skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, SuperShuttle is a PSC rather than a TCP, and the rule here applies to TCPs (including TNCs, which are a new subclass of TCPs to which Uber, Lyft, etc., belong.)
> I don't think it will ever catch on.

What do you see as the main problems?
Again, you are mistaking "high quality" with consumer's "differing tastes". See my reply to your In-N-Out comment.
Yeah, unfortunately the social login for Twitter and Facebook has not been working at all. I should have mentioned that before, my apologies.

Did you try to register with an email address?
> Since you're the one running the credit cards, you're going to be on the hook for all chargebacks and fraud.

Who says you have to run credit cards? Users could pay the drivers cash, or the drivers could have their own Stripe readers or similar.
I still don't see your point. Are you saying HomeJoy's cleaners don't have a contractual relationship with the company? That seems highly unlikely. I just expressed an interest in reading the terms of the contract that I assumet hey have, given that they're described as independent contractors.
If the area/door is busy, they just might. Or they might tailgate through a door.

Tailgating through doors is a lot harder when everybody knows that the doors log everything.
I'm pretty sure it's state-by-state as well as federal. That is, you need to follow both federal (IRS) rules and state rules to ensure your workers are independent contractors and not employees.
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It failed to send an email verification code, and now I can't resend it, so I'm stuck. :(
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That would need either a hook to the kernel or a file system parser.

Even if you manage to do that, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to continue to use a file system that has lost sectors, even after fsck. Are you sure fsck is fixing any inconsistency? Are there any automatic procedures in place that guarantee that the fsck algorithms are in sync with the actual file system code? (Answer anew for any file system I might be using.) You definitely should do backups by reading the actual files, not the underlying device; perhaps in this case it could be OK (since it was a backup itself already, hence a copy of life data; but then if OP bothered enough to recover the files, maybe he'll bother enough to make sure they stay recovered?)
> frictionless payments

Oh, nice. May I ask who bears the costs and takes the credit risk? When you pay through an intermediary such as a bank, a card issuer or PayPal, all sorts of costs and risks creep in, due to infrastructure costs, chargebacks, fraud, etc. Who takes care of the bill?
True.

I wonder if he realizes that he just made an argument for professionalization (or, worse, unionization) of software engineers. My guess is that he'd not like that can of worms. But it's open.

Doing typical corporate programming, the stuff that any CommodityJavaDrone can do, is for losers. I'm not sure that managing that kind of work (which is the only way to make money in that world) is less loser-like.

Right now, the less-savvy (or cornered) programmers do what their bosses ask them to do. The savvy programmers chase high-quality experience, read esoteric papers on company time, and only seriously work on the 10% of in-company projects that will help their careers.

This arrangement is anarchic but there are always enough people who are cornered (family/financial pressures) and can be pushed into taking the less-savvy path and doing what they're told. And the personal-brand-definers have more fun and may get promoted faster early on, or get to strike out as consultants, but they're unlikely to get seriously rich (500k+) as they would if, you know, programmers were actually paid what they're worth. So the VCs and corporate executives and (to a lesser degree) software managers still make out like bandits.

What if that changed, though? What if programmers collectively realized that we had allowed ourselves to be commoditized and were overcompeting and losing all over the place?

Since I've been grappling with this issue for years, here's some further reading from my blog:

[1] What’s a mid-career software engineer actually worth? Try $779,000 per year as a lower bound. ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/whats-a-mid-c... )

[2] Why programmers can't make any money: dimensionality and the Eternal Haskell Tax.
( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/why-programme... )

[3] Programmer autonomy is a $1 trillion issue. ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/programmer-au... )

[4] How the Other Half Works: An Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers. ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other... )
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Perfect competition might assume R&D costs as an expense of doing business, so your last point is highly debatable. In general, technological change changes the boundary values within which economic analysis produces useful results, so the best economics can do is tell you what impact a technological change might have once that change is well-understood.
You couldn't pay me enough to work on some stacks.

Also, certain technologies do a good job of convincing potential employees that you know what you're doing and committed to using the best tools available IMO.
This is how vehicle liability insurance works in Sweden. You must have it, and if you don't, the government will just sign you up for a government-run default insurance pool and bill you for it. Certainly beats having to have "uninsured motorist insurance"...
"Their theories describe an equilibrium state of perfect competition because that is what's easy to model, not because it represents the best of business."

