skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted you, but I disagree with your conclusion. Certain jobs get made redundant all of the time. Your argument is based on the presumption that taxi drivers are as a whole unable to do any other work, so they must protect their source of income or be provided with a basic income if/when their need is obsoleted.

In America we have a form of basic income through social security, welfare, unemployment compensation, food stamps, etc. I won't go so far as to say these programs are near perfect, but their intent is correct. These programs are designed to A) provide temporary assistance for individuals who are unable to support themselves due to work changes (i.e. layoffs due to redundancy), and B) to provide long-term support for individuals who are permanently unable to care for themselves (i.e. work-related injury/disability).

The basic income as you've described it presumes taxi drivers to fall under class 'B'. I would put the drivers under class 'A'. They will need support if they are made redundant, but they can, should, and will retrain eventually and find new employment.
Note that ZFS can detect the bit rot, but you'll need to actually run some kind of RAID (in this case RAID-Z) to have it fixed automatically. And if you do want bit rot detected on a timely basis, you'll need to have the data on the drives scrubbed on a regular basis (weekly? monthly?, not sure what is sufficient).
I would like something like that not as a service but instead to create locally so I can just upload a static directory to my own server (or neocities, etc.) so I don't have to upload my pictures to yet another 3rd party.
I have a friend with a cochlear implant who occasionally refers to himself as a cyborg. I'm actually not clear on to what degree he identifies as such. I suspect that there isn't much in the way of "cyborg culture" and so therefore the idea of "cyborg identity" doesn't have a lot to it.
This paper starts off describing a hash algorithm reminiscent of quake3's inv_sqrt() function (few lines, magic numbers):

int32_t JumpConsistentHash(uint64_t key, int32_t num_buckets) {
int64_t b = 1,
j = 0;
while (j < num_buckets) {
b = j;
key = key * 2862933555777941757ULL + 1;
j = (b + 1) * (double(1LL << 31) / double((key >> 33) + 1));
}
return b;
}

That wraps up by the second page, though. I'll try implementing it myself when I get home (it looks promising).
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Thinking about this period, I think they once got the Blue Box running on NuKernel, which is what Copland should have been in the first place.
SCOTUSblog continues to run up against response of traditional media
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It sets a stack limit proportional to log(n) and gives up and heapsorts the subproblem if the limit is exceeded. You get no more than n log(n) quicksort operations, plus heapsorting any partition of the input which is also n log(n)

In other words, they use the worst-case n log(n) heapsort with an optimization to use the much faster quicksort for non-pathological inputs, which is almost always.
Wonder if it's because of the emoji at the end? It's HEAVY BLACK HEART, U+2764, e29da4 in hex.
A lot of these types of attack use amplification attacks (https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A), often a carelessly-configured time server or name server, where only a small number of hosts are needed to wreak havoc.
If you click the star next to the ingredient name, it tags that ingredient as "recipe must include this ingredient", so you can click all of the stars to do an AND.

Edit: And if you click the star a second time it tags it as "this recipe must not include this ingredient", which would be helpful for people with allergies (or picky eaters).
What is plotted on the black bar charts? The axes are not labelled.
It's now showing CloudFlare Error 522 (Connection timed out)

Not sure if they integrated CloudFlare now or it was present before.
Reminds me of the advertising executive who acknowledged that 50% of his advertising budget was wasted. The trouble was, he added, he didn't know which half.
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Apparently it was only activated if you included an emoticon (<3) in your tweet, possibly following the closing script tag.
I was editing the note about "farts" trying to add a list of foods that cause excessive flatulence (to test markdown support of lists, of course), but after submitting my edit, I was getting 503 errors for a short period of time.

after a few more minutes, things seem fine

edit: it seems that someone was able to remove my hard work and valuable information. Given that this is based on git, is there any way to revert or view previous versions of notes?
Saw this a little while back, the novelty is fun, but the prices are really, really high.

Silver spot right now is ~$19/oz and they're selling it for $88, a 360%+ markup (granted this is a coin vs a bar).

Gold spot is ~$1260/oz, and their 1oz is $1367, 8.5% markup, their 10g is $1389/oz, a 10% markup.

