skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realy - you have been drinking the video conferencing salesmans cool aid FTF beats the internet hands down for 90% of all workers
Any unencrypted traffic you funnel through Tor can trivially be intercepted and logged by an exit node.
It's also a specific instance of a more general technique of incremental computation, which is, if you look at it from the right perspective, a more specific instance of integration: rather than computing a function directly, you're computing the differences and then integrating. So you could almost say that the method dates back to the 18th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_method.

It's definitely one of those tricks that comes in handy now and again :).
I've seen this happen, also in Uganda. Absolutely terrifying.
It doesn't make it any more ridiculous, that is the point. It only makes it into a form of magic that is not endorsed by mainstream christians, but it isn't actually any weirder.
The GP post saiys he hated his 40-hour job, so we can assume he wasn't at his most productive there (it happens to me too).
The article is mainly about the shortcomings of pure unregulated capitalism, but thanks for your little story about yourself!

Which makes your comment incredibly ironic, you know, because the underlying message is that a system driven only by individual perspectives is fatally flawed.
Wellllll.... Their general line is not "surge pricing reduces demand," but "surge pricing increases supply." Clearly, over here in reality, it does both, but they prefer understandably to emphasize the up-side.

The question is, how much does it increase supply? My guess is that it doesn't increase it all that much. Uber does not, to my understanding, have a huge pool of irregular drivers who only occasionally go out onto the road during high surge pricing. They encourage their drivers to work full time, and most surge pricing (ie, not anomalous events like snowstorms) are at times of predictable high demand, when you'd expect most of their drivers to be on the road anyway.

My guess is that surge pricing (especially surge pricing in excess of x2) is mainly a windfall for Uber and their drivers, and is less effective about increasing supply than their promotional material would like you to believe.

Disclaimer: I work at Flywheel, an Uber competitor. I am not un-biased.
Thanks for the post. Watching that animation reminded what pleasure could be derived by just watching simple mechanism in action e.g. union joint, differential gear, rotary engine etc.
Europe is not just European Union. There are a lot more countries.
clickable non mobile link for us old fashioned desktop users...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/16/5216862/bitcoin-is-so-201...
My version of that is listening to We Hate Everyone by Type O Negative before networking events. YMMV.
"At least part of the issue is that Boltbus is traveling on heavily subsidized highways. On the Northeast Regional, ticket fares more than cover costs."

You might want the check on that since Amtrack is heavily subsidized by taxpayers[1] and rail is the original subsidized transportation.

Here's a thought experiment. What if you took all the rail in the northeast[2] and made it private roads for automated buses? Would it be better or worse? I imagine you can crank the speed on an automated bus on a closed road.

1) In 2010, Amtrak earned about $2.51 billion on $3.74 billion in expenses.

2) yes, big impact on cargo hauling - the thing American rail is optimized for
How to build a web-based editor that actually works?
I would be firing my employee involved in the beating for being such a judgmental prick.
A war game for coders: Code & Conquer
Apple launches "Misunderstood" a holiday themed iPhone 5S commercial
Such escapements can be made a feature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock
DIRTY DEEDS,by FREINDS,
(I speak Chinese.) The "rumor" seems already be verified by newspaper and media.

See the article [1] on the website of Xinhuanet [2].

[1] http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2013-12/17/c_125874796.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
It's so worth it once you do it. I was on the fence for months about it, then once I deleted it, after like 3 weeks (I had a pretty strong addiction to it) it was completely out of my system. My life is truly better.

Here's another more in depth comment about the same issue of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6555467

I realized after deleting it I truly only have 4 friends in my life that matter.
What do you need Windows for anyway? Especially in a "secure computing" context, modern distros are cheaper, easier and quicker to install than Windows, and yes, often more secure. Plus, learning GNU/Linux will make you a better programmer and a more capable team player. What do you have to lose?
Women can and do use misogynistic, inappropriate, and unprofessional language, too. The "was that really necessary?" question is still perfectly valid to ask even when the author is female.
Firefox Developer Tools: Split console, pretty-print minified JS and more
Whether or not you receive a message back is not particularly important. One-way telephathic communication with gods is still wacky.

Yeah, I get that you deny what you call divination. The point I am making here is that all the non-endorsed forms of magic get called what they are, while the endorsed forms of magic get endless circular arguments of "well you see this stuff is different..."
@OP,

You should make yourself a few "fake" accounts on your own website and then get to posting. Everything now is from AdamCanady which gives the impression that it's just you (which it is ). If It was coming from a randomized set of usernames, it would give the impression of a lively community.

Reddit did it, and ever since then I'm pretty sure it's considered acceptable by the HN community and others.
Testing emails in PHP
The Swedish API License
Scarcity is interesting. It's the root problem that government is trying to manage. With perfect knowledge, a central authority could have goods or services brought to those most in need. This is very alluring to politicians as they naturally make themselves the central authority, and people have a natural bias to believe they are right and will make the right decisions.

