skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No matter which way this went this whole referendum seemed like a political stunt. It was a huge distraction, frayed nerves and made everyone more entrenched in their negotiation positions. A good deal and compromise is generally negotiated behind closed doors without making loud speeches that you can't walk away from. I feel sorry for the Greek people. They deserve better from their own leaders.
Try substituting the term "fear-monger" for "terrorist". Reads substantially less hyperbolic…
It should be noted that Greece's economy was climbing again, but since Syriza got in power it all went downhill and al the growth has been destroyed.
I'm not an economist, but to me it seems like the patient ran away during the operation.
It doesn't matter how we categorize Uber. (We can just call it a platform.) What is way more important is what Uber means to a customer. The average person in SF knows is that Uber is cheaper than a taxi, more plentiful in supply, and more convenient.

So it doesn't matter what the discussion is about, since the core product hasn't changed. It provides utility to both the avid users and occasional users like me. And that's why there are people giving these "simpletons" money.

Now with Uber, people who out of budget don't have to ever consider buying/leasing a car. Even those who do have cars are starting to see just how affordable it is to Uber around. http://blog.samaltman.com/uber-vs-car-ownership

As for people using their cars to drive "98% Uber miles", that's their decision. And it's a pretty logical one if you don't have a stable, decent-paying job to begin with.

- You already own the car and are going to be paying for maintenance and gas and DMV fees anyways, which isn't cheap. Since chances are, you're already living/driving around that area, you might as well just drive a few extra miles here and there to earn a few bucks.

- Cars depreciate fast. It's not like you will get substantial value when you resell if you've kept your mileage low. Maybe it's a few hundred dollars, but given the thousands you already paid for the car, you might as well drive it and earn money with it.

- Your car can become an asset if you can make it one via Uber. It can't be an investment if it's losing value as soon as it rolls out of the dealership. Otherwise, it'll just be sitting in your garage as a liability, collecting dust and you'll just be waiting for the eventual yearly bills from DMV/mechanic. Might as well go out and make money with it if you need to offset your costs.
> Marriott are throwing in wifi these days, but you have to pay for premium access if you want to stream some Netflix

Note that this is after Marriott's best efforts to block all wifi hotspots to force guests to use hotel wifi:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/after-blocking-pe...

edit: a story from after Marriott unsuccessfully asked the FCC if hotel operators could block wifi hotspots on their properties from all their guests: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/fcc-blocking-wi-f...
It's more the case that NTFS is case-sensitive, but the Win32 APIs aren't.
This is too reductionist.

Eliminate NYC from new york state and what happens? Same Chicago and LA in their respective states. Likewise, many western states have huge flows of government spending for reasons that don't make sense on the surface. Those states, tend to have military installations, and huge allocations of national parks and national forest land.

In other words, that type of government spending is not social policy handouts. But rather is the US paying to keep up assets that it owns already (basically security and maintenance).

Rural appalachia is an exception (eg, west va = highly democratic; TN home of senator gore, etc) as these states were the target of many early government projects (like TVA and Food Stamps).

Lastly, huge amounts of governmnet spending are on healthcare

(& social security, which again have nothing to do with modern red state/blue state issues).
But do they provide charging ports or outlets?
Anti-China hyperbole.

Every pseudo-economist-nerve of mine tells me that one day China inevitably will crash and when it happens it will hurt us all.

But please, enough with the nitpicking in search of ideology affirmation.

Why this is not the crash everybody's waiting for? It's a stock market that is about to crash-out it's volume that was gathered just months prior. Not enough time for most of the worlds shareholders to incorporate Chinese prices into their portfolios.

The Chinese stockmarket's prior boom was mainly driven by the HK-SH stock-market link, allowing foreign investors to buy Chinese stock. Combine that with

- the assumption of risk-takers that the world would flock in gazillions to buy Chinese stock

- and the lack of investment options the ordinary Chinese people have to put their savings in

and you got your self a little bubble going.

