skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you could see something working with the passengers where you say, "Okay, we'll be 1.3x the price of UberX all the time, and so we'll grab customers from Uber when they're surging (which is, after all, when most people want cars)" and some percentage of those people will become loyal customers who won't care about a small surcharge during non-surge times.

But, realize, you're also competing for drivers. And at least a substantial fraction of your drivers are entirely willing to turn you on during the non-busy times and take advantage of your higher rates, and then switch to Uber during surge to take advantage of the temporarily higher rates there. Which can be a problem for you.

There's probably a finesseable option here where you offer drivers some kind of volume-based bonus that keeps them hungry for your rides during surge times, but doesn't mean you bleed money. But it's definitely hard to hit that mark.

Source: I used to work for Flywheel, which does "hail a taxi with your smartphone" and we spent a lot of time working through these kinds of scenarios.
Could use some refinement of results. For instance, I run "clf tar compress" and the results are all over the place.

# Copy a MySQL Database to a new Server via SSH with one command
mysqldump --add-drop-table --extended-insert --force --log-error=error.log -uUSER -pPASS OLD_DB_NAME | ssh -C user@newhost "mysql -uUSER -pPASS NEW_DB_NAME"

That's the top result. That has nothing to do with tar or compression.
Happy to get involved. We've tried out a similar setup at https://api.blockspring.com.
I think there is a name for this effect (and a wikipedia page). I've forgotten what it is called though.
So the move to GitHub by Google's open source code is the next step? I kept hearing from people "in the know" that moving to GitHub was a real possibility a long time ago.
In the BBC report it does say that this was not the case, however given that it is illegal in the UK it would be best not to make an issue over it for the sake of his family. the alternative of going to switzerland means not dying with your family around you for fear of them being prosecuted on their return to the UK.
Seems like one of the better (best?) shutdowns Google has done IMO.

There are several compelling (also free) alternatives (GitHub/etc.), so this isn't like Reader (which had previously killed a lot of viable/non-free competitors in its market).

They even have automated migration setup.

Looks pretty well done.
Edit: The parent comment was flagkilled, but he was ranting about how Google should be expected to keep Google Code (and their other failed services) on life support indefinitely out of the kindness of their heart, because negative public perception.

This is pretty ridiculous. It is a free service, sustained only by how long corporate wants to foot the bill. This is why it's so important to keep in mind how sustainable your dependencies are longer term (if having to move away from them would be such a big deal).

Not only that, but Google Code lost the mindshare battle and hasn't been getting much development attention for some time now. It has fallen way behind, is now sub-par, and there has been a mass exodus of projects away from it. It had a nice year or two, but it's time to put it down.

It's simple: Stop wasting developer manpower, money, and time on something that no longer offers much utility. Close shop, figure out how those resources could be better spent doing things that are useful.
Linux already does plenty to bring Linux users back to Windows. What’s this going to hurt?
Quality comes in all shapes and forms. Print is redefining itself through startup ecosystem. Super cool!
Basically, this. In case others didn't read the post, you'll have almost a year to take your projects off. We wanted the handful of projects that were still active to have plenty of time to migrate.
One part I found particularly interesting:

>In the NPRM, we tentatively concluded that we should retain the definition of reasonable network management we previously adopted, which does not include preventing transfer of unlawful content or the unlawful transfer of content as a reasonable practice.

What about cases where an ISP can't tell? For example, if a user is using encrypted BitTorrent, could an ISP block it on the basis that 89% of files on BitTorrent are illegal? [1]

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/only-03-of-files-...
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Nah, an even higher level of status than having a $50k watch is having it and not giving a shit if it gets damaged cause you'll just get another one.
Some of the earlier books, particularly The Color of Magic, are parodies of other fantasy literature. If you aren't familiar with the books and genres it's poking fun at, a lot of the jokes will fall kind of flat.
I seem to recall there's a term for this, but I can't remember the actual name.
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This gets brought up on HN whenever these rules get mentioned. The point is that the FCC cannot stop ISPs from blocking unlawful content. If an ISP is under some other obligation to block unlawful content these FCC rules cannot overrule that.

