skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing to do with that. Surge pricing negatively affects the reliability of the service. As other people have mentioned, when surge pricing is going into effect, it's a signal to drivers that demand is high and supply is low. So they can cancel rides with few repercussions and just take a fare that pays more. It doesn't matter that you're willing to pay more; you have to book another Uber and hope that the price doesn't continue to rise.

Uber's response would be "so then give the driver a bad rating". Right. That works when the driver is the one who the Uber account belongs to, but if you've ever used Uber in NYC you'll know that a driver will often just rent out his cab + phone to another driver. I'd say the Uber driver who actually picks me up is the same one in the profile maybe 30% of the time. These other drivers don't care about their reputation, so damaging their reputation is a poor deterrent to bad behavior. They see an Uber login as the same thing as a cab medallion; an asset to be rented out for profit.

Edit: Also wanted to add that Uber's business model in NYC is that the service is free to taxi drivers, but in exchange the drivers have to pay $4 whenever they cancel a booking. So Uber's business model in NYC needs to encourage drivers to cancel bookings every so often, hence the surge pricing.
i.e. anti-trust violations
You're attempting to compensate for an external inequity (some people are rich, some for reasons not pertaining to their own merit) by reducing the availability of a scarce resource in favor of mandating a free-for-all that will occasionally benefit a lucky lower income individual.

This is, unfortunately, one of the most inefficient and expensive ways to institute social reform. It is also being applied to a system for which there is also a far more regulated counterpart in the taxi system. Except, guess what? Dispatch says you won't be getting a cab for hours because they're already booked.
Does it support SSL? I ask because the examples just show normal non-SSL usage and I'd be very careful of sending the public and private key in a request as authentication without SSL. How easy is it to revoke your access keys and get new ones if someone does steal the keys?
No. One's supply limited by the government, the other's is not. At the end of the day they both just transport people from point A to point B. Owners of planes have gone bankrupt 1,000 times since 1980, while owners of taxis have the single best returning asset I can think of. Do you really think government meddling (or medallioning, heh heh) hasn't been about 85% responsible for this otherwise incomprehensible result?
I see they're moving in the direction of Amazon regarding company culture, 'First, we will obsess over our customers.'. I wonder if this is due to companies sharing so many employees over the years.
This might get me to split up my containers better, they're getting a little pudgy. Looking forward to part 2 for more in-depth examples with multiple containers.
I know they get information about the surges (and I think alerts as well), but I'm not sure about the specifics.
Rocket-Shaped Bicycle Could Set New Land Speed Record
Most New Yorkers don't own cars, but there are still trips that are very inconvenient by public transit (especially with kids or luggage or ...). So it makes a lot of financial sense for a lot of people of all means to use taxis/car services occasionally to supplement mass transit, as opposed to buying (and very expensively insuring!) a car for the occasional trip that's hard to take transit for.
Try using Insync with Google Drive. Right-click on a local folder/file and copy the private link.

https://insynchq.com

I'm a co-founder.
The last thing we want to have happen is to make a founder uncomfortable or to misalign their interest. For our fund to do well, we need every company to do well.

The amount of carry involved is interesting but in no way will misalign a founder's interest in their own company doing well. Their interest in seeing their own company perform is many more orders of magnitude higher than the shared carry.

The other thing to consider is that the shared carry will give the founders of other companies in the portfolio added incentive to help. This help would benefit every shareholder.
> Do you really think government meddling (or medallioning, heh heh) hasn't been about 85% responsible for this otherwise incomprehensible result?

Its 100% responsible, from one perspective, because "bankruptcy" is one form of government "meddling" in economic markets.
Any plans for a REST api? Would be useful to query for updates since a timestamp parameter.
I adore YNAB. I started using it a couple of years ago when I had no savings and was living paycheck-to-paycheck but was making decent money. Now I have a cushy emergency fund, moving apartments was a breeze, and I'm saving up to buy some land. You do have to stick to their philosophy, but I've found it works really well for me.
An important yet neglected aspect of surge pricing model is that it fails to correctly account for decrease in demand.
As such, one can probably argue that fixed prices capture the real market better in the expectation sense.
Are you a password cracker? Do you have a password cracker database in front of you?

Forgive is a word. @ is a commonly used symbol h3r is her with vowel replaced with number (very very common).

