skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No oversight. No privacy. No standards.

Can't say I blame them.
That's so tasty. Like tomato soup for my eyeballs.

I encountered the same issue in my project : 2 levels of polygon-distinguishment. Made a set of 1 bit seamless textures.

http://glowinggreenhand.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-made-bunch-of...
Tufte points out 1 + 1 is 3 or more visually. The two lines create two elements, then the space is another, then the space on either is potentially another.

http://csarven.ca/one-plus-one-equals-three-or-more

These textures are noisy. There can be occasions to use textures, but these examples would work just as well with shades of gray.
Longer duration of breastfeeding linked with higher adult IQ and earning ability
> vividness, beauty, feelings of peace or being loved, etc.

Or, you know, the complete opposite.
Someone with no integrity, can use their intelligence and energy for bad things.
are you implying we wont call them terrorists in 20 years and bomb da fuq outta em?
or insurgents? arent those actually residents?
It's not an extra 4 dollars, it's an extra 1-2 dollars!
Right, but if you blame the proximal cause of unemployment then you don't have to address the underlying social issues or ask hard questions about the legitimacy of a system that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
Shades of gray would work as well.

Also checkout http://colorbrewer2.org/

It has an option for creating color sets which are "colorblind safe."
In theory, yes, in practice, that just means the commercials are compressed to the single loudest part of the TV show they accompany. Net effect: Nil. The commercial still sounds louder than everything else.
I think that Uber has done tremendous amounts to modernizing the taxi industry, and maybe even for breaking down some taxi monopolies. These are both good things.

I can't comment on UberX, but regular Uber should absolutely be subject to regular taxi/safety/liability clauses. Which isn't to say that those clauses couldn't be modernized, but IS to say that it should also not be a surprise when a company gets a nationwide ban for violating them. Regular Uber is exactly a taxi system, with a state-of-the-art automated dispatch and billing system.
That's assuming the bus would only be converting drivers and not other forms of commuters.

I have a fifteen minute walk to work. If there was a convenient bus that cut that in half, I would use it. I used to ride the subway to work. That took about 40 minutes. I would definitely consider using a bus instead if the circumstances were right.
On throwing away money as signalling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhEpMJ3n_wU

Really, watch it. Both hilarious and sad. And yeah, "wasting" is a real thing (but as far as I know only for drinks).
Ultimately these companies rely on infrastructure which is in one way or another publicly supported. Amazon's $6.3m corporation tax bill on $6.5bn revenue will not even pay for the wear and tear on the roads necessary to deliver their products.

Whether or not this is the best way, or perhaps it should be a more international process through the OECD, it's obvious that it's not sustainable for companies to off-shore their profits, and pay very little corporation tax, often even in their home country. Especially when in so doing they undercut the small businesses that don't have the lawyers and accountants to set up these kinds of highly artificial schemes.
Well, maybe not "real" as in the "real world", but "real" enough to have fun. SimCity 5 faced an ordeal in trying to be too real; they traded off other vital entities (map size, gameplay features) for getting this simulation right!

It's also been stated that this game has, by default, a very "easy" gameplay which may have contributed to siding to being a bit less realistic but sufficiently real for playing and having fun.

The traffic is a mess, true. They'll patch it up with a better algorithm hopefully. It's still fun though. I recently had a couple of industrial buildings burn to ashes because the firetrucks were caught up in a jam! Now that's quite possible!
The permit to commercially transport people costs 421 Euro:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev...

Far too much for some casual Uber drivers.
I don't think any HN users have used us.

I am Justin McGill (founder of LeadFuze). We're fairly new...90 days in. We have 20 customers thus far.

If you have any questions though, I'd be happy to answer.

Cheers,
Justin
He's saying that if someone does not have integrity, it's better that's they're dumb and lazy so they accomplish less and cause less harm. The tacit assumption is that someone without integrity will make decisions and act on them in ways that hurt the company.
Not sure why this is downvoted and at the very bottom of the thread.

If the article is true, youtube/google is using their market power in one sector to limit artistic and creative decisions in another sector. If mastering houses simply make a youtube mix next to their CD mix than the title is wrong.
So much, yes.

I have an Ergodox at home and a Kinesis at work, and I almost universally prefer the Kinesis. I type faster and make less mistakes, and my hands seem to be less fatigued over long periods when working on the Kinesis.

Like others, I also wish the Kinesis seperated into two halves, because I think it'd be even better if you could tilt each hand out a bit. This is complicated due to the controller placement in the Kinesis, but that could be fixed through some creative restructuring. Well, that and the fact that if you screw it up, you just broke a $300 keyboard...
The main reason (IIUC) for the verdict was (a little bit simplified):

Most of the drivers for uberPOP break german laws because they have no proper license and insurance to be commercial drivers.