If you were interested in gold, you could get from APMEX for $1,336.83/oz credit, or less for cash. Or from a nice man in the diamond district for spot plus $50 cash.
You can't really "fix" this issue. A DDOS is just a lot of requests coming in very rapidly. You can try to mitigate the problem, but at its core, any system that is expected to respond to arbitrary web requests is vulnerable to getting lots of them--whether from being Slashdotted (or HN'd) or from an automated DDOS.
Well, on kubuntu you can install kubuntu-low-fat-settings (not sure if they still offer this):

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-low-fat-settings

Basically, it turns off composting and file tagging services. It reduced the memory requirements and the CPU % dropped to something close to GNOME 2.x or XFCE.
I hope this can help you: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2821799&s...
We won't see IPV6 for the next 10 years or so.
It may not impact the performance, but it certainly does the battery life and fan noise in a laptop.
> Either we start regulating Uber drivers as equal to other taxi service providers, requiring expensive licences, or we eliminate regulation for all drivers.

So why aren't the Tax drivers protesting against the regulation? Their decision to protest tells you where they see more benefit.

You may keep on saying that this is not about their stance against digital innovation, but the fact is that its all about economics.

Taxi cabs in most major cities run on a Medallion system, its an artificial limit on the number of cabs that can exist in the city(sometimes done because of lobbying by the existing cab owners, sometimes to reduce the number of cabs in the city). This restriction causes the price of Medallion to be artificially higher than it should be. For instance in NYC, Medallions are now sold for upto $1 million.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/nyregion/1-million-medalli...

Why do people pay $1 million to own a cab? Because this is the aggregated value they estimate to be, based on the number of years they will operate the cab for(and the profit they will make from it). This is precisely why most cab owners in the NYC are immigrants who can barely speak English, because only they have the savings to own and operate a cab.

Imagine you having spent $1 million to acquire a cab medallion, would you support any measure to increase the number of cabs in the city? Nope! That's precisely why all measures against increasing this number is heavily resisted by the cab owners. The value of their capital asset goes down if the number of cabs goes up in the city. You'd think that they would be ok with bringing Uber under the same medallion system but that position would be completely contradictory to their economic interest. They have, in past resisted increase in number of medallions, so that makes no sense for them to even remotely support bringing Uber under the same licensing system.

This is also the reason why the slave owners of the south resisted abolition of slavery. A slave stops being a 'labor' input in your profit and loss calculation, and becomes a capital asset. Its value is derived from the total earnings anticipated to be made in the lifetime of the slave. Consider it like this, if you are a programmer who can make $100K a year, and has a working life of 20 years, then a slave owner would be willing to pay you upto $100K*20 = $20M to posses you, of course he wouldn't wanna pay $20M, because then he would make no profit, plus there is a risk potential involved, running away or death, so like $10M. Now if a slave owner pays $10M to acquire you then there is no way he would wanna set you free until he at least recuperates that cost.
Same here. My parents had big books full of pictures of my brother and me. I only have digital photos of my kids.

I'm looking for the equivalent, a local (everything not under my control is out, no saas) solution. Mediagoblin _might_ solve this in the future. Openphoto/trovebox seemed promising. So far I haven't found something that looks right though.
Infinite refresh in Safari 7.0.3 OS X
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Looks like it might even be starting to loop around?
The Guardian have already scurried an article about it [1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/11/twitter-tw...
NASA's (conceptual) interspace vehicle looks awesome.
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I wonder if the poster of this "twitter worm" could get in legal trouble for this; it's quite similar to the Samy MySpace worm[1] of a decade ago, where the creator was charged with a felony (they plea bargained out).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
I already created a bot that would pass the Turing Test, according to these specifications anyway:

<Josiah, an 8 month old from Nashua, has entered the room>

S: Hi Josiah, I'm Steven. What do you like to do?

J: <no response>

S: Josiah, are you there?

J: <no response for 4 minutes>

J: uhqtuhq a

S: Excuse me?

J: <no response>

<Steven has left the room>
I run rawgit.com.

Actually, I've tried both approaches. Redirecting does nothing to reduce excessive traffic, because nobody notices they're doing anything wrong. The traffic just keeps coming, and I keep having to redirect it, which doesn't help me at all.

Displaying an annoying message, on the other hand, gets fast results, because _everyone_ notices and complains.

Both rawgit.com and cdn.rawgit.com are completely free (the former paid for out of my own pocket, the latter generously donated by MaxCDN). I don't think it's too much to ask that a person read the prominent instructions before using this free service.

For more background on how rawgit's abuse prevention works, read this article I wrote about a particularly painful incident: https://medium.com/the-javascript-collection/the-naughtiness...
There is Unicode in your URL
Your comment is overly harsh but I find the reaction interesting. It’s getting more common here.

