skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, you can't neatly compartmentalise one aspect of an individual's life and totally separate it from the others. Sometimes, the aspects with which you happen to agree might be used to indirectly (even invisibly) support the aspects you don't. Although it's difficult to judge that, it seems a reasonable condition for exercising caution. I say this as a huge fan of TAOUP.
I use http://www.copy.com which supports Windows, Android, and Linux. The Linux client isn't as smooth or hassle free as DropBox, but it does work.
I guess someone could do something about that. Stallman thinks Uber is a good candidate for a GPL clone. Smartphones, servers & drivers.
Have a look at those images :

http://www.spi0n.com/greve-taxis-vs-uber-paris/
Free download: Chalk vector elements
Matt Cutts Extends His Unpaid Leave with Google Through 2015
When they went out of beta/preview, the prices skyrocketed to absurdness and many people had to shutdown their app because of everything being coupled to their specific API and the notice being to short to adapt.

So yeah, don't invest into something when you don't know what the final pricing will be.
You're posting on Hacker News, where there are (non-protest) Uber stories every day...
Good thing you can have that exact same experience on Uber, word-for-word except replace "hitting a button on my smartphone" for "raising my arm".

Then add the benefit of Uber also working a bit away from those busy downtown streets where just raising your arm is actually enough to get a cab.
Out with the old, in with the less
This recent article in the NewYorker was interesting: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-new-theo...

I think most people are not equipped to deal with monotony/drudgery. I find that it really helps to have hobbies that will recharge you mentally. Double plus if that hobby happens to involve physical exercise. Eg: I'm trying to develop swimming and squash as hobbies. There will be days when I'll be be listless and frustrated, but a couple of hours of these mentally relaxes me enormously. Also, I often prefer more active to passive forms of relaxation, like playing pool/carrom by myself. HTH; Good luck!

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Other responses on this thread have good suggestions (friends, etc. Spending time with your partner, or dating might also help). Loneliness is often a trigger for listlessness. Needless to say, get your health checked and ensure you're having a healthy diet.
More guns == more murder.

> “For each 1 percentage point increase in proportion of household gun ownership,” Siegel et al. found, “firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9″ percent.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/13/2617131/largest-...
In Bratislava (at least), there is a taxi service operating over multiple companies and independent drivers. I've never used it, but it's apparently pretty good. You rate drivers and all. Still under all the TAXI regulation. I think that's the right way to do things.
Then there's the one about the mosquito that landed at [local air force base] and the fuel truck was half-way to it before they noticed it wasn't a fighter jet.
Ah thx, thats a shame. There are a lot of tweet embeds in there.
Why work if you can riot?
Do you send samples of your dish-washing liquid to a private lab?
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says humans will be robots' pets
I used to be a game developer and every game I've worked on, pretty much, has had a fixed frame rate, both for rendering and for game updates. (The two rates don't have to be the same.) A fixed rendering rate tends to make the game better to play (though of course this is a bit subjective), and a fixed game update rate avoids nasty timing-dependent bugs (e.g., due to parameters that work fine until you have overly long or short timesteps). Both have to cater for the commonly-encountered worst cases rather than the best ones.

(30Hz is somewhat common as rendering these days tends to involve a lot of fixed-cost full-screen passes for lighting and postprocessing. So by halving your frame rate you get over double the effective rendering time, which you can spend on having more stuff, higher res, etc.)

Even for 30Hz games, during development it's very common for the game not to run reliably at even 30Hz, until towards the end, at which point stuff is taken out, and assets and code optimised to make it all work. So it's not a cap that artificially limits performance so much as a floor that the developers are striving to hit :)

(I have no idea what the problem with Batman is specifically.)
I agree. I'm fairly amazed that militaries or police forces would buy these devices without demanding tests for validation first.
You get what you pay for. If you're happy to entrust your life into a random untrained uninsured stranger, then go ahead and get the cheaper unregulated taxi.
Who should be reminded? Why? If you mean "we entrepreneurs" - what exactly do you expect us to do about it? Again, why?
I can relate to this. I started with C# and asked a lot of questions first few years. Now I barely ask like 1 question a month regarding this language.
In general I agree with what you're saying. I also use Uber and enjoy Uber a great deal. But I think it's important to understand that a) There's a very good chance that your fare is subsidized by venture capital and does not reflect a "true" fare and that b) this subsidization, like any subsidization, will drive non subsidized competitors from your marketplace which can result in c) Uber deciding to no longer subsidize the true cost of a fare and you having a marketplace with far less competition.
I'm not sure I can say there's something absolutely wrong with it, but my opinion is that citizens shouldn't be allowed to own firearms. I live somewhere (UK) where they can't, and there is very little gun violence. That's not to say, of course, there aren't problems, but I just think - on balance - the world would be better off with fewer killing machines in it.
Async and Streaming JavaScript, We're All Doing It Wrong
Thanks for your feedback. We tried our best to differentiate from trello. We haven't checked MySpace UI. Will check. If you have any suggestion, please feel free to share.
I think that Taxi fares on Paris are fixed: http://www.taxis-de-france.com/professionnel/tarifstaxis.htm
So it is quite estrange what you are telling. Maybe it was a pirate taxi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation)?
Why do you think it won't save them? Uber has been banned and ruled illegal. I doubt that'll be overturned.

