skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zimride (where afaik Lyft got started) was all about longer distance p2p rideshares, and I was a driver and passenger on rides between SF and LA a bunch of times through that site before Megabus started up again.

As a driver, I got as many as 10 viable requests per seat regardless of my ride schedule. I saw a lot of empty seats in other SF-LA rides so I was confused at the disparity...until one ride, a college-aged woman that bought a seat showed up with her mother. Both of them expressed visible relief at the fact that I, a woman, was driving, and with two adults that were obviously my parents in the back seat just like my blurb said. They really were just going to walk away if anything was different, and they didn't even consider male drivers.

It clicked in my head that most messages were from women that must have felt safer riding with another woman. I naïvely assumed all the happy riders were just happy about a fast 5-6 hour ride with fresh fruit and snacks from my parents.

tl;dr I think it's about intimacy. Even for an extroverted culture, plenty of people didn't use Zimride and similar even if they knew about it. Sharing 1-6 seats (most private cars) is way more intimate than 6-10 (airport shuttle-types) or a bus/train and is typically not backed by a company with a professional driver. Not sure that there will ever be a solution that provides enough trust and support to get over that problem before we get better mass transit and self-driving cars.
I would check out #github on freenode, for starters.
Same content free article was posted a while ago with a slightly different BBC link, bbc.com vs bbc.co.uk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277986

It's no more informative the second time around.
German Virologist: Fight Against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia Is Lost
Do you have any feedback on the pricing or any other feature? Thanks for trying it :)
Steve Jobs’ office at Apple is still exactly how he left it
Maybe because there are no 32gb option and 16 is not a lot.
I wrote up a post with one way to do that: http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2014/03/25/automated-nginx-rever...

You can try nginx-proxy that wraps up the approach in a docker container. See https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/jwilder/nginx-proxy/.

Run that on your host and start your other containers on the host with VIRTUAL_HOST env variables and it will set up virtual host mappings via nginx automatically.
Double Robotics (YC S12) Is Hiring an Inside Sales Rep
Double Robotics is looking to hire an Inside Sales Representative. Responsibilities include answering inbound sales emails and phone calls, following up with existing customers, demonstrating our products to potential customers, and occasionally attending events and trade shows. While talking to enterprise-level customers on a daily basis, the candidate must be professional, organized and able to represent our company and products in the right way. As the first point of contact our customers might have with Double, a potential candidate for this role must also be well-spoken, patient, and friendly. Formal degrees are optional. Previous experience in a similar position is a plus.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and significant equity
- Medical coverage
- Use the machine shop and tools for personal projects
- Free lunch and dinner
- Free snacks and beverages
- Flexible work hours
- Work from home some days, if desired (call in on a Double!)

Email: jobs@doublerobotics.com
I believe bonds in lieu of insurance are commonly allowed across the US, though maybe not for taxis?

As the fleet size increases, the amount of the bond goes up as well -- essentially giving companies the choice of self insuring. I'd be surprised if many independent operators were self-bonded.

And of course, it's not like the minimum insurance requirements are great across the board either.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

This is an american photographer/videographer coming to Fiji for a project (work), who then ignores local law by flying his quadcopter over a moving aircraft on a runway.

He finishes his project after a few days, returns to his home country, and puts his video online. If seen by civil aviation authorities in Fiji, it could lead to tighter regulations for local hobbyists and drone businesses.
So that's why hotel TVs always take so long to change channels. I thought they were just really cheaply made tuners.

It's infuriating when you just want to channel surf before bed and ever button press takes 5 seconds to register.
Very cool! This needs Java support and integration with IntelliJ IDEA.
One of my friends is now a sophomore at Berkeley with some good hacking skills and he made about 8k/month at a start-up over this past summer in SF. He does iOS and JS.

That would be about $65/hour based on his hours.
LLVM-SPIR doesn't have any production quality implementations for the popular hardware, nor are any announced. This nonwithstanding, it's only proof of the fragmentation as it's merely one of many vapourware competitors on this sector.

