skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still an open question as to whether this will cause San Francisco level problems. It may turn out to be a very good thing in moderation.

I think people forget that until very recently, San Francisco was actually rather fond of its tech industry. It was viewed as a creative, slightly quirky, and generally positive culture that fit right in.

Tech is actually a pretty good industry to have around. Supposedly tech jobs create wealth and, as a result, stimulate more non-tech job creation around it. The problem isn't necessarily tech, it's too much of a good thing[1]

There's also a secondary issue, which is that pacific northwestern cities have a middle-to-recent history of not really wanting Californians around, so you might be getting a more negative response from Portland or Seattle to "silicon valley moving north" than you would from Baltimore or St Louis. An occupational poll I read recently suggests that the computer industry is still looked on positively [2].

Overall, though? If this just means that tech is finally spreading out a bit, so that people can earn a programmer salary in SF (about 114k according to US news best jobs) in a place where this means they can now buy a house, raise a family, and stimulate the local economy (and perhaps an anemic housing market), I see this as a good thing.

[1] Perhaps. There is an argument to be made that tech culture has gotten much uglier with the amount of money that poured in. Also, we spend a lot of time and mathematical talent getting people to click on ads now.

[2] http://www.gallup.com/poll/156713/americans-rate-computer-in...
Only with intelligent people.
> By taking a picture of it on their phone and transmitting it via Whatsapp, which is just about the ugliest, hackiest and probably borderline-legal way of transmitting patient data imaginable, but it gets the job done.

Congrats on the massive process improvement on using readily-available technology. I'm no lawyer but I'm pretty certain that this violates HIPAA, which means it's a new market just screaming for PII-managing image-transfer networks and startups.
Hello, dev of web.gl here. It should be preserving automatically. If it doesn't, that's a bug. What browser/OS are you on?
At our offices we use Pull Requests and Rebase as a combined work flow to get mostly linear history. Before issuing a PR we get the latest master, rebase our branch onto that so that all commits in our branch are approximately at the same time stamp and then issue a PR. This creates a nicely linear history for the most part.

The only evil is a willingness to force push the updated history over our branches before the PR goes up. But no one shares branches usually. Or the collaborators on a branch are few and they agree when to rewrite history.
See also Koichi's talk from RubyConf 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UO60ocw52w
I think explicit languages can make things more clear however disagree with the notion that implicit behaviors are necessarily a bad thing.

I've found that the hybrid approach in the MongoDB aggregation framework works really well.

It optimizes things around the first $match to create an optimized initial read (the selectivity of your initial stages is really important). Once you're past the initial read the rest of the pipeline is fully imperative.

This makes things really nice when debugging complex aggregation pipelines. For example, you can simply omit the rest of your pipeline at any point to debug (with a $limit), see what you're dealing with, fix them, and move on to the next one.
Oh, and you should add PostgreSQL support. Maybe it's already supported, but I didn't see it explicitly listed.
Thanks for your note. That's exactly what we are doing. I am hosting a table at a local strawberry festival tomorrow in Niskayuna, NY. Thanks again for your reply.
Inductive Logic Programming: Techniques and Applications (1994) [pdf]
there will always be bad scroll bars or confusing websites, people will just stop using those sites, but that shouldn't prevent people who make a nice scroll bar from doing so.
Like Objective C dynamic dispatch, without the runtime cost?
The cross-product is a useful outer product, but it's only possible in three dimensions: It takes two vectors and makes a new vector orthogonal to both of them.

In two dimensions, that's impossible, because there's no other direction for that new vector to point. In more than three dimensions, that's impossible, because there's no single direction for that new vector to point.

It's a hacky way to express the more general concept of orthogonality and handedness: The magnitude of the product we want is proportional to how orthogonal the two vectors are, and the sign is due to a handedness convention we've adopted.

Well, if two vectors are orthogonal to any degree at all, they span a two-dimensional surface, so why not define a product which takes two one-dimensional vectors and makes a signed two-dimensional surface out of them, with an area proportional to their lengths and how orthogonal they are and a sign due to a handedness convention? That's the wedge product in Clifford algebra.

The fun comes when you realize that these signed areas are quaternions and can be used to rotate vectors in arbitrary-dimensional spaces simply by picking vectors which span the desired plane of rotation and choosing apt multiplication rules.

The real fun comes when you realize that choosing your metric cleverly gives you one plane where rotations are hyperbolic instead of Euclidean (circular), so you can model accelerations as rotations in the space-time plane. Which is Special Relativity. Which is neat.

This lays it all out nicely with pictures and everything: http://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm

And here is SR done as hyperbolic rotations in a space-time plane: http://www.av8n.com/physics/spacetime-welcome.htm
Yeah but that would break backwards compatibility because people do their CSS with this in mind.
I think he was going for a take on mitochondrial Eve, and what could happen given current/future technology. But I agree, the racial purity hopes and dreams of the seven Eves would have been obliterated about two minutes after the second space baby hit puberty.

