skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These "disruptors" need to work on wealth creation and not installing "economic rents." Economic rents, a term in Microeconomics, is trying to achieve profits beyond those in an efficient market (for example, creating artificial scarcity). The appear to be complaining because Uber is lowering the cost of overly expensive taxi fares when they should be working on a system that provides rides for less money while still helping drivers get more pay (if that is important to them).

In NYC, because of the legacy taxi medallion system which artificially limited the number of medallions to 13,000 (resulting in a medallion market value of $1.2 million now down to $700,000 after Uber/Lyft), taxi fares are still about twice that of many US cities. The artificial limit of medallions created artificial scarcity which resulted in "economic rents" thus ultimately requiring passengers to pay much higher fares that then went to the medallion owners.

One example would be to lower gas usage by using electric vehicles or hybrid cars (NYC Yellow Taxis are converting to hybrids) which not only lowers fuel costs but lower air pollution. They could make a financial deal with the city or state showing the lower health care costs from lower air pollution and have the cars financed.
That one had me nearly spitting coffee. Thanks haha.
> Restrictive policy responses hurt one group of people in an attempt to protect others.

That's the definition of Pareto optimality
Hmm... I'm surprised by this. At least in the US AIDS is under much more control, is it not? My fiancee treats AIDS/HIV and has never mentioned "resistance" except when referring to antibiotics. This seems more like a funding issue, though I could be wrong.

All told, this is sad. Aids is the most easily preventable disease. Most of her patients know exactly when they got it.
Or Oberon http://www.jucs.org/jucs_4_5/open_standards_beyond_java/Fran... (1998).

The tech was released in 1996:

http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt69.htm

https://github.com/Spirit-of-Oberon/Juice

https://github.com/berkus/Juice
The whole point of programming is to get exact results by solving all edge cases. Machine learning/Neural nets are only good at guessing results, and cannot solve all edge cases without specific direction.
A lot of the kickstarter money goes towards the pledge rewards: Only ~500 people got a tier that doesn't include the final game, for all others the game + goodies have to be produced and paid for. The 33k minimum amount probably was calculated to be enough to set up production and making the game for the people pledging.

Kickstarters that do not offer rewards, just to cover some development process, generally do not work as well. People want to get stuff.
"However I am also not a big fan of these clips, given the historical relationship. Not sure how much one should actually it for jokes."

Grey area for me. It's a fictional work, AFAIK, based on some evil shit in history I generally don't joke about. The scene is nearly perfect for remixes to the point many great ones have been made with it. SO, on other hand, maybe remixing his downfall in educational and entertaining ways isn't so bad after all. :)
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I think the most valid complain about Uber as an employer is that it is advertised as well a paying job but that there are hidden costs that most drivers won't consider.

It's similar to how programmers often look at consulting rates, but don't factor in non-billable hours.
Please edit your post to eliminate the fixed-text:

- It will be easier to read.

- Reading won't require a lot of fiddly trackpadding.

- Maybe it would be nice if HN's simple markup system could handle the case in which the author wants a list of indented items, but it doesn't, and fixed-text is a poor substitute for that.

[EDIT:] Thanks!
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I've never tried clojure; it looks interesting, though different from Common Lisp. I have invested some time--though not a lot--in Common Lisp and enjoyed it.

I would like to actually use CL for something. Unfortunately, my feeling was that the infrastructure--especially for GUI's--wasn't there the way it is with lots of other languages and that was a real deal breaker. In this, I don't believe I'm alone.

Armed Bear Common Lisp already exists. The JVM with all its libraries exists. Common Lisp on the JVM seems like an easy win-win to me, but I would like to see somebody really proficient in CL explore that in depth first.
New Yorkers are wimps when it comes to anything weather. There's a small thunderstorm? We call it a "doozie". Some snow in the forecast? We shut down the entire regional transportation system.

I'm originally from Chicago so I find it all very amusing. I don't recall the L ever shutting down, nor do I remember any news articles about thunderstorms unless there were tornados inside the city limits.
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Haven't you heard about the dust-up about DRM on tractors? Tech is everywhere, even the unglamorous places
Ok, then why are we spending years learning "spelling"?
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Uber's brand did not and does not create the demand for catching a ride. The 400-year continuous existence of some form of ride service, starting with horse-drawn hackneys, tends to indicate a pre-existing demand, as does the fact that "taxi" is the same word in different languages all over the world.
Pretty sure Las Vegas would crumble if it ever got a macro burst. Many streets flood with seemingly any rainfall here. When they do flood, large rocks and debris wash onto the streets.
My favorite part was the story about wine at the end, which had little or nothing to do with the rest of the piece.

