skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just bought a Note Pro, thanks for the idea again, it should work out perfectly.
C'mon, don't know you know that making something illegal automatically makes everyone in the world stop doing it? /s

No, but seriously - and I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir - we desperately need reforms in both the Mental Health and Drug sectors in the US. Vermont's initiative seems to be a step in the right direction. It reminds me a bit of the Canadian Insite[1], which is a place where addicts can go to be in a sterile environment and be under medical supervision while they use.

[1]http://supervisedinjection.vch.ca/
I recently started using Freedompop, which gives 200 minutes and 500 messages and megabytes for free each month.

Tried their higher tier services - they work great. But I don't need them. So I've been paying $0 in phone service for a few months now.

It is only limited by Sprint's 3G coverage, and if its available you use the 4G instead. They even have a nice $70 a year unlimited minutes and messages plan (same 500mb of data - I don't think their data rates are competitive at all imo, but then again no phone companies data rates are competitive unless you had exactly 7 people on a tmobile plan).

This is after trying out Tracfone, Republic Wireless, and Ting. It is really hard to argue paying monthly if you don't have to.
I think it's still majority-USA, but the proportion of European internet users who mainly "do internet" in English is growing. It's no longer just the UK and Ireland, but these days probably a majority of the Nordic countries' users, a large percentage of those in the Netherlands, a several-million-large minority of Germans, a bunch of younger Romanians, etc. On Europe-centric English-language forums, Brits+Irish+expats no longer constitute >90% of the users, but as a rough guess more like half, though it varies greatly by community.
No one has experienced security so, its not like anyone actually cares if its any dimension at all.
Or maybe you just feel that it works.
Thanks for sharing your personal experience, but I think I'll trust the studies.
I was excited to read this, but unfortunately it was more "here's what's going to happen" rather than "here's what has happened, here's how our lives have changed, here are the pros/cons, and here are the lessons learned". Looking very much forward to the "during" and "after" articles.
Oh man, this reminds me of my Mattel Aquarius days! Numbering every line, leaving gaps in between line numbers incase I wanted to add something in between. So much work. Now I just need a terrible rubber keyboard and I'll be set!
Go on then, let me know what "real scientific computing" is.

I work with bioinformaticians, which is an area with lots of research going on. I don't see much that is complex there. Split up your jobs and send them to a cluster. I take it that's not "real scientific computing" though?
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What kind of encoding? You have plenty of JSON library which use encode/decode methods, so it's not unheard of in this context. And Visitable would be too generic, this is really about serialization.
True. I was more imagining discussion sites like this one, where a post is basically just a special parentless comment that's rendered differently, and all normalized tables that connect to one also connect to the other (e.g. both posts and comments are associated with a user profile, both posts and comments have a point score, etc.).

On a plain blog, where "people who post" and "people who comment" are basically disjoint sets, comments can indeed be separated out into their own service, which may indeed be a gateway implemented by a third-party RPC consumer object.
Here's the commit to prove it :)

https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/commit/7376a442a7...
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I'd love to take my business elsewhere. Particularly to Lyft however when I tried to sign up the other day to try it out I got a message that my account was banned and I had to contact support. I believe it said I had a duplicate account. I've never used Lyft.

I wonder if action they took against my account was a result of them trying to mitigate these attacks from Uber. If so the damage is much worse than just the canceled rides.
One of the things noted in the study, is that being on social media makes people less likely to discuss topics in person. I'm thinking Eich is an example of just why that might happen.

The more involved you are, the more aware you are of just how quickly the crowd can turn on you if you say something wrong.
I think it's just the idea of "punching up" vs. "punching down". When a scrappy startup takes on a larger competitor they need to pull out all the stops to combat the advantages of their competitor being an established company.

At this point Uber essentially is the #1 established company of car services, so them resorting to dirty tactics to fight Lyft leaves a very sour taste in the mouth.
Having used both, the one thing that keeps me from exclusively using lyft is coverage. Around Atlanta suburbs they don't seem to have much coverage, not something that can be fixed easily I guess.
Uber has a culture of breaking the rules. As beneficial as that was and is in their growth, it's not surprising it mutates in less pleasant ways as they grow. The same actions that seemed benevolent before, will seem more and more malevolent as they look less and less like an underdog.

A cheesy line from Batman comes to mind, they will live long enough to see themselves become the villain. The customers will end up asking for more regulation in a few years. Maybe Uber will start issuing a limited amount of medallions in every city. But a lot of money to be made along the way.
Anecdotally, I've had better experiences with Lyft as well. Uber's customer support has been terrible in comparison.
In many cases you can do everything you just described by sharding the monolith. Instead of putting 100% of an EmailService on 1 box, put 10% of it on 10 boxes which are also running a web service 10%, an auth service 10%, etc. This will give you logical separation and reduce latency.

