skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the move by Postmates is better than you give it credit for.

1. For single people with roommates or friends who come over (or even who just order multiple meals at a time) or aren't price sensitive this will work. It's only those who can't or won't afford it that it won't appeal to. (Their old service will still work fine)
The higher price may allow for scaling the customer service side up before being overrun by orders - thus keeping high-margin customers on the service early - and slowly dipping down into the lower-margin side of the market. (This kind of goes to point 2 - resources are not unlimited for postmates - for Amazon they are).

2. They can then sell the Plus plan to restaurants as a way of getting more customers - this benefit will diminish to each restaurant that joins but will provide an incentive in the short term to restaurant owners to join Plus. They can develop a good process for dealing with the restaurants and review restaurants to ensure good service before adding them to Plus - improving the experience for all.

2.b. This shouldn't mislead customers as long as the catalog of Plus and non-Plus customers is available before signing up for the plan. In fact it will lead them to see which restaurants they should work with most to add to Plus as customers complain if they don't sign up.

Postmates plan looks shrewd, calculated and smart for all parties involved.

(bluetidepro's response to Postmates's worker seems match with some of these views)
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You must live in a more civilized locale. Most USA police in fact are fairly decent human beings. The system is set up to encourage them to act as gangsters, which many of them do. It was set up that way by a different group of gangsters. Does this not make much sense? That's intentional; voters don't understand it either.
>Sorry, but you'll never convince me you get "sharper" at the end of the day than at the beginning.

I'm "sharper" at night because that is the only time I can expect to have no distractions. That means other people not being around; typically because they're sleeping. A [ job ] without distraction will always be more productive than [ job ] with constant distractions.

Not to mention I have a 'waking period' of about 4 hours. I'm not mentally checked in until several hours after I wake up. Caffeine helps with this but unlike a large portion of society, I don't rely on caffeine to wake me up in the mornings.

What I find extremely bizarre is that many of these so-called "morning people" need a cup of coffee each morning or they're as braindead as I am. It's almost like they aren't morning people at all and are relying on a stimulant to make them more alert and "mentally checked in".
Slight correction, F# support is broken right now. But its being fixed as we speak :) https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script/pull/203
You have a very very mistaken view about the level of sophistication necessary for reproduction. Its just not based in fact. There are still multiple stone age level tribes on the earth. take a woman and man from such a society with no tools and clothing, and put them in a environment similar to what they are used to and they will build the tools and clothing they need and reproduce.

Most modern humans are completely disconnected from this lifestyle and probably would not be able to adjust quickly enough... but its not some impossibility of biology.

Do you think a gorilla or chimpanzee male and female couple placed in an appropriate habitat with a reasonable amount of luck could survive to reproduce?
Make sure to watch the video -- especially the part in which the team introduces a way to use half-eaten chocolate bars for keyboard input... it gets even more surreal after that.
It begins...

Man, though, I would actually like to buy and use that!
Apple’s Mac OS X Is Open Source Now
It’s one big grain of salt in Iceland since everything and everyone is somehow related.
"Moderate evidence" is still evidence.

TDD forces your code to be tightly focused. It's very hard to write a test for reams of functionality before you write that functionality, so your code is automatically tight (and as a result, easier to refactor, maintain, understand, etc). I don't see how this is so hard to see or why you need empirical evidence for that part at least. A lot of what "value" is is quite subjective, even in programming. You know "good code" when you see it. Why don't you try TDD and form your own opinion?
Hmmmmm. There's gotta be something here. I don't even think you need something as extreme as UK/EU remote employees. We just need a good (and more common) way to diagnose DSPD, and then ask DSPD'ers if they are discriminated against at work, and then class action it up.

The person who was using the Facebook Chat status API to track his friend's sleep patterns comes to mind. But also, we're getting into creepy territory if a lawyer calls you and say: "hey! You work for BigCo and you're a delayed sleeper, aren't you? I know their work policies, have you had problems with that? Don't you want a bucket of money?"
> The sp=reject in the DMARC record is very important

sp=reject is already implied by your p=reject. You only ever need to specify sp= when it is different from your p=.

