skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one party is willing to buy and the other willing to sell, where is the issue? If you want regulated rates, wait for a cab. Intentionally using a premium service then demanding price controls makes you sound like the old man complaining that Starbucks coffee should cost a nickel.
While the article states that its name derives from an early use in mechanical watches, the modern mechanical watch is far more likely to use a deadbeat escapement for its intermittent motion. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapement
The last time I posted a news story about a Bitcoin sell-off, most participants here didn't believe me, because the sell-off wasn't apparent in the ticker they follow.[1] Now I keep a closer eye on that ticker, to see how much lag there is in trading after market-changing news is announced. Bitcoin is still very volatile, and it's not clear who can succeed in timing the market. "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent"[2] is still good investment advice.

[1] http://bitcointicker.co/

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes#Attributed
I doubt the author has any comprehension of the errors involved in synthesis of a physical sequence from a text string, the mutations introduced into the sequence during the lifecycle of the organism, or the errors involved in sequencing the DNA back into an abstract text string. Life is largely accustomed to these errors and drifts of sequence, computer code is incredibly intolerant.

A serious discussion of this concept would involve encoding the information with some sort of channel coding and calculating the likelihood of any such program of minimal length successfully propagating itself.
Thanks! It's just a quick port of Telesc.pe[1] with a few subtle modifications.

[1] http://telesc.pe/
Why do you even want to reserve the copyright for your webpage's contents? Do you really care if people copy some of the text or source formatting of the site?
Or holidays during school holidays, another classic example of people not understanding supply-and-demand (and the need to keep the infrastructure running when there is no demand).
> But what is stopping someone from opening competing operations to Amazon, compete with Amazon in the marketplace, provide more choice to workers, thus driving their salaries up?

Well it's a nice hypothetical, but has very little support historically. In fact the trend is completely opposite; Amazon swoops in and other businesses fold.

The theoretical thing stopping it is simply the initial capital costs and (more importantly) the embodied body of knowledge, gained over a long period of time of "how best to win at logistics".

One does not simply hang their tile and beat Amazon at <price, service, convenience>, there's a lot of effort that goes into making Amazon as efficient as it is that cannot be simply duplicated by a random VC-backed startup. It is for that reason that the old libertarian trope about "just wait for some entrepreneur to start a better competitor" is so out-of-touch... people are going to be waiting a long time, but they need to eat today.
I like to think that there are no failures, just unexpected learning experiences on the way to something else. This sounds like one.

Thanks for the post. Looking forward to what's next.
The video appears to be an mp4 (the network monitor says so) and it should work fine (it does here). Please ensure you have the latest FF version, available from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ (in case the update fails).
Hah, I have the same fear myself. Hopefully it will succeed! Would you recommend a different format?
I am a British reader. I subscribe to Private Eye. The Reg is no Private Eye. This article in particular is semi-coherent. It manages to discuss several different, distinct, regulatory mechanisms and filters and mashes the results together as some kind of Orwellian nightmare.

> It is not clear you can actually use proxies to access blocked IPs as the whole point of the filtering is to stop access to proxies (as well as porn). This is the creep and the point I submitted the article.

Exactly the confusion I mean. Some proxies are blocked by court order. This is different to the porn filter. You can't opt out of court-ordered filters. (You could use one of the ISPs that aren't caught by the court orders - I think only 5 ISPs have to implement the court ordered filters).

Complaining about the government mandated porn-filter when it's not doing what you're complaining about is sub-optimal.

> But feature creep

There is no feature creep. These are different things. They're just happening at the same time.
Diseases with similar causes such as CJD also involve hallucinations and dementia and don't involve lack of sleep, so I'm not 100% convinced that it's the lack of sleep that is causing the death in these cases, although it's an interesting data point.
It's one of the mentalities you'll find in that space. Not all consumers are price-sensitive to $5, and the ones who aren't are probably the ones you want more anyway.
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Yeah, do they have the same "Chinatown bus" setup as the East Coast? That seems like what spurred the whole new bus popularity, with very cheap buses between a very limited number of stops. Because if you only run the profitable routes, it's a lot easier to make a profit.
Sorry - I was trying to fit the newspaper article in 80 characters.

I work on crisis modelling in a UN group. The Amnesty International project was an exploration into (a) how we could apply what we learned at Global Pulse to partner institutions, e.g. Amnesty International USA and (b) how DataKind, an organisation which matches "data science" volunteers with charities, could be effectively connected with our network. I encourage anyone in the NYC area to consider volunteering their skills through DataKind.
I think not so much as "unfeasible" as "does not offer any benefits that could not be achieved with normal night train carriages".
I think you hit on why Diaspora hasn't really taken off. There may be technical challenges I gloss over but centralization denotes authority to me. Most design by committee OSS seems to suck really hard but having that one strong sense of leadership, like in the case of Linus seems to make a huge difference in comparison.