> [Regarding] a don at Trinity College in the mid-nineteenth century:

> In 1848 he published a thesis entitled Horae Apocalypticae, purporting to prove beyond doubt that the world would come to an end in 1868 because the Euphrates would have dried up the previous year. Harmless enough, you would think. But since he was a man of dominating though eccentric personality he succeeded in persuading the wine committee of Trinity that it would be pointless to lay down any 1853 port because it would not be fit to drink before Judgment Day. As 1853 proved to be one of the best vintages of the century and as Trinity was the only college without any, his name was not remembered with overmuch affection.

It reminded me of an old Jewish saying, "If you are planting a tree and you hear that Messiah has come, finish planting the tree, then go and inquire."
I can tell you exactly when I broke my arm and the steps I could have taken to prevent it.

Hindsight alone does not make something as easy to prevent as you might like to believe.
These "barriers to entry" is called "economic rent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent

Economic rents are harmful to the economy and keep new labor entrants out as you have pointed out making it harder for young people or others to get a job.

A way to complete with Uber and existing taxi services is to provide greener vehicles such as electric or hybrid (the new yellow taxi medallion cabs in NYC are all hybrid). Just as people are willing to pay more for organic food they probably be willing to pay for cleaner vehicles.
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This is standard Uber practice. Use billions in its warchest to incentivize drivers into joining it, and offering huge benefits that gradually become less generous as it comes closer to market saturation.
The public freaks out when they learn that someone might have spliced a salt resistance gene into a tomato, and you think the public will accept the kind of advanced genetic manipulation you'd need to kill HIV dead?
You mention typical PHP projects written by people who think they know better than the likes of Tim Bray.

PHP, the language that made short tags a configuration option because they wanted to mix program code with XML.

PHP, the language with a lot of different escape functions because they didn't get it right the first time.
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To be fair, the picture linked in the article does look a lot like a bomb going off.

http://twitter.com/chopperguyhd/status/755242101835653120/ph...
I'm of the opinion that the metropolis is the unglamorous place.
> But at the time, there wasn’t an obvious way for Twitter’s founders and management team to benefit from a protocol-based business model.

> innovative new protocols emerge that are based on this new business model.

I think it is wrong to think about it in terms of "business model". Protocols (such as HTTP) do not have any business model, but they evolve just fine.

Replacement for twitter will eventually emerge, but I do not think it will be controlled by single entity. Why use crypto-currency to pay for tweets, if you can embed entire twitter into blockchain?
There. I agree, it looked horrible
Not at all, upset away!

I do think Pinker is of a higher calibre than Gladwell but ever since reading Dawkin's (in the God Delusion) vague idea of some eternal progress towards 'Progress' (which he called the Zeitgeist) I haven't seen much substantiating why outbreaks of violence should decline asymptotically. A handful of modern bombs would disturb that nice little chart. Seems like cycles are more likely, perhaps contingent on solar cycles. If we don't understand why we go to war (I find most explanations too high level and utterly unconvincing) we should not predict peace. Things can and do turn on a dime.
> The[y] appear to be complaining because Uber is lowering the cost of overly expensive taxi fares when they should be working on a system that provides rides for less money while still helping drivers get more pay (if that is important to them).

This is a magazine for American Leftists, so they're really quite clear what they want: they want valuable services rendered to people with profits shared among the workers, not the gatekeepers to an arbitrary app. More than creating wealth, they want that wealth to be owned by the workers. To quote from the piece:

> This doesn’t mean drivers are better off working for a traditional taxi company. While Uber’s burdensome cost-shifting has come to define Uberization, the company merely digitized the taxicab industry’s already exploitative practices. The taxi medallion system, which requires drivers to pay their cab’s medallion owner at the start of each shift, deserved to be “disrupted.” But Uber’s employees face serious costs and risks nonetheless.

> The possibilities don’t have to be so restricted however. Ride-share drivers usually already own their vehicles, so in theory they could enter the ride-share marketplace themselves. By ditching Uber’s predatory practices for a cooperative model that uses the same technology, driver-owned apps could democratize the ride-sharing marketplace, fulfilling the initial promise of the so-called sharing economy.

Uber is really a place where the leftist case makes the most sense, because the means of production is already owned by the workers and are in effect paying a portion of their profits for the right to take part in an economy.
The parent stated "Data generated on my phone belongs to me."

