skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be quite so harsh, they're acting in a completely rational, expected way. And on the face of it there isn't really a problem with helping people price better.

But I look at this stuff in aggregate - surge pricing on Uber, primetime on Lyft, this service on AirBnb, etc etc, and I get a sinking feeling in my stomach.

The utopian technocratic future Silicon Valley is bringing about seems to be one where every merchant everywhere is maximizing every penny they can extract from you at every moment, where everyone spends an inordinate amount of brain cycles trying to defeat pricing algorithms, driving an increasingly maddeningly complicated web of price-maximizers so complex and pervasive you have no chance of understanding what's going on.

Individually these things all seem rational and understandable, but as a whole where do we draw the line? As what point do I pick up a chocolate bar and watch its price tag change in front of my eyes because the system knows I have a weak spot for Snickers?

This seems dystopian to me, and perhaps more dystopian than this possible future is the fact that a lot of people in our industry would wet their pants in joy at the thought of that future.
It might be interesting to use Terra [0] in place of regular LuaJIT for the audio engine.

[0] http://terralang.org/
It's not my project, but I'm sure a pull request would be appreciated.

https://github.com/RainLoop/rainloop-webmail
Protecting picket lines is a strategy that goes back to the Chartist movement in England. The whole point of a picket line is to shut down production. Many early labor wars involved management hiring private armies that beat up and even shot strikers.

Organized cribs involvement started during McCarthyism in particular (red scares more generally). When socialists (with a rank and file power perspective) were driven out, the vacuum left was filled by mobsters (in some cases).
It's funny you should mention graph theory and network security. I'm involved in cyber security research, though more on the operations side of security than networks. However, our research group does do quite a bit of work on the network side. Most of it's focused on SCADA networks, but there's a couple of really cool tools (read startups) that have come out of our group that lean heavily on graph theory.

NP-View[1] maps connections. That is, If HostA can reach HostB, and HostB can reach HostC, is there a path from HostC to HostA.

Veriflow (which I know far less about) is a large topology mapping tool.

[1] http://www.network-perception.com/
[2] http://www.veriflowsystems.com/
Kicked Out of Heaven for Wanting Women Priests
The 'Fly' Has Been Swatted
Right, didn't mean that in the original post - obviously this is how the function is designed to work. Fixed up the wording to clarify.
(I work at Stripe)

The pricing for Alipay transactions is the same for credit/debit card transactions: https://stripe.com/pricing
I envision drones as being personally owned and then sent out to do tasks like pick up things from stores anyway. Businesses just need to create places for them to land. It seems that would be fully within the scope of the rules.
Didn't the same situation happen with Sony and Samsung in electronics?
We (the American people) would happily buy all the Humvees and MRAPs that the FedGov wants to unload.

The thing is, we're prohibited by law from buying them at the moment.
Hm... this data doesn't seem to be 100% accurate.

Fred, from Brazil, for instance, is 30. Not 22 years old.
Two Asian teams denied US visas for Dota 2 International championships
...as did factory owners.

Is there a name for the logical fallacy where one knowingly misrepresents true statements to suggests things that aren't true? (ie that only unions used violence or had criminal ties).
Depends on what you're doing. On mobile, those can end up providing much faster user interactions than doing everything via canvas (which it seems is your proposed alternative).

For example, with IE on Win8, your DOM UI is actually composed of DirectComposition layers, and touch manipulations (pan, zoom, swipe, etc) are performed entirely on a separate thread from your UI+JS using DirectManipulation and a kernel feature called delegate input threads, controlling animations of the composition layers on yet another (composition) thread. You'll have a heck of a time matching that with canvas and mouse/touch/pointer events on your lone JS UI thread and the dozens of responsibilities it's signed up for.

Again, it depends a great deal on what you're doing. And it's a trade-off for sure... DOM is expensive, and if you're doing something too complicated then having panning and hit-testing on another thread doesn't help if the user ends up seeing large unpainted regions for a while, or if you make your startup time painful by trying to build a complex scene upfront. But you asked, so I answered :-)

There are also other important considerations:

1) It's easier (at least until we get some awesome UI frameworks on top of canvas, if that works out well).

2) It's compatible with older browser versions.

3) DOM layouts and controls support various accessibility features, input modalities, etc.

4) There's a huge library of tools/utilities/reusable components all designed specifically for it.

(I used IE/Win8 as an example because I'm familiar with how that works in great detail. Last I knew no other platforms were that aggressively optimized in those respects but presumably some are part way there)
The seL4 kernel currently supports the ARMv6, ARMv7 and x86 architectures, though the proof only applies to ARMv6.

