skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. London has 'minicabs' which are also commercial carriers. They fall under different regulation as taxis, and must be pre-booked (can't be hailed on the street). What's the sensible argument for allowing them to operate (using the roads), having specific regulation and insurance requirements in place, yet not allowing them to (i) pick up passengers waiting on the street, or (ii) using bus lanes, like London taxis?

London black cabs get certain privileges. In return they have some obligations. They have fixed fare rates; they are wheel-chair accessible; they have tighter regulation about accepting passengers.
here's (part 2) a video of my development on the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nzDJ8EZZZs&feature=youtu.be
Oops, I downvoted. Sorry. I agree. Having balls is not real world competition. Being Alpha is not real world competition. Flipping the bird, and give everyone a great big FU is not real work competition. Real world competition, is almost every thing but those things. Again, sorry for the downvote. (I just didn't want to encourage feeding the troll.)
If we used a male model as a photographic test subject here, is that not the sexist objectification of males? Should we use an unattractive person or an animal instead? Are you going to attack the very notion of beauty or the fact that women are the "fairer sex"?
The argument that Uber is providing reasonable service despite regulations does not justify removing them.

In a city like New York, where traditional taxi services are deeply entrenched, Uber must provide service that is at least as good as the status quo. The guarantees that the state enforces to protect consumers in registered taxi services serve as baseline, and Uber knows this. If that baseline did not exist, that is, if Uber were competing only against unregulated commercial services, there would be a race to the bottom, and suddenly New York would start looking a lot like Bangalore.

In this way, regulation improves things even to those who use services that are not regulated.
Depends on the aquifers. Some are fossil, some are replenishable:

https://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/i...
Fun fact: historically, placing someone outside the protection of the law was one of the most severe penalties governments could administer. Also cheap, because it means someone else -- whoever feels like it, basically -- carries out the execution without the government having to pay for it.

Perhaps you'd like that, though, since then the "statists" wouldn't be getting in your way with all those things that they claim are to "protect" you. And I'm sure you'd live to a ripe old age that way, yes?
Fines are one thing, but I bet that Uber would quickly find themselves with a manpower shortage if drivers started getting arrested. It's probably only a matter of time before Uber provokes a city into doing just that.
"Nothing we do can guarantee a long and healthy life" it true, and shit happens. But running (or swimming, hiking or <insert your favorite non-violent sport here>) are not just a fad, and none made this promise. Their only promise is to exercise some vital functions, in a form of body maintenance, and maybe/even pleasure. You without a doubt believe exercising your brain (through reading, coding, etc.) is a sound occupation, why not your body?

Truth is, you aren't much without it. Stephen Hawkins might be able to think and write wonderful essays while occupying a severely diminished body, but you might not. I've seen people sinking into their growing disabilities due to lack of exercise, and I myself suffered from physical traumas (severe back pain, hernia), which seriously impacted my psychological stability and self-confidence.

Take care of your body, it will take care of you. Haruki Murakami has a wonderful book about body and mind, and their equilibrium, called What I Talk About When I Talk About Running [1], I very much recommend it.

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/What-Talk-About-When-Running/dp/0385681...
This the right answer. Desalination is a last resort, that's why its used in places like Israel where there's no other option. Desalination is enormously energy inefficient.
Check out CBSD(http://www.bsdstore.ru/en/about.html). Seems as a viable management tool for jails.
I open a men's magazine and see photographs of women.

I open a women's magazine and see photographs of... women.

These magazines exist because people are buying them. WOMEN are buying them. I don't see many men on the editorial boards of these womens' magazines, pushing for more attractive women in the magazine in ever-more-scantily-clad garb.

What do I conclude, other than that a lot more attention seems to be being "naturally" paid to women in general, especially in a superficial context?

What do I make of the fact that more than double the number of women are bisexual, than males are? And thus, a significantly higher percentage of people of all sexes find the female form interesting?

Women: The cause of, and solution to, all the world's sexism
Correct me if I'm wrong. I think he's talking about posix_fadvise() [1], which lets you pre declare access patterns for an fd. And you're talking about madvise() [2].

[1]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/posix_fadvise
[2]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/madvise
What is better for caching: Varnish or Squid? (2012)
What is better for caching: Varnish or Squid? [2012]
http://www.quora.com/What-is-better-for-caching-Varnish-or-S...

Varnish was built for caching web apps. Squid is a forward proxy that can be configured to work as a web app caching program. So, when Varnish was designed we where able to disregard a lot of stuff that isn't needed when caching in reverse mode. On the other hand, squid has been around for ages and is a very, very mature product with a very well known set of strengths and weaknesses. Varnish is only 5 years old.
I need to agree. Using XSLT to write a XML -> HTML website is not a good idea - at least when a bunch of developers maintain it over time.

