skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crowd sourced Q&A, AMA all these are really pretty rubbish. It's a celebrity press conference where there can be no follow up questions and the subject can just ignore or brush aside anything that doesn't meet their self-promotion. I'm sure it's an awesome ego boost to the person who is responding, though. For example Norvig works for google. This is not going to press him on goog's and his own ethics with respect privacy, using goog data to deny at risk people insurance, pick your own controversial topic here, in any way but will give him a platform to say "no everything is fine and I and my employer really get this right and nobody should have been worrying in the first place" if he chooses to. Controversial questions will likely be "downvoted" by "fans" as well.
Meanwhile your chances of actually learning anything from this is pretty limited. Norvig likes online courses, oh really? Wow.

Remember the old news model where (at its best) reputable newspapers and magazines would have educated journalists familiar with the topic who would conduct interviews responsibly but in a proper adversarial manner? Wouldn't you prefer something like that with Norvig? Ah well we can dream, huh?
Different gradients (sometimes linear, sometimes radial), and/or box-shadow rules like this:

#camera div:after {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin-left: -20px;
top: 15px;
left: 50%;
z-index: 3;
background: linear-gradient(45deg, #ccc 40%, #ddd 100%);
border-radius: 50%;
box-shadow: 0 3px 2px #999, 1px -2px 0 white, -1px -3px 2px #555, 0 0 0 15px #c2c2c2, 0 -2px 0 15px white, -2px -5px 1px 17px #666, 0 10px 10px 15px rgba(0,0,0,0.3), -90px -51px 1px -43px #aaa, -90px -50px 1px -40px #888, -90px -51px 0 -34px #ccc, -90px -50px 0 -30px #aaa, -90px -48px 1px -28px rgba(0,0,0,0.2), -124px -73px 1px -48px #eee, -125px -72px 0 -46px #666, -85px -73px 1px -48px #eee, -86px -72px 0 -46px #666, 42px -82px 1px -48px #eee, 41px -81px 0 -46px #777, 67px -73px 1px -48px #eee, 66px -72px 0 -46px #666, -46px -86px 1px -45px #444, -44px -87px 0 -38px #333, -44px -86px 0 -37px #ccc, -44px -85px 0 -34px #999, 14px -89px 1px -48px #eee, 12px -84px 1px -48px #999, 23px -85px 0 -47px #444, 23px -87px 0 -46px #888;
}

Neat results -- I'm not sure how practical these specific techniques are to everyday development, but of course a project like this provides the creator with a strong motivation to seriously master everything available in CSS; and the end result of that has obvious practical use.
See also Huginn (https://github.com/cantino/huginn)
Too bad the SoC in the RPi is far more undocumented than the C64, and even experimentation is unlikely to yield much. PEEK/POKE were probably the most fun commands for doing interesting things from BASIC.
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No major thesaurus lists sabotage as a synonym for disrupt. A couple have disrupt for sabotage.
This is what I imagine drivers doing. In NYC, if you're in the outskirts of the boroughs you're probably better off as a driver being part of both networks.
*her skills
for me this is a reason not to ride on Uber
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I really don't like the WSJ. No paywall this time, but also no source links. I want to see Mozilla's announcement (if any), specs from the phone, whether I can buy it at all from abroad, etc. The article contains only one link: to the paywalled version of the article.

Edit: took a few minutes but I've found the phone on Mozilla's website: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/#intex_clou...

Also found their news blog which has nothing since February.
Well it's been 4 hours since I posted. I haven't been waiting and hoping, just came back to read the updates. After all, a post to Show HN would be watched pretty closely for feedback, yes?

No reply? No interest.
Thanks Uber for proving you're as sleazy as the taxi drivers you're trying to replace.
Smells like Shopify!
Uh... which of Uber's actions here are unethical?

Aggressively poaching drivers from Lyft seems all right to me. That's just healthy competition.

