skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WeWillWalkYou - An online platform for volunteering to walk, visit, cook for, seniors. Trade time with a stranger's loved ones in your town, for the same for your folks back home.
:) I like your style emehrkay thanks
Stalin murdered how many million people?
I'm reminded of two "unregulated" cab trips I took in Mexico. At the time I was staying in Lukeville, Arizona while working in Organ Pipe Monument and traveling a few miles into town.

The first trip my co-workers and I were picked up by an elderly man who was extremely drunk. He even had a beer in the cup holder which he sipped on at regular intervals during the ride. The car was a huge boat... something like a 1980's Chrysler Lebaron. The guy drove about 12 miles an hour and took huge exaggerated turns. Oddly enough, I felt perfectly safe. He seemed to be a well experienced drunk driver, and everyone on the road just kind of stayed out of his way.

The next trip down we were picked up by a gang of pre-teens. The driver might have been 11 and had two kids maybe 8 or 9 with him. He had the seat pushed all the way forward and could barely reach the pedals with his toes. He looked through the steering wheel at the road. On the way we came to a 4 way stop with a traffic cop directing traffic. The kid stopped and pulled himself up on the steering wheel in an attempt to make himself look taller. "Here it goes" I thought, "We are going to jail in Mexico for child endangerment or something....". The cop was not fooled by the tall act. But he glanced at the kid, glanced at us, deliberately looked the other way and waved us through. The kids waited for us at a few shops, and then drove us back to the border. We tipped them $5 and some ice creams.

I don't know what the point is. But unregulated taxi services can be interesting.
I believe latency would not be acceptable with current wireless technology.
Your Own Indoor, Hydroponic Grove
If Markdown is a brittle markup language, then an effort to correct the inconsistencies and contradictions should logically be called Markright.
What "position"? He is a prick.

He created something that got popular (and which was derivative itself, in the first place, but anyway), and when people try to standardize and fix its flaws, he objects.

Any decent, non-prick, person in the tech world that I know of would be happy and flattered to have his 10+ years neglected project be improved, standardized and fixed, and either he would get involved in the process, or say "sorry guys, I don't have time, but I wish you all the luck".

This prima-donna behavior means he should be left out for any future discussion regarding Markdown and ignored.
Author here:

Basically in angular-permission you define different validations the current session can pass or not. We are for now calling these 'roles' but im sure that's not the correct word to describe them.

To give you a better example, let's say we have a Session service which handles wether we are logged in or not, also stores information about the user currently logged in. We can define the following 'roles':

'anonymous' -> Session.currentUser is undefined
'admin' -> Session.currentUser.isAdmin is true
'user' -> Session.currentUser is defined

A common use-case would be not allowing the user to enter the signup and login view if we are already logged in. So to do that we would add in the login state a data.permissions object something like this:

permissions: {
except: ['anonymous']
redirectTo: 'home'
}

This is a fairly common use case of to what a library like this can be useful. Keep in mind it's still in early stage but we're currently using it in a fairly big project and it's saved us tons of lines of code.
THANK YOU!!!! I just used a modified version of your script to download all my data. Again, THANK YOU!!!

My version: https://gist.github.com/hugs/fa7892da03ce660c212e

Changes:

* Use the short_id as the image filename.
* Use https instead of http when downloading the json data.
* Save the json data to individiual "page-*.json" files.

Quick question: Is it okay to use the MIT license for this?
You're missing one crucial bit I think. The vetting is the hard part. And YC has that down to an art form, they've crunched the numbers on thousands of applications, have built up a large network of alumni who are very smart individually and scary smart collectively.

This is one very tough act to follow. Not that that should stop you from trying.
Those schools seem like the worst buys: almost as expensive as the Ivies, but nowhere near the name recognition. State schools as community colleges have decent value propositions.
Thanks for bringing this up, I noticed that too. I think I might be handling React.js keys incorrectly, causing the DOM-diffing to perform poorly for number-highlighting. Haven't really looked into it too deeply.
Semi-automated organization is difficult, not because we don't have the algorithms to classify things into categories, but because everyone has a different idea about 1) which things belong where and 2) how much of it should be automated.

