skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You know the driver in uber. It's registered before they pick you up and send to your phone. Not so with a taxi

You notice that card with a number, usually carrying a photo of the driver, prominently placed in just about every official taxi, just about anywhere on the globe? There's usually also information, prominently posted, on how to file an official complaint if your cabbie does dodgy stuff. In addition you have accurate fare information posted, which doesn't suddenly jump by factor 6 because a company can make more money. (I know their argument and happen to think it's bullshit)

2. Uber tracks your GPS and the drivers. They know who's in the car (driver and passenger). Not so with Taxi

So that Uber can use this data for sleazy blog posts, or to strong arm journalists that they don't like? This alone is such a gross privacy violation that I will never, ever use this company.

3. Drivers are rated on uber. A couple of bad ratings and they're out. Not so with taxi.

Taxi drivers are vetted, licensed and insured. Good luck to reclaim potentially hundreds of thousands of Euros for hospital costs from your Uber driver. Because his insurance will sure as hell not pay. The drivers 5 star rating will help you exactly zilch if such a situation occurs.

4. Uber requires no cash.

We're taking about using Uber in Europe, which (depending on the country) is far less a credit card based society than the US. In addition the "less reason got assault" argument is spurious, at best. Apart from the fact that this very, very rarely happens in most European cities a potential assailant doesn't know if you carry cash or not.

While I agree that assaults by Uber drivers are rare (even though they are pretty poorly vetted unless it becomes a pr problem) the insurance argument and Uber's callous disregard for the privacy of their customers are deal killers for me.
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"True parallelism" is EXACTLY not having a GIL.
Blurred Lines, indeed.
This is fixed in Ember at least with history API
From my understanding none of those things were used in the comparison nor any samples actually used. It was that the new song "sounds like" the old song is the criticism. Which could be expanded to mean the person who created a genre of music owns it.

If a musician can be sued for being inspired by another, then dark times are ahead for all musicians.

"What was your inspiration for this song?"
"No comment."
Yeah, yeah, same old, same old.

If it's not "Look! Pirates! We're all going to die!!! We need to strengthen copyright NOW!"

Then it's: "Ouch! I lost a copyright lawsuit! We're all going to die!!! WHO is responsible for this insanity?"
It's hard for me to understand the ratio of the relative body of work that turns out to be useful versus the relative body of work that hasn't seen application yet. Across all institutions, pure mathematics is an extremely small field; yet their papers have an (almost) infinite amount of time available to find an application.
Chinese shops and kebabs have it too. I agree it's ugly and makes me think the shop is of low quality.
The situation surrounding "Blurred Lines" gives me a feeling of crushing sadness. It seems, to me, that the legacy of perpetual copyright (and the death of the public domain, as a result) will be a future in which the creation of new art is discouraged for fear of attracting the litigious attention of the zombie estates of dead artists or the corporate "owners" of the rights of prior works.
> Docker, Meteor, ElasticSearch, NPM there is plenty of start-ups doing infrastructure stuff.

What you want to look at, though, are established companies with customers doing open source stuff, like Redhat.

They do exist, but it's not easy.
As with many other questions regarding space exploration, it seems almost intuitive and obvious after playing KSP.
Mageia - forked from Mandriva - is still actively developed, I believe - but I haven't tried out KDE on it. I think my Fedora 20 install looked pretty slick out of the box, but I don't think very highly of my own taste :)
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Let's stretch the analogy a bit further. If the company representative is talking to me face to face and watching my reactions (Do I hear? Do I understand?) is that unsettling? Do people cover their faces when they are in a shop/bank? No, it's a natural part of the communication.

Email is just a form of communication. I believe, ut's not that harmless that someone received the confirmation that his message was opened. Of course things get a bit complicated when someone gets too much information, but simple opening emails/clicking links is something we should accept. When we are walking down the street hundreds of people see us, see what we do. Most people do not have a problem with that. I really can't understand what is so different in case of online activity, despite the fact that we are familiar with other people seeing us in real world and the Interent is still a mentally new territory for us. And this distinction between the off- and online privacy is something what actually can inhibit the development of online society imho.
Yes, it's really true. A lot of cities even enacted ordinances against neon signs because the aesthetic police of the day had deemed them hideous.
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Given that remixing potentially falls under the "transformative" portion of fair use copyright exemptions, this doesn't seem like it's set in stone, legally.

Of course, I imagine that most artists work out contracts with the copyright owners and simply pay the royalties simply because it's less expensive than a protracted copyright lawsuit. This doesn't make it a legal standard, however.
Yeah, I'm ambivalent myself.

