skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's completely horseshit. At a minimum the rate ought to stay locked in for you by virtue of the agreement to take your fare, and the difference should come from the offending driver's next fare as a disincentive.
The root of the problem is the question of whether social values should have weight in a situation of limited supply, ie. when taken to its extreme: should one person be allowed to fuck up the whole planet because they have more monopoly money, thereby destroying the whole species and all future generations.

Conventional capitalists will say yes without thinking, then spout whatever view-confirming stuff they can find (like this URL). Market-libertarians say a market will evolve to cater for the resource impacted that all people value, though we haven't actually seen that happen yet (observe the failure of the carbon credit scheme). Socialists say yes, we should treat one another with respect because fundamentally we're all in this together.

All views have some credence.
If you are interested in Server-Sent-Events, I made a small library a while ago that may be helpful: https://github.com/boppreh/server-sent-events
As a serial entrepreneur, I find this model very interesting. Nowadays I prefer to go it alone without outside capital, but there are times I wish I could pool my risk and upside with other vetted entrepreneurs.
Lazy loading leads to more requests, which leads to more latency, slower apps. Better to handle this stuff as a build step with RequireJS or browserify.
Mega Sync Client for Mac finally available
Having talked with many Lyft drivers about it, the drivers are definitely aware of what times pay better rates and many of them choose to schedule their workdays around it. I don't know if it works for one off events like the WC but it definitely increases supply during evenings and late nights.
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No. It's like SharePoint and Box. Google Drive sync clients don't obey Active Directory policy rules the way they need to. This does. Which is huge for big businesses.

This is competing with Box and with clunkier solutions from EMC. It's also competing against SharePoint Online.
Thanks, that makes the situation much more sensible. (ESL)
Looks like this is not listed on any major exchange, it's an OTC(Over the Counter) stock, which means trades are processed manually and many brokerages charge hefty fees and trades are settled many days later(if they're are settled at all). Shorting needs stock to borrow and sell, if shares are not available to borrow for a decent fee, you can't "naked" short sell the stock which will get you into trouble with the SEC.

I am guessing the owners are trading with themselves to pump up the stock to do some fishy stuff, like borrowing against their stock assets and then disappearing or something.
If Microsoft wants to fix something, fix the thinking behind that.

Microsoft has an awful history of trying to "leverage" assets like Windows to try to get people to use things like IE or Bing or whatever. But when Microsoft uses leverage, customers feel forced. I don't want Microsoft to force me to have an online account! I just want to do what I want with my computer, not what Microsoft wants me to do, and I don't want to have to fight Microsoft to do it.

I'm tired of having to fight them for control of my computer for the last 15 years. If they want to change, the best change they can make is to change their attitude about who actually owns my PC.
So what's the bottom line? They are going to take it to the next level?

Seriously: this is unreadable BS. Quoting Nietzsche and Rilke at the end seemed almost farcical.
Why would a rational actor take a reduced profit in the face of increased demand for their product?
> This point, that making copies of software, comes at no direct cost to the creator

Support cost. Support cost will sink a business if they're not taken into account.

That's why you should never sell software for less than $x0 to consumers and less than $x00 to businesses. Because the support costs will eat you alive.

The only way you can get away with free is if there's absolutely no support (your product isn't likely to see much use) or you like doing support as a hobby (you will eventually find a shinier toy).

Oh and I'm being very liberal when I say support. Even dealing with pull requests can be a bitch. Even if you only get one or two a month. You will forget to deal with them.
So now they can't do surge pricing when it rains? The main reason I like Uber in NYC is because it is impossible to get a taxi when it's raining. Seems like this would ruin a big chunk of their value proposition.
What would be the best technology for building real-time browser based chat application available today where I own the client?
I use diigo with almost all the benefits I could gather for pinboard from this thread - tagging, annotation, cloudsync, light, extensions, read later etc. And it is free. Am I missing something? I have thousands of bookmarks, searchable, easy access, one click bookmarking, etc. Is there an advantage to switch?
Yeah distrusting the CIA & NSA is a real counter-cultural thing here at Hacker News. You're more likely getting downvoted for talking about getting downvoted.
This is a move against SharePoint Online/Box/EMC's shitty thing. The proof will be how well it works.

Box can work well enough if you've got everyone on it and you're using it as your main file server. The problem is that if you want to use it with users who expect it to work like Dropbox, it's not really designed for that kind of nimble access.

The pricing is totally inline with the competitors on a per-seat basis. It's even cheaper if you have any of the think client instances.

Interesting to see how it plays out -- and what impact this will have on Box, now that it is delaying its IPO.
It leads to more requests, but after page load, and only when you need the code. Why load code your app isn't necessarily going to use?
Just for the record, I'm a female programmer, and I don't think I've ever read Elle. I think I was in my teens the last time I read something in a fashion magazine.

