skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see that the DDP of Meteor can also be used to let servers talk to each other. Until now I thought it's used solely for client/server communication.
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In many ways I agree that most news nowadays has no relevance directly to your every day life, as he complains about early in the article, but on a broader scale they do. Later, he agrees with that but says he's never involved. Well, it's cause he chose to not be involved.

Then he says the news doesn't help with his voting choice and he can get everything he needs to know from a simple guide but nothing could be further from the truth. If you really want to get involved in that, you can gather much more information about candidates and their real thoughts and if they would vote how you want them to vote on issues. You won't get that from any simple guide or the TV news.

For example, maybe a bad one, I knew the brother of one of the candidates running for governor a while back. He's an asshole. I worked next to a lady whose husband was in the state legislature and knew the candidate closely. When I mentioned that I met the candidate once before she said, "Good family!". From there I could have learned a lot if I pursued it. You won't learn any of that from a brochure or the TV news.

The problem with TV and radio news is you can't pick and choose what you want to see or hear. Newspapers were good for that. You could flip pages quickly. Online news sources have that ability if online source is worthy and organized but those are few and far between.

In the past, TV news at most stations was its own department, especially at the networks, and not under control of marketing or advertising. This is no longer true. Despite some great reporters still working in newspapers, marketing has taken that over, too, cause the idea is to sell newspapers, not news.

The same is true for television. How often, now, do you see ads for upcoming entertainment shows during the "news"? How often does a new product come out and it finds itself on the "news"?

Unfortunate but true, the real news, along with in-depth discussion and analysis, can be boring to most. PBS probably is the only daily national news worth watching if you really want to learn but you may find yourself nodding off if the subject isn't of interest. Again, advantage newspapers and properly structured online news sources that don't emulate TV (CNN).

I worked in television news for about 10 years long ago with reporters who used to work in respected newspapers. I hate TV "news" today.
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I agree. Integrity is mostly subjective. It has two meanings:

1. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

2. the state of being whole and undivided.

Some Christians would consider anti-homosexuality as a model for integrity, and how can you argue with that? They in fact are protecting integrity of the Bible. They are at least honest about it.

When something is said, it needs to be put in correct context. What Warren Buffet was talking about probably meant loyalty, honesty, and consistent work ethnics and attitude. It should be clearly stated in order to have an objective measurement.

Also, I find organizations putting Integrity as part of their motto distasteful. I don't know, maybe I just don't like any kind of mottos... These things are just generically "good." They don't mean shit when just posted on the wall. Might as well post something like "I'm good, trust me" or "don't be evil." I agree with Mitt Romney - corporations are people. He's right. Both are inherently hypocritical. Never trust what a person says, even yourself, do good and be good. Actions speak the loudest. Seriously, fuck those posters! I hate them so much.
Yeah, let's health department inspections and DOT/MOT/TÜV inspections while we're at it. Because a "democratic" private rating system is inherently unquestioningly reliable and sufficient no matter the education of the participants or their means of inspection.
What works for babies does not necessarily for adults. L1 and L2 acquisition are quite different.
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The caveat with disruption: Sometimes an industry which is very tightly regulated, or which has a lot of middlemen, has these obstructions for a reason.

A taxi service holds enormous opportunities for kidnappers or rapists. I'm a man, which basically disappears the rape risk, but there are many Central and South American countries where getting in a taxi could be quite risky for me, and could involve me disappearing. even some parts of Mexico.

Recent related stories make Uber look really bad:

http://boingboing.net/2014/11/19/uber-can-track-your-one-nig...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-dig...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/anitabadejo/uber-but-for-real-estate...

Also, just to state the obvious, both Uber drivers and regular taxi drivers have logical incentives for driving unsafely.

In this context, I have no problem with governments wanting to regulate Uber literally to death, at least outside of California. I understand cabs are completely unacceptable garbage in California, and the HN audience definitely skews Californian, but cabs are gold in Chicago, London, and New York, and probably quite a few other places too. Maybe Germany is one of those places.

Also, although I'm sympathetic to libertarians, disruption doesn't always fix things. The Internet crippled the music industry, but introduced stacks of new middlemen in the process. Ask Zoe Keating how that "democratization" turned out.

http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108898194009/what-should-i...

In music, the corporate middlemen are this pernicious infestation, which just reappears after you thought you'd wiped it out. Artists have to sacrifice a lot to develop their art to a serious level, and a lot of music performance takes place in situations where people are celebrating (i.e., drunk or high, late at night). So somebody has to provide security, as well as business sense. There's a lot of opportunities for middlemen to get their middle on, and disrupting a market, under those conditions, just means shuffling in a new deck of middlemen. It doesn't change the game.

