skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is something fishy" is true because projects don't normally shut down so suddenly. But a lot of TC has always been usual, from its license to the hidden identity of its developer[1].

For whatever reason, he[1]'s done with the project. Maybe the wife and kids are more interesting these days. Maybe he got offended at auditors being paid and not him. Maybe he feels a responsibility towards his users and since he cannot actively defend them he wants them to move inside someone else's castle. Maybe he died and his brother took over the account long enough to say "we're done" and his brother really doesn't want to talk about it no matter how weird you think it is that his brother doesn't want a bunch of people on the Internet on his lawn like they were on Satoshi's.

It's like a bunch of blind cryptographers trying to describe an elephant.

[1] Assuming a heterosexual singular male just for convention.
I must admit you are absolutely correct. I guess I was thinking it would be more like a ping or a blip, something to trigger more investigation via another app or channel. Nothing text messages couldn't solve, but just a bucket for blips I guess.

I also kind of like the lack of extra information, because it may seem like there is no context but really it would be encoded between the yodlers. If I get a "yo" from my buddy maybe I secretly know that he doesn't want to talk but really wants to smoke some weed downstairs. Again, texts could solve this same problem so I am not sure why I am fascinated by the simplicity, stupidity and possibilities of this app.
And even if you are not a U.S. citizen you can still contribute to super-PACs. Since the political system in the U.S. is rapidly devolving to one-dollar-one-vote you can acquire significant influence by writing checks. And they don't even have to be particularly big checks.
In my opinion, the only reason to not trust the government in these matters is that the government itself is bought by corporations. If they had no such interest then the only remaining factor is incompetence.
I'm not arguing that Uber is worth $17 billion, but the author completely brushed off the entire reason why investors are valuing it at $17 billion. Only in the last paragraph did he mention that Uber may be looked at as a "logistics" company and not a taxi service.

Hello? Of course that's what investors are banking on when they value the company at $17 billion. Uber is not a taxi play, just like Amazon is not just a book seller.

A great analogy of this article is when people were saying Amazon wasn't worth $3 billion back in 1997 because the online book market wasn't big enough.

Could Uber fail to become a logistics company? Of course. But it's not delusional to think otherwise.
You don't have to shop at Whole Foods to eat well. Neighborhood gardens, local collectives and independently gardening are growing in popularity for that reason probably. Also, it's nice to know where your food comes from.

Organic produce is priced just like any other good. What is the highest price I can charge that most (or enough) people will pay?
The linked developer's introduction is pretty intresting: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.11/11.05/MakingM...
Consider your 128k a gift from the rest of us, which it is, and say "thanks" every now and then...

I don't think I've ever read anything so... conceited on HN, and that's saying something. The choice to live in a rural area may have been made involuntarily.
RepRapMaker a Worker Owned 3D Printing Cooperative
I honestly don't know. But I do know it's not deregulation when you add more government intervention in markets.
You'll have to build it now, to see if it does :-)
Yes, pardon my english. I mean revenue.
They could cache over wifi (eg sequential tv episodes for binge watchers) and actually decrease use of cellular bandwidth.
I don't doubt that pets have a positive effect. But some dog running around isn't the same as a pet. It might be beneficial for the dog's owner, but not for me (and presumably not for other people either). It's not my pet, it's somebody elses pet.

Of course it seems possible to hire only dog lovers, who would all benefit from improved mood in the dog office. I just hope that not every company adopts the rule, because some scientist claims it will universally increase mood.

A dog approaching in the street is very stressful, especially if you are in company of a small kid.
Once someone said a company is worth people are willing to pay for it.
I bet this has something to do with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Brazil

Basically, some parts of Brazil, including the location (Porto Alegre) of the Australia-Netherlands game, use daylight time while others do not. It looks like, for example, the time of Spain-Chile (in Rio, where there is no daylight time) is correct.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We've had taxis and black cars for decades, it's nothing new. What happens when every existing taxi company has an app? Because that's what's happening.