And this stuff about wasting Lyft's money by booking and canceling rides -- it's a bunch of nonsense. By Lyft's own estimate, Uber employees booked and canceled 5000 rides since last October. That's like $100k/yr in lost revenue. It's nothing. Certainly not a systematic attempt to undermine Lyft.

Am I missing something here?

Disclaimer: of the two services I only use Lyft. I've had bad experiences with Uber's customer service.
We used this back when I worked in Brazil. Liquibase is fine and solved some of our problems keeping schema migrations in sync across developers, but I remember it lacked some essential features such as syntax correction. I remember I wrote a couple of Ruby scripts to check things for me.

The catch phrase is unfortunate, because it could trick one to think this backs your data. This is basically a Rails migrations like solution that relies on XML files to describe changes to your schema.

Update: And now JSON even. Hoorray.
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Slava (@coffeemug) will be giving a talk on new and upcoming features in RethinkDB, we'd love for people in SF to join us!
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Just downloaded Lyft app for use in Kansas City AND signed up on hn after lurking for years! Feeling super motivated today apparently.
I just received it. It took just over a day. I may not be doing it right, but i left the video on in a separate tab while I did other things. When it hit 1 remaining, I purchased. I'll definitely use it again if the service continues.
For what it's worth, I have a pilot's license and also fly a quadcopter.

A big part of the issue is the separation of powers and who exactly has the right to regulate model aircraft. Congress explicitly and deliberately precluded the FAA from regulating model aircraft. A separate question is whether or not, given their proliferation, the new breed of model aircraft should be regulated. Given existing laws, that's a job for congress to decide.

As an aside: People wanting to do dumb things, will do dumb things. You don't need to create new sweeping regulation to punish people from doing dumb things either. Most cities and states have laws preventing people from deliberately invading others' privacy, or acting recklessly. Many of the concerns levied against drones are either already addressed or are impossible to regulate against. I'm often reminded of a news reporter on 9/11 that was asking the aviation expert on air with her how the planes were able to get into restricted airspace.
" a lot of competitors with essentially same product and everyone instantly know all available into (so everyone buys cheapest of the same)."

But we already know these free markets are either not efficient or likely not efficient.
Strong form efficiency is provably false.

Weak form efficiency is only possibly true if P = NP (http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284).
The indignation over this makes no sense. Sure it's aggressive, but Uber has to be in order to maintain their market position and keep growing.

As developers, we get recruited all the time, even while employed. The horror! This is a good problem for drivers to have. No one is forcing them to switch (or even stopping them from driving for multiple services concurrently). They will drive for a company as long as the offer is good.

These are competitors offering an essentially identical service, and apparently fighting over an important resource -- drivers -- so the moral outrage is absurd. This is the free market in action.

I'll say it: from everything I've seen over the years of Uber, I like their playbook. Call it whatever you want -- underhanded, blatant, political, amoral, spotlight-stealing, $linkbait_adjective. Most importantly, it is damn effective.
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You'll be able to develop on internet cafe and shared computers without needing to have Firefox installed if you have a USB drive with Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition [1] on it. The WebIDE is already available in Firefox 34 nightly builds, which are also portable [2]. You won't be able to install the drivers to connect to a Firefox OS device without admin rights, of course.

[1] - http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

[2] - http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#...
That's probably why they're employing such shady tactics. They need the fastest growth they can achieve, because those new 911 turbos aren't going to buy themselves.

There ya go, fixed it.
If Venmo wants to get back in the game, they need to support depositing money to bank accounts via cards only just like SQC. The only reason I don't use Venmo to receive money is because I don't want to provide my bank account/routing number.
If you are using map/reduce for analytics, 1TB is tiny and easily fits in RAM. Get back to me when you are talking petabytes.
Yes, it uses the driver's app. At least the rider's app was updated a little over a week ago (August 18) to allow this. Presumably the driver's app was updated around the same time to integrate with it.
I really like the landing page. Mostly I watch these intro screencasts prepared to wince and jump forward, but yours is quick to the point and non-annoying.

