skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you believe that and care, either stop buying nikes and stop taking uber or start petitioning your government to change or implement laws. Personally Uber being made legal is something I would consider a reasonable issue for a politician to take a stand on one way or another. If you live somewhere with elected officials, consider these things when voting.
With all due respect, I just looked at your pictures and it doesn't look like you're sketching right. Like, they're "ouch" level bad, 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. Sorry.

My best suggestion would be to actually go through some exercises in the books I mentioned. You should see massive improvement within days.
> I always thought the cabs in Philly were bad. Apparently they're decent, comparatively.

I also have a laundry list of complaints about Philly cabs, but I've never been anywhere where I felt the cabs were definitively better. Compared to some of the other things on this thread, my most consistent complaints are relatively minor (won't take credit cards, don't have the AC on, etc.) At least they are omnipresent, and never say no to my destination. Almost every time I call for an Uber an open cab rolls by first. If Uber shortened their cancellation window, I probably wouldn't even try to use it at all.
Breaking Greece
Yes. The customers rate the drivers, so the bad ones are weeded out.
You have the freedom to think........ what the hive mind whats you to think.
Think about this then, for a specific type of computation (image compression) Google is also saying compute resources cost nothing.
unfortunately, in some way or other, his premises are true. more chaos it creates, the longer it all takes, the more cash extracted.

take a look at afghanistan - there was never a critical mass of enough soldiers/equipment to swiftly win the war, conquer whole territory. just enough to appear winning, but not really (in reality, US lost the war, in similar way as soviets did). look what's happening with iraq - US is/will be coming back. oh gosh, what an unfortunate coincidence. is there still anybody out there convinced that iraq game was about protecting US citizens anyhow? I mean, look at the map, look 12 years back at politics, there was no threat, there is still no threat to US citizens back home. Just enough to piss off radical muslims, and radicalize rest. let's not forget we're talking about oil-richest region on the planet. yes, coincidence again...

why are there so many lobbyists in Washington? i mean these people should be put in jail for treason
That's pretty dark/cynical view of the reasons for regulations.
It won't help. It's almost impossible to see the value in Joe's work until you have to build a complex distributed system yourself. Takes years.
What's wrong with this? Being completely serious here, what is wrong with citizens owning firearms?

I am all about reducing gun violence, but if you want to do that you have to do something to stem the tide of illegally acquired handguns in areas of concentrated poverty. That's where a lot of your gun violence comes from.

The recent happenings in Charleston are unicorns. Unpredictable and very rare events that you can't actually make a special law for, without the G-men physically going to every household in America and confiscating firearms. That is a policy I assure you you don't actually want.
Tell that to the "super food" industry.

Pomegranate drinks, I'm looking at you.
Creating training data is a relatively simple task though (even though massive in scale), which can be done by untrained people in a crowd sourced fashion. Creating a modeling tool is both difficult, requiring experts _and_ time consuming.
ESR's views particularly on guns, libertarian economics and politics, and AGW, all present pretty standard cases of assuming a frame and fitting all data to that frame. Chopping, discarding, and/or fabricating data as necessary to do so.

That actually directly calls into question engineering validity, as solid engineering is solidly based in reality and a realistic interpretation of facts. Also the ability to discard frames which no longer fit.

My own work and research of the past several years puts a very high significance on both frames (or more generally, models), and on the psychology of interacting with those, with strong emphasis on denial in various forms.

ESR's political views call much of his work into question. I say that as someone who was strongly influenced by much of what he said, and enjoyed a fair bit of it. He's become a tremendous disappointment.

TAOUP has its merits. It's rather like recommending Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto a a social-technological critique. It's got some really solid points (see what Bill Joy's had to say on it: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html). But damned if the rest of the author's views and actions don't muddy the waters a tad.
It shows its a disruptive platform. Stuff like this will only make it grow faster.
Yeah, I'm basically on the same page as you. I can't say I really enjoy using taxis in Paris (although I don't have any nightmare stories like other people in this thread, mostly minor annoyances like refusing to take credit cards and some general rudeness).

On the other hand having services like uber breaking regulations might end up making taxis less safe and with a worse quality of service down the line as prices keep plunging due to the heavy unregulated competition.

I think the right move would be to open the market while still heavily regulating them but I don't know how the government can convince the taxi drivers to accept that since it would mean losing their super expensive license. I suppose the government could buy the licenses itself but that would be heinously expensive (and as a tax payer I can't say I would really like that).

I really wish the government wouldn't have allowed for this license market to exist in the first place, it was obviously going to create a cartel.
It was just under 2 years.