The strike is just to raise public awareness of multinational companies coming in and not following regulations to make more profit.
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Brad Cox's two books are worth reading:

"Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach" ISBN-10: 0201548348 ISBN-13: 978-0201548341

"Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier" ISBN-10: 0201502089 ISBN-13: 978-0201502084

even after all these years, they still give some interesting insights
Ejabberd 15.06 major version released
BTW If you are interested in stories about counterfeiting currency I can recommend: The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Making-Money-Counterfeiter/dp/...
Upon encountering the frothy-mouthed bits, you could return to the gell-mann-amnesia-effect node, and treat it as a disclaimer.
Anti-Uber Protest Turns to Guerrilla Warfare
Perhaps in 100 years some of the easiest roads will be driven by self driving cars. I doubt any of these drivers are too worried.
The new features and change list is huge: Message archive (Mnesia, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite), configuration checker, Windows installer, RPM and DEB binary packages and over 100 various other changes.
I'm under the impression that this violates US anti-trust laws - is this not the case?
Maybe I don't properly understand equity, but if two founders each take 20%, an employee pool is created with 10%, the convertible notes eat another 20%, and the seed ate 20%, this leaves 10% of shares available. How are you only going to take dilution if it increases your employees existing share value if you need funding to survive and have very little shares to give up leading into a series A?
Theme Hospital Format Specification
Except - temperature! It does actually matter if its 100 or 200 degrees.
The way I read it, they have no plans in 2015/2016.

Longer-term, we plan to incrementally replace components in Gecko with ones written in Rust and shared with Servo. We are still evaluating plans to ship Servo as a standalone product, and are focusing on the mobile and embedded spaces rather than a full desktop browser experience in the next two years.

https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
To clarify, I was careful not to call ESR a racist. (I was attempting to describe his positions in terms that I think he'd agree with.) And I haven't seen anyone else explicitly do so on this thread, which is good going for HN.
It's not entirely about compression - some "remasters" have been de-noised (i.e. no more grain - which in my opinion (and it is opinion) loses some of the atmosphere of a film (hell, if grain is unimportant, why do so many games have shaders which add it?)), some are run through a sharpen filter to deal with out of focus scenes and to "improve" the image quality, and so-forth - so it's not so much about compression as it is about other subjective "improvements" made to the transfer.

An example of something which has been done wonderfully, again in my opinion, is last year's restoration of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

Interestingly, they re-added the original tints to the remaster, as what's not commonly known is that many "black and white" films were projected through a coloured glass slide, in order to either give the entire scene a hue, or even to make the ground red/brown and the sky blue.
The fan-subbing scene is booming and although i do have a Crunchyroll subscription i do end up on fan subbing sites looking for anime releases that were not offered by crunchyroll or that i wanted to watch on the tube where streaming is not a option.

Fan-subbing is not as underground as this article would have yo think and it's way more convenient sometime.
...and just let it continue. How convenient. Pretend nobody's responsible, and its inevitable, and just insulate your house and hunker down I guess.
The difference between WebObjects as a obj-c program to java program was just heart breaking. You could further see the pain of transition in the Java bridge for Cocoa. It really showed the mismatch between obj-c and java.
How to Editorially Review a Technical Book
According to http://freifunk.net/en/how-to-join/find-your-nearest-communi... there are >15.000 access points, mainly in Germany.

Is there some international equivalent?
Apple is probably doing it first and foremost to improve browser performance, battery life, and user experience. That's how they make money. If users like their products they buy more products. No conspiracy theory needed.
> I hope they make it through this.

Unless I'm misinterpreting something in the article or your comment, I thought it was pretty clear that they didn't and are shutting down for good?

https://medium.com/circa/farewell-to-circa-news-7d002150f74b
I think the author hits on something here. It's not the ads that bother me, it's that they are destructive to my time, bandwidth, and battery. It's the equivalent of walking into a furniture store and being followed around by a salesperson who won't respect your personal space and berates you verbally if you don't buy immediately. Even better, if you've ever visited a city/country with a bad tout culture (like Luxor, Egypt), it's a lot like that. It's fine for you to advertise to me, but once you've had you say, get out of my way and don't make my life miserable.
Eclipse Mars Top Features
>I wonder what rob pike has to say about OOP or java, I wish I could listen to it.

