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> if drivers are so willing to switch networks for better opportunities, there isn't a compelling reason for Uber to have the valuation that they do.

There are two sides to the story: If customers are so enamored with Uber that they wouldn't consider Lyft or the other services, Uber will still be in control.

EDIT TO CLARIFY: Did not mean to suggest that customers are indeed enamored with Uber. Only wanted to point out that driver promiscuity does not necessarily threaten Uber so long as customers flock to them.
I think there's two viewpoints. There's "outside in" when the media calls things like Siri "AI" then there's the scifi AI perspective where we want talking starships.

Siri++ doesn't get us closer to sarcastic GSVs. If saying a structured connected wisdom of the crowds folksonomy is actually AI helps people get funding/attention/growth, that's what people will do.

There's also "middle out," but that's a talk for another day.
We're absolutely interested in working with these kinds of founders. Shoot me an email at kat at ycombinator. Happy to talk more or introduce you to some of the founders who went through YC with families.
> I doubt AAA games will ever go back to not being movie-like, but it just seems like a huge waste of money and time (yet another 10 minute intro to sit through for example).

I'm not sure, I remember a couple years ago going to a GDC session where a pretty high up executive at, I believe, EA was more or less predicting doom. (This was his own opinion not his employers). Anyway his point was that AAA games are inconvenient for players (short play sessions on low end computers are impossible), and extremely expensive to make (A lot of them are north of $60 million now), and that while expenses are growing exponentially profits are not. So I wouldn't be shocked if AAA games just become so expensive that they're not worth making at that price point anymore, and the giant epic AAA thing becomes more of a niche.
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There are a couple of market preconditions that are glossed over here. For this competition to have actually worked in an effective way, switching costs for both the labor as well as the customer have to be low. Transactions also need to be fairly short and repeated to complete to keep feedback loops responsive.

There were also missteps with insurance that companies like Uber and Airbnb made, which were corrected, but, I suspect, wouldn't have been addressed as quickly without a legal/regulatory framework for liability. They're essentially hidden risks/costs to the consumer and employees.

So aspects of this market need more than a simplistic "Yay competition, boo regulation..." And, I think in general we need to move public & political discussion beyond that point an get a better understanding of where competitive markets work, and where they fail.
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I'm pretty sure that our assumption that programming languages will look like programming languages in the future is sort of like the assumption that phones will always have buttons on them.

Once Apple and other companies showed what the world looks like when a phone is a giant touch screen + giant battery, phones with buttons become a niche, not the norm.

I don't know what the programming paradigm is that completely changes that, but I do know that I haven't seen it yet and everything we've done so far seems to completely miss the mark.

Someone is going to come along with some other radical assumption about what designing/implementing software really is about.

I know that it is not about static vs dynamic, functional vs. imperative, etc. like we've traditionally thought. Maybe it will be more like using Excel or Gmail. Maybe it will be more like flowcharts, or maybe just like sketching out a structure and the machine knows how to wire it together for you. Maybe humans won't be involved at all.

Speculation is endless, but nobody has had the iPhone unveil of new programming paradigms yet.
AFAIK, you are correct good sir or madam.
This seems like a selective quote (and it's certainly not a direct quote), because later in the post, the author mentions (albeit somewhat offhandedly) that it's possible to run multiple processes using a supervisor (supervisord, etc) or a shell script.

Although I don't think that's completely wrong as I'm under the impression from my limited experience with Docker that it's intended to containerize applications rather than work analogously to, say, FreeBSD jails.
Look at the top causes of bankruptcy...

#1 on that list is medical costs.

To quote the article: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pf_article_109143.html
"A study done at Harvard University indicates that this is the biggest cause of bankruptcy, representing 62% of all personal bankruptcies. One of the interesting caveats of this study shows that 78% of filers had some form of health insurance, thus bucking the myth that medical bills affect only the uninsured. "

So yea, fixing healthcare will also fix a lot of America's debt problem. There are only a couple ways to do that - decrease the costs or have a single payor. We've tried the 'decrease costs' part with college funding. That didn't work, because any time we subsidize funding to colleges, they request more money. College debt is huge now. So going the medical route and just subsidizing a broken system isn't going to fix it. It will only make the problem worse. We need to have medicare for everyone, and it should start before birth. If someone wants a college education, allow them to get it, only paying to re-take classes. That would wipe out most people's debts.
Doesn't use of Apple Pay give banks the option of routing the money/debt thru other means? Chase just announced Pay support, and has been pushing "direct pay" (Chase account to Chase account) for a few years - might they observe that an Apple Pay event is in fact going from (say) Chase account to Chase account via debit "card", so just make the transaction internally and manage to cut Visa et al out of the transaction entirely? And, as such, increasingly avoid the "fundamentally broken payments system"?
You can't encode the Collatz Conjecture (in that way) in Morte. It would require an infinite amount of computation and infinite loops have been disallowed. You would have to get a little bit more creative with the dependently typed parts of CIC and then finding a program which matches the needed type is as of today an unsolved task.
The forum post and blog both state that data also gets corrupted even more during reads. They also use strange assumption that data would be written to RAM ignoring byte boundary (i.e. shifted by 4 bits).
If you're willing to work hard and are talented, we'd love for you to apply. If you have those two qualities, I could care less about that number.

