skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered that myself for a while - I guess there are problems with the market for taxis in the US but that level of service has been available here for a long time.
Agreed. I'm now really glad I didn't choose to use Parse for an upcoming project -- I seriously considered it.

I do think there is now a particularly acute need for an open source project that implements Parse's REST API. Maybe a Python project using Flask? If I had the time...
The best of the best will always be the exception to any rule in any industry.But the best of the best doesn't care if he gets fired because he will always come on top.So you are asking the wrong question.
Wait, what? There is a group of people outside government that produce something that did not exist yesterday. Through taxation people called "government" are taking part of that product. (I'm not saying if it's good or bad, it's just what it is.)

Then they use a lot of accounting here and there, but it does not change the fact that in the net some people had some property transferred from others to them in a non-market fashion (not in direct exchange for some other product, but because it's a "rule"). In my view it means that "taxation" is not applied equally to everyone. So it cannot be an example of a "fair" rule that you defined earlier.

Of course, we may talk whether redistribution of wealth is "good for society" or not, but that's outside the question of "universality of the fair rule".

Am I wrong about that?
Is the extension at least stable? I seem to have terrible luck with extensions and also seem to run into memory leaks or other issues so I tend to avoid them lately.
seems to be getting the mobile version of our site (http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4170). It's done on viewport width, not UA sniffing.
Well, the photophone was actually a much cooler device anyway. Experimental wireless transfer of human speech over 200 meters from a completely passive device using optical scattering? In 1880? Sweet! The receiver was active, but transmitter was not at all. Somewhat similar to modern UHF RFID technology.

Bell was actually a pretty awesome engineer largely motivated by wanting to help the impaired.
is that due to a backlash to the GPL these days? or something else?

what were the licenses you commonly encountered? the growth of the MIT license (shown in the story) surprised me. curious what you observed in your smaller survey.
Mandiant: No Drop in Chinese Hacking.
I think OP's saying he has read archives going back 1 year and a half. Not unread, read.

I too have hundreds of read articles sitting in my Instapaper's archives, and a few dozens of favorites. I'm more concerned for them than the unread articles.

If Pocket goes away in the blink of an eye, what becomes of your archives & favorites?
In the U.S., one difference is that they have more convenient and reliable dispatch than regular taxis, focused on virtually "hailing" a nearby car through their mobile app, rather than the two traditional options of: 1) trying to flag down a taxi on the street, or 2) booking one over the phone or internet and then waiting for it to come.

I think that's less novel in Sweden, though. Taxi apps are already common, and "virtual hailing" is how most younger people already hail taxis. In addition, there are a number of taxi companies, each of which can set their own prices and position themselves in different market niches, so you can choose one you like. In that market, Über may just be another taxi company with an app, and not have enough differentiation: http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/bostonblatte/2013/04/26/stockho...

Starting in SF probably helped them, too: SF's taxi system is worse than most.
Does Uber run these international operations or is it some kind of franchise?
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This is looks awesome. Already downloaded the program and forked the repository on Bitbucket to help translating it to brasilian portuguese (pt-BR). Congrats and keep up the great work! =)
Is it common to have a job in HF trading as C++/infrastructure architect guy, but having no interest in quantitative or any other type of finance? I mean no interest in strategies.
That's an awesome idea. I remember how Klik & Play (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik) pushed me towards software development, when I was a kid. Projects like this really stimulate the imagination and have a power to inspire children to get into IT. Big kudos :)
The thing here is that you are comparing US taxis to taxis everywhere. Not everywhere taxis are crap and prices are huge.

You developed a Mac App, so you paid the required fees to Apple (Developer license, 30% cut, passing through the sandbox hoops, etc.) What would you think if another developer could do exactly the same as you, without need for sandboxing, developer license and getting 100% of the money? Don't you think this would be, let's say, odd? Wouldn't you feel it was unfair?

I just looked it up to make sure (I'm from Spain,) and taxi licenses are unregulated in Sweden. So if I spoke Swedish and knew Stockholm well enough, I could go and get a license, by passing an exam and probably paying some kind of minimal fee. It's not like the government is asking for the Moon and Uber is offering a geostationary satellite. The government asks for the bare standard, and police comply with illegal taxi laws. Illegal taxis are illegal since they don't have a permit, just like an illegal driver is one without a driving permit.
As far as I can tell (and I'm not an expert in swedish taxi law) what the law says is you can charge by time (as a limousine), or by time+distance (as a taxi), and if you charge by time+distance you must use a certified tamper-proof taxi meter and have a price sticker in your window.

