skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around the time this TV series aired competitions fundamentally changed in the UK.

If we go back to the days before the internet it was possible for a competition to ask a difficult question that you couldn't 'just Google'. You would have to have the breadth and depth of 'General Knowledge' or you would need to make a trip to somewhere like the library to look up the answer. This made it so that some prizes were 'deserved', imagine you had some novelty item signed by some famous sports-person, you would have to know something about that sport to enter, consequently there was reward for those that knew their stuff.

Tie-breaker questions were also quite common, as in 'complete in less than 25 words: I use the product coz...'

Then something changed with how the competitions were 'paid for'. In the days of postcards the prize came from some sponsor, the TV production crew sifted the cards and found the ones with the correct answers, then picked out some quality tiebreaker.

So then it changed to phone lines and TXT messages. Clearly it now cost money to enter, albeit that cost being a premium rate phone number - '0898' numbers etc. Money was made off the phones, even if notionally a 'national rate' call. So the answers were 'a', 'b', 'c' with questions requiring less thought than you would think possible, e.g. for the Tour de France show a bike would be the prize and the question being 'How many wheels does a two-wheeled bicycle have?' a) 2, b) 25, c) 27.

Behind the scenes the phone lines and the organisation of the competition would be out-sourced to a company with no involvement in the production of the show. The revenue from the phone competition would be enough to cover the production costs of the show and the prize would be something the producers had acquired for free anyway.

At least in the UK it is now not really that possible to live off competition winnings, as per Eggplant Man. Quality competitions have gone and the relationship between reader/viewer and those setting the competition has completely changed. Some things (but not many) were better before the internet.
The film itself starts around the 7'30" mark.
I've been in cabs where they give you a hard time about paying with credit cards, I'm assuming because of the fees or they'd rather deal with cash maybe under the table?
Some cabs "strongly encourage" the use of cash, since there are no fees paid to the credit card company.

Using the 2013 NYC Taxi data that was posted earlier, the amount of people who pay with cash vs. amount of people who pay with credit card is about 50:50.

Here's a quick spreadsheet of the distribution: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EaP9LJ7i1MPREuypejOr...
It seems very difficult to conclude that Uber and Lyft are responsible for reducing DUIs from that graph.

* There's already a downward trend well before Uber and Lyft come into play.

* Even if the downward trend is stronger more recently, Waze also came into existence a few years ago. Maybe people were, e.g., downloading Waze and using it to find police cars beforehand.

* The graph measures arrests, not incidents. So it could be that, for instance, police are getting laxer about DUI enforcement, rather than that people are driving drunk less.

In short, there's too many confounding factors here to conclude that Lyft and Uber should get credit.
They're also looking at adding 6 or 8 layer boards, too.
I also have been working on http://bigboardlist.com/ but haven't updated it in a bit
When it comes to book publishing, isn't it Hachette that is the Giant monopoly?

If you want to buy a book they publish, you are a click away from bying it from http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ or from Apple if you want it on your ipad.

But if Amazon wants to sell it they have no choice but to get it from the conglomerate Hachette.

My favorite comment on this so far comes from Hugh Howey (author of the WOOL series)at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hugh-howey/winning-at-monopoly...

From that article.

“The real monopoly, once you start examining business practices and attitudes, is Big Publishing itself,”

"Where is the outcry for Amazon-published authors who are blocked from sale by practically every brick and mortar store? It doesn't exist. The response is simply: That's what those authors get for signing with Amazon. Imagine an observer today saying, "That's what those authors get for signing with Hachette." The hypocrisy astounds."﻿
This website is inspiringly simple
This is straight up he said she said.

If what she says is in fact true, my heart goes out to her. But she has provided no evidence and no description of the incident that allegedly occurred. And Max has insisted that there was never any sexual intercourse involved and that everything that happened was consensual. So someone is lying, and we can't really get to the bottom of who it is unless there is more evidence/witnesses.

