skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once old and run down neighbourhoods that I wouldn't ever want to live in are now highly desirable places to be.

There's never really been "scary" places to live in Toronto apart from a few neighbourhoods and housing projects. The places that people describe as scary just have a lot more "character" than other parts. You'll see mentally ill people on the street, those with physical disabilities, those who are dirt poor. In other parts of the city they're swept away or ignored.

What you're describing is gentrification. Gentrification has happened.
and yet "variable pricing" has been happening since ever even in low-tech offline business. Need your house painted and live in a "better" neighborhood? You'll pay more.

Ever heard of the "Tesla Tax" for people installing the outlet needed to charge their Tesla?
They also perform micro optimizations based upon what information they can gather on you. For instance, they may price an item higher if they can determine that you're using a Mac from the user agent
I'm surprised no one has commented on this. Reddit has 270m monthly actives? Doesn't that make it as large as twitter/instagram/Snapchat?
You've found market price when buyers complain but still pay. - Paul Graham.

If this is true, it's obviously different for everyone. And as long as Uber doesn't have a monopoly, this sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Previous attempts at price discrimination have been transparent: senior's discounts, time or capacity based pricing, et cetera.

This is considerably different, being opaque. Once this gets out, everybody taking an Uber will have that nagging feeling in the back of their head, "was I ripped off this time?" And it'll make them think twice the next time they go to order one.
Is it brigading only if you don't accept the narrative? Half of the popular voted for the man, can't remember anyone complained when Obama was in the office.
>It doesn't take a side, it doesn't try to fire you up, it just informs.

By informing, they do take a side. It's just that now you like the side they've taken. I'm not saying that all Trump articles are completely justified - the media feeds on hyperbole and fear after all, but a large number of articles are simply trying to inform when talking about Trump.
For everyone defending this practice, how do you feel about an employer paying you less for doing the same work as your peers?
For regular users it's bad. Not worth turning it on
Car prices have basically doubled from that era, while tuition has gone up five fold or more. That's the problem.

Don't talk average car prices, some people spend stupid amounts of money on luxury vehicles. Look at the easily accessible, low-cost options like Kia and Hyundai. Those are half that price.
Correct, butttt "Customer is king."

On a serious note, I have seen more projects ending into dumpster because we listened to customer too well and didn't actually infer the meaning which lies between the lines.

Most managers I have encountered are just messenger pigeons. Sometimes I wonder how system still works!
Interesting. As an outsider (didn't vote for Trump or Clinton), Reddit seems decidedly organized against the Trump supporters on that site. From what I can tell, even the admins have made core changes to Reddit that any reasonable person would see as an effort to reduce the visibility of the Trump subreddit.

I think the Trump subreddit is very childish (seems to be intentional). But I hate the thought of websites like Reddit, FB, and Twitter engaging in practices that clearly and systematically try to reduce the visibility and legitimacy of one political viewpoint. What if the table was turned against the liberal viewpoint? I would be just as worried.
Yes, it's a top 5 website in the US: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US

After 10 years it's now as important to kids as Facebook.

There posts getting 100k upvotes more often these days. And some are approaching even 200k.

What's even crazier is the growth of the imgur subculture
I want to like WebGL, but then I start comparing what I can do with it and the native languages I have on the same systems....

It doesn't even work properly on some OpenGL ES 3.x devices I own, while they work perfectly fine with the native games.
1. Profits are inherently capped. I choose an upper bound of the value of everything on Earth.

2. Every private entity, in free market capitalism, has the right to refuse service to a customer if providing that service is not beneficial to said entity (bar some race, age, etc. issue). Are you making an argument to remove that right?
If someone gets the service they wanted/needed at a price they were willing to and agreed to pay, they weren't ripped off.
If the kid with the skill, effort and determination to get 4th place in the junior Olympics is representative and they can't get a single one of them to pass a test, the school is failing these kids a lot worse than I thought.
You can't remember anyone complaining about Obama when he was in office? You can't be serious.
The Rampart Effect.
What a useless comment. This section is to discuss the article, not your little anecdotes, predispositions and especially not for some random spam.
California is a big, but generally unpopulated state.

Approaching 40 million, that population is divided, generally, as: half in the Los Angeles - San Diego region, half the remainder in the San Francisco - San Jose region, half the remainder (5 million) between Sacramento and Stockton, and the remaining 5 million throughout the rest of the state, mostly still within the southern Central Valley (particularly Bakersfield).

See: counties by population, showing 23 counties of fewer than 100k population. Over half the state's population is in 5-6 counties: Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Santa Clara.

https://www.california-demographics.com/counties_by_populati...
You know how I can smell bullshit in this article? Right here:

>Some of our unconscious powers of prospection are shared by animals, but hardly any other creatures are capable of thinking more than a few minutes ahead.

