skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered if you could use computer controlled magnets in a harness to keep the metal in place for a couple weeks, then remove it. Unfortunately, transition metals appear not to be magnetic. However, why not just stick glue into the veins? It won't migrate after curing...
The author, Franklin Cook, has a Master of Arts degree in humanities. He's an "editor" for "SPNAC" in that, as far as I can tell, he's the only contributor and uses the site to advertise his paid services as a grief counselor.

The article itself offers no credible reference and is self-labelled as an opinion piece.

I'm under the impression that the ChristianBundy merely googled an article that agreed with his personal experiences. We've all done that, but it's important to apply skeptical scrutiny.
This is just nonsensical. You're talking about getting a ride in a car.
O.o

Drain the blood, fill the mammal with formaldehyde. That will kill the tumors. There "might" be a problem with liquid metals arriving at the heart and lungs via a blood channel?
Just start human trials. Nothing could go wrong with this. Maybe try heavier metals like mercury which would sink to the feet instead of going to the heart and lungs.
Agreed, sub-$40 Chinese Go-Pro knock-offs offer superior performance on top of their silly cheap price tags.
Ask HN: Where do you get your science news?
I have recently found myself checking HN as my primary source of science news on the web. It's great for tech news, but, if anyone has any recommendations, I'm interested in finding some new resources that focus on science. News aggregators, magazines (paper or online), podcasts - anything, really. Even book recommendations would be welcome.

In particular, I am interested in biology and innovations in medicine, but have a pretty general interest in science and want to do a better job of keeping up with STEM news.
> It's rare that bad business regulations and/or government sponsored monopolies are just, ya know, fixed. Quite often, people need to be shown how bad things have gotten before anything changes.

This, and more so. I hate to admit it, but it really is true. I currently live in a city where the cab situation is just awful. And a lot of it is due to awful regulation. Biggest case in point: The city caps the number of permits at only about 400. But you need a separate permit to pick people up at the airport, and the number of those is capped at 50. So getting a ride to the airport is nigh impossible - dispatchers will just refuse to send you a cab - because the vast majority of drivers are not allowed to get a return fare.

Uber and Lyft have done a great service by calling public attention to the situation, and so the city council is finally paying attention to it, too. But that's where their contribution stops - they've been actively lobbying against any proposed legislation that would allow metered cab service to improve, for example, and also actively fighting proposed rules that their drivers should be able to pass a basic background check and have a (vaguely) clean driving record. In that sense they're no better than the owners of the cab companies, who also have a vested interest in not seeing the situation for consumers improve.

I almost wish there were a Nobel Prize in aphorisms, so that we could award it to them for showing that two wrongs really can make a right.
I agree with you, esp since it seems you were a solo presenter. It is good to have at least one teammate if you can find, because again, the statistics do not favor lone founders.
> someone has to take the initiative

Like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dancing+hill+guy
Start with audiences you know and love. Talk with them about their work, their hobbies, their lives. Look for problems they experience, and ask: can I solve that with the tools I know?

Last year I was talking with my brother about the pain of kids' swim meets. He brings his son to an event where hundreds and hundreds of kids show up. They are often in multiple events. Actual swimming time is short, but he had to hang around all day waiting for the right races. This year he told me that somebody had created an app: the meet organizers upload the race data; he can just go in and star the kids he's shepherding. Then he gets a real-time schedule showing just the races he has to make, letting them go off and have fun rather than hanging around.

You can bet that whoever built that app had a family member who told me a story exactly like the one my brother told me. But they went and hung out at a few swim meets and did followup interviews with some of the organizers. Eventually, an app was born.

Problems are everywhere once you start looking for them. Keep a backlog of problems and solution ideas, and sort them by how good a business you think they'd make. Eventually you'll find one where you'll say, "Well, I'm willing to bet some of my time and money that I can make something worth buying."
Wow, $36 for 3.45 km? I assume that's Australia, right? so that's roughly 2.1 miles for $33 USD.

