skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As for "race," you can learn way more about someone from a minute of conversation than from a full genome sequence -- even if we knew how to decode the information in the sequence, which we don't. As for politics, there is essentially no one sane who thinks of themselves as evil or wanting to do evil. I have lots of progressive friends, and you'd be surprised how many ways we can find to see the world in the same way."

What a monster!
Anyone can say they aren't an outspoken advocate for slavery.

Take a look at this http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/why-c... and see whether you find it plausible to say that the author is not an outspoken advocate for slavery.
Clearly those two commands can't by themselves know how to set up a database; I'm assuming it's in the JSON file, but then not showing it is somewhat misleading. It would certainly not look as clean if you were to include a big "echo ... > vm.json".

Also, the database setup is only the first part, it then goes on to show container linking and etc.
> where do you get this from? HN is news for the people building startups and I would imagine they like high valuations :)

Nah most of us are getting the popcorn ready.
One thing I'd like to know (and I am sure someone has answered this somewhere) is the amount of people using Uber in their own town vs. people who travel and use Uber.

If in their own town, it seems entirely possible for a local strong competitor to offer a better product or service. For travelers that is less of a risk since you go with the brand you know (which traditionally has been a taxi cab).

In particular some markets are so large that it would be a juicy target to attack just the one geographic area regardless of whether you planned to compete elsewhere (NYC for example).

Now of course someone could argue that this could have happened to opentable and it hasn't. But that is a much harder thing to knock off with the tie in to reservation systems.
This is more general writing advice, but you won't go far wrong by following George Orwell's rules:

:: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

:: Never use a long word where a short one will do.

:: If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

:: Never use the passive where you can use the active.

:: Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

:: Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
I agree, but I'm talking about a situation that could be dangerous for a lonely person who doesn't know any better. A mature adult could recognize the danger but an awkward, sheltered person could easily be taken advantage of by a skilled manipulator.
Except that the absolute pinnacle of motorsport go as high as they can because it is what produces the most power.

Not that this matter for normal cars.
Would have expected an Alexa rank much higher than 66,890 for a business worth 2.8 BILLION dollars.
> And now they get the largest investment yet from a party that is NOT interested in falling oil prices...

Uber's impact will be the same whether they invest or not.

Saudia Arabia needs to diversify its holdings and sovereign funding sources as oil is a very narrow and volatile vertical upon which they currently hang their hat (and almost all of their funding).

Saudia Arabia is like an investment portfolio where 90% of its income comes from a single stock. They need to diversify and hedge.
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All of the things you mentioned are relative to a culture. Since you were born in the West, you think of all these things as bad. The indoctrination is so strong that you feel that your opinion is an objective fact. But, the same seriousness and objectivity you attach to your opinions they attach to their. Morality is kinda religion - everyone thinks their God or prophet is the TRUE one, when in fact they've been indoctrinated from early childhood to belive some magical stories.

This hermeneutical matter-of-interpretation crap is no defense

Do you think you can invalidate something by labeling it as 'crap'? I guess schools today don't teach people how to respond with arguments, instead of insults.
> In fairness, though, neither FedEx nor UPS count as a near-monopoly either

True, but look through their annual reports to see their capital spending to compete against them. There simply is no other way then spending that money.

For example, Amazon leased a fleet of cargo planes:

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/amazon...
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I don't think that's totally accurate. If you consider the popularity of adjacent technologies (games, mobile devices, entertainment), it's logical to predict that a certain technology will also be noteworthy.
I don't use facebook, but couldn't that also be an optimization? Like don't send the user email notifications if they're already on the site where they can see the # of notifications?
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Hemingway is actually pretty simple, I'm writing a library which implements something similar. "Grammarly" exists, but I think the suggestions are silly. This Foxtype editor is fancy, but Hemingway produces better results in practice.

What programming language would a library for this have to be in for it to be especially useful? I'm doing it in JavaScript for now, since I can think of immediate cases where I can embed it. Elisp will come immediately after that, since I compose my emails in Emacs most of the time. Next on the docket might be a C version, with the intent that you could add it to GTK+ apps.
What browser doesn't support WebRTC but does support flash/RTMP ?
> And now they get the largest investment yet from a party that is NOT interested in falling oil prices... What am I missing here?

