skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of betting in England is now betting exchanges, so it's not punter against bookmaker but punter against punter.

This is risky betting because there are information asymmetries that can be exploited. For example, there are some time delays in results being broadcast. Someone at the track / pitch can place / accept bets in the few seconds before information about an event is broadcast; and betting exchanges appear to be driving some corrupt behaviours in sports.
That's how banks do it, laws and regulations are just another business expense.
Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook for dev? What is your toolchain?
I am thinking about getting a Chromebook to use on the go to thinker with. I like that it is light weight and inexpensive. I've also read some positive reviews about using crouton but was curious if anyone has been successful with it more than just as a proof of concept.
How long does a parent company have to make a public report, per the California data breach disclosure law?
Sad. This is the reason state legislation is necessary. Uber is banned to operate in a lot of countries because his lack of respect to law.
Thanks this is way better than existing sites.

I did notice that searching for Google gives you 5 different entities that are all Google.
Whiteboarding is fine in limited amounts.

Something like:

Here are two tables. How would you improve their design?

Now select all XYZ from them.

Now, here is a list/array of items and some search input, return a list/array with only those that match.

Finally, Fizzbuzz.

Total time of 5 or so minutes, and it will quickly eliminate those who have high charisma but no actual skills. This part can be replaced via a github account or such, but not everyone has one (or one they are willing to share with an employer/professionally tie their identity to).
No, all, including the USD, gold or what have you are subject to P+e attacks. Currencies are consensus, and you can, in theory, bribe a majority of people to turn against that consensus at no cost.

So for instance, I could print a lot of bills and call them dollar2, and go to everyone in the world - except Bill Gates, and say:

"Hey, I have this new currency, it's the dollar2. Tell you what, I'll give you a dollar2 for every dollar you have. I'm going to do that to everyone except Bill Gates. I don't like him, so I'm going to keep half of his share of the dollar2, and burn the other half. Here's the catch, you have to commit to only recognizing dollar2 as the real currency for the next week. If I succeed, you'll be a little richer because of the deflationary effect of burning half of Bill Gate's share of dollars. If I don't succeed, you can go back to using the dollar, and I'll pay you a dollar for your trouble."

So in a very narrow, restricted way, the "rational" thing to do is to go along with this plan, and there we go, the dollar have been taken over. Obviously, such a plan would never work, but it's similar to the arguments against most proof-of-stake or even proof-of-work systems.
I bought a Lenovo W530 just so I could get enough ram. 16gb isn't enough for me (I run a lot of VMs and high memory applications), so I wanted a laptop with swappable memory. I now have 23gb of ram. I believe the system supports up to 36gb.
Not all that much once you take into account that 'high risk' merchants will pay more to the credit card companies as well and typically tend to eat quite a bit of their income due to all kinds of fines (charge-backs for instance) which are assigned fairly arbitrarily.

Solutions such as VBV and meticulous logging can take care of this but are hard to implement in a bullet proof way to stand up in case of a dispute. The processors do a good job of this and in general are the more solid component of the eco-system.

The only time the costs are excessive is when a processor goes belly-up, which has happened twice for a large enough processor that it affected thousands of merchants.

Retail stores are at a huge advantage here because they have inherent address verification and a signature upon delivery, whereas most - if not all - adult sites operate entirely in the virtual domain. That does make it much easier for them to absorb the extra costs.
Really? You think it's more likely that their competitors have made up junk stories, than a company which has a known public history of ignoring rules and regulations, is breaking more rules and regulations?
"Why change now?"

Because what they're doing is wrong, and doing something wrong because you can get a lot of money for it is pretty awful.
A truly random flag
> 3. All visible edits should map onto an algebraically closed and complete set of visible content.

And suddenly I have a common-sense understanding of what the mathematical terms "closed" and "complete" mean. I can now use these ideas.

Non-closure is a problem that I've encountered often, but I've never had a name for it. If problems are obstacles, then names are the handles that let you grip them and move them out of the way.
That's kinda neat thanks!
Wow, you aren't kidding when you say Netflix pays well!
Interesting - I've only been using Uber for ~2 years now but I came across it from the opposite direction. I couldn't afford them until UberX came out. I took an UberX last night and the driver didn't know the cross street in Harlem I told him to go to. He insisted on me finding the street address and putting it in the app so that GPS could guide him. Then he asked for five stars before I left. His car had random water bottles in the back seat.

But none of that bothered me.

I want to get to point B from point A - that 15 minute user experience isn't really important to me. So all I care about is cost and, atleast here in NYC, UberX can sometimes be cheaper than a yellow cab.

Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
Except under our current law, premiums have gone up by 50% in order to pay for subsidized insurance. So for the average person, they got hit with a huge price increase at the same time they saw a large decrease in value (access to specialists). http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/06/18/3137-co...

