skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Lyft and have been using the service for almost a year now, but they've gotten greedy with their pricing model. About once a month I'll take a Lyft home from work, and the same ride has steadily become more expensive. What once costed $12, now costs $18, when a cab would charge $14. It's an easy way for them to boost profits, but I think riders will catch on and look elsewhere as cabs start to get their act together. Flywheel is an app for hailing cabs, and you can pay through your phone just like Lyft. Cab drivers attitude has significantly improved over the course of a year and I'm now no longer opposed to taking one like I once was.
Don't forget the stupid new J1772 quick-charge! With a handle the size of Rhode Island!

http://b.img-zemotoring.com/media/news/2012/10/j1772-dccombo...
I figured someone would make that comment. I'm just giving one example of why this may not be a good engineering decision. It also makes it hard to access or inspect the wheel/tire in general. You can't just optimize for one thing like aerodynamics without taking into account the big picture (and I personally think aesthetics). I have seen many solar cars and high efficiency cars over the years that are highly impractical because they've optimized one efficiency dimension too far.
That wouldn't make the comparison invalid - if he's not using anything not supplied by AngularJS, then a comparison to JQuery would also not use anything not supplied by the package.
Seems like a short term business, especially if self-driving car fleets take off.
It's not that bad if you consider that many of us sit for more than 20 minutes in traffic pretty often...

I am not suggesting this situation is interchangeable, but just something to think about.
There are many reasons fuel cells have not been adopted. They are very expensive (in the $100k+ range), they don't last long, storing hydrogen on the car is hard, and their cold weather performance is bad or they do not work at all [1]. And yes, while hydrogen is abundant, we do not have a distribution system in place.

Contrast this with battery electric cars, they exist today are viable at decent price points, they do not degrade as fast as FCV, they work sufficiently in cold weather (I've driven a leaf in MN winter at -20), and the electricity distribution system in place will mostly meet our needs. Top this off with significant investment from diverse industries to improve battery storage and performance (consumer electronics, car manufacturers, power companies).

[1] (http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/fcv_challenges.shtml)
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I think the pink mustache thing is brilliant on a few fronts.

1. ID. It really helps identify the car when it's there to pick you up.

2. Marketing. I remember the first time I saw a pink mustache on a car I thought to myself, 'What is that about?' After the second, third and fourth times I started asking and that's how I found out about Lyft.

3. Community. I've heard that Lyft drivers wave to each other the same way Jeep owners and motorcycle riders do.

I know some people are turned off by it, but I imagine the benefits outweigh the negatives for Lyft.
Exactly, it's not a solid line. The smarter the system gets, the more the blame goes from the user to the system.

I wonder what's going to happen to philosophy if/when we hit the event horizon.
Loom (YC W12) Is Building A Better iCloud
This may be the case for pure single page apps, but any real world application will have some pages you want to load faster and have easily indexed by search engines.

At https://starthq.com we started out as a single page app with a RESTful API using Angular, but with time it has become apparent that there are certain public pages that need to have the HTML generated server side. Now we have a hybrid solution, where some parts of the page are generated on the server and others, namely the parts that are different for anonymous and logged in users, on the client.

We've experimented with the likes of https://github.com/apiengine/seoserver but the truth of the matter is it's actually easier to generate the HTML server side than using Angular.
It's taken me 20+ minutes quite a few times to fill up my car at a regular gas station. Try filling up at a southern california gas station on a Friday afternoon or on a Monday and depending on it's traffic, it can take quite a while.
Algae Biofuel Investment: Save or Ruin the World?
My blog is similarly minimalistic (http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles.html).

However, I do have an bigger footer, because after reading an article the reader should have various options like reading more of my articles, comment via email, flattr me, etc.

I also want a date on every article.

The titles on your overview page are hard to scan, because of the dates in front of them. I put the dates after the titles and dimmed them down.
Tesla are already profitable without selling ZEV credits though, and they're are expecting that source of income to phase out over the next few quarters anyway. It might hurt them a tiny bit, but it shouldn't have much of an impact in the long term.
I think Lyft has a visible culture that may be a turn-off to some, but I think it's really great and I prefer the service to the others you mention. In other services you sit in the back seat and ignore each other, aside from the friendly hello when getting in the car. With Lyft, you commonly sit up front with the driver and greet each other with a fist bump. The last couple of rides, the drivers had bottles of water and snacks to share. It feels like more of a community with Lyft, and it's always cheaper than the equivalent Uber. Give it a try sometime, you might just like it :)
It has nothing to do with variable names.

People aren't rushing to make mod_* for other languages because it implies a lot of behavior (by nature of it being served through Apache) which isn't really the best idea for security.

Having a structure that mixes the code files, templates (let's ignore mixing of logic and presentation), and static content all in the same publicly accessible location is just asking for security problems.

