skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What parallel universe are you living in where taxi companies are tax abiding enterprises? It's well known (even to the IRS) that the cash dominated business of taxis is a giant bastion of unreported income. This is one of the reasons why in many cities you frequently get harassed when trying to pay with a credit card (and lied to, it's amazing how often the CC machines is "broken" when you pull out a card).

Uber has not accepted $1 in cash which means its hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue is all reported. It's a boon for tax revenue.

Also, mileage/fees/payment have always been part of the app. Have you used Uber before?
Hey, I don't know how to help you, generally or with this issue of postings on HN being triggering specifically. Nor do I know the right thing to say today. Sometimes I do, but I don't today. I just wanted to touch base and offer a smidgeon of human warmth.
We're focused on superconducting qubits right now. But our core processor technology and the overall system architecture are fairly agnostic to the kind of physical qubits that it uses.
Agreed. I always find it odd when digital items are referred to as "non-existent", as though their intangibility makes them any less real or valuable.
Because he likely had a positive impact on you and every one of your peers. There are many lesser things that have made it to the front page of HN.
If we had smartphones with HF radio capability (or someone figured out how to reprogram the baseband to support it) then we'd be talking.

EDIT: Though I suspect this isn't really practical. Are there any amateur bands near the GSM/CDMA bands?
you forgot to include capital expenditures, asics are expensive.
My entire lab is filled with EE's focusing in neuroscience and brain-machine interfaces. We use implantable electrodes though, much better SNR and fewer corrupting noise sources.
I suspect that there is a bit of smart PR from Lyft here as well. It seems like a sympathy-for-the-underdog card being played here.

I've used both services quite heavily, and talked to tons of drivers. Drivers seem happy with both the services. I wonder if Uber is just getting big enough that some media names love to take sides. Knowing many people at these companies, I'm not sure if we are objectively assessing this situation.
Where in NYC? I find it really varies. At present in Bushwick, none of my neighbors talk or even make eye contact in the hallways, it is a pretty strange social situation. It is in pretty stark contrast to when I lived in Park Slope, where I would run into people in local bars, etc.
Why? You can similarly request a cab and cancel it. Rival cab companies have surely done this for as long as rival cab companies have existed. The difference is cabs don't always show up, they "cancel" on riders all the time. Gotta love taxi regulations!
Having an episode of depression doesn't give you special insight on this issue. Your experience wasn't universal and if you're browsing this site you probably ought to know better than to put excessive weight on your own anecdotal evidence.

Personally, I'm really sick of the pussy-footing around the issue and I've yet to see any scientific evidence that it's helping anyone.
Hackers root Google's Nest thermostat in 15 seconds
Man, can we quit frivolously downvoting people (when they aren't being jerks) in this thread? Robin Williams apparently committed suicide. We are going to honor his passing by crapping on people in the discussion about him? Seriously?

I just never understand and am always disgusted by the human habit of saying nice things of the dead, now that we can no longer actually do anything for them, and then turning around and being ugly to everyone within reach. We seem to mostly be nice when it no longer matters at all.
I agree, except the problem is that by-and-large, regulated taxi services work perfectly fine. How are they even close to dysfunctional currently? So people can't find a cab in mid-town at 5pm on a rainy day, I mean, come on. I'm pretty darn laissez faire when it comes to regulation, but honestly I think taxi service is done pretty well.

Here's what I know. If I paid (heavily) into a system of regulation that worked, only to have someone hack it and basically blow up my asset/income stream, you'd better believe I would push back hard. Aereo, anyone?
I've wanted to do this since I saw a picture of a glowing tobacco plant in my biology textbook back in 1995.

I've since done quite a bit of research on it, and there are some pretty serious obstacles. I assume you want to use luciferase... are you going to insert the whole enzymatic pathway? or sell "glowing plant fuel"? How do you get around the fact that this uses quite a bit of the plant's energy? Are you planning on attaching promoters that hack into the plant's day/night cycle? or seasonal changes?
Hi Jean-Luc,
Thank you for the kind wishes. Those are some great questions! We are definitely running HFSS, and we've made some small investments in traditional HPC hardware. Our primary use case thus far has been Eigenmode solver, which doesn't parallelize well. We're figuring out how use Driven solver a little more - the HPC packs provides a real boost in that case. We're excited to be expanding the eco-system of companies doing groundbreaking QC work beyond the standard list of big defense contractors :)
Odd that Lyft appears proud to claim that they have a very easily gamed system without anti-fraud filters. Now that the word is out I would watch out for taxi drivers to get in on the fun.
3D doesn't help very much. We're already at the limits of thermal capacity for consumer-chips. 3D just exacerbates that, since now you've lost a whole dimension you can shunt heat through.

