skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's confusing that he pulled a response to someone else's post into a standalone post, without quoting this Noah person for context.

Here's the original complaint:

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I'm a huge #Uber fan, but the service has been getting really bad lately. Anyone else experiencing these issues?

-App shows a car 2 minutes away, and when I reserve, it then says the car is 8 minutes away

-Drivers who increasingly have no knowledge of the city and/or driving routes

-Drivers who increasingly have trouble communicating in English

-After booking, the car gets further away (significantly) before it gets closer on their way to pick me up.

-Surge pricing becoming the norm--even during traditional "non-peak" hours

Again, I've been and continue to be a huge fan of Uber, but the past couple months have been disappointing. On the plus side, I had an awesome Pakistani driver yesterday who had a great story to tell about how he emigrated to America and is making twice as much driving for Uber than his old taxi. Pretty cool.

https://www.facebook.com/noah.lichtenstein/posts/10100797782...
Ask HN: What other news sites do you frequent?
What sites constantly have great content?
First time I had seen CRDT as "Conflict-free" instead of "Commutative", but it seems to be a reasonably popular choice for C after some googling.
If I knew Python more I would write a Sublime Text plugin that syncs my settings over Dropbox.
You need a shopping cart and a merchant account/gateway. The credit card stuff is relatively easy copy/paste code. Authorize.net and Paypal have historically worked pretty well.

Though try to avoid storing or handling credit cards yourself to sleep better at night. Braintree is another gateway to look at.
It might be the first thing they do, but if they don't check their email immediately you have until they print/download. That window of 5 minutes to 6-8 hours or even over the weekend is worth using Google Docs alone.
I for one don't feel the need for an all-in-one communication app. I'm happy to use an app like Textual for IRC and Flamingo for IM.
Ladies like to watch sexy people having sexy times in ways that fit into their value systems, too.
A few summers back I opted to ride my bike back to San Francisco from Washington DC rather than fly. Everyone thought it was crazy to do it alone (and I secretly agreed), but in reality it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Over those 2 1/2 months I met countless people, slept on numerous strangers' couches, and made more friends than any other period of my life (several of whom I still keep in regular contact). It was awkward and it was comfortable, but it was an experience I'd encourage anybody interested to take.

Like Jesse said, acting Y around someone whose used to you acting X can cause reason for concern and alarm. When you're alone you don't have those checks/balances and can really evaluate who you are without the boundaries that persist in your normal social circle. "Aloneness" can be uncomfortable and confusing, but rewarding if you manage to wade through it all.

On the flipside I regretfully now tend to cause awkward situations by being too casual with people I've just met. Whoops?
11. When was the last time you where proud of your work?

Today when I happen to have come across a submission on HN by someone using the Octopress theme I made. :)
Thats one of the most disappointing inventions ever. So, it vibrates when you play Volleyball with your friends and you decide to go to your phone in the middle of the game? That's terrible!
I have a side project that I fiddle with in my spare time. Reading about something unrelated, I stumbled across a site with a really nice layout/presentation.

I'll be honest: My side project is a straight-up rip off of that other site's layout. I did all my own assets in photoshop but the actual design is theirs. I don't feel bad, either. I reverse-engineered their design into piecrust and just rolled with it.

Made me feel like I was 13 years old again, viewing the source for someone's Geocities page so I could figure out how they wrote their javascript to move things around sinusoidally.
"And he may just be doing it to get free publicity."

A really good point and I actually meant to mention that as a reason the case might have been accepted.

But that said even though I am generally a believer that any publicity is good as an attorney you wouldn't want to come off as a total laughing stock in order to get publicity. So while we definitely don't know if he is a "good attorney" we do know that he was able to get an attorney to take the case. I wasn't able to find much on the attorney. So he has (quick guess) everything to gain and not much to lose.

Of course I could offer as a counter to my argument the facebook case (Paul Ceglia) [1] [2] which was a total joke but he managed to get a prominent law firm to represent him in that case and they certainly screwed up on that one.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57541140/

[2] http://allthingsd.com/20110727/fourth-law-firm-withdraws-fro...
PagerDuty support here. Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it along to the dev team. Any other feedback that you'd like to share with me would be much appreciated.
The closer to the trade you are the higher bonus is as a percentage of your total comp. I did mention "front office" in my original post.

- Infrastructure is vital to most trades. Bonuses are going to more than 30% if you're on the cutting edge here - prop shops, some technology oriented hedge funds, and some banks.

- If by tools you mean GUIs then no.

