skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US you need something called Ride Share Insurance.

I couldn't find a price quote, but I imagine it's not cheap.

Your current policy holder is not required to offer this special insurance. They can cancel you if they feel you are driving for Uber without telling them.

No beefs with Uber, other than stop fooling with vechicle requirements, and fees. You're hiring independent contractors?

Oh yea, whatever you do don't go into debt over Uber. Buying a new Prius to work for this company seems rediculious.
Can someone explain to me why Haskell will ever be viable as a fullstack language? I have done a few toy projects in Haskell, and it has taught me some great functional programming concepts that I now apply to other languages. But, purely functional programming seems to work 90% the time, but the other 10% is so negative it invalidates the rest.

Edit for clarification:
Full Stack would be app server up. So runs a server (some sort of process/thread/worker management), server scripting is in the same language (can auth, process requests, interact with a DB, etc), and build the view (simple JSON/blob response, build html, etc). I exclude client side form this, since most of the X for client-side projects end up transpiling into JS.
Just to be clear:

1. Apple does not market their devices as secure against nation state attackers.

2. You have not detailed any alternative that is.
Refurbishing a 1927 Switchboard
Show HN: Jolteon – Babel/Electron/React/Browserify/Sass application stack
Uber driver kills six in shooting spree
Legally, "permission to be where you are" is a right reserved for the capital class. Even in my home my right to stay only lasts for 60 days and then I am subject to whatever forms of violence are necessary to remove me so that a pre-designated member of the capital class can be where I am.

From here it's miles to a place where I have the right to urinate, and tens of miles to a place where I have a right to sleep, and to my knowledge there is nowhere in my country where I have a right to do subsistence farming, or steward any kind of ancestral resource.
You had asked what the current situation has to do with open/closed, and I detailed an open alternative. You're now arguing against my explanation as if it affects the main point. I didn't need to describe a better way in order to analyze the failings of Apple's system. If you aren't interested in an example of how open trusted hardware could function, then just ignore it and judge the system on its own merit.

The fundamental flaw remains that Apple utilizes closed-design trusted hardware based on a manufacturer backdoor. This type of system is insecure against the manufacturer (and by extension USG), and marketing it as secure against such is willfully negligent.
The trend seems to be more to insert humans into an automation process - e.g. mechanical turk, amazon package fulfillment, uber, etc.
People are using the subject line to contain the whole message?
Why free parking is bad for everyone (2014)
The LG phones have been great so far, I still have my G2 years later, everyone in my house has had them.
Yes, and this would make it even worse (because the cost wouldn't be known until after the April 1 auction). That's my point: it's already bad for a variety of reasons, but introducing an auction just makes it worse.

Srinivas is right though: the price is clearly too damn low.
If you've not listened to Dan Carlin's 6-part series on the Great War, take the time to do so. The "whys" and "hows" of World War I are much harder to get your head around than WWII...it's just much less linear. Not only does he do an excellent job of making the mechanics of the war understandable, he draws the element of humanity into stark relief by interspersing explanations of troop movements with first hand accounts of the suffering and carnage men sustained.

Episode IV focuses on Verdun and can be listened to as a stand alone episode but the rest of the series is very much worth the time.
http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-53-bluepri...
>Make sure you sell your Google and Facebook stocks before that time.

Kind of ironic seeing those are the two posterboys for companies going balls deep into AI.
It's fun. You don't have to get offended. It's just a silly picture. No one was harmed in it's making.

Stop wasting people's time, let them focus on productive aspects of the project.
“It’s the worst players in the web publishing world that’s driving this.”

You mean it's only the 95% that is making the rest of you look bad?
Uber was warned about this driver, but didn't act on it. After calling 911 on their driver: "In the end, all they were left with was an Uber bill for the $5."
I like how Websockets is built in and considered as a primary feature. I use it more often than REST endpoints these days in my applications.
Recently re-watched this movie thanks to Ready Player One: so great to see plausible hacking in a movie (as much as I enjoy Hackers for the entertainment value) - I love this behind the scenes snippet about the movie and its real world impact!
Heh, are we embracing the "Oregon Trail generation" name then? This may be the first time I've seen a reference to it outside of a discussion of the group itself.
Since when does capitalism care about the consumer if they can make at least as much money regardless?
as long as there are managers, there will always be a a high percentage of 'work in the office' situations.

