skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, it's pure speculation based on multiple reports of seemingly baseless shadowbans from Lyft. But given uber's recent behavior Lyft might want to look into this just in case. I have no idea what the relevant laws are but parking a username seems less much risky than making fake calls, yet it could easily have similar upside for uber.
Exactly. As I said, “… it’s maybe somewhat useful in some cases …”

If you need to mount your device and buy a mount to actually mount your smartphone then that is and always will be a niche feature. (Also, practically all mounts don’t help a lot when moving the phone around.) It’s not completely useless, but it is useless to most people. Hyperlapse is a much more useful and device-appropriate implementation of the same idea, more or less, that works without the user really having to be very careful or creative or having to buy anything. Plus, the UI is super-simple and not at all confusing.

I first read about this app today, downtown, while drinking a coffee. To get decent video out of it I had to hold the camera in front of me and walk around a bit, not really trying to hold it super-steady, and I got cool results. Also, I didn’t have to buy a mount. Do the same with the time lapse feature and it’s a disaster.

Just because something is possible doesn’t mean it’s a great experience – or a great addition to the OS. My point is this: Hyperlapse is much more useful than the time lapse feature for most users, all the while not being more difficult to use.
I guess an about page is on the todo list for 1.0 :)

We are using the Spotify Web API for everything: music (nicely cut 30s previews of songs), artist relations, images.
For those who don't understand. Each image is not in fact an image, it's css styles applied to a single html element. Very impressive.

http://i.imgur.com/V8HYrhK.png
Traditional taxi drivers need to be less grubby -- Uber was able to take advantage of that. How important a factor that is would depend on the country or city. But in some countries, it may be a way of filtering for drivers that speak English. For example, for Tokyo, Uber lists a flat rate of 40,000 yen, roughly 400 USD (!), for a ride from Narita Airport to any of the 23 wards of Tokyo. Pretty steep, given that a very nice bus, hotel shuttle, or express train is less than a tenth of that cost. Of course, the "last mile" is a consideration. For taxis, though, there are already established taxi services; http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/access/bus/#taxi shows that fixed fares range from 16,000 - 26,500 yen.
And this is why I exclusively use Lyft these days. Uber can bite my shiny metal ass.
Generally speaking, what's your algorithm here? Are you just considering near-lossless compression, or are you in some cases saying that an image could be lower quality and still look ok?

Are you also looking for images that are displayed in the HTML at smaller sizes than the files themselves?
RAID only works when the RAID controller doesn't screw up, or critical metadata doesn't get wiped. If the raid controller starts being the problem your data goes with it. Problem can also happen if your hypervisors filesystem / storage drivers go screwy, get corrupted or one of a million other problems.
Sorry guys, genuinely had to go to the hospital...

Email sign-up. Don't know what happened here, but we are sorting it asap... thanks for pointing it out.

Re: permissions - We went for the overarching permissions API so that users don't have to approve MORE permissions once in (You still have complete control of whether or not Verbr will post to your twitter/FB etc once in).

Re: User demographics - I disagree here. I do not broadcast how I am feeling as I feel uncomfortable doing so, however I do like to share links to news articles, videos, music that I think my peers find interesting.

If you have a look through your FB feed, I am sure you will see connections that simply share links as opposed to their feelings.

Quite a subjective thing I guess.

Thanks for the feedback and Q's. Sorry for not replying sooner.

J
Hmm, I am paying here on amazon.de with direct bank transfer, and it shows shipping costs even directly on the article page as long as I'm logged in.

Why is that?
can you clarify what you mean by in the red? presumably a lot of their expenses are related to R&D and marketing, which once cut would probably leave a profitable company.
There's a $250 weekly limit with new accounts, and if you want to send more you must submit your name, date of birth, and the last 4 of your social. After that it goes up to only $2,500, so I doubt random shady people will depositing large amounts to anyone's account via Square Cash.
RAID is much less effective than it used to be.

Current BER (non recoverable read error rate) is around ~1/10^14.

If you lose a drive, the probability of you encountering an error when rebuilding the RAID is rapidly approaching 1 as time goes on - BERs are not decreasing nearly as fast as drive sizes are increasing.

(This assumes you are using a RAID where you can lose 1 drive and be fine. RAIDs where you can lose 2+ drives are still fine for now.)

And this isn't taking into account catastrophic controller failure, damage due to a faulty power supply / surge, etc.
So now it's just like Venmo, except Venmo uses your checking account vs. your debit card which is really just a difference of security IMO.

Also, losing as much as a quarter per transaction doesn't scale. At this point, Square seems like they really need an exit and it needs to be big.
Ask HN: Is Google Maps Featuring Uber Legal?
If you do a Google Maps search from a mobile device and find walking instructions, there is a tile below the options that says "Get an Uber", comparing the time it will take for a user to walk vs. take an Uber.