Obviously I'm not advocating making a postgres (lots of seeks) server share disks with a hadoop server (lots of spinning). That's silly. I'm advocating sticking with service objects until you have a good reason not to.
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Ironically, that's because it uses a browser internally for large chunks of its UI.
I predict yet another diet fad coming along soon.
NewsCorp and Telstra each own 50% of the appropriately named monopoly pay TV provider FOXTEL.

Now guess which companies' ex-CFO was appointed by this new government to be the new CFO of NBN Co. Here's a hint: it was one of the above two. Fox in hen house much?

If nothing else he's already ticked the #1 qualification for this new job - maximising profits for Rupert Murdoch.
We've been kicking around some R&D projects around this, but there are no concrete plans to get a production feature out yet.

Here is how the R&D projects have worked thus far. We implemented a RethinkDB protocol compatible server in JavaScript (which is surprisingly easy), so that a lightweight version of the server can run in the browser. If you use the JS driver in the browser with this server, all queries continue to just work.

Behind the scenes the in-browser server can sync up data with the real server, so everything can work while the browser/mobile device goes offline.

It's not too hard to build a prototype (and we've seen a few), but getting it to production involves a non-trivial effort; plus we'd have to support the feature indefinitely which would add a significant development cost.

Lots of people have asked for this, so I'd like to find a way to make it happen. @neumino has a version of this in the works right now, so we might just polish it up and release it to the community.
This is the first free online market for virtual products
IMO Uber's greatest threat is someone coming along and making a similar service and licensing it to cities so that the cities could control who becomes a driver, total number of drivers, as well as integrate with traditional taxi services and take a cut of the revenue. Then all the sudden Uber et al. are competing with a entity that has the ability to legislate them out of business.

Underhanded tactics like this is just more ammunition for anyone who wants to make the argument that the industry needs to be regulated. Uber might be shooting Lyft in the foot but they're also putting holes in the floor they're standing on themselves.
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> The only "risk" of corporations "taking their ball and going home", is if the United States pursued a transparently self-destructive tax rate on foreign-based corporations. Which there is absolutely no reason to expect would even enter rational conversation.

What's more likely is that corporations would split into the global corp, and the US corp. The US corp pays the high taxes and does work in the US. The global corp owns all the IP, and leases it to the US corp for some amount of money.
I thought on HN we call working around outdated or laws we don't agree with "disruption"?
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Reading this reminded me of the adage, "Character is who you are when nobody is watching".

Can you imagine being this guy's child and reading him talk about how "Yeah, maybe if people were watching me then I would have tried harder to spend time with my kids last summer". It's not that he wants to spend time with them, he's just worried about how it looks to other people.

The truth hurts, but that doesn't mean that the truth is an excuse to be hurtful. This project seems pretty gross; he gets some respect for taking a position and committing to it, but it's not really kind or respectful or fair to anybody he interacts with to commit them to the same position indirectly.
And we did everything 10 years after that (and 10 years before now) in Flash/Java.

In ten more years we'll be doing it again with another abstraction layer.
Apparently the Sandstorm team [1] recently ported MediaGoblin over, so this is particularly exciting. It looks like the big addition is that they're paving the path for federation, so soon there could well be an actually decentralized media sharing system...

[1] Sandstorm is an app sandboxing environment conceived by the designer of Protobuf/Cap'nProto; as an aside, the IndieGogo for Sandstorm is nearly funded, but ends in only 5 days... it was on HN recently, but otherwise, http://sandstorm.io
Author here: I could make this open source if anyone wants to collaborate (would need to tidy up code first, I made this in my noob years and its messy as hell)
I've never understood why proof that the universe is "holographic" (= 2+1 dimensions of information projected as 3+1) does not fall out of the Schrödinger’s/Maxwell’s field equations.

After all, the equations, by their very nature as equations, constrain the dimensionality of possible universes (field configurations) by one, from 4 down to 3. The fourth is always derivable from the other three (e.g., X-Y-Z intial conditions at T=0 define X-Y-Z-T fields for all T).

To believe that the universe contains four dimensions of information (i.e., is not a hologram), would imply that the field equations do not universally hold. So what this experiment is actually testing is the truth of QED, which implies holography.

Does anyone know why this is not so? (I tried asking a while ago on Physics StackExchange and only got flippant responses.)

