skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a user f Uber since very early on, I half agree, half disagree.

Uber is awesome -- ut the costing model fucking sucks.

When in SF I lived in Presidio and Upper Market/Noe Valley area...

Getting the SF cabs to come to my house was so infuriating; nobody wanted to come pick me up in Presidio or Noe Valley.

I was actually banned from multiple cab companies, as - it turns out - they share caller data: I was calling multiple cab companies to my house (Because nobody would show) as a shotgun approach to getting a cab. A dispatcher told me I was blacklisted due to this practice; my response was that if the cab had shown up, I wouldnt do this...

They didnt care. (I had MANY calls where I called 20+ times and waited 2 hours.)

FUC THE SF CABS. PERIOD.

HOWEVER; I think that Uber (and ALL cabs) are way over priced.

The fact that I had to pay $75 to take me from SF to SFO - where I was FLYING to LAX from SFO for $99 - I found this ridiculous!

The fact is that all CAB fees are just not congruous with the service.

When A cab ride from a home in SF to SFO costs ~$80, but takes ~30 minutes, you're paying the equiv $160K per year for the services of a DRIVER...

This is not sustainable.
Except that deterrence does not really work. There are weapons out there who are in the hands of people you do not control, and who knows, one day they may turn out crazy and launch a nuclear strike on the US. And because of their condition, they won't care less about total annihilation (they'll be safely in a bunker anyway) of their country and citizens as long as they can harm your country.

So, deterrence only works if your opponent has something TO LOSE. That's the whole concept, and the limits of the concept. That's why people get nervous about North Korea (and their elite who lets their own people starve to death), no matter how many nukes you have in your backyard to deter them from doing anything. There are some cases where it won't work.

PS: during the Cuba crisis, some nuclear russian submarines were THAT close to launching a strike on the US (2 of the 3 people in place were in favor of doing it until the 3rd one managed to calm them down), and they were sensible people who knew very well what it would mean for their mother country as well in terms of retaliation. Again. Deterrence is really a weak theory.
Beaches have to be public in almost all countries. It is a very sensible thing to do. Private Property rights are sacrosanct but if every buyer knows that he can not have a private beach, he can refrain from buying it in first place.
The MIRI folks (intelligence.org) are trying to address exactly that, though I'm sure some consider them crackpots.
Oh come on. I know you hipsters love vintage, but please stay away from C. You'll put someone's eye out.
Could a Pending Amazon Patent Doom Coin’s All-in-One Payment Card?
I believe it was season 5, episode 1, "Deliver It". They focus on UPS but things would be similar for other carriers. The UPS part starts about 9 minutes in. If you have Amazon Prime, they have it for free streaming.

BTW, UPS would be particularly good for intercepts, because UPS operates an electronics repair facility that does factory authorized repairs. When you think you are sending your broken laptop by UPS to, say, Toshiba, it can get automatically diverted to the UPS repair facility a couple miles from the hub, where Toshiba-trained technicians do the repair.

This means that a laptop shipment being diversion for the NSA would not even have to be done with some secret diverter on the line somewhere. They could just make it look like an ordinary repair job. The repair facility is large. Who would know if one or two of the repair technicians are really NSA agents?
The US can't claim that it's unacceptable for China to plant backdoors in its hardware, but its perfectly fine for the US to do so.

Well, actually, they can claim that, and they do. But it takes a fair amount of mental acrobatics to reconcile this contradiction unless you've been firmly indoctrinated in the notion that the US are the "good guys" and the Chinese are the "bad guys".
They're just trying to pass as a real cab company:

http://setexasrecord.com/news/280325-east-texas-family-files...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/nyregion/new-york-taxi-dri...
This is true only for Android phones? Should iOS users be wary?
The value isn't so much in not giving a fuck what people think, but rather being very selective about who you do give a fuck about.

I have a wife, and two children, and a handful of friends whose opinions of me and my decisions are utterly critical to my happiness and well being. If I lost their confidence, I don't see what the point of anything else would be. But for most people, even friends, I don't really give a fuck.