In my case, a family member went to a local oncologist who prescribed a series of treatments. She went for a second opinion to MD Anderson in Houston (a few states away) and was told by their team this treatment was ludicrous and they prescribed an entirely different series of treatments. My family member is now just fine, but if they had stayed with the local specialist who knows. But if I get sick I want access to places with the best long term survival rates, not whichever doctor happened to move next door.
That's hilarious. This year's would be EmmaOlivia.
> their own trodden customers

If I understand what Uber is really trying to do, I think the drivers are Uber's customers. Riders are simulataneously customers of the drivers, and the product being sold by Uber to drivers.
So, fuck the disabled - we gots to get paid?
Pretty sure that being a legal entity requires you to act in a legal manner.

I do not buy the 'business must do everything inside and outside the law to make money,' schtick, but then again, I'm not willing to look at companies as more important or the most important part of society either.
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In your reply you are just ignoring my intended meaning with "personally". You obviously understood what I said. If you think a different phrasing would be better, feel free to suggest that.
Considering how many other taxi companies break regulations like this, but nothing said.

Uber does it, and its a massive issue.

I've lost count how many disabled unfriendly private taxi's there are, how many times the card machine "stops working". The industry in general is scummy. In general Uber is better than average.

And junk stories are very common, common service PR companies provide. About 50% of news stories are PR pieces, basically because journalists are lazy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations#Negative

I'm not saying this is one of those stories, but a huge quantity are. Especially when they mention other taxi companies in a good light, it makes it obvious.
What does this even have to do with laws? It's basic human decency. Uber is just the worst of the worst of douchebro-culture.
Yes I am still cleaning the data. It's all unbelievable the amount of crap you can find in the public records. I have a lot of duplicates unfortunately.

Down the road, I'm planning on providing a couple of cool charts/map about trends and evolutions.
In New York, there are thousands of wheelchair accessible taxis ( http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/accessible.shtml ), but there are also thousands of taxis that aren't wheelchair accessible. The ones that aren't accessible aren't breaking the ADA (then again, the ADA requires "reasonable accomodation," so the ones that aren't wheelchair accessible probably still have to make an effort to put a wheelchair in the trunk, if requested).
I don't personally develop on a Chromebook but I teach kids who do and they'll use a cloud based IDE like Cloud9 or Nitrous.
No, i'm saying this is fairly common in the industry in general.

It's only highlighted because its Uber, and there's a lot interest in giving them negative press.

I've known disabled people who in general thinks Uber is better than tradional private cabs for his needs.
Thanks for the great examples.

I am going to make this a key part of my strategy!
Well Uber is trying to say the law doesn't apply to them. Let's say that they find a technicality that means the law doesn't actually apply to them, should they address the underlying issue or not?

Presumably they should be saying "We will fix this issue regardless of whether we're obliged to by law or not."
This is interesting in that if IP addresses are allowed to trade freely (currently 4 quid per IP), I'd argue that we'll never run out of them. And this whole transition to IPv6 may never be necessary.
Oh my god, $350k for a senior software engineer? I'm absolutely floored.
Beware of single junction devices, if that should ever fail and not be detected then you're in a world of trouble.
I believe Uber's implicit argument is that the individual drivers should be fined for not complying. If that actually happens, and drivers stop signing up, I would expect Uber to come up with some kind of program to limit driver liability.
signed up for your site and can't locate your private policy. can you please provide me with a link?
If governments cannot crack down on Uber for this issue, then presumably they could start going after the individual contractors who don't comply with the regulations? I can't imagine this going well for Uber either way without some sort of change in their policy for obtaining contractors.
It's incredible how these people have grown to be detached from the common sentiment.

Don't they realise how much the repeated scandals and abuses have discredited the agencies they represent?
Yeah I recall reading that there's some uneasiness around flag flying and national pride in Germany - I think it came to my attention ahead of the World Cup in 2006.
For anyone interested the block that has been sold is 51.174.0.0/15. The remainder of 51.0.0.0/8 still belongs to the Department of Work and Pensions though none of it is publically routable.
You can see who runs around you via Strava.com, not to mentions its an awesome GPS app for running/biking. App also has features to post pics/comment/like, social network centered around outdoor activities with GPS features, pretty cool.
Bought a m3800 recently, one of the best laptops I have owned to date.
Currently I am running ubuntu on this beauty and its running without any problems. If only Dell could improve a little bit more on the battery life.
> it was one of my favourite companies.

But, why? They've always been boisterous and exploitative. Just because someone provides a "do what I want" button doesn't absolve them of all their koala-fueled tyranny in the background.

