skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber’s Brilliant Strategy to Make Itself Too Big to Ban
Absolutely. I would hate if my neighbor started renting out his apartment to tourist on Craigslist or AirBnB.
It's amazing how society will always have it's shadow over you. I work my butt off to buy a home, my own piece of land but I have to ask the government permission for who to let stay on my land for a certain period of time.
Or it's an opportunity.
Great story josh, thanks. Medical IT systems are similarly antiquated here in the UK.

Winslow, your thoughtful comment here is dead, not sure why, best contact admins.
"You can live in your house, raise kids in your house, but maybe it's too dangerous to let you rent it to tourists". Seriously?

It looks like the kind of nonsense governments use when they want to bar you from some freedom isn't it? They put a discouraging administrative burden on you.
haskell can be used for pretty much everything (even hard realtime with a code generating dsl called atom), so just think about what you enjoy/like and maybe ask before for pointers to libraries you might use with that task.

if there is anything you like but is algorithmically challenging, all the better. it's very nice to express math in haskell.
I fixed this issue, but it'll take a while to propagate as Sourcegraph rebuilds all libraries that contain minified JS files. Thanks for reporting it.
> I also just lost the ability to downvote posts and comments

That is false. You really should follow the HN guidelines and take such matters up with us at hn@ycombinator.com. Why post, or even think, untrue things about your HN account, when it's so easy to find out what's going on?
Quantum math makes human irrationality more sensible
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brest,_Belarus
Why would you? Any Bluetooth 4.0 supporting spec is a potential beacon. That makes roughly 400 mil devices sold.
I'm in the late stages of writing up a PhD on this topic (nursing documentation in a community setting). The major problems are:

1. EHR technology is sold to managers, not clinicians.

2. The leadership of introducing the EHR is fragmented and highly dependent on local conditions such that success in one location does not guarantee success in another location. Likewise with failure.

3. Researchers have a tendency to treat evaluation of health technology as epistemologically equivalent to evaluation of pharmaceutical technology even though a cursory examination of the logic underpinning this assumption clearly demonstrates that this is not the case.

(point 3 makes my job very difficult and political. Fortunately this work[1] and the very few others like it, generally from the same research group lends my work instant legitimacy. Without it, getting my thesis through the committie would I fear be impossible).

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22188347
It sounds like a great idea, but thieves might want to own the servers that store this data. On these servers will be a list of products and because of the receipts, very likely the physical address of where they were shipped to and how new they are.

Also, although https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ does say the site supports 256bit AES, the unioncy server does not prefer it and under "handshake simulation" every current device will only negotiate a 128bit AES key.

Arguing about 256bit v.s 128bit AES on for TLS isn't really important though; the risks are all with the data-at-rest and stored on the unioncy servers.

In reading the privacy policy it appears that the product information will be used to provide selected and targeted advertising.
I don't know what you mean by "a super penalty". It's a mild penalty (the second mildest there is) applied algorithmically. It's been in place for over a year. We've posted about it more than once.

It's an attempt to strike a balance. There are vocal people who feel that HN has been overrun by NSA stories, and there are vocal people who feel that HN outrageously suppresses NSA stories. We try to treat both as legitimate branches of the community.
that's just nonsense. there are many people very concerned about performance.

i guess you are right that some do not care about constant factors, but i am very sure most do care about algorithmic complexity. and thinking about it, that's the approach you should use for anything where every last bit of performance is not utterly needed.
Trying to map a superset of a different language to the Erlang VM would likely be much more difficult than the current approach.
Sure, there are problems with higher ed. Esp w.r.t. cost.

Popularizing a myth that skipping out on college is a rational self-interested choice for most actors is ethically dubious, especially when the people you're convincing are kids (who you aren't simultaneously handing 100k to). I think it's fair to say that the effect of rhetoric counts as much as intent.

Any deeper argument about the structure of US higher education is really beside the point.

edit: removed some thoughts about the matter that's beside the point.
What's "Vaguely Rude" about "Tosa"? (I'm serious, I don't get it)
The problems still exist. The religious leaders of all Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are still not doing enough, see my other comments here. Muslims alone can't be expected to change anything if others aren't willing.
From what I have read (previous 538 blog post on Messi), they are already tracking a good deal of data about the games. I think one issue with soccer is that there is a lack of discrete, measurable outcomes in the game. I read a while back that one of the breakthroughs in basketball analysis came when they started tracking the total point differential during each player's time on court. Because so many points are scored in a game, and because so many games are played in a season, this stat was a fairly reliable and accurate picture of how a player would impact the team's performance (which allowed teams to measure the impact of players who may not rank high in the more traditional stats).

