skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FUCK OFF NAY-SAYERS. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean idea is not good.

Idea is good and certainly has potential.
if this bothers you, meetup is hiring: http://www.meetup.com/jobs/
How to hack a Macbook using just a USB
This is really cool.

I can't wait to see what the next several decades bring in this space.
This app is so beautiful it makes me want to do my expenses. It's a pity that the app I have to use at work is not even half as cool.
Smart-health wearables leaving users vulnerable to ‘significant’ data leaks
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1955397-formula-1-prize-m... is worth reading.

Of course, it clearly costs tens of millions to run a team - but those figures won't include sponsorship/advertising deals either. If you're not in that top ten though...
In Seattle at least, they've been retroactively legalized. Sometimes you have to ask forgiveness rather than permission, and if they're going to be assholes, I'd rather they be assholes to the cab mafia on my behalf, rather than the status quo, which is a bunch of cabbies who are assholes to me.
MCI expanded long distance communications over microwaves just to dodge the AT&T monopoly. They ended up breaking up the telco monopoly and creating a competitive long distance industry.

The sad part of the story is that it had to move it's HQ to Washington DC because its business was essentially lobbying and lawsuits for half a century, and that AT&T reacquired most of its regional components after its breakup.

More at Tim Wu's excellent "The Master Switch," naturally.
Violating regulations which, in themselves, are against the public interest? I don't see that as unethical. In fact, I see it as outright praiseworthy.

When the hell did Hacker News get filled with bean counters who tut-tut about municipal regulations?
GSM-450 is pretty much right there at the top end of the 70cm, and GSM-950 is right in the middle of 33cm, but here in the US at least the FCC is pretty nuts about insisting that stuff sold here is locked out of other devices' yards. They'd flip out if you tried to import an HT that could hit GSM freqs.
I'd be willing to bet that counting out Jack Dorsey and Square is going to look a lot like counting out Jeff Bezos and Amazon back while they were investing in AWS.

To me, it looks like Square used credit card readers as an entry to point-of-sale which was then an intro into vertical specific applications (Square Appointments, restaurant and delivery are 3 examples that immediately come to mind). These evolutionary steps all take time and investment.

As another commenter pointed out, looks like a hit piece.
I don't think the mechanics on mobile are that limited, as you say in #2. Certainly an iPad can do anything a PlayStation 1 could do, and many things it couldn't. What is limiting is the use case. People play games on phones and tablets to fill time in the cracks in their day. They don't seem to go to an iPhone or an iPad as a destination entertainment device, in the way they do with a console or a PC.

People make a lot of really simple games on mobile, partly because its cheaper, and partly because the assumption is that if you are going to spend more than fifteen minuted uninterupted playing a game, you are going to do it on another device.
Even normal taxis in Australia are crazy expensive.
The Problem with webcams would be actually recording ~20 streams?
Algorithm turns first person videos into smooth Hyperlapses
I hadn't! Thanks for sharing! This was my inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0x52u2yzgI
It wasn't "no-bid", by any normal definition. It went through the standard federal technology procurement process.
Hey there! Why don't you (or anyone else reading this) shoot me an e-mail. Rick@rudelinux.org.
Anything that makes Windows act differently than it wants to is shaky, in my experience. Mostly I try not to want that.

My compromise:

- cygwin, plus the cygwin X server, plus urxvt (for the 256 color support, makes a big difference for old eyes with syntax coloring), plus tmux. I generally do as much as possible with a urxvt full screen running tmux (which is now a first class citizen of cygwin, yay).

- For things that must be windowed, like Excel etc, try Winsplit revolution. It's not FOSS, but you're already on Windows.

