skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The taxi strike was part of the protest at the airport. Offering reduced pricing was a way to hurt the taxi workers who were losing money to show solitary with the protest.

If Uber was trying to help, they should have said so.
>No its not a "dumb argument".

It's dumb because it judges private business on how it spends its resources on charity. It's also dumb because it suggests that some people are better then others and deserve the help more.

>Homelessness is just as much of a humanitarian crisis.

Homelessness is not an acute crisis, which happens and develops as quickly as execution of order of insane U.S. president. It's a problem that can and should be successfully addressed by the government by variety of means, because homelessness is fully under the control of the government (which can offer rehabilitation, medical treatment, shelters and assistance with finding jobs to homeless and social aid to people who may become homeless otherwise), while the causes forcing people to run from their homes in other countries are not.

Here is offered not the permanent settlement of refugees (for 10-15 years): there's probably no host in the world willing to give their property to a family of strangers for that long. It's a relief: the measure signed by Trump is sudden, it has limited period of action and could possibly be repealed, but now many people are stuck in limbo and have to change their plans and make a lot of decisions about their life in next few months. Easing it for them by giving a place to stay is one of the ways to help, so why not?

>Except that much like the refugee crisis the help from governments isn't fixing the problem.
Statistics show that governments can be pretty effective in solving these problems and U.S. government is quite good in that sense, as I can see.
We stopped answering the phone entirely. All calls go to voicemail, unless the caller is in our mobile phones' address books. 99% of calls are hang ups. The remaining 1% are my mother-in-law complaining that we never answer the phone (we call her back immediately ;-) )
Oh I see your problem. Your perception is way off. Please allow me to correct your misunderstanding once again and hopefully for the last time.

You seem to imply that there is this perfect thing called science, which is wholly separate from people... This is a huge blunder because, in fact, there is no science at all without people. Therefore, science can't possible be responsible for anything by itself.

So, as you can see (hopefully...and finally), it follows that I couldn't possibly be blaming this inanimate thing called Science for anything. Nope. Not possible. I blame people.

People make errors. There is no science without people. You're trying to separate the two. Stop doing that.
> Why is a company that is losing money and having what's left of their lunch taken by a gorilla of a competitor (Uber) throwing away $1M like this? If I were an investor in Lyft I'd sue them.

PR and upmanship against Uber.
This is really interesting, but man is it going to be a customer service nightmare to manage.
This would effectively make child pornography "normal" (at least as normal as other extreme fetishes). Many people fear that that would lead to more pedophiles acting on their urges. Then again some think that readily available child porn could reduce cravings and reduce child molestation. I'm not sure if any actual studies exist that shed some light on that problem
Is it a good idea for an Indian to use masters as an entry point to the US industry?
You can easily see this as marketing. I'm certainly more inclined to use their services now.
I'm a bit confused by the backlash at Uber. I saw the tweet saying they were suspending surge pricing to JFK. To me that make trips there less likely since drivers would make less.

Wouldn't that be a show of solidarity with the temporarily striking taxi drivers union?

I guess my question is, how does suspending surge pricing to JFK suggest Uber supports the executive order?
Dealing with pedestrian crosswalk behavior is, in some ways, in the same class as left hand turns across unregulated traffic in the sense that both are situational. What I mean by that is that with few pedestrians/light traffic, it's appropriate to just wait it out. But there are definitely circumstances in cities where a bit more aggression is called for. I don't mean cutting right in front of a car or sending pedestrians scattering but you do sometimes need to take your space and go or you'll sit there for a very long time with horns blaring behind you.
I felt nostalgic, so I made an oldschool AIM mobile app
Piper is awesome, but it's not unreasonable to think of it as Perforce if you designed and built Perforce to scale to handling all of Google in one repo. It has basically the same set of nouns and verbs. citc is the really magical bit, UX wise, as it's like you had a Perforce view set up for our entire repo but never actually had to sync it manually. Just navigate to a file and start hacking.

The paper that corresponds to the talk includes numbers on that (I forget if they're in the video).

http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-sto...

(note: I work at Google and absolutely love our SCM and other dev tooling)
If I did understand the numbers correct this is a 5583 monthly salary. Which might be ok if you don't account for the risk.
For convenience, here's a link to the Lyft help page for deleting your account: https://help.lyft.com/hc/en-us/articles/223281567-Delete-My-.... Unforunately, it's not possible to do yourself.

Both Lyft and Uber didn't suspend service to JFK last night because both are 24/7 platforms for anyone to drive and make money. Uber lowered/suspended surge pricing to make it affordable in/around the protests, while Lyft did not.