(As an analogy for CS types: consider the game of Life. It is 3-dimensional (2 space + 1 time), but constrained by the Life equation. So it cannot contain three dimensions full of arbitrary information; only a two-dimensional slice can be arbitrarily instantiated. The analogy is not perfect, as Life is neither reversible nor fully observable from any 2D slice, but it is close.)
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> People are also often referring to the United Kingdom as "England" (disregarding the existence of Scotland and Wales)

More to the point, when I use "England" instead of "United Kingdom" I disregard the separation and jurisdictional peculiarities of Scotland, Wales and England and refer to the whole as "England". As neither I nor the great majority of people in my social circles know how their government works precisely and what their national identity multitude is about, the linguistic separation seems mood anyway. That's not to say that it is actually unimportant, though.
So which is it - is poaching another company's drivers bad, or is making secret anti-poaching agreements bad?
Mozilla doesn't ship phones. Mozilla partners ship phones. Want Firefox OS phones in the US, start demanding them from the US-based carriers/operators who seem all too happy to focus on upscale users of iOS and Android.
Makes sense, protobufs (or similar) are just one part of this puzzle.
Can't stomach unethical, morally bankrupt anti-competitive tactics. Sabotaging a competitor's services distorts the free-market, ultimately harming consumers. If Uber aren't suitably punished by the courts, I hope at least their reputation is tarnished in the court of public opinion. Although that's not clear since "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and Uber's been getting a lot of that recently.

Either way, I'm at least glad I've never used Uber yet, and now never will.
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Data visualization rules, 1915
It actually suggests that we're misusing the trait in the short term, since it's one of the few that has built-in deriving magic in the compiler. In the future that won't be the case, but Rust is still a work in progress.
that puzzled me too o.o
http://gocurb.com/ has been doing exactly that for many years.
Had to look up where this bit from the abstract...

> Body temperature was slightly higher on the high protein diet (p 􏰁 0.08 after the dinner meal).

...was discussed in the article:

> At 2.5 hours after the dinner meal, the change in body temperature for the HP diet was nearly 40% higher than that for the HC diet (􏰆0.8 and 􏰆0.5 °F respectively, p = 0.08).

So, for n=10, they observed a 0.3 degree F difference in the rise in body temperature with a p value of 0.08? Maybe there is something about about bio-sadistics I am failing to grok, but this seems like a pretty tiny effect size, with a relaxed standard of statistical significance, measured in an awfully small sample.
The plan is to move to a syntax extension: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2emzkb/javascript_serv...
Could someone please enlighten me as to what I am looking at?
The images are nice, and ...?
Would love to see a blog post detailing some of these techniques.
It exists since ages: ne (http://ne.di.unimi.it/)
Any established player that doesn't defend its position will be quickly unseated. I'm not saying this is an appropriate way to defend itself, but it's certainly one way.
There is one very big downside. Our insurance premiums are based upon the idea that at worse, there will be one working spouse, one non-working spouse and their children (who will at some point grow up and get their own insurance).

Where will the money come from to pay for Elder Smith's four wives and their fifteen children? Everyone else's premiums, of course!

But then, that only strengthens the case for "Single Payer", right?
New developer here. This is my first app, I would love any feedback from the community!
I am not surprised by this. I am sure Lyft is just among a list of threats to Uber and we are only seeing a small part of that strategy.

Its ethically not good but I think it would be wrong to say that we penalized many other companies that make similar plays or resort to tactics that are just as ruthless. It doesn't seem illegal just mean and aggressive.

Honestly, it kinda seems like something they would do.
> Heck, here in Chicago during Lollapalooza, a man bit two people and injured them. It is reported that he was on drugs:

If you attack people, it doesn't matter how drug friendly your country is... you'll still be arrested just the same as if you attacked someone while sober.
"Based on AOSP" adds more confusion than clarity to the discussion. Firefox OS is based on the Android Linux kernel and uses the Android HAL and some other low level bits but it is not Android or even very similar to Android above the HAL.
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I agree 100% but there were many choices he DID make which simplified his job regardless of how poorly they were ultimately implemented such as:

* Everything is forced into a cube

* No dynamic lighting

* No Shaders

* 16x16 Textures

* Water/lava is not volumetric

* No AI

* He used Java

* barely any physics (removing the bottom segment of a tree does not make the top fall down)

and on and on and on.
OK, I haven't used this, but I don't see too much use in trying to revert your database the same way you do with source code. Databases are not fixed, you never restart / rerun a database in the same way you do with code, the data and schema make sense together. I imagine trying to revert a database change to be messy and unpredictable. If you need to revert back to a previous state, you might as well just restore from a backup. Then your data and schema will be correct together. Or am I missing something?
This is bad taste. Makes me think twice about using Uber
Just dropped Uber. Guess now I have to sign up for Lyft. These tactics seem very similar to the Hoffa era, really had high hopes for a sharing economy but things are escalating quickly to become similar to Hoffa era tactics. Minus the whole fighting for the middle class spirit.
Each image is not in fact an image, it's css styles applied to a single div.
Mozilla doesn't build or sell the phone, it just makes the OS.

