skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's important. I've had to disable all vibration on my phone, which increases chances of me missing things, because the lady downstairs doesn't like vibration noise in the morning, haha.
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Yep, you're probably right - this is on par with that six-year-old who nibbled his way to a semiautomatic PopTart.

Zero percent tolerance, one hundred percent stupidity.
While interesting, I wouldn't consider those things "significant", especially as they have been covered in the comments in linked thread anyways.
Race based office hours are unethical.
Hey, I've still got my complimentary MySpace zip file kicking around somewhere.
Do spam detection on the local machine, although unfortunately it will performs worse.
I guess your first point's fair, but not everyone reads the comments. (Oh, who am I kidding! ;))
Mounday Digital Visuals are amazing
The blog post doesn't even acknowledge that a local competitor, Ola, has had cash payments since its inception. Uber also complains about the 'regulations' Well, Uber, ask your engineers and they would tell you those 'regulations' are in place to prevent credit-card fraud.

The design process they spoke about... They just ended up postponing their launch. Ola might have an inferior experience compared to the classy uber but it just works. It's like hackernews... It isn't mobile friendly, nor is it real-time or shiny, but ever so popular because its a fantastic product.

Like someone else mentioned, this looks like PR. Uber isn't even ack that they were considerably late to market with cash payments in India. They don't mention their competition (which they could have, since it has an inferior UX, and the blog post supposedly talks about 'design').

They were on their high horses when they entered India, thinking people would choose Uber because of superior payments experience (credit card), and a very well polished UX... They were wrong. Here's a series of things which I think they ripped from their competition here in India:

1. Cash payments

2. Switching to generic Android phones from iPhones

3. Electronic cash wallets

4. SOS feature

There are other features that Uber still lacks, like:

1. Free calls between driver and customer

2. SMS notifications

3. Guaranteed cab allotment

4. Short distance but cheaper cabs

5. Tuk-tuks for hire (Auto Rickshaws)

6. Call centre customer service

7. Call-based booking

8. Advance booking (cab after 2hrs and so on...)

Watch them write blog posts like they invented these other features too because they flew in with smart people and connected with the locals and gathered data to prove their intuitions when in reality they just imitated a local competition.
Or use Hashcash, which is a proof-of-work algorithm created for anti-DoS and anti-spam, and the inspiration of Bitcoin's mining algorithm.

It's possible the botnets are strong enough to create Hashcash or mine Bitcoin and still spam enough to annoy us... and it would probably take either Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft announcing they would stop accepting legacy emails (where "legacy" could just be ones without Hashcash or BTC), for anyone to make a change.
So if 1 racial demographic group does better than another group, and they profit (in some way related to privileged) from this, while the other group does not, how is this racism?
Nothing but a “G” Thing: 20 Years of Garbage
You can say that the library is of "any" type and the compiler will accept all method calls on it.

However it should be fairly easy to write a .d.ts file for it. You don't even have to cover the entire library - its enough to specify the types of the parts you use.
> It is a terrible idea to only trust content based on WHO is providing it

Of course. But what makes it a terrible idea is the word "only", which you stuck in there, not me.

> as long as you can independently verify it's validity

And how are you going to do that without consulting sources that you deem to be trustworthy?
And going 57% for Obama also says something about the people. We're not saying they're bleeding-heart-liberals. We're saying it's a little more complicated than, "Oh well it's the deep South..." Too many people are dismissing this like it's just the norm. It shouldn't be. More people should be asking if Islamophobia is a bigger part of mainstream America than we're willing to admit.
This is life in Trello
The answer is counter-intuitive. It's interesting, so hopefully the author will go into detail.
I'd suggest you read the book, it's only 200 pages and I can't summarise it in one sentence. It's sad that someone down voted me for suggesting a book which has voluminous facts and history. Human progress is building on what we have learnt before, if we can't learn from history I don't know how we will make progress.
No, IPFS uses a distributed hash table to find content and nodes on the network. The only centralised servers are the gateways between the regular Internet and IPFS, due to necessity. However it is possible to run your own gateway, and many do.
Pretty much, a definite side effect of the "Security Theater". I wonder what the next trendy irrational fear will be - GMO food?
Is Lyft doing a lackluster job competing with Uber? My friends and I all use Lyft and I hardly know anyone that uses Uber. This is in Seattle.
How are new nodes discovered or registered?
I was not a fan--I had their service for a couple of months. The apps need some serious work and you can't watch via their website (I run Linux at home).

