skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook has a strong network effect in that everyone is on it and few regular people are interested in signing up for multiple social networks.

OTOH, rideshare drivers are incentivised to have as many (useful) rideshare apps on their phones as possible to maximise their ride volume, and customers are then incentivised to order their rides from the rideshare app with the lowest commission, and eventually a race to the bottom will result.
Dude, that's nothing. Black people can apparently shoot themselves in a police cruiser in the front of their chests... while their hands are handcuffed behind their backs! Tada! Dead black man in a cop car, but it was a suicide [1].

In a press release issued March 3, the day he died, the Louisiana State
Police said Victor White III apparently shot himself in an Iberia Parish
police car. According to the police statement, White had his hands cuffed
behind his back when he shot himself in the back.

But according to the full final report of the Iberia Parish coroner, which
was released nearly six months later and obtained exclusively by NBC News,
White was shot in the front, not the back. The bullet entered his right
chest and exited under his left armpit. White was left-handed, according to
family members. According to the report, the forensic pathologist found
gunshot residue in the wound, but not the sort of stippling that a
close-range shot can sometimes produce. He also found abrasions on White’s
face. [1]

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/handcuffed-black-...
15 comments and no ones bothered to say anything about the content of the article. So let me be the first to say that I love this guy! He's what the public wanted Dillenger and Jesse James to be. He hasn't killed anyone in all these years and literally steals from the rich and gives to the poor. A+
You are right, without additional information property testing would be less useful. Which is yet another reason to favor static typing in my opinion.
The big question is why: who gains from this, where is the money flow for enacting this law? Cynically, I can't believe it's just to allow Abbott and Co to sleep more soundly each night.

Rationality is not this government's strength, and they seem to be aligning themselves on the wrong side of many issues. When you have the Rockefeller family switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy and the collapse of coal demand, the Abbott government's stance makes no sense at all.
Many Startup owners and entrepreneurs will be slightly scared about them getting in to alcoholism.

But lets get things straight.

I am "heavy" drinker in my opinion drinking on average 1,5 litre of whiskey a week. Is it a lot in statistics? No. Do I think its a lot? Yes. Do I have a problem? No. I can stop for a month without trying (doing a test every 3-4 months for 2 weeks just in case).

Alcohol helps to release stress. As old saying says - the very first time you will taste the vodka and you think its tasty - you have a problem pal. Serious problem.

Same with Whiskey or Gin.

Any strong alcohol will do actually.

Just use it as relaxing method, not substitute to happiness, and you will be good. Dont feel bad if you drink more alcohol than Yahoo statistics say. Just use common sense - anything in excess is harmful.
Ebay auctions aren't a necessary utility, and gas station prices don't change on an hourly basis at the whim of a single corporation. (As far as I know?)
Listen, it's not my responsibility to educate you on these issues. They've been covered extensively by sociological experts. Before participating in these discussions, I suggest you look around for some of the resources that cover these topics.
I really can't let this go:

The side-effects of instability due to war are massive and severely under-appreciated.

Only by the idiots that glibly invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Many people thought either or both of those where terrible ideas, and it sure wasn't because we loved Saddam or the Taliban. Saddam turns out to have been the grenade pin of the middle east...
I have had some form of Mac that I used on a regular basis for at least six of the last nine years.

FWIW, GNOME 3 has improved massively in the last year or two.
Median household income in the US is $50,054
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

So having two household members earning $40k puts the household in upper-middle-class category.
Labor opposition - a contradiction in terms.
A properly implemented reputation system works great. In addition to this the network could implement certification systems which allow trusted authorities to issue qualifications on certain drivers, eg. for those with a clean criminal record or those who have passed a local area knowledge examination
Light was created on the first day, but the Sun was created on the fourth. And Genesis presents the Universe's primordial state as being just a watery mass, so water existed before both.

Fun fact: Proverbs 8 identifies Wisdom as the first of God's works, hence the Judeo-Christian tradition of identifying Wisdom with light. http://www.esvbible.org/Proverbs+8/

The New Testament also identifies Jesus as both Wisdom and Light, despite Wisdom being female in Proverbs.
You might want to coordinate with GetUp in this as well as you can expect they will be mobilising on this issue.
I thought this was the case too, but YouCompleteMe is really terrific for Vim! I wish emacs had something similar.
Try running it with `mvim -u NONE <filename>`.

That disables all initializations from your .vimrc, plugins, etc. so you can see how fast "vanilla" vim is.
From a street in Fortaleza, Brazil
5 out of 138 (3.6%) in one study published in a journal. "Incapacitation by a shot to the head is achieved when the bullet penetrates the cerebrum; however, numerous bullet trajectories, including a shot between the eyes, do not achieve this penetration."[0]

I share the suspicion, but it's apparently likely enough, that you can't immediately conclude it wasn't suicide just because there were two shots.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide
I don't think anybody in power cares about copyrights at all.

