skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have been interested to see how the ad preferences can be affected over just 48 hours. Obviously FB has years of data on most people, but if a sudden influx of likes occurs it may switch things.

Would have loved to see a before/after snapshot of https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/?ad_id=6015766...
> There's no victim here, this is one extraordinarily rich startup complaining about another extraordinarily rich startup.

That you don't care about the victim does not make them not a victim.
Type safety lets you avoid all sorts of wonderful JS bugs :) https://www.quantconnect.com
You have time and have nothing better to do with it than to kill it? My condolences. Try having kids; it rids you of free time quite well! :)

Really, with current online life, people have contact less with random strangers and more with like-minded or otherwise interesting individuals. If in an [abstract] countryside you have to talk to you neighbors because there's no one else around, on the Internet the choice is wider.

OTOH your neighbors may be nice and interesting people; some of my neighbors are. Also you might have some local common interest, or could e.g. lend power tools or kitchen utensils to each other sometimes.
Whatever are his motives, if he develops the technology and doesn't crap on humanity the way the patent system allows one to do, other people will see the potentials and make good use of it. That's why academic freedom is important :-).

In other word, let him make bubbles… cf https://gist.github.com/stoutbeard/4158578.
Java in production, especially with heavy "frameworks" use and "waterfall to subcontracted coders-for-paycheck" process (how else there could be a billion lines of code for a site) can't handle even a moderate load and runs out of memory on handling persistent connections (long sessions) and the fixes were mostly by adding tons of hardware (unlimited government money) and to redesign many components to share nothing (decoupling) and to work in asynchronous way with a short requests (service-oriented architecture + Erlang's process-based model) by Google, FB, etc. guys? That's the story?

btw, these are very legitimate questions. The original project was a epic failure which perfectly illustrated all the flaws of past-century practices (waterfall process with tons of specs created by idiots, outsourcing to the cheapest or favorite incompetent, blind faith in big names, etc.) and the fix, it seems, was to bring it close to the state-of-the-art tech which was evolved to use-at-home in [more-or-less] independent-thinking shops, like Google or FB.
If you plan to use Emokit, please drop me a line (email's in my profile) if you have any issues. I'm no longer the maintainer, but I like to keep abreast of its usage, and want to make sure that it continues working for new devices. (For context, I'm the original reverse-engineer behind Emokit.)
I think they have distinct experiences. Lyft drivers are more talkative and prefer you sit in the front, with Uber the status quo is get in the back and conversation is optional.

I check both apps, if the pick up time and price is similar I'll take Uber.
Show HN: Surf – Web Browser (iOS)
E911 location tracking is required on 95% of mobile phones in North America as of 2005. There are apparently similar rules in the EU, but Wikipedia isn't very forthcoming.

(but yes, "gave up" as in "stopped using")
I was obsessed with the White Wings paper airplanes [1] as a kid; this was in the '80s when it was basically impossible to get high quality Japanese paper where I lived. Oh, the time spent tracing and cutting and screwing up and gluing, and then like a 12 yr old, racing outside to test my laboriously constructed gliders in muggy, hot Virginia summers.

[1] http://whitewings.com
Making Noise (1999)
So a large team like Ferrari or McLaren will spend about $400 million on running the whole team for the year - that includes all salaries, R&D, simulation, transport, part costs, marketing etc.

They'll get about $80 million back on that from prize money (it's more like $100 million if you win).

Then there's the sponsorship - for a large team about $300 million a year is reasonable.

The rest can often be found from elsewhere. McLaren had large funding from Daimler until recently (when they received a $40 million fine Daimler paid) - Ferrari have a lot of their own money. F1 drives car sales, and the technology from F1 can be pulled back into the road cars - just look at McLaren's new models..
> "Gave up" as "stop using"?

Yes.

> Did FCC and Congress require Greer to personally track himself? (Why?)

I believe this is in the context of tracking cellphone users in general. This is used to support "Enhanced 9-1-1": When someone dials the emergency services, they can have a rough idea of where the caller is, even if the caller doesn't know where they are.

