skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, understood. Fair point and one which I also touched on in mentioning other competitors for this space. I think this is especially true for Car2Go, which isn't conventionally seen as an Uber competitor, but which is perhaps better positioned to take advantage of self-driving vehicles because they already maintain fleets of custom vehicles and all that goes with that. I could definitely see some urban transit systems deciding to incorporate self-driving vehicles of varying capacities. That's an interesting angle.

So I well agree that Uber's technology, for which there are already multiple equivalents, isn't important. The contest will be entirely about business models and execution. IMO, that can be a lot harder to predict, at least without considerably more depth than I currently have on the players in this market.
Device democracy – Saving the future of the Internet of Things [pdf]
tl;dr

If we think your cross-border transactions are moving money mostly to avoid tax, we still tax it.

If we think that small divisions in tax-light countries happen to make all the profit by doing all the purchasing, we will allocate that across the business

And currently just having a warehouse in a country did not make you tax resident. Amazon is nothing but warehouses and that's a trend that will continue. So we will tax you if you have a "significant digital presence"

All seem sensible clear policies. Taken with things like HMRC's new whitelisting rules on tax schemes ("until we approve the scheme assume we will tax it") governments around the world might soon start to balance the equation of multi national companies and single nation citizens. A good thing all round and probably the most important activity of the next few years that will never be on the front pages
Author here. Maybe now people will tell me why this whole thing is ill-founded, and I can go work on something else :)
Xen doesn't just act a bit like a microkernel, it is a microkernel.
My understanding is that Excel mostly uses double, but with a bunch of hacks bolted on to make some results “seem” right. If anything this makes the situation worse. IIRC, for example, it’s possible to construct numbers such that any desired subset of the following three properties do or do not hold:

1. a and b have the same default displayed representation
2. a and b compare equal
3. (a - b) is zero

It’s been ~10 years since I really poked around at Excel numerics, so my recollection may not be perfect, but there were definitely a number of hacks beyond straightforward double-precision arithmetic when I looked at it.
Well, you're arguing against someone with 30+ years in software development who actually built stuff using microkernels and macrokernels and who wrote an OS on top of that. That's as shallow an appeal to authority as you'll ever get from me but frankly what your thoughts are does not trump my personal experience to me. In practice microkernels are not overly restrictive and they make things about as easy as they could possibly be. Those things that I happened to do at the time. (Such as, but not limited to: routers, device drivers, image recognition, mail, networking, a supervisor system, logging, reliable storage and on and on, basically everything that goes into a cluster based chunk of enterprise level software with a very specific goal).

This was not a theoretical exercise, it built a very deep and wide defensible moat, every Monday was a day pushing a record number of messages through the system since its inception, in other words, growth was continuous and downtime unbelievably (by todays standards) low. Which had a lot to do with the intrinsics of the OS.

And you have my word that without QnX as the cornerstone of that development it would have simply never happened. You can believe me, you don't have to but you're asking me for my reasons and then you proceed to dismiss them on the basis of your theories.

Practice > Theory any day.
> because you wish to impose your values on them.

Yes, we impose our values on them. I call that "responsible parenting".
Ask HN: How do you use Google Groups?
If so, do you find it useful? If not, what are the alternatives?
There are a lot of possible reasons. There are a huge number of ways one party can "win" before a trial. And even if both parties make it past all those hurdles, no one will want to go to trial unless they are absolutely sure they will win: the cost of an adverse jury finding is too gigantic.

All of this is to say, it is not the case that the legal system is gung-ho about giving juries complex IP issues while simultaneously avoiding juries for "easier to understand" criminal matters.
If semi trucks aren't paying for their infrastructure, raise taxes or fees on semi trucks. It's very non-obvious to me that raising corporate taxes (including on companies that rarely ship things) is a good way to make sure that highways and weigh stations are paid for.

