skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies that find they are losing money in individual states should be forced to bite the bullet.

I'm still amazed that these companies are allowed to make a profit in the first place. Yes, there will be bad states, but you shouldn't be allowed to just stop offering coverage until you're actually losing money as a company overall.
Programmers have to make decisions about those things all the time. It isn't like the product team defines every nitty-gritty detail of implementation -- especially for machine learning and AI algorithms.
'That LinkNYC is, ultimately, underwritten by Google should tell you a lot about why New York got so very lucky as to receive an unprecedentedly fast network of citywide public Wi-Fi — for "free."'

Except that none of this is free. Google gets all of the data collected by these kiosks and the ad revenue. Why was this allowed without any public say in the matter? The very public whose data was bought will also be sold by Google. What's the ad revenue worth on these? There are ads on each sides of these kiosks. These are effectively billboards on some of the most trafficked street on the planet. Does our society really need more advertising?

So did New York get lucky or did Google get lucky?
Reaction Engines unlocks funds for single-stage-to-orbit SABRE engine
I think it would be really cool to have some type of audience participation built into a system like this. One of the parts that I hate most about watching the news is that I know I'm watching a singular viewpoint, and that nobody else has a chance to provide commentary on the topic at hand. Considering how much BitTorrent stressed that they wanted to provide a independent coverage, I think that some type of viewer input would be fantastic. It would help take watching the news into the interactive age.
Lost the window to edit, but here's more info on the Verizon/AOL data deal:

http://adage.com/article/datadriven-marketing/verizon-aol-pa...
You assume a lot about my understanding.

Deep plowing was probably the fastest and most efficient way to farm the Great Plains because you could quickly and easily turn up huge tracts of fertile land.

Then the dust storms came.

What value is an Autopilot that knows you are not using it the way you are supposed to, but keeps accelerating you anyway?
Of course the immediate Zeitgeist of the comments here is that this is about protection of entrenched interests and quashing of innovation.

Sure, there may be some of that.

However, we in the tech community need to recognize that doing something at scale creates a fundamental difference of kind, not merely of quantity. Of course, to a large degree, that is the point of much modern tech, to take something that was simply local word-of-mouth stuff ("oh, my friend's got an apartment empty next month, perhaps you two can work out house-sitting for your visit" or "oh, she needs a ride to town too") and turning it into an instant service, globally scaled. This is what creates $billions of value with minimal infrastructure.

However, it is nonsense to say that there are no negative externalities, or that they are all trivial and ignore-able, or merely old incumbents protecting their ill-gotten economic territory.

Consider another potential technology that could be easily scaled -- speeding tickets. Instead of relying on the local cop to manually measure your speed, chase you down, write a ticket and testify in court, they could simply get the data off your smartphone and ticket you ever time you sent over-speed. They could just argue that "this is just the same law as we've always had". But the result would be that instead of maybe one ticket every X+ years, most of us would get multiple tickets every time we drove outside of a traffic jam. It would fundamentally change everything about driving and the related economy.

Similarly, it's one thing when a few people casually rent out a room for a few days a year, or get a house-sitter when they go on vacation. But, it is altogether different when the information exchange infrastructure becomes sufficiently reliable and networked that it makes sense for people to run lodging as a business, even buying houses just for that purpose.

This substantially distorts the real estate market, and dumps a lot of externalities on neighbors. It is one thing to buy a house or condo on the assumption that the neighbors are all residents with investment in the neighborhood/building -- quite another to expect that all of the people around you are completely transient. And, of course, even worse when the situation changes after you've moved in.

So, please think a bit before jumping on the "they're all ignorant Luddites" bandwagon...

(edit - grammar/clarity)
Well, I know I'm definitely too weird to get a date. It's nice to think that means I'm intelligent.
Have you seen logistics centers in Texas? They are often out in the middle of nowhere, often with dead-easy access to the highway. Automating driving in those conditions would be much easier.

If nothing else, one could have "pilots" guide the trucks by remote control for the last mile.
This is really great for Shippo, and an issue that I've commented on before[0]. It's a pretty obvious feature to have missed in the first place, but taking on the insane complexities of UPS, FedEx, and USPS is a never-ending up-hill battle (I've done it.)

I'm still longing for the day that Shippo is fully fleshed out so I can offload that massive infrastructure headache off to someone else.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871297
It's absolutely deserved. The things that are officially user serviceable now are very minimal, and the tamper-resistant screws and glues used aren't to protect devices from their users (which would also be a bad idea), they're to prevent people from taking advantage of a cheaper alternative to paying Apple for out of warranty repair service. You cannot buy things like batteries from Apple, and Apple will not provide you with tools to bypass their tamper-resistance efforts. Only third party sources will do that.
Unless I really misunderstand, the invoices to which you refer are for services intended to preserve the life of a child, not services intended to relieve a third party of certain trifling inconveniences associated with a child's death?
But this isn't one bloated company - this is a normal size and ratio of folks for this type of product. There will always be outliers - and in particular extremely small teams that can have outsized success, just as you'll also see behemoths not doing much (e.g. monster.com, 4,000 employees).
That's not necessarily a technology due diligence then...
It is hard for me to imagine any notable impact on property prices even by eliminating every AirBnB rental tonight.

