skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume that insurance companies don't care much about the environment when pricing your risk as a driver. They do care about liability. Carpooling increases liability risk. You get in a wreck with a fare or three in your little sedan and you could be looking at a massive increase in payouts for that driver's bad luck. That you are trying to maximize your utilization and occupancy means you are not enabling the insurance company to assess (and price) your risk appropriately. Their service is priced based on your honest divulging (and their industry resourced info) of driving habits. There are assumptions of number of riders for commuter miles.

So, they could deny coverage based on the details of your policy and the facts of the situation. Read carefully. Interpret broadly. When investigating the claims, they will inquire about the affiliations of the riders in the vehicle. I can imagine an Uber driver, with their riders holding their necks, running around saying, "When you talk to my insurance adjuster about this, I need you to lie or we all get nothing."

That would then be insurance fraud at a whole other level.

Insurance companies have been at policy fraud and claim denial for as long as auto insurance has been available.

Given odd situations with large payouts at stake, we'll be reading about subpoenas for user info from Uber or telecoms at some point. The meta-data of your fare(s) could be pretty damning.

Uber seems that it is not being responsible to its drivers or customers in this regard. Uber will feasibly need to not only buy a fleet of their own cars, they'll have to backstop claims for their drivers. They'll be a regular OLD taxi company with an app.

Oh wait... they are already doing this:
http://blog.uber.com/uberXridesharinginsurance

Their spin on this is interesting. I'd like to see feedback from a couple carriers.

Oh, we have that too...
http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-...

[quote]In a filing with the California Public Utilities Commission in 2012, the Personal Insurance Federation of California, an industry group made up of State Farm, Farmers, Progressive, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, Mercury and Nationwide, said it asked its members to determine how they would treat liability claims in ride-service accidents.

In response to the Commission’s inquiries, we surveyed our members regarding coverage issues in the above described situations. It appears that the industry standard for personal auto insurance policy contracts is to exempt from insurance coverage claims involving vehicles used for transporting passengers for a charge. Thus, in situations where a vehicle is insured as a private vehicle and is used to transport passengers for a fee, no insurance coverage would exist…

In a press release after the CPUC ruling, the Association of California Insurance Companies, a trade association and lobbying group, said, “Both drivers and riders must understand that an accident in a ride-sharing vehicle will not be covered under a personal auto insurance policy.”[/quote]
New govt plans free wifi in public places. Would be a boost to smartphone industry. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-06-09/news...
My favourite is the icon of multiple people. That, to me, obviously signifies social which is what sharing is. You don't need an arrow in this case, just put a group of stick figures in the icon and it makes perfect sense.

Android's approach used to be very acceptable - a directed graph - but then they got rid of the arrows for some reason.

In the context of OS X I never understood what the button was because I never have any need to share something from within my OS. In fact I removed the button from my toolbar. I'm not sure it's that obvious if you didn't have the icon text.

In fact it's inconsistent even within OS X. The Public folder icon is a person on a street sign.
Uber's revenues were leaked earlier this year(http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/04/leaked-uber-numbers-which-w...), they're earning buckets of money and would thrive without VC investment, assuming they can continue to shirk regulation.

Long term if cities allow services like Uber and Lyft to exist the margins will likely decrease since drivers can switch to the company that pays the best, and consumers will use the service with the best rates.
Comcast to test its YouTube competitor by the end of the year
It was crazy but it was also the right way forward. People speculated & desired this for a long time.
Ask HN: What's your cause?
I really want to commit myself to volunteering at least a day or two a month to a non profit organization. My problem is that I'm not quite sure I know where I want to volunteer. I'm looking for a cause that I'm passionate about so I've come to HN to ask what are you passionate about? Where do you volunteer? Thanks everyone
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See my links. They are working all the angles, but drivers will lose if their insurance company knows they were renting their car for hire at the time of the wreck.
From Indian perspective it may not be a good decision for Mozilla to team up with Intex and Spice. They produce phones priced cheap but their track record in quality is not so good. People have become more quality conscious now. I think it may end up like Tata Nano - cheap car but not many takers.
New lock screen bypass discovered in iOS 7.1.1
test.guru worked in yosemite Safari without http:// Anyone install iOS 8 yet? Oh wait.. did I just break NDA... ooooops.
This Startup Promises To Maximize Profit On Your Airbnb Posting
I think it would've been pretty awesome if you proposed a slide deck composed purely of vaguely captioned images, and then got up there, and derailed the talk for 90% of your alotted time by just delivering an off-topic talk regarding subject of your choice (maybe something highly technical and intimidating). All the while clicking through slides as if they related to your spoken word, and then at the end, summed up with the sentiment you expressed in this post on your site. And then, when you open up the floor for a Q&A session, respond to any questions with markov-chain generated non-sequiturs.

