skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because a vote went a particular way neither means that it is fair/good, or that it is the will of the people.

Voters have, in multiple instances, voted to deprive minorities of civil rights.

There is also a strong bias in what sorts of people vote. This "special election" had no other ballot items. Few people voted, probably because not a lot of people cared enough to go to a polling place. One of the demographics most likely to use uber/lyft is also least likely to vote.

On a personal note, I moved to Austin from the SF Bay Area a few months ago so that my spouse could pursue a PhD, and did vote on the issue. I don't really care about politics. I just don't want to have to wake up a loved one at 5am to get a ride to the airport (which I had to do Friday). I don't know who's more to blame, but I wish the city council and uber/lyft would stop their petty bickering and come to an agreement.

Edit: Also note that the vote result was actually "change nothing" - the rules uber/lyft don't like were passed by the city months ago, but aren't in effect yet.
> (...) Venture capitalists had begun to prioritize profit over growth.

What about "startup == growth"?
The difference is that Boston and New York have transportation hubs that makes it easy to get around to many other places in the East Coast. Pittsburgh is a few hours drive away from any other major city in the area.
I'm not sure it was even popular for the American well-off (upper middle-class). In Mad Men, I remember them making a point of the characters ridiculing a woman who said she liked to take walks (though she was abnormal in other ways, like being divorced).

(I know it's not top-grade historic research, but they tried to highlight what was known about the 60s, and this matches the environment that inspired Bradbury's story about it.)
> I think as a lawyer who practices a great deal of corporate transaction

Well, I think we can both see these systems are an attempt to circumvent individuals like yourself (At least partially, some human legal representation will likely still be used.)

Taxi drivers similarly complained a lot about the legality of Uber.

(BTW, my wife is also a corporate lawyer.)
I'm going to upgrade my view of this article to linkbait title. The title should be, "THC found to not correlate with impairment in the same way that blood alcohol concentration does".

From the article:

> The study's findings underscore an important point: that the measurable presence of THC (marijuana's primary active ingredient) in a person's system doesn't correlate with impairment in the same way that blood alcohol concentration does.

The story here is that there is no "THC impairment" test like there is a blood alcohol test, not that driving while stoned is safer.
Even better would be listening to existing customers and take steps to increase retention. Collecting data after cancellation requires allowing "the bad thing" to happen.
Ok, but progress is progress.
What does it matter what happened 20 years ago?
No, no, its SpaceBook. Wait, no its Space+. Well, let's hope they get plenty of users...else it will turn into a SpaceGhostTown...yeah, acknowledged it was a cheesy joke (what can i say, i'm a Dad ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ghost_Coast_to_Coast
"Investment in (new) fabs" only makes sense if volumes are increasing or manufacturing processes are changing. Volumes are projected as flat for the foreseeable future, and as far as anyone can tell process tech is near stagnating as well.
It's in the editor view, beside the undo button, at the top-right.

It's not visible if no changes have been made (if the consensus is that's a bad idea I'm happy to change it).
Whether the vote was good, properly representative, or whatever, the fact is that it was not a ban on Uber and Lyft. It was a requirement that to operate such a service, background checks be conducted on drivers. This is a requirement in many types of non-banned operation, and is not anything like a ban.

If Uber and Lyft prefer to not operate in Austin rather than comply with this rule, that's their choice and their service will be unavailable there, but not because of any "ban".
This is a phenomenal initiative for libraries using browser-accessible catalogues, but I wonder if it can be used with non-browser catalogue programs like absysNET...

My mom works in a library which uses an Oracle-based catalog, not in a web browser, called absysNET (OPAC). Would it be possible to run this on the RPi?
"If you're so drunk that you'd get pulled over as a pedestrian, then you most certainly should not be driving."

Or you could just be walking while black (or hispanic, etc.).
This is your chance to overtake Facebook and create something better. I'm not using FB.
Count me in when someone finishes the product.

I think there is a number, the maximum number of people someone can remember. or have as friends. Its about 150.
where are digital ocean and AWS? Does this not count VPS providers?
Collaborative Overload. Too much teamwork exhausts employees [pdf]
compare market cap to assets
Great idea! Might use this for some of our internal documentation.
> Maybe you look like your on drugs and have all the tell tale signs. In this case your gonna go to jail.

Wait, the illegal possesion laws extend to the drugs being already in your blood?
What does that have to do with the weather, which I am addressing.
how about angry - really really really angry.. that is not a good way to drive.
Thanks! I never thought about how these drawings were made and your wife's website is very delightful to browse.

Does your wife get follow on work from the science community once a piece is published? For example, having the piece reproduced for conference journals.
And he's quite right. Apple might be the exception because of their extensive cash reserves.