And, again, these actions are still discrete and still being taken by individuals. So taxes on the actions still apply whether the MASTERCARD paying the bill is owned by the citizen or her employer.
> And how do they increase their profits? By providing goods and services that customers want.

Or by not paying taxes, thus lowering their expenses.

> Why do you say "profits" as if it's a bad thing?

Because they're making billions in private profit, at the expense of public good. Public education, healthcare, roads, infrastructure are all severely bad in America. There is a reason for that.

> taxes make goods more expensive

That's not the entire story. Keeping high profit margins makes goods more expensive. I'm quite certain Amazon, Google or Apple could all drop a couple of zeros from their yearly profit, pay their taxes and the goods would not increase in price. Their profit would still be very large.
Eh, these folks use the same programs we do, the same hardware we do, and compete in the same markets we do.

There's no reason to be jealous...if you spend your time doing actual business while they're taking classes, you'll win.
I agree; but what I meant here was that praising a different set-up for making you feel more secure risks implicitly suggesting that this feeling is the goal (rather than at best a pleasant by-product), thus playing into the whole security-theatre game.
Flatow, 'Science Friday' settle claims over grant
I see what you are saying, there are many smart, if not brilliant people out there. Woz is able to "think different."

Unfortunately, Vint Cerf is not close to being a billionaire. Our economic system doesn't award brilliance, it doesn't award productivity, it awards the ability to convince other people to give them more money. I'm not saying that that's totally bad, just that the money chasers scare away some great minds.
Why not perform some measurements the next time you get on your bicycle, which might make you a better cyclist and driver?

I think that you probably know quite well how much space that is and are quite well able to estimate a 3 foot distance too. Nobody is asking you to maintain logs of your intra-vehicular distance for all your travels.
I suspect that this conclusion has more to do with lack of data, than what's actually occurring in nature. Although we've made a lot of progress over the last two hundred or so years in biology, there're still plenty of things that remain unknown.
No, you have it backwards.

The Gold Standard died in 1934 when the President was authorized to devalue the Dollar up to 40%.

In the 70s, things were fine. It wasn't until the 80s when the "$30/hr" bit started to fall off.

How do you explain 40+ years of reasonable wages going into the crapper over the past 35?

Hint: It isn't the Gold Standard which didn't change over this period in any significant way.
Top common mistakes photographers make at night and how to overcome them
I recommend highland.js for node http://highlandjs.org
That sounds like an interesting approach.

I do something similar, I have a server sat around polling RSS feeds and when new entries are posted they're piped into a chatroom which I look at during the course of the day.
My window manager is designed to be extensible from outside the app, which means my involvement is no longer needed.

This means I can spend all my spare time playing with my kids or reading books.
Seems kinda easy to game...
I use Hacker News Android and it has suited me well so far.
rss2email is pretty good, written by Aaron Swartz
Looks widely reported that it's Boeing and SpaceX

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/16/nasa-announces-the-return-o...
Yep. Only the really-expensive commercial license comes with a permanent license.

We used to have one. It's such a pain in the neck to have to jump through hoops and deal with salespeople for every very-expensive renewal that we stopped renewing. When we want to update next, we'll just use the LGPL version. Opaque licensing plus sales people who don't even have the advantage of being able to negotiate on price is just too much stupid to bear.
Rackspace Names Taylor Rhodes as CEO and a Member of the Board of Directors
>I'm quite sad about this, I think that if minix had been open instead of 'published as a book' that minix would have been what Linux is today

Why? Even then, nobody thought that. Including ast. Minix was a toy OS, it was designed specifically for teaching, not for actual use. Minix3 is not minix. It just shares the name and the designer. It is a completely different kernel that shares no code. It was designed to be used. That's why minix3 is being used and minix was not.
Outside the fickle world of consumer internet usage, tech media and devices/appliances

I think I was pretty clear and statcounter pretty much ONLY tracks the above.
I find it interesting that Boeing is constantly trying to get into every story that they made all their milestones on time. I think perhaps they are dealing with the fact that the CST-100 system looks like something from the 70's when compared to the Dragon V2.

