skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few people commenting this has not been their experience. It has been my experience in the NYC area. It could be a NYC thing. We have an abundance of taxi's so it very well could mean enough people just drop Uber and grab a cab instead. This would quickly lower the demand in an area.

It might also have to do with the density dynamics of NYC. Ubers are constantly going into and out of designated areas that surge pricing zones. It won't take long for a few Ubers to roll into the zone where there is a surge.

Things work differently in NYC due to the density and relative small area of Manhattan.
gambiting has the right advice.

I would just add, that:

- the few seconds to cool down the turbo is about 30 to 60. Depending on the ride you just had. Just listen half a song more on your stereo ;)

- DPF needs cleaning every cca 700 km (but really depends on multiple factors). You either have a control light, that will let you know, or you notice a sudden fall in distance-to-empty, because that fuel is being used to burn out the filter ;)

Basically, even if something breaks there, it is still possible to repair it. However, it can be expensive (1000+ EUR for DPF or turbo, again, depends on the car).
> They have 90 days from publication, don't they?

Public Citizen says, "The Fast Track statute requires public posting of a text 30 days after the 90-day notice of intent to sign", which means Congress will have 60 days to review the final TPP text and 30 days to review the proposed U.S. legislation that could implement the TPP.

http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-vote-calendar-october-2... (pdf)
I'm okay with personal attacks because my first instinct is to presume that the people writing them are not really upset at me personally, just with the work. They may choose to call me stupid, mentally challenged, wish I were retroactively aborted, etc. but they don't even know me so I genuinely can't reconcile why I would assume that intelligent people are being serious about that.

If that's true, then there are three cases with regard to my code patch/submission:

a) I am wrong and they are right, I've learned something and correct my code.

b) I am right and they are wrong, I type up a reply and start an academic discussion on the issue itself. This is a good thing too.

c) It's opinionated, in which case I defer to the people who are more invested in the kernel and correct my code, since it's better that things stay consistent with their opinions.

In all three cases, after I'm done I go do something fun. Taking things personally would be a really sub-optimal use of my mortality. If I were interested in becoming friends with Linus and gang, I could see why this is a problem.
Jake Gordon at Codeincomplete.com has lots of great write ups about javascript game development. It's worth checking out. Start with the pong implementation to see the most basic parts of a game including game loop, painting to canvas, and collision detection. http://codeincomplete.com/games/
Neither are treaties getting all the world governments to hide the existence of the Groom Lake aliens. Down with TTIP!
I've been searching for a pomf.se replacement for some time now, so this is great! Can I request an account?
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Add to that the likelihood of a minority government. So the TPP would probably have to see the support of two major parties (neither of which might be the ones forming the government).
Skype chats are apparently running on the old, centralized MSN chat servers.
Is there any library that does have the diffing feature you're talking about? It sounds like you're describing something like two-way binding, where some code is listening to a callback that fires whenever (for example) an item gets added to an array.

I don't know about every JS UI library, but React certainly doesn't work this way. React would indeed just see that the array object has changed and would go through every element inside. That doesn't seem to be a performance problem, even with thousands of items, although you'll probably want some pagination if your app would otherwise need to generate or change thousands of DOM elements.
Are there studies that show people would not like a micropayment model?

As a counter example to what you say, there are plenty of free to play games on mobile that have small in app purchases.
Ditto. I'm just done working in environments where people aren't serious about collaborating respectfully. I've tried it both ways. I do much better work when I don't have to worry about dealing with aggressive assholes all the time.
Sorry, I have to say it. If someone isn't willing to pay money for your content or service then you probably aren't offering anything of value. Instead you're surviving off of ad based revenue that you're generating while people are figuring out you are offering nothing of value.
> But, if you have that much of a problem, why form a committee to help smaller companies- why not just make it easier for everyone?

How long do we have to try this idiotic idea before we recognize that "making it easier for everyone" only helps big corporations?
Uber personalizes the wait time base on how much an user had spent in the past - A bit like airline frequent flyer program?
Isn't Bernie Sanders the new Ross Perot? He opposed NAFTA and seems to oppose TPP as well.
I don't get it. Why are so many OK with the personal attacks, unprofessional language, and generally toxic communications

This is going to be off-topic but...why are so many OK with that in the workplace? I've seen far more unprofessional language and toxic environment in a workplace by executives and managers and yet people fail to report it and fail to publicly complain.

