skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If psychologists read your contentless posts, and aware of how you make psychology look, they would beg you not to be on their side.
Hazing? More like good manners.
Well, if they didn't assume that the name speaks for itself, they'd make it more likely for people that don't know the products to discover that they exist... what is the entire point of an anouncement.

And now I'm remembering Dr. Strangelove for some reason.
Putin reportedly says Russia could 'Take Kiev in 2 weeks'
You really think "insular millennial techies" are most of the people who go to bars? Even in San Francisco I'm sure that's not true. And you really think it's true in Baltimore, or Cincinatti, or Omaha (all Uber cities)?

To the extent people "hate insular millennial techies", it is mostly because certain segments of the media tell them to. See eg. http://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-de....
Show HN: Operations.js – Manage async operations in Node and the browser
Is this a good place to ask why the title of this link was changed? It was originally the same as the title of the blog post, including "(YC/2014)".

I've noticed this kind of alteration a number of times on stories about YC-backed companies, and I don't recall ever seeing it when the story was positive.

EDIT: And now the post is getting rapidly demoted on the front page, below links that are older and have fewer votes.
The work to get the picture element implemented in Firefox is going on in the bugs in the "Depends on" field in this bug, if people are interested:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017875
And the Universe Is Enfolded in Us
By "mostly present in major markets" you mean SF? Or where?

Because frankly there are tons of cities around the world where the 'mafia' sort of business you describe is NOT who owns taxi companies. I haven't seen a statistic outlining in which parts of the globe taxi 'mafias' own the majority of a market vs small-business owners. Have you? Please share.
They did link to the John Oliver rant, but I agree it should have been the video that was featured.
Good job, it makes discovery easy!
Code, highly recommended, even if the content isn't new for you, it's so neatly structured that you'll enjoy reading it anyway.
For iOS and Android at least, automatic and relatively transparent updates are a user-preference, so you can't as a developer force users to update, although I'm sure most have automatic updates enabled. You could I suppose version your API calls and disable all but the newest version from working, provided you have a server component, but that's about it I think.
Except our commutes to work / meeting would be 5x as long due to unpredictable travel patterns, causing us to achieve significantly less in any given 24 hour period.

(I remember my first trip to India (Mumbai) being 3 hours late to a meeting because I didn't account for the delays an basically unregulated road transport system can cause...)
NATO and Ukraine warning from former US intelligence professionals
God, what a bunch of d-bags. We live in a society of laws, and you don't get to just ignore the courts, whether you're the NSA or Uber.

Here's hoping Germany seizes all their accounts with German banks.
John Walker Jr., spy family ringleader, dies in prison at 77
That recommendations is strange. The directions just have you include an almost standard version of the IntelliJ plugin for SBT (it is the standard plugin with an extra bug fix). So, any of these IDEs should work without issue. You just need to set up the standard SBT plugins for integrating those IDEs.
While this is a bit strange when issued as a government ID, the cards seem familiar to me: In Norway, pretty much all debit cards - including ones with VISA and Mastercard - have picture ids on the back that are valid in most instances a formal government id would be, and it's the primary id document for a substantial percentage of people.

It caused a few amusing episodes when I first moved to the UK and still had my Norwegian accounts, when shop clerks would look at me with a puzzled look, wondering why in the world I tried paying with an id card - until I pointed out the VISA logo.
No commentary on the results of a quick google search of "tryruby" "trypython" "tryclojure" pretty much try* where * is a currently popular language. Or even not so cool, I found a "try brainfck" at

http://www.compileonline.com/execute_brainfk_online.php

I'm specifically pulling lists of "try" services rather than the much heavier "I am an IDE in your web browser" services which might be somewhat overwhelming as a first introduction to programming...

Take your web browser appliance, make "http://tryclj.com/" your web browser appliance's home page, all done.
They make it match the title of the destination page, and that's where the problem is. The destination page should have a better name.
Does it come with some asset library (for prototyping), or do you need to add your own?
Yes, I was being sarcastic. Web designers should stop whining and write proper markup code.
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That is pretty impressive.

BPF also allegedly has a JIT:

http://lwn.net/Articles/437981/

But I understand it is effective for x86-64 architecture only. It can also be disabled and enabled with:

sysctl net.bpf.jitter.enable=0|1
Either way I don't believe in the axiom of choice.
> I notice you didn't propose a way to choose the sample size for a randomized trial in your reply.

We're not communicating well.

To respond to your question about sample size, I'd have to look into some of the details of your question. And I
can say now, that question, those details, and any answer
all have essentially nothing to do with the axiomatic foundation
of probability I gave; the answer is the same or essentially
so independent of those foundations down in the deep sub basement of the subject.