I had assumed, perhaps mistakenly, that an important subtext of the article is to show the success of a woman in a technical field, and that a woman can achieve a leadership role at a leading technology company, in a role that is all about intellect -- not sales or customer-facing stuff where appearance matters. I found the mentions of looks and clothes to be at odds with this.

Now I'm curious to know how men's fashion magazines treat similar subjects....
The bottom line is that they are going to disclose more about the bottom line later.
Out of curiosity, what database are you using to store the data?
I agree. It is suitable for a project code name... not so much for the product's brand. As a native English speaker, Zocalo makes me think of words like ziggurat, mojito, zapata, and mahalo.
It would certainly be useful but currently a lot of things don't have Bluetooth LE and are controlled via zigbee, z-wave, wifi, etc.. So knowing what room you are in is very useful in itself because it can help identify what target devices you may want to control.
Good call, I misread it and was shocked. Makes sense now.
You could say the same for Microsoft though. Or Oracle. Or SAP. I mean, iCloud runs on Azure so...
Copay, An Open Source Bitcoin Multi-signature Wallet
Prince Alwaleed And The Curious Case Of Kingdom Holding Stock (2013)
Article presents incorrect information as truth.

Optimize for cache hits, then no requests happen!
Direct link: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/07/michael_munger.html

The episode is pretty good. It's fun to listen to economists' perspective on these services after being absorbed in the tech.
Show HN: Community-driven snippets for presentations in LaTeX, Beamer, and TikZ
Uber's cut is just 20%, so the effect would be relatively low unless they wanted to dramatically lower the average pay of the drivers.
This is actually a real cool Idea. very nice.
It's going to represent your average daily consumption. Consider it your baseline. For example, I use about 30kWh of electricity and 100 gallons of water per day. I can set a goal for myself (e.g., cut both numbers by 10%), or I can measure the difference of a new efficiency purchase - like LED lightbulbs. Because your daily use will fluctuate, use your 30 day average to see your progress. The really cool part is then you can share your meter with someone else. And have them share back with you. Then you can compare how you are doing with someone else. Maybe even have a little competition!
Oh wow, after the first few screens you get an "if I repeat it enough maybe it will be true?!" feeling :-(
Also, this: On July 22, we'll announce our earnings results for the past quarter and I'll say more then on what we are doing in FY15 to focus on our core. <screen after screen of corporatespeak>

I wish I cared enough to place a bet that those reports aren't positive...
Google Drive, OneDrive, and now it looks like amazon is throwing their hat into the ring. These are all cheaper options. I switched to google drive from dropbox without a problem.
I think it's clear that passwords should be VERY DIFFICULT for you to remember so that you have to reset them constantly and/or keep them in some kind of "vault" so you copy them into your clipboard all the time and accidentally paste them into chat rooms.
Are there large armies of people who make >$100k/year but <$1M? Yes.
Yeah, but most of those are good ideas for a moderately large business that's not managing other people's servers. Especially mnemonic names. Would you rather reference ruby.web or W1L1Z (which is often the kind of cap that people come up with by default).
Glad to hear it! I've been looking for a viable Pachube alternative since Pachube got gobbled up.
It doesn't seem to be. Are you running into an error?
Hey developers, know your users as well as you know your code
As a founder myself, I would love to have exposure to the other startups in my investors' portfolio and more importantly, I want other founders to have exposure to my company!

Upside offers an attractive option to gain a small amount of exposure and to recognize the help that founders provide other founders. I know a number of other founders who have helped me get where I am, but unfortunately they don't have any exposure to our stock. Typically, the logistical headaches and liquidity needs would stop most people in their tracks but Upside simplifies that process substantially.

Regarding the conflict of interest concerns, I don't agree at all. I personally help the other founders in my network generously and most CEOs that I know are very generous with their time as well. To have a formal recognition of that would be awesome and if any of us are successful, it's nice to know that we played a tiny piece in it.

Compared to typical VC arrangements, Upside offers something new that aligns interests of everybody involved. It's an innovative approach to an old-style business and delivers real value to entrepreneurs.

Most importantly though: Founders should always pick a VC based on the partner with whom they'll be working. Kent is one of the best, smartest, hardest working, and most importantly fair and honest. Not all VCs are alike and Kent is a class act.

Full disclosure: Kent was on my board of directors and I endorse him so strongly that I am LP in Upside VC.
By default it writes metadata about the stream (title, description, etc) using a file based db called nedb, and it appends the actual logged data to CSV files that are split into 500k chunks. When the user requests their logged data, all of the files are stitched back together, converted into the requested format (JSON, CSV, etc), and streamed to the user’s web client.

