skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You learn the people of your town over time. When calls come out they usually come from certain areas of town at certain times of day or certain days of the week. You learn where all the bars are, when they let out, where those people are likely to go and what the odds are that that area will produce a new fare. Companies that are hiring a lot of workers at once house their workers in certain preferred hotels. Longer-term contractors are likely to live in certain other neighborhoods. In my case it was Jacksonville and you have a navy base here where a large number of sailors from various foreign countries will show up all at once needing to go places when their ship comes in. If you can anticipate when that ship will start its shore leave that can be worth money.

In Hollywood movies the taxi drivers will have random conversations with passengers to advance the plot. In real life, the purpose of this conversation is for the driver to learn where his next fares might come from. Sometimes the passenger will figure out what you're trying to do and will offer you valuable information. No reason not to. It's a win-win.

Not all drivers do this. Some companies hand out jobs to the next driver waiting in a queue so everything is fair and equal. Some drivers prefer this system. But this produces poor customer service because that queue of drivers might be on the other side of town, and the fare will be waiting a long time. I never quite understood that mentality. I never worked the airport because the airport does not reward hard work. It's just a dumb queue and the fares are unpredictable. Not profitable enough for me.
Oh you mean 2 years after I taught myself to program on a Commodore 64 hooked up to a black and white TV in my bedroom? #getoffmylawn
Yes. Three reasons:

1. Healthcare is heavily regulated. HIPAA is the most well-known law, but there are also countless local and state laws hospital systems must comply with.

2. Any new software needs to be sufficiently integrated with several existing systems and databases. What this means is that you can't just develop a stand-alone solution that deals with just one part of the process.

3. Many hospital staff are technophobic. Doctors especially.

I'm oversimplifying of course, but this is basically why incumbents (big co) are preferred. They have tons of domain expertise in healthcare, are deeply familiar with processes and requirements AND know plenty of people in the right places to grease the wheels when necessary. This makes it very difficult for startups to break into the industry.
On O2 you just pay off the phone, and then break the contract whenever you want. There is no early termination fee.
It's clever in context; that is, once you know what the article is about. On the face of it, someone is saying "it's nonsense that Shakespeare is considered a genius", and is thus more linkbait than the average, descriptive title.
they try to milk it (and it appears to work)... there is always pre-paid-no-contract plans BYOD
In the UK a town (or what in the US would be called a "city") does not have its own police department. Instead the UK is divided into just 45 territorial police forces, typically the size of a county. So the parent comment is not as inefficient as it would be in a US context where each town has its own independent force.
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> Google Now does the same with commute times

Eh, it also does it at really inappropriate times.

About 30 minutes after I get into the office it starts telling me how long it'd take me to get home, and that card stays up in Google Now until I actually do go home!
I couldn't agree with this more. You're absolutely correct that battery performance is the reason they don't switch it on by default. However, I really wish they would give me the option whether it's turned on by default or not. M I would gladly take the battery hit to use this feature Apple!

I also use the Apple Switch Control[0] feature which enables me to navigate text and correct typos, this is done through a series of sequential button presses which enables me to use menus to access all of the features of the phone. I use Switch Control in conjunction with the Tecla Shield[1] which uses Bluetooth to connect up a button by my cheek and the iPhone.

So yes, fixing typos when you're quadriplegic takes a little while but compared to the alternative it's awesome!

[0]:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5886
[1]:http://gettecla.com/pages/tecla

Edit: Stupid voice dictation mistake!
Relaxed SSL settings isn't something I'd seek out in a browser. I know its such a pain to actually set up your SSL certificates correctly, but do you want to get hacked?
At 35 I'm not sure I qualify for greybeard status (perhaps relatively), but when you write something like this is there some illusion that everyone reading a tech piece is under 25?
Thank you very much. I am restarting that project for Android this time, so maybe I'll have more-ish success. I'll contact you.
Dunno, but they already have pre-built installers for nightly.
What is Disney's interest in this type of technology?
An app that syncs your battery across devices
About a year ago some friends and I started meeting up monthly in a Google hangout to explore the internals of open source software we use everyday. Our motivations were simple: know our tools inside and out, learn from the works of better hackers than ourselves, and hopefully get a jumpstart on contributing to the repos we love.

At first we treated the hangouts like a study group, but the sessions quickly evolved into one person preparing in advance and guiding the rest of the group through what they had discovered. Then one day, the authors of PolymerJS showed up to take part as we were dissecting their code (thank you, Twitter!). Around the same time, we had been getting requests to record the sessions for folks who couldn't make it.

Eventually, we put two and two together and realized we ought to invite open source authors to read us their own works, broadcast live and recorded for posterity. What a great way to learn to write kick-ass code, pave the way for new contributors to a given project, and spread our enthusiasm for all things FOSS!

