skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, websites that don't use sessions or cookies can still work harmlessly, right?
Really good post. Similar to what I'll write someday.
I'm honestly wondering if that's a typo.

In what way is ~1250 feet considered a far distance to go for a rental car? Even in a populous metro area that seems about as short a walk as I would expect, are they generally closer?
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> but no cert is needed for unauthenticated encrypted connections

That is a common misconception. If I MITM when you establish connection, how would you notice? My self-signed certificate looks like a real one.

That's why we need CAs (or WoT, or whatever), to verify identity after we've established a secure channel.
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Doesn't Car2Go require you to bring the car back to it's starting point?

Are there multiple locations you can drop the car at, and if not, how do you handle that when taking it to the bar?
I wish I could upvote this twice. I spent a long time trying to write a similar comment and eventually deleted it; yours is better. Of course Bitcoin isn't perfect and it's entirely possible that it doesn't stand the test of time+. But people who insist on behaving like it's a joke or a toy when there is a multi-billion dollar economy around it and enormous chunks of pretty smart VC money (not to mention Stripe's investments in the ecosystem--they seem to know a thing or two about exchanging money on the internet) end up looking pretty stupid.

+ I can certainly appreciate the opinion that Bitcoin won't survive in its present form, but I think it's becoming more and more obvious that cryptocurrency in general won't be leaving us any time soon, and I think ignoring Bitcoin's role in that development is extremely foolish.
There is no root cause since Cancer is a description of a set of symptoms, not a single disease. Trying to find the root cause of cancer is like trying to find the root cause of broken legs.
I've used Hitch regularly over the past few months, and it works well for short trips. Half the time I don't carpool (and I still pay half price), and the other half of the time adds just a couple extra minutes (haven't gone more than 5 minutes out of my way). My one issue with Hitch so far is that occasionally it takes a while to get me a ride. Uber has a leg up here, as it has a huge scale advantage. When I open my app, I can see 5 ubers in a 3 block radius - which is pretty astounding reach.
THere were a lot of 'if' statements in your post :) The problem is:

(1) We do not know what the NSA is doing
(2) We cannot trust what they say they are doing, because they are perfectly willing to lie about it.
Are Uber users this price conscious though? I think their core user base skews to a higher net worth, and aren't going to be the kinds of people that want to share a car with another person. The only thing they'll know about the person they are sharing with going in is that they are too cheap to take their own Uber ride.

This just doesn't sound like it will work with their core user base. Maybe they are trying to expand their user base to the public transportation crowd, but that may devalue the brand.
I don't see any correlation currently between things that are in the public domain and things that are used on TV to pitch toys and junk food.
The original dissertation is in German:
http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2004/0516/pdf/dhmd.pdf

Translations, anyone?

Wikibooks has code examples:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_Implementation/Checks...
Seems like it's written by someone who prefers Ruby or JavaScript -- where there exists already a culture using names which are cute first, even if they are opaque -- over Python. These method naming choices are baffling

Arrow.to() converts to a new timezone? And .replace() applies a relative offset!? Replace the hour field of this object with -1 should not return an object having hour=11. Arrow.get() is doing some kind of quadruple duty, neither of which would I describe as "getting."

And what about that class name? Arrow as the name of a package is fine, but what do you expect someone to make of <Arrow [...]> -- what's wrong with arrow.DateTime?

Great work on making and releasing something, but this API is surprising -- as in, one would be unable to predict how it works. I will continue using python-dateutil
It's alive! :)

http://www.oblivion-wow.com/
I think many haven't heard of or know the DDD+CQRS terminology.

I even suspect if Peter Hunt mentioned how they are doing DDD+CQRS for building applications, it might have been met with ridicule from audience.

It is kind of interesting, the field of software engineering is not that old, but there already probably multiple cycles of the same concept being rediscovered over and over again.

Another rather cliche one is callback based concurrency. There was a wave of "oh look at this new thing we discovered, you don't block and instead provide a function to be called later". And many older folks probably looked at each other and said "Wait, what year is it?"
You'll want to tell them that God talks from His temple, a 64-bit operating system with a compiler I wrote.
"No credit" is an exaggeration: gold and silver (and notes redeemable for gold and silver) were the standard currencies in Europe (and probably other place) for many centuries, during which time there was plenty of lending and borrowing going on.

For most of that time, the total quantity of gold and silver in existence remained approximately constant.
What's this about the death of SMTP?
Interesting. The Wikipedia article says:

> Despite its desirable properties in typical contexts where similar algorithms are used, the Damm algorithm is largely unknown and scarcely used in practice.

