skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, agreed. I looked at the football one and it reminded me of low quality Flash work circa 2006... until I had to close the tab because I was worried my MacBook Pro was going to melt my glass desk.
If you enjoy this topic, you might be interested in HotBits. It uses a Caesium-137 check source and a radiation monitor to generate non-deterministic values.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html
unless you have a disability, then fuck you and everybody like you.
Good luck finding an underwriter willing to do that if you're not a company like Google.
I just want to point out that posting about how wrong Uber is on HN, but then still using them, doesn't help anyone.

If you feel they are in the wrong, do not use Uber until they update their policies and actions.
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Do you see a plausible architecture for long term planning?
Putting money in my 401(k) every month to get it a few decades from now isn't something that's accessible to Q-learning, direct policy search or forward simulations. How do we learn hierarchical / semantic representations of our own actions?
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At least you can look at "Anonymous Cat Facts"[1]

[1]http://2v7ibl5u4pbemwiz.onion/
That was a well-written article. Someone who's not a tech expert might understand it, and wouldn't be mislead. Unusual.
Slightly OT but, didn't, back in the day, some PC sound cards have a white noise generator that one could use for random numbers?
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Again - why is that a problem? There is certainly a statement of fact (there are relatively few blacks or hispanics in SV). How is this a problem? Is the goal of these businesses to make good products or provide employment to all society strata?

Should I be equally bothered by lack of whites in the NBA or the NFL?
I can kinda get that companies might want to skip around accessibility issues when they're first getting started. But once you reach a certain point (somewhere well before billion dollar valuations) it's unconscionable to ignore accessibility.

> [Tim] Cook replied [...] that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues. “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” he said, “I don’t consider the bloody ROI.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim-...
Because the NSA uses US law to require companies to include compromised algorithms and backdoors in their products, and uses gagging orders to prevent the company from admitting their products have been compromised.

I'm not suggesting they are the only country in that situation, nor that there is any sure-fire way to make sure you aren't hamstrung.

But I think it is a good rule of thumb to not rely on US crypto.
Company set up to lower prices by avoiding regulatory overhead tries to avoid regulatory overhead - film at 11.

FWIW: It seems really unlikely Uber will be able to play both sides of the coin on this one for much longer.

Just in case anyone thought "courts have never considered things like Uber and the ADA before", they have.

Search for "demand responsive transportation ADA"

The fact that the drivers are or are not employees will not matter.

Also

"49 C.F.R. § 37.171 - Equivalency Requirement for Demand Responsive Service Operated by Private Entities Not Primarily in the Business of Transporting People"

Whoops.
Oh well, there goes any argument about not being in the business of transporting people ...
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It's not "sharing". It was never "sharing". It's sharecropping.
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To find horny married people, of course, since that seems to be what this site is primarily for. What you do with them is up to you but I have a few ideas that benefit both parties.
Do these work on FreeBSD?
That's not true though, hypocritical advocacy can logically be effective. If you convince just 2 other people to make the change you are arguing for, you've exceeded the change that you can personally effect.
> To find out whether someone’s smart, I just have a casual conversation with them.

I think the value of this is highly underestimated.
One man's modus ponens is another's modus tollens...

The way I see it is that there is no such thing as "commercial activity". There is voluntary activity of all sorts, and all kind of transactions happen, whether it be through payments, barter or goodwill. If I'm exempt from the ADA when inviting friends over, so should you be when you rent your room on AirBnB, and so should the motel across the street. All exist on a continuum, and the "sharing economy" is now making that continuum more explicit than ever before.

Decreeting that some activity is commercial and subjecting it to government rules merely because it involves money is arbitrary and unfair. Laissez faire, laissez passer.
>What he meant was simply that it is obvious that Mozilla cares about income from their ads, not about the state of digital advertising

Yes. I do not agree with this statement. Mozilla as an organization, as a collective of individuals and as a steward of interests of hundreds of millions of Mozilla products users has diverse and complex interests in the direction of evolution of digital advertising. These interests are not limited to the immediate profits.
If you are interested in network visualization you might consider Cytoscape.js. It's being used e.g. in bioinformatics (visualizing networks of interacting genes, interactively inspecting & manipulating their layout etc). Open-source license, and seems to be becoming quite featureful:

http://js.cytoscape.org/
Ugh. Man, that's truly, truly embarrassing... I completely missed it not once (writing it) but TWICE (reading your comment). I need a weekend. ;)
Sounds pretty fucking expensive.

You can get a $10 RTL-SDR [1] dongle that happily churns out over 2MSp/s and feed random radio noise to your entropy pool using rtl_entropy [2].

