skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had better bots nagging me to signup to cam sites on MSN/ICQ... Unimpressed is putting it lightly ;)
Since you asked.

To me this looks like Twitter, that requires a download, and that only shares with people on my friends list, with a whole bunch of extra BS I don't care about (like seeing what other people are reading). I have no idea why I would suffer through these crippling limitations (much less pay for the privilege) when I already have Twitter and all sorts of chat services my friends are using.

Your product looks fine, it just solves no problems for anybody.

My advice is to strip down what you have into its essence. Delete all of the bulky features, delete all of the arrowtext from the home page, and make it so that people can try your product instantly on the home page, without installing anything.

Also, you won't make any money at your current price point, even if you got users (which you won't with this pitch). Multiply the price by 10, and target the product such that you can confidently see how it's worth $50/month to some narrow group. Frankly, in it current state the product isn't worth $5/month, or even $0/month. It's just a waste of time.

Once again, since you asked.

P.S. Here's a twist on the idea that would excite me, and which I can imagine leading to consumer ad revenue: Make it so that I can instantly and anonymously jump into a browsing session shared with others when I'm lonely, in the browser using iframe hacks or something. Or maybe play back other people's browsing.
Project page: https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor
Since the strikes were first announced last month, downloads of Uber’s smartphone app have skyrocketed, according to the technology research company App Annie, which tracks smartphone downloads.

In Britain, Uber’s app rose to the second spot on Tuesday in the travel section of Apple’s download store, while it ranked fifth on Google’s Play store for phones using the Android operating system.

A similar trend is appearing in other places in Europe.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/taxi-protests-again...

Looks like it's already happening. I have a hard time seeing this end well for the taxi companies.
Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine
> I don't think you don't think that I don't think you don't need to change your opinions. Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?

Actual quote from EG
It is possible to get it into a chain of counting though. Eg user says four, it says five, user says 6, it says seven, and that goes on for a while.

(edit:So that's not completely non sequitur things)

I don't think I've ever seen a chatbot on a web page that can do addition. (unless one counts wolfram|alpha: it does respond to greetings after all.)
What does the term "august institution" mean. Can't find any good definitions on google.
It works in the Chrome client and the Windows client apparently; viewing any tweet with script tags in either client results in that script running.
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If this service matches the quality of other Uber services, I could see it helping them get into holdout cities.

TBH, my least favorite part about scheduling cabs is dealing with the dispatchers. I've had them frequently hang up on me just because I am scheduling a pick-up for somewhere on Sixth Street in Austin, despite my not being intoxicated in the least. Not to mention, the times when my reservation seems to just get lost or left with a massive window for wait times. If it can give better service and feedback than the current Hail a Cab app thats pretty big in Austin, the extra commission would be completely worth it. Hopefully, it expands beyond London.
I think you are confused between what linking and DLL loading are. They are different things. Linking is a step done during program development on object code by a compiler toolchain program to produce an executable. DLL loading is a step done by the OS on a user's machine at runtime to load an executable. Most non-developer Windows user machines will not even have a linker installed on the system.
Why on earth wouldn't normal taxi regulations apply to Uber? Surely it should be counted as essentially a cab company with a fancy app, and this would solve all of these issues?

There seems to be a distinct lack of compassion for drivers who are basically just trying to make enough money to feed their family - my dad was a cabbie for a stint. The drivers themselves are not greedy fat-cats that are using the regulations to hoard money.

The problem is, large companies have less overheads and thus can crush local competition. Perhaps this is more efficient, but not necessarily ethical or good in the long run - for instance take Tescos or Sainsburys. They've crushed local competition which cannot compete on price (because of various unethical tactics used in their supply chain which they can do due to being utterly massive), so local competition has to raise prices or go bust, and residents stop being able to afford their produce.

In fact, this is a great example of why capitalism isn't always great - it makes the biggest, baddest kid in the playground able to do what they want and tread on the little guys, and then everyone becomes stuck with them, resulting in poorer produce, less consumer choice, and the destruction of family businesses and trades.

It favours efficiency and ruthlessness, which aren't necessarily qualities that are good for anyone except shareholders.

The counter-argument would be that if people cared enough about local businesses, they'd support them, but when people are getting squeezed as they are (and remember, large companies push wages down as much as possible because they simply do not care about their workers), this becomes difficult or even impossible - and remember, capitalism incentivises the most efficient, cheapest option.

