skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like so many of these other startups, people don't have a sense of what, exactly, they are disintermediating.

Automobile rental: visible damage, invisible damage, wear and tear, tolls, tickets, hit-and-run accidents on five-year-olds... Invisible damage and wear-and-tear are priced in, everything else is laid squarely at the feet of the renter by the rental company, often with punitive fees attached.

Flightcar: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha it's all on you, for $10/day.

And there's no easy way they can actually put those things back on the renter where they belong. This automobile owner doesn't know it yet, but the same renter who blew through the tolls on the Golden Gate also racked up 12 parking tickets for parking next to a fire hydrant, which he crumpled up and threw away... It'll be a nice surprise when he tries to renew his registration two years from now.
He would need to unwind the stack
Do you even have to ask?
Manila, PH
You got it! Any questions in particular you'd like me to address?
Wait, Energy in = energy out. So what is the extra output that makes the computer so much less efficient? is it noise?
Xbox always-on #dealwithit - stupid, stupid or just about used games?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/business/media/04link.html...
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Some people (but not me) flag all Bitcoin articles. Other people appear to flag many of them.

Bitcoin is fascinating. Lots of the technical stuff is poorly understood. Lots of the economics stuff is poorly understood. Unfortunately most of the threads are more heat than light, so I understand why people do flag Bitcoin threads.
>"[HN Meta] Comments aren't ranked by upvotes." //

How do you know? I've been told on several occasions that rank is by vote difference (ie up - down).
The statement was "don't be evil", not "do no evil". It's about trying to do the right thing, not never messing up and causing harm.
> I place a high value on treating others with respect, helping without expecting anything in return, etc.

Really, only the former is common courtesy. The latter is something else--generosity. That can also pay off, but it can also bite. If a person is too generous, then they can get taken advantage of.

To illustrate with an example: let's say I pitch a client to build a web site for them. They come back and say that they really liked my pitch, but would like me to do some mockups of a new site before they can commit to hiring me.

The generous thing would be to agree. But that is time I'm not getting paid for, and in the long run, undercuts the value of my time and expertise as a professional. I'm getting taken advantage of.

But I can still be courteous, by promptly responding, thanking them for their interest and telling them how excited I am to work with them. Unfortunately, though, the press of other business means that I can't take on spec work right now. Maybe (if I really need the business) I could offer to structure the relationship in phases--pay a small fixed fee upfront for a mockup, and if they don't like it, we can part ways with minimal lost investment on either side. If they do like it, then we're on to the next step.

The potential client might walk away--true. But if I was always prompt and courteous, they would still have a positive impression of me.

I'm not saying "don't help people". I'm just saying that it's possible to courteously stick up for myself.
Rust has/had a `be` keyword reserved for potentially implementing TCO.
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I grok frustration, anger -- nobody is perfect. Nobody is nice all the time. But reading something like this (from your blog):

>Just when I was about ready to go on a real tear and swear off niceness forever, the guy in line ahead of me at lunch behaved like just enough of an overprivileged dick that my relatively better mannered behavior resulted in the girl loading up my plate. I had trouble finishing it. So I think I will continue to be polite to folks who handle my food.

... rubs me the wrong way.

>I am nice because I believe in it as an ethic, not merely a manipulative thing to do.
So if I shock a turd with a thousand dollars worth of electricity from my electric utility company, can I sell it for $1,000? Or add some non-intrinsic worth by calling it "art" and sell it for $2,000? Actually, make those figures $1,010 and $2,010 -- my turds also have intrinsic value.
HILARIOUS.

Note: I think Bitcoin is a cool idea, and a cool implementation, but I've recently noticed it tends to create zealots who spew crazy whenever there is an article that questions its suitability for specific purposes (gold alternative, replace the US dollar, etc.)

From what I can tell, its the same type of people I used to associate with libertarian+goldbugs+ronpaul, for whom 'fiat' is the worst four-letter word in the English language.
Don't the DDoS attacks count as evidence?
how do you propose that flightcar solve this issue and put the violations back to the renter?
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Hi Jacques, we have pulled together the same data in terms of adoption for the top 100k and top million and they look very similar.

A great source for this data if you are looking to dive into it is http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Optimizely
None of these things are reasons for a limited number of medallions.

To be clear: a medallion system says, "In San Francisco, we will have 680 cabs, no more."

