skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The free market is surprisingly efficient - in other words, ruthlessly effective - at eliminating money sinks. Like passengers with disability, which are only tiny part of client base (and not too wealthy a part) but require special adjustments to cars. I don't see how fully deregulated taxi business would do anything but ruthlessly eliminate them from the client base.

Yes, maybe we could use little less regulation. My personal issue with Uber is not the concept of less-regulated taxis. It's that it's managed by a bunch of sociopathic assholes, who openly try to exploit drivers and the community for profit, painting themselves as white knights while using every underhand tactic they can get away with to sabotage competition.
Ask HN: I want to create tech blog – what should I blog about?
What would you like to read?
The MPLv2 is a very nice license that deserves wider use.

MPLv2 is a weak (file-scoped) copyleft that avoids some of the provisions in (L)GPL that drive corporate lawyers raving mad, it's explicitly compatible with (L)GPLv2+ thus avoiding balkanization, and it does have a modern patent grant clause like ALv2/(L)GPLv3.
I thought this was a really interesting post on just that topic. http://www.daedtech.com/my-blog-if-i-build-it-will-they-come
One might imagine this notion of limiting computational budget of arbitrary code would have applications beyond this particualar application.
They're not ending anything. This bill makes the spying slightly less egregious, while explicitly authorizing and extending the spying.
> and connect them all to a decent terminal server

Why would those systems be running IE8?
When all you need to do is write a post, clicking on 'Posts' is a good start.
> So yes, I'd much rather share the road with an Uber/Lyft driver, because I know the feedback actually works in that case.

Yeah, the feedback system seems to be a cool idea. In case of Uber though, keep in mind that the driver will get fired if their average rating drops to ~4.6 stars. That 3 you left there? Probably had a really big impact on him.
But then you have sites like Google Groups and some Blogger sites (though GMail used to work in lynx, though I haven't tried it recently).
Guessing along similar lines - ex corporate Win7 machines hitting the secondary market?
It's EGCS all over again.
Hoover Dam may stop producing power by end of 2015
Brothers in Exile: Sons of the Starfarers by Joe Vasicek

Was a free book on my new Kobo Touch, bought the next two books in that series and now in the middle of the second book. Nice plot and writing.
IE8 is coming out of the Trough of Disillusionment and finally reaching the Plateau of Productivity. Obviously.
Large animals that live long lives don't have any real information in their DNA. Essentially every species runs it's own genetic algorithm.

Large animals have a generational gap of, let's say 5-10 years, and have numbers in the tens of thousands. Bacterial generational gaps measure in minutes to hours, and their numbers are so large there are no confident approximations. Unsuccessful bacteria species number in the thousands of trillions. One can only imagine what the numbers are for successful species.

This means that the genetic algorithm running a pathetitc bacterial species has a clock speed something like 100 terahertz. It does 100 trillion calculations per second. The genetic algorithm that runs "on" the human race has a clock speed of around 5 calculations per second. For most animal and plant species, the speed would be significantly less than 1Hz. Guess which of these two makes the discoveries ... (the theory being that viruses, on rare occasions, transplant DNA "discoveries" from bacteria into other species, so while humans do evolve, they rarely, if ever, successfully mutate. Rather we are the product of natural genetic manipulation by viruses and natural selection. The same applies for plants and other animals)

The reason large animals survive at all is that their biomass just does not register on the "success" charts for bacteria. Killing every single plant and animal on the planet and fully converting all that mass into new bacterial biomass would not represent 0.01% change in population size for bacteria. That is the only reason why animals survive : we're simply neither a threat, nor a worthwhile target.
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Secret was a mobile app. WebRTC is not supported on any version of iOS and is supported only on very recent android (5.x)

edit: source: http://caniuse.com/#search=webrtc
Author here. This actually came from a real case: it was fairly surprising the SSL Labs test wasn't flagging the ciphers that cause the 'outdated cryptography' warning.
The "proper" approach to this is 'progressive enhancement', ie. that every site is already a text only version. Then, on top of that, you can add images, stylesheets, Javascript, etc. as necessary. This used to work well, since that was also the easiest approach to building a site (unless you used Flash...)

I think frameworks have inverted things: the easiest approach these days is to load the default config of some framework/CMS, which will make heavy use of Javascript/images/CSS/etc. in order to entice developers to use it (otherwise, why use a framework at all ;) ). In this world, turning off a feature takes more effort than leaving it on, and we end up with ideas like special "text only" alternatives.

I think there's definitely a burden on the developers of frameworks to make them degrade as gracefully as possible. Of course, this isn't always possible (especially those designed to be completely in client-side JS), but in those instances where it is possible, it can have a large impact. For example, if the developer of some popular Wordpress theme spent a little extra effort on graceful fallbacks, it would improve the situation for all sites using that theme.