In the same way, my guess is that disrupting a market which is inherently full of criminality risks - incentives to drive unsafely, opportunities for kidnapping and rape - means you just shuffle the deck of regulations.

Yet another criminality risk: taxi services of any kind, whether Uber or not, hold terrific opportunities for armed robbery. In some cities, being a cab driver is very dangerous, for this reason.

So, if Uber kills the entire taxi industry, then governments will have to scrap their taxi regulations and re-build a similarly gigantic regulatory infrastructure around Uber instead.

I think Uber is a really good lesson for entrepreneurs in how a market can look awesome but actually suck.
pickup time: nice, but I assume that also only is in saturated areas

Prices as far as I've seen were similar to Taxi prices.

Payment: just checked, I thought the current apps already took care of that, but didn't seem so. Not yet that big of a problem, since Germany is still very cash-based anyways.

I have to admit I don't really care about the other points, since the current state of things seems mostly fine to me. So for me it is not "obviously superior", since I value the downsides higher (insurance, availability (a german taxi can't deny a route inside it's area of responsibility, which is a large part of why competition is restricted), ...)

//Edit: extended some points, spelling/grammar
You do realise there's a good reason it's cheaper don't you.

How many accidents have you been in which required claiming against their insurance (or lack of it). What about unvetted drivers who might rape you?

After airBnB, and Uber, surely the next area ripe for "disruption" / completely ignoring the laws and regulation, is banking. Just offer higher savings rates than any bank, but ignore all that irritating regulation the big banks are subject to!
> What about a breast pump? As long as some lactating female provides milk, the milk can be frozen for months and is nearly as convenient as formula for a father.

There have been few (if any?) studies that look closely at breastfeeding vs bottlefeeding pumped milk. Our society has jumped on the "pump and bottle" wagon because it's seen as a viable way to allow women to go back to work sooner while still "breastfeeding", but it's not known if this actually has the same effect.

Does the increase in IQ/whatever come from the nutritional content of the breastmilk? Does it come from antibodies or other contents that might be impacted by refrigeration/freezing followed by reheating? Does it come purely from the emotional bonding that breastfeeding promotes? We don't know, because we don't even know why breastfeeding is better than formula, and we're basically giving medical advice blindly when it comes to pumping.

But for what it's worth, the difference is so small as to be pretty meaningless. The "gap" is going to be dwarfed by other factors, both genetic and environmental.
Seems like a more professional version of BitTorrent Sync
http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/what-uber-drivers-real...
Traffic is on their radar, at least. http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?844893-PS...
Well, maybe if the double-story "a" were used exclusively in one country but considered incorrect in another.

I think what you're missing is that Han unification never particularly concerned itself with whether characters are "the same" or not. Somebody basically just decided that some differences were important and others weren't. I mean, the difference between 語 and 语 is analogous to printing and cursive, but for whatever reason it made the cut. Meanwhile the SC and TC versions of 骨 are approximately mirror images, but to show you I'd need two different fonts.

Anyway the merged differences are not just analogous to different fonts.
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Don't be ridiculous. Uber isn't cheaper because of code. It's cheaper because they ignore the laws and regulations. Just like airBnB.

Code has absolutely nothing to do with it.
> Being fluent in three languages never seemed like a big deal

So the joke goes: three languages = trilingual, two languages = bilingual, one language = American
In comparison to Sim City 5 basically huge. I only have 6 or so tiles unlocked (of 25 ?) and it's already bigger than SC5.
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"Most of us are way above the peacocks, intellectually."

Lol - not really. Lots of signalling going on among humans. I mentioned the high heels, but I think most womanly things are like that: long hair and long fingernails show not having to work (manually), so high status.

Even drinking and smoking could be part of the game (showing off that you are healthy enough to cope with a little poison). Many, many things - signalling theory is essential to understanding our society.
Give up on that newspaper, not news.

With a few exceptions (NYTimes, WSJ) newspapers tend to go just deep enough to distract, but not deep enough to inform. Read The Atlantic or Salon or other long-form stuff, read the more substantive news links off HN, but read.

Your initial instinct was a good one, reading well enriches you. Not reading makes you boring. And while I think it's profoundly worth it in the long run, learning about the world isn't necessarily supposed to make you happy.
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Enterprise. Never forget enterprise.

Microsoft makes money through their enterprise lines that Apple and Google wish they could get their hands on.
Pearson used data it had on a student to identify the kid's district and began an investigation on its own. I.e., it abused its own privileged position. Supposedly they won't do that anymore and instead will forward info to the districts to investigate.
sounds like a great service
Calling Uber drivers "employed" is no different from calling temp agency workers "employed".

