skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need to leave to go to work at 8:00 AM, to get there at 8:30, it's a 5 minute drive from your office to my house, and I need to leave at 9 to get to my job at 9:30, then an on-demand driverless car can take care of both of us. It can also pick up the person who was able to take public transit in but needs to run errands on their lunch break, as well as the second shift worker, and take someone else home for dinner, and get someone else to the airport at 3 AM.

Right now, many people have cars sitting idle for a large portion of the day because they need them for an hour a day, or sometimes an hour every couple of days, or a couple of hours a week. While it's true that there are surges in demand in the normal morning and evening commutes, there is still a lot of excess driving capacity that is needed for trips other than those surges, and so you only have to have enough cars to cover those peaks.

In addition, there may be other people who could take public transit, walk, or bike to work, but don't because there are other things that they need to do at various points that require a car, and so it's more convenient to just always have it available.

So yeah, driverless cars can only get you so far, you're right that the peak demand number is pretty much the minimum number you could have. But if I go an look at my residential street during the day, when commuters are presumably at work, I still see about half of the cars present. Those are all cars that wouldn't be necessary if everyone were riding in self driving cars that could rearrange themselves based on demand. That reduction in number of cars would also reduce the amount of space needed to store all of those cars, which could help bring everything closer together making it more walkable, bikeable, or efficient for public transit, which could further reduce the demand for cars.
Libertarian. Apparently detesting violence is unpopular.
Switched to hacker news a year back, Never visit techcrunch.. Best decision. On an unrelated note, just hate their 'apple is the center of the universe' line of thought..
I'm not sure this would replace a management company entirely, but this was born from necessity. Mainly because taxes were such a pain at the end of the year, and wanting to know if I was profitable or not.
You're right it's inexpensive, but that's because it's new, and I'm still figuring out what needs to be there for $50/month.
Thanks for the feedback!
Why did the Space Shuttle have re-usable main engines (SSMEs)?
6 months + extensions. A minor effort is required to keep the visa.
Rosy prospects till mid-to-end of summer. IMHO.
Ah, that explains it. Should have read parent post more carefully.
Anything that ends up in the yearly budget bill has absolutely no hope of getting voted down. It's not even worth one's breath to call, not even the energy to pick up a cellphone or even to tweet. It's as good as passed.
For payment processing, I've built in a system which uses stripe (credit cards only) and bitcoin (using a different API. But that is only to detect whether payment has received. If the API is down, the detection of payments can still be done manually thanks to the fact that the bitcoin network is decentralized).

I never rely on a single point of failure. And of course, always good to have a "plan B" in place.
I was wondering what was causing me to get a lot of checks from my credit union on what they suspected was fradulent activity...I still am a happy subscriber, but it was a bit annoying that they kept thinking this was fraud despite me having subscribed for over a year (I think).
It's not the I would enjoy the experience less, it's that the experience of just sitting there would render me an inattentive dullard with very poor response to a mechanical or AI failure. If I'm suppose to be responsible per California State, I need to be paying attention. Just sitting there, inactive, mile after mile, hour after hour doing nothing, maybe for months or even years at a time, I will be woefully unprepared to respond to the emergency.

I actually gave up driving for 16 years then restarted when I last moved. What I found when I restarted was that, while physically I could operate the car, my decision making skills when faced with a problem were non-existent. I could see problems coming my way, but the reflexive decision making was gone. I had to relearn the decision making process.

Designing the system to place responsibility on humans to take over only occasionally will ensure that the system creates catastrophic results when humans are found to be unprepared for the responsibility.
Firebase has stagnated for quite some time now. Months ago I mailed them about Twitter now allowing email addresses in their Auth but Firebase has yet to catch up. This means you cannot get email addresses of users signing up via Twitter. They suggested I manually ask the user to type it in, which obviously defeats the purpose of OAuth.

A request has been pending for over a year to add the client IP in their ServerValue response which is a common security ask but the boilerplate response of we're working on it has got no traction.

They still don't have a password reset email template so you must use the forgot pass template.

Even so, their forgot password mail adds the username in the URL. If like me, you use the email address as the username this won't work. That's because they don't encode the email address in the URL. I brought this up months ago, they acknowledged the bug and then suggested I manually ask the user to type it in. This still doesn't work.

There were some other issues but I gave up on the service.
Can we get some third party verification here? I live in Potrero and would like to take a ride in his car, or at least help out with his project... hit me up man!!
How about an operating system that doesn't execute native code directly anymore. No Segfaults. All programs live in the same VM space.
500,000 users signed up for Telegram in 3 hours

https://twitter.com/telegram/status/677278277657055232
Desktop use is shrinking compared to alternatives --- especially mobile. In developing countries, many people use smartphones as their only form of access to the internet.