In my book, that would be a great talk. The more extemporaneous, the better.

Maybe that's a little anti-social, but remember that in comedy, a joke that bombs can be entertaining all by itself. And if your worried about losing your nerve, when the moment arrives, and it's time to be beligerent, just do a couple of shots before you get on stage.

...on the other hand, if the talk gets a positive response, you'd probably have another problem on your hands: being asked to come back and give the same talk again. One way to curb that would be to pre-record your protest and just play the recording into the microphone.
If you have root then install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode... - at least that way only apps you allow can communicate online.
Welp, Netflix gets it. If you have kids, you'll understand the allure of Magic School Bus and you are all the more likely to stick with Netflix or sign up.

Much like the video game "console wars", exclusive content is something people will pay for and it makes a platform very sticky.
I'll bet this "competitor" is really, really great. I haven't had cable for 3 or 4 years now, but Comcast used to advertise "Comcast Searchlight", channel 888. I think "Comcast Searchlight" is the Comcast version of the corporate internet - a lame, carefully tended, yet weak and anemic walled in garden. Only select advertisers appeared, and I'm sure they paid top dollar to appear. Very bizarre.

Anyway, I be this "competitor" is a lot like Comcast Searchlight.
I still trust non-ECC RAM a lot more than my disk.
I work at an industrial lab so haven't technically left academia. What "unrestricted work on fundamental science do you speak of"? Apart from a few groups at MSR, I don't believe this happens much in industrial labs these days. I do miss my grad school days in case you are wondering :p
You don't think the fact that HP has a bunch of patents around this sort of disincentives others?

Also I'm not seeing how radically denser/faster storage is going to make search engine or consumer device business models tank.
Thanks! It's called Massive Dungeon, and is heavily inspired by Dungeon Crawl. It has a retro pixel graphics aesthetic. The goal is 10,000 players in a single, truly massive dungeon, all trying to beat each other to the bottom. No rules, no holds barred, every man for himself. Winners are immortalized forever.
>It's impossible to make things without parasitic capacitance because without a perfect insulator...

Maybe a nit, but I don't believe that is technically correct. Parasitic capacitance (and inductance) exist between any two objects because the electric (and magnetic) field extend from a charge (or current) to infinity. These fields store energy, even in perfect vacuum. The lumped circuit model of stored electric energy is capacitance, the model of stored magnetic energy is inductance so anything physical which carries charge or current will have capacitance or inductance (will store finite energy). An insulating material (dielectric) in a capacitor can increase the energy storage (by the sqrt of the dielectric constant of the material) but non-ideal materials are not necessary for the "parasitic" effect to occur.
Thanks for highlighting the least emphasized but the most important aspect of the operating system, which is being completely free and open. Too often I see people criticizing Firefox OS because it looks slow and the current hardware is inferior to whatever device they have now, but to me, that's completely besides the point. The market needs an open mobile OS that respects the user's liberties, and it's only because of Firefox OS that I finally went for my first smartphone.

The OS definitely has a really long way to go and I've noticed quite a few bugs and plenty of missing essential features, but I'm optimistic about its future, provided the developers acknowledge these issues. I think people also need to be made aware that as development continues, they will be able to install the OS on other more powerful devices if they fall outside of current low end, cheap smartphone market.

On a side note, thanks for sharing the link to your guide because I've been looking all over the place for a good resource to help me start learning how to develop web applications.
It's not just the Magic School Bus either!

>The companies declined to discuss terms of the deal, which follows Netflix’s acquisition in the last year of rights to a number of Scholastic series, including the original “Magic School Bus,” “Clifford the Big Red Dog” and “Goosebumps.”
I agree, my Facebook, Twitter, and email audiences are all different groups of people. When I see something I want to show people, I think "I should put this on Facebook" or "I should Tweet this".

Actually, I never use "share" buttons, I just go onto the service I want to use and link to it manually. I guess I don't share often enough, and I want total control over the message I post.
Can You Feel Two Emotions at Once?
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If you have money to buy a home in San Francisco right now I'm not too worried about your financial future.
Doublechecking, you're right: The MPL 1.1 isn't compatible with any version of the GPL (v2 or v3), and the MPL 2.0 explicitly grants compatibility with GPLv2 or later, not just v3. I stand corrected; I was thinking of another license.
If you understand German you can check out the „Zedler Universallexicon“. It was published between 1732 and 1754 (a couple decades before the Encyclopædia Britannica) and it’s absolutely massive (68 volumes, about 63,000 pages).

It has been completely digitised (mostly for research purposes, since it is often used to determine the state of knowledge about a certain topic at the time) and is available for free online (http://www.zedler-lexikon.de). Browsing it can be very interesting and often quite amusing.

