skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do these black car services cost more than a taxi? That's pretty much my basic definition of a luxury car service; if you can get equivalent behavior (i.e. transportation from point A to point B) at a cheaper price by using a taxi, then it's a luxury. But if it's not necessarily cheaper to use a taxi, then I would agree it's not necessarily a luxury service.

Uber (the black car option) in SF is significantly more expensive than a taxi (or UberX, which is cheaper than a taxi, even at low surges). My belief was the Uber black car service was roughly equivalent everywhere. Are you saying an Uber black car in NYC is not actually necessarily more expensive?

I am surprised to hear they enabled UberX in NYC. I would expect it to be a disaster, just as you said. Originally UberX was either an appeal to being green (due to hybrids), or simply a cheaper alternative to Uber, but it started out intentionally more expensive than taxis (they even raised the price at one point, citing the fact that it was unintentionally cheaper than taxis for some rides). But they've since changed course, turning UberX into the cheapest service they can. I'm not really sure what their goal is with that, but I can't imagine it makes taxi companies happy. So I assumed they were only doing it in cities where they didn't rely on taxis to fill rides. But as per your earlier comments, it sounds like being a taxi dispatch service is a big part of Uber's NYC offerings, and it's pretty obvious that UberX would interfere with that. And given the large number of cabs already in NYC, it's hard to argue that customers will eschew cabs in favor of UberX, when UberX is the brand new service and cabs are the existing regulated service that already fills their needs.

My best guess here is that Uber's CEO is intentionally trying to replace taxis with the UberX service, because that's the only thing that really explains introducing UberX into a market like NYC. But that seems rather foolish to me. It certainly works in SF where the cabs are so scarce, but I can't imagine it working in NYC, or e.g. London (where AIUI cab drivers have to pass an extremely rigorous knowledge test, a test that UberX drivers would presumably fail quite horribly, so passengers are already used to cab drivers knowing how to get places that UberX wouldn't know).
What's irrelevant about "some of the major points you said are factually wrong"?

It just sounds like you're okay with misrepresentation of the facts, because it agrees with your overall point.

Also, like I said in the above comment, bartenders can lose their license and get fined heavily for continuing to respond to requests for drinks once a user is "saturated", so I don't think it's the best analogy possible for your argument.

A better analogy might be water usage, which lends itself well to an "Internet as a utility" segue.
Most of the successful open-soure projects that I have encountered have the main dev providing support through email lists and/or IRC. There is normally a community too but the main dev will know the most about the project.
I was going to post this... This video gives the best explanation of DH you can find
Without know actual number seems like its hard to rule it out right.
Do you object generally to scarcer goods costing more, or is there a more narrow (and preferably reasonable) standard by which you think this kind of effect should be suppressed?

For example, I'm sure you don't object to higher-quality goods costing more?
How much value is lost through poor investments which nobody hears/cares about? "Disaster" seems a bit strong. Tough luck to the backers, but that's how it goes.
Youtube and Soundcloud work fine for me, no thanks.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8011872.
Important to note here is that Kickstarter sees two separate things in the campaign:

1. The actual project.
2. The rewards doled out to supporters of the project.

The Kickstarter rules are very clear about the following things:

1. The rewards are a contract. If you fail to deliver
the rewards on whose terms the backers supported
you, you're legally liable.
2. The rewards may be delayed, as long as regular
communication about the actual progress happens.

Thus the project itself can fail, as long as you make sure the rewards are given out.

The fact that most project are confident/stupid enough to offer rewards that can only become reality if the project succeeds has muddled this reality in the mind of the average person, but the rules and legal realities are crystal-clear.
So V8 was taken from chrome, it is then used to launch chromium which has its own copy of V8 on the inside.
Here's the thing: To get to the point where they could start trying to lock people in, Microsoft first had to build the platform that everybody wanted to be on. That was 30 years ago, but they knew how to do that, once upon a time.

That's where they need to go now. Not back to locking people in, but back to building stuff that's so good, everyone wants to use it.
I think application monitoring might be coming up in the hype cycle, but it is not a great replacement for unit testing and selling it in that light is probably unwise.

Waiting 'til you ship to production to find a bug is a really, really, really bad idea no matter how fast you diagnose it. If your site is doing any serious scale, this could cost a year's worth of dev salary in the time it takes to make the fix.