In soccer, you don't have a lot of data points to model against. The number of goals scored is typically low. Because of this, there is probably a higher level of uncertainty and variance in the outcomes of soccer games (and the prediction models as well).
singingfish well outlined! would like to see more of the thesis. good luck!
Tosser. Aka a wanker.
Cortex: A Package Manager for Browsers. Now Public after 1.5 yr in Production
There are different types of "clicks". I have got the medium, just not to bother to my colleagues.
Ask HN: Dropbox-like file-sharing with stronger encryption than just password?
Estonia’s vision allowing anyone in the world to start using its ID-cards: goo.gl/kXPL7b. Do you see value in this kind of cloud service: login by inserting ID-card and PIN1; upload a file; encrypt it with PIN2; share it by writing other’s ID Card code; other can decrypt it by entering his PIN2. So, no site or state or NSA can get this document and it would be safer than just a password-encryption as I would need to steal your ID-card also.
Atheists: The Origin of the Species
If i'm not mistaking, Germany used SAP (the big German ERP company) and bigdata for help in decisions :)
Sales support.
10 Resume Blunders You Didn't Even Know You Were Making
It's funny how your first thought is not to go to your neighbor, ask around and see whether this is going to be any trouble for you at all and if it is, try to work out a solution you both would agree on. Your first thought: permit, government, regulation. He's your neighbor for gods sake. It's not like you can't go talk to him. Why do you, by default, treat him like a piece of scum with which only government can deal?

Needing some kind of permit to do whatever I please with my property, if it doesn't create problems to anybody else, is insane.
> 8 of the 20 kids I spoke to ... said at one point or another ... they’d consider going back to college ... Even the ones who said they would definitely not go back ... said they might also go back.

So far so good...

> 6 of the Thiel Fellows have gone back to college so far [out of 80]

So far so reasonable...

> half of them admitting they plan to go back at a later date.

What the... I don't even... My god... facepalm

From your comment (emphasis mine):

> the fact that 1/2 of recipients

Fact? Not even.
We fixed part of the root issue by restarting GitLab automatically when we configure a server as master, preventing it from continuing with the staging data. The staging data was created automatically by gitlab-ctl. I agree that this is confusing and created the item: "Why did GitLab start when it shouldn't?" in the postmortem. Thanks for raising this point.
Honestly, we call them computer language for a reason, to a certain extent, you're saying you are very good at English but you can't for the life of you understand Japanese, all those weird symbols! Takes a while to be familiarized with a language and specially when the paradigm is completely different, not sure if it's a good or a bad thing (this paradigm change), but you'll have to make an initial effort, that's for sure.
From the article:

"...said at one point or another in our conversation that they’d consider going back to college after they are done..."

"On top of that, some of the kids I spoke to from the previous year also said they would go back or at least might consider it at the end of their two years"

Those are the author paraphrasing the students. They don't back up the claim that half are returning to college, or that they even plan to -- the students are just keeping their options open.

If I missed a more clear quotation supporting the claim, let me know.

The author says "half of them admitting they plan to go back at a later date", but that seems to be based entirely on his interpretation. It seems clear the author is not in favor of Thiel's program, so I am not taking his interpretation for granted.
Most people own land on a fee simple basis (in England, the Crown holds the allodial title), but that's another discussion.

I've used airbnb in many European cities where the rentals are invariably converted apartments in dense buildings (i.e. 30-200 apartments) in a residential neighbourhood. It's completely different to letting out a farm house on an estate in the middle of no where. Respect for your neighbours (tenant and owner alike) in such communities is paramount.
The only thing I could find was potentially a 7-0 match for Turkey vs. Korea in the 1954 World Cup, which was played in Switzerland? Hard to say, since the data seems to come from:

http://www.world-results.net/

and is a paywalled API.
Talking about private property. People can't even rent it without government permission and then you hear voices saying "you wouldn't have private property if not for the government". Well, guess what, it's not yours if you need a permission to do stuff with it.
I'm sorry to hear you are experiencing problems. This is the first report we see of possible corruption. Please contact support@gitlab.com and note the urls and commands that do not work for you. Edit: there another report I just found: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/2
Gotta adore the whitewashing priorities.
In the US, "wanker" is not common slang and is mainly only known by fans of British comedy.
Don't take my word for it. I thought the same thing about Facebook and look at them now.
If you own it you probably had it inspected before you bought it and you can make changes to ensure it is safe. You can ensure changes are done safely and get them checked if you want to. You have personal liberty.