People aren't saying that desktops etc are going to disappear, but that the cash cow in the next decade is probably going to have a much smaller form factor and a different OS from your traditional desktop.
A Tale of Two Sisters
In my state, the legislature broke the public sector unions a few years ago (while sparing the police and firefighters unions). There has been a wave of retirements -- pretty much any K-12 teacher who can afford to retire or leave the profession is doing so. In some schools, there are no teachers left who are older than 50. I know a few of these people, and we are losing the best teachers, not the worst.

Two other non-union teaching gigs are preschool and college, and in both of those areas, the age distribution of teachers drops off precipitously at around 25 for preschool and 35 for college. My interpretation is that teaching has ceased to be a career. Disclaimer: I taught an engineering course at the nearby Big Ten university, but with no intention of doing it for more than one semester.

The teachers union doubtlessly protected the bad apples, but it also protected the good apples from things like wage erosion, gradually increasing workload, and getting blamed for outcomes that they can't control.

And I'm sure that education is in need of massive reform, but any reform will now have to be done with nobody interested in becoming a teacher.
Apple is a hardware company, too.
Google Knowledge Graph API
Before, I was worried about facebook spying on me, but then I just asked all my friends to switch to spiderwizard (or whatever it's called) and now everything's fine.

Meanwhile, in reality...
> encourage students to build

If you can build a startup and do an academic program at the same time, your academic program isn't anywhere near rigorous enough. Seeing students pass their classes while putting Silicon Valley-level hours in their companies should evsicerate the reputations of the institutions.

This is not good at all.
I love this article. Not only is the story of a champion gymnast born without legs fascinating, but the fact that the protagonist happens to be gold medalist Dominique Moceanu's really adds an extra dimension. Then, you're hit with some really great context regarding twin studies in psychology.
I already have a Firebase account setup with my work email address. So you are implying that having a Google account is required for 2FA?
although true now, Google has a bad history of trying to coerce you into other services. Youtube/Voice ?
Meh, Americans also don't like dying horribly and will freakout if they think something makes that more likely. The FDA is relatively conservative compared to many other countries and, especially after Thalidomide, most people probably appreciate that.
>First off, we are nowhere near "shutting down social web". WhatsApp was shutdown by a court order because they did not comply with a subpoena to hand over information from a user in July and August. I recently submitted a link with a local (Brazilian) newspaper explaining the issue.

You make it sound like thats ok?
4. make websites to use your API to get exposure to their follow up, encourage them to update by getting them traffic from outlets that didn't follow up.
5. Create a news selection bot that works like upgraded Google in news finding (not that hard, it just needs imagination).
Oh give me a break. Be upset that it went down and you maybe lost a few sales, not that this guy is trying to be helpful and confirms that it is back up and OK to retry transactions. There are plenty of people using stripe for non-ecommerce things.
Contact me with details.

One of my clients (i cover technical aspects) is well known sex and relationship therapist with large following and connections.

There might be an opportunity here.
Evidence needed that "power against exploitation" is only needed in the private sector. Though to your point, public sector employees do have a degree of this because they can vote for the local government that is ultimately their boss.
To be fair, that issue is really old and Sandstorm now supports other forms of login. :)
I'm not understanding your clarification. It still seems like a ridiculous reason to shut down whatsapp
How does http do this at all? Unless you're talking about each company running an API? But then you run into difficulty with actually trading debt. Say you owe me $10 and I owe Bank B $10 and they owe you $10. With a blockchain situations like that are easy to spot and automatically resolve saving the number of required settlements.

The point is that you don't have to trust each other since everything is in the open and shared between participants.
At 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, with 120 employees, that turns out to just over $87,000 dollars. The fired 120 employees over $87k. Shameful.
Who said you trusted each other?
Ha, yes sorry about that (I've gotten so used to the new responsive thing I didn't even think twice about it).
Why is Lexmark obligated to retain these workers? Instead of asking companies to exercise morality out of their own decency, I'd rather be sure via mechanism. Lexmark is paying above minimum wage. Isn't it minimum wage that's the problem?
It's not. This use case is pretty stupid since regulations make it impossible to allow true anonymous p2p trading.
15min review signed up to the free plan

Even if I only had one property, the free plan would be useless. If all I can do is record my tenant's contact details, and the name of my property, then I could have a better experience with a post-it note. No tasks and no expenses, and no payment records. Why would ever visit this site again?

The lease feature. I actually expected this would be some kind of lease template feature. Why would I bother uploading my externally prepared lease here? I need to keep dozens of documents for my tenants. Rental applications, credit reports, ID, pay stubs. If all this lease does is record the amount and dates, then I'll prefer the post-it.

