skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have with all of these images, is that they never sit centered with the text in the generated HTML. I love the idea, and I even have some different badges in a few of my repos but man is it frustrating to see sometimes haha. I'm probably the only one with this gripe, but it does drive me nuts.
Did you live in the streets before Airbnb came out?
Yeah, the taxi service in Seoul is among the best I've ever experienced (if you can get over the language barrier and sometimes grumpy drivers). Fast, cheap, ubiquitous. Several tiers of service, bullet taxis, company taxis, self-owned, deluxe.

For some tiers, drivers have to have 5-10 years of accident free driving - in Seoul that's remarkable.

Here's an example fare: $2.50 to pickup and go 2km, about $.70 a km after. Gangnam to Gyeongbokgung palace (across most of the city and over a major river) will run you about $15.

A trip from Brooklyn to Harlem, about the same distance and complexity, is likely to run $30-40. Uber will run you $40-50.
>> "Taxi Drivers complaining that barriers to entry are being removed, so fares remain artfically high."

Anytime I've read about Uber or the few times I've used it myself it is much more expensive than a taxi. They aren't coming in to drive fare prices down.
I don't think Uber's quality of service is the result of crowd sourced feedback. I think its the result of Uber as a company being aware of the intense scrutiny of its business model, and self-regulating accordingly. If the threat of shutdown wasn't looming overhead, and you saw the kind of competition in this space that you do with regular taxicabs (dozens of little cab companies), I don't think crowd sourced feedback would be effective.
Mea culpa. I didn't read the article. Glad to hear he was supporting medical research.

And I didn't really mean to say de Grey had all the answers - I'm by no means a fanboy. But I think his approach deserves a lot more attention and research dollars than it's getting. It's far too premature to write it off as "not panning out" - with respect, the medical establishment's efforts aren't "panning out" either, with orders of magnitude more budget.

I am not a doctor either, but I am a student of history, and history is replete with established fields of study resisting disruptive (and correct) new ideas until the very last. I'm not saying this is the case, but it is something we need to consider when you write of the dismissal of all these "working scientists", with their educations and investment in the status quo. It seems extremely plausible to me that a maintenance-based approach will win in the end, and de Grey's work, while not perfect, is at least a decent first effort.

And I doubt this 94-yr-old had any specific knowledge. 94 is on the upper end of a normal lifespan, given healthy lifestyle and the best medicine money can by. It's a little disingenuous to claim that by pure dint of that longevity he knows more than de Grey, who has spent years studying the matter, doctor or not.
I like the idea, however I'd disagree with the heuristic used. DS9 was really the first Star Trek series to introduce story arcs, and as such, skipping the wrong episodes leads to a confusing experience. I'd argue that in order to avoid missing out on important chunks of the arc, hand curation is really the only viable option (maybe text-clustering of plot narratives might work?).

Personally, as a huge DS9 fan, I think that you should watch every episode. Each episode adds colour and depth to the series' characters, and in my opinion makes it the most rewarding Star Trek series.
I'd be interested in a version of this for TNG as well. My wife recently expressed interest in running through TNG on Netflix, but there's several fairly bad episodes and a lot that are pretty tedious with little point. But I sampled a few of the ones I remembered as being good, and seen through eyes with 20 years more experience there's definitely more to them than I remember. So I'm not intrinsically against the idea, but I don't want to walk through the entire series.

For instance, we watched the episode where Picard is kidnapped by the Borg. As a teenager, my drama-IQ was not so low that I entirely missed the major storyline that Riker gets in that story about his career as he is challenged by the up-and-coming Shelby, but I certainly see it much more clearly and with far more nuance now.
I’d prefer GitHub to just support the <meter> element!
I give these indies a lot of praise. With no money and very little artistic support, the director pulled off a B class movie. Which is extremely admirable. The plot needs alot of work, but the idea of an overlord ei "Sheppard" is rather mesmerizing. It was a Sunday afternoon flick, and I sat through the whole movie. The mention of tor, wireless hacking with something like an raspberry-pi running xubuntu in a can on a battery. It was totally feasible, I might even put one together tonight. But for Geeks, this movie is something like a carrot on a stick for 24hrs.
I'm thinking of the red light in submarines during quiet time.
Do the famous 1201 and 1202 error codes make an appearance here? My assembly skills aren't good enough to find them, I'm afraid.
Quick someone fork it in to golang it's going be way more scaleable.. :-)

Sorry I couldn't resist. Nice Python implementation!
Functional is the new pythonic!

(edit: It actually is, half of the good things in Python, like list comprehensions and tuples and destructuring, were first seen in functional languages!)
I am still cringing from the thought of someone biting down on one of those!
While I agree with some amount of regulation, part of the benefit of "app-driven" business models is that some of the regulations become obsolete.