Which of these laws do you consider not to make sense?
Running out of oil is not what should scare us. It's very easy to make the stuff, and we have tons of it, even now. What we're losing is the cheap energy that came with the easy-to-exploit stuff that's dwindling. (Making oil, as any physicist would intuit as per entropy, will generally cost more than it's worth.) The energy ROI on Pennsylvania surface-level oil was 30:1 and up. That stuff's gone.

So-called "peak oil" (which we are probably at) isn't about "running out". It's a behavioral effect (peak production) insofar as we have some choice (as a collective) in how much we produce. The Hubbert model says that "peak" occurs at the 50-percent point. Based on what I've read, I'd guess that (a) we are at peak production and will be at-or-near this plateau of 80-85Mb/day for ~20 years, but (b) decline will be slow and some of that will be the good kind (alternatives), and (c) we've used less than 50% of the world supply (meaning the symmetry of the Hubbert model isn't the case).

Either way, we need to start working on alternatives. Global warming is a lot scarier than "peak oil". Markets work, and the bad case of "peak oil" that I consider credible is that our standard-of-living becomes like that of Eastern Europe (say, Hungary) for ~20 years. I've been there. It's not that bad. You have to hang-dry your clothes; you get used to that stuff. Climate change could kill off the species. That's much scarier.

Personally, I'm a fan of modern nuclear technologies, as a bridge until we're all-green. Most of the anti-nuclear prejudice in the US comes from known design flaws in plants that are over 30 years old that were built before people knew what they were doing. Modern, passive-safety nuclear plants just don't have those TMI/Fukushima/Chernobyl risks. There are dangers (perfectly safe energy production does not exist) but they're much less severe.
That's an incorrect explanation.

Facebook has a platform and that requires making users and developers happy.

No, Facebook has a platform that requires extracting as much personal data from people as possible in order to sell ads to advertisers. The developer platform, apps, etc, are all subordinate to this objective. There's no business model for Facebook to "make people happy". It is absolutely an advertising company, and Parse is/was not. So, the question remains, how does Parse fit into Facebook's advertising-driven business model?
Counting Google searches predicts market movements
It depends on the market and product. Its rarely 20, though. Usually around 10.
if a cabbie raped me, I'd totally trash him on yelp.
People always say the chant "free market doesn't work" without giving any explanation or examples. Moreover, any example should be carefully dissected and analyzed, which rarely happens. Even if people come up with examples, it's usually followed by "and this is why free market doesn't work".
I love libertarian logic sometimes. Taxi regulation must have come about because mustache-twirling government goons said "This taxi thing is working too well; let's ruin it with some regulation!"
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"it makes life a heck of a lot more pleasant"

"the libertarian model disgusts me"

Do you agree that people have different standards of what is good and what is not? If you don't like something and I'm forcing you to swallow it, you won't feel any good (even if it's good for someone else).

Now, one way to resolve it is to come up with some boundaries that we cannot cross (e.g. "do not kill") and then everyone does what they please.

Another way is to say "stronger/bigger majority can press others to comply with what those in majority feel is good".

Do you realise that any law is a threat of murder? Even if it does not say so. If I make some customers happy, but you get jealous and angry and use a law against me to make pay a fine or shut down business, you are basically threatening me with a violent police force. If I don't comply, police will take me. If I try to protect myself, they may kill me.

What's my argument for you: if you want some protection, go make it, no problem. I'm not the one who will threaten you with violence. If you find a great business model to offer protection, monitoring, insurance etc. and my company goes out of business, well, that was my risk and my opportunity. And if you go out of business, it's the same: no one gets threatened, robbed or killed. We both just try to solve the problem in a peaceful manner. But when you start talking about regulation, then it is real threat of violence, guns, prisons, rape and confiscation.
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I think many sys admins thought of js as a web technology and back during w2k, systems and the Web were considered totally unrelated and many systems guys were dismissive of the Web. Things are much different today.
The US will sell it to China who will sell it back as slave labour batteries at enormous profit.
> What we're losing is the cheap energy that came with the easy-to-exploit stuff that's dwindling.

Pff, just buy the expensive stuff on credit like everything else these days and let the next generation deal with it.. ;)
Apple's WWDC tickets sell out in two minutes
Using Celery for queuing requests
Hmmm, well, yes, and I don't know why you don't see it yourself. The people on government payroll are doing something for their income (and they are taxed like anyone else, but to avoid routing money around it may be deducted before they get paid... Here in Spain it's not the case, they pay income tax like anyone else). Not everything is a product that is sold: education would be the simplest and more down-to-Earth example.
> Do you realise that any law is a threat of murder? Even if it does not say so. If I make some customers happy, but you get jealous and angry and use a law against me to make pay a fine or shut down business, you are basically threatening me with a violent police force. If I don't comply, police will take me. If I try to protect myself, they may kill me.