People always talk about the future work environment from a rational point of view. That is not how business works.
My daughter would disagree with you in re: thinness. The newer thin iPhones are easier to pocket - women's fashion being more form fitting than men's. It's a trade-off that she and presumably lots of other people are willing to make.
No support for a 24 hour clock?
Some of the Numpy and Scipy routines go back earlier than the 90's. AFAIK, they trace their roots to numeric routines on Fortran punch cards.
In England, Uber is licensed as a minicab firm (taxicabs you can hire on the street, minicabs you must order through an operator, and the Uber app acts as the operator). Uber play completely fair with the regulation here (maybe the regulation was never as onerous as in the states). You can generally see on the side of the vehicle that it has the licensing from the appropriate council. The council won't license a minicab that doesn't have insurance.
What I'm interested in is running Debian and X on the watch... any pointers?
I recently started doing more development on Windows and coming from os x and linux it's a bit weird to use `py` instead of `python` but other than that it's pretty straight forward.

I also want to mention that I'm loving all the recent attention for python on HN. It's a great language, 2 or 3, and has many great use cases and has a great ecosystem.
How you can use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits (Open Sourced)
Satoshi hasn't been known to have uttered a single word since 2010 and thus it can't have referred to Satoshi. Further the idea that one can simply ask Satoshi for his opinion, when he's disappeared for more than half a decade is also quite silly, unless you're completely uninvolved in bitcoin any know next to nothing about it. I assume that's why you were downvoted, because your suggestion adds nothing meaningful to the discussion and shows you lack some basic topic-specific knowledge and so it makes sense for your post to be less visible.

At least that's my assumption, I didn't downvote.
It sounds like tooling has improved but it's still the biggest hurdle for beginners:

"Improving IDE support is the single easiest way to lower the entry barrier to newcomers."
Tried to send same message with same password again after reading it.

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
God forbid a tech site writes about anything else than phones, tablet and laptops.

The horror!
the majority of marriages get started in the workplace. a safe place to get to know each other, without the pressure of dating. working together teaches you a lot about a person.

take the social cost into account. not everyone excels in the dating scene.
> The rating of the "Educational" section still remains "Immature" until this book is out of Early Access and finally released, but once the book is out I will finally mark Haskell as having "Mature" educational resources.

I haven't read the book myself, but is the book really so good that we can go from "Immature" to "Mature" with the release of just one book? I find that to be a bit strange considering Haskell is a very complicated language; I have a hard time believing a single book (that is beginner friendly no less) could really explain everything there is to know about Haskell.
To be fair, MD5 was broken in 1996. If your content addressable system uses crypto broken 10 years ago, of course, you can't guarantee integrity :-)

who is to say how much compute power state level adversaries bring to bear

Not enough to break modern hash functions.
> Apple does not market their devices as secure against nation state attackers.

Then what exactly is this court case for?

> You have not detailed any alternative that is

As I had just said, Linux's LUKS/dmcrypt. The authors simply do not have the power to unlock other peoples' volumes.

Some other properties are traded off, but since you are unwilling to discuss system models ("completely hypothetical"), then I don't see the point of detailing the landscape. A system can have a vulnerability without needing a nearly-identical system without the vulnerability for comparison.
There's a core component of the article that's good, though. The part about not getting hung up on the fact that you're not where you're "supposed to be", or that you're not as far along as you perceive others to be. This is an important point.

But I agree, encouraging constructive action is better than complacency.
Care to elaborate on what the 10% covers? I can see a few places where pure functional programming might not be as clear as imperative code, but I don't think that it invalidates the possibility of using it for large projects.
Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager
This made me laugh. We definitely don't need a standard for this, but at least it's harmlessly useless. :)
Show me how you support error handling or concurrent processes. Heck, show me nested iteration or even basic recursion - then show me all of that, scaled up to real-world complexity.

My suspicion is that as your model approaches the complexity of real-world systems, the visual language you're creating will be unable to efficiently capture that complexity.

Would love to be proven wrong.
An article from an LA-based author telling you to "just chill"? You don't say...

It's best to be honest with yourself and come to terms with where you are in life and where you want to be. After that, unless you put action into your belief, you will be sad. Even if you fail, but put action into the belief, you'll be happy and have grown.

This article has utility for over-achievers who need to learn patience, but anyone else (especially anyone who struggles with motivation) should ignore it. It aims to make you feel good "you're doing the best you can" and has cute, but vapid lines like "let timing do what it needs to do" or "it's just not the fucking time if it's not the time."

If you need help with motivation, you probably don't need to be told you're already doing a great job and should just succumb to some external force of "timing". This is probably the thought that's actually holding you back. If you feel like you work hard and are never satisfied, it's true that you should just chill. The strongest people in my opinion are the ones who are able to keep a calm & humble mind while steadfastly pursuing their goals.
It's in a sweet spot. It's good enough for unstructured exploratory analysis, for production code, it's super easy to get started in, and there are some good libraries. There's really low overhead to poking around data in it, and you can put something into production with it.
> Virtual reality. Other than for games, it won't be big.

