skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1980, I'd be able to tell how Yellow Cab vetted their drivers by the fact that their ad in the phone book had a PUC license number. I could then call the PUC and ask what requirements there are for a taxi cab. With the driver, I'd see a card prominently placed in the vehicle, which gave the driver's taxi license number, a photograph, and when the license expires. These are the bits of vetting that uber doesn't do, and turns a blind eye when people discuss how they work around uber's requirements for vetting [1]. The problem with uber is they've made it entirely too easy to game the system, because they'd much rather have drivers than safety.

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-driver-heres-how-we-get-aro...
2015: Let's start discovering where the big disruption comes. Blockchain. Many companies like for example Stampery.co are using the technology behind bitcoin to change failed ways to do things, like certifying things.
Microsoft Edge and Web Components
You are either free or you are not.

There is not "more free" or "less free"

Freedom is a binary state

Edit

to be more clear what you are talking about is more accurately stated is "more oppressed" and "less oppressed".

Oppression can have varying degrees, freedom can not.
A friend of mine told me his bank let him opt out. He just pestered them a lot.
The do's and don'ts of an LBC cash trade – From a Pro Trader
Well get back to me when you have figured this utopian vision out.

In the meantime I will trust my local members and health/safety experts in the public sector over one US company trying to make billions as quickly as possible.
I tried to fix the issue. I hope it won't happen again.
>collating and creating these scrapes has absorbed an enormous amount of my time & energy due to the need to solve CAPTCHAs,...

Have you considered automating this?
State of Coding Interviews
You say imperialist like it's a bad thing.
Great tool guys. Also named as me hahahaha hope the best for you! Good luck on the launch :)
Yeah, that's what I meant. Is it possible to get mobile app authentication working with email?

Thanks!
Yes, this absolutely needs to be clarified by Gwern. This is a very dangerous thing to link researchers to if it contains any illegal content.
I don't know whether it's technically a bug or not, but vim is often a bit slow. For example, 'o' to open a new line in insert mode sometimes takes up to two or three seconds to work. Not a huge problem, but enough to make my mental flow stumble. I have a small vimrc that's mostly tab-related stuff, so I don't think it's that.
Well there's a false headline. Oscar winning is the story of people, not of objective criteria.
> How many GitHub repositories are there mentioning Coinbase?

Conversely, how many GitHup repositories are there mentioning USD or GBP. Oh wait, you can not transact USDs online without a payment processor. So what would be a better way to compare? By comparing all the fiat payment processor mentions against Bitcoin and Bitcoin payment processors. Which is kind of what they are doing here.
Because uber's assurances that a driver that's picking you up is the driver who was interviewed are laughable [1]. It would be trivial for uber to create, and mandate their drivers display, information that had their photo, driver id, etc. Technology would be replacing government if uber provided the same assurances I can get right now. They don't.

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-driver-heres-how-we-get-aro...
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How can people love the product? I mean it's nice, but it's just temporary relief from crappy taxi service, which will change to be better if they don't plan to just roll over and die.

If not the drivers' crutch of GPS maps, I also have to hear stories from my GF about Uber bros in wayferers trying to flirt with her. So yeah, can't say I "love" the product.
When mass parameter is big, use of WSBs is interesting. But mass parameters for sun-earth or sun-Mars are tiny. I've expressed my skepticism for ITN between earth and Mars:
http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2015/04/potholes-on-interpl...
It's an LG Volt. Seems like it is always running out of memory, so that could have something to do with it.
Heavy Dropbox and Email user?
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New BitTorrent Sync API
You could apply the same logic to gay legalization, feminism & female emancipation, weed legalization, India's independence lead by ghandi, the civil rights movement and other forms of civil disobedience leading to legal changes, cultural shifts and even national holidays.

