skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty neat. I'm also working on a side project in the same vein. The key to improving spending behavior in my own household has been to focus on and evaluate decisions. http://www.spendlight.com/

My approach is a bit broader in that I find it useful to record both the good and bad decisions with a view toward improvement.

I also prompt users for a bit of self-evaluation. When you goof, you are asked something like "What could you have done without in order to stay within your limits?" When you do well, you are asked something like "What was the key to making wise choices today?"

I'm not a big fan of the input mechanism. It's novel and fun, but I'd bet that the fun wears out quickly.
Also it just completely falls down in the case of many proxy servers and often the end user has no control over that.
Zoning is not a fair comparison. Land use has very different kinds of externalities than for-hire transportation. If I build a munitions plant next to your house that impacts you in ways that my getting paid to drive someone from A to B does not.
Are you using WebSockets in a big production environment or just for hacks/projects?
The hangup is, Dropbox does a pretty good job of being invisible, while in my experience creating slick software is one of Amazon's greatest weaknesses.
Its a neat idea, but I suspect its primarily value is in marketing and the actual number is limited. That being said, the fund gets interesting if there's a unquestioned fundmaker (a Dropbox / Pinterest / AirBnB / What's App); do founders want to pick the firm because they hope to get a small share of that upside?
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It is a 'please get out of bed' payment, to try and manage shortages of drivers.

If they could do this without tacking it onto price, by making an explicit 'please get out of bed' payment from uber to a fresh driver on their first fare during a shortage, they may be able to create the same economic incentive to the driver without being seen to price gouge. Of course, this would involve raising prices slightly overall to pay for it, but you get rid of the swings in price.
I'm skeptical because it sounds too good to be true. How can this be a free service?
Sure it does. A lot of people re-use passwords with different services, so if one gets compromised, then criminals have that password.

On top of it, people get compromised all the time. Its trivial for a virus to nab your saved browser passwords. Or someone sends you a phishing link and you happily type in your credentials. It looked official, right?

All of this is invisible to the end user, typically. From the IT side of things these credentials are used for all sorts of things like authenticating with smtp to use our mail server to send spam, log into ftp sites to host malware, etc, etc. Then the end user angrily walks up to IT saying, "Everyone is saying my emails are spam. Why do you guys suck so much??!!"

Forcing password rotation helps with this because there's a chance the password that got leaked is or will soon be retired. It also helps in scenarios when employees give their passwords out to other employees and then one of them gets fired and starts fucking with the system using someone else's credentials.

In short, a lot of these polities exist because people are stupid. Don't blame those of us trying to mitigate the damage. That said, you don't need a 30 day expiration. I find 120-180 days works well enough. You don't need complexity turned on as much as you need a sane minimum length. I'd rather train people to use "mydogsnameisAlbert" than "Password1"
it's really annoying that you wont allow me to open m.trykeep.com on my desktop.. without even telling me why I can't .. simply redirecting to the not-mobile page where I was before is asking the end-user to go away, like I did
Why isn't a very big pile of very smart money short CYNK, reducing its value to zero? Do these things take more time than I'd expect?
Indeed. That site doesn't even pretend to be secure!

There are versions of that site which do everything in Javascript so your password is never sent to the server. That is also insecure but at least they pretend that it is not.

This site is designed to post your password up to the server and even works on HTTP (as opposed to enforcing HTTPS only). So you've just shared your password, IP address, and browser information with a completely anonymous site!

PS - I think this site is DESIGNED to be Javascript only but the implementation is bad, so the password is in fact sent to their server (which generates an "Internal server error" by the way).
> single mother who desperately needs the cab to get to school to pick up her kids

Now, the single mother can get a very reasonable price on an Uber car that isn't available (because she didn't win the lottery.)

Yay for solving the class problem!
Are there these large armies of people who can afford and pay for taxis over public transportation at 1x but not exceptionally during a topical storm at 5x or 10x? A taxi is already a luxury good.
Wow. You've taken a key insight and created something that directly hits the emotions of your users. You're engaging their feelings, passions, and desires. It will be nice to see how your website, communications, and even your product evolves!
Following that argument, the price should be zero, so it is equally affordable to everyone.
While the stated goal of this is "to build a really strong founder community", this structure looks like a marketing ploy designed to boost dealflow.