The product seems minimal in a nice way, but I'm very curious about the direction it could go. Like, having discussions somehow based on the calculated groups.

Based on my own "bored at the bus stop" type experiences, I'm guessing mobile users can tend to get pretty seriously involved with series of yes/no questions with some social component, and yes, I'm thinking about Tinder.
I'd say it's an artistic constraint.

It forced her to search through everything possible in CSS (an obviously-limited medium), and get creative to convince it to draw these.
nothing would change

Well, in my market (San Diego), anyways, I am certain the number of drunk drivers would go up, and the bar industry would see a hit in their clientele. I rarely even drink myself, but I don't think twice about calling a Lyft to go out or come back after drinking.
Weird, no matter what I try, it only updates to 0.8.3 :(
Did you miss the part where they cancel the rides?
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They are succeeding, but not to the extent of Uber/Lyft. Regulated taxi industry pricing is much higher than lyft or UberX pricing. If taxis get de-regulated and/or UberX/Lyft get regulated then Curb/Hailo/etc will be well positioned.
no.

If you the type of person who closes a bar, though, I would strongly suggest additionally adding a photograph, since it will make you easy to identify in the crowds of the bar rush.
You can do that, but I think embedded images are slightly larger than the original because the way they are encoded. But still, images are more practical since these would be a cross-browser nightmare.
Apps are built using web technologies like HTML5 and JS - this doesn't mean the phone is "always-connected", the review is incorrect on this point.

Some apps are offline, some are only online, many are both. This is just like other popular smartphone platforms.
Tool to allow front-end developers to build web apps
Swing Copters a clone of Bog Racer (or just a coincidence)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the research actually only shows the peak is no higher than 40 hours per week. Are there studies indicating people are more productive working 40-hour weeks than 30 or 35-hour weeks?

Of course your point still stands, they'd just have to be even more of an outlier.
And 4. Uber contractors cancelling rides for drivers that have already been recruited
This is what Amazon should've done with their phone - make it stupid cheap.
I've noticed that eNom/Bulk Register has stopped sneaking bogus 'mobile website converter trial' and similar nonsense into the cart when you buy/renew domain names as of late. They're designed to not have a fee for the first month, so they sneak it into your cart and then hope you don't notice when it starts automatically billing to your credit card a month later. I wonder if their disappearance is related to this?
My mom used it to send me money. It's the only way I send money these days to people who aren't on the Bitcoin bandwagon.
Snapchat Raising a New Round at a $10B Valuation
Here is the Mozilla blog on the subject:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/08/25/first-firefox-os-sm...

The phone is for sale on snapdeal.com but I am not sure that it's available outside of India right now.
Either way, I'm at least glad I've never used Uber yet, and now never will.

Which, of course, is you exercising your market decision to not use Uber.
I found his explanation of the 2 views of the fishtank to explain quantum entanglement quite interesting.
Agree. Goober's whole business model was about leveraging our good will from smashing the taxi cartels.

Now this? Nice "pivot" guys.
It will be interesting to see how long a company with that culture can survive. Uber may even be able to flout federal law because of their extensive passenger & travel data. (Suspect Larry Page got off easy on the illicit drug advertising because of this, others would expect to do hard time.)

For service startups we benefit from the early adapter "eliteness." Early drivers as well as users of Uber were of a high social status and fairly sophisticated. Much like the early days of usenet, rules can be lax or non-existent. However when the mass market begins to arrive startups which previously flourished with an tight early adapter user base start to show their cracks.

No one wants to kill their own momentum but a way to see if your startup will start to stink as it grows is to recruit both service providers and users from online ad campaigns very early on. Track them as their own segment and see what sort of unique problems they bring.
‘Mango, Mango!’ A Family, a Fruit Stand, and Survival on $4.50 a Day
Typically though, restoring from backup is a dicey proposition. If a schema migration causes issues down the line, you're likely to have production data that needs to be kept. E.g. a room reservation system can't just drop two days of bookings on the floor because some financial accounting table was improperly migrated. Partial restores are also difficult if you've drunk deep from the relational chalice.