But that bust (which is not close to eliminate the prior gains yet, btw) is not the bust we're rightly fearing. Not every economic accomplishment of China can be discredited just by the immorality of its leadership.
My favourite feature is promises, while it doesn't add a new syntax and you can probably add a library for it, the fact it's standardised makes a world of difference. Now that it's standardised

1. It will become the common interface for deferred operations and library authors can make assumptions that it's there.

2. ES7 Async/Await will be able to leverage this common interface.
No, that was one single Marriott and it was the conference center -- they were trying to force exhibitors to pay outrageous internet fees, not hotel guests.
And people ask why more women don't speak at conferences or at meetup groups or contribute to open source software, or even publish blogs. It's because we are SCARED. We know what the consequences of making our voices heard can be, and it's terrifying, and we question whether it is worth the risk.
This magic exoskeleton for industrial workers is the future–we know, we wore one
Try using that line of thought when you're talking to a customs agent, let us know how it works out.
Was the Soviet 1923 Male Birth Cohort Doomed by World War II? (2014)
Because they're insecure and want attention - if they can elicit a response from her then a woman has acknowledged their existence. Or because they feel innately that they are superior to women because they are male, and then cant comprehend that she is more prominent than they are, which makes them angry.

Immaturity essentially, given teeth by the anonymous power of the net and some distorted belief in freedom of speech (on the part of the companies that should be excising this crap).
I have a hard time with whiteboards too. What works well for me but is uncommon, is to be left alone with a pencil and paper.
Well, I'm taking that form his 'air-gapped machine' article linked a couple of months ago, he apologised for using windows for it, due to familiarity. I don't really find Schneier interesting, so I only go by what people link to here.
They are really sending two messages. To anyone listening out there: "We are here." To humans on Earth: "Pay attention to us." Although it is kind of ironic using tweets to show that a signal is not just random noise.
It's incredibly easy/fast to build a working prototype. Much like how LaTeX just lets you write and the processor takes care of the rest, MATLAB just lets you build while the software mostly takes care of the rest.
Don't worry, minibars are dying too:
http://priceonomics.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hotel-mini-...

It's hard to keep that level of pricing with convenience stores nearby and more and more companies unwilling to reimburse for the minibar.
Greece already got a haircut. In fact, it was one of the biggest haircuts ever in history.
How+To+Lose+Weight+Quickly+and+Efficiently
Yes, but wherever they are now (after troika-mediated austerity), it's going to be worse after they lose their funding, isn't it?
Personally I prefer the current situation, where a few countries provide a very good standard of living compared to most of the rest of the world, compared to what some parts of the population have to endure even in countries like the US. Globalization does only benefit the very rich in the short term, whereas strong nation states at least to some degree are able to stand up against large multinational coorporations.
Try that in an interview. Unfortunately, too many interviewers rely on one's ability to memorize obscure tricks to cute programming puzzles.
This could easily backfire, when congestion on nearby streets rises, or drivers suffer more confusion from the constantly-shifting lane/turn rules.
Denial of your caricature of "conservative reactionaries", most certainly.

Wherever you stand on all this, having a clear view of the various parties is essential.
Whatever privatization they started in the 90s, there was a newsworthy spike in it after the troika negotiations started; here's the Reuters piece I was thinking of when I mentioned privatization earlier:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/28/us-greece-politics...
I do indeed feel like it's a distraction, but I think it's because I feel more comfortable dealing with computers than with people at times.
If This Wasp Stings You, ‘Just Lie Down and Start Screaming’
I'm assuming that a hundred million users aren't made vulnerable by sheer wizardry. In all of the cases that the original article listed, I'd bet my salary that there was oversight in terms of the critical components or the architecture. RCE should not be enough to make that kind of dent, there should be more security there.
Show HN: Bagpack – Versatile local package manager
A couple months ago I put together a spaced repetition app (https://www.memoread.io/) aimed at less tech savvy students. At the time it didn't meet much success, although I may revisit it in the future.
Does anyone know how good of a quality the cameras are on New Horizons?
Well, we've had movies on airplanes for a long time. And I agree it makes things marginally more bearable.

But just because they've moved it from a shared television on the aisle/ceiling that everyone had to lean out to watch from to a little touch-screen in front of a chair hasn't really changed the fact that flying is a waste of time. And very uncomfortable.
Per Wikipedia, this concept only goes back to the early '60s, which matches my general reading on this sort of thing in the '70s as I struggled to understand what had just happened in the Vietnam War (I came of political age just as it was ending): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaderless_resistance#History
That bust could set off a domino chain reaction, which is why the leadership is so desperately and shamelessly trying to prop it up. There aren't many other signs of optimism for the "new normal", and I'm a bit worried about what will happen next.
What do you think about person 4 golden?
I wanna buy a new game for my vita , thé problem is that I don't know which game is the best so far
“...their recommendation—and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal—was to just lie down and start screaming, because few if any people could maintain verbal and physical coordination after getting stung by one of these things. You’re likely to just run off and hurt yourself. So just lie down and start yelling.”
I remembered now how some people considered the US goalie one of the best world cup players...