I can't help but question, however, whether it will bring good dealflow. As an entrepreneur, the notion that I could profit from the fund's success even if my own company fails is not at all attractive. Additionally, the fact that this structure offers a formal incentive to focus less than 110% on my own company would be a huge turn-off. The conflicts of interest abound.

Personally, I'd be wary of a founder who didn't recognize this and who wasn't concerned about the effects, perceived and real, of having a personal stake in the venture fund that had invested in his or her business. Incidentally, given the lackluster returns of the vast majority of venture funds, I'd also question said entrepreneur's savvy.
The cool thing that is that we have a number of companies contributing significant technologies to the open source ecosystem that build a stack of software that gets us closer to running distributed systems in a reasonable reproducible manner:

- Google is bringing kubernetes (k8s) which represents their experience in deploying cluster wide applications

- CoreOS is bringing etcd to the table for the cluster wide decisions in k8s

- Docker is bringing a format that makes getting your applications isolated and running quickly
Lazy Loading Assets
More words == more synergy.
Integration Testing: Selecting Google Maps V3 Markers with Selenium or jQuery
If you go to the About page, you'll they seem to be trying to tap into the community for this ("I can spare 30 minutes" option).
I'm not affiliated with Uber so I don't know how their internals work - it may just be a logistical problem given elasticity of supply.

For all that I know however, they are dispatching more, but given the uproar it would appear that they are not.
This argument is pretty disingenuous. Some wealthy individuals were born into very privileged families and some poor people remain poor due to exploitation, but that certainly does not apply universally.

>Highest bidder would work great and allow excellent prioritization if everyone had roughly the same means.

I'm not sure why this system only works well when everyone has the same means. As the article points out, a price increase for a good or service can actually incentivize people to increase supply (people who initially decided to take the night off from driving now decide to work in order to cash in since demand is high). In other industries this can lead to more competition and innovation as well.
Routing All Travel Through the Cloud
Right, but that's a fundamental feature of capitalism. If equality of access to a non-essential luxury between those of disparate means concerns you, don't worry about the symptom, worry about the underlying system. On the other hand, if unequal access to, say, 5 star hotels in Times Square on New Years Eve doesn't bother you, then neither should surge pricing.
Zócalo means plinth. It's a base for another object, including foundations, baseboards, or the columns upon which a statue might sit.

Antonio López de Santa Anna was the president (eleven noncontiguous terms) of recently independent Mexico in the early 1800s and wanted to build a monument to the Revolution that started in 1811 and secured that independence. He had the government put up a plinth for that monument in the central plaza where the National Cathedral and Presidential Palace sat, but it was never finished. Santa Anna was too busy losing Texas to the slave power; the Anglo Texans rebelled because Mexico had abolished slavery and they wanted some.

Now Mexican towns almost always have a central square with the local church on one side and the ayuntamiento (city hall) on the other. It usually has elaborate band stands, gardens, benches, and flagstone walking paths.

The central plaza in the capital of the Mexican Republic, officially the Plaza of the Constitution, came to be called by metonymy the Zócalo. The plinth itself was taken down in the 1850s, but the name stuck. In fact, the name spread through the country and now all the central plazas in the republic are called zócalos.
It's a non sequitar, in any case. Someone is butthurt because there are actual differences between east and west that aren't pretty.

I'm not saying the west doesn't have it's share, just that:

A) they are different shames and
B) there's no magical rule which makes all cultures equally util. Some places/people are inevitably worse than others.
Is it Alan Rickman narrating the introductory video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbjMrQtoZlU

That would be one hell of an easter egg.
I don't have a problem with surge pricing, but what I do have a problem with is when a driver cancels my ride so they can get a higher surge rate. Example, I was in LA trying to go from Downtown to Venice, I got an Uber for 1.75x normal rate. Waited about 10 minutes while watching the driver head in a different direction on the map, and then all of a sudden, they cancel. I go back to reserver another driver, and what do you know, it's now 3.25x rate.

That shouldn't be allowed. You should be locked into the first rate that you request a driver at. If the driver cancels, and the area now has a higher surge rate, Uber should recoup the difference in cost from the drivers next trip because they fucked a customer over.
Did you just suggest that it's easier to start a commercial airline than it is to get a taxi medallion? Have you ever paid attention to the drama about who gets what gates at which airports? Or watched local political battles over the addition of new runways at an airport?
> Particularly in NYC where surge isn't just long events like New Year's - surge kicks in during half hour rainstorms as well.

