skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, my startup [0] carries the same idea but applies it to days of the week. So far the responsive from the restaurant industry is overwhelming.

[0] http://opendeals.com.au
That is certainly a good point. Now, I'm curious how often and comprehensive a taxi inspection really is.
It's pretty ridiculous that car-pooling (aka ride-sharing) is fully legal and unrestricted.

However, the second you charge money for the same service, the regulators want to get involved to check for safety, inspections, and licensing.
> ""I urge the citizens of Virginia to protect their families by using only companies that appear on DMV's website as licensed transportation services. If it's not on the list, it's not recommended," says DMV Commissioner Richard Holcomb."

"Save the children!" plus an appeal to authority. If your argument has no substance, you might as well go full fallacy.
I run a HipChat for a few work-alone iOS devs. We've got about 3 active users that are somewhat timezone-disjoint and so we can afford to take on a few more. Some of us know each other IRL but some don't. Most are contractors with products on the side.

It's low-volume, most of the traffic ATM is discussing new WWDC features or asking for help debugging something. Occasionally we hit each other up for longer software architecture or product discussions.

If interested, e-mail is in my profile. Also I would totally recommend starting groups like this if you're a workalone server guy or whatever. It's pretty useful to have that daily interaction.
Funnily enough, we're working on scheduling for detailers and cleaning businesses (http://carwashy.com). We haven't look into ticketing because well, to be frank, most of our customers never really mention the problems you guys face. And looking at the data, no-shows account for less than 2% of bookings.
further reading on getting dramatically underqualified students to graduate anyway: http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/blackelite.htm

At some point, you wonder: what if we gave the same level of support to the qualified students?
The world that crashed into the Earth billions of years ago to form the Moon.
Does the devil need any help? Does Verizon's PR department? You might ask yourself why you feel obliged to take the side of an enormously wealthy oligopoly.

But to answer your question: I am already paying my ISP to deliver all packets I request to me, up to certain limits that my ISP agreed to when they started my service. If my ISP is failing to live up to that bargain, I'd like to know.

Also, the "poor Verizon, helpless in the hands of Wall Street" thing verges on obscene. That they are in a position to shake down people for more money does not justify them doing so. If they don't want to be in the ISP business, they can get out of it. They are also welcome to find new ways to create value. But running a protection racket is not in any way morally defensible.
Could care less? Haven't seen that for a while, so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
The traffic exchange would only occur once a customer routing data over a Verizon network uses Netflix, no? Meaning that the 35% of the Verizon network usage that Netflix uses, is due to customers actually using the connection they pay for, no?

As an ISP, I think if you are offering 100Mbps unlimited in/out, you should Expect full thrust from every connection, or at least be capable of delivering that. I know it's not really realistic, they need to assume that some people, sometimes are disconnected but if I am paying for a connection and a certain level of throughput, I expect to get that.

Just my point of view, correct me if my assumptions are incorrect!
Another commenter upthread[0] said that was his project, same name and same idea.

> I actually wrote exactly the same thing years ago (2007), even had the same name :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855060
The biggest startup challenge seems to be to deal with existing laws (and people, and relationships) that never imagined your brand new idea. The technological challenge seems secondary.
All the keypads I've used in stores have been physically removable and I always cover. I'm guessing the key pad was also tampered with.
Yes, a commercial relationship changes the nature of that transaction since commercial transactions are regulated/taxed in many states.
Yes, but run-down cars with squealing brakes and bad suspensions are much more likely to also not have a functioning airbag.
I think thats a very clever algorithm.

But I think your first articulation amounts to converting a turing machine to a huge generated state machine, which would be impossible. The behavior of the X program given one input could be modeled as a sequence of states if it terminates. But the process of generation that you described would have to be repeated for all possible inputs into the simulated X program, which would be impossible.

Maybe a single "behavior" could be modeled by a state machine, but it would also seem impossible to me to decompose a program into individual units of behavior.

But as for bytecode -- one could always compile the X code into bytecode, and then decompile that bytecode into Y code. If you can always find a common bytecode language for two languages X and Y, then I think that would be a generic algorithm for X->Y.

Edit: I guess that common bytecode could just be in a language that describes a turing machine.
I didn't mean to advocate singling Mormons out specifically. Like I said, my proposal is to define groups such that each group's members all consider each other to be orthodox.

> Heck, why even include Protestants? Historically, "orthodox" Catholics consider them to be heretics as well[1].