I guess another way of saying this is that there are two ways you can end up not giving a fuck what people think. First, you can be very confident in your own righteousness, or second, you simply don't care whether you're right or not. The latter sounds like a very sad and awful place to be, to me. It kinda means you don't give a fuck about what you think of yourself, either.
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If it takes 90s to test 2^32 floats then it should only take about 12,257 years to test 2^64 doubles.
if you are concerned about price, then why didn't you just use Uber X? I just did SF to SFO via Uber X and it was $30.
TL;DR => go to the top.

First, I had worked for one of California State's departments as a contractor, but hadn't been paid in two months. I called my State Senator, said I had working for the California in his district without pay for two months, and that I needed his help. I got paid the next day.

Second, I had been wrongly charged over $10,000 USD at a city hospital, and hadn't been able to fix the situation. I contacted the Mayor, explained that I was being charged for a service I didn't receive, and asked for his help. The bill went away.

Last, American Express sent me to collections (related to the hospital bill above), and the collections agency was trying to con me into paying more than I owed. I called the office of American Express' Chairman of the Board, and asked if they could help me deal with the collection agency's shenanigans. They pulled my account of out collections, and started dealing with me directly.

Recommeneation => track down Jack Dorsey or someone on their board, and explain the situation. It just might work!
Yes, they are the only group I'm aware of that is addressing this.

I'd note that they publicise their ethics work a lot less then they used to (eg, nothing on the http://intelligence.org/research/ page).

http://intelligence.org/files/MachineEthicsSuperintelligence... is good though.
Which caused me to freak out when it first happened. I was furious. I had to stop everything I was doing immediately in order to figure out how to disable it.

I can't possibly state emphatically enough how user-hostile that feature is. It is so disruptive to my thought process...it's nearly as bad as that awful focus-stealing thing that Windows does.
Yes just skimmed it again. Maybe I missed a reference but I can't see it. I did read the MercuryNews link posted elsewhere, interesting stuff, but my conclusion is still the same: Vinod Khosla is being a real jerk here.
You cannot use negative structure displacements.

x86 and most architectures have negative displacements available.

In C, you cannot point to 128 bytes after the start and use negative byte displacements. Instead you must use DWORD displacements.

My compiler supports negative structure displacements.

class MyStudent
{
$=-128;
U8 name[120];
U8 Address[120];
U8 city[120];
}

Name and address and city are byte displacements.
You must never use multiprocessing. If you're application spawns children processes, kill -9 will leave all the children orphaned.

It is better for the parent to catch a TERM and relay that signal to all the children. I find this to be a practical and typical use case...
On benefits and worker's comp: almost single UberX driver I've talked to has raved about Uber. Spontaneously. Why? Because the main way Uber saves money, compared to traditional taxi companies, isn't "avoiding paying those pesky benefits" or workers comp. They save money by not getting taxi medallions--part of a regulatory quota system that serves no purpose other than to artificially limit the number of cabs.

Note that since cab drivers can't usually afford hundreds of thousands of dollars for a taxi medallion, they have to lease them--so it's primarily people with a few hundred thousand dollars to spare (taxi companies and their investors) not drivers, that benefit from this hamstrung competition.

A lot of people criticize Uber because "it isn't really innovative, they are just skirting regulations." Well, maybe avoiding the regulations is the innovative part. It's a loophole, and to me (not a lawyer) it seems shocking that it's legally workable. But they've dramatically increased the incomes and freedom of cab drivers, and substantially decreased the price of cabs (I only take UberX, and it's at least 30% less than an equivalent cab here in Orange County, CA). And now that drivers and customers have experienced a medallion-free taxi system, the taxi companies are going to have a hard time regaining control.
Spies Use Smartphone Apps To Track People, Report Says
You will want to SIGKILL when you need to regain control, and/or when the process is not fundamental. E.g. some ancillary script stuck at 100% CPU or making the server swap crazy that isn't responding to SIGTERM. Anything more fundamental is likely to respond well to SIGTERM or not have the CPU/swapping problem in the first place.
> Money laundering is part of the criminalization of victimless drug use. That's why they were created, and that's how they're used. Nothing more, nothing less.