Its clear to me that SpaceX is taking the bigger risk here, they have way more things that are untried but I am so hoping they make it to the finish. Boeing would develop a slightly better capability than Soyuz (7 astronauts vs 3) but SpaceX would deliver capability far in excess of that, 7 people landed where you want them on land or on sea.
I usually listen to the WTF with Marc Maron, Radiolab and, the podcast version of Twit.

I do this usually on my Android phone using the app 'Pocket Casts'.
You can't sell the app without the license! So update rate doesn't matter.
> Today, we don’t know who is going to get to command the first mission to carry humans into low-Earth orbit on a spacecraft built by an American private company, but we know it will be a seminal moment in NASA history and a major achievement for our nation.

Really? This is pretty sad. Going to low-Earth orbit is neither a "seminal moment" for NASA nor a "major achievement" for America.
"It's two contracts to the same requirements" (press conference), but Boeing needs $4.2 billion and SpaceX makes due with $2.6 billion. What am I missing?
It may be just me, but the fullscreen video that's shaky and moving in and out of focus is making me a little dizzy.
Mutations are random, but to get a new "feature" you need many small mutations in the right direction. To accumulate the useful mutations you usually need that the intermediate mutations have some are useful alone. Most of the time these mutations have a side cost, so if the intermediate steps are not useful they are "discarded" because the non mutated members of the population outnumber the mutated population.

I think that most of us understand more about ostrich than about virus. Let's make a think experiment. How difficult is that ostrich become airborne? How many mutation they need? Is it possible? Is it dangerous?

I hope there is an ornithologist nearby, but I'll try:

* Stronger chest muscles

* More white meat in the chest muscles

* Longer wings

* Better feathers

* Lighter bones

* Shorter and lighter legs, to reduce weight

* Less brain? (less weight)

* Do you need some special brain areas to fly?

Ostrich is a case of neoteny ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny ), so many features can be possible changed at one. But it's a old case, so the genes for the features needed to fly are probably partially overwritten with garbage since a long time.
Julian Assange Reddit AMA “When Google Met WikiLeaks.”
Probably warehouses full of them still.
You might be surprised.

The cost of a bike lane averages $130,000 per mile.

The cost of an urban road averages $4,000,000 per mile, per lane.

Not to mention better bike infrastructure reduces car traffic: more bikes means fewer cars, the bike infrastructure is not simply additive.

Plus secondary economic benefits: civil density, reduced parking costs, reduced healthcare costs, reduced environmental costs, reduced oil & gas imports, ...

Did you know a parked car takes up 10 times as much space as a parked bicycle?

Did you know there are approximately 10 parking spaces per car in America?

Take away the driving subsidies and everyone would be riding bikes demanding better infrastructure.
Interesting... wondering what other interesting questions the data can answer
This is as good a turnout as one could hope for, really. It assuages the entrenched interests, keeps the companies in more fierce competition, and gives even more political legitimacy to SpaceX.

Any more details on why SNC got passed up?
I think the CST-100 is actually further along in terms of NASA's qualification milestones than SpaceX's Dragon, funnily enough. (Also, the Dragon V2 that the crewed version will be based on is a brand new design that hasn't been flown yet either.)
Traffic mortality in the Netherlands is about 60% of that in the US, despite NL being one of the most densely populated countries in the world. So perhaps they are on to something. It's also somewhat safer per unit of distance traveled.

http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_International_pe...
It's both a painkiller (mu-opioid agonist) and an anti-depressant (SSRI, or possibly SNRI style effects). The fact that many people - including many doctors - ignore the latter effects is, in my opinion, criminal negligence. The SSRI effects are NOT trivial, and last days compared to the "hours" of opiate effect you get.