Worth noting is that active drivers on both platforms were likely protesting at airports all over the world.
What are the ratios of these three sources?
3&4 year old review the Amazon Echo Dot
If anything, Silicon Valley did actually subvert this meme.
Nobody wants to watch a show with mundane, uninspired, boring everyday characters, that have nothing special about them. OP needs to learn about tropes and character design before criticizing, because he clearly can see only his point of view.
Definitely going to use freeyourmusic the next time I need to switch. The last time I was in this situation I found a sketchy python script that transferred only bits of my library.
I just posted a thread asking about design considerations for something like this. There are a lot of monitoring sites but they are typically for internal consumption.

I am really interested in real-time, or timely monitoring of external services. I'll check the service out, but curious if any of it is open source, and hos you verify a site is up/down?
I agree, those of us that care about safety have moved to other languages and only come back to C++ when we need the features C++ excels at.

A good way to see what C++ community cares about, in order to make Rust appealing to them, is to see the work from SG14 (games and HPC) on ANSI C++.

That is the type of crowd that Rust should target, and they care about performance without belts above all.
I came across the first edition (1986) of this book on one of my father's bookshelves while visiting last solstice. He'd acquired as a library discard when USRD was shut down in the 1990's (i.e. it was headed to the dumpster) and it had sat since. I knew nothing about it, but it looked interesting.

Last night, I was looking for something to read on my bookshelf and the now my copy caught my eye. But before reading it I was curious about it as a book...i.e. was it rare and so I googled it up, came across the link, and posted it here since its history was interesting. And then I shut off the computer and started reading.

There's a lot of criticism here about the licensing model. While I agree that GNU or MIT might be more utopian, I think the premises of the criticism are largely premised in historical counter-factuals.

The book was published in 1985-1986 (see the Wikipedia article) [2]. There was no GNU license, no BSD, [1] and as best I can tell from a few minutes googling, no MIT license either. It was the time of the Unix Wars that led to our contemporary licensing landscape. The big choice was between public domain and proprietary licensing (and the practices of proprietary licensing were typically a long way from where we are today).

All this is to say that the code in Numerical Recipes was an improvement in the landscape at the time it was released. A person could look at the source code for the price of a book versus the cost of a commercial license or dealing with a black box. A programmer could kick the tires of Numerical Recipes before buying. A paid license also provided an incentive to improve the product and that produced code in Fortran, Pascal, C, C++ and a host of other languages...all with the ability to kick the tires.

It is also worth pointing out that the code in many many books is not released under an open source license. The typical case is for code in books to be published with strong copyright claims and all rights reserved. Even today, the availability of an explicit software license is an improvement over a number of currently published programming books.

Again, there are utopias I'd rather live in, but the licensing of Numerical Recipes is better than most commercial operating systems.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes
The problem with a judge declaring Trump's order illegal, is that a judge has no way to enforce that. As long as DHS chooses to obey Trump rather than the law, the "immigrants" (some of them have been living in the US for many years) still can't go home.

I fear the next few years are going to be a drawn out battle between Trump and the law, with government institutions having to decide which one to obey. Their conscience is what determines how far Trump can push this.
$1M just got them the best PR campaign they could have hoped for.
I might be being a bit dumb, but I'm not sure what you mean by any of this... :(

Does it help if I show some of my links of the things I've done?

http://techzinglive.com - Podcast Host

https://modernteacher.com - CTO

With regard to what nugget offers? Is that what you mean? I hope that is answered here:

https://nugget.one/why

If not please post again with a little more clarification.

Thanks for answering :)
Congrats on this, nicely done. By coincidence, also exactly what I was looking for: will be signing up for a paid account shortly.

If you don't mind sharing, what's your MRR?
I actually launched my side project on indiehackers - http://www.oppsdaily.com - a newsletter filled with software opportunities. I posted some of the traffic stats here http://www.oppsdaily.com/blog
An Open Letter from the Canadian Tech Community: Diversity Is Our Strength
Bannon is not a founder of Breitbart, but came on after Andrew Breitbart's death. But yes, he is a terrible danger to the states. This is like a bad movie.
That, I would probably agree with.
> Mount namespaces and user namespaces have been a ripe area for Linux exploits.

If you disable user namespaces, then only privileged users can create mount namespaces. The rest of your tirade about namespaces is based on a misunderstanding of how namespaces are privilege separated.

> seccomp doesn't save containers. It has zero to do with containers. It's a simple mechanism to limit syscalls by syscall number.

... There is also seccomp-bpf -- which allows you to write proper filters for syscalls. Which makes the statement "simple mechanism" wildly inaccurate.

> Regarding PID namespacing and signaling, that's just FUD about chroot jails.