There's got to a better way to handle this. I'm sorry if you think that we should believe a claim merely because it was made, but that's why our legal system is set up the way it is. Because you have to have evidence. Yes, our courts suck at dealing at this. But this is unquestionably worse.
Flying you can see when strong winds blow from land. The sea is flat at the beach. But just 3 or 5 miles inland waves can be 1 meter high or more. It's amazing how fast they go from milimeters to meters.

It's also possible to see how the wind blows differently, when guided by hills and valleys. Just like pointing a huge hair dryer to a bathtub.

Edit: typos
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I'd like to see the benefit of each pan type analysed. If the fins are on the sides of the pan, then I can see there being little benefit on a frying pan.

I'm sort of disappointed this is patented and only available on a saucepan costing £60+. It's the type of invention that would specifically benefit poorer house holds.

As an 'evolution' of this, what would the impact of a cpu heat sink 'vortex' base have on the efficiency of a pan. Go crazy and have a double skinned pan (attached by many internal fins), then vent the hot air up through the gap between the pans via the 'vortex'.

Now I know cleaning this could be an issue...but I'm assuming you would capture quite a high amount of the heat from the burning gas.
I find it quite interesting that when private schools are mentioned as an alternative to some of the terrible public schools we have in the US, the HN majority (which I now need to mention as a whole, since most things are down voted if they don't fit the opinion of HN) goes crazy and talks about how anti-union this, etc.

But, both Uber and Lyft are completely going around the taxi unions in many cities in the US by not paying regulatory fees and it's a-ok.
How much credit do they give ? And what's the difference between services ?
It's disappointing that they're getting rid of the RCA video jack. That's the only thing that draws me to the RPi. The SOC is slow and outdated, the layout of the board is horrible, but I can get a 4" screen for $10 that works just fine. Unless the cost of HDMI displays comes down, you might as well use a Beaglebone Black.
Not all cabs want to use it because 1. it's recorded and 2. "fees" that they don't want to pay.

The strategy used in Chicago when a credit card machine isn't working is just to tell them you don't have cash and you're walking out if they won't accept a card ("for a 'broken machine'") Magically it starts working again. [The city of Chicago mandates that they must be able to accept credit cards]
Most groceries are bough weekly , so why is 1-day important for you? is it only for the times around the week that you miss some stuff ?
I agree.

Python, for example, has a list type (mutable), and a tuple type (immutable). Swift could simply adopt the same thing and use `(1, 2, 3)` for immutable arrays and `[1, 2, 3]` for mutable arrays. It would break backwards compatibility but it is a beta.

Every other language (Ruby, Python, PHP, Javascript, for example) that uses `[]` as syntax for arrays always uses it as a mutable array type. I don't see why Swift shouldn't do the same, and provide a separate type and possibly new syntax for the immutable version.
Ah! The times when it's gotten restored immediately involved a change in hosting or pointing out defects in the original notice, or the hosting provider accepting liability because the counter seemed sufficiently strong to take a stand. I didn't remember there was an actual 10-14 day lag written into the law.

(Thankfully, I've never been the one to actually handle DMCA issues from the service provider side myself.)
According to the data sheet (http://docs-europe.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/12de/090076...) they haven't got rid of the RCA jack.
Ah I see. It says so under the button at the bottom of the page, but not under the one at the top.
I don't see anything wrong with the beta3 semantics. I see it as problematic that (=) is so casually overloaded between "assign" and "equivalate".

> Now aliasing an array will cause the array to be copied. Isn’t that weird?

But assignment to a mutable reference is just that, assignment not equivalation. It is not merely aliasing. We do not desire the ability to freely replace "b" with "a" so why assume it holds?

Sure this might vary from programmer's mental models, but that is the fault of the programmer after a point. I expect all hammers to work roughly the same, yes, but I expect a laser cutter to work under very different principles. I must learn them.
The composite signal is still available on a fourth pole of the 3.5mm jack. See:

http://docs-europe.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/12fa/090076...
Oh, good point. I totally missed that, thanks.

