skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Alternatively, if they ended the subsidies and raised prices to match costs, would it go back to being a rich people's service?

Don't get me wrong, taxis in many cities (especially SF) aren't serving the public reasonably. But Uber is only part of that conversation because it's price-competitive with taxis. If we thank them for identifying the problem, and then solve it by regularizing Uber's legal status, will the problem come back in three years once uberX and uberPOOL need to be profitable? Should we instead focus legislative effort on making taxis work?
Buying Rafales would make a lot of sense - especially if the UK decided to operate a joint carrier fleet with the French.

Never going to happen though.
Dassault won't submit the Rafale for the bidding process, because the terms and requirements are so ridiculously screwed towards the F-35. All other manufactures are required to commit to a "buy back program", expect for the F-35.

SAAB dropped out twice, first time because the requirements for the plane kept getting changed so only the F-35 would qualify (SAAB was able to prove that the JAS 39 Gripen could match those requirements).

The Eurofighter is still an option, as is the Boeing Super Hornet.

Denmark is a level 3 partner in the F-35 program, and mostly work with the US when going to war, so interest wise the F-35 is politically sensible. We just don't have the money to fly the F-35 (my personal opinion).

It doesn't matter if the Super Hornet, Eurofighter or the Gripen is a little dated, they will have to last 30 years or more, like our current F-16s. So they will be dated for most of their lifetime anyway. The F-35 would limit the number of planes we can buy, the expert evaluation from earlier this month is that it would be better to have more plane, but less advanced. Link to a Danish article: http://ing.dk/artikel/derfor-skal-danmark-have-mange-kampfly... (ing.dk/Ingeniøren is the Danish engineers union)
Well, Newtonian physics can be readily derived from General Relativity as a sensible approximation. General relativity has a sensible backing in Hamiltonian mechanics.

The relativistic version of MOND, TEVES, is known to be unstable and its action is a complete mess. Moreover, since the action is attempting to add a scalar field and a vector field (which in relativistic theory is just a matter field) it is exactly proposing the existence of an unexplained matter field: dark matter.

So in the end most people disregard MOND.
Three months living in a multi-petahash BTC mine in Kangding, Sichuan, China
To me Docker seems to provide a visualization at a level between virtualenv (which provides it at the Python environment level) and a virtual machine (which is at the machine level). I am sure there are cases where that is useful, but for me, I can't see many cases where its superior to the other two options.

In my workplace, I have control over the virtualenv and generally the sysadmins have control of virtual machines. I can ask nicely and they sometimes they will give me root access. Even if they don't, I know how to install packages without root access (if it is something I think is worth the effort). Sometimes (most of the time) its easier to let sysadmins do that stuff for me. Docker isn't going to improve much on that.
Alternatively, one million startups with one million dollars each..
> Real science is rarely so clean.

I'm no physicist but I've never liked dark matter and dark energy: they smell suspiciously similar to hacks (the bad kind) if a hack could be defined as over-fitting a solution to a problem.

It seems as though, recently, science has become rather bad at the words "I don't know." Things were staying together more than they should so we invented dark matter in order to explain that. Now, whenever something stays together more than it should we claim that dark matter has more evidence[1]: no, there is simply more evidence of the problem that dark matter seeks to solve. How do we even know it's a single problem (a.k.a. force)? How do we even know that dark energy is another problem?

It's like me claiming that little monsters called frombles are responsible for light and every time I see light I claim "see! There's light, so there are frombles!"

Not that dark matter is a bad solution, I just feel as though there is a disproportionate amount of people looking into it given that we've never actually observed a WIMP. Nor do I think that research into dark matter should cease, it has so far found a really good definition of the problem and, yes, WIMPs are a good candidate solution.

If we could have a few more people educated in the field start off at "I don't know," that would be great. You know, the "dirty" kind of science that used to be done when nobody really knew what was going on at all - that's when we learned the most: when we didn't have the "safe bet" research topics. When people came up with stupid ideas and tested those stupid ideas. Stupid ideas are the best ideas because it at least means that one person is thinking outside of the box.

[1]: http://www.iflscience.com/physics/researchers-claim-have-fou...
for london, no. not really

London has a chronic lack of affordable housing, and there is no new supply. Worse there is no social renting housing being built either.
Is this program literally the biggest waste of money of all time?
QM explained by a software engineer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
The Curse of the Carousel – Building Blocks
It's kind a of hard to fine, because everyone is being polite :-)

The terms of the bidding is tweaked as to be in favour of the JSF/F-35, making it hard to bid, even if your offer is better.
You're right, my being French definitely influenced me in talking about the Rafale, the Eurofighter is more to the point in this case.