Saudi Arabia (and even moreso prior to the 1990-1991 war, Kuwait, which was among the sources of the tensions leading to that war) invest quite heavily in diverse investments with a focus both on growth and avoiding having fortunes too closely tied to oil.
The last paragraph in the article is a real kicker: they're going to have to parse millions of documents to build their case. That's going to take an enormous amount of time and staffing costs. It'll be interesting to see this play out in the courts or if a settlement is reached before trial.
Where does Uber rank historically in terms of private capital raised by a pre-ipo tech company? I would imagine very close to #1?
I wonder if this is in response to Google's open sourcing of Parsey McParseface:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/05/announcing-syntax...
You just made me realize I never looked up the word 'Disclaimer' before. Now that I have, I realize that I've been using it wrong.
That would help, but an attacker being able to deliver an arbitrary website by MITM is still something that should be avoided.
Sorry for the snark, but a significant portion of what I read online is not ad supported, it's just people driven by a need to share ideas.

It strikes me as ironic when someone uses uncompensated content to criticize uncompensated content.
There is a real dichotomy between morality being either "objective and real" (this in metaethics is termed Moral Realism) or "invented delusions that can be ignored" (this is termed Moral Nonrealism).

Inside Moral Nonrealism the invented opinions can be followed or ignored and doing either will (obviously) have consequences. But this is only Hypothetical Morality -- everything is contingent on what outcome one prefers. Even with the researchers' observation that certain codes lead to societal success, we would not be able to say those codes should be followed without first declaring 'whatever leads to societal success is what we should do' which as Hume shows, however attractive and easy, remains only an assumed human opinion.

And indeed, as far as your observation of it being a fundamental structure and encoded in physics itself, Christians term this 'clear parallel' natural revelation and cite it as evidence for God.
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How can it be universally bad? Gravity is universal, but morals are relative to individual and groups of individuals(societies).

You grew up in the environment where action X is labeled as bad and then you take that so seriously and think it's an objective fact about the world(a universal law), when it's just your point of view.
Have you seen ScyllaDb and what you think about it (replacing cassandra?)?
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There is also a definite risk that legislation will hit them hard. I'd say that's much bigger than the risk posed by autonomous cars.
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1. I'm really not sure how that happened to you. I'm interested in Urbit and play around with it (and actually own a galaxy), but am not an employee, and I've been more than happy answering questions from people via :talk who are starting out or wanting to learn more. I've never seen anyone mocked, publicly nor privately, and I really hope that it isn't still happening if it was.

2. The author had an alt-right blog under a pseudonym. Some people think that makes him literally a Nazi. I don't agree with, er, basically any of his views, but I do enjoy reading his posts simply because they are fun to read. They aren't racist, except in the non-PC way, and has been nothing but nice when interacting with his online. None of those views bleed into Urbit, so I really don't care what political views Yarvin holds on his own.

3. Saying "only dedicated people would learn it" is just being mean. Hoon is unique from Lisp, and isn't even intentionally hard to learn - it's just different from nearly all other languages, because it compiles down to Nock, and builds primitives that make sense in the context of running on that VM. It's strongly typed, unlike Lisp, along with being pure. It's analogous to Lisp that you write code that is turned directly into an AST, but quite different. The part that is "completely foreign" is the weird syntax, which looks much harder to learn than it is, which they've recently admitted is too hardcore for newbs: They added keyword style in the last Hoon revision, so that you can code in nearly normal looking syntax, if you want. `:if(a b c)` instead of `?:(a b c)`.

Nock is kinda a Lisp variant, but there is a good reason behind having a small, perfect VM that never changes with some nice features, which are iterated in the docs and LambdaConf slides.

4. Urbit is open-source. https://github.com/urbit/urbit. If you read the website, they pledged a lot of the galaxies and Urbit namespace to what will become a non-profit spinoff. Not only that, but you can fork the entire network if Tlon turns out to be Evil Company Inc., by changing the hard-coded galaxy keys. I'll admit that there is a big difference between "open source" and actually being developed in the open, and hopefully they will open up about where they want to go with Urbit more, but it's by no means behind a company firewall.
I'm very happy to hear this practice has become reality. It just seems so much more convenient to refer to all these JS/CSS blobs with a universally unique ID (a hash), rather than whichever CDN the developer has chosen to use. As an ID, a 32 byte cryptographically secure hash really is practically the same as http://somecdn.com/somejslib/v0.1.js.min, except that only a single ID exists for each "shared object", plus the ID can be derived deterministically from the object it refers to.

