skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As for insurance, I think $200/mo is probably a conservative guess

Conservative? I think you are severely underestimating the cost of obtaining insurance that covers the liability of injuring multiple passengers that you are transporting around as a "for hire" driver.

Much like AirBnB, people seem to overlook this cost and responsibility. That will change when an Uber driver slams into another car with 5 passengers, killing someone, or an AirBnB user, there "illegally", burns down an apartment complex. It will be the end of these businesses.

I'm not saying that these models can't work. But right now, much of the cost advantages come from working around regulations.
There was a shop like this in Merzouga, near Erg Chebbi in Morocco. Great big sand dune, people would hike up and ski down. Looked like fun but I didn't have a chance to try it.
After I read through Edward Bernay's Propaganda, I can't take this writing seriously. It seems to be some overly patriotic horn tooting, meant for pushing academics even further from the real problems we are facing.

No where does he explain why America became a large economy or why it should even stay that way.

As far as I'm concern, America is contributing less and less to the world. There is no reason for the world to give such high value to the dollar and continually send goods to America (things that have no reason to, will not continue for long).

And if you want to talk about dollars (or lack there of). Please refer to the public and private debt of America and its citizens.

Some things are just plain wrong:
"home to the U.S. ... in tandem with plentiful cheap energy from fracking."

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/ma...

This guy reminds me of other infamous propagandists, such:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes
and his equality notorious father:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes
Bitbucket is still around?
This post was very important for me. I've been struggling with anxiety lately without knowing it. I've been having a very hard time. "Pass Through Panic" really helped me a lot, and I'm starting "Hope And Help For Your Nerves". I can't thank you enough for sharing these resources.
I have really been enjoying the tutorials and online IDE at http://fpcomplete.com
Note that sending a different response to googlebot than what you send to normal users is a violation of Google's guidelines and can get your site penalized. Use at your own peril.
A quick google search indicates that the MSRPs for top-of-the-line Toyota Camrys and Chevy Malibus (just a couple of cars I thought might be well-suited to the task) are around $30,000, which, at 3% over 5 years, would require a monthly payment of about $540

The car you want to be driving for this task, if you are making a new purchase, is a used hybrid. A used honda insight goes for ~$16k, monthly payment on a five-year is $250/month with not very good credit, gets 34mpg while running, and you don't have to really worry too much about making payments in case you lose your job, your car, or both.
I've been a fan of orient for a while, although I have never actually used it. IMHO, graph features are pretty critical for a document store to be very useful. With full text search and extensible schemas, Orient has a very unique and kick-ass design.

As much as I know about it, I have never actually used it. I want to play with it, but I don't want to bother with all of the necessary sysadmin.

Does anybody offer OrientDB as a service?
Let’s make morse code with Haskell
Also:

5. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of zencoder?

6. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of elastic transcoder?
I've used Uber quite a bit and never seen how I could tip. Apparently that option is only available on uberTAXI:

http://support.uber.com/hc/en-us/articles/202290128-Do-I-hav...
This is my favorite one too.
Author here. Some of you are saying that this will lead to bloated, JS-heavy websites. I disagree. The JS necessary for making a single page app can be done with something like 10 lines of JS (plus jQuery or something similar, but that is already included in most normal pages anyway).

A single page app isn't JS-heavy by definition, and a "normal" page (with HTML generated on the server) can easily be JS-heavy. It all depends on how you program it. Just keep in mind that single page apps don't necessarily need to use heavy frontend frameworks such as Knockout, Ember or AngularJS.
Nice and entertaining! I will definitely use this talk as an example of why kids shouldn't start learning programming with C++ (just in the last couple of months I had both my sister and a friend consider it for their kids). Although, maybe those who survive will become outstanding developers.
"...and a more complete OS." That doesn't suggest to me that this person is intending to develop Fx OS on it.
No, it's just a second take at removing the "ceremony":

v. 1: let's remove the ceremony along with strong static typing advantages and just hack-fix everything with unit tests.

v. 2: let's remove just the ceremony.
Yeah, except Verizon is notably more expensive than the other networks, particularly T-Mobile. Verizon tacks on random fees into your bill that have no explanation. I would rather push T-Mobile to fix this issue than move to Verizon under the guise that I'm switching to something better. Nope.

I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile this year. My bill dropped from $180 to $160/month. That's with 2 lines, data and a new device installment plan. If you didn't have a new device it's at least $20 less per month iirc.

T-Mobile needs to work on their coverage in some spots, but that's supposedly coming with new spectrum purchases and whatnot.

I'd never go back to Verizon.
Galápagos syndrome
Are you sure being accepted into an average YC startup is worse than being accepted into the average non-YC company?