I'd love to see people making this claim cite some numbers. Just how many residences are being "diverted" from your preferred use, and where did you get that number? Citing handwavey econ 101 principles is no more convincing when done here than it is, say, in the minimum wage debate.
Who really is a product designer?
I think we're all taking this too far:

> Boston is one of the most expensive cities in the US to live in right now

That's the real problem, and should be the focus. Short term renting is just a detail. Inventory is the solution.
With the advantage that the Interstate can be used for the long-haul infrastructure, without having to build it yourself.
Bandwidth won't be apparent during the handshake. And voice data isn't really that large anyway, though it would be plausible to detect that some kind of stream is going on as opposed to discrete messages. Still, that would have to come mid-call rather than when the call is attempted.
Wall-street/VC's is focused on convincing people and well funded organizations to part with their money. Thus they need to be able to talk up their choices. Even if it's just "we only employ people from MIT and Harvard so can trust us." But, everyone does that so they really want to be able to say: "I had the foresight to invest in Google so you should trust my judgement."

That said, they could also just randomly choose without telling anyone and justify actions after the fact. But, as you might guess nobody who does that is going to say they did it that way.

The basic problem is if your going to randomly pick then why should I pay you anything?

PS: One fund did chose to fund every YC company which is close to a random choice.
That would be a good explanation for this behavior, then.
A municipality should be able to amend their zoning laws if they don't want Airbnb operating there, correct?

An FTC investigation into the effect of Airbnb on local economies is fine, but I hope it doesn't result in one-size-fits-all federal regulation.
Ghost Gunner 2 – $250 opensource AR-15 auto-mill
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Some people might find it entertaining, but I'd prefer at least a little clarity. A TLDR would have improved it considerably.
Governments threatening a blanket ban if they're cut off from eavesdropping?

Ironic that Saudi is chairing there world's human rights office and denying an essential human right - right to private communication
The usual scam, they ask for email and try to gather more leads.

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I'm really disappointed.
Now THIS is a really sexy UI. Needs a desktop mode though.
And it's really easy for AirBnB to know exactly who rented the property for a given period, so if they do anything illegal (which includes noise violations), they'd be easy to track down with a warrant.

If you're not affecting your neighbors, it's nobody's business what you do on your property, including letting other people live there. If you want to regulate, add some additional regulations about behavior that affects neighboring properties but isn't currently covered.
Seems like WhatsApp could easily choose to use a different port if they wanted to, but I guess this comes back to not wanting to have their encrypted messages get blocked.
asm.js can interpret wasm as a fallback, but once wasm gets built-in to browsers, it won't be JS anymore.
After trying Hololens (of which all the demos I tried were built on Unity) I could see it becoming HUGE for AR/VR.
We're using Checkbook.io for our online ticket sales company that's aimed at K-12 performing arts. We offer two options: Stripe and paper checks. The reason we have to offer paper checks is because many of these PA programs are forbidden to connect bank accounts per their school rules. Over 60% of our programs are not able to use Stripe for direct deposit.

Now we're able to either send them a digital or physical check automatically via Checkbook's API. It works flawlessly and saves us a lot of time!

Plus they have awesome support. A+ team.
I hope DOM access comes very close on the heels of the initial design...

Javascript is an interesting language (particularly after it's recent revival), but IMO it's recent jumpstart would never have happened if it weren't for one killer feature: access to the HTML DOM. People would (and have) forgiven many other things, just for the utility of that as the presentation layer.

I certainly would have picked up whatever language the browsers were pushing, where DOM access was a requirement.

Conversely, I remember trying to get java applets to interact with HTML -- you have to message things through a tiny hole to/from javascript; which was (one of the many) things which made everyone hate java applets.
Can you give me an example of a public sector job that has taken a 40% pay cut? I'm really interested to know.
I'm not familiar with React's mixins, but I get the impression from the suggestion to use higher order functions that it doesn't allow overriding methods from other mixins. E.g. Scala's concept of stacking.