Even worse, the "M1" metabolite of tramadol is itself an active drug in similar ways, and metabolized by the same P450 liver enzyme. So the rate the drug leaves your system is a nasty differential equation as it competes with itself for the the same enzymes. That equation gets even more insane if you have anything else in your system that interacts with it, even slightly.

Note: I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad drug - the SSRI effects by themselves can be useful for certain types of pain (neurological pain in particular), so it may be a better choice than morphine/{hydro}codine in some cases. People just need to be aware it's not a "trivial" drug, that it can interact with many things, and has more effects than the usual painkillers that may be contraindicated for some people.
If they're cost-plus contracts, then it just means SpaceX can build capsules at nearly half the cost of Boeing.
Bonus points that via a trie, vulcand can scale in performance linearly to 10s of thousands (or more) of urls with 0 performance impact. (I requested that feature)

http://www.vulcanproxy.com/
The link you quote is speculating on the needed guidelines based on "existing guidelines" failing - yet with these primitive conditions it's hard to see the infection of health care worker as being caused by these guidelines.

The level of protection being used by health care workers in the affected area seems to be determined by the fact that these are essentially the poorest nations in the world, with health care systems that barely functioned before the outbreak.

Reports indicate most Ebola clinics lack running water. Hopefully reports of donated masks and gloves indicate they will enough supplies soon. But until recently, many also lacked even rubber gloves.

I'm sure a good supply of PPEs would appreciated anyone could offer them, however.
> Your post is a bit ironic seeing as the [..]

Ironic?

I think you're saying that they're incorrect, that the power usage of the voice chip isn't that bad and that it can differentiate between voices but not command phrases.

Which I think is a misunderstanding of what they're saying. The fact that you need an entirely custom chip to even make voice processing reasonable in power consumption shows that it's a domain-specific heavy calculation where silicon is the only place to speed it up. The new Moto X has a better domain-specific chip.
I listen to a lot of BBC Radio Four programmes.

More or Less; the Bottom Line; and the business thing with Peter Day are all good.
The fact that this information be made available online on the same day is quite a gift. That will take some effort. Thank you.

I would humbly suggest that early on you should address what YC means by startup. PG's essay on growth is by far the most well conveyed explanation. I think it would clear up a lot of confusion people have about Startups vs small businesses.

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
And if the problem is the regressive nature of the consumption taxes, why not address those issues at the source -- by instituting an Earn Income Credit or universal basic income?
Some random thoughts:

• Though the first pipeline is didactic, it can be done entirely within awk:

awk '
BEGIN { l=0 }
/purple/ {
if(length($1) >= l) { word = $1; l = length($1) }
}
END { print word }' < /usr/share/dict/words

• Named pipes are neat, but you can also use subshells and additional FDs (I am in no way arguing this is more clear):

(
(
(
echo out
echo err >&2
) | while read out; do echo "out: $out"; done >&3
) 2>&1 | while read err; do echo "err: $err"; done
) 3>&1

• Bash has "set -o pipefail" for cases where you want any process in the pipeline that exits non-zero to cause the entire pipeline to exit non-zero.
>They are within their rights not to give you a good recommendation.

In California, when it comes to past employee recommendations, employers are protected if a statements are based on "credible evidence and made without malice." So yes they can give a bad recommendation but if it's bad just because they're upset it could be considered defamation.
It is for commercial spaceflight. Commitment-wise, private companies are on the level of early 60's NASA. This is the next phase for human space travel, and the first step in that should be celebrated as an achievement.
Oh yes, we must defend the UK from the savage barbarian nations which border on every side, just waiting for a false move so they can stage a full-on invasion!
You mentioned about 6 different topics in response to a need for telling a user about critical events on a single host. You might be over-thinking this :) The user just needs a user-friendly reminder that something needs to be addressed. The multiple machine thing is a separate issue.
> If you are non-professional, why not use the open source edition and add value with support?

