skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'll see more such use cases for the email-> webpage paradigm. Nice work :)
Amateurs. If you are going to crawl distribute it across unique IP addresses.
I'm not saying calculus is something that every computer science graduate uses in their daily professional life. But you're not going to meet a [US] computer science graduate who does not have it or a computer scientist who cannot perform it. And anything that says "here's what a computer science degree is" does a disservice by not mentioning it.

My criticism is based on the same assumption that underpins your argument, that the people looking at this list already have a sufficient background in mathematics, or more generally that people looking at the article have general STEM training.

Yet, just looking around HN, you'll see that many of those asking "Should I get a CS degree?" are people who just fell into programming, and in the larger world you have people moving into the field as a career change Think about all those bootcamps that market to liberal arts and business majors. These are people with degrees that correlate with a weakness in mathematics and science. A weakness which often shows up earlier in education and results in such people avoiding Calculus in high school and college.

As I take online courses, the limiting factor [after time] is the amount of mathematics I have at my finger tips. It is perhaps a common problem as even Einstein is said to have wished he had studied more mathematics.

In the end, if computer science education is basically vocational, then perhaps it makes sense to replace Calculus I and II with Rails I and II. But that's not really what 'Computer Science education' usually means. That's IT and CIS.
They say it so it must be true.
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I can't imagine a scenario where this doesn't backfire. This is going to put Uber on the front page of every local London newspaper for a week. At most the black cabs will force uber to make a minor programming change to the app, and the most likely outcome is a massive expansion of Uber in London. I imagine the folks at Uber HQ are giddy right now.
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Sure, they are 'crown dependencies'. What's the appropriate term to use instead of 'UK' to include all such fiddly bits? rmc's logic is sound, they just made a mistake of terminology.
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I was first thinking about "how do you keep in touch with people then?" but obviously there's a lot of other channels you can use. The only thing that would bother me is how you would contact the emergency services? Do you send them an e-mail? Or do you have some other radio equipment like a walkie-talkie?
Yea, I had coasters way worse than this, but customers only ever complained that it was awful. You weren't able to kill them with excessive G-forces.
* I claim no such thing. Installing apps through f-droid come from a secure channel, mot http.

* There is a way to lock your bootloader again.
I know that. I didn't make it explicit in my comment. The Microsoft tax I mentioned with Azure is the licensing costs. Microsoft isn't just going to give out SQL Server for free and just charge for the VMs and bandwidth. There is premium pricing for SQL Server and BizTalk and custom licensing pricing for SharePoint and Oracle software.

Being on Azure doesn't mean you get a break on the licensing costs. They just amortize the cost over the hour the VM is up.

EDIT: Fair point on the hosting cost being known and acceptable right from the start. I also don't mean to imply that you are not aware of the licensing costs, just wanted to make it clear. For real businesses, at some point it makes more sense to build their own "private cloud" and at this point these issues become relevant but for most start-ups, it's likely just not going to be an issue.
Chrome does that for me automatically. This is 2014.
Assuming you're not bound to IE or are not particularly anti-Google, this is inherent in Chrome.
Folks are working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxHcJTs2Sxk
I feel like this wouldn't work.

I'm not a doctor, but I was under the impression that the brain could survive lack of blood flow for several minutes. How long is this ride supposed to last?
This could never succeed here in the US - (a) general opposition to euthanasia and (b) the amusement park industry would lobby against it because it would scare people away from the regular, milder roller coasters.

It seems mostly academic, as there are much less costly, and not-unpleasant methods - overdose of opiates for example.
It seems as if they replaced one component of the system in a week, not the whole thing.
Simple is an algorithm more or less. Simple and in-memory is something I've used in a number of cases. The other benefit of simple is reliability. 20-30 years ago this type of solution wasn't really possible but with today's 64 bit CPU's, tons of ram, (and if you have to ) SSD's a lot of what used to require cleverness can now be done with simple.
Don't immutable data structures give us most of the benefits? Clojure, for example, approaches this by preferring values over hidden, mutable state (e.g. classes). We see libraries like Om take advantage of the fact that comparing two complex structures (e.g. a hash map) is simply a reference equality test.