That is separate from the question of whether you license cab drivers or charge for the license.

You could say, "In order to drive a cab in this city, you must pass an area knowledge test, pass a more-onerous driving test, you must re-pass these tests every two years, and we will revoke your license if you're involved in an accident. And in order to defray the costs of administering this program, we will charge you $1,000 for that license. And you must use this pricing scheme for fares." But if you were willing to license every person who passes those tests and pays that fee, without regard for how many people have already passed the tests and paid the fee, you aren't operating a traditional medallion system.
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That's not a reason to limit the supply of taxis. That's a reason to charge a fee for a taxi license that defrays the cost of regulating them.
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Only with his tail between his legs.
Insane is relative, backhaul is also relative.

I don't think WiMax was meant to solve the problems to which people have applied it. If you look at WiMax actual range, it's quite good, but the advertised range is at least double (hence all of the big ClearWire lawsuits).

I don't think setting up city wide wifi is unreasonable with present technology. I think it's an entirely attainable goal, the things that hold it back are bureaucracy and the same individuals who hold back things like project lightspeed.

But my broad point in response to your comment is that the benefit of saturating san francisco with AP's are manifold, whereas the costs and risks are minimal.
"Including that [email] which is served by private servers that goes to other recipients on the same private servers."

Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc., don't enter into the situation.
Yeah but you still had to generate and publish that key before I could send you an encrypted message. If I need to communicate with someone who has not done so, what I am supposed to do? Nag at them to do it? Try to explain the important of encryption? I have tried it, and I still try, and it is basically not going to work: people generally do not see the point, and they hate the fact that they cannot check their mail from arbitrary systems (smartcards help here, but now you need to get reliable smartcard readers deployed all over the place).

We need a system that lets people encrypt messages without having to wait for the receiver to do anything. That's the point of IBE: your public key is your email address, you get your private key from the service of the sender's choice. The service clearly needs to do something to verify your identity, which is the weakness -- but it is still better than what we do now, and it does not require us to wait for everyone to upgrade their email clients.
He's the Yamaga Soko of modern digital currency. Basically wrote the book on the first plausibly practical means of exchanging currency for services and the edicts of transactions.

Also, I hear he plays a mean banjo.
Do you have any kind of hardware already? Things like a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor, etc. That makes a huge difference when shipping stuff out.
I forget which comedian made this joke: "I hate it when people excuse a bad picture saying that it was taken when they were younger. Every picture taken of you was taken when you were younger. 'Here's a picture of me when I was older.' Let me see that camera."
Traffic is something to consider - that might be one reason a customer would want to limit taxis.
What is a tumbler?
Forgive me for my ignorance, but if rural telcos are building their own networks, what is to stop you from also building your own Network?

Am I missing something?
I think there's a lot of people who bought in during the last week or two that really want it to turn out to be an "attack". I haven't seen any actual stats or indication that that's actually the case, though.

Likewise, Mt. Gox made mention of "Being DDOS'd" at certain points, but I'm a little skeptical of the claim given that their own charts show a huge jump in trade volume at around the same time.

So no, there's no real "proof" yet of it being a DDOS or just lots of panicked traders, just lots of speculation (heh, heh).
What part of what mistermann said had anything to do with Mz being a woman?
btc-e seems to be another big one.

http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ will show prices in the major exchanges, if it's online. I had to use the Google cache.
When Mt. Gox was hacked, everyone assumed they were done, and folks like TradeHill were the future of BTC exchange. Mt. Gox came back, TradeHill got out (though they recently relaunched after several months), and I'm sure that led to a feeling of bulletproofness on Mt. Gox's part.
Will a press release from the target suffice?

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130404.html
As the name implies, a heat pump moves heat around. When you heat your house with a heat pump, you're not (just) converting electricity into heat. The electricity is being used to move heat from outside your house into the house. You make the interior of the house warmer while making the exterior (very slightly) colder. It's exactly the same as an air conditioner or refrigerator, just pointed the other way.

Of course, energy has to be expended to move heat around, and there are inefficiencies. But with real-world equipment and common cold-but-not-too-cold temperatures, a single unit of electricity can be used to move several times as much heat as it would produce if you just converted it to heat directly.

A computer is as efficient as anything when it comes to converting electricity to heat. Heat pumps win because they're ultimately playing a different game.
You had it the first time: "bears" is correct.