For example, one of the major reasons for taxi regulation is so you don't have to negotiate a fare after flagging down the car. The rate is regulated so you know what it will be before you flag down the taxi, and the regulated meter gives you assurances that you're not being cheated.

This bit of regulation becomes obsolete with an Uber model: if you request an Uber ride with the app, you know you'll be paying Uber prices (and you can even get an estimate in the app IIRC). There is no need to regulate the price because consumers are empowered to do informed comparison shopping prior to the hail.

Regulations should not be imposed on a business who has made the rationale for that regulation obsolete. Other regulations may still be important though.
The comments in the Chrome Web Store are hilarious: "Phenomenal! I installed it, removed it from my control bar, forgot it was running, and started editing wikipedia articles to remove references to Pokemon and pokedexes from articles, but they kept reappearing. FANTASTIC!"
You might want to add IRC channels also, e.g.:

#freelance #css-lance and ##php-lance on irc.freenode.net where people hang around for chat, if they are for hire.

I often hire for small problems by IRC chat. Just join the right channel to ask some challenging question. Thank those who helped, and pm them, if they are for hire. They already showed that they can do the job, so I only need to convince them to solve my little problem for good money. Instant hire to solve my problem, instead of an official advertisement that I'm hiring, and being flooded by hundreds of application mails.
I would like to add that quotes like this make me sympathize with abduhl's opinion even more:

> An Uber spokesman in Seoul denied that the service was illegal as Uber is “a technology company that connects drivers with passengers” and doesn’t directly run a taxi service with rented cars.

I know they want to claim they're not a (distributed) taxi company but that's what they are; they pay drivers, verify the drivers, help the drivers get insured and connect them with their passengers. That's what a taxi service is. Yes, they don't rent cars, but that is not the defining trait.

If they want to fight an injustice of a system, shouldn't they admit that's what they do -- and be ready for the consequences?
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Just a mini and nice python orm for mysql and sqlite
They've responded by saying that they're randomising locations - OP finds it's always 1km from his location.

If it's a fixed distance (radius) then only the angle can be randomised. This means that graphing even just a few points from a consistent location will lead to a circle centred precisely on the user's address. Even if it's only partial, an arc can be extrapolated to a circle without any loss.
The whole series is worth watching

Right now TV is in its "golden age" but there are no good sci-fi tv shows (hell even the word "scifi" is dirty somehow now, see > SyFy-lis).

Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Outer Limits all gone replaced by Vampires and all sorts of supernatural rubbish.

Dr Who is the only interesting scifi show now worth watching, for the most part...
If the leaders are important enough, you'll just get a new phone that can talk to theirs. Or a translation server. No need to bother the head-of-state with the technicalities. The point is, there's no reason for there to be a clever, all-in-one solution here, since these are allmost one-off solutions.
Can't tell you :( I take a look from time to time but I never applied for a job. Most of my jobs come from referrals from past clients.
In most of those cases there's no point thinking of them, just type the first one that comes to mind and move on
Right. This is due to about 10% inspiration and 90% petroleum. We are 100W machines with 10kW energy footprints. You can do a lot of work with that.
Maybe I'm not understanding the problem correctly, but I simply had the child components 'know' their index or id (stored in props) and then pass that to the parent with any call.
If they're not fixed in a few betas, I might file them.
The audits are practically meaningless. For instance, Tata[1] the second largest user of H1Bs gets away with paying programmers an average of $65k. They just classify them as "Computer Programmers" instead of "Software Engineers" which makes the prevailing wage much lower.

[1] http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Tata-Consultancy-Serv...
Given we are dealing with a virtual impossibility, you can easily get around it by linking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong brownian motion producer.

Alternatively, you could setup a VM to rejig all its browser settings and fonts and stuff each time it is used and then browse from there.
Payment via Moneygram is the biggest red flag here. If you've ever used craigslist you know they warn you, and there are tons of scams that use Western Union/Moneygram.

If you pay with a credit card through airbnb, you have several layers of protection: you could appeal to airbnb, and you could also dispute/issue a chargeback through your credit card company.
React is not meant to replace something like Backbone, it is only the 'V' in MVC although you could argue it is also the C.

