skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From having sat on a criminal jury in the U.S., the opposite seems to be true: jurors wonder why the police didn't DNA test a small stolen object to "prove" it was held by the accused. There was no reason to run DNA (the object was found in the accused's possession, etc.) and it's not even clear that there would be any DNA to run (fingerprints would have been more likely), but it seems like jurors have come to expect CSI level stuff in every case. Instead, most cases seem to still be done on old fashioned eyewitness testimony and circumstance (the stolen goods were in your apartment, you were also around the place where they were taken...).
It doesn't answer why they want to do this in the first place.
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Ok thats good if I was a taxi driver... but I aint I r a developer, what am i supposed to do with this crap u posting?
I've spent some time in India and it is the same upthere. you can get a fresh coconut to drink its juice almost everywhere. It is less common to find cane juice as it requires a machine to crush the cane.
Surely topologically closest is most often what you want anyway?
The first couple of times people tip drivers extra, they probably get rated as 5. Everybody else becomes a 4 after that, maybe?
that's awesome +Chris
Now I'll just need to figure it out the old fashioned way and sleep with an Uber employee :(
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Who are these pathological downvoters on HN? I wish there was a way to out them.

Many just need a hug and some emotional counselling.
If the server uses the AGPL instead of the GPL, why does it matter that the clients are under an Apache License? I thought if you use the AGPL you have to contribute back the client code as well, when you use the server remotely.
It's 2014 and I still haven't found a music player/manager I really like. Tomahawk and Musiq come close but they each leave something to be desired. iTunes circa 2008 was pretty good, but I'd like something for Linux, and I'd like it built in Java too, because I've found over the years that Java has amazing compatibility with sound cards on almost every computer.

I really like Google Music, but I don't like managing my music via the cloud. And I've tried just about every Linux home audio server and they all are a little wonky.

Some very basic features I see missing or hard to access in music players are:

- no ability to shuffle on different levels of granularity: genere/artist/year/etc

- ID3 tag editing somehow is terrible in everything but iTunes

- Full equalizer and audio effects (e.g., reverb, compression, filters)

- Canonical and clean song/album/artist data with extra attributes listed as comments, not cluttering up the main tags--I don't care that your song is "Feat. Jay-z;T-Pain;Snoop Lion;Sting; (album version (explicit version))"

And stepping back, I think the whole grid/table-based approach to viewing your music is a bit lifeless. I'd like to see other ways to navigate, .e.g., something built on the data that Pandora or Last FM has, but specific to my collection. And I'd also like to be able to navigate by artist history and associations, e.g., see all my albums by bands that have ever opened for the Flaming Lips.
When a business first buys into cloud computing, they're likely to compare prices between providers. But I think once most businesses are using a particular provider, they're going to have too much inertia to switch based on a minor difference in price.

Cloud computing is still sort of new. A lot of businesses are still switching from other options, and the cloud industry as a whole is growing rapidly as a result. But that will slow down at some point. That sounds to me like the right time for Amazon to start profiting.
Sounds very much like the German brothers who go round making French German Spanish language versions of bi popular sites. Nothing particularly wrong but just odd the innovation stays on the iOS / android areas
I know it's an old habit in some countries, but when something becomes a fad in the West it tends to get ugly, at least when it comes to waste. My fear is that this will contribute to deforestation even more and for what (except for making some people rich).

Also supporting hundreds of millions of sales and preserving the same quality is a problem; as someone noted the stuff they sell here it's ridden with sugar and preservatives. I'm sure it's not as tasty and healthy as your grandma's backyard stuff.
"Typically the main() function would call the various init functions like InitMongoService"

Why muddy your main() when init() exists?

See: http://golang.org/ref/spec#Package_initialization
Sorry, high-temperature super conductors are a thing?
Really!? I always find it very annoying to be asked that.
Exactly my thoughts. I use Chrome at home while I can't get around Firefox at my workplace - is there any way to at least fetch the comments by different means?
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Advertisers want you to think of their work as information. It'd be more accurate to describe it as unsolicited information using gross exaggerations to build up a product and appealing to emotions not reason.

I too care about cheap razors, vacuum robots or newer smartphones. But I find it intrusive when a program I'm watching is interrupted with a fast paced 30 seconds clip of sexy naked people telling me to go buy their new product right now.

