skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matthew Yglesias agrees with you:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/07/03/uber_and_lyft...

"If you could wipe the slate clean and make cabs and cab-like services cheaper and more broadly available in your Bostons and San Franciscos and Portlands and DCs and such, then you could imagine many more middle class people relying on Ubers and Zipcars for when they really need a car, while walking, biking, or riding transit the rest of the time. Which is to say that basically all alternatives to the dominant mode of private transportation—the one car per adult, drive yourself everwhere mode—are complements to one another. Uber makes much more sense in a city where lots of people don't own cars than in a city where everyone owns one. And not owning a car makes more sense if your city has some walkable neighborhoods and good transit lines. But conversely, the availability of private-cars-for-hire on demand makes it much more plausible to imagine not making the large up-front investment in a car that would lead you to rely on a car for your baseline transportation needs."
Microsoft Azure runs out of US IP addresses
It's been a while since i've installed from unknown sources but doesn't it give a prompt asking if you want the apk scanned for malicious apps?
PyCharm was the reason I started coding in Python. I know it sounds weird, but I was a visual studio addict & going to sublime text or a plain text editor just didn't compare.

I wish they had a "startup" package so even boots trappers can get started right.
First of all you are a moron. The person had access to your account either by using a rat, key logger rat malware. Maybe you should first change your password and passwords to your email. Once someone logs into your amazon account they can see everything you ordered. Obviously changing your card which is on file is not that hard either along with your address. From there they hop onto live chat and well then your fucked. Why are you so bitchy about this, he logged into your amazon account and saw something to replace, he didnt miraculously find your order number.
What did the company he worked for provide to the client that he couldn't/didn't provide directly? It sounds to me like he should start doing these projects under his own shingle.
I would also be willing to try it, provided I didn't have to register with any services to do so
I know you're probably joking, but on hacker news I usually don't have to sort though a bunch of "interesting" articles to find relevant news. Another distinction is that I read hackernews on the clock, but not reddit.
Important to note: 23andMe (the source of this data) does genotyping, not gene sequencing.
Check out the Mithril example in the comments (http://jsfiddle.net/qQ59s/). I'm finding Mithril to be the most straight-forward, easiest to understand framework I've used. Note that Mithril does DOM diff'ing.
I agree. I was planning on letting the user add a "Do Not Capture" list of URLs in the Options page, but didn't have time to do it on initial release. Sorry.
There's a few scenarios where I've seen this zero-click answers - for example https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=salary+for+software+consul... is a recent example.

I'd be interesting in where else this sort of thing comes up - it's very Duck Duck Go.
The reasoning in your first paragraph never really seems very sensible or realistic.

So people with very limited financial resources to begin with will be able to buy ultra-low-end phones that offer poor performance and a poor user experience. Then they'll only be able to choose among a very small selection of apps, none of which end up being particularly useful. And although they have basically no money to spend at this point, somehow their mere presence online will somehow induce companies, who need to make or take money from these users somehow, to create more apps?

It just doesn't follow. It makes even less sense when you consider that it's possible to get used Android phones in these target markets for the same amount of money, if not less. And these Android phones often end up being more capable than a new, low-end phone running Firefox OS. Plus they offer all of the numerous benefits (like better performance and far more apps) that even old versions of Android offer over Firefox OS.
You're misstating the categories. I'm making the distinction between organizations that are insulated from copying and competition and those that aren't. Xerox at the time of PARC wasn't just a large public company. It had 100% of the copier market and was insulated from competition by its patents. It was a large public company monopoly.

Google and Facebook, circa 2014, also aren't your typical public companies. Google is protected from copying because they don't ship a product. Their algorithms are hidden behind a web-API, and they are kept essentially as trade secrets. Facebook enjoys network effects, which provide protection from competition and in antitrust economics are considered a factor that gives rise to natural monopolies. E.g. the Microsoft and Offices monopolies were built on network effects.

It's obvious why government-sanctioned monopolies, and government and university research labs are insulated from competition. It doesn't matter if people copy their work, because they don't need to make profits in the market in order to secure their funding.

I'm purposefully excluding start-ups and public and private companies that don't enjoy substantial protection from copying and competition. These make up the bulk of economic actors.
But the west coast has much different cultural norms towards opulent wealth than does the east coast. Put simply, we like to hide it out here

And from what I understand, use it to hide the beach from poor folks, too.
This is why we read Hacker News :)
If you follow the rules of the equation, if you get to the end, you're marrying the last person you dated.

However, as noted in the article and by yourself, real life is never so constricting as only allowing you one chance at any particular person.