Whether something is "only probability" or also "stats"
can be important in practice -- e.g., will find
relatively little about a lot of important
work in statistics in Neveu's book on probability.
And there is a lot of practical knowledge in
applied statistics, e.g., how well
principle components analysis tends to
work in practice (quite well). E.g.,
there is a lot in survey and sampling techniques.
And a lot that is in
mathematical statistics has yet to have
been derived as fully clean applied mathematics
from only something like Neveu. Still, basically
mathematical statistics is applied probability
which in principle can all be done back to
Neveu and only a little more, e.g., matrix theory, some
combinatorics, maybe some group theory for
bootstrap and resampling plans, etc.

Again, my post was on the foundations of
probability and showing that there we did not
need to mention either frequentism or Bayesianism.
That is, maybe my post would be helpful
for people struggling with frequentism or
Bayesianism -- I'm saying, since 1933,
for just the foundations, get to
f'get about both of them.

I studied probability from a star student of
Cinlar at Princeton and from books by
Neveu, Chung, Breiman, Loeve, and others.
I did a lot in applied probability and
applied statistics. I've published in
mathematical statistics.
My Ph.D. dissertation was in applied
probability. So? I have
background enough to post.

But here I only wanted to
explain the foundations of probability
and not compete with anyone or compare
my expertise with anyone. Instead, I'm
just reporting some news current as of
1933.

It does appear to me that now
for nearly all serious work in
probability and stochastic processes,
the Kolmogorov foundations are
nearly universally accepted; thus,
readers are safe in taking seriously
the news I reported.

Maybe someday I will return to
pure and applied probability, but for
now my interests are in my startup.
There, now, mostly the work is in
software and other parts of business.
At the core, my startup is some
work in applied probability, but I did
that months ago and long since
have had the corresponding computations
in solid software.
So, for now, more background in
probability is not on my TODO list.

Again, here I'm just giving some
HN readers the news that as of
1933 get to f'get about the
frequentism and Bayesianism foundations
of probability.
The Popularity of Data Analysis Software
I came here to say that, MyTaxi is great, and most of the drivers love it too.
what's your release date source?
So MasterCard have in one swoop pretty much monopolised the entire payments industry of an entire country? Helping the unbanked is probably a good thing (probably) but I wonder how expensive these cards will be, or will become.

I personally would hate the idea of having a "Mastercard" branded ID card or passport here in the UK. Maybe in Nigeria it's the lesser of two evils, perhaps not.
Becoming a Better JavaScript Developer
I'm rather skeptical of your claims - the courts decided against Uber because Uber drivers didn't have taxi licenses. If licenses were so easy to come by, I can't think why Uber would even bother going to court, they'd just get licenses! There's obviously a significant barrier there.
Awesome. Hook it up to Angel List and you'll have made a fun sweepstakes investment game for VCs. How do you add a startup?
There's nothing else Uber could have done. If they withdrew from Germany, even only temporarily, it'd be seen as a way to restrict Uber's business in every country they operate in. It'd pretty much be an admission that they don't know if they're operating legally.

While the German government are threatening to fine drivers Uber are still ok. If the government actually fines someone successfully, I imagine Uber will be in big trouble.
Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem
> I think there's a third edition coming out soon, which should help bring its digital stuff up to date.

I'm waiting too, there are still a few months to go: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/the-art-of-electronics-3rd...
I like low carb diet, but I think when people jump to primal arguments, they also forget that primal times you didn't have a constant, easy, cheap food source at your disposal 24/7.

At some point, things like fasting and reduced calorie intake combined with something low carb is probably closest to "primal" diets. Making pancakes with almond flour isn't.

If more people went without food somewhat regularly, they would probably be better off than they are eating 2000+ calories a day like people do now.

Macronutrients do matter, but volume matters as well. In my experience, higher fat diets keep you from eating as much, so you naturally get fewer calories and thus you lose weight.

If you could eat a high fat diet with 8000 calories a day, you'd still get fat, but my guess is that when people consciously eat a high fat diet, they are going to end up eating say 300-500 calories a day less over time, and that gives a significant advantage over a period of months or years.
Neat! It's like Stumbleupon for Startups. Also, I tried to add mine, but it's restricted?
You could add a link to the startup in question to the panel. Sometimes the startup's page doesn't have a clear link to click on.