My current setup is:

Amazon FireTV

Amazon Prime

HBO Now

Netflix

Hulu Plus (12/mo ad-free version)

I honestly would not even consider switching anywhere else or ever going back to cable.
There's a bullet point in the TP3 section where the author's saying:

I used TURBO-87.COM to compile the code with floating point
support (no doubles, just single precision) to SMALLPT.COM

(There's also a subroutine in the .com file which starts with an fninit instruction. :)
China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance from U.S. Tech Firms
I think that its too slow. Also, to prevent the eye focusing on things as they rush past, I would zoom out to view (most of) the poster and then zoom back in to the new detail.
> This exactly BlaBlaCar's* thing...unfortunately they have no plans to come to the U.S. I live in NYC and unlike most people here I have my own car. I often drive to nearby cities to visit friends.

Lyft Line already does this, and it's available in NYC. I'm not sure if it works between cities, but within the NYC metro area you should be fine.
I left a voicemail at 972-600-5000 (school district hotline) to voice my discontent.
> except in cases where the data is easily verifiable by a third party

If you have access to a trusted third party willing to verify the claim, then the anonymous source doesn't add a whole lot of value.

> Unfortunate that you're getting disagreement-downvoted for making a valid criticism.

Speaking truth to power (and mobs have power) is never easy.
Don't use BTRFS for OLTP
Also - if I remember correctly - if you visit ipfs.io with the Host header set to foo.com, it will return /ipns/foo.com.
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, I'm looking for a co-founder to start a startup.

"In reality, having a marketable and economically viable idea is the key to founding a successful business."

That's not 100% true. I mean, it is important, but it's not the one and only key. There's more to it than that. Here's a list of marketable and economically viable ideas that won't lead most people reading this comment have a successful business out of them. http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html People are more important than ideas.

I'm sorry my posts came off as my passion is not wanting to work in a large company. I don't work in a large company. My passion is to change the world, after becoming ramen profitable. If I had to pick between a business that makes lots of money but isn't fullfilling or a business that makes less money but has a shot at changing the world, I'd pick the latter. I don't know if this answers your question.

You are right that people who like sitting around together may be unable to come up with a viable, marketable idea and then become successful startup founders. It's not easy to generate ideas. It's hard to be a startup founder.

But you also may be presumptuous if you think I haven't found a problem or started solving it. And I may be presumptuous if I think you haven't found a problem or starting solving it too. I want to listen to other people's ideas. Valuable ideas can be risky or frightening enough that you don't even know you have them. Bouncing ideas with someone else can help them surface.

If I had to make one assumption, it'd be that people who like sitting around together, and like each other, and are exceptional, are more likely to come up with a viable, marketable idea and then become successful startup founders than people who don't like each other and aren't exceptional. If this "success" quality can be put into words better, similar to being formidable, I'm open to a definition.

One problem with people coming because they are interested in a problem you are solving is that they also leave when the solution doesn't work. People who stick together are more likely to stick with a solution longer. They are also more likely to be open to changing the idea.

I saw this problem with people who weren't friends first. They wouldn't be in sync. They would refuse to switch ideas.

This may be a very simplistic reasoning, but if you go from a single founder to two, you potentially double your growth rate. Or you at least double your productivity. Because now there are two people working to make some big tech breakthrough and get that initial toehold of users, assuming they can work together.

It seems to me growth rate is more important than equity. With growth rate you can get rich enough to not have to work again. With double the equity but no growth you don't.
I did not downvote you. I asked a question. There are only so many hours in the day. So, unfortunately, I cannot read every single thing I wish I could read. It would be nice if you actually answered my question instead of recommending "read this book" for the third time. I heard you the first two times.

Peace.

Edit: and have an upvote as a token of good faith.
Finding the people who have it and punishing them is probably more expensive than finding the originator, when both are doable.

It's not obvious to me how they would find the jokes on the hard drives unless everything was compromised.

Encrypted drives with plausible deniability seems like it would also help?
5 Tips for SaaS Roadmap Planning
Uber is doing 10x more revenue and 20x more bookings(last time I saw stats, which was 1-2 years ago)
Show HN: It's almost four twenty somewhere in the world
In the photo, there is something that looks like a pouch next to the transformer. If someone thought they might be looking at a bomb, they might think that the explosive is in that pouch.

Anyone have a guess what that thing actually is?
Client-side.
I'm curious what threat model this protects against that isn't also trivially covered by bcrypting hashes and then encrypting them with a symmetric key that has to be provided to the system at boot time by a human or keywhiz or similar. It seems they're trying to protect against an attacker who has DB access but not RAM access, which is a very important vector to consider but this seems to be an overly complex way to handle that.
I have fond memories of learning to repair old black and white TV sets over the summer with my uncle at 14. We both managed to give ourselves some pretty hefty zaps. I still look back at the experience as one of the more fun times I had.
No, you do not need a PhD to cap out.
It's a Masters + 30 credits.
http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/DHR/TeacherPrincipalSchoolPro...

One of my bêtes noires about the system is that it does not differentiate between a high school teacher getting an advanced degree in STEM versus a kindergarten teacher getting a secondary development blah blah from University of Phoenix.