You can lock down what's accessible or not based on file extensions, but that's through a config that's not part of the deployment (Apache conf) so it's not as easily controlled in your code, or if it is part of the deployment (htaccess), can be affected or overridden by directives nowhere near your code (Apache conf). It's fun when someone breaks the php loading directives in the Apache config and your code starts showing as plain text. You made sure not to hard-code ANY credentials in your PHP files that are publicly reachable, right? Your config isn't publicly reachable, is it?

The closest you are going to get to something sane here is to approximate what the other frameworks are doing, which is to create a completely different site root, and a directory structure that completely separates your public content from your code, and point Apache at the public dir, not the code root. Unfortunately this does nothing to mitigate the problem of someone breaking any URL rewriting you need going on at the global Apache config, nor does it make it any easier to deal with crazy rewriting rules in Apache.

Apache is great at serving content; Apache isn't the best choice anymore for serving applications.
It's not that different from Scheme, really.
If you are only using lists of one element type, then most scheme code translates fairly naturally to Haskell.
Sure you use a `case _ of ...` instead of a `cond`,
but Scheme is more similar to Haskell than it is to Python for example.
How about try Lyft first? Once you try it, then you can have an informed opinion.
TV shows I can half listen to (X-Men)

Movies I've seen a million times (How to Train Your Dragon, The Matrix, etc)

Music with lyrics I've heard a million times

Electronica
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ENRC says hackers may have stolen data
On a related note, one of the best storage mechanisms we have for hydrogen is in hydrocarbons. There is actually about 64% more hydrogen in a liter of gasoline than in a liter of liquid hydrogen. That same liter of hydrogen also only contains about 25% the energy of the liter of gasoline.

We don't have a good way to contain and transport hydrogen as a fuel.
Hmm, wonder what the catch is?
Michael Hartl's book is free to read online...

I much prefer Ruby's documentation to PHP's. Especially when it comes to 3rd party code, I don't have one gem in my current Rails project that isn't very nicely documented. Compare that to the PHP I work on during the day and almost all the 3rd party libs have no documentation.
Flip it around, and that's where I'm at. Condemn the companies that the tactic is most associated with; don't excuse Kim Dotcom for doing it, too.
Might one not say, then, that mod_python also cannot safely coexist with anything else? Seems neither decided to namespace that but you seem to decide to blame PHP?
they're most known for their main product: player.io. here's a link to that: http://playerio.com/
I've independently come up with the same decisions on many of these points and, weirdly, a very similar blog design:

http://jmoiron.net

I decided even to dispatch with the header bar, putting navigation at the bottom of the main page; presumably, people will only care to see more of my writing if they've read the article. Not as good for people revisiting the page, but they can likely remember http://jmoiron.net/blog or bookmark it in order to get to the search.

My fonts are slightly smaller and slightly less contrast, and after looking at Gemmell's blog I wonder if I should change that decision. I wanted to have emphasized elements of the text easily distinguishable from the body while not distracting.

Also, I agree with Gemmell's "The basic tenets of hypertext should be left alone". One of these basic tenets, to me, are the semantic meanings of Blue, Purple, and Red text for normal, :visited, and :active hyperlinks. If you want to chose a link color, do not invert or violate these classical meanings.
I forget what it's from, but your last sentence reminded me of this (paraphrased).

> McDonalds and Burger King. McDonalds has it hard - they have to do market research, explore new areas, test whether they work. Burger King has it a little easier - they just follow McDonald's around.
Science Proves Connection Racism and Stupidity
US Department of Education: Almost 30% of 20-24 y/o aren’t employed or in school
True, but eventually the hardware PIN has to become a software PIN that will be transmitted. Why is it more difficult to sniff out hardware PINs?
To be clear, you are comparing pure pypy vs pure python?
First of all clang and LLVM support the GCC vector extensions which means you can write portable SIMD code: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-a...

Second, compilers also do auto vectorization (automatically vectorizing code that is not explicitly written to use vector types / SIMD intrinsics) and in addition SSE is used even for scalar floating point operations these days. It doesn't look like asm.js even lets you operate on single precision (32 bit) floating point values which can be a performance issue in some cases.

Last, web workers are less flexible than native multithreading with shared memory between threads and atomic instructions / mutexes etc.

These and other issues mean it will not be possible to squeeze as much performance (and as a result power savings) out of asm.js as from native code or PNaCL.
I wrote something pretty similar almost 8 years ago[0], and for the most part I've found the advice holds up.

My current job is a lot more flexible for remote working than any other I've had before. I don't work remotely all of the time, but at least 33%. For me, I found a bit of self-discipline is essential, as is being able to "train" others. I'm living with my parents at the moment and had to get my mum to realise she couldn't just pop into the room at any moment to chat - I could be in a call with my boss/a client, or trying to focus on a task... anything really.

