skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's a correct analysis. As far as I know, anyone who can pass the knowledge test can get a cab license, so it';s not like there's a quota on the number of cab drivers or something, as you find with many US taxi monopolies (and which I have no time for).

Having service standards isn't exactly the same as protectionism. For example, it's easy to see the problems that would arise if someone just bought a bus, painted it in the same livery as public transit buses, and started picking up passengers on a popular route. I find the Black Cab situation interesting for similar reasons - they're not regular cars with a taxi sign on the side, but special-purpose vehicles, capable of accommodating a wheelchair, with the ability to use transit lanes, and so on. I think their beef with the regulator seemingly dumping licensing requirements on a whim is quite understandable from an economic point of view.

It's worth remembering that regulations governing cabs in London are not the result of regulatory capture by market incumbents, but were drafted centuries ago to deal with a tragedy of the commons problem, ie too many horse-drawn carriages causing traffic problems. The distinctive design of the modern cab (which are made by two firms, a British one that just does taxis, and also by Mercedes-Benz) meets standards set many years ago for ground clearance, disability access, and turning radius. Taxi firms have often asked for conditions to be relaxed over the years (especially the turning circle requirement, which allows cabs to do u-turns in places that would be impossible for other vehicles) but they remain pretty stringent.
This is a pet peeve of mine but...is 'wanna' a commonly used word in the USA? It grates whenever I read it as it's rarely used where I am.
Remember the CEO's idiotic (and apparently now deleted) blog post: "It's a fucking startup, why are you here" [1].

I guess 1/3 of the staff couldn't come up with a good enough answer. It's a shame they're the one's getting axed and not the CEO.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3029439/most-innovative-companies...
R is to Python as Latin is to English. Sooner or later you will have to communicate with the rest of the world, and you're going to find your choice of Latin, while having a substantial use case, to not be sufficient for the purpose.
Congrats guys! Was excited about this company from day 1. A great founding team and an amazing service. Now go take out FedEx!
My theory is that they were not destroying any kind of persistent data on these components like IC's; rather, destroying what/where/whom they might be able to identify or correspond with via serial numbers, dates, manufacturer, locations of where that component came from, etc.

At least for the components of which have no memory, volatile or not.
If they're gaming HN, they're fooling both the software and me, and I've spent a ton of time working on this.

Please don't dilute the threads with meta complaints. Instead, do as the guidelines ask and email us at hn@ycombinator.com; or flag the post; or both.
In SF, some of the immediately adjacent areas (connected by subway) are drastically cheaper, like South SF, Oakland and Alameda. Like 50% of the cost if you look at the median sales prices. There are definitely some expensive suburbs, but they're either to the north in Marin or much further south down the peninsula down by Stanford.

It's worth noting that after New York and Brooklyn merged (I think around 1900), SF considered merging with Oakland.
Never had an issue with exercise or sweat. However, there was a 2-4 week transition where all BO was worse. Then things got better than they were before.
Why not? By evading the law he's creating additional expense for taxpayers, compounding the free rider problem with the need for greater expenditure on enforcement.
Yeah, that was basically my reaction as well. They tweaked Markdown a bit, changed a few things around, but it's pretty much identical to Markdown. I don't really see any big wins here. This XKCD seems somewhat appropriate: http://xkcd.com/927/
The API could use some work. To implement the simplest example, I need to remember patterns like:

> eventContract.dispatchTo(goog.bind(dispatcher.dispatch, dispatcher));

imho, there's a problem if you need to dust off your gang of four book to understand the API. Might as well include an AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean.
Not surprising since many functions in R are Fortran or C++ calls.
If you are in the states and are not in a place with an extremely well established rental market run by professional landlords, it is probably like that.

Of course, most places require that landlords give the tenant some amount of notice before entering the home (generally a day or so), but taping a notice to the renter's door that said "remodeling starts tomorrow and will last a month" would probably cover that.

Some states have renter's law that says something like "if your rental is unusable because of construction or damage or what have you" that you can seek "equivalent premises at the market rate" and bill your landlord, but I suspect if you do that you'd better start shopping for a new place to live and limbering up your small claims court documentation.

//edit

The bottom line in the states is that you probably have decent rental protection but will have to sue the guy you are buying a roof from if they don't voluntarily play nice.
Some studies claim it's not that bacteria are good, but that the lack of them causes an imbalance in our immune system, as they have evolved over millenia to co-exist with this huge diverse flora of bacteria. Apparently, if they're absent, immune me can run amok.
Good luck!

Would you mind elaborating on that defensibility claim ("if you look at any of these local businesses, whether they’re Yelp, or Grubhub, or whatever… once they’re built, they’re defensible")?