So go ahead, with the free market, allow ruthlessness and size to dominate, enjoy a soulless, miserable world dominated by giants.
Confirmed that this works in Linux Chrome. How is it possible that this has not been picked up before? Or is it a new vulnerability?
>>>> Black cab driver Bernie Doyle, 68, said: "<..> I've been driving 42 years and I'm not about to see my trade go down the pan."

And that is the problem, Mr Doyle. The world has changed a lot in 42 years. But the cabs business didn't.

Haven't tried Uber in Manchester yet, but regular cabs are between "I just want to get out" and "bearable". Driver is usually on the phone talking foreign language, or if you are less lucky, always running on red lights, especially when the demand is high. I don't want a royal treatment, no, but at least some basic things. What I heard from friends about Uber, it doesn't have those problems.
Good summary from the Register as well: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/10/world_to_captain_cyb...
I will explain this mystery to you: they simply did not ask any probing questions like that. This is also called the ELIZA effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
Most journals are metadata-only, so they save you from corrupt directories but don't protect contents at all. NTFS loves to wipe out just-written files when I lose power, for example. Files that previously existed, mind you, now suddenly garbage.
Did anybody use that old rs232 thing anymore in 1997? I would have guessed the author meant PS2.
> I was charged for one domain that was not supposed to be renewed (I was transferring it out). Now I have to deal with their abysmal customer services.

You're not the only one. I was pissed to see my intentionally-expiring domains charged, and the ones I wanted to renew NOT charged(!). Didn't help that the ones I wanted to keep were literally expiring in days, and nobody at Moniker seemed to be responding to tickets. As soon as I find a good alternative, I'm out. This is unacceptable for a business.
From http://2001.wikia.com/wiki/HAL_9000 :

In the 2008 Pixar animated film WALL-E, the starship Axiom's Autopilot ("Auto"), which is also the main villain of the film, has a glowing red camera, a low electronic voice and a hidden directive - deliberately reminiscent of HAL. WALL-E's pet cockroach is also named Hal, but it is also a reference to Hal Roach.
Paper Airplane to Drone in 60 Seconds
Words change with time. When you say 'responsive' in a web setting it's nearly always in regards to responsive web design - not 'this page is responsive now, returning results quickly!'.

bshimmin shouldn't have been downvoted.
So "OMG competition from people without The Knowledge" then?
In the context of that article, 'outsource' meant letting other companies (such as the short-lived Mac clone maker Power Computing) manufacture hardware while Apple just licensed the software.

(But also, the very best Macs, which command the highest prices, are currently made at Apple's facility in Austin, TX.)
I'm interested to see how Uber will be regulated by the UK government.

Taxi companies are regulated for extremely good reasons. I know people sing Uber's praises but regulations exist for good reasons. Some exist for bad reasons too but they are largely there to protect people.

Would you get in a stranger's car?

And to preempt the downvoters: I'm not saying I don't want competition. I want competition and safety for the general public.
He isn't saying that there's a possibility "however remote"; he's saying that we have absolutely no reason to prefer one explanation over another.

"So although we have seen evidence for it time and time again": you're begging the question and assuming the principle of induction, which is exactly what Hume is saying you can't justify.
That's just a guess, but maybe good lawyers combined with slow bureaucratic processes?
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Actual title is 'London's anti-Uber taxi protest brings traffic to standstill' - in one place, for about an hour. That's a long way from 'gridlock'.
Ask HN: What's being done with the HTTP protocol to fix DDOS attacks?
Objective C is currently the best language for programming applications on the iPhone which is the preferred communication tool for the elite. It might make more sense to ask why are you not yet proficient with Objective C?
Nothing new in my opinion. I don't understand how it has been unknown for such a long time.
Apple could just as well use HFS+ on iOS and ZFS on OS X until the hardware catches up.
Seems that they are in a process in starting using it.
I'm real. Uber isn't just a convenience for many. I rely on it to get around. Sometimes I might use it four or five times a day. Sometimes I don't use it at all. But I no longer have a car, nor do I want one, because of Uber. And I'm not alone. For many Uber has become a necessary utility.
I think the fares are the main one. They have a meter that uses set prices and is sealed by TFL. I guess the idea was that people would always know it was a fair fare or (if they ordered a minicab) that they would pay a fixed fare they knew ahead of the journey. I can see this having its root in consumer protection.