Copyright protection is just a great excuse for enabling widespread eavesdropping and history rewriting. But there is no reason to run it the other way around.
Because the alternative to automated communication isn't personal communication... it's no communication. Automated communication is still more of a personal connection than no connection.
Yes, I've heard it many times.

How is that a counterexample? Bizarre syntax alone is not enough for the Blub paradox. I don't know anyone who seriously argues that Obj-C is a more advanced language than Java/C++, so Blub doesn't apply.
I think you're thinking of "structuring", not money laundering. Can you cite a US statute? Money laundering is 18 U.S.C. section 1956, for example.
Yes, that strategy will work fine for my wife when she's leaving work at 3am and needs to get back home. It's fine, she can walk the seven miles - her knee doesn't begin to hurt until about five miles, anyway.
How is it usury to charge a price that is set by demand for a service?
I've seen a lot of this data - very troubling.

With some familiarity of Gary Webb's work on crack cocaine, it does make me wonder whether the CIA is also allowing exports of opium to fund additional covert ops in Afghanistan.

The NYT had reported back in 2001 - just prior to 9/11 - that the Taliban ban on opium production was a big success:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-pop...

Think about it - our now sworn enemy, the Taliban, was the only effective government to shut down drug production inside its borders. Sure, among other things, but it does make you think. Karzai's family members are major opium traffickers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html

And, apparently in partnership with the CIA. So perhaps I'm not so crazy after all.

Heroin has won new converts among American youth who used to take oxycontin - effectively a gateway opiod. Oxy was reformulated to reduce its ability to produce a high, and heroin is now cheap and everywhere.

Just another wonderful side effect of our misguided overseas adventures.
The funny thing is that the country is so safe and free from terrorism, that when we finally do have a couple of deaths from an attack, we're going to lose our collective marbles and demand even tougher laws.
Misfeatures Strike Again
I wouldn't be surprised if location matters. My experience is in the greater phoenix area (not being vague, my search radius covered the entire phoenix metro, queen creek to glendale). I searched craigslist, independent used car lots, regular dealerships, ebay, and lots around town where people park cars for private sale.
The big idea in storing time series data is to partition data by timestamp (daily/hourly/minutely depending on how granular do you want it). This technique can be done in various data store:

* I've done it in PostgreSQL using triggers and table inheritance. With this technique trimming old data is as simple as dropping old tables.

* Logstash folks use daily indices on ElasticSearch to store log data which is time series by nature.

* I have heard from quite a few people that Cassandra works really well with this data model too.
Yeah, I agree, its just that Webb wasn't any normal suicide-his exposes on the CIA and their ilk just add a ton of fuel to the fire that you wouldn't have with a run of the mill suicide.
What about early?
Australia has limited movement in the copyright area anyway, due to free trade treaty requirements with the US.
> The crux of your argument is that "consumers often have no choice but to take whatever deal" and that lack of choice makes this issue important enough for the government to step in. Is that right?

No, that's completely wrong. "Lack of choice" is not the only or main argument for consumer protection. We don't regulate the arsenic content of toys because parents have no choice but to buy commercially made toys.

The argument is "consumers are being treated by some bad actors in a manner by that interferes with their safety, privacy and dignity". The solution is to look at what the good actors are doing, and mandate that behavior to protect consumers.

> First I would propose spending government time to address those core issues before burning time on this symptom.

Why? Those core issues are incredibly controversial. We shouldn't avoid regulating a new means of loan efforcement because we can't solve fundamental social issues.

> Second, all these rules will make the car more expensive; it's a slight tax on the responsible paid by those who might miss payments.

What are you talking about? This technology (as discussed in the article) only applies to people who's are being offered subprime car loans and are a high risk on not paying. Additionaly, the technology in question should REDUCE the loan costs of subprime auto loans.

> Third, this case is rare and it's unclear its worth the cost and unexpected consequence of regulation.

What are you talking about? The article doesn't give clear numbers for the US market for this technology, but it doesn't seem to be particularly small.
"Corinne Kirkendall, vice president for compliance and public relations for PassTime, which has sold 1.5 million devices worldwide,"
"Roughly 25 percent of all new auto loans made last year were subprime, and the volume of subprime auto loans reached more than $145 billion in the first three months of this year."
When half of all working Americans make less than $30,000 per year[1], I'm sure $40,000 looks pretty amazing. I wouldn't want to go anywhere near SF on that kind of income, but is a lot to work with where costs of living are far more reasonable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
> The average person doesn't care about government snooping.