Eventually you confront the problem of more people being in need than there are resources to satisfy. You can solve this by lottery or some qualification system or money. But someone somewhere will be left in the cold. This may be the poor or some schmuck who's birthday was in February.

Sadly most economies don't take the "most in need" concept a a founding principle. It's about trade, where each participant feels they are in a better situation than before the trade. Money is used as an abstraction representing utility/usefulness of an object or work done.

This is fine until you discover the person who has no money and apparently does not provide enough utility to get money (or enough money to live).

This is where charity can take action. Basically a trade happens where one's position is worse after the trade and the other's is improved.

Some believe this charity should be a private affair, some believe it should be compulsory.
I think the analogy here to price gouging during an hurricane is quite a stretch here. I don't think many would agree with "surge pricing" on essentials or transportation during Hurricane Katrina where the alternative might be death or extreme property damage. I don't see how that applies to the vast majority of Uber surge pricing scenarios.

I have a friend who lives in Pac Heights and gets hit with surge pricing all the time, likely because few Ubers are willing to pick up customers there. He's switched to Flywheel, which works well and doesn't have surge pricing. Seems like everyone wins here. Meanwhile, I live in SOMA, rarely get hit with surge pricing, and pretty much exclusively use UberX/Uber.
Getting Real by 37 Signals. Rework wasn't as interesting having read Getting Real first. It's more developer centric too.

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
No screenshots? Or am I missing something
How so? Can you elaborate a bit on that?
http://www.stroustrup.com/ieee_interview.html
Host a Static Site on Heroku in less than 10 seconds
There's a choice now, and it's arguable a fair choice. But if Uber puts heavily regulated cab companies out of business, the alternative disappears. That raises some issues in emergency situations like bad weather. Transportation is to some extent a necessity - would you be in favor of stores selling water for $100 a bottle before a hurricane? That might be the price that the market decides but the result of that is people suffering simply because they weren't lucky to be born in the right family.
It's a stunt metaphor and just plain crappy writing. Women can be crappy writers too.
Kinda wish they would drop backwards compatibility once in a while.

I get why they don't but that's why PHP is just the most popular mediocre language.

There should be scheduled non backwards compatible releases for every language (say every 10 years) that's the only way they can improve and not just get replaced when better ones come along.
Broader adoption of JS on the server will only begin after ES6 generators land in Node. Due to the complexity of async code, writing JS on the server is not easy for the average team.

As of now, you could use Promises but it is still kind of messy without generators. Here is a simple example:

#Without generators
Credentials.get({ token })
.then (credentials) =>
User.get({ username: credentials.username })

#With generators
credentials = yield Credentials.get({ token })
User.get({ username: credentials.username })

We use FaceBook's regenerator project to compile ES6 features down to Node's currently supported Javascript features. If you don't want to use the --harmony flag, you should really try it out. https://github.com/facebook/regenerator
I've heard this before and it's simply amazing to me. I've never been a napper, and I'm envious
Moving Beyond SIEM For Strong Security Analytics
Risk I/O's Ed Bellis discusses the use of SIEM in a security analytics program in "Moving Beyond SIEM For Strong Security Analytics" via Dark Reading.

"I think SIEM is a starting point for security analytics, but only a starting point."

You can read the whole article here: http://www.darkreading.com/moving-beyond-siem-for-strong-security-a/240164807
Ask HN:  Searching for an awesome, small, employee-centric company in Maryland
I currently work for a large company in Maryland supporting the DoD. I'm interested in finding a small employee-centric company where I can have a long-term career. I have a lot of career ambitions, and having worked primarily for large companies it's time to find a home that will foster my ambitions and help me get to where I want to be.

I have somewhat extensive experience in information security, including intrusion detection and incident response, vulnerability assessments, and computer network operations. I have developed multiple security programs and operational teams, and have also contributed directly to products and proposals.

I've trolled job boards, LinkedIn, and other resources and have a list that I've started to churn through, but if anyone knows of any awesome companies flying under the radar I'd be very much appreciative.

Thanks.
Why do you need prefixes for that? Sounds like the perfect usecase for a hash table or a precomputed perfect hash function.
I've just been using the Q promise library and it works fine in NodeJS. The Q wrappers for NodeJS style functions is a bit ugly, but it works very well.

The real problem is the core NodeJS libraries aren't promise compliant. I don't know if there's a module that cleanly wraps all of these in their promise analogs but that'd be the best thing here.

Calling Q.nsend() on everything is messy, but is a lot better than dealing with ridiculously nested callbacks.
I'm sorry but you forgot the other side of the coin there. I am Italian (living abroad now though) and until last year I had been traveling a lot across Italy.