To what degree is this true?
different markets are different; that may be the case in SF; the core user base in SD skews to "Doesn't want a DUI", and we get a LOT of students during the school year, for example, although their ability to manage money may be suspect.
That's because it was originally filed when Bush was in office. When you sue a government official in his or her official capacity, the caption (sometimes, but especially on appeal) gets updated when the office changes hands.
Why not? If anything, producing those movies should have been easier if LotR was in the public domain, since they wouldn't have had to negotiate with the Tolkein estate first.
The place I'm at now is the only job I've had (or place I've contracted with, met with etc.,) that's gotten this right. The whole open floor plan thing, to work well, has to have a reasonably accessible way to escape it when necessary.

Open offices can only work, IMO, when there's a breakout room, or in general some sort of closed door room anyone can jump into and get things done or have a 4 person meeting. There's just no escaping the need to have privacy for the point of thinking, or even privacy for the point of talking. Maybe there's a perfect job in a perfect world where everything is open, but in my experience, there's a need to get away from the group once in a while, either alone or with a group.
This is a placeholder for the inevitable punning that will (and should?) ensue.
I've got the same thing on ChromeOS
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I was going through that article after you posted it... is BREACH still an exploit in the wild? Turning off compression altogether seems painful :/
I think you have to consider the opposite question as well: would authors consider the situation with their heirs if copyright expired with the author?

My guess is that most don't consider it now, but that could easily change if you enshrined it in law and horror stories got passed around of Joe Schmoe Author who died young and left a destitute family.

However, the entire question of how copyright incentivizes creation is extremely murky and there seems to be roughly zero hard data on it, so that could be totally wrong.
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> "actively adding significant amounts of methanol"

That's the claim currently being debated. The parent claims to have researched and been unable to find any legitimate source, and further claims to have uncovered where the misunderstanding came from. If you wish to refute him, you'll need to do better than merely assert your position -- you'll need to provide a legitimate source, with specific quotes and page numbers / paragraph numbers / other citation markings so we can see exactly where the "actively adding" claim comes from.
Even that wouldn't work for me with open offices because I can't simply pick up my giant desktop and move in there to do work -- I'm completely stuck in the open office.
Us. Americans who don't think the program is right.

There is a famous story about activists meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. He listened to them and then said "I agree with you. I want to do it. But you must make me do it."

What he meant is that serious political change must come from the bottom up. It must arise from the obvious wishes of the population in order to carry enough legitimacy to make it through the democratic system.

The fact is that not everyone in the U.S. feels the way we do about the NSA's activities and the Snowden leaks that revealed them. In fact, it's a near even split, although sentiment seems to be moving our way.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/04/15/nsa-coverage...
In a few cases I knew, it seemed the warning signs were that the person mentioned things like "yeah I would never kill myself" seemingly out of the blue. And then one went and registered to buy a gun. (Which was eventually used for the act). You are right that these are described more as "feelings" not just direct verbal statements of the intent to commit suicide.
This is moving the goalpost. The question laid in front of the courts is "Is the system being described legal or constitutional?", not "is this what they're actually doing."

This is where Congress is supposed to kick in (and Congress does spend a lot of time creating legislation when the judicial system doesn't have the tools to do what's "right"), either through FOIA-style legislation or legislating a restructuring of the NSA or whatever.

And this sort of "well we can't trust the gov't to follow any of the rules anyways" discussion is pointless, counterproductive, and false. Courts have countlessly told the "government" (which is really just the executive) to do things it didn't want to do. The system is working, and this is part of the process.
I have a HUD in my car - it is great for navigation events and alerts. Turn arrows, street names and lane restrictions are all displayed when navigating. When not navigating it shows speed and alerts. Using the steering controls you can scroll through radio/media options. The image appears to be farther away than what is displayed in this product. That is a very important distinction. By appearing farther away you needn't refocus every time you glance slightly down to view the HUD data. This looks like a translucent screen right in front of the wheel. Not good.
On the other hand, if the user is already leaving the site, is there any reason not to try to bring them back? It seems like a no-lose proposition.

Of course, there is the possibility that the user is not leaving permanently, and your tactics actually convince him that he should. But I assume that the revenue gained from convincing would-be deserters to stay, outweighs the revenue lost by convincing would-be returners to desert.