Last week New Zealand re-elected their head office just days after government spying came to light. The majority of voters don't care. To quote another reddit thread:

> The big reveal was actually that New Zealand was conducting mass surveillance of its population when it's PM and gov't promised it wasn't.[1]

Last year New Zealand was voted 'freest country.'[2]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2gf9p3/the_kim_do...

[2]
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/news/display.as...
The thing is that they have been doing just fine with their current powers - there is no need to expand them. I have no doubt that actual terrorist plotting has been countered by ASIO, but I also have no doubt that ASIO clearly already have enough powers to do their job appropriately.
Love the simplicity. Some thoughts:

- It would be cool to have a button for making a private link for editing (by default its "editable" after clicking a button you enter editmode that is hosted at a different url than the viewmode)

- When I leave the browser to lookup the next entry in a list and return the cursor is gone. I have to click in the last entry to get my cursor back.
I have created a public domain logo with svg and png rendering for the shellshock bash bug.

http://www.tannerbrockwell.com/shellshock/

for the image and link to zip of files with license.
well, installing a LKM, just that =p

Now sysdig aint bad per se but id like to see it mainlined or using mainline code
Who said it is a right? Getting payday loans or owning a credit card are not rights, yet we regulated the lending industry in those cases.
> some company (Jamba Juice?) had all its stores show up in-game as portals.

Duane Reade as well.
The public believes there has been a recent terror attack because the news have been reporting stories of the "home-grown terror threat" of local ISIS supporters planning to execute members of the public.

Over 800 police were involved on raids that ended up detaining 30, and only one individual has been arrested on any terrorism-related charge. The national security threat level was raised, and the general public seems to believe that there is something to fear.

I'm going a bit conspiratard here, but it looks an awful lot like the government just invented a terror threat to gain new powers...
Beyond the scope. The DA didn't say he wanted them to offer more thorough background checks or threaten to shut them down if they didn't. Likewise, afaik, he's also not going after taxi companies saying drivers aren't allowed to drive if they have records, because it's not illegal.

That said, I think it's completely reasonable for the city to ask these companies to stop lying to consumers to make us feel safer for the sake of their revenue.

I'm totally for innovation and everything that comes with it though. I want these companies to succeed (well, maybe not Uber) but them behaving in this way is going to make it more difficult from a legal perspective for the startups of tomorrow.

Anyway, does anyone know if there's any type of 'Startup Legal Counsel' where companies that are innovating faster than the the law is able to evolve can be advised on the laws they may be breaking or help them lobby to get relevant laws updated faster before it has to get to this point? Or should they just know better?
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In Vim, a single badly-written plugin can make the entire editor feel sluggish. I'd recommend disabling your plugins one-by-one, until you find the culprit.
Implying that there is such a thing as just enough power.
Of particular note with this issue is that both major parties (The Liberals in Government, and Labor in Opposition) voted for this legislation.

It appears to me that regardless of who of the major parties was actually in power something like this would have come in.
Ah yea, good old Survivorship bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
At FoundationDB we recently did a blog about using FDB for time series data:

http://blog.foundationdb.com/designing-a-schema-for-time-ser...

One of our largest customer installations is for this purpose.
Syntax based folding can slow it down a lot, especially with Ruby code.
Google didn't acquire Niantic. Niantic was launched as a 'startup' within google.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3004551/can-startup-live-inside-g...
Show HN: Save your GitHub streaks
Podcasts are back and making money
I don't know that Google has too much blue sky research itself. I guess maybe something that Kurzweil is up to, have they released anything about him?

I guess probably anything that Hinton was hired for which is more fundamental neural network research, maybe the cat recognizing neural network research they did on youtube video?
But is $40k on offer in these more affordable parts?
When Global Warming Kills Your God
Japanese obsession over the crane game
Yea and it wasn't really failed. Uber says they weed out people with dangerous driving records and the DA didn't mention the driver had one. The cited "Felony drug dealing" sounds really scary, but it was for selling weed five years ago. After this specific case Uber volunteered to make its background checks more rigorous.

http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Uber-driver-charged-wi...

Seems like a DA being a DA and it will go away once his power tantrum runs its course.
> What is going on there, Aussies?

From decades of comfortable living, Australia has one of the most politically apathetic populations of any country. Nobody cares. Or, rather, only a very small minority actually cares to think about this stuff.
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Sunspider is an ancient, awful benchmark suite that has been optimized to the point of insanity. For example, every major browser has a daylight savings offset cache that is no use to any real code but speeds up Sunspider significantly. It needs to die. You should ignore it.

Octane is better, though still flawed: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus....