React does not ship with any code for saving your data to the server.
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I was wrong.

http://ain.ua/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/204243_101501575974...
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Or maybe he said the "a" and the recording equipment didn't pick it up.
Because, I guess, Swing. Unless the standard compels implementations to use platform native windowing systems and theming engines (since you can't really leave it out if you want visual output) then its going to be an ugly mess. And, for example, a huge amount of Qt is just native theming on all its supported platforms.
I tried to keep story arcs in mind and just skip the "filler" episodes. Also skipped the lame story arcs, like those "the circle" people in S1/S2
Normally I would object to placing blame for the reputation of an entire field on the shoulders of a single person. But in this case, I fear you may be right to do it.
Totally depends on the person. I'm shy in interviews, always have been, but I'd happily challenge anyone with my knowledge. (I'm not saying I know everything or even a lot, but I am very confident of what I do know)
Yeah, the domain name is misleading. It really should be called "Equational reasoning for all". I'm reluctant to change it at this point, but I think I should make more of an effort to clarify that the posts are advocacy for purely functional programming languages, including Idris in particular since it is maturing quite rapidly.

Tonight I will revise this post to be less Haskell-centric by mentioning that most of what it describes applies to other purely functional languages and also mention how dependently typed languages can improve and mechanically check the proof process.
This is frequently implemented to add legitimacy to a domain – you can clearly see how it has been effective on you, and I assume you've got some technical competence!
> You know, I don't particularly like the "sharing economy" movement. The whole thing seems predicated on deregulation of industries that I honestly think should be regulated.

I mostly agree with you but I think the sharing economy is something that needs to happen in a better regulated way. Let's face it, wage growth is stagnant and the only way the average person is able to improve their financial situation is to be more efficient. [e.g. sharing cars, renting out spare rooms, moonlighting as an Uber driver]

My main problem with Uber is the fact it isn't paying the same tax rates to the local government as the Taxi companies.

My main problem with AirBnb is they don't even bother with building an address list to filter out apartment complexes [almost all of which don't allow subleasing in the US] & condos [ditto]. They need to do that and require a copy of the person's lease to be on file with them showing they can sublease, etc.
If there's one place that doesn't need an uber, it's Seoul. Perhaps one of the best cities on the planet to hail a taxi. Cheap, ubiquitous, safe and surprisingly highly regulated for safety and fares.

If you've never been to Korea, one thing that pops out immediately is the uniformly very high level of service quality nearly everywhere as compared to the U.S. or Europe. You can already order just about anything you can imagine to be personally delivered just about anywhere you are for next to nothing.

Taxis there are similar and the prices are so low it's a wonder that the drivers can even feed themselves. The fares barely seem to cover the cost of fuel.

I've never had a taxi show up late when I called for one, and there are so many you can usually hail one almost on demand. The taxis are always clean, unlike NYC. More importantly, the number of stories I've heard of drunk people leaving purses or phones behind, and having them returned the next day, is remarkable.

Sure you get the occasional surly driver, and language can be a problem, but that's anywhere, even with Uber drivers. And for $10-15 a ride across most of the city, Uber isn't pushing down anybody's prices.

If there's one place that can revolutionize their own taxi service and offer on-demand pickup via apps, it's going to be Seoul.

Uber's statement about Seoul is garbage. If there's an example of a modern, efficient, "smart" city, anywhere on the planet, it's there. Compared to London and D.C. at least, transport in Seoul is one of the best planned utopian paradises you can imagine and it gets remarkably better every year. The Seoul city government is right to crush it out of existence.
very cute. your numbers are interesting. if you read your history, you will see that a certain coal mining consortium in the '60s and '70s decided to leverage an abiding presence of foreign troops into providing massive social programs for their citizenry despite the crippling effects of a huge, costly war. I said healthcare, but the reality is also roads, bridges, buried power lines, etc. By not having to fund standing armies, the governments of Europe were free to do a lot that i wish my country did for us.

I'd say sorry you were offended, but i find your frustration comical, so i guess i will say thank you instead.
IIRC, Aldi's cashiers in the US were (are?) paid extremely well for a cashier. My mom mentioned to me (around 10 years ago) that the positions were infrequently open and competitive because they were paying close to $15 an hour.

Of course, two skills the cashiers were required to have were the ability to memorize lots of numbers and trustworthiness to handle large amounts of cash. It was likely worth it to pay employees enough to make getting fired enough of a deterrence to theft.
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I enjoyed "Magnificient Ferengi" in particular. An all Ferengi episode that featured virtually every prominent character of the race except the Grand Nagus.

Edit: It seems even on the list, there is Season 3, "The House of Quark"
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Looks good! I've put it on the list from the next iteration.
But surely there's a moment when you see

"monthly repayments: $ nnn"

and say to yourself "I can't afford that"

I'd understand it if they kept the monthly fee down to something small but charged enough interest that he was paying for the rest of his life, which is how a lot of property loans were structured.
Of possibly more contemporary relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

I suspect that the heavy duty "Clockwork Orange" stuff was abandoned as low-tech, expensive, cumbersome, politically dangerous, and difficult to deploy, and psychedelics abandoned as too unpredictable. Instead most research likely shifted into more subtile forms of psychological manipulation, both on an individual level using cult indoctrination techniques and on a mass scale using disinformation and media manipulation. When they say MKULTRA was a failure and was abandoned, they're probably telling a half-truth.