In these examples you have illegal organizations, for profit organizations, non profit organizations and individuals demanding the changes.
What does sweetj do for me?
Try using Dieharder. It incorporates most of the Diehard tests, as well as other tests and is much more rigorous.

sudo apt-get install dieharder

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php

If you make a GSL interface for the RNG it will make using dieharder much easier
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I've found myself facing the same dilemma. A membership to The Well is not a time machine, but I see notable folks with well.com e-mails and get jealous.
Sweet Jane is an email personal assistant for sending and get files to and from Dropbox
Its not about being motivated, its about designing your lifestyle, if you want to eat outside but the table is inside, move the table outside. Design your life so that you have to workout, rather than fighting temptation just don't have crap in your cupboard. Sell your car and buy a bike.
BitTorrent have announced a new API for BitTorrent Sync. They seem pretty focused on monetizing it through requiring a licensed key (apart from an eval key for development). I wonder how successful that will be, given that Sync is a paid product itself (well, for a certain level of features).
But as Uber itself shows, the fact that a licensing system exists doesn't mean that all services are compliant. So you already can't assume everything is safe - you're just self-deceiving yourself into a sense of false security.
Incorporate Moxie's encryption as a module. Distribute this version for those who want it (and have jailbroken phones, where relevant), and use it as a reference implementation when you build an alternative that is more generally available. Meanwhile, criticize Apple's anti-gpl policies for making their users less secure.
Did those minority stakeholders get disproportionate representation on the board as part of the investment?

Edit to add: Also, Advance Publications may also be pushing for big gains.
Really, downvotes but no comment? Touch a nerve?
I'm sure someone could do better than this but here is a first try at a suitably informative prompt:

$site_name wants to use WebRTC.

WebRTC allows voice calling, video chat, and P2P file
sharing, but can also be a privacy risk. We recommend
allowing WebRTC only on sites that you expect to use
such features on.

[Link to learn more]

Allow WebRTC for $site_name?

Something like Flash's audio/video access prompt would also be a good idea:

https://voicethread.com/image/howto/flash_settings_camera_mi...
In many cases it has been largely settled and we even have decades of data proving it. The article even provides several examples - cherry picked or not [0] - that provide evidence to the irrational fear bits.

The Bt example is a great example. Being produced by the fruit or sprayed on after being produced by bacteria has the same results and the "sing a different tune" to try and pass laws against it is telling that there is a larger (money-driven) agenda behind making people fear Bt-enhanced items compared to Bt-sprayed items.

The claim, in many (but possibly not all!) scenarios is very similar to tobacco companies saying "the science behind tobacco smoke being harmful to humans is far from being settled and science hasn't fully answered some of the so-called issues". I'll call bollocks on the tobacco companies and claim that they might have some other ulterior motive behind making scientific claims that tobacco isn't harmful and their cigarettes do not cause lung cancer.

I don't trust companies that would profit from a GMO ban on the harmful effects of GMO when unbiased results are opposing the findings of the anti-GMO groups. I also don't trust misleading claims used for fear-mongering because people don't really understand something but pretend to. [1].

[0] I don't follow the GMO issues super-duper closely so concede that there might be cases, many perhaps, that aren't as "case-closed" as the examples in the article. But whether these examples are cherry-picked or not they do show several GMO issues that should be "case closed" but aren't.

[1] http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Wait until the IRS deems Uber has illegally classified workers across the country as independent contractors and requires missed tax payments and penalties to be paid.

It should be noted, corporate officers are personally liable for those expenses if the corporation defaults or folds.
Enjoy considering yourself a slave, then. But from where I sit, you're mostly a slave to a view of the world that is completely lacking in perspective. I keep trying to get you to look outside it. You keep refusing to do so.
> We're proud of our football teams, why not be proud of our space teams?

Because at some point we realized that we can only be proud of our own achievements.
If it's possible to collect enough information from your browser to uniquely identify you, your browser needs fixing.
Politically it could never happen, but what's stopping a high minded mega genius ultra billionaire who doesn't mind getting labeled as a super villain?

