skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brit here. I like to take personal responsibility for choices like career path, holidays, hobbies, where to put down roots, whether to have a family, who to love, who to have sex with, how much to drink, what books to read, what religion to follow or not follow, what to have for dinner. As for how I subsist when I'm too old or sick to work, or when I wake up in hospital after an accident ... those sorts of choices I'm more than happy for the government to make, in general they do a great job all things considered.
I have no knowledge of or interest in the methodology of this particular study, but I can tell you my own experience: I can, under double-blind conditions, be given four different ages of The Macallan whiskey and correctly identify the year by taste.
Actaully, I often need something "before tomorrow". Unless I wait until 9PM to realize that, a four-hour delivery time would be perfect for me.
ubers don't carry cash, so it's no better than robbing a private car. Taxis do carry cash, which is why they desire those systems.
I wondered the same thing (my exact thought was "WTF?"), and upvoted the link and your comment so both would get more attention, hopefully from someone at Princeton...
It's not the first incident, it's the fourth incident from ride sharing companies in Boston this month, and the Commonwealth has already confirmed that two of them were from Uber
Ask HN: How can engineers ensure they get best opportunities for their next job?
I feel the common way currently someone finds new job is by sending resumes around, or, hope that the right recruiter contacts you with the perfect job.

However there is no way for an engineer to create a desired 'deal flow' for your next move.

We are building a platform: http://careerswitch.me

"where you can privately connect with many employers, much before you start to look for a job, in order to create a pipeline of best opportunities, that you can select from for your future job search"

What do you guys think?

Specifically,

1] Is the concept useful, what would you like to see this evolve into?
2] Does the messaging on landing page makes sense? Any suggestions?

Thanks for taking a look: http://careerswitch.me
.coop is a sponsored TLD. It's not possible to have a .coop without being recognized as legitimate by http://nic.coop

Anyway, for Snowdrift.coop, it's planned as non-profit so there is no equity or return on equity. All revenue must serve the non-profit mission.

The rest of what you mention is affirmed in the Bylaws (which are still only a draft, pending legal review): https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/bylaws
So... the people taken to Guantanamo would disagree that the North Korean government does nothing to warrant the negative publicity that it gets?
One difference with taxi cabs is that many of them have security video systems in the car. These are primarily for driver safety, but can also be for passenger safety.

Are these protected from the driver itself? Seems like someone who intended to commit a crime would simply "accidentally" disconnect it.
More like "if the person who wrote this code didn't want to use the var keyword"
If you're running a 2x2 monitor setup do you move it further away from your face? I don't move my 2x1 further away than i would a single monitor.
There is also ToroDB: https://github.com/torodb/torodb, HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527013
As far as I can tell, most Chrome users are aware of Firefox, IE, or Safari though. So the victory of Chrome isn't manipulative and exploitative -- the browser-wars culture is very different these days. People _choose_ Chrome for the most part.

There is nothing wrong with offering a product that everyone wants to use. That's how Google became big in the first place.
There's a couple of things going on.

Those taste trsts normally give small sips of the drink. That changes the way you drink it, and that affects the flavour.

They also tend to use colder drinks which also affects flavour.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/16/least-two-women-...
Except when wine tasters can't distinguish between red wine and white wine with food coloring:

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/11/02/the-subjectivity-o...

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-t...
I think I understand what you're saying, you're saying that a search automatically implies a "seizure" as well, right? Unfortunately, I don't think the US gov thinks the same way. Right now they are trying to make a clear distinction between "collecting" and "searching". I was just trying to point out that even if those terms were separated, the 4th amendment specifically refers to collecting (seizing) the data as well. So they can't get away with the mass collection just by saying collection != searching.
Very interesting.

I always wondered what would be morally just position on such long standing establishments when it comes to inheritance of responsibility.

On the one hand kids of such family shouldn't be tied to the family business if they don't find it fulfilling. On the other hand if they won't continue the line traditions might die and with them such old an interesting places as this one or any other.

But as datamatt writes, I guess adult adoption does help with that. If kids in such family feel that they are not up to the task, their parents can adopt a person (a man in this case) who will continue with this tradition.
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How can you make a phone call or send an email without stuffing it into someone else's memory?
That would make more sense if this was the root of the problem. Otherwise Apple and Google would be in the same boat offering users a choice to install a browser other than the default for OSX, iOS, and Android
I don't understand why you think "Tab Snooze" would be somethinig like that. I don't see the connection.
> I may tell you this bordeaux is cheap and acidic, but at no point was I mistaking it for a bottle of Rose.

Oh really?