Anathem does take a little while to get into thanks to the language, but it's great!
There is a number of user styles (installable with Stylish [1]) that replace default scroll bars with floating ones. I find this [2] particularly nice.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/
[2] https://userstyles.org/styles/83431/minimal-floating-scrollb...
I don't even understand what worse you are talking about. Was I don't mean that as an argument against regulation not a clear enough disclaimer that I wasn't arguing against regulation?

I don't have a magic information oracle, so I can't show you what the US economy would look like if there had never been an SEC, but I sort of expect that there would be less individuals that held stock in giant companies (because I expect there would be less overall investment and I expect that people with small amounts of money would be less inclined to expose it to an unregulated stock market).
That's absolutely true. Sometimes the reason is wrong, in which case it shouldn't have been done that way. The point of Chesterton's fence isn't that everything gets done for a reason and therefore should be left alone, it's that everything gets done for a reason and you can't evaluate whether or not that reason was correct if you don't know that reason.
At least HN doesn't seem to be perpetuating the Reddit hypocrisy about voting for quality and not popularity, but the problem remains, voting popular opinions up and unpopular ones down only serves to turn the place into an echo chamber. Though mostly it's annoying to have to select the text to be able to read it as it gets lighter and lighter.
Being poor is just a lack of liquidity. Minimum income is opening the bank bailout philosophy from just corporate persons, to all persons. But human people act differently than corporate people, so maybe it will work in this scope.

Edit: If you disagree, could you please say why? I can be dense and clueless, but it's hard to improve if I'm ignorant.
As the business model I'm aiming to hasn't been completely revealed just yet, I'm focusing on user adquisition right now, people who will actually apply to job openings.

I'll check out those authors, thanks for your comment!
i can't see how it would break backwards compatibility?
No, you shouldn't style your scrollbars when they are part of the browser chrome and simply scroll a page. Yes, you should be able to style your scrollbars when they're part of your website/application.

Those JS solutions out there are quite sucky. Oh, hey, sorry, we just broke scrolling down using your spacebar.
SEC Announces Enforcement Action for Illegal Offering of Security-Based Swaps
I had no idea people had made that, for that addon, thanks! so downloading that addon
Nifty. So do each of the guesses shown account for a roughly equal number of clustered clicks, or do some of them aggregate more clicks than others?
Stylish browser addon -> Add CSS for HN for "font { color: #333 !important; }"

Now all comments are the same color, regardless of votes.

I dislike the fading mechanism for the reasons I describe here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746702
I live in Argentina and I always buy books from an online bookstore located in England, it is much cheaper. And I have a subscription to a local library to read novels written in Spanish. The article is wrong when it says that "import restrictions make it a bureaucratic nightmare to purchase books from international internet sellers"; since books are not subject of import restrictions nor taxes. Capital controls are why people cannot transfer money to international bookstores and that's why they buy books from the more expensive local bookstores. The language is another barrier.
Do you think Without those rules, the risk would be higher and the investment would likely be lower, and the lower investment is exactly less connection to that market. is nonsense, or maybe just disagree with parts or it?

I think if I don't own stocks and bonds it is quite clear that I am not as sensitive to those markets.
First of all, thanks for taking the time to check out the site.

Right now, as I said on another comment I'm focusing on adquiring users who will apply to the job openings.

I want the service to be completely free for those who want to get freelance gigs, and I'm aiming to provide B2B services to agencies and media producers.

I'm currently planning out the following iteration of the project which will start displaying some of this "B2B direction" for the product.

Thing is, I'm currently the only person working on this heh It's quite a challenge though, I love it.
Hey this is Neeharika from Sonar. We spoke with Taylor Wang, COO of Mayvenn yesterday and wanted to share a post on how Mayvenn's thinks about community and SMS: http://blog.sendsonar.com/2015/06/19/how-mayvenn-grew-its-co...
Just remember that that is common and that all businesses are held together with strings and chewing gum, but you can only see yours. The rest are not as polished as they look.
Maybe you've had the fortune to not have met any really manipulative people. Julia seemed pretty plausible to me.
Uber Isn't Letting Its Drivers Carry Guns Anymore
How to install Splunk on a free AWS micro instance
ask seattle, they are dealing with it now and many of the locals aint to happy.

not only have housing prices gone up, traffic and crime have as well.
So, it sounds like just a bad idea. I don't understand -- why do people think it's a good idea for web pages to style my scrollbar?

I wonder if there's something of an age/cultural separation at play here. Back in the 90s when desktop environments were a point of wide discussion and interest, there was a piece of "common knowledge" that it's important for all the user's applications to have a consistent look+feel. Furthermore, that look+feel was in their control via desktop manager settings: so you could choose large font-sizes, high-contrast window borders and cursors, scrollbar widths, stuff like that.