dude, what's wrong with you.
Seriously? No description on their page of what this thing actually is? When are devs going to learn to PUT a 1 LINE MISSION STATEMENT FOR YOUR PROJECT ON YOUR SITE.
> ..how are you cooking eggs that they're done in under a minute? The only way I can think of that stands any chance is by frying, which is hardly the healthiest option. Soft-boiling an egg takes me six minutes, plus the time to heat

I've got ~5 minutes here:

Boil water in kettle ~2 minutes

Place in pan on hot ring on hob with eggs, comes to boil ~.5 minutes

Boil until cooked ~3 minutes

- add a minute or two if you prefer hard boiled

And it doesn't require you to be standing over it so if you take away the time you can be absent that's going to take you down to more like 3 minutes.
Why hang your clothes when you can buy new ones? ;-)

Totally agree with OP.
From http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/en...:

"Many geologists suspect that gas hydrates play an important role in stabilizing the seafloor. Drilling in these oceanic deposits could destabilize the seabed, causing vast swaths of sediment to slide for miles down the continental slope. Evidence suggests that such underwater landslides have occurred in the past, with devastating consequences. The movement of so much sediment would certainly trigger massive tsunamis similar to those seen in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004."

Sounds dodgy to me :(
> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them.

I thought the point of Heroku was not having to SSH into your servers?
If you have any interest in perhaps using JSIL to cross-compile the .NET components of your engine, send me an email. It seems like it could simplify the maintenance of your web player (by eliminating the need for some code duplication). You could potentially consider moving the editor into the browser too, but that's more work.

Anyway, this seems like a great tool. I like your emphasis on collaborative editing - too few tools consider team workflows; some aren't even compatible with revision control!
A teacher fades away (follow-up to "I was a college newspaper advisor")
Oh there's nothing in the world like libertarian absolutism is there? Everything can be reduced to 'violence', therefore everything you disagree with is demonstrably, objectively wrong.

Here's one major flaw in your thinking "We both just try to solve the problem in a peaceful manner."

You ascribe honourable motives and noble behaviours to all actors. You are demonstrably wrong where human behaviour is concerned.

Anyway, we're no longer talking about taxis at this point, and I'm not up for a full discussion on the libertarian model. Needless to say, we don't all see the world in as black and white a way as you.
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Why do you think they'll move away from social? Asking because, for me, this looks like they'r going "all in" here. They want all private data and social is missing in their chain. But, hmmm, looks like it's much harder to become Big Brothers right hand >:-)
Extra reply to "libertarian model disgusts me": you probably live 95% of your life in total peaceful anarchy. All your personal relationships are voluntary. You don't threaten your friends with moral obligations when you plan to go to a pub. You just negotiate. You try to be nice and keep others happy. And everyone in your circle values that because if you break the trust, people will stop talking to you and your life will be less happy. And you use simple tools like doors, locks, privacy, avoiding bad districts to protect yourself against random assaults. You try to prevent problems and voluntarily establish good relationships, you are not going to a church or a court any time something does not satisfy you.

It's just remaining 5% of our lives are affected by some forces that we don't understand and/or don't really like.

So I don't believe that "libertarian model" disgusts you really. You just confuse lack of imposed regulations with a lack of security. Look around you: how much security is nicely and cheaply provided for you by the fellow citizens without laws, courts and guns.
Link to the earlier post, which was on the Hacker News homepage last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5551398
The following article might provide some insight into the company's response: http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/
HackerNews and LessWrong. I go to Reddit only when I'm looking for something particular or when I'm procrastinating heavily.
Well, food poisoning happens all the time in the regulated market. People get assaulted all the time by government employees on duty.

The libertarian way, however, is not that there should be no regulations. The idea is to 1) make regulations voluntary 2) not give the right to regulate to a monopoly with the exclusive power to use force.

You see, if there is a demand for certain things on the market - like safety, for example - market finds a way to provide those things. You don't need a government to protect you, it's an illusion and the longer you believe in it, the harder it is for you to see an alternative.
> …hopefully they do it in a different way, doing the same thing twice is pointless.

I believe Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.", not, "I have rediscovered everything in a slightly different way because no-one gave me more than a vague method to go on"

It is no bad thing to have several independent implementations of an algorithm. If there is a problem with one, then the others are likely to show that there is a problem. However, without open source code, all you can do is say, "Mmm, something's wrong somewhere" and write another version. You may end up with several papers that agree and one that doesn't, but you still can't draw any conclusions without looking at the code. Ultimately, you get a situation where everyone has to repeat the same work and see what they get, when what they should be doing is poring over the original soources and discussing which bits could/should have been implemented differently and how that affects the result.

The code is part of the method. If you can't show us the code, don't expect me to believe your 'results'. That is science.
C and C++ are already being heavily used on basically all servers.

