skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting to see history repeating itself.

Loosecubes tried to fulfill this niche and never made it profitable.

If I had to independently conclude why, I might say that the relationship-building aspect of this kind of microcoworking is the most compelling for hosts but that kind of value is difficult to quantify and therefore difficult to monetize.
And yet, I expect that those laptops will be the ones doing most of the hard, creative, technical work. There will be less of them than mobile devices, but does this mean they'll be less important? If anything, they'll be more important than ever!
U.S. judge says Internet streaming service should be treated like cable
Wherever there is more money to make :P

(I think EasyTaxi is the only big app hit from Brazil in the last few years).
Is it really that hard to define harassment? The law seems to do alright.
> As in, we restrict speech because people speak more freely when they're not free to speak?

I don't know about reddit, but that is in face true in the real world.

In a place with no restrictions on speech, timid people, or those with controversial opinions, do not speak.

In a place with restricted speech they feel more open to speak.
Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?
For one, I could think of Big Data/ Hadoop. In the past one year, at least ten "coaching institutes" have sprang up in the area I live (in Bangalore) claiming to teach Hadoop and promising high paying jobs.

I went in there for a "demo session", and they are like "you can learn Hadoop and get a high paying job with absolutely no programming experience".

Anyway, these places always get some kind of gullible people.

I think this is a fad, and it will die down soon. What do you think about this ? Do you think there are any other fads like this ?
You don't know many lawyers, then. Only the creme of the creme get rich. The average lawyer makes about $40k/year and works around the clock.
I watched all of this and was thrilled to see this kind of content from the federal government. THANK YOU very much!

I have been on a personal crusade of sorts insisting on encryption everywhere. When I come across large sites that don't support any encryption (I am looking at you, Squarespace), I struggle with content to send them to prove my point but this will do nicely.
Is it possible to use this for creating videos with motion graphics? Even the possibility of a frame by frame render would be awesome.
...then what?

I'm not sure what problem you think you're solving here: the existence of a queue suggests that they're slightly over capacity in cars, and thus something like Uber would still have to rotate the fares between the drivers.

Of course, there are perfectly sensible reasons that you need to have extra capacity available at an airport as a metro area, and thus we have the question of how best to provide surge capacity to the airport.

All the answers I can think of, including an "on demand app", involve waiting in some kind of queue managed by someone.

So could you please finish your sentence?
I'm pretty sure this is a good one.
https://github.com/dotnet
It is a bit unclear from the techcruch article why loosecubes died. Do you know of any better writeup?

I suspect this idea will only work as a “life-style” business. I can’t see how you can sustain the profits to support investors. The positives are the costs are low enough that it should be possible to bootstrap and the market small enough that the VCs will stay away.
The other thing I like about this idea from a business perspective (if the host stays present) is that unlike with AirBnB, you don't have to worry as much about things like keys, lots of upkeep, insurance, etc. The barrier to entry for this seems much lower, and it's nice to see some of the listings going for "coffee money" ($5-15 for a day.)
Also, it adds ongoing costs to change management, as now you have to modify two environments for each change, test two environments, ensure data is refreshed into your non-prod environment (while ensuring you don't use production data in it), monitor two environments, pay licensing and support costs (hardware and software) for two environments, etc.

Having a secondary 'test' environment isn't as easy as 'oh just clone the VMs'.
> Restricting communication, no matter how repulsive one finds the content, does not make the "world ... a better place".

But it certainly makes the site a better place. No one wants to read that repulsive content. Allow it and people do not want to visit the site.

The only people I want to enforce free speech against is the government. In private I prefer restricted speech, specifically stupid and immature comments that just waste time and derail conversations into idiocity.
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I actually don't think Google is in particularly great shape. They are still overly reliant on search and advertising revenues and their hold over the Android platform isn't particularly strong (only via Google Play Services). They also haven't demonstrated really any skill at product management with so many failed efforts and overlap between apps/services.

It's also confusing where Google is going with some of their acquisitions e.g. Nest was expensive and arugably unnecessary and the self driving car is solid technology with very poor product positioning i.e. existing car manufacturers have their own technologies and don't want to bet their business on Apple/Google.

It seems like Google desperately wants to be a consumer company like Apple when in fact they would be much better servicing business and diversifying their revenue stream. AWS and Azure Cortana for example both should have been available from Google years ago.
>I'm noticing in these posts that those who view Chelsea Manning's actions favourably use the right name and pronouns.