(Edit) Better now?
Fine, I'll say it plainly. Using singular-they in all cases is in my mind a reasonable accommodation if you live in a world where there are two or more genders and you are obligated to use someone's gender-identification rather than their society-assigned gender. But during the Chelsea Manning trial, a group of serious people very "concerned about trans issues" demanded unreasonable accommodation, that all references to Manning as "he," even ones made in the past and which referred to her when the world identified her as male, had to be altered. My point is that using singular-they in every case, even if you think it could be a reasonable accommodation, is already not good enough for a significant number of people, both people that will still demand that you retroactively erase all reference to prior gender, and people for whom "they" is offensive and demand you memorize and use everyone's personal pronouns.

I was not intending to mock trans people, I was mocking extremists in that group. It's really fucking annoying when you were for gender-neutral pronouns your whole life, took shit for that because nobody wanted to use "clumsy grammar," then you get shit from some trans people who claim that you're erasing their identity:

<quote>Look, if you take gender neutral pronouns and start using them for people that aren’t gender neutral, you are appropriating my and other non-binary people’s pronouns, whatever way you cut it. You’re also erasing and devaluing both binary and non-binary trans* people, who have to fight every single day to be recognised and treated as their gender. This smacks of that whole ridiculous ’gender is irrelevant’ shit. That sentiment ‘gender is irrelevant’? Yeah, it’s trans* erasure.</quote>

I am not the pedant. These people are the pedants. But these are the people you are going to be dealing with when you talk about what pronouns you should use in writing, so you better be aware of it.
I doubt it has anything to do with Uber/Lyft specifically and everything to do with the availability of cabs. So, another way of framing this: how many DUI deaths have been caused by artificial limitations on the number of cab licences over the years?

In Seattle when I was in my early 20s, it was nearly impossible to call or catch a cab when the bars closed, so often we just walked home. And on New Year's Eve? Forget about it...

Incidentally, walking in a city while drunk is also dangerous. For about a third of U.S. pedestrian deaths, the pedestrian was drunk, according to one study. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/drunk-walking-leads-pedestria...
tldr version:

"Amazon pays too little tax in the UK because of eurozone policies."
It would be terrifying if AWS was just Amazon's excess capacity, as then one might want to ask what would happen when Amazon suddenly needed the capacity... Apart from for spot instances, a lot of people have never seemed to get that Amazon needs to over-provision massively because of how the product works, and that their customers still need to cover the cost of all that over capacity.
Very similar to randomColor.js: http://llllll.li/randomColor/

Definitely need a contrast mode. I've been thinking about forking randomColor.js for the last week to implement that feature actually..
Spoiler alert. The answer to the headline is, "Who knows? But nice to wonder, eh?"

> Again, caveats are in order. We've simply plotted arrests on a timeline here; we haven't adjusted for changes in the city's population, or bar scene, or the economy. Any number of other things may have changed in the city over the last few years affecting DUI arrests. It's possible police have changed how they conduct DUI stops and arrests, or that public pressure on them to crack down on DUIs has ebbed with time. Other changes in public transit service may have impacted alternative routes that bar-hoppers take home.

It's also striking that San Francisco and Philadelphia show a steep and parallel rise in DUIs long before these services ever came to town; on both charts, it looks as if DUI numbers may be returning to an older normal as much as they've been falling. Perhaps these services have arrived on the market just in time to ride the benefits of an improving economy? (More theories on this welcome below as well).

It's sad that traffic-desperate news sites have forgotten how to write a assertive, non-question headline...something like "Measuring ride-sharing's impact on DUIs requires more data" would do just fine.
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This is an excellent post.