The entry for California (nowadays „Kalifornien“ in German, but „California“ in the encyclopaedia) is actually pretty long, somewhat hilarious and somewhat sad. On the issue of whether California is an island it teaches the controversy and presents both viewpoints, though clearly seems to prefer the view that California is an island.

I will try to translate the entry quite literally (paragraph breaks are inserted for better readability):

“California, also called Noua Albion [sic, should probably be Nova Albion?], an island in northern America, situated in the South Sea, reaches to New Mexico or New Granada, and is separated from them by a sea arm; however, many believe it to only be a peninsula that is connected to the mainland towards the north. In length it measures 600 or 700 French miles from north to south, from the capes Cabo blanc, Cabo S. Sebastian and Cabo Mendocino to the Cabo de S. Lucar.

The inhabitants are upstanding people, the men walk naked, the women, however, are covered to the knees in skins or feathers from the birds. The people are very skilled in hunting and fishing, as they have a special way of catching the fish.

The land is arid, barren and cold [huh?], even though it is situated where it should rather be hot or at least temperate. There are frequently grasshoppers. Pearls are found eastward on the coasts of California, just as on the coasts of New Mexico and New Granada, as first discovered by Cortesio [Hernán Cortés, I assume] in the year 1535.”

There is also an entry in a supplement volume that expands on the pearl fishing:

“California, island, [reference to previous volume]. Because the coasts there are famous for pearl fishing, the Europeans strongly wished to be there, and also, from time to time, attempted to remain there. In the beginning of the year 1703 a fortress was already built there [I wonder which fortress that is and whether it still exists in some form], so that it can serve to protect the Spaniards in an emergency. It stands in the quarter [not sure about this one, both in the German original and the translation] St Dionysii, on land that the Indians [„Indianer” in the original] call Coneho [Conejo?]. It was given the name of our dear Lady of Loretto.”
Warren Buffet's advise is great but I have never understood why he picks S&P 500 vs the Nasdaq? If you look at almost any time period the Nasdaq has outperformed the S&P by at least 1% (Annualized Growth Rate) which compounded year after year is a significant difference over your working lifetime (~%50 greater return after 40 years)! This is what I have been doing for the past 10 years and I am >2% (AGR) over the S&P.
What was described above was basically tax evasion, especially the bit about charging your own company rent to operate out of your house. No form of entity works like that in the U.S.

You get a choice: you can either have a pass-through entity (owners are taxed as if they received the income directly...even if they never actually receive it) or a deferral entity like a corporation (corporation is taxed, but its owner are not taxed until/unless they receive a dividend).

Moreover, even if you choose a pass-through entity like an S-Corp or LLC, the IRS places certain threshold requirements on the amount of income you must pay yourself, and on the self-employment taxes (FICA) you must pay.
Where wireless is a cellular component.
If HP invents an insanely superior computer it will still need software, and HP hasn't lit the world on fire with its software. The real victim would be Intel/ARM.

It's not like Linux / Mac OS X / Windows won't run on a computer with a huge amount of RAM and no "hard disk". Most users won't care if a 100x faster computer runs their existing stuff only 10x faster.
Does anyone have links where I could read about what I can read about possible workarounds? Like mirrors may be or setting up private repositories?
> Corporations do not pay income tax as such

Normal corporations pay federal corporate income taxes directly -- and, as employers, they pay the employer share of federal payroll taxes as well.

It is true that there are kinds of corporations whose income is passed through to someone else and assessed against that person (notably S Corps, and T Corps in certain circumstances.)
Just when I wanted to get some work done.
As the extreme high water mark of success, not really.
The cost is probably pretty low, but you still have to replace the car at some point.
I tried to use the eu mirror, but that seems down too.
No, look at this:

References to:

- http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/861

- http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.1441-1

- http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1042s.pdf

NAME_OF_COMPANY LLC is a single member LLC, and as such disregarded for federal tax purposes as a separate entity from its owner, FULLNAME, a resident of COUNTRY and a nonresident alien for US tax purposes. According to Section 1.1441-1 of Treasury Regulations (page 3 of the attachment) , payments made to a whole owned domestic entity that is disregarded for federal tax purposes and whose single owner is a foreign person, shall be treated as payments made to the owner of the entity. This means that payments made to NAME_OF_COMPANY LLC for federal tax purposes are considered to have been made to FULLNAME. The Regs go on to explain that the single owner of the US disregarded entity must furnish a From W-8 with his name and address to the US payor . An ITIN is required only to claim a reduced rate of withholding under treaty, but since in this case the payments were made for income from sources WITHOUT the United States, no withholding is required to begin with, so there is no need to claim any treaty benefits at all and provide an ITIN as a result.

If you want I can contact you with an specific accountant and you can discuss the details with her.
I can't tell if everyone one is like that (I assume not), but I am extremely reliant on visualization, and I suppose Bret is also. I believe profoundly on it's power partly because it's the only way I can really get things done properly, which is why those tools resonate so much to me. I have a friend however that shudders every time I mention making programming more visual.