The speculations about the Peoples' Temple at the end of this article aren't particularly crazy at all. There's no proof so they're only speculations, but there's enough circumstantially there to give them a certain amount of credibility as worthy of investigation (if we had a press with a pulse). I've suspected for many years that the rash of weird cults that descended on the scene in the early 70s might have been, in at least a few cases, laboratories for the continuation of group mind control experiments. The Peoples' Temple may have been an experiment to see just how far you can take a willing group of "volunteers," and in the end it went so far... possibly threatening to escape control... that the entire group needed to be disposed of.

I also see the recent Facebook study on crowd manipulation as being evidence that these techniques are likely trickling into the private sector, as technologies usually do. The Facebook study showed only a very tiny effect, but Facebook is a medium permitting only limited interaction with the subject. You could probably gain significantly better results if you controlled or could influence much wider swaths of the media, as intelligence agencies can.

Unfortunately the conspiracy theory tag keeps anyone serious from looking into it, and the field is full of obvious nonsense about space aliens working with the CIA to mind control alien abductees on behalf of the global new world order chemtrail conspiracy or whatever the latest du jour is. Could all that stuff be disinformation designed to render the entire subject beyond serious inquiry? Naaah.
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These are exceedingly poor motives.

Write a framework in Swift if the abstractions it introduces are considerably better and more conceptually complete than the existing tools.

Otherwise you're not really improving things, just piling on more crap for people to learn.
Once I'm a little more comfortable with React I'm going to work on making the whole thing easily forkable so anyone could do it for another show by only modifying some json. I'm thinking X-Files next.
This isn't specific to comp sci. While I can't cite a specific story this many years out, I definitely recall my classmates in Physics going for their nuclear power interviews (I had already decided that wasn't for me) coming back their bragging/complaining that they had to explain the proper application of Schrodinger's equation to an interviewer.
This is an excellent suggestion. I will take a stab at this, but probably in Idris first if you don't mind. If I succeed then I will write about what I learned.
I do not believe in good and evil. I do believe that Denmark kicks ass, and i believe that free* thought and liberal socialism is worth fighting for.

Also, Denmark.
Right, though it's part of the "Tisch School of the Arts".
The revival of the airship: Cargo transport today, sky resort tomorrow?
Thanks.

@pg do you think having automatic archived mirrors linked on all submission would be detrimental to linked articles ?
It's still a great service, and you should still consider it. Just make sure to read up on how it works and always pay through AirBNB directly, not an outside site.
On Mac OS X I type Option-u and then the vowel for umlauts. Long press will just spam the letter you pressed.
Looking into this and other blank page reports!
If the whole situation weren't so horrible, the fact that Color Red partnered with Yo to push out rocket notifications would be comical.
Ummm... Actually very often the opposite is true.

I've interviewed a number of people who were incredibly confident in their language, voice and body language who clearly had no idea what they were talking about.

Similarly, I've interviewed people who clearly knew way more about the subject matter of the job than I did but who were incredibly nervous during the interview either because they were intimidated by the idea of working outside of academia, real/preceived language limitations, or because they were just incredibly shy and awkward.

I've generally tried to look for people who fit the sweet spot in-between: confident and sociable enough to be reasonably comfortable during the interview and humble enough to not be brash. The more "customer/client" facing the position, the more I care about the confident and sociable part.
>If they want to fight an injustice of a system, shouldn't they admit that's what they do -- and be ready for the consequences?

They are there to make money, and if fighting an injustice system is aligned with their goal of making money, they will fihgt. I get the feeling that Uber is idealized, same as Tesla.
That is a great question that I would love to have a solid answer / expert system for. There are so many variables to consider, many of which are hidden/private. It's something I intend to keep thinking about.
It's hard because the shows both have their own merits. TNG easily had the best cast of any Trek show, but the show is limited by being allergic to continuity and the uniformity of its all-military characters.

DS9's writing wasn't really any better than TNG - there were some great episodes and many forgettable bits of filler. But DS9, in spite of its static setting, had more room to grow thanks to being willing to let the story change and develop, plus having a large cast of recurring characters outside of Starfleet/Bajoran military. The characters that made the show great were Winn and Garak and Ducat and Wayoun and Quark - a stellar cast of recurring villains and peripheral characters.

The problem is that the show tried to tries to force a Kirk/Spock relationship between Sisko and Dax when they're just plain bad actors. It's a shame since the show was really built around them. Avery Brooks tries to sound intense but he comes off just being a bad ham, and Terry Farrell tries to sound serene but ends up just being wooden.

That and I'll never forgive the show for making me hate Worf. Seriously, DS9 Worf is a jerk.