skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is essentially the same. Money is needed to effect the speech, especially in the era of professional marketing and electronic media. Of course, you can just stand on top of a soapbox and shout, but how effective would that be? To deliver your speech to the masses, you need money and usually a professional help. I bet the guy jumping from the plane and filming it wasn't working for free in that ad, right? And the plane didn't fly without fuel and pilot, which needed to be paid for, too? This is all necessary components of effective political speech, and by restricting it, you are restricting speech and reducing it to a whisper to be heard only by ones in your immediate vicinity.

>>> If one party spends $100M on their message, and the other just says it loudly at city council meetings

In fact, nothing like this happens. Usually, for any idea worth talking about, there is a lot of money on both sides, because a lot of people in the US have money and would gladly spend it to support the cause they consider right. Much less would be willing to do so if they would face harassment, retaliation and possibly ruin of their life's work for it. I do not think this should be a consequence of you supporting your favorite cause. Do you? If your worst and most corrupt opponents would control the state enforcement machine, would you prefer to be able to work anonymously to dislodge them or not be able to do this without risking your whole life be ruined immediately?

>>> Money is generally a proxy for power.

This is true. But you can not (usually) exercise the power directly against the message - the First Amendment guards against that quite successfully. With privacy destroyed, you can, however, successfully use the power against the messenger or people that allow them to deliver this message - thus effectively killing the message without running afoul of the letter of the First Amendment, but entirely destroying its purpose.
A really interesting thing about this is the length of the development cycle. It was released in March 1999, so that's 2.5 years from start to release...I think I would go stir crazy if I worked on a dev project that long without a release. But glad they did, because RCT brought me hundreds hours of enjoyment back in the day.
Yes, it is. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8213792
As a taxi user, I consistently prefer using taxis in places where I know that I'm not going to be cheated.

I suppose taxis without price regulation are acceptable for taxi users who always use taxis within the same area/city. For out-of-town visiting (which are the only times I personally use taxis), knowing that taxis are well-regulated in terms of price is much more convenient (try arguing with a handful different taxi drivers at the exit of the airport of any major third world city, for example; it's a disgrace).
Tolerating is not the same as agreeing. There is no meaningful alternative to allowing app deletion.
DAE hate the American school system?

Come on, the school system in the U.S. isn't that bad...
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I guess one can ask if a tweet is a good measure of public perception in the first place.
I came across this video of Mike Strizki showing off his hydrogen setup during my freshman year of college. I'll never forget it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcIbOkakkDQ
I suspect that the parent was asking whether Calibre will index books where you put them on your hard drive, rather than insisting on moving them into a directory that it manages. (For example, iTunes will index your music, but iBooks insists on managing your books.)
Exactly, I wonder if there's really an innovative algorithm behind, or it's just a bunch of code that maximizes revenue with the simplex algorithm. Media are always quick in bringing up algorithms, yet I've never seen a single company release a paper with one of these algorithms, even when they're tangential to their business and not an advantage over competitors.
If anyone can find a sentence from the article that would make a more descriptive title, we can change it. This is one case where subtitles and the opening paragraph both fail us.
Your first sentence is inherently contradictory and betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of value (or possibly, a misunderstanding of the concept of infinite).
You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. You are an ugly bag of mostly water, with mostly the same DNA as everyone else.

Diet and exercise should be tailored to what actually works (as should everything else; feedback loops are awesome). You don't find out what works uniquely for you by having some expert guess based on what your DNA makes very slightly more likely, you find out by trying and seeing if and how your results differ from what's typical or what you expected.
And yet, food prices, despite not being set by law, are not infinitely high. Nor indeed are they terribly high.

Perhaps there's something you're missing here.
They are also intel savvy. They understood the propaganda value / intelligence tradeoff prior to publishing the first photo.

AQI/ISIS have adapted and evolved from almost a decade of fighting the US military and intel orgs. They also had AQAP counterintel guys from Yemen advise them on counter-drone and other strategy.
My entire point is that you're making a diagnosis when you say that someone has serious mental illness. It's fine to say that one should encourage people to seek professional help. To condemn people who are not professional and give help is terrible IMO (and not supported by the science), especially considering that experimentally the outcomes of any talking therapy are equivalent regardless of content (from priests to psychoanalysts), and SSRIs generally perform no better than placebo.

edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712503/
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This looks great, but it's a shame that the chromecast itself is hostile to personal testing or use.
If I didn't have to go through at least 4 bullet points just to get my chromecast listed on a central registry I'd be much more willing to try this out.
Centrally determined algorithms are not markets.
Dreamcast was the first console with online gaming capabilities built-in. In my experience the big thing that held online play back was that it shipped with a modem and the broadband adapter (bba) release was delayed. The console was discontinued shortly after the bba was released causing the supply of adapter to be very small and their price skyrocketed from about $30 to $100-$200. Some games only work with modem, some with both, some with only bba. I unfortunately had cable internet at the time and didn't get a bba before the price skyrocketed. This project is very exciting. Some day my plan of having a big Dreamcast LAN party will come true.
I think most people know this already but the original RCT was written almost entirely in assembly by Chris Sawyer[1].

