though. With a company culture like this I don't think it's much of an attraction for smart, innovative folk.
> social has never been Google's forte has it.

It hasn't been anybody's forte except for facebook by that standard. On the contrary g+ is far better than facebook by any measurement you choose to use, it isn't missing anything. A supportive user base mostly absent only in the minds of people vehemently dying for it to be absent. These people who repeat the idea that using google for social networking is the worst thing they've ever heard or thought about. The technology is still sound, meanwhile.
Indeed, but it's no secret that most mainstream advertising skews towards a much younger demographic.

It's very possible to have success marketing denture paste and products to older people. But if Facebook does hemorrhage teens, advertisers will take notice. And right now Facebook is advertising. That's going to have an impact.
I wish my parents worked harder so we would be rich... would make my life a hell of a lot easier and more fun now.
I think this might be more likely than just a random hunch.

His columns and blog posts are certainly mass-appeal compatible.
'I understand this feature has the benefits of allowing people to push commits with emails they don’t own, such as ‘example@example.com’ that I occasionally use, but having your commits attributed to a different user is a whole different issue.'

More than that it makes it so the distributed nature of Git is preserved. If I pull from someone who committed a bunch of stuff under their own name but isn't a user on GitHub, then push up to GitHub, GitHub won't be able to just reject the commits from the user who is not on GitHub - it will have to reject the push entirely. Thus, there is no way around this without losing all the benefits of Git.

Perhaps a way around it would be to sign all commits where the committer has the same email address as an existing GitHub user, and then check the signature against the GitHubber's known key, and reject it if the signature doesn't check out.

But having to sign commits if you are a GitHub user adds extra hasssle, and what if an unsigned commit accidentally makes its way into the history? What a pain. Everyone would always have to commit with the possibility of being able to be pushed up to GitHub in mind.
Do explain how this prove's Darwin's theory...

Or perhaps you meant that Darwinian theory would conclude that this man is likely to purge himself from the genetic pool?
In addition to what other's posted, CouchDB is one of the few NoSQL solutions that will give you master-master replication.

Mongo and Rethink are both single-master/multi-slave solutions.

One is not better than the other, just depends what you need.

And as someone else mentioned, if you want complexity out of your CouchDB queries, you must write map-reduce functions to provide those "views" for you to query. Rethink you can treat similar to a SQL data store and just execute queries against it.
The problem isn't that sound is written to the screen, but that triggering an interrupt pushes to the stack (which is pointing at the screen).

Their fix of drawing in the opposite order works because a push/pop of the stack will then affect the upcoming graphics bytes instead of the previous ones.
You fly to Lagos with the willful intent to aid in the stealing of $1M from the Nigerian government and its people, but get beaten up instead. Your error, as you see it, is not that you were greedy and corrupt enough to steal other people's money. But that you were stupid enough to fall for the scam and have the tables turned on you. Interesting.
You could (and many) do the same thing with git.
I'm not 100% up to speed on SSE but since there is no way to "push" to a client isn't it just some form of polling at the end of the day?

It's also not supported by IE yet: http://caniuse.com/eventsource

Compare with http://caniuse.com/websockets
I can't help but think that society itself is to blame for things like this. We, as consumers, always demand lower prices while the pool of resources continues to deplete. Businesses are forced to contend with this, and hence, they try to reduce their costs. They pay staff less, economize on quality, and eventually, when that fails to yeild the appropriate dividends, they move their venture elsewhere - and so the cycle begins again.

This has to somehow stop.
I don't know if they are, but you could probably email Glenn at the email/PGP key he provides on his twitter.
What, his theory that biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of the effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of organisms interacting with their environment?

Could you elaborate on how a guy getting scammed proves this right? Maybe you can demonstrate that people with Nigerian ancestry are less likely to fall for this kind of scam (since their ancestors lived in an environment with selective pressure to avoid the scams)?
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I've wondered, when articles write "teens aren't using Facebook" -- are they referring to young college students (17-19) or are they referring to middle/high schoolers?

Facebook was originally college-only, and high schoolers tend to emulate college students more than the other way around (in fact, I doubt any college student follows high school trends), therefore my guess is what Facebook is actually losing is young college students..? If they're losing high school students.. who cares.
Wow. Ok. The answer is that there is no you. It's not a society problem. My read on a comment like yours is that you are young and have not experienced a life partitioned into parts that you don't want to overlap. That, if anything, is the reality of the human experience. Forcing together what should be separate is what is wrong and unnatural. Sorry.
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It's easy to bash the victim of a scam, but reading through this I couldn't help but feel bad for this guy. He was down on his luck and looking for a way out. He got hit up by the wrong folks at the wrong time, and taken advantage of. Let's remember to blame the thugs who beat and robbed him first and foremost.
> the USA has a ton of enemies

The writers of our Constitution specifically enumerated the rights we have so that they couldn't be taken away for the sake of security. Liberty is more important than security and it is the government's responsibility to provide the latter without trampling on the former.
They need to follow Microsofts lead and get rid of stack ranking - That would increase morale by 100% at a stroke the CARE scores (BT's internal 360 feed back system) would go through the roof.
Don't feel too bad, you have more in common with any individual in the US than you might assume based on media coverage. We're all in this together, and we have largely the same concerns. Our differences are not irrelevant, but you shouldn't feel dirty or weird just because you find yourself agreeing with other average Americans about topics of mutual concern.
I can set the From: field of an e-mail to <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> and similarly impersonate Linus in an e-mail. Clearly e-mail is broken.
In addition, the opinion points out that the "Supreme Court itself has long-recognized a meaningful difference between cases in which a third party collects information and then turns it over to law enforcement ... and cases in which the government an the third party create a formalized policy under which the service provider collects information for law enforcement purposes. ... It's one thing to say that people expect phone companies to occasionally provide information to law enforcement; it is quite another to suggest that our citizens expect all phone companies to operate what is effectively a joint intelligence-gathering operation with the Government."

All of pp 47-56 are used to contrast "the stuff that would have been captured by a pen register decades ago" with what the NSA does now.
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> Why do people have so much trouble with being themselves?

1. Humans are judgemental creatures.
2. Humans like to feel loved.

Person X doesn't want his favourite aunt to stop liking him because she read his Facebook debate with a friend on the teaching of creationism in schools.
Calling the interrupt routine to play a sound sample used the stack, hence wrote register contents (and return addresses upon subroutine calls within the handlers) onto the tile target. No problem, as while the interrupt routine was running, the normal program was stopped. After returning from the interrupt, the stack pointer would be reset to the original value, and the normal program would go on overwriting the locations that had just been used for the interrupt handler stack. Playing the audio would not be disturbed at all. (This assumes that the stack wraps around at the end. Actually, there was probably still image corruption happening, if the irq was triggered at the very end of the stack range. Except perhaps the stack size was 16bit?)

Edit: yes, the stack pointers were 16 bit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6809).