jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Have you driven a cab before? Do you know for north america at least, the standard model is drivers are independent contractors and rent out the cars or the medallion license from medallion owners? Many medallion owners are not drivers themselves. Taxi companies are generally a collection of licenses, car rental, some branding and advertising and dispatch services. The angry taxi people you see protesting Uber or equivalents are more like the Canadian trucker convoy people who own their trucks than the actual typical poor long haul truck driver who doesn't own their truck.

Also whats worse about the taxi model is you often are paying on a monthly basis to rent the car, so every month you are something like $3000 in the hole and you have to keep on grinding hard before you could break even and then start making money for yourself. It's hard to take a vacation unless you want to take a month long one with no pay, which for most people who are doing the taxi gig, is not financially tenable.

Being a taxi driver SUCKS. At least Uber is an improvement because the fee system is done as you make money and you have way more flexibility as a result.

Everyone is upset that low end relatively unskilled labor pay & life sucks in general, and being upset with Uber is just one facet of it. Amazon warehouse workers & some restaurant workers are another group. In the past the media obsession was walmart workers and immigrant farm workers, which you don't hear about that much anymore but life still sucks for them.

Activists try to shove the responsibility of making the low-end labor life better onto the company that hires them, while ignoring what the real problem is the low-end labor life sucks in general, and if you made amazon and walmart and everyone else that is visible disappear, it's still gonna suck, because the problem isn't those companies per say, it's the entire global situation of being a low end laborer, and it's a situation that is properly covered by government than any specific company.

Governments don't want to pay for it although, especially in America, which is why you see this kind of focus especially in the USA, where they make employers create something approximating universal healthcare, benefits, etc vs collecting it through an equivalent tax and making it a universally provided benefit set. If it was truly a government responsibility, it could go multiple ways, such as reducing the cost of living by not making housing an investment asset and more a consumer good / capital business cost like in Japan and changing food regulations to heavily tax obesogenic & carcinogenic products, so the total national healthcare expenditure of the nation goes down and so on.
Right, I specifically use DoH with Cloudflare on my phone. I'm talking about the "we don't need this" reply above, which is a suggestion for tinkerers, not a good recommendation for general population.
Landlordship is older than high rent
Legacy taxis were and still are a more expensive and inefficient business. Outside of airports and maybe cities like New York, hailing a taxi was a terrible experience.

The scale of Uber despite their shitty business model, allows them to have a lot more drivers constantly on the road than traditional companies. This allows for an quicker availability of a cab at a moment’s notice. Anyone remember leaving a party before Uber, calling a cab and then awkwardly sitting around at the host’s place for another half hour?

This also means a generational behavior change where more people use Uber, which in turn allows more continuous business for the driver and a cheaper ride for the consumer.

Uber can charge more (which they are doing now), fix their driver pay and still provide a cheaper and more convenient experience for the users.
That last paragraph is a downer... Unlike film cameras, DSLR cameras you already own are going to be harder to maintain, if at all, and then what happens to all the thousands we spent on dslr glass...
I think a point system is better than fines. Fines are effective deterrents for most people, but they are unfair on the poor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_%28driving%29
NTFS has improved significantly since the XP days. Just one example is its online self-healing abilities and the massive reduction in the time it takes to scan a volume for errors. [1]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/09/redesigning-ch...
There is a half-life decay algorithm built in, so ideas lose points over time if they are not voted for. We can always improve this, but it does look like the top ideas do indeed continually get votes.
> service is going to be better than your competitors.

To each his own, but I am not going to do this. Internally yes, but I am not going to compare to the competitors externally.

From what I know, comparing to the competitor is generally a bad idea. Current users of the service take any comparison or criticism personally and all it does is drive potential customers away.

For the new customers, I am willing to believe in the intelligence of the human race. Prospective customers are smart enough to do their research before settling on a service. My job would be to make the features lucid and clear and highlight the differentiators. As I already mentioned, I do have some differentiators in mind.
Congratulations on being awesome, 19 year old dude. You're at the perfect age to start and your attitude is dead on.

My advice is that school is good for lots of things but project experience is not one of them. Please, go sign up at GitHub and make it your new home. It's like Facebook for open source development. Start checking out cool projects (it doesn't matter what language, they are all the same - that's the punchline) and learn to read other people's code. Pretty soon you'll find opportunities to contribute.

You know the easiest way to contribute? Leave positive and encouraging messages thanking developers for their hard work and let them know you're following along.

Next advice: stop reading blogs and spend that time practicing coding. Blogs are interesting but you'll find that your memory retention is less than 10%. Try to limit yourself to checking HN twice a day and otherwise, focus on the task at hand.