" I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes. I feel powerless in a community that had a “Code of Conflict” without a specific list of behaviors to avoid and a community with no teeth to enforce it."

Welcome to the typical office environment. And yet we're more likely to complain about this in the free/open source community than we are for the workplace.

Why is that?

Back on topic: I'm in agreement with you and there are ways of getting people to behave correctly and to have technically high quality work without acting like jerks. Those avenues should be investigated and implemented. I get it, for volunteer-based efforts it can be hard to enforce some standards because sometimes you're just happy to get any contribution, but there really needs to be a higher lower-bound placed on decency.
The article discusses this, and mentions seamless-immutable.
I haven't really had an issue with this. You can use the functions .toJS(), .toArray(), .toObject() on any Immutable object to go back to a plain JavaScript object.
If our cars our crappy, why should Japan need trade barriers to keep them out?
If you like this kind of thing, you might take a look at Robot Odyssey[1], from around the same time. You solve puzzles by wiring up digital circuits inside of your 3 robots. Playing it in elementary school is what got me interested in electronics; it's an amazing game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey
Journalists will be interested in publishing articles about TPP today, rather than a month from now. That interest might lead one to lend a friendly ear to the only people who have actually read the current draft, who just so happen to strongly support the passage of the current draft.
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Are you suggesting that Uber is doing these things out of the goodness of their hearts? Does that sound like the way a successful business acts?

Exercise: can you think of explanations for why they would do these things that would help to maximize their revenue in the long run? I'll give you a hint: the article gives an explanation for one of them, which you haven't compellingly refuted.
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This is fine as far as it goes, but RPM on a blog post is what $1.50? $3.00? So to replace your ad revenue you need to charge 1/3 of cent, not the "15 cents" that was shown in the mock. That would be $150 RPMs which would make Google blush.

There is a fundamental disconnect in how writers value their writing, and how readers value their writing. Trying to understand the economic forces that drive information value will really help writers understand what is, and isn't, valuable prose to readers.

Too many people are stuck in the mindset of "buy a book/article" etc, but the web is 99.99% one and done. So nobody wants to pay 15 cents for something they will never read again, and may not even like the first time. But have them pay a third of a cent? Sure, if they go back an re-read it 100 time's they will have paid you 30 cents for it. The value would be emergent rather than demanded.

Until journalists can internalize that, this conversation will remain unresolved.
Just to make sure we're on the same page... Consider these two options:

1. "sssilver, you are a fucking moron. I'm amazed your ancestors managed to not only crawl out of the primordial soup, but to reproduce successfully enough times to bring you into existence. Christ, think about your code before submitting your pull request."

2. "This code has several memory leaks. Function bar_baz() returns a pointer to a stack-allocated data structure. On line 32, you've got a likely null-pointer dereference. There are several other problems as well. Go find some reference material or someone to help you improve."

You'd prefer to get #1 as feedback rather than #2? #2 is direct and blunt, but not full of personal insults.
It's a trick question.

That's all I want anyone to admit when they explain the answer.

Thank you.
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It was amazingly interesting. My degree is in Mechanical Engineering, but I taught myself programming at age 7 on an old TRS-80 and have basically only worked in computing my whole life.

At Daimler, I worked on the computer vision system, doubling the throughput (by adding more processing nodes primarily). IIRC, we went from ~12.5 Hz to about 25Hz. That was fairly straightforward, but I also added a lot of inter-frame aware filtering, created some graphical output changes to help us better understand what the system was doing internally at any given time. That was all in Occam on transputers. I think each card held two nodes and cost about $25K. Each node was about a 486-25.

We had a couple mile stretch of abandoned Autobahn a few miles away from our lab building that we would test on about once a week. (Other teams also needed the vehicle to test their systems.) We also took it to an abandoned airfield outside Munich for longer, higher-speed tests, and demos, and took it to Turin a few times for tests and pan-PROMETHEUS demos and world record runs. On a few of those test sessions, if our system was working well, I was also able to pitch in with other teams on control system algorithms, a radar ranging system, and lane/sign detection vision system work.

(This is all 23+ years old, so forgive some minor discrepancies.) It was a great experience all around! (You also got me to send a LinkedIn invite to my boss there, Dr Andreas Kuehnle, now at Bendix, so thanks for the followup Qs.)