- Engineers who write trading algos (or more likely algo components that are used by a trader at a higher level) will have a bonus that is more than 30%.
I wouldn't even read that much text in this situation.
That's, IMO, is another discussion. This JavaScript you talking about are written by programmers that often don't know JavaScript well and uses it as a little glue language on the client.

That's poorly written JavaScript.

On top of that, what I see missing on all this flamew.., err, discussion, is the difference between a more loose, small and open language and a more consistent, closed and regular one. Both feel a lot different. Comparing it in a given scenario may be valid, comparing they without any context at all feels like apples and oranges.
Meh. People were willing to go half-way across the world to try living somewhere new, probably never to return. Announce the trip, and you'll have to weed out volunteers pretty viciously.
Grep the US Code for "spouse", write a contract that covers those things?

> How do you handle loans? If I have 30k in debt, and I marry into a polygamous marriage, do the other spouses carry my debt?

I don't even know how this works with two people. I was under the impression that finances are separate unless you deliberately merge them, and that doing so is orthogonal to marriage.
And the response:
http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Humor/encryption_foil...
I try to work no more than 9 hours per day 5 days per week. I schedule blocks of time on Google calendar and try to be super productive during those blocks and track the results week to week. (Pomodoro technique, phone won't ring before 11, etc.)

Usually this means 8-5 with a "go to bed" alarm set 9 hours before I want to wake up.

It's a daily struggle, but I feel like keeping the balance of time on projects is key. It's easy for me to fall into a rut and work on one area and neglect others.
An Ember JS Gauge Component
Yeah I do prefer desktop clients over web apps and browser plugins. But I do do not want to have to mark messages as read twice, once on my computer and again on my phone which is why I tolerate the Chrome Hangout plugin.
It's a dessert topping! It's a floor wax! It's both!

Either a car is safe to drive on regular streets without human supervision or it isn't. It doesn't matter what's inside.

You could probably imagine a scenario in which the cost of the self-driving kit (not the software, but things like "a LIDAR array") was something like $100,000. In which case maybe most private individuals are priced out of the market, but some corporations are like, "This is still cheaper than paying for drivers." But I don't really see why that wouldn't apply to taxis as well as kitten-delivery. And in any case, it's hard to imagine why the cost of an automation kit would not drop in time.

So I don't think there are too many plausible scenarios in which it is persistently the case that automated cars only carry non-human cargo.
I won't, but I can, sure. Check out this post on our blog about a guitar teacher using us to sell online lessons through a combination of Facebook ads and banner ads: http://blog.perfectaudience.com/2013/10/24/retargeting-micro...

We track sales and conversions for our customers pretty carefully to make sure we're producing results.

Also, I said $5-15 in sales. That's a big spread :)
At the Disrupt SF 2012 hackathon, one submission managed to create a Hello World-esque app...using literally every sponsor's API. The emcee commented that he was "hedging his API bets."
Did you look at the link above from Wikipedia? They mention that supposed grammatical error:

>>"Ich bin ein Berliner" was not only correct, but the only way to express what the President wanted to say.
Many say "moon" when they mean natural sattelitte of a planet
"Also, does all software require a free trial or something? I never got that memo."

Obviously no, but it's hard to convince people to move from software that works (such as Adium) to your software if you can't at least provide a great overview of how it works via video demonstration or better yet allowing the user to try it out.
Hell, in TOS they went to the edge of the galaxy (or back) in practically no time, under their own power.
Why is it that some movies are missing from the results? For example, when I searched "Daniel Day-Lewis", the movie "The Last of The Mohicans" was missing.
Apple's Challenge: Making Average Consumers Smart About Smart TV
Don't be a racist. /s
I wish HN contributors were more careful with their link titles. The actual article title, "End Hypocrisy with Leaks," is altogether different, and inestimably more reasonable, than the absurdly titled "The End of Hypocrisy."
Artificial neural networks are only one method among many, and they are only vaguely similar to biological ones. Neural nets are only good at exactly what biological ones are good at; pattern recognition. They can't do any optimization at all. They aren't going to be rewriting their own code any time soon.

Modern computers are millions of times faster than the human brain, and can in theory be made much more energy efficient and compact and probably cheaper.

Yes we are still evolving, though at a ridiculously slow pace. And the traits that are currently spreading aren't exactly good. The genes responsible for sociopathy are becoming more frequent since we don't live in small communities anymore. Intelligence is being strongly selected against at the moment as counter-intuitive as that seems. Less intelligent individuals tend to reproduce far more frequently for whatever reason.

"Extelligence" doesn't really explain much. Sure a mind on it's own might not accomplish much, but we still have to explain what it is about human minds that allow them to think and learn in the first place. Can apes be taught language? If they were would they gain higher level intelligence or does it take more than that? I bet it isn't that simple.