That ride would be $9.00 (US) in San Francisco. [0]

Perhaps Uber is, like Apple, quite simply providing a higher class of service and getting compensated proportionally for it. Maybe they won't ever eliminate traditional taxis b/c not enough people can afford a 266% markup.

[0]http://yellowcabsf.com/service/cab-fares/
Sure you could, just not legitimately.
"I don't know any cab drivers living the high life"

I'm pretty sure the cab drivers themselves do not own the medallions.
Sincerely curious, what kinds of profits do F1 teams make?
Breaking which rules?

Breaking the rules that artificially restrict the market for rides? Sure.

Breaking the rules that say you don't lie, cheat, or steal? Hmm, not so sure about that.
try running this in ruby:

['49276d206b696c6c696e6720796f757220627261696e206c696b65206120706f69736f6e6f7573206d757368726f6f6d'].pack('H*')

--interesting string output for challenge 1.
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point later on (when it's almost impossible to move to a new process node) that Intel starts developing ARM chips again (they did it before with StrongARM and XScale). With the manufacturing advantages that Intel have they could easily become the largest player in that market, giving them an easy to get cash injection.
Hmm the CNN article clearly says: "Uber acknowledged the tactics went overboard.". And this was for the exact same issue, 6 months ago. Are you saying Uber is trying to be nice to rivals be falsely acknowledging that they are assholes ?
I actually do think cabs are broken. Without a rating system after they get a medallion they're golden for at least a year.

I get into cabs where:
- The driver can't speak English
- Doesn't know where they're going
- The cab smells
- Drives dangerously
- Is drunk (literally had an open bottle of wine under the handbrake)
- Doesn't turn up when I book it

The list goes on, the moment I started taking uber cabs all of this stopped, I review every cab I take after a trip and the moment they drop too far they're removed from the service.

Sure, maybe within the existing system I could write an email to the cab company (who will probably ignore me on account of trying to avoid a fine), the medallion issuer (who MIGHT fine the driver if this happens often). But the reality is that this is hard, and giving someone a rating between 1-5 stars at the end of the trip is easy.
I would love to see Google do this for Australia and New Zealand as well. Both countries are at the end of the line (so-to-speak) and would benefit greatly from something like this. Our Internet is pretty rubbish and expensive, and while that might be in part due to limited choice of ISP's, archaic Government policies and equipment, bandwidth is a HUGE problem.
OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, and More
PiClass fundraising: an educational project using Rasbperry Pi and SliTaz
One more reason to look for a Sidecar or Lyft before an Uber. Usually cheaper too.
Jacobin is a fantastic magazine with great long form articles. Very happy to see this re-posted here.
Awesome design! Very simple but useful app.
No, you're not. You're defending them fighting back.

> If I paid (heavily) into a system of regulation that worked, only to have someone hack it and basically blow up my asset/income stream, you'd better believe I would push back hard. Aereo, anyone?
Somehow, and sadly, I wasn't surprised to learn the cause of death. To me Williams's jovial veneer never seemed very convincing. RIP to a gentle soul.
Hi madengr - Thanks for the comment. We're focused on solid-state qubits right now, not ion traps. Are you building your own GPU-based hardware for your simulations?
Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
I would suggest that believing "designers want to show off" is probably a bad assumption to be making. You can't make assumptions about what motivates people to contribute to open source projects.

I'd also be clearer about which "community" you want to receive your software well. I'd suggest it be the one the software serves, rather than the open source community, or the design community.

This was a big topic of discussion at HOPE X, for example, with regards to infosec software. Security software doesn't serve the communities its supposed to well, e.g. as demonstrated by Gus Williams' talk, "Solve the Hard Problem."

http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety2/hopex2/videos/581...