The web used to follow that same themeing, or at least tried to; hence specific UI controls were part of HTML, and the browser could defer to the platform toolkit to render them. That mechanism has been abandoned by the Web as it has moved towards a full application-platform, where every webpage re-implements its own toolkit and decides how things should look+feel. Which is directly the opposite of the "consistent-look desktop" philosophy.

There are some good reasons why that happened, but I think a whole lot of bad ones too. Taking the user's scrollbar out of their control, into the webpage designer's, is just another UI control ripe for abuse.

I guess the only question is that, since webpages render their own controls for everything else, shouldn't they be able to make the Firefox scrollbar consistent with the rest of it? But then, why is the Firefox scrollbar coming into play at all, when they could already just implement their own as a Javascript control?
Seattle's traditional Capitol Hill residents are really struggling with the tech influx, just down the hill in SLU. New bars and restaurants open daily, rents have skyrocketed, and their arts scene is being pushed up the hill and to the east.
Good news.

Another solution is to use emscripten:
http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/emscripten-qt...
HIPAA doesn't apply in Germany...

PS - its HIPAA not HIPPA.
If we were having a gold rush we'd be complaining about miners driving up prices. The tech sector is no different in that regard. I like the correlations they've drawn to the performance of individual companies, etc. but to promote the idea that these companies are any different from any other company in any other industry that would be going through the same growth is a bit off target in my opinion.

What would be interesting to me though would be data along the lines of "What is different when technologists come to town vs. [insert some other group]"

- What does it do to supporting industries/economies?

- Do schools start performing better?

- Do the local municipalities fare better because of the group that is coming in?

- Do maker labs start springing up?

- Does the level of poverty decrease?

That's the kind of stuff I'd be interested in learning about. I guess I'm asking what ACTUALLY happens when technologists come to town that's different than when doctors come to town or garbage men, etc.
> If we shrink that other 90%, so that the formerly 10% is now 80%, renaming becomes more attractive.

Convinced :)
This looks brilliant, but it's giving application errors (overloaded?).

Are you guys "blessed" by the banks you offer connections to? What's the chance of this stopping working out of the blue when a bank changes a protocol?
Well, your #1 obstacle is to saturate your "market" with things that your users want to rent.

So, start by focusing on a single location. Also, focus on a specific niche that is often borrowed. Tools, maybe?

Allow your users to list other things, but focus on that specific niche. Hopefully you'll grow organically from there. Once your organic growth starts, kick it into gear with some advertising (especially location-based, focused on markets where you're more saturated).
Not to mention loan origination fees, appraisals, and inspections costs.
No redaction necessary!
Thanks.

I take it you don't think it is possible for bad regulation to mislead people? Because that's a piece of what happened in the mortgage crisis, the ratings agencies were given a license to charge fees for putting stamps on bonds, and those bonds were sold into regulated investments like insurance and pensions, investments that people trusted to be in secure assets, in large part because they were regulated.

Take away the regulation and a bunch of that money is stuffed in mattresses, which while perhaps unfortunate, is obviously a better outcome than disappearing into a financial black hole.
likewise, almost anyone can chop wood or swing a hammer to break rocks.... no just anyone can write high quality code.
Which is why you should try to make sure people know your reasons when making decisions in the first place.
Someone once said "write your commit messages as if they're going to be read by a maniac with a machete who knows where you live" (I forget who.)
Some days after a particularly intensive git blame session that moves through multiple refactors and terminates in a commit message like "fix stuff lol" I feel like buying a machete and breaking into the employee database.
sometimes the System scrollbar feel very wide and big if you have a slim container that have a scrollbar.

Or it can steal focus from the content it self, if your website is a darkly colored one and you have massive light grey scrollbar in middle of the site.
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Yeah but what if the physical switch gets manipulated? I think if you're that paranoid you need to keep your macbook in a vacuum so it can't pick up any sound.
Do you receive them directly at home, or do you have to pick them up at the Customs Office? I do not have direct experience, but, from what I read, the process can be quite bureaucratic: http://www.clarin.com/cultura/aduana-libros-AFIP-restriccion...
I second the being a jerk and making tough calls isn't the same thing. But when you are learning and younger the difference is less clear. I would think the Steve Jobs of the 1980's while he was learning to lead was a bit more of an asshole then he was in his later years. That doesn't mean he still didn't push people etc but my bet is he learned and became less of a "jerk" without giving up on his visions. Mind you I know nothing specific other than what I have read about him.

The truly amazing leaders are the ones who you will not only follow into the fire, but when you come out burned you are already signed up for the next round. They aren't abusive, jerks or anything of the sort. Unless they do this to you needlessly and repeatedly, then they are not even respectful of themselves.

