skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one take on it (though I'm not saying this is the only one).

In New York, taxis are part of the public transportation network. Taxi drivers go through extensive training to know where pretty much any address in the five boroughs is, and the fastest routes to get there. In order to incentivize taxi drivers to go through this training, and to incentivize owners to buy and maintain vehicles, the city limits the number of vehicles on the road at a given time to incentivize drivers and owners to go into the taxi business. According to the 2014 NYC Taxicab Fact Book, there are 13,437 medallions in circulation -- assuming that 70% of them are on the road at any one time, and taking the figure that 94% of pick-ups occur in Manhattan or at JFK or LaGuardia, that implies that there are over 200 taxis operating per square mile in Manhattan ... that's A LOT !!! It's not uncommon to grant a limited monopoly to a public utility to ensure consistent service.

Why lease medallions? Utilization. It would be really hard (and unsafe, and unpleasant) for an owner-operator to be in the car for more than 80-90 hours per week, whereas a leased car can be in operation for almost the entire 168 hours.

All that said, driver knowledge is much less important than it once was, with GPS (though taking routing advice from a mapping service in Manhattan could be a bad idea). Safety is probably less of a concern now too, since Uber tracks its drivers' every move. And, it's clear that medallion owners are reaping a lot of profit at the expense of drivers willing to work for sub-minimum wages. So, it's probably time to renegotiate the contract.
Investment is not a bad thing. The underlying problem is artificially constrained supply. In a healthy market, increased investment leads to construction and lower costs for both renters and buyers. (/cc san francisco)
That's the wonder of genetic engineering, if you have a digital record of genomes you get to keep genetic diversity forever. You can mix and match across the entire gene pool. You can eliminate whole categories of disease and disability. We're not there quite yet, but heading there in the next few decades.
As mentioned earlier, I'm considering a turn-based variant. Try this prototype (ie. gameplay, rules and URL are subject to change):

http://twenty.frenchguys.net/play2
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How does a startup hire 2,251 employees in 3 years?? Insane.
A really nice story, a demonstration that open source is an evolution for human kind
Is It Worth Speaking at Conferences?
Have put up my apartment for rent on Housing and all the other major realty sites.

In my experience, Housing has:
a) The best UI and UX
b) The best customer service in terms of tele-service, the agent coming over and taking photos, etc.
c) The best response - on the other sites, even when I clicked and uploaded my apartment photos, the response rate on Housing was the best.
d) Interesting add-on features such as 'lease agreement' maker and so on (which I only used to draft my own agreement with my tenant)

As regards 'aggressive campaigning', so many other companies are burning more expensive television moolah (e.g. Car Trade, Car Dekho, YepMe, Practo and more). And yet, this company interestingly attracts more than its fair share of criticism of aggressive campaigning - possibly thanks to some of media houses that also run property portals :)
Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park
Winner Take Nothing - Hemingway

It's a great collection of short stories.
Alien Iconography
>And all buyers always have a "pre approved loan" (which is binding from the bank, they can't reneg it).

Yes they can. I've never seen one of those "pre-approved" loans that was actually contractual. All they really mean is, based on the numbers you've provided, the bank thinks you can afford a house that costs X. That's to keep people who don't have enough income from wasting everyone's time. But it doesn't put them on the hook for actually providing the loan.
Ask HN: How do you hire?
we(me and cousin) just started our own small company, cousin manages everything related to customer, finding projects, administrative stuff and etc. I am the only programmer in company, we don't have lots of projects yet, but we need to hire another programmer. turns out finding new hire is not so easy, most of the experienced devs have job, in order to find junior developer I am teaching at local programming course, but I don't feel like they are doing well (maybe I was also like them back in college). So how do you hire if you have trade-off for salary, at this moment sure we cannot pay big salary, but we also do not want to hire someone who doesn't know anything and spend time to teach them and when they are ready to work they may leave.
It is really interesting press guys!
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The Means to Build a Community
No, you cannot have your cake and eat it too. If Snowden truly is a hero, then he has to be held responsible for the outcomes of his actions. By definition, heroism involves intent and responsibility.

Snowden was a steward of the documents, albeit taken against the will of the NSA. Relinquishing those documents to journalists he knew to be technologically uneducated (remember, he had to teach Poitras and Greenwald how to use PGP and adopt the basics of computer security) cannot, with logical consistency, be considered as placing them into authoritatively safe hands.

In most cases, information disclosed to a journalist should be considered to be disclosed to that journalists' readership.
Yeah I never intended or expected anyone to ever play this with a mouse. But I don't mind!