Additionally, adkim=r; aspf=r; pct=100; rf=afrf; and ri=86400; are all implicit defaults.
I can see this becoming a very lengthy debate about the pros and cons of a freemium model, but the point I think is that many new companies offer this to help get their product into the hands of people who may otherwise shy away from them. I agree with you that it provides no incentive for companies to support their bottom-tier users, but if those same users find value in the service they eventually become paying customers who are confident on the platform and more likely to do business with them long-term. It's a marketing thing more than anything else. Not unlike drug dealers. Give em a taste and you'll get em hooked. :)
I don't have a lot of experience posting things on HN. Is it OK to post it again in "Show HN"?
Ask HN: Why nobody uses .uk domains?
I've thought about this, or maybe Atlassian or GitHub doing so, or even GitLab, they're all companies that cater to developers and if they acquired JetBrains it would be a move that would keep them on top of their competitors on a new platform, especially Atlassian and GitLab since GitHub at least has Atom (though it suffers performance issues among other things).
> Further During Criminal Proceeding a judge can order property secured, i.e if a person is charged with embezzlement the judge can order prior to conviction a bank account be frozen, this is FAR FAR FAR FAR different than CF.

Yes, and it also requires time.

> CF is an abomination of "Justice" is has no place in any Justice System, any defense of it is promoting unethical practices.

CF is used to seize intercepted illegal goods at the border, and items left at the scene of a crime where there is nobody around to charge. Is that promoting unethical practices? A grenade is left in a populated area, and the police are called and confiscate it. That's CF. Without it the police are stealing someone's property. Requiring the police to find and convict someone before seizing what is an dangerous or illegal item does not make sense. It needs to be accounted for in some manner, which is the heart of my argument. Revise CF, or abolish it and pass other laws as needed for the useful cases it supported. Abolishment without understanding or examination is irresponsible.

> Period, End of Discussion

Sure. If you know everything there is to know about a topic, and all possible current and future interpretations of it, then that makes sense. Since I don't believe that applies to any human being, I don't think that's a rational stance to take. Apparently you do.
Austin has plenty of problems with cops killing black people. It's an utter disgrace.
A lot of them were ".example" which is OK.

And others said "WILL remove this in production" - i.e. basically a TODO in code which is quite normal for code in development.

Pitchforks down.
I've seen vanilla JS described as "bare metal programming" a few times.
Looks like you can install their software on baremetal GPUs too: boost.bitfusion.io. Doesn't say if they have support for Infiniband though.
WebAssembly Angry Bots Demo
Romanes eunt domus!
I have also found that desktop Linux has stopped being a reasonable solution to "bloat". I don't concern myself too much with bloat, as my machines are all pretty big (8GB laptop, 16GB desktop), but even with 8GB I can occasional get myself into a swapping situation. Firefox (I use the multiprocess developer version) and Thunderbird are memory hogs with an impressive appetite, so if I also start up a large-ish editor (like Atom or VSCode) and Inkscape or a video editor, I can end up with real memory problems.

I haven't actually dug in to see where all the memory is going precisely, but my email/web workflow (Firefox+Thunderbird) has been the same for about ten years now, so it's interesting that it continues to bump up against memory limits no matter how much memory I have. But, Windows on the same system has similar memory issues when working on the same tasks; so it is not immune, but I don't think it is notably worse than Linux.
I myself am skeptical about that.

Edward Bernays, who really pioneered propaganda, argued that people put elements of identity in "logic-proof compartments" because to be one thing by definition means not being another thing, and people often would rather shut out thoughts than seriously question themselves.

Are you an "entrepreneur?" What about "talented?" Or "Democrat?" Or even, "Liberal?" "Conservative?"