The main problem with W3 standards is that they assumed they knew what we'd want to do with them. No one predicted HTML would become the UI layer for complex replacements for desktop applications, so for a long time, it sucked at that job.

Now they're trying to rectify those mistakes, but I think they might be going too far in the other direction.

Instead, web standards need to be as simple, low-level, and generic as possible. The more HTML approaches an opinionated UI framework, the worse off we all are (in my opinion).
Because I do believe that this is the next step in our human evolution. Be able to modify our DNA to increase our chance of survival in the future. Fungi, bacteria, and viruses modify at an alarming rate and outpace us humans. Humans are complex creatures and it takes many generations for enhancements. We may not be fast enough in the future without some modification help.
Google actually uses an image proxy to thwart tracking based on images.[1]

http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2013/12/google-uses-proxy-to...
Hmm, I thought Musk would be concerned that his autopilot would try to destroy him.
In the projects I work we prefix every commit with codename and 3 digits, I extract the change log from this command:

git log v0.3...v0.4 --oneline | grep -oh -B 1 "CODENAME-[0-9][0-9][0-9]" | sort | uniq
That is correct, but how huge is the benefit of HippyVM over a "classic" optimizer, which cost nothing ?
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We don't seem to have listened to the same vocals. Gaye is singing in a falsetto. So, with significantly different pitch, different melody, different lyrics, different vocal 'hooks'... I just don't see how the vocals are clearly based off the original.
It also works similarly in Eve Online, btw.
Quite right, but if you ship software to customers you'd have to profile on a variety of CPUs or risk regressing on other models. Profiling on recent Intel x86_64 CPUs gave me the (perhaps false) impression TFA author writes for a known or even controlled environment. That is indeed not a luxury everyone enjoys, so I raised a portability concern. However, the potential benefits of cheap horizontal scaling also extends to said customers.
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It's not so much portability as optimization. Valid asm.js is also valid JavaScript, so it can run in V8 unmodified, but it runs without the asm.js modifications.
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I wish strict XHTML was taken more seriously.

HTML is the structure, CSS is the look, and JavaScript is the logic. With a strict XHTML style you can further enforce this by removing former standards which don't follow that design (e.g. OnClick="" <b> <i> <font> etc).

HTML5 is alright, but I'd like to see a strict HTML5 which bans a ton of classic HTML4.1 elements completely and also follows XHTML's much more logical <br /> style (and bans things like <br> which make no sense).

I understand why they went the way they did (backwards compatibility mostly), but feel like the web would be in a better place ten years from now if a strict spec for at least HTML was commonly used.
I think people are skeptical, which is fair, given that having cure for aging would also suggest having cures for basic health problems like cancer, heart disease, mental decline.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_mutation#Specific_disease...

None of those are features (and they are "perfect targets" for gene therapy because we have a thorough understanding of the consequences of the edit).

Sickle cell anemia gets trotted around because carriers are somewhat resistant to malaria, but it turns out that everyone who had the choice eradicated malaria rather than deal with it. And people that have two copies of the mutation are more susceptible to malaria.
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XSLT is a good idea, everything else about it is just tragic, especially the language to the point I would support Nuremberg style Trials for this kind of events in computer history.
That is very nice!
The examples and research you provided relate to people basically doing what they like/want, not working somewhere only because they need to earn their bread. Those are two different kinds of "work" and this article was against the second, and for the first kind.
"We need help to manage this. If you have expertise in this area, please contact Charlie Smith or ping us via Twitter."

Step 1 : Unleash DDos Attack against target

Step 2 : Wait for the the target to become overwhelmed and ask for public assistance

Step 3 : Contact the target under the guise of being able to help

Step 4 : Win trust of Target after "mitigating" the attack you are actually in control of

Step 5 : Repeat until enough access has been gained
And today you can use that markup and shim the transition you want with js - and still gracefully downgrade.
Unless you are using IE <10 this is a trivial problem to solve using history.pushState()

http://caniuse.com/#feat=history
I'd suggest that fairness is irrelevant. Businesses will demand as much as they can. If great candidates stop applying to them because of their ridiculous demands, they will either have to reduce their demands or hire only mediocre candidates. If great candidates keep applying, they will continue to be jerks.

