skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By coincidence, I just did a hackathon in Redwood City this weekend, and on Friday ~11pm I was able to get one at an office park that arrived just after I made it outside from the 2nd floor.

Whatever forces stopped this kind of thing from working before were destroying a lot of value. I know there's always the talk of what cost Uber most be socializing with this service, but even at a 50% fare increase that would have been an extreme improvement over the previous options, so you can't really explain it away as pure cost hiding.
Cab drivers who drive out to drop someone off are very likely to hurry back to the dense parts where they can pick someone up. Uber is able to cover a large hailing area, so if cab has gone to the suburbs, they are more likely to be able to pick up a ride from the suburbs.
Thanks for adding the extra info: I should have done that earlier but didn't realise that not everybody would be familiar with the Radio Series that started the whole thing.
"it seems like it would be more difficult to have streaming video."

And that's just one of the benefits!
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Above is an app to perform Voronoi partitioning on latitude and longitude data. It was built using SaturnAPI and Meteor. Very easy to do.
The energy for anger comes from outside. Anger itself is an internal emotion that helps you 'get shit done', but it has to run on that energy to function. When I feel myself getting angry, I try focusing on being present and find an outlet for the energy. Games are a good way to vent. :)
The choice isn't prevented. There is just a small barrier put in place of the choice. Installing a different version of firefox is not difficult, but it makes sure the user is absolutely sure, and helps get an idea across of the ramifications.
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It's important to note that Uber also created a brand new market. Many of my friends, and myself included, would've never considered using taxis "back in the day" when doing errands or day-to-day activities. Alternatives would've been to just drive ourselves or take public transportation. Uber and Lyft have made it frictionless and convenient enough for everyday use.

What I'm trying to say is that Uber isn't only cannabilizing the market share of taxis. Yes, they are definitely taking some of that, but more importantly they are differentiating themselves enough to cater to a whole new crowd that wouldn't have ever used taxis in the first place.
This isn't a re-branding. Google will stay Google.
Non Paywalled: https://www.google.com/#q=http:%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%...
Rant about GitHub pull-request workflow implementation (2013)
Because significant funding requires significant liquidity and strategies that work for an individual trader can exploit being small to find opportunities too small for big money to bother chasing. Small players can enter and exit trades instantly with little slippage, big players move the market and have to play a very different game to open large positions.
Earnings for Uber Driver = (timeDriving - timeLookingForFares) * payRate

Earnings for Cab Driver = (timeDriving - timeLookingForFares) * payRate

As a taxi driver, timeLookingForFares is heavily dependent on the amount of people hailing cabs per block driven. As an Uber driver, since you are routed to fares automatically the timeLookingForFares variable is dependent on both how far away other cabs are and the density of riders.

Clearly cabs should clump in higher density areas.
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A better analogy would be an offer to buy Alaska, which would have a good shot at being agreed to.
I ran a quick year-over-year comparison on your data, for Jan 2015 -- June 2015 (compared to Jan 2014 -- June 2014), and the average reduction is -7.8% of revenue and -9.7% of trips.

IMO, that's quite significant for a 1 year drop.
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The clear exposition seems to have rubbed off on his whole Chebfun team at Oxford; all their papers are very readable. http://www.chebfun.org/publications/

I’ve also been reading lots of other papers in the field recently, and there’s at least a 2–3x slowdown and lots of extra mental effort when I try to read some other papers (though to be fair many other researchers are not native English speakers).
What happens to all of those extensions that are on they gray area of DMCA? Who is this move benefiting? The users or the sponsors?
10k is plenty, you're forgetting leverage; equities I think is generally around 3x, futures usually offer around 10x leverage, forex in U.S. 50x, forex outside of the US, 200x plus.
>Many of my friends, and myself included, would've never considered using taxis "back in the day" when doing errands or day-to-day activities

Absolutely. I would NEVER use a cab to get to/from the airport. But I will use Uber. Doesn't even have anything to do with pricing - far more to do with service.
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I don't understand how it's accurate to a micron - that grinding wheel wears after use. Wouldn't that throw off the accuracy?