When I listed "Mormons" and "non-Mormon Christians," I didn't mean to imply that those would literally be the only two groups within Christianity. I was just giving an example of separating people into groups based on mutually-recognized orthodoxy.
what? pretty sure the use of the term exploded. here is some data to back it up http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=former%20nsa&cmpt=q

everyone is trying to cash in the fact that they can offer 'former NSA' employees in hopes that clients think "hey, he knows the stuff NSA does, he will help me protect against it"... which is total bullshit.
Your Android phone, now with NSA-grade security

The strength of the encryption is and was never a problem.

One of the biggest hurdles for widespread adoption in the private sector is that encryption is perceived to cause friction between users [...] With that in mind, Vitru has managed to keep friction to a minimum.

Key management is indeed the main problem but the article has nothing to say how they attacked the problem.

Virtru’s Android encryption enables users to control access to email messages and files and can be “revoked” at any time. Users can also set expiration dates for sensitive email.

No, that does not work. Screenshot. Revoking may work within a specific client but to become really successful you will most likely have to open the protocol to alternative clients and that's the definite end of revoking or expiring messages.
Pretty much everything you wrote is complete nonsense. There's no relation between healthcare and spying. People don't put their medical information into the system (hello! no more denials for pre-existing conditions). "Corrupt"? Really? Then you try to shame the folks for participating but even acknowledge that inanity with your caveat. Pretty shameful all the way around.
But, there's a difference between not having a religion and atheism. Atheism is the belief that there is no God.

Just because one does not have a religion does not make them atheist.

I have no religion and yet I am not an atheist.
There are a number of things (sex, homebrew, tax prep, massage, fishing, etc.) become regulated/illegal as soon as you start charging for them.
Try http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Example_Short_23.976/70136...
Because the headline might be misleading by leaving this out, it's not just Zuckerberg and Nadella.

The full list:

Tim Armstrong, AOL
Tim Cook, Apple
Drew Houston, Dropbox
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
Larry Page, Google
Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn
Dick Costolo, Twitter
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!
Yeah you're right. I'm conflating the two and being confused. I apologize.
It's not credible to suppose that Comcast's network is built around equal exchange of traffic. The broadband connections they provide are wildly asymmetrical, often by an order of magnitude.

And then there's this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/bittor...

"[W]hen we ask [ISPs] if we too would qualify for no-fee interconnect if we changed our service to upload as much data as we download—thus filling their upstream networks and nearly doubling our total traffic—there is an uncomfortable silence," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote last month. "That's because the ISP argument isn't sensible. Big ISPs aren't paying money to services like online backup that generate more upstream than downstream traffic. Data direction, in other words, has nothing to do with costs."
> Hah. Good luck with that—you'd just end up with a million little groups of one or two.

There's no way that's accurate. Plenty of Protestant Christian denominations recognize other Protestant denominations as orthodox, and I suspect the same goes between many congregations of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

> The whole point of forming a sub-religion is that new people consider the old people heretical or unorthodox or vice versa.

Not at all true, at least within Protestant Christian denominations.
Every company has an incentive to provide lower quality goods for an higher price. There's nothing special about ISPs, their quality just includes bandwidth. The way you align the incentives is by having competition, so that the ISPs with bigger pipes gain customers. Paying more would solve nothing, though I'm sure they would tell you otherwise.
Hi, previous CEO of AutoRef here.

I've spoken with Eric (the engineer who spearheaded this), and while code exists it needs some work for release. It hasn't been worked on since the closure of AutoRef.

Eric and I will be working on getting a release ready within a week. If you'd like to be notified when a release is ready, please sign up for this mailchimp list and we'll email you: http://eepurl.com/WlqXz
You act as if citizens (read: serfs) are on the same side, being ignored by a senate just looking for campaign donations.

This time last year, a majority of Americans supported the NSA program: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/11/190638738/pew.... Only this year did the polls shift: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/20/poll-..., with a significant but not overwhelming 53-40 against the program. And as always, keep in mind that these are polls of the public--actual voters skew older and more conservative.

A better way to frame the situation that doesn't distort it all to hell might be that the tech sector educating Congress about the economic issues might help tip a consensus that's still pretty deadlocked in the public when you look at actual voters.
No, it is not a problem at all.
There's enough in their service description to not trust them.

The way the system is described, you encrypt a file on your device, upload both the key and the file to the cloud, then the receiver downloads both the file and the key.