On the other hand, once you've passed on someone, there's nothing to guarantee that you'll be able to go back (they could be engaged, have moved away, hate your guts for evaluating mates by a mathematical formula, etc).
there are times when analogies are very helpful.. this isn't one of them. instead of comparing it to that, let's talk about what it actually is. an illegal black market for drugs. you're either being greedy, disingenuous, or crazy if you think their money should be returned. if anything they are lucky the government doesn't pursue the users with legal action.
Yes, PyCharm is miles ahead of other IDEs or text editors, love it.

I wish they had another big sale so i could afford the latest pycharm again.. :(
New App: Pillow for iOS. Great for sleep tracking.
Public transport win by costing the same price, for a much better experience and that's where uber is going:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888339
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Ask HN: Personal Server Recommendations
I'm moving abroad for an indeterminate amount of time, and would like to have a personal test server setup for non-commercial use - just playing around with things. Would also like a separate personal file server with a ton of storage.

I thought about getting a physical box for a while, but this hardly seems worth it anymore. Am currently settling around the idea of just standing up a Linode instance for the test server, but was wondering if anyone knew of additional solutions.

For the file server, the only place I know to get that much cheap storage is Amazon - definitely interested in alternatives

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Test Server

Reqs | Support Linux images -- SU access -- No specific hardware reqs

Usage | Standing up tools to test/play with (Phabricator, git server, Diaspora seed, etc.)

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File Server

Reqs | Support Linux images -- SU access -- Lots of storage (1 TB+) -- Immediate access to files (Glacier won't work)

Usage | Torrenting (Mostly media - nothing morally illicit, although I guess that's subjective - maybe should look at non-US hosting?) -- Long term file storage
That's just because Rust is still in development, and tooling like that is developed incrementally. There's already an issue about automatically creating C headers representing a Rust library, https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/10530 (and Alex Crichton has even started working on a tool for it, see his comment).
The point isn't for Joe Shmoe to go buy them with his credit card.

There are people who know exactly how to buy seized goods from the government. They make money doing so. If you think they are making Too Much Money, then you can raise money from your friends and start competing with them.

It's very similar to buying distressed houses. You can make a killing there, or end up bankrupt. The market figures out the risk premiums on its own.
All of this depends on the "size" of the picture we're looking at.

Certainly we're free to act in an individualist way, but we need to take into account the social and environmental factors, and especially the latter gets more and more stringent.

If you use a car, you're polluting my lungs and the environment. If in 50 years from now, cars will be emission free, well, great, but the situation now is what it is.

If you use a car, you're contributing to putting at risk bike users and children.

If you use a car, you are traffic.

So again, you're certainly free to do whatever you want, but we should extend the analogy with books, to a world where, say, paper is limited, and books wrappings are thrown into my private garden.

I understand the blogger concern, even if it's difficult to agree with such statements. It could be translated less angrily that it's disappointing that SF people are failing to take into account communal factors when thinking transportation, under the assumption (that he makes) that people in SF is supposed to be culturally more aware of them.
>Facebook login

Sorry, not going to try it. Maybe you should implement this revolutionary new concept called a 'username and password'.
OK what you need here is something called a Sirometer, which is a tool for measuring RPM based on vibration / resonance.

Here is a link: http://www.treysit.com/16.html
honestly, that would make me lose all trust in bitcoin as well. if they can just retroactively delete coins that certain people have. (not to mention for political reasons). imagine the implications of a government gaining tang type
of power.
vim+python-mode is more than enough for my needs.
If the government found a drug dealer with a suitcase full of Canadian dollars, the government wouldn't destroy them.

Bitcoins aren't what made Silk Road illegal.
Mozilla are still working on Firefox performance and are not just "copying Chrome"; I prefer FF's look to Chrome's.

Also, Mozilla are playing a smart game with FF OS. They are not selling to the high-end or even mid-end markets. They are selling it as a modern OS with much lower requirements than Android for low-end budget phones. This is a niche nobody else targets any more. It forces them to improve performance and memory usage, too.
The 38% sample allows you to build a model of the population distribution based on which you take your decision.

But this does not mean you have to do this EVERY time. Say you have done a round on interviews before and you are tasked with interviewing for a new position: you might hire the first person you speak with because you know the population model, and they are high up with respect to that.

In common parlance, this is called "being experienced"
We have also survived without electricity for a long time, so I'm not sure it's a convincing argument.
(1) All publicity is good publicity.

(2) Having the US government treat bitcoin as an auctionable asset undercuts naysayers who say bitcoins are "tulips".

(3) We have a precedent with the original seizure leading to a bitcoin rally.