For the production server, we are currently using MongoDb for metadata storage and the same CSV module for logged data storage.
FireOS ain't done until Google Play won't run?
That may work for a high-traffic site like Google, but what about sites that aren't in the Alexa top 10 (or even 1000)? ;)
Why are economists who defend surge pricing not pushing for "real" markets where drivers set prices?
It may not be a good proxy between two people of vastly disparate means, but what would be better? It's bad, but still, it seems, the best available.
Fourchette: test your GitHub pull requests against a fork of your Heroku app
fleet is a cluster-level init system with just enough of a scheduler to handle the fault tolerance of higher-level components (i.e. log aggregation, scheduling, etc). In this case, Kubernetes can be thought of as an application-specific scheduler, as it nontrivially places containers in a cluster. Kubernetes can schedule its containers through fleet's APIs and trust fleet to track the overall state of the cluster.
It doesn't say they can't do surge pricing; they just have a cap on how high it can go during an emergency.
7 reasons why going digital can increase engagement/happiness at your show
if your user goes to your site twice, he has your assets in cache.
Ask HN: Can I make it in the Valley and live a well-rounded life?
This may seem like a strange question, but there may come a day where I have to decide whether or not to move from my quaint little tech hub of a city to The Valley (some opportunities have arisen, but I haven't yet accepted any). I enjoy software development. Got some good experience working at a vibrant startup. However, I am pretty skeptical about how well I would fit into (what I perceive to be) the Valley lifestyle. I like to spend my free time doing things like kayaking and rounding out my brain rather than hacking on side projects every evening. I enjoy a 40-50-hour work week and prefer a marathon to a sprint. Have I just fallen for a stereotypical representation of The Valley as a self-obsessed technology mecca filled with warrior-priests who live and breathe code 24/7, or is there more of a well-rounded atmosphere where I can still fit in without selling my soul to my career?
It was way too long, but I thought this could be Microsoft's rallying cry going forward:

"We help people get stuff done."

I actually believe this could distinguish Microsoft from the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon. Google helps you find the information you're looking for. Apple gives the individual user a great computing experience. Amazon lets you buy anything at a low price.

But Microsoft is more strongly associated with work than any other software company in my mind. They should embrace this, and re-envision what it means in a post-Windows world.
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I liked it fine, but I found the economics to be extremely predictable and the public policy analysis to be very shallow. For instance, Airbnb is to Mike Munger an unalloyed good; I found myself yelling at the car radio "but what about the mob hotels?"

You knew Roberts and Munger were going to like Uber, and, of course, they do.
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That's a pretty unusual setup :)

I'd be interested in a blog post about how you choose this architecture.
Browsers have optimized for "eager" loading. Link your images, CSS, and JS just like you did when you first learned HTML, then configure your server's caching headers. For JS, there's the async attribute.
Thanks for the feedback. That's a planned feature: https://github.com/sparkfun/phant/issues/13

Right now the web UI is fairly simple, but we will start adding features soon.
Isn't that Home Depot?
Kubernetes is exactly what I've been needing to ease our deployments; combining CoreOS and Kubernetes looks like a dream come true!
If Xbox is so important, they need to open up its API and app store. It feels like a dinosaur relic from the last decade.

It's behind Google Play, Amazon and Apple App Stores, and even the Windows App Store.
Good intentions, difficult scalibility for being free. Stackoverflow works because users who give answers earn reputation - something that they can include in their CVs. If there is not something that you can offer (material or inmaterial) to the ones who are going to make great your service - devs willing to teach - this will be just a good intentionated initiative, badly executed.
Not trying to be negative, just what I see imho.
The whole point of YNAB (Rule #1 of their program) is that you need to proactively allocate every dollar you have. Every dollar has a job, and then you need to manually enter when that dollar is doing its job so you feel when that money actually gets spent.

I tried for years to use Mint, but it's too passive. Too easy to ignore. With YNAB, every purchase goes in when we make the purchase, and I found it keeps us more honest about our budget estimates and also helps to curtail frivolous spending.

To each his own, of course.
That's really interesting, but to be fair, did you need that financial exposure to help out? From what I saw on the VC side, the solution was usually an advisory role or sometimes an explicit board one to recognize a particularly valuable individual. Beyond that, I wonder if the incentives here run into the "Israeli day care" problem - by putting a financial price on what was previously help, more freely offered, you might have the adverse effect of making it more transactional.

That being said, best of luck to Kent - experiments are a good thing, and the marketing alone is a good start.
Complaining about pricing of cabs is rich people wanting their bit of capitalism to feel fair to them.