That's really all that's going on. By using the term 'lawful content' the FCC is limiting the scope of their rules, nothing more.
I said that some drivers are making that much. This is anecdotal, but here is an interview with a Lyft driver (in front of Lyft's CEO) saying that she was surprised that she was making $300/day ($90K/yr....relatively close to the $40/hr you claim a junior web developer makes in SV when they have work):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-03-06/heard-lyft-w...
I just noticed under the "Download Linear Algebra" section on http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/ , he gives a link to a paperback version of Linear Algebra on Amazon (ISBN-13: 978-0989897563).
The Discworld novels overlap somewhat, given that they are set in the same universe, but are generally grouped into individual sequences that each should be read chronologically.

For example, the books about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch start with "Guards! Guards!", and the subsequent books in this sequence tell the continuing story of how the Watch evolves into a (slightly) modern police force. If you start in the middle of this sequence, the payoff won't be as good.

Similarly, there's the sequence about the witches ("Equal Rites" etc.), about Rincewind ("The Colour of Magic" etc.), and his last books about the "Ankh-Morpork industrial revolution" (starting with "Going Postal"). Then there are some one-offs, like "Eric", "Small Gods" and "Pyramids".

I tend to recommend "Guards! Guards!" as a starting point, because I find the City Watch stories the most interesting and enjoyable. Together with the later Ankh-Morpork books they read like an insightful origin story of a modern society, and encompass many sociological topics. Several of the Watch books are also highly original detective mysteries.
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The main reason for that recommendation is that The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, though fun books and enjoyable fantasy parodies in themselves, are really not representative of what the later Discworld books were to become. When Terry wrote Equal Rites and Mort, he really set out his manifesto for the series as being about this world, reflected in that world, and that theme is what really carries forward.

So with the caveat that you need to understand those first two books aren't representative of what the series becomes, you could definitely start at the beginning. Just know that across so many books, there's bound to be some unevenness. Some books are just plain fun, others have deeper messages, some are, frankly, just not as good. Early highlights like Guards Guards, Pyramids, Small Gods, Wyrd Sisters are the ones where you'll discover the real breadth of what he does. Later books can be less consistently original, but when you get to books like The Truth, Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment, there are some real gems.

But don't let yourself not read any of them. That would be a real shame.
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"Sure, we wanted Ross to go free. We wanted him to be innocent, to be a hero: the poster boy for privacy in the Information Age."

That may be partially true, but Ross polluted much of the goodwill the Internet community had for him when he decided to "order a hitman." I doubt he was ever that serious about hiring one. If you read the chats he had, he sounds completely out of his league, and probably never would have been capable of it if the FBI did not sort-of-entrap him with a murder-for-hire plot. Unfortunately, he really screwed himself by going down that road.

The best argument in defense of silk road and Ross, from a moral/philosophical standpoint, is that it represents a victimless crime. Indeed, by moving transactions into the online world, it may have actually facilitated a drop in real crime. Ross must have known that if the FBI ever caught up to him, he could defend himself with this moral reasoning, and at least stand a chance of acquittal in a jury trial. It's a shame that he had to completely ruin that chance by also trying to hire a hitman. He should have kept things simple and never strayed out of the territory of libertarian economic experiment.
"Noli Timere Messorem"

"It only kills monsters" - Susan, on why her poker passes right through Death.
Exactly. I was an organic chemist. Never used a lick of Calculus. I didn't get into programming until I'd already been working as a chemist for about five years.
it was expected by many people..infact there was discussion about same happening... Why to run a project when it is not being used?..nothing bad in that...People are angry about Glass..not this..
The Core M stuff was why I was wondering - cpu performance is taking a step back, couldn't multiple chips compensate for that?
> You need a minimum amount of capital to buy airplanes and setup of a network of flights, that doesn't naturally lead to a single airline.

Not as much as you might think. Ryanair started with a share capital of £1.

http://corporate.ryanair.com/about-us/history-of-ryanair/
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There's a difference between hating the article and being unable to read the article without getting a headache.
I was introduced to Terry Prachett by watching Terry Pratchett's Hogfather as done by Sky One. Really late to get into his stories, but since then I had started with book 1 of Discworld.

Are there authors who write similarly?
I think this will invite comparisons to, e.g., killing off Google Reader, but they won't be deserved in my opinion. Google Reader was the leader in its niche, and when they announced the shutdown everyone had to scramble to find alternative services before all their stuff disappeared. By contrast, this is a niche where the community has clearly moved on to other things that everyone acknowledges as being better in basically every respect. There's just no need for Google to continue to provide this service.
Most of Google's open source code is already on GitHub and has been for quite a while: https://github.com/google
"I'm confused as to why you think this is not about status."