Definition 3 c:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bear
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yeah, i'd be interested in comparisons of urban transportation across the globe. beyond taxis, an analysis with comparisons like underground use vs. taxi etc would be a great follow up to this article.
At about the same time as mtgox was slammed with a DDOS, Dwolla (which is a common intermediary to get money in and out of mtgox) was too. The timing seems highly suspicious.
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Mitch Hedberg :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg
Yeah you're right. I'm fairly certain also that it's legal for private businesses / individuals to accept and sell other forms of money. Only when it comes to tax payment must you use the State issued currency or suffer repercussions. However we're reminded by Gresham's law that money overvalued by government will tend to drive out money that is not.
"What’s interesting is how quickly Twitter reacted to the situation, which makes one wonder who might have brought the violation, or issue, to Twitter’s attention."

Err....TechCrunch, two hours earlier? Or is that the joke?
>at what point did people start to use the word "pragmatic" for "opinionated"?

I don't think people are doing that. It's just that being pragmatic also makes you opinionated by necessity.

Actually that would a very good definition: being pragmatic means you are "opinionated by necessity" (as opposed to opinionated by other concerns, e.g pureness, advancing the state of the art, etc). So being pragmatic is a subset of being opinionated, not a synonym.

>when the implementer of a language or technology makes a choice that restricts how its users can do some things, it makes an opinionated decision, that just happens to be pragmatic in the use-context he has thought of, but may not be pragmatic at all for the use-context that some technology user imagines

A language has thousands (millions) of users and every one can imagine whatever use-context. Not catering to all of them doesn't make you opinionated: merely pragmatic. Nobody has the time and the means to cater to all possible use-contexts. And we all know that adding too many things can ruin a language, over-complicate it and such. So that's another pragmatic concern.

>like a language feature that may be hard-to-impossible to implement but that when done properly (and it only has to be done once) would simplify the lives of a large group of programmers that just want to do things in a certain way.

Sounds like a very horrible feature to build into a language. Especially when you are starting out. If it's "hard-to-impossible to implement" then you are wasting tons of resources to something that might very well not pan out in the end.

To reject this is not opinionated in the bad way. It's merely being pragmatic again, ie understanding that you have to prioritize things, and not go on a wild goose chase.
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Does Twitter want to scare off every developer? I mean its kind of absurd to just shut down a newly launched service on the same day that it launches. It may violate their policy, fine, change your policy or be friendly with developers to really help them become compliant. This is the Apple/Appgratias thing all over again (in the same week); We don't like what you are doing so we will just shut you down, and boo if you don't like. Imagine how much trust Twitter would get if they would simply work with these app developers instead of drastically changing policy/just making things stop working. Right now, as it stands, I will never even touch their ecosystem in fear that I get more restricted, or even worse, have an entire element of my business shutdown without being able to do anything about it.
Yeah, we built it to work well on logos and vector artwork, but it might not work so well for photographs. Anyway, see what you think. :)
Thanks, I did not know that about Groups.

> Even for most non-apps services, the support people will attempt to figure out your problem, though it's best-effort.

Ah, but how can people get their problems in front of the support people for non-apps services? There is no obvious way to do so.
Former aerospace, current iPhone app guy here. Each career path has its pros & cons. Working at a place like NASA or Lockheed lets you work on some very cool projects, often times you are working on some project that never sees the light of day (canceled due to budget cuts and what not). Also, the bureaucracy at large aerospace organizations can be stifling.

Having said that, Space X seems like it offers the best of both worlds.
At some point it would probably be easier to mine one, if the value and interest drops low enough.
I'm guessing the computer you're running FF on has a solid-state drive; amiright ?

added: my reason for asking is that I run FF (release update channel) and I genuinely wonder whether it would be more responsive if it weren't for my slow hard drive. (in particular, I am hypothesizing that every time I visit a new page, its URL gets committed to disk.) was not trying to slam FF; please don't downvote me!
I'm a bitcoin skeptic but not for this reason. If this were true than we would have never had a functioning currency until fiat money, but we did. (Since gold, ergo money, was a scare resource as well.)

The biggest hurdle to bitcoin is simply that so far it has not registered on the radar of world governments. If bitcoin ever gets to the point of being a legitimate participant in the currency wars, it will be facing the wrath of all central banks and governments. They will find a weakness.
I was the technical reviewer on a recent book called "Design for Software". It's a good introduction to design with a focus on an engineering audience.

