skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the land was going for a public use, I might be a bit more sympathetic. However, it's being bought for a private use by a person who can well afford to pay for it and the number of owners of a piece of land isn't the problem.

Zuck's using lawyers to force a sale is a huge problem. What specifically entitles him to have a special case for purchasing without going thru all the motions?
Amazon prime is a major profit center for Amazon. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/25/how-prime-m...
I didn't realize that there were DDOS protection "firms" that had less than ten people, operating as security companies. I had assumed that most companies would simply hire Cloudflare or FireEye. Much easier to act as a gang when your firm only has a few people who are all in on it.
I wonder why IPFS hasn't been built on top of Bittorrent, so it could reuse some of the existing infrastructure.

For example, everybody hosting a file in IPFS could automatically become a BT seeder for that file. And searching on Pirate Bay for a certail file path / hash could make the file accessible to people who have a BT client but do not (yet) run IPFS on their machine.
There's no way to know what the outcome is until the end. Perhaps all of our suffering is necessary for us to realize something akin to what I said, and then we'll all be elevated.

Also, yes, I do believe our species future is determined. Since no one knows the future, all we can do is hope. Some people think determinism gives rise to fatalism, but I think the opposite -- determinism means everything matters but you (I do see that there's a contradiction here).

There's little downside. I guess we could improve the initial conditions of everyone for nothing :/ [1]

[1] http://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13/
Hi there. I'm the lead developer of bitwarden. bitwarden is currently sponsored by the Microsoft BizSpark program which covers many of our operation costs and allows us to offer services for free to our users. We are working to introduce enterprise features for businesses in the future which will allow us to monetize. For now though, everything is free for users.
I'm one of the maintainers for Redux ( https://github.com/reactjs/redux ), and added a couple major sections to the docs. I'm always interested in more ways to improve the docs, whether it be new information, improving the writing, or something else.

If you're interested in helping out, file an issue and we'll see what you might be able to do.
You could try contacting realm.io - the worlds 2'nd most used database.
It doesn't really solve that use case though, does it?

Eg, IPFS isn't permanent hosting - it's purely hosting as long as there are seeds, like bittorrent. Hypothetically if a package is very old there may be no seeds for it anywhere. Someone (NIXOS/etc) will still have to pay for hosting.
Also it encourages hoarding and less spending of the upper class, which is a major economic problem in it's own right.
The discussion ends up focusing on if HN should allow paywall links.
I picked up two books off of Amazon. One book touts no gym, but requires a set of step planks and a pull up bar for some of the exercises listed.

The other book lists 100 exercises with no equipment.

I am starting out slow trying to put together a coherent workout from these two.
We systematically waste the human capability of millions of people because the system essentially randomly gives much better opportunity to some over others.

We don't do anything. The nature of reality is that there is not equal distribution of [anything]. The universe is a dynamical system - portions of the system will through probability always get stuck at local/global minima.
Your comment needs elaboration. Claims of "permanent cognitive effects" and "enormous effect on way of thinking" surely can be supported with examples.

If you can't describe those enormous effects, there's a good chance you simply missed out on social occasions and a bunch of things happening around you outside in your community while you played games, and that void of reality is enough to warrant claims of "enormous effects". In other words, lifestyle disruption and reality substitution. Just a theory I'm putting out there!
They can, I don't see why they chose the current implementation over this one, somehow this small leak can let them build a database of browsing habits and target users who use x website...hmmm
What would you bet against? Its current and/or probable IPO valuation? That it'll be around in 10 years?

Because I'd be willing to make a bet (say 1k) for Uber, depending on the terms.

I'd also make a bet for Lyft, depending on the terms.
This Moba and TowerDefence genres that started as maps and mods of RTS games (Age of Empire 1/2 and WarCraft3).

I personally find this grinding gameplay style boring. Like Farmville or playing at a casino or lottery. Pointless and boring repetitive. I prefer real games.

Sadly, triple-A RTS games are no more, no new release for 10 years (beside SC2, which I dislike). Halo Wars 1 and C&C4 marked the end, and the low point of RTS by causualisation to fit the consoles. Whereas modern games like Watch Dogs 2 on consoles have a more complex control schema and RTS elements with it's drone and hacking.

One day I want a new AoE and C&C with modern graphics as PC first triple-A game.
The liberal view of this issue may have the virtue of being correct, but it's very counterproductive from the individual's standpoint.

I know that the ideology espoused on sites such as dailykos.com were very detrimental to personal drive and success in my college years of 18-22.

That ideology kept pounding home the idea of the unfairness of the economy, of the lower share of the pie allocated to labor vs capital and the increasing inequality of American society.

All of those things were true no doubt, but they were not useful for someone who had been hacking since 4th grade.