Another anecdotal observation I've had - once you've trained yourself to work from home, you'll often find you're at your most productive there. I know I do. Partly it's the more comfortable/relaxed setting, and partly it's guilt of being caught "goofing off". Scott Hanselman mentions the guilt aspect in his reaction to the Yahoo! ban on remote working[1].

If I ever lost the ability to work remotely I don't know what I'd do. Nowadays I can't go more than a few days at the office without feeling completely drained, demotivated and demoralised. The flip-side is working from home for an extended period can leave you wanting to go into the office to see real people again, not just a Office Communicator window.

[0]http://chrismcleod.me/2005/06/15/six-tips-for-working-from-h...
[1]http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BeingARemoteWorkerSucksLongLiv...
i wouldn't be surprised if this was less of a multi-market strategy and more of a play to get a games platform for tumblr. just a thought, though.
If self driving cars take off, Lyft will be the computing network that manages on-demand transportation including via self-driving cars. Not at all a short term business.
In my opinion, it damages the arguments against such abuses of the patent system. A public outpouring of support for this case makes it seem like there's a double standard: that people oppose it in the typical context because of a general bias against large corporations, rather than a problem with patent trolling itself.
Apple Confirms WWDC Keynote Presentation Will Be Monday June 10th
The SAE combo fast fast charger is well behind the CADdeMO standard for adoption [1]. This is in part because it was approved much later and part because there was no vehicle in the US with the SAE combo. Though they are both are starting from very low bases, and some companies are building chargers with both plugs [2].

[1] http://insideevs.com/chademo-reports-2501-charging-stations-...
[2] http://insideevs.com/abb-first-to-bring-combined-charging-sy...
This Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In History
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So Lyft (and I guess Uber) are basically Netflix then. (As in--why mail people DVD's when streaming is right around the corner?) As with Netflix, they're the best positioned to ride that particular wave.
My opinion towards enhancements is split. Footnotes in dead-tree publications or sidenotes on the web. If something is important for the reader it should be in the main text. If it is not important, why distract the reader? I have not found a good rule when something is not important enough for the main text, but still important enough for putting it somewhere near the main text.
Ask HN: Do you know a HN-like but for users cases on the web?
I am a looking for a source of links to interesting users cases on the web. Not about tech.
eg : How Obama raised money ? The Nike strategy on the web ...

Do you know any ?
I've been lucky to be in the beta for the last two months or so... my wife and I use it to group the photos we individually take on our iPhones and then share them with our family back home. It just works, unlike our old setup
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I'll use XML". Now they have a problem and a /problem.
Unless you watch it in Frankenheimer's classic movie "Grand Prix" - in which case it is mind blowing.
> If Apple really cares about a shortage of homegrown engineering talent, then it should pay taxes to fund the institutions that could address that problem.

It might also wish to fund these institutions directly, so at least some money will not end up in drones and other toys.
Seriously? Google Reader flaming out does not mean that Google is a terrible steward for big projects, especially "moonshot" projects like this.

I would be thrilled if Google shut down web services that could easily be done by other companies/startups in favor of pursuing big, meaningful projects that only they can do, like self-driving cars, Google Fiber, Google Glass, etc.
This article is incoherent and mostly hand waving. The fact that everyone is disagreeing with it for different reasons either speaks to its shallowness or to the fact that it is just wrong about the valley being ideologically homogeneous.

The part you put in parenthesis is the true problem that every hacker should be contemplating every day.
Well for many it would require giving up a level of pretentiousness which would prevent from driving such a down level car.

I think its a great deal. All I am waiting on is a convertible. I would be quite happy if VW would deliver on the e-bugster concept. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/motors/4457777/Volkswag...

I am more than willing to be eco friendly, I just want to keep the fun quotient high.
I hate to be a jerk, but why so many first-world problem startups?

Is keeping a handle on your cat pictures and food shots really that big a deal, something that keeps Joe Sixpack up at night?

Here's an idea: instead of helping hipsters heap hi-res headshots of healthy hobos into the cloud, do something that matters.

For example, go after the giant clusterfuck that is medical image sharing. Again, it's cloud data storage of images, it's sharing on all kinds of devices, and it's technically challenging (privacy concerns, etc.)--and it actually helps people.

Why don't you take this tech and use it to help patients move their medical images between practitioners?
Yeah, I worded it differently when I submitted it to /r/golang: Example of using Mozilla's persona with Go
"Ideally, you wouldn’t have to take time to think about personal content management anymore."