It was almost 15 years ago but still not the norm for the time and quite an impressive feat.

[1] http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm
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I'm sure calibre 2.0 is a great technical feat, and kudos for all the work put into this product, but judging by the screenshot the user interface is equally clunky as in 1.0.
This software does mostly everything I need it for to convert ebooks... but can you, the authors, please improve the UI?
This converter is reasonable: http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ I wonder if someone has done a Calibre plugin for it.
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Efficiency isn't everything. If you want to transfer solar energy directly to a mobile motor, such as one which moves a car, the solar cells to do that have to be mounted on that car, oops! How big is that?

Using non-mobile solar cells to produce an energy-dense fuel which is portable makes sense, even if there is an efficiency hit.

Cars themselves are not efficient no matter how they are powered, because utmost efficiency in a car means lying on your back in a narrow, feather-weight, fragile aerodynamic tube with wheels, going about 25 mph max, and taking minutes to get to that speed. Forget niceties like air conditioning.
I don't know if I'm being less or more cynical, but I have simpler explanation - the main job of the media is to make as much money as possible. This means optimizing for number of readers, and nowdays (because people interact with news on per-article, not per-site basis) pageviews. More pageviews = more ad dolars.

Optimizing for profit is a strong force, and initially it helps any new industry make huge leaps of quality. But at some point, it starts to be more profitable to sacrifice human values. We're far into this part in case of media. What sells is linkbait, controversy, "reinforcing pre-approved narratives" (or more generally, reinforcing what people already believe), fake "thought provoking" content that is actually repeating established beliefs. Investigative journalism, good news, well-thought pieces don't sell enough, so they get left behind.
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As it's noted in the article, surge prices may be up to 8x higher, and it's unlikely that car pool means 8 people in a car.
>It is essentially the same.

To say the least, this is disputed by intelligent and well-respected people on both sides, and neither sides' arguments can be dismissed with a wave.

>Usually, for any idea worth talking about, there is a lot of money on both side

This is the law of averages, and is not a law. If your philosophy depends on it being true, then it will fail.
Sure. Are you saying the fuel cell cycle is actually more efficient than the battery cycle?

The long-term performance question is interesting, though. Any idea how long the time scale would have to be before the fuel cell wins?
Oddly enough, my local UPS store installed brand new POS credit card readers a bit over a week ago. It's not listed on the ones affected, but now I believe I understand the timing.
"Even further, what plausible harm could come from a picture of a kid in a tub, for example?"

Knowing the kind of data mining that occurs with text, one would only expect that future mining would occur with images as well. So what happens when all public images of you from birth to present are indexed and used to make decisions about you? For example, what would happen if you tried to get health coverage and the company could look into these indexed images for all contact with known carcinogens to determine your ability or cost for health coverage?
How about the URL: "What makes us fat"
This article hits on several reasons but misses one of the biggest: fuel costs. They kind of circle around it by talking about weight and efficiency.

If we invented a near-unlimited energy source that was lightweight then casual air travel would become hugely more popular. Even with the other problems existing (ATC, safety regulations, etc) the advantages would heavily outweigh the disadvantages.

But unfortunately due partly to physics and partly to the dangers imposed by such an energy source if it did exist (i.e. government would have it under lock and key) I don't expect we'll ever see a "near unlimited lightweight energy source" in any of our lifetimes.

Honestly right now the human race is stifled mostly by energy sources (and the cost of the ones we do have).
Who cares about mass except NASA? H2 is terrible by volume, a liter of gasoline has more hydrogen in it than a liter of liquid H2 and the gasoline is a lot more safe.

Some little PDFs about the hurdles of hydrogen from one of my favorite tech writers:

http://www.tinaja.com/glib/resbn88.pdf

http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf

A hydrogen economy might be possible one day, but not until we find a natural H2 source that is as "free" as crude oil. Man made hydrogen will not work on a large scale. Electrolysis is one of the worst ways to make hydrogen, though it does have the highest "gee-whiz!" factor.