Only you can answer whether you're willing to do what it takes to make a startup succeed. I personally do not believe it requires sacrificing things like family and personal health. I'm not going to lie, it's easier when you have less obligations in your life (like when you're young), but not impossible.
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thanks, that would be great !!
Of course not. However, I would have guessed that the 3-dimensional structure of the brain would still have higher information density compared to 2-dimensional IC's (+ wiring + heat regulation) by some orders of magnitude. But I guess neurons aren't that small after all.
It's unplayable on my system (Firefox 32 on Ubuntu on an i3 laptop). Runs at like 5fps.
What about Sidecar? Isn't that Lyft's rival? I think SideCar and Lyft are about the same service since they don't offer black town cars/luxury SUVs.
That's what I thought, but now it's rare when I see a driver that isn't a full-timer.

I'm sure the system works better with stability so the incentives push towards full-timers.
Is there any parallel set of videos where they actually convey more than 10 bits of information? I'm not interested in listening to a fun synopsis of next chapter of "The story of Curiosity and the mountain". Is anyone?
"We found an important boundary, and the rover is now next to the important boundary." That's wonderful. I was expecting to hear at least 2 words on why it was important but it never came.

These update videos are a chance to also get technical, drill into details and explain the Curiosity mission piece by piece over a long period of time, perhaps in style of minutephysics. Seems to me as a bit of a missed opportunity.
Would somebody please disrupt the textbook publishing industry?

http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Applications-Susa...

$264.39, for students that work part time jobs at $7.00 an hour (before taxes).

Not only students are angry about this. Professors are angry, and authors are angry too. Bitter fights between professors and publishers are common.

Everybody wants to see the big players in this industry fail. Please, someone, make it happen.
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It was cut and paste actually.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lw1s0ip52do2r2v/Screenshot%202014-...

Not really selective, the concept is repeated more than once in the article. Honestly it's a bit misleading.

"Docker containers are restricted to a single application by design."

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a8843otngrhrp9x/Screenshot%202014-...

No they're not __restricted__ at all, you can certainly run multiple apps in a single container.

It is accurate to say Docker is focussed on the deployment of a single app per container. But the article does repeat it that it is single process.

The difference to be honest has really got thing to do with what you can do but what your aim is.

You can put sshd in your docker container, you can run init scripts. All these things are perfectly easy to do. It's just as a rule that's not your focus when working with Docker.

Again I think the article is misleading in this way.

IMHO of course ;-)
> Too much choice, lack of metrics, lack of clear comparisons can make things as hard as no choices.

Sure, but next ask "why." What is the motivation to provide metrics? Who will compile and compare them? How will they stay impartial? Who benefits?

We don't even have as much as a comprehensive internet offer comparison.
Yes their last batch startups were targeting pretty serious problems. I remember 2 of them were around nuclear energy so definitely relevant to the list.
This.

Basically while there are network effects in the sense that any provider (Uber, Lyft etc.) will need to have some critical mass before there are enough drivers and enough riders, both can subscribe to multiple providers and there is no long-term stickiness at the moment.

In other words, this is not a winner take all market with FB/LinkedIn/Twitter type network stickiness and the overall market is still fair game. The driver's rating is the only sticky data, and it is unclear in this context as to how valuable that is as riders are not going to wait an extra 30mins to get a 5-star driver vs. a 4-star driver.

This should not come as a surprise to anyone since right now most metros have multiple competing taxi service providers, so it makes sense that that may be replaced by a similar multiple mobile-app taxi providers.

Also, it is difficult to re-paint your taxi when you move from one traditional provider to another, in the Uber/Lyft/etc. world, that is no longer required, so provider switching or aligning with multiple providers is trivial which will imply that in future the providers' margins will be squeezed out and riders and drivers will keep the most benefit.
It's not information retrieval if there's no information to be retrieved in a vertical market. With the right incentive structures and business model, new vertical data sets can be generated, which enables new applications of existing algorithms.