I know I'm mostly talking about humans but I think there's part of our condition that doesn't really promote decentralization in a pure state. I think we could and should try to promote it to make future endeavors more successful but it may be too strong of a current to swim against if I can use any more analogies...
"Worse is Better" in the Google Play Store
Related to these points, if you're using Bootstrap elsewhere and then have to work on a WP project, it's convenient being able to utilize the same classes, tricks, etc. that you've grown accustomed to utilizing.
Experiments using the Ultimatum Game have shown that people hate feeling like they're being ripped off, no matter how much we think they should just act rationally and understand the circumstances.

A great book on this is Priceless by William Poundstone.
In what universe does Python and Ruby's alternative implementations have significant market share?
The only advantage of using PHP in my eyes is: incredible cheap and hassle-free hosting for beginners. If you change something when introducing HHVM to the masses, then you would have a game-breaker.

If you can afford/achieve anything better than "drag'n'drop" your "index.php" there, and open your browser to "test if it works", do it.

Except, of course, you have to maintain tons of legacy stuff already written in PHP.
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Forget consumer protection laws, just don't use DRM. This kind of anti-consumer behavior cannot happen without DRM in your content and on your devices.
I don't know why I messed that!

Yes. It's very weird seeing action figures (realistic body shape) next to Barbie (FREAK OF NATURE).
A powerful value proposition is like performing inception on your customers
He is saying it's a rate problem. Not that there aren't new exciting discoveries or projects.
Well presumably this makes it's way into V8 and therefore node. I'd assume the performance is better than Q.

The biggest issue for me is Q's habit of hiding errors despite me defining a Q.onerror handler. Hopefully a native implementation would fail a little louder.
Vamoose bus is genius. They line up people on regular streets (where there are no restrictions on idling) and the bus pulls up and picks them up. There's no expensive terminal rent to maintain or coordinate, so the only costs are the driver, bus costs and maintenance and gas.

It's growing fast too. Every day the lines I see for it in NYC are more full.
I agree and I'm working on a tool that helps with this [1] but based on domain names. Of course that still depends on the registrars (e.g Verisign) but we believe it's easier for folks to remember names rather than numbers and then use the infrastructure. There's a paper we wrote that goes over the architecture and examples, in case you're interested [2].

[1] http://nymote.org/software/signpost/

[2] http://nymote.org/docs/2013-foci-signposts.pdf
> "We can say what we will about TED Talks, but it is a hell of a lot better for humanity than Jersey Shore or much of the useless crap on television."

I do not believe this is clear when you consider the phenomenon of pseudoscience being presented under the TED brand as "TEDx".
Twitter deletes anti-Congress cartoons, enrages tweeps
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Because a lot of people make bootstrap themes. With this as a base, it becomes a lot easier to adapt those themes to WordPress.
While I generally agree with what you've said here I don't think it applies as much to bitcoin. The DJIA is huge and there are many, many, many factors that can affect it's movement. Bitcoin is tiny in comparison with a very illiquid (is that a word?) market. I think many people had attributed the huge runup in price to activity in China so it is no surprise that bad news in China would have this effect.

Basically I think it is reasonable to assume that this news is the reason for the decline.
I while ago I took Adam Langley's and DJB's crit-bit code and put a CDB-compatible API around it, it's at;

https://github.com/colmmacc/nutrient

still a work in progress, but it made it considerably easier for me to fully understand what's going on. May help others.
Guess one valid scenario is to use this as the base for a child theme.
Now, that is what I call an inspiring connectivity with the public.
SWIG + RUBY: native C extensions the easy way
The client SDKs will be published next week.
In the real universe we live in, JRuby, at least, has fairly wide adoption, and YARV, which started out as one of the alternative implementations, became the mainline implementation (and, at least for a while, it was widely speculated the same thing would eventually happen with Rubinius.)
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We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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What if Apple Got Rid of Star Ratings?
I bet he knew more acronyms than anyone
Because the report about the Chinese exchanges being cut off appears to have been complete BS. There never was any problem but the false news caused a panic sell by people who didn't bother to think it through logically.
Train prices are not too high, the other means of transport are too cheap – both regular cars and coaches receive heavy subsidies and cause existential costs for the environment without having any advantage whatsoever.