I do absolutely agree that there's no good reason why the EU at large shouldn't be able to produce a modern, top of the line fighter jet. We have the engineers, the means of production, a market to sell said jets, some European countries are already amongst the biggest arms dealers in the world, it doesn't make sense to me that countries of the EU would buy American jet fighters (with all due respect to the USA).
I race with FPVLEague in the uk. They're mailing list is at fpvleague.co.uk
If you want to try a colorscheme quickly : https://github.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes
Ask HN: What do you wish Microsoft was doing better re: web?
It's been too easy to criticize Microsoft on IE - but they're working on fixing that now (moving to continuous updates for Spartan) and seem to be engaging more with the community (Visual Studio Code seems more like Atom than Visual Studio). What other things do they need to work on / promote / think about / talk about / preach / practice / think through re: web & JS?
This looks really good. The pixelated water simulations gave me flashbacks of a Acorn game called Cataclysm[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMlZ2MwYvuA
You are and you will be an employee. Ask to get fully compensated for the previous 8 months and if not, leave right now.
If you like this kind of thing, check out bionerd23 - she does some really cool exploration videos of the wider Chernobyl/Pripyat site(s):

https://www.youtube.com/user/bionerd23
Denmark's interests lie with the US and always has. Few people realise how close we are (including people in the US, but they've always been better at remembering enemies than friend). I feel this has somewhat diminished with the Iraq tragedy, but I don't know.

I think there's an unspoken non-political agreement in Denmark, that when it comes to military actions, we'd rather build our connections with a party of resolve (be they wrong or right) than a fragmented alliance.

On top of that, Denmark has a special treaty with the EU, which states that we will not and can not join military forces. The Danish politicians wanted to go further into the EU adventure than the population in Denmark, so at first we voted "no" to a EU treaty which we then accepted the second time around, given these 4 "reservations" (no EU citizenship, no EU currency, no EU defence policy, no EU meddling with our "internal laws").
The scale of the mine is impressive, the pictures and his story of living there IMHO are more impressive. Worth scrolling through just to see all the pictures.
Your first point is a tautology because it relies on the assumption that miners are rational. I can certainly see scenarios where they continue to mine without it being immediately profitable. For example, people are bad at dealing with sunk costs. Imagine a miner paying money for a mining rig and then continuing to mine even when it is unprofitable to "pay off the rig". Or perhaps they have the somewhat more rational belief that Bitcoin will increase in value in the future so they are comfortable taking an immediate loss on the electricity.

Your second point relies on the assumption that Bitcoin is a closed system. Without people injecting value into the system, Bitcoins would be worth $0. So you are basically predicting that people will suddenly stop bringing money they earned elsewhere to support mining Bitcoin. This point also relies of the opposite of the old Keynes "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" quote. If we are waiting for people to go broke to keep the market rational, how long will that take and will the market be able to endure however long it is?
I Killed My Children After They Gangraped My Child-.No Remorse; Mitchell Blair
That's very true. The reason of that is the code was rewritten from Qora cryptocurrency source code(24K LOCs in Java). I will definitely make it more FP-like.
finally, beautiful themes that are sophisticated enough to work in both terminal and GUI. And all in one place. This link made me a very happy man.
In the run-up to the Iraq war the BBC was very much a mouthpiece for the UK government.

As a rule of thumb you can use any news service as a source of information as long as you don't use it for information about the government of the country where it originates from and the major adversaries of that government or country.

That makes reading the news and staying current a lot harder and probably will require you to gain language proficiency beyond what you can get at through the English language press.
Let this for a lawyer or judge to be decided. Besides this, this was not the question if he is an employee or not. He can be an employee AND have equity.
Bitcoin will not eliminate most of the market inefficiencies you've listed - certainly not forex, by definition for example. There are already Bitcoin derivatives and other financial instruments being built already.

However, the most comprehensive (and perhaps, relevant) analysis I've seen looks at the costs of printing/minting money and its distribution (banks, ATMs) is here: http://www.coindesk.com/author/hass-mccook/

It's from mid-2014 now so the mining article is a bit out of date but there's no reason it couldn't be turned into a spreadsheet to account for current mining efficiency (and modeled against new developments increased block size or lightning network, for example).
I'm not really a gamer, but I do love me some synth one-liners:

http://countercomplex.blogspot.co.at/2011/10/algorithmic-sym...

Most of these would also fit in a single tweet ..
But thats trying to cure the symptom.

The main problem is the lack of correct sized social housing. The bedroom tax forced people to downsize.

In southwark the most pressure of housing is for one and two bedroom properties. Most people were downsizing from 3+ into 2 or 1 bedroom places.

If the price is too high, its not because of tax (3-5%) its because there isn't enough to go round.

The lack of state rental housing means that there is increased pressure on private rental. There is no new supply of rental housing, which means that the existing stock becomes more valuable. This means that rental prices rise inline with the value of the housing stock.

This is turn means that the direct cost to the government rises as well.

Its literally cheaper to build council houses.