If we did have unlimited hydrogen spewing out of the ground people would seriously consider first cracking the H2 into hydrocarbons to make it easier to transport.
I agree the app is good - but the user interface has always needed simplifying.
It comes with a library. A media library can read metadata from content and use that to build up an index, or it can monkey around with the location of the content by copying or moving it to some special folder and then read the metadata there.

Ideally, software supports both ways of working (lots of people prefer to have the software take over, lots of people are worried this will make a mess, or don't want to live with some constraint the software imposes, or whatever).

Calibre will only index content imported into its library.
Interesting.

pgBadger[0] log analyzer is from the same creator, and whilst not real-time, it provides great stats and breakdown with a nice web interface. I wonder why PoWa was split from it instead of integrating real-time stats into it...

[0]https://github.com/dalibo/pgbadger
I imagine the CIA/NSA has a crack team of a couple dozen people doing this exact job.

There is actually an entire Agency devoted to doing this exact job and other similar activities:

https://www.nga.mil/Pages/default.aspx

A few recent ones that I had absolutely no idea where to start with:

Those actually provide TONS of identifiable features that make them relatively easy to track down with relatively simple tools.
Or you're not getting that he's saying that there's a discontinuity in the utility function.
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An interesting aspect of this project is how it's funded.

Per a presentation I saw a while back, when the site sees visits from Universities that have an associated degree-granting program, or visits from traditional related libraries, it nags the users that their institution should join (if it hasn't already). It's a bit like Shareware/Nagware/Guiltware, applied to a live service, and only targeted at specific related learning institutions with existing acquisition budgets.

Here's the schedule of suggested dues:

http://plato.stanford.edu/support/SEPIA-dues-schedule.html

..and benefits once joined...

http://plato.stanford.edu/support/sepia.html
"Gardner's study stems from his previous research, which suggests a diet's effectiveness may be due to how insulin-resistant the dieter is at the outset."

What if it also depends on the subject's microbiota, which would be impacted by a number of things including the (unwanted) consumption of residual antibiotics in meats.

Seems like the more we find out, the more questions there are.
This is exactly right. I strongly disagree any sentiment that's basically equivalent to "they had it easier back then". There are always fields which are too deep for the newbie to penetrate...that's why the newbie either invents a new field or works in a much younger field i.e. great people are great because they found basic and turned it into the software industry not because they joined the software industry and sobbed about the fact that it's too late to make a change within it. In 2014 we also have Google. It's impossible to overstate how much of an advantage we have today. Learning is INCREDIBLY easy and so while the fields are growing at a fast clip so is the ability to instantly find the information we need to learn things.
Yeah cool, indeed I agree the problem hasn't been solved, especially when you're traveling.

We did launch in the Netherlands yes, we are still based in Amsterdam.

The app is available globally and we want to reach locals and travellers everywhere - so we've done a lot of work on App Store optimization and localizing the description and keywords - getting them translated in every possible language on the App and Play Stores. Also done that for our promo video in some of the widely spoken languages.

However, we also realise its very difficult to launch everywhere and have a lot of active users (locals) in every city from the get go. So we are focusing on a number of key cities first - Amsterdam, Berlin, London in Europe initially, then some key cities in the US and Australia/Asia next and building up the local user base there with our own events & parties (we've got a big boat party coming up in Amsterdam end of August), content marketing (Best bar in Amsterdam on a Wednesday night), cross promotion with venues and events, a bit of local press, social media etc

We don't currently have a more technical Blog, but if you have specific questions, feel free to shoot us an email.

Cheers,
Dan
FWIW, now that docker is handling the restart/monitoring it can actually do it better than if systemd is doing it, since docker knows that it doesn't have to tear down and re-create the network namespace, unmount/remount the container's FS, etc.

So when a container is restarted via the restart policy, it not only happens faster, it will get the same IP as well.
I agree that there is some consensus on what works for exercise, but livestock breeders readily breed strains of animal to enhance he efficiency at which they convert food to weight on the hoof.

If pigs or cows can vary as to how much weight they put on for the same input of food, surely humans can too?
"FINALLY: HARD SCIENCE ABOUT DIET"
Exactly. If you haven't come across people who think hydrogen is "the solution to global warming", you need to talk to more people.
Your username is an Ayn Rand character; your credibility is suspect.
This seems intellectually interesting to me but it's frustrating because I feel it takes what is a relatively simple issue and makes it needlessly complex. Yes, maybe there is some amount of optimization you can do with your diet, but the simple fact is that there is a not a single study in the history of science which has been able to demonstrate eating at a caloric deficit and gaining weight. Show me an obese person not eating significantly too much.

