skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Uber. I use it from time to time. I use it less frequently nowadays because the government here blocked UberPop. I enjoy using it as much as I hate using taxis. I particularly enjoy it because I can rely on Uber when I travel abroad when I am most vulnerable to taxi scams.

Having said that, I am one of those who does not get this type of ultra high valuations. That's another topic of course, I am not going to claim anything as I am not an expert.

The thing is if yet another company pops up, maybe a local one, with similar offerings as Uber, I might as well start using their service. It's so easy to switch or use them both, I don't have a emotional connection to Uber, why should I? I'd always use whatever works for me. So, I see Uber is not something irreplaceable. The most valuable thing is the idea itself, car sharing etc. It's not like building up a search engine, with secretive ranking algorithms that works better among competitors. Of course, what Uber had been doing is phenomenal, they probably do a lot of things behind the scenes. Uber had more capital and did more. The others will catch up. Which is a good thing, I'd rather have multiple service offerings, it's good for consumers.

To me, Uber is a ice breaker ship. Started exploring in the frozen seas. Opening up new paths. That's expensive. They have to do a lot of things right. It's difficult. They are ambitious. I am excited that new paths appear in the frozen seas that I can benefit eventually. On the other hand, what I see is, once the paths are open, others can follow easily. They don't need tank-like ships to overcome the icebergs, they don't need the best captains and crews, they don't need the most of the crucial stuff Uber needed. They will just sail along the paths Uber opened.
If you don't need hospital care, EMS might just treat you onsite and not drive you in. EMS does triage because they see you.
Here+is+the+Fastest+Way+To+Lose+Belly+Fat+|+Life+Weight
Same - seems to be a bug.
NHS has spent more than £1.75m on homeopathy, while admitting it's ineffective
Moscow comes from the locative на Москви (na Moskvi), while the original form is *Москы. It's using the locative because the hydronym (name of the river) is older than the name of the city. So the city comes from the name of the river.

Further, Lith. mazgóti "wash, splash", Latin mergō "dive"

Yauza probably from ya- and -(v)uz (vyazat' - to tie, bind, knit, uzel - knot) so maybe something like "the river that ties"

There are several etymologies for Oka, it probably has a form of oko (eye) in it, maybe from a Baltic source.

Volga has the same root as vlaga, vologa - "wetness"
Actually I'm leaning towards this being fake and manufactured by a PR firm Telsa hired.

You can't believe much of what you see on the Internet. Though the majority seem to ... so much crap is made up for pageviews and in this case for the better of Telsa's AutoPilot program/bottom line.
The issue is that it's a free service tier which ensures that certain companies will always have the upper hand - you can be guaranteed everyone can access Facebook, you can't be guaranteed everyone can access whatever the next thing is, so Facebook wins by default. Facebook also wins vs any criticism of it.

You can offer a lite version of any service on the public Internet, you don't need a free service tier.
"Summary of Changes": https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/Updates.as...
Or you can do like everyone else and have a "communist" cheaper, high quality socialized healthcare so that if you have a problem you call the ambulance and you don't go bankrupt (you don't pay a cent for that).
Seems that Kanye West's account may have also been a victim of this glitch?: too: http://www.readdork.com/news/kanye-wests-twitter-account-dis...
My brother in law worked in IT in Italy. He ended up quitting and working for a US company. Makes a lot more money.

Italy is so far behind when it comes to the internet adoption, it's not funny. It's also a rather poor country, especially among the young generation, many young people live with their parents till 35-40. So you're much better off making (or working on) a project that faces some of the more developed countries (US, Australia, UK, Germany).
Dune, Enders Game and Ready Player One.
I have given The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
Some basic online data such as?

I'd wager these people still want to be able to view pics, watch videos and download music like anyone else.

And in any case, what does "basic online data" even mean today when you consider the size of the average javascript-laden site.
Thank you for this software. It is on my list of "need to try for real". What do you see as the main reasons holding such software back from mass use? Is it real world soft constraints, or prevalence of "small enough for humans to do well" datasets or something else?
_Users_ can't redefine keywords and grammar in SQL, can they? All you can do is create data structures, and write functions and procedures.

Yes, you can write code that creates functions and procedures; it might even be possible to write code that modifies itself, but that still would be essentially different from what one can do in Lisp and Forth.
Are you proposing the the government directly provide these services? No thanks. You're providing an alternative to UBI without providing any explanation of why it would be superior, while ignoring the very real impact which competition has on lowering costs and increasing quality.

What is the benefit of that? Generally, government services are inferior to those provided by the market. Just take a sample of public housing or government cheese to see why having the government provision services is suboptimal.

If the government wants to get into these businesses, it should do so as a non-profit corporation directly competing with private sector alternatives. Then we can see if government cheese is actually more desirable than private alternatives.

> in a market society there are winners and there are losers, and at least under the guaranteed service mechanism, the losers aren't mired in poverty.