If someone wants to build and market a phone to the US, they could do that. The OS is open source so they could do it with or without Mozilla involvement, even.
Both the possibility that corporations may not come to the US market, or may only come to the US market after having expanded into other, more-profitable markets require an assumption that the US would (substantially) raise taxes above the current level.

We're hypothetically setting out to close a loophole that results in two distinct effective rates, a lower rate A for foreign corporations and a higher rate B for US-based corporations.

So, again, why should we spend any time worrying about what might happen if we were to introduce an even higher rate C? No-one's talking about that. It's not on the table. It's not remotely politically plausible. It's not even a thing anyone's seriously proposed.

Talking about it is either entirely besides the point, or a motivated attempt to conflate closing the loophole with raising rates to C, to scare people away from trying to close the loophole.
I have heard of torturing definitions but you just went full inquisition here.

Having an opinion and donating money to a cause is not remotely the same as refusing to hire LGBTQ individuals or refusing to sell/rent a house to them.
You call it an annoying service, they call it UberEconomy!

(In all seriousness, I think there could be a market for almost all of their ideas. The problem is the need for seamless integration and management of human assets that have little allegiance, combined with small, test markets, makes it hard to predict what services will take off and what will flounder)
I agree, but I guess the argument is they are more efficient because unlike Postmates their drivers can work as both taxis and delivery vehicles so will have less down time.
This is ridiculous. The competition is great for us as consumers. To be honest, when I first moved to the city I used Uber exclusively. The sort of "executive" brand really appealed to me. As of late, with the news of Uber's shady tactics, I've been using Lyft more and more. Lyft Line, which was released prior to Uber's attempt at the same feature, has been a lot of fun and a really great way to meet random people in SF.
Microservices as described here sound like a lot like Actors to me.
Sure. But left unchecked it results in Microsoft's "extend, embrace, extinguish" 1990s.
I'd be curious to interview one or more of these musicians for an immigration site/startup blog.
Unnecessary generalization. Disruption may or may not have negative externalities. In fact, many externalities of disruptions are positive.
I much prefer an email and password style login especially for new sites. I typically try a service with a burner email account, then I can easily walk away from it all without continuing to get email. Plus if you end up selling my address for spam I know who you are...
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I think one of the differences between service objects and services (never mind the micro-service distinction) is the language agnostic nature of services (and the idea that services can be written in the language that best solves their problem).

If you are assuming a fixed language (or at least fixed interoperability) the post rings true. If not, there service objects are clearly not appropriate.
the answer is: "yes"
I switched back from WP8 to android a couple of months ago, and I must say the better app selection has been huge.

Where I felt the app shortage hurt the most wasn't at the top - there are a few glaring omissions, and some of the apps took a long time to show up, but WP8 for the most part has apps for top services (facebook, twitter, instagram, spotify, uber, etc).

But then there's this second tier of apps where WP8's coverage is absolutely terrible.

I was talking with a coworker today about how his bank (small, local bank) just released an app allowing mobile check deposit - on android and iOS.

Your favorite pizza chain or sub shop has an app for ordering delivery or takeout? Android and iOS only.

Target has an app that allows you to search an item, and then see what aisle it's in in the store - android and iOS only.

There's this huge class of convenient but not necessary apps that you don't get on windows phone right now, and having spent a couple of months with them, I don't think I could go back. It's too bad really, I feel like Microsoft got a lot of things right with WP8. I definitely preferred the UI compared to android.
The Blumlien pulser is easy to fabricate and can generate very short rise times since you are charging up a coaxial cable to high potentials, then shorting one end to start the pulse.
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On at least two occasions in San Francisco I've seen someone with the Uber U on their windshield and a pink mustache on the dashboard, ready to swap out. Don't know how widespread it is, but it seems pretty easy for drivers to work both networks.
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looks like the big trick is rendering to the background image:

#mario-mushroom div {
width: 170px;
height: 140px;
margin-left: -85px;
margin-top: -90px;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle at 50% 120%, rgba(0,0,0,0.7) 23%, rgba(0,0,0,0) 48%), linear-gradient(30deg, rgba(0,0,0,0.4) 10%, rgba(0,0,0,0) 20%), radial-gradient(circle at 50% 33%, #f8f6f7 32%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 32%), radial-gradient(circle at -13% 55%, #f8f6f7 20%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 20%), radial-gradient(circle at 113% 55%, #f8f6f7 20%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 20%), linear-gradient(to bottom, #ef0015 20%, #b2000c 100%);
border-radius: 140px 140px 80px 80px;
}
Yeah they're just kicking off now. Looking forward to reading more myself. Thought it was a good "first post" to outline the ambitions / purpose of the journey.
And you have enough data, from your personal experience, to know that these negotiation tactics are strongly correlated with ethnicity/race and not something else? This is exactly what discrimination is and how stereotypes form.