skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the whole reason they have surge pricing: to get more drivers out during those times to handle the load.

As with all such systems, it is eminently gamed by the participants. Uber drivers intentionally stay offline in the driver app, wait until surge areas appear on the rider app, race to the surge area and the logs into the driver app. While it is responding to a "shortage", it's an entirely artificial shortage not unlike the Enron debacle in California.

Consider the recent case of the guy in Edmonton with the one hour, $1100 ride. Would anyone seriously argue that only one driver was willing to provide such a ride for $1100? How about for $500? $250? (Add that Alberta current has a serious employment issue as well) Any arguments about supply/demand are rendering absurd by that simple example.

(by default my posts are dead so this is for the edification of the showdead few)
In order to support more than the unikernel or embedded use case I hope they'll take in the beloved rump kernels as it's unlikely to maintain an own copy of network and FS drivers, not speaking from graphics.
I never use facebook chat. I would use it, and google+ chat, if they weren't closed off. Basically, if I could use the same client for all my chat-systems, I would. But since they want me to have a browser-tab open for each one, I'll just keep abstaining.
> So what is the use of a CoC?

In this case the use is that the maintainer took the time to create it. You can argue that it is useless. Even the maintainer seem to largely agree. So why not have it? It is already there. Why show negativity.

A CoC is a bit like a trademark. To be useful it has to be enforced. So it can just sit there, and if nobody bothers to look at, it will just occupy some extra bytes on some server (Github).

> That paradoxically leads to worse behavior.

Yeah, it might be right. But it is a hypothetical. Let's think of a positive hypothetical upside -- for example the first thing comes to mind is it sends a message to minorities, women, those who are shy, beginners that this project is approachable. We are attempting to be sensitive and welcoming by at least spending time to create a CoC. It is a general message perhaps as well "We are aware these kind bad things happen in the programming community so we did something about". That's it.
His self-help book is excellent.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still/dp/15...
There's a difference between 60% being the normal federal share, and a variable amount that, averaged across all states, averages to about 60%, being the normal federal share, particularly when addressing particular states policies, since the share for any particular state tends to be pretty consistent over time (e.g., the California regular FMAP has been the minimum, 50%, because of the states better-than-average economic health for long enough that I frequently have to remind who work on systems where it matters that that's not a fixed amount) and maybe be significantly different than the average.
Scott Adams is one of the last people I would take advice from.
I have plans slated for doing proofs about Rust programs in 2017, if not sooner (I'm interning at Data61 on the seL4 verification team starting in two weeks, and if I don't get a chance to work on Rust verification then, I'll start after I'm done)
Very interesting take on the subject. Of course, I think to simulate a real candle, one would have to have some way of measuring air current. If I see a fake candle flickering, and feel no air current, I'm going to be less likely to think it's a real candle.

An LED candle the responds to its environment, could be "blown out" for instance would make a great little hack project.
How does an article like this, with such a blatantly false clickbaity title, not get flagged into oblivion rather than getting 270+ upvotes?
It's already here[1], but I don't think it can be used for cache partitioning between the kernel and userspace (but I could be wrong!)

[1] http://danluu.com/intel-cat/
It's not fair game. The site guidelines specifically demand that submitters not do this exact thing; instead, you're to use the article's original headline, unless it's misleading or linkbait.

People who submit stories don't own the stories on HN; stories are community property. Being the first to submit a URL does not give someone special privileges to reframe the story for everyone else.

In this case, the reframing that was done was overtly dishonest, implying as it does that The Economist endorses this point of view, which it clearly does not.
*their
I have the same problem, can you post your findings so I don't have the spam the guy?
Paul Vixie sets the record straight on a Serverfault thread
> I firmly believe that increased technology makes smaller and smaller cogs of us all, making us worse and worse, concentrating real experiences and all that creative stuff onto fewer and fewer people who can actually afford it.

This is just demonstrably false, by a whole host of measurable metrics. For example:

Average people fly long distances dramatically more today than ever before. (And I'm not talking about just in rich countries -- regional airlines are booming in Africa and Asia too.) It's pretty hard to argue that visiting a faraway place is not a "real experience" that is more accessible than ever.

The fraction of children in the world who go to school instead of doing menial labor is the highest in history and continuing to rise.

And you can't have any "real experiences" if you're dead, so historically low global child mortality is generating an awful lot more real experiences.

> You become ever closer to a mere regurgitator of pre packaged thoughts.