Disclaimer: I used to develop a CMS with crazy-strict adherence to, among other things, accessibility standards ;)
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> One should argue that OP should re-write the whole thing in non-slide deck format - TTRWTF

There are many CSS and JS-based slide decks that degrade nicely. e.g. deck.js (http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/introduction/deck.html).
my dad was a nurse his whole career, worked in a variety of areas including surgery. After his returement he went in for surgery and wrote things like that on his body so they didnt fuck it up
> I am ... not a programmer

which is obvious from your question ;)
It's so fuckin sad, I literary cried reading it. I simply don't get how we (as humankind) cannot prevent such disasters happening while wasting billions on much less important things.
Yup, my rather large workplace (in the Fortune 100) switched from XP to Win 7 just about a year ago. We have IE8 but they will also let us use an ESR version of Firefox. Other business units than mine get to use Chrome, too.
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I usually skip N.N.0 but update everything when N.N.2+ comes out.
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Devils in the details huh? https://store.xamarin.com/

Doesn't look free to me.

(and I'm not being narky. This is the point I'm making; it's only superficially free. Then you have to say, ship a game, and woa~ wait, it has to be GPL now if you bundle the runtime, or you have to pay a licensing fee?)
It is an awful experience. Mobile data is often sketchy, but these bloated sites don't render a single thing until all the twenty tons of front end crap is downloaded, and all to view a tiny static chunk of text. But hey, they got to use react, a metric shit ton of the latest CSS wankery, and it is connected to every social meejia platform!
I had surgery to have a tumor removed from my back earlier this year and right before the surgeon drew arrows on my back and then initialed it. "No one goes into the operating room without my initials" Made me feel more confident.
From a dead user, Diti, whose sentiments match my own:

> To me, any website implementing good accessibility (http://www.w3.org/WAI/) is likely to be perfectly viewable and browsable per what you said. But most webmasters don't know about WAI.

I'd add "or don't care".
This is a far smaller problem than differing instructors, content, materials or methods between identical courses. In fact, it's part of the solution: as cohort size increases, generally there are more sections of a course taught, and "curving" allows for easier comparison between those courses. You aren't "rewarded" for choosing the easiest grader; you are scored relative to your peers.
Can everyone vote for a libertarian candidate in your elections? Tired of govt overreach
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UK Plans to Do Away with Free Speech in the Name of Free Speech – Techdirt
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It's cheaper to make a fancy box around a pinecone than to deliver a Fabrege egg. Content that stands on its own is harder than a flock of spinning googaws. That's why Facebook fills your feed with CandyCrush.
Licensing
How much does this cost?

To redistribute code written with Mono for Unreal Engine, you must have a commercial license to the Mono runtime.

These licenses are included in Xamarin's commercial products for targeting Mac, Android and iOS.

Xamarin product pricing starts at $0 for Starter Edition and adds Visual Studio support at $999 per developer, per platform.

In addition, you still need to comply to your license agreement with EpicGames for Unreal Engine.
I uploaded a copy of the apk for you. If it's okay with the developers.. link: http://milankragujevic.com/uploads/com.opensignal.wifi-v0.09...
Yes, currently back to 3.7.x

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions
So, the end user of the site has no say? They should be thankful they are even allowed to cast their eyes on such a technical masterpiece? Developer or not, people can spot a worrying trend of website "developers" who cannot develop - they just bolt bits and frameworks together without a consideration for the end users.
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yes. That's just what I was hoping to achieve.

It's not quite that I am unwilling to accept gifts nor loans but that I very strongly believe in self-reliance. Were someone to give me the money, or lend me the money, that's money they could not give or lend to someone who needs it more than I do.

In a moment I'll send my resume to what I think your gmail addr is. Mine is mdcrawford@gmail.com

My SO is http://stackoverflow.com/users/2368132/michael-crawford if you'd like to look over my history there.
One more thing: I showed that game to my 4 years old son (on the tablet), and he quite likes it!
+1 Funnily enough, I'm in Argentina right now working on the Android version of WifiMapper as we speak.
That's a very good approach, and I'm glad that there are some teachers that have this knowledge.
4.2 and 4.2.1 contained a lot of vulnerability fixes from 4.1.n - when it comes to an operating system, err, blogging platform, it's not a bad idea to keep on top of your updates.
I would flip that around and put it this way:
- what can you write about that you know well
- does that thing attract any sort of audience as well?

Trying to pick a target topic is very difficult unless you have a deep interest.

I could probably try and write some articles about Angular, people seem interested in that. But I'm not that excited about it and would lose interest, and wouldn't make the distance.

I keep a to-blog journal and write topics down in that as the thoughts come to me. Only the things you're interested in are worth writing about - otherwise the writing will be dull, and you'll give it up because it is too much work.
No worries. I've been an active kuro5hin member for 13 years.

