skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car rental companies used to be at least partially owned by manufacturers: for instance Avis was partially owned by GM [1] (at least 29% at one point). These were used to offload excess inventory and prop up production of lower-feature cars.

It will be interesting to see how these services are used strategically by manufacturers - possibly refreshing these fleets when consumer demand is low; and subsequently how this is signalled to service users. It does look like for now these are full featured cars.

Enterprise currently has a car-sharing service as well. [2]

Disclaimer: I work for GM, but not in this area; these opinions are solely my own.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avis_Rent_a_Car_System

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Rent-A-Car#Enterpri...
Most of the ideas and products I attempted to get funded were around the idea of transforming the electronic medical record (in the broadest sense) from a mostly free text entity to a mostly well modeled discrete data entity. For more specific ideas I would be happy to discuss outside this board.
Language adoption is pushed by platforms. New languages get adopted when there's a new platform that people wish to develop for, and existing languages aren't suitable for it.

That's behind Swift's rapid rise (it's being pushed as the "new official" language for iOS) and a lot of historically successful languages. BASIC was the language of the early microcomputer era. C was the language of the UNIX & Win32 era. PHP and Perl were languages of the Web 1.0 era, and Javascript, Ruby, and Python of the Web 2.0 era. Objective-C is for Mac and iOS development, and Swift is soon to replace it. C# is for .NET development. Java was pushed as the language for the web, but ultimately found adoption within the enterprise, and I think Go is headed toward a similar position.

The reason we've seen all the major languages of the past 10 years backed by large corporations is because all the major platforms are controlled by large corporations. The web was the last totally-open computing platform to see widespread adoption, and there was a large renaissance of single-developer programming languages for it. We've been in a similar position in the late 80s and early 90s, when C was completely dominant along with Windows & commercial UNIXes, and it turned out that pattern reversed itself in a few short years.
PayPal changing its ToS again
I seem to disregard languages that imports to global name-space by default, because such programs tend do create spaghetti nightmare inception.
We have two separate problems:

1. Poverty.

2. Addiction to a substance and delivery mechanism poisonous to both the user and those around them.

Taxes are among the methods to reduce the prevalence of the latter, as well as to capture negative externalities of their sale. No reason to reduce those.

Addressing poverty and inequality generally, however, would be a Good Thing.
> My stance with these things, is if it's a backdoor, "responsible disclosure" is out the window.

Responsible disclosure doesn't just protect the company who built the product; it also protects all the people who bought it.
So you agree that the premise of the article is wrong. They should at least clarify which "blacks" they are talking about here. If they are only considering the race-mixed descendents of chattel slavery in the US, who are in fact, "less black" than people on the horn of Africa and in southern India, then sure, why not. But since your definition includes "there is no race", why even bother to talk about "blacks" at all in the first place.
Why would the author substitute the terms 'cash', 'savings' and 'profits' in the article given their entirely different meanings? Corporations could be sitting on trillions of dollars in 'cash' if they wanted, with zero 'savings' and zero 'profits'. The whole article seems somewhat contradictory.
I would assume they are smart enough not to sell the same version to the White House.
How long did this take to create?
I don't disagree with the OP's overall sentiment, but it's worth noting why Medium has succeeded in attracting authors despite being yet another blogging platform. The implicit integration with Twitter probably helped adoption...but undoubtedly the "beauty" and simplicity of the authoring and reading interface had an effect...It's always been frustrating me to explain to people who want to get into blogging that _writing a blog post_ is separate from the work of making the blog itself look beautiful, and that should focus on the former and we can then work on the latter.

Medium gives the latter without much work, and for aspiring writers, that's the incentive to finally try blogging out and feel like they've done something substantial. If it gets more people into the mindset of being creators instead of passive web consumers, I think Medium has been a good thing overall.
AIC depends on residual variation just like R^2, so I guess some people might be inclined to call it AIC_R to make that clear. Also, it's Mallows' C_p :-)
> If the owners wanted to own money sitting in a bank account, they could put the money in a bank account themselves.

This logic is completely absurd. The assumption of a shareholder trusting a company to hold cash "in a bank account" is that there's value in the ability for the company to deploy it rapidly in the event that they need it. If the shareholders held it in their collective bank accounts, then in the event that the company had an opportunity requiring a big chunk of cash, they'd have to go through some complicated (and perhaps too slow) steps to acquire it.

I have a brokerage account and a checking account, and an ATM card for the latter alone: and yet I keep a reasonable sum of money in the brokerage account so that I can execute a trade with short notice (i.e. without first waiting for a cash transfer from my checking acct). By your logic, "If I wanted to hold cash in the bank, I would hold it in a bank".
I don't think Bill Gates has much of a clue about what the world needs, he's very hypocritical. He lives a very consumptive 1% lifestyle (nothing wrong with that in my eyes - he earned it) but yet he turns around and preaches that everyone needs to change. Start with the man in the mirror bub.