Final advice: make sure that you have a life. The best coders are interesting people with diverse interests. Develop an appreciation of music and try to expand your artistic whims. Get a camera, travel, read fiction, take pictures, travel more, write fiction.

Take chances. Get the guy. Get the girl. Get both at the same time. Don't be afraid and always try to listen twice as often as you speak.
Not sure how many people believed me when I called it first. But I am just going to live it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411054
It's funny that the comments on this post have been spammed with the sort of duplicative trash he may be seeing in the corpus. I never imagined that spam comments could actually be relevant.
As far as I can tell, we do not know that "our disrespect for complex ecosystems we barely understand" is likely to make big changes to the global ecosystem. That's almost required by the "we barely understand" part — the effect we have is unpredictable both in scale and gravity.

It's more like, if you found yourself in a universe full of potentially dangerous forces that you don't understand, would you try to harness them or just hide from them? So far, the human race has traditionally gone with the former. Some of the things we've done have had great positive effects. Some have been catastrophic. Most have been relatively inconsequential. The result is never clear beforehand — that's the whole idea behind experimentation and the scientific method. Otherwise you're left with fearmongering and superstition.
Good idea. A niche approach is a great way to start.

The most important thing he has going for him is that he is starting with little expectations. As he begins to execute in the market, he can be incredibly flexible to attack opportunities that reveal themselves. The trick is to learn through testing as quickly as possible, rather than swing for the fences on an idea that is half baked.
I met Heather many years ago. It's a weird feeling to see a name you recognize in an announcement like this. We've lost touch long since so I have no comment.
Neither is a protest, both are acts of violence.
No. They are taking this very slowly because it is a very serious issue. The military doesn't just start rushing into something like this.

I feel like I'm going crazy listening to people make calls for the MILITARY to get involved.
I don't have any inside-Apple perspective, but my guess is having a tight feedback cycle between the profiles of their own software and the abilities of their own hardware has helped them greatly.

The reason I think so is when I was at Google is was 7 years between when we told Intel what could be helpful, and when they shipped hardware with the feature. Also, when AMD first shipped the EPYC "Naples" it was crippled by some key uarch weaknesses that anyone could have pointed out if they had been able to simulate realistic large programs, instead of tiny and irrelevant SPEC benchmarks. If Apple is able to simulate or measure their own key workloads and get the improvements in silicon in a year or two they have a gigantic advantage over anyone else.
People get louder as you go near to them? Interesting.. I think I would end up hanging around a corner somewhere in the virtual space
Cool, yeah, more bad stuff. Doesn't cancel out what I was talking about at all - this is just a standard "whataboutism". I'd like to see an end to all bombing everywhere. It's easier as a Canadian to hold this perspective, of course; I don't have to condone or defend the past evils of America at all.
You're kinda viewing the concrete fact right now buddy

Enjoy your cognitive dissonance if you will though
I don't understand why people are outraged at the concept of a company building housing for its workers. There's just nothing inherently evil about that. Take a step back and calm down
I agree. Propaganda is very effective here. And it's actually good - it deters potential criminals.

But if someone who knew how crypto works wanted to commit a crime, they can. That's scary.
>routinely

This is frightening.
just based on what you've told me now, i'd conclude that military doesn't consider a nuclear attack to be plausible.
May as well ask why make weapons at all. The absurdity of it has been well documented in the art of the Cold War in the twentieth century.
Sound is a compression wave, so you have areas of high pressure(peaks) and low pressure (valleys) as it propagates. What they're doing here sounds like making a standing wave that holds a low pressure zone around the fire, depriving it of oxygen.

I'm a bit rusty on my physics, but I suspect what happens is that it measures the sound when it reflects back and adjusts the frequency of the wave to put the reflection in phase with the original wave. The sum of the forward and backward components creates the standing wave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_wave

Alternately, maybe the rapid switching between high/low pressure is enough to do it without any standing wave shenanigans. I'd guess not, but it's not my area of expertise.
Could the wireless carriers track phones even if they were carrier unlocked or factory unlocked?
I did a project with VRML around 1999. It was an application for "real time" monitoring of emergency ships, helicopters and other vehicles when they were dispatched to oil platforms in distress within the Gulf of Mexico.

It was a nice toy but rely useless at that time,and a resource hog for computers of that moment. Still a fun project.
Cow's milk is a commodity. It does not make a good currency. It must be kept refrigerated, and even with this becomes useless in a short amount of time. Nonetheless, it is a commodity and is useful.

Gold is a commodity. It makes a good currency - compared to many commodities it is easy and fast to move, can be moved securely, is hard to counterfeit and has a limited supply. It was used millennia ago to make goblets and the like, and has industrial uses today.