Of course, there are plenty of more nefarious uses one can imagine as well.
Which is, statistically speaking, one of the most dangerous things you do every day.
Of course, the RMAH (and the GAH) are now gone completely, so they did, at some point, decide that it wasn't good for the game.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=I+Liked+Everything+I+Saw+on+Facebo...
Snapchat Is Now The #3 Social App Among Millennials
It's definitely a step in the right direction and fulfills the neighborhood aspect. I have a different idea in mind for what I'm building; I want to see a participative economy built from the ground up.
What role did the DIYbio community play in fertilizing your business? What role do you see that community playing in future 'non-trad' bio-tech start-ups?
> have commercial auto insurance

From the moment you get into any Uber product (e.g. uberX, UberBLACK) to the moment you’re dropped off, your ride is covered by commercial liability insurance

> pass annual maintenance checks

Not just any car can be an Uber. It’s a title reserved for safe, high-quality vehicles that are in exceptional condition. In the U.S., the average model year for vehicles on our platform is 2008, and none are from before 2004+.

> Or you've got 50,000 gas guzzlers on the road

Uberpool: http://blog.uber.com/uberpool

> Or they get into fights with customers. Or there is some other worse criminal activity.

Uber/Lyft are far better in this respect since there is a record of both the driver and passenger (and a log of their GPS coordinates).

Also: Every ridesharing and livery driver is thoroughly screened through a rigorous process we’ve developed using industry-leading standards. This includes a three-step criminal background screening for the U.S. — with county, federal and multi-state checks that go back as far as the law allows — and ongoing reviews of drivers’ motor vehicle records throughout their time on Uber.

https://www.uber.com/safety

https://www.lyft.com/safety
JSON Jason
Will it be some more than implement & compare with the provided solution?
I found similar one: http://javascript-puzzlers.herokuapp.com/
It's a small world...Welcome to IQC! (IQC veteran speaking here)
> in a functioning market we'd see supply rise to meet demand

So, tear down existing buildings to build higher, dig more basements, or subdivide existing properties? Because you can't assume there's always free land to build new buildings on.

Even if you assume the city is in the middle of a desert and there's essentially infinite room to grow horizontally, eventually you lose the reason people came to the city in the first place: The city itself, which you aren't really living in if you're commuting from a neighborhood more than an hour away from the city proper, or the city before it added on a dozen outlying regions.
Frankly I'm annoyed to see this topic here. Most people who have taken to scraping are low-life scum. They see content that others have spent months or years producing, simply set up a site that aggregates all of that information, and then sit back and collect revenue from ads or reseller links you paste everywhere.

People who put in a few hours of work to take advantage of other people's hard work piss me off. :/
Jeu-à-télécharger : des divertissements et jeux PC pour tous
I don't always want to sit in the front seat, fist bump the driver, and become their best friend.
Is that with or without luciferin added?
And, Intel could charge more for them since nobody else can match their process capabilities. It may not be a ton of money, but it's better than having a factory sit idle in a hypothetical future where x86 chips are mostly used in servers and higher end workstations.
CFAA, really? No thanks. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/rebooting-computer-cri...
Getting Started with Bootstrap, AngularJS and APEX (revisited)
As long as he makes something, I'm not too picky. I have a music maker, a graphic novel maker, a musical theater performance maker[1], and...I don't know, yet. Of course I'd love him to be a software maker, but all I really want is his creativity and intellect to grow through making something he loves.

1. I was in theater in high school, but I never "made" a performance. The difference is, well, acting. :)
I don't feel this fits in any existing thread here, so I'll just put it at the root level.

Doesn't the "look" at ~2:04 in the video sound inserted, perhaps to make Kalanick sound abrasive? I may just be over analyzing it, after having watched a short documentary on shaping opinions with small manipulations of video interviews awhile back.

(I sincerely apologize that I can't find a link).

I digress. The fact is Uber has been playing fast and loose, and push is starting to come to shove with regulation. Whether Uber or regulators cave is now the question.
this guy sounds like an apologist.
You don't understand the dynamic of medallions in SF.

Medallions in SF are owned only by taxi drivers, not by cab companies. You must drive a cab 800 hours per year in order to own a medallion. You can't own multiple medallions.

Taxi fleets, in SF, provide vehicles, dispatch services, insurance, and maintenance, as well as basically being intermediaries for medallions. Driver-owners with medallions rent their medallions to the fleet, who then hand them out to their drivers who are not owners, to give them the legal right to act as a taxi for that shift. The fleets get revenue (typically) through gate fees, which is basically a fee each driver pays when they take the vehicle off the lot.

You do not have to sign up to get a medallion in order to be a fleet -- nor can you own a medallion. You'd need to either attract several medallioned drivers to your fleet (hardly impossible: make them a better offer than their current fleet -- they aren't owners or otherwise locked into their existing fleet), or, perhaps better if you want to make a big entrance into the market quickly, buy out one of the existing fleets and continue its arrangement with its medallioned drivers.

