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As explained in the article, every person's actions were explainable by aspects of our shared humanity. We are not inherently better than those people, we're just luckier about our surroundings. A human in fear of his/her life every day can't take any risks, so they can't make new paradigms. You can recruit these people to your "universe-understanding" side by changing their circumstances to be more like yours.
I like Python3. They fixed all the inconsistencies in the language.

Sucks that some people are still stuck with 2.7 but it's definitely worth upgrading if you can.
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Thanks habosa! I was considering doing that, but it looks like some HN folks have submitted a few articles already. Maybe it could take off?
I have used CL rideshare perhaps 40 times for travel between northern & southern California in the past few years, and I personally am glad to see Ridejoy and other attempts at commercializing it fail. The service works fine as it is: free, informal, fast. The last thing it needs is a bunch of annoying startups invading, all crowing about "untapped markets" and how "passionate" they are to enable social this-or-that--an act which invariably strikes me as mercenary and disingenuous. In short, I can see why CL would issue the C&D.

The "anonymous and sometimes sketchy rides posted every year" line is particularly irksome as it so perfectly conveys the annoying disdain techies have for things that don't sport a slick iPhone app and/or (attempt to) make money. The truth is (confirmed over many hours of conversation with fellow riders and drivers) sketchy rides are both obvious and exceedingly rare. A few simple rules (like physically talking to the rider/driver ahead of time, meeting in a public place, etc.) are sufficient to ensure a smooth experience.
I think it's refreshing that they didn't sugarcoat it. Sometimes being blatantly honest can help. ("I had a 6 month sabbatical, look at the class I took" isn't as refreshing as, "The management team missed it's numbers. As head of sales I was let go. I took a technical class while I job hunted.")
There has to be a better explanation of why Dan Rather was fired and Lara Logan just got a promotion. Now, as far as incompetence, I have a question of whether I'm putting the cart before the horse, particularly whether the NSA/Bezos/etc. used 60min because they knew they could get their message out predictably, because CBS News is a dead horse.
Nice red herring you've got there. Why didn't you compare cabs to emergency healthcare services? That would make your argument even stronger. /s
Physical manifestation? It is all physical! You cannot escape the physical. Whether you are making the decision in your mind then convincing yourself the conclusion is an idea that came from a god and not yourself, or if you are making the decision in your mind, spelling it out, then convincing yourself the conclusion is an idea that came from a god... either one is magical thinking and either one is taking place in the 'physical world'.

You don't need the Ouija board for one of them, but you are just listing your personal whitelist criteria to me. Either one is still magical thinking.
Ah yes, the wonderful binary world of computer people where nuances only come in the form of 0 or 1.
You have the means to do that.

What about people who do not have the means to do so? Should they be the ones stuck walking because you can afford to pay more?
They might benefit from being a bit more transparent with pricing. From a customer's point of view, the multiplier is just arbitrary ("it's busy, so we're charging seven times what we normally do"), and they have to trust Uber that it is being set fairly. If it gets excessively high, like it has in these recent cases, they start losing that trust in Uber, and move to a competitor.
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"Also what about windows users, still a very significant portion of the PHP user base?"

Yes, especially during development. I am toying w/ a PHP implementation on top of luajit, written in PHP so it may be more hackable and bootstrapped.

The real problem is PHP fails to define a specification that implementations can follow (though they probably weren't prepared for the current situation). Sadly the runtime becomes the spec, and with such a large standard library, it's hard to predict what happens in dynamic languages when you send in something undocumented. In order to work w/ the myriad of PHP projects out there, unfortunately you have to mimic the undefined aspects.

We are headed towards a more fragmented PHP than we already have. I've had enough problems changing PHP versions (regressions and undefined standard function changes), now with HHVM, you will have one more fragmentation piece. I'm all for different implementations. The saving grace I've found is all the language phpt files (but doesn't help w/ parsing and many compile-time errors).
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One of the Ridejoy founders here. I think the reason why rideshare was more popular on the West Coast is in part because there wasn't a bus system. In turn, the bus system was tough because the West Coast is spread out: even if you land in a station in LA, you still need to get a ride to your actual destination because LA is huge. I guess they are starting to find ways to make this work.

What is nice about buses is a set, affordable price and guaranteed ride that meets a minimum standard.
> that high prices drive more market entrants

citation needed. I know this is dogmatic in laissez faire capitalist philosophy, but its really not clear that this occurs in all real markets.
I'm really surprised http://tent.io has not been mentioned here.