You can say it's about status if you want; it has some truth as an objective, detached description of what's happening. For purposes of our discussion in this thread, though, I would say it's neither very interesting nor accurate. And more importantly, it's not helpful. People's _subjective_ motivation for purchasing things rarely has anything to do with status. If you think you're going to be able to avoid the same money issues by virtue of being less status conscious than every one else, you're probably wrong.

The helpful thing to recognize is that our consumerist-society is driven by ads and social cues that create what we perceive as _needs_. This combines with the simple and hard-to-combat psychological fact that we tend to spend more money if we have more money. So as their income rises people tend to find more "needs" and spend more and more.

Just saying that people fall into this trap because they're status conscious, and that you'll avoid it because you don't care about status at all, is not going to help you. The psychological effects that you'll need to battle in our consumerist-society are more subtle and difficult to shake than that. Go read some of the stuff at that Money Mustache site; that may help you realize that that the issues people deal with in trying to spend less are not about status. For a start, try this one, http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/08/29/luxury-is-just-ano...
No watch gets it's time using NTP, and I don't even know how that would work. Almost all radio timepieces take their time from WWVB (or international equivalents). There may be a few that use GPS like cell phones do.

EDIT: The apple watch uses GPS.
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I might be feeding here, but the lesson is that you can't count on things Google releases to be around very long. Even APIs for popular products, like Google Maps. Just don't expect anything they release to have a long shelf life. It's annoying and it sucks, and it is now laughable when they tag things with phrases like "free code hosting forever" and so on.

For them to change, they'd have to either: 1) Support everything into eternity, which given their propensity to release new things frequently would grow to be impossibly expensive, or 2) Be more disciplined in what they release, so that it can be supported in perpetuity. I don't see either happening, so we end up where we are now. They have to keep innovating or they'll stagnate and die.
"conclusion he starts with a trendy conclusion, HFT is bad"

I tried finding the Amazon review linked but didn't see it. While it seems that Lewis has a distorted view, there still hasn't been a compelling reason for HFT other than the exploit the edge cases and loopholes of the current system.
Looks like a cool product, but...

It's hard to sell closed source tools to developers. While it was true in 2013 that 'open source tools don't scale' (I presume he's referring to Graphite), this field has seen a lot of activity since then. For various reasons, open tools will pull the mindshare.
Codeplex will stay some more time..but I am expecting around 2016-17..
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Now that it's been adopted by multiple countries it's only a matter of time before some start competing on price. Hopefully it will start to become affordable soon.
My guess is that you're 30 or under?

Southwest during its rise to prominence in the 90's and maybe early 2000's had this friendly, relaxed reputation. It was definitely an economical option, but they tried to be friendly and jokey and get out of your way.

I agree that nowadays that has all gone away and they're just kind of cattle-cars.
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Much of Google's open source code is already on GitHub (see e.g. https://github.com/Google).
Murray Gell-Mann Effect maybe? Been a few years, can't remember if I have the order right.
I ported over the Angular phonecat tutorial to Clojurescript above. Includes diffs and explanations for each step. Please let me know your thoughts!
> Best buy will never pay more than a few dollars above the minimum wage, thus best buy has decided that the guy behind that counter will be pulled from the lowest acceptable pool of candidates. I'm sure stores that have knowledgeable people for that type of thing still exist, you just have to pay more for that service.

And so this brings us back to my initial contention. Yes. That's true. The problem is that this sort of "good enough" stuff makes being an expert an untenable position and those stores are pretty much just gone, even if you are willing to pay (the pool of customers who are is too small to support it).
I hope Apple develops a USB-C cable with a MagSafe decoupling point.
Don't have time != lazy, but that's a different argument. One of the cool things on this new one is it runs Rust, arguably the best language for this purpose, so you don't have to use JavaScript if you think it's stupid
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I don't think we have lost anything.

I think we gained something incredible over a short time.

Nobody lives forever. What Terry Pratchett has given to us will live longer than any person. I'm not sad that he has died. Everyone who is born dies, and there's an infinite number of potential people who are never born. What is important is that we live, and while we live some of us do extraordinary things.