http://clojure.org/state

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...
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I rode this, wasn't scary at all!
Absolutely, and I honestly don't think we're far away from Google or someone (...but probably Google) integrating all of this data. Times for football fixtures, events at the O2 and planned demonstrations are all accessible online, it's just a case of an automated system parsing them and deciding the impact.
I did a similar thing when holding a forum in Redis - generating a keyword index for searching took up 3x the amount of space of the raw text and, whilst faster for single whole word searches, fetching each article and grep'ing it in Ruby was plenty fast enough for my needs. Plus no overheads of index maintenance (new posts, expiring posts) and search limits ("only posts by X", "last 7 days") etc.
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Wow, thanks for the encouraging words :)
F1 races already seem to have hardly any passes -- I have to imagine putting computers at the helm will just bring that total down to zero.
I'm interested that it's designed by an art student. I'm not sure whether it's intended as art, but if so I suppose it lies in the dichotomy - horror of death vs the very functional combination of entertainment and euthanasia.

In that case it would certainly the most interesting piece of 'artistic research' I've seen.

And the "ultimate" designation is a nice mockery of brand hype!
Yeah, I was thinking about browser extension which tracks time you spent on various websites during a time interval (a month?). You specify a sum you are willing to spend, and that sum is divided proportionally to time spent. Now if each domain had something like special /btc.html page with an address, the extension could automatically send your money to corresponding websites.

(sorry for broken english)
I think the body can survive the lack of oxygen for several minutes, because there is always oxygen left in the body that the brain can use.

However, if the brain cells consume any oxygen at all, because there is nothing there, they can die pretty quickly such as within 30 seconds.
Actually an interesting solution to the Foursquare check-in privacy issue that I've seen is people check in when they are leaving instead of arriving.
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The ride time is 3:20 according to the linked-to page.

I thought this was horrible. I guess it's "art", but still. Yuck.
> This could never succeed here in the US

Dang, ya think?
And also an ancient board game. Interesting that the author of Go! asked Go to change their name in one of the first bug reports, but they refused. Some people propose calling Go "Issue 9" to avoid confusion. It's probably more Google-able too.

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9
a 150 GB business Azure SQL instance is $225/month, sounds like a steal to me.
I guess if they inverted it, so that the passengers get exposed to negative g force it would be "safer". It seems that -3g is enough to kill, so 7 loops of -10g would be sure death.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Vertical_axis_g-force
Exactly. So many people don't realize that the primary success of such a product is for people to connect.
Doing the math on that (assuming 8 hour workday 5 days a week, 52 weeks per year) comes to around $9M per year per partner which does seem high to me but I don't know YCs numbers overall.

It makes more sense if you assume that most of their candidates come from within the US and a large % from much closer to YC HQ (Stanford?) so they will pay out significantly less in travel expenses on average.

The only other option would be to give those travelling from further afield longer interviews to pitch their startup which could be seen as unfair.
The company's profits are far in excess of the employee salaries

No. For a startup, the company's profits are zero or negative. They might have significant revenues, but they will be ploughing all their free cash flow back into growth.
And he doesn't even give a starting city or country. His readers have to narrow down the location using street signs, building types, car types, and other subtle hints. So if you don't want people to find you don't post pictures of where you are.
I'm not one of the downvoters in this instance, but actually I disagree with you.

It's not mentioned in HN's FAQ or Guidelines that downvotes are for that purpose, and in fact there's an old comment from pg stating the exact opposite: "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness." [1] (It's 6 years old so he may disagree now, but I think I remember him saying similar within the last year.)