I take no position on whether it would have been a good idea for Uber or Lyft to do something like this -- I'm just saying that there is not a mandatory 10 year waiting period or anything.
I hate to dissent but I wouldn't recommend REAMDE under any circumstances. The first third or so begins lots of interesting threads about virtual worlds, economies and especially ransomware, but the book then morphs into a fairly standard-issue spy thriller, and leaves the most interesting subplots (the ones that don't involve commandos and terrorists shooting at each other) unexplored or unresolved.
An app that does exactly this was just built at YC Hacks:

http://ychacks.challengepost.com/submissions/25803-oneride
The upgrade treadmill is a good thing. I'm sitting in front of a machine with a quad-core processor and 16GB of RAM that cost way less than the 486 system I bought back when the specs you described were relevant. Is it really useful to have 15.93600 GB of free memory because everything could, if unchanged from 1999, run in 64 MB of RAM?

Of course, the big differences from 1999 is that I'm also sitting in front of 3840x1080 pixels. Something that my previous computer from 6 years ago couldn't handle adequately. I have a game open in a window that uses 23GB of harddrive space -- and it's totally worth it! I have 60 browser tabs open and any one of them could be play HD video in real time from the Internet (In 1999, HD wasn't even a real thing yet). It's never been easier to write software or create any sort of media content. It's not bloat -- we're making use of the power that we have. Anything less than 100% utilization is a waste.
> But Washington has been taking more power away from the states for the last ~100 years or so.

Yes, and there are very good reasons for that, beginning with us having to fight a Civil War because the South felt the need to keep slavery and continuing on to us having to fight the South to get it to enforce the laws preserving Civil Rights for black people and other minority groups.

Shifting power back to local governments doesn't mean the locals in general get more say. Historically, it's meant that the most violent and richest of the locals got to lord it over everyone else in the region until the Feds stepped in to clean things up.

> This leads to large Washington-imposed mandates forced upon the states and upon the people, which leads to hostility.

Fine. Hostility is better than lynchings.
Certainly sketchy behavior by Uber, but also pretty embarrassing that Lyft wasn't able to detect and ban the Uber employee who cancelled 680 rides.
Here's a Blackhat video with a complete C# WoW client from 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKbZdlUFAK4 11:55
I agree that it can help people keep in touch with other, and i never considered the network effects of doing what I was thinking, which is actually why I'm glad I didn't get around to doing it.

Also another commenter mentioned that facebook does actual get around to deleting things, albeit slowly.

As for imposing my dislike on others, that is a fair arguement, but there is also the other side of the coin to consider. To impose your like of facebook on others. People who want to remain off facebook get pulled into it via tags. While i'm not saying you are doing the tagging, but opting out isn't really an option in a network as vast and pervasive as facebook is.
If I'm reading this correctly, a GS-12 is between 75k and 98k.
Yeah, I was very supportive f Uber when they got started because the taxi monopoly in SF is wildly inefficient at best and corrupt at worst, but unfortunately Uber seem determined to outdo them in that area too.
I emailed twice in the last year (many months apart) and got no response either.
Where? I don't see that. Uber has been previously accused of similar behavior with Gett, but not on Lyft.
I want to see a utility camera manufacturer produce a product that is more readily integrated into DIY hardware/Internet of Things projects. These rugged little cameras are awesome but I've yet to see one that provides an open interface for enthusiasts to manipulate the bulb/mode/settings externally to the camera. I'd like to see a Bluetooth (perhaps BLE) -enabled camera that can be triggered from an Arduino, watch, smartphone, or whatever the user can dream up.
API for website like iMDb, Showing Series Date/Time and Movie Release Date
Is there any API for building a movies/series website with their relase date, ratings etc..
Hey Doug! Thanks! Great to see the IBM quantum team on HackerNews! We've worked really hard to bake scalability into the designs from day 1. Our challenge now is to validate standard 1 and 2 qubit performance metrics on that scalable 2-D qubit lattice. A system with ~16 qubits is big enough to get a reasonable assessment of correlated errors between non-nearest neighbors, and small enough that it's still pretty cheap to build. We've also made some great headway in developing a scalable and low-cost architecture for the control electronics and signal delivery - about 20x cheaper than the standard approaches - and 16 qubits is large enough to really put those to the test.
Be well!
Chad
Hey, you can now enter a valid url pointing to a js file and PojoViz will recognize it and ask directly for the global name.