Xeon Phi is not Larrabee the GPU, it's a product of salvage & pivot from the project resulting in a HPC sidecar. (HPC sector I adressed in my original
comment).
Effect of stress on the immune system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalanguage
Yes please! Also, I didn't see bitbucket support; hopefully you folks are working towards that?
That's a lot of scare mongering. It is extremely difficult to get hypercalcemia - a normal person would have to ingest 10,000 IU of D3 every day and even then it wouldn't be guaranteed.

It is possible to take too much D3 but it is very difficult to achieve this. You basically need to go insane and take handfuls and handfuls of those golden capsules every single day for weeks and weeks.

May I ask what your 25-(OH)D level was?

This is the first mistake that people make: just taking D3 willy nilly without testing their level to see how much, if any, they need to supplement.

btw an optimal D3 level is much higher than that which most doctors recommend because the old standard was for bone health but recently (past 20-35 years) more and more studies have shown that to get optimal health benefits such as optimal immune system function or lower cancer risks, you need much much higher levels than those suggested for bone health.
Dell UP2715K 27-Inch 5120x2880 “5K” Monitor ($2499)
pictures: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/dell-venue-sf (product images)
Healthy Home and Kitchen Reidel
The articles may overlap a bit but they're certainly quite different. The submitted article has a lot more content than the one you linked and most of it deals with the state of drone usage in the US rather than the startups in Canada which are using drones.

Also, Resson Aerospace is definitely mentioned in both articles.

Quentin Casey wrote a good article. So did this guy.
The need for profit is a value (it determines sustainability). But it doesn't have to be the primary value. You get to pick that.
iOS8 Jailbreak untethered
Global Navigation Satellite System
The latter part of the story notes that retailers are being forced to upgrade anyway by VISA etc (anti-fraud measure). Apple is riding a bigger push.

And because they aren't trying to be a payments company, VISA etc aren't threatened and therefore will cooperate or even favour Apple. Apple is just a POS machine manufacturer.
Displaying live data in your infographics
No, I had YOU until I said cryptocurrencies. Everyone else, well, they speak for themselves.
Arg, I think I found a dead-end on mission 1. I had the heartbleed virus v1.2 and the mission called for v1.0 and so after installing v1.2, it no longer allows installation of an additional one or deleting the first one so now I am still stuck with $0 because the wrong version is installed. Any advice?
Have we all agreed that higher SAT scores, advanced degrees, less coke, and more money are all things that we want? Am I missing something? Other than coping with stress, I'm not sure I want any of the other qualities.
> A rotary phone will be bolted to the wall and work for 100 years.

But who will know how to use it?

I grew up using rotary phones. But about 15 years ago, after many years of using Touch-Tone, I tried to place a call on a rotary wall phone. And I couldn't do it without a lot of retries. There is a little bit of a technique of knowing how hard to turn and just when to release. And I had lost the recipe.

Plus I don't think anyone under 30 y/o has even used one. They'd find it difficult to dial correctly.

Not only that, the rotary phones are filled with mechanical components that rust and wear out. If it weren't for the infernal non-replaceable battery, my money would be on an iPhone surviving for much longer than a rotary phone.
That's 1/50th of what Google makes, from a broader range of products. Seems to back up my point.
Not mentioned yet.

Isabella Allende, Albert Camus, Michel Houellebecq, Günter Grass, Carlos Fuentes, ...
Beautiful, modern tech art. I've been pretty skeptical of the hyperlapse products, but something like this seems to put it in the right setting/context. Wonderful.
A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive
We should be able to comment on start-up requests if we are involved in a start doing specifically what is mentioned in the request. This way we can help expand start-up awareness!
Well it might eventually be shown that it is just to unstable to be usable.