... Bwahahaha ...
Inresting....will try it
This reminds me of a talk at last year's CppCon about modernizing legacy code. In it, they talked about a core output function of the MSVC standard library that had accreted enough #ifdefs over the years that the function signature alone spanned over 100 lines. It's a great example of how repeatedly making the minimal necessary change can drive code into an unmaintainable mess.

When the team found that the function was impossible to modify to accommodate C99 format string changes, they undertook a lengthy project to factor out the #ifdef'd features using abstractions available in C++. Not only were they able to turn the code into something much easier to modify, but they also fixed multiple hidden performance bottlenecks, so the end result actually ran 5x faster than the C version.

https://youtu.be/LDxAgMe6D18?t=69
The whole point of CAPTCHAs is to be difficult to automate. Or are you suggesting automating farming out the CAPTCHA solutions to cheap workers?
Except don't they have a special deal with Google to use the firehose?
I assumed it was a joke. But maybe not?
First time I have worked on a project with a co-founder, everything else I have done solo - proving to be an very different experience.

http://www.wearebeerd.com/

We Are Beer'd will help you find a place to enjoy your favourite craft beers as well as discover new beers you haven't tried yet.
Noscript covers most of them. :)

For a less "nuclear" option, use Adblock Plus. And this suggestion might help the defaults a bit: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27776

And if that doesn't work, get Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey and write your own by playing around with the debug console. (Chrome: Shift-Alt-C or Shift-Cmd-C - firefox: similar...)
Sorry, I must have missed that or misunderstood it.
Michael: we all wish you well. But we need you to stop posting comments like this to HN. An occasional off-topic observation is one thing, but this has gone way out of bounds.

If you want to discuss this, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
Nice False dilemma... How about you trust neither....

I do not trust uber, and I damn sure do not trust the government.

As far as a utopia, that is the dream of a statist. Statists believe if they elect just the right people, and pass just the right laws everyone will be safe, happy and life will finally be bliss for all....

Nonarchic (Anti-Statism) libertarians like myself do not believe in a utopia, we believe in a rational foundation of ethics we accept that bad things will happen to good people. We believe that over the long term allowing individuals to be free provides the best method for most people to be able to live happy and fulfilled lives as they desire.
is Nestor named after the butler in the Tintin stories?
ftw?
Moreover, enforcing that law is likely to increase drunk driving...
Do you happen to know that that is the particular definition mrkmcknz means? It's not clear to me, and it looks like you've just chosen a common dictionary definition and used that to indicate they aren't calling it a good company, while other dictionary definitions for great explicitly mean things equivalent to "very good".
The issue isn't that the other party knows your IP, it's that this is an unexpected connection for no other purpose than to obtain your public IP, in addition to your LAN IP.
The whole reason the medallion system was created was because prior to the medallions, taxis were a real risk to the general public.

Nope, the reason it was created was because the taxi drivers where annoyed with the increase of competition during the Great Depression and started striking and destroying property until they got a monopoly over the business.

From the nyc.gov site: Widespread poverty prompted many New Yorkers to opt for less-expensive forms of transportation, decreasing the demand for taxis. This put many companies out of business and caused many cabdrivers to lose their jobs. The situation was made worse by the tactics of “wildcat” (unlicensed) taxis who used what some considered to be “underhanded tactics,” such as drastically lowering fares, to get more business. The situation in the taxi industry was dire; frustrated cabdrivers turned their anger into violent protest and the demands for industry regulation increased.

Another source: Striking taxi drivers was nothing new–the first strike took place in 1908, a year after the first taxi company was founded. But this strike had a hostile energy to it, as strikers went hunting for scabs to punish. As one driver put it, “the bastids that was scabbin’, we pulled the doors off their cabs.” Independent cab owners, who had nothing to gain by striking, had their windows smashed by blocks of ice and passengers thrown from their cabs. Police who tried restore order had their tires slashed and marbles thrown under their horses. By February 5, angry crowds of driving were brawling in the street with the police and torching independent cab cars.

http://untappedcities.com/2015/02/05/today-in-nyc-history-th...
Nonsense. Gwern doesn't need to do anything for anyone.