I base this assumption on the fact that, like you said, all users are not like you. So many websites already employ this tactic, that many users as likely immune to it, or at least ambivalent toward it as a marketing tactic. I doubt most users who are seriously interested in your product would abandon purchase because of a distaste for your marketing tactics (or even that they would harbor such distaste). After all, you can't fault a company for trying to convert as many users as possible. This tactic is so common that if you abandon every product offering using it, you might be left with few high quality products from which to choose.
Historical URL. Bush was the original president when first filed.
The problem is that key papers are cited by a LOT of other papers, these with variable quality.
P.S. If you don't like Chapter 1 of HPMOR, skip to Chapter 17. The writing style is toned down a little from that point, and there's an interesting use of magic in that chapter. If you don't like Chapter 17, give up.

(If you like either, good for you! It's a polarizing piece of fiction.)
I didn't try it at length, but it just wasn't as good as it sounded - not as accurate and the API was very difficult to work with.
My guess is that there are large numbers of people who would use Uber to get to/from drinking establishments regularly but don't because it's just a tad too expensive to catch two rides a night, several times a week. If Uber could cut the price down somewhat, they could open up a potentially huge market.
They don't want to be a brand for the wealthy. They want to be known and perceived as a utility for everyone. So if anything, this helps fix the brand issues they have.

I spend north of $300 per month on uber, and I'm selling my car because I never touch it anymore. That changed recently as prices kept dropping.
Or she could buy actual life insurance, rather than enforcing a bizarro version via a grant of monopoly whose value depends on the immediate commercial value of a creative work.
Users of Uber proper might be high net worth, but UberX is popular with (among others) college students, because it's a bit cheaper than taking a cab and you don't need to carry cash.
Put another way, that is two city blocks, which is a very reasonable distance to walk after finding parking in any major city.
Arguably, he's leaving for the best job he's ever had. Congratulations and best of luck to you, Max! I'm happy for (and just a bit jealous of) you.
I agree. My immediate thought was something more akin to 'motor pool'. Maybe a way to pre-buy a group of rides at the same time or to the same place, such as getting friends to/from a party, for a discount.

Or perhaps it could have been a service where Uber had their own fleet of 'special' drivers for 'premium' members to help with peak demand times. Of course, this sounds quite a bit like a traditional contracted car service.

UberShare seems more fitting to me. Having read what it is the name makes sense, but it didn't inform me going in.
Sorry, I might not have been clear.

I don't know if its being stored, I agree that it shouldn't be.

But so many people in this thread seem to imply it is impossible to filter a stream of information without storing the entire stream. This is very disingenuous, and is about as true as saying that it's impossible to have cops camping out for a guy with a specific license plate because they'll have to look at every car, and so they'll have to memorise all of them.

This obviously depends on the selectors, but we're talking about online filtering here, guys. Its possible to imagine a situation where not every single piece of data is stored.
Unfortunately the image of cubicles is inextricably tied to soul-crushing corporations (ex. Office Space).
Read my initial comment! I edited it some, but that was well before you weighed in here.

I already did what you asked for, providing a link to an IRS document from the 1910s or so describing adding methanol in the presence of an authorized government agent.
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should I start taking it now, in my 20's, or wait till I'm in my 50's?
Hey!

A friend and I are experienced full-stack web developers starting a company in the legal technology space. We'd be really interested in speaking with you, are you free sometime this week?
Why are the two systems even communicating?
what if you want to roll your own encryption layer?
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I asked if you are a Canadian living in Canada because the devil is in the details when dealing with cross border transactions as a Canadian.

After some further research, it does seem like Interactive Brokers is a good option for the OP. For posterity, here are two blog posts by a Canadian describing how he uses Interactive Brokers: http://blog.plsoucy.com/2012/11/best-way-to-convert-usd-to-c... and http://blog.plsoucy.com/2013/03/converting-usd-cad-interacti...
Car2go can be parked at any street legal parking spot with 2+ hr limits. There are no restrictions really.
One of the coolest ruby projects since a good while.
When two important projects like Shoes and Opal meet and cooperate for a third unexpected goal, it is like when the results of two different equations are used to compose a third one, and as in mathematics this process it's beautiful for a number of reasons.
Let's hope for the best as this is one of those projects that can bring a lot of spotlight on Ruby, which is needed for the language to grow.
With the pivot of UberX yes. Previously Uber had a luxury brand position, all of their products (UberX, Black Car, SUV) were priced higher than a taxi, and the bulk of their revenue was coming from black car services. I remember the old advertising and they never had the concept of a "sale" or messaging about their pricing relative to the competition.

However the rise of Lyft and other competitors essentially pushed Uber to go into a price gauging war. They went into a big price cut with UberX that essentially made them cheaper than both Lyft & taxis, and had a lot of advertising campaigns talking about their price advantage. This happened late last year (I believe) and since then both Lyft & Uber have been going through a series of price cuts & driver promotions to compete on both side of the table.

