skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- anime/subs related stuff

- webcomics (xkcd, alberto montt)

- music (boards of canada wiki, music for programming.net)

- java stuff (adam bien, onjava.com, planet clojure, grails.io, the server side, the cognicast)

- job boards (wfh.io, functional jobs, stack overflow careers, clojurework.com)

- coding stuff (atomic spin, adam bard, ycombinator, /r/clojure, the changelog, infoq)

- mixed bag (ars technica, some reddits, waxy.org, thisiscolosal.com, etc.)
More recently applicable, racial segregation and women's rights.
The first two cases are at odds with the interests of the community and ought to be discouraged.
Well some of it is from them ignoring business regulation that taxis had been held too. When there's no medallion over head you can charge less and that applies to a hypothetical dispatch co-op too.
It's simple market economics. Driving for Uber requires basically:

1) Owning a car

2) Having insurance and good driving/criminal history records.

3) Willingness to do the work.

Even assuming Uber also has minimum age requirement, that's a very large supply of potential drivers, which is going to prevent wages from rising very high, unless there is artifical pressure such as regulation.
> At least their designers seem to finally willing to offer the same kind of toolchain, instead of having us rely on third parties for those features.

What do you mean?
Usually it's just usage analytics, but the potential for abuse is great because individual data is still sent.
How a 19 year old Brit became a venture capital star
I think your analysis it on point except for one part: the barrier to entry for becoming a driver is actually non-trivial and perhaps more importantly there is not a large supply of drivers in a given region. The pool of people who are looking for a new job, do not mind being a taxi and have a suitable car is somewhat small, and this is why uber and lyft must campaign heavily to recruit these folks. If this pool of people took collective action it would be very hard for Uber to come in and replace them - they could likely flip a single region to a new coop if they could self-organize.

That said the fact it could happen it not really related to if it should happen - as you say it's unclear how much extra money would actually flow to drivers as potentially Uber is operating on thin margins.
Browserprint: are you uniquely identifiable?
I've worked on 100% remote teams for the past 5 years. The first company was ~8 people, and the second is 5 people. I'm a huge advocate of allowing people to work from home.

Other people have done better work laying out the benefits of remote work than I could, but here's some food for thought:

- Remote workers get an instant boost in work-life balance that doesn't cost the company anything. They have no commute, and they can choose to live in less expensive areas. Those are huge happiness boosts and also a great way to retain employees, since few companies allow remote work.

- Costs for office space go down.

- Studies have shown that people hate open offices and are less productive in them. Productivity is greater when people can have a quiet, private space to make phone calls or just think. Office space with individual offices for each employee are expensive and rare.

- You can hire from anywhere. My company currently employs an excellent senior developer who refuses to leave his home in small-town North Carolina. We pay him far less than he would make in NYC or SF, so both he and our company win.
"Every other company should be afraid, very afraid.

The deal anecdotally shows that no company is safe from the creative destruction brought by technological change."

This is news to who, exactly?
You're confusing "economic reality" with "economic narrative". That's a superset of "capitalist narrative", "free-market narrative" (distinct from "capitalism"), and "socialist narrative". All parties (as you just did) spin their own stories about what ought to happen or why what does or should happen is morally justified, and all of these stories run up against the reality (measurable or unmeasurable) of coordination of supply, demand, and the interaction of voluntary and coercive power with that.
That the DNC is partially at fault doesn't absolve all other involved from their part.
Streembit in the era of “Digital Darwinism”
Spot on. We're at a 8 digit dollar valuation here after just 2 years of hard work and nobody knows yet - as we don't hang out on shiny conferences or court "prestigious" VCs but simply put the pedal to the metal from day one with a kick-ass team.

Zero financing rounds and not a single name in our Crunchbase entry to date, and we'll come in with a bang one day.

VCs were simply too slow to follow our pace so far (by now we grew out of their typical round size & target multiple) and we'll probably grow profitable without them.

Sociomantic did the very same thing by the way and nobody was any wiser when they did a huge exit from nowhere. Thanks to the environment, it's still pretty easy to bootstrap in Berlin and go after alternative financing sources (it's starting to change though, starting at the rents).

There's still the usual Rocket copycats and some interesting SV-style overhyped BS startups too by now that won't survive - but by and large Berlin has a lot of humble, technically excellent and hard working startups to offer. It's definitely going to survive the down-market to come.
I think a lot of Brits do distrust their politicians. Look how few established parties / politicians supported leave, when the majority of the country did support leave. Britain needs better representation, but there is little choice...
Title is a bit bait-y. The 19-year-old in question is not a venture capital star in the sense that he is a venture capitalist. Rather, he's a journalist who did a great job getting access to the world of VCs and applying what he learned from them to his own work.
> A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.