Then what we have is Uber/Lyft/whatever trying to avoid any regulation, while everyone else with the same thing are actually doing it. So disruptive!
I'm gonna make an app that says 'WTF' and get rich now
Skunk Riot Control Copter
This article makes a lot of hand-waving, possibly incorrect assumptions to arrive at its conclusion.

It may or may not be the right conclusion, but it provides very little analytical insight, and is mostly useless.
They talked a lot earlier in the presentation about how Amazon Prime is an extremely sticky service - they have very little churn. I would imagine that unlimited photo storage will give folks yet another reason why they need to renew their Prime membership.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you
I think the author hit this point by accounting for an accelerated growth of the "underserved" taxi market. He puts it at 6% YOY - what do you estimate it to be?
My point is just that the content vs means comparison is a very gray area in the age of the internet.

So we should stop analogizing to the antiquated vocabulary of the telecommunications era and start from scratch with ideas that actually make sense in the context of the Internet.
Yes, but only because they lag behind Google in this regard. Companies embrace and propose open standards in the areas they don't dominate. As soon as you hit a core competitive advantage, they get as closed as possible.
Cyber Dust | Every spoken word isn’t recorded. Why should your texts be?
Yes you can. You can configure it to be 250GB SSD or 1TB Fusion (harddisk with small sized SSD caching) instead, both will add $250 to the bill.
The ToS in section 5.10 seems to address it:

http://www.fifa.com/legal/tos.html

5.10 If You wish to use or display any FIFA feeds / FIFA APIs on Your website:

(a) FIFA grants to You a non-transferable, royalty free, non-exclusive license to
display such feeds on Your website subject to these Terms;

(b) You expressly agree: (i) to ensure that the FIFA feed / FIFA API does not
state or imply that FIFA approves of, sponsors or endorses any other website
activity, company or entity, resource, content, or presents FIFA and/or its
activities in a false, misleading, defamatory or derogatory manner or otherwise
damages FIFA's reputation or takes advantage of it; and (ii) to properly attribute
the FIFA feeds used to FIFA to avoid any misappropriation or confusion;

(c) where possible, You must create a functional link back to the FIFA story or
other material summarized by the relevant FIFA feed.
I loved the 9x9 grid for displaying group matches.
I am eager to see the tangle free design for earphones via flat cables. I hope it is not a PR stunt.

Context - http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/img_4425...
[rust-dev] Integer overflow, round -2147483648
Read this...
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/deep-dive-facebook-advertising/
...It mentions that FB advertising is better for selling many small items via email marketing that they sign up for after clicking a FB ad. So, if you have a single 'big' product to sell, that probably won't work very well. I'm in the same boat, and stuck with Adwords and word-of-mouth.
Yeah, not sure why they have that limitation...
وظائف جريدة الراية الاربعاء 18/6/2014
Many things are better fully privatized, but i'd argue that infrastructure is not one of them.

Sometimes unprofitable things need to be done.
I agree about the photo storage and the services, but I don't know that it's enough for me to jump ship to an Amazon phone. As a Android user I love Amazon Prime, but I'm perfectly happy with opening a web browser to order, and using a console to stream videos.

For those who aren't already embedded deep into Android or Apple I wonder if the services will have enough of a pull?
It sounds like you should pay money for software. If no one is willing to sell you a support contract, don't use it.
Unlocking the massive power of communities
No, but if you could convince some friends who are citizens to make calls....
Conjecture: Scalable Machine Learning in Hadoop with Scalding at Etsy
Mark Cuban invested in those guys. He claims he's using that app himself. Great interview of him talking about it here: http://thisweekinstartups.com/mark-cuban-kick-ass/
Passing objects to Celery and not querying for fresh objects is not always a bad practice. If you have millions of rows in your database, querying for them is going to slow you way down. In essence, the same reason you shouldn't use your database as the Celery backend is the same reason you might not want to query the database for fresh objects. It depends on your use case of course. Passing straight values/strings should be strongly considered too since serializing and passing whole objects when you only need a single value is not good either.
Just about anything a massive corporate ISP has to say on this matter can be safely ignored as self-serving pap.
Xfinity pineapple – Mimicking an xfinitywifi AP
http://blog.logrhythm.com/security/xfinity-pineapple/
Ok, but why male models?
The earbuds look nice but they are nothing new either. I've seen a few companies do the tangle free flat cable thing.
I feel like this comment was made without reading the post.