>You would have to be a stupidly, suicidally cancerous civilization to go around converting whole planets into tools.

I don't know where your preference comes from but I would love to see the planets get converted into giant computers and minds. We should optimize the universe for our values, rather than preserving the random state it was put in by nature.
My issues with Firefox

1) Signing into Chrome is easier and more intuitive then syncing with a code. Also having your extensions is nice.

2) The Inspect element and console are easier to use in Chrome. (Copy as HTML, etc)

3) I seem to have to click on a YouTube video twice for it to pause in Firefox.

4) Typing search queries in chrome is easier. For example in Firefox, you can't just type define: word to search Google for the definition of 'word', as it complains it is not a known command. I don't often use URL commands and think you should access about:config from somewhere else.

5) In Firefox when you scroll with the mouse you scroll too far per mouse tick.
Sure , i was talking about the website users and api clients "see" , as opposed to "back-end" , ie , all the infrastructure used to manage files,ect...
I noticed that later, though it seemed to be in response to the amount of people who were listening, not the fact that they missed the intro.
Amen. What ever happened to privacy?
Perhaps you would be surprised, or not, to discover that dumping heat into the Bay is regulated just like other pollutants.

"Power plants may be located in any area where they do not interfere with and are not incompatible with residential, recreational, or other public uses of the Bay and shoreline, provided that any pollution problems resulting from the discharge of large amounts of heated brine into Bay waters, and water vapor into the atmosphere, can be precluded."

-- http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/laws_plans/plans/sfbay_plan#8
There's a game theory element though. If everyone is going for the same sponsorship prize, the odds of winning become more difficult.
Yeah, some dyslexic folks find that it makes reading easier, and we got a lot of requests for it. Apparently BeeLine is super helpful for some dyslexic people and they wanted to be able to get the best of both worlds.
Can Michael Barr be trusted to give an unbiased review. His business is after all embedded software training and coding standards. So magnifying the negative consequences of bad coding practices would play into his business strategy...

(I am not saying hes verdict is biased, I am just stating he has cause to find Toyota guilty).

Furthermore was Toyota's code really of such poor quality relative to the rest of the industry, and relative to the economic realities of the market. I mean it's all good and well to demand aerospace and medical device quality code, but would the average consumer be willing to pay $1000 per LOC for his speed control in his car? I very much doubt it.
>taxes. Or, lack thereof.

Your quote doesn't support that at all.

My interpretation is it's about environmental concerns. There's a long history of people expanding the city of San Francisco into the bay via fill, structures, even ships. Eventually there was a backlash, and most of that behavior is now banned by laws, requirements for environmental impact reports, etc. I would expect attempts by Google to get around, or just ignore, such laws would provoke a strong negative reaction by the local government.
Telegram: An open source replacement for Whatsapp and iMessage (iOS & Android)
Why? or are you stating that social interactions have nothing to do with race, gender and sexuality? 'Cause then you and I simply do not live in the same world...

As much as we all do want racism etc to go away, prejudices are a very real thing. The preface is relevant to his story.
No Jabber?
Why not both? The legal/liability issues are there either way.
Car firmware scares me at times. One day I started up my Kia Soul and the transmission decided it wasn't going to shift out of first gear. A reboot later and everything was working fine, and it hasn't happened since.

Still though, sort of horrifying. (Hopefully I hit some sort of safety or fallback mode that can only occur on boot!)

It is with a mixture of fear and amusement that I observe the workings of my car's firmware. (I can hear the interrupts fire in my stereo system when I change the volume through the steering wheel control and the music skips, some buffer wasn't full! I almost have a 100% repro worked out. :) )

Edit:

Having worked in Firmware for some time now, I can confirm that the skill level of many embedded developers is not what I'd call stupendous. Now of course most people are, on average, average, but embedded seems like a special case.

The thing is, embedded systems have exploded in complexity in the last few years. No longer are software projects worked on end to end by just a handful of engineers, rather embedded engineering teams are being forced to learn the lessons about properly scaling up software engineering that developers in other areas learned long ago. A project with 16KB of space for code could be written by 2 or 3 developers sitting next to each other, and it was reasonable to keep the entire program state in one's head.

Now days? You can get Cortex M4 boards that look a damn lot like an actual computer. Sure you don't have much RAM, but the code complexity is way up there. You aren't just talking over an I2C bus to a couple of peripherals anymore!

On top of this, more and more features are being shoved into cars through the use of software. I talked to a developer of wiring harnesses for one of the major auto manufacturers, he described to me exactly how the auto companies see software as "the easy part" of things, which means they get the short shaft in terms of resources (test, dev, time, budget, etc), but are expected to bear most of the load of new feature work. (After all, it is so cheap to do it in software!)