This is why everybody else's organization scheme feels alien to us, and why our own organization scheme, no matter how much sense we think it makes, will inevitably feel alien to everybody else.

If you build a tool to automate part of the process, and then release it to the whole wild world, people will complain that it files things in all the wrong places. If someone else builds a similar tool, and you use it, you will complain that it files things in all the wrong places. Because each of us not only has a different ontology, but also has different ideas about how we should approach ontology in the first place.

You could make your tool highly flexible so that it can accommodate all sorts of different ontologies, but then everyone will complain that there are too many options. It really sucks.

Oh well, I guess that's why we've ended up with a gazillion incompatible tools, each of which is probably good enough for whoever built it, but none of which really suits anybody else's needs.
I really love open source too and may consider it for the future, who knows.

Thanks for your thoughts.
Was it Nevada purely for tax reasons?

Is Nevada a good workforce location?

$25/hr seems like a pretty nice wage.
No need to see his "credentials".

It's not like HN people don't know follow OSS projects and can't tell when the creator of one is being an inpediment.

Even if that's not how all "open source" works, its how the sucessful projects do.
The NYPD is the most racist and abusive police force that I have encountered in the United States. I'm really looking forward to the cameras.
Tim Cook to WSJ on Stolen iCloud Photos
Wireless video can have approximately one millisecond latency today, I'm not sure how bad that would be wrt to things like nausea but it seems pretty short to me.
Because freeing memory doesn't erase its contents.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Search
This is something I'd like to add
New iTunes Connect Released
I find it infuriating on reddit. The fact it follows markdown indentation rules is completely unintuitive to someone who hasn't read the markdown specification. Given how little people actually want to do complicated formatting I think markdown is actually the wrong choice for reddit.
>Oh, and that "app" where his "contribution" according to him was "tastemaker", it was built and designed by two other people

Not to mention the app is not anything to write home about at all.

He was at best a web designer back when the web didn't even know AJAX.
> Your claim now puts the burden on your to demonstrate that unregulated taxis, in countries with regulated taxi systems, are at least as safe as regulated ones.

I can only offer anecdotes, but UberX has been simultaneously cheaper, friendlier, and safer than taking Taxis for me in SF. The first and only time I took a Taxi in SF the guy did an illegal u-turn from the right lane without checking his mirrors and almost got us all killed.

I would be very surprised to find that Uber is less safe overall, if only because the Taxi companies and regulators would be screaming it from the rooftops.
It's common practice to have dash cameras in many "police abuse" and fraud prone areas Ex: Russia. It may be time for us all to invest in similar technology.
IIRC Facebook didn't enter the agreement and Google was losing a lot of people.

Makes you wonder how much more we could be making.
I also had worked on something similar

http://getsnapcode.com/

Example of wardrobes :
http://getsnapcode.com/wardrobes/18
You're in deep shit.
Or that peoples perceptions of "thuggishness" are partly based on racism? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306095117.ht...
There's a distinction between a tax break that's "profitable" because you're on the wrong side of the Laffer curve (i.e., it's self-financing because of efficiency gains & reduced deadweight loss), and a tax break that's "profitable" because you're recruiting business that would have happened elsewhere to your location in particular.

The former is undeniably good public policy, the second is more of a tragedy-of-the-commons from the perspective of those looking to maximize total tax revenue.
I used to be the same way.

Then I started trying to create my own software product and somehow everything is far more interesting and fulfilling now.

I have a ssdd day job now and I don't even care about all annoyances I used to.

It's like I have a much bigger dream and goal that outshines the rest of it.