Recommended reading:

http://smarterware.org/7550/designers-women-and-hostility-in...

http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/
Awesome recommendation! Thanks so much. Installed!
When I see people standing with their head down, cradling their device in their hand, I imagine Cthulu's tentacles reaching up from the device, sucking their souls out.

Cradle Your Device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GhETtqN_I
The iPad 3 could refresh 2/3 of the pixels at 60fps using less power than the Macbook Air.
Agreed. Anything framed as a 'debate' has only ever been two sides arguing their point, whilst studiously ignoring any potential validity in the other side's opinion. Confirmation bias is an issue, but not because of social medial. It's because people want validation of their existing opinions, not complex worldviews.
No other product comes close to Google Maps imo.
You'd probably find the book Tubes interesting.
Exactly. We know whether a virtual item is worth $20 by whether someone is willing to pay $20 for it.

I'd suggest that to make the hole-digging analogy work, we'd need to assume that there are people willing to pay $20 for the privilege of seeing a hole dug and then refilled (or something similar). And if that's the case, then who's to say the digging and refilling didn't create $20 of value?
The PlayStation2 vs. the PC (2000)
All cryptography is broken before implementation so, it really only looks like a compression mechanism for now.
More are very unprofitable than not. http://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2014/05/25/formula-one-tea...
> There may very well be artificial supply with respect to medallions, except there's one major indefensible problem with that position - I don't know any cab drivers living the high life. Do you?

The cab driver have to pay the medallion holders.
Jenkins gets a face lift
Slavoj Zizek with this typical contrarian argument made a point about privacy I thought was interesting, it was something to the effect that it isn't only the privacy that is being eroded and pushed back but rather the public sphere as well. With even politicians, celebrities, companies resorting to things like twitter, facebook, using mannerisms and language that used to be reserved for private space. In other words we don't have a so to speak the "official public" record, where either as a politician or private citizen you can make an official declaration, but then be free to go your own time on twitter and make dirty jokes with our friend. That part has disappeared. Now everyone is making dirty jokes on twitter including the President. You make a stupid joke about bombs on twitter and then 1 year later you enter United States and some angry immigration officer will read that comment back to you and ban you for life from entering the country. Stuff like that.
There is plenty of room for optimisation in overall speed in classical computers, even with the looming end of Moore's Law. In my opinion HP have got the right idea...
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/hp-pla...

Silicon photonics is likely to be a huge source of potential improvements. A former Intel SVP, Pat Gelsinger, was quoted as saying "Today, optics is a niche technology. Tomorrow, it's the mainstream of every chip that we build."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_photonics
In all fairness to my selfish self, that has lived in NYC, SF and finally in LA: Uber (regardless of and possibly because of ) knee-capping other services is now a dominant, helpful service in my life. When I lived in SF and moved to LA I had a problem that only NYC had a solution for: "Many Many Cabs, Everywhere".

Two years ago I couldn't go go five miles in traffic without paying $50 and needing cash; and that was if I was somewhere where cabs hung around.

Regardless of them being "assholes", it's extremely useless in my life.
I noticed this sentence in the article: "The A380 was also Airbus’s answer to a problematic trend: More and more passengers meant more flights and increasingly congested tarmacs".

Problem is, that hasn't been the case in the United States.

Or rather, while passenger miles are still up over the past 14 years, both aviation fuel consumption and departures are down.

The US hit peak aviation fuel in 2000. Peak departures occurred in 2005, likely due to a shift to smaller aircraft. Total passenger miles remain up since then, due largely to increased load factors -- reduced seat pitch (spacing) allowing more rows aboard aircraft, and improved scheduling packing more people into those seats.

I discovered the peak aviation fuel element when looking into one of several rather unconvincing projects aimed at providing biofuels for commercial aviation (the proposals simply don't scale).

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wo2hl/boeings_...

Using the US Department of Transportation's "RITA" data, 2013 aviation fuel consumption was 17% below 2000 levels, and less than half of the 2000 prediction.

