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Split up your jobs how? Is the job embarrassingly parallel? Because if it isn't, and most things aren't, it's going to require significant programmer overhead to simply "split up your jobs". And then once you've split up the job, the different portions are going to need to exchange their in-progress results, because most real scientific computing programs involve iterating until either a certain number of timesteps have passed or a certain residual is reached.

I mean, I only write HPC programming frameworks for scientific computing as my job, what do I know. But if you're doing anything more complex than map-reduce, a high-speed interconnect is essential, and even in mapreduce it's pretty handy.
Maybe, but I kind of feel like the difference between making your competitor's employees a better offer and deliberately exploiting a monopoly to destroy any technology you don't control is more than just a matter of scale.
Do you use Venmo? Anecdotally, I've seen minimal overlap between users of Square Cash and Venmo (excluding Square employees).
I have a lot of poly friends who I'd be happy to see married.
You could use the GreaseMonkey script that vnkatesh posted.
It's a dog-eat-dog out there and if they weren't the market leader we would somehow all come around to agreeing this is the ultimate "growth hack" or appreciating Uber's "hustle". But by being top dog and having sterling investors like Google Ventures backing them, we hold them to a higher standard (much like their "polished clientele").

Since most of the risk to these services comes from the regulation side, I wouldn't be surprised that someone's greasing the wheels in Sacramento or Washington. There's enough money at stake here for those involved to do whatever is necessary. When I heard a few days ago that a lawmaker who voted in favor of rideshare restrictions was caught drunk driving the night after the vote, my first thought was that maybe it was a set up. Hire some people to buy this guy a few drinks, encourage him to get on the road, call the police to report a driver driving dangerously. Would you be surprised? I wouldn't.

Anyways, regarding the product - I use Lyft a lot more than Uber since I know a few folks there but most of my friends use both and Sidecar interchangeably. Every time I catch a Lyft, I tend to talk to the driver to figure out how much they're making, what are the pain points, and what can these services do better and there seems to be an opportunity to differentiate. Here were some ideas I had:

- Drivers tell me they can't find a place to relieve themselves since parking is hard to come by around SF. I think they would appreciate some designated "refuel" stations where they can pull up, park, pee, get coffee/red bull, and maybe vacuum or clean their cars up.

- I would love to be able to pick a fuel efficient car and see Lyft do a green mustache to indicate I'm making a choice for a hybrid. Maybe hybrids can get bonus payments since they can stay on the road longer per tank.

- Several friends have complained recently about how random the route-finding applications were that these drivers used. Some used Apple Maps, the built-in nav on the apps, or Google Maps but it wasn't always consistent and some of the routes were TERRIBLE. Seems like an opportunity for either Lyft or Uber to build better path-finding in their largest markets via maybe highly localized traffic information or by paying off the city for access to bus/taxi lanes.
>The customers will end up asking for more regulation in a few years

Consumers hardly ever ask for regulation.
It's a federal crime to use a web service against its TOS.
Were there a number of people saying they did a lot for Twitter? In my opinion from what I've read, Noah Glass, one of the co-founders, really did get screwed over and seemed to have done a lot with his short time at Twitter.
I think the unregulated market is ripe for some disruption in the form of regulations.
You actually can split up a physical simulation. Imagine you're trying to model heat diffusion through a piece of metal. You split the chunk of metal up into many small pieces and model temperature in each one. Each node in your cluster is simulating the behavior of some portion of the model; at each timestep, nodes simulating chunks that border each other must swap the state of their "edges", sharing the outer edges of their own state with their neighbors.

Edit: unless you meant that you can't split up a physical simulation on loosely-coupled nodes and still get good performance. Then, well, yeah.
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The outer div could be replaced with the body tag. Those divs are just for showing multiple examples on the page.
Square Cash is awesome. It's so simple and powerful but free. It's almost magic.

Even if the person you want to transact with doesn't have it, it will handle that on their side. Really good UX because there practically is none.
> FWIW I did not downvote you in this thread (I actually upvoted you.) I'm just informing you of the principle -- downvote for disagreement is totally cool on HN.

I disagree. From what I've come to expect from the voting behavior, downvotes are reserved for comments that are badly written (missing punctuation etc.), insulting or objectively false in an easily verifiable manner (like "Java does not include floating point numbers").

As far as I can overcome my personal bias I try to only upvote posts that contribute to the discussion or are greatly written and not those that only agree to my opinions. After all, having yet another echo chamber of the worldview of yet another community is way less useful than a greater diversity of ideas and ideologies. How else can we hone our arguments to make them convincing for anybody but us.