Why? Effective and realistic VR has reach far beyond games, it could nearly eliminate most business travel and recreational travel. No need for a real office or commuting when a company can have a virtual office that feels real enough for workers to collaborate with presence. No need to blow large amounts of money travelling to real places that are either perfectly imitated in VR or blown away by cooler places that only exist within VR.

VR ain't just for gaming.
Make Quora better
> AFAIK, they trace their roots to numeric routines on Fortran punch cards.

Oh yes they can bind to much older libraries (e.g. BLAS), I was talking about the packages themselves. For instance Numpy is the unification of Numeric and Numarray, the former having gotten started circa 1995[0] on matrix-sig[1] and the latter originally indented to replace the former. So numpy itself has its roots in 1995.

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1995-August/000...

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/

There are gems in these early messages too, for instance one of the early threads suggested allowing parens-less tuples and slice literals (a:b) in tuples within indexing: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1995-September/...

Slice literals, let alone slice literals in tuples, remain indexing-only features to this day.

So the language has a long history of adapting itself to numerical computing concerns.
I realized the irony of complaining about Engadget going inappropriately off-topic and then doing so myself, and edited that out. Trying my best to stay on the rails :). I do stand by my opinion that even their tech-focused articles are horrible these days, including this one. To anybody reading this now -- klausa is not just writing crazy replies, I did previously have a blurb about a graphically explicit non-tech Engadget article in the parent comment.
Removing the Greater than Sign
No individual can own a patent and successfully defend it in court. The barrier to entry is too high. Patents only benefit corporations which use them to prevent competition from smaller companies which can't afford the legal costs of patent battles.

If you're in favor of patents, then you oppose small business, and you want to live in a world ruled by oligopolies.
Too bad I'd much rather be skiing than doing any of the very real work I need to be doing.
Thanks for the link. Here is good article about it http://www.nature.com/news/machine-ethics-the-robot-s-dilemm... IMHO, trolley problem is too theoretical. Firstly, these binary events are far from reality based on probabilities and context (like why could this situation occur?). Secondly, the answers to those questions highly depend on the society laws. These problems are missing crucial information what punishment should you expect in both cases. If you don’t know anything how the society will treat these cases then you shouldn’t do anything (for ex., Is it allowed to act like a policeman in this society?) Thirdly it depends whether you are a donor or donee in this society (can you compensate consequences of the damage of your actions?).

I found the titles that I was looking for:Universal moral grammar: theory, evidence and the future;Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
The entire series is probably over 20 hours, but it is well worth the time.
Yes, I think that this will be the only acceptable model, ultimately.

Advertisers will pay users directly - through some kind of micro-payment process.

Users will choose which sites they use to view the ads and obtain their revenue through.

Websites will compete for users by providing services or content, that users may decide to pay for from the revenue they receive from advertisers.

The advertising abuses and the tracking will stop when users reward only the advertisers and websites that behave ethically.

The above is a simplification of course, there's a long way to go before it happens, but I think the advertising world will grudgingly accept it eventually.
The lock in can be countered by the price actually. In the east and south bay you get better availability of drivers in lyft because it's about .40-.30/mile more expensive than uber. Lyft also has lyft line in parts of the east bay, increasing some demand there.
Piling on, even if the actor and time source are the same, you have to be really careful about how your use "wall clock time", because if you're just asking the OS what time it is, a lot of platforms allow the clock to move backwards, not move, etc.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Hemingway
the nature of the label bias present in rnn - the weights aren't learned by estimating the loss over the whole input/output, they are localized... representation helps a lot for the decisions but if you trained rnn-s differently - using the loss over the whole output - you would get better results
Could be worse. Swatch tried "Swatch beats" in 1999.[1] A day is divided into 1000 parts. There are no time zones. The zero meridian is at Swatch HQ in Switzerland. (They could have used UTC, but no. "Beats" are UTC+1.)

Swatch sold watches with this, but not very many of them.[2]

[1] http://www.swatch.com/en_us/internet-time
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
My personal intuition is that the tiny space savings isn't worth the creation of a new timestamp format that will undoubtedly cause frustration down the line, if this catches on.
Working memory training could help beat anxiety
All you're doing is proving my point. The banks and government should not be getting $0.27 cents! That defies the whole definition of the word "micropayment". A micropayment has to be workable at less than $0.01, otherwise it's not a micropayment system.