I file it under bad luck that the same people that had a correct analysis and opposition to the great mistake of that time, the Iraq invasion and occupation, also had such a neurotic and self-limiting and destructive view towards work, productivity and the modern economy, and that I was too inexperienced in the ways of the world at the time to understand this very important concept.
Uber's current problem is they have run out of things to innovate on. They've pretty much nailed the UX in their app, and all they're left with is cars taking people from Point A to Point B. What is left to improve on there?

So now, their only way to grow is to race to the bottom on price and undercut their competitors. And the only way to do that is to light billions of VC dollars on fire in the form of subsidized trips. That money isn't being invested in R&D or any form of innovation, just bridging the price gap between what the ride should cost (because of driver + vehicle costs) and what they are charging (which is a stupid low price most of the time).

The longshot they're taking on innovating by transitioning to self driving cars is downright reckless considering nearly all experts agree we're at a MINIMUM 5 years off from anything feasible in the real world, more likely 10+ years.

So they're going to have to raise their prices, or continue raising funds at an absurd rate (mind you, they've already raised $13,000,000,000 damn dollars). And they'll have to continue to light that VC money on fire in subsidized rides, rather than innovating on their product, because there's not really any other way to innovate on these rides.

As for the subsidies, I can't even understand why they are lowering their prices so aggressively anymore. It feels like each time I get into an Uber it's slightly cheaper. I was happy paying $25 for an uber to the airport rather than $30 for a cab, but now it's something like $14, which is great for my wallet, but I really don't even need it that cheap. It's bizarre.
> Question is, who are competitors with same scope as them? I don't know any.

Presumably traditional car manufacturers (GM, Ford, Toyota, BMW, etc.), upstart car manufacturers (Tesla), and even other large tech conglomerates (Google, Baidu, etc.).

> They are already in position to just switch over. Others would have to build their network first. It's a running start that depends on them playing their cards right.

Uber won't have a monopoly in self-driving tech. Their running start will get eroded (some would argue quickly) by new challengers (probably regional upstarts rather than a global competitor) that have easy access to self-driving tech (think car manufacturers).

Also, Uber's network is mostly on the software and human (drivers) side of things. If self-driving tech becomes a reality, they'll have to quickly pivot to purchasing and maintaining a large fleet of cars. That's not an easy task at scale and not something that Uber necessarily has an advantage over others.
That's true, but I think of people saying "You're so lucky!" in the same way that I think of people asking "How are you?". There isn't any actual meaning behind it, it's just the airy rituals of small talk.
Hasn't this changed in recent versions with the move to google smart lock?
I think Access was the start of it. But Microsoft's purchase of FoxPro is what really put the nails in the coffin. FoxPro had some shortcomings (e.g. Foundation Read) but it was incredibly productive and fast. And there was a Mac version early on.

It makes me sad to think of what FoxPro could have become. Microsoft didn't just kill the product, they pretty much killed the category.
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This is an issue that every password manager ever created would have if they requested information about what sites are being used.

Same information that your internet provider already has linked to your ISP and can be retired by a warrant or no warrant.
Hi, I am the lead developer of bitwarden. bitwarden is currently sponsored by the Microsoft BizSpark program which covers many of our operation costs and allows us to offer services for free to our users. We are working to introduce enterprise features for businesses in the future which will allow us to monetize. For now though, everything is free for users.
If every biological norm is a non-term, we might as well stop talking about desire and fear while we're at it.

I buy you argument that self-segregation is in some ways our default, but this doesn't mean we can't exacerbate, and potentially ameliorate it, with technology. Sometimes this has to do with completely new mediums, but even the specific implementation of existing platforms can have a tremendous impact.

Reddit, for example, is completely capable of designing an algorithm that clusters articles by viewpoint and penalizes new posts similar to too many existing ones.
Bing might be 90% as good as google, but when people are trying to search for something they are just going to use google. I really started to realize how useful Uber was when i was traveling internationally I just pulled out my phone and a car came. I didn't have to worry about what the rate was going to be. It might have even been above what a taxi might charge, but at least I knew what the cost was going to be. It just kind of works.
MS has been steadily losing desktop and server marketshare and is a complete non-player in mobile. Its xbox divsion is a money loser too. Its income is mostly enterprise licensing and even that is being eaten by the cloud.

Win10 was an opportunity to win back the OSX switchers and people who are happy with just Win7 and not looking to upgrade. If it wasn't free the marketshare for Win10 would be in the pits. MS is literally giving away its OS. Nadella doesn't know what he's doing.

>He should be given a huge bonus if this is increasing MS's profits.