Google has a dominant position in the maps app market and Uber is a company they've invested in. Is it legal for them to leverage their monopoly in this area to exclusively promote one of their portfolio companies?

At a minimum it seems like they should be offering all rideshare apps the ability to be featured in this space and let them buy it like any other ad space Google sells.

I'm thinking about this because of the recent expose of Uber's aggressive and potentially illegal tactics to undermine Lyft. I haven't heard anyone talk about this particular issue--Google potentially using its monopoly power to tilt the market in favor of one of its portfolio companies.
Sure, look up "single div" on codepen and you'll find tons (http://codepen.io/search?q=%22single+div%22&limit=all&order=...). I don't think this website claims any new technique, It just shows off a collection of things made using it...
Well, I just tried to install it on Debian squeezy, but I couldn't find a nodejs package.
I can see Uber, Lyft, and traditional taxi drivers reading Sun Tze's The Art of War. Well, maybe Uber and Lyft.
Actually, I know drivers who use multiple services and get along quite well...
The Java ecosystem is pretty painful like that. Go's ecosystem is a lot more consistent, in my experience.

Honestly, the difficulty expressed by the GP here is way oversold. I spent a decade using dynamically typed languages and I slid into Go with little difficulty. I really appreciate static typing now.
I just can't take seriously any VC valuing this company at $10 billion, and I'd be furious about this if I had money invested with any of the firms involved. According to Forbes[1] they have 100 million users. That seems high, but even if that's the case...since when is an app worth $100/user? Even Whatsapp didn't get that on a per-user basis.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/08/26/report-sna...
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What really matters: Actually reading the article.

The entire point, beginning with the very first paragraph...

"This is despite the fact that there are many high school seniors from low-income homes with top grades and scores: twice the percentage in the general population as at elite colleges."

...is that these students are completely capable, yet underrepresented with the cited studies bearing that out in good detail.
thanks for the input, reddit. guess where ralph nader went. oh, and jill stein.
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Reading the article? Sounds like somebody went to a state school!
Add me to that bet (I am betting that Snapchat stay's independent), so another $1,000. @Mandatum whats your email, let's put the money into a Bitcoin escrow, I'll set everything up, to be payed on February 27, 2015.
Sorry, what is the actual problem here?
One problem is that the poor and highly qualified are mostly white kids from flyover country and to a lesser extent recent Asian immigrants, both of which are ethnic anti-priorities for colleges.
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By what metric, and over what timeframe?

I went to Amherst, which has made a very concerted effort both to make an Amherst education affordable to low-income students (the school is free for people making under $60K/year, and has generous financial aid for the $60-100K range) and to recruit from low-income neighborhoods. I've heard it has been...challenging. It's very difficult to find students from low-income backgrounds who can handle a freshman Amherst courseload. Heck, I found it quite difficult as well, and I came from a solid middle-class background, had aced my SATs, passed 8 AP tests, etc. The school has had to bump up remedial tutoring and study-skills courses particularly to low-income students.

It's hard to catch up with 18 years of systemic advantages in one year.

Now, I do think that over a lifetime many people who grew up poor are as capable or moreso than people who grew up rich. But it takes time, effort, and opportunity, and if any one of those is missing, it doesn't happen. College may provide the opportunity to students who put in the effort, but without time...they can't catch up. Students may put in a sustained effort over a long period of time (I think this may actually be the most effective approach, as opportunities tend to come to people who do this), but without opportunities, they'll go nowhere. Or we could set up a concerted system of opportunities over a time period ranging from pre-school to college, but unless you can convince people that it's worth the effort, they won't make a difference.
Sounds like the person is an exhibitionist. My best take away from the article is the insightful statement by the author:

"Every one of us is entrusted with information that our family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances would rather that we kept private."
What would they do about the Lyft mustache? Would they just not use it, or would they have to take it on and off based on which service was used?
The other reason he can be so flippant is that he's an ex-Mormon who walked out on his family and church because he'd taken up sleeping around and atheism, so from his point of view the worst damage to his social standing has already been inflicted.
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Just be warned that you might lose service if they fail to pay their bills to their network provider. I was with a similar sounding MVNO in the UK called Ovivo. Fortunately I switched away but just one month later all subscribers were cut off: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/utilities/2014/03/sim-...

Free is brilliant if there is a viable business model to make it pay.
I am just a undergrad maths student but here is my experience:

I learnt more about bayesian statistics in my Machine Learning course than I did from my statistics module, reason ?

The stat book/course is the most dull nonsense I ever came across even number theory made more sense to me than statistics, the whole point of the book/course was to proof some really abstract axiom which no one understood why they were doing it.

Compare that to the process of writing a spam filter from scratch in MATLAB. A mathematical axiomatic system is only useful if you are solving some real problem using it, otherwise good luck living in the matrix.