Sigh. Everytime someone makes things "easier" for me by removing my ability to manage my content, it ends up being way more frustrating than if I could just get the files with a file manager.
Golf for a mutaphuqin' good cause with Samuel L Jackson on Prizeo
I prefer total silence, but when I need something to listen to I go with classical. Piano and/or violin sonatas are my go-to choice.
So far I'm liking Flickr better, though I've only dipped my toe in. Uploads (on the site, see [0]) are fast, organizing is fast (though the batch organize is weird IMO), everything can be made private by default easily, and ONE TERABYTE OF STORAGE. It's also much better for browsing than Picasa Web Albums, which are functional but don't really do it well. Flickr makes browsing quite pretty (in a good way, mostly) and generally better for showing your photos to someone.

Picasa the website is fine, and does just about everything right, though generally not in the most ideal way. Privacy controls are rich and you can still link directly to a photo to bypass (and revoke existing links). Albums are functional, face tags are functional (though now they use G+ accounts if you link to contacts... not happy, but I guess it works), comments are a bit hidden but work. I have several gigabytes in it (and bought more), no problems, no complaints. Main downside is it has definitely not been updated along with the rest of Google's properties, and it integrates very poorly for the most part (notifications, accounts, weird partial G+ linkage...).

Picasa the application is... different, but decent. It's surprisingly good in a number of ways, and I'd recommend it over iPhoto if only because iPhoto has routinely lost my data during updates, and slows to a crawl after several thousand photos. Picasa stays fast, searches quickly, organizes oddly but effectively. It leaves your photos in folders that (basically) match the UI, which may or may not be a good thing for you.

Picasa the application when synced to your Google account is slick 95% of the time (it all works as you'd expect), and a total hell-hole of duplication, sync failing, and filename mangling the remaining 5% (though most of that only rears its head when you hook it up for the first time). The 'Sync to web' on/off switch for each album is handy when it works, but hasn't generally handled turning on dozens at once.

I would honestly recommend against the syncing aspect of it, though sadly it's a major selling point. If you can hook it up once and leave it that way you probably won't have much trouble, but I did a lot of reconnecting, and it definitely got confused sometimes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5758033
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Nevertheless, you seem to disagree with Gemmell about underlining links. In my opinion the underlining is more important than the color.
built with node.
Yo, that takes actual work, investment, and domain-specific knowledge.
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transferred back to Indian universities by returnees who start academic careers?

Of course, they are. I went to a top-tier school in India for my masters degree and I'm now a graduate student at a well-known private university in the US. I would say there is very little difference in the quality of teaching between my Indian alma mater and my current university. The main advantage here seems to be an army of teaching assistants conducting office hours, "precepts" and such which probably help struggling students. But I think the in-class lectures, homework assignments and exams are of the same quality.

I also went to a second-tier private school for my undergraduate degree and that is where I experienced the sort of teaching the article talks about. I think, like most of India's other problems, it boils down to economics. I paid about about $1200 in total for my four year undergraduate degree. I believe the government supplemented some of this with a grant to private institutions for students who met a merit criterion. But my point is that this is very little money and you can see why it would be quite difficult to recruit and retain high quality teaching talent.

The top-tier institutions - the IITs, IISc, IISERs, ISI and so on - don't have great salaries but they make up for it with prestige, perks (on-campus housing, cheap food, discretionary financial awards) and research grants. But beyond the cream of the crop, unfortunately it isn't a rational economic decision to go into teaching in India. This isn't to say nobody does and I've had a few really great teachers even at my undergraduate school but I also realize that India is a poor country with no social safety net. I'm not going to judge anybody for choosing financial security over social service.
I thought this was about the classic adventure game and was briefly excited...
You are both right -- they reduced the efficiency of the engine in the later models; see:

http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/blog/?p=124
Evernote is just a word processor front-end to cloud storage. The use cases are pretty limitless. I'm not really sure what you mean by "too many features". I use Evernote to store text, code, and figures related my scientific research and there isn't a feature I don't use. On the other hand, I'm a little skeptical that Reminders will be an improvement over my current Calendar/TODO set-up.
Yeah it's awesome for this, super quick to share via email / sms both ways.
Revolutionary.

In all seriousness, this was a feature that I've been waiting on for a while--without reminders, I've had to go back-and-forth between the native OS X Reminders app and Evernote. In a way, this has sculpted my relationships with the two apps: I use Reminders for anything short-term (even things that might be considered 'Notes') and Evernote for anything long-term. Maybe that will change.
Ask HN: {Startup} Do you feel that you are doing exactly whats not recommended?
While building a product:
Developing all the features without customer feedback, not launching quickly enough etc.<p>What else?
Could you try explaining what this actually does? I can't figure it out from the link.
Apple becomes latest target of the Beltway Shakedown
This is GoogleX though.. What do they know about running a self-driving car company? Or about running an augmented reality eyewear company?

This is their moon-shot division, run by Brin to work on crazy ideas. Makani seems right up their alley.
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Explaining downtime by using meteorites