Basically, your whole argument is "it can't be done within the status quo". No shit, sherlock. If it could be done, someone would have done it already. That's why the status quo has to be changed.
Not that I agree with them, but their point seemed to be that their service is accesible to all, independently of their wealth. That close, but not the same as free.
I grew up at/near Verdun, and we regularly find active shells (53 millions used during the battle), ammo, bayonets... A large part of the area is forbidden ("zone rouge" in french). WWI devastated the Meuse county.
Today, some kids do camping in abandoned forts ;)
Ah, the ad war wages on. I say no to ads because they exist in opposition to visually clean pages, no tracking, no malware.

As a lot of online content falls under entertainment, if it came down to it, I'd be happy to unclutter my mind/reduce procrastination by restricting my browsing to non-essential content, rather than eat ads.

Seems part of why the frenzy is heating up is that many media sites merely regurtitate news and do not produce any unique content, but are ad and tracker heavy. So, they stand to lose, even in better-case scenarios where some people are willing to pay for content they value.
Experimenting with Bluetooth to revolutionise safety for cyclists
Lots of fun, but it tends to drive on the right hand side of the road. Looks very weird on Australian roads.
Machine Learning: Scatterplots
Very Cool! I've been thinking a lot about decentralized social networks and the value that they could bring. With companies I love like Soundcloud so far in the red, it is only time until they go under or change fundamentally. I think this idea of decentralized feeds fits very well with the current state of music, many different artists, collectives, and labels that basically only exist on the internet. If anyone wants to explore the idea with me I am very open to it!
Indeed, statistically we can't all excel, we had best shape a culture in which this fact of life is bearable. Reminds me of a funny study that finds most teachers rate themselves above average teachers, most drivers rate themselves above average, etc (of course, statistically this is impossible).
The Unsuitability of English (2015)
Luckily GRPC can downgrade to HTTP/1.1, so if you want some of linkerd's features it isn't a total non-starter; but this is obviously less-than-desirable. We're working with the finagle team to complete finagle's netty4 integration, which will enable us to transparently introduce netty's http/2 codec into linkerd. This is a high-priority feature.
https://xkcd.com/632/
There was no jumping the gun. LM is a technical forum, at least to the degree that the should know the difference between a cipher and a digest.

Regarding your other point, just because someone uses an algorithm doesn't mean that it is used with proper parameters, work factors, etc.

Do no make any assumptions about crypto, "probably using" is not good enough.
Using Twitter from R, exporting results to a csv file
Most people who support lower taxes also support lower government spending. These are not republicans or democrats but people who mostly do simple math.

40% tax essentially means people are working for government from January to May and get to keep only what they earn from June to December. I think that is not the way a free society should look like.

I am all for paying taxes to build roads and police and courts. But heck I am not sure why I should pay for other people's food stamps, medicare and wars in Iraq.
I don't see where that adjusts for the exceptionally low costs of digital mediums.

For example, TV ads were terribly expensive because there was only a limited number of channels and limited number of slots. A billboard required sending a team out to put up a new sign. Radio and magazines were also somewhat limited forms of mediums which allowed their price to stay high.

Now with digital mediums where ads can be changed on the fly prices have dropped dramatically. One would assume there is a supply and demand curve that directly influences the price. This shows in online advertising where there is almost unlimited supply, the cost/payoff for each ad is very low. In mediums where the amount of advertising is fixed, the SuperBowl for example, the price for ads is at an all time high.
Yes. VR is for porn.
Discussion from a posting an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11146258
I think most people would argue that it's useful when you want your code to be very maintainable or stable.

I think right now the lack of educational materials and overall difficulty of learning it make it impractical for industry use unless you plan on only having a very small team. I don't know what 10% you are referring to but I personally find performance analysis to be a huge issue due to the laziness. I suspect this is largely due to the lack of educational materials which is why I'm a little skeptical that the release of one book will suddenly make it all okay as the article seems to suggest.

Still, I find the language itself a complete joy to use and use it almost wherever I can.
You say a business now doesn't have to consider who is most dollar valuable if they rely on advertising. Maybe. But advertisers sure still do - and advertisers are then your customer and so you basically choose who is most dollar callable to the advertiser. I think the distinction is so slim that it's irrelevant.
I don't understand the idea that VR will make business travel unnecessary. What problem does VR solve that video conferencing doesn't? The ability to turn your head?

The reason business travel, and in general non-remote work, is worthwhile isn't necessarily the pre-planned meetings, it's also the familiarity developed by meeting somebody in person, shooting the shit over lunch, and being able to casually mention an idea or anecdote without the overhead of a "call."
I like the distro, too. Though, the patten you mention is very troubling. Thanks for pointing that out.