I have learnt that is far easier for mathematics to create garbage than to create useful ideas.

The reason why I think stats sucks so much is because its a cultural problem in the community, If you google "how to write spam filter" I am sure someone made a wikihow with pictures to explain bayesian stats even to a snail.

The reason is the computer science community constantly accepts their ignorance, even if a proof/program is trivial they will make sure to explain it. In the mathematics world no such thing exists. The big assumptions are "we leave it to the reader to proof this trivial fact" No Mr Smarty Pants, pls assume the reader is a 17 year girl who cannot send an email ( if you want to attract young people please understand their mindset first ).

/end rant
New technologies like Google Glass are going to make this guy's dream a reality. I suspect people with glass will behave differently when wearing them than when not.
I don't have statistics on hand, but my experience as a Harvard undergrad (class of 2013) was that the less wealthy students at the school were more economically diverse than the more wealthy students. Any efforts by Harvard to increase racial diversity and increase economic diversity would likely work hand in hand.
If @Mandatum won't go 2k deep I'll split however far he's willing to go 50/50 with you. :)
Shooting a guns at a plane (even shooting a laser pointer at a plane) is illegal already.

The correct analogy would be: making firing a gun within 5 miles of an airport illegal because shooting a gun at a plane could cause harm.
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> Scientists that worked with him noted he was neither a fast thinker nor the best of mathematicians.

I thought this was mostly a myth. Do you have source for that?
Yes, this is the kind of thing that it is highly appropriate to report; on of the biggest difficulties in enforcing anti-discrimination laws is lots of people see it, by no one wants to be the one to report it.
From the article: For instance, the average Facebook user (someone who uses the site a few times per day) was half as likely as other people to say they would be willing to voice their opinion with friends at a restaurant.
It is amazing how many statisticians are still using pseudo-inverses in numeric computation.

What is specifically wrong with the pseudo-inverse? Is it that eigenvalues close to zero (that might actually be zero, but are not due to FP error) get magnified immensely? Or is it the general principle that inverting a matrix is usually a bad idea, for reasons that John D. Cook elaborates quite well?

R. It is an atrocious monstrocity. Perhaps statisticians can live with it. Fine, but don't expect good programmers coming out of using R for five years. Python would be far better.

Python has great libraries but I could see Clojure overtaking it as the data science language in the next 10-15 years, and Haskell has some obvious strengths for production systems (strong, static typing).
Wait a couple of weeks and then check on eBay.
Agreed. I recently deleted my Snapchat account as the novelty of it had worn off and none of my friends really used it anymore.
#TwitterHasNoFriends
Excerpt:

"In most societies, we [recognize] the right of people to keep secrets. But really, there’s only one purpose for keeping secrets: secrets exist to prevent other people from acting as they would if they had complete information,"

Yeah, that's because most people cannot be completely trusted with your welfare. Der. They don't usually have your best interest at heart, even in cases where their intent is not specifically malicious.

Also:

He thinks most of us would live more ethically too.

I doubt that. They would just get better at appearing to be ethical, which really isn't the same thing.
Surely investors are privy to information about their future that the general public is not?
Quite a few nobel laureates are also associated with Harvard. [1] I'm sure one could cherry pick rich jokers from virtually any school.

[1] http://www.harvard.edu/nobel-laureates
"You're essentially saying that aircraft carrying humans bear the entire responsibility for avoiding drones, as well as the (human) cost in the event of such a collision."

Nope that could not be further from the case, I was under the (wrong) impression that class B was five miles out from any normal airport thanks for correcting me on that. You should not be operating in controlled airspace unless you have contacted ATC at the airport, the FAAs rules state exactly that which is very reasonable.

See: https://www.mapbox.com/drone/no-fly/#5/40.044/-98.130

However claiming regulatory ownership of ALL airspace down to ground level when there is longstanding precedent that under 83ft belongs to the property owner and between 83ft and 500ft (not around airports) is unregulated is a bridge too far.

The FAA advises pilots not to fly under 500ft as it's not safe, 200ft may be dangerous for a full size aircraft but it's perfectly reasonable for a model aircraft (UAVs, MAVs, Drones, whatever you want to call them).