It's an interesting issue, and a way investigators may be attacked, but it's their responsibility alone. There exists data. This is that data. The data may bite. Touch the data at your own risk.
I would agree, but there are very few browsers out there to which that doesn't apply.
I've seen it powered off, and then gone. Maybe it broke and went out for repair.

Originally, the Robocoin machines displayed their bid and ask prices on the attract screen. They stopped doing that; the size of the spread (about 15-20%) was embarrassing.
tel is 100% correct.

And you're right, it is a little glossed over, I'll try to be more explicit. Thanks for the comment!
So only firehose agreements get data? What's the impact to general SEO or 3rd parties? Doesn't sound good.
People will exhaust themselves trying to scrape together thin, crap arguments attempting to minimize what you're doing. Just keep pushing. I love the mission and can't wait to see you grow!
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> Anyway: USA! USA! (I kid!) Go humanity!

Well it was a grand old dick-waving contest in the 60s. Why not now as well.
I don't see how this is worse than the animals people actually eat. Which is why I don't.
> to prey upon and exploit that community for failed commercial gain.

AFAICT, Ubuntu doesn't really make money: it's basically Mark Shuttleworth funneling some of his fortune into a Linux distribution. That's a pretty good deal for us end users in many ways, and I don't really blame them for trying to at least break even.
Thank you, EFF.
Smoke Shop in Jersey City Gets the State’s First Bitcoin ATM
Like Paris's law banning women from wearing pants?
I'm sure that what the British did to China doesn't justify the death penalty for simple drug possession or use. Especially when it's a hot-button issue that almost guarantees the lack of a fair trial.

Besides, it seems wider than just China and its descendants.
But think of how it drove progress!

Seriously, would we have expended even a tenth of as much energy into building the rocket technology to go to space, without the nationalistic prestige race in the 60s? Or the idea that we could use them to lob nuclear holocaust at each other if shit hit the fan?
Briefly. In the old days you just called an insurance provider and a helpful person would come to your home and explain all the intricacies. Now you have to devote a couple of days to research on infuriatingly obtuse websites. As a free lancer time is really money.
How do you use it for fraud detection? What does it tell you/what are you looking for?
That is a separate issue. While an unjust law is still law, it does not mean I will look down on a service that ignores unjust laws.
Don’t mess with Grace Mugabe – she could be the next president of Zimbabwe
It's the second-most-common interpretation where "very good" doesn't seem to be the intended meaning. Commonly used in phrases like "Napoleon was a great man." Basically means "historically important."
"Mixing involves the spatial and tonal quality of the sound; editing the temporal and semantic quality."

What does that even mean? I thought sound editing was the creation of all the sounds and sound effects, and mixing was the mixing.
No, billionaires don’t drive economic growth
Dear author, please don't ever even think of coming to Poland and admiring its extensive network of bicycle routes with world-class solutions like this one: http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/14/25/ba/z12199188P,Sciezka-rowerowa-...

In comparison, London is awesome. I miss the CS3.
On what basis are you assuming that the_ancient wouldn't also support a regular person who was also breaking a law that the_ancient believes shouldn't exist?
"Even some of the drugs showing early promise and that are fast-tracked for approval by the FDA end up failing."

Which is the problem. Most new drugs don't work. Some work in some animals but not in humans. Some have side effects in humans. Some seem to work at first, but the effect doesn't last. Some have long-term side effects. Some are harmful to some part of the population. That's why so much clinical testing is required to find the ones that do work.

The gold standard of clinical testing is "better off 10 years later". Drugs have made it all the way to approval and later been pulled because they failed that test.
Yes, organizations have more power and importance than individuals. This has been true everywhere throughout most of human history.
Where does all the poop go?
Maybe. Like Minecraft but with text.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pl...

