skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoning here is that Uber should not only overtake the global (London, Ankara, Beijing, Calcutta and everything in between) taxi market, but grow it.

Extraordninary claims should require extraordninary evidence. The given reasons are that customers feel safer, that expansion has been "rapid" even outside San Francisco (!), and that customers "feel safer". Also no cash.

Somehow I'm not convinced.

The only vaguely reasonable point is the GPS visibility of cabs. Which is great, but not really a billion dollar product. (What I thought to be Uber's great feature, upfront fixed fees, is not even mentioned.)

No, if you want to argue that Ubers valuation is somehow rooted in reality, you'd have to make a much more compelling argument. I expect it to be one where they take a big bite out of the larger logistics market, perhaps look to expand the delivered groceries market together with Amazon or something.
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They're probably funded through the black budget, so can play the field.

I for one have zero confidence that this isn't an elaborate honeypot, as anyone interested in privacy is a target, and this would seem an excellent way of gathering more innocent people to target with surveillance.
That's why this law is being brought in. It's not an overnight thing to invalidate a law, if they change it slightly they get another period of doing evil until they're ordered to stop again.
Amazon petitions the FAA to approve drone delivery tests
Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill
I second this. I'm just back from a short holiday where we spent part of it in a hostel and part in an apartment. The hostel was much more fun. New people from all over Europe arrived everyday. The hostel owner introduced us, suggested we have dinner together and then we all went out for the night. Great way to meet new people and not very awkward either.
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Big up fellow drum and bass listener! I go to most drum and bass gigs in London on my own (none of my friends are into it) and always have a fantastic time and come out with a massive smile.
Well, they are rarely fixed by engineering solutions that just try to hide the activity / behavior from view, and ignore the fact that it's a social/political problem.

I can easily come up with 'engineering solutions' to solve social / political problems, but it's usually paired with some sort of social/political action (e.g. engineering cheap weapons to supply a violent revolution).
Startups in India: the government is setting aside $1.6 billion to help you
It's easy. If you ever see one of our ads, you can permanently opt out using the close button. We're working hard not to show the kinds of ads that most adblock users would want to block. We currently have < 1% opt outs.
Amazon launches Zocalo its new secure enterprise storage service
Are you including Adblock Edge? How is that doing?
Oxford University offer an MSc in Software Engineering. It's meant to be part-time over 4 years, but occasionally people come in and decide to blitz the whole thing while being a fulltime student - you could take 1 - 4 years over it, depending on how hard you want to work, and how much fun you want to have. You don't need an undergrad degree if you have strong experience. Expect it to cost £25,000 in total. You will be a full member of the university, with student card, and membership of a college with an active social life in a city with two large universities. You'll end up with a degree, which will make working abroad much easier in the future, relive the student days you never had, and learn a bunch of interesting stuff.

Alternatively, upsticks and move to Bangkok. You'll find it easy to make friends.

I've done both, so feel free to email me (in profile) with questions about either.
It sounds like you already know what you want to do.

I spent two years travelling the world while freelancing. I was building iOS apps remotely for companies in the UK. You'll be amazed how far the pound will take you in developing countries.

My advice is to spend six months in each location and try to really live there. Typical backpacking didn't work for me while also working.

Suggestions: Chiang Mai, Medellin, Bali, Berlin (cheap, but not the same kind of cheap as the others in this list)

My email is in my profile if you need any tips/ideas.
You're quite right actually! I probably haven't been as explicit as how hidden the risks are when using VaR. Although, within other articles I've tried to make the point that any risk management strategy should be utilised as part of a larger framework.

It is a shame that risk management often takes a back-seat to "alpha generation", as solid implementation of the former is what keeps funds (and retail traders) in business.
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> Which will only last until 2016.

If there's anything I've learned in life, it's that there's nothing more permanent than temporary laws.
Facebook's never imprisoned or tortured anyone that I'm aware of. Maybe that'll be in a future rollout.
The Lisp language syntax is not motivated by 'ease of parsing'. It is motivated by the 'code as data' idea, which enables a lot of useful source transformations to be implemented AND used in a relatively easy way. One of the applications of that are macros.

Scheme got a lot wrong from a practical perspective. Use Lisp instead.

Type theories are over-hyped. 99.99% of all software is written in languages without advanced type systems.

Macros are nothing for 'excitement'. They are a tool. They enable the user to write source transformations, which has several applications in Lisp: control structures, compile-time computation, etc etc.
Am I that unclear? No, I'm not arguing that the correct way to do webmail is to implement IMAP in Javascript. (How would that even work?)