You Have Absolutely No Idea.
I think the most important part of Petefine comment is "within the margin for error the sample". I would be surprised if the margin of error was inferior to 0.13%.

It's an Human bias to see patterns when there are only random events.
It's not that easy. It costs money to leave the country. As in, Uncle Sam wants me to pay. So exactly how free am I?
> The way it works is if the top 5% got an A you can say some one with an A grade that they where in the top 5% who took that exam in that year.

Sure, both ends of the grading scale are easy to read when using bell curve grading. The problematic part is the center (where - by definition - the majority of graduates will be found): The C grade of year X could very well be better than the B grade of year Y.

Bell curve grading seems to be the worst of both worlds - the students experience even less correlation between effort and grade and you weaken inter-cohort comparability. If grading reform is willing to lose comparability between students anyway it should move in the opposite direction and grade relative performance improvements of individual students. That is proven to result in better overall performance of students (especially for weak performers).
IE 8 gets, for the most part, to end of life next January. So it should go back into shrink mode as those IT departments get with the times.
IMO it's a feature.

My reasoning takes into account mortality and reproduction (and is totally simplistic.)

If there is no mortality but there is reproduction, we would soon reach a point where our environment wouldn't be able to support us (not enough resources). This could lead to a catastrophic collapse of the population.

If there is no mortality and no reproduction, we, as a species, would lose our adaptability to changes in the environment. We would "stop evolving" and it would be a matter of time until we got extinct.

If there is mortality and no reproduction, well... There would be only a single generation of individuals.

This way, we can conclude that for "life", the best characteristics would be mortality and reproduction.
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Browser stats are noisy – if you look at a larger timescale, you'll see this is actually somewhat lower than December:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-browser_version_partially...

The first thing I'd do is check to see whether the apparent trend is supported by other data sources, particularly traffic to the sites you care about. It's worth poking around somewhere like http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/ or http://akamai.io to see if other they're seeing the same trend.
(Also, don't bother. It doesn't work with the most recent version of the engine either)

That is not the bad thing. They said they wanted to make it stable for 1 version before upgrading to the newest.

The problem is that is super buggy right now. It crashes almost all the time on my machine.
The Nexus 5 has a magnetic sensor to detect when the case cover is closed shut. I suspect this is being triggered by a speaker or some other magnetic element of the MacBook.
Yes, Blogger and Google Groups are really annoying.

GMail still has a special "basic HTML" version. It behaves much better over the bandwidth limited or very remote connections. Even at my home, with otherwise high speed internet, as I had some transient transmission problems the "full" version wasn't usable, but HTML one worked.

At least GMail has the real "html-backup version" the OP asked for.
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Um, no? They do security updates for the last couple of versions of Wordpress. They even extend that to the last couple versions of their stock theme when they require an update.
How do they fight student cartels who band together to all do the minimum possible knowing that they'll curved up?
Try the app? It's free anyway.
My definition of bloated: any web platform which includes its own cron system.
That was exactly my first thought too. The site itself seems a little unprofessional, as do the services they seem to be providing. The scope is too big, I think.
That's incredibly awesome.

Many CEO's get paid so ridiculously much that the stock just pushes it into absurdity.

It's great to see folks realize the work input of all employees at a company is about the same and to share the wealth more equally.

The Gravity payments CEO was another great example - clearly he already pulled in a lot and had a lot of stock, but this is setting things right - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/business/owner-of-gravity-... (I'd also argue his original salary was massively more than needed).
Unreal doesn't use Mono or C#.
MacBooks use magnets to keep the lid closed (it's not a mechanical lock).
Or, as proposed elsewhere, keep the cap and remove the lottery system. Grant visas to the top paid applicants. This removes allows companies with a need to great engineers to pay for them, and reduces the influx of lower quality H1-B's.
This riddle doesn't look hard at all (solved it nearly instantly after reading it), but I'm not sure I could provide an instant answer during such stressful conditions as mentioned in the article.
8 funny graphics that explain the wonderful life of a coder
I have a number of tics (if any of them were vocal, it would be enough for a Tourette's diagnosis), including that I mash the left and right arrows very frequently.

That made reading this article very difficult. It's an accessibility problem.
Yep, nw.js runs on io.js as of the 0.12 release in January.

Here's a giant list of people using it: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/List-of-apps-and-companie...

One of the more notable ones is Popcorn Time, the stupid easy to use movie torrent client.
It happens with my iPad occasionally too. Putting the iPad next to the trackpad will occasionally put the Macbook to sleep.
Reminds me of a passage from Tracy Kidders "Soul of a new Machine" [1]. The guys at Data General were implement one of the first pipelined 32bit processors for a mini computer in the late 70's. In the book Kidder talks about how they had a gate level simulator implemented in software that allowed them trouble shoot timing issues. Makes me wonder if a similar simulator could be useful to test and/or debug these types of issues.