Also what's up with the flag, 'murica?

[1] - http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr

[2] - https://github.com/pwarren/rtl-entropy
I hope they've run DIEHARD or similar against this source to check for deterministic flaws:

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/batteries_stats_t...
Which really only work if you're in the majority. Some groups of people rely on the rest of us to subsidise the services they require.

If we allow companies to only service the group of people that are the most profitable, we risk excluding others from purchasing that service altogether. That's the exact same reason why Obama-care (sorry I don't know the correct name for it) disallows the insurance companies from excluding people with pre-existing conditions.

I understand rule and service levels are different around the world, but allowing Uber, AirBNB and other to pretend that all the rules are solely in place to keep competition out is doing society a disservice.
Ok so lets focus on the act of breaking in, though there was no financial loss. Lets ignore the fact that he could have obtained everything without "breaking in" if he did so at Stanford. It's clear to me that in Aaron's mind, he was not breaking in. A laptop in an unlocked cabinet is not really breaking in.

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.
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I often use it for ad hoc scripts, similar to the way many people use python
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Uber drivers regularly discriminate based on race by discriminating based on location of drop off... hence the high rates of 'cancelled' riders Uber users in SF and NYC see when traveling to certain neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that just happen to have higher percentages of non-white residents. This is why we have laws against drop-off discrimination here in NYC. But Uber being Uber sees them as bureaucratic red tape that shouldn't apply to them. Just like disability access laws. And ethics.
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Prewired doesn't necessarily mean wired at birth. Human development is largely genetically prescribed. With regards to language, most neuroscientists tend to agree that we have some innate capacity to acquire language very fast after a certain age, and assume that this is at least to a large part genetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_module
They make an app that allows people to charge for driving services. I wouldn't call that as Uber providing a transportation service, personally.

Remember, just because it "seems obvious" that they are "somehow" a company related to "transportation", doesn't make them a "transportation service" by whatever definition is used by the government for transportation service company regulations (or whatever that law is called).

As much as I think individuals should follow the intention of laws, rather than the 'letter'. We have to be realistic. Either we petition to have the 'letter' of the law changed to encompass what we 'think' the definition should be, or we accept that the definition is a reasonable demarcation of what constitutes and doesn't constitute a transportation company.

And lets not mix emotions into it in some sort of fit of outrage that 'they dare not' pretend like they're not a 'transportation company' when we think it's obvious.

#Edit. Typo.
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Haha my single female friends disagree. I guess if you're really not picky about who the sex is with that statement is true.
If you can't run a business by following relevant laws and regulations, can you really say you have a viable business model?

I don't care what stage of running your business you're in, you shouldn't get to ignore laws and regulations that apply just because you don't like them, or it would be too expensive right now.
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For certain values of "better" and certain values of "cheaper".
With this method you can do direct register operations, though.
Oddly enough, while the DWP's class A address range is used internally, in all written communications the leading octet of such IP addresses must be redacted for "security" reasons, despite being (a) a matter of public record, and therefore (b) displayed on the xkcd map of the IPv4 address space (as "UK Social Security").

https://xkcd.com/195/
Read over [1] and am currently watching [2], and I really can't get over a not insignificant bit of dissonance:

(a) He seems to be very intelligent. Kudos. But…

(b) How good of an idea is it really to create software with these abilities? We're already making machines that can do most things that had once been exclusive to humans. Pretty soon we'll be completely obsolete. Is that REALLY a good idea? To create "face detectors" (his words!)?
What were the chargeback rates like? How often were they changing acquirers?
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I quickly built this little tool based on public records provided by the government.

The amount of information they provide is incredible. There are no explicit names, but for small startup or exec position it is easy to guess who is who.

As far as I know this is the biggest LCA database so far.
Poelstra's "paper" is pretty controversial: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2zpmlj/expanded_re...
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I think that the efficiency of the specific task isn't actually the point here, but rather how the robot is progressing on learning the task on its own. In the future when this is put to practical application, I don't doubt that what you're saying would be employed to make a robot's learning curve more gentle.
But then, if they make their own phone OS it does go to infrastructure, or doesn't it?
I do the same thing, but focus on the intrinsic. The other part of that is internal validation.
It's low in the same way that if a non-profit starts to use your IP or trademarks you must go after them for doing so.

If you don't then you weaken your position of ownership of those properties for the rest of time.

In this case if they did not fight it they would weaken themselves on any future case about the drivers being contractors vs. employees.

View this from the position of a business with investors they're beholden to, not from an emotional standpoint.
That's just business.