We're now promoting and archiving these hangouts at http://readthesource.io. Last week we had Scott Corgan guide us through Superstatic, the static file server behind Divshot.com. On October 16th at 12:30 Pacific, Chris Matthieu and the Octoblu team will give us an inside look at Meshblu, a machine-to-machine instant messaging network and API that powers the Internet of Things (formerly known as SkyNet.im).

We have a few more unannounced hangouts in the pipeline and we're actively looking for more guests. Our intention is to continue covering both popular projects and not-so-well-known, but uniquely interesting ones. In the mean time, we'd love to get your take on the general concept as well as our execution.

Thanks HN!
To indulge in a bit of perhaps undeserved paranoia: What were/are the messages coming from the treatment and outcome of the patient in Texas?

On the one hand, a highly fatal disease and typical, systemic mishandling. On the other, an indication that travelling to the U.S. won't save you.

I have no evidence that the latter message was deliberately manufactured (implying all sorts of terrible things). But I'm certain there were and are people in positions of authority thinking about this.
You had a Commodore 64 ?

Kids these days...
Did you consider those who don't have the time to work a full time job? I'm interning as a Junior Webdev for 9 hours a day on no pay, and college is out of reach (financially) for me, although admittedly I'm probably a minority.
It's not surprising that many of my students friends do have alot of excess cash though, considering that student living costs are relatively low and they often benefit from a wide range of discounts on amenities like internet etc.
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A Constitutional Court seems like a good idea except the politics surrounding it would be at least as bad as those surrounding the Supreme Court and probably worse because it'd have an earlier and thus more powerful interdiction chance against laws.

It usually isn't that much of an issue because normally unconstitutional laws are quickly brought up through the courts and along the way injunctions are issued preventing the problematic portions of the law from being exercised. It's an issue with the latest spying and PATRIOT ACT laws (along with all it's spawn) is the fact that because of the secrecy it's fairly impossible to prove standing for the challenge to begin in the first place.
Not really. Ambition is like a bottle for your consciousness. It is the container. As your ambitions expands so does your mind.

If your ambition is to troll someone, that is your maximum value. I think if you look deeply many will realize that this is not the value they want. I believe that they can dream of something greater then to harass someone online.

If anything it is reminder to avoid being trivial. Ambition leads action. This cycle is who you are. It is beautiful self awareness.
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Because you think you just have the flu, not ebola, and you don't want to waste time with some dumb checkpoint. You want to get home to see your family and finish this god-awful and way-too-long business trip.
To get into the country. Far better to be in the USA or Western Europe with Ebola than Africa. Besides, everyone thinks, "Maybe it's nothing serious; maybe it's just a cold."
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To not be hassled at the airport? The last time I checked, airports aren't actually known as the places where people expect reasonable and fair treatment.

And having read an article about Eric Duncan in the German "Stern" about how his case had been mis-handled by the U.S. agencies, I cannot blame anyone trying to take it into his own hands, even if I can see why this could be even more irresponsible.

Article, in German: http://www.stern.de/gesundheit/thomas-eric-duncan-erster-ebo...
It's a marketing campaign that ends up helping people and the real world.

They have that money to spare because their customers think their products are desirable.

It seems to me you're trying to detract from what happened here by trying to argue that their products aren't that good? I'm not sure what you're implying, but I'll repeat, they've only been able to help, even as a marketing ploy, because they have accumulated profits - proof that their customers value what they produce.

The quality of their product, in the eyes of their customers, has everything to do with their ability to pull off this stunt.
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Yes, for some reason many people think freedom of speech means they--and those they identify with--should be able to speak free of social consequence. I don't really know what leads a person to think that. Maybe they just said stuff for so long without being challenged, that they start to think they are entitled to never being challenged?
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Option three. Irrational emotional rejection :-)
So they wouldn't be isolated, or worse: denied entry.

Measures and countermeasures were both used back in the days of Ellis Island.

In the modern world, you probably need a different game theory.
If you have to partner with a bank can you guarantee the interest rate will be below 10%?

Unless you're offering a 9% or lower rate for everyone and no annual fee this is not a truly customer friendly product, it's like every other bad bank. How can you say you're customer friendly if ANY customer has even a small risk of getting charged more than 10% interest.
"Ah, it's just the flu and I can't afford to spend any time in quarantine"
This is CBP and CDC, not TSA.
I'm not sure if exactly-once messaging is possible in a distributed system. Onyx gets close in that it uses transactions to move data across queues atomically. But code can fail just before a transaction is committed. The transaction will only be committed once, but the code leading up to the transaction will be run twice. Is that really exactly-once? IMO, it's not.
Because fear (especially of death) makes people do highly irrational things. You could argue that it actually isn't irrational to lie in order to get into a 1st world country with 1st world hospitals. From a very selfish perspective of preservation, that is actually pretty rational.
Looks like I was wrong cause I checked too late, Belkin moved to AWS as part of the fix, doh!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8429789
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Disney has always done a lot of work in animatronics for their movie special effects as well as park attractions. Being a current or former imagineer is quite a badge of honor in many circles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Imagineering
Right, if you put down 50% they're not taking any risk on you! They'll foreclose at a profit! Regardless, name me a mortgage underwriter that will close your loan with an OPEN collection item and I'll be truly surprised. So if you've been thru this, who was your underwriter? (Not your broker..)