-- http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
I would argue Uber has definitely created demand for catching a ride. I use Uber tons more than I have ever used a taxi. That's because it's faster, cheaper, cleaner and has better customer service.
The headline is a little misleading. The "limits" aren't with 2FA. The problem is there are holes in Apple's feature set where 2FA isn't enabled. This is an Apple problem and not necessarily a 2FA problem. As others have said, there are ways around this lost device problem like the one time use codes that Google and other companies provide.
I think the benefit of a serialization library is going to depend on how complex and dynamic your actual output is. I've done XML-by-printing, but in that case the XML elements were fixed scaffolding with no relation to our internal object hierarchy (A containing array of B containing array of C containing array of D, always, regardless of how our application changed). It was also on an embedded system for which adding libraries was kind of painful.
"Thinner phone" is a stupid requirement. A thinner phone will be mechanically weaker.

Yes, Apple retired Floppy disks and DVD readers, because those were replaced by something better. This is not the case here.

A Bluetooth headphone will give you an inferior experience. A lightning converter will give you a worse experience because I can bet it doesn't stay plugged as firmly as a headphone in a high vibration situation (e.g. people exercising) and you can't have the charger plugged while you listen to music

Just as a reminder it was the EU who ended the BS of every company having a stupid proprietary charger.
I've seen empty values written as

<tag attr1 attr2="val">data</tag>

Whether that's legal or not, I don't know.
I'm quite disappointed by the "Continuous Delivery" section.

I expected tools that let you model a Continuous Delivery pipeline, like http://concourse.ci/, https://go.cd/, or Jenkins with the Pipelines plugin (directly included in Jenkins 2.0+, iirc).

Tools like Maven and Ant would be only a step in such a pipeline.

I guess this reinforces the OPs point that the whole devops nomenclature is very fractured, and folks use terms from this field as they please.
They are usually discouraged, downvoted and flagged as they should be. But that happens with established accounts as well, so the anonymity itself doesn't seem to be the problem in those cases. Unless your account links to your real world identity in some way, there isn't much value in having an established account at all.
If you're frequently stuck in negotiations, I would also recommend reading "The Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump.
Linux or another OS could (and can) emulate the Windows API though, even if it's an imperfect solution
Yes, when comments break the site guidelines, we often detach the resulting subthreads from their original parent and mark them off-topic so they fall to the bottom of the page.

Your comment broke the site guidelines by taking an already-divisive topic in an even more inflammatory direction. There's no way that a rape-victim-blaming analogy (especially one casually tossed in, as you did) can possibly improve a discussion like this either in civility or substantiveness, which are the two things we care about.
Exactly. Additionally I want to point out that this is what many English speakers expect from foreigners.
Look out! They're the model to disrupt every over priced product in the market. I'm looking at you inkjet printer ink.

So how many outrageously over priced products are there? (Besides everything the Pentagon buys and anything health care related.)
But the problem with Uber is not that sellers are listing too high, it's that Uber keeps jacking up the spread. This is not a true functioning marketplace because the buyers and sellers don't have good information. Only the market maker itself has all the information.

Also it isn't really true that Uber lowers prices for riders when they lower prices for drivers. Uber practices active price discrimination to discover the highest price a rider will pay. If you get ten people together on the same street corner and everyone calls for an UberX, you'll get ten different prices.
Amazing Saint Martin's Journey by Boat – Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Trumpian data visualization (US average economic growth)
How to take legacy apps to the cloud
> If it's structured like a co-op and exhibits none of the benefits of a co-op, what's been gained?

At least you've cut out Wall Street and co.
Buying up every brand under the sun and cutting costs by putting the same window openers into their cars sounds reasonable to me. Tesla is innovative and all, so was Porsche. VW does not care and just buys you. I mean, they are running out of car companies to buy so they have to buy motorcycle manufacturers.
Showers also make it easy to get exercise in. Heading out for a quick run at lunch completely resets my day but without showers I have to head home or to a gym afterwards to freshen up.
I remember how happy I was when I first ditched Windows 3.1 and installed NT 3.51 on my PC at work in the early 1990s - finally, a version of Windows that didn't suffer a Blue Screen of Death whenever the C++ code I was working on crashed! (The NT installer was on several floppy disks, and I had to figure out which of its 10 CD-ROM drivers worked with my hardware based on trial and error.)

"NT 4.0 also came in Server, Terminal Server and Embedded editions. In the time since its initial release, Windows NT morphed to become Windows Server."