When I think about dynamic vs static languages the only thong I think about is if I'm productive with it and can get the next project out faster.
How do you know that you shouldn't jump off cliffs, or eat rotting meat? Evolution makes animals instinctively avoid fatal behaviors.
While typically a bad thing (see, the unreliability of eye-witness testimony) it isn't always. It is easy to imagine a near-future where all police lapel-cams feed into a centralized database where facial recognition can be used to retro-actively follow individuals throughout the city. It is just as easy to imagine ways that this could be abused.

This sort of tracking can and is already be done manually in relatively small areas using CCTV footage (airports, malls, hotels), but expect to see it become "a thing" for entire cities. "Quantity has a quality all its own."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mab...

"The chief of Dubai Police Dhahi Khalfan Tamim said that there are 648 hours of video films in which the 27 suspected persons are appearing.[110]"
Rogue “Interceptor” Cell Phone Towers Discovered Near U.S. Army Bases​
Gay smartphone app Grindr permanently disables “distance” option
Credit to Gruber for making something clever. It's just a bit late for making creditable claims of stewardship. This is as if JWZ were complaining that he wasn't consulted in regard to <blink> being left out of HTML5.

Markdown isn't a regular language. The canonical documentation is written with a tiny font on a grey background, and Atwood's interest is a response to the computer science issues which arise when markdown is used on a site at the scale of StackOverflow. He's been confronting its implementation issues since at least June 2008 [1] and looking at developing a proper markdown parser since January 2010.[2]

[1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/podcast-11/

[2]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/podcast-79/
>poor people don't have low interest credit cards.

That's exactly the point. They don't currently, but it would be enormously helpful if they could.
How about this:

Do something distributed, something that requires no central point of control or authority. Think Bittorrent or bitcoin or whatever.

The really cool technologies are distributist in nature.
$5M doesn't go that far anymore. If you're young and you have $5M, you could take 4-5% per year and make it last 40-50 years.

That's only $250,000 per year, pre tax. Good money, but certainly not enough to not have to think about money anymore.
So, I've been working on making it easy to make WebGL VR demos: https://github.com/capnmidnight/VR
How to Tell Stuff to a Computer (2007)
The Worlds First Solo Ad Market Place – SoloChecker Reviewed
Indeed it is sad when the object of one's affection turns out to be an illogical prescriptivist.

For a grammar Nazi, you are rather loose with capitalization.

ttp://www.yourdictionary.com/noone#wiktionary

https://www.google.com/search?&q=noone
Google has started doing something like this[0]. They're basically taking advantage of the detailed satellite imagery they already have. You certainly don't have the same flexibility as you would with drones, but seems like decent quality and definitely helps with the scaling problem.

[0] http://googleenterprise.blogspot.ca/2014/07/bringing-google-...
Maybe it's production grade F
Thanks, mr. conspiracy theory, but no, this is perfectly normal.

The people behind the new Markdown standard (Jeff, GitHub etc) have access to millions of developers and users and can advertise this to high heaven without any Gruber-drama needed. If anything, the drama could be an impediment to adoption (e.g concerning legal status etc).

Definetely not a PR move at all.
3 minor features = new major release?
San Francisco Stalls in Its Attempt to Go Trash-Free
You need to sign up for Viglink or Skimlinks ASAP - the fact that you aren't using affiliate links is literally costing you.

Those services are a single line of javascript which automatically affiliates any outgoing link, and they are perfect for sites like this where you can't waste time trying to maintain affiliate accounts with hundreds of advertisers.

No offense to you, of course, but the fact that sites pop up on HN regularly of this type without affiliate links amazes me.
This happens all the time. It's Tesla so it's on HN. And this is a single deal for Nevada but again because it's Tesla it's a huge win. With CA next door and facing so many challenges suddenly Nevada is "sexy". Big move all round. So many secondary businesses will set up shop near the mother ship.
This whole project seems to have lead to a bit of animosity between Jeff and John in the past:

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/261650083689426945

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/262287246953164800

It's hard to tell, but Jeff possibly seems to be patronizing John a little in the original 2012 blog post [0] with all the bolded statements about John and the bit about the Yankees. Or he could just as well be trying to have a bit of light-hearted fun with it, I don't think we can judge his intentions in this case.