Bitcoin is not a commodity. It has no underlying use. So it is not a currency either. Because currencies are based on commodities.

I have written about government fiat money in other posts in this thread so I won't go into that tangent in this reply.
It was mitigated in software and fixed in post-2011 hardware,
http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2...
Lots of typical anti-ruby grumbling in this so I'll just say; this looks awesome and I'm excited to give it a try. I still love programming in Ruby, and there's no reason at all why a game written in Ruby couldn't be performant. Great to see a good use of mRuby too. I've had ideas for games in the past but I know that having to learn an entirely new language, framework, and concept of development will mean that I never finish it. Having an option in my favourite language removes one of those barriers to entry.
There are no quick solutions. But it sure does feel good to get rocked by the brunt of what he says, in my opinion. And I think some of Can't Get You Out Of My Head gets at what should come next. Then again, he's a journalist, not a leader.
I'm in Europe, have severe ADHD and I never got the help I needed, only punishment. I'm horrified of the incredible amount of ruined people that statistically must exist in Europe.
Sorry, but if an engine developer says that Unity is just a bad engine and your engine is faster, you are just harming yourself and your work, since this is silly.

Unity employed Mike Acton a few years ago, who is now lading their transformation to a data oriented backend. They are switching everything out for a pretty well thought out Entity-Component-System (not the old Component stuff you had in unity, but a way of saving your game data in arrays of the same type for performance, instead of as objects with data that should not be together in memory). I have not kept up in the last year, but already a year ago this was showing many promising results, being able to simulate enormous amounts of agents in games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_7QYaeNjc

Unreal and Godot have their good sides (Unreal being great for non-coders and/or if you want to an FPS, Godot being able to bind to many languages in the backend and being open source). But none of them is doing the same huge transformations in the backend as unity.
Sure, we can extend this so that we consider the functionality provided by the base language as well. But third party code pulled in is qualitatively different.
Desktop and phone sales are slowing down. To be fair, new computers cause old computers to lose their value, buying a new computer works, because you get a better computer. If all you got is the same computer but for a lower price then sales would fall dramatically.

I personally waited 6 years before I upgraded to a Ryzen CPU.
> :rolleyes:

The sass is not appreciated. This entire thread has been quite frustrating. I feel like we are arguing past each other. I don't think this is a useful use of my time.
Depends on the anti-GC bias,

https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry

https://tinygo.org/
"Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn't engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press didn't write about it endlessly, and that the politicians didn't use the event to remind us all how scared we should be. If we'd reacted that way, then the terrorists would have truly failed."

Yes, the terrorists would have failed. Then they would exploit our continued lack of vigilance and try again and again until we were scared and started to crack down. These arguments that we should not respond to terrorism are a bunch of lovey dove hopeful hogwash. Terrorists aren't going to give up because we ignored their destructive acts. They will keep blowing more shit up until they are dead or get the attention they seek.
The way Microsoft has handled the mobile market for the past 15 years, it seems likely that they'll go through at least two or three more mobile operating systems before the market can decide whether x86 belongs in handheld devices.
not much better in python either, or any language. How does one name an xml parser beautiful soup?
For comparison, MMO's are often below 50c an hour, and over the air wave TV run below 5c.
Same goes for just about every library under the sun. The other day I was searching for redis libraries for nodejs, the first one from google by fictorial is maintained by someone who has gone for maternity leave where the current version doesn't even compile against the latest node. The one that you're actually supposed to use doesn't even list on the first 5 pages of the google search. (but is the first one found via npm)
awk, grep, sed, perl, cat, finger, man, etc
What evidence does that hypothesis fit? What predictive value does it have?
The interesting thing about your link is how Netflix has been able to mine more value from their data than Hollywood. The thing is that Hollywood is not standing still, they have very smart companies like Rentrak working constantly to analyze up-to-the minute trends.

It seems this is an area where algorithm-fu really shines.
EULA's should be written using this font :)
72 slides with that much text? It's tacky but, tl;dr. Oh come on. I love that I've already been downvoted since there is no way that anyone even went through half of those slides in the time that has elapsed since my comment. It's seventy-two slides.
Many herbs are pharmacologically active, to the point of being dangerous if taken in conjunction with OTC or prescription medication. Rhino horn and reflexology do seem to belong in the "bogus belief" category.
People at the tip top of success like Ballmer tend to be ardent defenders of competition and pure meritocracy, because viewing the world this way frames their own success as heroic. Perhaps a zero-sum mentality also helps to provide the motivation to claw your way relentlessly to the top of the pile in the first place.
I know that I could have purchased 4+ Windows laptops for the price of my MacBook. I know that they would have been faster and have more ports and "features". In fact, I used to hold the same opinion as you do and went through 5 windows laptops before I switched to macs. Then I realized all of those specs are complete bullshit when you have to clear your machine of malware when you buy it, it weighs 10lbs, the hinges break after a year of use, and it's as thick as 4 windows laptops (I kid, sort of...) and the keyboard feels like shit (except my thinkpad, that keyboard was awesome), and anytime you have to reinstall Windows you have to spend time installing drivers for the webcam and fingerprint sensor and all of those awesome features.