A meta comment (not on Swift): the number of new languages with C-like syntax and nothing revolutionary semantically is baffling. Do we really need to master yet another C-like syntax to do X where a library (or an existing language) would have sufficed? Is this the new way to create technological walls?
Thanks. Hacker News is an English-language site. This is not to disparage content in other languages; it's just what the site is. Posts not in English will mostly be demoted, unless they're of major significance and not available in translation.
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reminds me of http://vimeo.com/36579366
SES is really the only AWS service that has not been done by anyone else as far as I know.

sendgrid is like 5 years old:
http://sendgrid.com/

mailchimp's version:
http://mandrill.com/

rackspace:
http://www.mailgun.com/

also:
https://postmarkapp.com/
Even if you think this sort of thing is OK because of EULAs or explicit consumer buy-in (I know multiple people that are OK with it because they are bigtime gamers and appreciate its reduction of cheating,) this is one more NSA attack vector. How's the security on this backdoor? Does EA ever service NSLs?
Thanks for correcting me: indeed, it's an open architecture which was used by Sun, Fujitsu and TI for their CPUs, and it's unrelated to MIPS.
It was $1 when I saw it, the link below says it's now $3. It's a credit for Amazon movies/music though, so it doesn't actually cost Amazon $3.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-no-rush-delivery-2012-...

From my experience the difference is that they delay shipping your item. They claim to have one of the best shipping and handling systems in the world but for some reason they save money by delaying boxing an order for a week, it doesn't really make sense to me. I think they're really just trying to get people to purchase Prime.
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Selling OpenVZ VPSs with no public IPv4 addresses
In the UK they also offers "Collect Plus" - a delivery option where they ship to a participating nearby corner store and you pick it up from the tills. In my case it's a 3 minute walk to the nearest Collect Plus location, and they're "everywhere" near us, or we have 15 minute bus ride to the nearest locker..
Very nice app. Lovely interface and easy to use. I think this will replace the app I've previously used.
I would request a feature to browse music by folder structure as is in dropbox. I use dropbox/drive to store song collections, but not strictly albums.

Also I was looking for a nice app to browse dlna/mpd library on my network and something that works like this would be perfect. Although I acknowledge that would bring your project off in a totally different direction!

Good work and thanks for the special free offer!
Reddit has a lot of pictures of various setups, though maybe not specifically for "home office" purposes...

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations
Someone make a bookmarklet to fix unpleasing web sites using this.
That was something I suspected as well, but that doesn't seem to make any sense. Why would anyone want to use a REST API to select colors when a local lib with similar functionality exists?
I know this isn't the main purpose of the software, but has there been experiments with a bvckup being restored on a different piece of hardware? I'm not talking completely, changed the CPU and architecture, but more like different drive sizes and such.
I find this fascinating: `Yet the disturbing implication is that, under different circumstances, nuclear attacks might make sense. Finkbeiner accuses Dyson and his co-authors of "supping with the devil."'

I can't tell if that's the review author or the book author speaking. It's the point of such a group to think of such things? Isn't there indeed an unambiguous case in which "nuclear attacks made sense": Hiroshima?

I find it hard to think of cases where a nuclear attack would not be worse than not doing so, but not impossible.
You can view (and modify) the source code of all Chrome extensions to check that it won't track if the option is disabled:

Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\<Name>\Extensions
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions
Linux: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/
Meh. This just sounds like a rehash of the Uber press release from a while back - http://blog.uber.com/tag/dui/

I doubt they're having much impact, personally, unless in cities where there isn't much of a developed cab infrastructure already, and people drive for a night out. This probably doesn't describe anywhere outside the US.
The moment Paul Graham tried to tell me I was a hacker I knew I unconditionally wasn't. Actually, not quite, it wasn't until I got to the bit in Hackers and Painters about tax policy that I realized how hard I was being played.
I had never explored Mandrill, thanks.

SES is still the cheapest (especially when scaling up) and extremely fast from my experience with it.