When you rent it there are minimum standards, renters are often in a weak position to get things fixed and for short term rents the renter is arriving blind with possibly no opportunity to change plans if they recognise there are safety issues even if they have the skills to identify them.
Cant hold it
This was close to my reaction while browsing this map: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m1agaZinJHg
I don't know. I almost always fix the bugs immediately (same or next day). If I can't do that in that short time frame, I'll explain it to the customer and ask them to give me a couple of days to fix it.
"HN" didn't bury it. Users flagged it.

There is also a mild penalty automatically applied to NSA stories (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008437). But it's the user flags that are mostly weighing this one down.
There are a few mentions of ListRunner in there but no links to the site - you should update the blog template to handle that if you can.

For anyone else, the URL is: http://www.listrunnerapp.com/
But if he rented it to tourists and had government approval then it would be ok ? I don't quite follow…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z7... <= seems like we should also block GeoTrust - GeoRoot !
http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/worldcup/switzerland...
> Wankers Corner Saloon and Cafe, Wilsonville, Oregon

That's where the bar moved to a few years ago. The actual location is in West Linn, OR - right next to a school. I used to drive by there every day, and I'm happy to report that no wankings were sighted.
Ugh, doesn't use progressive enhancement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
Landau and Lifshitz's Classical Mechanics - dense, high level, the classic text.
Even better from a user's perspective (although undoubtedly untenable revenue-wise) would be micro-payments after reading the article. I'd much rather pay for something after I have a chance to determine its value.

Perhaps showing a preview then a paywall to read the rest would work, but the vast majority of those I've seen use far too short a preview to really tell whether the article is worth reading.
Very good point about jumping around in technical books. I rarely read any tech books for this reason. eBooks are better suited for casual reading which is done front to back. Tech/reference books suffer on eReaders due to poor navigation and insufficient linking.
Here are the things that have proven effective for us:

- Guest blog posts
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I was surprised to find that google translate did a good enough job at conveying the idiocy:

Let the state of #Israel to win and take your gloves without spare any Gazan!

Talk about putting the war home: Gazan Commander and his family immigrated to storm heaven.
It can't be infinitely less likely to produce a false result or we'd never have miscarriages of justice. Current research estimates the rate of false positives in capital crimes (almost all of which are homicides) at 4.1%. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/23/1306417111.full...

But the point here is that chance is only 50%, so if we have a mechanical system that's within shouting distance of matching our extremely elaborate and very expensive trial system then that's noteworthy. 81% is not far away from 87%; what happens when the machine learning system can repeatably identify homicidal behavior with greater accuracy than our criminal justice system? Overall accuracy is highly significant because it will create a lot of pressure to identify murderers in the interests of public safety. Of course we shouldn't rely on such a system because of the risk of false positives, but you'll see attempts to bring it into evidence in more and more cases. If/when such a system starts to outperform the existing on in terms of having a lower number of false positives, then every innocent defendant is going to demand it and every guilty defendant (in the legal sense) will cite it as a mitigating circumstance.
Can you please fix this markup? There should be a href on the <a> tag.

<p><a>View examples</a></p>
Ask HN: what makes a great community?
I have small community of programmers on Facebook, around 10,000 members spread across various groups and a few pages.

I'd very much like to bring the community to the next level, by way of its own website, with dedicated forums, chat, etc. I'd like to integrate this closely with the FB community so that there is little resistance in migration from one platform to the other.

My own platform gives me more flexibility in how I build and grow the community. I was just wondering what, in your opinions, make for a really good, great even, community?
Good news! There are still many developers using Windows in my company.
Well, if you have a property elegible for renting in AirBnB, you are not the kind of people who is suffering unemployment, so I'm not sure if your segmentation applies here to support AirBnB growth in Spain.

Spain is the 2rd receptive tourist destination for the world (1st is US) (uwto.org)
I hate the way the word "abnormal" is thrown around just like that. I would bet that any group of people with a strong common characteristic could be found to have common "abnormalities" in their brain.