In other cases I’m also disturbed by the broken scrolling but in this case my only complaint is the space bar not working. This is a slideshow, but it feels like scrolling because it goes vertically and the scroll bar works. I’m pretty sure if the scroll bar were completely disabled and there was a [next] button with a different transition you wouldn’t complain because you wouldn’t think of it as broken scrolling, but just as another slideshow.

So, my suggestion to the author: make it slide horizontally.
The specifics of the Turing Test have been debated for decades. It is clear that different versions and interpretations exist, especially now we have moved on from behaviorism that was popular during the time Turing wrote the paper.

From your quotes it only says that player A is to be replaced with a machine, not that player C is to be made aware of this replacement. I do agree that that is the popular interpretation, but it isn't written down, leading to this ambiguity.

>the interrogator has to decide which is human and which isn't.

The interrogator has to decide which is female and which is male. Replace the female or male with a computer, not making the interrogator aware of this and see if the interrogator is wrong as often as before.

Kurzweil questions this bot, as if it was a bot. He is aware that he is talking to a bot, and doesn't even have to choose between A or B.

Kurzweil's line of questioning is not fair or normal or productive communication even if it was between two humans. A 13- year-old boy would have told Kurzweil to bugger off when tasked to answer 2+2 or wouldn't have responded at all.

Repeat questions like that in a random chatroom and people will think that you are the chatbot.
http://www.overclockers.com/extreme-water-cooling-using-refr...

Yeah it's super old.

There's also the guy who using his pool water to water cool a few machines.

http://www.thebuehls.com/pool_cooling/
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It only has to happen once for Kurzweil to win, so it seems fair to me he has a higher bar. Winning through chance is much less fair than losing through chance in this situation.
I'm puzzled by this:

On top of the potentially huge fine, BNP Paribas could suffer a temporary ban on processing dollar transactions, a business that is essential to the operations of an international bank.

Are USA officials able to enforce these sorts of restrictions on e.g. the sidewalk moneychangers one finds in any developing nation? There are more dollars (both physical and in ledger books) overseas than in the USA. At what point does a bank in another country become vulnerable to this sort of restriction? Are officers going to show up outside the bank and yell "give us all your dollars!"?
You could check out heapsortjobs.com and create a profile there--don't know about your specific background, but it's exclusively for developers with frontend/backend + design and/or infrastructure experience.

PHP, Python, Ruby, and JS have the most job openings there.
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I would be so happy if when companies make announcements, they included a link at the top telling you what their product is.
This post is getting more traction than I anticipated, and Magpie was not intended to have more than one user at a time.
Should've added more context probably - I don't understand it in case of Uber specifically, since it provides more information automatically than is available in a standard cab. Specifically both you and the driver get GPS tracked by the application and you get more info about the car/driver than in case of a usual cab.

I'm assuming Uber does at least the standard background checks for new employees.
From what I understood, the ai would only need to win once. Therefore, after the computer reaches near-human intelligence, it'll be statistically sure to win in a few years. (And given Moore's law, in these few years the ai will continue to significantly improve)
You can always escape the "JavaScript lock-in" with a compile-to-JavaScript language. Thanks to asm.js and related performance improvements, you can even compile a "JavaScript binary" that looks nothing like vanilla JavaScript but is still fast.
People go through a lot of cash in NYC. Most people I know pull $200 at a time, which is pretty close to that.
> Will we have to explain to our grandchildren why they can only write code in some flavor of Javascript?

No, because while JavaScript is the "common" language of the web, its not the only language you can code in on the web -- there are plenty of implementations of other languages with it as a compilation target.

The value of having a guaranteed-to-be-everywhere target language for the web, even if it isn't the preferred development language of every developer, are fairly obvious.

> Mozilla's mission to protect the web from all languages but Javascript is locking us into a future where there will be no choice and nothing better than Javascript

As long as JavaScript keeps getting better -- and, particularly, as long as it is spurred on in that by efforts which propose alternative standard languages for the web with compelling stories so that JS has to keep moving forward in order to be acceptable as the universal, guaranteed target language -- that's fine. "Nothing better than JavaScript" isn't a real limitation if JavaScript is a moving target.
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Exactly -- the problem is regulatory arbitrage. Mrs. Kross, like so many other clueless pols, is so dazzled by the money and intelligence of these firms that she has lost her ability to think critically about what they are doing.
Alas, I'm just told that I need to visit the site on my desktop with "a lastest Chrome browser".
In my university (Manchester, UK) there's a whole year course in the first year when you are assigned to a group of people and you have to make a website, anything you can come up with.