Unfortunately Winsplit can be had from all sorts of downloader sites, and it's hard to know which ones are safe. This article has a link to the author's site, but it goes to the wayback machine (which still seems to have a download). I don't remember where I got it. http://alternativeto.net/software/winsplit-revolution/

That link also has some alternatives to winsplit, maybe something there will like you.
Chad,
Sounds interesting! Is the 20-qubit threshold set by limitations of your simulation tools, or is that really all you need to validate your approach and ensure that nothing weird will happen (crosstalk / correlated errors / etc.) when you scale up to larger numbers of qubits?

Good luck!
Doug
A productive way to waste time
I attended grade school in Canada and I remember Corel's suite of productivity software was what we were all taught in "computer" class.
ARM processors are much cheaper than Intel X86 processors, so it won't be much of a cash injection.
But that isn't true. There are mobile games today that make huge amounts of money. They have complicated systems and depend on multiplayer gameplay. They aren't Battlefield 3, but they are a long way away from Solitaire.
Javascript Zones
Well, it's more beta than alpha I agree, but it's still not 'released'. The terminology is wrong, but the end result is the same - I backed Planetary Annihilation on kickstarter, and left it, then tried it a few months ago. It definitely wasn't in a finished state, regardless of final polish.

The problem with the 'alpha' release system is that it's causing a lot of blowback. A lot of users hate it. This system sounds good on paper, but it's not working very well, as far as I can see - it feels like for the most part it merely delays failure of a product that wasn't going to succeed, rather than create a bunch of things that we wouldn't otherwise have had access to. There is a lot of alpha release games out there. Planetary Annihilation in particular is a weird one, because the dev team had heavy experience in dev and also business, and got kickstarted way, way above their asking budget... yet despite being an unfinished game for most of the past two years, it's been showing up in marketing chaff for much of that.

I'm rambling a bit now, I guess, but my take-home point is that for me personally, the advent of alpha-funded games has not improved my experience, and has actively detracted from it. The honeymoon period is over, and it's now being exposed more and more as what it is - nothing like a preorder (yes, yes, no-one ever said it was... but it's still the subliminal marketing message), just an investment with a payoff, and given the number of failures, it's a bad investment. It moves more risk from the business to the consumers, but there are too many finished, worthy games to bother with taking that risk anyway.
hi there, could you tell me what library you selected please?
This disruption at least gives them quicker incentive to improve their service. Develop a decent app instead of having people wait on hold after calling, etc.
Yes, most of the external scripts I use in my projects are fetched from this place, I'll be glad to add the resource you want :)
I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me
Actually, I didn't think it was a hit piece. I interpreted the article the same way you did (Bezos/AMZN) use the payment data/merchant network for "products that Square is launching--Market, Cash, Feedback, Invoices, Order, Open Tickets, Capital, Dashboard, Appointments" In "THE SEARCH FOR NON-PAYMENTS REVENUE."

Once they build out the non-payment revenue, they will come back to building back the payment network to squeeze out Visa/Amex/Mastercard.

I think their initial plan was to directly build out the payment network but given the lower margins, they would have to wait a long long time. However, because of the hype/valuation trap, investors didn't have the patience. So, they have course corrected to add higher margin SAAS/software/financing products (open tickets, invoices....). Once the margins get built out, then they can get back to the payments business.

Surprising, that they are not anonymising credit card data and selling that to Hedge Funds. That could be a $25-50M EBITDA business. Majestic Research did that and sold to ITG research (for a "small" amount). But Square's data set will be more valuable than Majestic:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/06/30/using-starbucks-du...

Here is another example of MasterCard's research products:
http://www.masterintelligence.com/
I edit locally using Atom, using the Markdown Preview package to see what I'm doing, then generate a full site preview in jekyll, then push to github.
Especially in the common case where it doesn't pay out (because no accident happened).
>A bigger thing hurting greener competitors is bad information and idealistic proposals that do not have practical engineering foundations.

This is absurd and speaks to your lack of knowledge of the industry itself. Their biggest enemy is the oil/gas/utility industry who are explicitly out to destroy them (it's not a secret).