On the other hand, it does specifically say in the guidelines "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

[2] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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What are some deep theorems, and why are they considered deep?
from http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/209h4d/samsung_galax... :
This is not a backdoor. It's a feature, and a reasonably common one for Qualcomm based devices.
It's an interface to allow the modem access to a persistent data store (ie. eMMC modem partitions) even though only the application processor may access the MMC controller.
Have a look at the rmt_storage client documentation found in a Qualcomm kernel tree. It used to be pretty common to ship a rmt_storage daemon to do the very same thing Samsung is being accused of here (hint: Nexus 5 still uses it), I don't know about other recent devices, but I'd imagine they'd employ something similar.
Also, there are many more ways for the baseband to compromise the application processor, without an explicit interface.
Over the last 10+ years my entire fortune has been made by directly countering this ignorance and other misconceptions associated with the connotations of accreditation. It's been brilliant! I am "set" for the rest of my life and as long as this naiveté is perpetuated, so will many others be.

Edit: changed perpetuates to is perpetuated
It's one of my missions to correct this falacy. The number of days with rain in London is just around average and the overall precipitation is quite low.

Here's an example with data comparing London and Lisbon (which people usually believe is always sunny):

Rainy days per year in London: 110.4

Rainy days per year in Lisbon: 117.0

Precipitation (mm) per year in London: 591.8

Precipitation (mm) per year in Lisbon: 774

Sources:

London: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate

Lisbon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon#Climate
This is silly. There's two types of people in the world: people who are not of interest to the NSA, and people who are.

FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T OF INTEREST TO THE NSA (THIS IS MOST PEOPLE): You're putting massive amounts of effort into keeping the NSA from getting your data, which, let's be honest, is just chaff they're collecting so they can pick through it for wheat. You really want to do something against the NSA? Start sending your data directly to them so they have to waste time sifting through the logs of what cat photos your friends want you to look at.

IF YOU ACTUALLY ARE A TARGET OF INTEREST TO THE NSA: Everything in here is completely inadequate to secure you against the NSA. In fact, you are probably increasing your own inconvenience more than you are theirs.
When delicious was created, there was no way to sync bookmarks via "the cloud" like browsers do now.
Trey Brackish: "I'm standing here at Thrill World where this roller coaster continues taking the lives of innocent people. Earlier today we spoke with John Oakfellow of the Red Cross."

John Oakfellow: "We're doing what we can, but the casualties continue to mount."

Mr. Show "The Devastator" http://youtu.be/p5Oi57fqdU0
Uh... I can't tell if you are being serious or not. I'll assume you are joking.
I bet repeat business would be appalling.
Any particular recommendations?
> but in the meantime the law as it is should be enforced

This attitude puzzles me greatly. Rule of law is a principle, not a dogmatic application of The Rules Über Alles. Crap laws should be ignored.
The perverse way that taxis are regulated in the US (medallions and so on) seems to be completely unique to the US, or perhaps North America. It's not how things work in Europe. Uber and friends were started in the US as a sensible reaction against that perversity. They make a lot less sense in Europe.

See also the Coin wallet, various payment services, etc, which were conceived to address inefficiencies that are unique parts of the US financial service industry.
Holy hell, the comments in that thread...

HN posters either think

a) Those are perfectly good/reasonable product ideas.

b) Obviously misleading site, reported for phishing!

Does anyone here understand satire?
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I agree that the 1 mile is too rigid. There are only going to be about 3,000 people within a mile radius of me (~1K/sq mile) whereas in Manhattan you would expect around 210,000 (~70K people/sq mile). To get a similar expectation, I would need a radius of about 8 miles. Though of course, as I expand the radius to the south near NYC the population density gets a bit higher, and as I expand my radius to the north it gets lower and 8 miles is enough to bring about changes.
Wow! The OP here barely scratches the surface of this resource. Thanks.
>> "I thought this was horrible."

What about it did you find horrible? If you wanted to end your life it seems like a relatively pain free way to do so. Artistically it's also pretty interesting imo.
If you regularly use more than one browser and more than one computer it can be an issue.
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Considering this in a purely pragmatic sense, my main concern is that if you were one of the "particularly robust" "customers" yourself, you might end up covered in someone else's vomit in your last moments.
As a countermeasure, the article notes turning off lights and so forth. Seems the author hasn't heard of polarized lenses. Others note that it's not a real security concern, no, but using a FLD lens will result in better photos when shooting through glass! Use it!
this is old
They tried this on a rather large scale in USSR, it was called "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need". The results... weren't that great.
Original paper here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
So true.
To experience the un-manifested one has to just be actively aware:
- listen to sounds/silence;
- look at where you're looking out from;
- feel the tickle of the body's energy.
Bluntly said, you have to fucking shut-up!

