skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's harder for an actor to masquerade under an Uber-style system than traditional regulation. Every move is tracked, and customers could even get photographs of registered drivers via their own trusted channel -- as opposed to the easily-faked licensing documents carried by traditional cabs. (Big cities sometimes have 'gypsy cabs' whose markings and meters can be hard for even local police to distinguish from licensed cabs.)

Uh, no. I don't know what podunk city you live in, but in my city, cabs must have GPS devices, driver's licenses, and a medallion, in addition to specially marked cars. All of these are inspected at least yearly, compared to Uber's one-and-done verification system.

And what if there are competitors? As long as all of them are branded, and can be reviewed on third-party sites, customers can decide whether they like the power of driver reviews, or some other mechanism for checking abuses.

I'm sure some drunk guy will have to presence of mind to review multiple car services at 3am in the morning. Cab services are regulated because the passenger has no or limited choice in their selection or their ability to review the available cars.

But now for users of technology, conditions A, B, and C are gone. Anonymous pick-ups are precluded by design.

Uh, no. See drunk guy at a bar at 3am, above. Uber does not solve this. Technology is not the magical solution to everything. Regulation exists to solve problems in this area which technology cannot, and especially in Uber's case, does not solve.

Indeed, if anything, Uber simply makes the fraud problem worse. Because there's very little to stop someone from scamming Uber, and there's a lot of financial incentive for Uber to downplay or even hide fraud.
They could add a check for identically rendered topic titles (including site name in parentheses) to avoid some of these.
If a woman acts inappropriately towards a man, he rarely has any option to make her fuck off. "Men don't have to do it"? They can't. It's only that it happens less often (I guess). Seems to me that women have a lot more power in this regard.
While its good to see a big Android supporter like Fred Wilson acknowledge the fragmentation issues, I think convincing any developers out there that this fragmentation is a good thing is going to be a really hard sell.

Beyond just the OEM customization, the whole Android install base is spread out among a number of different (often older) versions - this is not something you see with iOS where Apple does a great job of getting their install base to upgrade quickly to the latest major version.
AGAIN!?

edit: is this really a new hack or just a recent posting of the accounts from last year?
I'm not married yet, but I think marriage would only be a net benefit. No sexual frustration = more focus and clarity :)
That seems more like he committed a perceived betrayal by attacking a status symbol within the community (wikileaks). Even the most socially-awkward group will reject a member who they see as directly attacking the group.
Social sanctions are generally used on children, however are in some cases even more effective on adults, who aren't used to be treated like children.
As a mainly php dev on the server-side, I've been interested on expanding to Python / Django for some time but the whole v2 and v3 thing put me a bit on hold.

Glad to see it moving.
The Making of Warcraft, Part 2
It was a great trip. I definitely would like to do it again next year. Hmm... I wonder where I will go?
Optimal Lawn Mowing Patterns
That's what I was thinking... I guess we'll read in the news soon.

http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-says-it-hacked-10m-psn-accoun...
Looks like MD5, no salt.

Here's to hoping it's old.
Nice to see that Uplink was ported to Android! It's an interesting and fun game where you get to play the kind of fictional hacker portrayed in hollywood movies, working against the clock to get the data without being tracked.
Hypersonic drone fails over pacific
Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers
"From a feminist perspective, it's not very empowering to a woman to have to resort to props and other crazy schemes to get unscrupulous men to fuck off. Men don't have to do it, why should women."

Like Hollaback, this is a very imperfect, but apparently effective solution. I appreciate your appeals to straw Feminism, but "women should react the same as men to every situation to 'prove' they are strong" is not it, it's a mess of privileged assumptions.
Indeed, whether you regard that "omnipotent power" as being some ineffable divinity or some leviathan called "the state".

But we can indeed explore the empirical existence of the ideas that human beings employ in their undertaking of life, and make useful distinctions between those which have their origin in the nature of the individual prior to his social relations, and those which are a product of the social relations themselves.
Interesting. Most of these email addresses/host names seem to be swedish...

Also, some of them seem like they wouldn't have ps3s. Like 'uppsala.kloster@telia.com'. "Uppsala kloster" == "Uppsala monastery". Though I guess the monks have to pass the time somehow as well.
I'm sorry that I accidentally upvoted this submission. It sounds like unsubstantiated FUD to me.
Some joker. Repost of this: http://pastebin.com/hhU8Q9di
Current bike share programs do require redistribution of bicycles, often as often as twice a day. In large city operations viaCycle would likely be subject to this as well, but that leaves operation costs nominal.

On university campuses we have seen the traffic to be much more free flowing, as students do not follow standard commute patterns. During standard maintenance bicycles can be moved around as needed.