Application monitoring is a useful tool, but the implications of overselling it will lead to some real problems for teams that aren't wise enough to see the forest for the trees.
Ask HN: How do you raise money for non-profit ideas
Hi HNers
I have been trying to realize a non profit idea which requires to build a website. The website is basically a way to collect funds for participating organization.
I have no prior experience in this space so I am curious how do people raise money ?
What fridge model? I may buy a new one soon.
Is this regionally focused?
OK, it's not quite the same but last week Robin Berjon wrote "Web 2024" which spoke as if from the future and he said: "This is 2024. In terms of the ecosystem, not only do all browsers have large chunks implemented in JavaScript but at some point someone started a pure-JS browser from scratch. It was initially meant as a joke, but this 'Inception' browser caught the fancy of the ever-resourceful JS community and quickly grew in usability." http://berjon.com/web-2024/
Correct, long polling clients generally have timeouts. I wouldn't say they are necessarily shorter or longer than typical websocket ping intervals (I've seen as low as 20 seconds and as long as 2 minutes), but they do need to be there for the client to recover quickly.
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> Based on my data, they're not 1:1 native performance. I suggest you consider the data before dismissing it.

I think you're conflating his separate points:

"What you -are- benchmarking is namespaces, cgroups, CoW filesystems and your underlying hardware."

"Also worth nothing that compute benchmarks will be absolutely worthless as they -will- be 1:1 native performance"
Also, how about a screencast/screenshot?
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So, I had a call with Elon Musk earlier this week ...
Looks amazing! Thanks!
Is the last part of your post meant to be ironic? People should feel privileged for the purpose of coding for someone else's for profit company, for free?
You wrote:

Well, Netflix is pushing traffic to Verizon. Saying they're not is factually incorrect.

Then you wrote:

They're just doing so in response to requests coming out of Verizon networks.

The point at hand, of course, was whether it's fair to frame things in terms of "Netflix pushing traffic to Verizon" when the reason for the traffic is requests initiated by customers on Verizon's network. Nit-picking about whether someone is "pushing" data when responding to a request does not in any way further the discussion. Hence, downvote into invisibility.

Incidentally, the way to continue the script here is for you to ignore everything I just wrote and continue focusing with laser-beam intensity on bartenders serving drunk people in order to cover the fact that you did not have any relevant point to make in your original comment.
That's interesting tech, but I kind of feel like it's just postponing dealing with the problem.

The problem is anticompetitive behaviour from ISPs, and while this would make video streaming better, it would just allow them to be more abusive, while we try to fill the resulting gap with more technology. IMO we should be leveraging the Netflix situation to fix that behaviour.

Regardless, swarm-sourced streaming is something I've been fantasizing about for awhile and I'd love to see your source if it's open. You should definitely proceed with it regardless.
Not a good fit for Hacker News.
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Since we're in a world of polyglots, and many people are transitioning langs always, I find its helpful to have comparisons and benchmarks so people can find equivalencies.

* Going from Python to Golang, and how to setup a Flask like workflow.

* Create a REST API in Golang coming from a NodeJS and Express background.

I find it always really helps to construct working useful projects or examples that people have done before in other langs.
Interesting idea, but how will it scale? How many people can one competent developer mentor?
Can you give a project option as a reward?

Example:
$100 Dollar Level, tshirt + coupon for discount on items that we sell, available for use on target completion date (which just happens to be projected cost of baseline project item)?

Edit:

Found the answer...

> Discounts, coupons and gift certificates - Offering a reward at a lower price than what it may cost post Kickstarter is fine, but a future discount or coupon as reward is prohibited. Additionally, vouchers in exchange for a particular item (a meal, a book, etc.) are fine, but monetary gift certificates are prohibited.

A little disappointing, but I can understand why they'd take this stance. (Likely because of money transmitter laws.)

(It's possible you could still phrase it as equivalencies, eg, "one X, OR two Y, subject to availability")
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Does anyone still believe that "loopholes" are a real thing? You know who writes the laws don't you?
Your comment assumes that capitalism does not have an inevitable degenerative end state of cronyism and other ills.

The balance of history suggests strongly that it does.
Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
Count the number of times that a company has hosted with AWS, gotten reasonably (or very) successful, and then had Amazon enter their vertical and completely undercut them. Netflix and now Dropbox, at least.

And still startups flock to AWS like it's mana from heaven.
4 ways:

1. Work for a US company in the Middle East and transfer over on an L1

2. Apply to US companies and play the H1B lottery

3. Immigrate to or work for a Canadian company (work visa's are easier)

4. Get your Master's

Since you specifically asked about #4, I'll address that. You could see your MS as a glorified work visa but if you go to a top school (Stanford, Caltech, Berkely, CMU, etc.) you're getting a lot more intangible benefits as your career progresses. The network you build and the fact that your degree is from a top school are going to look fantastic on your resume and will qualify you for much better jobs. The credential still makes a difference for certain kinds of gigs.

Of course, if you start your own startup that credential is kinda useless but the network will still help.

So, my advice would be to get into a top school, if you're going to go the #4 route (especially if you can pay your way through, it's much easier) and if not, it's still not a bad way to come work in the US. There are 20k extra H1B visa's for MS degree holders which helps with the lottery as well.

