skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not due to the costs involved in mitigation as these are quantifiable, but how to value the risk. Lets assume that the risk of total climate collapse is low, but the cost of such event is effectively infinite, then the no matter what the cost of preventing such a small risk it is worth doing.

The insurance analogy is not the best one to use. A better analogy is if you had cancer and someone offered you a magic pill that cure you. How much would you pay for this drug? I know in my case it would be everything I own, as well as what I could earn in the future, just up to the point where I would cause excessive hardship to my family.

When in comes to avoiding the risks of catastrophic climate change all the facts point towards doing lots of research to develop options given then cost of the research is relatively low and the risks with not having options very high.
Dear Apple, Please Make Up Your Mind
Dear Apple,

Please make up your mind on whether applications quit or remain open after all their windows are closed. Preview, QuickTime and Keynote all quit if I close all their windows and switch to another application. Safari, iTunes and Activity Monitor -- not to mention almost every other third party application -- do not. Why? Please pick one, and develop an interaction architecture that supports it.
The US is not the only country in the world. Not all countries have a corrupt, entrenched monopoly nor do all countries have the same antagonism towards taxi services.

And yes it's great to see someone siphon billions of dollars away from government/taxpayers and into the hands of a select few. It's also great to see them do this by ignoring any and all laws they see fit to. What a shining example of corporate responsibility and ethics.
It's just a hunch at this point, but I suspect the end game for personal transportation a few decades down the road will be government-provided rides.

Cities, counties, whatever municipal entities providing autonomous vehicles at subsidized rates, or maybe even "free". These are the entities paying for the infrastructure, after all, and once voters don't own vehicles, the argument will start to be made that governments should operate what what runs on the infrastructure.

But that's decades away, and there's money to be made now, in the current system. And Uber/Lyft/Google whoever else is in the business may provide the tech to the governments.

Anyway, like I said, it's just a hunch at this point, but it won't surprise me if things slowly move that way.
Yes, right now that seems to be the case. Taxi systems were notoriously bad before regulation, so it's not true to say that Uber is illegal only because of a deeply entrenched monopoly.

Things were seriously rough in NYC (and elsewhere) before the government stepped in. I expect it to take some time to adapt to a things like Uber/Lyft, and Uber's attitude towards that reality is disappointing.

Then again, it is basically the word of Silicon Valley gods to be as blatantly disrespectful of reality as possible.
Some people might take a loan to buy a car to drive Uber?
My job is problem solving. Problem solving requires thought - sometimes large quantities of it.

That can take time, and it can be hard to say "I will only think about this problem from 9-5 today".

I've awoken numerous times in the middle of the night with an "a-ha" feeling and immediately started coding. Does that count?
Supercomputer Chip Startup Scores Funding, DARPA Contract
Regarding your comments on hiring quality workers- that is interesting. Wouldn't the specific things you mentioned all be solved by the founder (presumably an A-player) continuing to make hiring decisions?

Really enjoyed thinking about your point that revenue outpacing effort enables employee quality decline. Maybe a way to force employee quality on a company would be to continually take on enough work (new/side projects, say, sort of like we see with AWS) such that the company will only survive if employees are good quality.
Know anyone? ;)
What a constructive comment. Care to elaborate?

IMO, it's not bull crap. I may not care about the little problem in solving today but I am mist certainly passionate about my company, my employees, our product and my family.
That's an interesting perspective. Honestly seems like a future I could get excited about, despite bureaucratic inefficiencies and edge cases of govt screwups.

A world where transit is dominated by things like Uber is a world where those who can't (or don't want to) afford $600 phones + $50/month service charges can't navigate a city.
Anecdote time: my brother plays baseball for this school and my wife is from Hiroshima. I didn't realize what their mascot is until we visited this past Spring and attended a few games. I was more embarrassed than she was upset, mostly because she didn't care at all.
How are they disagreeing with the science? They seemed to be smartly extending the grandparent's comment to me.
Perhaps, but I have discovered something much more deadly: Rum Chata. It is so delicious, especially with cookies.
http://rumchata.com/
(Warning - painfully massive site)
And there will be lots more where that came from. So many more. :)
Well, for one, Travis et al. will never have the possibility of personal responsibility for anything that Uber does.

Don't mistake a scorched-earth profit march for some type of civil disobedience.
Pretending that the opposite it true, that violence is our most natural and basic state, is equally naive as pretending that cooperation/love is. You mention the phenotype and us/them, but don't explain how violence is an obviously beneficial trait. It is easy to contrive cases where violence is beneficial, but that is a far cry from saying that it is life's most natural and basic state.