Why wouldn't this be a race to the bottom where "courier as a service" companies will be lowering prices until competition has eroded profits completely?

(just to be sure, to clarify: I'm genuinely asking out of curiosity - I'm sure if you have both YC and Sequoia backing you, you have some excellent answers for this question)
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights around the world
It's all a matter of trust in the end. Even with Open Hardware, the production line, or the transport of the hardware to your doorstep could be compromised. The same way that even Open Source software can be compromised if no one is paying attention or you are being specifically targeted.
"Men's rights activism" is seldom more than bashing women and attempting to shout down and dismiss any issues they might raise. I think this is sad, because there are some interesting issues a "men's place in society" movement could address, but unfortunately whatever reasonable folk there might be under the "men's rights" label, they're drowned out by a flood of really hateful people.
Makes sense on the surface, but historically this hasn't been true.
offer them a career path. oftentimes at agencies, us frontend devs get all the grunt work but no respect.
Microsoft challenged an FBI gag order and won
Cutts said on his Twitter feed that he's talked to Haughey.
Interesting this is a customer communication/acquisition channel for your business when many of us see it as a peer discussion forum. I hadn't really considered that before.
Why Asian Nations Dominate Global Education Rankings
Perhaps the question is more along the lines of "Men are being called upon to act against this discrimination, but I as a man have never seen it. Other men, what about you?"

In which case the gender of the audience is important to the question. For example, while women might see it all the time, if there are no men present other than the offender, the "ordinary" men would never see it and never have the opportunity to act.

Personally I can say it can be frustrating when you are damned (as a group) for not acting, when you as an individual have never to your knowledge witnessed the event.
Can you comment on the shift to mobile gaming and GLES?
This is a great idea and similar to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692769. I think there's a chance of building this into a platform. Email me if you're interested.
Not at all a stupid question. I don't even have a great answer for you. My understanding is that, at least for some cases, you can target e.g. radiation enough to shrink the tumor enough for these therapeutic vaccines to be effective.
If they give everyone their own /64 subnet, it would still be like there were 4 billion of entire ipv4 address spaces available.

Given that the planet can run on a single ipv4 space right now, that's an awful lot to run through.
Let's try a direct question: why can't the third party perform the operation "is x equal to 5"?

The point of HE is that you can do add and mul. FHE extends HE to do arbitrary computation. "Is x equal to 5?" is an arbitrary computation, so it seems like FHE must support it.

If comparison ops are supported, then you can make an FHE based interpreter. Thus far, no one has been able to explain why specifically it wouldn't be possible. And if it's possible, then programs are naturally obfuscated: the interpreter is operating on encrypted bytecode input. But the original paper I cited says this is impossible! So there seems to be an interesting mystery here.
Verizon Wireless is over 50% v6. My phone is v6. If I hadn't tried a "what's my IP" on my phone I wouldn't have noticed (which is how it should be).
Yelp is a "pure play" company that does not involve a real physical component. So are AirBnB and Uber/Lyft: they merely annotate the psychical world. Delivery and shipping is a whole another matter.

What I found interesting is how Sequoia degenerated from funding AMD/silicon to funding food delivery and calling it "tech".
>A mission of men armed to the teath, invading some BS hideaway in the middle of nowhere, with helicopters, ultra-modern technology and support from their base.

This is the description of every high profile special-operations mission in the last century. But the reality is that those mission carry a much higher risk of failure than most other military operation, and phrasing it in the way you chose doesn't remove the inherent disadvantage of the assaulter or the extreme complexity of the mission.

There is no shortage of failed special operations missions or dead operators. With plenty of recent examples such as the failed Bulu Marer hostage rescue attempt in 2013 or the Chinook shootdown in 2011. Even the Bin Laden operation would have looked completely differently had one of the pilots not managed to miraculously crash-land the helicopter with minimal damage.

I recommend reading something like Fearless[1] to get a better understanding of how those missions look like and what risks they entail, and why "ultra modern-technology" or "support from base" often don't mean that much.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Undaunted-Ultimate-Sacrifice-...
It's not that different, depending how far north you get in Manhattan. The distribution of housing types might be different, but things get pretty residential in the northern end of Manhattan, and you're as far away from "midtown" than those places are from downtown SF.
Having actions tied to the object declaratively is a paradigm that javascript frameworks have been moving towards, rather than away from, for the past few years.

When managing a complex, JS-heavy application, it is infinitely more developer friendly to be able to look at an element and figure out what the lifecycle of that object might look like. Instead of digging through javascript (especially jquery heavy code with the possibility of obscured references) where there's no real logic behind when or where an object might be modified, you restrict it to the most basic element possible - the HTML declaration.

