skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is important to balance between how much new things you are learning and how much you are using previously learned things. The challenge is to squeeze in the most potentially useful new things to the limited set that you are going to learn. For example: is GO or Rust going to be the language that I can use in my projects at work in the future? Should I learn Clojure or Scala? Should I learn machine learning or statistics? etc.

I balance these based on the things I would like to do in the future. I become and learn what I would like be and try to find a job where I can use those new skills.
sorry, now you are just not making sense. I think to have these debates, we need to agree to think clearly about the problem. Colonizing? They are providing a service. Nobody is forcing anybody to use the service. There are three issues here

a) many ( not all ) of the regulations that make cabs scarce and expensive are unnecessary

b) it is not fair to people who paid for the licenses to allow a competitor to operate without licenses

c) Uber is good for consumers.

Somehow, a reasonable compromise must be found
You are not. You are running a safari skin.
Not really. In a real-case scenario React-extended components stays in "components" directory and is not to hard to be aware that is react-extended component.

But yes, I got your point.
No need of a taxi license, "car rental with Chauffeur" is legal, and has existed for ages. The only difference with a taxi is that you are supposed to book them in advance, and you can't just hail them. (And their might be some other restrictions around airport or something..)

But if you hire a chauffeur (with his car), he needs to have the proper insurance to cover him and its passenger. Uber drivers actually must and have subscribed to them.

The issue with Uberpop is that most of its drivers don't have subscribed to that special insurance, and as a results are pushing the cost to everyone else.

As a regular driver, I would be quite unhappy if there was like 50k+ plus Uberpop driving all day long full of passengers, and if they were paying the same amount of money than an occasional driver, while being much more likely to have costly crashes.

Hence the reason to require that UberPop drivers have a proper transportation insurance in the first place.

Aside of any fairness, or legacy medallion system consideration, it is just a bad idea economically to have everyone paying higher insurance costs so that UberPop can reap all the benefits...
Actually really agree with this. As someone who develops for Android I can't tell you much potential "mental damage control" you have to be prepared for with implementing stuff. Accommodating the different support packages, APIs, device & hardware specifications - it's a headache sometimes. But I think that's part of why I love it too, the freedom and "openness" relative to iOS eco system.

That being said - Apple might be closed and all the rest, but make no mistake: they know their customer and they are willing to defend them. Even if it means pissing people off. Which is kinda nice.
In Istanbul taxi plates cost about $300k-$500k. They are then rented and re-rented to multiple drivers. Taxi drivers and of course passengers gets the shaft
This reminds me of the hat from fifth element:

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5000000/The-Fifth-El...
> The rise of convenient, licensed streaming has helped cut U.S. file-sharing rates in half in the last decade.

File-sharing isn't the problem!!
I agree. I'm more DevOps, (really, just a dev that is super comfortable in an ops position) and my go-to distro has always been Debian, but nearly every position I've had has been supporting applications on Ubuntu. It wasn't until my last position when we were acquired and thrown into a CentOS ESXi datacenter that I really started to love CentOS's release cycle. You won't get all the somewhat recent or cool features without feeling like you're treading into the territory of hacks and warranty-voiding (try running Xen on Cent or RHEL), but you'll also not dread keeping your servers up to date, or keeping on top of the latest logoed vulnerability sweeping the net. I'd guess that 99% of the standard LAMP and at least 80% of the common Rails, SQL, K/V almost-crud apps could benefit from CentOS.
Is he using shouldComponentUpdate() [1] to avoid diffing existing photos when new ones are added?

[1] https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/advanced-performance.h...
How Spiders Can Cruise Across Water
How much does Project Silk improves scrolling performance? Can you "feel" it?

Scrolling/motion performance is the only thing that is keeping me away from FF at the moment - Even dev tools are getting amazingly good.
Iphone is separate market due to lack of interoperability.
Good point... a key problem though is self-inflicted. Taxi driver unions have a vested interest in keeping the number of licenses in operation low (so keeping rates high). That only pushes the value of each license up - and you have to spend thousands to buy someone else's license.

Same thing used to happen in NYC - but with the onset of Uber, the value of licenses (which were steadily climbing) has flatlined or even dropped.

It's unfortunate for the last set of drivers with these licenses, but it's a horrible way to run a much-needed service.

Insurance, training - absolutely. But forcing investment in super expensive legacy licenses is very inefficient.
The people claiming that Reddit needs to be more consistent keep saying that they only censor something when it bubbles up to the top. That's pretty much the only content moderation model that has EVER worked. No one likes it, and it seems hypocritical, but its what the entire internet does.

Look at Google. France complains about Nazi related material. They block Nazi material in France. They index massive amounts of porn, and take down individual images that offend people. It's sub-optimal, but it largely works.