From the ground up, I admit I like XSLT. But: maintaining large sites that inherit templates (call-templates and apply-templates) and style through <xsl:include/> and <xsl:import/> over lots of files tends to become a template mess. After a while only the experienced devs are able to maintain the templates.

Then, it's a functional language, where lots of things are overly complicated to do; you can do just everything, but that doesn't mean you should.
Sorry, I don't buy this. You're proposing that if Uber weren't around, that Lyft would need to act like Uber and "take all the hits." That's absolutely not the case. Uber does not have to act the way it acts. Sure, the first company in this space is bound to run up against regulatory hurdles, but they don't need to openly and brazenly break the law to make their point, to the point that city officials are publicly calling them "thugs."

Sure, Uber has been talking to Portland city officials for a year, as the article says, but what's the rush? They're in 250 other cities already, cities a whole lot bigger than Portland. What possible motivation do they have to act the way they do, going behind the backs of the very people they're trying to negotiate with, operating illegally, and daring anyone to stop them?

No, that's just immaturity, arrogance, and greed.
The fact that death traps should be kept off of roads is entirely independent of regulations specific to taxis.

I'm perfectly happy with a race to the bottom in generic 'get me there cheap' service. The alternative is being forced to pay for a more luxurious transportation whether I want it or not.

Just about the only thing I see as a valid use of taxi regulations is a requirement to pick people up independent of destination. But it's a really inefficient way of handling the situation.
It just needs to be implemented natively. On the demo page the decoding is done in javascript.
I could relate with the excitement! Indian space agency ISRO is launching its own crew module prototype[1] aboard a next gen launch vehicle[2] in an experimental mission. Crew module will perform a controlled re-entry and splashdown in Indian ocean. ISRO is aiming to be ready with all subsystems and infrastructure required for human spaceflight by 2020 (Government hasn't yet approved the human spaceflight program).

[1] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/To-put-man-in-space...

[2] http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech...
>Sorry, I don't buy this. You're proposing that if Uber weren't around, that Lyft would need to act like Uber and "take all the hits."

Nope, that's not what the post says. It says that Lyft would probably be a bit more like Uber. That doesn't mean they'd have to flaunt the law, just that they would have to do more negotiation themselves.

Also that they currently get the benefits of rabid regulation-fighting without being the bad guy.
Oh, I have no idea if he's wrong or not. Honestly, programming isn't something I usually think deeply about; I'm sort of tired of all the usual arguments.

But you don't have to assume that someone's a novice to disagree with them. That seems to be a common thing for programmers to do to each other and it's disgusting.
Desalination works great for residential water use. It doesn't help the farmers that want massive amounts of ultra-cheap water. Better farming techniques could help. What would help most of all is if water was properly bought and sold at market rates, so people with major water rights would sell instead of wasting.
Is there some joke to this article? I can't make any sense of it...
Someone thinking about it more is irrelevant. Let's see evidence, plans, and simulations about how the problem can be solved rather than deferring to yet another authority.
You said it as if Windows Phone or Windows RT has been a good strategy since it entered the market when it was ripe thanks to Apple and Google who had been cultivating it for years. Imagine applying that "strategic advantage" to electrical car: one would sit back and wait for Tesla to do all the hard work and then enter as a full competitor. This does not sound right to me, and hugely discounts the immense value of the "dirtier works", such as actual goodwill from appreciative consumers and businesses and invaluable partners (rather than tech bloggers), not to mention first mover advantage.

And it's hard to praise someone for "seizing" it when they just "sit back".
Is the PDF title mangled in anyone else's ebook reader?
> Just about the only thing I see as a valid use of taxi regulations is a requirement to pick people up independent of destination. But it's a really inefficient way of handling the situation.

How about transporting blind people with their guide dogs?
Another aspect of this is that farmers are paid by the weight of their produce, and the much weight of many crops comes from the water content. Therefore, farmers have a strong incentive to use a lot of water to "fatten up" the produce they sell.
Their product is not hardware. It is the perceived sex appeal of having money. Their hardware is just a way of showing others that you have money. Making their hardware cheaper would basically destroy their product.

And they do care... about making money.
You can do some interesting things by embedding XSLT and XML into script tags, then wiring them up with MutationObservers -- I just hacked together a quick-and-ugly example of a Knockout-style reactive interface, and it works just fine. The big drawbacks are that your interface is still pretty noisy (though you can preprocess some of those XML headers and CDATA section tags into the page if necessary), and using XPath or DOM functions to update the XML isn't really very fun. Still, though, it'd be interesting to see what could be done with it, even if it's probably not a front end I'd like to wrestle with for daily development.
I'm getting untrusted cert warnings in Firefox. This appears to only happen on the 'events' subdomain.

Normally I chalk these errors up to the insanity of configuring SSL with many web hosts and allow the exception, as IIRC Firefox is pretty stringent on cert chaining and stuff.