So yes, let's please reinvent HTML :-)
GCHQ are probably pretty far ahead of the game as far as disinformation goes. Consider what the UK government did to cover up operation overlord.

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

I seem to recall a story where they put fake plans in the pocket of an army coat, which they put on a recently deceased person dressed in full military uniform (of military service age), and then strategically dumped it where they knew the germans would find it. Or maybe that was just a spy movie I watched.
Is using the same title as somebody else on a piece about the same topic as the other one really a "bad mistake"?
Ask HN: A startup trainer?
I've been working on my startup for several years now, but my progress has been slow with many false starts and long periods of inactivity. My friends and family don't show much interest in it and I'm having trouble staying motivated after so long. I've recently been working with another startup and found that because the founder has high expectations and demands that things work, I've been much more productive helping them out.

Does anyone know of an outsourced motivation service. I'm thinking about something like a personal trainer service, but for business.

Someone who will work with you a couple times a week and demand that you push yourself just a little more than you would on your own. Someone who will objectively rate your performance and effort, and help a flabby founder to get their startup fit.
Interesing. I'm not familiar with how much of the R library is implemented in R, I expect some of it is tried and tested fortran because it's a waste of time to reimplement.

My comment was really addressing "it won't be hard to solve in Clojure.". Some things are just hard to get right, period.
It could be confirmation bias, but I've noticed lots of posts (from a variety of sources) which accumulate several tens of votes before the first comment. I've attributed it to a subtle shift in HN users where more people vote things up and refrain from commenting until it looks like the post will hang around on the front page for a while. But, that's just speculation.
If you demand walkable, then yes, you are up a creek. The only way to get purely walkable, with your grocer, theater, and night club all within a fifteen minute stroll, is high-density which generally happens in the heart of large cities, and is indeed expensive.

But how about bicycle-able? My town is about 5 miles square, very bike-able, and I was able to buy a townhouse at twenty-five.
Tying together fifty states worth of healthcare systems and laws to provide some kind of reasonable abstract interface. On top of systems that may or may not have been designed with this form of use in mind.

Go look up some of your own state's healthcare laws to see how bizarre they can get. Then think about how each state has organically arrived at their own set of bizarre and nebulous laws. Then imagine what the infrastructure built around those laws - adapted over time as they changed and ignored as much as possible - looks like.

People surprised at this number are judging a vast and complicated problem by the (relatively) simple and pretty face plastered on top of it. I'm actually kind of impressed that the number isn't higher.
Could the yellow square be preserved? Sometimes (often) I tab away while waiting for the server to return and miss where the computer went.
How I Learned That I Could Work Myself To Death
> why are you here

To get fucking fired by incompetent blowhards apparently.

That appears to be the norm with most startups, and companies for that matter. Sad state of affairs.
This seems similar to a module I wrote called [html-delegator][1].

The separation of thing that emits named event and listener is a good idea.

I Actually moved away from the HTML attribute DSL and started putting named events in my virtual dom instead (using [mercury][2])

The important part of this approach that is not shown in js action is to ensure you emit data structures instead of dom event objects to the listeners.

[1]: https://github.com/Raynos/html-delegator/blob/master/README.md
[2]: https://github.com/Raynos/mercury
SF isn't in Silicon Valley. San Jose is one of 10 largest cities in the county and Oakland's pretty big too. I'm guessing that "San Francisco metro area" probably can't include either of those two larger cities, nor would it include Silicon Valley (which is 15-20 miles from SF and closer to San Jose.)
that is the plan. As we are small this is one of the first big hires for the dev team, and offering to make a big impact and help us grow, not just be a cog in a wheel. But it seems like the devs we keep getting serious about bail to work on big teams that I would feel would give the the grunt like feeling.
Worth the read if only because the photo of Harvard’s 1888 tug of war team.
I agree about equipment failure, I used those examples to point out that just because something has occurred several times before doesn't mean you can discount it as a potential contributing factor. A better example is the sterile cockpit rule. You can never eliminate distractions, but you can work on reducing them (though in a worst case scenario I believe that laser flashes can be more than just distractions).
That "confusion and mild irritation" is what I'm talking about. If you don't think their marketing page is up to your standards maybe constructive commentary based on your apparent demographic suitability would be a bit more helpful?
I'm sick of this perl bashing from pythonistas. Why can't people just accept that they do the same job equally well in slightly different ways?
My favourite weird old Olympic event was the plunge for distance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge_for_distance
Hmm, more HTC Ones running Win 8 Mobile might compete with Apple's build quality, and maybe, just maybe, be price-competitive.