I interpreted this as "Data generated by me on my phone belongs to me."

The user could agree to license her rights to the data, e.g. via terms and conditions. But it's still her data. That's why the agreement is necessary.

None of this has anything to do with "reverse engineering".

The scenario I am thinking of is a user looking at her data being sent from her hardware over an internet connection that she is paying for.
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It's ironic that the EU did allow a transitional period before countries had to allow free movement, to prevent richer counties being flooded with Poles and the like and the UK turned that down so Polish people looking for work came there from 2004 whereas they couldn't work in Germany till 2011 for example. Now the brexiters tend to blame the EU for having too many Polish turning up when much of it was a UK government choice.

Indeed mostly the choice of Tony Blair which he still defends: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/666822/Tony-Blair-migrants-...
I can't imagine there's any statistics about the rate of HIV infections among feminists, but if we limit the discussion to men who have sex with men, he is correct.

https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/statistics...

In 2014 in the US, men who have sex with men constitute more than two-thirds of new HIV diagnoses despite being 1-10% of the population.

In the 21 worst-off US cities, 1 out of every 5 gay men (!) have HIV:
http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20100923/1-in-5-gay-bi-me...

None of that, of course, means discrimination is not involved. Frankly, I don't think enough attention is being paid to the problem, if we have these grand plans of ending AIDS by 2030 while 20% of a subpopulation has the disease.
Been doing rails for 3 years and web dev for 8. Scaffold generators are terrible but model generators save time on boilerplate code and give me most of what I want. Test libraries can hook into this process as well saving further time. Rails has plenty of drawbacks but I see some of the CLI capabilities as a strength IMHO.
People are afraid the genetically modified tomato will make them sick or kill them. If someone has AIDS, however, I'm sure they'd be much more willing to eat those tomatoes.
Hilarious:

"You don’t even run your own machines anymore! People run on GCE, in VM instances that run in Linux containers on Borg!"
I was immensely frustrated by the Brexit campaign and outcome. I haven't said anything about this online, other than a short photo essay[1], so this is the one time i'll allow myself to vent.

My personal opinion, possibly misjudged given my age (mid thirties), is that the problems the UK is seeing (especially in the areas that voted leave) stem from the actions of the Thatcher government and have little to do with any of the arguments that passport-waving Farage and his ilk put forward.

The ripples from the destruction of industry in the north, the deregulation of the financial markets, and the tearing down of the unions are felt strongly thirty years later, especially in those areas that voted to leave.

I'm just flabbergasted that a generation that was screwed over thirty years ago would repeat the same mistake, and potentially screw over their own offspring's future. They ate up the arguments that somehow the local problems are all the fault of an external entity, and seemed to suffer from acute memory loss.

[1] https://leejo.github.io/2016/06/22/two_weeks_to_decide/ (the title is a lie, i was always going to vote remain).
That may be the case (and the scores from Mudge methodology may be interpreted in such a way), but it is still a grey area, qualitative rather than quantitive, and it is perilous I feel to use them in such fashion.

After all what does "significantly more effort" mean? Yes there is raising the bar but do we know if _in practice_ those countermeasures make any sort of meaningful difference especially considering that a lot of the countermeasures can be defeated (ASLR -> information leaks, sandboxing -> hitting the kernel). Taking into account that the vast majority of cutting-edge offensive security research happens behind closed doors, the public has almost no visibility in this area.

If a South Korean teenager can break Google Chrome at his leisure, what about more resourceful adversaries that do not even have to be nation states?

Of course corporations like to talk exactly this kind of talk, raising the bar, "significantly more effort", better-than-the-rest and so on, since it lets them harbor the illusion that they're doing something but another way of looking at the data is this:

Google Chrome was first released in 2008. 8 years later, and it is _still_ remotely exploitable by solo individuals or small teams that release their exploits for not-a-lot-of-money. I'm singling out Chrome here because apparently it's the browser with the highest score in the OP report, but of course every other browser has the same issues.

Collectively, since the inception of the web, we have not had a browser that wasn't remotely exploitable. Can we do better? Judging from other critical software, it appears that we can.

Why haven't we??

Partly because the necessary processes haven't been there and I hope that the Mudge project will change that.