More info at http://www.design4software.com/
Unfortunately the article doesn't provide any evidence that the code freeze actually saved LinkedIn from anything worse than its engineers grumbling about what a mess their systems were, which is what every engineer in every company has done with every system since the dawn of time. The only real data point provided is that "so far this year, [LinkedIn's] share price is up more than 50 percent," but correlation/causation/etc.
As you wrote: "The situation was made worse by the tactics of “wildcat” (unlicensed) taxis who used what some considered to be “underhanded tactics,” such as drastically lowering fares, to get more business."

Protecting a critical industry from market failure is more than just "protecting employment"
It depresses me how negative out society can sometimes be, and lack of common courtesy is one of the biggest culprits.

I was always brought up to be polite, even to people who didn't deserve it - and especially to people who you didn't know well enough to form an opinion. The number of people who reject this approach and just act like everyone else is crap is sad.

My experience of this was, following graduation from university, going to the job centre. I was looking for a mundane job for a year to earn some travelling money. My "advisor" treated me like an idiot, and a failure - constantly asking why I was "incapable of finding a graduate job". The idea that I didn't actually want a "career" quite then seemed beyond her.

What a weird situation; I was a pretty smart guy, with a very strong engineering degree, being treated like an idiot by someone with very weak academic credentials. I didn't care what she was qualified in (she made a point of having the certificate on her wall, I think it was a foundation course in arts) so long as she was competent at her job; but ''by her own value system'' I was several steps above her on the ladder, even jobless.

She made a point of being a jerk about my unusual choice, rather than simple getting over her disdain and helping me out!

In the end I walked out on the principle of it. Being treated like crap is demoralising.

That was an important life lesson, and ever since I've made extra effort to treat people as human beings.
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Are you surprised?

Why don't we all go back to AOL and Geocities. The problem with Twitter is that it is not clear exactly what their approach to their revenue problem might be. I understand they want to monetize their API but does that go hand-in-hand with quashing every potential competitor who happens to use the API with a modicum of success?

I'm bearish about any company that builds a data warehouse on the basis of access and open-ness and then decides to restrict that access at a later date for the sake of profitability. It's just distasteful and speaks volumes.

This is a great example of why you should never build a business on Twitter: http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2013/03/04/how-twitter-came-to...

Partnering with Twitter is still quite reasonable, but creating an Enterprise based upon their APIs is foolish at best.
Thank you. That's actually helpful.
... and awaiting the right moment to acquire!
> The government is the entity which created the problem.

And it acts as an extension of "the people" as the entity providing oversight and regulation in this example as well. That it doesn't happen in real life is evidence of subversion of an ideal, rather than some inherent truth.
To (mis-) quote Rick Steves, the city of Paris repaved its streets, removing the historic cobbles, to prevent the citizens from using the streets...as weapons.

Non-apathetic citizenry probably trumps well-armed citizenry.
> A rocket only needs to achieve thermal break-even. A power plant needs to achieve electrical break-even ...

Yes, all true. But if a fusion reactor ever achieved break-even, that would be such a breakthrough that the specifics would be reduced to footnotes, and both thermal and electrical applications would soon follow.

> In this way a system can be simultaneously useful for space travel but useless for power generation.

My point is that if break-even were to be achieved, it would be break-even for both applications. The reason is that the plasma conditions for fusion break-even would have much more in common in the two cases than the differences.
Taxis are required to service all destinations in manhattan.

But yeah, originations are a problem.
By the time they get around to de-regulating the medallion system, self-driving cars will be available, which will put taxi drivers out of business. (Unless they block that too.)
I heard through the grapevine that no one wanted to fund Optimizely the first time they pitched for a series A because VCs pigeonholed A/B testing as a crowded space with too small a market. So then, Optimizely went out and executed like crazy, is now making millions per year, and was able to basically define whatever terms they wanted for their fundraising round.

This story, if true, would explain why it's such a massive round: it's payback for the annoyance of having to pitch a second time around.

Anyway, that's all hearsay. The team deserves nothing but praise -- I hear love for their products regularly from my customers (my startup is next-gen content analytics provider for large sites).
> The biggest hurdle to bitcoin is simply that so far it has not registered on the radar of world governments.

http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes20121...