“object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.” - Rob Pike (http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/)

Some other gems from that page:

“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.” – Edsger Dijkstra

“The phrase "object-oriented” means a lot of things. Half are obvious, and the other half are mistakes.“ – Paul Graham

“I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I’m now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.” – Eric Allman

“The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.” – Joe Armstrong
ThinkPad Time Machine?
I'm pretty sure that the taxi that was being touted for the first time was also unregulated, so it's extremely unclear here what 3x my money was going to get me.

Quality of black cabs and mini-cabs in London in also wildly variable. At least with uber you can actually leave a bad review (I'm not sure what comes of those) but I get a response on bad reviews at least.
"People will hang shit on ESR"

An example "Reading it, it looks like a total hack job by a poor programmer."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923660
Uber takes 20% cut on the fares and taxi drivers are happy to take the deal. By what process do you think venture capital is subsidizing the fare?
They do, at least big taxi companies : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.taxisg7.gra...
Those online fax sites posted here the other day should definitely implement this "feature".
OTA receivers and DVR's are pretty cheap these days if you want your OTA fix without cable or satellite. The HDHomeRun line is inexpensive and works quite well as an ethernet attached tuner.
When one makes decisions about what to purchase for a large organization, for a product which needs to perform well or people die, one assumes a degree of due diligence. A novel product requires more stringent due diligence than one which is a market standard. If no plausible mechanism of action is purported for a novel product that attempts to do things with several orders of magnitude more efficacy and less complexity than competitors, then yeah, I'm not buying it without independent testing.

If an underling at my restaurant replaced all dish-washing liquid and bleach solutions with a series of small metal figurines taped to the dishwasher and the prep tables, and told me "It cleans the surfaces galvanically", I'm not going to say "Brilliant!", I'm going to say "Brilliant, now prove it before it's allowed near my kitchen."
When someone comes to you to offer you a "taxi" service in France, it's pretty certainly a scam (especially with a price like that). A licensed taxi has a sign on the roof, doesn't randomly offer you its service, and its price is regulated. It never would have cost you even 60€ for 6 km. It would have been roughly the same as with the Uber, maybe a bit cheaper.

The question of whether you would prefer a licensed taxi or an Uber is a different one which I won't get into for now :)
How riot if you are forced to work?
Its kind of like prisoners' dilemma. Who loses their firearms first, citizens or criminals? They lose.

I'd also like to say something about societies with ubiquitous government public and private surveillance, chilling of freedom of speech and repressive cultures, but I live in the USA so I can't throw stones.
Samsung disabling Windows Update on some of its PCs
Hmm. I use mostly netflix and other streaming content almost exclusively. I wonder how many people like myself still pay for cable TV simply because the cost of internet by itself is more than the same internet plus cable TV. I can't remember the last time I actually watched television.
What about other countries ? http://www.wsj.com/articles/tensions-erupt-as-uber-drivers-a...
I seem to remember hearing you were not allowed to have interpreters on iOS?
And what homicide rate diminished? If it just moves the weapon of choice, its largely irrelevant.
Was the downvote because you don't like my questions, or because you don't have a good answer?
I imagine (and see it daily all around me actually). This poses to local authorities a hard problem, the outcome of which will either be a spiral down or a remedy of some sort.
Business Email Compromise Scam Alert Issued by FS-ISAC
It's not a great title but changing it to "the best employees are actually employees" is worse
You're right - all of these things are of concern.

The incumbents never really seem to make an argument beyond shrieking that their protected racket is being disrupted though. I remember one hilarious picture on the news of a cabbie f-ing and blinding to a reporter out of his window at a protest against uber. Just behind him in his cab was a sign saying "cash only".

When an innovation comes along and starts stealing your lunch, screaming that you were here first isn't really going to help you much!
> This is just a dressed up ad hominem

No, it's explicitly and purposefully ad-hominem, suggesting that a person's lack of judgement in one area leads to questions about his judgement in a related one.
"Interestingly, they re-added the original tints to the remaster, as what's not commonly known is that many "black and white" films were projected through a coloured glass slide, in order to either give the entire scene a hue, or even to make the ground red/brown and the sky blue."

I'd always wondered where Top Gear gained its impressive cinematic style - they must have happened upon a treasure trove of those two-color filters, and asked what it would feel like applied digitally to every other scene with the saturation pumped up.
Some people do that. A friend of mine took such a job - her first developer job ever. I told her to take the job, learn from the training and earn 2x-3x her previous salary as a secretary. Then I told her that a year from now she should start looking for an employer who will pay market rate and won't spy on her reddit account.