For those interested in the concept in JS, I implemented a full trait system in GNU ease.js designed around Scala's approach, with support for stackable traits. The system also supports protected/private properties and methods, which can also be taken advantage of in traits to provide public and protected APIs, and keep state encapsulated in traits. I don't have documentation available yet (soon), but I do have a great many test cases that demonstrate various aspects:

https://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/#traits
https://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/news.html#d9b86c1

Hopefully others find this to be interesting even if they don't agree with ease.js itself.
Beware, MacOS Sierra Removes Support for PPTP
Unreal Engine is the most used Game Engine in the industry (not counting indie/mobile games w/ Unity), especially for AAA games. HeartBreak shared the list. For professional development the Unreal Engine makes it possible to make amazing games with a small team of programmers, iteration time is fast making development a lot faster than before or trying to use a custom engine without well developed tools.
Hitting a deer or a sheep in most cars has a pretty good chance of getting you killed in a coupe or a sedan.
Kubernetes: Thousand Instances of Cassandra Using Kubernetes Pet Set
Detecting calls like that would be for detecting calls in-progress, not for shutting them down during the initial handshake, which is what the gist claims is WhatsApp's explanation.
"However the only true solution that respects the human rights of Saudi users is to give them encrypted calls no matter the consequences, instead of downgrading them to using regular Saudi phone lines, which are tapped by a religious dictatorship."

The British-found US-supported Saudi state and its regime
is not a religious dictatorship. Geoff Simons described
it best, IMHO, when he came up with title "Saudi Arabia: The Shape of a Client Feudalism" for his book.

On an even fussier note, some people in the Arabian peninsula don't recognize the legitimacy of the state/regime. And they really hate it when they are referred to as Saudis. It's like calling Widerstand Germans Hitlerians.
Regression Modeling Strategies. You need at least some notion of what regressions and probability are all about, but if you have the basics covered, this book will take you through 80% of the journey and the rest is some googling to figure out some concepts that might be murky.

This is a book that emphasizes practical applications without getting bent on the math details too much. If on the other hand you are a math whiz, Elements of Statistical Learning is THE book but it expects you to be very proficient in math.

Both books are seriously underrated, which is kind of funny to say because you will find only praises about them, but they deserve even more.
> Being bored can be very benefitial

Might as well be, but I choose to take my boredom in moderation. Even with personal entertainment, a 12 hour intercontinental will have it's boring moments

> A lot of inventions and solutions to hard problems came when people were "bored".

My counter-thesis is that the solutions come when people are "relaxed" or "distracted", not necessarily "bored". I have had my fair share of Eureka moments on walks or in the shower.
> Believe who you will.

As evident in the comments beneath your link, they had been in contact with DO for ~5 days at that point. Your quote leaves out important information and is misleading at best
Maybe. We haven't been doing this long enough to know. T cells can divide into a T "memory" type, but I'm not sure if CAR-T cells do this.
Ah hah -- I had missed your `Ref` and channel types. Thanks for the detailed explanation!
In Search of Time’s Origin (2014)
Random selection might work right now, because all the candidates are pretty good. But, if you announce that you are selecting randomly, it screws up the incentives. If everyone knows that you are selecting randomly, people will apply without any thought or skill, just to pay themselves a salary for a few years.
>Yes but higher order components as you call them, seem to be an abstraction that you would only use because the base unit of organization is a React component.

I don’t really see the issue here. “How do you parameterize Y by X?” “Create a function that takes X and returns Y.” Doesn’t really seem React-specific.

The unit of organization is indeed the component. Again, I’m not sure I understand why it being a first-class thing indicates a deficiency. By this logic, functions are deficient in JavaScript because you can pass a function to [].map(), or Promises are deficient because you can resolve() a Promise to another Promise.

I think the opposite is true. The abstractions are more powerful when they afford building higher level abstractions on top of them. Obviously you shouldn’t overuse this, just like you shouldn’t overuse higher order functions, but it’s a nice property to have.
it's not about what the other say. They try to judge you in a few minutes, even though a real judge needs months or years. I still figure out a lot of positve aspects of people working with me, as well as negative, after months in the same company.
The truth is that it's all about what you think you can make, not what the other say. Just smile and keep going on your road, always with head up! =)
Arduino and Processing Library to Interface with the HTC Vive Lighthouse Beacons
Crypto-Drop anti-cryptolocker
Interviewing Apploi, Service Driven Landscapes And
Direct link [0]
[0] http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~traynor/papers/scaife-icdcs16.pdf
Kubernetes: rktnetes brings rkt container engine to Kubernetes
A Venn diagram of people who are addicts and people who commit crimes against others isn't a circle.

People who commit crimes against others should be charged and have their case heard in a court of law. Not be shot in the street. Doesn't matter if this is Camden, Detroit, Skid Row, Vancouver or the Philippines.
Adding -Werror to your build system sucks because future compilers implement new warnings making it very difficult to recreate new builds with new compilers, for instance when bisecting a bug.

Add it to your local build with "./configure CFLAGS=-Werror" or similar? That's great!
Hey that's pretty cool. Is this available anywhere for trying?
Good luck collecting - let alone having a complaint heard - in time to catch the current batch of guests next door.
Sure, in the how cautious should I be in rain situation. Not, it's a sunny day and open road, the speed limit is 65 what should I do situation.