I mean, If I'm not visualizing something, I can perhaps find some solution in a logical way following some guidelines -- much like following a recipe to solve a equation or doing trial an error to solve an algebraic problem. But critically, I can't create this way. I may stumble unto something useful, but it's an entirely different process from creativity -- it's efficiency is so much lower that it's qualitatively different.

But my difficulty at that is not fundamental, I think. I believe you can be creative purely 'algebraically', but I have no experience with it -- but I do believe that some people have the same efficiency that I have when I think visually and perhaps stumble a little more when trying to visualize things themselves.

I do think this diversity is quite good, but that's missing the point. My point is that Bret's tools shouldn't be universally essential, but are probably universally beneficial. And for some people, like me, they'd be simply enabling.

To give an exaple: when I see a system of linear equations, I don't think of a bunch of steps to solve them and the number of cases that the solutions may look like in terms of constraints of variables an so on. I think of the Image hyperplane, which can be abstracted as a plane in 3D, and the Kernel, which may be for example a line not on the Image. Then instead I wonder if the Kernel is non-null, what funny things this matrix is doing to the vectors (are they rotating, contracting, and so on), or what are the invariant subspaces. I can answer most questions one could ask about such system, but it's a distinct way, I'm not sure if more efficient or not (and that may be up to the task).
>Are you expecting tactical nuclear strikes or acts of God?

Are you not?
It is a shame that life saving research sponsored by the govt. is locked down.
Sorry, you are partially correct. I looked up the airport stat and it's specific to the Caribbean, not worldwide. Regarding the other claim however:

“It is estimated that a hypothetical 1 m rise in relative sea level projected for the Gulf Coast region between Alabama and Houston over the next 50-100 years would permanently flood a third of the region’s roads as well as putting more than 70% of the region’s ports at risk,” the IPCC said.

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/03/26/long-term-sea-level-rise-will...
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Well, isn't this a coincidence? Just around the time they are expecting the "fast lanes" rules to have passed.
I wouldn't call FirefoxOS a "thin client" (if that's what you meant) - it has a concept of "packaged apps" in which the app and all its assets are packaged and downloaded to the phone, and loaded from there. The built-in "certified" apps (like Phone, Music, Calendar and so on) don't require loading anything from the network at all, for instance.

You can think of FirefoxOS apps the same way conceptually you'd think of them on Android/iOS, except they are always written in open web technologies (HTML/JS/CSS).

App developers do have the option to provide "hosted" apps to the store (which is basically a regular web page but without browser chrome), however even in this case writing HTML5 apps that work offline is totally doable using existing cross-browser standards.
"you gents" is an absolutely awful way to address this query.

To answer the question: a sharpie and lots of paper.
It's about how much pg netted from Viaweb, isn't it?
Are you talking about a non citizen doing this, or a citizen/permanent resident?

A noncitizen actually can use the USA as a tax haven in ways similar to this (I'm not sure of the specifics of this particular situation). IMO there isn't a whole lot special about non US people not owning US taxes when outside the US.

A US citizen or permanent resident is taxed on global income (you do get around your first 95k/yr deducted if you are out of the country enough, which is why I went diving for 4 months at the end of a contract and net made more money than returning to the US that year). A corporate entity being treated as disregarded just exposes that income the us person's global us tax liability.

(Again, I am absolutely not a lawyer; this is not tax advice)
It's not a CFC. He's described an NRA residing in a foreign country selling software to US customers from a location outside the US. This is foreign-source income that is generally not taxed in the US unless you have citizenship or tax residency (i.e., a green card, or a company that is incorporated or physically does business in the U.S.).

In fact, what he's described works even better without the LLC, as the organizing an LLC in a state gives that state jurisdiction to tax sales to customers in that state! (State tax laws work differently than federal tax laws and are generally not affected by tax treaties.)
Ask HN: How Many Programming Languages Can iOS Apps Be Written In?
I know about Swift, O-C, C, C , and maybe even C# utilizing Unity for iOS, however, is it possible to write native iOS apps in even more languages? For instance, would there be a way to run Python or Ruby-based apps?
In Queensland in Australia there's a style of housing called an Old Queenslander - basically a house on stilts to help the occupants deal with the heat and humidity. As the whole house is up on stilts, this means you can move the house as a single item (no slab)... which means that you can have a 'used house lot', where you go and pick the house you want from the 'showroom' and have it shipped to wherever.
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What’s New In OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”?
California Department of Motor Vehicles
> i.e., sending some information somewhere

Right, the icon really represents "send" or "upload" which to me is correct. The article seems to find fault in the fact that their "share" icon is the opposite of their "download" icon. But to me, if you consider the icon to mean "send" or "upload", then it makes sense that it is the opposite of "download".