skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to prove how many people actually stayed in the hotel would be my guess. Other businesses like restaurants have inventory so you can't as easily make it look like you made a great deal more money than you actually did.
Maybe if the permission was something like "Let this extension read and mutate stuff on the page but don't let it make any ajax requests". Would that be sufficient?
The 3d parallax-y thing, or just all of the animation?
After we got to a certain point we just figured to commit to it and go nuts!
I used this keyboard, as well as the ones for MIT-AI's graphics terminals from which it was inspired, and a 2nd generation of those (long story), at the same time I was using "standard" keyboards including the IBM PC's, and if you have the ability to ignore keys you don't need, you can focus on the home keys and Control and Meta (and ideally use the key left of A as rubout/backspace; it not being Caps Lock is not really a problem for coders).

The big issue is that the IBM layout is Ctrl-Alt, whereas the Lisp Machine was [too many other "bucky bits"]-Meta-Ctrl. Since I learned EMACS with the latter layout, for many years I just remapped those keys on other systems.
So what solution are you suggesting to this?

The real problem is trustworthy BTC -> USD. Expedia can't pay their employees with BTC, and the executives don't want their bonuses in BTC either.

Coinbase is a solution to this problem. And it's better to have one trustworthy, rather than a bunch of mtgoxes. Yes, it makes it 'centralized' but it's the best solution in this case. Without it, BTC is just internet points.
Neat site! If you are looking for feedback, I noticed you were using the skrollr plugin for parallax effect; I only reviewed the code for about 50 seconds but it appears to use the top/bottom/etc CSS properties to achieve the movement effects. On my browser (Chrome Version 35.0.1916.114) running on my 2014 MBP there is some animation chop. I believe you could resolve this by using the CSS translate property instead, which would trigger GPU acceleration to better animate the effects. Alternatively I believe you could simply add the translate property set to 0 on the moving elements and it will also trigger GPU acceleration (I have been told this also works although I have not tested it myself.). It might be difficult to implement since you are using a library, but it may be worth checking out.

EDIT: Grammar.
Solved here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Evidence-Senses-Realist-Perception...
Hi Aleem! This is Omar from Waterloo (your co-founder's friend). Big fan of you guys and what you've done with Streak. Contrary to some of the comments, some chrome extensions inside of gmail are very very very useful. Streak is definitely one of those
Being honestly nice is easier than faking it.
Oh I absolutely will. I've featured it heavily on Bento and its entire algorithms and data structures section is basically links to chapters in this book.
Yeah, I'm over $100/month. I negotiated a deal with Opus though where they wouldn't charge me extra if I ever happened to go over my bandwidth cap, just throttle me. I figured if my app ever hits the mainstream and I'm making money, my little infrastructure will crumble way before my bandwidth cap is hit and that's when I'll upgrade my plan to a private cabinet with lots more U or just move to the cloud.
A "model politician" in this day and age seems to refer to one Silvio Berlusconi
Strong AI confirmed, alert the press.
The ancestors of InterfaceBuilder for NeXT STEP were written in Lisp, though not for Lisp Machines.
There are a lot of interesting subjects this article covers. One that stood out to me was how new evidence seeming in favor of something can be turned against it. E.T. Jaynes describes it with what he calls the "deception hypothesis". A nice article touching on that can be found here:

http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2011/12/e-t-jaynes-explai...
What's interesting is how accurate the NE and SE (and southern SW) quadrants of these maps are. They explored all the crevices in NE Canada and the Gulf of Mexico, but hadn't made it to the Pacific NW yet I guess...
I just bought a $69 Nokia Lumia 521 (Windows Phone) off contract. Mozilla isn't at the forefront here - both Nokia/Microsoft and Motorola are driving down the off-contract price point.
Just to be clear, are some closing tags optional or are all closing tags optional? If the former, how do you know which?
And exactly no information on how Microsoft cooperated or caved. For all you know, the slide might just be indicating the NSA implemented Microsoft-specific parsers before others. Or that they tapped MS fibre or datacenters.
Completely agree. As usual most people blame meat rather than the processed sugar content.