Risk profiles at a company like Amex are sophisticated. But you're somebody who apparently is sharing his high-earner status here, but you don't think that was an important caveat to your original post? It's like you're saying "CREDIT DOESNT MATTER*" and in fine print you're saying "if you have enough cash to put 50% down on things and have a high income!"

It's bad advice to give, which was my point, and one I'll standby. Nothing personal of course.
I would recommend Martin Fowler's NoSQL Distilled : http://martinfowler.com/books/nosql.html
Ask HN: Writing a website for my parents' business. Tooling suggestions?
So my parents have their own small business and asked me some time ago to build a website for it. I put together a quick static HTML site which they were happy with at the time, but now they have requests for updates and various maintenance work.

Rather than be the middleman for this and every other future update that this site needs, I'm thinking about trying to prepare some kind of CMS or other solution whereby they can make simple content updates themselves. Keep in mind these are my parents, so I need a solution for the absolutely-not-tech-savvy. I also don't want an overkill solution because ultimately that will be additional maintenance work that lands on me.

Some preliminary thoughts: Wordpress? Django-CMS? Some kind of dropbox syncing trick?

I'd love your thoughts. Thanks!
It does sound like they are angling for a mime type. That way the server can detect if it accepts the mime type and return a html wrapped video player if it doesnt, and the mp4 file raw if it does.
The text of the amendment is not tautological in itself: nowhere else in the constitution is it made clear whether the enumerated powers are a mere sampling of the federal government's authorities or an exhaustive list of them. So the Tenth Amendment is broadly understood to have codified the doctrine of enumerated powers—that is, the idea expressed by Madison in Federalist 45, that the enumerated powers are in fact meant to be taken as an exhaustive list.

That's why the Tenth Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights, as is quite clear from the historical record of the drafting and ratifying process. (This is not controversial, as I imagine you know.) But the meaning of the Tenth Amendment and the practical extent of the enumerated powers doctrine was nevertheless a muddle from the start, owing partly to the tension with the necessary-and-proper clause.

No one was at all sure what it took to justify a specific federal action under one of the enumerated powers. The issuance of passports is not on the list of enumerated powers, but the wartime Department of Foreign Affairs (renamed the Department of State in September 1789) was carried over into the constitutional era, issuing passports all the while. The power to annex territory—also absent from the list; but Jefferson decided that he could purchase Florida and Louisiana. And so on and so forth.

Still, there were indeed rare moments in the the nineteenth century when judges invoked the Tenth to nullify acts of Congress, as in Collector v. Day, 78 U.S. (11 Wall.) 113 (1871), which stood until 1939. It is easy to imagine that the amendment was rarely invoked before the progressive era mostly because the doctrine of enumerated powers was firmly established; the powers of the federal government were, in actual practice, vastly less in those days. The Tenth Amendment has been even more rarely invoked since the early decades of the twentieth century because progressive judges completely eviscerated it.

The Tenth Amendment means essentially nothing today, you're right, but that has not always been the case, and it's not because the words themselves are meaningless.
Any frustration that shows in my reply is not particular to you. It's just that folk ideas about fluids insinuate themselves everywhere with sometimes irritating confidence. (For example, the book you cite!)

You're right about the sail turning the flow. However, the "curve" of the sail is not the only way to turn a flow. In the keel's case, it sees an angle of attack to the flow, and this causes lift. Imagine, for a moment, that the boat isn't heeled over, and we're looking down on the boat as it moves through the water. The bow of the boat, when pointing, points a few degrees upwind of the direction of travel of the boat relative to the water. We go back to the Kutta condition to see that the flow has to turn to point directly off the trailing edge of the keel and see that water is being "thrown" to leeward.

It's a little more complicated than that, even, for keels, especially for full keels. They're still "throwing water," but they're solidly "low aspect ratio" and finite wing effects dominate: Lower lift, higher drag, higher stall angle, softer stalls, attached vortices, and so on. All sorts of fun. There are reasons that race boats tend to have fin keels and daggerboards! :)
That would make sense most of the time. Do you want them to filter words like "maybe" and "perhaps" too? I think there is enough censoring on HN already.
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Might be just me, but it took a few seconds after clicking away I realized that I probably should scroll down on that page. Indeed I should.
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Shame they didn't go for the Siemens design: http://w3.siemens.com/topics/global/en/goingunderground/page...

