skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Acceleration using the GPU is what will-change is all about.

Also, especially among web developers there are many people who barely know what they are doing, so it's a good idea to comprehensively cover the context (I know it helped me, since I'm mostly a back-end developer who does some front-end on the side).
KDE is slowly losing ground. It used to be my desktop of choice but that was in the knoppix days. Now there is of course Kubuntu but I switched (more or less by accident rather than by design) a while ago and I don't think I'll be switching back. My desktop is practically invisible to me anyway, all I run on a normal workday is firefox, a terminal window and thunderbird.

The one piece of software from the KDE distro that I really love is Konsole.
"Someone's been committing crimes from your network."
"It must be someone using my open wireless point."
"Sorry to bother you sir, have a nice day."

I can't see it happening that way somehow.
Taxi drivers in Europe are paid a fraction of the profits they get from clients, most of it goes to taxes and the operators running the cab networks.

Uber's drivers are in a similar position.

So what do we have here? Another example of pitting poor against poor, for the interests of one group of rich against another, emerging, group of rich.

I almost admire the skillful orchestration at play here, although probably I shouldn't.
Seedhack, hackathon on Life-logging and Quantified self 4-6 July in London
And the fact you see assault, and a law teaches you that it is so, instead of just scolding, is a cultural bias (sort of) and a point in favor of not living in US - or similar countries - for anyone born and grown up where these deceptive concepts are absent and hopefully not carved in a law.

Once common sense would have been enough: do you scolded my child? Why? What's happened? ... Ha, ok, my son did something wrong... and so on...

Usually it's not that hard.

Instead, a society rambling towards paranoia and driven by fear (especially this), makes a citizen feel the urge to "look at" a greater power, the Great Protector, to "protect" him/her even from an unexistant menace - or to seek revenge.

In the story we are commenting, the first thing I have noticed and blamed was the following: the mother surrenders to the request of the son who wants to go with her to the store. There, she makes the first mistake: the son had to stay at home with the grandma.
Web Typography Is Lacking Behind. How to change it?
If you slightly modify it to 0. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 00 01 02 03 04 05... then the number n padded with zeros to k digits can be found starting at position 10 * floor(10^(k - 1) / 9) + k * n.
Way to win me over to your side guys by inconveniencing your customer.
I'd like to highlight this part of the article:

> In several of the protests, drivers aren't specifically targeting Uber and other service providers, but what they say is outmoded regulation that makes it hard for them to compete. Part of Uber's challenge in Europe is the variety of regulations governing the continent, even among the 28-member European Union, each of which has different unions and different rules.

It's easy to dismiss off the protestors as old hat for not reacting gracefully to a changing market, but the issue at least in London seems to largely be with the fact that their existing businesses are subject to more costs and regulations than the kinds that Uber and other services are facing.

So let's spare a thought for the taxi drivers who've spent years building up their skills and knowledge of the local area, especially in places like London [1], and hope that they can be given the opportunity to compete with Uber. After all, if it weren't for the existing Taxi industry it's possible companies like Uber wouldn't even exist.

There should be space in the market for both the traditional offering and the fancy new one, and I hope that they can learn from each other and improve as a result of the competition, rather than die out.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying Uber should be forced to play by the rules. I'm saying that it might be time for the rules to be re-assessed based on developments in the industry.

[1]: In London, our famous black cabs are driven only by cabbies who've spent months learning London like the back of their hands in order to give their customers the fastest (and most interesting, in many cases) journey possible. See The Knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom#...
Is this the first EU-wide strike, or has there been any such things in the past?
How To Save The Output Of "console.log" To A File?
No worries ;)

For what it's worth, I actually agree with your point. The parent of your first comment was (at least to some degree) derailing the conversation. I didn't even consider that it was a derailment until your second comment.

I think you did have something valuable to add to the discussion, but I did not initially see it because your first comment was so pointlessly unnecessary.

Based on you pointing out the behaviour, I will now try to recognise and downvote 'concern trolling' that derails conversations. It's unfortunate that you weren't able to communicate that more effectively the first time.
I just do not see why uber can be disruptive AND follow the rules. Here in Sweden they are lobbying to get exception from the rules, i.e. not having a meter and not having price comparisons on the cars.

It's not hard to be disruptive if you break the rules
It's just a text file, why not just add it to the version control of your project?