Your claim made me curious. According to the American Banker's Association, the Bank Secrecy Act was motivated by fears over foreign bank schemes and crime (specifically, the ABA mentions white collar crime). The law also sought to correct practical problems, such as grocery stores failing to photocopy checks. I think this undermines your main point about drugs, along with the fact that the "war on drugs" started after the BSA was passed in 1970.

http://www.aba.com/Compliance/Documents/07cbe87f05f94aa8b84f...
He'll just pop back about eighteen years and ask his parents to pick a different one, then? Or spend a few hundred bucks, and a few days of hassle, to get it changed. Oh and plus ordering some new proofs of name change every now and then whenever he needs to submit a birth certificate to something. I'm sure he's got no sentimental attachment to his name either. I can't see your plan of "have a unique name" resulting in any problems for him.

(I have changed my name for very different reason, I know precisely how much hassle it causes in the US.)
Don't forget (and this applies to any outsourcing contract, anywhere in the world), the first people you encounter will be the A-grade talent.

Once the project kicks off the they will one-by-one be moved off to the next deal, and replaced with less experienced juniors and trainees.

You can try to contractually lock in particular people, but that's impossible to guarantee if the team is remote.
A selfish request to companies
I ran into a similar issue trying to get verified by Coinbase. I answered all of the questions truthfully, but still failed. After 2-3 times I just began to brute force it. It turned out that one question in regards to a duration of time was completely wrong. Luckily Coinbase let's you do it as many times as you please, just with a 24 hour pause between each try. Come to think of it, they should probably send you an e-mail whenever an attempt it started.
I think your information is valuable and relevant. You have a point on the KG mechanism using structured data and unstructured data. I agree with you not necessarily on the real time update. Maybe using unstructured data is too hard to manage, especially with "unsupervised learning algorithm". My master's degree thesis was using this kind of neural network training mechanism to do image recognition. But to understand human context? I'm not a big believer about AI.

The thing I noticed is that DeepMind is good at advance game AI, smarter recommendation system for online commerce and image search, not context or knowledge with distributed system. Is it going to deviate DeepMind's direction? This is my concern.
Story time?

I've heard that he's "incredibly cheap" (i.e. valuation sensitive), but haven't heard anything particularly negative other than that. If you're going to make a non-specific accusation, why not be more specific?
Reverse SSH Cracking With Beleth And PAM
You can use this to answer questions like below:

1. How much of the roads in the world passes through dessert?

2. What is the chance that you would see a person if you had been driving all over?

3. How much of the streets are in urban areas?

And so on...

All you need to do is just press next few times and count!
what is the significance of this?
> All your file writes should be atomic (either SQLite/CoreData or using the atomic write methods in CoreFoundation and Objective-C) or you must be able to detect and delete partially files and recover in-situ.

You should be doing that regardless, there's nothing special about SIGKILL in this regard. Dirty pages will still get flushed to disk, so SIGKILL is safer than, say, sudden power loss. Which isn't exactly unheard of on battery powered devices, after all.
It's not just Facebook. A lot of Google apps also require read (even write) SMS permissions.
Wouldn't putting, even a fake copy of glass on the other side to make it look symmetric, be more aesthetically acceptable?
The article fails to mention that Western technocrats like George Soros are actively and openly undermining the Ukraine government for many years now. For instance, he heavily supports and funds the so-called 'Open Society Foundations"
If you read on, the situation is actually even more complicated than just this part of the explanation. Yes, the state Constitution guarantees access, but what can the state really do if someone rightfully owns property blocking access that doesn't contain an easement?