To me, it seemed like it would stand the test of time a lot better.
In the United States, a public hysteria would likely do more damage than the virus itself so this is a good idea even if it is just security theatre. I've heard that phrase uttered several times in this thread already. Do you guys all read the same libertarian blog or something?

It's about to be flu season. They don't want hospitals to be overcrowded with paranoid patients because that means if somebody actually does have the virus they're less likely to get the proper attention. Etc. Not to mention all the people suffering from other problems. Such a strain on our healthcare system must be avoided at all costs.

This is a good thing, even if it is just a jumping off point.
If time to kill after becoming infectious increases, then the number of people the host is able to infect becomes greater.

If time to kill before becoming infectious increases then the host can travel further before infecting others and so spread a disease outside an affected area.

If this strain of ebola was killing ~90% in a few days, rather than ~50% in a week or so, then it probably would never have spread this far.

In terms of public health if it had been a lot more deadly to the individual, then it would probably have killed a lot less people overall.

Most outbreaks of an infectious disease become less deadly the further they spread as the longer lived hosts are the one's more likely to be able to pass things on.
Yes, famously. Bill Gates sent his "Internet Tidal Wave" memo in 1995 and admitted they were behind:

Some competitors have a much deeper involvement in the Internet than
Microsoft. All UNIX vendors are benefiting from the Internet since the
default server is still a UNIX box and not Windows NT, particularly for
high end demands, SUN has exploited this quite effectively.
[...]
Browsing the Web, you find almost no Microsoft file formats. After 10
hours of browsing, I had not seen a single Word .DOC, AVI file, Windows
.EXE (other than content viewers), or other Microsoft file format.
[...]
A new competitor “born” on the Internet is Netscape. Their browser is
dominant, with 70% usage share, allowing them to determine which network
extensions will catch on. They are pursuing a multi-platform strategy where
they move the key API into the client to commoditize the underlying operating
system.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/05/0526bill-gates-internet-memo/al...
> all comments which hit -5 are autokilled

That's not true. What made you think that?
Has anyone ever used Refresh.io with success?
Ask HN: Startupschool “Speed Networking” anyone?
I love YC #startupschool. One of the things I'd like to do more is meet and connect with interesting people.

I'm thinking of organizing a "Speed Networking" event during lunch hour at Flint Center at StartupSchool SiliconValley this weekend Oct 11.

Basically 2 lines of people - one side with people looking for gigs/co-founders and other side with people who have gigs looking for people/founders/partners. Chat for a minute or two and keep moving sort of like musical chairs

Looking for a couple of volunteers who can can help. You can reach me at paymentsguysv {at} gmail
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Fixing sexist tech culture is simple. It gets fixed the same way that sexist legal culture and sexist medical culture got fixed - more women.

Spend any amount of time in any environment that is mostly dudes, and things get funky real fast. Its just a function of having a male supermajority.
An infected individual might believe that they have a greater chance of surviving if they're treated in the US. After all, we've brought back our own infected folks, supplied them with experimental therapies, and they've survived. Send that through the grapevine a few times, and it could very easily create the impression that the US has a cure.
Oh how I wish that were true.

It's what's intended, but it's not what's true. Usually this bites on video, but it even bites on, say, SVG:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10261460/internet-explore...

Ostensibly, this is to protect users. Quoting TechNet:

When files are served to the client, Internet Explorer uses the following pieces of information to decide how to handle the file:

1. File name extension, the corresponding ProgID and CLSID for the registered handler of that file name extension.

2. Content-Type from the HTTP header (MIME type), the corresponding ProgID, and CLSID for the registered handler of that Content or MIME type.

3. Content-Disposition from the HTTP header.

4. Results of the MIME sniff.

-- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787872(v=ws.10)...
> I'd also like to style some of the checkout to be more branded - is it possible to change the colors or logos?

You just have to edit the templates and styles of the repo https://github.com/airbrite/diy-checkout/tree/master/src/tem...
Very cool idea guys. As someone who makes a living using open source software, it's scary how little I know about the internals and the work that goes into crafting it.
Even that wouldn't make sense here, because then it would be "before you were born" rather than "before you knew...".

I'd hope that anyone writing about tech would be aware of the significance of the C64, Apple IIe, etc.
elinks, with strict TLS and DNSSEC.

“Relaxed” TLS is as good as no TLS, when you need to protect privacy.
that is incredible. I wish I still had my old "pixelclique" ns4+ codebase. Or if I could recall my geocities name maybe I could find earlier work on wayback.