But if you look at Facebook or Twitter, it is hard to tell why they're selling for that amount.

I myself avoid index funds which over-invest in tech because I believe we're in a bubble.
The one thing I really want to know from these leaks is whether the chink I found in Kryptos IV is actually the route to break it.

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/709648710398054400
> while simultaneously listening closely to other musicians in the band, who are making their own statements

Ostensibly, yes. In practice, usually only one person at a time is playing a solo over a predetermined and repeating chord progression.
This isn't a complaint about the legality of the DAO, but that the description of it as a "corporation" is simply false. A corporation refers to a specific type of legal entity, which the DAO simply is not.

All the questions will_brown asks are simple and straightforward and meaningful for any corporation. They are in some cases murky and/or inapplicable for the DAO, because the DAO is very much unlike a corporation.
You wouldn't want to inhibit a community like HN, that would be useless.. but if you could shape it or get it to like you, that would be monumental.

Let's look at it from different scales..

Think on a very small scale: how many hugely successful companies were on YC combinator? A lot. Companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, etc. Companies that are now important. Imagine if you could influence their founders right at the beginning of their journey..

Where people spend their night and what files they store? That's great information to have.

Think on a slightly bigger scale: how many applied to YC? A whole lot more. What would you get if you influence those?

How many are on HN but haven't applied to YC (i.e: read and comment or just read): a lot, lot more..

Where are they? Could be anywhere. They could speak any language, be of any color, worship any deity.. They could be a teenager or a senior VP, an engineer or an artist. They could get any access to anyone, they could either know someone or know someone who knows someone.

They all are somewhat technically literate and can influence people around them. Right there, my friend, is the prime recruiting Tree of Knowledge for any Intelligence Officer in the world. Imagine if you could develop assets everywhere..

Or better yet, imagine if you can shape the image such a great demographic has about you to the point they look at you like a normal tech company: suddenly, you've reframed the interaction and took the controversy/guilt/moral dilemma out of it. They won't consider themselves assets since you're just like Google or Dropbox.. they won't think they're spying on their countries, it will just be filing a vulnerability report.

You could also have advocates that relay your thoughts on an issue about something: it's like having millions of megaphones. Or at least don't go hardcore on you..

Imagine all the communities each HN member is part of, and the reach this gives you.. Imagine all the places they access HN from..

Just imagine the possibilities if you get people that smart and dispersed to like and respect you.
That sounds cool - do let me know if you do anything interesting with it. :)
>Also, results of this study
do not indicate that drivers with detectable
THC in their blood at the time of the crash we
re necessarily impaired by THC or that they
were at-fault for the crash; the data availabl
e cannot be used to assess whether a given
driver was actually impaired, and examination of fault in individual crashes was beyond
the scope of this study

If there was a general increase in accidents, I think you would have a point, but all this conclusively demonstrates is that there has been an increase of marijuana usage among the population of Washington. The thing about how these drug tests work, is that they do not test impairment or if someone was high at the time, but if they were high within the past few hours to days. I think you're misunderstanding, that even if there is THC in someone's bloodstream, it does not mean they are high. It is possible that none of the drivers in the study were high at the time of their crashes, and all of them smoked the day before. It is also possible that every single one was high during the collision. Due to the nature of the testing, the linked study is not very conclusive on at least what you're trying to prove from it.
Deleted, then. Perhaps I have conflated the memory of being at javaone and being told all about the wonders of javafx, and the contemporaneous wonders of "filthy rich clients".
It sounds like he's just providing financing for a Gilbert-led group of investors. I don't know enough about private equity or Warren Buffett to know if that's still significantly out of character for him
No. As is, it demonstrates that you can understand the question in one language, and respond in another. Bilingual! :)
> In a software controlled world I tend to believe the developers will go last won't they?

A "software controlled world" seems to imply a constant need for development, but it will only need developers for as long as software can't do the necessary development itself. I can come up with reasons why this might be unlikely, but I don't see any of them following from whether the world is "software controlled".
"Dirty old man" is the expression.
It took 12 days for them to reply back saying that "They're working on a fix". The fix was not out at least until Late December/Early Jan. And they did not block fund transfers during the intermediate period either.
Instagram seems to have decided to implement their own sharing system that ignores everything but the most popular apps and websites.
You are too funny. Post a link to it being used then, and how it works, if you are so sure of yourself.
SPY isn't the only S&P 500 index fund.
This is really interesting in light of the studies suggesting that tall people are more successful.

Those results almost always claim that it's an externally mediated result (i.e. that we respect tall people more because they're tall). This would suggest that it might be an internally mediated result (i.e. that tall people are more confident). That would make a lot of sense to me, since we tend to be more acutely aware of our own height than other's heigh.
This is completely ridiculous comment, and I feel bad providing a response. However, the Sons of Liberty were opposed to the Stamp Act and related measures in 1765, the Tea Act in 1773- that's what the phrase meant. Slavery is not an expression of economic liberty, it is obviously a restriction on economic liberty.