If I want information, a subscription model to some sort of info periodical is almost always available. But this is much closer to what we consider "journalism" than "advertisement". (I realize the limit between the 2 is sometimes difficult to define).
Technically true, bu this is a bit like "Single German City runs entirely off bio-mass". My favourite author on this (David McKay - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/cif-green/2009/apr/29...) is clear on the need for making the sums add up at scale.
Ah, yes, there are "open source" licenses that don't follow the Open Source Initiative's definition. Still, Linux distributions tend to abide by it, as far as I know.
> there isn't a Go equivalent to "unpythonic"

Of course there is. :) Python does good marketing and rephrased an existing word, but the pair you're looking for is:

idiomatic / unidiomatic
The suspect cell phone was attached to the tower where the girl was murdered in the same hours of the murdering, even if the suspect does not reside in the exact same area.
This is similar to the process I used to build http://gcdn.org/ which I and a few clients + friends use on multiple projects. We used to use RR but GeoDNS has proven to be awesome and reliable. Full NS control makes it easier to do rolling upgrades or maintenance too. Excellent write up.

More notes on GeoDNS http://edoceo.com/howto/geodns
I thought the same thing. The app store page shouldn't be the be-all and the end-all for discovery. Instead, it should be the last step in the marketing process. A promotional website, along with using mailing lists and social media as funnels, would go a long way.

Web apps don't hope that people stumble across them because there happens to be a centralized directory. The same active promotion used for web apps should take place for mobile apps.
Grrr this isn't Jarvis.

I've been running Sphinx-pocket (speech recognition engine) on an old pentium4 PC in my garage. That's a way better approximation of Jarvis, even if I do say so myself...

Actually if anyone knows of a way to lookout for the word Jarvis without hogging the CPU...? The current setup uses a button (connected to an arduino running firmata to give the old PC some gpio pins) which is monitored by a daemon and triggers sphinx on a debounced button-up event.

I'd like some low CPU way to find potential candidate input from the mic that sounds like it could be an instruction worth passing to sphinx?
But but but ...

What's actually going to happen is that you're going to get degraded service from Uber without knowing why. You're never going to get a cab in the quoted time, because drivers won't pick you up, and you'll assume it's the same for everyone, tell your friends how slow Uber is ... I would say the disillusionment, blame, offence, etc are going to be aggravated by consistently slow service.
Found it interesting that inject wires up the object graph and runs only once on application startup.
Curious to know your thoughts around why this lib could be considered non-idiomatic
> necessarily comprised of people who (a) use Chrome and (b) desire a better commenting experience

That also means that it will be a ghost town, and probably never bootstrap to a decent user base with interesting discussions.
This is the reason there has to be a cap for nuclear power to exist, but not the reason the cap has to be so small. $375 mil is nothing in the context of cleanup costs.

On the whole I would find the advocates of nuclear energy safety a lot more convincing if they put their entire fortunes on the line. I would like to see guaranteed financial ruin for any of the executives involved in a potential Fukushima and shareholders totally wiped out.

That still wouldn't put much of a dent in cleanup costs, but it would prevent moral hazard somewhat.

This subsidy also never shows up on any models comparing solar, coal and nuclear. Similarly neither does global warming induced environmental catastrophe.

BECAUSE you simply can't put a $ price on the likelihood of these events occurring or their cost they (the OP modelers) just ignore the tail risk.

Anybody who remembers the events of the financial crisis should find that pattern disturbingly familiar.

But, doing so is useful if you're shilling for natural gas/nuclear energy - just as assuming away financial tail risk was useful for executives at AIG.
The UK has little terrain suited for hydro and negligible geothermal. Its not very sunny. It has the worlds largest offshore wind installed capacity but few other countries are interested so its quite expensive. It also has had no real policies for a decade and is running on what was there and this needs fixing as most existing power stations are end of life soon.
I wish he had said something about'^?' vs '^H'. To this day I still struggle sometimes when logged into a Unix machine and run into this problem.
I meant the design, since the page created such a clear template that would be fantastic for future open source projects to modify. But if you want to release the content in the open too, all the better. I just think that a lot of open source projects which struggle with onboarding would be greatly benefited by using the page as a base.
The whole mechanism tends to be mounted inside the case on some kind of damping, but I would assume that has more to do with overall ruggedness than with vibrations in operation (it's precision micro mechanics that are quite rigid, flexing of the fiber itself does not seem like much of an issue to me).
The big thing about this is that it's achieved using so-called High-Temperature Superconductor material, where the superconducting transition temperature is basically anything higher than the < 10ish K that conventional superconductors require. HTS such as YBCO have several attractive properties besides their less-cryogenic operating temperature such as higher max current per area (the 'critical current density'). But since HTS are generally ceramic in nature, they can't be straightforwardly worked and extruded to form wire in the way that 'conventional' metallic superconductors like NbTi can.

