skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's fair to attribute all of Uber's success to regulatory flouting. They provided legit enhancements that a) benefit both parties, b) are legal, c) are things taxi companies hadn't bothered with, and d) are things people will pay more than production cost for.

For passengers: tracking the car as it approaches, frictionless CC payment, responsive support, reliable rides, accountability and when something goes wrong.

For drivers: a steady stream of business, filtering of bad customers, protection against customers that can't pay, less time lost to payment and finding destination address.

They solved a very old coordination problem (assign rides from a veil of ignorance) that had historically led taxis to discriminate on passenger and destination.

They started pooling similar rides together, thus saving trips, which taxis never even attempted unless you arrange it yourself.

And didn't they have a workable enough model just using licensed, insured black car drivers?

To be sure, they benefit from flouting some reasonable regulations, but it doesn't account for their entire success.
I tried to get into nim, but then I started reading the source for some of their stdlib and finding bugs.

I pointed it out on the boards and the response wasn't all that great, so I decided to spend my time elsewhere.

I started picking up Rust a few weeks ago, so far I'm having fun :)
Yeah, I've been looking forward to how they'll go past 10nm for years! Crazy to think how much control they have in the manufacturing process.
Already better-reported yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11336155

Here's the direct link to Zdziarski's blog entry explaining this:

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5966
A plane doesn't undergo stress anywhere near what a rocket goes through and we understand all the science behind it very well.
> Both companies have absolute treasure troves of data that could certainly be used for trading signals.

Here's what Eric Shmidt had to say on the subject:"There are many, many things that Google could do, that we chose not to do. One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that."
They were reported to staff, who escorted them to a private area to shame them for saying something that someone found offensive.

You don't see that as having a chilling effect?
Point well noted.
The first thing that came to my mind was sonic boom, which made me think of Guile from Street Fighter II, who was one of my favourite characters. It also reminded me of my dad describing the sound of sonic booms as jets passed overhead (he lived fairly close to an air force base).

Then I read more comments here and now I think of crashing and death :-(.
May I ask from where you bought it and how did you upgrade it. Looks like a very interested configuration.
Isn't IPFS based on bitcoin technologies? Does it have the problem that bitcoin had (still has?) where you have to download the entire blockchain -- which in this case is the entire network? I'm guessing this has been solved since I last heard about the issue...
I don't know what this freaky message board power I seem to have acquired is but I promise only to wield it for good, and not evil.
I really don't use twitter, but asking siri if she knows SHRDLU is fun. (You need to edit the recognized speech manually.)
Concorde was a brilliant corporate welfare boondoggle that might have become profitable if the US aerospace corporates hadn't tried quite so hard to kill it by lobbying - successfully - for limited access to US airports.

It helped give Airbus a technological start, which was probably the only thing that allowed Airbus to become globally competitive.

So politically it wasn't necessarily a failure at all.

It's not easy to assess the true economic return on a megaproject, especially one that lasts for decades. Something that looks like a disaster on the profit and loss account can still provide big benefits.

The US space program is a more obvious example. The direct economic return on bringing a few rocks back and developing giant booster rockets wasn't great. But there were significant spin-off multipliers that provided a significant lift to whole sectors of the economy.

If you try to imagine the state of US computing and aerospace without Apollo, and British and French aerospace without Concorde, it should be clear the money wasn't just thrown away for nothing.
I was really hoping they would post at least a preview of what the pricing will be.

AppEngine pricing change resulted in a nasty surprise for a lot of people and a lot of vitriol towards Google. Just one article on this from many: http://readwrite.com/2011/09/02/google-app-engine-pricing-an...

While the platform has moved way ahead of where it was in 2011, the memory of this is still in the back of people's mind and it would be a good move on Google's part to at least try to engender more trust by giving directional pricing.
Man, what I'd do to work for that company! And I don't say that about many businesses.
I know Meteor pushed all of their package management to a namespaced system: https://atmospherejs.com/
Thanks, I don't follow the mailing lists, so I probably wouldn't have known to think about that.
What is wrong with berodual? is it mentioned in the article?
Interesting - I saw this as a defensive response to the rising number of developers using Amazon's Alexa APIs, rather than anything related to Nuance.
Bear bone reveals human reached Ireland 2,500 years earlier than thought
You know, there are reviews - on the internet - for mechanics and dealer service departments. And really, anyone able bodied can change oil.
>Would the important information the EFF produces be easier to get to people who need it but don't have internet access if it was available as a published book or magazine?

Unlikely. An analog to this is prisoners subscribed to 2600 Magazine. They're regularly prevented from receiving them despite 2600 Magazine being a published periodical, assigned an ISBN, and available from several libraries.
That would seem to make sense, to a first order approximation.