If it's because users can only have a single crontab, you can always use system crontabs instead or "cat" them together.
If you want your high-level language to be as fast as C, it needs provably safe manual memory management (a.k.a. linear types) and provably safe unchecked array access (a.k.a. dependent types). Most high-level languages don't have these features, because in their current state they are really hard for programmers to use. See ATS for an example.
If you love Konsole, give yakuake a try. It is Konsole in quake fashion; you press F12 and a terminal drops down. I can't imagine life without it.
Do the bongs come with some grass?
Sid Meier's Civilization V Officially Available on Linux for SteamOS
Most people don't have any potential
Big Data Climate Challenge
Being able to cross compile tells you exactly nothing about the state of your native build environment on the target platform. I mean, just because I can successfully cross compile C code for an attiny doesn't prove that gcc has been successfully ported to run on an attiny.
Something similar happened to me recently. A Yahoo / rocketmail account I had for over 10 years was suddenly closed. The reason was I hadn't used it for awhile (about six months or so).

The thing is I used to pay for the premium version of Yahoo mail, I bought domains from them, I had a paid Flickr account before - and they shut it all down without warning.

Losing that Flickr account hurt the most. Lots of saved images were lost.
I was wondering how in the world this device works, but this explains it well. I understand now how an untrained artist can make such an amazing painting.
>It's easy to dismiss off the protestors as old hat for not reacting gracefully to a changing market, but the issue at least in London seems to largely be with the fact that their existing businesses are subject to more costs and regulations than the kinds that Uber and other services are facing.

This is the fundamental issue: Uber's business advantage is to evade regulations that apply to its competitors; its business strategy is to try to drive them out of the market before regulation catches up with them.
But why require every car to have this bulky fixed function meter device when a smartphone app can do the job just as well?

Sometimes the rules themselves need to be disrupted.
Looks great! Why "Boba" though? Just a fan of the bounty hunter?
I could write the index number here, but it would probably be about as long as the entire works of Shakespeare.
Feedly is undergoing a denial of service attack
I think we will hear a lot of these stories, but they will
be for show only. The American government has
access to all the server files. Companies will act like they
are fighting for our privacy, but the NSA will still be
viewing the files. The NSA might not ever say they are using the information found on servers, but they will be looking
for criminals and terrorists. When they find the perps, they will use illegial wire taps and other means to get whomever they
want. I don't doubt for a second those Irish servers have back doors tied directly to the NSA. Oh, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc. will all put up a very public fight though. I have a guestion about cryptanalysis; In the ninties, a Hacker named Iceman was arrested for a Card
Swap Forum. He thought he bricked his hard drives with encryption, but a eastern company broke the encrytpion--easily. What form of encryption was he using? Thanks-
I like KDE a lot for its UI/UX. KDE actually has the potential to intuitively replace Windows in many households with shared systems and also in educational institutions. But the only major problem with KDE is that its very heavy and takes a lot of resources.

Does the next generation workspace just change the UI/UX or optimize stuff too? The post doesn't talk much about that.
Their beef with Sweden's regulation is odd, since Sweden has an extremely deregulated taxi market. Pricing is entirely set by the operator, subject to only two consumer-notification conditions that you note. You can charge whatever you want, but: 1) you must legibly advertise the price on the exterior of the car; and 2) you must have a meter which is inspected to ensure that you are actually charging the prices that are advertised. That's pretty similar to how, say, butchers are regulated: you can sell your meat for whatever you want, but must advertise the per-kilo price, and must use an official scale whose calibration has been validated. In the case of taxis, you must also have vehicle insurance that covers for-pay carriage of passengers, but that's just a basic road requirement (all drivers are required to have insurance that covers the kind of driving in which they're engaged).

Unlike NYC (for example), there isn't any kind of "medallion" system, government-regulated pricing, etc. And unlike London, there is no exam requiring drivers to have any particular knowledge. If anything the outcry from consumers is more often in the other direction, especially from tourists. Tourists who aren't aware that Sweden has completely deregulated taxi pricing are sometimes scammed into paying incredibly high fares, because there's nothing illegal about charging $500/km, as long as that's the stated price. (The fact that Sweden uses SEK instead of EUR helps this particular scam, since many tourists, especially those just arriving at airports, have no intuitive sense of what a SEK/km price means.)
Taxi drivers should consider reducing their prices if they want their business to go up. Sorry but I don't think am the only one that thinks taxi drivers average salary is way higher than any software developers... Think their salary is un-taxed... most of it.
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40 times faster! This is great news for cross-platform solutions which use UIWebView now to create apps in JS, such as PhoneGap. This will mean a big bump in performance for those apps, of which there are probably many on the App Store.
EU-wide it is indeed the first one, but as far as I know there have already been quite a lot regional ones.
An inteview with the Embedded Systems Guru Jack Ganssle
Jack Ganssle in an internationally-recognized embedded systems engineer, author and speaker.