I think the minicab folks are annoyed for the same reason - they can't charge the way Uber does, only black cabs can do that. So uber is in a grey area - it's not licensed to charge by meter, but it kinda-sorta does, and it doesn't charge the rates black cabs have to.

IIRC black cabs are prohibited from using GPS as well... but that seems minor and I may be wrong.
Nice, but please don't break the "back" button.
There will never be even 21 million of BTC. Pretty close to 21M, but it won't get there. Also, 99,99% of block rewards will be distributed before 2040. The next 60 years till 2100 blocks will only reward a few satoshis each, except for transaction fees.
if you use CSS, you need specific browser versions - it's not gonna run ok on ancient browsers - of the video/audio tags, or anything new

this is just exposing a yet another platform API in the browser - once all browsers are updated in the field, you can reliably deploy your new code; or you can do it even before, but with a performance penalty; I'm not seeing anything wrong with that.
Firefox 29.0.1: Can't type into the text field to put in an ingredient.
EDIT: Typing is there, can't see the text. (White on white?)
On depression, privilege, and online activism
Where did you get that they supported SOPA? (This is important to me.. I have about 30 domains at name.com)

I found this, which seems to indicate the opposite:
http://www.name.com/blog/general/domains/2011/12/it-aint-abo...
Saw this recently and thought it was pretty radical. http://www.json-generator.com
This is really quite a remarkable response, and in my view entirely correct.

"More generally, the job of the law is not to lie to you and tell you that everything will always be comfortable or that tomorrow will be the same as today."

That's possibly the single biggest unstated divide in modern western society, where a significant proportion of the population do think they can legislate complete stability for themselves into existence, and that's one of the first times I've ever seen it so bluntly shot down. A lot of people just want the quiet easy life, and get ferociously angry when they perceive someone else as rocking their boat.
One of the things I dislike about stacked area charts (or stacked bar charts) is that are in many cases are used to show percentage breakdown over time.

The problem with representing percentage breakdown over time this way is that it visually eliminates the size of the sample, be it size of market, number of users, page visits, etc. It is visually implying that the same size has stayed the same over time.

Take these two charts representing the breakdown of smartphone shipments by manufacturer: http://s831.us/1kmFK28 and http://s831.us/1kmFrEz

The first displays the percentage of market by manufacturer over time. In this chart, Apple's performance looks mediocre.

Then look at the second graph that displays the number of units shipped by manufacturer. Here the amazing growth of the smartphone market is visually captured along with the breakdown of which manufacturers are driving or benefiting from the growth.
I don't think that is what these protests are about at all. For instance, in France, the protest leaders have called on instituting required time-delays for all Uber pickups(15 minutes). They've also called for a nationalized taxi hailing application that would exclude Uber, and have called for Uber's app to be disallowed from showing driver locations.

Similarly, Britain's protesters have demanded Uber to do away with fare estimates.

Notice how these complaints aren't in the form of: Let us do what Uber is doing. Rather, they take the form: Stop letting Uber do what it's doing. The Taxi owners want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to continue to protect their business models by placing artificial limits on competition, and they seek to disallow novel technology that would make their fare structure less opaque.
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adjective \ȯ-ˈgəst, ˈȯ-(ˌ)gəst\

: having a formal and impressive quality

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/august
There is also a cupcake ATM: http://www.sprinkles.com/cupcake-atm
Credit card address verification comes down to a risk/reward calculation. You don't have to verify the address. At some processors, doing AVS (address verification service) to some degree is worth ~1% off interchange, due to the implicit reduced fraud risk. Address verification is a fiddly beast, and returns one of about ~15 codes rather than the binary you might naively expect. (It covers cases like "Street address matched but 5 digit zip did not" or "Foreign card; we're clueless".)

