skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prototype SNES PlayStation Found in the Wild
That's not really buyer's remorse. They paid for their license because you need one to operate as a taxi (along with other requirements), it's the LAW. Uber drivers do not pay for any license, so they can operate at a lower cost, but it's illegal.

I'm all for Uber, I used UberPOP a few times to come back home late (5am), but not late enough (so the public transportation was not yet available) and there were not enough regular taxis (or they were overpriced.)

So Uber fills a need. They'd need to work with the local government but I'm pretty sure we will be the last to allow them; France is way to conservative and protective of the local guild-like organizations (like taxi drivers.) In the meantime I'll keep seeing drunk/high people driving home.
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Should be marked (2014), Yanis Varoufakis is a little busy at the moment to be blogging about bitcoin.
I've noticed the jet stream is shifted. It normally would dip down over the pacific ocean and then back up towards the pacific northwest. Now it's shifted east and the dip down happens over the pacific northwest.

I'm no meteorologist, but it seems like if it were over the ocean there would be wetter and cooler weather on the west coast.
There's also the Damm algorithm[1], which is similar but better.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damm_algorithm
Uber has it's share of issues. Just because the alternative is just as bad or worse doesn't automatically make Uber good.

Not all laws are in place to mess with Uber or suppress competition, some of them are actually to the benefit of the public. Requiring insurance or having the driver registered as self-employed doesn't seem unreasonable.
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Uber's service is illegal in most places, including the US. However they grew and became popular fast enough that it put pressure on local governments to change the laws, rather than put pressure on them to ban Uber. It's basically their business model.

Apparently this didn't work as well in France as it did in the US.
That is a Chrome UI on top of the Safari rendering engine. As far as page compatibility goes that's still just Safari.
We'll probably have to wait a few more years until Webassembly and the easier to use and faster Vulkan API comes to the browser as well.

I know they've been working on WebGL 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0-based) for a while, but if it doesn't ship within a year, they might as well scrap it in favor of a Vulkan-based API.
"we only have one CPU with one core,"

"but that's not multitasking really."

Do you think single core computers don't do multitasking? They do it exactly this way.
Or they could orient by celestial navigation. Or have their position measured remotely and updated from Earth.
" They paid for their license because you need one to operate as a taxi (along with other requirements), it's the LAW" hence why the real crook are the people making taxi drivers pay 200K for a driving license. Uber, like Free Telecom or like Amazon is a disrupting force. and disrupting forces are always benefical at their early stages. they tend to become much less good for the people when they become leaders on markets were they have destroyed all their oponents. Amazon will soon be the first example of that.
Outside of games by Unity my personal experience for "Cross-Browser" JS game frameworks has been highly negative. I wanted to try making simple games with JS but most / all the frameworks demos I tried out didn't seem to work on "all" browsers. It wasn't a lag issue, the biggest thing was just getting it to become responsive to my keyboard, you'd think that would be trivial right / not considered an issue "in 2015"? Guess not.
Yet another "deflation is bad hence bitcoin is bad" post, except due to the rate of mining Bitcoin has been highly inflationary if anything.

See this graph
http://i.imgur.com/vRsIMvt.png

edit: Oh I see now who the author is :D well euros or bitcoins the way Greece is going inlation or deflation will be the least of their worries....
I think that 0º is the "temperature anomaly" - i.e. it's exactly what they're expecting.
"so people are forced to drive drunk - people die because of the law to protect a monopoly"

Jesus christ this is literally the stupidest thing I have heard all day, and I have been following what is going on reddit since early morning.

If anyone ever says they were "forced to drunk drive" by anything they deserve to be slapped and have their licence taken away, forever. If you go drinking, you don't bring your car with you!!!!!!
Why aren't French entrepreneurs rioting in the streets to protest against protectionist laws that primarily serve to shield incumbents from competition?
That's a good question.

Right now, the biggest worry is whether we'll run out of space. We're running on a free tier MongoLab database. If we get spammed or it really takes off, that's going to disappear. Luckily it's super straightforward to spin one up on Heroku or elsewhere, and if it's important to you you could pay for a larger database.
What would London look like without Freedom of Panorama?
These realms all started off as great communities with people who were mostly in it to participate and contribute to the discussion. But over time the zeitgeist became cool, and as soon as that happens, the bean-counters arrive.

And once that happens, it is pretty much game over for the community, no matter what technology is being used to sustain it.

Fundamentally there isn't much difference between your reddits and slashdots and USENETS .. and HN's .. in the end, the community is only as valuable as it perceives itself to have value. And then when the value becomes something that is co-opted by others who desire to exploit that value, a self-awareness of that value by the collective becomes its own worst fault. Reddit is clearly being invalidated by people who don't want the value they create to be valued differently by people who have what they consider to be differing values.