Quit is a word
Smoking is a word
Ever is a word
For replaced with number (also very common)
@ common symbol

Tbh the best password he could have written would probably have been a sentence like

I really should forgive my ex wife who I broke up with on May 23rd @ 8pm!

https://xkcd.com/936/
> I believe it would be the position of the Supreme Court that their interpretation of the law has /always/ been the correct interpretation of the law

No -- this idea is often viewed as a necessary fiction to maintain in order to give the courts legitimacy in the eyes of the public, but it does not have (and has never had) much traction among legal professionals.
Or, a customer service flaw that disincentives use of Uber's service due to the unreliability of their contractors could be addressed by Uber, as a cost to those unreliable contractors, as I suggested. What part of my post (or any other posts I've made on this topic, for that matter) suggests I feel government legislation would be appropriate here?

EDIT: Furthermore, this is already something Uber does with their star rating system. This would just be a logical extension of that.
I am wondering what Aaron Levie will think of this.
Wavepot - Online-Audio-Workstation
This is certainly true for values of "that page" excluding everything after the title. :)
Soundcloud for desktop with NodeWebkit
YNAB is dope and pretty cheap now with steam sales. Back in the bad old days it was like $60 but still super worth it(you'll save $60 in a couple days) and they seem like a pretty cool mostly remote etc dev shop.
MySQL is deprecated and outright removed in PHP 5.5, so MySQLi is your fallback option instead. However, PDO is the best choice.
Part of me things that this could have been avoided with better messaging and product design. Instead of calling it "surge pricing," they should have said, "There are no Ubers available. Your expected wait for an Uber is 110 minutes. Would you like to offer a bonus to your driver?"

Then you could select a bonus, and drivers could choose to pick you up or not pick you up based on whether they thought the bonus was enough.
I found Learn You a Haskell to be one of the best programming books I've ever read and no I'm not joking. It's a work of art.
And MMM considers himself to be fairly "non extreme" compared to other big names in the space(Early Retirement Extreme being the most prominent contrast...that guy was harrrrrdcore)
Anonymized data is a myth.
>>That works when the driver is the one who the Uber account belongs to, but if you've ever used Uber in NYC you'll know that a driver will often just rent out his cab + phone to another driver. I'd say the Uber driver who actually picks me up is the same one in the profile maybe 30% of the time. These other drivers don't care about their reputation, so damaging their reputation is a poor deterrent to bad behavior. They see an Uber login as the same thing as a cab medallion; an asset to be rented out for profit.

Isn't this a pretty serious violation of Uber's terms of service, which would result in a suspension of the account?

Also, if you send negative feedback to the driver renting the account, eventually the renting driver will lose their Uber account. So they will either stop renting or have their account shut down all together. This could work as a deterrent.
If you rotate passwords every month, your users will be annoyed and use password that are either trivial, will write it down passwords, or have a trivial variation from month to month.

In other words, they will resort to using less-secure passwords. The notion that rotating passwords improves security is little more than a cargo-cult.
I would worry more about trips to Yemen, personally.
What I hate is systems that require you to

8 characters or longer

lowercase

uppercase

number

random symbol

As far as I am concerned if I want to make my password jumping I should be able too, forcing someone to make a password they will never remember leads to several issues.

1. A password cracker knows exactly what to ignore which such requirements (obviously his 4 letter word dictionary is useless in this case).

2. People have trouble remembering them, so they typically write them down somewhere (a even bigger issue).

3. It's security through obscurity.
I'm not sure traditional free market costs work for the military, I'm just highlighting that problems happen when (sometimes by necessity) you separate payer from beneficiary. The same challenges occur in insurance markets.

That said, the military could use a lot more cost-benefit analysis in decisions like what's the best way to organize, and which weapons should be bought relative to each other. (And worry less about forcing suppliers to offer jobs in each senator's state)
he was(and so was his wife). AND they were canadian so free/cheap school graduating right around 2000 before moving south of the border, they defs got lucky(and definitely worked hard)
This is factually wrong. Historically, a huge swath of the population preformed music. And listening to professional musicians was about as 'elite' as going to the movies is today.
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Am I the only one to notice that if you subtract the k-es from the name, kubernetes becomes UBERNET.
It was anticompetitive for Microsoft in the mid-90s because they had a very solid monopoly over the personal computer operating system market. A case against Amazon would be much weaker because they don't even have a majority of the market much less a monopoly.
Well, Google doesn't recommend it either (http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.ht...), but I guess they are all bloody noobs or whatever.

I mean, single level comprehension is good. Nested list comprehension is OK only in most trivial cases. In my opinion, if I see how a person uses list comprehension, I can tell, what kind of person this is.

There are people who, for example, do this
def all_is_okey_dorey(lst):
return all([some_predicate_fn(x) for x in lst])

instead of this
def all_is_okey_dorey(lst):
for x in lst:
if not some_predicate_fn(x):
return False
return True

and can live with themselves somehow.