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-t...
Unfortunately, that's the permission level required to allow rerouting (changing the url of amazon.com/.../foo => smile.amazon.com/.../foo)
I was there in the 90s. Only having access to Windows when the Internet became common, guess how I went about learning there were other browsers out there and downloading Netscape?

How much more difficult would that have been if IE wasn't included by default with Windows?
Thought it best to post the arXiv link, but there's some press coverage as well:

- https://gigaom.com/2014/12/18/baidu-claims-deep-learning-bre...
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2014/12/18/baidu-annou...
The title says 'helped'..
"But let's not move the goalposts: the argument is that engineers are second-class in tech startups in a way that isn't true in finance companies. Most engineering jobs at finance companies are cost-center roles."

As I mentioned, I do not think it is a fair characterization to say that engineers are more/less valued in either situation. I just think that using equity distribution percentage to argue one way or the other is problematic in that compensation is determined in 2 dramatically different ways.

That said, if I were going to argue anything, it would be that the equity options based compensation packages in tech startups seem to have more opportunity for abuse. So characterizing engineers as 3rd vs 2nd class isn't interesting, but characterizing one compensation structure as more exploitative than the other may be, and I think that is at the heart of what the original post was about.

[edit] I'd also add that any characterizations about the methodologies used in finance/trading vs tech startups is completely inaccurate. I've seen great development process in both places and the converse as well.
The fundamental question here concerns the boundaries of subjective experience. (Rather than, say, rational materialism vs. mysticism.)

Is it magical that you can see a running rabbit and throw a stone and hit it? Certainly the subjective experience of doing something like that is just as problematical for science as the research above. I have in my pocket a tiny machine that uses crystals to shake light to send my voice etc. to far receivers practically instantly. Is it really so strange to consider something like that being done biologically?

I'm glad somebody's doing science to it. ;-)
At some point Americans will have to accept that they are fed piles of propaganda and they commit brutal violations of human rights.

European countries, too, though to be fair most of their brutal violations of human rights tend to be through aiding the USA in setting up secret torture prisons and ferrying people to them.
Good lord:

Ponderosa Pine; also known as Blackjack, Western Yellow, Yellow, and Bull Pine. This pine contains isocupressic acid, which is known to cause abortions in cattle.
So your message is either:

US == Bad
Everywhere Else == Good

Or:

Every government that has every done anything bad
is *exactly* equal to every other government that
has ever done anything bad.

Neither of the positions seems particularly defensible...
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They don't involve a "startup" whose raison d'etre is to bypass regulation and break laws in order to achieve competitive advantage.
I honestly don't understand this post.
Speaking as the original author of both of those documents (and a significant fraction of all INTERCAL code), I can affirm that I have INTERCAL on my resume. It's only come up once in an interview, sadly. Someday someone will ask me to write INTERCAL on the whiteboard....
Duet Display is out
We changed the url from http://valarauca1.blogspot.com/2014/12/kellys-14-rules-of-pr... to the Wikipedia article it points to, which appears to contain the originals.
a community where members buy, sell and donate goods and services using a social currency “bonos” instead of money.

With 50 million Americans living in poverty, 44% living paycheck to paycheck, many Americans lack money to get the things they need. At the same time the average family has nearly $7,000 worth of unused stuff in their house. The opportunity is to monetize the assets and skills people already possess, unlocking additional spending power.

igobono.com provides instant spending power upon signup, enabling members to immediately begin trading. Additionally, they are rewarded with more spending power for performing various activities on the site. igobono also offers an opportunity to connect and build personal relationships, empowering people to improve their lives.
If you go to the "Running" tab within the app, then swipe left to show the splits, you can touch the grey heart icon to see your heartrate during your run.

Of course, being able to download this data so you can slice/dice it yourself would be way better. It would also be nice for them to release an SDK so you can write applets for the band.
Why would someone falsely accuse an Uber driver of rape? Humor me.
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I think that's the real question. In an era where alot of people do not listen to traditional radio, a service like pandora helps artists get heard by people who did not go specifically looking to listen to 'Happy'. if even 10 percent of listeners heard the song first from pandora, that's 4.3 million potential new fans who buy CD's or tracks from iTunes and PlayStore. Unless Pharel is living in a van down by the river, he should be thanking the stars he wrote a hit that got listened to by 43 million times on a single service alone.
It's not possible to tax wealth. Unless you want to tell me how many Bitcoins I own.
Have you tried Optimal Layout?

http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/
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Embiggening English: The Simpsons and changing language
The problem isn't that you have to pay for services rendered. The problem is the pricing and service system is extremely opaque. You can receive services without ever having an opportunity to know what those services are or how much they will cost. And that's not restricted to high emergency care its everything. It's not comparable to paying for services in other industries where pricing is presented up front or at least before services are rendered. The opaqueness leads to price inflation as well so service prices aren't regulated by the consumer market.