Great book, highly recommend it. It won the Pulitzer.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
>but I'm sick of humanities-bashing

Humanities (crap), finance (useless banksters), business (lol MBAs), economics (the an inevitable discussion every year here about how the Nobel Prize isn't a real Nobel). It's annoying, but I'm used to it.
Microsoft WiFi Sense does something very similar on Windows Phones.
http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-2.png

500 cancelled in 2005 is 1%. It certainly were more than 500, don't get me wrong, but still the subs rate never dropped and in fact doubled that year.

I can't find anything about the loss of players due to that event in the link you sent. But you mentioned monocle-gate... we're talking about two different things here. I'm talking about the 2005 event when 500 players cancelled their sub which the article talks about. Monocle gate was more than half a decade later and not something I said anything about, the article does mention it but not in reference to the article's hyperbolic title which referred to the 2005 event after which, the article said, EVE was on 'the brink of destruction' and 'skirted apocalypse', which I'm disagreeing with.

Monocle gate was different, they actually lost significant subs (including myself, for that and other reasons). But even then they didn't skirt apocalypse. Subs didn't drop more than a few percent and they ended the year with more subs than they started.

EVE is definitely struggling with online users. But that's a function I think of the game's design and the nature of MMORPGs. Few people play for a decade, and there is an easy character transfer mechanism, and an easy way to buy ISK legally through plexes. In other words, it's relatively easy to buy characters and money nowadays. And when you do train, you may get a sub and just keep it offline to train. The entire entry game and mid game is basically useless for 95% of players. So you get high-end gameplay, which is mostly people who login every now and then to run some builds off a blueprint, fuel a tower, jump drive some freight, or login for a large alliance battle. You can sustain all this gameplay on very few logins. The days of many thousands of people mining, trading by traveling through gates instead of jumping around the universe, new players doing lvl 2-3 missions, piracy and small corp warfare etc are gone. It still exists, of course, but not at the scale it used to. It's too easy to mine & trade & build with fewer ships and in less time, leading to fewer logins, and fewer targets for pirates.
Depends if where you started is based on coordinates or a location on the ice, and how long it takes you to walk the distance.

I would do nearly anything to work for him in cali.
Don't confuse Mono and Xamarin, they're two separate things.
Hey Pusher guys; how much of that flow went through Haskell? Are you using it for your main service yet?
When I press the URL button on the site, nothing happens.
Also when i input any search term, I only see 'Searching...' forever and nothing ever happens.

if for anybody the site is functional: what exactly is the usecase? Thanks!
> The point is that a grade is an ordinal quantity

In principle I agree, but grade inflation preserves the order so why should we care about grade inflation if grades are only about order? I think the plot and the rest of the article goes beyond that.

Also an histogram is a poor representation choice for ordinal data.
I remember the good old days when I wrote a postcompiler for .Net, and I realized that I can jump back from a catch clause to the try block :)
I don't get, it seems everybody does the same thing, the only thing that can be done. Where is the strategy?
I've seen the opposite happen - the MacBook screen turning off - when placing an open macbook on top of a closed one. I'm guessing that case is to do with magnets activating the closed-sensor.

I've replicated this with a Nexus 6 by placing it over the speakers of an MBP (it locks the screen, rather than turning it off) which also suggests magnetic? I'm thinking Motorola planned a Nexus 6 case similar to the Galaxy Note flip cover.
I'm thinking it's people upgrading from XP. They know they can no longer use it, so they upgrade to 7
Sorry for wasting everybody's time. I didn't know this isn't a real thing anymore. :-(

I was digging through Reddit and saw some interesting comment by Miguel de Icaza. It was regarding his blog post http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Oct-23.html (Mono for Unreal Engine).

There was no update to the situation in this blog post. No information on the site I posted here. Really bad communication from Miguel and Xamarin. :-(

I have only followed one tutorial for Unity3D and have never tried Unreal Engine. I'm just interested in the topic because it's different from my day job and I'd like to try something new. Posted the link here to provoke some discussion about it.

(The 1980s were so much easier. Not many choices on the C64.)
I'm typing too fast for this game. Puts sunglasses on.

Every time I press "space", the game reloads the textbox after I've already entered the first letter of the next word. Then the game thinks I've made an error.
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Yeah, some sort of magnet sensor. They're also used for detecting when you insert your phone into a docking station. And for Google Cardboard's button.
Alternatively, if someone prefers privacy:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MVP
If you aren't deeply passionate about the subject you will get bored quickly writing about the same general subject every day.

So blog about whatever you are passionate about. It's really the only way you have a chance of sticking with it long enough to get any traction.
That's what I was thinking. There's also the MacBook electricity thing: http://www.mactalk.com.au/24/113595-static-electricity-vibra...
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2014/09/09/s...