Trains are a joke in Italy, every Italian person would be able to tell you that. While we mostly use trains to move around from town to town, the train service itself is abysmal. Dirty trains, missed connections, delays because of problems in the infrastructures/scheduling. I used to take regional trains to go visit my (now ex) girlfriend living in the neighboring city from mine (which is Bologna, a pretty big train exchange/junction between the north and center of Italy). Every single day my train would wait literally 100 meters away from the station, stuck there for an hour or so (outside of its timetable) because somebody messed up the platform and there was another train incoming.

Yes, we have a lot of ticketing machines where you can just go there and buy a ticket in 10 minutes, but actually getting to your destination is a whole different deal in Italy.

Also, thanks to the new high speed trains (especially connecting Milan and Rome), the fares for normal regional trains have skyrocketed as well (they want to push people on the HS ones). I clearly remember doing Bologna -> Florence for 7 euros 5-6 years ago, last year I checked again and it had skyrocketed to 20-25 euros. That's a massive increase for just a ~1 hour ride.

EDIT: Forgot to add that this is all in the North where the infrastructure is more mature and stable. The south is way worse, don't get me started.
I think this is a good attitude in a general sense, but I don't think failure needs to be sugar-coated. If you have a goal, set out to achieve it, and you don't, then you failed. If you learned some valuable lessons along the way, that's great. If you deny failure, I think that's being dishonest with yourself so you don't feel so bad. Failure should feel bad as much as success should feel good.
CloudFlare is flush with cash and ready to take on AWS at the edge
I wasn't exactly criticizing, just pointing out a useful bit of trivia. Being the only comment kinda makes me look like a jerk. :|
As my little side project with a friend - glad to see not only did it get reposted on HN but also the code fucked with :)
Google Dart target: Chrome soon, other browsers someday
How do we reconcile the part of humanity pushing advancement towards understanding the universe and creating entirely new paradigms every six months while half the world is still monkeys with sticks (and the monkeys inevitably get advanced technologies without the wisdom or maturity required to use it responsibly)?
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The key utility of social networking sites is that allows you to stay in touch and up to date with a larger circle of associates than you could otherwise. Facebook lowered the cost of maintaining those associations by making the process more efficient. They have been steadily raising the cost with every added feature since then.
That seems to be standard practice now a days. You should feel lucky the devs bothered to write a description up. Far too many projects have some cutesy name and then zero information.
American-centric UI is leveling tech culture — and design diversity
Web Framework Benchmarks - Round 8
Surely Linda Hunt is older than Pixar...
Eye diseases may go unnoticed in individuals with diabetes
There's some truth to this... but even if true, things could be a lot worse than having the uber wealthy become patrons of smart people. I suppose the danger comes from the smart people realizing that it's a lot easier to gather kudos for putting together good talks than from doing actual quality R&D. Then again, it's been the case for a long time that PIs are really spokesmen for their groups, and are usually quite abstracted away and have less input into day to day research. I say as long as TED helps spread ideas across fields, and inspires rich people enough to fork over $$$, it's all OK.
I have a question about these kinds of drives. Don't these depend on the fact that no one is moving and wiggling the whole mechanism? It seems to me like if the red gear with the slots were to move just a bit out of the way, it'd mess up the entire mechanism.
Are you trying to say that ordinary people don't take taxis?
The dilemma for Uber here is that a 6x or 7x multiplier completely changes the market for a service. It's an increase from $30 to $200. If it was just a 2x multiplier, people would be much more accepting, since it would move from pricey to really pricey.
Milner-Zuckerburg Prize for Math is bad for Math
Discovering life on another planet would be an incredibly significant historic event. Frankly, it would change everything. It may be the most important first goal as well. I believe that we would find that answering that question would usher in a whole new era of science and exploration.
This is a great idea! I wonder why it hasn't already been implemented
Beside missing his point completely, your comment is needlessly rude.
I don't think you are thinking about this critically. Just skimming the surface off:

">>> I have, on more than one occasion heard protestants describe various aspects of Catholicism as witchcraft and idolatry.
I have heard the whole Christianity described as idolatry. So what? The question if Christianity is idolatry or not from the POV of anybody is not the question we were discussing."

I was making a very specific point here. Christians accuse other christians of practicing witchcraft when they practice forms of prayer that they do not approve of.

Asking the Virgin Mary to pray on your behalf in Catholicism is whitelisted, therefore according to Catholics it is not witchcraft at all. According to tackless hardline protestants, it is not whitelisted, therefore they label it as what it really is, a form of divination.

Furthermore, your definition of divination is steeped in Christian bias. What you are really saying is "prayer is not divination because it is [magical woo] while divination is [magical woo what does not fit the Christian perspective towards relationships between gods and men]".

