skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Making that PayPal email more prominent might result in higher donations. Also, have you considered accepting Bitcoin, through Coinbase or something similar?
Yes, but without the credit part.
> These purposes aren't, on their face, unreasonable. Taxis generate undesirable congestion, and establishments that serve liquor tend to create undesirable drunk people. If you don't believe me, take a walk through Wrigleyville in Chicago on a Friday night, where you can see an endless parade of taxis picking up an endless parade of drunk students.

I agree that sometimes this setup (licenses to restrict supply) make sense, but taxis are not a good example of where this provides a net benefit.

I'd rather have a bunch of taxis than a bunch of drunk college students driving. Furthermore, from a city planning perspective the most efficient use of both road space and real estate (parking) is to have cheap, on-demand taxis instead of personal car ownership. If public transportation is fairly extensive and always available (as it is in NYC), it makes sense to eschew personal ownership of cars and use taxis for the rare case when public transportation isn't enough.

Overall, this reduces congestion, and is one of the reason that taxis are oftentimes taxed less (or pay less in tolls) than personal, non-commercial vehicles.

In fact, I posit that a significant reason that services like Hailo and Uber exist in NYC specifically is that the supply of on-demand taxis is heavily restricted[0]. If the supply were left up to the free market[1], Uber and Hailo would be able to provide some added value (the convenience of the mobile app and the "premium" feel), but not the level that they are now.

[0] Since the 1970s, the number of medallions available has not increased commensurately with the increase in population

[1] but with the same laws regarding nondiscrimination of service with respect to destination, credit cards, etc.
Let's suppose I am lazy (I am, most of the time) but that I actually did read every single slide (I did). What do you find wrong with my analysis?

"Sorry, but..." is just an excuse to be rude and not feel guilty about it. You don't have to sugar coat it. If you don't want to be rude then don't say rude things. Just say what you mean and get on with it.

The only statement closely resembling a premise is the question on slide 7: "Is 'Climate Change' just another over-blown scare?" The other 91 slides go on to support his foregone conclusion.

He offers few, if any, citations. No counter-evidence. He sketches on blurry graphs without explaining his data or methods. He takes quotes from other people to prove his point without giving the context from which they were taken. He even quotes himself a few times. He uses an imaginary taxonomy of Alarmists and skeptics -- guess which one is virtuous? Rutan may be a brilliant aviation engineer but he is not persuasive in his arguments against climate science.

The problem climate "skeptics" have is not one of a dominant conspiracy. It's over-whelming evidence.
Speak to the guys at trak.io - They might have some spare t-shirts they can send your way.
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I'm quite aware of the global temperance movement. However, you've missed my point completely. My sigh was because every time somebody brings up something in the US that needs to be changed or reformed, you can bet that some European will come in and say, "As a European, I'm shocked this is like this!" As if we all got in a room and decided that whatever the thing is was the right thing to do, and it all sounded like a good idea at the time. In reality, these things, especially laws, go through complex histories, compromises, concessions, and interests. I gave an overly brief history of the alcohol laws in the US, or at least their influences. Just to give a little context.

In reality, this discussion should be around regulatory capture. But that's too hard, so instead, we get into a Europe vs US pissing match. It's stupid. It's foolish. So, instead of discussing how to better fight regulatory capture, we just try to show off how special we are. I say again: sigh.
I've recently made the decision to go full-time consulting after a year of balancing contract work on the side with full-time employment.

In my experience one of the biggest reason to avoid being a full-time employee is the difficulty in climbing the value chain. As a consultant, I'm a trusted advisor that helps my client bring their business to the next level. As an employee, I'm just maintaining the ship.

I'm sure you can guess which one brings in more money :)
No worries—nobody catches them all.
If they make Bing 2X faster, then they can roughly cut the amount of servers they need by half. They measure "speed" by number of requests that can be fulfilled in Z amount of time.
Whether or not you believe a victim other than society in general (or the sovereign) ought to be required for a crime, that's not an actual requirement.
Why would you call this garbage & bigotry. There seems to be evidence supporting Churchill's attitude towards Indians:

"Churchill’s excuse — currently being peddled by his family and supporters — was Britain could not spare the ships to transport emergency supplies, but Mukerjee has unearthed documents that challenge his claim. She cites official records that reveal ships carrying grain from Australia bypassed India on their way to the Mediterranean"

&

"Churchill’s hostility toward Indians has long been documented. At a War Cabinet meeting, he blamed the Indians themselves for the famine, saying they “breed like rabbits”. His attitude toward Indians may be summed up in his words to Amery: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” On another occasion, he insisted they were “the beastliest people in the world next to the Germans”.
Fun fact about the UK. In order to get a license to drive a taxi in London, applicants need to pass an extensive test. Passing the test takes years of preparation and multiple attempts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom#...
This could, perhaps, initially be implemented as a plugin that inspected/listened for link clicks and forwarded them to your application of choice. I believe VLC is capable of opening streams without too much hassle (not sure about other players).