It’s also cheaper to eat badly because processed foods that are high in fats and sugars are often cheaper than fresh produce.

This is just like the US, where it's cheaper to eat BAD fats and sugar-laden food.
No, it took ~30 years (1510-1539) to get it right, it just then took 236 years to get everyone to agree.
Great to see what California will look like as an island after the "big one". Moving more inland no longer looks like an option! I'm going to have to ride it out, or move a state over :-)
Having used both zypper and apt-get, I find the latter very lacking, even when coupled with other tools.

Take `zypper se -s`, for example - or if you prefer the long form, `zypper search --detailed`. How do you get that information from any of the apt tools, or even aptitude?

And then there's the openSUSE build system.

But I digress. I will attempt to replace my openSUSE installation with NixOS and if I miss my automatic KF5 builds, I'll try to create Nix packages for them.
Automated Reports with Spire.XLS
guess he's fed right now.
It is somewhat hyperbolic, given nothing prevents jit compilers using SIMD on standard JS typed array loops. And SIMD rarely givers more than 2x speedup for on app level even in native games and such.
that's the interaction groby_b just described
Learning by Porting a Perl 5 module to Perl 6
In my view this pushes an idea to the point where it distracts from whatever it was trying to achieve. The effects overpower the message and branding.
Regulation has its purpose - all public utilities are regulated. Taxi is a public utility, and as such the society prefers protect the profits of the cabbies in exchange for regulated safety standards, maximal prices, e.g. for the airport rides, and special protection for the customers. Otherwise, the competition (a taxi driver business has a very low entry barrier, you just need a car) will drive down the prices and the quality of the service.

A fit analogy - replace "Uber" in your retoric with "low cost airline", and see how happy would you be to fly an airline unregulated by FAA.

The same crowd here, that roots for Uber, screams for net neutrality and want to have the ISPs regulated as common carriers. The cognitive dissonance astounds me.
what most people miss is that this term applies to about every government known to man. Oh sure many countries would never call their government capitalist but they sure do the same thing, politicians and private or appointed owners of production work together to protect their status usually with little concern for others.
How affective are Twitter / Facebook ads? 
Going through a stage in my startup where we are just figuring out how much money we need to raise.

We have all of the business logistics down but are just heading into the marketing direction.

How effective would you guys say Twitter and Facebook ads would actually be for a mobile application catered specifically to college students.

Would they have an effect?

Should we test the waters with $10,000 and see what happens to growth? Would that amount even be worth going into?
Honestly, the cynic in you may say everyone buying a kitchen knife plans to cut a child throat, but that won't decrease the usefulness of kitchen knifes.

Damage deposits - not something Expedia does with credit cards or PayPal, hotels have to ask their clients for a credit card at check in.

Rewards - it's just a matter of time for Bitcoin rewards schemes to appear.
(You wrote it a day later, so I didn't see it for a while.)

Disclaimer: I don't know much about media on sports and even less about the US media and sports.

But if you check Russia's Putin-controlled media, they insist that the slant is anti-Russian in all democracies. Which is a conspiracy theory.

Remember, we are talking about a junta which "can't" lose an election.
I thought the good/bad fat controversy had been laid to rest? Fat is good for you, insofar as it doesn't contribute to obesity which is the real demon.
Why you should fear the Google Play store changes
Actually they were. The Interface Builder was sold also for the TI Lisp Machine - the TI MicroExplorer running in a Mac. Expertelligence developed the access to the Macintosh Toolbox for TI and also ported the Interface Builder to the MicroExplorer. Thus you could develop Mac-style user interfaces on the TI Microexplorer, including using the Interface Builder, which ran on the Lisp Machine and talked to the Mac for the UI display/interaction.

Here is a video which shows it running on a TI Micro Explorer, a Nubus Board in a Mac II.

https://vimeo.com/62618532
Yeah ... I was immediately thinking of a cheesy '70's disaster movie.
If you're making comparisons based on physical displacement, sure. But it's probably more helpful to think about how fast it will copy an equivalent number of bits, and from this perspective it actually will, indeed, take 1x10^-2 the time of flash storage.
The elevator problem is partially solved by never leaving your section of the mega tower!