I realize I don't fall under the "older than a year" rule so let me quote the top voted comment on your first link:

> I have seen quite a few comments that were extremely insightful, and/or interesting that got downmodded due to an unpopular opinion. The reason this is unfortunate is not only that you tend to miss these (assuming that there is a higher probability that you read or think about comments that are rated higher, which I am surely not the only one that is guilty of) but also that it tends to promote groupthink . This is especially important on a forum like this where we are here to learn and share our thoughts, ideas and experiences for a very particular niche: Starting startups.

[...]

> So I think that the up and down arrows should not express agreement, but insightfullness or truth. Not opinion. That way I will be able to judge the validity of a comment in a field that I do not know well by its points. And hopefully learn something.
I have a Windows Phone and I can't even cash checks. Sigh.
Is it just me or does "growth hacking" and having good "hustle" actually means doing sleazy things and being a dick.

I don't understand why Silicon Valley and Startups think acting like this is not only acceptable, but should be applauded.
> If somebody said "let's hope this law spreads throughout America", you wouldn't assume they meant just the US, would you?

Yes I would. Irish person here. Native English speaker.
> if they weren't the market leader we would somehow all come around to agreeing this is the ultimate "growth hack" or appreciating Uber's "hustle"

I'm not so sure about that. This is playing dirty no matter who is doing it.
We already have IO (http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/io-13.html) in a burrito (http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuitio... ); now we're putting IP there, too?
You have a point, but it's also a fact that lots of people use "Hadoop" interchangeably with "MapReduce". And Spark can in fact replace the Hadoop infrastructure entirely, as it's not a component of that ecosystem. Just because the various Hadoop vendors also support Spark only validates the point that there's a need to "go beyond Hadoop".
> if they weren't the market leader we would somehow all come around to agreeing this is the ultimate "growth hack" or appreciating Uber's "hustle".

Personally I’d call them out for being unethical scumbags regardless of market position.
It is both funny and sad that I thought of the show Silicon Valley when I read that headline...
I also find it weird that they chose a name that was already taken in the Apple App Store. If I search for "Hyperlapse" they are the second result. I bet you the developer of that $0.99 app is seeing an exponential increase in revenue!
Plus, you can disable that abomination (at least on my Flame I did that, after someone on HN told me how to do that).

For me that was like a crazy version of Google, where Ads and crap content were more prominently shown than interesting stuff - just without the ability to have AdBlock in place. Everything.me was (see above, I could turn it off) the single absolute 'Cannot bear to use this system' feature. It's horrible. Take the last paragraph, imagine bad things and it is probably worse.

(I'm outing myself as a Fx OS fan elsewhere [1], I own a Flame, I want that platform to succeed. But if things are crap .. I kinda feel that it's worth mentioning that)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149060
The issue is in the form.

It's trivial to define a mapping from the symbolic to the rhetorical. The reverse isn't trivial, but even if it were trivial, we'd still prefer the symbolic.

It's easier to read.
Or uber "borrowed" your account info and used it for one of their Lyft smurfs...
I've been mystified how Uber's kept up their "Underdog" mantle for as long as they have. They've raised over $1.5B in investment from some of the biggest companies, private equity firms, and VCs on earth. I think you stop being an underdog as soon as Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, TPG, KPCB, Google, and Jeff Bezos are invested in your success.

They likely have more cash-on-hand than the cumulative Taxi base they are 'disrupting', they've been caught multiple times sabotaging competitors, they've been outed for dishonest advertising, and have been repeatedly accused of hostile actions toward their drivers. They ignore sensible regulations like maximum hourly workweeks and insurance minimums (do you want your driver working 90hrs/week without liability insurance?) under the guise of fighting the taxi cartel.

It often takes a 'push' to get bad laws changed, and Uber's provided much of that push, but not all laws that restrain business are bad and not all companies that break bad laws are good.
Exactly, that seems to be the point of the article. Starting with micro services is plain old over-engineering (reminds me of the original J2EE which I managed to avoid) but using a service object still leaves you free to distribute if and when you need to.
Federally subsidized transponders and autopilots. It'd be great if I could make a model plane and add a < $100 device to allay concerns.
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Tried that, for no avail. I'm not even sure it was about data mining.
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I wonder if Meteor will go 1.0 before NodeJS.
My friend who is a personal trainer uses Venmo. I don't like how it posts to Facebook / other sites that the users have linked venmo to, everytime some pays someone.

Venmo doesn't post the amount to facebook on the payee's wall, but posts the short text description that the payer who pays the payee writes in venmo when making the payment.