I personally have lived by this rule, I won't ask anyone to do something I am not willing to do or help them do. Doesn't mean I can do it necessarily, but I would do my best. For me, this generally removes people feeling squeezed, they may feel I am a pain sometimes, but they know I will do it too. I do my best to listen as well, but I do feel that people have taken advantage of me at times because I will generally give them the benefit of the doubt for a little to long.
The technology exists -- see http://www.physio-control.com/ProductDetails.aspx?id=2147484... and http://www.zoll.com/medical-products/data-management/rescuen... from PhysioControl and Zoll, two of the biggest EMS EKG monitor manufacturers, but its certainly not easy to use. In my system, we used to have to upload the EKG to the computer and then "e-fax" it from he computer to the Emergency Department -- practically, this took 3-4 minutes to do, and when you're in an urban area and nearly always < 10 minutes from the hospital, its not the most productive use of time. Most of the time, if was easier to do the EKG, and in case of a STEMI, call the "code STEMI" via radio, print the EKG and spend the rest of the time doing important patient care (IV access, aspirin, etc)

That said, we were in a Paramedic system with a relatively short to-hospital drive time, and going to an academic medical center that had 24/7 in-house interventional cardiologists. If you're in a aystem with only EMT-Basics (who are trained to perform the EKG but cannot interpret the printout), or going to a hospital where the interventional cardiologists need to come in from home, or if your primary hospital doesn't even have a cath lab and will need to divert you to another bigger hospital, it makes a lot of sense to be able to send the EKG from the field and get the ball rolling early.
>We have adopted a no-firearms policy to ensure that both riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable on the platform.

As a driver, I would feel less safe with a firearm not in my car. The reason I would have a firearm in my car is because it provides me with peace of mind in my safety. That statement is silly. The reason drivers would have guns in their car is because it makes them feel more safe. If they felt less safe, they wouldn't be keeping a gun in their car. Would they?

>The companies’ differing policies came to light after an Uber driver in Chicago shot a man who was firing a pistol into a group of people. The Uber driver, who was not named and who had a concealed carry permit, had dropped off a passenger only minutes before pulling out his gun and firing six times at the man shooting a pistol.

So a Chicago man potentially saved peoples' lives thanks to having a gun, this brings up the differing policies, and Uber bans guns instead of Lyft allowing them? Strange how that reasoning works. Is there a detail I'm missing? Did he shoot a lone officer firing into a crowd of 6 criminals?
Yes, it's overloaded.

The service is "blessed" by some of the bigger banks (e.g. they notify about upcoming changes), but some smaller ones require speedy manual work.
Why bother? It's not like Stephenson invented that sentence. It's a fact, stated in the simplest possible way. If you google that literal sentence, you'll find quite a few uses unrelated to his books.
This story has huge implications for the internet. Even if you don't agree with Reason's politics the outcome of this case may affect you in the future.
>You can tell truth by looking at the tactics.

You can't really in this case. Both sides have iffy tactics. You really need to look at the scientific evidence.
I think this is a problem worth solving. The image on the developer page with the bank vault and with a window in in it asking the question 'why give them the keys when they just need to look in the window' is the perfect analogy.

Slightly confusing is that the homepage says the service is $1.50/month but the developer page says 'nothing to pay' and links out to an out of context refenerce to the Wikipedia page on QFX the common Quicken financial data format.

The consumer demo is an admirable conclusion, but after running the wizard my takeaway is that the consumers bank would need to support this standard and that they are aiming for something like auth tokens, envisioning a similar UI to Auth tokens on GitHub.

I think what's missing is the blog post explaining the the why of what is needed for this to be mass-adopted and why also this is the best solution to the problem.
Finally!

It's so annoying to keep listen to people exaggerating problems of GC and pauses just because they only know of naive approaches like mark and sweep or reference counting.
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People don't have much choice over what websites they access. People rely on websites, and basically every webpage provides different utility, so we're all stuck with what the designer published. Very many designers are bad, due in large part to the complexity of the web.
It's funny how the whole page doesn't say what I get for logging in.

From the video I guess it shows me a graph view of the people? Why would I want or need that? Why is it a big deal? I haven't thought about it in depth but it sounds like a weekend student project. I have seen such graphs of many things, github commits, keyword clouds, etc, and not once did I have the feeling it's giving me more than being a nice effect. It's not a good way to do real analysis or work on daily (simple, boring bar charts for amounts or tree views for relationships are much better in my experience).

So, stepping aside from expressing my disappointment: Did anybody log in? What does it do?
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I agree about conversations - I actually commented that I wish I could respond to people, and somebody responded to that on the map and we had a quick conversation, just knowing that our dots were for each other. It ruled.