Elon Musk is a bit better than him since he doesn't preach - but I would agree with Gates that he's a little gung ho on space travel. I honestly don't think it is humanity's place to leave earth, we are fish in water. Whatever comes after us (speaking in terms of evolution) will be the alpha in terms of space travel.
So, your claim to being undisputedly the best is just wrong.

The United States has immensely hateful, mainstream discourse about immigrants. Case in point : Donald Trump. That's one big strike against success claims.

Furthermore, it's not just African-Americans who are other-ised into a distinct grouping. Hispanic immigrants are, to some extent, other-ised into their own cultural subset.

I was shocked when I started going to college in the states, because you can even feel the racial divide in how people eat. There literally are black tables and hispanic tables and jewish tables and white tables.

If you're in the `desired' immigrant groups in the states, for example you are European or East Asian, you won't have much trouble integrating, and nor will you face much prejudice. But if you're not in those `desired' groups, you will not.

Canada, where I'm from, doesn't really have these problems to the same extent at all. We have our own; for instance, we other-ise First Nations groups. But that's pretty much all we other-ise.

Certainly the United States does a pretty good job. Hong Kong, for instance, is horribly behind the USA despite itself doing a decent job. But good != "undisputedly the best".
As a black software developer I had a much easier time getting along with the white French developer culturewise.
Seattle Transit Tunneling Is Going Great, and Voters Want More
React Native in an Existing iOS App: Dynamic Routing
We've banned this account. When a new account shows up and breaks the HN guidelines this badly, we ban it.
Review of the Steve Jobs Toy
I disagree. Judgments are difficult in the vast formless middle but some things are objectively good business ideas and some are objectively bad. Unless we are having a philosophical discussion about the possibility of anything being "objective", I submit it is possible to define some criteria for a good business idea, then assign by consensus a probability with which each idea meets these criteria.
He never seems to identify anything actually wrong with Medium except that it's popular already. People might be disinclined to write anything critical of Medium on Medium itself? Weak sauce. It comes across as a hipster-ish "I was blogging before it was cool" whine, or maybe somebody from Medium stole his girlfriend. What it's not is convincing. I'm actually more likely to use Medium now than I was before.
Do I need to signup to use the site?
Knock Off Appple School Supplies
Now this is interesting. Presumably the coordinates of their house are significant in some way. The result of some kind of truncation perhaps? I can't see how a floating-point error could converge on a specific value like this, but I'm no expert in such things. If they could only post their address the answer would surely be found very quickly, but that would defeat the object somewhat.

I suppose it's fortuitous that nobody lives at 0,0...
IIRC authorizations (solved challenges) expire after 10 months, so you could get up to 13 months of certificate coverage out of one solved challenge. The official client doesn't support this yet, it will request a new challenge token on every run.
Tedious ideological warfare is off topic on Hacker News. Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945033 and marked it off-topic.
One anecdote, one data point.

Paleo isn't magic, but it is consistent with previous advice. High in fruits, veggies, seafoods, nuts, and unprocessed meats. Low in sugars, other processed foods, grains, and dairy.

I'm sure someone could do Paleo and stay 350 pounds, but that would be hard as eating almost 3000 calories a day from fruits, veggies, seafoods, nuts, and unprocessed meats is hard since they're so filling per weight (as opposed to sugar in particular which is not at all filing per weight).

To be honest you can simplify Paleo thusly: Drop sugar from your diet as completely as possible.
Tedious ideological warfare is off topic on Hacker News. Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10944750 and marked it off-topic.
I do not have my head in the sand. I'm saying I don't remember ever being openly discriminated against. Are you saying it's impossible for a black person to live there life without being openly discriminated against in the U.S. ? Obviously we aren't in some post-racial utopia, but I'm saying I have never experienced racism to my face.

I find it funny that someone would think I would have to have experienced it
Hey, just FYI, your posts are getting killed for some weird reason. See:

http://imgur.com/FmBkqgo
Rock and Roll your Kali Linux 2016.1 – rolling ftw
Die Faire Maus
What about this scheme:

1) every hour the backdoor password is randomized

2) the backdoor password is encrypted using a strong cipher set, with a public key. The private key is held by the manufacturer HQ. The encrypted password is made accessible (if it's encrypted with a 4096 bit key, not even the NSA should be capable of decrypting it).

3) In case of fire, on-site troubleshooter breaks the glass eh emails the encrypted key to HQ, where it's decrypted by someone with access to the HSM with the private key on it and then dictated by phone to the on-site troubleshooter. Also, after troubleshooting, HQ supplies the system with a new public key and swaps the old one on the HSM.
> Recent data on these issues make me more comfortable today saying what not to eat. Our ancestors had no ...