That's simply not true. Evolution and historical knowledge are intertwined with our RNA/DNA more than we know.

Citation:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/animal_eqs.php

We are completely built to live in the moment, if only we are wise enough to learn from the past. Learning when to trust the hairs on the back of the neck perking up for a sense of future danger is important. I've waited tables. I can tell within 15 seconds if you're generous or a cheapskate.

The article ends up basically trying to state, clumsily, that we don't live in the moment because we're seeking the meaning of life. You know, Flying Spaghetti Monsters. I guess I'm just surprised this article wasn't the result of a NYT All-Star-Idiot team up of Brooks & Friedman. This kind of smells like their brand of shitty intellectual posturing.
Airlines are one of the most hated industries, seen much good press about United.

And their price discrimination is fairly transparent, it's the opaque discrimination that gets people ranting. Nobody likes being ripped off.

Coupons & senior discounts are tolerated both because they're transparent and everybody can or will be able to use them.
I'd argue that some of our ancestors lived in quite egalitarian groups of abundance even without the technology we have today; And conversely our world today is drive by inequality and scarcity despite our amazing technology.

What technology has really given us is security. The paradise of our ancestors could have been ruined by disease or famine caused by the climate changing or and unexpected flood. Or just a new group of predators moving into the region making it dangerous or killing off the prime game food for the tribe. Our technology and knowledge provides us security and foresight so we're able to move or stockpile or even invent new technology to avoid catastrophes. Sadly, here we are faced with the total disruption of our biosphere and we're having trouble not fucking it up.

One, I believe people feel this way about our ancestors because of the feelings one experiences when they really visit and listen to nature. I for one can almost solve any emotional problems with a good walk in the woods. This feeling drives our awareness of the discomfort that our civilization shoves down our throat everyday. We've used technology to simplify our lives and complicate our lives. Right now I think we've complicated our individual lives quite a lot, but with that complication comes a security that someone else did enough work that I can get something eat tomorrow.
ideas: Poolber, RouteScrum, EventuArrive, RideOrgy, Menage-A-Trip.
Surprised that there is no mention of the 6 million people who also just live within 4 hours north of Detroit (corridor leading up to Toronto) and the opportunities available there (and greatly leveraged by the auto industry).
I was just trying to comment on PG's essay and say that there needed to be improvement on (1)-(3).

For an example, I used some of the attributes of my startup.

For my startup, I intend to announce a beta test here at HN.

For any equity investors, I totally gave up: They make the mistakes (1)-(3) which means that they don't like my project and I don't want to report to a BoD with them on it -- on my BoD, after my first presentation of the ad targeting part of the project, they'd all upchuck, soil their clothes, furniture, and carpet on their way, screaming in agony and outrage and terrified of their fiduciary whatever, to the restrooms. After they recovered they'd meet at the closest bar and vote to disband my company. Why? My presentation would have some math in it, math they didn't understand, and listening to math one does not understand for more than five minutes at a time is worse than a root canal procedure. In all their careers they've never seen any role for math. E.g., for ad targeting, they'd be thinking in terms of demographics, gen X, Chablis and Brie set, McMansion set, etc., and none of that would be in my targeting math.

The equity investors didn't want me when I started writing the code; now I don't want them; and as soon as my project gets any reasonable revenue forever I won't want them, their check, their BoD, or anything else. My project is to be exceptional; equity investors are not exceptional.
Fully agree, we could have had XAML for the web, instead of the Frankenstein amalgamation some of us have to endure.
Uber's not just "taking a cut" anymore. They're dictating the price to the customers, and the amount they pay the drivers, and those two values apparently aren't actually related to each other.
Ever have a dream where you were in the past, like hunting or being chased or something? We pass on more than we recognize, I think. Hence consistent fear of heights and/or spiders.
Yes, it makes mathematical sense, but it feels bad at a visceral, gut level. From personal experience, when visiting some countries, taxis would quote 2x or 3x the standard fare just because they saw I was clearly a tourist.

This is essentially the same, except there isn't even an option for haggling.
We still use helium for children's balloons. It's cheap enough that most companies don't even bother to distill it out of natural gas.
I think you are missing the point. It's like running docker registry on kubernetes.

If for some reason the cluster goes down, bootstrapping it might be a bit difficult.
Haven't you heard anybody rant for hours about how gas stations raise their prices on the weekends, or some sort of similar rant?

People act very emotionally to the idea that someone else got a better deal than they did.
> America has reserved its most inhumane and destructive weapons to be field tested and then used without hesitation on Asian civilian populations.

I think Africans and Native Americans would beg to disagree. Heck, experiments like the Tuskegee Experiment were done not on foreign Africans but natural born Americans who just happened to have black skin.