Also, I know you didn't actually say this, but I wanted to make the point anyway, since it wouldn't be hard to come to that conclusion from your post.
I'm going to have to look at this closely. My first thought here is that it seems impossible to get high performance without leaking at least some form of sub-channel signaling about communications, but I don't yet understand the real "trick" behind HORNET.
I bought a PC-compatible from Corona circa 1983 after my extensive research showed it had better technology (and thus more of a chance of corporate survival) than the also-newly-created Compaq.
That's silly. A more accurate analogy would be: We should stop saying there is no ice cream (no ridesharing) being sold at McDonalds (Uber). I think that's a reasonable assertion.
I am one of the cofounders and I'll be emailing you right away. This is absolutely not the way we operate and I'm happy to jump on a phone call with you to answer any questions you have! Very sorry about any issues you had in our chat. Techcrunch is definitely stretching us (in a good way) and so sometimes we mess up. Very sorry once again I'll be in touch!
The aquarium in Boston has a hands-on demo for kids about acidification impacting the ability of some creatures to grow their shell. Didn't see anyone else but my son and I trying it though. Hopefully the message gets through to more people, but I think too many people fail to see how it could impact them.
Germany's Secret Service just charged their leading Civil Rights group on treason for publishing information about the German government's plans to further expand domestic mass surveillance.

This is not different than what has happened in the United States - though the US uses National Security Letters, gag orders, financial and criminal leverage and defamation - its only when these don't work that the US will reach toward the Espionage Act.

We look back in history and question why citizens in history asked their governments to send civil rights activists to prison and to silence certain stories in the press.

Today we get modern answers to these questions at least every few months.

I have polled friends, family and acquaintances: the overwhelming response is that we don't feel safe.

I have also sampled the official stance from press releases and speeches: the overwhelming justification is that we are not safe.

As all things are, the truth is much more complicated.
People would pay for taxis too if they were priced competitively and as reliable/convenient as Uber. I don't think treatment of drivers/employees is high on anyone's priority list.
This sounds kind of like ZipTask, which also (used to?) assigns a project manager who then pulls from a pool of freelancers. https://www.ziptask.com/
Nature is, without a doubt, something you simply cannot afford to miss in this short life. I try to travel as frequently as I can to hike, mountain bike, snowboard and scuba. I was in Switzerland for several days recently and it was just jaw-dropping. [1][2][3][4][5]. Being away from crowds/touristy areas, the concrete jungle, light/noise/air pollution really puts a lot of your life and problems into perspective.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ETu4tsr.jpg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/EsppCVS.jpg

[3] https://i.imgur.com/WwqmZjJ.jpg

[4] https://i.imgur.com/aWJxEZf.jpg

[5] https://i.imgur.com/zJRh5tm.jpg
Because it's setting a bad precedent that others are likely to follow/adopt. "Let's do that. Github did it". Beware cargo cult political correctness.
In SF the rate for an "Advanced" engineer would be:

$60k (base) + $12k (1.2 multiplier) + $22k (location) + $10k (salary instead of equity) = $104k.

Also your sample size is 1. Looking at salaries across their entire company they're a bit shit[0].

[0]: https://open.bufferapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/buffer...
Great point. His concluding statement aligns with your observation:

"So then why did I use Haskell? To make cover trees 10 times easier for programmers to use."

Default Haskell is certainly not geared toward numeric performance even though it certainly can be with the right libraries.
Even the yellow cabs within Manhattan would not take me places within Manhattan when hailed. They would stop and ask where to-- when I told them where (touristy areas) they'd just drive off.
To be honest, consider that it may take just one negative review to get fired ("independent contractors", hehe) from Uber (don't know how strict Lyft ratings are). I doubt the drivers that are not satisfied will risk answering you honestly, as you're a person in power to kick them out of their job by a single tap on your smartphone.
> In my opinion they're really not more human than a cell culture of human cells.

Sophistry. CRISPR on human embryos (which were going to be discarded) is CRISPR on humans: human cells were geneticly edited with CRISPR. The point has been proven - human biology is not some special snowflake that CRISPR will uniquely fail upon.
I'm using Chrome on an iPhone 6, and I can read it just fine fully zoomed out with the phone at arm's length..

I still think that the industry trend has been towards zooming, rather than in-place size adjustment.
What does German law consider "Treason"? In the US, treason has a very specific meaning regarding the Mens rea of the accused. You have to prove that the accused meant to do harm to the republic by the action. (For example even worst case scenario, Snowden could never be accused of treason because there was no intent to harm; quite the contrary.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
I think the scripting example is a little contrived, but yes that is someting you'd need a plugin for in most IDEs. There are certainly features of IDEs that vim doesn't provide out of the box too. Personally I just use SQL for generating sets.
Thinking about it, this means that telling the story publicly is better than telling it privately to the wrong people, because you can get job offers by telling it publicly, after which you can assume they already saw your blog post and so answering the question will not give them any more information. That is IMO the best solution to this problem for candidates.