We have discussed the possibility of incentivizing riders to help redistribute bicycles, although the effectiveness of this has yet to be proven.
When 1 in 4 men get sexually assaulted during their lives, I will start giving one iota of care about poor poor dis-empowered men.
I agree and another point to consider is the price. I don't have any statistics for that, but I wouldn't be surprised if setting the price to 0.99$ would give them more overall income.
Like Richard Stallman? He's pretty well known to be incredibly awkward around women.

He's a total skiddie, though, so what you're saying makes sense.
Of course is about making easier for you to integrate your services but is also about making it easier for Google to sell your information. My friend started getting calls from Texas attorney's to the phone he used to verify his gmail account (and the line is not under his name). And after his GF emailed a poem where she included his full name, he started getting legal notices in his inbox. He lives in Florida but had a parking ticket in Texas.
I saw json-parser. Looks good. I'm currently using YAJL for a project, but I'm open to switching to something faster/easier.

Have you done any performance tests against other C json parsers?

Thanks,
"We're NASA and we know it" parody
Uber is a taxi/livery service that magically uses technology to do things that shuttle/livery services in major cities have already been doing for years.

The difference is that: (1) Uber is a startup, (2) Uber is backed by YC, (3) Uber lets anyone be a driver, (3) Uber ignores the laws and/or regulations in the cities that it operates until it gets caught and threatened with major lawsuits/fines, and (4) Uber promises 10-minute pickups (sub-hourly timeframes between reservations and pickup are the defining line between livery services and cab services in many cities).
Two prolific projects that amount to far more than the vast majority of us of is will ever accomplish.
I'm not sure how it matters that they're subsidized.

Cars are subsidized via road building/maintenance, after all, and it's likely to cost less to maintain a few bikes than it does to maintain roads/parking for the cars that would displace them.

Imagine if there were no transportation subsidies and road maintenance were privatized. A nightmare. It seems entirely reasonable that forms of transportation that can help bring tax revenues to a city are subsidized, and therefore entirely reasonable to create a start-up based in part on those subsidies.
"Theres this myth that men who are assholes succeed with women. I suppose they do technically succeed - in getting women with low self esteem to sleep with them through manipulation and "pickup artist" techniques. But how successful do you think they are at finding a truly fulfilling and meaningful relationships?"

Here's the thing, plenty of the guys lamenting don't know what a fulfilling and meaningful relationship IS, therefore they conflate an abusive one they can't have with what they should have.
All marriages are different, as are all relationships.

Married people tend to be slightly happier than single people (not sure if that's hardworking happy or fat dumb happy), and as many distractions as marriages add, many distractions single people face get handled or eliminated by the other partner.

Startups are stressful places and marriages tend to reduce stress on average; I'd look at it as a very weak plus.
It's pretty timeless in itself, but if you want more replay value check out http://modlink.net/ - people have extended the game in interesting ways.
Not quite. The reason is that the specs of the mission were frozen 2004.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/08/08/Curiosity-interview-...
Meeting my fiancee has been the best thing that's ever happened to me, gave me ambition again and is probably the reason why I'm doing the start-up thing now.

We live together, have a 10 month old baby and we're getting married in July. I don't think the marriage will change anything.
Yes, but when you're just three days into learning it's good to do things the direct way using fewer language facilities, then grow into the more powerful constructs later when you can better appreciate their value.
"Kotaku points out that the PasteBin list is similar to one from a few months back. The dump contained credentials for people working at Universal Music Group. Add to that the fact that the suspected hacker gets the number of PSN accounts wrong, and you have a troll trying to get a rile out of people." via http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-says-it-hacked-10m-psn-accoun...
As previously mentioned, Google Groups has an RSS feed. I'll look into a Twitter account.
If this has any sign of success... A Chinese clone of it will be out on the US market for half the announced price before these even hit the store shelves.

Bookmark it.
Seems very similar to SoBi's offering. SoBi has the advantage of built-in vandalism detection, welded on GPS tracker (it looks like ViaCycle's is bolted on), a sealed shaft-driven drivetrain, and a more durable frame geometry.

http://socialbicycles.com/

Exciting times. It looks like the next generation of bike sharing systems is arriving.
How to budget for you startup, from someone 2 months in
Django aims for time based releases every nine months (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-proc...). Since 1.4 was released on 23rd March, that would put 1.5 just before Christmas, appropriately enough. But real life might push it back to January.
"where alcohol is a factor"

So that changes the situation where some people don't want to be grabbed/touched/propositioned?
Sperm Vs 4G Internet
Is it possible that unpaid parking tickets go to some kind of court record, which attorneys frequently check for client acquisition? It's pretty common for someone in any kind of legal proceedings to receive solicitations from attorneys.
Uplink is one of my favorite games of all time and Introversion is an awesome little game development studio.

I tried to submit this a while back but it didn't go anywhere (it's about their painfully protracted development on a project that nearly bankrupted them):
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-11-rezzed-sessions...
Statsgram website analyser
Looks good and clean design.