So it goes. I hope the next forum where people can creatively contribute to the dialog is not centralized. But that's hard - you have to have somewhere to meet, after all ..
Does anyone still use Foursquare?

The real question is, does Foursquare still use you?

(If you're not paying for it you're the product.)
This is exactly why Twitter sucks for discussion. You couldn't possibly illuminate a viewpoint on any matter using it so you end up making broad statements that get trounced by reality. Particularly an issue with such nuances.
Android Browser is the new Internet Explorer along with the webkit engine (Safari included). I should make a blog post one day showing what you get with Firefox for Android and what you get with the Android browser.

Youtube, Gmail, Office 365, Google Maps, nothing works well with Firefox for Android nowadays.
HN itself uses flat files for each of these comments!

Somewhat off topic, but one the pieces of code I'm most proud of was effectively a recursive XML scraper that resolved each leaf (each node was a web request) into a line (like a file path) of a massive text file, which was then grepped when a user searched for something. I hacked it together really quickly to solve a problem, which is solved orders of magnitude faster than commercial solutions that tried to be overly clever. I like it because while it was gross and bad and would be embarrassing to read, in reality grep is crazy fast and the OS cached the text file once you'd read it once. It's a nice personal reminder to me that you don't always need to build some Grand Design, especially when you're just building a tool that has no future evolving path.
Oddly enough... Where a flash plugin was highly unstable for me, the Mono version of Silverlight was highly stable, at least from my personal experience. So I'm personally saddened not to see Silverlight heading anywhere. HTML5 still feels clunky most of the time for me, it either doesn't work, or unnecessarily wastes system resources for me.
> We'll probably have to wait a few more years until Webassembly

I agree, so in the meantime what do we do?
It's disingenuous to suggest the difference in revenue is because of piracy.

1970s and 1980s era record labels would sign an artist, throw development money at him or her, give them a fair try in the market with at least a couple of albums, and only drop them if they were going nowhere.

Then the emphasis shifted to the show-me-the-money insta-hit act, and manufactured waxwork acts like Justin Bieber. Music got a lot less interesting, and people found other things to do with their time. So sales crashed.

There's actually more good music being made than ever, but most of it lives on microlabels only hipsters know about, and the people making it all have day jobs. Even some of the better known names in dance/trance have day jobs.

This is bad, because some of them are very talented and would easily have made a career out of it 30 years ago.

Pop literally ate itself. The pirates just picked over the bones.
ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
In case it wasn't clear, I think that is illegal, and that it disproves the argument "bits therefore legal".
I'm not totally familiar with this diagram, but I think that by "Temperature Anomaly" they mean the difference between the temperature and what we expected the temperature to be (or something like that), not the absolute temperature.
I was not very interested in math in school or university (I suppose due to the lack of context and focus).

Now after working a few years as a web developer, a goal of mine is to revisit and study math and physics.

I've bookmarked your "No-Bullshit" Guide. Thanks for sharing.
I like the standing suggestion. I don't know how many hours the average standing-desker stands at their desk but 2 hours seems like a very realistic goal.
For those who don't know, the author is now Greece's Finance Minister.
Bingo. And why you see the likes of Apple, Adobe and Microsoft bend over backwards to offer students deep discounts.

Heck, MS has been using their personal computing market share in their business sales pitches. This in the form of "total cost of ownership". More specifically that people will be accustomed to MS interfaces from their home use, and so less training is needed as new employees.
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In my consultancy we struggled for many years with these issues which led to poor performance and low revenue/profit and missed deadlines.

For the last couple of years we have tried many different things to boost productivity, inspired by netflix, valve, linkedin and more.

This year all these things resulted in us inventing a new method (http://timeblock.com) that is more about transparency and feedback between Makers and Managers than anything else.

The method results in less procrastination, better estimation, happier Makers, Managers and customers.
WebGL/OpenGL and Vulkan operate at different levels. I suspect that OpenGl and Vulkan will co-exist and it is likely that WebGL and a web Vulkan-equivalent will also co-exist.
To be honest, anything that removes the Shard, 122 Leadenhall and 20 Fenchurch from the skyline (even if it's just photos) is A-OK by me.
taxis services are regulated for good reason yes. but it doesn't mean the regulation is efficient. when you pay for a service that provides you exactly the same experience than a discounted service like Uber then there is no sense for this service.

Taxi drivers in france is expensive and drivers are uneducated, rude, unpolite. Compare this to drivers in england and japan where they respect the customer and provide a good service and then you will understand why uber disrupting french taxis. because the regulation is only based about how much money you need to put to buy a license while the regulation should be about having a proper formation and learn about customer service.
I'd love to see a little bit of ImmutableJS added to see how much of a speedup we have.
I suspect once Mozilla finalizes their multiprocess rework, all that will hang is that specific tab.
Do you find it intellectually curious that Eastern European and Balkan women are still being trafficked by the thousands into the Middle East using many of the same traditions and rationalizations?
To me only lesson seems to be, this is how React works. The diffing is known to work like this, if you are not calculating the diffs beforehand (or use some non-standard ways to set the state) there is not much one can do besides obvious things like immutables. Diffing massive tables against each other each time is sure slow.