There are more considerations than just money. Quality of life seems like most important. Experience and connections are probably a close second.
Feminism in Tech
Only the first load is slower. If you click on any links within the page they will render much faster as you skip the whole full page load thing.
I'm going to continue to throw it out there when anybody mentions csvkit, but I can't believe that more people haven't settled on http://csvfix.byethost5.com/csvfix15/csvfix.html
Just chiming in with Node's http-server: https://www.npmjs.org/package/http-server
I don't want to sound like I am bragging but, I competed in powerlifting (Clean & Jerk and bench press) in high school and played college football.

I have lifted for strength too much is my point.

I don't want to do it anymore. As I have gotten older, I have found that the most important part of my fitness plan is to do something that is interesting to me.

Interest in an activity is more important than the activity itself.

This goes along with the article, which debunks the new trendy fitness regimes in favor of a classic program.
That's part of the fun, implementation given an algorithms description. For a particularly opaque exercise, try implementing the Hopcroft-Tarjan planarity testing algorithm.
"All the times I'd run into situations where the answer was essentially "nope, can't automate that" in the past were beyond infuriating."

BTW: In the past (because I don't do a lot of this anymore either), GUI operations were automatable with one of the dozens of clones of the windows macro recorder. The ones I remember using had their own little scripting languages (which could be automatically generated/recorded) with simple variable substitution and control flows. The resulting scripts were callable from the command line/batch files. Those products overwhelmingly relied on the ability to walk the GUI resource trees and find things by id/name/some attribute and then send messages like clicking or typing to them. How well applications like this still work in a metro/modern environment I don't know. Although a google search indicates a number that are still available.

BTW: For the linux/X users out there, check out http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/
This seems like just another case of "mine is bigger than yours is"....

Of course the US's economy is still bigger. A large part of this economy is also nonsense (see... legal fees). A large part of China's economy is nonsense also. Empty structures, excessive stimulation etc.

I look forward to the day when the realization that the planet is really small and all of us are in this together is common wisdom. Until then I guess it's foolish cock waving which occasionally turns into shooting and wanton squandering of non-renewable resources.
UberX (the subject of the article) deliberately does not support tipping, and drivers are instructed not to accept tips. There's an automatic tip on rides booked through "Taxi" requests on Uber, but that's not the same thing.
It's not an angle. It's the explicit purpose of the phone. We designed it, every component, to be our reference phone.

If you need something for some other purpose, if you've got some other angle, you could buy a Nexus 5 and put Firefox OS on there. That's a decent high end phone that I know several Firefox OS developers are using.
It's possible to raise the standard of living of the working class while increasing the rate at which they are exploited, as explained in the lecture video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqEKLuPCgZ0#t=11m47s
How to Style Powder Pink
Author here: Would love to answer any questions you have about our process or strategy here.
Node security is just as much a problem. Sure, not as much in a 'large dragnet of the Internet' sense, but de-centralizing (e.g.) Facebook won't help you to trust your hardware or OS more.
There used to be something for Internet Explorer 4 and above. All you had to do was to set the language attribute of the <script> tag to Python. See "Python Programming On Win32: Help for Windows Programmers", page 437 [1].

[1]: http://books.google.ro/books?id=fzUCGtyg0MMC&pg=PA437
The Case Against Sharing
The next leap in the evolution of enterprise software
How about 'git push --consensual'?
Shameless plug:

This Android app I wrote serves the same purpose: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ly.jamie.fonta...

Source: https://github.com/jamiely/Font-Awesome-Browser-Android
Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Accountability
I don't know, that's not really the type of humor they're going for. They generally prefer keeping everything as neutral and PC as possible, and "primary" fits that role pretty well.
In that one rare occasion where I had to convert a FA icon to a png file, I wrote a basic HTML page with the icon, screen captured it, and resized.

This seems better.
the ridesharing companies provide insurance on top of personal insurance. Both Uber and Lyft have $1M liability + casualty insurance while you're transporting passengers, and Lyft has $1M policy while you're not (don't know about Uber on that one).