On the other hand, if the upgrade was broken, it's unlikely the downgrade will work. The situation where the downgrade works is when you don't need it. On the database i work on we fix bad upgrades that weren't discovered immediately by layering another upgrade over it.
Snapchat Valued at $10B, Kleiner Perkins Invests
> Yeah, but the research shows moderate use of alcohol not only doesn't have bad effects (even if insignificant) but it even has significant (measurable) beneficial effects.

Citation? Also, what's 'moderate' use for you? A 'standard drink' equals about 10 grams alcohol, the German institute for addiction (DHS) says* that the threshold dose for risk free consumption is at 20 grams per day, with two days break per week. Above you are risking a plethora of health risks, from mouth cancer, to liver deseases, breast cancer and what have you. There are some benficial health effects, but none of them are 'significant'.

*http://www.dhs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/dhs_stellungnahm...
It rises to the level of fraud. Its immoral. Maybe they will get away with it; but there are level-playing-field laws in business. Calling it 'recruiting' is disingenuous.
Thanks mbrock, we were just yesterday considering adding ukulele and glockenspiel to the video to make it completely inaudible.

Yes - you are looking at it the same way as we are. We've built a core that could be outfitted in a number of different ways to fit a variety of circumstances. Many of the features early users wanted were appropriate for users across verticals, and we built those first. Now we're onto things like making it 'one click' for professors who use course software, etc. There is no end in sight for that stuff, so user growth will at least in some part determine how much we invest in each vertical over the next couple months. cc Steve Blank
In two years, I went from starting doing stand-up comedy out of boredom to getting third place in a contest at the best club in the state.

My advice is:

* Don't be afraid of being stupid or being unfunny.

* Do everything to kill fear. Face your fears to kill them.

* Follow your gut.

* Practice in front of a live audience as much as you can.

* Observe and notice everything. Question everything.

* When you're inspired to write a joke, notice the things that inspire you.
When they hit the same driver twice, they're supposed to cancel the trip aren't they?

But when a trip is canceled it hurts the driver who uses gas to drive in their direction and causes them to miss out on other available rides, reduces the amount of available cars on the street for legitimate users, and more negative effects im sure you can imagine.

This still sounds ethical to you?
My friends, coworkers and I use it constantly (nearly daily) for the same stuff we used to use Venmo for: splitting tabs/cabs/etc. It's just a little more convenient in that a new user can be set up without having to download an app (always annoying when cell coverage is spotty) and there is no separate balance to keep track of other than your normal bank balance. I do find it a little too simple to initiate a transfer, but you can add a restriction that forces you to input your debit card's CVC code to actually initiate a transfer.
What happens if your competitors realize you are using the service and devise some way to trick MontorBook into reporting the wrong prices?

[Edit: related link, which was the inspiration for my question: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-b...]
It is, but mostly because popular operating systems have historically had poor application isolation and vulnerable services.

My personal opinion is that having to have a firewall everywhere in front of everything is a hack that was put into place because of awful OS security, and will become less important as OS security improves.
Those tactics sounds like something cab companies will do to competitors in the 20's.
Call me old fashion but this piece of the "sharing economy" sounds like a little for many, a lot for a few.
I love lyft (and also drive for uber)... I have no doubt in my mind that uber did this (and if I get deactivated by uber for posting this I don't really care, they've lost so much money on trying to recruit me it will take 10 more months for them to recover their investment).

I think it would be hilarious if lyft didn't ban the uber guys but hellbanned the uber guys (hellbanned in the hn sense). Which would make the number of cancelled rides make much, much more sense.
USA has always been called "America". Europe the continent has been Europe the continent far longer than the EU has existed. Both are incorrect, and thankfully "The Americas" has caught on to fix one of these wrong labels. Besides, the continent has always been called North America, not America. There is no other label of Europe the continent than "Europe", so it's a flat out wrong label of the EU at best, and at worst it's offensive to those not living in the Alliance.
I was also confused.