Tent is a protocol that allows users to pick and choose a datastore provider for use with any tent compatible application. The provider can be centralised, on the user's own infrastructure or anywhere in between.

Applications can be installed locally (without a dependency on communicating with another server, other than the user's chosen datastore) or hosted on a web server.

Users get to choose where (and control how) an application stores their data, and developers don't need to think about infrastructure, user management or authorisation when designing and building their app.

The protocol is at v0.3 and is not ready for the mainstream yet, but it's coming, and (for me) has the potential to replace a bunch of web apps I regularly use (think dropbox, gmail, github etc.).
Not the same thing. PHP needs a total makeover not some minor tweaks.

And you're very rude please go away.
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PHP4 vs PHP5 - There was a lot of breakage at the time and was quite painful for many.
Being present is critical, but this type of advice is pretty useless for someone who has a difficult time speaking with strangers. It is hard to be present when all you are thinking about is all the bad possibilities that may come out of talking to people you have never met.

If you're scared of sounding dumb or "new" you won't be willing to talk with the people who you think are much more successful than yourself. Handling the uncomfortable ball of nerves your body creates before speaking with strangers is hard. There's no step by step list of things you can do to get over yourself. It requires experience which is earned only by attending events/conferences/meetups that are full of strangers. The only way around the nerves is being prepared with a quick blurb about yourself (which is also hard). Knowing how to respond to the "So what do you do?" question sounds easy enough but it's also super terrifying if you're a shy/introverted person. Having this answer prepared will allow you to get through the hardest wall of all: actually speaking to the stranger(s).

If you're thinking of selling schemes before you even shake someones hand, your not going to be listening.

If you're just trying to collect names and cards, you won't be building long lasting relationships.

I try to forget about my business cards until I'm asked if I have one. I also try treating people with respect instead of a sales pitch, which requires listening to what they're saying. I would bring business cards with you everywhere, though. It is good to have them on hand if someone wants a way to remember you. They are even better to have on hand when they specifically ask for one. You are not going to build a meaningful relationship if they forget your last name. Lowering the barrier to your information for someone who actually wants your information on hand is important. It is even more important if the people you are meeting expect a card as a way to remember you.

Respect also requires remembering their name (which is harder for me than remembering an entire conversation!). In order for me to remember a single name in the moment, I will immediately repeat it. Maybe once out loud, as a way of beginning the conversation. If I'm with a group, and depending on the age of the people, I'll make it a memory game. I'll repeat their names as we go around introducing ourselves. After everyone has introduced themselves I'll repeat all their names again, sometimes letting them know I have a hard time with names. Self-deprecation helps me break the ice if I'm nervous and tends to make the group laugh. This works especially well when speaking with college students since they are usually much more nervous than whoever they are speaking with.

Being nice and handling conversations is difficult, and I think knowing the intricacies of conversation is an art. It needs to be practiced with everyone you encounter.
I dunno, but the article says the mechanism was used commonly in watches -- which move and wiggle quite a bit.
• If you rent time at virtual hardware, the real hardware owners can see everything you do.

Reminder: the same goes for all your favorite hosted-because-we're-too-lazy-or-inept-to-run-it-ourselves services too.

It still amazes me thousands of high profile companies just give all their communications to Google for free.
Here's the thing. So am I. I would say I am very egalitarian and very empathetic. I would say I am a feminist, which is perhaps why I find certain behaviour on the Internet under the banner of feminism troubling.

I recognise that mob-precursor-feeling rising in me occasionally (often when I see footage of policemen attacking civilians unprovoked) but, I think, it's up to us all to behave as civilised human beings, and that includes not joining the mob, seeking to empathise with both parties and actually looking for the evidence.

For this reason I find mob mentality and zero tolerance behaviour deeply troubling and try to engage in conversation whenever I see it.

This is a corporate blog so you could say it comes under the 'professional' umbrella. If you're going to criticise it, you could say that the general tone of the article isn't particularly professional, but, as I said in another comment, there was plenty more to find problems with than just the mention of a padded bra. I happen to think the blog post was fine, probably because the Internet has brought personal and professional universes incredibly close.

I understand if others disagree, for disagreement to be respected it has to come intellectual honesty (i.e. evidence of critical thought) rather than as a reflex.
I can't say whether something else wouldn't have replaced PHP eventually, but I can say PHP definitely played it's part in making the web we know today. Back in the day, say circa 2000, unless you were wealthy/lucky enough to have your own server around, if you wanted a website you were stuck with shared hosting.