It is a big gamble to put money in to unproven stuff, if money was not a parameter global warming could be fixed whenever we wanted.
The assumption that UI design must be done by hand is probably one of the most important "bottleneck" in software development.

When you think about it, the job of a designer is often quite systematic. You have some entities/data you need to communicate to the user, through whatever interface/device that's available to him. A touchscreen, a keyboard, knobs, LEDs, microphone, speaker, paper, etc.

When your "user" is a computer, JSON (while not perfect) seems to do the job as an interface. In the case of humans, JSON does a poor job at efficiently communicating information.

For humans:

- A calendar is better than "2012-11-05"

- A color is better than "#FF3300"

- An image is better than "http://example.com/image.png"

- A clickable link is better than "http://example.com/document.html"

The list goes on. We can easily generate a basic UI based on complex entities, and map specific types to custom/reusable templates if needed.

Now that your UI can automatically be generated from data, you can build an app (business model) once, and make it usable (and actually look and feel good/native) on any device. A smartwatch, a smartphone, a smarttv, etc.

Basically, the core of software development should be knowledge representation. Describe the world semantically (with RDF or similar technologies), and let the UI-compiler generate a UI for any given target platform, language, culture, user preferences. That's what responsive design should be all about.
An open letter to Apple: iOS review support (or the lack thereof)
If anyone is interested in exploring ideas for SE Asia email me (in my profile). I'm based in Bangkok and have 15 years of experience living and doing business in this part of the world. I have a network and access to capital but would be interested in finding some fresh blood to help me execute.
Scientists make acoustic waves couple to an artificial atom
Yeah felt the same. The beginning of a documentary about something global and intimate :) Hard to look away, feel like I'll miss a moment forever.
How to get Paket

Paket is available on NuGet. To install the tool, run the following command in the Package Manager Console:
PM> Install-Package Paket

Oh no, don't give us another Python easyinstall mess; you need a package manager to get another package manager to get a third package manager. Well, at least it's not called "easy install" because that's exactly what it's not unless you already have everything installed. The whole purpose of a package manager is to avoid dependency mess and instead we get another 2 links in the chain that has to be installed manually.
I'd love it if the first generation Apple Watch had an oximeter. But I don't think it will (despite all the sensors on the back). The reason is the FDA. Measuring your pulse rate is something that has been done for centuries if not millennia. But pulse oximetry is very recent, and the bureaucrats are willy waving to show that they're in charge. See e.g. this article that discusses the topic.
http://mobihealthnews.com/29956/building-the-case-against-ap...
Wouldn't git submodules work for that? Assuming you use git for your own repo.
Rails 4.1.6 and 4.0.10 have been released
Does this support rails 2.3 using bundle?
What YC is really looking for is a better language or communication framework.

In practice, this probably means something like a
"Semantic Marketplace + Contract and Reputation Management".

When are they going to explicitly ask for it? I don't know. Time will tell.
Developers at 'The Onion' wrote a script that makes images load like it's 1995
I wonder when we will see technologies that help engage the prefrontal cortex while reduxing the influence of the limbic system. Focusatwill.com might be one of them (seems essentially to be about playing 'hardcore' dance music to increase beta waves).

Another thing mentioned is stress. That is a big problem contributing to self-control.

Honestly during times when I am not being constructive it seems that my prefrontal cortex is not even really active.. The types of thinking that I do when I am working just aren't happening.

Actually it seems to me a bit like resting a muscle or letting a car cool down that is overheated. Sometimes I just need to actually start the engine of that part of my brain that handles goals and higher level thinking. Other aspects of health like general energy levels affect it.
How Apple Is Invading Our Bodies
Awesome JavaScript Resources Collected by Hack Reactor Students
Not really, sorry. I mean, yes, desperately, but I fear repercussions for the individuals concerned, myself, their families, etc.

Suffice to say that of what you read in the press about the misdoings of important individual X should be taken with a heaping of salt and a cynical eye.