See: http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim/aim07...

a. General. Many structures exist that could significantly affect the safety of your flight when operating below 500 feet AGL, and particularly below 200 feet AGL. While 14 CFR Part 91.119 allows flight below 500 AGL when over sparsely populated areas or open water, such operations are very dangerous. At and below 200 feet AGL there are numerous power lines, antenna towers, etc., that are not marked and lighted as obstructions and; therefore, may not be seen in time to avoid a collision. Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) are issued on those lighted structures experiencing temporary light outages. However, some time may pass before the FAA is notified of these outages, and the NOTAM issued, thus pilot vigilance is imperative.
I am intrigued by the "nothing to hide" = "nothing to lose" equivalence. "Nothing to lose" has always been a primarily mental phenomenon, but I think this clears away some of the potential dishonesty around claims like "if you have nothing to worry about, you shouldn't mind if the government reads your emails". Possible that they mean it, but I there are probably quite a few who do not understand what it means when they say it.
Frankly, I'm not sure how the country survived before Uber.
Plus they probably have preference
Aereo is fighting a much larger battle. It's the difference between fighting a house cat and a sabretooth tiger. The problem with Aereo is not that it is so good for consumers that some people aren't getting "their cut"...it all boils down to advertising. With Aereo, it's no longer truly possible to tell someone how many homes they are reaching with advertising dollars. How are network executives supposed to quantify how much they can charge to advertisers, now that they have even less of an idea of the effect of those advertisements? Also, since Aereo was being considered as on-par with the rest of the CATV providers, why weren't they required to pay retransmission fees? Although I really did believe in Aereo's promise of a better future, and I absolutely think that the future of television is streaming linear broadcasting, I always knew that it was going to be killed off by legislation because the cable industry is SO corrupt that there is literally no room for disruption.

On the other hand, Uber is not illegal. It never really was. Taxi cartels are attempting to twist the law to make it sound illegal. But really, Uber is just a dispatching service for limo companies that already exist. If you're talking about UberX, that may be a different story. UberX is not available in all 90 cities that regular Uber operates in, but there are enough cities with just regular Uber service that it won't be a problem if they have to shutter UberX for some reason down the line.
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Poll shows support for criminalizing unsupervised play under 12 years old
Much less than that. They only lose the time it took to drive to the person, not the time they would have spent driving that person to their destination. The "drop" is way less than $20, so we can assume the cost of a canceled ride is too.

This is like $10k in revenue.
Because when you treat those three aspects of scaling as dimensions of a cube, you can visualize what it means to scale on different axes.

See this diagram http://akfpartners.com/techblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/a... taken from http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/05/08/splitting-applica.... For in-depth discussion, see the book The Art of Scalability.

http://theartofscalability.com/
Excellent observation, China!
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that it's intentional on Craigslist's part. Due to the first come first serve nature of a lot of the free listings, it means that 'honest'/non-tool assisted users would never get a look in.
Stability is why it was discontinued--naval modeling has come a long way in the last century and opened up a lot of new (or repeated) ground for naval architecture.
all right, let's legalize DDoS !
Investors reportedly buying into Snapchat at $10B valuation
You mean 70% of the daily national circulation of newspapers and the only general national newspaper?

Oooh, I know the answer to that! It's the bunch of people who just announced that Telstra just hit a 12-year high in their share price two weeks after announcing a $4.3 billion profit over here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/latest/telstra-lift...

Disclaimer: I own Telstra shares through an ETF. Because at least this way I get some money back through dividends. And one may as well profit from their evil, sad as it is. It's not like this government is going to do anything to upset the Telstra/NewsCorp duopoly of hate and evil.
There are bastions of sanity in the world. My city government and Uber worked together to put Uber/Lyft under legal regulation while at the same time doing a small amount of deregulation of taxis to help competition. There was a _healthy_ amount of dissent which made reasonable points and the measure eventually passed.

It may be cold half the year in Minneapolis, but I think it makes people a little more reasonable.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2014/07/mpls_city_council...
Incidentally, this article is paid for by Metlife.
Nice website. Do you have plans to release an extension or an app for this? I have been using Distill Chrome extension[1] to monitor pages with dynamic content with pages that require authentication.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/distill-web-monito...
I pretty much agree with your overall view. There are very few examples of species which consciously self-limit.

Humans are distinctive for a number of reasons, including that we've got the ability to model complex relationships and project forward into the future. Jared Diamond's Collapse looks at a number of civilizations which have fairly effectively managed to live within their means, though they do so by adopting moralities which are quite extreme, and generally unacceptable, to Western views, including infanticide and ritual suicide.

Most of those cultures are also fairly small. Playing out this game on a global scope, where communications can circle the world in under a second, people in under a day, and massive quantities of goods in a few weeks (via ship), is a rather different game.

If you're interested in more, look up David Korowicz, Joseph Tainter, or for a real blast of optimism, Olduvai Theory. Korowicz in particular looks at issues of global supply chain contagion and what that might have to offer by way of negative dynamics.

My point of "knowing limits" isn't that that knowledge be expressed consciously. But it will be established.

http://energyskeptic.com/2014/david-korowicz-2013-catastroph...

http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780521386739

http://dieoff.org/page125.htm
I knew that when I read it pretty much. I just posted it as an example of the transparency.
Oh, very cool. Thank you.