This is why the feed in tariff is being chipped away state by state by ALEC, how subsidies (though they shouldn't really be called subsidies) for 'not polluting' get removed, how subsidies for natural gas get ADDED and how 30% tariffs on solar panels get added.

All these things are designed to artificially shift the market landscape in favor of non-renewable, polluting, environmentally damaging technologies. And it's working.

>Remember, the goal behind the grid is to provide very reliable power to customers at a decent price, and operate the utility at a profit.

Remember that the goal behind the privatized grid is to make a profit. That's IT. That creates all sorts of absurd incentives and is the reason why California's electricity became very UNRELIABLE at one point.

It's also the reason why grids HATE rooftop solar with a seething passion and are desperately trying to destroy it. They can't make a profit out of electricity that you generate for yourself, can they?

They can make a profit out of unreliable, expensively generated electricity though.
Hey - if you are in the Bay Area, I'd like to see them in person. simone brunozzi at gggmmail.
Brief Transactional Memory GCC tutorial (2012)
You might like to read about the powers of OMB (Office of Management and Budget):

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/organization_mission/

It is not obvious unless you spend your time memorizing government org charts, but US Digital Service is part of OMB.
I am looking for data having list of all universities and associated colleges . I didn't found anything related to it anywhere
Actually I wrote a step-by-step example of the Object function in the readme file, what PojoViz does is just make an analysis of the structure of the library without running any code from it, it's pretty simple but the results are kinds amazing like discovering that Function.prototype is actually a function O:, but your idea is awesome and should be the next step of PojoViz, thanks!
I agree in principle, I really want better comments in this thread taking Uber to task. (I want the best arguments on both sides.)

You lost me when you started name calling though, accusing everyone of being shills.

It's the internet, you don't need to pay people to have strong opinions, it's what they do here.
Wow. I didn't realize this would get so many upvotes, so I decided to put a little more effort into finding that video. I finally found it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2m6JkJvv4w
Wow. That's like out of a supervillain's script in a movie. "Sure, you may hate me, but what really bothers me is wasting a few bucks!"
The solutions aren't up yet, so you have a very little bit of time in which to solve them before they're spoiled for you.

Ruby should go up Wednesday. Tomorrow I know Python and C++ go up, and hopefully Haskell.
I've been botting a trading market in a different game for several years now. I haven't made any actual money off of because the game doesn't allow that.

But it has been very enjoyable and educational. When I started I had essentially no programming experience and taught myself as I went along. I find it much easier to learn programming when I have an interesting project to directly apply it to.
Here in Chicago, there are many problems. The most frequent complaint is that drivers purposely break their credit card machines so that payment via card is not possible. The reason being that drivers are forced to pay the card processing fee themselves, which is another problem.

Aside from that, cash transactions are not recorded, which in turn results in less of that Driver's income being taxed, taking money away from local municipalities. This is actually a great argument in favor of uber, as they send 1099s out to all of their drivers.
Would you rather grind for hundreds of hours to maybe get a rare item, or freelance for an hour and spend that $100 on the item you want?
Hold on a second. Keep in mind that these are allegations (and the allegations of a competitor, no less). I think there's a good chance these allegations are true, but there certainly isn't "no question that Uber lies, cheats and steals."
There's no victim here, this is one extraordinarily rich startup complaining about another extraordinarily rich startup. Meanwhile taxi lobbies complain about them both.

To add some perspective, this is 5,560 rides in the last 10 months or ~550 per month or less than 20 per day. There aren't any recent figures, but as of May 2013 they were doing 30,000 rides per week and growing very quickly.