And if you get a BahnCard 50, the price cap for a return ticket is 140 € second class (~200 first class). The (underpriced) BahnCard 100 is at about 4000 €/year second class (and 7000€ for first), which is also a completely reasonable price to ask for a year’s worth of transportation.
I've had this issue with Q and when. Sometimes, things would fail inside a then chain, and then I can't figure out where exactly it failed, because though it fell through a couple thens, I'm not sure exactly where it came from, or how it got that way.
The scene right after the hunter gives her a chance to run away, where she's running through the woods and the trees look like they're alive, and then she falls in water and her hair gets wet, is amazing. Also, the shadows in the whole movie are incredible.
Does Windows enforce ASLR on every process now? You only need one non-ASLR library to leverage with ROP. Though, you could say this falls under configuration (and I'm pretty sure the vsyscall table on x86_64 linux is still non-ASLR and that seems like a pretty trivial source of ROP gadgets), but I guess my point is its not as simple as supporting ASLR, not all implementations are created equal.
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Travel with a car long-distance is not an option. I'm not going to drive 400km early in the morning with a car and be relaxed in the office at 9:30.

> If you have to travel that much inside Germany to make that card worthwhile for you, then you have a problem.

The 'problem' is called 'WORK'. A little bit more than 40000 people have such a card.

> Either you need to relocate

No option.

> some telecommuting into your existing work habits.

Sure, I do that.

> I'm going to go out on a limb here & suggest that many people travel for travel's sake as a way to give themselves an inflated sense of their own importance...or just find some glamour in being on the road all the time.

Maybe it's not that good to 'go out on a limb here and give useless suggestions. You seem to fail to understand that a lot of people have to travel as part of their work to meet customers.

In my case I work with people which are located in different areas of Germany and I have to meet them face to face quite often.
> If the author of every article self-censors and goes out of its way not to offend anyone at all then we're going to end up with a very boring world.

Frankly, I really doubt it would happen. Moreover that article wasn't entertaining ; it lacks subtleties for that.
>As for Social Networking, clearly Facebook is a failure

It is hard not to dismiss your entire post as trolling, but I'll bite because I'm particularly curious about that sentence. If you're not trolling, I'd be curious to hear your definition of success and why Facebook so clearly misses that mark. I quit Facebook more than a year ago, but I'm not myopic enough to claim that a billion monthly active users spread across the globe from different social and economic backgrounds is a failure.
After you speak to someone you want to remember, you might try excusing yourself to the restroom to make a note on your phone. Or recording a voice memo in your car on the way home with all the information you can remember about various people.
>The stark reality is that you cannot possibly continue to generate new amazing videos about the latest breakthroughs year after year, conference after conference. There just isn't enough content.

This is not necessarily true. Some like Ray Kurzweil argue the rate of innovation is increasing. Others like Peter Thiel believe the rate of true innovation is decreasing. But hardly a settled question.
Yeah, in theory, and possible also in some practices, but you also end up with an impenetrable mesh of cross-subsidies that raise the cost of some routes that might be economical in their own regard to subsidise other links but not enough to make them solid alternatives. And then suddenly you have to compete with low-cost airlines and bus services that don't have this subsidy complexity and are much more agile - recipe for disaster.
This article asserts that if taxi cabs were run out of business by Uber then nothing would remain to keep Uber's prices in check. That is completely incorrect. There are a number of competing apps for rides (or they would be built quickly to compete) and cars could freely undercut Uber. I'd be the first to jump in and build an app that pulled each service's ride price to compare options.

If price gouging continued, lower priced alternatives would flourish. I'm struggling to see why this demand-driven pricing when provided BEFORE you get in the car and make your purchasing decision is a problem.

Without price gouging, would you even be able to get a ride in a snowstorm? Just because something is available in good conditions at a normal fee does not mean you can just stop planning your logistics and assume that service will be available all the time.

That said, what the market-based alternative does crowd-out is those without the resources to pay spiked fares that may have lucked into a cab in previous circumstances.
It's my understanding that this was all the result of someone who managed to post a fake message on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. The problem with all the news out of China about Bitcoin is that it isn't in English so unless you speak the language it is hard to evaluate it's truthiness and instead are forced to rely on second hand sources.

http://www.btc38.com/btc/btc_market/476.html
Ideas, potential and enthusiasm are easy; sticking with something, especially something untested/untried, especially something that may fail, now that's hard.

Most people don't have the stamina, and there's so many possibilities (how do you pick the "right" one?) and never enough time (between family, day job, etc, etc).
This article can be summarized as "Honestly, just don't be an utter knob".

Just talk to people like they are your friends. I usually start off by talking about music and other interests before drilling down into work talk which everyone hates but can stand for a minute.
Auto-playing user videos are almost certainly worse than whatever targeted ads I'm going to see.
He said "developing countries" in Europe. Former soviet bloc namely.
does latest NodeJS has this?
Bitcoin is so 2013: Dogecoin is the new cryptocurrency on the block
4,090 euros for all rail travel in germany (BahnCard 100) is a very good deal I am jealous.