It's rather rich to claim the past was better along this dimension, when most of history was dominated by orthodox religions backed by political elites, and only a tiny elite could even read. Unless you think literacy implies more regurgitation, in which case you've watered down the term enough that it loses it opprobrium.
I think those unions resemble more trade associations and not labor unions as they lobby and fight for the owners of cab companies and not the drivers as your comment suggested.
Can't be worse that The Catcher in Rye... Can it?
pcwalton said a correctness proof of the type system is in-progress [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601944
Rust has long been capable of running without a runtime (that's how all OS development in Rust is expected to operate) and formal verification of the language spec is ongoing (though full verification is still probably years out, and who knows if the compiler will ever be formally verified).
I probably need to focus more on the quality of work on my Gitub profile - at the moment it's all personal projects. I've already had to explain to one employer

Thanks for the input.
For me: email provides a clear, searchable database that I can look over order histories. Chat, not so much.

I'm not saying "get off my lawn", I guess I just don't see the advantage of chat over email.
Down due to its overwhelming popularity, no doubt.
I know the website isn't terribly clear right now (it was posted a week earlier than I planned), but the first goal listed is exactly this.
can we get this in JS?
Southern European countries like it dubbed, all there shows are dubbed.
I'm an average sized male (5'11") with average sized hands.

Even if you have large hands it's difficult to use modern phones one-handed. Try reaching the top left/right corner of your phone (one-handed) without having to adjust your hand position.
Related articles from December:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10737915 320+ comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10747020 3-part documentary

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763480

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10848928
> So, we should just hope that innocent bystanders are not hit by that first shot at police as the they hide behind their defensive positions and superior equipment?

The scenario outlined did not involve an actual gun that could harm anyone.

If a car chase ends the suspect hiding behind a door with a "gun" in their hand, there are actually many possible scenarios, for instance:

1. The "gun" is not actually a gun, and was misidentified.

2. The gun is fake or a toy.

3. The gun is a real gun and the suspect will not shoot at anyone.

4. The gun is a real gun and the suspect will shoot at the police or others.

Some people say the suspect should be shot in all four scenarios (after all, he might shoot!). I disagree.
Sorry, I think I downvoted you by accident. HN's mobile interface makes scrolling risky... :)
Yeah, that sums it up. Woe is me, it's all someone else's fault. That much was true - wilhelm ii was a flea of a man with ego issues who bought ruin to prussia almost single-handedly.

Hitler's narrative was utterly disconnected from reality, but utterly reasonable to him and the millions that followed, as a comfortable illusion is preferable to a miserable reality - to most.
In this context I'm implying CoC do not "prevent" nor the lack thereof causes bad behavior.

This BTW seems to get to the crux of what half of his decision was about. If he thinks CoC are worthless, that is not the same thing as believe abuse should be a common occurrence.
> It's purely a signaling issue, the text of the CoC is completely irrelevant.

That's what I am thinking. Why not signal that "yeah these issues exist, we took 10 minutes to create some guide and put it on Github or some place". I understand if it wasn't already done, and its usefulness has to be weighed against the time it takes to do it. But it was already done. Just approve it and move on. Why drive-by and throw -1's out of the window at it.
Yeah, that's cool too. I guess we just have different use cases.
can you send "likes" by typing out "(y)"?
I also wish bad things upon people.
I really like this idea of the Apollo collection, but I'm a bit disappointed that I can't see any of the code in any of the images. The close up of the comments is okay, but I would like clarification that there's real code there.
Yes, but the set of things people expect to do with the Oculus is likely larger than the set of things in the Oculus platform store.
So, what IRC has had for all its life?
I've found that using AOL to make this analogy is helpful in explaining the issues with free basics (and net neutrality in general) to non-technical folks. For example, many people have experience with parents who think the only way to receive their email is by logging in through AOL's desktop application, installed on their Windows computer.
Maybe the calculus works if they make movies with indie budgets? It could work and we can get to know some very good non-famous actors. Also, they could unveil some kind of 'Netflix Theater' service where, if you pay a one-time fee, you get to watch the movie the minute it's online or alternatively you could just wait a month and it will be made available to every netflix user. That one could prompt some internet fury though...
I can't see how they think they can get away with charging for a service that defeats restrictions which were deliberately put in place by Netflix.
Visible light from black holes detected for first time
That's a bigger phone than the Xperia Z3 Compact that I currently have.
Why? https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
Very cool. Are you planning to write device drivers in Rust initially or something else like incorporating a rump kernel?
Scott Adams used to give great career advice and cartooning tips. I think he got bored a few years ago and decided to become a professional troll. I will write some examples after work.
The market has already converged on essentially this reality. We have cable and fiber monopolies controlling the local networks. These used to be more open when DSL was the prevalent technology. This allowed a variety of ISPs to utilize that shared infrastructure. The telcos didn't care about the Internet before. Once there was apparently money to be made they changed their game. They developed faster connections on closed infrastructure and displaced the smaller players. The only way to compete is with new infrastructure. The incumbent monopoly has a massive advantage overcoming this barrier to entry. They have, and need only maintain, dominance. It takes a massive initiative (like Google Fiber) to provide a threat and revive genuine competition. The "free market" isn't optimal here. Google is taking one for the team. We can't always count on this sort of thing. Without public ownership and regulation of monopolies there's no "free" market. There is of course but the entirety of the market is the only object for sale. Once privatized it becomes anything but free. Government ownership mitigates this problem by allowing the public to assert further market freedom via regulation. Like net neutrality. As we are beginning to see, without owning the infrastructure, we can't make this regulation stick.