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
17 September 2013

PlayStation 4, Xbox One
18 November 2014

Microsoft Windows
14 April 2015
Selling bomb-detecting magic sticks to military knowing in full that they are not working and people will be put in life-threatening situations trying to use them is malicious and sociopathic, not just fraudulent. If anyone got hurt because of his bullshit detectors let a bomb pass, he should be fully responsible.
World launch markets look toward rocket reusability
When a taxi driver feels justified in beating up a customer rather than servicing them, you know you're dealing with just another Mafia. Being exposed to market forces is certainly not comfortable but the sorry state of taxi services shows how economic sectors degrade when you shield them from market forces. They even forget how to act in the interest of self-preservation.
Ha, next you claim it is not an alternative currency you can buy to unlock more features.
If you're like me, and you didn't immediately understand why the number of inhabitants for "a -> b" is "a^b", and needed help for the answer[1], then here's my solution to the author's question ("Why are there eight inhabitants of Tri -> Bool, but nine of Bool -> Tri? It helps to write out each possible function.").

The nine inhabitants of Bool -> Tri: https://gist.github.com/acbart/5d3fdfd8d363af26a59c

The eight inhabitants of Tri -> Bool: https://gist.github.com/acbart/c695355880a706a4ff59

Pedagogical note: If you're going to poise a question in an online presentation of material, try to have a solution (automatically checked or at least statically available). A huge part of learning is having the learner participate (which you did!) and then assessed.

[1] I got help from here, @tikhonj suggested this in another comment: http://chris-taylor.github.io/blog/2013/02/10/the-algebra-of...
No they haven't. I don't notice anything different - still navigation bugs.

The real question is why? What are you getting from replacing hyperlinks with something that performs horribly and needs debugging and has a poor user experience?
I hope you gave him a bad rating. No matter the job, professionals should keep it professional.

In Greece it is very common for the driver to engage in small talk with his clients but there must be limits. Once I had an independent driver (not associated with any company) recounting —without me asking— his adventures as a client in the sex industry.
What is extremist about voting in favor of the status quo?

But more importantly, what's wrong with a justice being the lone decenter? Don't we want justices who vote on the merits of the case alone? What's the value in having nine justices who all think a like and vote the same way? I think our supreme court should reflect the values and priorities of all americans.

Seems to me like you just don't like Sotomayor. Which is fine, you are entitled to your opinion, but why don't you come up with criticisms more constructive than calling her "extremist," because you are basically just encouraging group think.
It sounds almost identical to what Fon was originally.
I don't know the examples you are talking about, but yea, in an ideal world I'd fine the crap out of "super food" companies. The problem is that they tend to have copywriters talented enough to phrase things in such a way that it is just barely not a totally obvious lie.
Let ShowTrack ease your TV watching
You would make the unpleasant-ness a metric you measure.
>Of course this assumes there are users who would prefer an ad blocker that lets responsible advertisers through as opposed to one that doesn't, but I believe that enough people do that it could work.

I have doubts, unless you get payed for it as a user.
When making a microservice application you have to choose between a text (JSON) or binary (Thrift) interface. You cloud argue that the unix way is to make it JSON until it becomes a performance problem.
If you're wanting to build a portfolio for yourself, Wordpress is the most common option.

If you're asking about a platforms for project managers (like Dribbble et al), I'd say that probably the reason why such a platform doesn't exist, is because project management isn't really a visual discipline in the way that design or even development may be. Most just tend to use their own website, giving them the flexibility to share their thought-process.
Pip -t: A simple and transparent alternative to virtualenv in Python
Replacing Flash: Adaptive Streaming and DRM in HTML5
Reading the article reminded me of reading about Lisp macros (which I have been doing a bit of recently]. The shift from reasoning about values to reasoning about types feels a Ltd like the shift from reasoning about runtime to reasoning about compile time.

The interesting take away for me is that smaller data types are going to make it easier to reason about the state space. In turn this reminded me of Perlis:

Epigram 34. The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

In that the state space is so massive.
... Okay if it isn't tinfoil hatery... show me the case law which proves me wrong?

Saying "I know a cautious lawyer" is just tautological BS.
“If you are reading this you should be working with us”- Recruiting via Firebug
How an open-source competitive benchmark helped to improve databases
For context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bml8KwCmob8
It's both the language and the ecosystem.

The language itself is a prime example of a language with features that aren't orthogonal. For example count how many features in Python are solved in other languages just with proper support for anonymous functions.
>Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

Which means that no program is more un-UNIX-y than Emacs...
Don't see this mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_feedback

Instead of 1 on 1s, employees review a handful of their peers + their superiors. What do people think about this?
It seems I was lucky in France, no majorly bad taxi drivers

Or, you know, just get the bus, it's cheaper (not always possible, I know)

But yeah, it seems they just began digging their own grave.