It turns out when you allow cutthroat capitalism with no regulators or oversight (or regulators that lag by 5-10 years), it becomes easy to abuse so many features of our shared economy. Startups figured this out about 7 years ago and are going full steam ahead with exploitation at the speed of business model evolution.

> he created Uber to have a more "baller" way to travel around San Francisco

so, uber is basically 100% BroTaxi, just not so obviously branded. Then lyft is half BroTaxi ("mustache rides!") an half HippyTaxi (we'll be super dope BFFs forever! (at least until the end of this transactional ride)). What if transportation fractures like online communities fracture? Does each online message board get its own taxi service? That could potentially fix the quality problem since you would only be associating with people already like yourself. "MRA-only taxi service, hackernews-only taxi service, ..."

Know the most 'baller' way to travel around San Francisco? Spend an hour trying to get somewhere 5 miles away on public transit then focus on fixing the system itself. Don't try to elevate yourself above what you perceive to be the oh-so-dirty unwashed masses. Remember: melting-pot, not gilded tower.

Of course, all this people-taxi drama is time limited until we have self aware cars fulfilling our every transportation wish (let's just hope they don't get too clairvoyant).
Be aware that a decent prng will look just like the true one. That one's particularly crap. The Mersenne Twisters have incredibly long periods (2^19937 - 1 common) and you won't see anything. These are not at all cryptographically secure.
It's a really clean implementation. However, it took me a while to understand what the website was all about (wasn't sure what LCAs are, etc.) One improvement could be making the messaging more accessible and less technical.

We are interested in an API and would love to hear your plans about it. Will shoot you an email :)
Thumbsup - another cynic regarding the political theater. Thanks...
They make an app that allows people to charge for driving services.

No, Swipe is an app that allows people to charge for driving services. Uber is how the car is ordered, ride metered and payment processed. Oh, and the people driving are Uber's 1099s.

I don't have the background to say anything about whether the court will hold Uber liable in this suit. But on the question of classifying Uber, I find it incredibly unlikely the court will be receptive to the idea they're functionally equivalent to swipe.
Thank you. I thought on including some developer formatters. But decided it should be left to code editors. In particular there is JSCS linter (http://jscs.info/), or SublimeLinter-JSCS as Sublime Text plugin (https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-jscs) which can do this and much more.
Flex was working out a lot better for me some ten years ago, in Mozilla extensions, as it was. There's just too many rendering glitches and performance problems with flex nowadays, so I've moved on to scripted layout. I just felt that someone should say it.
Under the "business as usual" umbrella, many awful things seem justified. Not saying this is the case but just to keep that in mind. Also, "you're not the only one doing this" goes in the same direction.
When people say "trade agreements NEED to be negotiated in secret" this is why. It's hard to pack them with horrors like this, otherwise.

You'll be told "blah blah regulatory protectionism blah."

When was the last time a regulatory protectionism story was in the news, compared with weakening environmental protections or ratcheting up bad IP laws?

It's not about nationalists clinging to sovereignty. It's not about luddite workers. It's about stuffing treaties with crap like this.
In places where Uber is just another taxi company, it likely has to follow all the local regulations that apply to taxi companies.

It's only special in the places where Uber pretends not to be a taxi by claiming it's some kind of "ride sharing". I think that isn't going to last very long.
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I've used it everywhere on two production website, and we have had close to no issue with it. I'd say it's quite safe to start using them now.
What about a website like Just Eat in the UK, which offers an online ordering interface to thousands of independently run takeaways in the UK, are they are technology company or a food company?
This is why punishment for corporate law breaking needs to include revocation of the corporate charter after a point.
> It seems as though there is some kind of personal hatred towards Aaron that compels people to try and vilify him as if he was some sort of criminal.

Not on my part, I've always thought highly of him. I was just correcting your misconception about burglary laws.

> A laptop in an unlocked cabinet is not really breaking in.

Burglary, again, is gaining entry to a place you're not authorized to be, with the intent to commit a criminal act. Whether the cabinet was locked or not has no bearing on that charge. In many places, entering an unlocked car or house that doesn't belong to you constitutes burglary, even if you don't do anything while you're there. It's up to the court to prove whether you had intent to commit a crime, but the simple act of gaining unauthorized entry is usually enough to be charged with burglary.

One more thing: I agree with you in that I don't think Aaron felt what he was doing was wrong. Given my background in law enforcement, I simply felt compelled to correct a misconception.