I don't see a moral obligation to use the pronouns people assign to themselves.
Uber's fake feature blasts NYC regulators
Maybe they don't stave off Alzheimer's (or maybe they do... who knows). But I'm betting they do exercise certain cognitive facilities if done regularly.
It is hard to know why loosecubes died (do we have any alumni here that can answer this). My gut feeling is difficult to monetize at the level required to support investors. It would seem the demand is there, but the market is likely to be too small - good concept for a bootstrapped lifestyle business though.
Awesome to see!

I tried giving this a shot starting up 3 rethinkdb nodes with a proxy node with my existing application. Setup 3 shards and 2 replicas. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get my application working. The UI had the tables going back to outdated reads (everything was able to initialize though once). I'll give it another shot next week and report back. I'm sure it could also be a problem with my setup maybe.
Because of the embarrassing back of the Office of Management and Budget, the feds needed a high-profile "win" to give the voting public the appearance of competence.

That's the story.
The main value I think is the networking aspect - I have no need for the money, but it would be great to have a constant stream of intelligent and interesting people passing through that you could meet and discuss things with.

Edit. Adding to this idea I would sign up for service that let me move around just so I would get exposed to different people and ideas. If you worked in a different location with different people each week you would build an amazing network pretty quickly. Something like an email on Sunday letting you know that you will be working in location x for the next 5 days.
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I wonder if self driving cars will have cheaper insurance, which will be a good incentive for more people to buy them.
I'm sympathetic to the medallion cost/lock-in situation, but in my experience in the US, taxis have always provided a vastly inferior experience to something like Uber. You get attitude for anything bar a giant tip, you get trashy cars, etc. With every Uber I used, the drivers were friendly and enthusiastic, the cars were excellent and the app/setup is obviously a huge improvement over anything taxis do.

What gets me is that there is nothing stopping taxis improving their customer service, ditching their attitude, not filling their cars with advertising or pushing for big tips, or creating a decent app that everyone wants. That is all within their control. And they didn't do it when there wasn't competition and they've failed to do it since.
You are indeed correct, I meant relentless/unrelenting and was on mobile so my mental grammar-check was toggled off. Nice find
Interesting article indeed, but did he or did he not use the defense of "acting under orders"?

As presented by 2 excerpts below:

"This is not to say that Groening attempts to hide behind the “acting under orders” defense. He does not present himself as a mindless automaton who would have followed any command given to him."

"Additionally, he felt he was—using the words of the infamous Nazi post-war defense—acting under orders, and he attempts to defend himself with this analogy: “The first time a company of soldiers gets a volley of machine gun fire they don’t all get up and say, ‘We don’t agree with this—we’re going home.’”

A little clarification would be nice.
It isn't about the money, it is all about attitude.

I have bags, it is too far to walk, and I just need to get to the hotel. I don't want to feel like an ass for asking for help getting there.

Being in a car where the driver does not want you in it is uncomfortable. Having to pay for that feeling is just as bad. I have had situations where I have been at an airport or a hotel and the cab driver doesn't want to drive me to the location, and there is a doorman or someone else yelling at the driver that they will take me.

Charge me more. I just want to get to my hotel or to the airport.
Thanks for the link. Not quite what I'm looking for but I'll keep it for when I try Clojure.
Workload-specific FPGAs are here, now. They're not
'promising' because they're doing exactly what they
were made to do!

Right. I was thinking in terms of them being more integrated into hardware and software toolchains. We already have software runtimes (various Javascript VMs, .NET, the JVM and its offshoots, etc) that can optimize code at runtime based on the hardware that's present, hotspots in the code, etc.

Now imagine if FPGAs were integrated into your typical laptop/desktop logic board. Now imagine those software runtimes we talked about above could optimize your hardware at runtime as well. Or maybe it wouldn't be transparent; maybe FPGA hardware would be targetable like GPU hardware is today. Anyway, there's a lot of things that could happen there...

They already have a name for that and you already
named it. It's called cache ;)

I should have said "embedded DRAM" instead of "embedded RAM."

eDRAM is different from your typical CPU cache. Your CPU cache is almost always SRAM. But SRAM takes up 3x as much die space as an equivalent amount of eDRAM. Of course... some processors like IBM's POWER chips use eDRAM as L3 cache so the lines are blurred a little.