From the practical standpoint of actually trying to lose weight/get people to lose weight, the challenges in nutrition are almost entirely around compliance (how to ensure someone sticks with the program) rather than substance (what people put in their bodies). Most people know, within reasonable terms, how to eat healthily. It may not be the most optimal way possible (perhaps keto or some other diet is), but if we spent more time studying how to teach compliance I think we'd be making a lot more progress towards stopping obesity.
Kudos to them for pointing that out, but brickbats to them for such a lousy web site. What is it that turns some web designers into such pretentious twits?

Meanwhile, I'll stick with my DT770 Pros. As unfashionable as they may be, sound trumps fashion (which can also be said for any headphones from Grado).
Why can't we use gene therapy and proven methodologies? For example if one diet works 5% better for people with condition X use that as opposed to another diet. It's not all or nothing.
The article mentions that they are collecting stool samples to monitor / control for this.
I liked the Vagrant env but I don't see it mentioned as an option here:
https://docs.docker.com/installation/#installation

Are there any up-to-date installation instructions for the Vagrant env?
I think what's wrong with this article can be summed up in response to this statement:

> At the movies, for instance, prime-time tickets aren’t presented as a few dollars more than the normal price—rather, matinees are presented as a few dollars less. When American introduced dynamic pricing, it framed the 21-day advance-purchase requirement as a chance to buy “super-saver” fares. And happy hours at bars are, similarly, framed as a markdown from the regular price. These framing devices don’t change the underlying economics or price structure, but they can have a big impact on customer reaction.

The difference between Matinee / Happy Hour (Discounts) and Surge Pricing (Gouging) is not a framing device, it is a fundamental difference.

One says, "There is a basic price for this product or service which is fundamentally part of our business plan and represents the cost of doing business and some reasonable profit, but when the resource is under-utilized or we want to generate business, we will offer it at a discount - a price which we could not afford to offer at all times."

The other says: "We are going to charge more when we can get it."

I do agree that Uber would be better off not taking a cut of the surge pricing, that would make it a clearer incentive directly to the driver, but in that case why not offer a bidding arrangement?

It is fundamentally about allocating scarce resources only to the wealthy, and creating an economy where people who are not wealthy rely on that, rather than a simple and fair wage.

I'm usually pretty soft on Uber compared to Airbnb, I am no friend of the Taxi industry, but surge pricing is shameful.
Because ISIS probably isn't there anymore.
And to that last point, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting twice as fast as they were five years ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/antarctica-greenlan...
Also part of that group - Paul Graham's essays drove me to Lisp. I am very happy with what I've learned over ~5 years of near-exclusive CL usage. I agree - while CL-the-language is amazing, CL-the-ecosystem just doesn't have any momentum. It's spread too thin.

I think I'll be putting my chips on Julia from now on. It should be a near-ideal language for data science and AI research. I like that it's focused on one thing (numerical computations), so it should avoid the lack of focus that plagued most Lisps.
I don't think that will work well, when one of the main surge hours are like 2-3AM on the weekend.
Or knowing that you haven't introduced any information that you could have possibly expected this person not to know, maybe you're missing something here.

When starving people participate in auctions with people who are not starving, even when both sides have equal wealth, the results may accord better with superuser2's prediction than yours.
As an uber (and lyft, which also has a pricing algorithm) driver, my opinion is that it's not innovative, nor does it work, even setting aside the complaints from passengers[0]. What happens often (but not always) is that drivers rush to the areas which are surging, creating a glut of drivers in the area, but, in most cases, because of the short window when the rides are needed, it creates an uneven redistribution of drivers which may no longer be appropriate. It's reminiscent of financial markets which have self-reinforcing feedback loops where the pricing system can creates mini-bubbles (I suspect, as kindleberger, bigger bubbles are caused by aggregation of mini-bubbles, that are the result of other, non-market, forces at play).

Really more than the pricing algorithm the competitive advantage of Uber and, more so, Lyft, 1) is aggressive rating of the drivers, which is a way of harnessing the community to police itself, and 2) being able to transparently watch the drivers come and get you and have the entire trip logged. Both of these create accountability and reliability. While taxis may be able to implement 2), I don't see how they will be able to easily implement 1).

[0] an aside: Spoke to an uber employee, typically when uber gets complaints about pricing due to surge, the response is, well, did you check uber black car? Because it was usually cheaper to take an uber black car during that surge. (The prices for each of the subsets on the uber system are modulated independently).
This is pretty cool! It would be awesome if it supported arrow key navigation like the old school ANSI editors of the past :)
huh Turntable.fm did not sync audio playback between multiple Internet devices like i.e. SpeakerBlast does...

http://vimeo.com/71647538

Turntable was definitely a slick site, yet there was a lot of interaction needed and personally I got tired of having need to interact to listen to music. Listening to music for me is more a passive past time.