Perhaps each CDN could have a symlink in its root directory with the hash of each file it serves, redirecting to that file. Then you'd be able to find any file by its hash as long as you have the CDN host name.

EDIT: I see now this is a security measure (protection against a hostile CDN), rather than a way to avoid dependence on a single CDN. I hope what I suggest is still possible though.
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"Controversial" is the pinnacle of weasel words. How do you feel about his belief that some ethnic groups are genetically better slaves, and do you think that his views would make people from those ethnic groups feel welcome in your community?
Do you know what came out of the investigation? This was in 2013.
My guess would be to get users to be more open to sharing this type of information, but of course we may never know why they made that decision.
Unless you're coding medical devices.
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Same, but google now for me is basically a mash of:

1. The weather

2. Stocks that have the same acronyms as things I've searched for

3. Flight information for any flight with the same code as mine

4. A recommendation of a film I might like to see because I searched for actors in them (which might be good except the reason I was looking up those actors was that I had just watched that film)

5. Sports scores for teams I don't follow

6. Possibly updates to sites I visit regularly (equivalent to a highly unreliable RSS client)
Oh right, I didn't realize that people were still hanging on the legacy version. Then I suppose Wine does actually make sense
Not new to crypto currencies, and I own both. The point is: Ether is new and incredibly volatile. More so than bitcoin. You chances are better in Vegas. Until the DAO fiasco is sorted out, this is a bad buy.
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ObjectiveFS[1] is another option if you have access to an object store (e.g. S3 or GCS) from your containers.

[1] https://objectivefs.com
In my experience this is actually happening. For example many of my friends are now using Dial-7 to get to and from the airport these days for business trips. It's just more predictable than wondering if there will be surge pricing when you need to leave, they actually are slightly cheaper, and you know what you're going to get.

Uber's user experience has a lot going for it but it's very, very far from flawless or unbeatable as a product.
>> Autonomous vehicles (and the infrastructure to support them) significantly reduce the amazing network efforts that Uber has enjoyed to date.

Still there might be a political play(using million of drivers, etc) to delay the entrance of self-driving-cars until 2 competitors are about equal, and than it might be better for one company to cooperate with UBER and get some advantage than to try to go alone.
This is the wrong thread buddy.
Uber wants driverless cars and Saudi Arabia is already half way there...
It's crowdsourcing, and for-profit crowdsourcing is pretty much exploitative by definition.
I'm not necessarily saying that Keepass2 provides a negative value overall. As you say, that's a subjective judgement. However, the unnecessary MitM exposure is certainly a negative value.
Claiming that some ethnic groups are genetically good slaves is "not racist except in the non-PC way?"
I was hallucinating driving home before after a barrage of 70-80 hour weeks at a gamedev startup. Of course it was on a completely empty road and it was minor things in the periphery (the sky looked like giant evil monsters duking it out), but I probably shouldn't have been on the road.

But I was at the office for 16 hours already, and there was nothing but my desk to sleep at at the office.

Before too long I ended up in the hospital for a heart attack scare (it wasn't a heart attack, but it seemed like one), and work stopped asking me to put in so many hours for a while.

The games I spent so much time and energy on didn't do so well for various reasons (unrelated to the quality of the games, I had polished them up as well as I could considering the shifting demands and firm deadlines), and the company ended up biting the bullet.
Most transit users in L.A. take the bus rather than rail, and there's a lot denser bus network. Weekday ridership numbers are about 1m for Metro Bus, 300k for Metro Rail (subway / light rail), and 40k for Metrolink (commuter rail).
Doesn't matter for Saudi Arabia. As long as their investment in Uber starts paying out before their oil runs out they'll be golden.
Sorry to be a little off topic, but I usually run Google in an incognito window because I usually don't want search results biased by my previous queries. Do other people here do that? It seems reasonable to get unbiased results.

The downside of this is that searching your own search history is not as useful.
I've always been a little confused about uber's capital needs. When I first heard about uber, the part I thought was super-clever was that you wouldn't _need_ lots of capital because all the drivers would have their own cars. Leveraging the latent capital of one side of the two-sided market was the genius of it. (Airbnb too)

Same for the staffing -- hook up both sides of the market. No need to pay anyone out of your pocket -- in fact, probably there'd be some float for you there. Sure, maybe you have to subsidize one side at first, but not forever.