(4) The US government is now acting as a sort of "bitcoin exchange". This auction will give new actors a way to enter the bitcoin market without certain legal uncertainties.
Well, there's the 'Community Edition'.
Unless you're heavily into WebDev, it's great.
An IDE will never help you develop "Clean, Professional, Maintainable, [and] Quality" code if you're not interested in writing it in the first place. And if you're interested in writing good code in the first place, an IDE is hardly a requirement.

Frankly, as a developer who has tried a number of IDE's and text editors, I'm not sold on the idea that your choice of editing environment has any correlation to any of those titular descriptors in the first place.
You are traveling cross country with your car? o.O

Yes, a road trip in the US is cool, but I would never ever do it for just getting somewhere.

There is another nice public transport system called airplanes. Works pretty well, is comfortable, and is fast. It works also pretty well in the US. I used it several times as my frequent millage card tells me.

BTW: The US aren't that big compared to Europe. Don't mix up US and Russia, which interestingly many Amercians do, as they believe that the US is the biggest country in the world. Actually, Russia is the biggest country in the world, size wise.
That's how I feel in Boston. I pay $75/mo for an MBTA pass, but usually take Uber/Lyft once or twice a week. To get from Allston to Jamaica Plain, at night, I either need to: take a train into the city, and then a different train out of the city (well over an hour), or, wait up to 15m for one bus, then wait up to 15m for another bus, which means it will take anywhere from 30-60m to get home. In the meantime, I can have a cab reliably get me home in 15 minutes for all of $12. It's quite lucrative when one has work the next day..
When did you try it? It moves quite fast.

Furthermore, why do you say emerging markets don't need it? The other OSes do not work on low-cost handsets any more. Targeting that niche is a good idea as it gives the OS a chance to gain relevancy with users who won't be as picky as HN readers.
I imagine that him doing computer networking work has been a refuge from the bad kind of social networking the country imposes...
I think that's right. The only way you can choose the second best (and know it) is if the best occurs in the first 36% and the second best candidate is the very last one (if the best occurs in the first 36%, you'll always end up with the very last candidate, since nobody will satisfy the criterion of being the best so far).

You can unknowingly happen to choose the second best if the best candidate occurs among those you never consider because the second best is the best 'so far' when you get to them.

But the way it's described in the article is incorrect, as far as I can tell.
USG almost assuredly hired a few Bitcoin experts to help them handle this.
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Thanks, I should have worded my post better to say that it's not anonymous but that this reduces it.
What about grocery shop? I mean, surely you have groceries around you so you can just ... walk there? go there by bike?

Or if you have a reasonably large family and prefer to grocery shop once a week or so ... of course you could walk there and back five times instead of one ride and waste some time.

Or what if the place with the best prices and the best choice is too far to walk, maybe even too far to bike comfortably? Tends to happen in some places.
I really don't think that Elon selling his paypal stake to Ebay is his primary success story.

SpaceX and Tesla are much bigger stories, and they are an ongoing affair. The only reason you can make the statement you made is because you added 'historical', but what use is that if it is only used to eliminate the present which is by far the more interesting portion.
Every Web API has to start life as a vendor standard somewhere.
Their job isn't to protect the Bitcoin market.

If you have a plan to get 98% of the value of these Bitcoins and think that someone else will only get 70%, then dig through your couch cushions to raise 15 million bucks and outbid the other guy.

These are totally normal market mechanisms.
You can check the companion apps on Google Play and Apple iTunes. Search for "NativeScript".
> What about a large family that needs a full car load of groceries - you're going to put that on a bus? And somehow carry it home?

I come from a large family and we never bought more groceries than we could carry. How large does a family need to be in order to be unable to carry its own groceries?
Can you give more details about the project?
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Have you seen the Vue.js example [1]?

I may be biased since I wrote it and I’m using Vue.js everyday, but I think it is really comprehensive compared to others.

Edit: if you want to know more about Vue.js [2], especially how the data binding works (hint: no dirty checking, no ES6), the FAQ [3] is a good read.

[1] http://jsfiddle.net/DX2Pk/

[2] http://vuejs.org/

[3] https://github.com/yyx990803/vue/wiki/FAQ
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This formula is great for "good enough" problems. The way I use it is to mark the first thing that is good enough, but then keep looking for something that is better than that, then stop. Works great for apartments, books and ice cream.

The key is to realize time and effort is finite, and that you can always keep on looking if you don't have a stopping point.
However, I think great IDE will help OTHER people to maintenance and refactor code to clean, professional, and maintainable one.

I always use IDE to refactor code, as other developers might not writing clean code, even myself.
If you compare to his other comment on this page, I'm pretty sure he's joking, and taking the "this is actually good news" meme to its natural crazy end.
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you honestly don't think the Feds won't develop a program that automatically tracks bitcoin wallets and finds their owners? I think it's obvious they will.
> Haha, that's a lot of questions.