Isn't that yet another fallacy? Just because our ancestors didn't have it, doesn't automatically mean it's bad for us.
If we can learn anything at all from our ancestors, then it's that the human body is pretty adoptable to different food sources. So if we want to know what's bad for us we should simply do studies today. It's not that I disagree with the recommendations, but I find the way of reasoning flawed.
> It's not clear to me what distinguishes Uber drivers from, say, Airbnb hosts, who are clearly not employees.

If Uber/Lyft were like AirBnB, it would be providing you a car with keys with the occasional optional driver.

With AirBnB, getting "service" beyond the lodging is optional (and less common than it used to be).

However, Uber/Lyft always provides the driver. The fact that the driver is an inseparable part of the service is what is eventually going to cause them to lose.
It is only solved if you are lucky enough to have suitable geography and a stable and wealthy enough government to support it, and are willing to irrevocably damage large ecological areas to build it. That solution isn't good enough to convert the entire world.
I'm a senior in CS at the moment; I declared somewhat late, and I never did any programming until my sophomore year. Before I got into in CS, I was worried that classes would assume outside knowledge (beyond prerequisite classes), and that my classmates that had programmed in high school or earlier would be way ahead in terms of ability.

In my experience (and this is at a "top" school/program), this has not been the case at all. In fact, a lot of the types that already had prior experience seemed to struggle when it came to more difficult or theoretical/mathematically rigorous classes (e.g. Algorithms & data structures etc.). I suspect that a lot of those who had already programmed did a lot of little personal projects or hacks. Maybe they learned some different languages, played around on the command line, generally dabbled in different areas of CS and software, etc. But I think the kind of skills gained from doing these sorts of things are mostly trivial. The types of problems solved in most typical apps and websites are not that difficult technically. You learn about a lot of the difficult problems in software and computability through CS material. And the other difficult problems are engineering ones - things like necessarily complex systems with lots dependencies, large-scale or scalable systems, software with high technical demands, comprehensive testing etc. etc. But that kind of thing is learned on the job, or at least in some kind of capable team working on an important project. Not by writing little scripts or apps on your own. Learning how to write readable, modularized code can be naturally (and fairly quickly) learned in intro classes if you are mindful and dedicated to improving.

However, this is just my own experience and observations. And there is no doubt that there are plenty of people out there who started at a young age, and are also superb at computer science and/or are fantastic engineers. But I don't think that in itself is a great predictor of someone's capability.
Who is behind Cicada 3301? A brief history of the hardest puzzle on the internet
Given the backdoor was reimplemented immediately, can we safely assume there is external pressure to have this available?

Would be interesting to see an email dump of AMX after the disclosure here to see how far down the rabbit hole it goes.
WTF did I just read? The guy relates so many ways in which he thinks we shouldn't use Medium, but never presents an argument on why.
It depends if the investor pulls their money out of the market when things start to shake down, or if they have some insights that would push them to do so ahead of a downturn. If they do, they might have _more_ money than usual to invest during a market downturn. Also, as a VC, your money is in a variety of startups that can crest even when the rest of the market goes sideways. Shopify had its IPO this year, others have been bought by the big guys, so their investors are now flush with new money. I mean if we have another big recession, there's going to be an investment chill so even an investor with cash to spare will have trouble finding partners to invest with. But we're not there yet.
Yup, looking at these stats puts a different complexion on the attitude of the tennis authorities (which in the case of the Davydenko-Arguello match screamed "cover up")

If someone announces to you that they've done some statistical analysis of 1500 players and they were shocked to find that a few of them of them fail a suspicion test at a 95% confidence threshold, you're going to question their grasp of statistics at least as much as the players' integrity.

And that's before you start considering that the "suspicious movement" flag they've chosen is a starting point for investigation by bookmakers rather than a sure indication of something being probably wrong, and their methodology for correcting outlying mispriced odds which differ from other bookmakers is laughably inadequate. Have a bookmaker whose opening price is 9.99 points longer than the average for the other bookies whose price correction moves it to 0.01 shorter than the other bookies? That's "suspicious", apparently.

And that's just looking at it from a pure statistics perspective and not assessing context which might exonerate them.

One of the listed names is a Grand Slam winner who [coincidentally] played his last single game this week to a rapturous crowd, and earned >$20M in prize money over the course of the career. It's possible he augmented that by throwing the odd match for 100k, but far more plausible his odds moving all over the place were the result of his form and injuries being all over the place in the latter part of his career.