A lot of game consoles use embedded DRAM for stuff like graphics processing. On the XBox One I believe it's used as a framebuffer.
The Uber fare is cheaper for sure. However, even the taxi fare was only about $10 at the time. The point is that they have a minimum fare from the airport, and part of the drivers' discontent probably comes from the fact that they have to explain this policy to customers (who predictably don't like being forced to pay it).
If you're interested in this kind of stuff in python, you should check out datastreams: https://github.com/StuartAxelOwen/datastreams
Good as in effective at making the audience feel what the screenwriter set out to make the audience feel, but not necessarily good as in enjoyable.
If they really wanted to thank them they would have given them miles to a different airline.
It's important to note that most engineers at Google don't actually work on Ads or anything to do with monetization directly. Most will be working on things like Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Docs/Drive, YouTube, Chrome, etc etc.

I'm pretty sure Google doesn't really have a plan to monetize any of those things (other than ads), but I think it's also pretty cool that a small minority of the company makes enough money to let the rest do pretty much whatever.
I was uncertain at first if I was reading a book title lol. Haskell is usually a tough learning experience. I'll keep the link and check it out. Might need to learn it anyway given the seL4 and lots of Galois's work (eg Ivory language) is using Haskell. Figure it's better to start with it than Ocaml given that Haskell doesn't give an imperative programmer many outs. Gotta learn the concepts or leave haha.

"if you're willing to just pretend you know nothing of programming for a little while."

Always good advice for learning a new paradigm. I learned this when smart people taught me how to learn a foreign language. They said learn the concepts fresh, do no mental translations, and immerse yourself where you're forced to solve problems in that language. It's how we learn the native one's so why not new ones.
What's the most mature client driver for RethinkDB, in your opinion?
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I'm assuming that LAX is the largest U.S. airport to allow regular Uber pickups?

You can request an UberTaxi or Uber Black car at ORD [0], which is the second largest airport in terms of traffic in the world [1].

[0] https://www.facebook.com/uber/posts/601574873216135
[1] http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140924/BLOGS02/1409...
Hmm, well there are many examples of command line+GUI interfaces: Magic, the old IC layout editor is a CAD program with a command line interface. Another example is the matlab command line.

One thing I like about the command line is history- you just don't have this in a GUI. It would be nice if you could display images (cat an image file) or run little graphical programs right in the terminal emulator window. Scroll back to see the past.
Hint: they are very highly correlated fundamentally.
Video of the demo kit: https://youtu.be/ZLZMJYqEdQw
React is on the way up.

"Big Data" and "Machine Learning" on the way down.

Theres a reasonably sized part of the software industry/ecosystem that likes to be really vocal about 1 thing every 12-18 months.
The reason for this is that a very large number of automated emails (even if a very small percentage) will bounce back. The person-hours to sort through all of that noise are just not worth it in most cases.

There are some cases where you can reply to an automated email, but typically it's where the notification is only ever sent to real people with active email accounts - a receipt, not a newsletter.
It's a while since I watched it but I guess it's about the length some teachers will go to if they want the legacy of being the teacher of a great musician. It's about a nasty, revengeful, obsessive character who will stop at nothing to separate the wheat from the chaff to uncover a diamond or to screw over his enemies.

I don't think there's anything to agree with in terms of message since I didn't see in it any condoning of Fletcher's behaviour. Sure, in the end his approach did uncover greatness, but through seeing the toll it took on Neiman, I certainly wouldn't say the film advocates that that is how music should be taught. I also wouldn't say it contained a warning either.

There are several possible messages you could read into the movie, and that lends it depth.
No voting rights is less attractive, but insiders hold another class of shares with ten votes per share, so that the insiders have a majority on all normal[1] votes, so the common stock voting doesn't really matter, and is not like to matter soon.

[1] some elections may have statutory requirements that a majority of each stock class vote in favor, such as tender offers, etc.
Similar problem in Melbourne, Australia.

The taxi lobby groups have stopped a train line being built from the city to the airport (20 miles) so cabs are the only realistic way to get home with a 25 minutes journey costing $70.
CA laws specifically then?
All wild animals try to escape...
OK so let's talk about that, which is more readable?:

iterable = xrange(10)

ge = (x*x for x in iterable if not x % 2)

mf = map(lambda x: x*x, filter(lambda x: not x % 2, iterable))

Assume imap and ifilter from itertools or Python 3 (with range) for equivalence. I'm betting if we ask any person new to Python and new to programming, they'd think the former much more readable than the latter. Yes, we left it in the language for you cranks who think map, filter, and lambda are way better, but it's functionally no different.
I could have, and perhaps next time, but I think <24h is enough information. :)
Ask HN: Is there a place to submit early stage market surveys?
The reasoning is: There are places to submit your already built or in alpha/beta tech products (betalist, startuplist, etc), crowdfund your physical products (kickstarter, indiegogo, etc), but is there a place to submit your "Market surveys" for apps/ideas before they even begin to be built?