So where's all this cash going? Is the driver side being subsidized to a ridiculous degree still (this is, actually, my guess)? Is there a moonlander (driverless car) in the works? Are the G&A costs off the charts? How could that be, give that the software does the connecting? Is the software _that_ hard to write? I mean, it's good, but it ain't rocket science. (I'm not sure rocket science is even rocket science anymore.)

If I'm right that all the cash is still going to make the fares cheap to encourage up-take, it seems to me like Lyft (or another/any fast follower) is in a fantastic position. Let uber burn the capital to sell the idea to consumers, and then step in when it stumbles and walk away with the glory and gold. Place your bets.
Regarding point 2...

Now, ad hominems aren't "good"... but if I work on it, I get lumped into the similar group. Just no.

"Just no", indeed. This is tremendously faulty thinking; damning someone and their entire endeavor, bypassing any and all rationality by your own admission,

not because they've committed some great evil,

not based on such a trivial concerns as the merits of the project,

...but because they have thoughts outside of that scope you don't particularly like.

Ad hominems are not bad out of some mystical universal constant, they're bad because they necessarily short circuit rationality by appealing to emotion, while saying nothing of actual substance. They are antirational and as such, as I put on my Sith Lord helmet, always absolutely bad.

Okay. He's a racist. And? Unless he's making a racial gating API[1], or otherwise taking evil actions, it doesn't even begin to have anything to do with the project. This problem that you mention, "getting lumped into a similar group", is entirely self perpetuating.

The statement "But he's a racist!" has zero professional value. The moment (the royal) you stops making such statements, the moment they cease to have value.

[1]: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/23andme-api-blocks-based-on-r...
That's an argument against going into postdoc academia, not getting the Ph.D. Getting the degree typically costs you nothing except for the time invested.
He tried to explain that opinion further: "The ability to survive as an agricultural slave is a talent."

I've no idea whether Spaniards and Englishmen really did find Indians unfit for slavery but I guess the argument that is being made is that more of them might have been kept alive if they were able to provide greater economic value to their conquerors. Sick, I know.

Agree that it's not an opinion fit to be voiced in modern society, however, it doesn't seem to be the opinion that people are trying to cast it under.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv...
Opening the article Incognito in Chrome and examining the network tab, over 170 requests in total weighing in at around 4MB (for me anyway). That is one reason I choose to use adblockers.
earlier this year the deputy crown prince declared his intent to sell 10% of saudi amarco and said he wants to diversify holdings. they're in really bad shape right now.
I don't think this is presenting terse writing as a new insight. The innovation here is (if I'm understanding it correctly) using a grammar parser to identify some fairly complex criteria (e.g. avoiding left-branching sentences).
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During undergrad, me and some peers (all chemists) talked about having such a network of air sensors. Having good resolution on air quality measurements could drastically improve the quality of life of people living in big cities. We never knew how to monetize this, however. One way we thought about was to install a private network of sensors (inside and outside houses) and then sell the datasets to research agencies. Doesn't see too profitable though.

Ideally what you need is a machine that can take different measurements: wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, VOC levels, ozone, nitrogen compounds and general particulate matter.

A static network of sensors is a great start, but your measurements basically define a surface. What you'd want is a fleet of drones which could "stand still" in formation, let's say a 50 x 50 x 50 drone cube each 1m apart, and take volumetric + time measurements. That would be _awesome_ :)
> That's going to take an enormous amount of time and staffing costs.

Is it? Can't they scan all of those docs in, OCR them (or process the electronic docs if they're already in that format), and use e-discovery? I hear so often on HN that legal firms no longer need junior associates or paralegals for that work, as the software can do the heavy lifting.
We're also hiring backend engineers :-)

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They are mostly releasing their tools though. The raw diamonds are the trained network weights, it's architecture and the data itself. Releases on those parts we see rarely from private companies.
Nice tutorial!

For those following along, I've noticed a few errors/typos, and maybe others in the thread caught them...

* Container ports are exposed like so, HOST_PORT:CONTAINER_PORT, or YOUR_MACHINE:DOCKER_VM. If you already have a mysqld instance running, then try using 3308:3306

* The /search route needs a "next" parameter in users.js:

"app.get('/search', (req, res, next) => {"