Surge pricing also encourages uber drivers (who decide their own hours) that are about to end their shift to end a bit later to take advantage of the surge.
In fact, fusion energy is a definitive solution to our future energy needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8n7j5k-_G8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrt186pWoA
So let's do this for housing as well. Let's assign the best houses by lottery for a fixed price so that the poor mother of two has a fair chance, as opposed to a rich person housing their lover on the side.

I think symbolic legislation around feel-good examples like cabs allows society to maintain the fiction that somehow it's not already completely capitalistic. It's like a safety valve.
Future of the Internet - Critical review of the end-to-end argument
Lowering or increasing the cut that Uber takes for example.
Customer churn can kill your startup
Mosh is great, I use it on an almost daily basis.

Setting an alias like "alias sssh='mosh'" greatly helps with muscle memory, too (of course, don't override "ssh", you might still need it).

Funny anecdote: I live in a city called "Moshi"
WebSockets are super easy to use (we still love it offer support for it), but if your users are on older devices or browsers you're going to run into problems.

You also have to take into consideration different network issues, for instance last year Verizon 3G blocked WebSockets without any documentation. Or fragile wireless networks where the socket will break.
Can you expand on the "knife the baby" move? That one's not in my playbook. Is a riff off the Solomon/baby story?
Why not server-sent events[0]?

var source = new EventSource('/some/url/path');
source.onmessage = doSomething;

[0] http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/
That makes the combat much more interesting, but the flight model is still way of, it simply violates Newtonian laws. You turn and accelerate immediately like a plane if you choose to and there is a max speed limit, unlike I-War. Resembles airplanes with the ability to strafe and pivot, which is fun but not what some want.
This point, that making copies of software, comes at no direct cost to the creator is often glossed over in articles that express amazement at the free software and open-source movements. "Why would someone spend so much time working on something and then give it away for free?" they ask and I personally like Linus Torvalds' response that it was the only thing to do that made sense to him.

It is a generous act but it comes at no additional cost to the donor and what person doesn't want their work to be as useful to as many people as possible?

I believe it is also the key thing to consider in explaining the rise of software piracy and the opposition to DRM. I hope to see a complete paradigm shift in my life-time, in the everyday software-user, in understanding what what they can reasonably be expected to do with a digital work, i.e. copy, copy and copy again as it doesn't cost anyone anything.

A business with an 85% percent profit margin makes me uneasy and seems exploitative to say the least. It is unfair to the consumer, it's just that most consumers don't really know or care, they can always pirate it if they can't afford it.
Unfortunately there isn't a Capybara library for Python. There are comparable packages like Lettuce and now MechanicalSoup (to a certain extent).
I would think the number of people who want to learn to code outnumber the people who know how to code and can teach it 10:1.

Without pricing to reduce the first number to manageable levels, how would you plan to succeed?
I suppose it makes sense to get rigorous and logical about hostnames from an admin point of view, but I do miss the romance and personal expression of naming machines after.. well, scifi entities, fairy-tale dwarves, whatever.

One of the many things I like about my ISP is that they apparently feel the same:

traceroute to 192.9.9.100 (192.9.9.100), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 X.X.X.X (X.X.X.X) 7.057 ms 8.826 ms 8.859 ms
2 c.gormless.thn.aa.net.uk (90.155.53.53) 26.691 ms 28.136 ms 27.243 ms
3 c.aimless.thn.aa.net.uk (90.155.53.43) 29.673 ms 30.793 ms 30.273 ms
Something is Amiss with Light in the Universe
30 days is a little aggressive but I do think a quarterly or ever 6 months is valid. Not all users behave appropriately with their passwords, allowing other people to use them, re-using them between systems or putting them on post-it notes under their keyboards. The rotation of the credential is simply a cheap but heavy handed way of dealing with those compromises to ensure the system returns over time to a default state of security and cuts out invalid access. Granted a better way to manage this is create good audit trails of how often, during what times and from where and what devices those credentials are used, but like I said it's a simple/cheap way of adding that layer of security.
Solution to competing interests in San Francisco is political. To holding discussions where "Upton Sinclare questions your integrity" is acceptable means taking it down the road.

The tone of the discussion does not meet the standards of HN's community. It is no more appropriate here than the topic itself is appropriate for StackOverflow.