If you do invest in less experienced devs, make sure you can recognize the ones that are too naive to realize when their value has gone up. Maybe also use psychological tricks to give them impostor syndrome.
If losing primarily means losing one's job, then it is social organization and culture that should be blamed not technological advancement. IMHO.
Reading that post, about halfway through you find that the judge decided they simply had no standing to challenge the NC in another case about JJ shorting wages or underpaying hours, the judge did not rule on its validity.
Haha that's a fair statement to make.
Bell to install gigabit fibre to 1.1m premises in Toronto
Google plans to make their self-driving car available to the public by 2020 [0]. Perhaps they aren't going to hit that deadline but I doubt they'll miss it by 80 years.

[0] http://www.ibtimes.com/google-inc-says-self-driving-car-will...
I was in Pakistan a few months ago on a project. Security at the main Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad were using these. As I arrived at the airport, with massive and completely over-the-top security everywhere, stern-faced soldiers are marching up and down holding these devices out at arms-length.

Terrifying to realise, in that moment, that this is all that stands between a bomb and me.
Seems you're taking the 10X approach and focusing on full-time jobs instead of freelance/per-project jobs. I like it! Too bad about the location restriction, are remote positions possible to hire for?
It's rather common to see promises used as pseudo-callbacks actually. I think it has to do with the fact that just assigning something async (the promise) to a variable seems so counter-intuitive to someone who has programmed with callbacks for a while.
It's called "predatory pricing," but I think you must usually prove that the intent is specifically to eliminate your competition - simply selling below cost isn't illegal, AFAIK (IANAL).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
French Taxi drivers are knowned to be unfriendly and not quite honest, and lazy. They're trying to keep their business protected instead of trying to get better. Now, they even use violence against Uber-drivers & Uber-customers. BTW, they don't give a shit of their own customers...

At the beginning, when Uber opened in France, I could understand their problem. But now, they just went to far: instead of being better to keep their business, they just want to keep their business by being the only players, leaving no choice to customers but to use them. And that's plain wrong for me...

In fact, I think that I would support an action from Uber against Taxi syndicates & French government support, either in the street or in the European Court of Justice

Disclosure: I'm a french parisian and never used Uber (yet) but used Taxi from time to time... ;)
Thanks! Pixel art has a 'digitalness' to it that attracts me, but I can enjoy any style that is done well. A recent vector art game that blew me away, for example, was Hohokum.

Pixel art may be overdone but I think it's a pretty flexible art form and has a long way to travel yet. Just in the last year I've seen a lot of new and different styles, some of which are already appearing in games.
Evolution doesn't necessarily have a direct link with intelligence; nor even does natural selection which is the theory that, I think, you're basing your argument on.
Nasdaq’s blockchain plans take shape
In Texas, we'd call that a tall tale.
How the Feds Asked Me to Rat Out Commenters
> the number of inhabitants for "a -> b" is "a^b"

You mean "b^a". (wz1000 has it right, but he didn't point out that the original statement had them flipped.)
Well in many cities there are lots of taxis looking for fares far away from taxi stands. Uber drivers also cannot use them anywhere I know of.
I've done some preliminary work that measures the amount of "attention" an image processing algorithm pays to a given pixel (in terms of amount of computation done on it). Hard to tell at the moment how well it's working, but the results for the £10 note do seem to focus more on a region that includes a Eurion:

http://laredo-13.mit.edu/~brendan/eurion_psp_gaze.png

(This is from Paint Shop Pro, version 8.0, which refuses to edit the above image)
The slow strangulation of telework in Australia
>According to the Internal Revenue Service, a business that hires an independent contractor is not entitled to dictate how or when the contractor performs a job.

Maybe things work differently in the US vs here in Canada, but here "independent contractors" are often treated like employees, particularly in IT. You'll often see such contractors, who are technically working under their own (solo) company rather than for the client - working alongside salaried employees, doing the same work, under almost identical circumstances.
How You Lie Depends on Where You Are From
Ok, I worded this wrong. I meant it as in "Wow, that Perl script is from 2008, I'm impressed and surprised because the article gave the impression that this is a relatively new trick." Can we stop the downvoting torrent now? Good grief!
Hi Zuzu

This sounds like the work you do in those 8 hours is either:

1. Not challenging enough or

2. Too much for one guy (you) to handle.

You're zoned out. Figure out which one it is. There are meditation techniques to give your mind the space and time to think about this. A simple break (a week or more) away from the work is often good enough for me while my mind subconsciously processes things. (Don't do any work during this break!)

If you find that the work is not challenging enough, change your environment, move slowly into more and more challenging work where you feel the feedback of accomplishment re-energises you. If this move is based on a request to a boss, client etc and it falls on deaf ears, start looking for another job/client.

If the work is too challenging, ask for sensible deadlines (fuk I hate deadlines!), scope reductions and a kinder work environment. If this request of yours falls on deaf ears, start making plans to quit for an alternative that is better.

The fact that you picked this up is already a good sign.

Good luck!