Linux, the BSDs, the various commercial UNIX systems, OS X, and Windows all make very heavy use of C, and also C++ in some cases.

Apache, nginx, lighttpd, and many other web servers are written in C or C++.

The same goes for the major database systems commonly used today.

The main interpreters for languages like PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby are written in C. Even if you're using a Java implementation of those languages, or some other language that targets the JVM, the runtime you're using is most likely written using C and C++.

So I find it kind of silly to hear Ruby and PHP advocates say how it's "dangerous" to use C or C++ for server-side development. Their preferred stacks are already essentially all C and C++! The amount of C and C++ code powering their applications dwarfs the amount of Ruby or PHP code they might have written.
No limits on taxis as such in Sweden, there used to be but not anymore. However, you need to be licensed as a taxi company/driver and provide certain details on the cab, like price comparisons etc.
One time an interviewer pointed out my lack of a tie. Funny thing was I was dressed up. Suit, nice pants, nice shoes. Everything but a tie. This particular place was really into ties.

Don't know if that was the reason I didn't get the job. I think I was the most junior person they interviewed, although one of the interviewers said that I did better on the technical part than a lot of people more senior than me.

This was an "inside the beltway"(DC) company, and in that area I have subsequently learned that once you go inside the beltway, you wear ties. At least if the job is government contracting related.
Gas hydrates are possibly one of the mechanisms involved in the Storegga Slide - which resulted in a large tsunami in the North Sea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide
I think for the two recent guys that left, they were just burned out on having to carry all the content of a weekly show alone. Now their new podcast is more of a conversation and they can just BS without much prep.

For Gruber, I assume it was just money. Someone else offered him more or an ownership stake that he wasn't going to get from 5x5.
You have to hang-dry your clothes; you get used to that stuff.

I do that, and I live in Britain, which I believe is a lot better-off than Hungary. I don't know anyone who doesn't!
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I wouldn't be surprised if Instapaper has a free version again very soon.
No, the libertarian model, of allowing anything and working by reputation, disgusts me.

It results in (for instance) a world where idiots drive unsafe cars with impunity. Where private drivers rape young women (somehow the market is supposed to solve this? It demonstrably did not), and a million and one other things that we, as a society, have decided constitute an unacceptable risk to the rest of us.

The problem is not that I can't form good relationships, the problem is that assholes exist, and always will. The rest of us came up with government and rules to protect ourselves from them.
Show HN: SimpleBackpacker
Hello,

I want feedback. I've been around Asia for a year now and find it hard to believe there is no site dedicated to backpackers alone. I want this to be a source to fill up my backpacking itinerary. Simplicity being key. I've backpacked lots of cities and next month I start another 2 month trip throughout SE Asia. I'll be doing a lot of customer development while at it.

P.S. My technical skills are very low. I am more on the business side of things. Bootstrap itself was kind of a pain to the hang of.
How does an average person knows which restaurant to go, which shoes to buy, which ISP to connect to internet through, which car to buy, which computer to use and which city to live in?
Show HN: Pleasantly colorful collaborative shopping list with ability to predict
>If you have unread items going back for more than a year, chances are you are adding more to the list than you are removing.

I think you're missing the point and stuck in the use case of these tools as simple bookmarks or reading lists.

I have little reason to remove anything, ever. It's all being stored for free/negligible cost. I can reference it whenever and wherever I like.

>In the case that you need that knowledge again, you just dig it up on google (if you can remember it).

Right, I can search Google's index how ever many billion pages, hoping that what I want still exists online and that I can remember something specific enough about it to filter the specific needle I want out of the world's largest haystack.

Alternatively, I can just search the store described above which holds point in time copies of the relatively tiny subset of things I've actually seen or at least found interesting in the past. I can use utterly generic, half remember descriptions like "database" and get just a few matches rather than the 764,000,000 of Google.

>Might not be true for you, but i am sure its pretty common behaviour.

That's fine, I understand how people might choose to use these service differently than I do.

This tangent started with mtgx claiming an inability to understand why anyone would care about longevity or keep years of data in such tools.

I'm trying to help with that understanding.
It's not really about limo v not limo, it's really the other way around: you can charge either for time only or for time + distance, if you charge for time + distance you need a tamper-proof meter.

Time-based is mostly used by limousine services and time+distance for "regular" taxis for obvious reasons (a limo tends to be rented for a long time but not to move far, the opposite is true of regular taxis) but nothing prevents a limo service from charging for time+distance (besides looking cheap) and nothing prevents "regular" cabs from charging for time only.
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Am I the only one that thinks "flat design" looks bland, unengaging and unoriginal? Are we, on the cutting edge of web trends, going to take our design cues from Microsoft's Windows Phone marketing department?