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this incidental interview with stephen fry and robin williams is kind of poignant, not in small part because of the difference in the exterior behavior of two interesting bipolar personalities and the way fry effortfully tries to forgive williams for his intrusions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ya2Drpj3s
Well, I take the opposite view. By being risk adverse, I stuck to paths that had a guaranteed but small income (grad school, postdoc, gov't job) instead of the opposite (going to work at Yahoo in '95, because I didn't really know CS). If I had gone to Yahoo in '95, just shown up and tried, I'd be wealthy today.

It's not that these kinds of people have made enough money to be secure and stable. They know they will likely have to work for the rest of their life, and they've deliberately structured it to ensure they can continue to work on interesting problems.

It's not like the normal maslow hierarchy applies to everybody, and it's especially inapt when doing long-term planning, where short-term incovenience can lead to a net win over the long term.
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Not allegedly - Uber owned up to it but refused to punish any of the staff involved, saying only that they were "overzealous".

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/technology/social/uber-gett/

At this point Uber can't reasonably claim that these were rogue employees. It's pretty obvious to everyone that this is officially sanctioned.

[edit] Side note: this is not the first time a YC company has been caught engaging in highly unethical business behavior (see: AirBnb marketing). What is YC, and other investors, doing to curb this kind of behavior? Or is this level of abuse tolerated because money?

[edit2] Bah, brain farted, Uber is indeed not a YC company.
A PR article by Lyft makes you want to use them. No surprise there!
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The context is very smart (if not brilliant) people who suffer from hidden depression.
Or maybe Lyft knew about it, handled it, but let them do whatever they wanted so this article could be written?
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The Chinese mainland will not see significant international speed improvements until the government decides people should see significant international speed improvements. Keeping things slow and unreliable, especially in peak times, is a form of subsidy for local internet-related business and therefore for government control. Subtle, but hugely effective when push comes to shove: more so than firewalling.
"Our service was compromised and resulted in a worse experience for our customers" sounds like a pretty... interesting PR spin.
In this video a comedian talks about how he dealt with his daughter having cancer while appearing on the Tonight Show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBJ1X33rXM

A lot of comedy comes from pain. I think Peter McGraw's benign violation theory partially explains this. According to McGraw's theory, humor comes from a "violation" or something negative that is made benign. Comedians learn to take the negative and transform it into something humorous.

People also say that many comedians have a more realistic view of the harshness of life. This reminds me of the quote from GK Chesterton, “Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?"
Each team demoed for 1.5 hours in a science fair-style expo. A panel chose the top 7 teams, and each of those teams pitched in front of the whole group. 6 judges asked questions and awarded prizes to the top 3 teams.
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It was a "science fair" style expo, where all of the completed hacks were on display with one person from each team demoing--essentially over and over again for hours.

Judges came around to review and score everyone (every team had multiple judges stop by), and a shortlist of hacks made it to the final round where it was more of a traditional pitch-off, with different judges.

http://ychacks.challengepost.com/
No there is a firmware hack called emokit which allows data with the $300 headset (correction its $400 now LMAO). However, emotiv is by far the single worst company I ever dealt with. Worst product support experience of my life. Having bought one of those epoc headsets I have to say its the very definition of flimsy, a half baked buggy product with planned obsolescence and proprietary restriction built in on every level of design. Emotiv even censored their forum and deleted my username to hide how they totally fucked me over. I support the openbci guys they have done a great thing by making a open source EEG sensor kit but well they are being rather greedy in the marketing. A terrible idea because right now they need to build a developer community around the device. They should be giving these kits away.
Needing to maintain compatibility certainly prevented Microsoft from fixing prevalent bugs. The C runtime remained non-POSIX compliant for a very long time because applications were written to expect the incorrect behavior. Some of those bugs led to security holes that were exploited, yet couldn't be patched for fear of breaking third-party software. That's how we end up with redistributable runtimes as applications were told not to depend on the out-of-date system libraries.
If I recall correctly (and it's been a few years since my oceanography seminar), it has to do with the ratio of component elements in the shells of benthic fauna. They're pulling those elements in as a part of the growth of those structures, and the ratio of different gases changes based on the temperature.

EDIT: Looked it up, I had the gist of it I guess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleothermometer#Mg.2FCa_and_Sr...

I imagine the techniques now are more refined than what is exactly mentioned there.