Disclaimer: I came to the US to get my Master's 10 years ago and stayed.
If the non-trivial-much-highler-than-netflix monthly cost of verizon's internet service does not cover the cost of verizon connecting their customers the internet, what the hell does it cover?

I also don't understand why they are talking about "Review Shows No Congestion on Verizon Network", people are paying them for internet service, not verizon network service.
Did anyone notice that the font they use in the default URL/tab bar is Gotham, the font made famous by the Obama campaign?
well with capitalism the only viable option is to waste money until a project works...

didn't bill gates already say something about it ?

the revenues from IT project investments are so high compared to investment costs, that in the end you never lose money by seeing so many projects crash like that.

Of course if the government would manage those things, it might be a little more efficient and might deliver more results... I guess that's how the silicon valley works... Freedom has the advantage of letting the market decide, but for innovation it's never really obvious...

go and downvote my political comment
The LED grow lights seem to be a real game-changer; the most modest estimates put the power savings at ~%50 (over HPS).
'[I]t's not like customers are doing the requesting "in the raw", or as "informed" consumers. They're just clicking "play" on Netflix video devices.'

I think most people clicking "play" on Netflix devices understand that it entails Netflix sending the content to them. I think most of them probably understand that this is more data than your average webpage, too. Maybe I'm significantly overestimating the intelligence of the average Netflix user, but I don't see how a deliberate request to play a show differs from "a request for the traffic".
It requires a win / mac machine? Why?

I thought no one did that anymore ?
It has been my experience that Startups in the valley expect you to work for at least 10 hours per day, everyday.

For example last year I interviewed with a former YC company and they were saying that it's not uncommon for 90% of the team to still be in the office after 9:30pm.

Occasionally putting in long hours is a requirement of every job. I understand that, and in fact prefer to work late some times. But working past 9pm every night, never seeing your family, never doing anything with anyone outside of work? That's just absurd. Unfortunately that's the culture of the Valley.
"Most programmers"? I started learning Haskell without previous knowledge of any functional language. The syntax was as strange to me as C was when I first picked it up.

The problem (I think) is trying to translate your knowledge of C or C++ syntax to Haskell, when they are so different. Try learning Haskell from scratch. Don't assume anything. Learn it like you would learn Japanese :)
The article title is misleading. Application monitoring is not a unit test replacement. You want both.
Netflix could fairly easily make the traffic symmetrical (send nonsense in the other direction), but that wouldn't be beneficial for anyone.

It would be more interesting if Netflix were able to start doing caching on the client boxes that sit there mostly idle and have a bit-torrent like protocol for distributing it.
> If you look at the diagram on the Verizon post

The diagram is wrong.

The thing they colored red is not red. The wire is fine. The box inside Verizon's network has a network card in it that's oversubscribed. A slice of their box should be red.

Btw, the definition I'm familiar with for "transit" is crossing a network backbone, it's neither serving, nor consuming. The traffic "transits" your network, on its way from somewhere to somewhere.
Uber never tells customers when they penalize drivers, so I hope you aren't assuming that the $20 credit was the sole response to your complaint. I expect that the driver was disciplined in some fashion, and that if they accrue repeated complaints for canceling they would be suspended (similar to how drivers that get repeated sub-5-star ratings do).
That would make a lot of sense and avoid a lot of confusion. All projects that offer items that don't exist yet should only be allowed to have coupons for "1 free" or "half off" of the final product, if it's ever produced.
also similar to hackerhours.

http://www.meetup.com/hackerhours/

hard to connect mentor to mentee efficiently for people of different levels from beginner to expert or domain specific problems.
(I am the author of the blog post). I posted a reply below earlier this morning that hopefully addresses your question.
That is exactly, precisely the spirit of the (all) law. Except instead of $media creation or distribution companies, we should probably say $entities. And maybe add an addendum that says "unless you are a larger, more powerful entity."
I don't understand - why is banking meaning that I owe someone 100 bitcoins a problem? It's an unstable currency yes but the same can be said for Zimbabwean dollar
Raise your hand if you've contacted your elected representative regarding ISPs becoming Common Carriers.

(Full disclosure, I'm not an American and thus have little to no say regrading American ISPs, but I advocate for this in my home country.)

/me largely expects crickets in response.

Unfortunately I think we just aren't pissed off enough about this as a group yet, evidenced by the lack of action from us and from legislators.
TCP technically relies only on state on the endpoints, so it "should" never be dropped unless the endpoints agree. But NAT and various other interlopers ruin this model, as state is then kept in middle-boxes.

UDP would evince the same problem when traversing NAT, since it also would require state to be kept in middle-boxes. The only difference is that instead of periodically reconnecting, you'd need to periodically ping.
Hack the cover!
L3 should not have to buy anything from Verizon. The only reason they're paying them at all is that the blackmail worked in the past.