A large amount of the cancellations were from a couple people and it also mentioned that when not canceling they took short rides and tried to poach the drivers. It's pretty obvious what a few of the recruiters are doing--asking for rides to be able and pitch the driver, but then canceling when it's a driver who already said no.

tl;dr a very small number of sleezy recruiters have gotten under the skin of Lyft.
App That Crowdsources 'Sketchy' Areas Fights Charges of Racism
Thank you! That was Hans, me, Daniel, Andy, and (especially) Nicholas the intern. The followup we're planning to it is going to be pretty intense.
> FWIW, I think there's two "markets" of which you've only mentioned one -- in addition to founders who can't get US visas, I know plenty of talented Canadians and Europeans who don't want to live in the US due to the current political climate.

+1. With my current interests and life goals it seems like I'll eventually have head down to Silicon Vally, but the idea of living in the US terrifies me. Ycombinator opening up in Vancouver would probably prevent what would otherwise be inevitable just because of the domino effect it would have. Not to mention attending Ycombinator in Vancouver would be amazing, but that's making large assumptions.
That's what they say today. That's not what they launched with.
Spy satellites fighting crime from space
Seymour: Robin Williams can't be dead
Maybe charge a deposit?

Not trying to blame the victim, just really curious about how to build a business that can't be DOS'd by competitors.

Often wondered how a Netflix or Redbox prevents competitors (once Blockbuster now Amazon?) from renting a bunch of DVDs only to return them with scratches.

Maybe track problem accounts then ban them is best you can do?
The ride took 18 minutes, and most of the money is for time. Say a car would take that route at an average of 10 miles an hour + stoppage time. It seems a conservative estimate. Then the cost of the ride would be $0.559 + $3.5 + 6 $0.55 = $11.75.

Even so, had he got an UberX it would have cost him $12.40, or $11.50, so it's really quite comparable.

I spent $15 last week going from Union Square SF to the Caltrain station (accidentally picked Uber Black not UberX) - about a mile. It's really quite a lot nicer than a taxi. So it's really quite close, dollar for dollar

But here's the thing - SF taxis have (presumably because of past abuses) very rigidly pegged milage to total cost in order to properly compensate drivers. The problem is that this works terribly for further distances. So SFO to Palo Alto will set you back at an absolute minimum about $100, but Millbrae (2 miles fewer) to Palo Alto cost me $30 on UberX. Where I live in the UK, I'll spend £20 ($45) on travelling 6 miles after a night out (no traffic) - because the taxis go off meter outside the city limits. Travelling 3 miles to catch a bus to London in a minicab, prebooked costs £8.
These current claims are allegations - but Uber has done this exact thing before to another competitor and acknowledged it. "no question that Uber lies, cheats, and steals" is still true, by Uber's own admission - though I'm certain they'd like to claim this type of behavior isn't lying/cheating/stealing.
A family would share one or two X86 CPUs replaced every 3-5years. But very soon I'll probably have at least half a dozen ARM CPUs within a few meters of me wherever I go, all with much shorter replacement cycles.
Unity! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLJ5NHARMk
Creating an Ubuntu 12.04 FTP Server in Microsoft Azure
And with Blizzard getting a cut of the Real Money Auction House sales, there seems to be little incentive for them to really crack down on this. The perfect "crime"!

Blizzard gets some extra revenue, deep pocket players have a constant selection of rare items to buy, botters make a nice chunk of change, semi-oblivious sellers turn their items into gold instantly (reminds me of payday loans) - everyone* wins!

* Except the folks who list the RMAH price in gold and, of course, the normal players ;)
> Over the course of several generations, the US government has taxed away trillions upon trillions of dollars that otherwise would have been saved and invested and thereby added to the capital of the American economy.

Yeah, maaan. I mean, aside from giving us clean water regulations, clean air regulations, safe air travel, excellent roads, safe streets, access to thoroughly tested medicine, plenty of food, safety from invading armies, construction of dams and other large-scale engineering projects, world-class education, GPS, the internet, and putting a man on the moon, what has the government even done with all that money?
I don't understand what you're trying to argue here. On the one hand, this is obviously true. On the other hand, it is also true that art forms can essentially die out. Who works with stained glass murals or illuminated manuscripts anymore?