[0]: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/
(Blog link repeated in this comment for clarity)
I don't think the "blow up in their face" scenario makes sense. If the factory fails, then Nevada is back where they started. Since these are tax breaks, they're just cutting down on revenue they would have otherwise collected from the factory. If the factory fails, then it stops paying taxes regardless. It's not like Nevada wrote a $1.25 billion check to Tesla.

It's sort of like giving a really good chef a discount on rent if he moves into your apartment. You think it's worth it because he'll cook some great food for you. If he loses his job and has to move out, you're just back where you started. That you were planning on giving him a total discount of $100,000 over 10 years (for example) doesn't mean you're now out $100,000 whet it didn't work out.

I don't like the idea of localities competing on tax breaks like this, but the downside in my view is simply letting successful companies avoid taxes, not any trouble from extending tax breaks to failing ones.
I made something similar to this but more DIY -- not curated outfits worn by celebs, but outfits designed and shared by you.

http://www.assembl.co
Yes, it is a good thing for Nevada in that it is better for them than if the plant was built in California. But, it is a bad thing for the country that businesses of a certain size are able to extract this type of concessions from states.

See also: why are professional sports teams able to force cities to pay for their stadiums? If the federal government disallowed this type of interstate competition, the factories and stadiums would still get built but their owners would pay their fair share in taxes.
Not since the site exploded in numbers. I'd wager someone else will take up the challenge though, just like Alan did.
"only US banks can have a USD balance".

There are USD balances right across the world. Some of them are backed with cash (really!). That's fundamentally because, unlike bitcoin or company shares, currency is what's known as a 'non-consolidated' asset: ie. there is no central ledger anywhere in the world with a complete list of who owns every piece of currency on issue, like exists for Bitcoin on the blockchain.
At least it doesn't tell you it's deprecated. (:

$ man whoami

DESCRIPTION
The whoami utility has been obsoleted by the id(1) utility, and is equiv-
alent to ``id -un''. The command ``id -p'' is suggested for normal
interactive use.
Your $5M liquid would be earning interest the entire time too. With that much money, it'd be 'easy' to make 4% - 5%/year, so you could live on $250k/year and never touch the principle.
Uhh, as someone who did go to Wesleyan. I can tell you bulk of the student body was there to pad their resume for med school and investment banking. Of course, we said it with a straight face that we did it to help people or go to banking to help environmental/alternative energy startups.

As someone graduated 6 years ago, I can safely say that even the hardest hippie holdouts from my class have opted for med school or registered nursing or business school.

Going to the Ivy League is like a big production Michael Bay Hollywood movie with proven star-power and focused grouped screenplay aiming to please the audience.

Going to Wesleyan, Reed or Grinnell is like a quirky indie production aiming to please the art cinema crowd. To outsiders, it looks original but it's just as trite and formulaic as a Hollywood production.
James Bond does not wear those socks.
Now I just need one of these that sources from stores that actually carry my size. Pretty sure my fat butt would be turned away at the doors of Uniqlo or H&M.
What is your cash back rate?you pay vendors to pay 3% to the card issuer
I would split a hair here: It's not the users as people who are dependent, necessarily, it's the content they've spent time contributing that is dependent on the existence of the 3rd party service and on Twitter itself.
>So Tesla building this plant is a good thing for Nevada.

But the country loses. We as Americans gain nothing by states racing to the bottom to see who can give the biggest tax breaks to businesses. These sorts of tax breaks don't create jobs--they shift them while offloading the tax burden onto individuals.

