skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxi's are already a defacto monopoly regardless of how many taxi operators there are in a given region.

Most countries/cities have one taxi driver union/authority which is responsible for licensing drivers and cabs as well as usually setting fares.

If anything Uber and various direct bid/reverse bid car hire services actually break down the monopoly.

Now I don't like Uber for many reasons, the primary one being that it sets a horrible example of how to run a multi billion dollar business involving 100,000's of people around the world without having actual employees.
I also don't like the fact that Uber in many places actually externalizes the risk to its drivers because while France might fine Uber if you as a driver are caught operating a car service without the proper license you'll be in hot water and I somehow doubt that Uber's onboarding process has a huge warning to drivers and for the most part Uber doesn't seem to do any due diligence or much of it in places where it's illegal for individuals to commercially drive others without a proper license and a criminal background check (I know in the UK Uber doesn't ask you for a commercial license or a DBS).
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98% of a trees mass comes from "carbon capture".
Well, from what she's told me it sounds like she'd like to post reviews of Guild activities and schedules of upcoming events. She would like to allow Guild members only to make comments. It sounds a lot like a blog to me.
Let's see the outcome of the election before we use Trump as an example that flouts the common wisdom, and also use data instead of perceptions. The total popular vote counts [1] for each of the major candidates in the primary were:

Clinton - 15.7M
Trump - 13.3M
Sanders - 12M
Cruz - 7.6M
Rubio - 3.5M
Kasich - 4.2M

Note that the top vote-getter of the primaries - Hillary Clinton - has received votes from only 5% of American citizens. By contrast, Barack Obama received 69.4M votes in the general election of 2008. The primaries are relative side-shows in American politics; they bring out the most militant voters, which is why a very polarizing strategy like Trump has followed tends to work well. But a candidate that alienates too many voters in the primaries still has to reckon with the fact that 95% of the electorate did not vote for them.

It's also not true that Trump is selling something nobody wants - it's pretty clear that at least 13M people do want it. For a startup, that would be plenty for a beachhead. For an election, you still have to win over another 100M.

[1] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/repub...
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An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
And why is that? Is this supposed to be some dig against Red Hat for not being open in some way?
> who will trust their compilers anymore?

Me.

Microsoft has some real issues with regards to privacy, security, and performance.
An ETW event on main entry/exit is none of the above.

It's worth yanking from Microsoft's POV because "Telemetry" is a big bad scary word, but from my POV it's a pointless distraction from actual privacy, security, and performance concerns.

C'est la vie...
My take - snippets will drive discovery. Take a ten second snippet of a podcast and you can find a hundred "keyword" searches or Facebook headlines that it will fit perfectly.

This can drive subscriptions to the podcast

That might actually make a workable business ...
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"If you have a ship that can carry a tank, why not just put guns on the ship?"
Carboniferous period, pt. II

I look forward to our descendants' giant cockroach overlords
"They’re coming with shitty apps and fantastic business deals to dominate the market, lock down this open medium into proprietary “technology”, and build empires of middlemen to control distribution and take a cut of everyone’s revenue"

This made me realize that Midroll/Earwolf already tried this to an extent last year with Howl.fm. It was an iPhone exclusive app/service that launched with a ton of exclusive podcast series, some old comedy albums, and the thing that really showed how little they cared about their listeners-- Earwolf was taking down all the old episodes of their podcasts and putting it behind the Howl paywall.

Many people might not be familiar with Earwolf, but in the comedy world it's huge. improv4humans is hosted by a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade and it's basically like sitting in on a master class in long-form improv. Comedy Bang Bang has recurring characters that date back years and people love going back and listening to hear how they evolve by "yes and"ing their way through conversations. They don't get dated like maybe a tech podcast might, so taking them down just to help bolster some cash-grab podcast subscription service was just so insulting, and to make it only available on iPhones showed how out of touch they were.
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Tom Perkins, venture capitalist and Silicon Valley founding father, has died at 84
I think this is one of those “chain of free speech” issues. This guy was exercising his freedom of speech and being an ass. Bumble’s exercising their freedom of speech by shaming him publicly. And we are all exercising our freedoms of speech by discussing the instance and deciding whether to publicly voice our approval/disapproval. Yay free speech!
Sure, but "2016 App" and "2007 App" are not monolithic design choices. If you can decompose those things, you can keep the important bits and throw away the peacocking.

Just a simple example: it's trivially easy to make large, flat shaded buttons on the web. That's going to be more familiar to younger users than native web buttons like those on HN.

However, there's also spending weeks to make a web button that animates smoothly from one container to another and has a SVG icon that morphs into another different icon with magic sparkles. Doing that on the web will require grossly perverting the DOM and all of the web interaction expectations.