I'm reading Guards! Guards! to my 2-year old right now, a section each night. She gets me to turn to the inside cover to look at the picture of the "man". I tell her that that's Mr. Pratchett. She calls him "Mister Patchett" because she has trouble with that R. She likes to pretend she's a dragon. She will say "dragon needs her socks on". She talks about the "little tiny dragon Errol". Every night she comes and gets me before bed and asks me to read a story.

Tonight I'll read this to her again. I'm not going to tell her that he has died. She won't understand, and it's not important to her. She will still get excited to read the story. She will still look at the picture of the man. I'll still tell her it's Mr. Pratchett. She'll still be excited to pretend to be a dragon. She'll still want me to read another book when it's done, we're very near the end. She'll still learn a lot from him.

While there won't be any new books written by him, the ones in our collection won't go away. He will continue to help her get excited to read, to give her funny stories, to make her think about the world in a different way. For her, today will be no different than yesterday or the day before.

By the time she's finished reading through our collection and wants to know why there's no new books, if from nowhere else, she will have learned from him about death. She will have learned in a funny and non-threatening way. But she will heave learned nonetheless. We can talk about him at that point, but I'd rather not lament what we've lost, because claiming we've lost something is claiming ownership, like saying we deserved him, or that it was our right to have books written by him. We've lost nothing, because we didn't have him to start with. But we have gained a lot that he has decided to give the world.

So I don't want to lament his passing. I want to thank him for the things he has given us. I'm not sad there will be no more, I'm happy that he gave us these gifts to begin with.
"When the press writes about a topic you know well, you realize every news article you've read could have been equally mistaken."
-pg
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If you ever read any of my comments and down votes from Hacker News it was always this. The code on GitHub is a mirror and not an actual GIT repo that is accepting merges and being worked on.
http://www.cnet.com/news/cornings-usb-3-0-optical-cable-aims...
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And it's also the only reasonable and free option for this. (Correct me if I'm wrong but I've tried)
But even CEOs can answer to shareholders and a board of directors, so I propose Dictator.

AudioDictator, StreamingDictator, VoipDictator...
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Does anyone know how this compares to celery?
A big thank you for enquiring on my behalf!

A 503 would still require a GAE instance to be running so wouldn't necessarily deal with my problem.

I have seen "noindex nofollow" kill a site stone dead in the past so I am very wary indeed of using it. In my experience once you've noindexed a page it is nigh-on impossible to get the engine to index it again.

My content is autogenerated, though I hope it has enough value to be considered useful. It's time-series data of word frequencies in politics, so for example you might use it to see how one candidate is doing relative to another in an election campaign.
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I put together some quick and dirty scripts for searching the text of the Order: https://github.com/adelevie/open-internet-order.
I got a kick out of the CmdTaco cameo in the Wired article:

“GitHub is just really smooth,” says Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, who lived through the open source revolution as the editor-in-chief of the tech site Slashdot. “It’s a sexy, modern interface.”

These are some captions in need of a meme generator.
I've never been able to remember where I read that. Thank you.

One more reason to regret him passing.
Ask HN: Large code repository in Git?
Hello All,

We've currently got a large repository we'd like to maintain in git. By 'large', I mean 45000 files, and 5GB in disk space. The files consist of source code as well as binaries (compilers, other tools, compiled libraries, etc.).

I'd prefer to just keep all this in a single git repository if possible. However, as you may know, git struggles with repositories this large, and operations that normally take milliseconds instead take seconds (or longer). Overall it is not a pleasant experience.

I'm aware of other options like Subversion and Perforce that might be a better fit for this, but I'd like to know what are my best options to stay with git.

I've used git-submodules, and Google's repo [0] before, and found the workflow with these to be somewhat cumbersome.

So far, I've been looking at git-annex [1], git-fat [2], and git-media [3]. I was wondering what other options I might have. Of these, git-annex seems the most mature, though it involves a significant workflow change. We aren't really distributed in the sense that git-annex handles, where the users may have a bunch of working directories all over the place (on a desktop, laptop, at home, on a USB drive) which all may have different subsets of all the files.

With git-media and git-fat, the user is designating certain file extensions to be handled specially, which may work OK for us. I'm just not sure.

I'd like to hear from anyone who has used any of these tools for development, to get a better idea of the performance as well as the ups and downs of daily usage.

Thanks!

[0] https://source.android.com/source/developing.html
[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
[2] https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat
[3] https://github.com/alebedev/git-media