I've had this debate dozens of times and strangely enough I find myself siding with the economists on this one. Yes, the 'end state' of most economic theories is equilibrium; that doesn't mean that all of a sudden everything in economics is wrong. If your end state is equilibrium but you acknowledge that at any moment in time you're converging towards equilibrium, but also that at any moment in time your convergence function is different, then your theory might still hold. This is then the point where I argue that a system dynamics approach is the way to do that, but apart from that: I found the theory in the article flimsy and arguing a straw man. No economist in the literature today argues what Thiel apparently argues in the article (and book).

But probably that's just part of the spin to get people to buy the book.
Good suggestion. But honestly the words volumetric, particle, and flow didn't give you a hint?
Take your vitamins if a doctor tells you to after proper exams... it's that simple.
I went ahead and installed it. Very cool.
Portfolio theory does not work here. Totally different concepts. MPT is about minimizing risk - not trumping the performance of a stock.
The view handling in Active Admin has always been a huge problem for me personally. I find myself at home with most any other Rails gem, but when it comes to Active Admin I always shudder and think "now I have to remember how to do things the way Active Admin likes them." Often I'll end up burning half an hour trying to figure out how to implement functionality that would normally take 5 minutes just because I have to figure out the Active Admin way. Anything that gets back to standard Rails action/template generation (like Devise) would be a godsend in the admin area.
Take a look at OpenBazaar:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar
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> California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal

The whole reason that charter party carrier laws and regulation are applied to Uber, Lyft, etc., in California is that they fall outside of the ridesharing exemption to those laws.
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They are independent contractors so whatever they do on their own time is their own business.
That would include say a totalitarian state where everything is owned by the God King (and operated for profit). Capitalism usually means some variant of "laissez faire" capitalism, where stuff is privately held, the state doesn't interfere with day-to-day business (too much, for some value of too much), and there is enforcement of contracts. The enforcement of contracts bit is where you end up with big debate, because ultimately it means you might need courts, policemen, taxes, the national guard, the EPA, the FBI, and the Department of Agriculture.
Thank you for pointing this out, I agree with your comments further down in this thread about that it is the jerks who ruin it.

However, I do want to strongly note that "profit" here often gets re-invested into the company to develop new and better products (or use the money to damage others, aka the "jerk" behavior). This no longer is "profit" then, by definition, but now has become overhead in the company.

Meaning, "for profit" does not equate to "for filthy riches".
I feel very strongly about this and have very crude ideas about what I want (e.g., expressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8283025).

Would love to get in touch with you.
Craigslist is centralized.
The trick with all disruptive businesses is to generate broad consensus of value early, making adverse judicial decisions unlikely.
"He means a very particular type of monopolist"

That's a very kind way of interpreting what he's saying. I'd go as far as saying 'he's redefine common terms to fit a peculiar theory that is nice, simple and wrong".

It's mostly populist (to a certain crowd) pandering: a bit of controversy (monopoly is good!), a bit of pseudo-intellectualism (look at me being all academic and worldly!), and some 'please validate my prejudices' (patents bad, government stupid, big business bad except for those I'd want to work for).
>Yeah, it is inconceivable that someone could ever steal or clone an ID card.

My school uses iCLASS smartcards. It's not a matter of cloning a serial number; you would need to break the RSA implementation or steal the school's private keys to produce a functioning duplicate.

If you steal a card from someone who lives in a dorm, they'll know as soon as they try to enter the dorm. The card you stole will be deactivated minutes later.

>"how do we keep constant tracking information from being abused in cases when the people being tracked are relatively honest?"

In cases of malevolent surveillance, there's usually a reason to oppose it. Insurance companies might charge extra to customers with higher risk profiles, like those who buy cigarettes and junk food. A right-wing government might try to disadvantage those who are gay, atheist, left-leaning, anti-war, etc. A left-leaning government might try to disadvantage Christian groups, people advocating conservative policy, etc. Any malevolent actor with access to surveillance data might blackmail people who are having affairs or end careers by sharing jokes in poor taste made among friends. Etc, etc.

How do you abuse door access data? What can MIT do with the fact that you entered a building at a certain time?
Best RFS yet. Well done Y Combinator. I hope this orients more technical people toward problems that really matter.
> How can CPUC deem this a bad thing?