The insurance premiums for these companies (I know Lyft partners with Met Life) probably is adjusted downwards relative to taxis, because of several factors, but the biggest one being that the drivers own their own cars and are out of it if they wreck it, so there's a good reason not to drive dangerously. A larger proportion of Uber and Lyft drivers have been driving american streets for longer periods, and also have educations, for whatever statistical benefit that confers. Finally, the taxis are, in the end, smaller companies, so the rideshares can negotiate better deals and also provide far more statistical data to the adjusters, which enables a narrower margin.
For each new page on your site that your user loads, the benefit of single page apps becomes greater: Now she only has to load a bit of JSON, not a full page. So essentially single page apps are a tiny bit slower on the first page load, but much quicker on subsequent page loads.
Maybe this will help spur the robotic revolution? Who cares how many young people there are as long as the work is getting done?
Shadower – Monitors Haskell sources, and runs doctests as they change
I'm a fan of how my Windows Phone does it in 8.1 It gives me the option between mobile or desktop identification to sites, but then also gives me the option to use a Readability like function and constrict the content down so I don't have to side scroll. Seems to be the best of both worlds.
My company recently started using HipChat and I really like it. I expected to prefer IRC because of the standard, open protocol and the choice of clients, but the HipChat application works much more smoothly on my Linux desktop than any IRC client I've tried, and it's been adopted more widely across my organization than IRC ever was - making it much more useful, even if that really just comes down to marketing it to appear more accessible. It's working really well.
A completely static site also has this property. When I scroll to the top, I can see the top. When I scroll away from the top, I cannot see the top.

I've just stated a tautology, so I'm missing something.

EDIT I'm seriously wondering whether this whole thing is a joke I'm not getting. Is there a jQuery plug-in that lets me click on text to go to other pages, too?
> it has a massive advantage over many other languages: Great documentation and a large community

I want to iterate how important these two factors are.

Python is a joy to get started with because the documentation is very easy to understand, very well organized (search results are almost always relevant), and it includes lots of examples.

The large community takes care of what the documentation lacks. Stack Overflow is loaded with Python knowledge, something I realized I took for granted now that I'm learning Ruby.
But they are much cheaper, usually.
Blog.reddit – RMS AMA
HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That's why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.
How to find your ideal target audience on social media
I was nodding in agreement right up until the point he showed charts of 17 "first-world" nations and started torturing data:

In terms of pretty much any metric you'd care to name — I'm showing you homicide and infant mortality rates, but the same pattern holds for incarceration rates, life expectancy, STDs, teen pregnancy — a whole slew of variables I don't have time to show you — the US is consistently the worst of the lot.

First, 17 countries? WTF? Why is he deliberately limiting the sample to predominantly caucasian countries? The US certainly has its faults, but it comes in at #3 on the UN's Human Development Index. Why not show data from the top 20 nations on that list? Is there really a problem with finding "religiosity" data for Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Israel, and Singapore? (Ireland comes in at #7 in the latest ranking while the UK is #27, behind Slovenia, Spain, and Italy.) It appears he's citing a 2009 Gregory Paul paper that argues the US is a more secular nation than a 2008 Baylor study indicated, which has me scratching my head.

His text refers to infant mortality while showing a chart of child mortality. Not a mistake I'd expect from a biologist, but even Homer nods on occasion. Alas, immediately after stating the US is the worst of the lot in measurements including life expectancy in some manner because of its popular religiosity, he makes the case that religiosity is a social survival trait and shows a chart indicating that religious communes last longer than secular ones. At which point I found myself wondering exactly what point he was trying to make. Atheism is the way forward even though religious nations are more likely to survive? Which is a pity, because I quite agree with his larger points on government intrusions on our privacy.

(Edited for clarity.)
Wikipedia is not really a place for satire.
Couldn't agree more - if all you need is a static file server, SimpleHTTPServer does the job. I made Knod specifically because I could not find a built in HTTP server that allows writing and deleting.
SBCL 1.2.0 Released with ARM support
You can do this in ruby using:

ruby -run -e httpd . -p 5000
Is HipChat really a good thing? Constant distractions all day means I get nothing done, so I'm pretty much against any kind of constant stream of communication when you're trying to think. Call me crazy.

On to the service itself:

I can't join in on my client's conversation without creating a whole new account with a different email address. Annoying and incredibly short-sighted. I know that the people over at HipChat never work with anyone outside of their office, but unfortunately this is not the case for most people.

Honestly, I can get an IRC server up and running in the time it takes to get a HipChat account activated. It's annoying that so many people are hyping HipChat, as if it were some groundbreaking thing.
Tooltime at MongoHQ
Slack surely is putting HipChat on its toes. Competition is really good.

I use and enjoy HipChat. The feature I love about it is the ability to temporarily invite someone (edit: a non organization person) to a room.

It would be nice if it was possible to have it open all day and have it like an IRC. It would be perfect for having support rooms for an app.

One thing i'd like HipChat to improve on is the timeout that happens to their desktop app. As long as it is open, I do not want to have to "reconnect".

Nice one guys. And Nice one Slack. Surely, no slackers.
Well, I have most of those skills but alas I'm deep in my own hardware/software startup at the moment. (See profile)

I'm sure you are already making the rounds at the hardware related meetups in the Bay Area but beyond that I think you might get more responses if you posted what you and your existing team bring to the table beyond just "I've got this smart watch startup I need another Co-Founder for." Even if you are non-technical your role is obviously hugely important and so you need to sell yourself and your team. Also, I'd recommend you post your email address in your profiles about section so people can contact you privately. Cheers.
Having studied at both a cheap state university and also one of the famed "top 20," I'd wholeheartedly argue that the educational opportunities at the two were similar if not the same.