Once I switched to mac I began to focus more on the work I do, and less on the machine I use to do it. Plus, I sold my 3 year old MacBook Air for ~70% of it's value, whereas my brother was barely able to sell his 2 year old xps 15z (which is NOT a cheap laptop) for ~40% of it's value.

Another thing I have noticed is that many Windows laptops have their own strengths, ThinkPads have great keyboards and are indestructible but are pretty thick, not very stylish, and still quite expensive. The Asus Zenbook has great build quality and looks very stylish, but is also expensive, has a finicky trackpad, not the best keyboard, and still has some bullshit software that comes preinstalled (although it is better than most Windows machines in this regard). That's what I love about my MacBook, sure it's expensive, but it has amazing build quality, it's plenty fast for 99% of my needs, has an amazing screen, no malware when you buy it, the best trackpad in the industry, keyboard is as good as the ThinkPad (in some ways better, in some worse), the warranty is unmatchable, and the resale value is also the best in the industry. These are the things that matter to me now.
Wasn't sure where this article was going, and then realized... oh, he's critiquing the UI. Cheap.
I bet you could just print out a florescent green sticker that reads “THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS A SHOCK SENSOR” in Helvetica Bold and get the same benefit.
I'm on HN, I'm probably aware of how many people use FB. The question was more to the issue of leading minds. Are smart people, people looking to the future, using Facebook? In my slice of meatspace, the answer is no. I was hoping to tap into the tech sector youngins to shed some light on their experience.
Most longer content that has been written over a long period of time is going to contain far more value than the average submission. I think in reality what we should really aim for is consuming less and what we do consume is more in depth.

It can be a thankless task at times, given that the longer a piece is the smaller a section of the audience that reads through it is. Those people will get far more value though.

A little while back one of the guys from the YC startup adioso was talking to me about their new version. Someone from techcrunch did a quick 15 minute interview and pushed out a shortish post complete with concept misunderstandings. Another site (which I forget now and can't find) did a real in depth interview and a multiple page write up but probably only grabbed a small fraction of the attention the short error filled techcrunch post would have had.
Thank GOD for this. I hate social media and rather focus on my site.
The site is currently called Hacker News, not Startup or Tech news. Even though the site is heavily associated with the ycombinator brand, for a lot of people, the hacker identity has a lot to do with personal freedom, even more so than technology. So if this site is really only about startups and tech then it is poorly named.

Startups can be very hacker-oriented, however forming a startup to sell out to a large corp. in the end is very anti-hacker in my opinion. But you don't see people complaining about every startup article on the site. The reality seems to be that the site attracts a cross section of visitors.

Resisting unjust searches and ridiculous security theatre procedures is hacking. The fact that it is also political is irrelevant. I have a hard time understanding a mentality where these issues are not considered interesting or important as they affect our most basic rights. Is your startup or your tech really worth anything without freedom?
"95 percent of all Model S parts are made in-house". Designed in Southern California, and built in Northern California.

Source: http://www.automobilemag.com/features/awards/1301_2013_autom...
I'd chalk it up to a bland title in the other, which I bypassed several times even after reading your comment. Here's the link:

https://joindiaspora.com/

I appreciate the commentary in techcrunch on their release. For example:

Interestingly enough, it sounds as if Diaspora is heavily predicated on lists, which they call “aspects”. This is interesting because Facebook is going in the opposite direction, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that people on their service don’t want to make lists.

Now I know why I hate the facebook UI!
I'm not an electrician but have installed around 10 million feet of low voltage wire under one in a previous job.

Plenum cabling is typically only required when the cabling is in a space open to the air (e.g., a t-bar grid ceiling with HVAC cold air returns in it). If sealed behind sheetrock or something else you can use the standard stuff, which is less expensive.

Also, almost as important as the proper ordering of the individual strands is preserving as much as the twisting as possible. Hard kinks in the wire and stripping too much at the termination ends can affect that.

Running too near other wiring can severely affect the noise as well. If you need to cross it, perpendicular is the best.

And lastly, be aware of the maximum rated length for the wiring when doing long runs. It can only reliably carry the signal so far.