"Uber’s growth potential rests not only on being able to claim a larger share of the car-service market but also on expanding this market by attracting those who use public transportation or drive their own cars." He even mentions that his base case is assuming uber remains in the car-service related business.
You are being insufficiently creative. If there are 10 competitors in your niche (and many will have more like 100), you can do this to five of them at random and google would have no way of determining who the perpetrator was. When you report them for paid-links, you wouldn't use your real e-mail address, that doesn't make any sense. There is no way to tell self backlinks from competitor backlinks. Both are attempted to be carried out in secret and in identical fashion from google's perspective. I could imagine a scenario where google sees that a niche has a bunch of people being targeted with backlinks, and so stops applying the penalty, but still they would have no way of targeting the bad actor.
If you're a permanent resident (a "green card" holder) you can do something more effective than merely filling out a web form or phoning a congresscritter's aides. You can donate money to help the pro-privacy politicos (very few) or aid challengers to the anti-privacy politicos (many, but unlikely to succeed).

http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml
"An immigrant may make a [political] contribution if he or she has a 'green card' indicating his or her lawful admittance for permanent residence in the United States."

The real way to do it, which I've written about occasionally for the last decade, is to identify the worst surveillance offenders of each major party. Narrow down the list to ones who are electorally vulnerable (this excludes Feinstein, for instance). You'll need to spend millions of dollars on ads reminding voters how thoroughly the incumbent disrespects the Constitution. Also encourage contributions to the incumbent's challenger. Only do this where you're likely to win. Committee chairmen would be ideal. Be thoroughly non-partisan and focused only on surveillance.

Once you do that, and have a Cantor-like upset against the pro-surveillance, anti-privacy incumbent, suddenly privacy will be taken far more seriously on Capitol Hill. Politicians will respond better to this than a useless $1,000 PAC contribution.
Numerous cameras used to track user's viewpoint, allowing fake (but good) 3D.
Are you sure you aren't looking at the finale scores only? So far the world cup has seen 53 goals in 18 matches, and we're only about a quarter through.

Edit: numbers updated, I wasn't looking right.
The data fields kind of confuse me...I assumed that there would be one medallion per operating cab, right? And I assume that one cab, i.e. medallion, can make one pickup in a given second...therefore, pickup_datetime and medallion should result in a unique key, right?

But I get dupes. From the 2013 January dataset, medallion "DD336C4ADA65CCBD2284F63BF348A4F0" makes 3 pickups at 7:09AM on Jan 13, 2013. The dropoff time is noted as that exact same second of the pickup. Yet the pickup coordinates, and the dropoff coordinates, are all different. Though there are all kinds wonky real-life situations...a driver starting the fare and shutting it off during a trip, accidentally, perhaps...this seems to indicate an error in how the data is recorded...because the machine, even if doing something that breaks business rules, the timestamp should still be consistent with real time, right? Anyway, it's something to be wary of when doing analysis.

And it also looks like the hack licenses are all different...which I'm not even sure how that works, but it doesn't seem to be a case simply of 3 different drivers being registered to the same medallion...