For example, stats for News YC
http://statsgram.com/www/news.ycombinator.com
I've updated the landing page with a FAQ that addresses this. The point is that you don't have to actively look for news, it's sent to you on regular intervals.

There are plenty of Go related blogs, this simply aggregates the week's highlights for you.
"my mom didn't get me PSN points for Xmas so I'm gonna give our emails. faggot. anonymous. 1337."

These kids need to go back to school and make something of themselves.
I upgraded my Apple TV so I could get 1080p and the main thing I noticed was slower downloads.
I own a bike. Actually two. But even with two bikes I do not have one available 24/7 because sometimes I have to use different transportation. Then I am somewhere and my bikes are somewhere else. If it wasn't for a monthly fee I'd sign up for the service in my city and use it about once a week.
How did the girlfriend send the mail? Perhaps that was leaked, also, I don't believe a single thing of this article. If Google would be doing this, this would mean that their entire service would fail within days. Such things cannot go unnoticed, perhaps there is an angry ex out there. Pointing to Google is just an easy way out.
Cheddar for Mac Public Beta
> You seem to have the simple minded view that simply because I haven't heard of all the languages I don't use, it is random which ones I do use. That's not how it works.

But then:

> But this is not random, it's because of various forces at play, that made Y more widely known and X less so.

Where "various forces" is furious handwaving for the sheer randomness that made that set available to you. And let's say in a slightly different history that set is slightly different (but still contains your current choice), how do you know you would have ended up the same?

But perhaps I am being lamentably simple minded. Every decision you make is deliberate and justifiable.
This is so true. I've been working on an app for a while now (very part time, mostly scratching my own itch). A few months ago, I decided to do some thinking about what it would take to make a business out of it.

The very first thing I concluded is that, to make a sustainable business, the app has to be seen as a marketing expense and the actual business needs to be somewhere else. Trying to make it with an app alone, especially in a niche market, is not going to happen.

Games are even worse, because, by their very nature, they are a boom/bust industry. You survive in one of two ways as an indie: making incredible games and marketing the crap out of them or making a lot of OK games to flatten the boom/bust curves. It sounds like these guys want to do the former, which is awesome, but they've fallen for what I call "arrogant developer syndrome", which is simply that they believe "If you build it great, they will come and throw money at you." Marketing is as important to product development as writing software. You can build software without marketing, but you won't build a product.

(As a side note related to said app/business, if you are in any way involved in startups [including wanting to start one someday], I'm trying find that actual business. I've got a very short survey that I could use feedback on: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F7W9P5P )
People who work in offensive security would argue that they aren't "kids" or "scriptkiddies," and that what they are doing is helpful.
> At a hacker conference, people are generally more interested in talking about hacking and less about flirting;

Even if I were trying to pick someone up at a conference, I'd talk about hacking, engage their interests, ask them what they are working on, etc. Intellectual flattery.

Physically, I'd be cool. If, after some time, the woman initiated some innocuous physical contact (shoulder & arm touching, for example), I would not reciprocate in kind. No, I would reciprocate with more platonic interest. This might be slightly disappointing at first, but it would build trust. Physical reciprocity only later, like a long-delayed echo.

Really, the physical stuff is entirely dispensable in the courtship phase. So is any kind of sexual innuendo. Keep it cerebral, boys. Ask questions, listen.

But, I'm not looking to pick anyone up.
Rape-culture and patriarchy are definitely major society-wide issues but they undeniably find a special welcoming home within geek culture.

A culture which supposedly prides itself on merit and intelligence at first glance ought to be most receptive to actually picking up a book and studying social issues, but the reality is instead that we get a social group full of men's right's advocates and evopsych true-believers and other terrible terrible people.
The main page has been updated with a FAQ to address some of the questions that keep coming up.
It's not arguing over words; it's arguing over the concepts which the words represent.

Two distinct ideas appear to have been confounded together under the mantle of "rights" here, and we can't find fault in those seeking to clean up the confusion.

We can, however, find fault with those who seek to intentionally prevaricate in order to artificially apply the connotations earned by one idea to the other, and this includes those governments that try to define goods which must be acquired within society as being within the category of "rights".
This accords with my experience; there is no ideal working environment. Culture and the personal composition of the office has much more to do with how successful an office will be than the layout.

That said, I found having an office to be hugely superior to sitting in a room with everybody else. Having a door to close makes all the difference in the world.
"As an observer, when should I feel comfortable interjecting? "

When someones health, life or well being is on the line. I have seen too many women starting / acting scenes just to make some white knight to intervene. There was research where in public woman was being assaulted/abused by man and everyone intervened. Then they switched it around - NOONE CARED.