In any sane company he would have been fired by now.
Why everyone assumes that Uber could be allowed to become a monopoly? There are anti-monopoly laws. I understand that so far Uber was allowed to break lots of laws - but this cannot go on indefinitely.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, do you mean the ends justify the means?
I get that they are saying the cloud offering is hard, but if they didn't have that, what was their business model? Were they relying on support and consulting fees? Consulting is hard to scale.

Cloud offering with build-in redundancy (herokudb, RDS, Redis Cloud) is what most app stakeholders are looking for. We want to try RethinkDb but we don't want to deal with servers.

If rethinkdb is good, i hope someone can resurrect this as a cloud service.
I feel like the rotation clamp was too firm, and perhaps the camera could have had a mass on a torque arm to give it more angular inertia. This was SUPER distracting early in the presentation before the presenter was scaled down.
"It takes 10 years to achieve overnight success."

http://www.inc.com/empact/why-successful-people-take-10-year...
But this is my point - the EU is a project to try and force people to accept ideas they think are bad ideas by artificially tying them to cooperation and trade. Instead of letting each idea be individually tested in the marketplace of debate and experimentation, the EU simply insists that if you want A, you have to do B and C regardless of merits.

EU leaders like to paint people who reject this approach as shirking their "responsibilities", or "cherry picking", or whatever other dubious analogy they came up with today. But it's just psychological manipulation. If citizens of a country are overwhelmingly convinced that freedom of movement makes sense only for similar economies, or only up to a limit, etc, then it's not the EU's place to blindly insist that they obey. It's the EU's place to convince them they're wrong, if necessary, by letting them go their own way so some years later the results can be compared. That is how you build trust and loyalty.

You know, 18 months ago I was vaguely pro EU. Like most people I had not thought about it much, in truth. The UK referendum forced me to do my research, to spend a lot of time pondering the issues, to engage with the eurosceptic arguments. And nowadays I am convinced the EU is doomed. It is a concept so flawed it cannot be fixed. It should be abolished and replaced with numerous multi-lateral treaties between whoever wishes to make them, wherever those countries are located in the world. In other words, how the global system of cooperation already operates. There is no need to artificially tie immigration with financial regulation, or medical approvals with subsidies to farmers. There is no need for a flag, an anthem, an all powerful centralised bureaucracy of people who care more about their pensions than the people they rule.

Europe would be happier, healthier and experiencing deeper cooperation if the EU had never been invented at all.
> Elected == accountable...generally speaking.

How so? It's clear that voters don't know how (in aggregate) to make rational choices.

Given the (for a single example) well-known strong-arm get-out-the-vote collusion between Chicago's elected city officials and Chicago's regional street gangs, I'm not sure that I would trust a hegemonic oligopoly any less.

The book that this is based on is pretty interesting:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I agree. I talk with a number of business owners in a more traditionally conservative industry (agriculture). Many of them feel that America's problem is that we let people "get off the hook" for not "putting the work and smarts into something" like "we do." Many of these people are quite smart and run their business extremely well, and put in long hours, though many of them inherited businesses, or at least knowledge and support about a particular line of business.

Their view appears to be heavily reliant on meritocratic outcomes, which of course assigns a low weight to luck. I would think that this world view would not be supported by a higher weighting to luck, but I do not know if the low assignment to luck is a result of cognitive dissonance with respect to their own hard work and long hours to sustain their success.
Totally. Plus, the creator of BitWarden has been shown to try and sneak egregious things by people, for example Google Analytics inside BitWarden [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12676979
The commercial airline industry has lost money over the whole of its existence. If I'm flying from NYC to DAL, I'm flying the cheapest carrier (with a slight nod to Frequent Flyer programs).

I'm not sure how Uber, Lyft, etc are any different than Southwest, American, etc. Cab companies (which I hate) and airlines saw this years ago and promoted regulations to protect their fees (and, thereby, wages). Airlines lost those regulations under Reagan.

To wit, I had dinner with a few friends in SF and it was raining when we left: "I'll call an Uber and we can share. ewww... 250% surge pricing or $90. Lemme check Lyft. Sweet, Lyft is about $50. Our Lyft will be here in 3 minutes." There was zero friction switching from Uber to Lyft.

Winning in this market seems to require a Level 4+ autonomous car [1] monopoly. Level 4+ autonomous cars are not going to be here anytime soon and Uber's not going to have a monopoly. So it's going to continue to be a gnarly pricewar, made worse by Level 3 (in which the "driver"/pilot is a student doing his homework for $5/hour, taking over driving once or twice per hour).

Not sure I agree so much with the body of TFA but I certainly agree with its conclusion.

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/autonomous-driving-level...
Very cool. Are you planning on adding Mac support ?
I don't see how a slight improvement primarily in the last two years after Snowden is "normal behavior"? WhatsApp ran without end-to-end encryption for six years, so did Gmail without SSL as the default. The industry and government has had two decades to impose "western values" through precedent, standards or legislation. Instead they chose short-term profits and intelligence operations. Users have few rights and even lower expectations.
I think your Group C, "easily confused", probably has substantial overlap with Group A, "what is a Mozilla?".
You need algebra to do calculus with any sort of rigor...