Let's move beyond smoke & mirrors to actual security.
A friend who works in Germany told me that recruiters in his company discard all CVs that use Europass template.
It's not dubbing when it's an animation. Then it's simply a different voice track. The 3D models don't have a voice.
Have you tried "Retina HDPI support" in Advanced VM settings?
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Does anyone know why I would be downvoted for taking the time to explain what is going on. Does someone have a problem with lowering overly high taxi fares. Uber has been doing that which is a good thing.
What are Oracle's plans for Java and the JVM?

"Insider: Oracle has lost interest in Java" - http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987529/java/insider-oracle...

"The email, sent to InfoWorld on Tuesday by a former high-ranking Java official, claimed to feature details from inside Oracle. It said the company was becoming a cloud company, competing with Salesforce, and 'Java has no interest to them anymore.' The subject line cited 'Java -- planned obsolescence.'"

"Oracle’s “planned obsolescence” for Java" - https://jaxenter.com/oracle-and-javas-planned-obsolescence-1...

'Oracle is cutting back on Java EE...it[Oracle] does not want to allow other companies to help out on the Java platform. Proprietary product work will be done using the Java app server WebLogic, and there will also be a proprietary microservices platform. The email also dashes any hopes of Oracle collaborating on a ‘Java foundation’ with other companies, let alone ever relinquishing its ‘ownership’ of the Java platform.'
I tried lxc around the same time as docker and the experience was like night and day.
I believe the word you're looking for is "anecdotes".
That's heavy precipitation chart, not overall precipitation. Heavy precipitation can flatten your crop.

Change in precipitation is not same all in US. Some areas become very dry, some others get more than enough.

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/83000/8362...
>what if programming wouldn't involve defining exact steps, but instead just roughly defining what we have and what we want and maybe giving a few hints, and having the computer generally do the right thing - wouldn't that be awesome?

So, Prolog?
> The babies apparently knew enough about everyday physics to be surprised by these strange events and paid a lot of attention to them.

This is the "physics part" of thr story. It is beyond simple imitation or following instructions.
Seconding Dixit. Excellent game with fantastic art.
Not to mention those who fell for the no-means-yes close button (which violated MS's own UI guidelines).
well put, if your axiomatic paradigm is laissez-faire economics, whose credibility is fast being eroded as its negative consequences (exclusive returns to capital only) become all too awfully apparent. Terms meant as derogatory such as "economic rents" basically mean allowing some friction to the free market so that labour may obtain more of the returns, and consequently, workers may find some dignity, income stability, social cohesion, and solidarity. Thus some measure of economic rent-seeking should be tolerated, legislated, even if that means equity valuations may suffer, because the alternative is societal breakdown which destroys capital completely.
When economists who entirely failed to see the 2008 financial crisis coming try to convince you that Brexit will be a calamity, skepticism is a healthy response.

When 'respectable' institutional economists make predictions like this:

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...

It's pretty clear that they don't even want to be right.
Tom Scott also covered this last year: "The Fictional Bridges That Became Real" https://youtu.be/S9E1wsxOSzM [video]
I'm afraid I don't understand this, nor why I was downvoted.

Just as in buying computers, buying food, education, airplane fares, consumers want lower prices which is a good thing. In the case of taxis, that means the elderly who often need them because they can no longer drive and are on a fixed income can more readily afford them (surely a leftist notion).

There is no disagreement that "economic rents" are harmful to the economy, giving people artificially high profits (see the Wikipedia entry).

Are you saying that a politically left magazine want to harm the economy through economic rents instead of helping it through wealth creation? Who would be for that?
Maybe because it was created as a presentation and the author shared his slides for everyone's benefit.
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American cities need to learn a thing or two from Tokyo. 10 inches of rain in one day is a common occurrence in Japan during the summer, so they are prepared to handle it.
Don't take it personal. It might be some uber fans thinking you are attacking uber. There are a lot of religions here on hn. :)
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This is the "foreign language" part of the story.

> In 2002 Gyorgy Gergely, Harold Bekkering and Ildiko Kiraly did a different version of this study. Sometimes the experimenters’ arms were wrapped in a blanket when she tapped her forehead on the box. The babies seemed to figure out that when the experimenter’s arms were wrapped up, she couldn’t use her hands, and that must have been why she had used her head instead. So when it was the babies’ turn they took the easy route and tapped the box with their hands.

> In 2013 David Buttelmann and his colleagues did yet another version. First, the babies heard the experimenter speak the same language they did or a different one. Then the experimenter tapped her head on the box. When she had spoken the same language, the babies were more likely to tap the box with their foreheads; when she spoke a different language they were more likely to use their hands.

> In other words, babies don’t copy mindlessly — they take note of who you are and why you act.