Now, the thing that has changed is that normal people have started getting a dose of the kind of speech that they consider "hate speech" IRL from sites like Reddit. What they are demanding is that fringe positions remain fringe positions.

Something as mainstream as Reddit will not be allowed to serve up red pill/racist/homophobe/far-right content. They will keep doing this stuff until that content goes somewhere else. Maybe that's a good thing...I don't know, but at least having it in one place made it easy to see what crazy people are up to these days. Know your enemy, etc.

As for the corporate thing...that's always going to seem schizophrenic...corporations aren't rational people. They make snap decisions that seem reasonable in the moment because they lack functional memories. Fuck em.

Want something different? Find a way to spread the cost of running something like Reddit over a larger group of people in a decentralized model. And then get ready for the us vs them to move to "inner circle" vs "outer circle"...
If not that, then something equally as groan-inducing.
Actually i have limited experience in UK but better on Japan where i lived long. Still I do not think it is the same population in UK using taxis and ubers. I am almost certain that the people using Uber in UK are people who almost never used taxis in their life. I don't see why would someone would change from taxi to Uber in countries such as England or Japan. if you take a taxi that means you can afford it either you would take public transportation in 90% of the cases.
Uber in UK is just a totally different service than Taxis. as long as taxi drivers are well trained professionals with a sense of providing quality service then they don't compete with Uber.

It is same with amazon and librarians. Librarian assume they just have to sell books. Since amazon they have to provide a service , help the customer , advise him, instruct him, guide him. Those things amazon can't do and those things will save the librarians. it is the same for cab drivers.

Uber is a good for us customers. Obviously it won't be a good thing when they will be on a monopoly situation where they will increase prices after having destroyed concurrents but who cares?
That's funny. It's bookmarked.

Just curious, especially since Hacker News is that type of site, how do you go about building something like this? IE what's the stack? Any tricks used?

Are the Nic Cage GIFs stored in a repository or do they just come down to your server from the heavens (or maybe using image search tools from Google, Bing, etc.).
Software bloat makes me sad
Seems to me that this is a cheap, relatively smart piece of marketing, rather than a serious proposition - note the heartbeat and voice recognition ideas that they're also "experimenting" with.
Honest question, anyone knows how easy is it for a band to put their stuff on something like Spotify? Or do they still need to go through a label?
Chrome on iOS is just a Safari WebView, which is the entire point of this article. You would know that if you'd read it.
Mercury is pretty featureless, right? It's not like Jupiter where you could see the rotation just by keeping track of the Great Red Spot.
Porting Quake II to MS-DOS (build log in 4 parts)
Point of pedantry: RFC 3339 allows replacement of the T with a space; ISO 8601 merely allows its omission (and that only by mutual agreement of all parties to the information exchange).
It's a contrived example. The DOM manipulation is fast in this case because it's a simple appendChild every time. In other cases like where elements in the middle of a table are updated, you would get into a mess writing vanilla code, either complexity or performance wise, because you'd have to traverse the DOM to get to where you need to do updates and do each update individually. React batches such things together, and does one single update.
Why dont make it animated and click-navigable?

I understand that some people/business want or need to be different to get more attention, but you should mantain a good level of user-friendliness, just my 2c.
There was a discussion about the best timing to post on HN a couple of years ago :

http://silverman.svbtle.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757790

And also who said it was irrelevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426040

http://antontarasenko.com/2015/04/23/best-time-to-post-its-i...
Bitcoin is disinflationary, not deflationary currency.
If by challenging you mean large and distributed, then I would agree these areas are probably less common in freelancing than in longer-term engagements. If by challenging you mean intellectually advanced, there are plenty of freelance jobs involving machine learning, computer vision, and other niche technologies such as robotics. Although my experience is more limited than that of some folks here, my guess is that most jobs, whether freelance or employed, are going to be run-of-the-mill. In many ways, computers were invented to ease boring administrative tasks, and this purpose lives on.
Nintendo SNES PlayStation finally uncovered
Should have googled that before:

https://support.spotify.com/is/problems/#!/article/I-m-an-ar...
Every atmosphere is a distillation column for gasses. Oxygen and Nitrogen are similar enough that they don't separate (also Earth's atmosphere moves enough to mix), but you definitely find that e.g. Radon will sink to the floor, and lighter gasses like Helium will float up to high altitude.
That tweet is from 2012.
In warsaw, about 90% percent of the drivers will try to fuck you. Be it by refusing to give you a receipt, taking longer ways, asking a price taken out of their arses or just straight up lying to you to get your money, especially if you're a foreigner.

Most of them drive like complete idiots and break numerous rules even during a simple 10 minute ride.

So my question is what does taxi regulations do exactly? Because it seems like it's not working.
It's OSX only for now.
There's a better link here [1], which explains with more details.