Comparing it to vanilla JS is the pointless part to me, that's like comparing a appending a list, and diff algorithms together, with complicated way to say it.
I agree, I'm quite fond of them. People who claim windmills have no place in the Dutch landscape probably don't like tulips and clogs either.
But the argument could be made that because no one knows about the underlying banks, and all services goes through coinbase / lending club / etc., a commoditization is making banks irrelevant, and they are getting stripped from an important part of their business, which is the services that they provide to their customers.
You could probably use this project as a starting point if you were going to make one! Look at

- api.coffee[1] for what internal API we're using

- spotify.coffee[2] for what Spotify end points we're using

[1]: https://github.com/jez/tunemachine/blob/master/routes/api.co...
[2]: https://github.com/jez/tunemachine/blob/master/spotify.coffe...
> This is a country that is doing everything it can to create laws which increase the cost of transportation and reduce the ability to get a ride.

Which country? The country Blablacar came out of?
I think he is missing Valve now except if his game theory calculations turn to be right.
For Senior Leaders, Fit Matters More Than Skill (2014)
So if Uber is disrupting French taxis because the drivers are rude and English taxi drivers are polite then why is Uber catching on in England too?
> Certain people want Reddit to be a haven for free speech, including speech that coordinates abusive actions

That's a contradiction, not many people (especially internet people) understand that freedom of speech and freedom of expression do not cover a conspiracy to be harmful.

However, Reddit certainly doesn't have [correctly defined] freedom of speech - which I have a problem with: Reddit has a certain sway over the way that people think and a world where unpopular or culturally immoral opinions are muzzled is not a world where ethical progress can be made.
The web interface login page recently changed so first you type in your username, then have to switch to the mouse to click "next", then type in your password. (Perhaps not as bad as one website I know that disables tabbing between the two fields!)

Anyone know if there's a reason behind such a clunky interface change?
And was previously employed to monitor the economy of EVE.
Its not about photographing them, is it? Its about commercialization of said photos. So go ahead and take your holiday snaps.
Ah ok, gotcha. As I have to maintain a few legacy PHP servers.. I would strongly recommend you take a look at NGINX + PHP-FPM replacing Apache too so you can simplify the stack a bit.

NGINX is pretty awesome as a reverse proxy (as you must know) but its very nice when you use it as your web server too.
No major browser uses `WKWebView` because it has very large gaping design holes, making it a bad choice for a browser.
I used this recently when exporting my Spotify playlists for my switch to Apple Music. It worked pretty well. You still need to copy and paste but it grabs all the correct information for each track.

https://github.com/jlund/spotify-export/
Stutters and goes berserk even on my i5 dev machine. Is there an alternative version of the website?
Chances are this clear separation will allow the various teams to submit patches to React without having to worry about time synchronizing with the release of the stuff that is in ReactDOM ... at least once it stabilizes a bit.
Because if they did, "Tide users" and "Ford owners" would be their own markets too which would mean that all brands would be monopolists by default.

You don't get to throw anti-trust at Apple because you can't be bothered to switch to a different type of smartphone, just like you can't throw anti-trust at Ford because you don't want to drive a Chevy. The notion is absurd.
An economic analysis of the Greece referendum
With an added "bitcoin is bad but if we take the idea and reshape it so it works in tandem with the existing financial system as a support system then it could be good"
A great user interface is dangerous when it's disconnected from the internals of the software, because the user starts to feel the software "is only pretending to be nice" and is fighting against them.

When an app loses hours of your work, you start to wish you used an app that took more clicks to use but actually focused on the internals.

I'm making daily videos at Rate My App (.com) and the latest version of ScreenFlow 5 (screen capture software) is known for the best user interface, but in fact impossible to feel safe recording even the most basic videos with.

- Forces you to delete your videos with endless prompts or forcefully shut down the app if you do a File -> Rename...

- Let's you record a new project but will not actually save it if it recently had an issue (above), so you lose that one, as well

- Does not explain that clicking Remove in the infinite prompt actually deletes all the video content. Does not backup for you, either

- Doesn’t always show YouTube categories, but allows you to click Start Upload, in which case the uploads remain in the upload queue forever. Issues or errors with video sites are not mentioned, the upload just stays in the queue.