A lot of the things we consider "Just 2016 App Things" are performances that native app builders have to do to give clients a reason to believe their $300/hour is well spent. No real value is produced except "design" awards for the shelf.
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Obviously also anecdotal, but I live in the Valley and I don't know a single person in tech who lost their job during the recession.

Everybody just put their heads down and kept working. Nobody was recruiting, nobody was switching jobs, nobody was quitting. I know OF people who lost jobs in related fields; sales, marketing, etc, but not in technical fields.

Obviously people did lose tech jobs, I'm just saying it wasn't like a techpocalypse.
I stopped on "tax". What? Paying taxes is "cooperative"?
It’s not the money that’s terribly managed. And it’s our money, not theirs.

It’s that we have an awful degree of citizen participation, being directed with a dumb combination of social feel-good and suspicion of authority. So, a couple days ago, we had Proposition B, which forbids the City of San Francisco from spending less than $64 million of the general fund on parks, gradually increasing to $89 million, even if the city is running a $100 million deficit, in addition to a percentage of property tax, with additional committees and reports. This proposition passed overwhelmingly. Along with every other proposition that suggested increased taxes.

It’s hard to run a city effectively when you’re being hamstrung by all sorts of requirements and interminable committees.

Streets could be in better condition if fiber and sewers could be coordinated with each other and with other street maintenance.

Homeless could be better if we acted like we were a state-level region with state-level decision-making, so let’s build housing for the people already, and not a cluster of democracies squabbling over a homeowner’s right to what’s in the sky over a several-square-mile region.

Public transit… It reminds me of the James Madison quotation, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Sadly, public transit is run by men (and women), not angels, so there’s all sorts of possibilities for corruption and selfish decisions. From requirements designed for the benefit of campaign contributors, to iron-clad income security for people whose jobs should have been automated away. It’s a mess, and attempts to fix it with regulations tend to block sensible decisions and cause loopholes.

In summary, it’s not the money that is mismanaged. It is the people.
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Yep. Features like this are basically why developing tightly-controlled UI experiences on the web are a garbage fire.

For a tightly-controlled UI experience, you want a thin, predictable framework that you can build your experience on top of. The web is the opposite of that. Big, big chunks of important detail for user experience are not specified in the RFCs and standards themselves.

Take CSS as an example. The first thing most web development frameworks will have you load is a CSS that sets the style for everything to some known defaults. If the web as an app development framework had been designed for a controllable experience, that would be unnecessary. But the web wasn't designed as an app development framework; it was designed as a heavily user-configurable presentation layer for standardized format of content.
Tom Perkins has died
At the time, GNU had a problem: they had almost complete userland, but no kernel. That meant, that you needed some other expensive system to run the GNU software. Hurd was just around the corner, for years.

What Linux changed that it opened the GNU software to much wider audience. You didn't need an expensive Sun workstation, cheap (relatively, at the time) PC was enough.

With the Linux kernel and GNU software, you had a complete, usable system, that anybody could use. Many people did, and they contributed back. The development accelerated.

So technically, no, OSX doesn't rely on Linux-the-kernel. But it benefited by the increased exposure GNU software got.

(Samba is about a year younger than Linux-the-kernel.)
Does it provide names? I'm curious, but that article is behind a paywall.
Why not train the RNN to directly predict emojis, instead of projecting everything to semantic space and picking the closest emoji? Seems like that would help with the problem of emojis with multiple meanings in different contexts. With this model, they could only be in a single point in semantic space.
I don't care about the 8259, I don't see why anybody should care except PIC driver programmers, it's doubtful anybody designing NT cared given the very first architecture it was design against at was not a PC, and this is typically the kind of thing that goes through the HAL.

IRQL is a completely software abstraction thing, in the same way top/bottom halves and various threads are under Linux (hey, in some version of the Linux kernel it even transparently switches to threaded IRQ for the handlers, there is no close relationship with any interrupt controller at this point...). IRQL is shit because most of the arbitrary levels it provides are not usable to distinguish anything continuously from an application point of view (application in the historical meaning, no "App" bullshit intended here), even so in seemingly continuous areas (DIRQL), so there is no value in providing so many levels with nothing really distinguishing between them -- or at some level transitions too many things completely different. It's even highly misleading, to the point the article you link is needed (but does not even provide the whole picture.) I see potential for misleading people with PIC knowledge, people used to real time OSes (if you try to organize application priority by basing on IRQL, you will miserably fail), people with background in other kernels, well, pretty much everybody.
FAST "shebang" for C
This is my first post here so hopefully I'm doing this right. I found this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9144467 from a while back and it got me experimenting with similar things. I found this solution which seems to be MUCH faster:

//usr/bin/env gcc `basename "$0"` -o _;./_ "$@";rm _;exit

When you make a C source file, say hello.c with this as the top line, and just run it directly, this line will call gcc on it's own file name, and compile to a file just called _ (underscore). Then it will execute it, forwarding all arguments to it, then remove it, then exit (so it doesn't try interpreting C code as bash or whatever). The whole thing is blazing fast, much faster than some popular solutions I found on GitHub even.
I think it's more readable in isolation, but when you have workflows it distracts you from what it's actually doing, making it harder to see what the purpose is at a glance. An API can probably not have many shortcuts like this, but you learn what .s does once, and then you barely notice it.

But that's my opinion and I have come to learn not everybody value succinctness in code, so you have the choice of both :o)

Had I not been constrained by backward compatibility I may have made it so that task(arg) only defines the signature of a task invocation and you'd need to do task(arg).delay() to call it remotely, and task(args)() to call it as a function locally.
Rents didn't really drop but housing prices did. The closer to SF you are, the less they dropped. Housing prices had recovered by 2012-ish in SF proper, but are probably STILL not back to where they were in places like Morgan Hill.

OTOH I was paying 1385 for a one bedroom apartment in San Carlos just a couple of years ago.
No, but there are third-party databases that try to track the first IP seen for each transaction.
One would hope that the MAD doctrine would kick in and curtail at least more blatant attempts at offensive geoengineering.

On the other hand, at this point we can't really afford not to do anything. So it might be worth the risk to actually try and implement such a scheme.
Technically, it's trivial to manufacture carpet anywhere you want -- but 85% of all US-made carpets are manufactured in Dalton, Georgia. Likewise, theoretically it's easy to develop software from anywhere (or many anywheres), but in practice you will benefit from the secondary effects of locating in a major tech hub -- or even a minor one. Some of this has to do with ease of recruitment of qualified candidates, but also the network effects of having a large number of tech companies and groups interacting with each other, leading to an overall improvement in capabilities and quality. Finally, funding is a key controller; in the Bay Area, funding can be as simple as opportunistically pitching a GP during a shared UberPool, but in regions without mature VC and angel economies, you'll have to fight harder, and pay more, for those investments.
(I am also a dev for Dango)

This is definitely a concern and something we've though about but not yet fully solved. The neural net is trained on real world data which unfortunately includes various types of questionable, racist, sexist, etc content. We already blacklisted emoji combination that are too often triggered in racist ways. However such a system is very difficult to audit completely.

Your example comparing different skin tone modifiers is a good one that we hadn't thought of. I've made a note of it so we can try and improve.
While I generally agree, I'm not surprised mobile browsers did weird things with HN. Look at the source, it's nested tables with expanded invisible 1 pixel gifs used for indentation.
I've got a huge housing payment now, but I've also got money in the bank.

I'm not worried at all. 2008 was nothing but a blip. As I mentioned elsewhere, I don't personally know any tech workers in the valley who lost their jobs. People always freak out for no reason.

However, because hiring was down, if you WERE one of the unlucky 5 or 10%, it takes a longer time to find a job.

Save some cash. There's plenty of time to learn new skills while you're unemployed.
Design not widgets
Apps stores are crippled excused for real package management. In the open world, you can import someone else's key and repository and install their packages. In Play/iOS/Windows you have a single provider. There's no bug tracker to add your packages and no way to add a stable and unstable channel..unless both apps are in the same store ...and every beta release then has to get approved.

It's maddening. I wrote a thing about it and other Android issues: http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/
One big difference though is that the users on one server could communicate with users on another server. In the world of IRC that would mean that users from Freenode and EFnet could communicate with each other in the same channel. Pretty awesome.
Kind of wish HN would adapt Open* or similar for token access for posting... though that opens the door to a lot of potential issues (spam) I'm guessing they're trying to avoid... maybe requiring the web interface until you hit 1K karma or something.
> What if what we need is frequent in person interaction with other people?

I don't see how it would be any different from living in suburban area (what many would consider the perfect middle ground between the city and rural areas). Most people for at least 5 minutes to get to where they want to go. Flying (in the future at least) can be no different.

I didn't say that cars are going to disappear anyway. You can still live close to your friends and get to each other via car/bike/golf cart/atv/whatever.