Stuff like the Sand Creek massacre, Wounded Knee, and so many others just aren't part of our national (or international) consciousness. No body talks about the intentional sterilization of hundreds of thousands of Native American women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_Americ...
Here's a quote from your page:

"There is nothing that is that important. As long as you believe this or that is so important, you are caught up in playing a game."

Here's a quote from the article that you didn't read:

"Homo prospectus is too pragmatic to obsess on death for the same reason that he doesn’t dwell on the past: There’s nothing he can do about it. He became Homo sapiens by learning to see and shape his future, and he is wise enough to keep looking straight ahead."

One of those is nihilistic...
Out of curiosity, what are those math tests like?
You must not read the NYT much. I just took a glance at their homepage and less than 1/3 of the articles are on US politics. The vast majority of their articles I see on HN have a wide variety of interesting topics -

> They Could Buy, but Why? Meet the High-Renters

> Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future

> Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars

> Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job

> How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism

> China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order

> Google is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps

Honestly, I really don't understand how anyone, regardless of where they stand on the political spectrum, can wholesale dismiss the NYT. They do good reporting, solid analysis, and if you don't like their editorial board (just as I have little liking for the WSJ editorial board) - don't read them. This tendency to stick with a limited set a source(s) you agree with is at the core dysfunction of the US government today, imo.
They could provide for counseling and therapy within the schools themselves.

Currently, to receive mental health services, parents usually need to initiate these requests by navigating through a bureaucratic maze
"Charging as much as possible" is not evil.
"Charging based on information acquired by your phone spying on you or your social account tracking" is evil.
Thanks! Yes, exactly what I meant. "The best" is according to your organization's criteria in terms of skills, attitude, etc. for your team. In my experience, when we've started lowering the bar (after interviewing umpteen candidates and eager to just hire someone), we always had problems down the road and usually big ones (i.e. none of those candidates are any longer with us).

I'm not talking about the mythical 10x engineers or anything like that. It's your bar for what skills fit into your company. If you have no bar...you've got much bigger problems than management...

That said, if you lower the bar a bit in hiring, do not lower the bar in expectations. See if that person who you weren't that confident in can catch up fast. Some candidates work very hard and make it. Those who aren't are apparently fairly quickly...you have to let them go.

Incidentally, there is no real "best" when it comes to engineers -- I've found there are two ways to think about the engineers you need: specific skillsets and brilliance. Someones you need someone who really knows a particular technology or area and can do that very well even if that person isn't generally super-capable. Such a person is often much more efficient than any new-comer will be even after several months of training. Then there's certain work that requires learning or general brilliance (which is probably learning fast if I had to define it...).
I think you've misunderstood what PWAs are? PWAs are fundementally websites which are built on a bunch of guidelines with performance and accessibility prioritized.
Every company with lots of consumer data is trying to use it to increase purchases and purchase prices. The interesting thing is they can put some classic psychology theories to the test and find how closely the hypothetical matches reality or try things out to see what consumers do.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-onl...
You have a corporate network which has SMB everywhere (as it's windows based). You have 1 of your 10,000 users run "funnyscreensaver.exe", and before you know it you're entire network is infected -- doesn't matter that your firewall blocks incoming or outgoing 137/139/445 - or even if it's an isolated network without even nat capability.
Yeah, it'd be something that could possibly be dug up. Many location-based systems for price discrimination can run into similar issues - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Note that being purely profit-driven through your pricing scheme isn't a good defense. There could easily be a "taxis are racist and won't go into certain areas, therefore Uber has less competition serving black neighborhoods, therefore Uber can increase their prices there."
What definitive proof do you have that Whatsapp does really use encryption? Facebook's word?
I noted in another comment, but I'll say it again hopefully right below my post (sorry I should've clarified it in the original comment because it is VERY annoying that every company claims to hire "the best"). What I meant by "the best" was those folks who meet your bar...whatever that bar is. So it's not anything absolute but depends on your organization.
I wouldn't worry about it. I have tons of free software projects that nobody has ever asked about :-) My one project that had a significant number of users (a Japanese language drill program) I recommended that people move to Anki. I occasionally get people asking about various things, but it is never more than I can handle in an adhoc way. I suspect most other people will be the same. Wildly successful side projects are the exception, not the norm.
It was interesting to see how much of the media was cheering the cruise missile strike in Syria. I think socially and economically WaPo is very liberal but for some reason most of the media loves almost anything to do with war.
[2009]

nowadays Yandex uses its own index even for “foreign” (non-Russian) sites.
Yes they do, just indies and FOSS devs on HN don't.

The software development culture on the games industry is to make use of the best way to squeeze the graphics performance of a given piece of hardware until the last drop of juice.