<Morgan Freeman>Does this average, normal brain, actually exist? Do the heads of more than 50% of people on Earth contain close to identical brains? Or are we all abnormal in our own way?</Morgan Freeman>

And their tendentious conclusion about predicting homicide is simply creepy.
I think the way out of this is a basic income guarantee. When a basic income is provided without requiring labor and this basic income meets the needs of an individual the cost of human labor will increase (the cost of everything will increase probably). This system assumes there is enough wealth around for the government to distribute enough to everyone.

This is Paul Krugman's take on it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-f...
Somewhat offtopic---do you have an opinion on ludei vs. phonegap, or know someone who does? Working on a js project I'd like to port to mobile, and somewhat bewildered by the choices...
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I dont know what to do
As a kid/ green hand, firstly, get used to new enviroment, and understand what is your job. After that, enjoy your work. Then try to get a promotion.
I can't see where the article makes a reference to equal temperament.

The diatonic scale is particularly interesting in that the tones can be re-arranged into a sequence of very basic harmonic relationships (fifths, which, depending on the tuning, is very close or equal to a 2/3 frequency ratio) that are found in music universally.

Based only on what I read in the article I would have to agree with the idea that it is all a guess, though, but in general I don't think that assumptions should be made on the basis of lack of evidence.
You do have lots of data points. Each pass is a data point, each shot is a data point. Opta logs mores than 2000 events per game, each with an outcome and pitch coordinates. Yes, soccer is more complex than even basketball, but there's a lot more money involved and people watching. This stuff is being worked out right now, and it's an exciting field.
OIC: a new IoT open standard to compete with AllSeenAlliance.org
As a renter, I don't mind. For those who do, there's a simple solution: the State can have it inspected at request and grant a certification, so that renters can be assured before committing.

Of course, that's if the law was actually intended to protect the renters.
Of course, Google is the priority.
The 12 year old in me spent way too much time looking at that :)
My mom who is an NP, (nurse then) used to say 20 years ago that the nurses are the "rememberers" and the doctors, the "thinkers". The most important job of the nurse was to remember what was going on with each patient and get the doctors up to speed as efficiently as possible.
Land "ownership" has no basis in natural law since it's a formalization of violence (all private land was either taken from someone else, or declared to be owned by threatening newcomers with violence). You can't own land the way you can own the fruit of your labor, so all land ownership is contingent on the consent of the community.
Ask HN: Is the following a poosible privacy issue in the WeChat app?
One of my friends uses WeChat. He shared with me how certain phrases entered into the chat rextbox trigger a certain animation on the screen. Phrases such as "I love you", "I miss you" etc trigger it, but not normal phrases.

This must mean that the app is monitoring the text being entered into the textbox. Isn't this a possible privacy issue? If yes, why isn't this being discussed yet?
Upvoted you. Even I find the new design to be terrible. One more point - the old webpage seems to be "simple" HTML - which loads properly even in very bad internet connections and old browsers like Hacker News. The new design seems to include video links in the homepage, which is always a bad idea, however "modern" you want it to be.

Also, the old homepage immediately gives a sense that Haskell is mature - with separate links about the language, books, libraries, IDEs, etc. The new webpage does not convey anything at all.
The requirements look steep but also are attainable for high level athletes in most sports. I think the difficulty is in a young candidate not having the idea of what he's getting into, let alone having a proper training program. If one barely passes the basic test, the initial bootcamp phase will only break him further and not give him enough recovery for Hell Week. On the other hand, if the person has already built to that level beforehand it should be attainable. The catch is that most young candidates have not.

The hardest part of training is building up your level, but once you're there you keep it. I'm a sedentary 31 year old now, but I bet I could still pass the basic test at optimum levels, with a couple months training. I certainly won't be motivated to do the next stages though.

http://www.sealswcc.com/navy-seals-buds-training-stages-over...
I always wondered if micropayments couldn't operate on a retroactive/guilt basis. e.g., you read articles as you would without a paywall and a cookie tracks your totals. At a certain point and every now and then thereafter, the site would tell you how many articles you've enjoyed freely, remind you of the professionals creating those articles and ask you to contribute based on your usage. Pay what you want, but suggest a typical value, etc.

Never got around to building a solution for it, but figured a startup could tackle this pretty easily with some code that clients could copy and paste to get started.
Agreed: this is a major operational flaw with deployed PKIX.

It has many unintended consequences, for example it's especially a pain with UEFI Secure Boot.