Meanwhile in "technology driven" Germany Uber has been banned
I agree with you. One of the very simplest ways companies could help themselves is through transparent communication of corporate strategy & performance, particularly if line managers map that to individual & team objectives. I have never been at any company that did a good job of this. It seems much more common that strategic obfuscation, keeping employees in the shadows (if not entirely in the dark) is something taught in management school.
French Uber protests block airports
Elfen Lied was one of the first fansubs I watched, and it was a good example of translators going too far. The version I watched used different text colors for the alien characters depending on whether their human (mostly sane) or alien(instinct-driven, homicidal) personality was in control. If you remember, there's a character later on who spent most of her life locked up in the basement under a government facility, so more than once I found myself disagreeing with the translator's assessment of whether or not she was supposed to be "sane" in any given scene.

And then there's the notorious scene in Code Geass where two characters are playing chess, and over 50% of the screen is filled with translator's notes about how that's not actually a valid move (when it's clearly an error on the animator's end of things).

Many, many fansub groups are just plain unprofessional in every sense of the word.
A few weeks ago there was a discussion that might give some leads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9623791
"Everyone else does it this way" isn't a good enough reason for me.
Try typing:

define: loss leader
This is a false choice - you can serialize/deserialize Thrift objects to/from JSON. I think the choice here is between having a clearly-defined /schema/ or not.
Are you saying you disagree with the use of subroutines, functions and interfaces? After all, they are essentially small programs that do one thing and do it well.
> you should just use Linux and avoid those silly protection measures

I think the protection is often done in the hardware (firmware), not drivers. At least it has to be for any printer/scanner that can work as a standalone copier.
As a Viennese who took that tour together with some international guests, I highly recommend _not_ doing it, because you're not allowed to see very much. I found it quite disappointing.
Some sites appear to block Ctrl-W these days. Those sites get the full AdBlock "Go Away" treatment.
BMW i3's Web Browser
The problem with things like that is people will try to game it. People would just put a bunch of gibberish at the bottom of a page to raise the total percentage of screen space. It reminds me of back in the pre-google days when sites would put tons of keywords in white text on a white background at the bottom of a page to try to rank higher.
What i don't get is that ultimately, forcing all taxi drivers to work through systems like uber, could prove better for everyone in the long run, including the state. No more fraud ( how many times did the drivers forced you to pay in cash), so more taxes collected and easier monitoring of the overall taxi profession.

Having centralized live tracking of every aspect of the taxi service actually make things easier to regulate, not harder.
What Makes Work Meaningful? Ask a Zookeeper
Can you elaborate on that? Just wondering.
(With clickable links)

Demo: http://restya.com/board/demo.html

Features: http://restya.com/board/features.html

Trello Vs Restyaboard: http://restya.com/board/comparison.html (Offline support and more)

AWS AMI coming soon for 1-click install (Submitted for approval). This is one of revenue options.

Source code will be pushed once AMI is ready.

http://restya.com/board/
Fine by me, since those developers are doing so on behalf of systems like Java and Python, which fall far below the mark.

However, it has become quite trendy to bash OOP itself, especially here on HN, without acknowledging that there are less awful ways of doing it that just aren't mainstream. Try making similarly blanket criticisms of FP here using Python (Why, it has lambdas and list comprehensions after all--isn't that enough?) or some other impure language and see what happens.
dammit daiz.
Actually, replace 90 by 91 (100 / 1.1), and 35 by 38.5 (100/1.1^10)
> used is to take low value notes and bleach them before overprinting with a higher denomination print pattern. (I
> think this is the rationale for high-denomination Euro banknotes -- €50 and above -- having embedded RFID chips.

Citation needed

You can't take a lower denomination bank-note and print a higher denomination one on an Euro note: the sizes are different (of course, maybe you can pass one note for the next in sequence, but it is slightly harder)

Also no RFID is mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes#Security_featur...
"Why does my favorite old movie look like shit? I want 1100 words by Thursday"

"Because they're compressing it too much. There are parameters in all compression formats where you can make the files bigger or smaller, and they're making the movie too small, so a videophile will notice differences. Resolution is the largest of these parameters, and it corresponds to actual hardware, but it's not the only one. They're cheating you out of accurate movement in order to make their data processing easier."

"I do not understand the words that are coming out of your mouth because I have an art degree. 1100 words. Emotive language. Thursday."

-----

You have a problem with a transfer? Reduce the amount of compression to well beyond the level your focus group can detect, and increase the resolution. Don't talk about “the random scatter of photosensitive molecules in the emulsion creates an overall softness and shimmer,” because data is data, and sufficient amounts of data can represent that scatter just fine.