When a monopoly is the optimal solution, it ought to be the government. If it isn't then it will be a private company. The former can be shaped by public vote in order to enforce an optimal solution. That is: solve the problems that require a monopoly and give the rest back to the free market. The latter has impunity and seeks to monetize it. That is: to control access to the market.
You are already breaking Netflix's Terms and Conditions by doing this. It's just when a few people break the rules, they go unnoticed, and perhaps those who make the rules don't care. When the masses do it then it's a problem that then gets special attention.
Look here: http://www.eliza.ch/doc/wadler92essence_of_FP.pdf (page 11)

The state in the monad in the quoted paper flows backward. The part of assembler that works with label's addresses can use that trick from 1992.
I think they have, I just tried to use it and I'm getting a Netflix site error.
Self-driving unicycles.
I don't understand. I mean I agree that at some point smartflix is going to get into trouble for doing this, but I doubt it will come from Netflix (unless forced to). As far as legalities are concerned, Netflix is serving content allowed in country X to an IP address located in country X. Netflix is not breaking copyright that I can see. Why should Netflix worry?
I am curious to know how it plans to charge the masses in countries where credit cards are not as ubiquitous. That includes countries like India.
How to find cheap rural land with fiber optic internet
Your privacy policy makes some of that apparent, and it's clearly worded. I appreciate that.

I didn't initially notice your privacy policy because there doesn't seem to be a link from the Mac app page. I had to go to the homepage by deleting the path from the URL in my browser, since I couldn't find a link to the main page on the Mac app page. I scrolled to the bottom of the page, as that's where these things usually are, but all I found was a trio of social media buttons. I scrolled back up and noticed the three-horizontal-lines symbol, which I correctly assumed would bring up a menu. I found the privacy policy under that.

I can only speak for myself, but I would have found it valuable to have an obvious link to the privacy policy on every page. I really wanted to find the privacy policy, because I felt a bit guilty about how tersely worded my previous comment to you was. Had I not been so motivated, I might have just looked at the page, thought it looked nice, then closed it when I couldn't find an obvious link to a privacy policy.

Anyway, thanks for answering my question. I hope I didn't come across as rude. I feel like a parent sending my kid to a sleep-over. I just want to make sure my data will be safe while it stays with people I don't know.
> The chronicler Jean Froissart heard the story of a noble named Pierre de Béarn who had a traumatic experience when he killed an exceptionally large bear in hand-to-hand combat. Afterwards, during his sleep he would rise, grab a sword and swing it around at the air. If he could not find his weapon, Pierre “created such noise and clamor that it seemed like all the demons of hell were there with him.” Eventually, his wife and children would leave him over the problem.

Apparently people from the middle ages still suffered from night tremors. Now that these sorts of things are better understood, quotes like this sound rather comical.
for better or for worse, that's pure capitalism right there. as demand goes up, either supply will go up or price will.
Meh, your job must really suck if you have to do this.
Agree, It could disrupt Cinema too. When you have a baby and you couldn't go to cinema for years. Netflix should be an alternative for family.

It did happen to me when my daughter was born, I couldn't go to cinema but still wants to see new movies.
That's good feedback. Although I'm considering mostly distributed systems, where full reproducability is not possible.
For single-threaded, deterministic programs (discrete event simulations) where performance is not a measurement point, you can do it with VMs.
The nicest thing would be to be able to parameterize experiments. Not just re-run them, but change the parameters for different runs.
Indeed. I've a freezer stuffed with fuji e6 120 and 5x4, and chems for processing.

C41 is a pain in the ass and I only bothered a few times - but with a little practice you can develop positive film perfectly at home - all about being able to work blind, and having a series of tubs at the right temperatures. Admittedly my first few tries ended up with lomo quality from a rollei!
Lump sum payments are not at all uncommon when it comes to ghostwriting.

(Royalties aren't rare either, but a lump sum agreement isn't eyebrow raising in the least)
Drivers will be pure Rust. Someone else can port a BSD to run on seL4 if they want.
Netflix has been really chill about this in the past, they were extremely aware they had many thousands of Australian subscribers before Australia had its own Netflix. I don't think they're particularly bothered about individuals getting around regional restrictions, but when another entity is trying to profit from that...
We've all been there :).
Most people in southern European countries like it dubbed. Doesn't mean that they shouldn't be given the option (specially if a dubbed version doesn't exist and is the only way to see the content at all).