If citizens can't negotiate their tax rates amongst states, I'm not sure why some think it's ok for businesses to do so.
Why a Dead Alkaline Battery Bounces [video]
Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users
Tracking interaction with events is a great idea. Using campaign parameters internally however doesn't seem like a good idea, fwiw: http://www.annielytics.com/blog/analytics/how-to-trash-your-...
> at the uniqlo, i may try going to their jeans section, but nothing fits me, nothing

you don't get your pants fitted at uniqlo? it's free and only takes 30 minutes or so.
I find that quite amazing. There are a few services around that talk to UK banks, and every single one screen-scrapes to get it done (yes, including MITMing your auth creds) because the banks here would never implement a public API.

I've heard of a proper API once - it was only available to corporate account holders with turnover of £3m+ and the bank had to QA your code.

And yet when I took them to task for validating user passwords with `/^[\d\w]{8,16}$/` they refused to see a problem.
Sizable state/municipal tax breaks have been granted to other companies and industries over the past three decades. While things generally worked out for the southeastern U.S. states that granted breaks to auto manufacturers and their suppliers, the situation hasn't been so rosy for states that targeted huge solar research/manufacturing projects (1) or municipalities which have subsidized stadiums for professional sports teams (2, 3).

In Tesla's case, what if the demand doesn't meet the projections cited in the article? What would that mean for taxpayers in Nevada?

1. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/08/dark_da...

2. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870446130...

3. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-05/in-stadium-building...
Not entirely. From the article:

>$195 million in transferable tax credits, which other Nevada companies will be able to buy from Tesla in order to reduce their own tax liabilities to the state.

Credits are basically the state writing them a check. Plus the article mentions the state buying the USA parkway for an additional 43 million. And I'm not completely sure how the reduced electricity bill works, but I gotta imagine that it will be passed on to the government somehow.

If Tesla went belly up 5-10 years into this project before the tax breaks are up, the state would lose out quite a lot. Might not exactly be 1.25 billion, but still a lot.

Edit: Wanted to add there is also unseen expenses and burdens placed both on the state and county government where this project occurs. Tesla wouldn't be paying property tax, yet there would be a very significant increase in population to the area. That means more police, teachers, infrastructure, etc. The burden would be placed on local individuals and other businesses. There isn't an exact number to put on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it would be hundreds of millions of dollars.
Really? How? With advertising? I guess I am spoiled by AdBlock and didn't know they even made money.
I much prefer Noun.verb() over NounVerberFactoryInterfaceAbstractInsanityTurtleTurlteTurtleRussianNestedDollSet so this case is just missing a noun such as Catalog, so the Catalog has Products, and Catalog.search(parameters) would return a list of Products.
Violent pushback just gives them an excuse to crack down. Nonviolent pushback is ignored.

The only way to win is to plaster the media with enough doubt-proof examples of misconduct to convince the silent majority that there's a problem. Cameras are an important first step along that path. They aren't the last step, but they are the first step.

Next comes journalism, advocacy, leaking of "lost" footage, campaigning to put restrictions on police testimony in the absence of "lost" footage, penalties for policemen caught breaking the law (perhaps another cycle of journalism and advocacy before this happens), and (eventually) policemen everywhere learning to abandon the slew of shady practices that have crept into their routine.
It is 100% true, they can be turned off and can self delete.

There are only two major models of cameras in use, both have these features.
The country loses? It is not zero sum, the money Tesla saves does not just go under someone's mattress, it helps make Tesla's products cheaper or improve the company in some way or raise the value of its securities that citizens of this country own.
You have a point when it comes to sports teams, but not factories.

Factories will _not_ "still get built" if somewhere else is a more favorable economic deal.

See manufacturing's move to Asia, from 1970-present.
Teens asked to use hotel's phone, hotel staff said no. Teens asked if they could use the OP's phone, he let them but nobody picked up. OP asked hotel staff if they could use the hotel's phone. Staff told OP they already called security on the teens because they are "thuggy" looking. At least that's how I understood it.
People in this thread are strawman'ing with the whole sports-team argument.

Apples and oranges, guys.
They weren't facing legal issues with Twitter, so that last part seems somewhat off base.