Unions unfortunately continued the sordid history of racism in the US, particularly the AFL.
There's a reason corporations developed as they did. With a large number of owners, it becomes very difficult to tell what is actually going on in a company and making consistent, sensical decisions is difficult. The result is that we developed a board of directors who are elected by the owners to oversee the performance of the top employees at that company, and a complex of system of accounting to communicate the financial position of the company directly to investors.

I don't see how this project addresses the two main problems that corporations attempt to solve: a lack of complete information about a company of reasonable size, and a coordinating a large number of people who may not want to devote a full-time job to overseeing the company.

I would be much more impressed if they described this as an open-source investment algorithm or something like. Instead, it seems as if they're trying to sell us on the benefits of a corporation to people who think "corporation" means "big, evil company."
The first truly successful autonomous corporation will be a 419 scam. Even if it is not on Ethereum.
Some actual businesses exist in the coop model. You don't see it much outside of the crunchy granola parts of the US.

Kind of a shame, seems like a nice way to work.
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wouldnt fewer payouts mean more profits?
To expand on Dragonwriter's point just a little.

Lets pretend DAO somehow autonomously filed Articles of Incorporation in DE. What is required by DE? A DE physical address for the corp.; a registered agent located in DE; and a incorporator (doesn't need to be shareholder, but must be an individual). Already we see it is an impossibility for DAO to do this autonomously.

But lets pretend it wasn't impossible, DAO autonomously entered into a Lease, contacted with a registered agent, contracted with a corporate lawyer too be the incorporator and file the Articles. Whats the next step? A bank account, well DAO doesn't have a social security, and doesn't qualify for TIN. The Corp. can't get an EIN, which means it can't open a bank account, which effectively means it can't do business. Well again, lets pretend the DAO C-Corp doesn't need a bank account because well Bitcoin is perfect right? DAO autonomously creates a Bitcoin wallet for the corp and does all business through that, well the company still doesn't have an EIN, which means it won't be able to pay taxes.
I think the key word in your definition is "too" but I'd add more specificity to it: "you want something from me, which I'm not interested in giving you, and you're not reacting to my negative cues by backing off."

This may still be too general, as there are plenty of scenarios where this would connote "annoying" rather than "creepy," like with a persistent salesperson.

Perhaps it could be more accurate yet by adding "and I'm worried you may try to take it against my will, and have a chance of succeeding." to the end. That would cover, for example, noticing some masked figure sneaking toward your house with a crowbar.
Ever seen tonicdev.io? Is it possible to use npm packages in notebooks?
This article begs the question. Why does "Public not equal consent"?
I don't understand the desire to stack people on top of each other and "compress" and optimize residential areas. Apartment living stinks. Noisy neighbors, crowded living spaces, no yard to play in or have a pet in, more risk of fire caused by neighbors and loss of life and property, noisier environment outside, the list goes on and on.

I guess if you're wealthy enough to live in a nice condo with thick concrete walls and floors and ceilings, and a condo association with lots of strict rules about what you can and can't do to annoy your neighbors, maybe it would be more pleasant--unless you want to practice a musical instrument or have a workshop or a garden or...

Human beings aren't made to be stacked on top of each other. You can do it, but it results in much more stressful living. People are happier and healthier when the population density is lower and they have room to breathe and have more space of their own.
Why would it.. babel doesn't do any actual import/export modification. It doesn't have a module/bundler built in... that's what webpack, browserify and the like are for.. and no, they don't require the .js, but you can still use it.
You're partially citing some of Clayton Christensen's observations in the Innovator's Dilemma (which Andy Grove, Intel's former CEO, used to refer to):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Huh ! BTW right now Oracle vs. Google court is going on.
You can, just pop in a Verizon SIM.

They act like you need a whitelisted IMEI, but the network doesn't actually care. The tricky part is getting a SIM activated on their network.

The store managers pretend like they can't give/sell just a SIM. They're supposed to give them to you for free, but lie to sell you a handset. You can buy them from resellers who DGAF. They also pretend you need a whitelisted IMEI to activate the SIM card, their website and in-store people enforce this rule. I've always had good luck calling their 1-800 number and playing dumb. At the very worst you can probably find an old or broken verizon phone for free/cheap and use that IMEI.
> When you're not cherry picking data, not so much:

It's hard to see why "one country, one datapoint" would be more relevant than weighing all persons equally.

> There is absolutely no sane economic explanation why Obamacare would prevent companies from raising wages.