IMO this is TMI and a 'not-so-good' friend of yours could see you receiving a lot of payments on venmo that appear on your facebook wall and then decide to rob you.
I disagree - you still only have one element in markup which is the whole point.
I wouldn't write a commercial, production application with anything less than 1.0. In fact, I wouldn't write a commercial, production application with anything less than a 2.1. ;-)

The cost of supporting these projects early is that you're likely to be rebuilding anyway a year from now, but I think that's implicit in the version number.

In my opinion, the biggest risks of Meteor are this:

1. It hitched its wagon for now to mongo, so you'll be doing the same. If you happen to believe that schemaless isn't all its cracked up to be, that's a real problem in production.

2. You're picking both a client and a server. Sure, you can strip apart DPP or Blaze, but why would you? If you're not wanting to benefit from Meteor's reactivity, you can just use any server+client combo and, say, a websocket connection or something like React.js for UI components.

3. Meteor has a financial incentive to round up as many devs into their own ecosystem (atmosphere?). They want to sell you servers, services, et cetera, like Heroku does. Nothing wrong with that, but it's something to be aware of.

For all the debate about JavaScript frameworks, I have Backbone code I wrote a relatively long time ago and it's still durable and not being refactored. I can't say the same for Ember or Angular code in my experience or observation. Backbone as a library is lightweight enough that I create the framework, following good design principles, that's best for a given application. Your mileage may vary.

It's not to say the people at Meteor aren't a great bunch of people who really love what they're making. Meteor does some interesting things and I think hopes to solve some complex problems. Hope they get there. I'd love to see Meteor mature and become a tool to build bigger things (UI components I agree would be a welcome step).
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Thank you. We will check it out in detail.
Sabotaging a competitor is precisely how the free-market operates that's why we have regulations, because a free market isn't actually free or desirable.
Is this a loss leader? Or what's their revenue model? I'm aware of this:

>WSJD: What is your revenue model? And what is your target?

Hsu: Mozilla is a nonprofit organization. We do need revenue for sure. For now our revenue is mainly from the desktop. We work with a lot of web content search engines and all the service providers; we have a revenue sharing model with them.

We are targeting to see if we can reach one percent market share (of smartphones), and that’ll be a good beginning. We don’t know when but that’s our goal.

But it just doesn't answer my question. I can't see how a $33 phone can be profitable, unless they expect to make more money after the sale.
Australia is generally ridiculously expensive, that is true, but there is usually a reason (not necessarily a good one) why "local markets in Australia are just weird."

> I remember seeing real estate listing for some really remote housing in some dying gold town somewhere.

Without further details, I can't say whether your assessment of "dying" is correct or not, but it is true that towns that have mining operations experience explosive growth (and contractions) in housing prices. Local governments in general don't want to allow a lot more house building, because in 5, 10 or 20 years time when the mine closes down, having all those empty houses causes a ghost town effect where the town really will die (the towns almost always existed before the mines, and they want them to exist after the mine leaves too). That means people pay north of $1 million dollars for a fibro shack. Mining companies will hire the local showgrounds long term, so that they can build a tent city for their workers (who use the showground toilet and shower facilities etc). Local house prices will fluctuate by hundreds of thousands of dollars in days, based upon financial news from the mining companies about whether they are liking to build/expand/close the local mining operation.

Yes, it's weird.

As for Sydney specifically, it is actually very space constrained. With the ocean on one side, and the Blue Mountains on the other side, there actually isn't a lot of room for expansion.

You are correct that in general there is a lot of undeveloped coast line though (inland is basically inhospitable). It's just not where the jobs are.
Having just a single SIM available for tests: Do you know if that's the case for the Flame as well? Both SIMs active at the same time?
Are you interested in a social network for hackers?
No, the timeline is usually iOS ---> Android.
The article references the hail/cancel.

"Earlier this month, CNN reported that Uber employees around the country ordered and then canceled 5,560 Lyft rides, according to an analysis by Lyft. (Lyft arrived at this figure by cross-referencing the phone numbers of users who tried to recruit Lyft drivers to Uber with users who had previously canceled rides.) "
I was referring to a physics textbook, Bekenstein Bound [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound ] and a gravitational collapse. Doesn't look like downvoters had gotten the point through though ;)
I guess. Though those Enterprise Java guys were using concepts developed in the '50s and '60s, well before Java existed. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#Hi...
> Once you accept the premise that marrying whomever you wish is a "human rights issue", there's no argument in favor of same sex marriage that doesn't equally apply to three or five person marriage.