The thing is, he was considered one of the best world cup players because the US defense was so bad, but so bad, that without him US would have ended the cup losing all games outright.
I think the exoskeleton designs in the Stalker series of games are the most accurate, judging by this and similar projects.
> The theory of complex systems reminds us that aggregates can have properties that are not traceable to any individuals themselves. Game theory tells us that incentives and constraints can get so messed up that developments take on an eigendynamic which was nobody's intent nor interest.

I'm interested in those ideas. Can you give a link to any information about them?
sharetea, your comment was killed for some reason.
With Unity, that's a common misunderstanding. Unity provides nothing aside from an engine and a very open, flexible editor. The editor gives you a way to put game objects in the world and add script components to the game objects and that's pretty much it. If you don't build tools for the level designers you end up with a mess of bespoke game objects with random components. It's very easy to end up with messy Unity projects that are hard to debug and don't perform optimally (I've seen quite a few).

If you want to build something of a high quality in Unity you need structure and rigidity, and you need level designers and artists to follow guidelines and processes. So you still need tools and tools programmers. You might not have an entire team building an editor, but you need something (and it's very easy to build custom editor tools inside the Unity editor).
What part of speech is “the”? (2006)
Test your code--it helps a lot here.
I wouldn't see it as altruism either, but I think you discount the fact that the Allies did not want a third war with Germany. There were factions within the American government that wanted to turn Germany into a deindustrialized field, but instead they built Germany up into a strong ally. It was more than to just counter the Soviets: They removed the German threat for good.
You are not wrong, nationalism is making a big comeback in aging europe.
The fine was for disrupting wifi hotspots in the convention space at a single Marriott, but Marriott then petitioned the FCC to allow them to do the same for any guest on their property, including properties without convention spaces[1]. The FCC turned them down.

(I've amended my original post to include a link from the conclusion of the whole affair)

[1] http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60000986872
You are not paying for greece. You (and all european tax payers) are paying for Deutsche Bank.

Private debts were made public. You should ask Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Schauble, why you should pay for debts that were private.
I’ve gotten hundreds of private messages on IRC and emails about sex, rape, and death threats.

Not sure what IRC channels she has been hanging out in, or what her spam filters are letting through, but this has not been my experience at all... in 10 years of contributing to OSS.

However, attractive female posts videos (yep, even conference talk) on the Internet, and attention ensues?

Maybe it's not an "industry" thing. Maybe it's something else.

[EDIT] -- Wow, thanks for the votes folks. The author wants to blame "the Industry" for something that is not unique to the industry.
>Calm the hyperbole :)

Hyperbole? The E.U. is a project spearheaded by the same 3-4 nations that had the biggest colonies on earth, enslaving over 2 billion people in horrendous conditions (including mass executions when they misbehaved). And that was going on, not in the middle ages, but until the sixties (and in a different form today).

Betweem them, the country that had the less colonies, started 2 world wars in order to expand. EU was created, among other things, to contain that country (and you can find that as an explicit goal from prominent French politicians advocating for its creation)...

Powerful empire-building nations are not about fun and love...
I spent a few years at the Library of Congress working on a similar project.

While it's "easier" to lose digital, it's a possibility as opposed to the inevitability of losing physical forms like paper, LPs, or wire spool recordings. Physical degrades, there's no (economically feasible) way around it.

In the case of digital forms of the same media, they're stored in high resolution, lossless formats for archival purposes and then down sampled for day to day use. For example, our image scans were 300dpi tifs while the day to day versions were simple pngs. Audio files had equivalent things.

The vision is that the lossless versions can be updated to the latest and greatest formats over time and the smaller versions can be recreated as needed.
Soviet godfather of StarWars(Google Translate)
I think hysteria would be warranted if the Chinese government were to take a Schumpeter/Hayek/Mellon liquidationist response to the collapse of the market bubble (see the US/Europe circa 1929). Why yes then you would have contagion spreading out into the real economy and a long depression.

I'm thinking not. Instead I the Chinese central bank will inject liquidity again, much to the horror of the WSJ Editorial board who will again sternly warn that such actions, mark their words! come to an bad end!

snort
yeah, that will help... engage the trolls. moron.
24 In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.[c] 25 He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt.