At some point it got posted on some Russian DoTA league site and generated a bit of (mouse) traffic there for a while - I guess those guys are pretty good with a mouse though.
Should I Use a DMCA Takedown Service?
Those communities are formed around ideas, not limited to geography as previously.
1. His stake might be all options or at best illiquid stock so unsure if it's comparable to "cash"
2. He's not on the best terms with his VCs and owns <5% of company: might be on the verge of getting kicked out.
3. Yadav already made his $$ with each round; he just bought a Porsche.
That's just a special instruction to the Google 'Search Appliance' not to crawl the page contents.
Ice happens to hit the engines though.
As a long time PDX resident (not "native" but Portland has been my home for 25 years) the current housing market alarms me. It's like 2006 all over again. The usual NAR "go go go!" cheerleaders, bidding up way above asking prices and as usual no one is asking "who in Portland can afford a $600k house?" I do not think good will come of this.
Do you have any evidence that he tried going through the official channels for any amount of time? The only evidence shown was an email where he asked about executive orders vs legislation to the office of legal counsel for the NSA during his last 30 days of employment.

I know you can't prove a negative, but ordinarily we shouldn't accept unsubstantiated claims.
Brain-like circuit performs human tasks for the first time
> As an adult, you can revoke your consent and leave.

To revoke consent I would have had to have been of a mind to have given it in the first place.

My parents payed taxes when I was a child. I did not. I then grew into a situation where I had to make money to stay off the streets and was forced to pay this government.

Maybe this isn't so black and white. I would be willing to agree that your point of view carries more weight the longer I stay here in a capacity where I am capable of moving to another country.

However, it starts out as theft and remains so until I have no excuse remaining for not leaving, and then it's only if there is a fair alternative available.

If there's some country out there that doesn't have an income tax but rapes its citizens 12 hours out of the day, that can't be counted as a fair alternative. It would still be extortion then ("pay us or get raped!").
I hate to be negative, but I found the announcement post suspiciously devoid of any acknowledgement of the huge work that has been done in this field over the last few years. Wolfram's post seems to be written in the tone as if he's suddenly discovered a way to do this, when it's old hat. No mention of the results and ILSVRC (Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge) contests held every year. Or ImageNet and all of the associated projects.
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Graphene Enables First Example of a Textile Electrode
And that's what seems pointless.

If you can't achieve a 100% kill rate over some area, and progressively expand that area, what's the goal of working against it at all? A pest invasion isn't going to get dispirited and retreat when it takes 30% losses, like a foreign military might, it's going to heal its population losses and go right back to being limited by other factors in a matter of weeks or months.

I spent a term paper five years back pondering our response to bark beetles before concluding that the entire campaign to 'control' the infestation was basically a means of permitting the logging industry to log areas that we would not otherwise want logged, financed with political capital from the environmentalist movement. I see that other people are catching on to this narrative as well:

http://grist.org/science/bark-beetles-are-killing-forests-bu...
Looks very similar to outlook.com.
I once watched a Vice documentary about Afghanistan, name escapes me at the moment, and they showed this blind guy making a replica of a Russian Makarov handgun by hand, with very basic tools. We used to manufacture revolvers before 3D printers, the industrial age, modern welding techniques, or pretty much most of the technology we enjoy today. The truth is, you can make a perfectly untraceable, very reliable, simple gun with out 3D printers.
Are you on OS X and have you unchecked the option "Disconnect when switching user accounts"?
Markets often result in the Tragedy of the commons[1]. Here again is the extinction of an in demand spices rather than husbandry to perpetuate the supply. Likewise fishing stocks that frequently collapse and climate change resulting from oil production.

Ironically there is a way to prevent these disasters when there is sufficient public will and control over the market.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
On your earlier point about the domain name, if you had the money and had an option to buy your brandname.com (especially "housing" for the business they are in), $1 million is a good investment.

There are a whole lot of things they can start monetizing. Sure, I am not going to buy an apartment based on slice view, but based on my experience with Housing as regards getting tenants and prospective buyers, I would gladly pay them for the service :)
Sadly you're right, our tax bucks are going to go toward huge overcharging by these companies.

As of 2013, the FBI was paying $325 per wiretap (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/10/what...)
TRAVIC – Realtime Transit Visualisation Client for Public Transport
The io.js TC agrees to:

1. have the io.js project join the Node Foundation
2. rename the entire “iojs” GitHub org to be “nodejs”
3. invite the the current Node.js TC on to our TC to form
the basis of a Node Foundation TSC under the policies
of the Node Foundation
4. moving the io.js Working Groups to be under the Node
Foundation

-- https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Y_kJlYm-8cIf-alniaqUWMM...
> Humans already have really low genetic diversity when compared to chimps.

Please elaborate why that matters; it was taught pretty early on in my bio major that ecosystem biodiversity is a positive, however, I haven't heard of anything relating directly to a species itself. Thanks.
That doesn't do exactly what GP said - only penalizing you for moves that don't make a combination.