Main thing seems that it's not just facial recognition, you can use a fingerprint scanner (assuming your phone has one) instead, and that it requires you to blink when you're being scanned by the app. So it doesn't seem to be just static image recognition, it's looking at the video stream to ensure that your face is there and that it can blink (getting around the 'just hold a photo in front of the camera' problem).

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/01/technology/mastercard-facial...
As a long time redditor I think I can help shine some light here. When Yishong Wang left abruptly there was a real pull from the community to bring Alexis back - or if not him then someone who was "from reddit." When Pao was announced the thought was "why is a lawyer taking over?" She reeks of 1%ers which redditors love to bash on when they see one bleeding (not Elon Musk of course).

Within just a few months Pao made some major moves that directly impacted reddit staff and could be attributed to her presence - namely eliminating salary negotiations, which caused a big stir. The banning of specific hate-speech subreddits at her direction pushed large segments of the community against her for a variety of reasons - some cause they were just mad they lost a platform and other stating that it was anti-democratic censorship.

Her massive public lawsuit, which was panned as frivolous across the web, basically killed any remaining credibility she did have with the community. When she lost the suit it was like fuel to the fire.

Now pretty much anything she does is toxic.
How is this supposed to work in low-light and dark environments, like a classy restaurant? What about people that don't have camera phones? This will end up being opt-in only, I'm sure. Can you imagine the checkout at the supermarket as vain people hold the line up while they make up their hair? I really don't see this as becoming commonplace.
Impressive work everyone! At first glance, its hard to tell the libraries apart, but I have noticed some subtle differences. I wonder if, as authors, either of you would be willing to elaborate further?
All we need is Taylor to sign-off/tweet on this. She already has the appropriate last-name for iOS-dev related credibility.
The existing taxi industry is a protected monopoly. In a hypothetical future where uber has displaced the competition any other company could spring up and take their business.
I think this is a contrived, or over-simplified, example.

The DOM manipulation is fast in this case because it's a simple appendChild every time. In other cases like where elements in the middle of a table are updated, you would get into a mess writing vanilla code, either complexity or performance wise, because you'd have to traverse the DOM to get to where you need to do updates and do each update individually. React batches such things together, and does one single update.

Show me a benchmark of an actual real app written in vanilla JS and React. I suspect the DOM manipulation time would be way higher.
I'm with you there.

A couple of years ago a group of people that I was attracted to due to their professed reliance on reason and scientific method turned out to be virulently anti-female.

And then this fringe hatefulness just seems to have pervaded everything...even computing forums that are dedicated to what I thought were relatively dispassionate topics that are quite arcane have had death threats lobbed at people who just have a different opinion. It's fucking weird.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04282006
2000? Try sub 300. (you won't be running autocad on this but for someone answering email and writing up reports in excel this is decent enough) Microsoft products are really affordable if you break it down to a per day usage.

Inspiron 3646 - $259.00

Microsoft Office 365 small business (5 machines/1 year) - $97.98 / 5 = $19.60 (5 cents a day)

Total: $278.6 per machine

1:http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/Online/SecondaryInv...

2:http://www.mychoicesoftware.com/products/microsoft-office-36...
Nobody is forcing anybody in the strict sense, yes. If you ignore the network effect, even more so. How can I connect with friends without Facebook when everyone else is on there (there or on instagram and whatsapp, also FB property). How can I not use Uber in the future if they root out and kill off taxis, and even public transportation is left wanting when everyone is just happy to use Uber? And just because everyone's happy to use it (it's cheaper even) doesn't mean it's good in the long run, which is my point.
Well, as a brazilian, his statement sounded very true to me. I'll try no to generalize as much as he did and tell the story from our perspective.

Taxi drivers and politicians in Brazil are fighting Uber because they are losing slices of a pie that is deeply corrupted. A single person (most of them are politicians or friends with city councilmen) hold hundreds of Taxi Plates and "rent" them to ordinary drivers that obviously can't have their own plates because they're not fairly distributed and even if they were, would be prohibitively expensive. So these ordinary drivers start their working days owing R$200 to the plate holders, resulting in a service that has the customer safety, comfort, etc as the last priority.

We do have laws and regulations but it'd be naive to think they benefit the passengers. One of them requires the cars to be inspected every six months, which would be a nice thing, except these inspections are only another way for the abovementioned politicians/government have more money to be diverted - some cars are ridiculously filthy and poor maintained.

When Uber arrived last year it was indeed a disruption: polite drivers, well maintained cars, fair service. The so called inspections happen in real time through in app reviews by the people who are supposed to be protected after all - the passengers.