EDIT: Noticed that you can click the #<number>
If you love this paper, I'd strongly suggest reading "Death and Life of Great American Cities". It plays out the same issues in the central planning of NYC in the 1960s.
I am still waiting for a proper browser based mail client that will let me read email from a variety of IMAP servers, rather than email 'clients' that are actually not clients, but just interfaces to a particular email service.
Geopolitics: The world is going crazy – and what are we doing?
The injunction is against the company, actually against Uber BV located in the Netherlands, not against Uber GmbH located in Germany (Uber is trying to pull the corporate tricks of shifting responsibility around by assigning only "Marketing Duties" to its German subsidary). The juicy part is that instead of a monetary fine, the fine can also be up to 6 month of jail for the Director of Uber BV. That's unlikely to happen, but I'd like to see them disrupt "prison time".
Design is a distraction
Email will last forever
http://paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html

Look under "Do you know of any good books about startups?"
Ask HN: Do you have to move out to move up?
I'm in a technical / product manager role at a non-tech company. For people in a similar situation, do you feel like you have to move out to move up? If not, how do you parlay technical strengths into increased responsibility & promotions.
IBM open new era with brain-like chip: 4096 cores, 1M neurons, 5.4G transistors
Strange. He talked about that fact that MIPS has been lacking compatibility for Java apps on Android...but completely disregarded the fact that Android L will compile apps natively on MIPS, just like on ARM.
As far as we know. That isn't the same thing as "it is".

If you assume that quantum processes are truly random, there are a bunch of ways for a computer to generate truly random noise - the easiest class being shot noise (connect a computer to a good camera in an almost pitch-black enclosure, or send a small current through a diode), but there are others.
The injunction is against the company. Drivers cannot be fined on this basis (but certainly on regulator grounds, that's a different issue altogether)
As a German I'd say ignoring local laws and regulations is not a promising way to do business here in Germany or the EU.
This made me wonder when PEEK and POKE were no longer available. And I ran across PC magazine vol 1, issue 1: http://books.google.com/books?id=w_OhaFDePS4C&printsec=front...

Lots of good stuff in here. Page 52 has some details on the new "escape" key.
Why do we have to drive on a particular side of the road, anyway?
Ukraine Crisis War – Thousands of Russians Fighting in East
Taking a Small Business Online – The Honey Elixir Project
This is a github link - you can self-host if you choose to - but agreed that submitting while the example site is down is an odd choice
No, they could. It just wouldn't be (as) profitable.
The injunction is against Uber B.V., the netherland company that "services" Germany.

It forbids Uber B.V. to use the "Uber" and the "UberPop" app to provide drivers to customers unless drivers have a license or the total revenue made is less than the driver's operating costs (ie. it's non-commercial ride sharing)
JavaScript private chat API with access control API
Until a required library (or Java itself) has a security flaw and the new version does not support that version of Java.
Kudos to Sketch, they have an amazing plugin infrastructure! We've built one that exports all the layer data and the artboards out to Zeplin.
How about the concept of freedom?

Am I, as a human being on this planet free?

In that context, shouldn't I be able to exercise my option to make choices such as whether I want to use a government-sanctioned transportation service or pay an equally free individual for transportation services.

Both kinds of services get to make me an offer and I chose, not government, I. If the government-sanctioned service is so good surely I will chose that service over anything else that might be offered.

I am sick and tired of government restricting my options because they think they know what is good for me. More often than not government has the opposite effect, on that can be highly destructive over the long term and one filled with individuals making decisions out of utter ignorance and a need to control, not serve.

Freedom.
There's good people and bad, regardless of how old they are. YC seems like they don't know how to tell which is which though.
Oh, come on, this is a pure conspiracy theory with zero logic behind it. The difference in Google's implementation is something almost certainly too small for Google to care about one way or the other, and easily accounted for by someone forgetting to update a small part of the code from draft 13 to draft 14. There is no reason to believe Firefox would "fold", rather than waiting for Google to fix it, and disabling HTTP2 in the meantime [possibly only for Google] if it hasn't been fixed by the time the stable release is supposed to occur. And Google has, in fact, confirmed that they will fix it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059074#c22
The most fruitful definition of a real number is as a limit of a Cauchy sequence. That way is much more useful in proving theorems.

Using infinitesimals is logically valid (alternative real analysis), useful for physics and other practical calculations but not at all helpful proving theorems.

Might I add that the concept of 'nearness' introduced by Riesz is the contrapositive of the usual limit definition and might be the way real analysis is taught 100 years from now.

Hyperreals are much more involved than mere epsilontics as they include all kinds of infinities. It's so mind blowing that I simply must defer to minds like Conway to play with such things.
This is something I wanted to build for myself for a while, at least as an RSS feed or email notification or the like. That way I could track bigger releases the same way as my Bandcamp music feed emails. I'll give this a shot.

EDIT: I like the app, but my immediate thought is to offer a feature request to explicitly not track a certain artist. There's at least one artist I spotted in my recent releases that I don't want to pay attention to, and receiving notifications for them would seem like a waste. Otherwise, it's great! Much better than last.fm's release tracking, which had a tendency to get confused by similarly-spelled artists more often than showing actual releases.
Great concept, I actually wanted to do something like this for a while...
Any plan for a EU release?
Pretty much what greenyoda said. Capital growth refers to the value of the company itself, while cashflow relates to the day-to-day income and expenses needed to run the company. They aren't necessarily correlated with each other.