PS: I expect company's to punt with a user selectable: how much to speed buttons.
I'm using it and no ads so far.
Export every component like this:

export class MyComponent extends React.Component {
...
}

export default SomeHOC(MyComponent)

And in your test simply import the non-hoc version:

import { MyComponent } from './mycomponent'

Now the HOC won't get in the way of your testing.
"hotel cartel here."

I really don't think hotels are the ones truly at fault here. The way Airbnb competes on price is mostly due to not having to pay for things that hotels have to. The cities & states themselves are the ones who decide what sort of insurance hotels have to have, what sort of zoning rules apply, taxes to levy, rules that they have to follow.

Taxes are very high on hotel stays, generally. And this is usually because it's easier for someone to raise "other people's" taxes rather than their own (e.g. tax the out-of-towners).

People seem to claim things like how "hotels legislate a moat" all the time, but ultimately I really don't think it's the hotels, it's the town/city/state and the citizens thereof that have decided what they want to legislate. And that's inconvenient for a startup looking to "disrupt" things, but I find it quite scummy.
Wait what? If you're seeing that NASA.gov has a paywall, you need to take a close look at your (very infected) PC...

I now see that the link has been edited/changed Carry on!
The surge.sh case was not a DMCA takedown, it was about a trademark infringement notice. There are no counterclaims in such cases.
Dyon is built to work really well as a scripting language for the Piston game framework written in Rust. I was just looking at it.

I'll need to compare and see if Gluon can be leveraged in any way.
TechCrunch published the article, I read it a few minutes later, visited the site, and the pricing was hiked 100% essentially. So lame! So immature! With this attitude, they will be out of business not so far from now!
> Of course the immediate Zeitgeist of the comments here is that this is about protection of entrenched interests and quashing of innovation.

> So, think before jumping on the "they're all ignorant Luddites" bandwagon...

The immediate reaction being to protect entrenched interests has nothing to do with the "ignorant Luddites" as far as I'm concerned. I'm thinking more, when was the last time a Federal regulator probed something in order to actually benefit the little guy?

AirBNB by its nature creates very local issues. I think the appropriate place to look and regulate is at the local level. Towns and residents can take it upon themselves to restrict unwanted activities or they can choose not to, based on the impacts to their communities. Going bigger than that with anything more than light regulation would promote a one size fits all approach, which wouldn't work considering towns and cities are very different from one another.
You're wrong. Programmers cannot escape making decisions when they design these algorithms, no matter the situation they are designed for.
Surprised that they choose apple as the first ecosystem to launch in.
Let's see if it can build itself...
No. Uber is illegal in Norway.
http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Politikk/2016/03/Frifinnelse-av...
If the market has failed to protect a right that is important, that's exactly when regulation is necessary.

Handling the constant failures and disasters created by the market to the detriment of the populace is the purpose of regulations and the entire justification of the mixed economy model every modern society operates under.
The reference counting is annoying, yes; however, it's the cost of allowing C to hold references to Python objects.

I find a single call to PyArgs_ParseTuple at the top of a Python C entry point much nicer than referencing various values off the Lua stack as they move around.

That said, we're in the process of rewriting as many of those functions as possible from C into Python itself, using ctypes.
That's only true for NQ options. With ISO options you aren't taxed until you actually sell the shares they covert to, and then as a capital gain tax, not as ordinary income.
This may be the area in which my wife and I have the greatest conflict. She's entirely convinced that for music to be beautiful, it must be pretty. Hence, Brahms and the like always emanates from her speakers.

In my opinion, King Crimson's Red [1] is among the most beautiful music ever made. It's a terrible beauty in this case, but that shouldn't stop us from listening and feeling awe. Sure we have our own moods, and want different feelings to go with them. But we can't have an all-saccharine diet.

(And nice pick with Dillinger Escape Plan. I assume you're familiar with Devin Townsend too?)

[1] Live recording of the title track: https://youtu.be/KpJaJt3NWsM?list=RDGFQbQGCnOR0
Okay, that's what I didn't understand. Thanks.
>one of the major failure modes of Agile is when you see people trying to shoehorn problems that can't be decomposed like that down into two week sprints.

Then these projects are poor fits for Agile, and the appropriate solution is to use something else.

>There are many businesses where infrequent software updates make tons of sense. For example, if you work with field deployed hardware that is not connected to a network. I worked with hardware like that in some defense situations before.

Great! Then these are appropriate places to not use Agile.

That doesn't mean you can define Agile to be "whatever is most appropriate in this situation." It's a tool in the toolbox, and sometimes it's the wrong one, but when you do reach for something else you owe your fellow craftsmen the courtesy of calling it by the correct name.