26 “But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’ 27 Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt.

28 “But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars.[d] He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.

“His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he pleaded. But his creditor wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full.
Uber provides a superior version of the same service, getting more SF residents where they want to be, faster, cheaper. (Uber thus also better advances other civic goals like getting more private vehicles off the road, and eliminating wasteful parking.)

So why shouldn't Uber drivers have the same access to shared public infrastructure? We want roads maximally employed for the benefit of residents, not offered as a perk to narrow guilds.

Do you have zero self-awareness about how frivolously bureaucratic and obsequious your focus on "medallions" and "getting regulated" sounds? What's wrong with judging outputs, rather than politically-assigned credentials?
In seat electronics adds a couple pounds and inch or two of seat width. Either saves the airlines a lot.
An entire nation, rejected being oppressed into austerity. This is all that matters. Goodbye, capitalism.
"China is to become a superpower, it cannot play by it's own rules."

A superpower by definition is it plays by its own rule.
The other option which you conveniently omitted is car sharing, which became established in San Francisco in 2001 and has tens of thousands of vehicles available.
> hopefully slow down the trend of the elites making massive amounts of money with financial transactions instead of BUILDING THINGS and other productive activities

The Chinese already do this, but many of the projects are white elephants, or infrastructure that isn't useful (as opposed to useful infrastructure, which it still needs in many areas). How many steel plants do you need?

What China really needs is to get consumers consuming. People have to save lots of money to buy an overpriced house or to prepare for health emergencies, they can't afford to buy many things beyond that.
I can assure you that the word terrorism in English hasn't changed its meaning substantially in the last 20 years or due to US propaganda. It had the same meaning 30+ years ago when I started learning the language.

I know bloody well what the original meaning of "terror" was (you translate lots of sentences about terror and tyrants when you start studying Latin). The shift in meaning in English from the Latin meaning to the current meaning happened a long time ago.

I can also inform you that I just tried googling "tromokratia" (which google and/or chromium helpfully offered to transliterate into proper Greek). I got all the expected hits for the current English/German/etc meaning. The Wikipedia page lists all the usual greatest hits: Lockerbie, Timothy McVeigh, 9/11, London, Madrid. There is no hint what so ever that the usual or even just non-obscure meaning would be "fear-monger", as MaysonL suggested.

I think Varoufakis /meant/ terrorism and some people are backpedaling for him...
This is terrible. Are scenarios like this really common? I work with several women in the office, but have not heard of them dealing with such harassment. Is our situation unique?

Either way, I hope this changes soon. There's no reason for acting like that.
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Here's another dirty little secret: the main reason writing "clean" code takes significantly more time than writing "shitty" code is because you have to unlearn all the crappy practices you've picked up. And please don't conflate clean code with overengineering.
I wish taxis weren't allowed on Market either. As a pedestrian, they scare me the most.
pile of shit
The ICANN Public Comments on WHOIS Privacy
>> I wonder how many other large government bodies meant to unify multiple different cultures have hit this at some point, and what percentage has failed.

Same happens in India, states with separate rules, completely different culture and still functions under one federal umberalla..
>the whole point of the EU project was to make us all "Europeans"

Or rather that might have been the project of those in power designing the E.U., but it was never a stated goal or a desire of the people of the E.U. nations.

It was mostly bureacrats and technocrats making the decisions for this -- and it has had very undemocratic infrastructure and rules in place from the start because of that.

The prospect of a united Europe (which sounds rather nice when put this way, let's rephrase it, the prospect of an involuntary integration to a larger empire-like unit) was rejected several times by member nations in EU referendums (for the EU-constitution and such).
Here's some detailed description[1] of New Horizon's science payload. Also technical details link on the bottom of the page. I guess not all the information is in the form of a layman (like me too) asking "just how good they are?", so might need some "science->masses" translation.

There's also a writeup on ArXiv[2], that seems to be even more detailed, though just found it and skimmed so far.

[1]: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft/Payload.php

[2]: http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4261
Wikipedia says the camera is 1024x1024. There are a bunch of other non-optical sensors on board, as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
This is less about the tech industry and more about the culture of the internet. A loud minority enforce the culture of anonymity on the internet and having a public presence will open one up to getting caught in the crosshairs. Being a "public figure" has always opened one up to these sorts of things, the internet has made the barrier of entry very low for spamming and threatening someone. I don't see any solution to this.