But there may be other factors to consider: type of fuel that gets burned (and how it is burned); how long it stays in the upper atmosphere (possibly at higher altitudes), etc.
If (for any reasonably probable value of final pricing) the cost of voice recognition is a material factor in determining whether the application is economically feasible, you have larger problems. In other words: if your application's economics are going to swing materially depending on how this is priced, it's probably not going to work out even if they keep it free.
Mehr-disziplin
How are you going to use "a PGP public key" to access a service like Facebook that is blocked in China? I'm not aware of any web infrastructure (i.e. ports 80/443) that uses "a PGP public key" to secure communications.

I've been considering operating my Murmur server that runs on a local Debian box as a hidden service because I do not want to expose my public IP (mostly for DoS reasons). Let's just say that it is not very easy, and I hope to document my setup once it is to my satisfaction. Hopefully, we can make this process easy enough for my parents; then we can point to more usage by the mainstream thereby saving you from arguing against the usefulness of such software.
Performance Improvements in C Code Using Micro-Optimizations
Yes we have had a lot of work with Heroku to make this work correctly. BTW, our Heroku sub-generator is made by Joe Kutner, the Heroku Java evangelist, so that's directly made by the person who knows this best!
Not sure how that would work, but I don't know much about Keybase.
The extended directors cut edition was much better.

I saw the film before reading the book and it inspired me to read the book.

I thought the movie whilst not perfect was very well done.
Could you say any more? This is interesting...
Not at all. It's more like a giant bittorrent full of everyone's git repos.
Double thanks! Changed from http://www.blimpinfo.com/airships/hybrid-hopes-an-inside-loo....

Edit: actually, since these are out of date, let's use the Guardian URL that the Popular Mechanics article pointed to.
Perhaps someone has already suggested this, but what if npm had some sort of "unpublish block" if any modules depended on yours? Or maybe some sort of notification to the dependent package owners. This doesn't solve the issue of unpublishing dependent free packages, nor does it solve someone taking over and putting malicious code, but it would encourage a more responsible behavior when removing a highly depended upon package.
It's too easy to criticize the film, but I wouldn't want to be in Lynch's shoes. He was too inexperienced and the book is far too large and there were many other constraints. All in all it must have been a terrible experience.

I however really like the art style. A weird mix of 19th century uniforms and steam punk(?). Also: The navigator is the best navigator I've seen so far.
That's true but the article does mention how most of the things that impact price went in patio11's favor. One can reasonably infer that if the seller feels everything went in his favor at the end of the process that he wasn't bullied too far off of his asking price.

He does also mention how one seller tried to demand a 40% discount at close, and that the broker had a better deal waiting in the wings. So we can have a pretty high degree of certainty that the sale price was between $28,500 and $57,000, likely closer to $57k.
But they do degrade over time (slowly).
Not sure how many users of IBM speech API but Nuance is big in this area (also offers offline conversion products)
> anonymous classes are closures (I really like that about Java/Scala/Groovy

Apache Groovy has diverged from Java since Java 8 came out, and there's also other JVM languages such as Kotlin. You only gave JVM languages as examples of the good, and all your examples of the bad were those on other platforms.
Only if you spend a huge amount of time integrating with their API. It won't be more expensive than Nuance, so prepare with their pricing in mind and you'll be fine ($.008 / transaction over 20k monthly transactions).

https://developer.nuance.com/public/index.php?task=memberSer...
I actually like Lynch's Dune. There are dozens of us, dozens!
agreed. I liked them as well. Though probably heresy, the Sci-Fi series of the first two books were how I got into Dune.

I went on to read all the Frank Herbert written Dune books and I still like the Sci-Fi series.
Here are some other resources if you're interested in learning about color: https://github.com/melling/DesignNotes_MobileAndWebApps/blob...
So self-centered and naive? What's wrong with paying $5 for an UberPool vs $2 for SF's subpar metro system? It's called paying a slight premium for convenience.

Not every millennial is running around massively in student debt, documenting their $30 brunch on Insta/Snap while complaining about boomers and the global economy.
Sure but "earlier in the process"? SpaceX is trying to become passenger-safe as well, they just have the luxury of being able to sell something human-less in the meantime.
Adopting RxJava on the Airbnb App
It's the issue to us, who are random bystanders on an Internet forum without any skin in the game. It may not be the issue for other key resources that Boom will need to accomplish this.

Imagine you were an aeronautical engineer inside, say, Boeing who had discovered a way to control or reduce the sonic boom generated by a supersonic aircraft. You can't get permission from your boss to investigate this further and run actual field trials - the higher-ups have already decided that Boeing is not going to be in the SST business, so why waste money on it? You have a family to feed and only one life to live, so if you jump ship to another job, it better be one where your invention will actually make it to market. By getting LOIs from customers, Boom has something to show to both investors and prospective hires so that the portion of the risk that is outside of their control is mitigated. That matters a lot - as an engineer, one critical thing I look for when joining a company is whether the founders and salespeople are doing their job and ensuring that my work will actually be valuable to customers.