It sounds to me like the typical course of action is that the costal commission won't issue permits for any modifications without strings attached (i.e. an easement). So, Khosla may be able to hang on to his land with no easement, but he won't be able to do anything with it, close the road, or build on it without negotiating with the CC. There is a second lawsuit pending regarding the closure of the road that may make more headway on this basis.
It really bothers me that this happens and a harder stance isn't taken.
The poor end users who are duped into buying something sub-par, the poor developers who put time and effort into their app only to lose a customer to the fake.

Considering the App store is actually TERRIBLE to search, I can see why it is so easy to confuse people.

Honestly, I would love it if Apple actually sued those dodgy app developers for all the money they collected - and then some.
Out of curiosity, Does anyone know what tools are usually used to make composite videos like the one of the animated UI here?
1581 AD 10 Mar 18:01 11 Jun 19:34 13 Sep 06:54 11 Dec 20:06 00:02

1582 AD 10 Mar 23:56 12 Jun 01:30 13 Sep 12:39 22 Dec 01:54 00:02

1583 AD 21 Mar 05:51 22 Jun 07:16 23 Sep 18:24 22 Dec 07:42 00:02

Looks the single most dramatic shift happened in these two years. Would someone with astronomical chops care to explain a bit?
That assumes that Google hasn't prioritized areas with higher population for Street View photography.
Snowden Hiding His Online Chats behind Proxy IPs and VPNs
Grunt vs Gulp – Beyond the Numbers
He said lottery numbers, not tickets.
Sometimes the employer is liable, yes: http://www.atblaw.net/blog/tag/employee-injured-on-way-to-wo...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

"Four Catholic countries—Spain,[18] Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and most of Italy—implemented the new calendar on the date specified by the bull, with Julian Thursday, 4 October 1582, being followed by Gregorian Friday, 15 October 1582."
And never use it to call anyone else or connect to anything else. Don't forget that when you're designing your NSA-proof phone.
I'm sure this ruling here gives them a bit of the cold sweats:

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/08/27/senders-of-texts-to-driv...

Granted it happened in NJ, not CA, and it isn't directly applicable anyway, but they might have a hard time with the same sort of idea applied to the way their entire dispatching model works.

I would think if the plaintiffs could prove conclusively the guy was actively operating the Uber app at the time of the accident (which they tend to imply in these stories but I have no idea if that's just spin) it would be nearly a slam dunk case in front of your average jury.
Enterprise Mobility: Devices, Design, Distribution
I think it demonstrates precession, and the difference between the tropical and sidereal years.

Of course, the times were actually calculated from the known rate of precession; we couldn't exactly have said that the summer solstice occurred at 22:00 hours on 2nd July, 1000 BCE. There, you know, wasn't even a July then, given that it was named after a dude who wouldn't be born for another 900 years.

EDIT: As mentioned by other comments, it also captures the shift between the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
How would one consider JS to silently ignore misspellings?
BYOD and Your Off-Hours
First of all, fuck you. It is because of people like you that believe we should be permanently at war that we are permanently at war.

Second of all, no, the world should not be run by these warmongering generals trying to destroy each other. That is not how humanity is going to improve. The only way the world is going to improve is if all these military assholes are lined up and shot and never allowed to run the world again.
I'm not a web application novice (been building web apps since 1998, writing production code in about a half dozen languages or so), and I've done a few version upgrades in the year or so I've been working with Rails on and off. I don't think my estimate is too far off, but obviously there's an asterisk in there.

I call myself a novice since I feel it's better to err on the side of caution.

Also read my comment in context. I was responding to a specific comment where the app size was pretty well implied.

Also when I said "2-4 was doable" I wasn't being philosophical; I was stating how long it took (I didn't say an app of any size, but a small app) (obviously my choice of words was poor to express meaning, but that's pretty par for the course for my HN posts)
I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi.
Since you mention you have Tcl experience, you may want to (re?)explore the Tcl/C relationship. An absolute joy to work with.