However - that game is much better, in my opinion. Thanks for letting us try it out!
Thanks for this, for me this one is much more fun!
Rust also now uses this algorithm, thanks to Kang Seonghoon: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/libcore/nu...

Rust implementation is heavily commented with beautiful ASCII diagrams.
Library of worlds best mystery stories[1]
and The oxford book of American essays[2]

[1]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12758/12758-h/12758-h.htm

[2]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40196/40196-h/40196-h.htm
But what else might have been in Siberia when there were wooly rhinos and mammoths? It's very probable that simply introducing them wouldn't do much (i.e., they'd just die again) without reconstructing the ecosystem around them.
Rule one of branding. Don't call it branding. Don't say the word "brand" in your brand advertising. I guess those were two rules. But hey, miscounting is my brand now.
I thoroughly enjoyed his previous books, but somehow forgot about this book. Just ordered it, looking forward to it!

It seems that C++ is gathering much momentum since C++11: a minor revision in the form of C++14, some new great books, CLion, etc.
What? No. Glad I don't work for you.
Nearly all developers I know estimate time (and storypoints) by some (often linear) function of volume and complexity. Volume estimation is usually not very difficult, but complexity is very tricky (and dynamic too). Estimating developer work hours by any proxy that depends on complexity will introduce a margin of uncertainty so large as fo render the number meaningless.

I'd think by and large you would evalute remote workers by theit work output, not by estimating how much time they've spent.
Why classifieds websites are taking over from traditional advertisors?
I guess social skills? Like ability to sell yourself, project yourself as someone who is easy to get along with and work with. Being good at that earns you more money than any particular technical skill you can think of.
At least there seems to be more housing stock going in. North East Portland is a giant construction zone, at the moment. Stand on any corner of Mississippi or Williams and you see mega apartment complexes going up. Hell, they are even building new housing in the wasteland that is Lloyd center!
GP is probably counting on

> already existing regulations and policies regarding noise and disruption.
From my limited experience, scrum can work (defining 'work' as 'make people more productive'), and even in the classic situations that give rise to the flaccid variety (I work for a blue-chip media corporation which is just in the last couple of years trying to build a modern engineering culture basically from scratch, and it happens to work).

A pretty important point for making scrum work, however, is aggressive timeboxing of everything. If you don't want retros to become a 4 hour developer-kvetch about somebody else's team, start by ruthlessly clipping it to 45 minutes.

I understand that this is not always an option in malfunctioning corporate environments; but Kanban/XP/programming motherfkerism wouldn't fly either in those situations.
Don't be a wimp. Stick it out until end of exams then decide.

As you said, rewarding and stressful go together. Love the stress. It reminds you that you are still alive. You will face this kind of stress load many times in your life. Embrace it, don't run from it.

As for managing the stress: If it is more than "you" can do, fine. What is the "you" which cannot deal with the stress? Name it, and let the stress kill it. Let the ego die. Ego is an illusion anyway. With ego gone, the mind can more clearly focus on the now, on the computer science problems or the taste of the coffee on your tongue. Life is good.
Age of Robots: How Marvel Is Killing the Popcorn Movie
Backbone.js 1.2.0
It could be worse. The Chinese could be buying everything like they do in Vancouver and are starting to in Seattle. I believe the number I heard was 1/3 of Seattle 1 million plus dollar homes in the east side was Chinese. I have more than a few friends renting condos which are owned by Chinese buyers who bought sight unseen.

It'll get worse before it gets better, unfortunately.
I like ZANO more actually :)
Citizenship requirements to own property, like Mexico has, would be fantastically appropriate.
10,000 connections is $399/month is about the price of a dedicated server just for chat.

Depends on your application. Generally, if you have 1,000,000 concurrent users, shouldn't you be making some money or have investment to tide you over?

My app has ~3000 concurrent users, which comes out to 250,000 users per day making in the order of $XX,XXX per month.

At 1,000,000 concurrent, we'd expect to have 83 million users per day visiting the site. At that rate, we'd be making at the very least hundreds of thousands of dollars per month and could easily afford a $39,000/mo chat service.
Wolves are big. Rats are small. It's a fundamental difference when you think about exterminating some animal.
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Will consult the misses to see what she thinks. Thanks!
I remember staying up until 5AM to do a deploy with you guys, ended up staying up pretty much all night waiting for the DNS to propagate, fun times. Lol.
ah, I know that site....was announce at bhw
I like this idea, thanks! Will have to chat to the misses and see what she thinks.
Most people who act like a horde of drunken monkeys on vacation act like perfectly normal people at home.
Passport Agency contractor copied passport applicants’ data for fake identities
The curious case of .cat, the Internet’s weirdest, most radical domain
My favourite “ace” things on amazon
I remember reading something about how if they increased the number of medallions in NYC by 20% then the additional traffic would actually cause a decrease in total passenger throughput. I don't remember where I read it, though.
Website maker here. Avid HN fan also.