But there is no way in hell I'm adding a trust exception for Chaos Computer Club's url.
Instead of reverse just start over from the first knuckle again. You get 31 in either case.
I wish this would have come before. TJ and others may not have quit then. I also feel that the community has been dwindling for some time and node v1.0 is taking forever. I look forward to io.js. This could be something that is required to restore faith - something of the devs, by the devs and for the devs.
My research involved a lot of programming, and I enjoyed making pretty GUIs for the code I wrote. So I already knew how to make Mac Apps.

I made database apps because I saw an opportunity. I had been thinking about doing something more related to my area of study (physics & computer graphics). However, all I came up with were some vague ideas for games, and games seemed too risky for me.

I do miss some parts of my research (especially maths), but for the most part I'm happy with what I do now.
That's what the cities should be doing. They can talk tough but unless they take action the laws will continue to be flouted.
Closer to a new media art installation.
> But one thing's for certain, being active certainly prolongs life. That much I think we can all be sure of at this point.

what we can be sure of is that being active improves the quality of life. Hell is not being able to move.
The Brain on Porn (2014) [pdf]
Heat is typically used to simulate aging; other than that, just time.
XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
I enjoy swimming and diving and scuba as much as the next guy, but I can't say I'd appreciate people watching me from below while I did those things.
It was clear to me that's what was meant -- and I think it's a very disturbing quote.

I won't be renewing my TNR subscription.
I was told in introduction to electronica that sadly it's terribly easy, and the teacher claims he has seen it happen. If you manage to take a 9 volt battery and scratch yourself with it (very easy with the negative contact, not so easy with the positive one), and both sides contact blood directly, the current may flow through your hart and may stop it (CPR will restart it, but that of course assumes someone's there to do it, and that people realize what's happened in the first place).

I can't believe someone actually stuck essentially needles connected to a power source into his blood. What. The. Fuck.
Getting the same in chrome
Chocolatey – apt-get like package manager for Windows
Practical applications of Y Combinators in Clojure
You have to add the CACert.org Root manually. Do you trust them? Not your browser vendor... you.. Do you?
Nice work! A few months ago I did the same and built a small tool to reverse-geocode the coordinates to see a) if all of its doable and b) how accurate it was (https://github.com/mileszim/yaktrak)

I'm impressed with how far you were able to go; for a such a simple app, Yik Yak has many questionable areas in its implementation
Ummm.... aspirin has no chirality. Salicylic acid is planar and the acetyl group can freely rotate.

The best example of chirality and toxicity is thalidomide. One isomer has low toxicity and the other causes horrible birth defects. Unfortunately the two isomers can interconvert so it isn't possible to create a pure sample of just one of them.
Nothing came close to the speed of XSLT when IE was ruling.
I loved it, and enabled us to build very fast web apps.

But then came JSON, Firefox and other browsers that made XSLT/XML look a less supported and ageing tech.

I tried to write a js equivalent in 2008. And after a couple of iterations it finally ended up with this: http://gitHub.com/pure/pure

It is declarative.
With CSS selectors instead of XPATH.
Do not mix at all with HTML.
And fast rendering.
The Complete Google Leaked PANDA Do and Don’t LIST
Storing HDR images, where the brightest parts are greater than 1.0. That way, when you later edit the image and adjust the levels, new detail comes into view. OpenEXR is the best we have for this now. It uses half-precision 16-bit floating point color components.
HN doesn't have downvoting for stories. It does, however, have flagging, and you should flag stories that violate the HN guidelines.
I'm not qualified to comment on BPG, but this is the first I've heard of Mr. Bellard. I enjoy reading works from minds of this caliber. He seems to be a model citizen for the programming community. Are there others I should know about like Fabrice?
Chirality is where two otherwise identical molecules can't be superimposed when you rotate them in space. They are mirror images of each other. The best way to imagine such an arrangement is to think of your hands.
When you charge a flat rate you are assuming the risk of a project. For this, you need to charge a risk premium.

My last fixed price contract (what was I thinking?) was estimated to take 120 hours and instead it took 400. I didn't do too bad because I priced that risk into my "rate".

If you would normally charge $100 hr, you should charge an effective rate of $175 or $200 hour for a fixed price project. Risk/insurance/peace of mind is something you need to charge for. Don't give it away.
I don't have an alternative. The point is that if we really were fully democratic world-wide, we'd be locking up or killing gays/lesbians, we'd have blasphemy laws for every religion and some ideologies enforced world-wide, ...

Assuming you do not consider this a desirable situation, it forms an argument against democracy itself.
Waiting to start koding
Un'altra grande vittoria del PD.
> Almonds are one thing... we actually need those.

Unless I'm missing something major, we "need" almonds for exactly one reason: they're tasty. That exact same "need" exists for meat. Personally, I'm quite happy eating neither, since I'm not a fan of nuts in general.