It's not a solution to unemployment, it's an exploitation of people unable to find a job in societies where not having a job means living in poverty.

They're not entrepreneurs either. They're workers who have the liberty of employees with the legal requirements of entrepreneurs. It's the worst of both worlds.
Might work, but probably even more expensive than buying a ring.
The price suddenly jumps from $0 to $525/mo (35 x $15/mo) when going from 30 users to 35 users. When you just need 5 more users than the free, you don't just pay $15/mo for the 5 extra users, but have to pay for $15/mo for the previously free 30 users as well.

This is most likely going to discourage startups and other small-but-growing companies from using AeroFS.
* You can get a taxi just as fast in Berlin.
* If you feel the need to use an app that has ratings, payment and stuff, there are apps such as mytaxi for that.
* Taxi drivers are professionals and you can complain about them which would eventually not end well for them.
* Payment is regulated so it's the same with every taxi and it's not that expensive, besides we have an actually working public transportation anyway, so it's not like you're going to use taxis daily.
It is strange that their map of the USA left off the entire state Alaska, where electricity is among the most expensive in the country:
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm...

Makani seems ideal for their needs: "Alaska’s electricity infrastructure differs from that of the lower 48 states in that most consumers are not linked to large interconnected grids through transmission and distribution lines; rural communities in Alaska rely primarily on diesel electric generators for power. "
-- http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=AK
Cached version, since the page is down for me:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
> Given the right environment, the brain seems to adapt.

In high school, I had a German immigrant, fresh out of college as an instructor. The moment one stepped into that classroom to the moment one stepped out, nothing but German.

Hell, it didn't stop there. If you tried to talk to him at all, in or out of the classroom, he wouldn't acknowledge you unless you spoke to him in German, and he would only speak German to you.

Strangely enough, the German students were the only ones capable of holding conversation in a foreign language.

I graduated in 2008, haven't 'used' German in 7 years, but I still find myself thinking in German every once in a while.

Immersion (even for ~50min, 5 days a week) is easily the best way to learn. I don't know why anyone wastes their time with anything else.

EDIT: Hah, I just remembered how he never cared that we talked to each other during class about whatever, just that it was in German, not English.
I think we are all playing into EA's strategy by calling it Maxis instead of just EA.

Simcity 2013 was a failure of EA, but by mentioning Maxis 11 times and EA only once (and in passing), it's as they give EA a carte blanche to fail without the lowered reputation for future games (which means many people will preorder, and so on)
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"Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10"

That's some impressive marketing spin there. To me this reads "Microsoft admits defeat to software pirates and gives Windows away for free." They may have some pretty legitimate reasons for wanting people to update to the latest OS, but giving it away for free is a massive shift for the company that lots of people call "M$"
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>> A CZ is indistinguishable from a diamond until you look at it with a microscope

Not true, cz has a visual 'fire'. Plus, most women can tell at a glance.
How is $20-$30 an hour (based on the link you provided) poorly paid for a part time job? Maybe I'm missing something? Sounds like a pretty decent rate.

And they're not uninsured, they're self insured, which is, again, shown in that article you linked.
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Honestly I think Maxis deserves a ton of blame as well. They operate semi-autonomously for how long and they routinely churned out terrible games. On reddit, I see far more people blame EA than I do Maxis. And while I'm all for EA getting a ton of bad press, I think it's bs that nobody points a finger at Maxis because they're just as guilty, imo. Nostalgia for 90s and early 00s Maxis is blinding people from the reality that Maxis turned into a shit dev
I strongly disagree, and the education system approach is provably a massive failure in this regard. That's all I'll say for now.
Car insurance does not cover paying passengers. There is a special, more expensive, kind of insurance for this generally referred to as commercial transport insurance.
I can understand the perspective, but if you have 35 (or even 31) people at your company, $500 a month is not a significant expenditure compared to salaries.
Completely infuriating.

I bought an anti-glare matte screen protector for my 13" ultrabook. Makes it usable outdoors.
Uber provides, faster, safer, cheaper, more comfortable service than any government run taxi service. Without a driver rating system, I remember getting frequently being asked to leave the taxi when requesting short distance rides. Taxis would often drive at dangerous speeds to acquire more customers. Taxis were typically driven by foreigners which could not find other jobs. If Uber is as low paying as you describe, why is it that we get more intelligent drivers? Surely they are intelligent enough to quit if the pay is too low.