Also Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 - all these desktop operating systems were based on NT.
A fortune for automatic brightness based on legibility of on screen characters with various global tunables such as average distance from screen and less than 20/20 vision, as I don't want to make per application profiles for everything I use.
The problem is that XML maps badly to data structures in common programming languages. JSON maps perfectly to structs and datastructures as lists/arrays/maps.

S-expressions are good if you work with Lisp like languages, but I don't think they're very readable if you're not into Lisp. I also can't see how they map easily into datastructures of imperative programming languages or even statically typed functional programming languages like haskell.
> But I think there will always be someone who will just provide a free service to get rid of friction as much as possible and monetize via ads. Nowadays it's extremely cheap to run an app.

Blocking the ads is cheaper.
Nice opinion, care to offer a solution to the problem in the OP instead of parroting a libertarian talking point?
I noticed that 3101 SRAMs have the same pinout as the later 7400-series 7489 16x4 SRAMs; I'm not 100% sure that they are fully electrically/timing compatible, but this could end up being a way of testing using known good parts...
Anecdotes.. the word observations sort of implies a method.
Is it only me thinking that DSC were undervalued? I think that DSC is worth way more than 1 Billion. I mean, this product occupies a much larger mindshare than some of its much bigger competitors.
Unless there are operational or growth issues, I can't understand why only 1B??
You clearly have no clue what the term "big government" means. It doesn't mean your local Sheriff's office, at lower staffing levels than needed for the drug war.
Is this an editorial? It's not clear from the page or the Dealbook FAQ [0]. It certainly isn't hard news:

> It means that the riches will be split among the select few who have the education and skills to be at the heart of the new decentralized company.

And is it just me, or does it seem like the author is cribbing somewhat on the pg essays on wealth inequality?

[0] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/dealbook-faq/
I propose we eat 300k fat people each year.
I would say at this stage Uber really is just a money-sucking black box. The revenues they get from their commissions in established cities they pour into marketing and just flat out buying business in new cities. All existing drivers are working to expand Uber, and they do not benefit from that in any way. The point of a co-op would be to recapture the spread and put it back in drivers' and riders' pockets.
That comment was hot air in precisely the same way thousands of innocuous comments are hot air on HN every day. This hot air just happened to blow in the wrong direction.

Soft leftish censorship is becoming a real problem here.
None at all. I use a dumb phone, the person in question didnt have a phone with him
TLP – Transformational Learning Point
Yes, even normal weather has always killed human beings. Having infrastructure to both warn people about real natural danger and give steps for dealing with it is one of the good things our species does.
"Excavated letters and associated pottery found at the site indicate a construction date at the end of the 7th or beginning of the 6th century BC, that is around the time when Periander was tyrant of Corinth."

Those crafty tyrants, always up to something.
When last year was the hottest year on record, and this year is on track to be the hottest year on record, globally that is a cause for concern.
This is micropayments, again. There have been many, many micropayment schemes. The trouble with micropayments is that all the enthusiasm for them comes from the people who want to collect them, not the people paying them.

One of the better ideas was micropayment email, as a solution to spam. You have to pay the recipient to get an email through, unless they've whitelisted you as a friend. A centralized service could do that. (One could see Gmail or Facebook doing that. LinkedIn already does. So do some dating services.)

Doing it in a distributed way is hard. Blockchains probably won't help; the cost of a Bitcoin transaction is too high and the network capacity is orders of magnitude too low for mail. Local proof-of-work systems have been suggested, but never caught on. (Probably not a good idea in the era of battery-powered devices.) Worth thinking about, though.

Urbit has a scheme where identities are anonymous but not free. That's an anti-spam measure, because spamming results in negative reputation for a paid-for identity. It thus make spamming expensive. Urbit is probably too weird to get much traction, but there are good ideas in there.
I buy a pack of bic disposable blades for a few dollars. Use each one for several shaves. A packet lasts for several months.

Yeah, so what if my chin is not as smooth as a baby's ...? I will survive.

The shaving blade industry is a racket of the highest order.
than what?
Actually the examples in the text are quite concrete - the few lines would be everything you'd have to write to get such a site working (modulo a bit of http plumbing). Obviously we are nowhere near such a thing. The rest of the text acts as a bit of a pointer what could help to get there.

From my other comment (in this case the example was an amazon like shopping site):

> The thing I would like to get working is telling the net "here is a ton of different buttons, grids, lists and a lot of other UI stuff, and there are all our products - I want to maximize revenue - do whatever you like to get there".

The way of telling a neural network these things would be these few lines of code which would hook up different parts to get it working.
While I am also against the Ladenschlussgesetzt, poor people in Germany have freetime and do not have to have three jobs to survive. It is a different culture.
This article just rambles, and I'm not really seeing what point it's trying to make.