This is an industry that was born from rewriting their whole games for each type of gaming platform they wanted to sell games to, in Assembly. In many cases using a dumb hexdump editor connected over a serial cable.

Having an abstraction layer over all graphics API is a minor inconvenience that can be easily done in one month.

Plus it is something that is only written once for a specific engine.
Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation [pdf]
Good luck using Vulkan on the PS, XBox or 93% of Android devices out there.
Nightline Interview with Steve Jobs (1981) [video]
"Abstract

We quantify the amount of spatial misallocation of labor across US cities and its aggregate costs. Misallocation arises because high productivity cities like New York and the San Francisco Bay Area have adopted stringent re- strictions to new housing supply, effectively limiting the number of workers who have access to such high productivity. Using a spatial equilibrium model and data from 220 metropolitan areas we find that these constraints lowered aggregate US growth by more than 50% from 1964 to 2009."
we aren't built to juggle three balls either. but it can be learned and it's worth it.
The range is a line parallel to the long edges that runs down the center of the rectangle. It ends when it gets closer to the short edges than it is to the long edges.
Upvotes aren't an accurate representation of users. The higher a post's score, the more upvotes it needs to increase.

For example, a post with a score of 7 would increase by 1 every time it receives an upvote, but may need 10 or 15 upvotes to increase by another point once it gets over 1000 points (made up numbers).

A few months ago, the admins made a change to the algorithm to allow posts to gain much more points than before. Now, a post gets 1 point per upvote until, say, 10,000 upvotes, after which it only needs 5 upvotes per point.
> One price for all is a cornerstone of our social contract. Discarding it will place that contract in danger.

That is a very strange statement - could you explain how did you come to such a conclusion?
Even Nintendo has their own APIs.

They added Vulkan support for Switch, but the actual main graphics API is NVN.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/

I bet most professional studios not using a games engine like Unreal or Unity already, will favor NVN.

Just like they did with OpenGL ES 1.0 + Cg vs Libgcm on the PS3.
For me vimwiki [https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki] is good enough, here is a nice overview: https://www.dailydrip.com/blog/vimwiki
Really? So you wouldn't think it was unfair that they charged you more because they guessed that your workplace or your rent price based on your trips? Or because your phone battery was almost dead in a location you're not normally at?

Think about it this way: You would probably pay a hospital your net worth if you had a child and he/she was seriously hurt and taken to a hospital. B would you think leveraging this information to take more money from you be "fair?"
> it feels bad at a visceral, gut level

Using 'visceral, gut level' as a guide for ethics usually leads to ugly consequences.
I didn't call them that - you did, by asserting that the sore losers I identified actually form the majority of the voting population.

EDIT:

Also, "you lost me" kool kid dismissal is supposed to be used with things mentioned early in the piece of writing, not with literally the last two sentences of the post. You admitted that you read everything, so no points for style :P.
> You know how I can smell bullshit in this article?

Yes, by the domain. no need to even read the article or load the web page
>> Thanks to complaints from Uber drivers, who were beginning to suspect that the ridesharing company was charging customers more with "upfront pricing" but not paying drivers more in turn

It sounds like they aren't paying "my peers" more. They're just charging more and taking a bigger cut.
With significant indentation, will SBT files be more readable?
has anyone moved their site to argo yet? i am looking for some benchmarks for it. so far i found this site that did move to it and it sounds like they had a little improvement, but no where near as much as cloudflare blog post leads us to believe?

https://www.rootusers.com/cloudflare-argo-benchmark/

if you have moved over plz let me know how if it has helped you.
What's with the bad press about Uber lately ? Doesn't seem "organic" to me, more of a concerted effort by some org that want them down.

Not saying they don't deserve it, but somehow they have a scandal in the news every other week since a few months.
Yes, and those people didn't get ripped off, they are just uninformed ranters. They could have just as well purchased their gas at a low-price time, especially since they KNOW (proven by their ranting) the prices change.

It could just as well be that the "higher, weekend" price is the "normal price" and the weekday price is the "deal, sale" price.
So, it's essentially the same as haggling with a regular taxi driver. (FYI, just in case: not every taxi in the world is officially registered and is using a meter). But because it's Uber, this common practice becomes evil.
I disagree.

Washington Post is very simply a naked piece of propaganda that plays a bit too fast and lose with facts for my tastes in journalism.
UBS Claims Electric Price Parity by 2018, Says Tesla Can Make Money on Model 3
They make me signup and showed nothing.

It's only landing page so do not signup.
> As a web app developer, I keep an eye on those failed or lesser known products from Facebook and Google

Could you provide an example or two? I wonder if you mean something like Buzz and Reader or something completely different.
Isn't that an antitrust move by google?