Semi-related, I got to take sediment cores from a Ramsar wetland while in South Africa in order to pick them apart for pollen to try and indirectly measure early-Holocene temperatures using the ecology as a proxy. Interesting stuff, and fun to be in the field.
I've only been able to find working pages for the C++ solutions, but hopefully the rest will be added soon.
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Oops, the C++ stuff shouldn't be there yet. They will be there tomorrow.
I didn't know Square was under the scrutiny of the tech press. Seems to me the company will continue to exist without major disruption (buzz-word) in the payment market.
If you are plugged into a 4k monitor, you are probably reasonably close to a power outlet.
Local building policies are creating a huge problem here, but a big part of what's causing prices to skyrocket is not tech workers, it's foreign investment...

for the period April 2013 through March 2014, total international sales have been estimated at $92.2 billion, an increase from the previous period’s level of $68.2 billion [1]

And according to some reports, 90% of new condos sold in Miami are to foreign buyers.

A soon-to-be-released study by New York consulting firm Integra Realty Resources for the Miami Downtown Development Authority, an economic-development agency, found that about 90% of the buyers of new residential units are from abroad. Despite steadily increasing prices, their appetite doesn't appear to be waning... [2]

Rules for purchasing real estate in the US are generally pretty relaxed, and as wealth grows in the rest of the world, people are looking for places to invest (and probably in some cases "hide") their money. The "premier" cities receive the bulk of that investment.

Tech workers and private buses do make it more convenient to live in SF and I'm sure it helps drive up the cost of renting in the city, but only 7% of the population of the city works in Tech. There are much bigger forces at play here.

[1] http://www.realtor.org/news-releases/2014/07/international-h...

[2] http://online.wsj.com/articles/condo-builders-fuel-land-rush...
Cool -- I personally don't use pomodoros but a lot of my users swear by them. I'll make sure I deliver!
https://github.com/openyou/emokit
Can you provide a proper invoice? What is linked in the response email is something like a receipt, but it's not an invoice. It does not have an invoice number nor does it have information about the seller (company name & address).
lol thanks.

Yeah, a common request is the "future list" but I'm against it because it encourages people to spend time "organizing and planning" inside Dayboard -- which 1) is what most task management / to do lists already offer (and isn't necessarily doing a bad job at) and 2) isn't the actual work that people should be doing. Having no more room to add more tasks means it forces you to move on to actually do them (a problem, that perhaps you might not have but many others would).

But anyway, I might change my mind so never say never. :) Thanks again for the suggestions!
Yeah, this was far better than the linkbait title suggests. I very nearly passed because the title smells of obvious bullshit, but it's a substantial interview.
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This looks awesome. Nice to see tools like this.
Many states have unfair competition laws under which the type of behavior alleged could very well be actionable. Bringing the alleged behavior into the court of public opinion is appealing but I suspect that if the allegations are true, Lyft's business would be better served by addressing this in a court of law.
Ah, that's good to know!
I managed to get this building on MacOS Mavericks using the glew and glfw3 libraries off of homebrew. I forked it at djoshea/imgui

See https://github.com/djoshea/imgui/blob/master/examples/opengl...

brew install glew
brew install glfw3
cd examples/opengl_example/
make
./main
Trying to find it, it was a news article written as an interview with one of the original WoW Glider creators and his friend who also wrote bots.. Having trouble finding it..
You want something that isn't like a GoPro at all. A NEX-3 or whatever the cheapest non-crap micro 4/3rds camera is would be the least expensive interchangeable lens camera that does what you are describing. Sometimes you can buy outdated models at blowout prices.
Taxing an externality can change behaviour, and the impact is not diminished even if you just burn the cash, rather than redistributing it.

(Unless you're taxing carbon emissions, in which case burning the cash would obviously contribute to the problem.)
Would you guys stop posting about suicide? I've already been measuring the speed I'd hit the ground if I were to jump from my balcony. I'm serious.
Maybe this is why mainstream media doesn't report on suicides.
it's hitting a dangerous point where not enough companies are putting in the necessary investment.

That is, of course, because they are reaching the point where they couldn't recoup the cost. Intel has tremendous volumes and margins, which will allow them to scale to more expensive nodes more quickly than much of the rest of the industry.
This being a techie-oriented site I'm sure I'll find myself in the minority here, but here goes.

I think that Uber, as someone else noted, is a company run by assholes. Rideshare services like UberX and Lyft are going to get more-or-less shut down, and deservedly so. Remember that period in like 1999 before Napster got shut down? Yeah, that's rideshare right now. While many consumers cry "choice!" and "innovation!", the reality is that these services operate in a loophole which any objective observer will point out is complete bullshit. We have a system, which is probably unfair to begin with, but an existing and functional system nonetheless that rideshares effectively hacked. One group plays by the rules and is taxed and regulated and fee'd, the other magically escapes it.