Or there are people, who refuse to acknowledge the existence of anything besides Python 3.x and when forced to write in 2.x use list comprehension instead of iterator comprehension.

Thing is, the validity of using nested list comprehension depends not on the amount of for loops you have, but on the thing you want to do with the item. If it's just selection, then it might be ok. If you want to apply some kind of function to it, then it's most probably the case of trying to be too clever.
Python’s Accessibility is What Makes it So Popular
Why PayPal for Business isn't good for business
200 dollars is not a big emergency expense for someone who makes more than $100k per year.
The Top Ten Crowdfunding Sites
Those costs are public. See https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au7yiR802qQmdDJ...

The link is for 2012, but they haven't changed much.
unable to register, keeps saying the email has been used.
Don't get Yo!? Then try Oy!
How is a T-Mobile marketing campaign a boost for Net Neutrality?
To add to the above, PDO is a good choice if you will be working with different database technologies (either in this project or across different projects), you only have to learn one API. If you only need MySQL, mysqli does have a few more features than PDO.

EDIT: here is a comparison: http://php.net/manual/en/mysqlinfo.api.choosing.php
If your site loads slowly he won't come back the second time.
I remember when IRC was cool
If I read this correctly, then a DH key exchange could be vulnerable to an active MITM attack manipulating the initial common color?
Etherpad uses socket.io.

Here's one hosted Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/
Depending on your definition of emergency, it is when you live in NYC and your rent costs $2k/month. If by emergency you mean "hurricane" - sure. But surge pricing happens every time there's a rainstorm.
Or.. Lowe's?
I'm going to guess that the answer depends a lot on the culture of the company; not every company in the valley is the same. I have a friend who's constantly talking about the 16 hour days she pulls at the office; in contrast, when my fiancee came out to visit for a few days my manager practically kicked me out of the office early so I could spend time with her.
SSL is supported, but not mandatory because a lot of the hardware we're targeting just isn't up to the task.

We're aware this isn't exactly optimal. Suggestions welcome.

Re: Key revocation, that's a good question and we should probably think hard about it. It's trivial to create a new stream, but obviously that could be a pain for various reasons.
There are much more cost effective ways to get marketing value. A material portion of the fund's carry is being set aside. It's pretty well into the double digit percentages. Spread across multiple founders it will have less impact - founders will not be distracted from making their own businesses successful.

Treating founders as partners is something in which I genuinely believe. Investors ask founders to help guide other companies in the portfolio, they ask for founders for introductions to new companies, they ask them to help with diligence on prospective investments. So founders should have a stake in the fund.

For everyone's sake, I do hope there is a Dropbox type outcome in the fund. The idea was inspired in part by the way in which other classmates in Dropobox's YC class dis well by investing a small amount into the company.
Very curious about this new version.

The current Wunderlist is a cool demo if you stay on the rails, but I quickly ran into UX hurdles when I tried to go off road. My Wunderlist is a cluttered mess.
ISTR?
Dasher (http://dasher.im), uses socket.io. We're using socker.IO-objc for our iOS client: https://github.com/pkyeck/socket.IO-objc

And will be launching a web client in the coming weeks.

So far, so good. We do handle the reconnects ourselves, but otherwise it's been treating us well.
I'm still not sure which side you're on. I think the Chromecast is a slightly more polished product, like many computer bits, you can get better value if you're prepared to have to work a bit or not care about how things look.
There is a lot of corporate speak. That said, he is an insider that knows what needs to be done, and is willing to make changes. I hope that he's able to pull it off.
Because you're making dubious gains saving a couple KB of bandwidth by sacrificing the responsiveness of your app when you introduce an additional round trip for each new piece of code. It may look fine for you, but there are plenty of people that don't have super-low latency, high bandwidth internet connections.
> I think that's a good literary caricature of a very real possibility of how a post-scarcity or even post-singularity economy might look.

Unfortunately so. "Scares" me too.

> It would also be in the best interest of your ruling class to occasionally drop money from helicopters-- think potato salad guy but systemic, maybe guided by algorithms to stimulate increases in monetary velocity. Post-scarcity postmodern Keynesianism?