Security. No way any serious user would give money to a site that is not using SSL. I hear certs are free now with LetsEncrypt. No excuse for plaintext authentication.
We, as the flawed beings we are, can't accept both giving up control and not getting guaranteed safety as a result.
Can I get one too? While the supplies last.
>the only thing missing from the US to make it European style left wing is socialized health care

And most European countries don't even have socialized health care, just basically the UK.
Ta - I was trying to remember who the YC startup were trying the same stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933045

Seems they recently raised $15m http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/18/cruise-2/

Wonder how they compare tech wise to Geohot's thing
I want to build a specialized search site only for cars. Think of it as indeed.com for cars. Is this the magic sauce I've been waiting for?
> For huge swaths of the country public transportation is unfeasible

Well part of the idea here is that self-driving taxis can make public transport a lot more feasible.

The reason people usually can't combine driving and public transport at the moment is that there isn't enough parking. Once you have self-driving taxis, so people don't need to park, it's perfectly feasible to take a car ride to your nearest bus stop.

Plus, once people are able to do this, it makes public transport a lot more viable as a business. Instead of needing to make end-to-end networks, they can focus on improving efficiency on popular routes.
Xi Jinping Calls for 'Cyber Sovereignty'
Fintech: a European game played by the rest of the world
I literally came across this just now:

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

Although it may well be a decent Gerrit alternative - it still talks about interfacing with Jenkins.
Mainly the price, although I think there should probably be some good-faith negotiation requirement as opposed to just firing everyone en masse for having the temerity to negotiate.
Well done Lexmark.
Agree --> To be frank, I think its a decent movie but not something to go crazy about.
If ReactOS provides a Windows 98/ME like interface and icons and rest of the UI/UX, I would definitely donate to the project and will install it on one of my home computers. I love when software reminds me of my childhood. :)
to experience more is more interesting

It depends. In some ways by choosing what NOT to do, you are choosing what to do and have more time, effort and money to invest in them as a result of being conservative with your resources.

Perhaps the Exclusionist Mindset?
The 0.35 cents raise they asked for was per day, not per hour.
If they brought it up in an interview at all, that means that it was part of their decision.

Not necessarily. It could be something they thought might lead somewhere interesting ("Do you know about $foo? Cool, so what's your opinion on this detail?"; the first question is only useful to know if you can ask the second questions). It could be stalling for time while they try to come up with something useful to ask. It could be following up on some earlier comment, according to the rules of polite small talk.

Those last two aren't something a skilled interviewer would do, but then I don't think most interviewers are skilled. They also don't fit with the original post, but the first one might.
The lofty ideal is still alive and kicking at Berkeley's peers on the Top 20 lists. College as a box to check off disinterestedly is more the purview of a mediocre football-obsessed and frat-oriented institution than an intellectual beacon like Berkeley.
Facebook Makes Changes to Its Real Name Policy Enforcement Process
You publish a html page. Or better still - your broker does.

Settlement is a deep market, and it works very well. Is it your belief that the errors in settlement are due to sql servers losing data?
why not textsecure? it's free and open source.
Overstock did when they said they'd use a centrally managed system.
Reddit's reddiquette advises users to use the downvote arrow only to indicate that a post is not constructive or off-topic. Further, users are told that it's best not to downvote just because they disagree with something.

The vast overwhelming majority of users on that site use downvotes to indicate disagreement, or dislike. That interpretation of downvoting has, like it or not, spread throughout the internet. Here? Yes, probably even here.

>The first wave of forums were built from the ideas of Usenet, IRC, and ISP-hosted chatrooms: open-access "places" that served as Schelling points for anyone interested in a topic. There was no real possibility for moderation, and the sheer scale of the problem (the possibility of a 10000:1 user-to-moderator ratio) made "community-building" impossible.

It's quite possible to create a community in an IRC channel. I was part of several quite vibrant communities in various IRC channels in the mid to late 1990s. It's also possible to moderate IRC channels. You can be kicked out of a channel for a period of time, banned from channels, or even entire networks. Operators in individual channels can even choose to grant "voice" to some people and then set a channel mode (+m, for moderated) so that only people with voice can even speak in the channel.

>One more interesting aspect of the newer Internet is that, when engaged in these group-forums, people naturally lean toward developing "faces": different presentations of aspects of themselves, tuned to the interests and values of the group.

Sociologists have long studied how people present different aspects of themselves to different groups depending on the norms of those groups. I would not call that a feature unique to the "newer" Internet, but the newer internet does allow for greater separation of whatever parts of your personality you feel like expressing.