Here are some links to people that go directly to the essential:
http://www.eckharttolle.com
http://www.adyashanti.org
http://www.headless.org
Critical Mass isn't a protest, it's a procession, and it's not tolerated, it's operating perfectly within the rights of its participants: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/j...
How did he even tested that?
Firefox has a feature that's actually called Scratchpad that's likely exactly what you need. It's a small, basic text editor that lets you run javascript code on the current page. It also has open and save file functionality. It can be rather handy.
Isn't this answered quite simply by "when they get the job done to your satisfaction?"
The references to Buddhism and Aristotle are traditional in the literature and go back at least to Bart Kosko's Fuzzy Thinking -- a 1993 best seller about fuzzy logic for a general audience. Specifically binary and multi-valued logic were compared as 'Aristotle v. the Buddha'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Kosko

http://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Thinking-The-Science-Logic/dp/15...
After seeing a close friend die slowly over three weeks from stage 4 ovarian cancer. I think this would be worlds better then the slow euthanasia by morphine drip that we currently use.
You chose to take a non-black-cab, right?

I may not have all the facts, but I think it's fine for the black cabs to offer a luxury service that you need to pass a hard test to join. This is distinct from making it illegal for someone else to offer an inferior service at a discounted price.
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This is a UI/UX design pattern library specifically for tablets. Right now it's mostly iPads. Just like pttrns, but with a deeper tablet focus. Good for inspiration
90% would be an extraordinary profit margin. Virtually no business operates with a 90% profit margin. Startups certainly don't.
Why not? Muggings and such would become virtually nonexistent!
Same here, but nearest 100 people is not symmetric. While I may be nearest for you, there could be 1000 other people nearer to me than I am to you.
Pot calling the kettle black.

Crawling others' websites then selling ads. <--- Blekko

Scraping others' websites then selling ads. <--- ????

Selling access to user-generated content. <--- OSVDB

Amusing to watch these folks argue about ethics.

Who owns the copyrights in this data? Surely not the one who is demanding that you pay a license fee. These "services" are middlemen, plain and simple.

This might be why McAfee was wondering about how much manual curation is done.

Maybe that is the only possible theory of how OSVDB could assert any rights in the data (and only in a select few jurisdictions).
I guess at 10 g, when the body isn't able to pump blood to the brain anymore, your stomach would have difficulties expelling its contents as well. At least if I understood the operating principle correctly.
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I find euthanasia to be horrible, so a euthanasia roller coaster is automatically horrible.
Thanks for your insight. will try & apply.
New management gave us a 50% price cut and better customer service. I'll take it.
Damn, something related to my country at the top of HN and it's about suicide more or less. Sad fact: Lithuania is among the top countries regarding suicides :(
What a bookmark service for your work? Wouldn't companies pay $10/month for 3 users or $20/month for five users to have a repository of links/info + private discussions?
The better way would be to install a dns resolver on the phone, and stop sending log entires to other companies in order to save a few milliseconds. On debian (PC), its about as complicated as answering a couple of install questions.
Define pain free. When you get several Gs in your body I'm not sure you don't feel any kind of pain.

If you like this as art then you are probably the kind of person who enjoy the painted cadaver's exhibitions.
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Aristotle had nothing to do with the atomic theory, other than being against it. As far as antique atomism goes, the ideas is essentially what it is in modern science---matter consists of indivisible elementary particles. It doesn't matter much that what we call "atoms" do not fit the description (at the time of their modern theoretical (re)discovery it was thought they are elementary). This simple idea, without any further elaboration as to how "atoms" work, just the idea that they exist as such, is far more powerful than it seems at first sight. Feynman thought it was the most important piece of scientific knowledge about the universe, so much so that if all scientific knowledge would to disappear but we could choose one fact to preserve, he would choose the idea of atomic theory.

Indeed any scientist relying on Aristotle would do badly, and one of the reasons was because he was against atomism.