However this will never happen because:
1) it involves borrowing money for the "poor"

2) it involves planning for something longer than two years

3) it will lower house prices for the very voters that got the tories into government.

Nothing will change untill a crisis happens. And by crisis I mean the voting classes getting impacted.
Very cool application, confused about why it needs so many permissions when logging in with github though.
Right, it does not seem to be a raycasting algorithm, and the author mentions of it in the youtube comments that it's a "rasterization" meaning perspective projection of textured polygons.
Anatomy of Data Source API: Deep Dive into Spark SQL Data Source API
As far as I'm aware, the plans for the F-35Bs the RAF are getting are to replace the ageing Tornado GR4s. The RN ones are replacing the Harriers, which are already sold… (Technically, AIUI, there's one single joint fleet split between the two services, manned by joint personnel.)
You're not wrong, but the initial bid was for I believe 60 planes. Something SAAB could deliver within the budget. We're now down to ordering maybe 30 planes or less. Partly because of the price of the F-35, but also due to the overall economy within Denmark.

You can bolt very advanced weapons onto the Gripen, or the Eurofighter, but you can also buy two or three times the amount of planes.

European countries, as least not the small one, will just buy less planes if the cost goes up. So it might be better to have more of a 1990s plane, than a few of a 2015 era plane.
We are pushing up your house prices.

Anything that is within 3 hours of central london is now 50-200% more valuable than it should be.
You might not, but if Pepsi produced 90% of the demand for drinking bottles, the bottle makers might. Similarly, bitcoin companies which are not currently miners but which profit from providing bitcoin-related services might have incentive to step in. (Coinbase, Circle, BitPay, etc.)
Why? In both cases someone was negligent. Seems like the same laws should cover both. If I hit a ball into someone's head and give them a concussion why is that different than if I drop a drone on someone's head and give them a concussion? It seems like there's nothing special about the drone case. It's the same as the ball case. Same laws, same repercussions, same responsibility.

Am I missing how it's different? Drones might be new but there's been RC planes and gliders for decades. Did those need special laws for crashing them or do we just use the same laws we use for bodily harm and/or property destruction?
Whistleblowing is a process that relies on people. The Russians are probably a lot more effective at ensuring that (1) (potential) whistleblowers do not gain access to sensitive information in quantities that move the needle, (2) are much less likely to 'outsource' their intelligence affairs to contractors and (3) have a history of killing people that are not friendly to the local government even when they were living abroad.

All of these are very effective deterrents against whistleblowers stepping forward.

That we don't have much information on Russia however should definitely not be read as 'wikileaks is slacking in Russia' or 'the Russian government is not doing much that can't stand the light of day', rather the opposite.
What makes you believe US companies don't use bribe either? Or that any US corp is 'superior'?..
Proof of state only further incentives hording, generally making it undesirable for economic activity.
Maybe some "The Album Leaf" - http://www.rdio.com/artist/The_Album_Leaf/album/A_Chorus_Of_...
Seems like arguing for open source software on devices would cut closer and more directly for the point they're trying to make.
Repeat after me: Regulatory Capture
you... you for real?
The concept of Uber (i.e., being able to reliably call a taxi from the phone) has a lot of value but there are significant competitive advantages of being the first to a customer's phone or by being the cheaper option to get adoption.

Hate to simplify it, but in many ways what we saw with Uber was similar to GroupOn. Uber will likely collapse, let's hope it does not take the tech market down with it. Although, I'm all for bubbles bursting and markets normalizing.
>If you're a Russian with enough cash to spare to buy a central London property just as an investment asset, the taxes have to be in triple-digit million ranges to become noteworthy.

Higher taxes don't just mean higher taxes for the Russian, they also reduce the value of his property as an investment.

>Expensive, multi-million-dollar apartments are not affordable by working-class people.

Hence the use of the word "space", not "apartment".
+1

This is where I initially found the story of the tape mishap. Many more terrifying ones in there, especially the one about the B52 disintegrating and dropping a near armed nuclear warhead over North Carolina...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bom...
Can't believe noone posted yet [this clip from Pentagon Wars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA) about the clusterfuck that was the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
1. The title gives the wrong impression. It might be better to phrase it as "right to eavesdrop on (my|your) own things".

2. I'm not sure that communication transparency is what led to the success of PCs, smartphones, and the Web. Perhaps the Web, but definitely not smartphones. People had to fight tooth and nail for the right to root or jailbreak their own phones!

3. How do you add the ability to eavesdrop on a device without compromising TLS or adding a remote back door that anyone could exploit? The only way that I can think of, and the only way that this has traditionally been done with PCs, is to give local root to the owner.

If the owner has root, then he can make the device trust his own certificate and proceed to MITM it with his own router. But an owner with root can also modify the device's "firmware" to make it behave in ways that the manufacturer never intended, and manufacturers will do everything in their power to prevent this. Nobody wants to admit that they're actually selling general-purpose computers.