If you go 3D, you need a very large drop in heat dissipation to keep your junction temperatures down.
Yes. Here's a higher end "grocery store shelf" bread maker:

http://www.pepperidgefarm.com/FreshBreadsGateway.aspx

2 to 4 grams of sugar per slice is typical there. That sort of bread is prepared at large regional bakeries.

Decent grocers will also have a fresh bakery, with somewhat more variety to the product, and probably breads with little added sugar.

If you live in a decent size town, there will also be one or more store front bakeries that uses a shorter list of ingredients (I almost said they are more traditional, but I'm sure they are mostly using big mixers and nice ovens and the like).
>We have a system, which is probably unfair to begin with, but an existing and functional system nonetheless that rideshares effectively hacked.

Yeah, and made it 100x better. Why should I be mad about this?
It's hard to know what the right thing is to do with reports like this. If, as seems to be the case, articles about suicide encourage suicide, is it better to keep quiet about the fact so as not to directly contribute to the problem? Or is it better to report it in hopes of educating the media and reducing future articles, at the cost of more articles right now?

Either way, I hope you're able to find comfort and support somewhere. I've been there, and I know it sucks. Best wishes, truly.
Also your 1cm2 die becomes 2cm2, becomes 4cm2...you pretty quickly run out of space physically, and your interconnects get long enough that propagation delay becomes significant.
Also by Matasano, and tons of fun: https://microcorruption.com

In-browser reverse engineering game.
For example, at least in Australia, a taxi has to be a particular make/model/style of car

Citation needed. I can't find anything that specifies that, but the Wikipedia article[1] lists a large number of cars in use just in NSW.

and a hire cars can only be cars more expensive than $60k AUD[1]

Again, citation needed (and I'm not sure why you are linking to the Luxury Car Tax - that applies to all cars).

The NT legislation[1] doesn't say that, and the Victorian Government's taxi website[3] says the opposite:

>Hire cars can only operate after being previously booked. They can be luxury sedans, stretched limousines, hybrids and non-luxury vehicles.

(Emphasis mine)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_Australia#New_South...

[2] http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nt/consol_reg/lr238/

[3] http://www.taxi.vic.gov.au/owners-and-operators/hire-cars
> Until mileage and fees are all recorded and payment is through the app

It's all recorded. Payment has been done through the app since they've started. Their app also shows the driver the fastest route to the customer's destination, acting as a GPS navigator, and eliminating the possibility of unnecessary routes in order to boost the mileage.

> No taxes and drivers with no liability insurance,

Uber drivers must pass background checks and carry commercial-grade liability insurance, which is typically more than consumer liability insurance, since it covers more edge cases.

> tax agencies alleging tax fraud

If anything, lack of cash transactions makes Uber a very welcomed development (from tax authorities' point of view) in the industry that's been known for chronic under-reporting.
Robust Principal Component Analysis ToolKit (Matlab)
Where do you live? Taxis work well in some cities and terribly in others (SF!).
I thought the expo format was alright but it would've been better if there was a larger space so some teams didn't have to be outside and people didn't have to shout over each other while trying to discuss their projects. It was a better format for larger teams though, as everyone could take turns presenting and looking at other projects.
CAT HAT
Generating and splitting a delimited string column
But Uber knows about that last-minute cancellation, and probably incorporates it into their rating system.
>Don't throw stones on me, but... Why on HN?

Because breaking the rules (like what "fits HN") is part of being a hacker. Or a human.

Plus, that's how social sites work. There's no "why X is on top" -- it's on top because it was voted on top.
Whew, maybe I'm just thick, but it took me four tries to select a library, export the global, and all I see is "uncaught exception: error getting the key".
The UX for these cameras is basically "hit record button, see red light go on"; I don't think there is room for any player to win on iPod-style usability.

They either need to sell on lifestyle branding (where GoPro is already owning the market) or quality, IMO.
"And they decided to do this by ignoring all of that icky stuff like liability insurance, commercial licensing, and following the law."

Totally false, as thirty seconds of Googling will tell you:

https://www.uber.com/safety

https://www.lyft.com/safety
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Thanks for bringing this back! I've been wanting to study crypto, and I usually enjoy @tpacek's comments on this site.
Similar arguments were made about VoIP and various other internet services versus incumbents in the 90s. Thank goodness the upstarts didn't have qualms about using loopholes. Often the best way to get rid of bad regulations is to show how much better things can be without them.
For pete's sake, it's 5k rides over like 9 months. How many Lyft rides are there per day in SF alone?
thank you for doing this... I know where you got that from, and I laughed again. Truly appreciate it :)
What loophole are UberX and Lyft using? Major markets (San Francisco and Seattle for example) have written laws to regulate, and legitimize, ridesharing.
Would like to see real-world-ish Clojure crypto concerns.
The Low Tech Defeat of the Guinea Worm
Somewhat related, I remember typesetting some project/essays in junior high-school on some DTP software on the Amiga. I can't recall the name now, but I don't think it was PageStream that seems to be most popular google hit (and is apparently still available both for Amiga OS, Windows and Linux): http://www.pagestream.org/?id=1663