When I came back and graduated, I interviewed at the US Big 3 (back when there were 3, they were big, and US... :) ) and a Ford engineer urged me to "go anyplace other than US auto". He said if I wanted to come back into motorsports or high-perf/speciality street vehicles that I was better off doing something else for 5 years and applying back directly into those units. I wish I had that guy's name and address as it was great advice.

Went to a few startups that failed, went to a motorsports simulation game company that was successful and bought by Sierra-Online, then went to a satellite office of DEShaw (a hedge fund), bounced around in finance, and finally ended up at Vistaprint a few years before we went public in 2005 and I'm still there and crazy happy.

I welcome any followup questions (for HN sake, followups on your former question are more interesting than the latter, but I'll answer either...)
That's not really being disrespected as much as it is being uniformly primed for the "club" you just joined. Since we're using this film as an example, though, how did that public-disrespect-as-a-teaching-tool work out for ol' Private Pyle? ;)
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Arguing that micropayments are the fix is analogous to using the live tiles ux on the desktop or the querty keyboard on a cell phone. Migrating a solution to a new form factor because it has been succesful in the past or because there is a sulerficial similarity rarely ends up being a good design decision. Often when it works it is not at all for the reasons one initially presumed.

UX is all about matching intuitive user behavior with a solutions feature set as naturally as possible. The free vs fee problem is more similiar to this that on initial inspection. How does the user behave when coming across a web site which, as a part of its feature set, requires a transaction prior to proceeding with the use case?

To say that micropayments categorically won’t work is to equate the Internet with a homogeneous payment network. Sure, it’s been huge for commerce, but that isn’t what the internet is, at all. The analogy doesn’t carry. Micropayments are already working in some cases. This is exactly what Spotify is. User pays Spotify. User listens to tons of random songs. User pays Spotify. Spotify pays artists/corps pro rata. Sometimes a penny here, a nickel there. Kinda like, micropayments. Spotify seems to be doing ok. The artists, that’s another story.

The Internet is not one thing. The Internet it more than the sum of its physically parts. It will have many solutions.

I wish one-size-fits-all solutions would stop being put proposed. It’s exactly what the Internet isn’t. In fact, the centralization of advert brokers and personal information brokers is exactly what I don’t like about the Internet at the moment.
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Why are journalists more interested in publishing articles about TPP further away from the vote?
You can be direct without making personal attacks, and you can have require people to defend their code without making them feel unwelcome.
What's a "long key" in this case? I've only looked at it for modest-length strings.
Wikipedia reckons that the fab they were using could no longer make the Saturn CPU, and I guess it was a lot cheaper to write an emulator at that point than to redesign it for a more modern process node.
It's increasingly clear that the future of publishing—for content providers—will be to relinquish control and publish their content directly to third-party distribution and engagement platforms.

See also: Snapchat Discover & Facebook Instant Articles.
Chicken and egg problem, from the point of view of the end user it makes sense and I would have the same reaction, but then I think to myself, shouldn't we give a chance for a "Show HN" product/service to turn into a Slack or Dropbox? How do they get there otherwise? We'll never have new shiny things if we are skeptical by defaut.
Once again: the TPP excluded tobacco from ISDS.
This is a modern take on the idea http://robocode.sourceforge.net/
I've spent a considerable amount of rainy evenings with it, and I don't regret it at all!
It is already fucked up situation that I have to pay for a movie, which ends up being complete crap, but with millions spent on ads, and I have no way to get my money back.

As soon as I see random site asking for money before I even see a content, I just close the page and find another with roughly the same content. Just ask nicely and maybe I'll disable adblock or donate if I feel like the content was worth it.
It's not just that he knows, but that he uses that knowledge to pick a door instead of choosing a door at random.

But yeah, that the problem is moot if it were random is exactly my point.

I was deceived by the wording and it's frustrating to hear "answers" to this problem that ignore that deception because I got the wrong answer and so I feel "dumb" for being decieved so I am trying to defend how i'm not "dumb" for not seeing the probability, just dumb for not thinking through the fact that it would be unlikely for Monty to reveal a car at that point.

I guess a lot of people go "oh, he won't reveal a car".

I'm missing that intuition.
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They should go beyond that and punish actors of bad faith.
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Courtesy of the Chicken Tax, yes you read that correctly.

"The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/episo...
Came across this app on PH last week and have fallen in love. Worth the share
I wasn't aware it was anything other than a slightly-silly gender-neutral term for members of the House of Representatives. I suppose 'critters' could be pejorative but I'd not seen it used that way.
Abdus Salam, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, founder of Pakistan's space program, promoter of the peaceful use of nuclear power in Pakistan, advocate of scientific research by and for the developing nations.