I note that you ignored my mention that most chroot jails have to mount /proc (and other filesystems that you seem to think are somehow dangerous), and also that networking isn't namespaced with chroot. Isn't that funny.

chroot was a very clever hack made by Bill Joy to be able to compile 4.2 BSD on a 4.1 BSD machine. Pretending that it's a genius security measure is just being disingenuous. BSD Jails, Solaris Zones and Linux Containers are all extensions of the base idea (lying to processes) -- but it's really quite silly to pretend that chroot is somehow superior to more modern operating system virtualisation systems because it's _simpler_.
In general, Ivy league schools aren't that great for CS education. It makes sense of its a top 10 or 20 CS program.
Proprietary software starts off with a high level of trust - trusting just one company. But it can never progress past this.

The advantage of FOSS is that the set of who can audit the code is open. It starts small, but grows with popularity and remains agile - eg doesn't necessitate transitively trusting whatever nation-states a single company is vulnerable to.
I wonder how many marriages, business partnerships and friendships were saved by Gmail's "Undo Send" feature.
No country has an obligation to do business with the United States either.

If we pull back, not only will our economy will suffer for it, but many people will lose their jobs as well as their lives.
Please stop being so condescending. If you can't make your point while being civil and polite, please refrain from doing so.
TrumpNPS – How likely are you to recommend Trump to a friend or colleague?
I don't get it. How about other people that were not part of the protest and were trying to get home/get to the airport? How about the Uber drivers trying to make a living? Just because they were not part of your protest you'll give them hate?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512457 and marked it off-topic.
I'm building mine since September, I can confirm.

1) Using all the knowledges and skills I developed during 5 years as an employee to finally build my own SaaS is a very great feeling.

2) Building a one man SaaS forces you to leave your comfort zone. I've learned new languages/frameworks. I've learned about security and infrastructure (I use a dozen of AWS services, I've never touched AWS before that). I've written a CLI to deploy my front-end on S3. I've learned how to integrate a billing system. I've learned to study my market and my competitors, to make a roadmap and prioritize the tasks, to find a good domain name, to find my first beta testers. I've learned how to create a legal entity in France and get some financial helps. I've never learned as much as in the last 5 months.

3) Being able to work when, where and how you want is an amazing thing. Not having to debate during long meetings and convince all your colleagues about every business, UX, technical or design choices feels so much more productive. Having to make all the tough decisions alone teaches you a lot.

Even if my SaaS doesn't become successful, I will regret nothing, it's the best experience in my career.
No? How is he supposed to learn basic theory of data structures and algorithms? Of course everything can be learned outside of college, but doing that in a part time unstructured way is not easy.

Knowing relevant theory is power. Is the goal to be an enterprise CRUD programmer or an architect who is a thought leader and helps set the direction of what you're working on?

I know everything can be done without a degree, I have a few genius friends who are doing great. But could they have had more options to choose from, more freedom, more potential with a degree? Hard to say, but most people don't self-learn everything they would otherwise.
The ambiguities of dual citizenship
The dinosaurs were bread?? The film never showed the bakery!
Oh sorry - yes, I am new to the community, thank you for the link. I'll read over the guidelines. How do you flag something?
Drivers don't know where they're going till the ride starts. I also don't think they can refuse to go to a destination without repercussions (i.e. Getting kicked out of Uber).

If anything, disabling surge pricing lessens the impact of a taxi strike as going to/from the airport is more affordable and convenient then having zero or pricier options.
Maybe you should reread the article. It plainly says that the USPS is not subsidized.
Buying goodwill. Am attempt to gain market share from Uber.
could you post the account setup page please? i've never used lyft, i assume its basically the same service?
They could have disabled all pickups at JFK in true solidarity.

I don't think disabling surge pricing is a show of solidarity. With Taxis striking, surge pricing would have skyrocketed. This feels more like Uber just wants to preempt an inevitable news story about how surge pricing hit 10x or something during the taxi strike, which would be bad PR.

The article did say that Uber is working with its affected drivers to provide legal assistance. So, again, they're just protecting themselves. The company has practically no moral compass.
Everything uber does is about money and they aren't afraid to flout the law / custom and "disrupt". They swooped in during a strike. They are scabs. They are obviously doing it to grab money. Their CEO is buddy buddy with Trump.
No, this article is baseless. Teenagers can be great coders, just like adults can be.

Swartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Tourist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich

George Hotz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz

And really, the "teenage coding god" meme is just a specific instantiation of the concept of young prodigies. Terrence Tao, Mozart, Ramanujan, Bobby Fischer. So the claim that teenagers can't be competent at their art because of their youth seems silly.
p.s. Here's another thing that might be interesting for people with side projects:

I just checked my royalties. When I wrote CoffeeScript Ristretto, I estimated that the market for JavaScript Allongé would be 10x as large.

Obviously the market for JavaScript was more than 10x as large, but there are way more JS books, and my particular style of writing seemed like it would fit the kind of early adopter who would use CoffeeScript in those days.