Hopefully the term AI still includes cybernetics (e.g. Biological Computer Lab), and is not limited to currently fashionable neural nets. In cybernetics, the vertical observer is as important as the observed "data".
"You shouldn’t start a company just because it’s on this list."
Apple is responsible for this entire solution, is that what you're saying?

If so, that is a straight up lie. Apple worked with Clover/First Data to develop their payment app. The rest of the back-end technology has been years in progress, especially with the likes of Google and other failed attempts of mobile payment endeavors, mainly due to the lack of a secure element that they could freely open to customers to facilitate the EMV transaction. However, Google developed HCE to get over this hurdle and keep the telecommunications companies out of it completely. Apple has some impeccable timing with the release of Apple Pay, but also should be given some credit to tie all the loose ends and bring it to fruition.
I wonder how much network equipment would crash if you had a client which could send out packets on the network with an 127.0.0.1 destination IP address.

It should "never" happen under normal circumstances, so I wonder what happens when it does happen?
This is not necessarily a problem, see for example http://phantomjs.org/

Google also shows javascript-only content in search results now.
Yes, you can update your app all the way to the deadline.
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I'm going to go ahead and assume there's an app that aggregates Uber/Lyft/whatever and just gets you the closest driver regardless of network. Uber's service goes from being a premium product to a replaceable commodity in a blink.
There is absolutely a large chunk of the rides-for-hire passenger population that is entirely mercenary in its affections. Some people are loyal Uber passengers or loyal Lyft passengers or whatever, but a lot of people are happy to go where the bargains are.
To be fair, Markus Persson has always been fiddling around with these kinds of fun stuff as long as I can remember. Surely, his current financial situation is beneficial for playing around with his stuff - but he has a passion I've seen few have.
The fact that a previously-intractable problem can be solved in a tractable amount of time on a quantum computer is important. It doesn't mean the problem didn't exist before, but rather that the problem can now be solved.

For all we know, making an intractable problem tractable is the necessary step to make AI a reality. In fact, it's hard to argue that it isn't, so quantum computing becomes very interesting.
All electric cars take hours to charge off of 120v or 240v mains at up to 10kw. There's no way you're powering your car with even a garage roof full of solar cells this way, unless you want to wait days for the car to charge. 85 kwh is a lot of capacity to fill.
> every market is a matchmaking service between the seller and the buyer

No, markets are not matchmaking services. Markets are places where people make matches, matchmaking services are a service that is sold in the market. Notably, its the core of the service Uber and Lyft provide, and its low friction to switch, as a user or supplier, between them. This is a special characteristic of the kind of service Uber and Lyft are selling.

> "which is not true in many other industries" : how can we know?

Because we can readily observe that what many other industries are selling is not matchmaking services between single-worker-provided services and purchasers of those services with low switching friction for workers because local competition exists which can readily absorb additional workers because there is little capital dependency for the service being provided that isn't carried with the worker and there is low friction for consumers to switch between service providers.

> You're saying deregulation doesn't work in other industries because they're already regulated.

No, I'm not saying either that deregulation doesn't work in other industries, or that to the extent it doesn't its because they're already regulated. I'm saying the specific features of the market in which Uber and Lyft are operating which provide significant leverage to their drivers to improve their labor conditions by leveraging competition among potential employers does not exist in most other markets, and so is not simply generalizable into "improvement in working conditions come through competition not regulation" (and that, additionally, history provides plenty of examples of improvement in working conditions that came through regulation.)

It certainly illustrates how workers can, in certain market conditions, leverage competition between services through which their labor is marketed to improve labor conditions, and its certainly worth understanding for that value.
this might help, it provides benchmarks for most of the popular frameworks: http://www.techempower.com/blog/2014/05/01/framework-benchma...

If you're going to hire someone to do it, asking them what their preference is might be better than saying, "We're going to use x."
I love how you compare "missing a huge chunk of brain" to "having a certain race or gender."
What a beautiful way to deal with runtime errors. This makes me really want to pick up rust again (and find a bug in the runtime :) )
BuzzFeed is almost entirely "sponsored" content so it wouldn't be too surprising if this article was a PR move.
The paragraph I quoted and replied to was pretty explicit, claiming that discount brokers selling index ETFs don't yet exist.

Telling people to just invest in an S&P500 ETF (metrics and comparison don't matter because people don't understand them anyway) doesn't seem like a great business, financial writers are already advocating it pretty regularly and investment in index ETFs is growing steadily.
"Statist" is usually a derogatory term among libertarians/ancaps, so that's not a great way to open up a productive discussion.
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There's some info and speculation here: http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3187/curiosity-why-...
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There is no "atheist" movement. At least not one that encapsulates anything but minute fraction of atheist/agnostics.