This is simply a result of the way economics works. Voting with your feet is the best way to stop it.
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This is all down to what the user expects. When the user is having a face to face conversation with somebody, they expect and accept that person will be able to look at them and note their facial expressions and what they're saying. When somebody is sat at home opening a letter or an email, they don't expect the sender to know that they're doing it. Yes, many geeks understand that the sender will be able to see that they're doing it, but the average non-geek does not understand this.
HTML's DOM isn't slow, it is the CSS which makes it slow. When you manipulate the DOM the vast majority of the time spent regenerating it is in CSS, the raw node tree itself is fairly cheap.
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Pharma is a bit different from typical pricing, though. Note that pricing is done per-country, based on mean ability to pay- so there will always be some number of people below a percentile who can't (that's why pharma has compassionate care programs).
Attack integer linear programming problems in business

Yep, this can be lucrative if you find a company with a genuine need for it. The company I work for has recently seized an opportunity to apply a mixed integer linear algorithm to a specific problem in the logistics industry, and I think it will soon become one of our most successful products.
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Yup, banks are one of the largest problems.

On of my banks forces a 4-digit, number only password, that needs to be rotated every 90 days, with no consecutive numbers, can't repeat all passwords, no numbers repeated, and a few other conditions.

Heck, even random generated numbers will fail to get accepted sometimes (1671 has two ones. 1894 has two consecutive numbers. etc).

It starts to get really hard to pick new ones as time goes by and you've already used up lots of memorable patterns.
That's my concern as well. You can trace inspirations back throughout history. Paintings, music, writing - all benefit from previous works.

What happens in the print world when a the idea of a "revenge fantasy" becomes copyrightable? When the use of certain chord progressions can cost you the revenue from a particular song? When a movie containing "triumph in the face of adversity through superhuman powers" can't be done because someone else did it first?
Why use f#? see http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/ (concise for programmers) or http://fpbridge.co.uk/why-fsharp.html (more high level)
more info about fsharp at http://fsharp.org/

my take:

#ecosystem

- vibrant and friendly community

- open source (long time ago, use pr, wrote by community)

- cross plat (linux/mac/win/ios/android)

- is .NET, same standard library as C# or VB.NET and virtual machine (CLR). Finally open source

- use nuget components written for .net

#language

- fun to use

- concise, i can easy write code without boilerplate

- easy async, parallel, gpu

- easy interop with c#, native

- fast

- multi-paradigm (functional first, but can do oop like c#)

- help write correct code (no null reference => no null reference exception, pattern matching,

- unit of measure (like 1<m/s> )

and a lot, read the links above for a better (and faster) summary
There's an "upvote" button, just to the left of the comment above.
I'm sure no one wants to go down this path.

Why mess with the amazing separation of concern that exists between HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
I have far more interest in helping the students than for helping you find excuses not to approach teaching as a profession in itself, and I get the sense if I mentioned Maria Montessori or John Dewey the response would be, "But they weren't teaching web programming at a boot camp."

Learning about pedagogy will help you prepare a better curriculum. That will serve your students better than the alternative.

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with someone just being in it for the money. But my interest is not in helping people rationalize what is fully legal but ethically slides down slope towards a make-a-buck-scam. And that's what comes to mind when I see "bootcamp" these days to a first approximation.

Sure, I think there are some reasonably good bootcamps. I don't think they correlate with hiring people with no training experience and little interest in developing knowledge in the pedagogical practice. Maybe you will make this one exceed my naive expectations. At least that's my hope.

Zed Shaw has a strong background in the pedagogy of situations where people die from mistakes. He takes teaching seriously in accord with that experience. That leads to some admirable traits and some that are less so. Being rude doesn't make someone wrong, though sometimes it just makes someone a dick.
Wow that's a lot even on just iPhone Mail. This should get more attention!
I'm not questioning your intelligence! I'm sure you could do it.

The more common scenario is that there are a ton of people involved, and it's not easy / worthwhile for the person who kicked this off to convince them all. Where the sales rep provides value there is they can help the you sell. You make an intro, they'll pull together a bunch of materials and demos and other crap to convince your coworkers that it's important.

We do have a self-serve path which is about as easy as anybody else's, and our prices are stated up front. Most people can navigate that technically, but the larger organizations almost never take that route because of organizational / political concerns.
Came to comment specifically with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
Civil society organizations perverted and controlled by those parts of the state that operate outside the law? Just like in the enemy camp? Oh, don't worry about it, it's perfectly justified by the common good. Just like in the enemy camp.
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Yeah... I've also worked on corporate Java projects with no Ant, Maven, nor hand-rolled substitute, where the build process was to download the dependencies' jars from the internet manually into /lib.
Sure, we can all remember the top 5 used passwords. Some of use can remember 10. Other 30. But there's not a chance in hell I remember every single password.