Look at the diagrams here: https://www.virtru.com/how-virtru-works

The "encryption key storage" is central to how the whole thing works. It's also a dumb idea. The only thing I can think is that it allows a file to be delivered out-of-band, but the inescapable fact is that decryption material is available to at least one other party.
If you fell so strongly about it, how can you remain a citizen? Thought so.
>"As many of the current regulations surrounding taxis and limos were created before anything like Lyft's peer-to-peer model was ever imagined

it wasn't that the peer-to-peer model wasn't imagined, it just that the "peer-to-peer" transportation services have been illegal pretty much everywhere. What was changed by Lyft and the likes is the number of "law-breakers", i.e. it seems it reached critical threshold for [considering] regulations change. Laws/regulations is just a written record of the power balance, and as the balance has just somewhat shifted it thus prompted the changes in the written record of it.
This is amazing; I had no idea this existed. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if you could circumvent these issues by making it donation only, but show riders' donation history to drivers before they choose to accept a rider. The donation is "optional" but unless you want to be effectively blacklisted (by individual drivers, not Uber/Lyft) you should leave a donation.

I'm sure the taxi lobby would figure out a way to shut that down as well, of course.
Won't somebody please think of the children and the broken taxi industry! Before Uber and Lyft hit the scene, you only had a small pool to pick your taxi from only to discover all major taxi companies are in cahoots together anyway.

Uber to me is reliable, it's cheaper and it's safer. I couldn't count the number of times I've ordered a taxi that just didn't show up (presumably they took a more profitable fare elsewhere), rude drivers, drivers that speed without any kind of accountability. You complain to the taxi company and they couldn't really care less.

Instead of embracing change, taxi companies are clinging to their lobbyist and broken ways. Look how well that turned out for the music industry when they tried to fight digital music and streaming... It's the same situation happening all over again. Uber and Lyft will eventually win, it's only a matter of time.
Not really … those folders are as similar to the old bright blue folders of OS X as the Yosemite folders are to them … which is to say not a whole lot.
They say how they've attacked the problem. And its as stupid as you would imagine: https://www.virtru.com/how-virtru-works

I'm guessing the system works by sending the encrypted item out-of-band. Revocation could be done by the key server. Though there's nothing to prevent designing a client that automatically grabbed the key material when an encrypted message was sent.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed.

-Francisco D'Anconia
One can't run trust code on a untrused platform. And I'd say smartphones are the least trustworthy platform out there.
If you get a chance I highly recommend visiting this location. I drive by it often and have walked around it a few times. It is a breathtaking building.
He said "my girlfriend", not "women", and the difference is everything.
Many customers, but perhaps not many markets.

I'm in the same position with AT&T, in a residence that's at the edge of two cities, but is unincorporated (not part of any city, just the county, state, and the USA itself). No cable service is available, the deals they cut with the two cities don't cover me. Those deals make them local monopolies, long ago the original AT&T (which got split up, and then recombined into AT&T, Verizon and Century) arranged a Federal and state level monopoly, except of course for many rural and otherwise expensive to serve markets, which are served by smaller telcos.

I have at least one option for a WISP, but it's awful; at least AT&T's ADSL here is reliable. For now, AT&T really doesn't want it's landline business, wants to drop it for more profitable wireless. Ditto Verizon.
Exactly. The explanation seems to invoke Zoroastrianism, but not in any sensible way.

You might assume that pale yellow refers to Zoroastrians, but that seems unlikely, given its predominance in counties throughout the country and lack of registering at all on the state map. It looks like a pattern more similar to "No Presence," which I take to mean there simply aren't any discoverable congregants other than Christians in certain vast stretches of the, uh, Northern Rocky Heartland (for lack of a good regional descriptor).
As a Sonic customer, I agree with you: small ISPs can be awesome.

However, over 90% of American homes have at most 2 ISP choices. At most! So we are in a small but happy minority.

I lay most of the blame here on the FCC and the FTC, who have totally failed to regulate in a way that maintains a healthy market.

But I also have some blame left over for all the people who signed up with major ISPs while the small ones went out of business. It has always cost me more money to go with a local ISP rather than whatever the megacorp's latest intro rate would be. Now everybody is shocked that Comcast, Verizon, et al are giving shitty service and being total dicks about it. But it turns out I can't go down to the corner and shout, "WELL DUH! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?!? TO THEM YOU ARE THE VEAL!" because nobody likes hearing I told you so. That or they don't like crazy people shouting on the corner.
I'm just waiting for us all to make a FS for practically everything through FUSE (a virtual file system which is used by LoggerFS).