Besides, feminism was claiming how strong and able to defend themselves women are. So by interjecting you are being SEXIST.
Do you actually have a link to that? I don't recall reading that Facebook would close your account if you requested information about yourself. That seems really punitive.
In addition to it being broken, in C++11 auto_ptr is depreciated. Since they're moving to C++ now, they may as well use the latest features as often as possible (when the use case makes sense of course).
If you read the TC article, the firm intends to make money selling services to cities, universities, etc just as you suggest.

The end-user price points are just examples of what's feasible if you buy their products.
Harrassed for being a disturbed creep != having someone grope and put their mouth on you without your permission.
I think a better way to have phrased this train of thought would be:

"How It Took Me 23 Years To Learn To Code"
A big advantage of this approach is that they can test on 2.x and 3.x without needing to run any 'translater'. That means the develop-test cycle goes quicker.
Ugh.. the last thing we need is to turn this into a general sexual attraction discussion about what (we think) works and what doesn't. It's a way more complex and controversial topic that we don't have to solve in order to address the "women in IT" problem when there is a much simpler solution:

DON'T TRY TO HIT ON WOMEN AT CONFERENCES OR OTHER BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AT ALL. PERIOD.

There is no shortage of more appropriate times and places we can test our theories about alpha male behavior, aggressiveness or what have you. Hell, some venues are specifically intended for such endeavors! Use them!
So this is pretty cool and everything, but the frustrating thing for me is I would love to see the itineraries that won, but I keep getting greeted with a "only the contest owner can view flight details." I'd love to see this opened up - I think it would build a lot more trust in their platform.
Having to typedef at all is a sign of deep, unfixable badness.
edit: I give up.

Who was I to think that the fact 1-in6 men are sexually abused while underage was a quick and easy response to a remark that men are not sexually assaulted in any real numbers.

I should have looked up the statistics on all demographics, because apparently that sexual abuse isn't good enough sexual abuse to refute the weight the parent poster was giving to the 1-in-4 women statistic.

Thanks sethg, I see clearly now.
I do a lot of crowdsourcing (see here http://weusethat.com/metaoptimize) and I'm curious to use MobileWorks.

What is the pricing for small jobs?

I have a lot of small jobs, so "contact us for a quote" isn't appropriate when my jobs change often.
I think that's true only for a small minority...
To Lend is the Right of an Owner – That is, Not You.
That's a great idea! I often see Gists that I want to remember, but can never actually remember where to find them afterwards. Thanks guys!
These things are self locking, so you release it as soon as you leave it unattended and are not liable anymore. If you had to look for a docking station, it would be not practical.

How does zipcar handle car theft?
Nobody who bikes regularly or serious owns a $100 bike. Good bikes start at around $1500, which is why bikes are such frequent targets for theft.
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We are currently using ZeroMQ in our distributed task framework in Python, SCOOP (http://scoop.googlecode.com).

ZeroMQ was chosen as the communication library because it simply works and isn't bloated. No need to implement the state-machines for common patterns in our sockets, ZMQ does it and fast. It doesn't replace a standard socket, though, it only add a layer of functionalities over it.

While using it, we found some minor negative point such as delays needed by the socket upon shutdown, which require sleeps between unit tests, or the random port connector that is not random... But overall, ZMQ is a tool that saved us much developing time and should not be overlooked by distribution systems.
Well, I wish these guys only suffered from "If you build it great, they will come and throw money at you.".

No!

They suffer from an advanced mutation.

"If you build it great, those guys over there will come and throw money at you. Ewwwwwwww. Green stuff. Let's move over here to these guys. They will come and throw 1-star reviews at us. It's the only thing that can push our limits and make us even greater."
tldr;

http://parenteau-sf-journey.herokuapp.com/data
Hypersonic jet Waverider fails Mach 6 test
Or your understanding is limited to hasty generalizations.
The Future of CodePlex is Bright
That's from 1405 days ago. Duplicates can be submitted in a significantly shorter time-span, IIRC.
How very sexist.

I don't doubt that worldwide, men suffer sexual and physical assault from the opposite sex at a lower rate than women.

However, in developed countries, I wouldn't be surprised if it's closer than we collectively think. Here is an informative article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/07/feminism... Men are probably less likely to report incidents due to humiliation or rather, lack of action. Checkout comments on stories when boys get sexually molested by female teachers. Oh yeah, the boy is supposed to love it because he's a boy! Very different when the genders are reversed. Castrate the man! Execute him! Or how about physical assault? Did Elin Nordgren serve any time or get lambasted by feminists for assaulting Tiger Woods? Nope. In fact, she got a tidy settlement.
I agree that cities subsidizing a bike-sharing system can make sense. But that doesn't help ViaCycle, which is going to have trouble if they can't run the system at a profit, since unlike the city of Paris, they can't pay for it out of tax revenues.
That was three years ago. The page has plenty of new information. Perhaps there should be a statute of limitations on the dupe check.