Well, you post your thesis, I dig in :)

> Let me try to go over them.

Much appreciated, thanks for all your answers, I've read a good chunk of your thesis by now (that's hard work :) ), good stuff.

> We have no "deep copy" of the data. The data is simply mutated in place, for performance. The compiler knows in what order it has to update the datacells, so SolScript users don't notice any of this. If I say `b = a`, then `a` will be calculated before `b` uses it. (If you want the value of `a` before `a` is updated, you say `b = previous a`.)

Ok. That may cause some trouble when there are long chains of circular dependencies but I'm sure you're aware of that and that you have a solution in place (assuming circular dependencies are even allowed).

Again, thank you for all the answers and much good luck with your project, I'll be following your progress, it's super interesting what you are doing.
These kinds of frameworks will be quite useful, when mature.

Though -- they're of course tackling a problem that gets harder the deeper you get into it, and has already been tried a few times, never with really great success.

Java's AWT made a "lowest common denominator" kind of cross-platform UI back in the last 90s, and was fairly universally disliked (so Sun made Swing after that, which switched from "native components" to "over-engineered fake native components").

I hope the people building cross-platform UI for mobile devices now have studied the lessons to be learned from previous attempts -- mainly, I suspect, that getting something that kind-of works is exciting and fairly easy, but getting the detail right is grueling, thankless work, and ultimately impossible.

It might be wise for them to start with the hardest, least-cross-platform-appropriate bits, and see in advance what compromises those will force.
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That analogy is quite a reach, the guy behind silk road wasn't killing anybody or planning to.

Unless this is some weird language trick where hiring a hit man somehow doesn't count as "planning to kill somebody," I'm assuming you are unaware that he was hiring a hitman.
An easy, IFTTT-like way to create your own Web apps
that is really nice of you. how can we contact?

my contacts are;
@mclightning
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmetyildirim
However, google is not necessarily giving the right attribution, according to SA's attribution pages. They're attributing back to stack overflow, but not the person who gave the answer, they're missing links to the users who contributed to the answer, and the fact that it's a stack overflow answer is, frankly, not obvious.

I'm sure Google's lawyers could argue the ambiguity well in court, but to my eyes, they're not doing the right thing here.
Saying that "legs evolved for walking" is a completely legitimate statement.

Something can be said to have evolved for a purpose -- as a short-hand for saying that random changes that helped that purpose increased fitness and were selected for by natural selection.
and Scala is now his favorite language, interesting stance to take for a previously prominent member of the Haskell community.
Priceline is buying OpenTable for 2.6 billion
How so? India and China are huge societies and have historically been much less capitalistic yet have been horrible polluters. More recently as they've embraced capitalism, their increase in pollution has more to do with their standards of living than with capitalism specifically. Yeah, they're polluting more, but then again they have a significantly reduced amount of starvation.

If anything, capitalism tends to spur the types of innovation that seems most likely to innovate us out of the possible problems of global warming.
In this particular case, it means you've interviewed more people in advance.
SR was an illegal drug marketplace - what more legal basis are you expecting?
Well, I have used Linode but then switched to Digital Ocean, since it was much cheaper and only needed a small server.

Recently I got a Cloudatcost offer which is a once in a lifetime payment, with the 50% discount offer. I got 2 servers in cloudatcost, a Developer1 and a Developer3.
Priceline Buying OpenTable For $2.6 Billion In Cash
a lot of these people don't have that good of arguments, so they instead use crappy metaphors to make their points. they take something that is totally different than bitcoin and try to use that to make their point. but they need examine f it is a valid analogy. I don't think a PC, a consumer good, can be compared to something that's supposed to function as a currency. one is a store of a value and one has a functional use. if your grandma wants to save her money she should by stocks or bonds or something with low volatility. if she wants to send an email she should get a computer, not for storing value, but for it's functional
use. and if she wants to get around town she should by a car, even though they depreciate. I don know how op ever thought it made sense to compare bitcoin and computers.
Almost by definition, they will be sold at "market price." It's the "market price" of buying 3K blocks of Bitcoin as opposed to the "market price" of the daily Bitcoin exchanges.

If the government somehow seized a giant comic book collection, they wouldn't try to sell them off individually on eBay. They would auction it off in 1 block, and interested parties who know how to maximize its value would bit on it.

It's basically "Storage Wars."
> I wish they had a "startup" package so even boots trappers can get started right.

You could also stay at your day job for a day or two longer and save up for the $99 personal edition.
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