For example once my wife had to go to the er and we'd taken great pains to know ahead of time what hospital was covered best under our insurance. Yet the bill contained test services performed in he hospital that were not covered because a room in the hospital was operated by a separate lab company that didn't accept our insurance. There was literally no way for us as consumers to know that one type of blood test regularly covered by our insurance in a covered facility would go through the magic door into an uncovered facility. Price inflation and surprise bills are emergent properties of the system and that needs to change.

I am all for consumers having choice and taking personal responsibility for their care but our healthcare system makes that effectively impossible.
When I've tipped online for pizza, and tip pretty well, I tend to get my pizza very quickly with a driver wanting to please me (like one time an order was messed up slightly and he immediately drove back and brought a new one without me even asking).

My vague guess is that if you leave an above-average tip on an online order, the order gets immediately grabbed my a delivery person since they know they'll get at least that much of a tip.
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Were you aware that the original 1972 INTERCAL compiler was written in SPITBOL?
You previously said "charge you for anything" which is substantially broader than "charge you for services/products rendered."

Reading your previous statement literally (and I saw no reason to read it in any other way), it meant that a hospital could charge you for buying an elephant and you'd be legally obligated to pay.

And you're complaining about other people using hyperbole?
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Why would Uber call in false ride requests to a competitor?
Webvan wasn't the first ever grocery delivery service. Their failure doesn't make in non-viable, it just means they didn't do it in a viable way.

I still see the dairy truck and the Schwan's truck in my neighborhood from time to time. They're not exactly the same thing, but they've proven long-term sustainability for some parts of the market. I also see home delivery trucks for King Soopers (Kroger) and Wal*Mart in my area.
Wired: Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
There's an interesting HN touch in that article:

"Some males are now joining dating sites specifically made for men looking to become Mukoyōshi, and be adopted by families who need a male successor for their businesses."
There's other places amazon is very vulnerable.

For example, try buying a car fob battery -- in my case, a cr2016. You'll see dozens of such batteries, some name brand, some not. But if you read the comments, you'll find that even the purportedly (from the listing name and image) name brand batteries often aren't. eg [1] After spending 30 minutes trying to find a single listing that actually would send me a bloody name-brand, within expiration date battery, I just gave up. This was far more hassle than just going to my local hardware store.

Another place amazon is very vulnerable is personal / body goods and food. I'm fine buying books and flashlights from them, but for food, deodorant, sunblock, lipsticks, etc, I want real goods not fake ones. Ideally purchased by amazon directly from the originating company. Instead, I'm confident that when you purchase those goods, even if directly from amazon and not one of the marketplace vendors, amazon will look to find the closest warehouse with such an item in it (even listed from one of the marketplace vendors) and send that to you. Amazon also makes it quite difficult to just purchase directly from amazon and not from a marketplace vendor. I think there's going to be a huge scandal when people realize lots of those goods are fake.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Energizer-CR2016-Lithium-Battery-5-Pk/...
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I saw something really good on LessWrong the other day. There's a link you can follow so that 5% (10x more than the 0.5% from Smile) gets donated to charity. I think it uses the affiliate link system, but I haven't really looked into it. This LW post explains it:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/lb4/shop_for_charity_how_to_earn_pro...

It's not the EFF, but if you believe in GiveWell, it's a fantastic way to make a sizable (and mostly passive) positive impact.

And the best part: It's stackable with Smile. Presumably, EFF could set the same thing up. (I believe Scott Alexander of SlateStarCodex.com has one set up to support his site as well, so it can't be that hard or restrictive)
The question is, for any taxi service, how many rapes we define as acceptable before we start insisting on specific, effective measures to improve safety. It cannot be axiomatic that it is not fair to ask Uber ever to do anything to make their service safer.
According to your logic all of the black people in South Africa supported Apartheid because the people in power supported it.

Please realize that when you are having a discussion with actual people, railing against things that "the US" thinks is pointless (because most people recognize that countries don't have a singular hive-mind), and you paint yourself as a troll.
That's a great blog post, Major_Grooves - Thanks for shouting out!

I totally agree and addressed that in my other blog post which is targeted to EU folks: http://www.happybootstrapper.com/2014/eu-vat-changes-online-...

I hope lots of people read it and sign up the petition to set up a revenue threshold: https://www.change.org/p/pierre-moscovici-a-unilateral-suspe...
This is exactly right. I can't believe how snide and ignorant a few of the commenters are (except I can because it's the same folks with the same FUD every time). MongoDB isn't standing still and it is getting better and better with every release. Not to mention there are 100's of massive projects running on MongoDB with success.