CPUC isn't deeming it a bad thing, its deeming it an illegal thing. While part of what the CPUC does is adopt regulation, this isn't that kind of action -- this is the CPUC looking at the law adopted by the legislature that it is charged with enforcing, looking at the action going on, and saying "this action does not comply with the law; under the law as it stands, you must apply for a different permit to do this action. Or you can ask the legislature to change the law."

This is not a judgement of good/bad. (You will find such judgement in regulatory actions where, given the law, the CPUC must choose what regulations to adopt to implement the law given the discretion it has within the law.)
I see what you mean, and this would probably be good for society (you are supposedly replacing something with a better version). Granted if you could identify a different undeveloped business, you may have more to gain individually. Imagine there is company A pursuing market A', if company B decides to pursue A', then A and B have to split the value of A'. Rather, B can pursue B', and if |A'| ~ |B'|, then there could be more to gain by not being competitive. If B(A') < |B'| then this still holds true (where B of A' is a function of how much value of A' that B can realize). In the finite world that we live in, there can only be so many A', B' or X', so this strategy may eventually much more in favor of competition. What I believe Thiel has identified is that we haven't reached that stage yet, or even that it's improbable that we will ever reach that stage.
Interesting, but the big gap here is for projects where your rails app is an API (using rails-api) only. We've been struggling with the best way to build an admin panel in this case - I'm reluctant to add asset pipeline etc to the rails app just for the admin panel, and I've also found the admin panels tend to use large amounts of RAM etc.

The other solutions all have downsides - you can build admin APIs into the API and have a separate app call them, but it's more work. You could make a separate rails app which calls the same DB, but then you have to keep the model code in sync.

Anybody found a good solution to this?
I've no idea what all you folks are using, but in my hands (linux amd64 i5 8Gb debian/jessie) this is a very impressive website in that it straight-out crashes firefox/iceweasel (31.1), stymies firefox nightly (35.0a1), and leaves google-chrome (37.0.2062) declaring that it couldn't be loaded. (just a theory: i'm running nouveau on my nvidia, as the last blob wouldn't compile)
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Yes, I have opinions on this approach. In its favor, Charles Simonyi's working on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming. But let's discuss it over email. Mine is in my profile.
I'm an SAP guy. I've been a developer, architect, and now a manager of sorts. I'm not necessarily a fan of SAP but SAP has certainly earned my respect.

ERP provides stability through support.

ERP provides common ground so you can speak with other companies, partner with 3rd parties, and easily hire people with knowledge of your system.

ERP provides standard interfaces for slapping together more ERP tools.

ERP provides security models, governance models, and provides the means for meeting industry specific compliance requirements.

SAP in particular (and all ERPs to some extent) provide a shockingly massive amount of business logic. They facilitate a vast array of industries, business processes, and provide a robust system for tracking your business data in a semi-stable/rational way.

Where SAP in particular has gone wrong is that they're entrenched in their own proprietary technology. They're victims of their own highly successful code base and cannot easily get out from under it. They'll lose eventually but whether it takes them 10, 20, or 100 years to lose remains to be seen.

I'm a developer at heart and I can say, with confidence, that I would rather spend money on SAP than build a home grown system knowing full well the mess that SAP is. With the right team (i.e. damn good developers with industry experience) I could probably build something better and I've talked to a few people about it in the past but you are talking a true uphill battle from both a technology and a sales perspective.

Having said that, if anyone feels the need to take on the ERP space, feel free to contact me as I'm certainly not adverse to the idea. I've thought about it plenty and there are definitely attack vectors available.
What type of mountain is this? When I think of mountains out here in the North Eastern US, most are not something a wheeled vehicle might easily summit.
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typo "trainned".

Edit: After reading further, I think you should see if you can get a native English speaker to proofread your text. I would hate to see your work dismissed because of a language barrier.
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I tend to agree, but if governments make laws that insist that customers be supported, then there needs to be distinction made between customers who pay money and who could be reasonably expected to be supported, and users who get a service for free and cannot reasonably expect support.
As long as it can be implemented well I think it's good to have full text edit power on the log file, I can just change my own IP to someone else ;)
Shared toilets are fine. You live in the building (and associated sheds in the case of an outhouse) rather than the single room. Dining might be in another building but you don't have to go there if you don't want to. 'kitchen' is just a name for a room, you can put a rice cooker in any room.