I think the fact that you don't ask the user to put in an artist from the very beginning is what contributed to my confusion. I didn't know how to switch to a different genre/era of music so I thought I had to navigate there somehow. It took me a little while to finally see the "enter an artist" text. Once I put in an artist (I used Nirvana) it started to make sense to me a bit.

edit: played around with it some more and now that I get the hang of it and know that I can easily change my starting artist, it's really cool!
This doesn't change with the vast majority of residential IPv6 deployments. Many people conflate having a public IP address with not having a firewall. This is not the case at all. Yes, internal clients will get public, routable IPv6 addresses. They are still behind a firewall, though, and you have just as much control over ingress and egress traffic as you did before.
I got my second Windows Phone (in spite of developing exclusively on iOS myself), and I don't miss most apps. It's amazing how many good third-party apps work with the cloud-backed apps I use on my iPad. Instapaper, Trello, Simplenote, etc.

In line with Microsoft's info-not-apps philosophy, I'd love for them to work with, say, Lyft, to integrate the APIs behind the app into Cortana - so I can have a similar experience as the Lyft Android Wear app. Extrapolate to all the apps that are UI layers for a web service.
Whatever it was, it should be considered completely socially unacceptable, and people like him should be ostracized by the other people in their peer group.
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Anyone have the text of the article?
Not for me.

1) I don't consider Lisp great for text work.

2) I don't consider Emacs Lisp a great Lisp either.

3) Even more fundamentaly, I don't think the kind of hooks Emacs offers for extensibility, with the modes etc, are to my liking, especially in how the interoporate with the visual representation.

4) And I'd rather, personally, use Python for my plugins.
The author commented: https://twitter.com/lynnandtonic/status/504378544349126656

> Don't worry folks, I do know what SVG is. ;)
Now imagine if Uber had a monopoly? I'll be taking Lyft from now on. Thanks!
You're simultaneously underestimating how sophisticated the existing telecommunications ecosystems are in developing nations and overestimating their reliability.

There is, has been, and will continue to be a veritable mini-industry of everything from http://textit.in/ to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa . In many senses developing nations are actually ahead of the curve, especially when it comes to mobile banking.

FFOS is a solution in search of problems, unfortunately those are problems which already have better solutions.
Neckbeard.

I understand the semantic emphasis (and appeal) of 'neckbeard'/'graybeard' in the IT subculture is patently on expertise/oldschoolness, not on gender at all --hell, I've used that noun with gusto myself with barely any thought about the person's gender.

Yet, given the (by no means conclusive, but increasingly socially accepted) evidence that using implicitly-gendered words like that can be, at best, tacitly exclusionary to some degree --like equating 'balls' with courage/determination, or refering to 'man' as humankind--; perhaps one should, at the very least, pause and reflect on whether the amusingness of 'neckbeard' is, in this particular context, worth its use.
A 30 lbs / 15 ft glider can probably cause very serious injury when landed on a highway.

Any propeller plane / fast glider can cause death in a crowd.

Maybe a model airplane can cause a real plane to crash.

A firearm can probably do some serious damage to a flying plane too.

But... is it likely? does it happen? often?

When so-called risks are not measured, they're often mentioned to justify blind repression.

In the startup world, it's commonsense to measure things before taking action. It should inspire politics.

BTW, I recently saw a video titled "a drone almost crashed into an airplane" (or another catchy headline). Judging by the video, the distance between the two was at least 100 to 300 yards...
I would say the primary reason they "do Internet" in English is because of the wealth of US-produced content. Like it or not, the US (specifically LA / NY) is the center of the world for mass-market media culture.
Agreed; despite what many seem to think I don't believe that every device on a network should have a public IP by default. Even if the whole Internet becomes IPv6-only I'll probably still keep my home network behind a NAT router on a private subnet.

As the recent series of articles on "smart" appliance security shows, many are exploitable through services listening on ports which the user normally isn't aware of. I would certainly not want a bigger number of those exposed to the public Internet than there already are.