Sounds like a fun weekend project, at any rate!
It is not generally possible to do this in the US. Amazon allows it, but most places do not because it's not a very in-demand service — using cards is safer and easier than giving out your bank information, so not very many people insist on the latter.
Ahhh!!! Congrats Ritik. Huge news and always nice to see good news from other Thiel Fellows :)

Really hope Streem continues to exist as an independent product or at least as a plugin on top of Box or something.

Good luck man!
my new macbook pro got too hot for my lap within about 30 seconds....
How does this compare to Hetzner's servers? Lets say http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq12
That defeats the purpose of the license. It's not like a driver's license where the goal is to establish some baseline level of competency, it's there specifically to limit the number of taxis/liquor stores/etc.
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Anyone can sign up for and file any request through the site, and the request pages are about as neutral as can be (http://j.mp/UG3TMB). We also publish news, analysis and commentary on select documents, but that's handled fairly separately, so if you just want the raw docs, that's very easy; if you want to better understand why they're important, we try to make that easy, too.

We don't typically take too many ideological stances except that agencies should probably follow the public records laws that they're subject to, which generally isn't too controversial an opinion. We're looking for other ways to allow more analysis and context, but keeping the data clean and easily accessible will always be a part of what we do.
take a walk through Wrigleyville in Chicago on a Friday night, where you can see an endless parade of taxis picking up an endless parade of drunk students.

But isn't this supply meeting demand? If there were too many taxis, wouldn't the supply eventually cull itself when nobody can make enough money?
Survival of what? Individuals were not threatened; governments were. The argument that government propaganda stirred the population into wanting to fight goes right back to the original argument: people fought because they saw evil (as presented by the propaganda).
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Another "our incredible journey":

> we want to thank our beta testers for their helpful feedback, our amazing investors for believing in us from the start, and our friends and family for supporting us through the ride.
I mentioned fires as a point I would be concerned about.

While distilling is heavily regulated at the Federal, state, and local levels, the Feds did not ban it due to concerns over fire safety. Rather, a chief reason is "to protect the revenue," which, in the case of Federal excise taxes, is substantial. ($13.50 per proof gallon; a proof gallon is 1 gallon at 50% ABV.)

The Feds don't really concern themselves with fire safety. Rather, just as you desire, that's regulated at the state and local level. The TTB outlook is that you have to satisfy the local and state levels as far as fire safety is concerned.
If it expanded at C, it would be a shorter book.
Oh, that's a good point. I suspect that it won't work with Pine/Mutt or commandline email handling (vim+mail?). What about clients that don't support (or have disabled) html email?

EDIT: Added "Mutt" and non-html email question.
Having to translate from French does increase the difficulty.
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I wonder what could be done to help fight this. Not just for alcohol, but regulatory capture in general. Network neutrality is in the same boat. Other than having a generic consumer advocate lobbying group, what could be done?
I found a trick that really works for me. I go over to a stranger and say, "I promised myself I would meet one new stranger today. I'm David, Whats your name..."

It really works well.

http://www.davidmelamed.com/2014/05/08/flawless-ice-breaker-...
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Which country are you in exactly? Because AFAIK, in most Northern European countries people have credit cards (or at least debit cards).
If you know it's a virtual child then almost certainly not (except, perhaps, in .au, which I think at least had statute defining even obviously cartoon depictions of naked minors as child porn).

The caveat here is that these (alleged) perps all believed they were interacting with a real child. In Common Law countries, at least, criminality exists in the presence of mens rea — the "guilty mind" — and actus reus, an overt action.

Virtuality or not, if you think you're chatting up an actual, breathing, 8-year-old girl, and offer money for her to remove her undergarments, you are a criminal.
Even so, the comparison with Hitler and the Holocaust is a bit off, I think: the famine in India is not too similar to an industrialized extermination infrastructure, with concentration camps, gas chambers, bureaucratized selection and rail transfer, meticulous record keeping, etc. The uniqueness of the Holocaust is not just in that a lot of people died, but in how: via the application of modern infrastructure to produce a large-scale, industrial death machine.