From MPEG-2 to H.265, video format advances have reduced data needs to maybe 20% of what they used to be, while from 480p to 8K, resolution improvements have increased data needs by a factor of 108x. Businesses have failed to cope honestly: They're selling the higher resolution but compressing more heavily so it looks just like it used to look, or giving only token data allowances so 1080p is given 50% more data than 480p rather than the 575% it needs in order that a 480p inset in that larger picture has the identical performance as the lower resolution stream would.

And that is why Youtube looks like shit, and that is why film transfers are still not performing at the level we want.
Nah, there are multiple cloud vendors out there. My platform runs in DO, AWS, and GCE for instance. The notion that cloud itself locks you in will disappear soon.
related: http://www.phauna.org/papers/anime/anime.pdf
How about inserting an extra (final ?) frame with the logo of a company. Maybe share the revenues with the people using your service. I am not very familiar with FB: could there be a link as well with the gif ?
Thanks - wasn't obvious to me either.
Am I missing something though, I only see six inhabitants in your gist for Tri?
Unique facts
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I think this is an honest and fair decision towards the consumer base. Perhaps they can offer one of the two previous Batman games to make up for the time lost before the update arrives. Let's hope the patch resolves the issues.
Wait... C# was strongly influenced by Java... by law of transitive properties that means C# was strongly influenced by Objective-C..... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

That's like the opposite of finding out that Sweden named New York
Reviving the Gofer Standard Prelude (2009)
I'm thinking nonsense. We have to descend to the lowest common denominator to make things work? That seems lazy to me.

The system we have at the moment is geared towards a few, extremely wealthy individuals and companies, and they basically created the system and need to see it continue. And its from the US it came and gets enforced.

There is absolutely no need to have a system we have in the US where the corporations basically call the shots, via campaign funding and revolving door bribery, or for the warmongering. Its like someone holding a gun to your face complaining that the other person "just won't see sense, they refuse to put their gun down". Small wonder, when they're being threatened.

What would make sense for me is for a few people in powerful positions to grow a backbone and start to demand changes; but I think the apparatus is so strong now, that those that do, meet an untimely fate, and the remaining few have courage in the face of certain death/social destruction.

I think we've been had, basically, in a really large way, and I don't see a way out of it. Its a successful, long game play that has won out. Nice if you're part of it, sucks if you're not.
Uber seems the problem everywhere Taxi market is highly regulated. Uber operates also in Warsaw, this was a news for a day or two, but later nothing really happened.

In Poland Taxi market is almost non-regulated. Taxi driver must pass medical examination, both physical and mental health is checked, plus there are a few other reasonable requirements.

As a result of this, in Warsaw there are more then 20 Taxi corporations, plus Uber, plus independent taxi drivers.

The interesting thing is that prices vary quite a lot, since corporations are not competing over prices only. Some corporations have fancy cars, some corporations are more available during high traffic hours.

Taxis offer also side services - if you run out of alcohol during party, the taxi driver can get one for you in 10 min. You have a car, went to bar, drunk to much to drive - no problem, taxi will arrive with another driver, who will drive your car home.

I understand that governments are regulating explosives production, but why the hell they mess with something so simple as driving people from place A to B is beyond my imagination.
>Sounds like cabs need "body" cameras (interior cams that can't be turned off?) as much as cops do.

That's what Paris needs, from the sound of it. Pittsburgh just needs competition, which we now have. The cabs haven't gotten any better, though. They still effectively don't exist, I almost never see one, and as far as I know they continue to almost exclusively serve the airport...probably because, until recently, Uber and Lyft weren't allowed to pick up riders from the airport. Maybe Yellow Cab will start improving their service now? But I doubt it.
Paying to own content is a big part of Netflix strategy. It takes time to build that up thought. Australia seems like a good example of the challenges trying to pay the owner a fee to show it for some time in some countries.

10 years from now Netflix will have a huge amount of content they own everywhere. It is kind of funny they don't even own the rights to show some of the content they are seen to own in some countries (because they allowed rights to be sold to others in various countries where Netflix didn't operate yet).

It seems like Netflix is either showing restraint about paying to license content in every country or those selling it are not willing to sell it.

And beyond that I do think Uncle Rupert has created extra problems for content in Australia (it seems Australia is the worst Netflix catalogue based on what people say - I haven't actually examined it).
This is somewhat similar to what I do ...
>You could argue that the unix way is to make it JSON until it becomes a performance problem.

I'd argue that the unix way is to make it JSON until it becomes a performance problem by which time the format is so entrenched in so many programs and since there's no real central coordination, you just get to live with it.