- Warns about uploading videos greater than 15 minutes long on YouTube even though you’re exporting a 5 second range

- Their most important feature, video actions (keyframes) don't work. Modifying one randomly modifies another one, so I stopped using it. This was a major bug until it deleted a 1.5 hour project of mine. Now, it seems minor.
MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
I think what you're doing is admirable and just wanted to wish you good luck! I've been fighting similar battles within government (non-US) and it can be both very frustrating and very rewarding. Frustrating because 'being right' is almost never the way to win the argument.

Although I'm terrible at this myself, I've observed that opposition to change is best overcome by persistence. The best change agent I've worked with used a particular (and highly effective) technique that I've since termed 'objection exhaustion'.

He'd hold a meeting of all the 'major stakeholders' (read: people who's stuff we were messing with, but who's co-operation we needed) once a week/fortnight to update them on our progress (read: grind them down into submission).

When someone raised an objection to our ideas, he'd listen carefully, take their concerns seriously and commit to examining the issue and bringing findings back to the next meeting. We'd then do that, and most of the time present evidence at the next meeting that showed the objection was baseless (in a nice, 'give them an out', kind of way). Tedious as it was, by doing this over and over we'd exhaust all their objections and they'd be forced to agree with us (or continue to object for no apparent reason and look like a mindless fool in front of their senior colleagues).

Depressingly, the true but hidden objection is usually "don't touch my stuff" or "don't reduce my budget". Objection exhaustion works great here: few public servants are shameless enough to admit, perhaps even to themselves, that these are the reasons for their opposition.
Inflation without specifier means rise in the price level. If you mean monetary inflation, call it monetary inflation.

Bitcoin is deflationary (as negative inflation) in the first sense and this is the deflation yanisv is talking about.
Thanks for the compliment XD anyone interested should check out the portfolio of Min Zhou[1], who can take full responsibility for the design.

[1]: http://www.min-zhou.com/
"in Europe"

Becoming a taxi driver here in Edinburgh appears to cost £165 - which includes a test which appears to be pretty straightforward to pass.

Is that really an "exorbitant amounts of money"?

[NB I appreciate that Edinburgh may be the exception - but Europe is rather large and diverse so making such a generalisation about an entire continent seems rather unwise].
Similarly, in Windows Store (of Windows 8 & 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 & 8.1), every browser is IE or IE-wrapped: so in Windows RT and Windows Phone environment (were only Windows Store apps are allowed), there is only one choice for browser, i.e. IE. Well, MS killed Windows RT and Windows Phone hasn't got that much of market share. Hopefully they will change these restrictions in Windows 10.
> I find the Netherlands always quite pretty in comparision with surrounding countries

Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this is really not something I have ever heard before. There are many things to like about living here, but what parts of it are pretty?
The features are still missing as of iOS 9 SDK.
My question is:

"Selfie as a Password", - Is it really secure?
I agree, I refuse to turn Chrome back on but it is tempting sometimes or even necessary. Most recently FF didn't correctly handle some intent and no app was found when a link was clicked. This was necessary for authenticating something for work. Very annoying. Anyway, the amount of Cool stuff posted here that does not work in FF desktop and requires Chrome is also quite high.
Personally - I use SwiftKey with two languages enabled. Its really good at predicting the language I will use based on the first word.

Bit more tricky when you mix english terms into a different language but still pretty damn impressive.
Looks like the unions disrupted Uber's business model.
You don't have to use iOS. So such petitions are pretty pointless.
Im no fan of Uber and their tactics, and this pg guy doesn't sound very smart from that comment to me -- but there is a distinction to be made between the legal and illegal operations Uber run.

Using a mobile phone as an automated dispatcher for cabs is a fine idea, and improves the experience for the customer.

Breaking local laws relating to insurance, background checks, surge pricing, provisions for disabled passengers etc. is NOT fine.
And the fstab line is a copy and paste of the mount line on nofail. Basically it just suppresses the error code, and do not dictate any behavior for the larger system.
Firefox for iOS is. But yes, the gaping holes make making something competitive problematic.
I really like this idea. In fact just yesterday I was thinking about it makes much more sense to group activities that happen after midnight with the "previous" day.
> Taxi drivers in Europe have to pay exorbitant amounts of money and go thru a gauntlet to be able to make a living.

Not the case in Ireland. Taxis were deregulated 10+ years ago.
Yellowstone loses radio frequencies used to track wildlife
Couldn't you host over HTTPS locally with a self-signed certificate? I've done it with my own, similar, locally hosted stuff.
Taxi services are primarily regulated at the behest of the existing taxi companies to keep out competition. The public interest of the regulation is just a cover story.

We just returned from Paris, and I can tell you that people in Paris are not happy with cab drivers (overpriced, and often refuse riders based on too many people, too many bags, or too short of a trip).

This smells like a campaign of a greedy and corrupt union hiding behind a law to protect its poorly performing industry.