This is a time-lapse series of images of Pluto over the years - from a couple of pixels to today's mountain ranges. In about three seconds you get a full, visual, easy to read justification and explanation for the whole space budget and science funding - it is awesome.

This is what we want to see - go NASA
You can see the curve of false positives and false negatives in the paper. As one example, finding half of the extremist recruiters involves about labeling about 2% of benign posts as extremist recruiters. It's not promising if you think that they'll automatically suspect people of being terrorists based on this classifier, but it could be used responsibly as a filter for a human to follow up on.

I assess from the paper that they're specifically looking for Islamist extremist recruiters and not even considering any other type of extremists in this model.

Overfitting to suspect people with Arabic names would be a concern. (You know the classic 20 Newsgroups classification problem? Any algorithm that does particularly well at it is just overfitting to the names and signatures of people who posted in each newsgroup.)
I agree that Uber has ignored some regulation that has a legitimate public-interest justification [1]. But what complicates the issue is regulation has also failed to keep up with technology: for example, it doesn't make much sense to mandate taxi meters when GPS do it better, or to have a phone system for complaints when an app has much more data and a better complaint response time and satisfaction.

So Uber has provided significant positive sum gains on top of whatever negative externalities they've thrown off, which makes it much harder to claim that this is a case of merely avoiding regulations others have to follow. Taxi companies could have done all of positive-sum things Uber did [2], but didn't.

So I don't think that narrative fits the situation, or at least, can't account for than 1/3 of Uber's appeal.

[1] specifically, some insurable events that are generally accepted to be the company's responsibility to cover and not the driver's.

[2] easy-to-use app, removing the tipping dance, clean cars, mutual rating, quick action on complaints, reliable follow-up when a ride is requested, pooling rides, cashless transactions, etc
IMO, that's exactly the reason. Before search engines could scrape the data and load the content for free. Now they'll need to reach firehose data agreements.
I'm pretty sure that symbol in their logo is trademarked by someone else...
Thanks. I have tweeted it.
Do you know Presidential candidates?
I am generally a movie curmudgeon with a high bar. I got it as an iTunes rental for a long flight. iTunes only gives you 24 hours once you press play. I watched it three times before expiring.
Yeah, tagsrvcs.com is not a bad apple, but they are broadly used.
That's the delay in getting a single batch of images back during the approach phase, not how long it'll take to get all of the images from the flyby back.
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If they're worthless and have value, why are people willing to pay so much for them?

I mostly agree with you, overall, but the "value" part of your argument is simply wrong.

And don't ignore the large positive impact Bitcoin had on people trying to purchase essential medicines. Can you explain why I can't easily buy medicines free of regulation without Bitcoin?
Yup. WHOIS showed it was whiteops.com and we know what they do... as in nothing that anyone speculated.
JOE never tries to use poll or select (it uses multiple sub-processes writing to the same pipe to implement input multiplexing). This archaic way works on all version of UNIX, even very old ones which don't have select() or poll(). No #ifdefs needed :-)

Output processing in JOE is interesting: when writing to the terminal, JOE periodically sleeps for a time based on the baud rate and amount of data. This is to prevent too much output buffering so that at low baud rates you can interrupt the screen refresh with type-ahead. If you don't do this at 1200 baud it's a big issue (you could wait for hours if you hit PageDown too many times).
Understandable, thanks for an explanation
Fine, trust them. Just don't force everyone else to do the same.
Judge releases video of cops killing suspect despite PD objections
A+++ totally correct.

All I can say is never ever come to America with your bicycle.
I got some protein powder. Wasn't any cheaper but they gave out a $25 gift card
> If a regular person routinely disregards the law because they don't agree with it they go to prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
What does this have to do with Facebook only giving accounts to people that meet certain conditions?