Year 2000 FAA Est 2014 RITA Actual % Difference
------- ------------ ---------------- ------------
2000 20,177 19,026 -5.7%
2012 33,519 16,003 -52.3%
2013 -- 15,998 --

http://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation/aerospace_forecast...

Steve Kopits points out that departures peaked in 2005, two years before the recession started,

http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/events-calendar/global-oil-...

See p. 37 of the slide deck: http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/energy/...

I'm long-term quite bearish on aviation.
Not the op, but I have an answer to this.

This plant is wasting energy by glowing. It serves no purpose that enhances the plant's fitness outside of a human environment. If it were released into the wild, chances are it would lose out in natural selection vs wild competitors.

The same is true of most human domesticated species, most of which are effectively genetically engineered through ages of selective breeding. Picture dogs vs wolves, cows vs wild buffalo, etc.
I wrote above about this. Moving from NYC to SF was a complete mindfucking as trying to get anywhere without a car attempting to call taxis that actually show up; that take credit cards was near impossible.
Somewhere in Eastman a Kodak executive is weeping.

Polaroid may not be the same company they used to be, but at least they're attempting to stay relevant.
they are different "things" but still related. HOAs tell you what you can and cannot do. who created those rules? the people of the neighborhood at some point in time.

I want to paint my house green -- NOPE, neighbors #3, 5, 16, and 20 think green is stupid, and since nobody else had anything to say about it at the rules meeting, I can't do it.

when I moved to into my house we were thrown right between two feuding houses. and as it turns out, the disagreement in place affected us as well (about children playing outside). we ended up leading the fight at the HOA meetings while others, who had voiced their support to us directly and said they would show up, didn't show up. long story short, old lady got sent to the hospital over the stress of the situation, and we won. but there's a happy ending -- we became good friends with old lady, she has married and moved on :)
Curing cancer, Wolverine style.

Seems like a clever way to starve tissues. Dying of metal poisoning almost always beats dying of cancer.
Accurate. Many corporations exploit this with "document retention" policies, which are more often about document destruction.
> I question the need for high frequency trading in those leisure pursuits ;)

It's worth noting, though, that botting tends to flourish in any multiplayer game that allows it to, regardless of the potential for real money profit. Hell, MUDs used to have botting issues when I played them 20+ years ago. [0]

As for why, I'd say that automating a game is a game in and of itself, and depending on the particulars it can be both challenging and rewarding. (Sometimes moreso than the actual game!) So in implementing the RMAH, I think Blizzard made a playable meta-game, and the result was that people played it. The author of this article simply played it competitively. ;)

[0] Probably still do..
Nicer link for mobile reading:

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
Physical access implies root access. I'm glad Buentello put this together, but it's not a magical elite "hack" - it's a feature for fiddlers and developers who want actual control of their devices.

It just happens to be a device with a motion sensor and a whole load of other stuff attached, that you'd rather not anyone have a backdoor into.
Oh, I made it return the whole thing since the timing attack would have leaked it anyway.
Honestly.. Lyft needs a better spam filter.
For what it's worth, it's trivially easy to grow your own bioluminescent fungi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bioluminescent_fungi

They don't last as long as the plants, but if you get the right ones then you can eat them once you're done.
Anyone know how China arrived at the 75% cell survival standard for safety? What is it in the US?
The hack is completely fair, because the existing medallion system is a hack itself, which the cab industry lobbies for in order to ensure regulatory capture.

That position is quite easy to defend if you understand the industry. The reason that you don't know any cab drivers living the high life is in fact because of medallions. Medallion owners don't need to drive taxis. If you control the medallion, you're made. No pun intended.

As recently as July 2014, medallions in NYC were being sold privately for over a million dollars (http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/july_2014_medallio...).

Some interesting economics on the industry and how we got where we are: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of...
I read something where the question was asked "Why didn't Obama have these guys do healthcare.gov in the first place?"