Every year, someone makes a web site for searching recipes by ingredients :)

To be more on topic, I like the idea but I think implementation (i.e. manual work required) is a bit too... demanding, involved? We are in the world of 1 click. I would like an app which would allow easy input (scan bar codes?) combined with machine learning to discover new meals (taste, effort required). Google Now for food?
> What do you have in mind as the alternative?
I'll be upfront and say I'm not a huge fan of the US.

I'll probably end up moving back to Vancouver, but honestly, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, Seattle) is fine by me. I am interested in technology as an aide to build better, stronger cities, though; more of a social impact.

LA is doing things to improve; e.g., improving transit, building smaller communities (i.e., building smaller towns with grocery stores, walking areas/parks, places for entertainment, etc. in a smaller radius), cleaning the air, etc.

But all of this takes a lot of time and money, especially in the States/California. Money the state of California is reticent to invest it seems like. I'm happy that LA is doing things to improve, but it's going at a snail's pace. I'm a runner and have had numerous lung infections because I was so determined to run outside, as I think running should be done. Not even the beach towns are worth it.

Plus, it doesn't help that I don't like beach/"Industry" culture here (sunbathing, suntanning, plastic surgery, charlatans, etc.). This is my personal beef, so I understand there's a lot of varying taste/subjectivity involved.

Luckily, there are major NA cities ready to hire developers (not just tech companies or startups).
Same, without Moom transition to Mac was unbearable for me.
Having been through a similar decoupling, sometimes that few hour meeting would end on a positive note, "this looks good guys, lets get to work." Only for a few hours later, someone gets into a new mindset only to realize a few aspects need reevaluated.
You need to ship the "the whole API" with the browser for security reasons. If the API could be installed in a modular fashion in realtime while browsing, it couldn't be made secure in practise.
Does Expedia hold any bitcoin reserves? Do they interact with bitcoin at all?

Nope. They let someone else do it and just accept real money.
I would imagine that there are more ATMs unattached to banks than attached, so saying "most" ATMs don't take deposits doesn't seem like a stretch to me.

As for deposits, modern ATMs in the US will count bills and also scan and deposit checks immediately without envelopes.
They either have to bring SIMB to every language or to none at all?

They want to improve web application performance. JavaScript is the only language that works on the web. So they are bringing it to JavaScript. That doesn't mean they won't bring it to other languages in the future.

It doesn't make sense to improve HTML5 game performance by bringing SIMD to Lua or Python.
Looks like it is fixed now:

$ expr \( -2147483648 \) \* -1

2147483648

$ expr \( -2147483648 \) / -1

2147483648

$ uname -srm

FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE amd64

Or maybe it doesn't work on i386?
No, XFCE development is very slow. Last I checked, I think they still working on GTK 3 support.

LXDE/Lubuntu is probably closer to that "16%." I can get <200M initial RAM usage pretty easily with LXDE. XFCE is really not that lightweight. They are both pretty lacking compared to current versions of GNOME/KDE.
They do. Motherboard vendors often fail to support it, unfortunately, but the CPUs generally aren't the weak link.
There's a XSS attack in the wild. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878917 They might have pulled it while they implement a fix.
well, maybe Linaro could do something about this, if only author had known somebody working for Linaro ....
The most important footnote:

"Quirky also sells products through retailers, which I am confident are not included in this data."

From the May 2013 Forbes article[0]:

'Sales this year will reach $50 million, he predicts, without a hint of modesty, with “a huge chance of us crushing the s–t out of that number." That’s contingent, though, on Quirky solving its distribution problem. While retailers sell 95% of its inventory...'

Quirky is focused on 1) generating the best ideas and data on new products, 2) rapid prototyping of the best of these products, 3) testing them in the marketplace, 4) accelerated production runs in their Chinese facilities, 5) building out their distribution channels.

Let's get something clear: Quirky is a Manufacturer not a distributer. This analysis only shines light of Quirky as an online distributor which it is not.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/05/09/can-a-crowdso...
Don't fucking run a service if you are going to hassle the people that use it.

Your medium article makes you look like even more of an asshole.
Well I did always find dial up far more bearable when I was drugged out of my head... though I'm kinda upset you don't remember the v92 connect noise... this is HN not reddit ;)