Remember that different people all have different pieces of the puzzle. I'm a random HN reader, I neither know nor care much about aviation. Someone who does know a lot about aeronautical engineering is a rather critical part of Boom's story, however, and may have a much better picture of the technical risks involved, and if such a person exists and believes they have a technical solution, demonstrating that you've solved the market & financing risks is a huge selling point for bringing them on board.
Setting up a free live streaming solution in two hours
Why? This is almost exactly what Nuance provides:

https://developer.nuance.com/public/index.php?task=memberSer...
have you used ramnode with openvz? That seems to be the lowest price option at $15 a year.

I would be curious what version of linux you used etc.
A lot of embedded debugging is either using a debugger (if you're lucky) or using various side-channels to infer the state of the machine. For example, you could make a task toggle a pin on the device and hook it up to a scope to figure out if it's being scheduled properly.

If you're interested in electronics, embedded.fm and theamphour.com are both fantastic podcasts.
Yeah. If you combine the -er- art direction [0] and fight scenes of the Lynch Dune with most everything that's not a fight scene in the Sci-Fi Channel Dune, you get something that's pretty close to the book.

[0] Though, you'd most def have to put facemasks on those stillsuits!
Governments can however.

And with Apple they have a demonstrated history of protecting privacy at any cost. Google not so much.
Huh. An iOS screenshot on an Android device.
A guarantee that somebody is responsible for the software in some way. Aka "support". It's not [just] tech support, it's providing provenance for things.

Enterprise goes mad for that stuff. It also happens to be Microsoft's core business model.
Ask HN: Other African YC applicants or alumni?
Hey guys my name is Kofi (from Ghana), working on an app that connects people with similar interests. Just wondering if there are other African YC applicants or YC alumni? If yes curious as to what they've worked on. Just found this: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/saida-tktk/
Show HN: How I built an iOS app for my WordPress site
I for one could never go back to Android. iOS is just such a better user experience, much more fluid. Android feels like Cisco Voice's product lineup, all pieced together. fragmented applications and processes that dont work side-by-side with eachother. The other reason, which is huge to me, is the hardware. I am huge on how things feel in the hand and in my opinion apple's hardware is just far superior to anything offered for Android. Best thing I have seen hardware-wise was the Samsung Galaxy Alpha, and the Oneplus2. I miss the old Nokia days, e61/e62, that build quality was top notch, although running symbian made it a bit of a snail. I tried switching out of iOS and over to a nexus5 when it was released, I had pre-ordered it and was super excited for it to come in, but the hardware felt like total shit to me, and after a month I swapped back to iOS. Im still rocking an original iphone5 thats jailbroken, works better than that N5 any day of the week. Much like cars, it isnt about the size of the engine, or the tech it comes with, its about the whole package and how it all works together, as a unit.
>What you're saying is that you left the freedom of your device to jail yourself into simple interface...?

No, he's saying that he got himself out of being the prisoner of his device (time, maintainance, etc wise) to being the casual user of his device.
That may just be poor phrasing by TechCrunch. It's entirely possible Google will announce the pricing on launch day, but not charge for some period of time so people have the ability to develop the initial apps without paying.
Google builds list of untrusted digital certificate suppliers
The point about the full web app experience is a good one. And while Android's Nexus One left me high and dry on promises of continual updates and pushed me into my iPhone 4s from which I've never come back. If iOS doesn't get full support for service workers soon, I'll have to look again at Android.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11344624
Hi all, I'm looking to get some feedback on my iOS web app for a WordPress site.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goodnight-journal/id95708037...

Thank you.
The bleeping smart driving features are off by default. If you want them, you have to specifically turn them on every time you start the car.
No idea I'm not affiliated with either just saw it on GroupMe's support site
In 2002 I accidentally executed

DROP TABLE HOTELS;

whilst working on the Virgin Holidays website. We managed to get it from backup but it made me shart.
Any place where I could read a good introduction to IPFS ?
check out newegg. They come from Supermicro, Gigabyte, and I think Asus does a line too. They're pretty new so I think only Supermicro is currently listed but they come from at least 4 manufacturers now in Mini ITX form - so fitting hundreds of consumer-class (and often awesome - this is the sweet spot for gamers) small form factor cases. Google "Xeon D Mini ITX". Make sure you get the 8C/16T version not the 4/8 version. You want the 1540 or 1541 versions, not 152x. Supermicro is proper server-class stuff - no messin' around - the others will be slightly cheaper but they're more sporadically available at mo. Also check if you need 10GbE - that costs about 100 dollars more. Still, all will work perfectly as a desktop in a mini-ITX case, and that is a nice small form factor. We're not talking about a huge ugly hunk of box here.