Something about MongoDB really drives the Postgres community (and certain NoSQL DB fans) nuts and I'm guessing it's that MongoDB is eating their lunch, growing faster than them, is gaining popularity faster, etc. Keep in mind MongoDB is many years younger too and is maturing more quickly now. Plus, developers absolutely love working with it.

It's a tool like any other and still has issues but I'm afraid some here are dancing on its grave well before it has even shown signs of letting up on its growth.
I've actually seen a handful of these in SF as well, which doesn't really have the infrastructure I'd think would be necessary.
It's not like they're dumping toxic waste. I'm extremely grateful that Uber has the balls to break taxi laws, because taxi laws used to have a distinctly negative impact on my life (namely that I was forced to take taxis).
Thanks for the summary! This does sound a bit more encouraging towards Harel's work
This is entirely the fault of CEO Travis Kalanick who should be fired immediately. Once a narrative develops around a company (such as "Exxon hates the environment" or "GM makes dangerous cars") then the narrative takes on a life of its own, and it takes many years of hard work for a company to dispel that narrative from the mind of the public. For a young company like Uber to already develop a narrative like that suggests very bad public relations management on the part of the CEO of Uber. Kalanick allowed a great many separate threads (sexism in the workplace, in Kalanick's personal life, in the relationships of the drivers to the passengers, etc) to coalesce. This is from his interview with GQ magazine:

"Not to make assumptions, but Kalanick probably wasn’t the first kid in his class to lose his virginity. But the way he talks now—which is large—he’s surely making up for lost time. When I tease him about his skyrocketing desirability, he deflects with a wisecrack about women on demand: “Yeah, we call that Boob-er.” "

It's funny up until the moment that it isn't. Kalanick should go, and Uber should get a CEO who can credibly promise to take issues of safety seriously.
In fact, it is happening:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/15/340653853/startu...
You can probably run i3 in X11, although non-X11 apps won't work with it. Your best bet is to run i3 in a full-screen VM.

I researched this myself a few months back, since i3 was the biggest thing I missed when I had to switch to OS X (new company, new computer). Eventually I gave up and settled on Amethyst. It's not bad once you set up the keyboard shortcuts to your liking. The main things I miss are the tree structure for window organization, and window borders that stick together when resized.

I created some bounties on bountysource for features I'd like to see in this project. Hopefully other people want them enough to contribute as well, and ianyh will get a nice return on his contributions.
All taxes are astronomical in most of the EU, but with national differences.

In Denmark, in addition to a 25% VAT, there's an 8% payroll tax and a 40%-56% income tax, property taxes, huge environmental taxes, etc.
That is an interesting idea. I'm not actually sure whether or not it's possible. Unfortunately I'm on a plane and my phone won't let me make github issues. I'll add one to look into when I land.
Nice to see Michigan Tech!
Seems like they are running experiments and collecting data to test their hypothesis. Doesn't that count as science? Or do you call it trash science simply because the hypothesis seems unreasonable?
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This story was killed by user flags. That was a bad use of flagging, so we've overridden it. The article is clearly substantive enough to pass the minimal bar for this site. Whether it's great or not, or even good or not, is a different question.
True but on the flipside, me personally I trust someone that isn't in a suit (maybe not as hacker look like Stallman) more than someone in a suit.

I think it is a generational thing, dressing up to me is mostly getting into your sheep B.S. clothing to make whatever you are doing look better. I have also been working in the game industry where suits usually mean you aren't a good fit or it is someone to probably not trust i.e. publisher/salesman.

I think for court you should put on your best, but in most cases I distrust the suit more than I trust it.
Are they really "dating" sites if the purpose is just to get adopted as a male successor?
Yep, just-in-time logistics are highly efficient, at the expense of low inventories.

The oft-repeated advice to vacate cities is complete bullshit. No matter what "countryside" means, there's less food there in almost every case. Go to any small town and what do you find? Smaller grocery stores, with inventories just as tight as in the cities. Same suburban-style communities of people just as unprepared as anyone else.

Emergency provision of supplies is made efficient by the same things as normal delivery logistics: densely clustered populations and major infrastructure, exactly the things that make cities what they are.

Just look that the slow-motion SHTF scenario of the Great Depression of the '30s, when the American countryside was drained of its population, never to recover.
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That is entirely wrong. It might suit your use case (having a bunch of monkeys running around fixing a hack job) but I'd rather use a tool which can expand and reduce capacity when I want, which is quite often. It saves me money on cloud hosting to only provision what I need when I need it and be able to expand and contract it at will, easily. Your solution fails at this.
I don't know anything about wine, but I can definitely tell the difference between, say, chicken, turkey, beef, and alligator if you made them into sausages. I'd be seriously surprised if I couldn't tell insect apart from any of those.