One can still make unfavorable comparisons to other "evil" figures, where the analogy is imo closer. If indeed Churchill is responsible for an essentially deliberate famine, one could compare him to Stalin, and the probably-deliberate famine in the Ukraine. Or, if he's merely responsible for a large famine via negligence, one could compare him to Mao, and the probably-not-deliberate famine in China.
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Tried to use Algolia's API and IFTTT without much success.
Yup, making those options more visible is a priority, just a very small, very part time team running it all. We'll get there!
I did it simply this way - help others - so many in the community need help, pick your interest areas, and contribute your time and effort.
Interesting. I wonder if that's really enough. When it comes to groceries the vast majority of people shop based on price. Instacart charges a markup on every item purchased. In this market people seem to value price over convenience especially when the convenience difference is small.
ramoq: I haven't tried it, but what if someone spoofs the from address? For example, if I used the old telnet to port 25 trick, could I create a task from billg@microsoft.com to larry@google.com? I have a feeling that since it may be re-routed through planleaf (is it?) that the destination server may not be able to validate the from address.
This looks like it could be entry-in-the-history-books huge, but there's this: "We have not slept for three weeks."

Has anyone more knowledgable than me (that is, anyone) looked at this in detail?
The only correct answer is: benchmark according to your specific application's needs, since your demands may be different than mine or someone else's.

For more general benchmarks, this is handy: http://serverbear.com/

But really, spin them up and test for the things that your usage case most needs. My stuff doesn't hit the disk at all, so the fact that Hetzner doesn't (at a glance) appear to be SSD-backed wouldn't bother me, but might not be OK for someone else's usage case.
That is roughly correct. There is typically a bayer-mask filter on a grayscale sensor, so any given pixel is actually only either blue, red or green, but then a mixing algorithm is applied and you get the full resolution with the appropriate mixing. Of course, there are a variety of filters and a variety of algorithms, so the exact mix will vary across different technologies, but roughly speaking, yes.
I think this is possible, and would support research into it.
That makes sense if you're thinking of a drivers' license (where you have to pass a qualification test), but these licenses serve solely to restrict the supply.

It varies by the locale, but I'm not even sure if there are any qualifying tests for obtaining a taxi license (other than basic criteria, like having a commercial drivers' license in good standing, etc.) in most parts of the US. (London is an interesting exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom)
Hi drsim, our current version doesn't have support adding people midway through a list. However, our version in dev does along additional help/tutorials. This is our MVP of Planleaf

I think we totally need to add more feedback for the user input as best as we can. We're even toying with adding a web-version of our product for power users. So web -> email will be very seamless.

Really appreciate the feecback, ping me at omar at planleaf.com if you have any other suggestions/concerns. I'm all ears :)
All-time high was over 40, spent much of its lifetime trading in the 20s and 30s.

Below IPO and secondary offering prices.

Company has over $200m in cash, so less than $1b for a leading company in a high-growth market.

Company raised maybe something like $450m between IPO, secondary, and pre-IPO rounds, so not a monster exit.
I find it difficult to believe that an organization that advocates keeping coffee receipts for 7 years wouldn't have an email archiving solution in place.
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But I mean, in the context of accepting payments online, debit cards aren't really an alternative to credit cards, are they? The two go hand-in-hand. Merchants that accept credit generally accept debit, so you're fine in that situation if you prefer debit.
yeah, that was kind of a blow to me...
VPSes with 1 GB of RAM are more than enough to host a couple of web apps (depending on traffic of course) with Python, PHP, or similar setups. When Linode started out, their bottom offering was actually 512 MB if I remember correctly, and SliceHost (later Rackspace Cloud) had 256 MB offerings.
If you're going to bake an Apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe. But before that, buy a high dimensional superluminally expanding hyper oven.
It's only sort of federalized though:

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (23 U.S.C. § 158) was passed on July 17, 1984 by the United States Congress. It punished every state that allowed persons below 21 years to purchase and publicly possess alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by ten percent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_A...

(I'm posting because I think the mechanism might be news to some readers, not to argue about whether it is federalized or not)
Perhaps we should define what is full-time employee. I am consultant, but I have only single customer/employer who reimburses my expenses without much questions. And I make similar money compared to my old corporate 9-5 job, adjusted for taxes, insurance and holiday.