For many people a cab is something you use when all other transport options have failed and you need to get somewhere now even if it means eating just beans on toast for the next week.
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You always have the option of not choosing Uber.... You can even start a blog and inform others of this practice. Finally, you can complain to everyone you know and encourage people not to use Uber...

Or just ask the government for more legislature I guess...
You have to stagger them in your environment. If you don't, you get flooded with password change/reset requests the first few days after a change has been forced.
One alternative: ownCloud running on a vps. I have a 500gb plan with vpsdime for US$7/month (and you can upgrade up to 2tb).
owncloud 7 is just to be released in one or two weeks with several improvements, including server to server sharing.
Kent Goldman launches 'Upside," a new type of VC firm
I've encountered a flow error on your site. I successfully registered to "pair with a developer" and listed a few languages I don't know and would love to discuss with someone. Then, I saw the option to become a pairing developer and so I tried to sign up for that, but my email address was (obviously) already taken. Should there be an option to be both, or is each role, learner and teacher, mutually exclusive on your site?
TLDR:IANAL

(i) After SCOTUS characterizes Aereo as cable company, Aereo appears willing to pay statutory content licensing fees that apply to cable companies. (ii) Aereo also seeks to retain the remote DVR feature of their service because the SCOTUS ruling only applies to live or near-live content transmission.

The former would create added costs, while the latter would obviously harm Aereo's value proposition because of the lack of live sporting events. Hope they find a way to survive.
Wiring isn't under control of the home/business owner until it hits their NID, which is already on-prem. Getting the connection to the NID is where the expense is, and it's why AL is putting money into the process. Without this, someone has to spend the thousands of dollars pulling permits/digging trenches to run fiber to your house.
If every server knew how to properly cache even static assets, more sites would handle a HN traffic surge.
Once you introduce a websocket on your html simple page app, it makes sense to send all the user/browser side events to server over the websocket as well. Use socket.io like aggressive websocket connectivity tests and failover to normal REST ajax.
Doesn't seem like one follows the other and having a full editing of Word docs seems unlikely given the complexity of the format.

My guess is that the 'different versions' is just that, if you save a new version then they save that away, not that you get to edit online.
You have totally missed the point of my post, and I guess most of those that modded it.

EDIT: Ok this is starting to get a little weird. What's with the comical negative overreaction to my posts. What exactly did I say to warrant that?
As a Python dev trying to learn C++ and leveraging various IRC channels, it's been near impossible to get anyone to commit to even looking at anything bigger than a single error line. It's one of those things that I understand because you can't guage who's on the other end. (Complete newbie vs. I'm not sure the best way to structure this in <insert new lang>)
I'll be installing this on my own server to tinker with and will probably find the answer to my questions that way, but has anybody thought to use this to transfer binary data (i.e. zip, exe, etc.)?
Sounds good. I'll work on one once the traffic stabilizes.
It's not good practice to rely on a user's cache. If they visit your site twice in a span of a day, they may have already cleared their cache or pushed your files out with other sites' files.

This article demonstrates a pretty good method to reduce unnecessary byte transfer which will ultimately speed up page loading.
Ask HN: Accessing databases with PHP?
What's is the preferred method for connecting with a database in PHP in 2014? I realize things move fast in the tech industry and there are always new updates and fixes happening but when building a websites in our era which is the best way to do.

Mysql, Mysqli or PDO?
Wait, isn't Google a US company?
Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
> Their claim is that the lower courts had one rule, and the Supreme Court announced a new rule. Although I understand where they're coming from, I'm not sure I agree with that characterization: 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, and that Aereo was simply misguided earlier (but that that does not excuse their failure to act in accordance with the law).

That the Supreme Court's interpretation was always correct does not in anyway contradict that the law as applied by the Second Circuit in the case was different, and doesn't say anything about whether the law applied by the Second Circuit previously was consistent with Second Circuit precedent that was binding on the District Court and thus appropriate for Aereo to use a basis for its arguments prior to the Supreme Court ruling.

The key issue, it seems to me, is whether Aereo previously argued facts that make it ineligible for S111 under the law now binding on the District Court, are whether it merely argued that it was not an entity as would be covered under S111 given a position on the law which has since been rejected by the Supreme Court and is therefore no longer valid.
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Having the first user being local is pretty hidden if you do a normal install (straightforward if you know how, but it is very obscurely described in the UI).

But if you install when offline it's the default alternative :-)
Funny how the wheel of time turns.

I grew up with Micro$oft, a dying Apple beset by clones, and an internet that very few people know about.

Now Apple is one of the most valuable companies on the planet, Microsoft needs a rallying cry, and everyone thinks they know about the internet.

One thing's for sure, haters back then and still haters now.