The reason given was that he couldn't (hire them in the first place) or it would look like patronage.
This is a pretty interesting concept, but the site doesn't do a good job of explaining exactly what it does. A realistic step-by-step example would help a lot. Is it doing some kind of static analysis, or is it looking at the object graph at some specified point in the program's execution?

I think it would be really useful to have a tool that visualizes execution paths of programs to help you understand the general architecture of someone else's project. I believe debugging tools are able to do this to some extent, but I haven't seen anything that exactly fits, especially for JS. I would want to be able to do some interaction (e.g. mouse click) and see a visualization summarizing all the lines of code that were run without stepping through them one-by-one. Maybe this is a direction that PojoViz could go in eventually.
> Breaking the rules that say you don't lie, cheat, or steal? Hmm, not so sure about that.

So we have multiple competitors to Uber, on multiple occasions over a prolonged period of time saying Uber employees called in rides they had no intention of taking.

So right there we have a lie -- they lied to a competitor.

The lie was told to steal time from their competitors employees -- so there's your stealing.

And the lie was told because they couldn't compete on level ground with their competitors, and felt the need to cheat (by making their competitors seem like they received a lot of bogus rides-- where Uber does not).

You have multiple people, multiple competitors, on multiple occasions making the same allegations against Uber.. and you have Uber outright acknowledging it on (at least) one of those occasions.

So there's no question that Uber lies, cheats and steals.
It's worth noting that regulatory capture basically guarantees that you will never see simple innovations such as car tracking and driver messaging.
They addressed glue in the article. Apparently it never completely seals the vein.
Felix Salmon on the A16Z investment into Buzzfeed
Nice job! Especially love the value you're creating in the analytics back-end... that a company can gather and analyze their users' location searches for planning and growth is great. I'm not sure I would have seen the possibility for that little gem.

One piece of feedback for you, in my opinion the sign-up form could really use some work. It has this "survey" sort of feel that does not excite me or give me confidence. I wonder how much this affects conversion - how many people follow a CTA from the homepage but fall off here. Some design & UX focus here could go a long way, happy to give more detailed ideas if you'd like.
reading is hard; i'm gonna get on that one day =P
I always understood that the major problem with our internet is that >90% of our content comes via these cables, which makes the infrastructure costs of supplying bandwidth far more than, say, continental US where you don't have to cross literal oceans to reach all of the servers storing peoples' internet data.

If we consumed most of our internet from AU servers, our costs would decrease as you wouldn't need as fat intercontinental pipes.
Here is a Defcon video about the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABj_mrP-no
Number of people defending Uber and their actions are too large.
Why not accept the mistake and take responsibility for it ?
Also, YC is no hero. If YC speaks highly of such companies and Uber is using such tactics to gain business all you can say is everything is double talk on this site.
I used to hang out a lot on this site but just look at number of shills employed commenting , shifting discussion to compare with Taxi industry when actual issue at hand is unethical practice.
Uber is no different than FUCK YOU , FUCK SHARING ECONOMY, give us your money we tank it in founders and select-fews pockets and enjoy.
Can't wait to all of this blow over and someone files major lawsuit.
Nope, my workstation is a pre-built Tesla Whisper-station from Microway with two Nvidia K20. Also have a 4 node HP blade cluster dedicated for CST and Microwave Office (Axiem), with last generation Tesla GPUs. That 4 node cluster is expanded up to 32 nodes by convincing coworkers to install CST distributing computing solver server. That works really well for parametric sweeps and solvers that can't use GPU. It's sort of a cobbled together system, but it works well.

To what sort of problems are you employing eigenmode analysis, or just 3D EM in general?
> What parallel universe are you living in where taxi companies are tax abiding enterprises?

At least in Germany, it is - at least for the companies. There are some drivers willing to game the books, but the companies have an obvious interest in eradicating these practices.
Lyft doesn't have great marketing, and the pink moustache is probably a turn off to many.