From a technical point of view is a trivial fix. From a commercial point of view? Well, either selling content in a different language is profitable, in which case negotiating the licenses is worthwhile, or it isn't very profitable, in which case "license to distribute in Japanese with subtitles inside Italy" should not be a very expensive right to acquire.
Although it may give some positive press - the reality is that he was a young adult when he said it and he simply can't take it back. We don't need to pretend he's some kind of saint. This fake modesty is seriously nonsense. Zuck is a competitor and a winner and does what is necessary. That's it.
Walmart was in the same class
It'll be super funny when self-driving cars are seen following the at-times-ridiculous GPS directions. For the foreseeable future, I wouldn't want to be in a car without a steering wheel.
Don't most customer service platforms support Facebook now? Salesforce certainly does: http://www.salesforce.com/service-cloud/features/social-cust...
> In his introduction to the “Second Book,” which was finally published officially in 2003, Weinberg wrote, “Germany and the rest of the world have not yet come close to coming to terms with Hitler as a person, as leader of a great nation, and as a symbol.”

After each of the recent mass shootings, I've been wondering more and more about whether we aren't doing anything about it because it's so easy to just label the shooters as evil, as if they aren't people. It's tough to accept that real people, with identities and feelings just like you and me, can do terrible things. Understanding tragedy and history is key to not repeating it.
Average Faces of Different Professions
One Habit That Will Wreck Your PMs Career
That's true, but by directing people to where we CAN help them & track their data / info, we're better able to do that.

It'd be great as an "optional" feature, but the fact that they enable it automatically & grade you on that basis is a bit ridiculous.
Glad to see she is making progress. I tried unsuccessfully to get a project off the ground at a very large search company which had a data center in a very windy area right next to the Columbia river :-) Where the compression tanks would have heat exchangers that sat in the river and would use data center heat to pre-charge the decompression process (double win, free data center cooling and energy).

Unlike Fong I had heard Tata was going to use air motors from a French company to power cars, I just wanted them to turn generators. I discovered that the air motor was a hoax.
Which put me in the same spot (designing your own motor). And that pretty much killed any hope of getting funded.
Side note, does anyone know if there's a way to determine what's available on Netflix in each country so you could emulate this manually? i.e. any public catalog search engine?
This isn't exactly scientific, but just go over to YouTube and read the comments whenever a woman gives a technical talk. Now imagine a role reversal where, whenever a straight male gives a talk, you can count on it receiving numerous comments from gay men saying they love a guy with brains, or how badly they want to fuck the guy (or that he isn't attractive enough for that), or that he should go back to the garage and fix me a motorcycle. Maybe it's only a small minority of comments, but it doesn't take much to make the whole environment feel hostile.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-...
The fb's attempt to control the internet in third world country brings this quote to mind...

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that
name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy,
Planet Starbucks.

In this day and age, Internet should be a utility, with government subsidizing it if required while preventing _walled gardens_.
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You're a dentist? Imagine if all your scheduling, accounting, record keeping, and even ordering supplies was all done automatically by a machine that costs less than paying an employee for one month.

(I would sell it based on applications, not the computer itself.)
Edit: I think I'm done commenting about this. I thought HN was supposed to be about expressing new ideas, but I was wrong. It's an echo chamber and not even close to being open or free.
SF taxi? I barely remember since it's hard to find one.

I tried riding a taxi once and the driver was rude and didn't want to do multiple dropoffs so we got out right away.
I know plenty of people who think Facebook is the Internet, and wouldn't even notice if their access to everything not-Facebook was blocked, let alone care. Facebook is today's AOL.
Thank you very much! I had a vague impression that TI was reasonably friendly about this, but couldn't remember or find any substantiation. Your post is very informative.
I don't install 20 different clients, and the ones I do install are ones where I want to keep things separate. I don't want Slack messages showing up in my Facebook messages. I don't want Facebook messages showing up in Apple Messages on OSX.
I had a quick look at uNoGS based on personal knowledge, and just across the few titles I examined, they had numerous inaccuracies -- both missing regions that have support and also missing any regions/listings for titles I know Netflix streaming is currently carrying.
>Linux support is on the roadmap post-launch, Mac support is on the roadmap post-decent Apple hardware release, whenever that is.

https://mobile.twitter.com/palmerluckey/status/6743118650239...
As I mentioned in another comment, someone else can port BSD if they want. Our goal is pure-Rust. We're already working on NIC support and a TCP/IP stack.