Abdus Salam, devout Muslim, who quoted from the Quran in his Nobel Prize speech.

Abdus Salam, part of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, declared non-Muslim by the Pakistani Parliament in 1974. Despite being rejected by his own country, and living overseas, he continued to support Pakistani scientists.

Abdus Salam was buried in a cemetery in Punjab, Pakistan, next to his parents' graves. The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate" until the local magistrate forced the words "Muslim" to be removed.

"Not Islam Version A or Version B" my ass. The only way to achieve that purity is by force; use threat of expulsion or death to enforce religious totalitarianism.
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Nice writeup. It prompted me to check if there is a new version of winamp available - but sadly, nothing yet.
Hi, shameless plug: another (typed) immutable data structure library, https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb. Main features:

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Also https://github.com/gcanti/redux-tcomb (Immutable and type-checked state and actions for Redux)
It would likely be more popular to institute a land-ownership tax that includes leased properties and exempts up to 80 acres, plus 10 additional acres for each additional person if the size of your household exceeds 8, but only for land in the same county/parish as your official domicile, or within a 50 mile radius of it.

In theory, that would allow rents extracted from the local economy by (presumably non-voting) absentee landlords to be recovered.

A straight ban on absentee ownership would simply lead to workaround legal arrangements, such as strawman purchasers who can then turn around and sign a 99-year "peppercorn" lease to the true buyers. You would be playing whack-a-mole with evasion tactics and corporate shell games.

If you just introduce an economic penalty, people would only evade/avoid to the extent that it produces a profitable bottom line. Rich people and foreigners could still buy up all the available local property, but they would at least have to pay to keep it unavailable to the local market.
Can you explain your disgust about the negotiation secrecy? This is one complaint I really don't understand. Diplomacy is almost always done in secrecy until both sides are ready to propose something concrete. As the top comment says, trade deals are negotiated in secret but ratified in public. Everyone will get plenty of opportunity to review the full text of the deal to decide whether or not it's a good idea.
What part of that isn't accurate?
Are you trying to add any information here? I'm not necessarily in favor of the deal -- I will wait to see it and for interest groups to analyze it -- but you're just repeating talking points.

The "secret" thing isn't even going to be relevant in 30 days, and until then, nobody knows what it says about computers. The currently known details are all about things like sheep, cars, and pharmaceuticals.
You're welcome! It is always gratifying for me when I hear stories similar to yours. I've even heard a few similar stories in person from
colleagues in my professional career.

Open sourcing CROBOTS was something I should have done a long time ago. I always thought I'd get back to it, but life, kids, job, & other projects seemed to always come first. Thanks to Neil Fraser for finally prompting me to put it up on Github under an open source license. Neil also converted the manual to HTML.
I knew someone doing corporate accounting who left at 6 in the morning for work, and almost always came home after midnight. 7 days a week (because who needs weekends, right?). Since the work cycled quarterly trying to get "the numbers", the only thing that resembled a break was the end of a quarter; and even then, this pathetic "break" was like a single day because they felt they had to get started on the next quarter.

He actually told me that divorces were fairly common among his co-workers. I wonder why.

He appeared to be paid well but (as others have noted) certainly not nearly enough when you divide a seemingly-impressive salary into an hourly rate.

And frankly I think peer pressure was a big problem. All throughout the chain, it's like they're all too afraid to be the first to say "wtf is this?" and propose a sane work week.

If I extrapolate this type of job to the number of large companies out there, I am astounded by the number of people whose lives are essentially ruined by quarter-to-quarter. It's garbage. Decades ago companies did not seem so pressured to show results each quarter or come up with insane ways to avoid taxes; they just pursued a reasonable profit.
It still pains me that clicking on sourceforge links legitimately triggers uBlock warnings. :(
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Disagree. India and Pakistan are similar and have similar problems but the level of white-washing of history and devotion to "Garrison State" does not happen in India. Heck, the education system in India is wildly varied from state to state. After reading real books and what not, India is screwed up, but if Indians want to feel any better they only have to look at Pakistan and take comfort from the fact Pakistan is more screwed up.
Awesome! It was quite a while ago, glad I got most of the details right!
Thanks for the helpful reply, much appreciated.