We live in the age of assassination without murder.
Long Polling and Websockets with Nodejs
"Still, every kind of software patent is bad, dishonest, and harmful to our industry and progress. They all need to go."

I don't agree.

If a genuine invention is made which contributes to the state of the art and is significant then there are two options for monetizing it. It can be patented, or it can be kept secret.

Which is more damaging?
It's debatable that H.264 and MP3 patents are bad. These were non-trivial to invent and are worlds apart from slide to unlock or hold-the-shutter-button-to-record-video. They don't patent the general process of compressing video and audio.
Snazzy Maps – Free Styles for Google Maps
"Equations and algorithms can't generate force or protect metal from corrosion or convert chemical reagents into medicine. They have no corporeal existence. There is no computation you can do that will get the golf ball into the hole."

Algorithms can; they can create a decision to apply a paint or to move an actuator in a particular way, or to remove access to a file or to remove a file completely. This is the way that algorithms can be materialized in the same way that a chemical process described as a series of instructions for building machines and using them to process base materials can be materialized.
Honestly, I have no idea. All of our development efforts were geared towards Rails 3 & 4. If you have any issues and want to email us (email below) we can try to help out, but I can't really promise anything for 2.3.

Our email address is support [at] upmin.com
What? They must have insurance, and the state minimum is $30,000 per person.

> The Maryland General Assembly approved the increase in April, slightly upping legal minimum insurance coverage to at least $30,000 per person and $60,000 per crash.
> It is extremely difficult to get hypercalcemia

Not really. You just have to be predisposed to getting it.

I don't really understand what your point is exactly. You're talking about elevated D3 like it's the same thing as a high Ca2. And that upping D3 doses turns D into Ca. Serum D is usually not elevated in this case.

In hypercalcemics, the issue is elevated Ca2+ not D3. D3 merely improves the efficiency of Ca uptake, which is usually not a problem as most people will dispose of extra Calcium through their kidneys and urine. Hypercalcemics don't eliminate it fast enough (usually due to improper parathyroid signaling) and it builds up in their bloodstream. So excess D3 just exacerbates an existing issue.

I haven't tested as irregular for thyroid or parathyroid issues (I get tested every year due to a long family history) but it's likely to be the cause. My dietary intake of calcium is virtually unchanged, but if I up my D3 intake significantly (sun exposure or supplements) it's likely that I'll also end up with elevated Ca2+ and have to cut both until I urinate it all out.

I do actually have to know this stuff and be aware of it since it can literally kill me.

Thyroid and parathyroid issues are surprisingly common (especially among women) so people taking lots of D supplements should just be on the lookout for similar symptomology.

It's not hard to treat once you're aware of it. But it can be unfun trying to figure it out.
Allowing patent on even 'math' should not be an issue as long as the math technique is sufficiently complex that the probablity of someone else independently arriving at that math within the patent term seems to be very low
The marshmallow experiment results are not as clearcut as the article implies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/10/13/t...
If you don't mind skullduggery

https://www.google.com/search?q=borges+filetype%3Apdf
Not disputing the content of the articles, but rather the fact that this author quotes and uses direct quotes from another with referencing the proper parties.
No, this is not about classes.

This is about organisations exhibiting qualities that none of the individuals who make up those organisations exhibit.
Look at the one-handed half-keyboard patent owned by Matias. You have half a keyboard and holding space swaps between them.

This was patented. It was also independantly discovered by several different people, who were hit with patent claims and forced to stop.

Hardware half keyboards are currently only available from Matias for ~$600, which seems sub-optimal.
Before implants one could build sense enhancers that are just worn, not "plugged in". Running shoes are "capability enhancers" that don't involve a doctor unless you're running professionally. Glasses usually involve a doctor but you can buy simple ones without seeing an ophthalmologist.

A simple device that would buzz on your skin isn't "medical".
While Walter Mischel is enormously accomplished, the ideas described in the article re: self-control appear to be simpler than observation of people struggling with behavioral control reveals.