So what they're proposing is to make relatively small sections of cable which can be made by simple stacks of conductor. Then they'll join them together in the final assembly by soldering. This of course is much easier than trying to wind one massive coil in one go, but now you have a plethora of conventionally-conducting joints between sections, which will heat up under operation. They argue that removing some additional heat at the HTS operating temperature of 20 K is preferable to having to cool to 4 K for conventional superconductors, which sounds reasonable.

However I feel that this is tough to support on the mechanical front. Energized magnets want to move, and you can't let them move because that leads to heat production, which leads to quenching. You need structure to keep them from moving. So in addition to the electrical connections, you need lots of structural steel and welds. You've got a bunch of stuff in there with different expansion coefficients, so making it work out in practice should be challenging. The LHC program was set back over a year due to overheating in one bad magnet splice.
The Google login is a bit too disconcerting for my liking.
At the very least showing the url bar would've have been less unsettling.

Only by opening the chrome inspector was I able to verify that it was indeed a valid login page and not a phising attempt as it appears to be at a cursory glance.
> these sorts of systems get worse the larger they get. And that getting too big too fast is definitely a bad thing

I was thinking about it - why not add a view mode displaying only the comments of the early adopters? On reddit, for example, it would be interesting to see only comments of users with accounts 5+ years old.
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Why Africa and not Kenya?
It's an opinion. There's no such thing as an "objective" opinion.
I agree with the last part, of course the community is a strong advantage for Sass. @extend is in Stylus too, but it supports any selectors (last time I checked, Sass’s @extend was only supporting classes).
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has anyone ever heard about these guys in South Africa: http://www.teraco.co.za/? Any other recommendations for Africa and South Africa?
For a point of view from the buyer's side, you may want to check out these articles/interviews from Rob Walling regarding his purchase of HitTail.

You'll see what a buyer is looking for when they are looking to buy a site which is mainly that there are customers. If you have none, like other people have commented, it will be very difficult to sell the code for anything unless you just happen to find someone who is looking to build the same thing and could use your code as a shortcut.

Notice how all his due diligence questions are related to customers. There's nothing about the code.

I can't remember where I heard it, but I think in the Foolish Adventure he says the seller said she invested $1 million dollars into the site. Rob was able to talk her down to $40 or $50k because, in his view, he was only paying for the established customer base and Google page rank. Anything more than that and he would have been better off building himself.

If you don't have any customers, unfortunately, you're just going to have to accept that you're not going to recoup the investment. It's a sunk cost.

http://foolishadventure.com/audio/online-business-for-the-re...

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/02/28/the-inside-story-of-...

http://techzinglive.com/page/921/165-tz-interview-rob-wallin...
> People suddenly feel that their phone is slowing down. It doesn’t show that our iPhones actually became slower.

This could be tested. Developers could collect data on the actual speed of their apps, and if there is anything shady, we will have hard evidence on our side.

I am sure there are enough un-updated phones in our drawers to test out what the speed used to be back then.
The issue of intermittency is in my opinion vastly undercommunicated in public debate about renewable energy, at least in Europe. A diagram like this [1] can be used to illustrate the issue. Although this diagram is from a hypothetical UK modeling exercise for 2020, the broader point it makes is valid. On the diagram we see how daily electricity demand follow a predictable daily curve, and the different sources of electricity that are used to meet that demand. We see that electricity from nuclear and coal provide the most stable component, whereas power from wind (green) varies hugely in time. Gas power, which can be turned on and off quickly, is used to fill the gaps in demand. At times, there is almost enough wind that no generation from fossil fuels is necessary, but at other times most of the electricity has to come from burning gas (I've seen similar scenario graphs where wind occasionally fills more than 100% of the demand, but still gas power will be needed for a large component of the energy mix when integrating over time).

The point is that without some incredible advance in energy storage capability on a scale that is not on the radar today, we are stuck with an energy system where a significant component needs to be non-solar and non-wind. From a climate perspective, the best options would then be nuclear electricity or electricity from fossil fuel plans equipped with CCS technology (which is now belatedly emerging).

(Disclaimer: I work with CCS-related technology development).

[1] http://www.timera-energy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Hour...

(link to page from which picture is taken: http://www.timera-energy.com/uk-power/getting-to-grips-with-...
This pattern is standard within SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).

You have two classes of services:

1. Technical Services

2. Business Services

The technical services may be REST, SOAP, etc. These deal with the nuts and bolts of: update this one thing, fetch a load of these things (where they are the same thing).