The three data rows in question:

DD336C4ADA65CCBD2284F63BF348A4F0 689153C038F51E19A47257E15DF838BD VTS 1 2013-01-13 07:09:00 2013-01-13 07:09:00 1 0 0.000000 -73.937492 40.758327 -73.937492 40.758327
DD336C4ADA65CCBD2284F63BF348A4F0 0200F6738B90178B8B75EEF9E3C1988E VTS 1 2013-01-13 07:09:00 2013-01-13 07:09:00 1 0 0.050000 -73.973656 40.738422 -73.973656 40.738422
DD336C4ADA65CCBD2284F63BF348A4F0 B8C7594C95BB86A228C785305287583B VTS 1 2013-01-13 07:09:00 2013-01-13 07:09:00 1 0 0.900000 -73.979225 40.747093 -73.929260 40.850357
As a computer vision researcher, I am impressed that Amazon has made the most computer-vision-centric mobile device seen to date. I have no idea if it will catch on, but having a dedicated physical button for object recognition is huge insofar as it means they actually intend for people to be using this all the time, so they'll only be devoting more and more energy to recognizing everything in the world. Sure, it's mostly so you can then buy those things from Amazon, but I have to think there will be other useful applications given the provided recognition SDK.

I'm also curious if developers will have direct access to the four corner cameras on the front, and if the head-tracking it uses for 3D visual effects includes detailed eye/pupil-tracking -- if it doesn't yet, you can be sure that's planned for the future.

Edit: So the dedicated recognition button will already pull up wikipedia entries for recognized works of art. I wonder if they'll ever let third party developers hook into the hardware button so that third party plant-recognition, insect-recognition, action-figure recognition (etc) app results can be called up with that single button push in case Amazon doesn't recognize a purchasable item.
Amazon CTO: Cloud isn’t a winner-take-all market
What people fail to understand is that Uber, Lyft and co are much more than the Taxi market. They are in the transportation business.

People like me that would never have taken a taxi in San Fancisco use these services. They are creating new markets.

When you really think of it, car ownership for a majority of the people is really silly as most cars are idle 90% of the time.

Car manufacturers should be afraid because once Uber, Lyft and Co start a subscription business (pay a fixed amount monthly for a generous travel distance monthly) fewer people we see any reason to own cars.

That will be a good thing.
But every word spoken in range of a cell phone is recorded by the NSA... so why not your texts too?
He could have gotten a Ferrari yesterday on reddit for less than half that.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogemarket/comments/28c942/sg_2003_f...
Again, you really fail to explain why you think packet prioritization based on type is the exact same thing as packet prioritization based on source and destination. The latter is always anticompetitive at the ISP level, the former can be, but needs to exist to operate a network of any decent size.
Wow, my most downvoted comment yet, and for pointing out that cows have hormones in them.

I guess the downvoters believe that the artificial variety are magically different from the natural sort, despite being chemically and biologically indistinguishable.
It doesn't make any difference for me. Getting crap into RAM the first time is all I care about rather than sustained transfer.
Cost for storing upwards of 200GB of photos?
I think of docker as a "nicer chroot", i.e. it might be nice for testing deployment of networked applications with lots of servers, where setting up a new VM for each one would be both slow and an overkill.

Is running something inside docker worse than running the same application on the host from a security pov?
If not then you can consider docker just as one way of deploying an application on the host, i.e. not something for shared hosting of independent/possibly malicious applications.
Android Smartphone Shipped With Spyware
Agreed this type of analysis of Uber is hilarious, your example is the best I can think of. Imagine an article from 1997 with detailed charts and data around the book market, and using that to question Amazon's business model. It's almost charmingly short-sighted.

All you need to know about this article is the phrases "self driving car" and "autonomous car" appear zero times.
The question is how quickly and effectively Uber can branch out and dominate all the "Uber for X" concepts that other start-ups are chasing. If Uber stays in the car service industry? Then yes, they're pointless.

If they develop "Uber for housekeeping"? "Uber for babysitters"? "Uber for take-out"? Then yes, Uber is worth $17 billion.
6 cameras total. Sounding like a razor...
I didn't see anything about how UberX/Lyft been able to create new demand via much lower fares when compared to taxi cabs.