Besides mturk, spamming your friends, mailing lists, etc.

Thanks HN!
With CUDA you get 32 banks, all of which can be accessed in parallel.
Things have changed, though. WebVR is coming into being whilst people are excited about VR headsets that are much more practical and impressive than those in the past. Unlike in the 90s, the headsets are not going to cost thousands of dollars; just a few hundred.

WebGL is a standard being implemented by multiple browser vendors, whereas DirectAnimation was (correct me if I'm wrong) something that Microsoft was implementing for IE, partly DirectX-branded, and subject to the distrust of browser vendors and web developers.
Too many notes - or words, to borrow from the Emperor in "Amadeus".

You assume dyadic marriage without stating the premise that justifies state regulation of dyads and prohibition of three or more. Self-expression is a nonsensical reason and in any case no grounds for state licensure. Plural marriage has been normative in certain times and places, and still is here and there.

When it comes to polygamy, you seem only too happy to restrict the asserted positive rights of others. I shall refrain from screeching "bigot!" or trying to get you fired.

Special-pleading from unstated and unjustified assumptions gets us nowhere. Post-Obergefell America must define the common good of marriage clearly to exclude or admit polygamy. I see no reason why, given self-expression and ersatz-dignity arguments used by the majority, three or more should be outlawed.

The alternative is to end state regulation of marriage, and deal with normal consequences such as offspring and estate succession (not to mention hospital and jail visitation, which should not have been yoked to marriage in the first place) via contract law.

(I'm not taking your anti-SSM=anti-miscegenation pattern matching bait - see Jonathan Rauch here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/24/opposing-ga... - and yes, I'm aware of Rauch's work in full, no need to cite his lame attempt to draw a line in the sand against polygamy. As for what camps might be burned to the ground: florists, bakers, colleges, the list grows - open your eyes.)
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When and only when either the knowledge or preferences/valuation is different between the two groups. The other answers are just subsets of this.
> The reality is far weirder. I.E.: If you encounter a branch, the scalar processor can, and will execute both branches on different ALU's

That's not so different than on x86 SSE/AVX. You'd execute both sides of the branch (dual issue) and blend / mask the results away you don't want. This is typically much faster than having a data dependant, unpredictable branch.

Another way is to SIMD sort data according to criteria to different registers and process them separately. This completely sidesteps having to execute both sides of the branch, although some computational resources are still wasted.
Good point, my departure point is usually LAX where the words "surge / traffic insurance" should not be spoken lightly.
FreeeOW, that's what I get for skimming the list I guess.
I'd say a large factor that will drive this forward in the future is the huge disparity between median income growth and median house prices.

Check out this FRED graph comparing income and new house prices: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=... [1]

We see that the median income has dropped by $4,000 over the past decade while the price of a new house has jumped up by approximately $70,000.

As a recent grad with a decent job, there is still no way in hell I'm going to be able to afford a mortgage on any decent, middle-class house in a semi-urban area for a very, very long time, unless I want to move to Detroit or a similarly bankrupt/developing part of the US. I'm also speaking from a debt-free perspective: if I had come out of school with $100k+ in student loans, forget about it.

The only kind of jobs that are going to pay for good houses in the future are banking/tech/fortune 500, which have median salaries of ~60k right out of school and a well-compensated track to climb. These jobs are becoming increasingly scarce and hard to obtain, especially with competition from out of country talent.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see my generation (I'm 22) having an extremely low & delayed demand for purchasing housing, and to eventually see what is happening in Detroit (houses abandoned, rotting away [2]) happen on a smaller scale across the country where there is too much housing supply for too little demand.

And no, prices will not equalize to accommodate lower salaries because real estate always appreciates in the long run...right? The Chinese, Canadians, Mexicans, Indians, and British seem to think so: foreign investments in US real estate totaled $108bn over the past year, or 8% of total existing home-sales dollar volume. Unsurprisingly, they are "spending more money on fewer homes," aka they are driving real estate bubbles in major cities such as NYC and SF. [3]

So we'll see a bunch of late 20, early 30 something's living together, splitting the rent in what would have once been a 4-6 person family house in order to make ends meet/be close to work. Maybe they'll even drive for Uber on the weekends. Welcome to the sharing economy.

[1] Note that I placed the data on separate axes so the scale might not be what you expected.

[2] http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2010/10/detroit-house...

[3] http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2015/06/18/foreign-...
so is this part of the US government program to endear themselves to hackers after the er snowden ahem stuff? we are not stupid you know. the US government has no credibility left, there must be a little part of you that realises this. please. give up your job, and go do something useful. thankyou.