What about Apple ditching DRM on their music?

And what about the thriving unlocking/rooting community for iOS devices?

They make high end iOS devices more palatable to early adopters who rely a lot on custom one-offs before things like in-vehicle integration become so commonplace that it's no longer necessary.

To be brief: the high end is painfully aware of the heavy-handed lockdown tactics that are currently tarnishing Apple's image.
> You don't go buy an $699 unlocked phone and use it as a Specifically Optimized for Carrier X phone.

The point is you don't need to with an iPhone. I bought my 5C used and unlocked. No problems hopping onto AT&T with it. It's not "optimized" because it shouldn't be. The carrier is just "a series of tubes". I don't want to buy an AIO, TMobile or AT&T phone. I bought a MotoX because I wanted a MotoX.
As someone who sold on Fab in the past, I wish them the best. They always treated their vendors well and their operations team was top notch. Hopefully they'll figure it out.
I bought some stuff around Christmas and then got spammed out of love with them.

I had no idea that they had made another pivot from the flash-sales site I signed up for.

Checking out their current homepage and seeing them "reimaging" sofas as their new business does not give me a lot of faith that they're going to have a happy ending.
I believe the story you recall was from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon novel.
12-year leases?!?! Please tell me that is a typo and you meant months.
Instead of feeding it through immediately to salaries, couldn't they create an endowment for themselves, and use it like a conservative retiree would use their retirement savings? (4%/year withdrawal rate). That way, they could use the money for what people really want it to be used for (more, and better teachers), and there wouldn't be very much risk of a shortfall.
Does this seem like a natural way of speaking: "I am grated when ever it is twelve of the clock and I can not fall on sleep."? If you want an example lesson in language drift, go to Rome and try and talk to people in Latin.

"Wanna" is called a "contraction" or "slang", probably originating from "want to" and "want a" both pronounced like "want'ta". (For example, I am from Sacramento, which is often pronounced as "Sacra-minnow". Also see "shoulda woulda coulda".) Quite common in Northern California at least. Its probably best described as Internet English. The real question is: Does it make it harder to understand? Does it obstruct the goal of communicating information? Or do you normally speak like a 17th Century aristocrat, using archaic words that very few understand, but are probably technically on point? (Sorry, that are veritably apposite.)
You were so close with this line > GCHQ was merely observing to see that the Guardian staff were cooperating. Instructing journalists to remove their 'special storage chips' while leaving others intact would be a breach of operational security

There is nothing more to it. It is the law. I cannot stress this point enough. Destroying the electronic devices was not optional.

It was not a PR move at all. In testimony the Guardian even admitted it was not a PR move. It was necessary.

[Source [Video] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-relea...]

EDIT TO ADD: I really don't care if you think I am a shill shrug - that says more about you and your tolerance of new facts than it says anything about me. The source I posted is from The Guardian, about the Guardian with video testimony from the Guardian. It couldn't be further from GCHQ to be honest.
I can imagine a future where energy is priced in real time. The only reason it hasn't been done so far is that it wasn't technically practical until recently. Imagine if you could tell your Nest to optimize the comfort of your house and keep it below a projected budget. If battery technology progresses, the Nest could even one day store energy at low points and use the battery at more expensive times.
Do you work for Stripe?
edit: nvm, I see you do by following your profile to github. Thanks for answer!
Richard Stallman?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

He's about free software as well. People that haven't started subscribing to his ideas post-leaks are part of the problem.
Nope. There is absolutely no intimidation whatsoever and reports by the Guardian journalists confirm that the GCHQ engineers were simply resigned to an extremely common and boring task. They joked about the futility of it as I understand.

There was no intimidation.
When a post's content is taken from another source, we switch the url to that source. I didn't realize that the graphic didn't come from there as well, so we changed the url back when a user pointed this out.

It's still borderline, though. Making an infographic is a pretty dubious claim to being an original source, and posts that consist of nothing but an image are usually pretty unsubstantive.
If they thought it had been compromised by someone other than themselves, wouldn't destroying specific chips rather than destroying the computers entirely leak more information about the information they had though?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you're wrong. Just seems odd, is all ^_^;
This calculator ignores the fact that the market for real estate buyers is increasingly global but the rental market is local.

If you are in your 20's and grew up in a middle class family in Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne or Auckland, and have a middle class job, it is virtually impossible for you to be able to afford to buy a house in the city in which you grew up. E.g., here's a New Yorker article on the impact of the global property market in Vancouver: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/05/26/140526ta_....

The political fallout from the intergenerational inequality over property ownership in Canada, Australia and NZ is going to be very interesting to watch...