Many of us "web devs" were running desktop windows and had never even used a *nix command line or studied programming beyond BASIC. CGI (perl) scripts were absolutely painful to install, much less write. Dealing with stdin just to get post variables? Python and Ruby were rarely supported as CGI, and there were likely no web frameworks back then that you could manage to install on a shared account. Besides, a lot us back then weren't programmers to being with, we just wanted a web site to scratch an itch. Programming was a means to an end, and I think the rasmus quotes support that.

Enter PHP(&mod_php). Open up your FTP client, rename index.html to index.php, edit to add Hello <?=$name?>, load up index.php?name=Bob in IE, see "Hello Bob", MIND BLOWN! PHP was easy to use, learn, and it came with a huge function library built in. It was a sandbox to play in. The barrier of entrance difference between cgi/perl and PHP was like GIMP to Windows Paint.

The number of web scripts available to use exploded after PHP hit the scene. Message boards, calendars, photo galleries, shopping carts, etc. Sure, a lot of the code written was horrible by today's standards, or even CS standards of then, but that's not the point. Websites were launched, communities were formed, products were sold. Sure phpBB, wordpress, and others code was not properly engineered, but where would the web be without the communities and blogs they allowed to form?

Facebook started on shared PHP hosting. The mediawiki script was created because Magnus Manske wanted to try out PHP. Yahoo actually chose PHP to replace their in-house scripting language over ASP, Coldfusion, and other proprietary options when using open source was a huge risk. Python and ruby were not even on the web radar when yahoo chose PHP. [1]

Now today we may look at the code derived from the era before python, ruby, svn, github, cheap easy VPS/VM access, when shared web hosting was the only PaaS, and look in horror, but the fact remains that PHP powers 75% or more of all websites on the internet today.[2][3]

To ask if PHP has generated value, is to ask if Windows has generated value. They may have been ugly, but they got us where we are today, and the PHP of today is not the PHP of 2000.

[1] http://public.yahoo.com/bfrance/radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon200...
[2] http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/google-app-engine-finally-...
[3] http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...
Perhaps, but I don't think the US has worries about wealth flight. I assume the countries that dominate this "economy" are Argentina, Cyprus, etc.
It's not fair now, it's random. Random is not fair. Giving one person out of 100 chemotherapy isn't fair, especially if that person doesn't actually have cancer. Cabs, especially in constrained conditions, are essentially assigned randomly. Which is only fair for a fairly narrow definition of the word.
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It's not about the shortcomings of capitalism, it's about the shortcomings of nature.

Uber is not responsible for a lack of drivers in an emergency situation.

Uber can also not prevent competitors from entering the market, so the monopoly pricing fears make no sense.
I'd speculate that some of this marketing is designed to lure drivers from other services.
Actually, we're beginning to understand them more and more. Remember, if it was as easy as a mutation here or there then the zombie apocalypse would have already started. I'm much more afraid of grey goo (look it up) than punching out some TAGACAs.
No, he doesn't. And it's pretty obvious what he means: that primary method of transportation for most people is public transport and price hikes during the scarcity periods will be a minor inconvenience as many other transportation means are available.
Count of monte cristo. I know it's fictional but reading about a fellow put wrongly in prison at a young age, who manages to escape and achieve great fame never fails to pump me up.
I'm not familiar with this blog so I had to look up some of the background for the story.

Although I couldn't find this in the blog, I believe The Keep refers to some type of missionary/community food kitchen the author runs or is a part of. [1]

Mzungu is term used in the African Great Lakes region to refer to people of European descent [2].

[1] - http://www.hackersforcharity.org/hackers-for-charity/nov-28-...

[2] Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mzungu
It's a good question but I don't think the characterization of "glorious pioneers holding lanterns in the dark" vs. "monkeys with sticks" is fair.
If you're interested in working to help with a nice Haskell library, one of the core Haskell lib developers Bryan O'Sullivan is publically-building a critbit library for Haskell

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/critbit

Contribution information is available on the github page

https://github.com/bos/critbit

Also, as always, Edward Kmett weighs in with some particularly insightful comparisons of critbit trees, PATRICIA trees, and other variants

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1e1ywq/critbit_tree...
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To be clear, are you saying that the hypothetical farmer "me" in the story is being unjust and exploitative for hiring the combine? Or are you just accusing the societal system, not the hypothetical me, of being unjust and exploitative?

I ask this because I think you are actually getting at the point I was trying to make.
His point is a pretty meaningless hypothetical comparison.

What if uber had been in his city and charged 4000$ for a ride to the airport? Does he live 60 miles from his airport? who the fuck knows?