This is going to be "build your own" btw but anybody who's used a philips screwdriver can do this. Here in UK I have the total mentioned above at just over 2200 GBP including PSU and a cute Corsair case (http://is.gd/0pfKhg) so we're talking 3300ish dollars leaving 200 left for a pro mech KB and mouse. For the ram I had Crucial supply me for 780 british pounds (1200 USD ish) for 128 GB of 2400Mhz DDR4 ECC DIMMs (4 x 32 - there are only 4 slots so don't do 8 x 16), which works with these boards. As I said total including RAM about 2200 pounds so 3300 dollars. Or if you don't need 128GB start off with 64, say, but stick with the 32GB DIMMs so you can upgrade later.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE...
Nice just down the road from me about 18 months ago I did a spec job application to them.

Might tale the day off work to see her fly for the first time.
http://yuml.me
An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
An online hub for upcoming new artists
Python 201 Kickstarter Campaign Update – New Cover Preview
Apps can involve users speaking for ten seconds making selections, or an hour getting transcribed. Right now, we don't know the order of magnitude; adding voice interaction to an app could be $.01/user/year or it could be $100/user/year.
Not at all.

There is only one rendering engine on iOS. Apple TOS prohibits all other rendering engines. Chrome uses Safari/webkit rendering engine to render the page.
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There is no risk in terms of demand for the product at the target price, just like there isn't a risk for demand for cold-fusion or, as someone else here suggested, a cure for cancer.

It is true that the LOI serves a marketing purpose, which is why it was created.
It would be trivial to find hundreds of twitter posts from prominent conference speakers who blatantly support Planned Parenthood, a racist, eugenicist organization that routinely causes literal death and has done far more damage to human beings of all colors than the demented windbag Moldbug will ever do.

Fact: Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Planned Parenthood was founded to advance eugenics, in particular against black and other non-white children.

Fact: Abortion kills 2/3 of black babies in this country.

And yet.

All of the hypocrites rioting about LambdaConf's decision on twitter would never dream of boycotting a conference based on a speaker's past support for Planned Parenthood, a racist, eugenicist organization. Think about that.
Furthermore it's not a useful trend anymore if it's due for an update. What would that new constant be that people feel confident will hold over the next 10 years? Seems like quite the Frankenstein "law" to be hacking piecewise functions together.

If it's not dead, it's certainly dying. Perpetual exponential growth is irrational given finite resources.
>Why? Don't they have OBD-2 readers?

What if they have? It's not like they'd bother to (a) decipher them, (b) fix the issue themselves.
"Systems programming language" seems to be one a frequent definition miscommunication, right alongside "a Lisp" and "self taugt programmer".

People use the phrases without acknowledging or without realizing that there is a great breadth (and sometimes controversy) in what people take them to mean. I think you're doing it right defining it where you use it.
To put that number in perspective, recall the huge engineering effort necessary, not to mention the flight test program needed to get a commercial airline EIS certification.

The 787 was designed for 44,000 takeoff/landings [1], with mere minutes turn around time, while carrying 400+ people in comfort. Add to that target 99% dispatch availability (i.e. does not break down). To do that, you've got to think hard about every single nut and bolt and how that bolt will break in 30 years, and how hard it will be to detect the broken bolt, and how cheaply the bolt can be replaced (easy wrench access, need to pull out seats?). Extrapolate that to the millions of parts in the airframe.

Add to that Billions for production tooling for mass production. Remember, 495 Boeing 737 were build last year[2]. That's one finished plane every 16 hours.

[1] http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/boeing-begins-an...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#Total_production
What does 'open-source company' mean? One could claim that Microsoft is one as well.
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What we see here is (or should be) darwinism in action. Companies that become balkanized, politicized and resistant to change are infficient, prone to catastrophes and easily disrupted by (hi HN!) the startup crowd.

In the past I've had the misfortune to work for some lumbering corporates with all these pathologies and more. You tolerate the perpetual carcrash for the money but however good you are you can't change them & instead run yourself ragged trying to bring order to the chaos. Even if it can be fixed (& often I wonder if organisations can get too big to fix) it's the responsibility of the management and way above your pay-grade.

If you can diagnose all these problems you're clearly a sound engineer. You can do so much better than losing your hair in some self-destructive megacorp that disempowers you from doing good work. Life is too short and IT staff are in demand: they don't deserve you so get out while you can.

Chin up, and good luck.
If I see an open machine I write an email from them to their manager saying "remind me to lock my machine before walking away".
Three completely unrelated things I guess.

1. Expressiveness is important? Expressiveness is why I don't like Perl.

2. You can certainly implement patterns analogous to OO in functional programming with closures and first-class functions.

3. Reading in the order of execution via chaining is definitely a lot more intuitive than reading from the inside out or right to left.
Linux Foundation Pours $200,000 into R language
Modern airliners are highly redundant. Stuff breaks on them constantly though.