It's not a no true scotsman. The 'can I comfortably spend 48 hours there' test is a pretty good one. Once he adds the bathroom it'll qualify, though it'll be a few more square feet.

And yeah some way to bathe is probably necessary. He'll have that on the dumpster house.
That comments sounds earily close to what is shown in this video http://www.infoq.com/presentations/tools-language-workbench. It's all working and I think the eclipse website is already hosting most of it.
I'm using AWS SES and many emails are returning. I don't know if it's my rate (5 mails/sec), but I'll try to send again the codes
You don't list Stripe on that page, FYI. Add Intercom and you have a customer.
craigslist doesn't have reputation network for buyers/sellers
I agree, but the race condition kind of kills it - 2 people editing the same file at the same time.
Feature plea: it would be awesome to have legible YouTube screencast videos of all the algorithms from sites like this for lecture purposes.

I teach various CS classes and love using these kinds of sites. It really is a powerful way to demonstrate concepts. Usually what I do is go to the site, choose an algorithm, then show the algorithm working with the default options. Then I'll change a few options and try it again. Then I might pick a different algorithm and do another demo. Then I'll share the link with the class and encourage students to experiment on their own to really understand the algorithm.

It would be convenient to have screencast demos doing the exact same thing as a backup for lectures in case there are any problems. Problems I've encountered: general Flash/JavaScript failure, projected screen resolution so bad that the site is unusable, site temporarily slow or down, sites with ads showing inappropriate content for classroom use. Video backup lets me not worry about any of that.
It's even moving past that: the last hotel I was at used the TV as a thin client that transmitted incoming IR signals back to its box in the server room.

Needless to say, the latency was atrocious. I even saw a Windows desktop flicker during a channel change.
i3 with Mint 17. Looks good[1] up to 131K on Chrome (37.0.2062.120). I don't know if your configuration is wonky or your machine is just old, but it actually is a very impressive website.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/x8f40v5.jpg
Yea, initially when Twitter didn't work, I tried that a few times. I never got any confirmation, but I tried logging in with the credentials I used anyway, but "No user found".
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I don't know if you're looking for fundraising, but if so, you have a nice opportunity here. Make it trivially easy to build investor metrics (like, I dunno, suggest queries around the tools startups are using, like mixpanel, intercom, stripe) and graphs, and then you'll be in every deck that they see.
A temporary log is stored on each log edit, so your IP could shown up again even if you deleted it, in the case of race condition.

There's no way to use some sort of lock, though. I accepted it as part of the game.

As iamtew mentioned, having a textarea is nice because you can use your "creativity". ASCII art, "framing" people, etc.

Anyway, really wasn't expecting so many users. Over 800 online now.
"I also fear the fragmentation of the app market for things designed for the bigger screen and arbitrarily not available for the smaller one (as has already happened in Apple's software)."
That could happen, but if it happens a lot I'd expect Apple to change their app approval guidelines. iOS now supports dynamic layouts AFAIR so it shouldn't be a big issue for the better developers.

As for your continued phone upgrade dilemma, if you're an iOS developer there's a good argument for getting both (if you can afford it), but aside from that...

Have you used a phablet before? Small hands may not be an issue, speaking anecdotally phablets are relatively popular in Asia and Asians seem, on average, to have smaller hands than Americans. Why does this popularity exist? I'd suggest it has something to do with where you use your phone and what you use your phone for.

Ask yourself two questions...
1. Do I mostly use my phone whilst standing up or sitting down?
2. Do I communicate using voice calls much?

If you mostly use your phone sitting down and don't use the voice call features of your phone much, consider a phablet. If you're often using your phone whilst standing up, consider the smaller phone. If you use voice calls a bunch, but mostly sitting down, it's mostly personal preference (I mean, it's all personal preference, but the answer is less clear cut).

Perhaps the only way you'll resolve this for yourself is to try a phablet for yourself and see if you get on with it. Do you know anyone with a Galaxy Note?
They didn't get the permits they needed to run the service. I'm getting so sick of people whining every time "the man" steps in to enforce the rules which these "disruptive technologies" didn't even bother to read. Not every law is absurd and intended to block innovation. C'mon people, it's just a fucking permit.
It like saying that a political system based on autocratic capable and benevolent dictator is better than a democratic system. The problem is how to ensure that the dictator remains benevolent.