The story isn't even a useful anecdote, it's a Rorschach test for libertarians to project their biases onto.
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This is economics 101. The law of Supply and Demand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

The four basic laws of supply and demand are:

1. If demand increases and supply remains unchanged, a shortage occurs, leading to a higher equilibrium price.

2. If demand decreases and supply remains unchanged, a surplus occurs, leading to a lower equilibrium price.

3. If demand remains unchanged and supply increases, a surplus occurs, leading to a lower equilibrium price.

4. If demand remains unchanged and supply decreases, a shortage occurs, leading to a higher equilibrium price.
It's not unethical at all, it's just that mid-to-upper-class smartphone users in big cities have a wicked sense of entitlement.

They approve a dialog that warns them of 7x pricing (not with a button, mind you - but by explicitly thumb-typing the string "7X" into a box!) and then they complain on twitter when their ride is $300 and call Uber crooks.

The amount of entitlement found among the smartphone generation is staggering.
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> I hope that Apple sees the App Store’s model of infrequent, monolithic releases as a competitive disadvantage and finds some way to tighten the app development iteration cycle.

I hope they don't. Problems that a technical user might consider to be small shortcomings are a huge source of frustration to less technical users, who assume they did something wrong, or quickly come to distrust the product as a whole.

I observed this recently when I saw my wife play with a Windows Phone. The camera app was being difficult, and she quickly put it back on the display and turned to leave the Microsoft Store. My comments about the great display and the technical specs of the camera fell on deaf ears. To her, the experience quickly conveyed to her that the product won't be something she can trust, especially since she isn't comfortable enough with technology to feel justified in taking the time to develop workarounds.

In contrast, she loves her iPhone because it rarely lets her down. It's not bug free, but Apple appears to be very rigorous in stress-testing the paths non-technical users are most likely to encounter. My Lumia 620, which I like quite a bit, will sometimes stop responding to touch input when unlocked to answer a call, and will sometimes not respond to voice input while paired with the Bluetooth system in my car. These are easily worked-around (e.g. simply locking and unlocking it will make it responsive to touch input again), but to my wife they'd be deal breakers because she doesn't have a good mental model of the extent and scope of the bugs.
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transportation is a basic infrastructural need. there is profound social harm done when demand from the wealthy forces prices to rise to the point where poor and middle class people cannot afford it.
see my above comment on the law of supply and demand
Technically correct is a way to go on website dedicated to technology, don't you think?
Obviously emergency healthcare services are more of a necessity than transportation, I thought I made that clear. But in what way is transportation nothing but a luxury? How do you get to your job, or to the store, or to the hospital if you can't afford an ambulance?

Edit: I want to add that there are extremist types who think that if you can't afford emergency healthcare, you shouldn't get it. We may just fundamentally disagree about that. I think we need to use a combination of publicly funded services (yes, by taking money from the extremely wealthy) and regulation on basic necessities to ensure that everyone has access to a minimally dignified life.
I don't see the two practices as antithetical: complex features with a lot of potential pitfalls take advantage from pair programming; code reviews are perfect for BAU tasks.

I am a bit suspicious of the ecstatic tone that the author has while writing about pair programming: I am not sure I ever met someone who deeply enjoys it; at best it's seen as good practice, or a necessary evil.
Too late to edit, I remembered this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/pot-drug-possession...

Summary: lots of arrests for pot possession and LEAP says: "more people were arrested for marijuana offenses alone last year than for all violent crimes combined."
Also, most wannabe axe sharpeners are really, really bad at sharpening axes.
Courts in the western world also make mistakes, police brutality is a fact of life and deaths do sadly occur while in custody. Bad things happen everywhere.
This is awesome it adds a whole other perspective to movies.
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The inspirational message of TURD Talks is that if you could only crack your skull in just the right way, at the bottom of a pool after slipping at the edge, or in an almost fatal car accident, or by falling out of your shower and hitting your head on the sink before landing in the kitty litter underneath, then you too could release your inner savant.
Great post!

In the pairing paradigm (say that 5 times fast), how much of a typical day is spent actually pairing? How do you manage email or other company wide communication? What happens when a server crashes or another emergency comes up? Or when another pair has a question that you can answer? Or when one member of the pair is also responsible for a deploying something? Or one member has a meeting?

Disclaimer: I've mostly been exposed to the code review paradigm (I work with Paul at `current_job`)
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I agree, that the firm might benefit from transparency; but the article stresses the need for regulation in the interest of the consumer, not the firm.

This is how the price mechanism is supposed to work: it communicates inefficiencies over the long term.
Nice username + comment pairing.
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