UBI would be a market solution and could still prevent losers. Poverty reduction and personal choice are not mutually exclusive.

What you're proposing has been tried before and failed.
Really fantastic achievement and a really down to earth take on food - good to see Michelin not adopting a stuffy elitist stance on their awards.

I shudder, however, when I think of the queues to try this tasty goodness. For reference, queues can easily top 90 mins if a hawker stall is locally well reviewed! And just over the sea, the queues for Tim Ho Wan (Michelin star dim sum in Hong Kong) are also already oppressively long (1-2 queues). Bookings are non-existent (it's a street stall after all).
Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Generation [0]

[0] http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/book
Yeah, that was the last thing on my timeline before the glitch

Everything seems OK when logged in via the VPN. Maybe they have some sort of region-based caching/replication going on, and it's gone a bit wrong?
There are no mass-market thunderbolt GPUs with fully-functional mac drivers at this point, are there? I've been looking and at best there are unsupported hacks.
Buzzfeed does a surprisingly good line in actual journalism these days. When it's good it's amazing.
Lean Customer Development
It's obviously all subjective. Personally, compared to Lenovo, I find MacBookPro keyboards to be "junk". I also don't want a glossy glass-covered screen, a glued-in battery or a heavy dent-prone radio-attenuating metal case. Each to his/her own.
The Convenience Store Innovator of Bend, Oregon
> Basically, in Python this is almost always much easier because struct sizing and memory allocation isn't a concern like it is in a C-like language (though even there, dynamically sized structures and pointers are your friends).

I definitely don't want C anywhere near parsers for untrusted data, for so many reasons, this among them.

> But I agree, there is a lack of good discussion about "how do I actually do this?" I'd like to elaborate on that at some point for sure, because the reality is that it's remarkably simple.

Perhaps it would help to have some worked examples for some additional protocols?

Would you be interested in collaborating on a Python parser for some non-trivial data structures? I have a collection of such parsers as part of BITS (https://biosbits.org/) that really need reworking to decouple them from I/O, and I suspect the result would make a good article and/or conference talk.
Web Operations:Keeping the Data On Time
Could you elaborate? All React.js "reimplements" are components for DOM elements and custom event dispatcher that allows you to don't worry about browser quirks and differences in handling events.

There's also large difference between what DOM and VDOM mean and VDOM's not DOM reimplementation.
> I'm in an industry that lots of people want to be in.

What industry are you in?

> A critical part of the filter is to determine if applicant who WANTS to be here will fuck things up for the people I NEED to be here.

How do you do that?
webscript – short Lua scripts that respond to HTTP requests or run as cron jobs
WW3 ISLAMISTS PLAN TO ATTACK USA NYC AND PLANNING ATROCITIES AROUND US
The Blind Side, The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Sex at Dawn.

If asked, I would say those aren't the books I've found most amazing but they're the ones I felt compelled to give as gifts.
I had probably about the same Thinkpad, and I was amazed at how much faster Windows 8.1 and 10 were. Granted, I was also making a huge upgrade because some tech-illiterate person bought us 32-bit Windows licenses and 4GB RAM (2.9 usable.)

I've much more often been frustrated by my phones. My last phone was at the point where I'd expect ~1 second delay for any interaction, whether that was opening an app or scrolling in a webpage. I think as the current one ages I'm going to start eliminating apps and wiping the phone more frequently than I do now, because I'd rather have all that money going toward my desktop and laptops.
I assume you handle decompression the same way? Feed in data, and the decompressor emits data when it can?
8% return in equities market? Wow... I did not know what I can just invest money in the stock market and get rich...

The 8% annual return is impossible to achieve (BTW, that is number what sharks tell to "retail investors"). Between 1998 to 2008 the annualized return on SP 500 was about -1.35% (yes negative and there was huge boom during 2000s). And that is excluding all fees.

I think 8% would be an excellent return for limited partners who invest into VC funds...
> I do think that's an interesting point.

It's really not. The system you've described is literally how the Soviet union operated, and is in fact the norm for poverty reduction programs today (ex. public housing, public healthcare, etc.).

Without competition, programs inevitably acquire bloat and siphon off money to those with political connections. It's ironic that you mention China as an effective example of communism when most of their growth has come since moving more towards a free market.

What exactly do you think is the advantage of the government directly providing services?