I am not sure what Genode's plans are. seL4 is a different kernel to OKL4, with a substantially different API, so it will be quite some work to move it across from OKL4 to seL4.
I don't think you're in a mental state to rationalize any discussions so I won't bother writing much at this point in time.

That being said, I feel your pain but you need to move on. It can't really be the same city it was 12 years ago so do you even enjoy what it has become?

Start looking for another job that will make you happier.
Oh the irony. The heralds of the "sharing" economy are getting a dose of some shared negative sentiments. Then again maybe that's not the kind of sharing they meant.
Google refreshes Glass hardware, but current owners won't get upgraded
If your network is Man-In-The-Middle'd you are probably fucked in more than one way, and a backdoored php install script is the least thing you should worry about.

It's no different to just download an installer and double click it.

Providing verification methods in alternative channels is essential if you need make sure everything is clean.
>Big shit, I hit the reset button on my router, and I get a new dynamic IP address from the ISP. The site now knows nothing.

You don't do that often, though. The dynamic IP address is still one from a pool, that greatly reduces the randomness and there are other ways of identifying users.
WorldCup Probabilistic Simulator
I believe "male pattern baldness" is known as androgenic alopecia. Unfortunately, I don't think this research applies to those with androgenic alopecia.
Google’s conquest of privacy is complete
Google uses JS on the click handler, or something, for tracking. :visited is not obstructed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ycombinator
It's more like wiring together a series of tubes. The signal has to propagate from one end of the tubes to the other in a single clock cycle. Note that the tubes can go backwards, so you can feed the output of the tube into the next input of itself. Hardware programming like this is actually extremely fun, but for some reason the widely available languages for doing it suck. And make what is going on in the hardware opaque and difficult to understand for any non trivial applications. (We're talking 100000s of lines of code to do anything nontrivial).
If I was Uber, I'd get cozy with the Teamsters and use them to defend my interests against competitors, regulations, and the medallion owners.
They use a formally-specified subset of C described in Harvey Tuch's PhD thesis: http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/Tuch:phd.pd...
The Australian Government has a petrifying fear of anything that operates online. They see no value in country wide internet and present short sighted ideas whenever the concept is brought up.

It's kinda depressing
100lb (~45kg) at 50mg is about 900,000 doses of meth. I suspect the death rate per 900,000 doses is quite high and the expected outcome probably includes the death of at least one child.

In my question I'm asking if a simplistic comparative harm analysis would perhaps weigh in favour of non-terminal injury to an infant. It's a very difficult question, of course, and a true analysis couldn't be so simplistic (what proportion of those 900k doses would get replaced by alternate supplies for example). But raising the question seems valid.
They may not care, but the rest of us do.
BloomSky: World's First Smart WeatherCam
I can't understand how any organization would want to let go somebody with such perfect grammar.
wow, wrong on almost all the settings. seriously: maximize bufferbloat, cause huge intrusive IO pauses, keep useless pages in memory, etc? the only good ones there are
kernel.panic = 300
kernel.sysrq = 1
Where can I get an invite code?
How Friendships Form (2006)
> It'd be much better for everyone involved if drivers could just be salary employees.

uber probably wouldn't exist if this were the case. the cost overhead of hiring someone would mean drivers would have less freedom - no moonlighting for lyft or sidecare - and rates would be higher.

isn't it better to look at ways of changing the employer/employee dynamic instead of insisting that everything work that way?
I'm sorry but just because the LNP isn't on board with the Monolithic NBN project while still committing billions to infrastructure doesn't equate to "They see no value in country wide internet".

Can we not just slander because they don't agree with you?
For as much Glass hatred there is in public places, the Glass design will either be driven to become invisible and covert or modified so that people can have a sense of what the camera is doing.

Glass should shine an extremely bright red LED when the camera turns on and fades out when the camera is off. Of course, things are always hackable and there will still be little trust of all hardware.

I sense a future market for miniature pirate's eye patches just for Glass cameras.
Very few police ever fire their gun during their career. But an officer who killed a man by my work 2000, that was his third fatality. All same MO, mentally ill guy with a knife, close the distance under 21 feet and shoot.
How does it compare to Roundcube [1] which is solid, proven and has a better license? [1] https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail
I teach the LSAT. This fallacy occurs all the time. It's "incomplete comparison". Giving information about only one half of a comparison, then stating or implying a conclusion based on that inadequate information.

It really, really fools people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete_comparison
As someone who has it, it's not that simple. Imagine a quarter sized bald spot somewhere random on your head. Maybe it goes away in a month. The next time imagine 3 dime sized spots on the edge of your hair line. It's one of those "going full bald " seems like overkill when you are so close to "normal" in most cases. Also, I can't speak for his experience but that's a lot harder when it's an eyebrow, which is my current situation... Maybe it will come back, maybe it won't.
An even better idea for developers is to reduce limits (memory, PIDs, file handles) and start triggering those rarely-used (or non-existent) error handling code paths.