The degree from the latter is potentially worth more in the job market, but the level of education you come away with is largely a matter of personal drive - especially now that information is so readily available everywhere.
1> Frankly speaking I have no idea. If there are more than one buyer, then will give it to the higher payer.

2> Right now, users are using a free version - so no income.

3> As far as I know, there is no other product in the market with makes video transcoding this simple. So I don't think its tough to get users.

4> From a developer's prospective, it only needs a "forgot password" function before it can go to production. Everything else is ready.

5, 6> Here are the details -> http://amritbera.com/journal/why-i-built-transcode-io (transcode.io is a completely different thing - its code-less transcoding and CDN hosting)
guys, this is not aimed at the general public. These are unlocked phones for developers. They have features to make it easier to simulate different memory constraints and run different versions of Firefox OS.

This is not a plan or a move or an intention of Mozilla to get into hardware making. This is just a program to empower developers to have the tools to better develop and test their apps.
I'd say its a document database with direct links between documents, which can be quickly and easily traversed like a graph database.

The graph API that OrientDB exposes (the TinkerPop api, basically) seems to be built almost as a convention of which links should exist, on top of the document database.

OrientDB is very flexible and powerful because of this: representing your data as linked documents feels really natural.

I've been using RethinkDB lately, and I love it, but having used OrientDB previously, I find the lack of direct links between documents makes for complex and awkward nested queries. I'll continue to happily use RethinkDB, but I'm also eagerly watching OrientDB's progress and expect I'll be using it some more soon.
API for the Real World
Personally I had so many issues using Haskell libs on Windows that I gave up on the language.

I've documented the details of my complaint here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615516
This is a great improvement, but I'm struck by two things:

1. The state of JavaScript-only application development is still nascent. The number of JS-only sites I see that are buggy, don't use PushState correctly, or have other shortcomings is growing faster than the overall trend. Not that it can't be done well, but if your JavaScript-only "app" is really just a standard website, you might want to re-think your approach.

2. There has to be a better way. There are distinct benefits to approaches in caching content and providing feedback, but JavaScript seems to be a kluge-y approach. It reminds me of frames back in the day. Some of this is browser support; some of this is lack of standardization; some is perhaps a missing piece of the HTML spec; etc.
Flowdock has pretty much the same functionality, and supports multiple organizations with one login. https://www.flowdock.com/
The value of export is beyond just checking on UI.

If they can expert it to Excel, then they can do whatever simple data analysis they just made up. No reason to wait for IT to implement whatever stats they are curious about, order it in some new way or whatever. Doing those things in excel is very fast and they get to have complete control over it.

Even if they only color cells and rows depending on some ad-hoc rule that will never be used again, excel still added them a lot of value.

Plus, I would pay gold for users that actually test system before relying on it. There is always shortage of testers and if the customer would do some of it, he deserves a discount.
Supply of cheap money drives up prices. I'm not surprised by this, and anyone currently receiving college loans shouldn't be either.
Why St. Louis is Awesome for Startups
Cool. Sorry if I was confrontational -- the article irritated me on the grounds of sloppy journalism and wide-eyed ingenuousness, and I took it out on you.
It's an HTTP server that allows reading and writing, hence it is different than the static file servers built into many languages.
I've never met anyone who pronounces it that way; we all use a hard g like "graphics." I'm curious if this differs regionally like most pronunciations, or if it's spread in different patterns because it's mainly said online.
Loading off most of the work to the client has its downsides too. If that was a reality i would assume that mobile devices would require quite a bit more battery power to render basic webpages.
And for the python3 folks:

python3 -m http.server
The problem is, as far as I can tell, it's the source of the rumour. I mean, there's no evidence that Jeff Bezos is not doing it because he was ordered to by the Bavarian illuminati. For or against. I could say it was unclear, but it'd be more likely a transparent contra-play by a PR company representing someone doing something bad.
This is awesome, we've been paying $100+/month for our company but never use video chat or screen share (nor did we want them) and have turned off history retention since day 1. Sounds like we can downgrade and pay nothing now.
To only engage the header when you're scrolling up? Identical to the way Safari on iOS handles it.
The Efimov constant is only approximately ≅ 22.7. It would be a little surprising to have a physical constant end in exactly 0.7, since it would imply that there's something special about base 10 and bases that are a multiple of 10.

Section 3 of this paper talks about the actual transcendental equation that provides the constant.

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1946/2679...
What they were saying before was that you always need a HTML fallback for JS-generated content. Now it seems they're saying you don't necessarily need to.