Public opinion is as much an influence on propagandists as they are on public opinion.
flagging seems harsh. Just don't up-vote.
I go to bed at 1-2am and wake up around 10am.

Works for me, but I run my own company so... it's a bit easier to do. :D
https://github.com/containous/traefik now has native Let's Encrypt support ;)
Should you ever write about that experience, I'd be very interested to read it. That sounds awesome!
Just a small note, hypo is the opposite of hyper. Hyperthyroidism => more active & nervous, hypothyroidism => less energy, more weight gain, cooler metabolism so you want to stay under blankets all day.

I had mild untreated hypothyroidism for a year and it didn't help me get to sleep earlier.
What do you want to know? In general, there are two ways software developers can make money: 1) services, i.e. contracting, work for hire, or consulting; or 2) products, i.e. build something someone wants to pay money for.
I had a chance to play with HoloLens for a few hours yesterday and it was a really incredible experience. Yes, the FOV is noticeable and I hope they can address it, but I felt like I was able to easily compensate for that with the visual and audio cues the device can show you.

And speaking of audio cues... I found the sound to be a truly magnificent aspect of the hardware. There are two orange speakers that sit above your ears that are somehow able to produce some really great special sound effects. If something wasn't immediately in my FOV but it made a sound, my mind was actually tricked into thinking it was part of the ambient sound in the room. It was almost disconcerting to remove the headset at that point and have the sound disappear.
Java is far far from the next COBOL. It is still my first choice when I want to choose a technology that will run for the next 20 years with minimal amount of code maintenance.
Appeals Court: No stingrays without a warrant, explanation to judge
Pretty common yes. Informal lending systems that are used in a lot of developing countries (most people don't have access to traditional financial services like banks and credit cards) are largely based on social networks and social capital - you are less likely to default on a loan if it's your friends who loaned you the money.
Further proof that the FBI was lying when it claimed that the hack they were pushing apple to create was just all just bull.
This is my favorite code search so far. On a related note, "why does this work": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+does+this+...
If you are going to connect to the grid you need a licensed electrician. If you are not connected to the grid you will need a large battery bank and twice the number of panels to get you through night and cloudy days. This is not to mention building codes and making your insurance company happy.
They also have an open-source React Native plugin for Visual Studio Code (developed by MS)
That's right, you can install on your own GPU servers. Infiniband+RDMA transport is also supported which typically doubles the number of GPUs you can scale to.

We're adding support for other clouds, particularly ones with higher-end GPUs so feedback like this is good to know.
the correlation is that out of the people that program in language A, X% of them also program in language B. This can also be expressed as given that someone programs in language A, the probability that they program in language B is X. It looks like the table is expressing the correlation in terms of % even though they dont mention that on the table.
Their customer service is really terrible. On my very first attempt to use them, I ended up being charged more for less food because Postmates had the wrong prices on their menu. I order something like 20 pieces for $25 and instead got charged $35 for 10 pieces.

Instead of taking ownership of their error and giving me a refund for the difference (I just wanted to pay the amount they advertised for 10 pieces on their website, I didn't ask for a full refund), they stonewalled me and kept responding with the same message over and over again. I ended up charging back the difference, and I tell everyone that they suck.
Show HN: Diff-actor.el – Act out diff's between files in Emacs
Alternately, it could be I just steeped my tea too long this morning, and am blowing things out of proportion :)
Hence the danger of drive-by criticism. From the first paragraph on their website:

> Whistle GPS Pet Tracker combines the best on-collar GPS tracking device with a simple mobile app, putting your pet’s needs and location right at your fingertips whenever you need it. It’s also the first device and app system to combine location-tracking and smart activity monitoring into one simple experience.