I learned about FUSE while getting into Plan 9 and the "everything as a file" mentality. Lets make everything a file!
w8, you can't change fonts of windows/etc in macos?
These "licensed" services get out of hand where allowed number of licenses are far lower than demand. This turns into a huge mess as a recent but less publicized account shows: http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2013/former-g...
Creating Android Lens Blur Depth Viewer
sex - not if you film it. then it's instantly legal
It looks like any companies who were operating ethically (opt-in) will be fine.
Yeah, I found it a bit odd the specific selections of both CEOs and companies named - especially given that the CEOs in the headline, the named companies in the article, and the named CEOs in the article are all different sets.
Your post reminds me to this scene of the beatiful mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d_dtTZQyUM . Basically you all wanted to go for the blond.
Playing the devils advocate here: I'd imagine even a superstar takes on a sizeable amount of risk when they oppose a large and powerful organization (i.e. NSA). An individual is an easy target regardless of wealth, no? I think a wealthy individual must be just as passionate and willing to fight as his/her less wealthy counterpart
Almost identical to the list of PRISM companies.
Put it on github -- people might send some Pull Requests.
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The government procurement process is insanely complex. A full competitive bid process for something of this magnitude would have taken many months at least, and would also make it really hard for consortiums to bid because of the up-front cost. Hence the beltway incumbents (Lockheed, Northrop, IBM, and, yes, CGI though they're much smaller) have a much easier time winning these contracts since knowing how to navigate the contracting process and having existing contract vehicles unfortunately gets you a large part of the way there.

I believe CGI actually got this contract via an IDIQ, which is an "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity" contract, allowing HHS to add additional "tasks" to the IDIQ contract as long as its within certain bounds set by the contract, and if it stays within their GSA fee schedule. IDIQs started becoming popular in the 90s as a more expedient way to contract rather than the months-long or even years-long process of a standard competitive bidding process. However, it only really solved the procurement woes for incumbents. I couldn't find the original CGI-Federal contract, but here's at least their press release: http://www.cgi.com/en/CGI-selected-build-US-wide-competitive...

Also, here's Accenture RFP award as the prime for fixing up the site for the next enrollment cycle.
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&i...
Yeah, he clearly has the business model and restaurant selling points down flat, but there really does seem to be room for improvement as far as UI/UX is concerned.

• From a user's perspective, it's not as if some aesthetic improvements are mutually exclusive with the overall goals stated in the article. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It'd be nice if the website had the same premium feel and attention to detail that the actual food and front of house do. It's a bit jarring to spend $3k+ on season tickets on a website with a minimum viable design.

• While I admittedly lack the insight of a restaurant operator, it seems he's stagnated frontend-wise on simply "anything but IE." While that makes the geek in me chuckle, it seems to dismiss the benefits that come from having an actual strategy focusing on the way that mobile devices could be integrated. Just because the ticket biz model is better than those focused on leasing hardware doesn't mean that a FOH person couldn't be armed with a tablet to access the webapp or that a native app for customers and restaurants doesn't make sense.

Anyways, very interesting, and while I didn't think it was possible to be more excited for Modern China, I'm now looking forward to potentially keeping an eye out for how the restaurant interacts with the software during service.
Instead of merely citing the author as an authority and stating your interpretation of his thesis, please offer some details from the source to back up your claim. Especially when asserting something that goes against prevailing wisdom, such as your statement that previous ages displayed equal or superior tolerance and reason. Dropping a link to a book doesn't make your points any more credible unless the book is free to read.
The sharing economy isn't collaborative consumption, it's disaster capitalism
It depends a lot on location. He's currently in Utah. $70k there is a relatively generous salary for a junior developer.
Found this in their blog post on Google's OpenPGP plugin support:

"…is so easy to install and use that anyone, regardless of technical sophistication or ability can use. There is no need to understand PGP or exchange keys with the people you’re sharing information with."

I get that PGP is hard, and keyex is a huge UX problem, but that's because it breaks immediately as soon as you try to simplify it. In the case of Virtru, they're requiring you to rely on a trusted third-party.

About the only charitable thing that could be said about this is there might be a practical improvement in security, provided the key and document are sent separately.
Agree, it's like life is a constant game of "maintain the status quo", and we measure innovation by how pissed people get that had already invested in said status quo.

I just called Time Warner yesterday to complain until they gave me better pricing and ended up arguing with the retention guy about how it would cost them less if they just killed their analog output (which still runs in my area) and gave internet users the BW. TWC is finally doing so in the area, but not after milking every last drop out of the aging analog cable crowd.

>You complain to the taxi company and they could care less

...twitch...

couldn't care less
The thing about porn is that the participants are usually not the ones paying. If you started charging your performers, you might find yourself with a different classification.
It's pretty ridiculous that having sex (aka one night stands) is fully legal and unrestricted.

However, the second you charge money for the same service, the regulators want to get involved to check for safety, inspections, and licensing.
Hurting their bottom lines? I thought it'd be sooner.
Marvel is quite interesting. It is a product everyone _could_ build on their own (basically, it is Kibana over their own metrics data), but at that price point, there is no reasonable reason to do so.
De facto immutability