I love building sites and have been trying to monetise something for a long while. Am hoping to get a small amount of success which would spur me on. Am failing.

My latest plan is http://www.acekit.co.uk

The traffic is just not there despite trying webmaster tools / page speed optimisations / social media etc. I even threw some AdWords money at it - please don't tell Mrs Acekit - boy you can burn money quick on that if you turn on the tap.

Obviously the idea is to make money via the Amazon click through scheme. Maybe it's too overt abd users don't like that or google are penalising. Idea to use Amazon was that it was frictionless and easier to build (no user authentication etc required).

Just don't know.

They say fail quick, maybe I should pull plug and think again?

Maybe I spread myself too thin with some product reviews. The most extensive and "from the heart" one is the raspberry here..

http://www.acekit.co.uk/products/3-raspberry-pi-2

Any tips / reviews / comments appreciated, fully prepared for some tough love. Would dearly love to get something built with some sort of following that I can develop.
Also my fish shell history is pretty much my best friend in these situations.
Where is it implied on the Haskell home page that it's the Sieve of Eratosthenes?

The variable name? It's a sieve.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_theory
The Philippines, too, and probably a lot of other countries I can't remember at the moment.
It sounds like Andy Hunt has finally discovered ISO 9000. Plan. Implement. Measure. Review. Improve.

The pattern I keep seeing is the IT community's need to re-invent the wheel and give it names like 'agile', 'scrum', etc. Why can't people call a wheel a wheel?
Because lots of people don't understand what 3D printing is and figure it's a device where you do....something...and the thing you're printing pops out, ready to use. Most people who have seen what ~current hobby-grade 3D printers are capable of with ABS or PLA realize how ridiculous it is, but people who see "you can now 3D print a gun!" on TV news might not.
Not only that, but the Javascript JIT emitted code is unsafe. There is no way to guarantee its safety, even with a JIT implemented in Rust.
No, taxation does not start out as theft.

The government provides you services, and you consent to paying for them by continuing to live here.

Before you were old enough to give consent, your parents made that decision for you. As an infant, you weren't capable of making such decisions, and as your guardians, your folks made it for you.

Now that you're (presumably) old enough to give consent, you are doing so by remaining here.

The government isn't forcing you to stay, even if you can't afford to leave right now. If your finances don't permit it, then I would suggest you save up until you can afford a bus ticket to Canada or Mexico, and then emigrate. Our government won't stop you at the border. (Canada or Mexico might, but that's them, not us.)

That you don't like the other countries out there (they aren't "fair alternatives") does not mean that, suddenly, taxation here is actually theft. It means you're picky, or you don't want to compromise, or whatever.

It doesn't change the fact that, as long as you're here, you're obligated to pay for a small share of the government's cost of doing business.

You may not like that obligation--it's still not theft. You may disagree with how tax dollars are spent--it's still not theft. You may dislike how you never signed an "I agree to pay taxes" contract--it's still not theft.
Hackers drain money from Starbucks accounts linked to users’ credit cards
I find the problem with lack of serial number on the side of the hard drive to be a little silly. How hard would it be to get someone in your firm to simply place labels with serial numbers on the side of the Toshiba drives. It wouldn't take more then 10-20 minutes with a label maker.
To combat that, some banks are offering "Guaranteed pre-approval," but that's the bank underwriting the loan during your pre-approval paperwork, so that you can close in 72 hours as long as the titles clear.
OECD attacks 'aggressive tax plans'
This isn't about noisy renters. It's about rental arbitragers driving the price of rental properties through the roof.
Have you ever heard of this phenomenon in journalism called 'human interest stories'?
Mostly, I'm confused as to how this has only bitten people on Haswell - did pre-Haswell just enforce a MB invisibly there for some reason, or did Haswell explicitly change some semantics?

Also, an interesting note is that the commit references this deadlocking on ARM64, so I'm guessing this probably broke on non-x86 architectures in strange ways unless I'm really missing something...
UX of Housing.com is only matched by Cleartrip in India. I have been using their since since years, and do it almost every 1 - 2 months.

It's amazing just how much they iterate. I haven't come across a single bug to date. If anything, it's their inventory I am not satisfied with.
Facebook’s Quest to Absorb the Internet
The growth of remote work could ease some of this effect. If your employer's offices are located in SF or Portland but you don't have to live there, it seems counterintuitive for many types of people (esp. families) to pay to play in those markets.