The question was if Uber breaks the law ("Personenbeförderungsgesetz") by simply acting as a broker for those drivers - And the judge said yes, they do.
untog was mentioning NYC. Majority of people commuting in that I know already catch public transportation into the city. I can't imagine this working very well for transportation within Manhattan but I could be wrong.
People don't just tolerate him for being negative, because he's really not all that negative. He's helpful if people actually need help. However, if he trusts you to not be stupid, and you break his trust, he's going to get mad.

He needs to be able to trust people because he needs to merge thousands of patches and make sure nothing bad gets in.

This is the only reason you should ever do what Jobs or Torvalds have done: trust.
I like the marshrutka private busses prevalent in Russia:

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/transport/marshrutka/
PMs and designers work with one or more 3 person engineering team. Often times the PM/designer work across several engineering teams in 1 "family".
Exploratory Testing 3.0
How Polymorphic Warnings Reduce Habituation in the Brain [pdf]
> 2. SimCity 5 with a pure agent-based simulation model (it had flaws though, especially traffic), but again the series pioneered a new way of creating games in this genre.

It irks me how SimCity 5 is praised for that. The Caesar series had pure agent-based simulations in the 1990s, and somehow had none of the agent routing bugs SimCity 5 had. How can being worse than your competition 20 years ago be considered an accomplishment?
Thanks for this. I need to learn SVG for something that I am working on now, this library looks like it has a great interface for me to learn from.
Facebook Messenger to enable P2P payments
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We've had good success with wkhtmltopdf

All of our invoices and reports are built for the web and then converted on the fly to pdfs and emailed out to clients who prefer them that way. You lose the interactivity, which is a shame for some d3 reports, and you have to be a little careful (design for page breaks, test it as if it's a slightly fickle browser that you have to support, ensure that everything is visible without requiring interaction) but it keeps all of your development within the same tool stack and gives you web versions of them all for free.

For reference, I ran it on the textures.js page and put the results here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BP6Na7GalZOXdWdlh6MElWTDQ...

It's pretty good.
Recovering deleted files in OS X
German article http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/wirtschaftspolitik/ums... (use Google Translate if needed)
says the services for professional drivers are not affected (eg. Uber Black, probably Uber Taxi too)
Maybe because integrity is virtually impossible to objectively evaluate for a candidate who you've got limited time to assess

I would go even further and say that it's virtually impossible even over long periods. As a graduate from a military academy, the ostensible goal was graduating "Leaders of Character" with significant emphasis on "integrity" and "honor." I walked away feeling that the program did not perfect the evaluation.

At the end of the day it's usually a "gut feel" as much as I hate that, and the perceptiveness of the screener really is pivotal.
Some doubts about GPL, licensing and the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition phone
Now if they can just do the same thing with annotations...
RSpec-style let() declartions for Ruby
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> There is no alternative medicine. Medicine is a science.

A fairly typical definition of medicine (and the one Google shows if you ask it to define medicine) is "the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery)." And the "practice" part is a lot older than the "science" part.

And, in any case, even excluding alternative medicine, the practice of modern Western medicine is (though this varies a lot from practitioner to practitioner) a lot more intuitive and less science-based than many people would like to think, and efforts by institutions with concerns about improving that are often controversial in the field.
The circular logic looks somewhat familiar.

This isn't a subsidiary of M & M Enterprises, by any chance?
If you have a Windows XP VM lying around somewhere, take a look at Caesar III (should be on GoG). Agent based simulation done right, in 1998.
AFAIK you also need special insurance and shorter maintenance intervals for your car, so the total cost is probably higher - And recurring!
That's probably because buckling spring keyboards are patented. The patents are owned by Unicomp http://www.pckeyboard.com/
Like I replied in my blog, that document is about open source intelligence, a completely unrelated term. They're not talking about computers at all.
I don't live there yet but I will in a couple of weeks and have been researching where to live. One problem from my point of view is that there appears to be no monthly pass you can get that works from the places that one might reasonably want to commute from (e.g. Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley)
When Zapier doesn't cut it
Show HN: Angular Material Design Morphing Modal
Angular directive for fullscreen modal window with wonderful animation in trending Material Design style. Responsive and mobile-ready. Works in modern browsers.

https://github.com/shauchenka/ng-morphing-modal

Your comments are appreciated!
I do like to use dogs in my examples. See https://medium.com/tractable-constraints/in-search-of-divers... and https://medium.com/j-smith-in-ink/the-purginator-1dfae16327b... . There's something about canines and k-means that just makes sense to me.
Shadowrun Returns dev: Free to play games drowned us out on mobile
Your comment is hyperbolic and race baiting. That this new service solves a problem or adds anything of value is up to the consumer. Maybe there are certain amenities that people want and will pay extra for. There's nothing wrong with that. In your world, it sounds like we should only use the bare minimum and everything else is waste and privilege.
Well it's useful in the sense that if an alternative transportation company as opposed to a city enterprise is able to turn a profit, that would indicate something.