My personal opinion is that some teachers are underpaid, and some are overpaid. Senior teachers should not be making twice as much as junior teachers, and high school physics teachers should not make the same as kindergarten teachers. Additionally, schools should have some leeway in rewarding better/harder working teachers, instead of the unionized lockstep pay scales.

Yes, programmers make more than teachers, on average. (Though the mean hourly wages are not that different, actually-- http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbl1614.pdf for NY/NJ/CT). So?
The reason you can't get along with people is because you write paragraphs with zero content and 80% insult. What particular economic proposition would you argue, if you were actually here to discuss economics rather than to troll pathetically?
>We are giving choice to those who can afford it and taking it away from those can't.

Amen. I'm astounded by the number of people who completely fail to see this very basic point.
It doesn't say as much as you think. Texas has done gerrymandered itself up pretty good.
I'm really curious if this is true, or if there's some correlation =/= causation stuff at play.
It may make perfect sense. For example, if you're unemployed and receiving 20k right now would give you a chance to move + finish a course + get stable employment. That may be a much better solution than getting regular small payments that only give you a bit of breathing space every month on top of your benefits.

But that's only assuming you can invest the 20k in a reasonable way.
So you fancy being a ringer for Al-Bashir?

I bet the guy knows very well that the Sudanese politics are farce and he was just playing along maybe for the limelight or to play the controlled opposition part so Al-Bashir can claim that he wins in a free and fair elections.
I'm all for creativity. However, I have known plenty of people in my day that got suspended from school and/or taken home by the police for having guns that were replicas (IE: historical guns that can't fire any longer) and fake knives (a comb that is shaped like a switchblade).

Shortly after columbine, many people were also suspended for wearing trench coats.

Where was the outcry of support then? As soon as it is perceived that we are only singling out "brown people", the twitter brigades start marching.

I also don't believe this was racist in any way. The administration of the school, while stupid for thinking a clock was a bomb, was only looking out for the safety of the students.
Yeah, well, the difference is, every single black person I've seen that works in the industry has had a superlatively gregarious personality -- comfortable to talk to, ultra-diplomatic, with a good sense of humor. Any similarly sized group of white men I can think of, be it groups of coworkers at different companies, people I play golf with that are in tech, etc, have some angry, caustic personalities. Where'd all the angry black people go?
Saying "don't worry, this group that currently holds power over large parts of the country only holds power currently, and only over large parts of the country" is not as reassuring as you probably meant it to be.
Nope, wrong, full stop, truly spoken like someone with no kids and no idea of the reality of managing people.

Excuses are obviously on a continuum of validity that has nothing to do with kids vs not kids. For instance, if you have to go to the doctor that is a more valid excuse than you want to go to an amusement park and ride a roller coaster. To suggest all things are equal in terms of valid excuses is ridiculous on its face. As a manager you have to recognize that people are humans and that stuff is complicated. With your attitude you will not be able to retain any employees but the most desperate to retain a job.
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Once Built an Actual Fake Bomb in High School
Indian Authorities Reject Uber’s Application for Delhi License
Most documentation is non-linear. Functions are documented without regard to their calls, etc. The trouble with them is that it's hard to scale up to large sub-systems. If you are modifying some cross-cutting facet of a large system, it's often hard to find the right place to add an illuminating comment given all the different places you are modifying simultaneously. Literate programming is a way to give that place by introducing linear narrative structure in documentation. It can be quite valuable at large scales.

That said, my critique: http://akkartik.name/post/literate-programming (I actually read many of the programs in OP to write that.)
My apologies; I submitted this one because there was a press conference with a lot of new info that came out, not covered in the other story or in the comments: Specifically that he wasn't going to go back to the school, that he was suspended, and that he had been interrogated without his parents present.
I'm amazed that I had never heard of this incident.
What common sense tells one that bringing an electronics project to school is a bad idea, exactly?
What I'd like to know and no one seems to mention:

What's the experience like for teams not running a Google service and instead interacting with external users and contributors, e.g. the Go compiler or Chrome.
My pleasure :) AZERTY is the standard here in France. We are always frustrated by demos only supporting QWERTY layouts! It was one of the first things we put in the game.
Courts have ruled that Tivo automatically skipping ads is perfectly okay. That's literally automating the activity you're talking about! So yeah, not really any different.
You seem to live in a base-tenny world. Many nerdies train themselves to do hex mental math in kindergarten, and the geekies do it base-36 because those extra letters "are there". So perhaps a 256 to 1296 multiplication ratio (those 2 numbers there are in base 10).
Ok, let's carry this logic- the same disparity exists between men and women. Would you describe women who don't feel safe around their visibly angry coworkers as "dipshits", and dismiss this anger as venting? This must be an example of female privilege, right?
I make 3.5% on my (AUD) savings account while inflation is currently <2%. Maybe you're just getting screwed?
The Inaccuracy of “Historical Accuracy” in Gaming and Media
Perhaps they have an opportunity that they can't get financing for against the 180k cashflow? It could definitely make sense. A question I love to ask people is, "would you take 1m cash today (post-tax), or a 1mm salary at a job for 10 years where you have to do the work?". For instance, I might take the 1mm and found a startup/speculate (unlimited upside, and -5mm downside), while someone else might take the 6mm (after taxes) over 10 years. It's simply a matter of opportunity cost.
Thanks for the detailed bug report. I guess throwing the bomb as you died produced some kind of unexpected side-effect. I will make sure it's fixed! Congrats on getting to lvl 12 :)
I recall paying for it in iOS, and getting a "it's free for a year" message on Android before the Facebook transaction.
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I can't tell if this is finance or numismatics.
Why are the quantum measurements the focus of this paper? The real source of entropy is the random bits being generated to decide which measurement to perform; the measurement actually being performed is just an after-show.

Regardless, I think it's clear that assumption `(i)` is the one that breaks: the system affects the decision of what to measure. The stream of random bits will consume all the neg-entropy in the system, cause heat death, and thereby break whatever mechanism was doing the measuring (e.g. if it was you, then you would die).
5 Factors to Consider in the “Build or Buy” Decision for Reporting Software
I mean it's possible to have ideally equitable policy and do almost nothing to address the root causes of racism.
Even if it's totally worth it, surely you can get a better deal than effectively taking out a loan with a 100% interest rate, or whatever it works out to.

Edit: 30%. Not quite 100%, but still really bad.
re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon has an excellent further discussion of this problem beyond just Gmail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8supIUj6c
Well, I would assume that you could trust the person signing things with a private key about whether it was what they wanted to be treated as the most recent thing to be signed with the private key?

But, I might be misunderstanding some things about how the updates are sent.

I thought one just sent a message signed with the key with a newer ID and sent that to whoever was keeping track, and they would verify it was signed, and had a newer id and would share it further.

Is this not how it works?

I mean I guess malicious or lazy nodes could not toward things, but that would just make things not get updated, usually couldn't cause things to revert, and couldn't make up stuff, so...

That's how it works, right?
Isn't a bit bizarre from the author to point the finger to Italian anarchists for this unsolved case? I mean the "pair of Italian-American anarchists had been indicted five days earlier for bank robbery and murder" he mentions are none less than Sacco and Vanzetti, who were victims of one of the most spectacular miscarriages of justice willingly perpetrated for political reasons I can recall. To find an Italian anarchist guilt of something in the US during the 20s proofs were not really a requirement, so this case wouldn't end up unsolved.
There is in fact very little correlation between school spending per student and performance: http://www.npri.org/publications/analysis-shows-little-to-no....
Scalability for Dummies
Tsunami alert as Chile hit by powerful earthquake
This is probably the reason.
Don't governments have the ability to go into debt for exactly that stabilizing function?
I have always felt that premature optimization is the root of all evil implied that you will profile the code post writing and fix the bottlenecks. Also as long as there is no impact on code clarity, I don't think writing (prematurely)optimum code is bad.
The difference, I think, is that you can at least apply individual filtering to the problems of annoying aunts and mass-emailing friends, of the same sort as you see with Facebook's "remain friends but unfollow" option.

Spam is hard because there's no manual filter you can write that targets "everyone you don't know", without removing the ability to be reached-out-to by real people who have a genuine desire to tell you something you care to hear.
I was responding to the first paragraph, which is technically all about the performance differences. (it does say "How could it be the case that virtual threads implemented in user space are faster than native threads provided by the OS?") Whether that matters and is a valid decision point is a completely different question as you say.
Dissent uses NIST P-256, which according to djb on the TLS working group mailing list contains unexplained constants http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10149.ht... also fails his safe curve criteria http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/
GrockDoc.com: Technical documentation

It's a hobby project. I currently publish 3 new articles per day.

Some example docs:

Cassandra: https://www.grockdoc.com/cassandra/2.1/articles

Android: https://www.grockdoc.com/android/5.1/articles
The fact that the company is called Uber, which is an obvious reference to Nietzsche's idea of the Ubermensch. The fact that Kalanick has said, publicly, that the point of starting the company was to enable his already-rich friends to "be baller" in San Francisco. The fact that he had Uber build a thing called "God Mode" into their software so that he could watch famous people come and go on the service and occasionally put that enormous power on display to other powerful people.

He's a raging, power-hungry narcissistic sociopath, in public, all the time. This isn't guess work. The parent of my original post is suggesting that Uber exists for reasons other than the ones Kalanick has given in public, and that's just silly.