For example if I work in central London again my season ticket for a 65 mile journey (bedford to London) is over 6000 euros a year.
What version of Javascript has Promises and does anyone know the estimated time it might take to make it over to V8 and subsequently node.js?

The biggest issue I had with promises is interfacing with non-promise code. There are methods to 'lift' node.js code that uses callbacks into promises, but the resulting code is much noiser.

I'm a bit disappointed that the official JS version didn't cut down on the visual noise of the piping so the actual work being done stands out. Maybe there needs to be a different type of syntax highlighter that mutes the promises piping and highlights the actual calls.
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We'd love to send you to the Play store, but unfortunately the Google Play store is very strict regarding gambling. Interestingly enough, the Apple store isn't as strict. Go figure. Thanks for the comment!
"Let Uber put taxis out of business, as sometimes seems its intention, and there'd be no check on its "surge" pricing and no way at all for ordinary people to get around."

No way at all for ordinary people to get around? Is this a joke? As far as I'm aware, ordinary people take ordinary transportation, like, you know, subways, buses, bikes and such.
New AP poll: 46% of insured have been hit with ObamaCare changes
I seem to come across this view more often and it saddens me. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. For example, if someone really wants to break into my house they probably will but that doesn't mean I'm not going to bother locking my doors and windows in the future.

I'm in favour of making it harder for the seemingly casual surveillance to take place using means that already exist, like encryption and decentralised systems. If more devs etc took that view and built things that were properly secure by default then maybe things would be different. However, such systems aren't really compatible with advertising-based business models and there's a real trade-off in terms of speed to build (that's why - sometimes - 'security' feels like it's slapped on at the end).
If your only form of communication is random updates/photos from them that you don't actively seek, then you don't really care in the first place do you? You're just consuming because it's there.

Nobody is too busy for a short phone call once in awhile.
When will Uber cease to be a start up or a premium service or some other classification of company that allows them to skirt the laws that their direct competitors have to abide by? A large part of the argument isn't whether or not the gouging is acceptable, it's that Uber/Lyft/new ride app is allowed to loophole itself into "current market rates".
Just a suggestion, but perhaps you should provide a screenshot or a demo page. Seems like it would help since its all about visuals for the project.
I assume you'll see other countries' follow China's lead. There's no reason for a government not to.

I fear this might be dire to the Bitcoin economy. Skirting wealth flight laws WAS Bitcoin's killer feature. All of the other Bitcoin use cases I know of are incremental in nature (ie, 2.5% savings on e-commerce transactions).

The open question is if enough of a hype-market was built to keep the other use cases alive. In the case of e-commerce, I assume a rational merchant only accepted Bitcoin because of 1) viral marketing channel 2) speculative hoarding.

The speculation MIGHT work out if the underlying Bitcoin economy was powered by the transaction volume and value of international wealth movement. Running forward it'll be from e-commerce and store of wealth, and I'm skeptical if that'll be enough.
A clarification: Shinkansen use the same 1.435 meter standard gauge as the continental railroad. Other trains in Japan use a narrower gauge. In modern times, wider gauges don't have much of an advantage in comfort. For example, the notoriously loud-and-shaky BART uses a 1.7ish meter gauge.
"Bitcoin falls 20% in a day...." In other words, business as usual.
The rules cannot (and in fact do not) work differently on a macro and micro level. Your argument means that no one ever becomes wealthy over time because we are collectively stuck. The wealth is fixed, it just sloshes around from one party to the next. I hope it's self-evident that this is not reality.

Wealth can be created, destroyed, or transferred. You seem to be confusing "collecting" and "creating". Wealth is created by people doing things that manage to satisfy demand...it's the right combination of labor and capital. This can take many forms, whether it's a guy building a casino or a starting a social network or a law firm. These are forms of creation, not transfer (or what you seem to be referring to as "collecting"). Transfer is entirely a governmental endeavor, a social mechanism for redistribution of the wealth that's actually been created. There is no labor, capital, ideas, or hard work behind it.
for expressions (and Haskell's do notation, etc.) are alternative syntax for explicit mapping: implicit mapping would be syntax that would make applying an operator to all members of a collection (including one with limited cardinality like Option) indistinguishable from applying the same operator to a simple value.
Sounds like a bunch of rich people complaining about having to pay the hired help extra to deal with undesirable work conditions to me.
I'm generally what one would classify as a white-knighting witch-hunter who thinks that you should keep your "risky" language and humor out of professional contexts (for basically the same reason you shouldn't smoke cigarettes in professional offices, I shouldn't have to breathe that shit while I'm working) but I just upvoted you because you're making an excellent point about exercising empathy for everyone.
Thing with me is it's either I don't have it and never go on, or I have it and I'm brainlessly browsing random shit for hours on end simply because I can.

I guess that's more of a personal thing as I have pretty bad self restraint issues haha.