I recognize some people love almonds, and I'm not running around trying to get them banned, but I definitely think, just as with meat, we need to think of these things as choices, not just plain needs.
Looks like the JS decoder is compiled using emscripten, very nice.
Here's one I keep an eye on: http://www.weworkmeteor.com
The regional water boards in California, along with the local water districts, have ample amounts of all of the above dating back to 1967 and beyond, funded by taxpayers, with publicly available data, and in most cases involving said farmers.

Feel free to look at the data and get back with your findings. In the meantime, no, "someone thinking about it more" isn't irrelevant. They've been thinking about it more, and taking action, for decades.
This worked awesome on my MacBook and my PC, but I am getting some massive rendering errors in Safari on my iPad 3: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18855215/bpg.PNG
Public keys are only stored as a hash in the blockchain though (assuming no address re-use). Is RIPEMD-160 vulnerable to QC?
I haven't seen anyone mention the drought in Brazil. It's possible that deforestation in the Amazon is at least partially responsible for that[1]:

Some scientists have suggested that the recent
uptick in deforestation in Brazil may be partly
responsible for the drought, since loss of
evapotranspiration from trees is known to reduce
cloud formation.

I know its the other hemisphere, but it's certainly possible that drought, deforestation, and changing weather patterns in South America would also affect us. Yes, no? I'm just spitballing here.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141024-sao-p...
Breaking in Safari on my iPad 3 running iOS 7: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18855215/bpg.PNG
This story was on the front page a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679963
If I could be sure that LuaJIT has access to all the memory the GC can efficiently handle I would be happy. Again the problem is that LuaJIT may only be able to allocate a few MB or even no memory at all on a desktop system where the user starts your LuaJIT(embedding) app after the first 2GB of address space are eaten up. And that scenario is becoming more and more likely every year because the RAM requirements of mainstream desktop systems certainly are not going down.

Right now I do not feel comfortable offering a LuaJIT app for download because it may crash immediately with an "out of memory" error when the user has some memory heavy app running in the background.
It's funny that you keep referring to 'all the malware' on Android but not referring to the malware on iOS. It exists on both. Even botnets exist on iOS thanks to the automatic tools used to exploit the same iOS vulnerabilities used to jailbreak enabling drive-by installs of malware on iOS devices.

There was only one very large botnet ('up to' a million nodes) on Android and it wasn't on proper Android. It was on Android in China. So, no Google Play store and proper Android setup like you get on every phone in the US, Europe, etc. The botnet spread through... you guessed it... stolen games on unofficial 'app stores' of pirated software.

Comparing Apples to Apples, Google Play Android devices and un-jailbroken iOS devices, malware is virtually non-existent.
Don't mean to be pedantic, but I think it's "9 women can't make a baby in 1 month", but they can make 9 babies in 9 months. Bandwidth vs. latency.

I'm sure NASA could speed up the overall project if they had more resources by doing lots of things in parallel. NASA went from having unmanned ICBMs to putting a man on the moon in under a decade when they were given enormous funding.
Lenx emulates long exposure photos on Android
Lenx(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fenchtose.lenx) is an app which emulates long exposure photographs on Android.
I don't really think you have an even basic understanding about how plants grow or work.

Watering a plant in no way makes the plant magically contain more water than a properly watered plant, it just means more run off. Also, crops are often not sold by the farmer by weight, but rather by a mix of volume and average quality.
XSLT is 15 years old technology. If it is painful or not should be obvious today even before starting a project.
The truth is these companies are selling a commodity now and all anyone is going to care about is which one can give me a ride the fastest and cheapest. I have zero loyalty to Uber or Lyft. If there was another player in the market that gave me cheaper rides quicker I'd never use Uber or Lyft again.
What is it we need almonds for? I like them myself from time to time, but I could live with paying 2x for them if they were scarcer. Raising meat does consume a lot of water, but of course there are many other meat-farming areas in the US so economically it's fairly easy to substitute. It certainly will be next year, as midwestern beef will be quite a bit cheaper following a bumper corn crop this year.
Global variables are terribad (imo). Dependency injection is good (imo). I don't think the article is particular clear with everything it's trying to say, but those two points seem pretty reasonable, no?
I have friends in the Central Valley, smakc in the middle of farm country. Farmers there mounted a big campaign against the new state water plan, as promoted by the governor and voted onto the ballot by the legislature, where it passed with an overwhelming majority. So enough politicians in key roles are willing to stand up to the farm lobby to make some big changes in long-term policy.
Microsoft Garage expands to include exploration, creation of cross-platform apps
I used to use them weekly, but being consistently late, and also consistently only bringing ~75% of what I ordered, I went back to shopping myself. It didn't help getting mouldy produce, or defrosted frozen stuff, or incorrect items on a regular basis.
Thank you, I have not read anything this funny in a while.