I'm arguing that a RESTful implementation of the same functionality IMAP offers would -- by necessity -- have problems with responsivity and/or concurrency. Webmail clients should be a case in point here.

Do note that when Google implemented the GMail app for Android, they created a protocol that looks a lot like RPC and is nowhere near REST. These people are not stupid and if the REST architecture made sense for mail clients you would see it reflected there.
lol @ random downvotes for criticizing lisp. Set and match.
I agree, except the alternative is worse.

The intent of lobbying is to inform elected officials about issues that they do not necessarily know anything about. The bribery aspect really has more to do with campaign contributions than lobbying, though lobbying can indirectly use those contributions, as well as a lot of societal norms to get its own way (you spend a lot of time discussing issues with someone, even when that someone is biased, and it's a bit rude to vote against them).

Without lobbyists, we have a bunch of uninformed, extremely partisan, mostly white, mostly old, mostly men deciding law, and that's probably even worse.

I don't know the fix; certainly, limiting the amount of lobbying corporations can do is likely part of it, but I would not want to also limit the ability of the ACLU and EFF from being able to talk to Congress, either.
For me, this is the worst bit:

4 Extra-territoriality in Part 1 of RIPA

(1) Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
(communications) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 11 (implementation of interception warrants), after
subsection (2) insert –
- (2A) A copy of a warrant may be served under subsection (2) on a person
outside the United Kingdom (and may relate to conduct outside the
United Kingdom).
(3) In subsection (4) of that section, after "that person" insert
"(whether or not the person is in the United Kingdom)".
(5) In subsection (8) of that section, after "enforceable" insert
"(including in the case of a person outside the United Kingdom)".
(6) In section 12 (maintenance of interception capability), after subsection
(3) insert –
- (3A) An obligation may be imposed in accordance with an order under
this section on, and a notice under subsection (2) given to,
persons outside the United Kingdom (and may be so imposed or
given in relation to conduct outside the United Kingdom).

I did some snipping to get rid of admin stuff, but those terms extend the authority of the UK home secretary to give him jurisdiction on ordering wiretapping outside of the UK. Section 11 of RIPA is about wiretaps, section 12 is about ensuring the ability to have wiretaps.

If this passes, the following will be law in the UK:

(4) Where a copy of an interception warrant has been served by or on behalf
of the person to whom it is addressed on—
(a) a person who provides a postal service,
(b) a person who provides a public telecommunications service, or
(c) a person not falling within paragraph (b) who has control of the
whole or any part of a telecommunication system located wholly or
partly in the United Kingdom,it shall (subject to subsection (5))
be the duty of that person (whether or not the person is in the
United Kingdom) to take all such steps for giving effect to the
warrant as are notified to him by or on behalf of the person to
whom the warrant is addressed.
(8) A person’s duty under subsection (4) to take steps for giving effect to
a warrant shall be enforceable (including in the case of a person
outside the United Kingdom) by civil proceedings by the Secretary of
State for an injunction, or for specific performance of a statutory duty
under section 45 of the Court of Session Act 1988, or for any other
appropriate relief.

To put it plainly, this act, if it passes, will allow the UK to seek civil redress against companies that have no link to the United Kingdom if they refuse to spy on their users, so long as they can argue that some part of the communications system is in the UK. To me, that reads like it will be valid if there are users in the UK.
Surely you are not comparing income in Colorado to income in Brazil or India.
> I see the claim of "you can write a macro to do it" for any imaginable feature all the time, but it is simply not true.

Which is not surprising. Actually nobody with a clue makes such a claim.

Still, Lisp macros have a wide variety of very useful applications.

> Yes, your language is extendable, but your extensions are limited to computation and source-to-source transformation at compile time.

Still quite useful. From relatively simple stuff which makes to code more readable to complex macros like ITERATE.
As Dr. Ellie whispers in in Contact; "No words to describe it" and in the Dark Crystal Jen's song is without words.

I think the lyrics are contained in the celestial music itself, and such music is contained in the silence. Silence or 0 is the holy grail of 100% compression, creatio ex nihilo. Perhaps you could find such a song in Pi in a lifelong quest, but it's a much deeper mystery that Pi and 0 are mysteriously related. Euler is rumoured to have remarked it to be proof of God's existence. But even if such proof exists it's of no value compared to it's beauty.

"After proving Euler's identity during a lecture, Benjamin Peirce, a noted American 19th-century philosopher, mathematician, and professor at Harvard University, stated that "it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth." Stanford University mathematics professor Keith Devlin has said, "Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity
I would use this opportunity to focus on yourself, what makes you happy regardless of who else is around. People (men and women) come and go. Where do YOU want to be, what do YOU want to try out and see if you like?
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BT said the exact same, like really really similar;

Thank you for your email.