The issue isn't discourse, it's civil discourse and the discussion was not producing it nor was it likely to. There are sites where that's not a problem. Indeed, anyone who feels strongly about having that type of discussion can start their own site.
Dark Light? ;)
Right now, it's up and running.
Diffie-Hellman key exchange, explained using colors
These are called "affirmations" by self-help books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_prayer#Self-help

http://www.self-help-and-self-development.com/affirmations.h...
Another vertical like http://www.mailboxapp.com/ ?
Do you know of any public socket.io apps?
SSE also works across all proxies, which even if you are on a stable connection you might have a transparent proxy that borks websockets, so that's at least one reason to prefer SSE over websockets on a stable connection. A work around then is to use wss: instead.
This is cool, but it really needs a better metadata section than just tags. Weather station data becomes a lot more interesting with it's location.
Congrats, Kent!
Two responses.

First, land use has different externalities, but for-hire cars still have obvious externalities. And because of the civic role that taxis have assumed over the last 50 years, decisions about the management of the taxi market have still more externalities.

Second, my point wasn't that land use and taxis have the same issues, but rather that the logic that taxi medallions were bad public policy because "monopoly" was flimsy. Which, it is.
(the number of drivers increase with the surge pricing)

I doubt there would be suddenly tens of thousands of additional drivers more after the WC final on Sundary in Germany to drive all the people home from the bars and public viewing locations, when more than 80% of the population is watching the game.

(as far as I know, surge prices usually last a very short time)

Well, that's already sucks enought, when it's late in the night and you want to get home. Might as well wait until I can get public transport in the morning...
Is there anywhere to view analysis of gates' business strategies over the years? Article, book, anything?
http://www.businessweek.com/microsoft/updates/up81105b.htm
Right they should have brought up the argument earlier however, just because they did not bring it up does not waive their right to bring it up later in this context. So I understand ABC's push back, any lawyer would make the same argument, but it will not hold.
The obvious solution (which I'd recommend) is that the cut should go to the funded company, not the founders. The majority of the cut would still go to the founders, since they own a majority of the stock. But this gets everyone (founders, employees, investors) on the same page.

Overall, this is a great idea. The point of a value added investor is to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes. This is a great way to do that.
Notice how nowhere on that page does it actually say what the thing is. “A place to push your data” describes nothing specific.
That's how much space is remaining: "100% (50.00 of 50 MB) remaining"

The bar along the top will turn red when the stream is getting close to full.
Such a shame, and a sham. Pay for internet to schools, and you get a single machines hooked up to redundant Cisco edge routers capable of serving 10,000 nodes with ISDN uplinks for $1,000/mo.

On the other hand, give fast track regulatory approval for poles and right-of-ways to ISPs for fiber infra and you can wire a whole town, and let the library pay for their 100Mbps line like everyone else. Bet you that library ends up with a properly sized $100 SOHO router and a $100/mo broadband plan if they have to pay for it out of their books budget.

I think at least one side of the equation or 'market' has to be driven by someone who is paying with scarce money, not just Benjamins hot off the presses, to keep things under control.
ah! got it. thanks, man.
I've enjoyed reading the various strategy memos that emerged as part of the DoJ's antitrust case.
Doesn't appear that you can actually sign up to learn, keep getting error that I have not selected a language tag
The OpenAustralia Foundation
props to any CEO who references Rilke in his rally-the-company-speech-that-gets-forwarded-to-the-world:

'Rainer Maria Rilke's words say it best: "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.'
Codeforces is similar to TopCoder, well-used, and is only focused on algorithms.

http://codeforces.com/
Xively was one of the services we used as inspiration for Phant / data.sparkfun.com. Before they were Xively they were Pachube and things were easier to work with and free. Then Xively gobbled up Pachube and things got all business-y. Thus Xively has been an example of how we didn't want to build it.
How does surge pricing work from the perspective of the driver? Do you see current rates in different zones? Do you get an alert?
I actually agree it's counterintuitive. But this particular example makes no sense, nobody should be writing real-world code that looks like this in the first place. Either modify the original or return a copy, don't try to do both.
I know that many experienced developers are willing to forgo their free time in order to answer questions for beginners, hence, stackoverflow, but I am curious how the psychological difference of committing 30 minutes to a single person in a one-on-one experience will play out. Very cool idea if it has enough liquidity.
Although this could hardly be farther off topic, in English the plastic wall things are called "anchors," or sometimes "molly bolts."