I was expecting some sort of laser calibration during cutting but he didn't say anything like that. (i.e. don't make the machine accurate to a micron, just measure accurate to a micron and adjust the cutting real time.)
Do you remember if you paid surge pricing? i would guess thats probably the reason. i'm from NYC but am currently in SF. both cities have surge pricing late at night, or when its raining in NYC. taxi regulations artificially depress prices but Uber may have created a fair (?) way of pricing things properly. hence service becomes faster. i'm sure surge pricing creates incentives for more uber drivers to drive at night over time, hopefully it will even out.
thanks just making sure im still sane haha
That seems like a dangerous way to feel confident in your own work and abilities to me. Pinning your self worth to comparisons with others is not so helpful, long term, as you might think.
Is it just me, or is the childish, mocking tone in the OP simultaneously baffling and totally befitting of the point they're trying to make? I understand that they're frustrated by the repeated submission of automated security vulnerability reports, but blanketing it entirely as "reverse engineering" and responding to it like this is... a strange approach.

Did someone at Oracle actually think that this was the best way to make this point?
How does he mount the internal cutting material to the shaft while making sure the two stay exactly concentric?
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Now that's the deluxe model. Solid granite ways and air bearings.
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You don't have to predict the market to trade, you need only follow the market and ride the waves carefully. If the market is going up, buy, going down, sell, you're betting that it'll continue in that direction. More than a few people are rich off strategies as simple as buy when price breaks a 20 day high and sell when price breaks a 20 day low.
I'm actually in that situation. I'm originally from Europe but I have permanent resident status in the US and have studied/worked there for most of my adult life. I don't understand why people on HN are crazy about moving to the US (or the bay area). It looks glamorous from the outside but it's not as great as people make it out to be. If it wasn't necessary to stay in the US to keep my resident status I'd be gone in a heartbeat. I just applied for a re-entry permit that allows me to stay away for at least 2 years, possibly longer.

I believe that location is becoming increasingly irrelevant for software developers. Distributed teams are gaining popularity and there are lots of remote positions. So the question for me isn't really what's the "best" country for developers, but rather what's the country that fits my personality and cultural values the most? That answer will be different for everyone.

So far I've lived in (not travelled) Europe, Brazil, Thailand and Japan. Personally I'd move back to Japan if I could (currently can't since I was just there for 6 months). Japan sucks for software developers if you work for a Japanese company, but if you work remotely it's a great place to live. It's cheap (compared to the bay area), food is amazing, lots of stuff to do, and I like the culture. Thailand is another good place to live. You have a luxurious lifestyle on little money. An apartment that'd be $6000/month in the bay area is $1000/month in Thailand. Also lots of good food, nightlife, and beaches. South Korea is next on my list but I'm expecting the lifestyle to be quite similar to Japan.

In the list of countries I want live in the US probably wouldn't make the top 10. I love California, but there are so many other amazing places around the world.
There are partial versions in Python and Julia, but porting the whole thing would be an enormous amount of work, at least a year of full time effort by a solid programmer.