Work on level 120
Sleep on 73
Recreation on 145
Skyway connections to neighboring mega towers every 50-75 levels.

Actually travelling to the surface world would be akin to driving for hours across the state. It's a trip and would be planned for accordingly, and happen rarely.
Perfect colour vision, actually quite surprised at that - some of the shades in the middle were very hard to distinguish. Performed on a 5 year old Macbook - assuming my Dell IPS panel make it easier.
Pitching To Investors? You Probably Don’t Want That NDA
Just keep your supply of rolls in the bathroom?
Opus is nice, I like to support them, always very friendly and understanding with my noobishness. When I first signed up, I didn't understand how to mount my case even. There were these brass grommits that were in the toolchest off in the corner nobody told me about that needed to be snapped into the rack uprights, and that's what you screw your case into. The tech was totally nice about it when I asked and he even helped me lift the case into place while I screwed it in since I was by myself.
Don't try to convince me that the Earth isn't the center of the solar system!
I think it's funny to see people quoting Erik Naggum, though perhaps that's just because my context for him is largely his rather prolific and fiery output on usenet.
Personally, I find this very simple and useful. Great Job!
Been waiting to see this happen, though it's not the first attempt at decentralized storage. Interested to see if someone can pull this off with WebRTC.
Hmm. I got 8

http://imgur.com/R4LkI3s
They talk about memristors being the fourth type of circuit element and the final element at that.

It's just a resistor with memory. i.e. its R value can be changed by current and remembered. Wouldn't an inductor with memory in the sense that it's L is changed by voltage or current and remembered be a fifth and a capacitor with a C that is changed and remembered be sixth?
Your reaction seems just as overblown as theirs was ("They did something rude once, so I hate them forever!"), and "took down" is quite an exaggeration since he's still contributing to libuv.

Like, yes, they were rude to Ben. And Ben was rude to the person submitting that pull request and to Isaac. Bryan was more rude, but it's over and hating Joyent forever for being rude that one time makes no more sense to me than hating Ben forever. Like, if Isaac had talked about stepping down after Ben wrongly chided him, would you have held an eternal grudge against Ben?
WebCL implementations for Firefox and Chromium exist for 2 years. But they have not been included in any alpha, beta or canary release. Browser developers don't seem to care about WebCL, but they do care about WebGL, which is strange.

Samsung made it work in Tizen, but sadly, it is not very widespread OS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TurCVdaUTMY
Slide 16 is absolute genius. If you're doing any kind of business with OSS, tattoo it on your forehead.
Cool! My brother and I were thinking up project motivations for learning Swift, and Game of Life was one idea. Maybe this is part of a natural progression of learner projects, beginning with Hello World.
Can't reply to your other comment yet, so I'll do it here. I think that this is a "duck typing" memristor: You can use it as a memristor, but it's not what was predicted. Anyway, if you're interested, watch the video I linked (thanks to @achille): It really explains what this is all about. If you have some basic understanding of semiconductors physics I think you'll enjoy it :)
Yeah, you're probably right. But the history can be really important on certain pages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671756 And images can make some of the math articles useful since they are too-often dense pages of formulas.
Simplenote seem to have abandoned Markdown, as it is only arbitrarily implemented in the web app. This makes it less compelling for me.
Missed 4 in a row right in the green section.
Very true ... I got a patch of four incorrect on each of the four strips (for a score of 16) and they were all straddling either the 0.25 or 0.75 marks.
Increase Redis performance by up to 250
Does it support a kind of Oracle RAC TAF Select?

http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_oramag_rac_taf.htm
She's my favorite politician.
Comparing Protocols and Extensions in Swift and Elixir/Clojure
I find that Wikipedia's text heavy presentation disappointing especially considering that the articles are almost exclusively what I would consider extremely terse. It's like the worst of both worlds.
Is that a bad thing? I wonder sometimes how much we lose in develop collaboration due to security layers. I can imagine running a cool multiuser image in a prototyping language like to.
Thanks for the video! It should be the first comment for this thread. I... retweeted it :)
XML's only real problem is the dumb idea of requiring closing tags to have the tag name. Otherwise it'd be just as fine as, say, JSON:

<a>b</>
"A":"B"

And maybe one can get upset about the entity encoding and other extra aspects. But those aren't really why XML feels so large.
Very interesting. I knew there was a race for this kind of thing. Incidentally, I've been working on a very similar idea except I was calling mine Scatter haha.