So yes, Uber users are definitely price conscious. This has happened largely because Uber has shifted its model more towards UberX. Slashing fares was a pretty bold move (companies rarely cannibalize cash cows with high margins).

The new focus, I think is to consolidate their position by growing aggressively, competing with Lyft on pricing & driver promotions, and ultimately, drive the cost of service so low that they expand the market past on-demand limos (Uber before X), cabs (Uber now), to a service cheaper than owning a car (Uber in the future).
I'd be happy to share my extra bandwidth, but then I have to worry about people pirating content or viewing illegal files, and getting stuck with the legal issues. Since it's of no direct benefit to me, this makes the effort not worth it.

Basically, I need some way to keep that traffic from being attributed to me - send it over tor, some sort of vpn, etc.
While Flux advocates for a totally new application architecture, it's one that still seems to fit the MVC architecture, especially when expressed using reactive concepts. I wrote a similar blog post to this one except using Elm as the reactive system[0], D3 for composable views[1], and MVC as the application architecture[2]. Once you have a reactive system and a declarative representation for your interface, applications get much easier to build. Decentralized state and event handling is secondary to those two concerns, and frankly of dubious value: once you start using lense-like things to help manage the distributed state, you're still going to run into issues where the lens isn't expressive enough to to handle certain operations (deleting an item from a list, for example), forcing you to either change your model so the lens is expressive enough, or dispatch events to a centralized location to handle the change. So the choice is either decentralize things and mangle your model, or keep things centralized.

[0]: http://elm-lang.org

[1]: https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3

[2]: http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/2014/07/20/reactive-m...
I am starting a new job soon about 3 miles from my apartment, which is a little too far to walk. (I can walk that far, but I don't really want an hour-each-way commute.)

One thing I've been considering is using Uber / Lyft, but it's a lot of money over the course of a year. At 40% cheaper it looks a lot more attractive, though. And sharing a car with another rider isn't any worse than sharing it with the driver! :)
I strongly agree with the principles you chose - specificaly - all time storage and math should be done in UTC

I've had this argument many times before. Throwing away TZ is in fact throwing away important contextual information.

Having worked on a few data cleaning projects to re-purpose old scientific datasets, I can tell you that the quality of these data would have suffered markedly, and many corrections would not have been possible if the TZ/offsets had been discarded, Eg: "The geolocation for these records cross a TZ boundary here but the UTC offset doesn't reflect that until here so that explains the 1hr gap in the record where the user realized her mistake half-way into the new TZ so we should add an hour to these 860 records"

Yes, it would be better if raw data was recorded in UTC in the first place but when working with such data the ability to make decisions and inferences from the TZ is very useful.
Can the bird see their own colour? Are they just attracted to the colour that their parents are? Are those 82 letters 'keys' designed to make other parts of DNA form different cells? There are a few too many questions to really answer fully.
I'm curious if there were any structural changes to the product which needed to be made to support a more agile workflow. For example when I was there, just the branching and RI schedules were massive taxes on everyone. Also there were periods of insane 'gates' to code changes to get something committed- what has been done to allow less ship room and more code changes?

Edit: I left Microsoft to escape the VS ship schedule, I have not heard of significant changes from the co-workers I keep in touch with.
Aspirin's reduction of cancer risk has been on relatively solid epidemiological footing for a long time, it's simply not a big enough protective effect to balance the risk of bleeds etc:

http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsasco...

Now, if you were to consider all cancers plus cardiovascular benefit, and target folks who are more likely to benefit and/or less likely to have adverse events, it might be useful. Trying to sort some of this out with genomic data was the subject of my MSc, but I couldn't make it work.
Let's assume a simple video site and html5 video.

Do you want to bet there are no vulnerabilities in your browser's mp4/vp8 decoder? If there are, anyone can MITM your non-SSL connection and compromise the video decoding process, limited only by their cleverness and by whatever sandboxing your browser employs.
The fact that its addictive and damages people. That should be the illegal thing: using a factory to make things that people get addicted to and it harms them.

People 1000 years from now are going to look at us in the way we look at witch trials. Likt wtf bro? Why don't you go making bombs that get set off on a hair trigger and just lay them around? They only hurt once in a while if you get them close to your face.

Wtf really? Well you see, it was addictive! And... We really liked it! mmm hmmm. I can think of better defenses for the witch trials.
Google is famous for a tooling strategy that has paid off in spades. Reading about their RCS, build, and testing infrastructure is like reading an overly optimistic science fiction novel; it can't be that great right?