You can read more about the charge of burglary in general here, though you may wish to read about Massachusetts's specific laws as well:

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/burglary-overvi...
Indeed, I've noticed that quite a few -Sync methods aren't documented anymore. My hope is that node will have a major release which removes all -Sync methods and replaces callbacks with Promises. Then we'll all be happy and use cluster when we can.
Really not that much when you take out the taxes, food and housing premium of the area. That is what should floor you as well
The insight applies to any business: you either help the customer save time or help them kill time.
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But going the other way hinders progress in the name of very few people (if any) who may benefit from this kind of measures in very early stages. When the company gets a broad audience, then it becomes a concern.

And since the founders have growth in mind anyway, they'll be sure to make it possible to implement the measures later on (or they'll pay the price in court, either way all is well).
Thanks. I was walking on the edge with this one :)
Thanks. Can you shoot me an email theo@jobsintech.io ?
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So, run it over a VPN.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't add security to their protocol, but I can think of several ways off the top of my head to stay secure. The application-layer protocol doesn't have to be the one to implement it, network-level encapsulation can help you there.

I'm not sure how old the protocol is, but perhaps it was more important to get it working and wrap it in a VPN and then iterate on that design.
I thought clicking "Jobs" would lead me to something grouped by job title...
Wow. This is gold.
I find it extremely motivational as it contains concepts that I have always believed in.
Spotify Is Bringing Music in to the Age of Context
>"Speciality coffee doesn’t offer anything to the consumer who wants to drink great espresso at home, but doesn’t want a new hobby."
CIOs Get Clever About Finding Needed Skills as IT Talent Shortage Grows
> Presuming that you wouldn't invoke mv nanoseconds before creating the symlink

This kind of thinking has led to lots of security bugs around symlinks.
Think of what Google Now is trying to do ... and apply it to music.
Because you're catering to much smaller markets? I think the view above is something like a food delivery service not offering gluten-free or vegetarian options?
I imagine it, and I don’t care. Uber is trying to play it both ways (regulating their drivers heavily while not having to obey regulations that everyone else has to follow) and I have no sympathy for them at all.
Thank you too. I am currently working on Text Substitution performance. Please check back soon.
SSDs on the other hand won't last 6 months without power, let alone 2000 years.

Source on that? Has flash memory really gotten that bad in terms of data retention?

I have flash memory in (rather small) USB drives that still work after a decade.
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Would love to have a dump of the data: Every time people scrape these data, they have to clean it again and again.
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I don't. It's a hypothetical. Why can't Uber say "you must comply with the ADA" to their drivers if I'm able to say to a web developer contractor "website must be accessible to the visually impaired".
What's being used on the front-end to display the tables and pages and the back-end to store all the info?

Time required to create?

Other fun details?

(I ask because I have another dataset I want to work on recreating online in a searchable manner)
If i'm building an MVP I might not even fully support all of the popular browsers, let alone the correct standards for screen readers, and my page layout will probably break if you increase the font size. Similarly my website is probably only in one language.

(I'm not sure what my point is... I'm just thinking out loud.)
Though bitcoin exchanges being hacked seem common, it sounds like this one did a good job with layered security.
Though we don't know what the damages total is yet, at least it isn't a complete loss.
Ireland is voting to legalize same sex marriage today (live blog)
>> Parisi says the driver called her an “invalid” and said she “must not be a Christian” and needed to “develop thicker skin.” At the end of her ride, Parisi says the driver asked her if was going to give her a bad review.

Maybe the driver should have thought of the possibility of a bad review before berating a customer. I don't know, maybe that's just me. Causality might not be a real thing.
Seeing what works and tweaking direction is part of any kind of effective program. Where things are going wrong is when third parties in the peanut gallery decide it's not fair for someone else to get anything and make up wild scare stories about "welfare queens" living high on the hog on foodstamps. It has never been a problem that these programs just have too much money and are throwing it away for no reason.
At least here in New York, they're not even cheaper.
I remember wanting to train a neural net for my MSc thesis more than 20 years ago, but my tutor recommended against doing so for precisely this reason, i.e. he said it is very difficult to prove your results. While not being able to prove your results might be a bad idea if you're trying to get your MSc, I don't see it holding back other advances.
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Well, some provisions of the law only apply to businesses above a certain size, so yes, a startup literally can be above the law.
One of the screws fell out of my Macbook Pro Retina 15" Late 2013, due to it being stripped at the factory, and Apple refused to fix it because it was two weeks out of warranty. The quality seems to be slipping a bit.
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The problem is, when you look at non technical users most of them care about, how shiny their new laptop looks. Or that they can play candy-crush on it or browse facebook.

Not many people unfortunately I notice, care about their own privacy in the digital age.

And the fun thing at the end of the day is, the end users of these products are majority non-technical users.
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One of the links in the comments of the original post has a good example of that:

http://everist.org/NobLog/20131122_an_actual_knob.htm#jbig2

(JBIG2 discussion near bottom, rest of page is about electronics.)