He was the only embedded person on NASA's Super Problem Resolution Team, created by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board to harness the expertise of highly-respected people from outside the agency. He has worked on many classified government projects and has held various clearances, including Top Secret/Special Intelligence.
You can install a new crontab file with

$ crontab [ -u user ] file
Do this from a Linux command line:

nslookup anywhereintheworld.com

The result will be:

** server can't find anywhereintheworld.com: NXDOMAIN

Which means that domain happens to not exist, so no one received a password reset for your account.

You'll have to contact yahoo (however you do that) to get this fixed. Posting here does not count as "contacting yahoo".

Also, take this as a lesson learned. When you let someone else handle your email for you, you live and die at that others whim.
I'm not sure I believe as strongly in the idea in places like London, where the official cab service is both highly regulated, and quite good.

In the US, the regulations for cabs tend to do little but drive up medallion prices. Uber cars are a much-needed disruption in terms of availability and quality, but you still can't really say that the drivers know much of anything about the city. If we had the equivalent of a London cab here in SF, I'd always choose that over Uber, yet I think you can probably undercut the price of an official taxi in London simply by ignoring the rules. That seems wrong.

If unregulated competition kills a good taxi service, that seems like a drastically different outcome than what's happening here in the states.
> the correct solution was letting the apps just manage their own database of stuff.

Applications can do this since forever. But there is no correct way per se. The question is should application sit on a lot of data for themselves? (walled garden, vendor lock-in, no interop) Example: think of music ratings in iTunes - it's all lost/inaccessible if you decide to additionally use a non-Apple software.

I would argue metadata in user mode applications is already a solved problem [1] - most applications adhere to common metadata format standards [1] and a few outliers [2].

WinFS, NEPOMUK and semantic web failed or haven't gained traction.

A practical common schema is being developed for search engines on schema.org by Bing, Google, Yahoo!, Yandex & co: https://schema.org/docs/full.html

> Selfish apps

The metadata access would part of the operating system API. If a software intentionally renames filenames or moving files to different directories (for no good reason), it's a virus/worms.

> Interop

Most common file formats support metadata anyway, just keep them up-to-date. And Adobe created the XMP sidecar format especially for this use-case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_file

[1] mp3 ID2, jpg ITPC/EXIV/XMP, office formats, pdf, epub, etc.

[2] Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Photo Gallery, foobar2000, Winamp, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. (and Linux applications as well) usually read/write file metadata for common formats just fine.

[3] iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture and Photoshop Lightroom store their metadata in a per app SQLite database.
App Previews as a Tiered App Store
Its not literary "anywhereintheworld.com". Its some domain name I made up when I signed up 15 years ago. Its taken now. It has some custom domain-parking-spam on it. Whois gives something like "lksjdfoiuwerkjsd@somespammerhidingcompany.com" as the contact email.
What Antelope Does (And What I Hope it Will Do)
Is Xfce mainstream yet? It's pretty popular for a non-default desktop - I can't find the cite, but I have a vague memory of something like 16% of Ubuntu being Xubuntu.
I recommend using the following link, which should agree with the github TOS: http://cdn.rawgit.com/jdorn/json-editor/master/examples/css_...
This has been done before in several places before from Dubai to China http://whenonearth.net/withdraw-gold-atm-dubai/
Introducing UberTAXI
Interesting idea. Actually, just thinking, could be used for a pseudo-crypto app. Just send a series of origin numbers [n1,n2,n3...] and this translates to [pos1,pos2,pos3...] series of numbers. You can use also instead of Pi any other transcendental/irrational number [0].

[0] http://www.numberworld.org/digits/
Did you use a framework to run mapreduce with go or did you roll your own?
Sad to see the taxi drivers. What they don’t understand is that soon they will be obsolete. As many other groups. IT startups are extremely disruptive and changes like these are hard to stop. With Google driverless cars around, it’s safe to say that in 30 years no one will need a driver. Uber and competitors could just buy driverless, extra-comfortable cars and get over with.