It also gets used in merchant risk processing, separately from risk regarding the payment itself. Some bitcoiners are of the opinion that bitcoin means the end of risk from the merchant side of the equation. This is, broadly speaking, not true. There are plenty of transactions where "X happened but at least we got paid the agreed amount" is a failure condition.
Yep. I've seen IRC bots in 2004 with similar levels of 'intelligence'.
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Product seems simple and clean, very 'Medium' like. The name is horrible.
wow - agree 100%. what did they do?!

i needed to renew a domain, just logged in and dug around in the interface for at least ten minutes and i still can't figure out how to do it. can somebody help me? how can i manually renew a domain right now? not set it to auto-renew but renew it and pay now.
OK, it's not that HSA isn't useful, it's that coordination between the CPU and GPU is still stupidly hard and has a lot of CPU-side overhead, making it impractical for small workloads. The problem is that a large number of small workloads still can't be done by a GPU. I'm seriously doubting the limits of "coherent memory access" -- unless the GPU can snoop into the CPU's cache (or the GPU/CPU share L1 cache -- eeek), then you will still need cache flushes and fences. Let's hope that "HSA" is a lot lower overhead than current CPU/GPU combos from AMD/Intel.
Ummmmm http://blog.uber.com/UberTAXI
From the readme:

> An explicit goal of libchan is simplicity of implementation and clarity of spec. Porting it to any language should be as effortless as humanly possible.

Where is the spec?
"""I think this proves that the Turing Test is more or less crap. Humans, who are easily fooled/socially engineered, can't just decide that "this is AI," like its some kind of American Idol-like contest. There should be some rational metric at work here. A bunch of different tests and human judgement as only one part of the testing suite."""

I think the easiest fix is to crowd source the Turing test. If you can fool 95% of all people chatting with you over a sample of >100k people you're probably pretty good.
People did tend to use those "modem" things back in the days.
It's really hard to be a good guy with a gun
I stupidly spent a while trying to type all the substrings leading up to "Avacado" hoping that autocomplete would kick in. Perhaps I've got used to Google correcting my terrible spelling.
I think this is another sign that we need to start thinking about basic income now. The cabbies are understandably pissed because they've invested a lot of money into playing along with the cab companies and regulators. Additionally, I have a feeling that a lot of these people are poor drivers with poor language skills who wouldn't be able to compete with better people on Uber.

So what choice do they have but to protest and engage in rent seeking? If Uber succeeds, they'll be jobless. At the same time, Uber is preferred by consumers and as a society, we do want it to succeed and remove the need for taxi drivers to exist.

I think the only answer is basic income, and I think that over the next decade, more money will be spent on rent seeking to keep people in redundant jobs than if we eliminated those jobs and used the same money to fund their basic income.
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You're disclaiming liability by agreeing.
I think pretty much the same. I really like the design but the scroll sensation plus loading times on fetching is killing it.

As habosa suggests, use placeholders. Also you could prefetch images two scrolls away instead of one.

Another thing that i noticed is that right side navigation circles are linked to "chapter titles" instead of every page. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. It's a bit confusing.

Again, nice design, polish it.
This seems like a job for one of those wacky mineral-oil-submersion aquarium PC things. http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php
Indeed embarrassing. Actually, I can't believe that they called this chat-bot in any way intelligent. On top of that, this level of chat is the same since 90s, how come nothing has changed? And anyway, text chatting is/will never be a measure of intelligence, the Turing test in this form should never be considered.

You really need to live 13 years as a boy to be able to answer as one.
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The year-long evolution of the way we work at Next Big Sound
Why do all mobile roads lead back to WebOS?
The 'official' line I heard on Radio 4 this morning was that it was the uneven playing field that had got them riled up, and that minicab operators were also fuming because they had been restricted from operating in this way too,

But you're right, the individual cab drivers probably just want competition outlawed.

>> they seek to disallow novel technology that would make their fare structure less opaque.

FYI - In London the fare structure is not opaque, it's set out on a notice in every Taxi and the meter is set up and sealed by TFL.
The secret power of post-mortems
Music Visualizers in CSS
My thoughts exactly. Instead of getting with the program they want to stifle the competition while making life difficult for their clients. I just can't sympathise with the taxi drivers.
Plex Systems closes $50M in financing, plans to bring Google Glass to shop floor
When I was a kid we called those 'vending machines'.
The whole business of "you must buy a paid account to download this PDF" is pretty galling.
This tickles me: "With a substantial new toolkit stack below come exciting new crashes and problems that need time to be shaken out." I think I'll refer to all crashes as "exciting" from now on.
I was constantly surprised how KDE makes it possible to configure my environment exactly the way I like, while maintaining a bearable level of complexity in the control panel.

Really excited to see this visual update.