You wouldn't be the first to get support from a source you're conflicted with to do what you actually wish to accomplish. If you would decide to walk away, well, then you wouldn't be the first to do that as well.
> companies might want to skip around accessibility issues when they're first getting started

So, if it's inconvenient, you get to pretend it doesn't exist because you're a "startup"?

That kind of mindset is what's wrong with the startup community. "Disrupt" isn't a synonym for "break any laws you don't like" and "startup" isn't a synonym for "I am above the law!"
I am already cringing on the New Paper and local news when they do this to find local politicians and local celbs.
Is there a running goods store near where you live? I don't have the time to run as much as I'd care to, but if I were new in town (Washington, DC), I'd start with the group runs that Pacers (1500 block of P St. NW) organizes, or Fleet Feet (? 1800 block of Columbia Road NW).
I just closed my account. Unfortunately, this requires sending an email to support@uber.com. It's inconvenient, but gives you a place to explain that you will not use the service until they comply with the ADA.
Not everything is in a silver plate for Microsoft lackeys.
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Do not confuse Germany's prior superiority with made goods with their IT skills. As a German, I can tell you: We're becoming a 3rd world IT country real quick. Plus the USA is our best friend, including the NSA.
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Apparently it's any company that (a) wants people to think it's hip and cool, and (b) doesn't want to play by the same rules as its competitors. Get out of the way; we're INNOVATING here!

This kind of thing isn't going to fly in court. Judges have a long history of following the duck principle: if it looks like a taxi company and acts like a taxi company, it's probably a taxi company. Like any observant human, the judge is going to conclude that Uber is a taxi company and will require that it follow the same laws as other taxi companies. This will be the simplest case on the judge's docket this year.
This is a terrible business approach. It's just begging for crusader retaliation from legislators and district attorneys - exactly the sort of negative relationship that Uber needs to avoid. Acting "above the law" makes the people who represent the law WANT to cut you down to size.

Uber's success may make its founders arrogant enough to think they're too big to mess with. They've been fighting municipal governments so far, not Washington. Washington crushes entire countries.
I've found myself using ride sharing services less and less lately, mostly because I've found uber drivers to be more and more annoying they want to talk non-stop and half the time have no idea where their going or how to get there properly since whatever mapping system they uses seems to constantly fail for whatever reason lately
Good for the entrepreneurs that invent them.
Problem: That's a whack-a-mole. Same reason the "right to be forgotten" is for search engines rather than websites.
> Specialty processors take care of the issues in such a way that the risk becomes tolerable.

So how many times higher a cut do the CCBill, Epochs, VXS and others take compared to... what a retail store would pay?
I wish there was better docs / info about performance. I have a dog slow WP site that is hosted on Godaddy (and that may be my problem). It takes 800 ms to get the html out to the browser to start the loads. I've pulled plugins, gone back to basic themes, etc. Godaddy support has tried, but they go an 8 second load is pretty good. The admin pages are far worse.
If you have IP that you know a non profit is using without an explicit licence, you do not have to "go after them" - you own the IP and if you feel they're a worthy cause worth supporting, offer them "support" in the form of a no cost licence for your IP.

> View this from the position of a business with investors they're beholden to

I'm pretty sure even the most vindictive of VC investors can't compel a startup to break the law "because profits".
Current stack at work for me is Clojurescript / Reagent / Boot.

In JS land, I'm in the React camp. React's model is the biggest step forward on the frontend since jQuery. I stick with React over faster/smaller alternatives (virtual-dom) because the community size network effects mean there's stuff I want to use that I didn't have to write (e.g. React Router). I'm not a fan of any Flux library I've run into (and I've checked a dozen) so I'll be porting my cljs setup whenever I have to switch back. I'm in the functional JS camp so Immutable.js, Ramda, and js-csp for libraries and I run mocha+chai for testing. Keep an eye out for Netflix's Falcor and Facebook's Relay, which are vaporware at the moment but most likely disruptive.

I favor Webpack over the js task runners. It's always mostly done what I wanted and extending it is fairly straightforward. I find the configuration setup somewhat arcane but I've done enough variations that I have a working version of what I want to do somewhere on my hard drive to copy/paste.

Compiler is babel. The dev tools in most browsers are comparable, I'm still mostly on the Chrome ones out of familiarity.
If you mean when it's fixed, yes. That's what I wanted to say. But I also wanted to mention that even the fixed width increases from time to time.
Have you ever considered since there cutting into established markets now, the vast vast majority anti-uber articles are PR pieces from competitors.