https://github.com/cswiercz/pychebfun

https://github.com/ApproxFun/ApproxFun.jl

One thing I would love to see is some kind of “Chebfun viewer” partial implementation ported to several languages and environments, that wouldn’t try to provide everything from the Matlab version, but would at least cover function evaluation, and maybe a few other features, and would support importing chebfuns exported from Matlab. Especially nice environments for such a thing would be C/C++ (ideally with SIMD/GPU implementation) and in-browser JavaScript.
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Another observation is that taxis will also have their own place too. Taxis have the benefit of being in the right place at the right time. They're distinctly marked and you don't even need an app to use one. Just raise your hand and you're good to go. There will always be impulse purchases when it comes to needing to get a ride. Perhaps it's raining, you have no shelter, you need to get into something, anything. Or you've just arrived at an airport, full of luggage, after a long flight, you just don't want to deal with calling an Uber.. oh look, a line of taxis ready and waiting. Ride share services and taxis both won't go away because they each have their own distinct advantages and use cases. And as the population grows, there will still be a large enough market for both to exist and profit.
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There are way too many decisions we need to make in this world to really be informed on every one. Of course, in our world, understanding software and safety is in our scope of knowledge, so we believe everyone should have it. However, not everyone is in our world. I am sure tech people make all sorts of uninformed decisions in other realms that people in those fields would be appalled at. It is OUR job to help protect regular people who don't have the time to learn our world be safe, just as it is the job of those other fields to help keep us safe.
Ugh, yes. For those who don't necessarily have the context: in January 2002, Solaris management elected to "defer" shipments of Solaris 9 on x86.[1] Technically, it was not EOL'd (and support was never removed from the operating system) -- it was merely "deferred." Of course, everyone (rightly) inferred this to be the death of Solaris x86. We in Solaris engineering knew that this was entirely asinine (and that x86 was handily outperforming SPARC) and we continued to test x86 and assert that it function (that is, if you broke x86, it remained grounds for work to be backed out)[2]. In October 2002, thanks to the work of Solaris x86 activists outside the company and Solaris engineering inside the company, the decision was reversed[3] -- but the damage was done.

The only upside (such as it was) was that the loss of trust helped accelerate the argument internally to open source the operating system, which we finally did in 2005 -- a system that lives on today in illumos.[4][5] So in the end, Solaris x86 (like many Sun technologies) represented both the company's worst (capriciously killing it) and its best (open sourcing it, giving it eternal life). Nothing about Sun was simple!

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/sun-delays-solaris-9-for-intel-chip...

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/07/sun_to_reprieve_sola...

[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/04/sun_to_unbundle_sola...

[4] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/fork-yeah-the-rise-and-d...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
Back testing can't tell you something works, you're merely curve fitting no matter how careful you're trying to be; the role of back testing is making sure your algo trades when you expect it to. You need to forward test to see if it really works.
Ah, that's probably a better way to look at it than from the straight linear trend.
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Then why bother with the rename?

(I know the answer. Just saying.)
The link to previos charpter in the blog post 404's (but I could navigate to it through the sidebar). Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading them when I get home and hope to see the following charpters as well.
Ah, feels like they're following Chrome's example, which decreed that it should be exceedingly difficult for Windows Chrome users to install extensions from somewhere other than https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ . This basically killed an internal app we had at work (a fork of a "REST client", with some added request-signing features specific to our internal APIs.) There was no strong reason to keep it secret, but there had previously been no need to put it in the store either, and there was a $5 charge to publish in the Web Store, which I didn't feel like dealing with.

Anyway, they are both measures taken to stop malware, by taking an option away from the user, that most users won't even notice, but many "power users" will be inconvenienced to varying degrees. I'm guessing Firefox's won't be as bad, since the "developer version" that will let you keep doing the old way probably won't differ from the normal version as much as Chrome's does.
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I'm not so sure UX can be dismissed that easily. IA deals with content hierarchies rather than things like "navigation efficiency" details or site registration journeys, or touch interaction behaviours and optimisation.

There's cross-over, but one "Designer" can't do it all, even if they have a good grasp of everything.

When the focus is on UX, decisions might be made about how people sign in or out. The UX expert might determine that a 2-step log out process is one step too many, but the research they gather might suggest it's nevertheless still acceptable enough to get away with. The designer makes whatever-step process look and function the best it can, without needing to scrutinise the research and testing around 2-step sign out processes.

Another example - consider the user experience of dismissing the banner that appears on some websites that have an app in iOS Safari. The little 'X' close link is tiny, way smaller than any touch button or link should be. Bad UX? Sure is. But the UX person must have data suggesting that having a stupidly small close button for that banner is worth it for the primary visual incentive to act on the promotional prompt without annoying too many people (annoys the hell out of me, but I'm not everyone).
What about things that are worth being angry about ?
> Why do designers gravitate to extremes in these fads? Skeuomorphic! Flat design! Everything in the hamburger menu! Nothing in the hamburger menu!