My pass store currently has over 300 passwords. Some of which I've not used in ~1year. Good luck remembering that.
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The content of the book is specifically licensed Creative Commons and MIT. Therefore no permission is required as long as you follow the terms of the licensing agreement.
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Which won't work if it's a unique image (since it won't be in the proxy). And if it is a tracking image, it'll probably be unique.
Indeed. How is a 14-year-old with little experience in computing supposed to deal with this, if it took someone who's a lot more into it that long.
I've no issue with using Google (or whatever your favourite search engine happens to be) in day-to-day work. But in an interview setting, and especially for extremely basic questions, it's completely inappropriate.

Regarding Internet speed, India has seen phenomenal infrastructure changes in the past decade. Internet speed in this particular office in Mumbai is very fast.

Fast connections are available in major cities, for consumers as well as businesses. There are a number of ISPs in Mumbai offering ADSL and FTTH connections (I've only just got FTTC where I am in the UK!).
You seem to be leaving out the original lawsuit was filed for a declaration of non-infringement since there were inquiries as to why they didn't pay up to license the previous song. If they felt they didn't infringe then I see nothing wrong with such a preemptive lawsuit to avoid lots of legal paperwork arguing back-and-forth, which only helps the lawyers involved. Such an inquiry would most likely lead to a lawsuit anyway. Might as well roll the dice and go straight to court to get it settled. They simply lost. There's no reason to think nefarious reasons for the first lawsuit not being filed by the children.

Plus, unless you've worked with the person, I'm not sure you have a place in suggesting how long it takes them to accomplish a task.

Finally, there are stupid outcomes to legal cases all the time. Logic and justice do not always prevail in a court of law.
Does HippyVM actually work or do anything? Their website is so barren.

I wonder if it really offers any advantages these days. HHVM is really fast, PHP 7 is really fast, and PHP now has Zend (ew) OPcache and its optimiser built-in.

HippyVM is quite weird, too: it's made by Python developers who don't seem to have ever contacted anyone from PHP.
Not mutually exclusive. Just as good intentions can turn out badly, so can bad intentions can have good side effects.
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I'm pretty sure the iPhone mail client loads images by default. And... I could be wrong, but IIRC it also doesn't even have a way of disabling this. I don't have one to hand to test with though.
It really needs some kind of demo or video, there's no way I'm going to log in just to see what it does considering the amount of permissions it requests.
I haven't tested it yet, but it seems you can setup your tracking image to return a "Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0" header and it will always be reloaded when the email is opened.

http://blog.movableink.com/real-time-content-and-re-open-tra...
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This business of requiring code execution in order to read a blog entry really must end. It's unsafe, but worse it's ridiculous.

Mandatory JavaScript delenda est!
> Atom is JS based, which is just plain slow to render.

I don't really use Atom, but they know about the find/replace issue and are working on it for the 1.0 release. That said, it's not going to be any better than other editors at that point; just comparable.

https://github.com/atom/find-and-replace/issues/145
"standard features on non-high end Mercedes vehicles such as the S-Class with the appropriate packages."

The absurdity of this statement is amazing. Apparently Mercedes has brainwashed it's owners into a new definition of "standard".
That's because, from what I understand, the vocals weren't part of the comparison between the two songs.
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I was a (top 1%) student all the way through high school in the Indian education system, and our oppressive educational environment makes it far too stressful to perform within our parents' expectations. Even the top students collaborated with each other and "cheated" to ease the stress on ourselves. We also felt bad for weaker students who were struggling with material and being left further and further behind, without being given any time to actually understand the material, having to spend all the time memorizing stuff they didn't get so they could spew it out on exams, and would help them out too.

Tired of that system, I went on to attend Olin College of Engineering [0] in the US, the complete opposite end of the spectrum. I wrote a grand total of 1 time-constrained, closed-text written final exam in my 4 years there. Not a student, myself included, ever "cheated" at Olin, even though I had developed a habit of taking whatever means necessary to score higher on exams.

I realized that the reason why cheating didn't make sense at Olin was because everything I could have wanted to do to score higher was already allowed. I think the real solution is to build team-oriented finals and exams, with peer evaluation taking a sizeable chunk of the grade distribution, such that there is no longer an action that can be considered "cheating". In the real world, whether it's academia or industry or research, you are allowed to do anything that doesn't harm someone else to reach the answer you seek. I don't see why collaboration between students should be discouraged. Plagiarism is a different issue, and that can be addressed differently.

[0] http://www.olin.edu
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As an aside, I decided to try out Cinnamon on my Debian box, and I actually found it to be a breath of fresh air. It's a modern approach to the non-bloated Gnome desktop of years ago. Reminded me a bit of when I first used xfce; very clean and straightforward. I feel Gnome and Unity try far too hard to dazzle and stand out, when it reality it all just gets in the way. No comment on KDE since I haven't tried it in a long time.

Some day though I'll go back to straight DWM, my old love.