(For the more forensic approach into Lleyton Hewitt's "suspicious" odds movements, someone wrote this:
http://www.sportdw.com/2016/01/tennis-fixing-buzzfeed-hewitt... )
You're right, there is lots of confusion in the topic and not all texts on regression get it right. Theoretically, linear regression depends only on a normally distributed outcome variable, the predictors don't have to be normally distributed. Practically speaking even that requirement can mostly be ignored: OLS is fairly insensitive to non-normal outcomes. Violations of the assumptions of regression usually don't affect the estimates much, they mainly affect the uncertainty around those parameter estimates -- the standard errors. This too is easily solved: use bootstrapping to calculate the standard errors.

In short: you can't just throw linear regression at anything and expect to get reasonable results, but it's pretty damn close.
Central Asia was Iranian before it was Turkic.
Static linking is one of the worst possible things you can do in terms of system security. When you run N applications that are all statically linked against library Foo and a 0-day drops for Foo, how does a systems administrator identify the applications that statically link against a vulnerable version of Foo and then patch it? Suddenly that sysadmin is dependent upon N upstreams to provide security fixes for a library they don't even maintain! Static linking is only feasible in the "app" world of proprietary software that gets shipped to customers without any concern for their safety.

Go is a bold step backwards in so many other ways, but this is one of the most egregious, especially since support for dynamic linking appears to be only an experimental feature.
Yeah, sure.

...for the handful of sprayings before mosquitos evolve resistance again.

...also assuming you are fine with killing off lots of other insects including bees and other pollinators, since DDT is a very broad spectrum insecticide.

...not to mention the problem with persistence in the environment and bioaccumulation. We almost managed to kill off bald eagles after the last go-around with DDT. Now that they have recovered, let's start spraying again, right? I mean, birds... who needs them, they're noisy and their turds are gross.
You might want to take a look at this, not sure if it will work for you though: https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-compa...
How Buildings Sound
Other options:

-The name of the wireless in a database and picking up
the first one, could not be fixable changing the router
name or ip address as it is already recorded somewhere
-Same for other routers or ip address in the neighbor
-Maybe it's not their fault but someone else did it on
purpose, e.g. take the cell phone and manipulating it
inside a room with stolen/faked/forged data somewhere
else and wrapped in a metallic sphere to block signals
so only the forged router can be used?
-Even more crazier: put a router really close and put
there a vpn/proxy?
IBM Acquires Ustream
As mentioned in the other threads, 3 month renewal provides a smaller risk window for compromised domains/certificates.

This is important, considering that certificate revocation is not a universally solved problem, and that Let's Encrypt is aiming to radically increase the amount of certificate issues as a whole.

No strongarming necessary, I'm pretty sure technical considerations ruled the day here.
The post mentions a few: Dropwizard for RESTful APIs (http://www.dropwizard.io which includes a bunch of good libraries), Guava, Guice, Hysterix, etc. We use Kafka for stream processing, Hadoop for batch processing.
Lobster is closing £300K seed round
The front page offers free registration without promoting the features / value of the service. There was a menu button (I was accessing the mobile layout), but I immediately lost interest and closed the tab.
Part of me feels if you can't keep track of your phone, you shouldn't have one.

I found this guy's iPhone. Called him up, and told him to meet me at high-tech burrito. He asked me if I would bring the phone to his home--at least 10 miles away.

I was close to tossing it out the my car's window, but I had him meet me at the burrito place.

If you only knew how special these drones I live among believe they are.
What is your intended goal in 'pushing the boundaries'? Where is the reasoning? Are you making life better for people, or are you confusing them? What is 'falling behind' in design? Does your product work well? Is it easy to use?

If you believe something has to change, just because it should, then I think you're coming from the wrong place. You have customers that depend on you, your job is to serve them, not some sort of need to invent the next great design revolution.
I was actually going to say much the same, even

> I'm actually more likely to use Medium now than I was before.
How do you mean whatever comes after us?

We are the only form of life we know of that can get into space using ingenuity. The alpha could be our descendants or created by tying our ingenuity in with the genetic background of other creatures.

We are the best chance known of getting life off of one small planet - I think it is our place to expand life through the universe.
> So I suggested he post the comment to a blog so I could give it greater circulation by pushing it through my network.

> In the back of my mind I thought that he'll probably put it on Medium. ...

> Well, he did put it on Medium and sent me a link, and I sent back a comment saying that I was worried he'd do that, and unfortunately while I love his post I am reluctant to point to it on Medium.

What an ass.

If you feel that strongly about it, say something up front. But don't wait for someone to do the obvious (for better or worse, if you don't have a blog and want to get out two thousand words, Medium is the obvious place to do it) just so that you can lord your self-decreed moral superiority over them.
My guess is that there are probably tools used by criminals to trick anti-theft software into passing a false location. You can quite easily fake your geolocation.
Basic thread logic based on condition variables in Poly/ML
0,0 is Null Island!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
> DDT

Handled by corrupt and incompetent Brazilian public health officials? Thanks but I prefer the mosquito.