I think you missed my point. The idea is that living the rural life will give you the same experience at a suburban one, and I'd argue, similar to the urban one. Most people still walk 15+ minutes to work in the city. 15 minutes of flying will get you much farther, to a multitude more possible destinations.
You can't be serious. It's using libsodium in one part of the code, so therefore ALL cryptography uses libsodium? You do know that Bitcoin has already switched most of the secp256k1 stuff away from OpenSSL and to libsecp256k1, and ZCash will follow suit?

But more importantly than that it uses libsnark for the actual clever bits, which has already been critically broken[1] precisely because it is so new and poorly tested.

Even the cryptography in ZeroCash/ZeroCoin is too new to be trusted with a financial system. That is not alarmist, that is practical. Relying on old, established cryptography is precisely why Bitcoin hasn't been trivially broken, and the zk-snarks cryptography will need to go through the same peer-review and refinement process over the next decade or two.

[1] https://leastauthority.com/blog/a_bug_in_libsnark.html
I'm surprised that hardly anyone is mentioning the activity wheel. That's the killer feature as far as I'm concerned.

If it does what I think it does, Garmin, Suunto and others have the same "killer feature" (in which case one should wonder, what is that feature killing? Not Apple's competitors.) Pebble doesn't, last time I fired my up a few weeks ago.

Other things that the watch has been a nice addition for - checking the weather over the next few hours by spinning the dial is very convenient.

A button push on my Garmin. One long push on Pebble, if you've set it up for that. Pebble has watch faces that show weather all the time. Haven't looked, but I'd be surprised if someone didn't do the same for Garmins.

The watch could be better at showing the time when you want to see it; I often have to tap the face.

This is where I think that Apple failed miserably. It's the main reason that I, as an iOS/Mac developer and all-around fanboy, didn't even consider the Apple Watch when it came out. Wanna know the time with a Garmin or a Pebble (or a Suunto, or just about any other smartwatch out there)? Want it to work every...single...time? Turn your wrist until the watch is in your line of sight. You'll see the time, guaranteed. (Caveat: if it's dark, might have to hit the backlight button. Though the Garmin on my wrist will light up at night when I turn my wrist with about 95% success.)
Can we start panicking now?

We need to get to 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere and we're above 400, with no easy solutions on the horizon.
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Jerry Brown's been very good about this for CA as a whole.

SF doesn't have to worry a lot because they're already insulating themselves from tech by not bothering to tax Twitter or other big tech companies in the first place :)
I was on the same web you were. The one where doc ozone was a bizarre novelty and well over 99.999% of text based sites had no javascript at all, much less being entirely created from javascript.
Yes, most carriers will assign a unique tracking code (and shipping label) to each shipment in the order, and also a "master" tracking code for the entire order. Depending on who the recipient is they may want to watch the entire order from the single master tracking code, or keep an eye on each individual shipment.

It's not common, but sometimes individual shipments / parcels get separated from their orders in transit, so it can be helpful to have the individual tracking codes.
I think you are mixing freedom of press with variation in the stand of a nation on historic events. My OP addressed the later.
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At this point, the CCS tech is all there; cost is the main problem. Currently we're at or above $100/tonne of CO2 captured, transported and stored, with capture being the main cost driver.

To make this economically feasible, it requires a carbon tax equivalent to a price increase on gasoline of around $1/gallon (IIRC). Which would be unpopular, to say the least.
You can't disable auto-complete in a web app (or can you? If so, I'm sure it's different for each platform).

We're not just talking about iOS and Android. You've got Chrome mobile, the ASOP browser, Firefox mobile, whatever shitty browser the carrier wants to include and all the various versions of those that will never get upgraded.

Personally, I really like the ranty tone of this article. I don't think it's unjustified at all. The author's frustrations are very valid.
the projects I quoted above have the same "security model" then
I used publicly whine quite a lot in favor of open web standards. When the specs were simpler, this made more sense, but as they grew more and more complex I felt overwhelmed with the chore of developing cross-browser apps. The investment of time required just didn't make sense anymore, and I felt like the only way to serve the web was to develop simple content-focused pages, and leave any complex functionality to native apps.
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I can't find it right now, but some SF neighborhoods did see rents drop. I remember seeing data for Noe Valley. Basically tenants went to their landlord and said "Give me a rent reduction or I'll move to this apartment that's nicer and cheaper".
Adams is not talking much about the polarizing strategy of Trump. Polarization is just a hack to get attention. The interesting part is to use the attention to make people dislike your opponent/competition and like you more.
Presumably you could also relocate temporarily to a surrounding area where it's (relatively) cheaper, and bus, drive, and soon possibly train in for anything requiring you be in the city. You should have enough free time on your hands that the time eaten by commuting isn't a problem.
That is too weak a precedent to be making a strong accusation like this.

It was one misstep. They have done, and continue to do, a lot of things right.