It is certainly true that the US constitution can be amended. Nevertheless, we live in a world in which what you want is not [just not the law of the land] but explicitly [forbidden by the land's highest legal authority].

As I see it, there are two separate conversations here. The first one is whether the changes you're proposing would have the effect that you intend. The second is whether the changes you are proposing could be made in our society.

My original comment was meant to convince you that this second point wasn't reasonable. To change something that's unconstitutional is a much bigger deal than just changing something that is currently a law.

For the record, I also strongly disagree with you on the first point. I think, and have expressed elsewhere in this thread [0], that the current copyright regime is far too strong to be maximize social welfare.

To directly address your original points:
1) Increasing incentives for authors does not necessarily produce better works. It turns out that money is an exceptionally poor motivator of creative work. Dan Pink has a rather famous TED talk [1] in which among other things he describes how offering people money for a task can make them perform worse at it.
2) Stronger copyright regimes do not reward creators, they reward rights holders -- a crucial difference. The creative industries are notorious bad actors with respect to the artists that do the work. See for example, Hollywood Accounting [2], the RIAA failing to pay musicians [3], and even when everything goes according to plan "For every $1000 worth of music sold, the average musician makes $23.40." [4]

3) Allow me to quote you for a second. You write

> The worst case (and unrealistic) scenario of a stingy heir just doesn't matter. If someone deprived us of Sherlock Holmes or Harry Potter or Mickey Mouse or whatever, we would all be just fine. None of them are essential.

If these works aren't essential why should we as a society subsidize the creation of new works through long-lasting monopoly rights? I am rather confused by what difference you perceive between yet-to-be created works and already created works.

I've written a lot that probably won't be read by anyone, but in conclusion, arguing for an extension of copyright law requires a lot more thought than you seem to have put in.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8143683

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120305/04332117978/how-b...

[4] http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2010/07/the_root_inv...
I agree, it is uninspiring that harmful products stay on the market if they are definitively harmful.

The best (least unhealthy) liquid hand soap I have found is Deep Steep. The best bar soap I think is Kiss My Face Olive Oil Soap (messes up the soap dish though) or Grandpa's Love-My-Loofah Chlorophyll & Green Tea.
Does Lyft's TOS prohibit this? If so, couldn't this theoretically be a criminal offense under the CFAA?
> the companies have an obvious interest in eradicating these practices

What is that interest? The way cabs most frequently work in the US is that the drivers are effectively independent contractors who rent the car (and ever valuable medallion) from the taxi company. The companies themselves may or may not accurately report their income, but it doesn't have anything to do with the fares. Some companies charge a percentage of fares, so in that instance I'd assume there are more stringent controls.

It's similar to restaurants in the US, cash tips are drastically underreported and this is fully known by management.
Who said anything about saving the patient? This is just about killing tumors.
Those were good days, I remember buying the boxed version of WP8 (with Tux on the cover) from CompUSA.
Red Bull F1 may be "profitable" but only if you separate it from the 100's of millions invested by the Red Bull parent company. It is simply a marketing venture whose real profit is measured in brand awareness and sales of little cans of caffeinated soda.
They are being given out freely.
If services like Uber and Lyft simply decided to be a cab company with excellent technological underpinnings, people would have been quite happy with them and they would have been quite profitable.

In SF, this is absolutely not the case. Uber and Lyft simply would not be able to "decide to be a cab company" at all. Total non-starter.

Taxi drivers require a medallion to pick up passengers, and those are strictly limited by law. They are also already all taken by existing cab companies, either directly or through renting them from the actual medallion holders, and there's a 10+ year waiting list for a medallion unless you have $250K to purchase one from an existing holder (who wants to sell).
Taxis also charge for time if they're idling in traffic; maybe the traffic was hellish? I'm from the next major city in Aus (which also has overpriced taxis) and I was suprised at the cost of that taxi ride.