I'm not familiar with Mischel's work, though he's admirably produced a lot of it, no doubt reading some of it would teach me things worth knowing. I'm not assuming the article is truly representative of the breadth of such a prolific mind. My ideas on the subject reflect what I've seen and learned so far.

To say we are driven by limbic system emotion in one way and goal-driven prefrontal cortex (PFC) opposing it would be minimizing the magnificent complexity of our construction. Thing is, control of our own behavior is limited and the nature of such control hardly understood by neuroscience, leaving us in no position to confidently prescribe methods of self-control in general.

It should not be surprising that kids performing better on a test that measures exactly what is successful in school and the corporate world will be more successful than kids scoring poorly. Academic achievement requires a talent for anti-hedonism, and those not as gifted in this trait will likely not do as well.

OTOH the persistent stubbornness ("grit") required for some kinds of success isn't synonymous with pleasure denial as seems to be implied. Determined persistence has a strong emotional component, individuals with such traits take pleasure in their accomplishments even if others don't understand it at all. They also react strongly to attempts to deflect them from their path.

Emotional salience is intrinsic to strongly bound goals, one must have the desire, the drive in order to sustain the effort to achieve. The emotion is not suppressed but harnessed in service of the mission. To the goal-seeker, foregoing other pleasures "normal" people covet is not a sacrifice, it is simply unimportant and not missed.

In this paradigm, imagine the kid who's more eager to finish building the tower of blocks than interested in the taste of candy.

History shows us many people built like that: Paul Erlich (chemotherapy), Thomas Edison, Harold Edgerton, among so many others.

The saying "knowledge is power" applies, fully knowing what we feel and having the "grit" to feel it, connected to logical problem-solving is a very potent tool.

Maybe that's what the article about Mr. Mischel was really trying to say.
Melting aluminum
He's a great writer. There's a great reading of one of his short stories (and one of my all time favorite short stories) — "The Gospel According to Mark" — by Paul Theroux (another great writer) on the New Yorker Fiction podcast. This reading is how I originally discovered Borges.

http://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/071015_fiction_theroux.mp...
The state of Python Numpy
Well if the question is 'what is a monad' then the most straight forward explanation is that it is an abstract mathematical concept in category theory and that there are certain laws that have to be satisfied. You can even draw really pretty pictures of those laws http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week92.html#tale.

The advantage of mathematics is that it cleanly separates the external view and internal view of a concept. The axioms are easy to state abstractly and they are the most important part, haskell only allows to abstractly define the type of the operations, but can't abstractly enforce the laws. Rather any instance of the typeclass is assumed to satisfy the laws.

Those happen to also hold for certain constructions in functional programming languages, like lists (the list monad) and several others, not by coincidence, but because those languages have a close connection cartesian closed categories.

I firmly believe it is not helpful to explain something by analogy, because an analogy only goes so far. The mathematical notion of a monad is not complicated at all and is only obscured by writing page after page about them in the syntax of some arbitrary programming language.
Those things (maybe with the exception of the coke) are measured because they are easy to measure. It's harder to quantify diverse goals like making sure that you have enough time for your hobbies, staying in touch with your friend or making sure that you give your loved ones what they need. But I'm sure that self control will help with those goals too.
Are you saying that the CPUC wouldn't view the algorithm used to summon the ride as a "service"?
The article also made me wonder how much of the cost is just due to the way the project is managed and split for multiple countries?

One example from the article:
"A single manufacturer should build ITER’s vacuum chamber, a high-precision device that must operate with perfect symmetry. Instead, it will be constructed in nine segments, two in Korea and the rest in Europe. The design calls for certain features to be welded, but the Europeans decided to use bolts, which are cheaper."
Yes. I've been a student of programming and design for over 10 years, but I've found I really love to write. The great part about writing technical content is the research involved. Sure you can just slap up a few paragraphs and publish it, but a truly successful post in my eyes has solid references.