Point one, I think: something about inequality because DSC has 190 employees. But it still takes the same order of magnitude number of people to make and sell a razor; they just don't all work at DSC. There are still employees at the Korean manufacturing center, and it's not like they would have gotten rich if they were owned by DSC. How many people were made millionaires by Gillette?

Point two: big companies should be afraid of disruption. If Gillette was really afraid of DSC, well, we know how much it costs to buy them, and Gillette was worth 57x more, 11 years ago. I think a more likely explanation is Gillette had almost a monopoly but didn't find a way to use price discrimination, and DSC picked up where they left off.
Ok, so why can't it just be dumped to a .S file, so the regular toolchain can handle creating the headers, sections, and segments? .S files basically let you create arbitrary ELF images without making you implement the ELF format yourself. I'm really not getting what the custom linker/toolchain in unexec is buying you.
It's not quite 19th c. technology. It was .25 inches, but it had only two conductors, the tip, and the ring, separated by an insulator. Hence the "tip" and "ring" nomenclature for analog telephone wiring. Analog phone technology is remarkably back-compatible. You can use an 80 year old phone today. Not many, if any technology products could claim that level of compatibility.

But, so what? Analog phones are going away. They just lasted longer than most other technologies. So should codecs and amps inside of mobile devices. Those things belong with the transducer, so they can be tuned to the characteristics of the transducer.
Some time back I needed to generate an XML file in a Java web application. I attempted to figure out how to do it "right". The only "special" requirement was that it is formatted in a readable way.

So I was figuring out the Java XML stuff (don't remember what that was exactly, probably standard). But at some point the timeout in my brain kicked in, and I just wrote a loop generating the XML by brute-force through PrintWriter or something. I even escaped strings right since some library I had available conveniently offered the escape method (Guava maybe?).
I have also been thinking of getting these certifications, but I'm not sure how much I'm going to get out of them in the long term, business-wise.

I want to study for them and get to know the AWS ecosystem better, actually learn something new for once. I do hope that there's some kind of ROI for getting them. I work freelance as a developer and I know some clients really do like certifications. Then again, AWS - as far as I know - isn't all that popular in Belgium.
I don't agree that this article and the existence of Vanguard rise to the level of evidence in this instance. I am suggesting that those interested in producing evidence should roll up their sleeves and go produce some in the marketplace.
Unless you have a strong military-industrial complex, in which case it's great business
Which is no different than how things have worked at any point in the past. And yet civilization advances.
There's a popular piece of "newer" software that decided that XML rules were too difficult. So they URL encode all values. It also uses print style formatting for XML tag names, so if you manage to get a name value that has, say, a : in it, you'll get invalid tags. This is the default setup, in 2016, for a system that handles a lot of real-world telephone calls.

Even just a few years ago I've worked with companies that wrote their own "XML parser". They explained it was pretty easy but they had to "special case" for broken output in the real world. An example of this output? "<tag />".

HTML would have been far better off if it had the strictness of XML. Remove end tag names so you can't have invalid nesting. If browsers had refused to parse invalid docs from the start, invalid docs would not have been produced. (And like XML, they could provide decent error messages, so the difficulty would not be significantly raised.)
Thanks! This article is very informative. DWIs are up thanks to Austin putting more stringencies on drivers than where I live, NYC, which is far more dangerous.

Uber/Lyft claimed that since their services began, DWIs in Austin had dropped by 23%. They have since risen about 7%.

Seems like Mothers Against Drunk Driving needs to get involved with Austin politics so that Uber and Lyft can again operate there. How many deaths will have to happen before Austin decides to not be more stringent than NYC, Boston, LA, Chicago, ....
Virtual Reality: the hype, the problems and the promise
>an artist tastefully broke the rules

Tastefully. That's the biggest problem with computers.
Securing an application that merges so many functions of a computer is conceptually a lot more complicated than it appears.

He starts with a CVE and is routinely asked but why no SELinux. Conversely, he does not get into the fun part, a JIT, which must make ASLR all kinds of fun.

I was aware it is an apple and oranges comparison, but it all kind of sucks with something as complicated as a browser.
Even in the unlikely case that the co-op could temporally get more customers than Uber, Uber could just artificially lower the prices for customers/increase rates for drivers and win customers/drivers back.
A co-op could not do that since they have no money in the bank.

Except when all this happens on an own blockchain where people can invest in the co-op via tokens on that blockchain?
Maybe this could even be combined with a prediction market which decides how to counteract attacks (on prices) from Uber?!
Thats odd because it looks like you understand the article. I didnt have any trouble understanding the thesises which were called out in the introductory paragraph either.
Orfium: The New SoundCloud?