I very very rarely ever took a cab and preferred to walk, bus, or drive because of the cost. Now with UberX and Lyft, I often just call one because the cost is 35 - 50% less than what a cab costs and the experience is so much nicer with app payment and pleasant drivers (feedback loop).
Why has there been no native title movement like there was in Australia?
Why do you say that, he goes into detail on all assumptions he makes and includes the data points he used to make his conclusion as well as variants on all important points to show how they affect the outcome.

If there are incorrect assumptions that he made then point them out, your yourself are hand-waving by saying vague statements about the article.
Now waiting for the visual counterpart of this: http://imgur.com/T95SENl
MediaMath Employee Spotlight: Leaving a Fortune 50 for a tech startup
I skimmed through this a bit, but failed to understand your point. Care to explain ?
Useful if you are at work or watching something else. You get the "yo" and switch channels or browser windows to see the replays. I could see this working for baseball as well. Sure there is something nice about watching a full game of soccer, but if I watched every game is the World Cup, I'd get nothing done during the day.
everything this company puts out is streamlined, simple, effective, and pleasant to use. respect.
Except that Uber is, currently, a car-service. Now, you can argue that Uber has the potential to be more than a car service, but right now Uber's product is a car service. And there's only so much market for a car service. It's a new kind of car service, but still a car service.
I am looking at this from a media consumption perspective. While Apple, Google, and Microsoft (and OEMS) try to out do each other in the spec race. Amazon has always catered to users consumer habits. From their early beginning selling books to their entrance (dominance) with digital books, Amazon has always focused on facilitating content/media/physical goods consumption. The Kindle Fire tablets have led up to this phone. This phone will succeed in facilitating users to purchase from Amazon and Amazon alone.
They're probably referring to the findings presented by the Church Committee. What was interesting was that they were talking about how intelligence agencies had the resources to impose "total tyranny"... back in 1975.

I'm not sure what actual effects did it have concerning intelligence reform, though. Evidently nothing major.
Interesting, the link you posted refers to a "vomitorium", as opposed to a "vomitarium". I think the latter is a modern colloquialism that hasn't yet been adequately defined, but it sounds great.

[0] is a good alternative.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft
How do you mean? I can't see how someone could be forced to live in the middle of nowhere, other than imprisonment.

I believe that nearly any person living in a rural area could move to a more populated area, if they desired.

What if you want to be a stereotypical farmer, on a farm 50 miles from any city? That is your choice. However, one side effect of that choice is that you have to live with dialup Internet access. Just take that into account when making your decision.
How many horses were there in 1910? Serious question.
You can wrap arbitrary headphones using your hands into a tangle-free design without the aid of a billionaire. It unfolds very easily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXcNzxAB00

I don't bother tying them off (I stop around 0:45), and just bunch it up and stuff it in my pocket. When I pull out my headphones they are never, ever tangled.
Just wanted to let you guys know if you are considering using it. We are still using all of the OnDemand tools on a daily basis and our frustration is growing. There have been threads about the issue open for more than a year and we opened a support ticket, but it got closed with a link to an issue that is being looked into by a developer. Looking at ‘developer tools’ shows that Atlassian are generating a huge javascript and stylesheet which is taking up all the time - which they claim only happens the first time, but this seems to be causing slow page-loads (10-30sec+) periodically throughout their OnDemand suite - which is very frustrating when trying to use their Wiki system (Confluence) or browsing tickets in Jira.

If we would start from scratch, I would just go for something more lightweight like Google Docs, Trello and perhaps Workflowy.
All I can think of when it comes to Uber is that the day that Google announces their partnership with Uber to bring self driving car services to the masses, it will be the equivalent to the baptism scene in the Godfather 2 for taxi drivers everywhere.
One of the first things my representative's office does is ask for my postal code and name. Pretty sure they do check and even cross verify incoming phone numbers. My representative's office once even answered the phone and greeted me by name before I started talking :).
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