As the only city councillor to vote in favor of Uber in Sao Paulo well said: "it was a massacre", corruption is so evidently high that not even a discussion took place about how the things Uber does right could be incorporated into the existing Taxi ecosystem. And pg's statement fits right in: politicians fought so ferociously to ban Uber (faster than many other agendas that are crucial to Brazil) that it becomes a picture of how corrupt they are.

To complete, I think that services that try to disrupt existing services are good to take us to the opposite side of a sine wave - they come to draw our attention of to things we were probably overlooking. Honest cities and politicians will take the opportunity to bring the good things into discussion, corrupt ones will ferociously try to suppress it.

Although a disproportional comparison, I remember when I visited one of the post offices in my city as a kindergarten student in the late 90s - the manager that was taking us through the guided visit was very anxious of how emails were driving the telegram usage down.
It was this way with Backbone a few years ago. Give it time, it will calm down eventually. Breaking changes are often necessary to get a project where it really needs to be.
I just copied that quote so I could comment on it. I appreciate the React team's vision.
It's a pain, and I've yet to find any good guides. I'm actually in a fix right now because I want to develop over localhost, but need this Flask site to work on HTTPS. I'm sure it's possible, but I have yet to find any guides or examples that make it straightforward. I love that we're moving towards security, but I wish it was easier...
Libertarians care about [1] and are a significant percentage of the user base and a worthwhile demographic for advertising etc.
Internet Censorship overview by Country
Digg, once valued at $200M is now being acquired for $500K (2012)
I think the startup has good intentions, but I think is focusing on the wrong end of things. With good reason, though, as I don't imagine there's much money to be made in the areas that really require attention.

My hypothesis is if we had competent (I mean most, not just some) elected officials in the first place, almost none of the chronic issues would exist to begin with. Voters need to be far more critical of who we put in office (all offices at national, state, and local levels).

But how do we educate ourselves on them? We need people working to make raw, unfiltered data readily available to voters BEFORE they vote so we end up with a far more productive / capable government to begin with.
This is actually nothing to do with Bitcoin - it's about using blockchain technology to issue what is effectively government debt in crypto-currency form - i.e. what Overstock have done.
I agree... especially with the comment about terse and unclear error messages. I recently got lured into the customer-facing side of things, and nothing annoys me (or our new users) than a message like "Incorrect syntax" when I used a unsupported symbol for my password.

First, be clear with your design and instructions. In my hasty password example - "Please create your password (6 or more characters, letters and numbers only)"

Then - if the user messes up, explain a bit... "Whoops, please only use letters and numbers"

So, so much nicer. :)

</rant>
That's a good point. I was thinking along the lines of something that's essentially like reddit or HN, but had a field where you could add additional parent comment ids, so that the parent poster was notified of the reply.
Underscore : _.each(array, iteratee)
ES5.1 : array.forEach(iteratee)

And all the other elements...

Yes, you are right. But... The "array" is not always an Array. document.getElementsByClassName( 'myClass' ) is not an Array but a DOMNodeList. So document.getElementsByClassName( 'myClass' ).forEach(iteratee) will not work. Same for map, reduce...

Underscore (or lodash) makes more that just polyfilling es5 methods.
What does Ford do differently with respect to software on their, say, entertainment system or ECU computers that Apple doesn't do with their iOS devices to allow you to draw this distinction?
I don't believe that you as the customer should be responsible for checking the drivers insurance, or if the car is in working order. I'm not qualified to do either of those things.

Similarly I would like people who accept my money for services to be well do the proper paper work for the tax authorities. If you're self-employed in any other business you need to register that, why should Uber drivers be excepted? I can accept Ubers argument that their drivers are "independent contractors", regardless of how stupid I believe it is, but then they should be registered as such.

I don't disagree that many of the rules around taxi services are obsolete or hinder competition, but I also don't condone Uber just breaking all rules using that argument. "Disruption" can't be an excuse to pick and choose which laws to follow. There's a pretty good business case to be made for breaking the speed limit as well (They could call it UberHyperDrive, for people in a rush), but you wouldn't accept that either.
Just like a retailer sprang up and took Amazon's lead in the ecommerce business, right? Right?

Some corporations become too big to fail, like Google or Facebook--they keep buying off other companies and buying laws too. America is a lobby nation. How can you honesly expect anyone else to displace the trillion-dollar company that Uber will eventually become? Unless you actually mean companies will spring up, present a threat, then get acquihired by Uber^. Money talks!

^ If you expect an enterpreneur to face Uber head-on despite multi-billion dollar offers on the one side and immense legal hindrance on the other, you expect a hero. We should expect a democratic society, not american heroes.
This... needs QA. Slow loading. A bit wasteful on iOS [1]. But interesting and original (to my knowledge) design.

Things like these remind me of wow effect of Flash websites of late 90s. Those worked reliably across browsers though.

http://imgur.com/wuMIpR0 Kyubey being funky again.