The Tagg acquisition discussed in the TechCrunch article was to add GPS capability to the fitness tracker. Products that start 'frivolously' often develop into something more important.
None of my points have anything to do with cost, I'm (realistically) assuming a campaign with huge amounts of cash. The problem, as with most conspiracy theories, is the number of people that need to cooperate and stay silent, and the number of independent safeguards that already exist. Spending more money actually hurts you, because it makes it harder to hide where that money is going, especially with all of the campaign finance regulations.

I can't think of a low-risk way to literally hack an election in the US at the moment. You would need a long-term plan to change election laws, homogenize voting machines and methods across the country, and then hack some centralized database.

There is no way to get around the polling issue in a country with an even semi-free press, so you still need a pretty strong candidate that you just boost a little.

Anybody in the real world who needed to rig an election would use indirect methods. Spying, spreading misinformation, ignoring campaign finance laws, gerrymandering, etc. All things that have happened and will continue to happen.
Those are completely unrelated products. Functions is a server-less philosophy kind of thing. SF is a cluster management and orchestration technology so obviously very server oriented (It manages servers)
The issue is that if cash or other valuable items are seized, they can be used to fund a legal defense. This is, at times, undesirable: if someone robs a bank, that money shouldn't be used in criminal defense because it's the property of someone else (either the bank or it's customers).

CF in general is a troublesome idea; a better system would be the court overseeing and holding in escrow any funds or items that are seized by the police and disbursing it as necessary once the trial is over or a plea is reached.
Hopefully someone finds this useful. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
That was my first thought. Why would they sink energy into this without contributing a Windows Phone target for React Native?
For whatever reason, GitHub Archive changed their data schema in 2015. https://www.githubarchive.org

The new schema conveniently lacks a repository_language field, and is likely the same reason the data in the paper abruptly stops at 2014. (Otherwise, I'd try to reproduce this analysis myself)
It's basically a minimal system module around a RT5350, a MIPS-based SoC (hence OpenWRT?). Reminds me of ESP8266 in its not-so-ubiquitous days...
>>DUI should be legal unless someone gets hurt?

yes.. Scrapping the DWI offense in favor of better enforcement of reckless driving laws would also bring some logical consistency to our laws, which treat a driver with a BAC of 0.08 much more harshly than, say, a driver distracted by his kids or a cell phone call, despite similar levels of impairment. The punishable act should be violating road rules or causing an accident, not the factors that led to those offenses. Singling out alcohol impairment for extra punishment isn't about making the roads safer. It's about a lingering hostility toward demon rum.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/11/abolish-drunk-driving-...

>>Can the government itself be counted as a victim?

No

>>What about tax evasion?

Taxation is theft
I can guarantee you that we will be relentless in improving dispatch, ordering and customer service. Recent changes dropped our average delivery times. In April we will switch to an auto-accept mode for all deliveries and we will also aggressively target faster pick-up times. Sorry we've let you down pbarnes.
I don't think you can get just a .uk. I'm pretty sure it has to be .co.uk which is a few extra characters thus making it a bit unattractive. Also, I think only UK residents are allowed and have to be approved, similarly to how Canada's .ca works. I'm not 100% sure though.
> Police discretion be damned.

That's the problem, as a mandatory law, there is no discretion, which makes the legal system too inflexible to be just. The problem with civil forfeiture is the opposite, as there is too much discretion, which allows it to be abused and used unjustly.
Can't speak for Airbnb, but I'm not sure that any of the front-end clients that you mentioned (disclosure: I work at Looker), can talk to Druid. So if Airbnb already had a Druid warehouse in place, they may have decided it was easier to roll their own front-end than migrate to a different backend.
I don't think the joke is the keyboard itself, not really. But I have weird fascination with mechanical computing combos.

Rather the startup, absurd change the world with chocolate, city blocks, and radical version changes video.

Disrupt keyboards.
Swings in "demand to the utility company".
Incidentally, JetBrains is starting out with Project Rider (a C# IDE).

I've been working professionally with Xamarin for the past month, honestly I'm shocked how half-baked Xamarin Studio is, both in terms of stability and features. (Since we develop for iOS, we use Macs and VS is not an option).