On the other side, I wonder if the HR process of slotting candidates into fixed number of positions don't help. It might make sense for factory workers, but for programming or even IT? This is one reason BTW why I believe anti-discrimination laws are ineffective.
> How many men here would feel invited and included if their company threw a "Sorority Party" or, for the Brits, a "Hen's Night Party"?

If the announcement said it was open to all, I'd feel invited and included.

The reason you don't see a lot of open sorority parties at colleges is that most sororities are not allowed to serve alcohol at events they host or cohost. That's a rule of the National Panhellenic Conference. This saves them about $100 per year per student on insurance, which is passed on to the students via lower dues.

There have been some sororities at some colleges trying to get permission to hold parties with alcohol, open to men, so that they can mingle with and drink with men but where they are the ones controlling the alcohol.
Actually this topic is kind of signature for Tolstoy. There's even a special word for that: "толстовство"[1].

On the other hand, the word "толстовство" and especially "толстовец" (that is somebody, who is participating in Tolstoyan movement) has somewhat derogatory connotation in Russian today. Not without a reason, I guess. Many have been noticing that Tolstoy is kind of a "poser" and often his words contradict his actions, aren't honest — quite often nothing more than beautiful words, actually.

I, personally, agree with many of these criticisms, so I don't consider Tolstoy the best teacher and inspirer of that matter.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolstoyan_movement
Do you guys have data on the tradeoff between subsetting for smaller file size and cache hits? When people use subsets on the CDN, are they de-duped so the same subset on another site would still be cached? If it does make a difference, would you release data on the popularity of various subsets?

(Also I hope you guys have a search box for that feature - icnfnt.com always made for a fun game of "spot these icons" for the whole office)
To the few commenters on this page offering a somewhat contrarian view, what's your beef? Is it reactive skepticism, or being contrarian for the sake of it, or having a vested interest in the status quo?
Espionage is not treason.
Thanks for the Feedback!
Just because some people are willing to pay for something, doesn't mean it's right. People in general are very happy to pay for things that have huge externalities not directly affecting them.
IndexDB, a local database inside a web browser
That website does not encourage me to try. It's so bland, and uninformative. Its done in a consumer marketing style that is not suitbale for B2B. And really doesn't give me a feel for anything they do better than any of a bunch of alternate options. If it is a good product they should really re-think how they sell this.
Caught a taxi tonight in Paris. 5 euro but jacked up to a minimum of 7, driver claimed he couldn't give me change. He spent 5 minutes pretending to have no change, then gave me 2 euros in coins plus a 10 in exchange for a 20. Great.

Taxi services have practically begged for Uber etc to destroy them.
I've read from mathematicians who consider their computer to be a tool, and from others who see the computer as a partner. As a hobbyist who studies automated theorem provers (like coq), there is so much elegance that goes into the computational proofs in order to even construct such a program that allows a mathematician to do their work.

Can you honestly say that it doesn't take an extreme amount of effort to construct the perfect typing system that allows you to even begin to be able to write a proof with a machine? People have to prove that theorem provers are correct with respect to that which what they define. This is no trivial task, it's an entirely different domain of knowledge.
Uber doesn't describe the service as 'ridesharing'. That's a term the media uses or very occasionally we will use if referring to (for example) "Texas Ride Sharing Bill" where that's the official name of the legislation.

(Source: I'm an Uber employee)
Thanks for the good advice. Yes, I've tried most of these (spectacle is new to me though), but I've found that shortcuts aren't very consistent between apps, plus there's no shortcuts for manipulating windows; eg, [alt+space, x] for maximize. Maximising windows is a whole other problem (rightzoom mostly fixes this.. mostly). It's little workflow issues like that which put me off OSX. I used it for work for three months before I couldn't take it any more, despite learning a lot of shortcuts and 'fixer' apps in the mean time.

These days, I like windows as my main OS, with a linux VM for real work.
I was there on a hike along the Via Alpina! Is that Lauterbrunnen and possibly the train to Jungfraujoch?

One of the most memorable times of my life was hiking through there (Meiringen, Grindelwald, and Lauterbrunnen specifically). Very peaceful and meditative.
Damn this is cool! Does it work with external libraries and project functions?

This would be amazing, the amount of times I do this sort of testing in unit test projects considerably hinders my development time. And for $89/yr that's easily worth it!

excitement intensifies

How do I buy it? I'd like to do a video review, but when I click on "Buy" it links to "https://comealive.io/#"

...

D'oh! Looks like AdBlock breaks everything. Disable it on the page if you want to buy!
The thing about Uber I don’t understand is how they are going to defend their monopoly once they acquire it. Assuming they eventually win all the legal battles and drive all other taxi and taxi-like services out of business then how are they going to stop anyone else from entering their market?