If you have a complaint it should be with cities that require medallions - they are the ones to blame for the current situation. Maybe we should get rid of medallions completely, I dunno. But be careful what you wish for.
YC has addressed instances of egregriously bad marketing, such as the InstallMonetizer incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711

Although, many companies that use baity "growth hacking" strategies are indeed YC, but that's a seperate issue.
Hey man, thanks for the suggestion.

I mentioned this in another comment but generally, I'm against it too much "organizing and planning" inside Dayboard -- which 1) is what most task management / to do lists already offer (and isn't necessarily doing a bad job at) and 2) isn't the actual work that people should be doing.

That said: I do personally keep another to do list outside of Dayboard (I use Asana) where I do brain dumps of all the things I'd like/need to do. It might seem counterintuitive to use a separate service but Dayboard acts as a reminder when I get distracted or start doing things that I shouldn't be, and by keeping my "other to dos" in another service, it actually frees my mind from thinking about what else I could be doing. Out of sight, out of mind, right?

Let me know if that makes any sense -- I'd love to hear your thoughts!
You should say what your extension does in the title.
It's usually because legislation specifically blocks liability, as requested by the backers. By default you could sue a credit agency for reporting false information but they specifically got that exempted, similar to the way companies have managed to establish things like EULAs or binding arbitration as alternatives to the legal system.

All we need to do is restore the primacy of the legal system over suborned alternatives but that requires undercutting decades of successful marketing the idea that government is inevitably bad or corrupting which has been highly effective at convincing people not to expect better.
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A bit off topic but, if I were to scrape such data except without intention of selling it, instead using it myself... How fast are stock markets? Surely, I would know that the price of stock will increase in the next few days too and buying that stock after 1 hour, say, news hit a major news site, that would still profit me? If not, why?
I mean surely you can find someone selling that said stock at all times, no ?

edit: replaced mysql with myself
Some f1 teams are profitable?
I have always been unsure why people prefer one over the other - it's essentially the exact same service. I typically go with whatever one is closer / is offering a deal at the time.
Oh, believe me, I can relate. The difference is that now I can see the waterfail faction starting to realize they need to change. Once you get a few data points for comparison, it becomes hard to maintain that the status quo is maintainable.

The trick is really to turn it into an economic argument. Figure out how to get the budget officer to start asking why project Y requires servers + staff at an order of magnitude greater than project X and the pressure starts shifting.
doesn't that make sense tho? you're looking at the top list in the primary marketplace. that'd be like going down to best buy and browsing their ps3 aisle and complaining that all the titles are lame and derivative.

do casual gamers shop on steam? no. people who are "real gamers" do. so, if you're looking for "real" games on mobile, you probably shouldn't browse the top 10 list in itunes.

so, as a guy who likes to help folks out, here's a big list of pretty awesome games on mobile:
http://www.grabitmagazine.com/blog/post/the-top-50-best-indi...

as to the inevitable question of "how do they make money if you have to special-search for them?", you can take the number of ratings and ballpark some rule-of-thumb average numbers.[0]

downloads = number of ratings * 50

for freemium titles, revenue = number of downloads * .015 (1.5% of people pay on average) * $15 (freemium paying users average out to $15 per month) * 3 (lifetime in months, most folks say 6 month for the lifetime of paying users, but i don't feel that's a very reliable number)

for paid titles, revenue = number of downloads * price.

i'm sure you'll find them not being billionaires, but doing just fine. far better than earning out $7k.

[0] please note these are wild, ballpark numbers based on industry average data from places like swrve industry whitepapers. really only useful for "magnitude-only" calculations.
You obviously haven't tried to do your math homework on iPad. Give it a try and may be you would replace the word "irreplaceable" in your this statement:

All that being said, for young children, an iPad is an irreplaceable educational tool.
They are moving in that direction because they are going to be swamped by cheaper Chinese clones. Some will inevitably have competitive or better image quality, features, battery life, etc. and GoPro must pivot to leverage of their first mover advantage in action cams.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Napster and all the early music apps were basically a form of stealing. No one got money off downloads. It wasn't a sustainable model for the music industry.

Uber has made the market more efficient. If anything, it's making the industry more sustainable.
It's rare that bad business regulations and/or government sponsored monopolies are just, ya know, fixed. Quite often, people need to be shown how bad things have gotten before anything changes.

It's even worse when the target of those regulations don't want things fixed either. Taxi companies pay crazy medallion fees, but expect exclusivity (perhaps rightly so) for that fee. Government doesn't want the fee income to go away, taxi companies enjoy their monopoly.

Sometimes it takes someone breaking the rules - and more importantly, with the general full support of the public - to really cause any change in the old, entrenched ways.
There was an excellent comment some months ago that best captures my thought on the matter (and on the players): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384317

> If services like Uber and Lyft simply decided to be a cab company with excellent technological underpinnings, people would have been quite happy with them and they would have been quite profitable. And they could have blown most cab companies out of the water. Buying up inefficient operators, consolidating them, and bringing them into the modern world of technology is a really good business plan.