Also, re: bindings, you may be interested in the SWIG interface generator: http://www.swig.org
I've used Uber since day one -- Uber X didn't exist when I relied on it often for SFO trips ... even still, it's not a good mapping...
Malibu has similar problems, except residents put up fake signs and blocked/obscured access. A nice lady even made an iPhone app to document this knowledge: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/our-malibu-beaches/id5656361...
To-may-to, to-mah-to..
This article helped me understand the conflict in ways I hadn't before.

My constructive critique: The analogy of red states and blue states to Ukrainian language and Russian language regions doesn't fit entirely.

A state is red or blue with 51% of the vote. these regions have a much larger gap between majority and minority opinion by region.
The sun didn't change. The way people date the sun did.
A Julian calendar prior to October 1582 and from there on a Gregorian calendar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
It's attitudes like this that make life miserable for a minority of people.

Google: Our products work for most people. If they don't work for you, we won't support you. Good luck with our competitors.

Paypal, Square: our fraud prevention metrics are generally reliable. If you're a false positive, we won't serve you. Good luck getting your money.

Comcast, Time Warner Cable, etc: Our Internet services work pretty well for most people. If they don't work for you, enjoy spending an hour or more in customer support hell. They may solve your problem. If not, good luck getting home internet from our non-existent competitors.

Imagine if the rest of the world worked like this:

* People whose legs work can use the toilets here. In a wheelchair? Good luck finding somewhere else.

* Only people who can drive a car can get state-issued ID. Can't drive? Good luck not officially existing in the eyes of many.

* Only people without a history of chronic illness can get free health care. Pre-existing condition? Good luck with your third job to pay for your treatments.

It is absolutely Square's prerogative to determine who they will and will not serve. And if you choose not to serve someone because they are an inconvenient minority, it's your call. And it makes you kind of a jerk. Expect to be called out on it.

Square: you are PayPal. You are Comcast. You are the old and busted status quo that the new hotness will usurp one day. Don't like it? Prove it otherwise.
It would. You could access it by boat too.
That's a great idea. It'd make for a great education app, perhaps walking the user through the solution for their own town.
Apparently, this became a private beach when California was part of Mexico, and there is apparently a treaty that says that the titles granted by Mexico would remain valid when the land became part of the United States. Hence, it appears that California's laws that make beaches public do not apply here. They are not powerful enough to override treaties that predate California.
It depends on how much $upport Vinod gives to reelection campaign$ vs. public vocality. If there's enough sustained outrage, it could force their hand or at least slap it in the direction of honesty.
The key sentence from this article: "the FBI is adapting to the age of big-data with an NSA-style collect-everything approach."

NZ PM John Key famously said: "If you don't want to be spied on, hide under a blanket." http://www.thecivilian.co.nz/if-you-dont-want-to-be-spied-on...

Actually, hiding under a blanket won't help. I don't think Americans get it yet, so let me shout it: YOUR GOV'T IS SPYING ON EVERYTHING YOU DO!

They don't wait for you to commit a crime and then get a warrant: They collect everything!

And not only the US government, but governments all around the world. In fact, the British government spied on users of Angry Birds, along with the NSA. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-p...

And this is nothing new: "In 1862, Lincoln authorized sweeping control over the American telegraph infrastructure for Edwin Stanton, his secretary of war. Telegraphs were re-routed through his office, and Stanton used his power to spy on Americans, arrest journalists, and even control what was or wasn't sent." Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/6/4499636/how-lincoln-used-te...

There you have it: The US government has been using NSA-style electronic surveillance to spy on its citizens since at least 1862. So do you really think anything's going to change now all of a sudden?
I've gone through the site, and am curious about your business model. Essentially, you are creating co-op apps: how much of a cut of that app goes to the assembly team? Is it 50%, with you taking control of selling the app/making the business decisions? Or is the stake constantly changing (i.e. I contributed early, but my share gets diluted as more people work on more tasks to continue making revenue?), and you at some point want to sell the app?
In choosing egypturnash you achieved your objective.