The problem is, what do you do with thousands of people working today as cabbies? Or you don’t give a shit about a large % of the population not having an income (and thus not being a consumer).
Thanks for a thoughtful comment. I am aware of the things you mention, I just quietly assumed that "knowing" a language means knowing it and its ecosystem inside out, with all the major tools and libraries, how the major implementations work and how they differ and so on.

I wouldn't advise going for polyglot programming without expert-level knowledge in at least most of the involved technologies. You're right that it's significantly harder to learn a language really well instead of just familiarizing yourself with basics and that it gets even harder when there are multiple languages involved, because the amount of quirks and peculiarities grows significantly with each of them.

Nevertheless, I believe it is possible and I consider myself one anecdata point :) Although it took me a decade or so to get here, and I see a very long way ahead of me still, I already had a pleasure of putting my fairly deep knowledge of different languages and environments (it was C, Erlang, Python and JavaScript in this case) to use, with quite a bit of success for the project.

So yes, it's hard and I understand why people don't like the idea, but I just can't agree with them, as in my experience most of the arguments against polyglot programming (on the programmers' side, management is another issue and their problems are much more real) just don't hold true.
> It's easy to dismiss off the protestors as old hat for not reacting gracefully to a changing market, but the issue at least in London seems to largely be with the fact that their existing businesses are subject to more costs and regulations than the kinds that Uber and other services are facing.

If they're not old hat, and so on, and their business pays more taxes, why not branch off into Uber clones? If Uber does it, they can too.
> "We recognise the unique heritage and value of traditional black cabs when it comes to getting around. UberTAXI is another way of using technology to offer more choice, making life simpler and keeping London moving"

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Comcast is Turning the US Into Its Own Private Hotspot
Conceptually, is this an ATM or a vending machine?
doh. Sorry, got lost in the excitement ;)
Why replace something that works and can be systematically verified for something that will lead to all kinds of complications and may be outdated in 5 years?

Sometimes something that just works doesn't need to be disrupted.
Anti-Surveillance Mask Lets You Pass As Someone Else
As a London native for almost 10 years I cant tell you how many times I have been ripped off by black cab drivers taking longer routes then they could have. I also cant tell you how difficult it can be at certain times to find a taxi to take you home so people inevitably end up using unlicensed "mini cabs" to get home. This all because the licensing regulations are stuck in the stone age. Hopefully Uber will drag London kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

As a side note I also dont think there is anything stopping a London black cab driver from signing up for Uber.
'to give their customers the fastest etc.,'. Nice if it works that way but plenty of customers don't agree that that's what happens. And of course it is inarguably a monopoly.

As noted by one journalist

"If black cab drivers are as good as they think they are, then they’ll beat the new competition on a level playing-field. If they’re not as popular, they’ll have to bring down their high prices. Either answer leaves the consumer better off."
The average private school costs quite a lot less than the average public school. You could spend about half as much per student and still get safer kids and happier parents.

So what "external costs" are you thinking of? Going to a private school does involve travel, but so does going to your assigned public school. Depending on how the district lines are drawn and how centralized the district is, the trip might even be shorter.
Who is that "you" that is supposedly don't give a shit?

What's even more important, the tech disruption is coming to the vast range of industries and many jobs will be obsolete much sooner than most expect.
> But why require every car to have this bulky fixed function meter device when a smartphone app can do the job just as well?

Can it? How can us be certain that the smartphone is actually the one that was in the car when the rate was approved? How does "fixed rate advertised on the outside of the car" match up with ubers surge pricing? Why does a rule that the majority of the population evidently feels comfortable with need to be disrupted?

I don't think disruption is necessarily a good thing. It can be, but it also can bring a ton of negative results.
Anyone else remember Microsoft cheerfully getting a US judge to overrule a German court decision? Only to now insist that a US court can't compel them to hand over an Irish server. Their views on jurisdiction matters seem to be remarkably flexible...
i've used addison lee whenever i struggle to find a cab (or know i'm going to have trouble find a cab). except for a couple of occasion where the mini cab driver has been a bit late, i've never felt i've had cab issues in london.
As a developer I don't see any compelling reason to get a Mac unless you want to develop for iOS.

In terms of dev work what does OSX provide that you don't get with Linux or Windows?
Try taking a black cab from Heathrow airport to anywhere just a few miles away (basically anywhere which isn't a full fare to the centre of London). You will literally be screamed and sworn at.