There is no common value core shared atheists, there are no shared beliefs between atheists, there is no code of conduct. There is not right or wrong way to do atheism.

There is nothing stopping a group of atheists from creating a shared belief system with a concrete value system, but that association and those common values would have nothing to do with atheism.

Misogyny is not a atheist problem, it's a human problem, and they have nothing to do with each other.
> Freed from the banks

Replaced by what, the likes of PayPal? No thanks.

Just because the US banking system and Wall Street behaves like some spoiled child that shits in the kitchen and is given an award for doing so, doesn't mean the solution is an even less regulated company that operates like a bank, but isn't bound by the same rules.
Its not like OMAP4 is some lightly used, power-hungry, and untested platform.
I'm just starting delving into SDL2 tutorials. If I ever get competent at it, this sounds like a fairly good idea for a project.
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Lots of grammatical errors in the post...

> implemented with trying not to look at the original source code.

> Games weren’t as big serious business back then

> which led to me adding shooting animations and sounds

> and eventually hitscans and projectiles and moving monsters and door and elevator sectors, and I’ve unintentionally

We get the point he's making... but it would seem Microsoft could throw him a copy of Word with Grammar Check enabled (given they are talking about getting into bed with each other right now).
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Wake me when they drive on privately owned roads instead of capitalizing on a taxpayer-funded asset.
Because you're making a brazen libertarian point in a thread on a tech discussion board where it's not all that warranted. If this were a discussion of public policy it could be different. I chimed in with that stuff when Net Neutrality came up, for instance. Otherwise it just gets overbearing. That said, I also got voted down there, I think libertarians are losing ground on HN.
This, exactly. And more critically, because of the non-mediated nature of the interaction (that is, Uber is an absent middleman for the actual customer experience), drivers themselves can push passengers to other services. For example, a new arrival to the space could offer drivers a promotion for each new passenger-customer they recruit with a code. Driver is driving for Uber, hands passenger a card with the new service info and a $20-off code so they try it. No stickiness at all.
How is direct debit not really suitable for POS transactions? It's been pretty much universal in Canada for over 20 years.
FWIW, when you talk about the Semantic Web, that also entails reasoning and reasoners, and there's no requirement that those reasoners be simple deductive logic based reasoners. Work being done to make a more useful reasoner could certainly be "real" AI work. I'd also personally say that "knowledge representation" is part of AI, and KR problems are also being attacked by the SW community. Those, among other reasons, are why I say that one should classify SemWeb "stuff" as AI.

But you're right to say that there are different definitions, and it does depend on who you talk to. The media definitely take a more expansive view of AI than probably most of us, but what can ya do? shrug
Well, Uber, Lyft, and whoever will fight such an aggregator for obvious reasons, and attempt to prevent them from accessing their APIs.
Almost every native English speaker knows the meaning of morte. We have a words like mortician which is a person who cares for the dead, mortgage which is a plan to kill you debt, rigor mortis which is the stiffness of death and mortal which means subject to death. Yes, we almost all know what morte means. That is why it was the name given to a talking skull in a game. Just like love and hate, however, we often use native words in English for our most basic concepts. Death is one of those.
I don't think it works like that exactly. While I don't believe a phenomenon like Minecraft can be predictably and consistently churned out, I also don't believe it's a given that it'll happen as long as you're not trying to make it big and stay humble or what ever.

And actually, Minecraft was ambitious, just not in the ways the game industry would think of as ambitious. The infinite open world, the surprisingly challenging combat, the varying ways to play the game.

Still, putting it on Notch to duplicate the success of Minecraft is ignorant of the reality that phenomenons don't happen very often. And I don't believe he even knows what made it a phenomenon. I don't think any people involved in the creation of such things understands what made them big.
Using an iPhone makes me pay for apps that are free in the android ecosystem.. What's the inventive for me to start paying using an known expensive ecosystem?
Not sure about an app, but there's a cool site that does it - http://www.whatsthefare.com/
How would you say self-driving vehicles fit into this? Supposedly they're rolling out in ~3-5 years, and with self-driving vehicles, you no longer need the middle man managing a fleet of contractors.

EDIT: I'm willing to me a Long Bet [1] with anyone regarding fully autonomous self driving vehicles in regular use in 6 years.

[1] http://longbets.org/ ; http://longbets.org/rules/
I feel like there is a joke about Carl Gustaf learning to read in 1998 in there somewhere.