> Uber and Lyft are in trouble because they wanted to be exit strategy profitable rather than simply profitable. And they decided to do this by ignoring all of that icky stuff like liability insurance, commercial licensing, and following the law. In addition, Uber and Lyft tend to want to ply their trade in areas which are already profitable to cab companies rather than taking over areas that are underserved. If they were brokering rides in areas that can't get cabs easily, they would have lots of defenders.
Honestly, I don't see how ridesharing is like stealing music. The ridesharing services are all competing fairly for riders except for Ubers underhanded tactics. The medallions capped the number of taxis so that cabbies could make a fair living, but this created a false scarcity. Market forces were legally not allowed to create more drivers. Yes, I agree that the complaint should be with cities that required medallions in the first place. I disagree with you that the system was ever functional. Anybody from the 1990s in San Francisco remembers 90 minute waits for taxis that were crappy. Uber is way better, and shouldn't have to resort to underhanded tactics to compete.
I appreciate the downvotes. You clearly don't understand how such topics affect other people lives.
Worse case scenario: making people click google ads is just as mindlessly financially driven as eking out more alpha from an algo, in which case the googlers still win, because at least some of that money generated goes toward moonshot projects that may very well benefit society.
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I've got a lot of respect for Maria Bamford for being so open about it. Also, she's funny as hell.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/magazine/the-weird-scary-a...
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If you are asking why you are being downvoted, it is because your post isn't very constructive. Instead of simply posting "Thanks." you should upvote the parent comment and move on.
You can significantly accelerate this types of hacks with Unbounce. Just build a landing page in advance for "Lorem Ipsum" hack. Then, on an actual hackathon, you can launch a nice looking site for your idea in 30-60 minutes. Starting with Unbounce gives you time to find the first users and to work on the actual app experience.

Looking forward to try your app!
Thanks for pointing those out. Added to my hacky color fortune clone (also converts to standard fortune format): https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
see also: "A little bit naughty"

There's always been a bit of ambiguity about the sort of rule-breaking ("hacking") that is and isn't encouraged in these sort of start-ups. One person's hack is another person's unethical behavior. I know a couple folks who founded a YC company and self-reviewed their awesome iPhone app, acquiring some imaginary children in the process...
Has anyone managed to build something on top of both that can find the closest/cheapest ride?
I don't know if this comment was meant to be snarky, or illustrative, or in any way not a direct statement of fact, but I will never take such a comment lightly.

Are you okay? Please call a friend and talk, or 1-800-273-8255 (national suicide hotline, for US people).

If you want to talk to someone but don't have anyone to turn to, my email is this same username at endofunctor.org

Life can be hard sometimes and I know it doesn't feel like things will change, but it will pass. You will feel better.
Lyft should come up with a way of flagging and hellbanning these accounts. The user could continue to think they have booked a ride, and think they have cancelled it, when really the whole system ignored them.
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How do you guarantee that this DNA will not get released into the wild, and what is your responsibility for the consequences if it does?
Really hackernews, keep it classy and don't mod this out.

Edit: classiness is in short supply.
I was a technical writer in the late 80's and early 90's, and had the opportunity to extensively use most of the popular word processors.

One thing I remember about WordPerfect was how much they bragged about having a large customer service center to answer user questions. They often showed pictures and advertised how many reps they had and how many calls they took.

WordPerfect was difficult to use even for professionals like me.

When Word for Windows came out, with a more intuitive interface (not that much different from some Mac word processors that had been launched years before), lots of people jumped to the easier UI, and stopped calling WordPerfect.

A lesson here is that if you have to staff up to handle customer calls, there is probably somebody out there who is going to disrupt your business if you don't fix the problem.
Something isn't right.

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I respect Google, Facebook, and Twitter because of their ability to connect people and their genuine intellectual contributions to fields like information retrieval and AI, and sure, their moonshots. But I think its arrogant to say whether someone adds value to society because its an extremely complicated philosophical question (judging the guy playing the game saying he's wasting his time). I'm not sure its fair to characterize all hedge funds as simply trying to squeeze out alpha though either, there are many prominent activist investors who've pushed for greater corporate governance and transparency, in cases like MBIA, Lehman, Herbalife most recently, etc. And if you wanted to consider Google's moonshots, it should be only fair to consider the billions most of the hedge fund managers have given away in a dick-measuring contest to various charities and research initiatives. But I understand your argument and agree that a lot of financialization provides no benefit to anyone.