Also, I think I would prefer process sbrk failure to OOM killer activation. So setting vm/overcommit_memory=2, overcommit ratio to 80%, a decent swap size, and code actually handling errors. IE consistency versus randomness.

Not that randomness is bad for testing, cf Chaos Monkey:
https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
I expected something factual.
Yes, 100 years ago factory owners sure did (Ford being a classic example). More recently they have not.

Low level violence is frequently applied by strike workers today. I once worked (white color job) for a shipping company and we had one strike every couple of years, sometimes more than one in a year (stevedore and sailors were both unionized so there would be two separate negotiations, each of which inevitably ended in a week or two week strike).

Try driving through a picket line of stevedores and see what happens to your car. Actually don't, you will regret it. If they think you are a scab, you will be punched.

If a hardcore unionist calls you a scab, be scared. Its the worst insult they know, and its backed by extreme hatred.

As far as organized crime violence goes, I have no experience with that. I always assumed that was Sopranos fiction.

Unionism has done good things, but I don't believe it has a place in a high tech industry. What Uber needs is solid competition so that drivers can simply defect to a competitor.
The Riches Are In the Niches
That's arguing from history.

If you think that the way science is performed hasn't been significantly changed and refined in the past 100 years, the original timeframe suggested... I don't know what to say. Much of what we call the scientific method has been defined, refined, and expanded in this last 100 years.

dichotomy stuff

The things you're referring to are occupations. 'Philosophers' and 'physicists'. Not 'philosophy' and 'physics'.

The article author quite clearly states that physicists (the occupation) can make good use of philosophy(the realm of knowledge). The realms of physics and philosophy are not mutually exclusive - they are not two wholly separate things; not a dichotomy. And the scientists the article author is mentioning by name are people he's saying have this problem with the faulty perception of philosophy - it's the point of the article.

In any case, like I said at the end of my last comment - philosophy gives us robust techniques for doing science, just like maths does. How do these become 'stale', 'not valid', or 'not useful', just because there hasn't been a recent breakthrough? We don't demand the same of techniques from the realm of mathematics.
Exactly. Although, I am curious if there's a reason the JS engine (possibly working with the DOM implementation) can't optimize that to one look-up, if the JS in the loop doesn't change that part of the DOM or call anything that forces it to yield.

I suspect a lot of the optimization opportunity in browsers today is less about JS or DOM in isolation but more about ways they could work together to improve situations like this one.

(Note: I understand this one is solvable by a proficient/attentive developer, but not all developers are like that, and not all such DOM/JS transition problems are as easily solvable from your JS code)
I've always wondered if something like this could make and join a mesh network, so communications could be over relatively longer distances.
In the first two examples, I don't see how Oppenheimer failed to be "courageous." He disagreed with Dirac! He made technically accurate points that proved not to be rebuttals after all. This isn't about not following his ideas far enough, it's about just being wrong.

To me this reads more as the authors projecting their own ideas about what is important in science onto these anecdotes. While I think that's a natural parlor game for scientists to play, I don't think it's well argued here.
The profitable part of the cellphone business.
if ca. 400 drones are 'a few', how many drones does the US Army have?
Why would amazon pay you? In furtherance of a business purpose.

It turns out that judges aren't stupid.
Gonna leave you with a simple thought: smart homes shouldn't be about the things...they should be about the people.

I think the reason we haven't seen a blockbuster IoT app is because everyone is still focused on the things, not the people. Or in your case, as a DIYer, you're not thinking about yourself.

So consider what keeps you up at night, and think about the lowest-common-denominator way to solve that via wiring up your home.
One day Houston, built up on the petroleum industry, may have folks saying the same thing about Tesla.

San Francisco has built up an economy and ecosystem that has benefited from startups that "disrupt". Live by the sword ...

You've only lived in SF for 12 years - I'm sure it was a great place to be for you in 2002, just as it is now for the "bastards" and "pussies" you decry. It's a pretty damned big country. Plenty of opportunity and places to live. Move to the midwest, buy a house for half the price, and rock a $100,000 job the rest of your life. (which you must have if you hate H1B's making a lowly $85K)
Agility and speed is more important than size in football (soccer). Someone smaller is likely to have more agility than someone larger, but someone smaller will also get pushed around more and less likely to win head-balls or catch balls in the case of goalies. So there is a sweet spot between size, agility, and speed.
Thank you for sharing your story.