It might be me as I am not a native English speaker but I think "non-commercial" is more accurate than "non-professional" as people can write free software rather professionally and they often do.
If they both succeed and NASA wants a third, SpaceX would seem to be sitting pretty.

If they both do not succeed and we assume that SpaceX reached too far, then NASA still looks like the good guy because they gave them a shot.
I'm suspicious that some people complain about dated technology and want something fresh not because the dated tech is obsolete or crippled but because they want to be an expert on new tech, starting from a level playing field and not have to catch up with people with a 20+ year head start.
American Companies Selected to Return Astronaut Launches to American Soil
The question of "will Ebola become airborne" is academically interesting, but not particularly relevant. The virus spreads just fine with its current mechanism: when you're excreting loads of virus via blood, saliva, sweat, feces and vomit, "body fluids" becomes a very effective means of transmission.

I live in San Francisco, and I can't tell you the number of times I encounter "body fluids" out in public. Last night, I nearly stepped in a pile of vomit on Market Street. Imagine that the vomit was from a man who recently returned from Nigeria. He'd been coming down with flu-like symptoms, and was on his way to his minimum-wage job as a prep cook, when he felt nauseous and threw up on the sidewalk. But it's a big city, and vomit on the sidewalk isn't uncommon. Nobody notices.

Over the course of several hours, dozens of people accidentally step in the vomit, getting it on their shoes. Some of those people go home, take off their shoes, and touch their face without washing their hands. The virus has now spread to unsuspecting people all over the city. Meanwhile, the prep cook is sweating over a pile of lettuce in a hot, cramped kitchen. His fever isn't helping matters, and it won't be long until he feels ill again, and visits the bathroom. He's supposed to wash his hands before returning to work, but he's not feeling well, so he doesn't do the greatest job. Back to work -- there are salads to prep!

It's the start of cold and flu season, so the dozens of people infected in the last day won't think twice when they come down with a fever. They'll go to work for a few days with what they think is a cold (because most people do, these days), and spread body fluids in all the normal ways that people do: touching their faces, then shaking hands. Touching the office lunch without washing their hands. Coughing. Sweating. Throwing up in the bathroom -- how many people get sick during a workday? How many people disinfect the aftermath with bleach?

It will be a week or more before anyone realizes that there are people dying across the city from what looks like a bad fever -- why would anyone suspect Ebola in the US? By the time epidemiologists become aware that there's even a problem, the virus will have spread to hundreds of random individuals in one of the most densely populated cities in the world....
I'm basically curious what incentivizes NASA to put that much money into the Boeing option. Is SpaceX' design too radical and unproven, making a backup option a good idea even if the backup is more expensive? Are there political implications in play, like keeping Boeing's workforce employed?

What's the big picture?
Sandbox for trying it out: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/239456/stack-snippet...
I am hoping that the work that was put in to make Reeder backend agnostic would be sufficient to survive another RSS aggregation service extinction event.

Of the applications I pay for on my Mac, Reeder is my favorite, with 1Password close second.
Even wikipedia says you shouldn't use them as a reference.

Can you find any example of usage of "verbal contract" to mean anything other than "spoken contract"?
Boeing CST-100 awarded $4.2 billion and SpaceX Dragon $2.6 billion.
I don't get your point. You are doing an appeal to authority, yet you seem to be literally arguing with history and entire industries as to what can make a very scalable system. Or, is your argument that Twitter would be more reliable if it were done with QNX? What about Amazon? Google? Any behemoth out there?

If that is your argument, then it seems a moot subject. We'll never know. If Twitter had originated on a microkernel based operating system, would it have gotten the traction it did? Beats me. Not even sure how you could approach such a question.

Now, I fully agree with the view that historically a major way to get these was to go with a solution like QNX. My point is merely that the reliability of other solutions is not as far behind as they used to be. To the point that limiting yourself to only run on one of these systems seems overly restrictive. (And again, that is in today's world. Not the one of 20+ years ago. Probably not even the world of 5+ years ago.)