You're blaming designers , I'm blaming developers(and managers) who can't tell a good designer from a bad one and choose to work only with people that "gravitate to extremes in these fads"(ie a majority of startups) Even Google and Apple are not that dumb, they know flat design is stupid,they actually have the data to prove it, thus they kept some depth within their UIs and don't hesitate to use border shadows ,even on mobile, while trying to "refresh" their UI, because a few influential SF bloggers were bashing their "lack of minimalism".

Flat design makes absolutely no FN sense, from a UX stand point in an app on a computer. If I can't tell what I can interact with and what I can't, I'm not going to play a guess game, I'm going to move on and use something else. I'm a big proponent of skeuomorphism and I don't care how ugly it looks. It's all about usability. If it can help convey the purpose of a feature then it's a good thing.

What makes sense on a poster, a printed magazine or a book doesn't make sense for an app or a website.
> And bombing the Soviets first when the US had a clear advantage (in the early 50s basically) would not have resulted in the whole world being destroyed, most likely only the Soviet Union would have paid a hefty price while the losses in Europe/US would have been less.

And this is a better outcome than what _actually_ happened how...?
HP Asks That Redacted Documents Be Sealed, Judge Responds with Redacted Refusal
I wasn't expecting a "thanks for joining our incredible journey" post from google.*

* http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
I don't even have to read the article to know I agree. Every time I've actually hit 'send' on an angry email, or 'post' in a thread, I get a temporary burst of self-righteousness, and... crushing regret the next morning. Every time. You'd think id've learned by now...
Nice, thanks for sharing this.

His Youtube series about "Building Prototypes" looks interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMP_AfiNlX4

Here is a bio about Dr. Daniel Gelbart: http://graduation.ubc.ca/event/honorary-degrees/2009-honorar...
They would only freak out because some tech person is presenting the information to them in a way that makes them think they should.
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If it's such a small number of people, is there a problem with substantially increasing the minimum wage?
>>Is this a way for Mozilla to censor add-ons they don't like, enforce copyright, government demands, etc.?

>No, the purpose of this is to protect users from malicious add-ons. We have clear guidelines[1] for when it is appropriate to blocklist an add-on and have refused multiple times to block for other reasons.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Add-on_guideline...

Copyright, DMCA, and legal concerns are not listed. So I take that to mean nothing will be rejected from signing for those reasons. Hosting on AMO has stricter rules, so they could sign the extension for you to host, but refuse to host it themselves.
Maybe partially in interesting/cause is haha is easier to type then lol (at least on qwerty with 2 hands).
> In reality, two parties can walk away from a trade believing (in the moment) that they got the better deal.

In reality, two parties can walk way not just believing, but actually getting the better deal. Both parties can be winners, there is not always a loser when a trade is made. One guy could be exiting a long while profiting taking while the counter party is opening a short, and they can both bank profit from the trade. Maybe one is hedging and doesn't mind if the trade goes against him because it's hedging another trade in his portfolio to keep him market neutral. The idea that one guy wins and one guy loses is simply far to simplistic.
Hi, thanks for sharing. I'm in Thailand where tourism is a big thing. Have you considered personalized amateur tour guides?
Thanks for your perspective. I don't know a lot about Canada but from what I know, I think most of what you say is true. Except:

> 35% less taxes

I'm not so sure. In a state without income tax, if you are single and make $100K, your average federal tax is 18%. In California, you probably own another 7%. So 1/4th of your income goes to tax. How about Canada?

> Better health care

Everywhere I read, healthcare in Canada can't possibly be worse than in the US. I remember a research pointed out that the per capita cost for healthcare in Canada is like half of that of the US.
There was no surge. It was ~$7 for an 8 minute trip. (!)
This is only true if:

a) Neither executive nor any member of the board has any concept of fiduciary duty.

b) They can keep any mismanagement out of audited financial statements.
I was on Scribophile too. But I guess I came in after this era. Things were very civil except for the occasional misfit.
Capital One had a financial insider relationship with the company they were trading, and were sourcing the information using that relationship. The article notes that this was "misappropriation" insider trading, not the normal case.

Even then, it wasn't a clear-cut case.

If you are sourcing the data from other sources and don't have that kind of relationship it really isn't going to be a problem