Looking at my royalties today, I see that all editions of JavaScript Allongé have generated approximately 6x as much in royalties as CoffeeScript Ristretto.

You could take the line that I should have sold way more JavaScript Allongé. Or, you could take the line that CoffeeScript Ristretto outsold my estimate.

For various reasons, I take the latter view: You can be surprisingly successful in a smaller market, with fewer competitors, that has a very "opinionated" or "early adopter" culture, compared to a mass market with many competitors and a wide variety of sub-cultures.
while virtually all business can be summed up as "I am selling you a tool so that you can attempt to use it to make money/achieve happiness quickly", I think the author has done a good job of being forthcoming in his data and what value he could offer a potential customer
I got my masters while I worked over 4 years. Not always required to quit work.
I find it amusing because the implication is that the alt-right views virtue as a perjorative.
I'm guessing it would depend on what T&C's the user clicked "I accept" on when setting the phone up or getting the update.

Whenever I get an update on iOS you get the lovely huge Apple T&Cs, which you have to accept to install the update.

So if SilentCircle does the equivalent and put in there "in the event that this is running on a non-approved device, we'll disable the software" then I click "I agree" it would seem fair enough for them to so.

If I were them I think playing it a little cooler would've been to pop-up "Hey this is a knock-off device, we're not letting you use all the cloud service and you're getting no updates from us" and leave it at that...
In the future, just flag comments like these. Give them at least 20-30 minutes before dignifying them with a reply.
I'm not a US citizen and I don't support this (I visited many countries and interacting with a border control officer in JFK was the worst experience ever), I'm just saying that the CNN article is misleading.
Yo, hey, thanks for the kind words.

I'm sooo sorry that you had to stop listening to TechZing because of "the other guy" talking for hours and hours ;)
Question, how good was a teenaged John Carmack?
Travis Kalanick, Uber's CEO, made public statements indicating that Uber must work with the Trump administration. Four days later Uber stepped up as scrubs while the rest of the New York's taxi service protested Trump's deplorable racist actions. It's hard to pretend this is a coincidence.
A taxi strike is intended to inconvenience people. Uber reducing prices for riders directly contradicts that. (But if I had to guess, I would guess that they were just trying to avoid stories like "Uber profits from Muslim Ban", not making any kind of political statement about it.)
Primesti bani inapoi la cumparaturi online
I'm unclear on his exact relationship with "Breitbart News", but I relied on this for the "founder" statement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Breitbart_News.
Everyone was so worried about Bill O'Reilly or John Oliver, that they didn't realize that Alex Jones is just as powerful in the internet age.
Though not crazy cross compatible, you might find Mal's bash implementation interesting [0]. Mal is a small, easy to implement Lisp.

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/tree/master/bash
> Quite false. How do you expect developers to take you seriously when you essentially say "you can't properly do CI/CD with your current approach"? I sure am enjoying CI/CD right now.

Quite true actually! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration#Everyon...
That's part of the basket of "moral rights" that originated in Germany and France. In the US, the tradition of being able to sell (or commission) exclusive rights is seen as mostly incompatible with obligatory attribution. There is an exception for, essentially, studio visual art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Artists_Rights_Act and there appears to be some interest in extending it to other works. Other moral rights (like false attribution) are covered in the US outside of copyright law, such as via slander/libel or false advertising or tort.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

> I had been approached many times by tech publishers to write books from scratch, but I never found the process and economics attractive.

You might want to consider writing the book on leanpub, and then talking to a traditional publisher to adopt the book. At least that's my plan for https://leanpub.com/perl6 (a publisher has approached me, though it's currently in a too early stage, so we've deferred further discussions until version 1 of the manuscript is ready).

> Some of my biggest wins were the books I didn't write. LeanPub has a feature where you can cobble together a book title and a cover image, and it creates a landing page that collects emails from interested readers.

I believe you need to create a book on leanpub for that, which now costs USD$99. Not terribly much, but a certain threshold that prevents me from just throwing out ideas like this.
There is none. Not sure why you think that nugget needs to be software driven? The article is talking about pluggio a previous SaaS app I built.
Firstly, its much easier to break something than build it. You build software with 100,000 lines of code and 1 line has a potential exploit? you did a good job 99,999 times

I found this article hard to read after getting to this point.
You used a good quote, but you'd better talk about it's meaning and how exactly it contradicts what I was saying, because "protection of persons, liberties and properties" does include helping people not to die on the street (even for selfish interests of rich public that still makes sense) and it's unclear why you believe otherwise.
Marketing is about pointing out the end result before the action. In your case, you point out a friend made "millions" and then speak for his weakly biased advice to "do SaaS" as if that's going to net someone the end result of millions. The reason it "feels" that way is because it is that way on your site, even if you rationalize it otherwise.