I think it would indicate that the city isn't making enough of an effort on the mass transit side of things.

Overall it would be great if people could start up private bus lines that they believe are underserved which the city would then later take over. If you structure it so that the city paid a royalty to the entity which established the line for a few years, they could probably do a fair amount of good.

Now, how would you prevent this from turning into a tollway that's only going to charge for 20 years but 50 years later it's still for-pay? By making the city pay an external entity rather than keeping the revenue. They'll keep their word -- at least when it comes to paying the bus startup -- very rigidly if it's an outflow. How would you ensure that they then lower the price once the royalty is done? That's harder. I guess at least the scam would be more transparent that way.
People can ostensibly vote, especially in California with the referendum system.
Wow. All you guys need in SF is more ticketing systems. There is already what? 3? 4? In places like e.g. Germany, you have one ticketing system being serviced by different companies that all bid for the slots based on their costs (including the official railway service DB) without inconviniencing the customer.
The fact that some characters are debatable does not change the fact that han unification is a good idea. In a few cases you can disagree, but not unifying at all would be madness.

As for this particular character (cold), both variants are familiar to Japanese readers, with the one described as Japanese in your link being the one you'd typically see in print, while the other one is common in handwriting, and nobody in Japan would treat these two as different. From a Japanese point of view, this is definitely the kind of thing you change by switching fonts.

This pdf is the official list of basic chinese characters, published by the Japanese governement. Look on page 9, it shows both variants of this characters in hand writing.

http://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/pdf/jouyoukanjihyou_h2...

The fact that one of the variants in not familiar to Chinese readers complicates the issue, but there are at least reasonable reasons to argue that this is one, not two, characters.

I think it is possible to argue that han unification was not done very well and that the UC made too many classification mistakes (although I personally think it is generally not that bad), but I don't think arguing that unification is a bad thing entirely has legs.
It also requires extensive knowledge of the city (know all streets), which is way too much for a casual driver who will simply use a gps.

To commercially transport people you also need a special insurance and need your car checked more frequently.

So it should't be surprising that UberPOP was forbidden.
Sensationalist bs. It'd take some pretty impressive programming to deal with issues like road construction, missing or faded road markings, unmarked dirt roads, and potentially outdated or incorrect maps.
First Cryptocurrency to Utilize AI on the Blockchain
> "Most of what is presented is not news, it's politically slanted propaganda"

This was starting to be discussed on HN the other day, but unfortunately didn't seem to get much traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202533
I live in a country with 25% unemployment, South Africa. I've used Uber a few times in the last week or so and my drivers have been:

- A high-school dropout studying towards his Matric and wanting to go into engineering.
- An owner of a backpacker lodge looking to do something during the day when his business isn't busy.
- A retired person looking to earn some extra income.
- A full time Uber driver who was a long-haul truck driver.

IMHO, my country needs more nerds churning out code which will cut through the bureaucracy our government has put in place and create opportunities for our unemployed.

With regards to self-driving cars, that would be awesome. I just don't see that it's something that would be affordable in a developing country in the next few years.
From a physics standpoint, this is a pretty silly idea. Here's why.

Whether we're talking about radiation caused by wireless communication (e.g. wifi at 2.4/5 GHz) or high-frequency oscillations in a microprocessor, it's pretty safe to say that all of the significant electromagnetic radiation coming off of a wearable computer is under 10 GHz.

Damage to proteins, DNA, etc. due to radiation is either caused by that radiation stripping electrons / breaking covalent bonds, or through heating.

The sort of electromagnetic radiation that strips electrons and breaks covalent bonds is called ionizing radiation; ionizing radiation only occurs above a certain frequency threshold (depending on the material being ionized). This fact is, in fact, the reason Einstein got his Nobel in physics. Anyway, its pretty safe to say that, say, red visible light (400 THz) does not ionize important human molecules. Ultraviolet is usually considered to be the low end of the ionizing radiation range.

Therefore, because 400 THz > 10 GHz, radiation coming from wearable computers could not possibly cause molecular damage to humans through ionization. The light coming from the screen is significantly more dangerous in this respect than anything coming from the other electronics.