Uber users like myself vote on each ride with their credit cards to keep these services going. And with that, it means that the day Uber does something poorly, we have the freedom to immediately switch to a competitor.
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I strongly object to this form of argument. It boils down to "I'm right because you haven't done the work to show I'm right." You can always demand more work, and it doesn't require any correlation with the truth.
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sounds like a great and powerful service to me
Temp agency workers are generally considered employed. Government statistics include temp workers as well.
I lived near Austin my whole life and just assumed traffic was that bad everywhere...after I relocated to Portland, I realized how truly miserable driving anywhere in Austin actually is.
Yes, I should have added that this is fairly common already. I just wanted to add it since there was a bit of confusion about which Uber products are allowed/forbidden and why.

And this is the legal framework for Uber to provide new services. If a good app + the driver ratings people seem to like + ... really provides a market advantage, then they should go nuts there ;)
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Frank Underwood is the perfect analogy.
> teach them additional languages when they're teenagers, instead of having done the bulk of the work when they were babies

My (semi-related) reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226046

My instructor chose to go full immersion, basically what children are subjected to. The other instructors took the grammar/vocab workbook route.
> According to one online source, Jeremy was a “Harvard-educated maths genius whose computer models alerted the bank to how small levels of defaults would quickly turn apparently sound assets into junk,” leading Goldman to start selling off at the end of 2006. OK, whatever.

Are you kidding me? This is huge; this is what prevented the financial crisis, as bad as it was, from turning into something much worse (it's "bad" for a bubble to pop, but it's worse for it to keep growing and pop later). This guy made the difference between billions of dollars going into houses that people couldn't afford and weren't worth the cost, and that same money going into productive investments. He probably contributed more to humanity than the rest of the list put together, with the possible exception of the other Goldman guy.

I know everyone thinks their own field is the most important, and I love academic maths, but goddam the snobbery towards the people who did something more directly useful with their talents is irritating here.
The population in skylines actually represents the agents. In sim city it wasn't a representation of the agents it was inflated. Sim City's numbers seem more accurate to city size. For example I have a city that would probably be 300-400k people in SimCity/Real life but the reported population is 75k in C:S.
Surely some mothers cannot produce enough milk, but this is the rallying cry justifying reverting to formula, much as "the baby was too big" is the rationalization for cesarean delivery. Surely it is true in some very small percentage of cases, but it cannot explain away the measured variations and choosing the sub-optimal path. Everyone has their own anecdote, but they can't all be biologically incapable of breastfeeding.

Take the CDC's data for example: http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/2014breastfeedingreport...

When you see breastfeeding at 6 months rates by state that vary from lows in the 30's to highs in the 60's, biology can't explain it away.

And from the Surgeon General's report on Barriers to Breastfeeding ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK52688/ ):

"Concern about insufficient milk supply is another frequently cited reason for early weaning of the infant.90,113–116 One national study on feeding practices found that about 50 percent of mothers cited insufficient milk supply as their reason for stopping breastfeeding.112 Having a poor milk supply can result from infrequent feeding or poor breastfeeding techniques,115,117–119 but lack of confidence in breastfeeding or not understanding the normal physiology of lactation can lead to the perception of an insufficient milk supply when in fact the quantity is enough to nurture the baby.120,121"
The thing isn't just that Uber may break the law, but that it encourages others to break the law. Call it anti-libertarian, but in Germany a company shares responsibility for the behaviour it is creating. They would have to put controls in place (within reason) to ensure that Uber drivers don't break the law -- but of course they don't because they're well-aware that that would reduce the number of drivers and drive up costs and prices.

Basically, Uber is breaking the law when it comes to passenger transportation the same way Mega was breaking the law when it came to file sharing. It created an environment that promoted illegal activities.
I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon on the way. Ordered it last week with upgraded screen (without touch)/processor/ram. It'll be more pricey than the xps 13.

I've heard everything just works for Ubuntu on the machine. I was planning to run linux in a VM first to see how usable it is then go native if I must.
> Without a driver rating system, I remember getting frequently being asked to leave the taxi when requesting short distance rides.

In Germany? Not saying that it doesn't happen, but it is illegal. (Which often is an important argument to why Taxis are protected against competition, since they are forced to provide services that are not always profitable)
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Paradox Interactive also published Crusader Kings 2, which came out in 2012, and its latest free update was Feb. 16. They support their games for a long time.
really a great service, highly recommended!
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No cab driver has ever been any of those in the history of cabs.

[0] http://nypost.com/2014/02/09/cabbies-who-kill-or-maim-in-nyc...

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/14/nyc-cab-driver-on-loose...

[2] http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=132684