It is our understanding that the Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 remains in force within the UK even though the European Data Retention Directive has fallen. We refer to an exchange in Parliament on 16 June 2014 in which James Brokenshire, on behalf of the Government, said “At the present time, we consider that the UK Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 remain in force. Those in receipt of a notice under the regulations have been informed that they should continue to observe their obligations as outlined in any notice.”
This bill[1] is of direct interest to non-UK people, because it 'clarifies' that the requests to intercept or for communications metadata are enforceable on companies outside the UK, and on ""internet based services, such as webmail" [2, paras 27,71].

(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer)

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
So this is basically media.peerconnection.enabled=false in about:config, right?
You sound like a terrible interviewer.
Do chrome extensions allow you to enter javascript functions that get executed via settings? I could see something like a 'custom hype formatter' callback option that passes a dom reference to the news item along with its hype ranking being pretty neat.
I'm moderately cynical about Apple's motivations. I think they've done it because it helps them make money, not for any altruistic reason. Having this feature helps Apple sell iPhones to us, and the iBeacon platform to advertisers.

I don't think that makes a difference though, because Bluetooth LE beacons (iBeacons) are better in this respect - regardless of Apple's motivations.

If your Alice's iPhone senses Bob's iBeacon then no information is revealed to Bob about Alice - an iBeacon can't receive, they're transmit only [1]. It's only once Alice installs Bob's app that Bob can get an indication that Alice is near one of his iBeacons.

1. http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/03/ibeacon-basics.html#_iaW3P0
Refactoring to iOS storyboard unwind segues
How would you go about making sure you have consistent internet while working? Internet cafe? Rely on hotel wifi?
Yes, really. By "spending time with you while you're actually programming", I meant instructors literally being right by you correcting mistakes and giving feedback in real time. This kind of feedback isn't uncommon in music programs but is very uncommon in engineering programs.

Did your instructors or TAs pair program with you? If so, what school were you at? I would consider it to be a very positive indicator of your program.

>We got feedback on every piece of code we ever wrote.

Sure, but asynchronous feedback on code certainly isn't something that can only be had at a university. Every bit of code I wrote while on the merchant engineering team at Groupon was reviewed by at least two people and the same is true of most my open source contributions.

>How many jobs are the YC companies contributing? I'm sure they're (mostly)all amazing places to work, but there's plenty of jobs you wont even be picked up from the pile of CVs if you haven't done a degree.

That may be true of many places, but at I can claim with certainty that FB and Google will both give interviews and even recruit engineers without CS degrees. It wouldn't surprise me if it were the least appealing jobs that most strictly adhere to credential-based hiring decisions.

FWIW, I used to run an HR effort at a tech start-up before I became an engineer myself, so I'm not completely unfamiliar with how they operate.
Also, meetups. Meetups are awesome both for meeting new people AND doing something fun while at it.
There's a draft uploaded at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
How do these people not understand that when they say "we lost the files" the public hears "we definitely did it, and we're probably still doing it."

The tory party is now surely the baby-raping party in the minds of everyone who read about that investigation and the "lost" files.

TBF not much change there.
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I'm one of a handful of people I know who still use a desktop on a (mostly) daily basis outside of work. They're all either devs or heavy PC gamers.

Having said that, I don't know a single person who doesn't at least use a laptop every other day or so. Most of my friends have smartphones, but I don't know anyone who relies on that as their only access point for online services.
I am stuck in the 8, maybe is something related with the american culture and I don't know it because I'm spanish.
The first part drives me nowhere,
The second one is a christmas song
The third one Legendary -> Barney?
What I'm missing?
Brendan Eich's response is funny as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj49rmc01Hs#t=308
Travel and while you are doing it learn to scuba dive. I could barely put my head in the water without panicking when I started. There is something magical about floating and you can see down 25-40 meters below you. For example a night dive around a ship wreck or seeing all kinds of mind blowing under water wildlife!

I suppose in a non-self help way life is about living a bit outside of your comfort zone... so what are you scared of? Do that.

Make certain that the flight is one way and that you aren't just dipping your toe in like I did at the start of the year. You need to be able to flow while you are travelling (having to deal with a flat or stuff that's not tied up back home is shit) and it's really easy to meet people if you can book a highly rated hostel room. "Hello" works.

I think I've just given myself the bug again, why is it so grey outside on July 11!
Scanned the headline really quickly.