Of course it doesn't prevent that. It simply makes more convenient to raise non-monetary compensation.
If you have never taken ADHD stimulants before then you might experience a little bit of euphoria the first few days of stimulant therapy, due to lack of tolerance, but I doubt it would be an impairment to driving.

Source: I've been taking methamphetamine (prescribed) for ADHD for quite some time. I experienced a little euphoria the first week when I initially started treatment on amphetamines but it was nothing even close to what I would consider impairment.
The interesting question is "Would you pay a reward to a finder (~10%)?".
I agree. Maybe he's implying something about linux being multi-user.
Lead Plaintiff in Uber Class Action Suit Slams Settlement
Plus you're pretty much screwed on RAII since you cannot return a value from the initializer. So by not using exceptions in C++, you also will often end up requiring a separate init function that can return errors.
Probably valuations dropped low enough that yahoo can be valued as a classic media company instead of a tech company.

What generally scares Buffet from tech is that the price of tech stocks is greatly inflated to reflect expectations of future growth. Buffet is very skeptical of inflated expectations of future growth.

But I do not think there is any great expectations of future growth in yahoo. In fact many analysts say that if you strip out the valuable asian assets, the value implied by the market for Yahoo's US business is about zero or even negative.

So the answer is that Yahoo is not really a tech stock anymore, but the traditional definition of that term. At least it is not priced like a tech stock.
Just saying, working touch screens have been around on devices for 30 years or more. Most 'PDA's, including < $100 phonebooks had decent resistive touch screens as far back as the mid-90s. Also, as such, speech recognition too has been around for at least 25 years. What's new in today's smartphones is the cloud+deep learning driven high-accuracy. You could probably have easily found a handheld with touchscreen and speech recognition at Circuit City in 1999.
As someone who is short AAPL, my perspective is that they simply don't have room for growth. At the moment, they are essentially a one product company: the iPhone. And yes, that product is insanely profitable, but those numbers are going down, and personally I don't see a way for that trend to change.

Apple has expanded into every available market on the planet (literally). The only way for them to grow at this point is to increase their market share relative to android, or increase world economic growth sufficiently that more people in developing countries can buy iPhones.

Increasing their market share relative to android in any significant way seems incredibly unlikely to me at this point. As technology stagnates (as is happening with smart phones), the premium products lose cachet and the lower-end products start to achieve parity with their premium competition.

The two markets where they could still theoretically hope to achieve more growth/penetration are China and India. But China has been antagonistic to them of late, and has demonstrated an interest in protecting its own incumbents who are now making phones that even Westerners will buy (e.g. Huawei). India on the other hand is a highly tech-oriented culture, and as such has a predilection for customization and control that tends to make them prefer android phones. Not to mention that the CEOs of both Microsoft and Google (the only two competitor platforms to the iPhone) are currently Indian, and both companies have demonstrated a specific interest (especially Google) of expanding in the Indian market. And I think that gives them an advantage that's hard to overstate.

All of this would be fine if the market itself were expanding. But it's not. People are upgrading less and less frequently. This looks to me just like the PC market of 5-10 years ago or so. Things have gotten "good enough" for most people. I certainly no longer feel compelled to have the latest and greatest phone right away, and it seems to me that most people feel the same.

Lastly, there is the possibility that they will create some new category defining product. This is of course a real possibility, but I feel pretty confident that anything they attempt to do in the car market will fall flat on its face. I could certainly be wrong here, but I just don't see how they could possibly offer something so much better than existing cars that i'd want to pay an Apple-level premium for it. Especially when they're competing against someone like Tesla, who has already captured all of the rebellious smart-person cool points in this category.

Of course, I could certainly be spectacularly wrong. And to be honest, if I am, I don't think i'd mind losing the money too much. Because it'd mean that we'd all probably have some cool new product to play with.
Wonder if he'll bring a chunk of Yahoo to Detroit?
Almost certainly.

Garbage collection doesn't seem especially alarming to most of us because it's institutionalized, but "rag men" and "garbage pickers" are still seen as quite creepy because they're individuals taking possessions we identify with. The decision to throw something away doesn't sever it from our identity, especially with old clothes and personal effects.

Of course, the dog effect may be more about theft than identity, because they have no real way to differentiate "taking unwanted objects" from "taking valued objects" - after all, that garbage smelled delicious to them!
I think the key thing to emphasize as well is that "The DAO" is just a program which now has clearly defined rules for managing its assets in the form of cryptocurrency. When it interacts with the real world, it will do so by transferring or receiving digital assets and entering into real-world contracts with outside parties (Contractors). Whether those contracts with outside parties are enforceable, and how they will be enforced is within the realm of "to be determined" at this point. That does not at all mean the prospects for this type of setup/idea (DAO) are negative going forward.