FWIW, this developer said he has gone back to purchasing older model cars, he won't buy any of the cars running his own team's firmware.
Hacking healthcare cost: hip replacement by state
It looks like some people got the Apple bug :(

I was thinking about looking at this application, but this is a letdown to me.
They want to keep their website simple. If you're installing in a networkless VM, you probably have the technical experience to know to Google for the full installer.
Any benchmarks? Number insert / second? Num of query / second?

What are the limit on number of records, number of field (column?) in a table? How many tables can one have?

How often is the commit? Is it commit to local/fs or to the cloud (under what condition)?

How does the datastore sync from different devices works?
You can still continue to use your private Google account for Google+ etc.

A major issue would be the migration of your data from your private Google account to a Google Apps account. There is no direct migration path, you basically have to download all your data and upload it again. If you have a high number of mails, it might take weeks since download/upload are rate-limited.
Your scenario is different to mine. I use meta data to find handwitten notes in OneNote. I tried EverNote and found it had bells and whistles but wasn't anywhere near as easy as OneNote for tap to open app, yap again for a new note, and write with a stylus.
Heh, I feel silly for not having mentioned it in the Feedback form on the site, your team has always been incredibly responsive to requests/concerns submitted there.

My only other comment is that when you go to Users, and then select "On-Call Now", it shows the escalation policy, and again not the on-call schedule linked to that escalation policy. So for example, one might see a couple people listed as on call for each escalation policy but it doesn't at all indicate on that screen which schedule they're on call for. If I wanted to manually use that screen to contact whoever the primary on call for networking is, I'd have no way of knowing who to contact.
It would be nice to see a "NewSQL" database like Clustrix in this comparison. From my understanding of their white papers the transactions are ACID.
You should check out our platform at http://www.snapzu.com ... It's like a more mature reddit with great news/articles and minus most of the memes and other junk. Cheers.
Ha, this is perfect for what I am setting up at Schematical these days
I suppose you feel the same way about TV ads?
Apple Mail and Thunderbird at least fail at keeping all folders (labels) up-to-date all the time. It usually works for the inbox but folders only get updated when you access them.
I actually thought "back-burner" was generous:

"While Docker, Inc. will continue to offer PaaS services under the dotCloud brand, we will be devoting the vast majority of our resources towards growing Docker and the Docker ecosystem, and have fundamentally re-oriented our business model towards Docker-related products and services."
Understandable, some people do, some people don't.

I'm one of those people who do. For $10, if this thing included IRC, I would switch over in a heart beat. If it also included SKYPE? Oh man, the things I would do to the developer who made it...that would be heaven.

Less apps open usually means less memory consumption, and overall less clutter on my desktop.
I don't think you understand how medical insurance works or how fire insurance works in most cases.

With medical insurance you never receive payment without spending at least as much on the treatment and in most cases the payment is made directly to the provider.

With fire insurance if you have a mortgage the payment is made to the lender who hold it until the repairs are made and many insurance policy require that the money be spent on repair or pay less if it is not spent on repairs.

All of these rules and procedures are to reduce fraud and limit costs.
I agree that the real problem is fuel, but 10 years isn't quite long enough if you are going to accelerate halfway and decelerate halfway to arrive at low speed. For a 2,500 light year trip composed of two 1,250 light year legs, the time experienced by the ship will be (in units where c and a are both approximately 1):

2 * T(1250 lyr) = 2 * (c/a) arccosh (ad/c^2 + 1) = 2 * arccosh(1250 + 1) = 2 * 7.8 = 15.6 yr.
The correct English transliteration would be more like "vienner" which pretty closely follows the common English practice of adding an -er suffix to denote someone's place of origin.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/er_4
Yes, there's the famous quote "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Markets in medicine suffer from three problems.

One, that the doctor knows so much more than the patient it's hard for the patient to know whether or not he's receiving good care.

Two, that it's not practical to shop around in emergency situations. If I'm having a heart attack I'm not going to drag out the yellow pages and call around to find the best deal.

And three, many people will never make enough money to cover their own medical care. Sometimes because they have some expensive condition, and sometimes because they just don't have much money. While I'm pretty comfortable saying people who can't afford wide screen televisions should have wide screen televisions, I'm not at all comfortable saying people who can't afford and appendectomy should find a comfortable spot to die.
I'm not sure, I'll look into it. I know I excluded many of the "Behind the Scenes" and "Making of" movies, but I'm not sure why legit ones are missing, thank you for reporting that specific example so I trace the problem.