Read "game theory secrets for patents".

Was intrigued. Clicked link. Was surprised.

As for the tips, meh. Not much substance to the article.

Holding your ground without being a dick works well, as does remaining calm at all times. Easier said than done, but effective.
Nice! and in 325 LOC :-)

This tool (or something like it) has been asked for a few times on Stack Overflow. I can see that many people will find this useful.
I wouldn't say it's "wrong", any more than, e.g., this site's use of "hacker" is wrong - just jargon that isn't present in this community.

It's reasonable for the term metagame to encompass the evolution of the strategy of a game over the years (character matchups in fighting games, use of certain "builds" in real-time strategy, etc.), as it's beyond the scope of individual matches or players; it's then reasonable to abbreviate that to "meta", as many gaming communities do, and applying it to long-term trends in things other than games is only a small semantic shift.

Of course, that means little if the term doesn't actually exist here, but if it could come to exist without any especially gross abuse of language, I wouldn't call it wrong.
If you want to create something that you can link into C program, there are several options:

Lisp systems like LispWorks can generate typical platform shared libraries.

Many can easy embed C-code.

Some compile to C, which than can be embedded. ECL is only one example. Others are mocl or the ECL-related systems.
Exactly. UK Anti terrorism legislation has almost always been "emergency" that was extended and solidified.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009...
I'm interested to see how the web business model changes in the next decade. I think it's likely that web advertising is a dead end. There's been a number of articles about how Facebook advertising is a waste of money, ad impressions are down in general, and like this article describes, Adblock is really taking off. I think, and desperately hope, that we're going to see more voluntary subscription type services like Patreon, where the content itself is released for free.

I personally loathe advertising. When watching YouTube videos on my phone, where I can't use Adblock, I actively mute and set the phone aside during ads that can't be skipped, or that I choose to let play to support the content creator. Then I come back 30 seconds later to view the content I wanted.

I recently switched to using Firefox on mobile because it's the only mobile browser I'm aware of with an Adblock plugin. I put up with mobile advertising for several years--I understand that's how web content creators get paid in 2014, even if I think it's a crummy business model. But advertisers crossed the line when my phone started talking about construction contractors at me out loud. Instantly switched to Firefox, installed Adblock, and didn't look back. Advertisers have no one to blame but themselves for the rise of Adblock.

Sorry, advertisers, but your ilk are simply too scummy to put up with. You abuse otherwise valuable technology, you waste my time and bandwidth, you manipulate feelings and entire cultures, and you convince people to buy crap that is useless and often actively harmful. I'm done with advertisers and I hope Adblock hastens their demise. Content creators will figure out a different business model without your horseshit.

This post became progressively more angry the more I thought about advertisers :)
How to make a cat your friend?
Also, the bikeshed should be turquoise.
> To me, that reads like it will be valid if there are users in the UK.

There's even better: applying it if the company's packets ever transit through the UK (since that means "[some] part of a telecommunication system partly in the United Kingdom").

And IIRC it just happens that most of the backbone capacity between US and EU goes through the UK.
> How well can this mesh network see you? How accurately can it geo-locate and track the movements of your phone, laptop, or any other wireless device by its MAC address? Can the network send that information to a database, allowing the SPD to reconstruct who was where at any given time, on any given day, without a warrant? Can the network see you now?

I feel like Betteridge's law applies here. Yes, it could. Maybe it does. Do you have any evidence of these claims? Nope.

> Note that he didn't say the mesh network couldn't be used for the surveillance functions we asked about, only that it wouldn't.

Yes, that literally every enterprise access point in existence could be used for that type of surveillance, so of course he didn't say it couldn't be used for that. That would be lying. So what more assurance could we possibly have than "it wouldn't"?
Read the linked document, they looked at other vendors, all the other vendors that could meet the requirements needed to make significant (charged) customization to their product to bring up to spec. LM had the only product that could be used off-the-shelf.
In your graph captioned "Observed Desktop Adblocking Rate vs Predicted Rate", where does the curve for predicted rate come from? It's not explained in the text.

You do not show how much of the decline in ad revenue is caused by adoption of adblock, or even whether the amount of decline attributable to adblock is significant or measurable. You merely point out that revenue has declined and that adblock adoption has increased.

EDIT to add: You show no data on adblock adoption that covers the same time span as your graph of revenue. Your proxy for adbock use covering this timeframe, Google searches, shows a distinctly dissimilar pattern from the revenue graph for the same period. You claim a "correlation" but don't calculate one. You fail to demonstrate anything about causation.