Your suggestions are the real problem with teaching mathematics; do people learn science only to learn practical stuff? Read literature only to gain literacy skills? No! That is not how classes are taught.

Mathematics is seen only as a tool, but if it was taught as an art, or even a science, people wouldn't hate it!
That one is also missing Linux support.
Why Successful People Take 10 Years to 'Succeed Overnight'
A lot of this "luck" can be traced back very easily to causes like "had two parents who gave a damn" or "had enough to eat eat growing up." The people pushing this narrative that you're not really responsible for your failure / success want it both ways. They want to make you admit that you benefit from living in a peaceful stable society with infrastructure, while also not wanting to hold parents accountable for having too many kids too early, or admit that impact that divorce has on young children. It always comes down to pushing some narrative that is meant to justify further state intrusion into our lives and the dismantling of the family unit, all with pseudo-scientific (see "the gray sciences") justifications and emotional appeals. Spare me the bullshit, I aint buying it.

EDIT -

Looking for another example of this obvious propaganda? Try the latest episode of RadioLab:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-media-busted...
it is better than "Mozzarella" or "Fox Fire" which I have heard numerous times
It lost 2-3 billion dollars last year and shows no signs of improving its margins anytime soon. How is that a success?
This seems great and is attacking a super irritating problem when developing mobile apps. However, it doesn't seem like it would be that practical to use on a real app without server side access, something that seems to cost several thousand dollars a month? Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how you'd do something like send a notification based on a data change (post is liked, comment posted, etc).

Happy to be proven wrong but this has always been the sticking point for me trying this out.
If they have access to URLs that's even more bad than it seems. The URLs are often registration form urls and can have secret data as url parameters.

LastPass needs to comment on this. It looks pretty bad.
The Uber we know right now will probably transition into the self-driving car-based company for freight, passenger transport and ride sharing. It'll be a bit unsettling to see what'll happen to the drivers they're using right now.

I personally think that Uber is not an ethical company (I do live in Europe). They are exploiting tax and legal loopholes to profit off of both drivers and countries, simply because regulation for a taxi company that would be set up like Uber is does not exist yet and most countries take their time to regulate.

When Uber is put up to the same scrutiny as taxi companies are (to ensure their drivers are up to the same standard), they refuse to compete and instead of paying the same tax everyone else does and abiding by the same regulations everyone else does, they just leave the market.

Don't misunderstand me, taxi service in my country is horrible, they're useless and rude and service is generally bad, but just because that's the situation, we should try and improve that, instead of allowing companies like Uber to exploit the situation.
This topic always reminds me of a line of pg's from years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1621768.
Yes, summer camp. For example, I spent 2 weeks at a college between 11th and 12th grade taking a graphic design thing - and earned college credit for doing so. I got introduced to plenty I didn't have access to and thoroughly enjoyed the time.

Now, my family hasn't been rich by any means, but they wouldn't have been able to afford such a thing just a few years prior. The same goes for after school activities - or even just a trip with the French club to France or Canada. When you are poor, these things are out of reach.
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What is scope for Uber-likes? What is network? They're simply leveraging a brand - it is almost no moat versus a competitor, especially if they have a structural advantage.

An example advantage would be an autonomous car manufacturer entering the market - they can simply blow Uber out of the water on cost alone.
It's conservative in the most literal sense, as in conserving the status quo.
Seems like you conflate idiocy with pre-existing exposure to a brand's proper spelling.

While I see the value of this sentiment, the brands you mentioned have branding efforts that so far overspend mozilla's that the comparison is barely relevant.

Also, typing www.mo://a.org in a browser presents a serious problem.
There are some major products like Ansible, that are still only compatible with Python 2.7.
I'm not sure how usefulness-when-traveling-internationally is relevant when the vast majority of the market for Uber, Lyft, etc will never board a plane more than a handful of times in their lives...

EDIT: typo ("irrelevant" -> "relevant")
Ask HN: What is your best method to learn new things?
I have traditionally used book, and now some blogs. During my drive to work, I use audio books and podcasts.

I am looking for rapid techniques to learn new things. What are some of your best methods?
Didn't see the affiliate links until I turned off Adblock. Well, the target audience is less likely to be Adblock users.
It's not just that it creates financial waste. Phony opportunities are dead ends that take other opportunities off the table.

If you have only a few plausible opportunities, you are likely to make them count. If you have a hundred but 50 are phony, you will waste your time, feel entitled to results (hey, I went to college, I deserve a good job!), and become discouraged.