Here is a good article I found about SES and competitors such as Mandrill: http://www.ventureharbour.com/transactional-email-service-be...
Exactly my experience coming home late from the office. I call an Uber, leave my building when it arrives, get into a vehicle that at least has some trust associated with it, and I get out at my destination without my wallet ever leaving my pocket.

Psychologically, trust and safety are huge multipliers. Most of the press I see on these companies is convenience-oriented. My experience, and with extensive self-defense training, is that the whole experience is just much safer.

Unlike other modes of transportation, there are few times I'm really at-risk. I'm not standing outside trying to hail a taxi or going on the subway or walking through a park. I'm not getting into an unknown vehicle. And I'm not having to pull out my wallet.
Isn't listening to users the least that we should be able to expect from any open source project? Some projects (like GNOME and Firefox) have not done this very well lately, but it used to be pretty standard. The BSDs and their affiliated projects have generally been more receptive to the needs of users than most open source projects, as well.

I'm disappointed to hear that the use of -Werror was removed, though. I wish they'd been more specific in the email about how far they've gone with this. Is it only removed for certain platforms/compilers where it was problematic, or is it gone for all builds?
Isn't the purpose of Uber/Lyft exactly about increasing the number of "cabs"? I don't see a distinction here, your explanation is coincident with the causal factors driving the effect.
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I didn't appreciate that Rust makes that distinction, that really is quite elegant.

By way of comparison (to Rust and the original article), here is Scala:

scala> val a = scala.collection.immutable.Set("apple", "orange")
a: scala.collection.immutable.Set[String] = Set(apple, orange)

scala> a = Set()
<console>:8: error: reassignment to val
a = Set()
^

scala> val b = scala.collection.mutable.Set("cherry", "plum")
b: scala.collection.mutable.Set[String] = Set(cherry, plum)

scala> var c = b
c: scala.collection.mutable.Set[String] = Set(cherry, plum)

scala> b += "pear"
res6: b.type = Set(pear, cherry, plum)

scala> c
res7: scala.collection.mutable.Set[String] = Set(pear, cherry, plum)

scala> c = a
<console>:10: error: type mismatch;
found : scala.collection.immutable.Set[String]
required: scala.collection.mutable.Set[String]
c = a
^

In other words: var versus val has to do with mutable bindings; mutable bindings allow you to mutate the value but not the type; object mutability within the bindings is governed by the object's own type (as the original author recommended for Swift).
Knowing that some uninvestigated allegations must certainly be true, based on probability alone, I cannot tell you from that information which of the allegations are true, and which are not true. So from an epistemic standpoint I am no better off than I am if the allegation were not made at all.

Lets say we know from experience that about 10% of the prevously uninvestigated cases end up proving guilt. Does that mean the allegation itself means the person being accused has a 10% increased probability of being guilty, merely because they were accused? In other words, does merely accusing them make them less innocent? I would have to say no - their objective innocence or guilt has nothing to do with whether or not an allegation was made.
Well, then this discussion could have been really short, because of course the browser relies on the kernel so the kernel is part of the browser's attack surface. :rolleyes:
The post showing the balanced tree approach to modeling mutability is now up!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027548
You have no idea what you are talking about. Just before the war, the world was in the depths of The Great Depression. Four years later, thousands and thousands of men returned home with generous government benefits and money in the bank. You very suddenly had a large, well-off middle class -- something the world had never seen before in known recorded history.

What you are saying is akin to claiming "That's nuts. Most lottery winners do not want to spend their newfound riches or indulge themselves in a life of luxury. They prefer to keep working in a coal mine." Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Not true. Some small percentage will do that. But most decide "It's party time!" and many promptly give their notice at work.
Microsoft as an entity needs [i]self-awareness[/i]. Here, in one example, it lacks the self-awareness to realize that it needs an editor.
Are you kidding? Swift has a TON of revolutionary stuff over C, including algebraic data types, optionals, destructuring pattern matching, and a lot more. Rust too. There are a ton of new "C-like" languages that are light years beyond C99.

Edit: Not to mention automated memory management!