Whatever software it was, the printer driver managed to output quite readable black text on our 9-pin dot-matrix printer (at an excruciatingly slow rate -- I remember pulling an all-nighter -- having finished a 10-20 page report on, I think nuclear weapons/the attacks on Japan -- at around 06:00 in the morning -- and the printout taking close to three hours making me late for school ...).

What was great about that pice, was that it followed the pattern of most modern DTP packages, with content-boxes that allowed you to flow text through them. And let you write your actual text in a plain ("distraction free") editor. Much better than the "rich" word processors at the time.

I still think Adobe's CSS region proposal[1] sounds pretty good -- not really as an addition to traditional CSS (a language suitable for styling, but unsuitable for layout) -- but as a way to augment CSS and HTML to become a language more-suited to layout (not good, not great, just not horribly bad). Lie[2], doesn't think so, but I think his perspective is inaccurate on this one. His points are valid, but I don't think he's really addressing the correct issue. CSS columns is a technical way to break up text. Allowing text to flow into boxes allows keeping the text plain and simple (think a classic html3 document with only text) and the layout separate (the divs/boxes). Lie appears to think in terms of a object/hypertext/rich document -- but that kind of thinking leads to single page apps where you can't read a blog article with js disabled.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-regions/

[2] http://alistapart.com/blog/post/css-regions-considered-harmf...
>Because breaking the rules (like what "fits HN") is part of being a hacker. Or a human.

This sounds like justification for having no rules. I don't know if that's a good idea.

>Plus, that's how social sites work. There's no "why X is on top" -- it's on top because it was voted on top.

This is fair enough, I think.

In any event, R.I.P. Robin Williams!
This is cool, but it's one of those things I sign up for and then I never 'have time'; the emails fade away in the deep abyss of gmail account.
This 40% cost increase will eventually pressure them to increase revenue/volume, perhaps by that Apple-Intel rumour a few years back...
Incredibly good news! I emailed earlier this year and got no response, and I was afraid the whole thing had gone away. It's like Christmas in August!
Maybe this was the first time? At companies I've worked at, lots of limitations where only added after someone abused something...
There's a much easier way to get us to see something: simply email hn@ycombinator.com.
No. They are NOT competing fairly, because they figured out (or simply fell ass backwards into it) how to hack the rules. Rideshares have a wildly unfair cost advantage because they do not need to purchase medallions, have commercial auto insurance, pass annual maintenance checks, comply with a long list of regulations, etc. It is the very definition of unfair, if only because the government, for better or worse, has made it that way. Sure it sounds great...until there's a problem. Until the car crashes into a school bus. Or you've got 50,000 gas guzzlers on the road. Or they get into fights with customers. Or there is some other worse criminal activity. Just because you like the app doesn't mean it's justified in its current form.

There may very well be artificial supply with respect to medallions, except there's one major indefensible problem with that position - I don't know any cab drivers living the high life. Do you?
Some dork already flagged the story, so its been knocked to page 3 or 4. Even if you don't think the content is appropriate, the problem with the flag approach is that it will keep popping up around the whole day since people think it hasn't been covered yet.
Chicago. Live and work in the city. Took Uber this morning (pouring rain...I normally ride bike) as a matter of fact. Uber is great...it's just the rideshares that are a problem.
I think this is still due to Prop 13. Businesses are easy to tax, residential is impossible. There is an incentive for cash strapped municipalities to zone retail and commercial over residential. If property taxes on residential were allowed to rise, you'd see a shift in the balance.
I am really confused by this post. ChristianBundy linked to an article by a suicide prevention professional, and you're accusing him of pushing anecdotal evidence based solely on his own experience. Are you under the impression that he wrote the article? Did you reply to the wrong post?
After spending last week at my grandparents' North Carolina mountain house, I was encouraged to find they regularly have neighbors over for dinner. I must admit, I only know one of my neighbors' names at my apartment in LA.
When I lived in SF I was close enough to a Muni line that I almost never needed to take a taxi. The three times I did, all late at night, the taxis showed up promptly, the fares were reasonable, I felt safe, and I got where I needed to go. I'm not saying taxis in SF aren't "terrible," but it hasn't been my experience.
Microsoft’s 3 New TV Ads Comparing Surface Pro 3 To The MacBook Air
When will advertisers understand that linkbait/clickbait is more effective at attracting bots than humans?