The good news: your library can now be rendered by pasting the location of your script in the input field
The bad news: I see that elm has most of its code under private functions which can be seen after creating an instance, unfortunately PojoViz doesn't do this because it doesn't know how to, anyway if you want to add a custom analyzer is easy as pie, take a look at https://github.com/maurizzzio/PojoViz/tree/master/src/analyz... to see how to make custom analyzers
For anyone that didn't get the joke - this is what a popular and now famous Slashdot comment said about the iPod when it was released.
Hub – command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub
>> " For me the default of "the data doesn't exist" seems more natural to me than trusting everyone to not abuse it."

I disagree, the data exists, this is fundamental, we are not going towards data impoverishment, we are necessarily living in an environment rich with data. I rather have accurate data by far.
Value isn't the right word here. "Global utility" would be better, but how do you define that? Take heavy drugs for instance. They can have a high positive value but most definitions of utility would assign them a low negative one, I figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_decision#Formal_mathema...
Just thought I'd be pedantic and point out that all the Go examples on that page aren't "package main", but are defining a main func; they won't compile to a binary.
Looks promising! Could be use to control bittorrent server from work. Maybe call it pluginless instead? Clientless kinda makes me imagine it's pure js/html5 app but actually it uses a server as client.
Of course, the truth is this system never needed to be built at all. There were already sites available to purchase insurance, and marketplaces like esurance. The government could have deployed a static link page to the insurance sites. It's ludicrous to claim 8m people have insurance because of this site, when they could have had it without the site.

What they could have focused on was a calculator for the subsidies and Medicaid qualifacation, with the subsidies being delivered as part of tax filing.

As it stands, we now have an overly complex process for buying an insurance like product, and very little actually targeted at our big problem forcing providers to compete on price for non emergency services.
Perlin actually improved his original algorithm by creating the Simplex Noise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise which runs much faster. As a matter of interest, Voronoi noise is also quite popular
How is buying a second home and renting out the first one different from buying a second home and renting out the second one?
Really the key thing to focus in here, IMO, is the fact that arbitrary USB hardware firmware can be overwritten - anything taking place after complete control of the USB hardware has already been exploited and well documented; for example the teensy device and the usb rubber ducky.
The less mortgages the better. No mortgage, no fear of underwater mortgage.
"And I don't go visit other people's apartments at random -- I could but I don't."

LOL
Audio pro here - I record dialog for film and TV. It doesn't sound edited to me at all. Cutting the audio in slightly ahead or behind the camera image is so usual that such cuts have their own names - J cuts sand L cuts, respectively. Doing so provides a sense of editing momentum (which is quite important in news) and rather than being particularly considered it's just a cookie-cutter technique. Bear in mind that TV segments like this are just product to the people who make them, and are assembled with about as much contemplation as a hamburger. When you're cranking these stories out day after day you're not very invested in any of them, just enough to sketch out the issue in an attention grabbing way.
This is satire, it must be.
The cloud animation (linked from http://noisemachine.com/talk1/24b.html), derived from the noise calculations, looks pretty good. I'll bet that it is computationally much less involved than, say a physics-based model, such as http://www.markmark.net/dissertation/
Hopefully Intel 14nm SoCs will be competitive in handsets at last. And open GPU drivers will enable native Linux + Wayland on them.
> My dad is a lawyer and his firm still uses it today. I've shown him Google Docs

I'm wondering if a lawyer's use of Google Docs or other web-based document storage app would be considered a breach of client privacy or violation of some confidentiality laws?

Yes, I know that lawyers (and doctors, etc.) use email, but email is at least 30 years older than could-based apps like Google Docs, so more allowance has been made for it. In other words, a lawyer might fear getting into trouble for using web-based storage, but won't fear sending the same thing by email.

Yes, I also know that proper use of cryptography can solve all of these issues, but we all know that virtually no lawyer (or doctor or similar professional) ever uses encryption.
Along with the other approaches mentioned, another interesting one is to intercept the graphics library function calls before they enter the library code.

This strategy has been successfully used for a variety of game automation, including WoW auction house arbitrage and a multiplayer Starcraft II AI / bot.

This method is advantageous because it doesn't have the overhead or uncertainty of going from pixels back to information but it also does not require patching or inspecting the game's address space which is fragile and often triggers anti-cheating or anti-botting systems.

You can read a good write-up about this method here:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/D3D9Interceptor.html
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

“”
Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata"
I've had success with bleach.
I worked on Broadwell and other 14nm projects and would be interested in chatting with you. My IDSID is dwilli2, please drop me a note.
Increases in bandwidth aren't going to lower latency. This path may be slightly more direct than an alternate cable system, but as long as your going through the US, the connection will never be able to go bellow ~200ms between South Korea and Germany.