For example, a niche website can provide a lot of cashflow by selling an e-book or something, but it has limited potential for capital growth. There are only so many people who will buy your e-book, and there is a very low barrier to entry.

On the other hand, a biotech startup has massive potential for capital growth if they found the cure for HIV or something. But until they get FDA approval, they won't have much if any income. Investors might give the company a high valuation because of its long term potential, but it's not the best choice of business if you want a quick income.
> There's nothing else Uber could have done.

How about... complying with the regulation? I.e. requiring their drivers buy commercial insurance?

In any case, I love this development. I can't wait either an US company getting fined (or the CEO jailed) for not understanding EU culture, or Germany losing face when trying to beat a US company into submission.
Taking cash and spending it doesn't provide you success on its own. I am all for the mom and pop companies, but in this case Uber provides a way better service. People are choosing it not because Uber has spent its money, rather because it provides a great service for their customer's money.
It's not a new trend with engineers. It's been around since the mid-20th century if not earlier. On the other hand, you still also have a lot of engineers living like college students with a lot of savings and investments.
I don't think that's the whole truth. Berlin is still special in Germany and has a high cab density.

Actually you need a cab license to drive a cab in most german cities. And the number of these licenses is limited by the city. While the German taxi system is in dire need of a reform most people believe Uber is not the answer.
Evidently Albert Einstein Was a ‘Good’ Student
Partly, because I'm disappointed I won't be able to try it, and partly out of curiosity, what was the reason for not just making this an HTML5 web app? Was there some functionality you couldn't get from Web APIs?
I wouldn't say the traffic is any worse than the 401 in Toronto or any of the major freeways in LA. I can get all the way across Hanoi at rush hour in an hour tops on a $300 Chinese knockoff motorcycle that gets 2L/100km. Well worth the safety tradeoff to me and everyone else here.
You're right, it's restricted :|
I'll fix it soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Absolutely, but that doesn't excuse the behavior, and that's an important thing to keep in mind. If anything, it needs to be emphasized. If we, as an industry, truly believe that talent is our best competitive advantage, then we should act accordingly.

My biggest concern about Steve Jobs's legacy is that people can all too easily draw the wrong lessons from it, or use it to justify bad managerial practices. Steve Jobs's managerial style was as much of a hindrance as it was a benefit.

Obviously I'm not saying you're one of those "Steve Jobs was an asshole, so I can be" types of people, or that you're condoning them as such. But a lot of people do think that way, and a lot of people condone thinking that way. On the whole, it's an influential and problematic narrative.
Placemeter — NYC (relocation possible)

Multiple jobs on the tech side: https://jobs.lever.co/placemeter?lever-source=hacker-news

+ Full stack engineer
+ Computer Vision Engineer
+ Data Science Engineer
+ Mobile/Embedded Sensor Engineer
+ Product Manager

Placemeter is building a real-time data layer measuring activity in the physical urban environment, like how many people are walking on an intersection or how fast cars are speeding down your block. We use computer vision at a massive scale, on a large number of rich and ubiquitous video feeds, to understand what is going in in the physical world in real time. We measure how busy places are, what people do, how fast cars go, and much more. We offer that data to developers, citizens, cities, and retailers, radically changing the way they interact with the physical world.

We built our platform around privacy. We never store any video and we do not identify people. We also make sure no one can reverse engineer our data to identify anyone. We are backed by top NYC & Silicon Valley VCs, alumna of TechStars (Spring 2013), and actively plugged into their vibrant ecosystem of mentors and alumni.

We need creative and flexible minds, with a complete commitment to building nothing else but perfect software and systems. Make a real impact on your city, the NYC tech community, and a fast growing startup. Put your mark on this truly disruptive, slightly crazy, and ambitious platform we are building.

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Nope no libraries for now. You can import your designs via Sketch though.
Here is the specific sentence from the Deutsche Welle article that is relevant to this question:

"Violations will result in a fine against Uber of 250,000 euros ($328,108) per ride."

So at least according to that story, Uber will be fined, not the drivers.
Energy vs. Real GDP per Capita
Seems like this opens a new window, separate from gmail, to type the message into. This window would not be sending the copy to gmail to save as draft, etc.
How Trello Made Their Landing Pages Fast
... or "the most optimistic graph in the universe" (IMHO).
> I think where things went wrong is the disassociation of 'developer' from 'user' that happened as a consequence of marketing-grads getting involved in the business of computers

Somehow this happened to happen at the same time when computer users rose from 1% of populace to vast majority. We probably ended up with more "developer" guys this way.