I did not think of that, mainly because it does not make sense in the management economy that rules this fictional world. Ideally it would be completely self-sustaining and would likely continue on until an extinction event, however there is a "management debt" accrued as the result of business and government inefficiency and abstraction (see failed government-contractor negotiations). If left unchecked it would result in collapse of such a system because everything would become horribly fubar. Thus, to prevent the collapse of their system, the ruling class in interest of its own survival could indirectly (AI) or directly "pay off" the management debt by investing or creating (and importing selected individuals from the non-ruling class) ventures that fix the dilapidated systems or provided exploratory break through (space travel). This raises some from the non-ruling class to the ruling class in the process, of course, but is of little impact. Additionally, potato salad ventures could be used in a lottery system to provide hope to the non-ruling class, or completely replace the previous method of management debt checking, allowing the system to operate for much longer than it normally would... until it suddenly collapses under the insane amounts of inefficiency it introduces.

(Interestingly, this explains large corporate behaviour.)

> I could see Martian colonization and other difficult endeavours being undertaken by those who see this existence as empty and pointless and who actively desire a real challenge... possibly led and capitalized by factions of the ruling class who share this sentiment.

Every good story needs rebellious outcasts and non-ironic hope for humanity. A musky settlement on Mars like you describe is just perfect. :)

> Wait... are we even talking about fiction here?!? :)

The more of the world I experience, either through my own eyes or vicariously through the wisdom of others, leads me to closer to the conclusion that no, in fact we are writing humanity's (short?) biography.

> If on the other hand problems like fossil fuel depletion cause us to fail to reach anything like post-scarcity, I could see a scenario very much like William Gibson's Neuromancer. I think Gibson's "sprawl" 'verse is a world where the singularity failed to reach orbit so to speak. Going even more extreme I could see The Hunger Games -- tiny ultra-urban enclaves of super-rich surrounded by and served by feudal peasants. The Hunger Games (as opposed to Mad Max) is probably the most accurate picture of what a worst case scenario peak oil collapse would look like.

I think we may see both scenarios, and a revival of the us versus them mentality that dominated the Cold War. :(
It may very well go that way, but I think unikernels (like MirageOS (http://http://www.openmirage.org/) are very interesting as well. A paravirtualized unikernel should be able to carry less overhead than regular virtualized OSs and be able to operate completely in ring0/kernelspace.

Pair that with all the hw acceleration for virtualization available these days and you may get some pretty lean and fast virtualization that also more easily support hybrid deployments (Container software needs to be built for specific container host OSs and libs(depending on how much is bundled in each container)).

Also, the security implications of containers vs (para)-virtualization are different, so I think my personal jury's still out on that one too.

But I do agree that these are interesting times, for sure. And containers may win, I just don't think it's a done deal just yet. :)
I was hellbanned for a few days, then tptacek interceded and got me unbanned. Paul Graham was kind of squirrely about it, so I thought it was a good time to leave.

I have met the new HN management and have no beef with the site. I only avoid it now because it's a big potential time sink.
Huh, I forgot no one else is allowed to make a Google Drive competitor. That's pretty convenient for Google.
This hit very close to home. My (former) best friend and business partner stole a ton of money from me and our business, and I'm about to declare personal bankruptcy, right after my kid was born.

My password is some variation of how much of an asshole he is. But it's not helping. In fact, it's causing me to constantly dwell on it, painfully re-living our conversations, and thinking what I could've done differently to prevent it from happening.

Logically I understand that I need to forgive him and let it go, but I'm not able to do it. I'm going to change my password to an affirmation that I forgive him. I think it will be a good start.
Kudos to you, recent news indicates you were exactly right.

>President Abdulla Yameen denied a claim by Moscow that the United States had abducted Roman Seleznev from the Maldives and taken him to the American territory of Guam.

>Yameen told reporters that Maldives police, acting on an Interpol arrest warrant, had moved against 30-year-old Seleznev during the weekend.

“>No outsider came here to conduct an operation,” Yameen said here last night. “No officials from another country can come here to arrest anyone.

>“The government has the necessary documentation to prove it,” he said, adding that he has asked his foreign minister to explain the situation to her Russian counterpart.

http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2014/07/10/maldives-denie...
I decided to use the word "better" because for some aspects like design, I'm not sure I would want that to be done more efficiently necessarily, but instead I would want it to be done better and achieve better design even if it costs me a bit more in time/effort. I think better in this sense is more qualitative although we should try to quantify as much as possible.
It creates supply! (It doesn't. It stratifies the haves from the have-nots efficiently.)

Ice after a storm? Definitely let market forces dictate who keeps insulin cold and who sips chilly mint julips.

This is the underlying issue with Uber and blind disruption of regulatory frameworks. Regulatory initiatives often get propelled with moral issues. They then get calcified and twisted by economic forces.

Disruption of those economic entrenchments is laudable.
Avoiding the acknowledgement of the collateral damage to the moral reasons for existing regulatory systems creates obstacles to acceptance. Fix that last bit and market forces can play freely.