A polyamorous relationship means three or more people have managed to form a happy, loving partnership with each other. If they've managed that, why shouldn't they get married?

Obviously, this doesn't validate marriages to children or pets, since one or more parties are incapable of informed consent.
Microsoft didn't coin the term. It's been in use for at least the last few years.

See T&L's online Google Maps Hyperlapse tool, from 2012:

http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/hyperlapse
If you set aside the hyperbolic title, this actually is an exoneration of the worst things that Uber has been accused of: namely they were NOT pranking or trying to deliberately mess up Lyft.

The hangup calls were the side-effect of their extremely aggressive recruitment efforts for Lyft drivers - where it seems they'd hang up and call back later to try and get a different driver that they hadn't already pitched.

While not great, it also doesn't strike me as particularly underhanded or evil (this is a scenario where the "best" outcome for Uber is paying Lyft for a ride where they try and give the Lyft driver a phone and presumably a better paying job).
What's to stop all the taxi companies in all of Uber's markets from engaging in the same behavior?

Seems like this could get fun, fast.
Please be sure to read this article before commenting.

It is NOT about Uber ordering fake Lyft rides to keep Lyft drivers off the street, as was alleged by Lyft last month.

It is about:

1. Uber using the Lyft service to get in touch with Lyft drivers, then trying to recruit them to be Uber drivers by presumably paying them more

2. Lyft trying to block Uber contractors from using Lyft, so that they cannot do (1)

3. Uber using burner phones and fake Lyft accounts to enable them to keep doing (1)

Also keep in mind the uproar here over the past year caused by Apple/Google/etc trying to increase profits by subverting the free market for tech worker salaries. Is the only difference that then it was collusion as opposed to an adversarial arms race? Or does the collective opinion depend on whether HN readers stand to benefit financially?
Not that I implied a lack of data validation was my reason for disliking mongo - just to keep myself honest - there are the collection2 and simple-schema packages that help enforce schema validation on Meteor collections.

https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-collection2

https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-simple-schema
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Honestly, it kinda scares me how many companies are willing to transmit and store proprietary corporate data over random cloud services these days.
I love Uber but someone high up needs to instigate a culture shift - this is just not ok.
You changed what I said. I did not say "ingesting less calories will cause you to lose weight", I said "ingesting less calories than you burn will cause you to lose weight".
ewww... I guess I should take the time to contact support.
These are really impressive. Are you using a program to compile these to CSS or are you just a wizard?
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Changed it how? Google has since tossed XMPP integration for their whole closed platform Hangouts thing, MSN's old halfway-API-able thing has been integrated into Skype, which is entirely closed, I believe. AIM and YIM are all but dead, at this point.
Interesting to see CSS coming into it's own. Sure it's not the most practical thing at the moment, but I could certainly see some smaller-scale uses being useful today (like iconography and such).

Makes me wonder if we'll begin to see icon/image libraries released with pure css versions.
I'll just leave this here: http://mashable.com/2014/08/12/uber-lyft-dirty-tactics/

Uber might be slimy, but Lyft is no better.
Oh I know it's a WPF, I just meant a library for pyQT or if Qt could do it by itself.
You are right, intuitive is not the right word. Mechanical and low friction (after a while) though.
FAA is looking at the wrong group, the current rules say don't fly over 400 feet with a model aircraft. If a pilot of a real plane is flying under 400ft outside of the landing or takeoff pattern in Class B airspace there's an issue with that pilot or the plane. Model planes and real planes just don't operate in the same airspace very often so it has not been an issue over the last 50+ years.

Now the big issue that's spooking the FAA is that if you go to YouTube and search for FPV you'l find people flying their FPV planes at 2000, 3000 or even 5000ft where they become a risk to full size aircraft - even if they are only 2 or 3lbs of foam I could see them causing some damage to a jet engine. (Alt: but so do birds)

The small subset of idiots who bust the 400ft rule is making the FAA try to ban all FPV or outside line of sight operation which is a terrible idea as there are a lot of practical applications for model aircraft under 400ft (surveying, agriculture, logistics, Search and rescue etc) The FAA should only have jurisdiction over 500ft and in class B airspace as it has been for the past 80 years. They need to get a framework in place for licensed commercial operation under 400ft rather then just trying to ban it outright - people will do it regardless it's better if they are certified and follow some safety rules rather then the under the table hope you don't get caught stuff that's going on now.
Pretty simple. Cancel within 5 minutes for free.
If you don't know any properties of the book, how would you know when you have found it? More information needed. It's better to search for properties of the book, then the worst you could do is find a different book with the same properties.

Otherwise, go through your browser history.
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