How about heating? Consider that a typical wearable computing device only consumes a few watts. If this power were distributed diffusely, it is harmless, and if it were focused, it would cause obvious and painful burns, which we know doesn't happen.
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Why You're Not Smart Enough to Work at Google
Don't waste your breath. The idea that "Linus makes contributors feel unwelcome" is a self-fulfilling prophecy and the people who want it to be true have a stronger social media presence than those who don't.
That assumes everyone on the bus was previously driving. This is more likely to take people who currently ride public transit, so you'll have two buses, half as full as the previous one was.
Just Uber specifically? So you can just download a different app and order rides again? Why?
It seems like Pearson is more concerned about students revealing test questions, than just talking about the test in general.

And I don't see that as a huge deal.
Oy. And yet, I couldn't stop myself from upvoting this comment. You made this day a touch better.
Agreed. 99% of the time, I only use Excel as a CSV viewer (and it's a rather clunky and error-prone CSV viewer at that).
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Did you really just grap a HTML-file und renamed it to .pdf? Surely this doesn't work.
Are you sure that's scheduling and not just the natural grouping up of buses over time? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching
The Acquisition Criteria on page 23 are quite interesting; definitely a stark contrast from most tech acquisitions. I especially like #5: "Simple businesses (if there’s lots of technology, we won’t understand it)" and #2 "..future projections are of no interest to us.."
There's like 3 cities in the US with pretty good public transportation and they choose to launch in one of those?
That makes sense, given XP can install and run decently on a machine that would choke on Windows 7, if it would even install. Minimum system requirements are still a thing, and as light and efficient as Windows 10 is, it's not meant for 2001 era technology.
> Here's the idea: companies that rely on Ruby contribute money to a pool. The board of directors
> authorizes spending money out of that pool. They authorize this money towards supporting core
> Ruby infrastructure and projects. All of this is through a non-profit, so it's tax deductible for
> everyone.

That summary should appear somewhere on the website, as it includes the core of what you're doing much more succinctly than anything I found clicking through the links.

Thanks for the details, and thanks for working to improve the Ruby community!
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For a while I had a my iPhone set to 0000 just so I wouldn't have to enter my strong 16 character Apple ID password every time I entered "find my friends".

Now that I have TouchID I can use a strong password for unlock since I don't have to enter it every 30 seconds
"Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for"

https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU
It is more that govt doesn't like if companies try to avoid social insurances for their workers.
I got really lazy recently and uploaded a demo video of an amplifier I built without adjusting the audio level, and it made for a very quiet video. I wonder if it has been normalized for playback by youtube yet.
I don't understand this argument. Amazon's corporation tax bill isn't supposed to pay for the wear and tear on the roads necessary to deliver their products.

Amazon - or its customer, actually - pays for the delivery of goods on the said roads. That delivery price pays, among other things, for the wear and tear of roads, more than enough.

Price of delivery includes the cost of vehicle deliveries (and employment needed by those delivery services, etc) and those costs include the taxes, duties and tolls collected from vehicles.

I don't know situation in Britain so well but I expect that it's like other countries: the taxes collected from vehicle traffic are much higher than the cost of building and maintaining roads. (In my country, the factor is 7: government collects 7 000 000 000 € per year from vehicle traffic as car taxes, fuel duties etc, and uses about 800 000 000 € per year to building and maintaining public roads.)

I just cannot follow the logic of the above argument. A more logical approach to me is "they've got money, let's take it!"
Lua is a nicer language, but the sheer number of developers who are familiar with JavaScript gives it a huge edge. I suspect that's the driving reason.
The article presents it as though it was merely an unfortunate oversight. I assumed incompetence rather than maliciousness for my comment, purely out of a sudden fit of politeness.

I completely agree however that assuming pure idiocy rather than malignancy is stretching probability more than slightly in this case, given we are talking about highly experienced profiteers.
:D thanks! Very good point.
I live in Toronto, and the problem is certainly one of traffic density, exacerbated by the heavy use of streetcars on Queen/King &c and the brain-dead payment model. The TTC doesn't schedule buses and streetcars to stack up -- it happens because of traffic holdups. That's not to say that they couldn't schedule better, of course; I think that dynamic scheduling, where buses can for instance skip stops if there's another following within 90sec or some other heuristic to catch up further on the route.
Why would buying an expensive diamond be any different than buying a vintage car? Or really expensive speakers? Or any other toys the man will want?

I couldn't imagine being happy in a relationship without learning to compromise. Only the most important things should be considered "core principles", questions of religion, child-rearing, maybe hot-button political issues, and other moral litmus tests.

Whether or not she gets the ring she wants is a silly gender identity fixation, pretty harmless in comparison. If its a core principal, then so is whether or not he's allowed play video games, or buy a motorcycle, and so on. (Btw, I'm not engaged, married, nor ever bought a ring.)
They were patented when Cherry invented them, rather. The patents are long expired.
Have you tried the gog.com version?
You need a critical mass of hipsters for something like this to work. SF is the perfect launch city.