If the manufacturers are not going to cooperate (and I don't think they will), then perhaps what needs to happen is that we should start rooting/jailbreaking every smart device we can get our hands on, and thereby force them to be transparent. It can't be that difficult, after all. Where are all the clever folks who helped root and jailbreak our phones? Let's send them some TVs to play with, warranties be damned. Perfect security doesn't exist, and we can use that fact to our advantage.
The Way of the Blockbuster
It's OT but I can't resist: I recently found out that a selection of these little "synths" have been implemented in the chipsounds VST instrument using its bandlimited oscillators. You can play them up and down the keyboard and they sound awesome.

http://www.plogue.com/products/chipsounds/
I'm all in with UI Testing in Xcode 7, The fact that I don't have to install anything extra on my mac, or server is a huge bonus.
I'd say we have a pretty good idea about what nukes do, since we already detonated more than 2.000 of them.
This is unrelated, but in the first screenshot, how do you get a terminal windows inside vim ? ( git in the top right). I guess it is a neovim feature.
I agree many of the default Vim syntax highlighting files leave a lot to be desired. You can improve it though and Vim highlighting is actually very powerful. I use a C syntax highlighting improvement plugin to add (among other things) highlighting to operators and function names in calls[1].

You can also quite easily customise syntax highlighting by placing your own additional syntax file in .vim/after/syntax for a language. I use this to add some more custom keywords. You could quite easily add highlight support for ".Else" in an after/syntax file.

[1] https://github.com/justinmk/vim-syntax-extra
My favorite is when they find an actual fragment of the reactor fuel in nature, and the way she handles it with her bare hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejZyDvtX85Y

And the recent video where she walks around inside the actual plant. Especially at 13:00 - that red door has an eerie feel to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHnApxVFQU
Continuation Passing Style in Haskell
Unfortunately this seem to be recording a lot of false positives. despite my browser not supporting let or const, they are marked as supporting some of the let/const behaviours just because they threw any error.
Have you signed any contract? An employment contract would place ownership with the company. You've mentioned you've been compensated which doesn't sound good.

(Hence why people are advising you to stop working)

Go sick until you speak to a lawyer.
Aren't SQL keywords case insensitive anyway?
Nice concept.

Feedback: the code boxes are too big in the majority of cases, e.g. http://blinkofcode.com/5590ed12c57dd447d43e5ad0
There's a name for that: Escalation of commitment, aka: sunk cost fallacy.
The best medium is not where everyone else is already doing it. It is finding somewhere with enough foundation to build on, but who's value is underrated and who's opportunities are being ignored. There's an obvious candidate in storytelling.

Audio.

As it was in the beginning of storytelling, so it should be again. There's a market for audiobooks, but they are audio books (somewhat like having audio food, or visual music). Radio drama has sunk, exclude holdouts like the BBC's Radio 4 in the UK. Podcasts never quite died, despite predictions.

Feels like an area that is just crying out for innovation and renaissance.
EU final agreement for network neutrality and free roaming
Actually, aluminum manufacturing is a perfect use case for solar, because it doesn't mind intermittency. (Or put another way, manufacturing energy intensive stuff is a perfect way to provide the storage that solar needs.)
It would make the cost higher. When you increase the cost of something, fewer people do it.
Remember that notch's silly space game with a simulated processor and the huge influx of emulators and whatnot after the announcement?
The UK already has these rights and more:

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/find-out-what-data-an-org...

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act
Did they give you the reply in writing? If not ask for confirmation in the form of a letter.

It only takes 5 mins to type out a letter. If they blow you off you know you are getting shafted.
And, depending on how your jammer works, I can probably kill it for a few thousand dollars (+- an order of magnitude).

Pentagon procurement is a shitshow, but the DoD has many brilliant radio, radar, and signals guys working for them directly, or indirectly.
> Then again, maybe those jets are not very good
Rafale not very good ??? There are plenty evidences on the web that the Rafale is indeed a very good jet. The rafale is multirole and is very successful at his different roles (bombing, air interdiction, suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD), and close air support (CAS) and even aerial reconnaissance). Checkout this video of F22 vs Rafale for instance: https://defenseissues.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/on-rafale-vs-...
I have yet to see any single example of 'sovereign trans-national' corporations, AFAIK big companies are definitely from their mother-country, no matter how many subsidiaries or branches they have.
Reminds me of a game I made while learning to code:

http://lalwanivikas.github.io/window-game/

(Concept inspired from Jennifer Dewalt's project, but code is entirely mine :))
China has already "open sourced" it.
It is extremely easy to dilute ownership of equity. If double crossed, I would not fantasize about ownership. I would run away, if possible in good terms (paid for all previous work). Life is too short.