The whitepaper is lacking on technical details so it's hard to tell exactly how they're going to implement everything. It's a little disappointing to see yet another cryptocurrency invented though. I guess there's a lot of competition in this area. I suppose the first group to get a functional, secure, easy-to-use network like this up and running will be the one that acquires a critical mass of users.
OCCULT MAGIC,
This issue is discussed (not by me) a bit more in depth here: https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/HtQB6hJ...
They seem to fail to mention BBSes, which is arguably the most important influence on the creation of the hacker underground, and IRC, which is today still the most permeable means to access it. They seem to breeze over MUDs/gaming even though that's a large part of what got people into BBSes to begin with.

From the early 1990s and on through the present, if you want to find out what governments are doing with your data, who has your credit cards and SSN, what the next major DDoS attack target will be, or get the dirty details [along with photo evidence] on the social lives of the most popular hackers, you go to IRC. To learn about the hacker underground they should be reading IRC transcripts.

Edit: I forgot about one of the newer and more exciting aspects of the cyber crime, hacktivist and hacker underground groups: web forums. Want to know who's planning Jihad on a Yahoo! Groups page? Want to know who's planning a "digital sit-in" (e.g. DDoS) alongside an Occupy or animal rights group? Want to get crack cocaine delivered to your front door (without using Silk Road)? Want to buy 10,000 US credit card numbers? Want to rent out a botnet of a million nodes for an hour? It's all on (somewhat) publicly-accessible web forums.

While we all like to play dumb that these forms of cyber-crime and vigilantism aren't "really hackers", they use the same techniques and often co-exist with the more "respectable" hackers. It's not uncommon for a more traditional hacker to live a double life (and make some nice coin on the side), committing a lot of the back-room crimes that someone else later gets caught for using. And it's just plain interesting to see how they all work.
I use simplenote religiously and the new apps are great, but it's not really a replacement for evernote.
NSA May Lose Its Standing Invitation to Weaken Encryption
Looks like the "Pwnie Express PwnPlug R2"[1] is just a Mirabox[2] with an extra wireless card in the Mini PCIe slot and an external antenna. The PwnPlug R2 sells for $1095; the Mirabox sells for $150.

[1]: https://www.pwnieexpress.com/penetration-testing-vulnerabili...

[2]: https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-58-mirabox-develop...
Because processors are now so many orders of magnitude faster than main memory a huge percentage of their transistors and complexity are allocated to things like caching, prefetch, and branch prediction.

Those features that are the only things saving modern processors from spending nearly all of their time doing nothing useful while they're waiting for data to be retrieved from main memory.

Look at a Core i7 CPU die, with the L1/L2/L3 cache circled. Understand that many of the remaining transistors are doing things like branch prediction, managing cache coherency, and prefetch and so forth.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/4Z1nU.png

Now imagine that all of those resources could be doing actual processing instead of simply caching gobs of data that already resides in main memory.

That would be awesome.
Firstly, it wasn't a dramatic "omg I'm going to hurl" thing.

It was scrolling down the page pretty swiftly, basically skimming the site, and all the motion and movement caused me to feel a little "off".
Not the person you were responding to, but this could be easily worked around by sticking `img` tags into the page with urls that are crafted to share information.
Not just a game: Is it right to 'recreate' disability?
Fair points. I just disagree with

>>> I don't think it's appropriate to allocate all of an auto's expenses as "business" since it's almost always a personal car.

While it is a personal car, a full-time uberx driver is driving it for business purposes 75% of the time or so. Which makes it more like a business investment.
I think the author is wrong about the possibilities for UBER raising prices. One such option combining trips of 2 passengers(or more) who seek a trip from similar starting locations to similar destinations.