That is not how peering agreements work.
You'll be able to do both in 48hrs. Email me your address at info@askadev.com and I'll add you as a teacher and student.
You live in a bubble. Most apps I use at work are installed on the machine.
js.js¹? Also, take a peek at repl.it if you haven't already

[1] https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/

[2] http://repl.it/languages
The FAQ remains vague on that: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter+basics

However the rules state one thing clearly ( https://www.kickstarter.com/rules ):

Projects must be honest and clearly presented.

So i suspect that, as long as it is made abundantly clear that the coupons might end up as neat, but otherwise worthless souvenirs, it'd be legit.
What if project creator takes money, then over thinks it and uses money to sponsor his ambitions? Is Kickstarter ego boost fund, or actual project funding?

Most users sponsor project to get early and discounted access to cool stuff - if you fund Kickstarter projects for other reasons - good for you. But dont expect others to follow. Some people hard earned money are in stake, they expect to get something from it and when creator just blatantly changes what he has to offer while sponsoring his high lifestyle from money received - thats just bad.

You got money for something - do it.
You want to develop something different, better? First finish what you have promised, then move on for money your company earned itself.
Netflix wrote all of the apps people are using to make requests to Netflix. It's important to note that, because that means Netflix is in complete control over the number of requests that come "from" Verizon. To say that customers are directly making the requests is factually incorrect - Netflix is making the requests, to itself, over the connections of Verizon customers.

Important distinction, because Netflix is in control the whole time, and can do things, if it wants to, to mitigate the flood of requests. It's not, and in fact is intentionally ramping up the volume of requests by offering content such as 4k resolution videos, most likely to further push this issue.

So no, again, this isn't a nit-pick, it's a central point to this conversation.

I don't really understand why you're being such a jackass about this, though.
Netflix could address the balance by streaming back video of people watching their movies. Would that mean Netflix should pay less? Balance of traffic is just a completely crazy metric.
I wonder the % of really unhappy funders and % who understand the risk. I assume most funders would know there is not 100% chance of a deliverable and fund projects hoping to contribute to a brighter future.
I really enjoyed this piece as well. The two graphs are exceptional in providing clarity.

I'd be interested in knowing what he used to create these graphs, and if they have a special name.
So, sure, lots of flawed examples/reasoning here, but let's look at the overall premise: can art become further democratized, accessible, expansive in media and impactful?

First off, it's a nice idea. The world can use more pleasant, hopeful, upbeat thinking in my mind.

Second, on the substantive points, that changes in technology will drive changes in what is considered "art" and who can access it, particularly from a market perspective: that's hard to dispute. This is a continuation of changes that have been evolving for 100 years, from the dadaists, through the invention of lithography, to warhol (or murakami today), and seem likely to continue.

So an easy article to pick apart, but hard to dispute the point that (i think) he's intending to make.
Here is a Python client library [1]. It's really amazing how fast I could put this together. Thanks Guido and Kenneth ;-)

[1] https://github.com/matze/python-phant
That's funny, I thought verizon's customers paid verizon nontrivial sums of money which happen to be many times of what netflix charges on a monthy basis to connect them to the internet, silly me.
Oh, I don't know about that (although I agree with everyone that Verizon is in the wrong here). They could be announcing free puppies for everyone and the first three comments would be Some Dude Complaining About Obama, a paranoid schizophrenic going on about I don't know what, and somebody claiming that their aunt made $85/hour working from home.
Changed the way the search functions work, to target specific sub categories of the geek culture. For example, techies can search for users with specific software skills or share their love for a specific smartphone or operating system by using the "Tech-Match" script. While Gaming geeks can search for video, card, console, and board game players with "Game Match"; and Book worms can find others who like the same books (or comics) and authors with "Book Match". Several other subsets and matches exist as well.

These are accessible via the top navigation or via big bright CSS buttons along the right side of each page. Thus eliminating the need for the somewhat overwhelming lengthy search script which is still accessible via the Advanced Search button (or top navigation).

Also removed the maps from the members directory as that was the cause of the query errors there. Maps still function for the meetup portion of the site.
Nope, completely disagree. It is not a rational act, it indicates thoughtlessness in language. And much as I like the Emerson quote, it does not apply here. The question isn't consistency, it's accuracy and clarity. The redundancy does not add anything -- your assertion that it adds error robustness makes no sense because the communication medium is not lossy.

Even if in the general case redundancy can be useful -- I don't correct others' spoken conversation so long as I can understand what's being communicated any more than you do -- in this case it detracts and distracts.
I switched back to firefox about 6 months ago now. I'm using nightly, and the built in developer tools are good enough that I don't worry about using firebug anymore. I find the speed pretty good, faster than chrome for some things, slower for others. One area it does shine is implementation of es6 features, and syncing with my mobile firefox browsers.

I hear a lot of firefox hate, and while it certainly used to be true that it wasn't very good, it's no longer true.