I miss the old culture of the Internet because it was easier for me to find people who shared my interests but had viewpoints different enough from my own that it was possible to have very interesting conversations. Your definition of community sounds, quite frankly, rather boring to me. I fall solidly in the camp of "nothing interesting is happening without a little conflict". What has been lost on this "newer" Internet is the ability to have an ideological conflict remain purely ideological. There is a greater tendency for online conflict to veer into the realm of the personal, especially in these modern communities that you prefer, because there's a shortage of ideas that are "permissible" to argue about.

My $0.02, anyway.
Normally I'd agree with this, but in this case one may suspect that Overstock's interest in blockchain technology is rooted in their war on naked shorting, which I guess is not possible if shares are tracked on a blockchain.
Playing Cricket !
You don't know that we won't escape the solar system and go on to colonize other planets outside of it. We've been nuclear for less than 100 years.
Technology and Government Shouldn't Mix
. . . my friends didn't want to switch, so instead I simply stopped using Facebook and started using Telegram/email/SMS/IRC/any of a dozen other communication methods to talk with my friends?
>As a retaliation, to show that WhatsApp has to comply with Brazilian local laws when storing data from Brazilians using the service in Brazil, they banned WhatsApp for 48 hrs.

Why must WhatsApp comply with Brazilian laws? They have no offices there.

If I run, say, a porn site, hosted in the US, as a US company, is it my responsibility to prevent users in a country where pornography is illegal from using my site? Do I have any duty to comply with said country requesting the identity and viewing history of citizens living in it?

Of course not. That country can certainly block my site if their laws allow them to, but the idea that whatsapp /has/ to comply is ridiculous.
The real problem is lack of collective bargaining rights and other worker protections, not only in Mexico but around the world.

In the US, labor protections have been continuously eroded since at least the 80s, as the US Republican party has worked tirelessly (and overtly) to promote corporate interests at the expense of workers, and the Democratic party has often joined them without advertising it (for both parties, that’s where the money is).

On an international scale, international agreements, including both bilateral agreements & large multilateral treaties and various trade deals, erode state sovereignty replacing local worker protections with unaccountable judicial and quasi-judicial arbitrators who tend to side with corporations against consumers or workers, and sparking a race to the bottom when it comes to all sorts of national regulations.

For individual companies, there’s no downside in ignoring any unregulated external harms to workers, consumers, the environment, etc., right up to the point where a scandal gets so big that it sparks mass boycotts. The “free market” is utterly incapable of self policing, and as citizens we should continue to fight in our separate republics for systems which clamp down on corruption and abuse.

In Mexico in particular, the government is weak and corrupt, relies excessively on oil money for revenue, and has been fighting a war against drug cartels across half the country; enforcing better wages and working conditions is far from their top priority.
Serious OS research has tended to get stuck in academia and research labs for the past ~20 years; probably something to do with the worse-is-better pricnciple. L4 [1] has managed to sneak into a lot of phones in basebands and "security processors", though.

[1] http://www.l4hq.org/
What, are you some kind of socialist that doesn't believe in the free market?
Quite often on the internet, and in life, I see situations that make me think, "That guy got in trouble/got grief because he has a sense of humor and everyone around him is wilfully not getting the joke".
That's also not possible if Overstock itself managed it's issuance on a centralized database.
I find actually find the pointlessness liberating - it's easier to not get stressed out or worked up when nothing actually matters. It's all just a ride.
You could also do a three month free trial or something of that effect. That would let people get a feel for the full offerings and if they think it's worth it then they'll likely end up being customers for a long time.
Ok and what does the html page do to solve the problem?

I'm not talking about correcting errors in settlement I'm talking about removing the need for settlement.

You seem to be a pretty big fan of bitcoin. I've noticed a huge blindspot in bitcoin proponents when it comes to private chains almost like they are threatened by them.

Bitcoin was never going to win the markets/use cases private chains make sense in. Bitcoin went the way of ultra generalisation which has resulted in it being pretty much worse than everything else for everything else. But it can do lots of things. Just not well.
What I'm about to say is definitely NOT IN ANY SENSE Schadenfreude, but...

I get really excited when amazing services we've come to take for granted goes down. I'd put places like Amazon, Netflix, Gmail, etc in this category. The reason? Well, I really really look forward to reading the post-mortems and getting a sneak-peek at the inner workings of said services.
Define "crowded" (how many people per acre does a typical spaceship hold? How about the earth?). Define "limited" (the spaceship analogy heavily implies it's being used in a sense other than "not infinite"). Go find out what this "renewable" stuff people keep talking about these days is.
What's up with capitalizing every first letter ? I thought "Whatsapp Tonight" is some new service Whatsapp is providing that I didn't know of.