Of course now that Microsoft has stepped in all the way, things may turn around, but my feeling is that the best window of opportunity for JetBrains would be to provide compelling Xamarin tooling on non-Windows platforms. That's the weak spot of their mammoth competitor as far as C# goes

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/62250/vote-for-project...

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/oauth?state=%2Fissue%2FRIDER-...
Open sourcing 80 Days' narrative scripting language: ink
How I Validated an Idea with 15 Paying Customers in 12 Hours
Deco is building a pretty innovative looking React Native IDE[1] (HN discussion[2]), but it's still in a closed beta (and commercial).

[1] https://www.decosoftware.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074653
The .uk domain used to not be available directly. You could only register .co.uk, .org.uk, and a couple of other subdomains of .uk. Since 10 june 2014, direct registration under .uk is possible, but there's a reservation period for existing .co.uk and other .uk subdomain customers to claim their existing name on the .uk domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk
Comments about intention are good.

Yes, an experienced dev can infer intent from context (name, project, 'culture'), and even a smart beginner can read ahead to infer intent. But the comment resolves ambiguity in the advanced dev's mind, and saves the beginner's mind from the difficulty of read-ahead inferences (of which he may have several going at once).

I say, keep it.
Looker scales with plenty of data for us at Snapchat, it's more about the underlying database than the BI tool.
This is another one of those situations where people made non-obvious tradeoffs against systemic stability and resilience in favor of other goals (specifically, economic growth and home ownership).
Here's an example of not-so-real time rendering: https://share.esdf.io/log.html

It's a tmux window displaying the log file for the share.esdf.io domain. It refreshes every second, so the message above about animated examples applies.
Need to still wait until Skylake for CLWB and PCOMMIT x86 NVM aka "SSD-instructions".

http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/

Maybe we need even more cores soon...
Some personal favorites:

proprietary and confidential: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22proprietary+an...

do not distribute: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22do+not+distrib...
Take Cover Against This Drone Attack
EDIT: I'm dumb
Fixing the results 49% to 51%, is a way for them to seem plausible.

American Election Hacker Testifies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzBI33kOiKc
Is anyone going to do a search for usernames and passwords?
Ask HN: New grad, new job at a small startup. How to prepare for the future?
Hi HN,

I just landed my first job in Toronto at a small local startup that's picking up steam. I interviewed with a bunch of firms (including some big ones), but decided to go with the startup as they were the ones I got along with best, seemed extremely interesting, and a place where I can learn to be a great software engineer.

My only question, probably derived from my parent's disappointment I'm not going back to the Bay Area for a 100k+ starting salary, is am I shooting my self in the foot?

Should I have gone somewhere else that's more recognizable, or take this risk, albeit at a much lower pay than SV, and learn learn learn.

What did you do for your first job. What would you do now? What can I do so that in the future that my skills will be in high value in the next 2, 5, 10 years?
I think of Python as programming language that lets me do anything from web, shell scripts, games, and even server environments (Matrix is a decent example). It's not my top language choice, but I still enjoy it as a scripting language because it has many use cases. I'm sure Ruby could be seen in a similar light as well, and maybe Perl as well.
Have all major trackers enabled on "start-page" per default, talks about ad-blocking with a mouse click - facepalm
Deep Learning Tutorial Series for NLP – Thoughtly
The powerful marketing is the multi core vs clock speed.

Sort of like: buy one get one free (of slower clock speed).

I am impressed. (by the effective marketing deflecting the importance of clock speed).
How to Reach Software Delivery (DevOps) Nirvana
http://www.dvdrewinder.com/
I used to work on Spam, Abuse and Deliverability for Google Apps and am one of the original authors of those help center articles (although they have been changed a bunch since).

Can you share the full message headers of one of these bounces you are receiving? Feel free to redact your email address.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22454?hl=en

Edit: I left Google in 2013