Such option could easily increase demand, be more cost efficient and higher margin and be highly dependent on market reach , which makes it very difficult to replicate.

And i'm sure UBER has some data to demonstrate this and other attractive options to investors[1], which make it much harder for us non-insiders to truly evaluate UBER.

[1]A similar example is the nest acquisition, which raised many eyebrows and guesses, but it appears they had a "secret" way to monetize their service - selling demand response services to utilities.
If you want to stay together as a team, shift into business development/sales mode now. Can you find 10 likely companies that can use your help? Pitch your services/skills on a contract basis. Have the team member best at interfacing with clients, start reaching out to top-decision makers. Everyone else, give him support. It's important this is a coordinated effort. Your start-up just pivoted.
I love stuff like this. Reminds you that what you believe is "true" is rarely what other people may believe.
This is a really great post.

We are talking a lot about regulations, consumers but it's the first time I see a post about the drivers themselves. As it is correctly identified by the OP, it's the main and only asset for Uber.

That being said, I would love to read an AMA with a Uber driver.
Fypio – A New Approach to Real Estate Search
So if I take the latest Lady Gaga mp3 and look at the stream of bytes, and if I can find that identical stream of digits in the digits of Pi, does Lady Gaga (or her record company) "own" that portion of Pi? If yes, then WTF!?!? If no, why not, and what does this mean for the idea of copyright, anyway?
Well it seems that Expedia did a great thing by allowing you to use Bitcoin to pay for hotel bookings. So that means I don’t need to use my credit card any longer when I check into the hotel?

Not exactly:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/27vc4x/expedia_star...

If you read down in the comments you see hotel workers saying they will still apply a 2X block on the daily rate of the room to your credit card, even if you've paid for the room with Bitcoin. A block that can take up to two weeks to be released.

Obviously the standard hotel procedures will need to be revised but until then Bitcoin buyer beware ;<(.

Rick
Selenium: How To Stop The Browser Window Getting On-Top For Every Get?
Scary that Google Maps wasn't encrypting significant amounts of its traffic (at least for the reporter in this article, since I know Maps has HTTPS support). Location data can be the most revealing of all.
This article was inspiring, thanks for posting it.

> "I don’t want you guys sitting behind desks. I want you out in the park, watching what people are doing and finding out how you can make the place more enjoyable for them." - Walt
Mirantis to Offer On Demand OpenStack Private Clouds
Yes, I will cover some of that on top of what already on ionicframework.com website like: event system, angular-ui-router, the right way to use controllers...
Moreover, if we end up with complete deglaciation of the ice sheets, the CA central coast would turn into a big peninsula all the way down to Paso Robles as the central valley becomes a huge bay.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Special:SeaLevel
It's still a much, much safer model than Firefox's Add-ons.
Thanks. I'm sorry for forgetting that this time.
Not sure what plan they're on or what kind of revenue they generate, but even the $200/month business plan is a life saver considering some of the features:

- Advanced DDoS protection (layers 3,4 and 7)

- 100% uptime guaranteed

- BGP Origins protection

- Web Application Firewall
We tried a lot of stuff and it all comes with trade offs. When we forced the entire page into the gpu it made the things you mentioned (top/bottom, etc) a lot smoother, but it made other sections (notably CSS filters) much laggier.
I agree, even CPU implementation of WebCL could be much faster, than the fastest JS engine (because it is low-level C code). Currently there are several very good OpenCL implementations, running on the CPU.

BTW. GPUs use SIMD too :)
Evernote is down. Again. For a second day.
Essentially the same thing for me I only made it half way down the page (but my eyes are tired and sleep deprived so that may not have helped).
>>> combining trips of 2 passengers(or more) who seek a trip from similar starting locations to similar destinations.

I think this is a totally different business modal. I am not sure if many customers would like sharing a cab with a stranger.

But it happens in Beijing, especially when the demand is super high (e.g. 2 hours queue in a rail station). Well at least it happened to me :)
S-expressions.