Each transport market is effectively isolated (you don’t hail a driver from SF to get around NYC). This means any new entrant can achieve critical mass in a market at a relatively low cost (especially if they start with small towns/cities). If Uber do manage to get to the point where they can start extracting monopoly profits they have no means of defending these markets other than competing on unit price. Consumers are going to win big time out of Uber, but I can’t see how their investors will (at least their long term investors). Someone far smarter than me must have answered this?
rm -r fs/ext3
As a seasoned New Yorker I've learned that the best response to "where to?" is to silently get in the cab.
> We show in healthy participants that a brief nature experience, a 90-min walk in a natural setting, decreases both self-reported rumination and neural activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex (sgPFC), whereas a 90-min walk in an urban setting has no such effects on self-reported rumination or neural activity.

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/28/8567.abstract
Personality Atlas – How the world views other countries
The second link in the article is:

http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/StGB.htm#BII

It's an English translation from 1998 but § 94 StGB hasn't changed since 1975:

https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/94.html
> This is not different than what has happened in the United States - though the US uses National Security Letters, gag orders, financial and criminal leverage and defamation - its only when these don't work that the US will reach toward the Espionage Act.

The hell it isn't. When did the U.S.G. hit the ACLU with treason charges?
I think that it is not important if the concept it is yours or not, but it should be important if the concept is reasonable and clear.
I have pretty good mathematical skills but I have also a short time memory and I forget a lots of things. So if a concept is not really clear in my mind, sooner or later, I will forgot it.
This is a very broad question. What is your primary goal(s) you are trying to achieve?
Because it's your job and you're being compensated to do so. If the company is running fine without the owner, and his/her being away isn't negatively affecting your own ability to do your job, then why does it matter to you what they up to at any given moment?
Try not to get confused: writing about mass-surveillance plans is treason, the secret non-consensual mass-surveillance itself is not.
This is the future I want to see.
sometimes I wish a brave soul will do the same with the financial industry (w.r.t. institutional regulation) but alas the law there is nowhere close to lazy eval.
Although I am a big proponent of spreading the word about Regulatory capture, it's not quite that simple. A lot of the regulations that exist for taxis really do make sense, given a few contexts:

1) you don't know who is coming to pick you up
2) the ability to contact your former driver in the event of a bad experience is almost nil
3) you have to trust the taximeter
4) taxis have to jockey for a visual hail
5) there is no guarantee that a dispatched taxi will actually arrive.

while there are concerns (e.g. safety, insurance) that do warrant a strong rational basis for regulation that are in common between taxis and lyft/uber, etc - a lot of the regulations that are in place do not carry over and those shouldn't apply to the lyft/uber.

To its credit, the state of california seems to be making an (if slow) rapprochement between the existing regulation set and a reasonable set... Don't know about other places.
This is the most presumptuous and mean-spirited comment I've ever received not just on HN, but in my entire history of being online. No exaggeration.

But to go ahead and answer your disingenuous question anyway, no. That is not the idea.
Looks amazing.

Looks like an improved version of Playgrounds for Xcode.
The improved part is that this seems to work for your regular code base, where Playground isn't (as far as I know) bundled with your application.

Though I suspect the Xcode team is probably working on that :)
yes, this is a hike from Murren to Gimmelwald which is quite literally "The Shire" [1] (after a train from Lauterbrunnen). and yes, Jungfraujoch of course.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/46Ujdqa.jpg
i did, tried to fix it but was too late.
When do you drop the tidbit of information related to the whole reason you got in?

/just moved to NYC
It's less of a problem for uber though because (1) it only applies when there's no good uber driver match, not when the uber driver doesn't want to go where you're going (because then they'd get a bad review, or worse) (2) I'm not sure, but I believe there are penalties for drivers who cancel too much.
Nothing wrong with the Floppy Disk icon. It's unique, which is all that matters. It no longer represents a physical thing that people use routinely, not a big deal. Now, if we could only figure out how to have search and zoom use different icons...
> Funding rounds dilute preexisting investors.

How / why? I tried Googling this and it's left me more confused. If I purchase 5% of a company, and that company later gets other investors, assuming I do nothing, how can I end up with less than 5% of the company? One of the answers[1] I found says,

> The company creates new shares to sell when the financing event is imminent. Thus every existing holder gets an equal amount of dilution, and the number of conceivable rounds is infinite.

By doing this, how is the company not effectively selling something that isn't theirs? (the portion of the company that I thought I owned, that is now "diluted"?)

[1]: http://www.quora.com/How-does-equity-dilution-work-when-a-st...
In the past I've been able to just import Font Awesome and custom icons into https://icomoon.io/app and create a custom kit that way. That's something that has existed for free for quite some time now with support for png/svg/font exports. It looks like the Font Awesome guys just put a price tag on an existing idea. Is there something novel about this that I'm missing?
To get a car loan you need employment history and decent credit. While some folks that fit this category are struggling, it's not exactly the profile of an exploited class.