My YC startup failed two years ago and it still has an impact on me. I learned a lot and wish I knew what I know now back then. My cofounders parted ways within one year of YC and I became a self made single founder. One of the biggest mistakes was not taking breaks. I thought I had to work twice as hard to compensate. It just went into this vicious cycle: depressed & tired -> not productive -> worked every waking moments -> depressed & tired.
As far as I know almost zero taxi drivers actually work for the cab company. What they actually do is rent the cab license and car as contractors.
Could this be as simple as accidentally using the Tom Hanks recorded audio from the film Apollo 13 instead of Jim Lovell's actual words from the mission? That he misquoted it in the text has my attention, because Lovell actually said "we've had a problem" on the NASA loop. "We have a problem" was the interpretation and misquote in the film.

Not that I'm disagreeing with the article, just caught my eye.
Paying for things you want, and not paying for things you don't want?

It's called the "free market", and it is the antithesis of government.
This comes about because nerds are cowards by default. We're entirely too unwilling to really bother to get the message about this sort of thing out to the layperson, and we're even more unmotivated to actually do something about it. I love to lambast the baby boomers as much as the next neckbeard, but at least some of them actually had the chutzpah to do something.
For football, the speed guys start at ~5' 10". The rest of the team is usually taller:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/players

Baseball trends lower, but they still sort of start at 6':

http://espn.go.com/mlb/players

Hockey is there too, they occupy a somewhat tighter range, but still easily beat 6'.

(I'm just a bit less than 6' and had the opportunity to stand next to a Div I NCAA football team, the majority of them towered over me, so I felt compelled to find some numbers)
Hi everyone, I am not a teacher but have a lot of family and friends who are. I recently started a project with them, I would love to get your input on the project if you are willing? The design for the product is all done by help from teachers who used it to reduce their workloads in public schools not charters. Let me know if you would be interested to hear more or just provide very candid and honest feedback. You can check out the site http://www.kidhoo.co, and if you are interested please send me a contact through the site and be sure to put YC comment board in the body of the contact. I really want your input so I hope to hear from you.
There is natural competitive pressure to avoid this, because customers hate unpredictable pricing (observe grandparent).

Customers will hate companies (and punish them in the marketplace) if they feel nickel-and-dimed or taken advantage of.
Beta users for social recruiting job site
Taking a peek at Xbox One-formatted disks in Windows
Size includes everything. Usually the textures are procedural, but can be seeded so they're the same every time. Music is usually pretty easy to encode if it's a chiptune, loads of redundant data.
"labels really do have a bad situation here"

Are people expected to feel sympathy for these companies? Have we forgotten that people turned to big centralized services for their music as a direct result of the recording industry's aggressive effort to kill P2P? This situation was created by the labels' own actions, their failure to embrace the Internet early on before these kinds services existed.

"Its disappointing that while technology is making it easier than ever to record and produce music, its becoming tougher and tougher to make a living off it."

It did not have to be that way. We could have set things up so that when a song was downloaded, the artist and recording studio that produced it received a small payment automatically. It could have been a truly innovative revenue stream.
There's a small difference.

With a normal download, you're likely to wait until it's done before invoking it.

With a pipe-to-interpreter, the interpreter (php/sh/etc..) is possibly interpreting code as it receives in batches of (line/chunk/etc.).

A danger therein lies in the possibility of an unexpected pipe interruption (network, or software) feeding something that's technically runnable by the interpreter but logically broken.

Imagine coming down the pipe is "rm -rf /tmp/installer-data" but curl uses too much memory and the linux OOM killer nukes it and sh receives only "rm -rf /"
I seems that some copyright claimants spam website operators with bogus takedown notices. What the DMCA takedown procedure lacks is a provision allowing website operators to just ignore takedown notices from claimants with a spotty track record of bogus claims. The standard for 'bogus' could be something as simple as a hit-rate threshold (fraction of claims in past x days that are not shown to be bogus).
Does "end-to-end proof of implementation correctness and security enforcement" mean there is zero change of a bug or security flaw?
I wonder if this was actually a DMCA takedown? The article isn't clear. Shouldn't Parker be initiating a counterclaim process and taking to court the assholes who filed this fraudulent claim? If not, is this Soundcloud acting on behalf of the assholes, circumventing DMCA altogether? That's worse, and if that's the case, it's a shame the article doesn't mention it.
Please explain your logic? As a user of uber the experience is so much better then a cab. If a driver does not perform to very high standard they are cut out of the system with customer reviews.
For the drivers I talk to ( 6x trips a week) they love the flexility and money. The only reason your hearing anything is taxi shields are a scam. They are now a commodity that is "rented" while the companies sit there and trap the drivers with high rental fees.
Sure it's not perfect but I feel safer in a Uber car then a cab. They usually drive better, there is a lot of who's car I got in, where I was picked up, when the ride started, and where it ended. In a cab you have none of these.