The business services are usually some flavour of RPC JSON or XML, and only occasionally are REST (think of a resource that is actually a composite of other resources, it's usually a business service).

The business service wraps the underlying technical service with the orchestration of which granular services to call, and returns something useful to the user (the client, in this case an app which is also made by the company).

What you quoted was the result of a business service, but you can imagine that behind that are services that individually fetch vehicles, user info, etc. The business service is just wrapping it and doing a useful thing for the user by returning the composite.

It should be noted, there's an idea of a "service catalog". Some people think this is wholly comprised of the business services, but actually it's the superset of both business and technical services. You might have 2 catalogs, one external and one internal... but both are made up of a mix of business and technical services. The goal is simple: Help users to get shit done. In the scenario given, "get shit done" means "perform multiple calls, and because it's mobile and calls are expensive return everything in one call".
The brain is incredibly plastic. In different degrees, it has been observed that neurons around a destroyed area mitigate the problem by taking over lost function.

In addition, abstract processing in the brain occurs over larger areas (think large neural networks). It is not established how exactly. It can be reasoned that to achieve some form of thought, followed by action, multiple sensory modalities have to be integrated. For this large, spatially divided, parts of the brain are necessary. Personality and intellect are therefore likely an emergent property of the entire network, not so much restricted to the frontal lobe.

It's a shame he is not thoroughly studied. I'm curious to see the actual extend of the damage. I hypothesize that his seizures are a product of plasticity around the damaged areas.
I've done a few small projects with Mojolicious, and it's been real fun to work with.

The only thing that's missing is a book that explains the concepts in more depth than the documentation. (I believe some folks in the community are working on that).
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One major aspect that separates Red Sox and Oakland A's is the difference in money invested which definitely would make a significant difference if a team wins the World Championship or not.
> explaining why I had to pay my ex-wife more than I could possible afford on my salary

> I recommend your spouse has a real job

It seems the spouse thing was what screwed it for you, not sure why you are suggesting it to others.
Went down this path already.

It was OK for a while with a small codebase, but the problem is that you need to give up your simple direct Go code for magic reflection.

I discovered there are better and more idiomatic ways to do this type if thing without resorting to dependency injection.
but no one really goes to a sub home.

But don't you also target the ads at comments sections of that sub?
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It's amusing that the author finds the Rockwell woman more real, and the "We Can Do It!" woman more idealized and unrealistic.

The Rockwell woman is modeled after the Prophet Isaiah from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The "We Can Do It" woman is modeled after an actual woman who was working in a factory in Michigan (although she only worked there briefly, because she was a cello player and feared a hand injury from the machines).
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Go to WWDC if you can and there's a range of people you can meet. I'm not even sure if my emails had any effect
Mubarak's family was estimated to have hidden $700 billion in assets:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2011/04/11/egyptian...
I don't have the answer for you but if you'd like a real-world PoC the Kinect does exactly what you're describing only with the word "Xbox." Does it quite well too I might add...
Thanks for your detailed response. Your example with fluid dynamics is an interesting one. If it really works as advertised and you can put these negative temperatures into every equation that takes a temperature, then yes, I can see the value. I guess I was just skeptical that it would actually work that way, since that's quite an amazing result ;-).
In the first place you should just go with what women actually say they prefer instead of trying to rationalize your own choice.

That said, if you want another reason, how about that it's quite all right to use the term woman to refer to a woman who is participating in a startup even if she has not reached legal majority. It is preferable to call a girl a woman than the other way around.
Lyft provides you a picture of the Vehicle and the driver. It really improves the customer experience - I'm always interested in who my next driver will be - and choose lyft just because of this feature.
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Gawker's network effectively does that by focusing on only Featured Comments when you scroll down and making you click through to the plebs.
I was planning to publish a post with literally the same title as this one later this week (annoying coincidence as I guess mine will now be largely ignored - maybe I should wait a few weeks to let this space calm down, I'm not sure) with some in-depth step-by-step explanation - so watch out for that :)
Especially when we are running our existing businesses/clients concurrently. In my case, my sole employee is overseas for four months so it was a pretty intense period juggling things. Quentin handled the lion's share with the programming side.

That said, we would pay a lot more attention to the on-boarding next game. I was quite happy with our tutorial so it's frustrating we left holes and fell short.

As Quentin said in another reply, one big mistake we made was that a lot of testing was with a beta group that had played the game dozens of times before the tutorial was fully fleshed out. Huge mistake! Another mistake was watching someone play it for the first time where we were in a position to coach them. We should've been silent and seen what they did. Easy to spot the issues in hindsight!