You'll be surprised how common this is.
Not entirely - that's one of the reasons government exists. They can force Uber's hand even if you're still using them.

That said, I do agree with the spirit of what you're saying- wherever I can, I've taken Lyft instead of Uber for at least a year, after the last shady thing Uber did (it's happened so many times I've lost track)
While that may be true (I do not know) it's still a connection I subconsciously make
You'll get better results searching for "famo tutorials".

Maybe they should change the name to Famo Engine.
>> ...just 1,596 who identified as female: a ratio of one woman to every 16 men.

95% of these "females" are likely spammers, escorts or someone you don't want to meet in a dark alley.
Yeah, but "Made in Germany" is usually printed with extra-large letters.
better title:

Uber: No Laws Apply to Us
Copyings is not equal to taking.

If someone steals something from me, it isn't that they now have it that is the big problem. It is that I no longer have it that makes it so bad.
It's cool having the network running live in your browser on the cs231n.stanford.edu page
This is really sad to me, I legitimately want a site where I can find a buddy to go fishing with. I moved several years ago, and I really don't have any real "man" friends. I'm friendly with my coworkers, but its not really a "lets go fishing this weekend" kind of thing.
OneRNG is basically the same thing, except it's open hardware: http://onerng.info/
Are you suggesting that Uber does not discriminate against disabled people? Because the evidence outlined in the article is quite damning.

Dismissing any criticism as "probably PR by a competitor" is really not that useful.
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> you've exceeded the change that you can personally effect.

That's not true though. You're still not effecting the change that would result from you yourself taking action. In your example, you're shy the result of 1/3 of possible change.
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ADA compliance is almost never cheap or easy. That was the knock on the law when it was being debated and any business owner will tell you it's still every bit the costly nightmare people said it would be at the time. It's a terrible law and most of it should be repealed (the rest should devolve to the states, which unlike the federal government have the constitutional authority to impose it), but the fact remains that courts have upheld it and it is the law. There's no reason one taxi company should have to follow it and not another.
plenty of people re-use their access credentials across multiple sites

I learned that lesson 20 years or so ago. Unique passwords for every site now.
Thank you for this quote. I often think that this gets overlooked in our industry, and I'm no exception. A recent Hanselminutes podcast[1] touched on this. It pointed to a great resource[2].

1. http://hanselminutes.com/475/accessibility-a11y-with-opendir...

2. http://a11yproject.com/
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What is "Private Internet Access"?
It's funny how you call it "accessibility issues" when others would (rightly) call it "obeying the law".
Don't ask HN, look up the actual difference between an employee and a contractor if you are not sure and are employing contractors.
Don't run your own blog. At least not for a while. The chance you'll rank in football search result is low.

Here's an example of someone who's reputation you might aspire towards:

http://www.thephins.com/forums/search.php?searchid=2222314

I read everything he says on this Miami Dolphins (American) football forum. But he also write professionally for some website, and he's a member of the premium section of the blog, where, I hear, there is some great info/discussions.

Here's an example of one of his more in depth posts:

http://www.thephins.com/forums/showthread.php?83531-QB-Rakee...

The site doesn't let me search by popularity, or I'd be able to find you more examples.
Agree that we're in agreement ;-)
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You know, everything about Uber's structure and approach to the market has been designed with the sole purpose of evading the law. It's only a matter of time before some ambitious US Attorney starts thinking about tying all this stuff together with RICO.
Ask any number of companies that skirt the law (mining/extraction) or who are powerful enough to simply evade the law (most pipeline incidents aren't fully accounted for in terms of environmental/damage cost because lax laws shield the companies that maintain/build pipeline).

It's a question - if your business is big enough to essentially buy off legislators or judiciary, is it your company's fiduciary duty to go into legally gray area for higher profits?
I've had a similar experience with Uber. Awesome at first, but then the horror stories started emerging, and what was upsetting was Uber's lack of initiative to abate the problems.

I can understand their position in trying to keep their drivers as independent contractors and therefore less controlled and regulated. But it seems that they are not even trying to show a willingness to appease to their own trodden customers and conscientious user base.
Uber in the UK uses licensed taxi drivers the same as any other Private Hire firm. I think they'd have an extremely hard time claiming that they are exempt from UK and EU law. Furthermore, Black Cabs are an entirely different taxi group and the competition between them is regulated AFAIK.
And "the law" is not the only measure of what's right. Just because it may end up being legal for Uber to discriminate against disabled doesn't mean they aren't major dicks.

There's a fundamental rule for living in the world: Don't be a dick. Uber is breaking that rule, through sociopathic sophistry.