I think after you hit certain level of specialization, being self-employed is the only option.
I think something like this would be cool: http://twistedsifter.com/2012/01/camouflage-cali-hiding-air-...
There are no victims.

In the specific instance involving "Sweetie", sure.

Please don't tell me you think that Bob, aged 51, had never before in his life propositioned a child — a child who is in all likelihood an actual slave — to perform sex acts over the internet, until he happened innocently to be hanging out in #dirtylittlegirls, and propositioned Sweetie.
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I would like to endorse the idea of tutoring; it can have the free benefit of having your pupil help you with pronunciation.

I would like to expand on point 2. If you make a point to introduce yourself all around and don't interact other than that, you're still in a social situation that benefits you, even if you're focused on playing the game. Further, over time, teams will have some churn, so you're setting yourself up to have medium term casual relationships with lots of people. Finally, there's often a bar outing after such games, allowing for further interaction. Tell your team that you're working on your english; they're committed to you via the team, and are likely to provide you with consistent and quality feedback.
For the record I know HostFat does not have an iPhone and he is a friend. I think.
V8 already is a ClojureScript runtime, isn't it?
Show HN: app for customizing message bubble colors in Yosemite's Messages.app
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The subtext behind an invocation of Wrigleyville is that drunk bar clientele from outside the area makes it difficult to live in. Wrigleyville is a running joke among people who live on the north side of Chicago.
I wasn't aware of this but found https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-will-h...

One of my big reasons for having a few DO instances was the price + having Arch--many of the cheap providers don't provide Arch images. This new Linode plan will be a good option for the lower-end needs.
Hey there, Adrian from Beacon here. We do have some non recurring options like this one: https://www.beaconreader.com/projects/the-spy-in-your-pocket...

We're working on more options for getting people involved while trying to keep the model simple.

Good to get this feedback!
That dev tools screenshot looks pretty awesome. Seems to have even more detail than Chrome's timeline view. Gotta try it sometime.
We really wanted to make the list :)
Myrvhold's engagement with modernist cooking predates IV.
I've literally had 2 week vacations which cost me $20K+ ($5K in travel and $15K in lost revenue).

Ah, First World Problems.
I'm really glad these issues keep coming up. I think it shows real growth in our community. Many great points here, but I'll just highlight one:

"But whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, other people have it. People in the community have gone through it. Many people have gone through it, in fact."

The technical name for this is universality. It is one of the most helpful parts of group therapy. You hesitantly share what is on your mind and then suddenly discover that in a small group there are usually at least 1-2 other people that can really identify with what you are describing. For us, as founders or startup people in general, we can tell ourselves, "I'm really struggling with X right now. Okay, it is very likely that many other people are struggling with X right now or have struggled with X in the past. They've made it to the other side and I will as well. It is just going to take time."

X might be normal startup concerns like growth, retention, co-founder issues, employee issues, client issues, bugs, investor issues etc. Or, it might be more personal issues that are often tied to startups: pressure, unrealistic high expectations from self or others, stress, anxiety, depression etc. Whatever X is, there are many other people that are currently experiencing it or have made it through to the other side. It helps to know that we are not alone and we can keep moving forward by taking one step at a time!
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I've been using linode for +3 years now, and it's been great. Top notch support, and they have Gentoo images!
Paris would benefit from a cigarette police. Smokers there throw cigarette butts anywhere. Street sweepers deal mostly with cigarettes, and they use a ton of water to sweep it all into the sewers.
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This is exactly what I would say, as they are the same conclusions I came up with the hard way.

The one thing I might at is about girls: it's a chicken and egg problem here. You get good with girls by talking to them. After my first girlfriend I felt like I could talk to almost all girls now.

So if you weren't so lucky as to grow up with female family members, start by becoming friends with girls even if you don't find them attractive. Especially so, since you won't feel the extra pressure. Eventually it will all bear fruit.

It's a long journey, but the sooner you start the more time you will have.
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I love the visualization on acko.net but for whatever reason, unlike apparently many of you, I still don't understand the topics he's trying to explain.

As just one example on step 18 of the first major visualization it says "And that's actually a remarkable thing, because it means our invented rule has created a square root of −1. It's the number 1∠90∘" WAT?!

I'm sure someone skilled at math understands that but as a lamer at math I have no idea how that explains that the rule invented the square root of -1. Nothing before that has mentioned square roots or how this vector + rotation has any relation to them.
Its an S3 torrent endpoint architectural limitation.