Or do they already realize this? Does anyone have any metrics on where Buzzfeeds CPMs trade versus other news sites/blogs?
In that it relates to a virtual world with real currency conversion, I guess. I felt that aspect of Reamde wasn't especially well thought out though still better than any other fiction attempting to cover similar territory.
I am predicting this thing will die a horrible death.
If taxis weren't so dysfunctional, Uber wouldn't have so many happy users and drivers.

For example, it used to be a major hassle trying to get a car to pick me up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I would call the local car service, who would always say "5 minutes". Except it often wasn't 5 minutes and sometimes they didn't come at all.

Other car services were OK but took a long time to show up. Now with Uber I can hail an NYC green taxi.

Sorry to sound like an Uber ad but it's been working really well for me.
Thank you all for the kind comments. Although this is a real struggle to me, I didn't mean to bring all the attention to my issues. Thank you sincerely.

I am certainly not the only one here struggling with these kind of problems. I come to HN to distract my mind and learn new things, but it is tough when you try to get away from something happening in your life and you have to face it here. Some people don't realize how depressing some topics/discussions are and they don't realize how this can affect others already struggling with depression or other related issues. I'm sorry for asking what I asked, but I fail to understand why topics like suicide are coming up here more often.
arstechnica article on it: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/this-thumbdrive-hack...
And before we roll out Internet tropes about correlation and causation, maybe we should first read the underlying studies.

The article fails horribly by not quoting any of them, but here's a good starting point: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3402200381.html

Or, if you want a list from the guy who did the initial investigations into the phenomenon, start here: http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/profile/478/James_S_Hous...

I'm far from an expert on the topic, but from what I read, a causal relationship is at the least very strongly implied.
Example of great black-box data science: can automation replace data scientists?
On http://cryptopals.com/sets/4/challenges/31 , I'd just make it return the offset of the first byte that don't match to simulate the information that a timing leak would reveal.
I'm just talking about UberX, not regular old Uber that fetches a licensed taxi, which I use and love.
Hi Lev - Our mission is to deliver fault-tolerant quantum computing systems and services to the commercial market. We're currently prototyping our technology at the small scale i.e. < 20 qubits. Once this validation is complete, we intend to scale up to much larger systems.
It is probably the demonisation of fat that pushed people to consume excessive sugar.
But then that money would show up as an accounting error unless they're cooking their books.
GPU have only recently being used in holding data for which losing bits may trigger a disaster (financial, banking, system, etc. data). Before that it was just for holding vertices, shaders, models, textures, etc.
Unless you selectively cultivate them for luminescence, right?
Your fired.
Oh wow, how did I miss that? I looked at sabre when I first started scraping, but the application process to just look at the APIs was exhausting.

Thank you!
I assume you are simulating resonators for ion traps with the eigenmode solver? I had quicker results optimizing with time-domain analysis (CST Microwave Studio), then switching to eigenmode to find the Q, than using frequency domain solver. The time-domain solver is easily spread across multiple GPU.
Robin Williams Found Dead
Read it again. That's not the argument. The argument is roughly:

Either the observer's choice of measurements of the particle is completely determined by prior events, and the observer has no free will, or the observer can at his or her whim pick a way to measure the particle. If the latter, then the particle must be able to, also at whim, pick which spin to be measured at.

He never assumes that the observer is made of particles.
Stop subsidizing this:
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Victim blaming is generally reprehensible. Further, I imagine that as a nascent business the notion that competitors would be so unethical didn't seem to be a top priority.

Is it obvious now that they should have caught it? Yeah, thanks to the brilliance of hindsight of course it is. Does that justify it? Hardly.
Woody Allen later wrote in a letter: "My observation was that once a person actually completed a play or a novel, he was well on his way to getting it produced or published, as opposed to a vast majority of people who tell me their ambition is to write, but who strike out on the very first level and indeed never write the play or book. In the midst of the conversation, as I’m now trying to recall, I did say that 80 percent of success is showing up."

- 1989 August 13, New York Times, On Language: The Elysian Fields by William Safire

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Woody_Allen
Posner, again, full of hand-waving subterfuge. 8% return on 1 billion in capital? Sure, at the end they only feasibly keep 20 million cash and definitely just lose all value in the other luxury goods they buy... What a horrible economist if they could even begin to suggest anything but that this billionaire widow will do nothing but maybe get index ETF rates of return.

Where is he coming from? University of Chicago? Oh right, I'll dive right into spending a lot of time breaking down his strawman.

Sorry to commit logical fallacies folks, but why is it that I can never get but a flock of anti-Krugman gadflies out of UC? Which other econ departments drip with this much politically driven fluff?