Whether or not you demand an immediate answer or need to be a "true believer" when you engage in the practice are both completely inconsequential. They are still both blatant magical thinking.
So is it time to end the oil company subsidies, now, or is it still not the right time?
Stop by the Museum of Science in Boston to see a whole working wall of these sorts of mechanisms, or just check out the videos here:

http://pie.exploratorium.edu/scrapbook/mechanisms/

The Geneva Movement is here:
http://pie.exploratorium.edu/scrapbook/mechanisms/52.html
I do stand corrected on movies. Even though a lot of filming now happens abroad, this does seem like the major example

I don't view Boeing and Airbus as shining examples of success. Both get large government subsidies. Both have had their share of problems over the years, perhaps more Airbus lately. And there are just 2 of them. It's not a competitive industry. When you're splitting oligopoly profits, there is more room for unions. This actually is also the instance where I do think unions have the most standing. If there's no place else to go work, you kind of need a union. In addition to "the only mine in town" I think this also applies to fire and police departments. I don't think it applies to schools - I'd much rather see more choices (charters, etc) - but that's a much longer post.
PeerCDN acquired by Yahoo
Python did that, and now everyone loves to hate it.
I don't visit .GOV websites anymore. I'm sure the article was interesting.
What wealth flight laws do countries with freely tradable currencies have? AFAIK I could move a million dollars from my bank account to a bank account in England with no issues.
Unless it just gets killed off too quickly.
Tech firms meet Obama to press their case for NSA surveillance reform
Why Startup Founders Don’t Want to be Startup CEOs
Mechanical Movement
Such a nice hack. If you like this, you might be interested in "Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements", freely available on google books [0], which I found on HN a couple of months ago.

[0]: http://google.com/books?id=vOhIAAAAMAAJ
The 1949 Hamilton video "How a watch works" [1] is probably worth a look for anyone interested in more information on timekeeping mechanics.

Bless the 50's... from a time where education videos actually tried to educate.

[1] http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/JSP
White House to tap Microsoft exec to fix Obamacare site
Everything That is Wrong With On-Demand Loading
There's nothing wrong with charging high prices for things that are in high demand and low supply. That's what encourages more suppliers to enter the market. There are two major situations that regulation needs to protect consumers from - asymmetric information and monopolies. Taxis are a major example of the former - that negotiating on the street would create traffic problems, and getting into the cab, then negotiating would create a major imbalance of power in the negotiation.

An example of the latter would be if Uber was the only player in the transportation market (market share > some large %) and could charge what they want, and then said something like "the only way to book one of our vehicles is through our app, and you cannot build a system which lets you book either an Uber vehicle or non-Uber vehicle."
I think Diaspora was an idea ahead of it's time. Market-timing is critical for a new project/startup and I think there weren't enough users in the world who understood both the costs and benefits of Facebook (or social media) to properly evaluate and consider alternatives. I think the world is different now and there is a growing group of people who care and would consider alternatives and others who 'have nothing to hide' and will continue to hand over personal data.

Edit: An example of my view above is the press attention that things like ArkOS, CozyCloud and others are now getting. It remains to be seen how many of these build large, sustainable user bases but it does indicate some level of 'market pull', which (imho) we should try and match with 'technology push'.
you are missing the other half -- that high prices drive more market entrants. If the price of bottled Water is 100 dollars then more entrepreneurs will take the risk to transport bottled water to a hurricane prone area because of the profit incentive. This increase in market entrants would in turn drive down the costs to the point where the costs of transporting water to the area equals the ability of people to pay. If a business cannot profitably sell the water in the area then yes, humanitarian aid is probably needed short term (long term there probably needs to be analysis if the area is viable for humans to live in).
google app engine now supports PHP and they completely reimplemented the language. it is extremely fast and seems to already do all the things this story eludes might happen.... they already have.
Angersock's 1st Rule of Storage:

"Any sufficiently advanced compression or encoding is indistinguishable from /dev/null"
You start acting. That's how.
"BECOME AN IOS DEVELOPER IN 8 WEEKS": THE TRUTH ABOUT HACK SCHOOLS
Why is bittorrent abysmal on network traffic and inherently slow ?
Both facebook and twitter use it for server deployment because they utilize network resources far better than centralized systems.
I would make the opposite claim: distributed systems can be far more efficient or reliable than centralized service.
PHP deprecates features all the time... you're an idiot.
I've taken this route a couple of times - the Caledonian sleeper. I had this romantic vision of linen tablecloths and breakfast in bed.

Instead, I got instant coffee and a single croissant served in a vacuum-packed plastic wrapper.

One time, the train even ended up in a Glasgow by mistake.
"Bitcoin is tiny in comparison with a very illiquid (is that a word?) market. "

The idea of Bitcoin being illiquid strikes me as being quite ironic.