The state of browser benchmarking isn't good. Here are my ideas on how to fix it: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/06/16/a-browser-be.... The political/organizational challenges are as big or bigger than the technical challenges.

And really, you should care most about how each browser performs on the workloads you are interested in.
Surge pricing is necessary for more important goods, or else there will be a shortage!

When there is a hurricane, and the government declares a ban on "price gouging," then there is inevitably a shortage on things like gasoline, water, food, etc, because people by more than they need. When these goods cost more, people will tend to by only as much as they need. A sudden increase in demand should be met with a corresponding increase in price, but that is not allowed to happen. Furthermore, if the price of water, gas, and food goes up, then it is profitable for people to drive hundreds of miles in trucks with those goods to sell them, thus increasing the supply.

In the case of Uber and Lyft, surge pricing sorts out who really wants the rides. You might rethink going to the mall or the bar during surge pricing because you are competing with people who need those rides much more. If surge pricing was banned, then a traveler might not be able to get home from the airport because someone wanted an Uber ride to a sports bar to watch a football game.
Why not create a different rendering engine and replace HTML,CSS, JS ?
If you get ripped off on an online drug market you don't have a recourse (a poor feedback, but hey then you'll get a poor feedback back).

Similarly, I like that I can call my credit card company and dispute a charge. The blockchain style of trust just means you get screwed.
There's no conspiracy theory. It is blatantly obvious what they are doing. It's disgusting.
> after government spying came to light

It's complicated.

Mr. Snowden and Mr. Greenwald released proof about plans for mass surveillance, but most voters were satisfied with Prime Minister Key's explanation that the plans were not implemented. If the mass surveillance system was implemented, there wasn't any evidence provided from Mr. Snowden's cache of documents.

And, like you said, the majority of voters didn't care.
Bash patched again (CVE-2014-7169)
You are correct. I thought about that and was tempted to admit this possibility and not call every business with 15 employees "small", but I wanted to keep the wording simple!

I'm not completely wrong! Commonly many people will regard any business, whatever the revenue or acquisition value, with 15 or fewer employees as "small". They just will!

And there is the recent A16Z essay that indicates that we may soon see a startup, with a solo founder, worth $1 billion. So, such an example would agree with your point.
But such an example would conflict with Altmam's lecture where he is really down on solo founders!

There is an example of a successful solo founder: As I recall, early on the Canadian romantic matchmaking site Plenty of Fish was just one person, the founder, two old Dell computers, ads just via Google, and $10 million in annual revenue.

So, let's, see: Since the business was growing, maybe we should assign a P/E of 100? Since likely ballpark $9 million was annual (pre-tax) profit, maybe for the worth of the business we should multiply by 100 and get $900 million, ballpark $1 billion, from one person! A "small" business? Maybe not!

Yes, what Altman was talking about was a venture funded business with some explosive growth potential, but, still, when the company had just 2-3 people and was on the way to 15, trying not to hire, maybe not yet profitable, their value unknown except for the terms of the VC investment, maybe they are still a "small business".

Maybe a point would be that what Altman was talking about is so desperate to achieve the explosive growth potential that the office likely necessarily has a desperate air where one bad hire could wreck the company. Still, the strong conflict with so many millions of US small businesses is tough to swallow.
Agreed, but it's more of a "tree-shaking problem" than anything else. Clasp is written in C++ and Common Lisp. Clasp compiles Common Lisp to LLVM-IR and Clang compiles C++ to LLVM-IR. So theoretically you could compile everything to LLVM-IR and feed that to emscripten. Granted, it's going to be a _huge_ LLVM-IR file. Then you shake out the functions and globals that aren't needed. If the compiler isn't needed then it will shake out (or not be compiled in in the first place). The question for me is "what problem does it solve". I assume there are problems that I'm not aware of that it would solve, otherwise why would someone develop emscripten? Common Lisp is a fantastic language that is really underutilized, it's fun and so expressive. I fell in love with Common Lisp three years ago so deeply that I wrote a new Common Lisp to solve my scientific programming challenges while still being able to make use of powerful C++ libraries. I think everyone should use it everywhere - it's awesome.
its pretty much the same for CGIs, its a one liner. theres other exploits like that. it happens :)
They will when the US Govt lobbies for them on behalf of the RIAA.
Expect a 3 strike law like New Zealand got.
And do that away from and without your computer. Pencil and paper in the back yard, or a short drive away, if you can't take a proper holiday.
Nope. He is a member of parliament but definitely not a member of government. There is an important distinction.
Most incandescent bulbs are literally banned in the United States. So it is kinda pointless talking about a product that is no longer on the market.
Buying a computer in China
On the other hand Windows sysadmins are probably enjoying some schadenfreude right about now.