Please don't inflict a communist nightmare on the rest of us.
Apparently only excerpts have been translated: https://www.amazon.com/Ottoman-Traveller-Selections-Travels-...
Previous Two. 2004, 2013. In both cases I chanced to meet the person who could make that decision well before starting. Had plenty of discourse around the subject matter for a few months. Then it was basically "please work here".
This. This is what I've come to realise has been my issue with a lack of work engagement, and the feeling of creative atrophy and itchy feet. I don't want to be the "magician" digital/developer person, to be doing things where technology is the sideline - need to be within a digital team, working to a common purpose. Hopefully find that once it's safe to move on from my current role.
Sure, but it's not because they "wanted me so badly", it's usually because someone I previously worked with is at the company and vouched for my skills & experience.
"What keeps this going is that each VC thinks they're better than average"

Another thing keeps them going is that the VC Partners get a nice salary for 10 years. Many of them will make more money than many C-level executives. I don't see a downside in being a VC.
Exactly, nginx stable is more like a LTS branch. See https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-released/ which also mentions "Note that stable does not mean more reliable or more bug-free. In fact, the mainline is generally regarded as more reliable because we port all bug fixes to it, and not just critical fixes as for the stable branch. [..] We recommend that in general you deploy the NGINX mainline branch at all times."
I think we need minimum basic housing a lot more than we need basic income. I think basic income is a problem.

We are suffering from "housing inflation" in the US and that is causing serious problems.
Do you mind sharing how you did this in more details ? I am also not happy with the way Steam games put files in random locations...
You are right, though my reading was it that generally while those points were brought up, they were debated and there was consensus on direction. Perhaps my wording of no one "against" it was wrong, but generally the debate was good and came to a conclusive direction.

It's nice to not see something stagnate.
At least nominally this is not true: Michelin claims that stars are only earned based on the quality of the cuisine, not the comfort or service of the establishment.

Now, Michelin "inspectors" are human and certainly still susceptible to our usual cognitive biases, like food tasting "better" if it's eaten with a vermeil fork. And the economics of the restaurant industry make it difficult to profitably produce the kind of meal that earns Michelin stars without charging so much that your customers will demand a certain level of ambiance and service.

It will be interesting to see if this is a one-off for the Guide, or represents the start of a shift away from the dominance of 7+ course, white tablecloth places.
> you want investment

In what?

A company that sells goods to consumers who can't buy it?

Those aren't doing any good.

There are mountains of cash right now, all seeking investment. They have trouble finding anything worth investing in. This is why we see massive valuations - with zero interest rates, a tiny revenue stream is worth a huge amount of cash.
Roundtable with Bryce Roberts Re Indie.vc
Twice. One time it was because I previously worked with the hiring manager. That was an awesome gig.

The other time, I was hired after two phone calls. I talked about my previous work. I sent them a code sample I had laying around. That was it. I didn't stay there long. The company had high turnover because they liked to micromanage their developers. That fact never came up in those phone calls.

There's been a lot of discussion on HN about the ineffectiveness of interviews for assessing a candidate's work performance. What gets talked about less is that it's also ineffective for potential employees to assess their future employer. When I took the above job, it sounded great. The work was interesting. The people were fun to talk to and to work with. It was 100% remote, so no open office plan. It was everything I wanted in a job. A month later, the micromanagement started. Two months later, I was updating my resume again.
The Stephen Mitchell translation of the Tao Te Ching: https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching-Laozi/dp/0060812451/ref=...

It's beautiful.
In Health Care, Freedom Is the Only Way Forward
Couldn't they put a direct APK link from the website?
Sometimes it's hard to get the ambulances to show up quickly, even in Silicon Valley: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23119425/santa-clara-county-th...

Private enterprise, trying to maximize profit. Public services, trying to minimize costs. Mostly works.
They still don't, since they ask their Linux users to install tons of libraries on their own. Not that they really care about Linux anyway... (still not GOG Galaxy client...)
In my mind Apple does great hardware, but that only matters for mobile. I would've gotten a MBP if I hadn't wanted a stylus. If you're doing a desktop with OS X, you overpay and have no flexibility compared to what you'd get with Windows.

I confess that I've seldom had the Windows stability issues that people always mention, so I don't see that as a big deal.
Why not? An extra computer is a big investment just to play games.
Yes, I only meant it's an obvious question to ask to qualify the sort of AI startup. Agree there can be winners without this qualification but it's an obvious distinction to be noted.
I'm so tired to hear about growth. Growth is not a very beneficial situation to be in. We should focus on sustainability. Do we tell people to grow as fat as they can be? No, we encourage a sustainable in and out, just what we need for a happy and healthy life.

Billionaires are not a thousand times happier or healthier then millionaires. Growth is overrated.

There's a baseline of wealth that we must sustain, then we need to focus on horizontally scaling that baseline to as many people as possible, and finally, we must work to sustain that scale too. Growth appears twice in this equation, but always at a very well defined scale. We need to grow to reach the baseline, and then grow to have everyone base-lined.

Once we have achieved the above in a sustainable way, then we should focus all our remaining efforts into having fun, being curious, enjoying ourselves, and enjoying each others company. This should similarly be handled in a sustainable way. A heroine high is not a sustainable enjoyable and fun activity. Going for a walk along a park or a coast is. The dosage is important, a night out partying here and there is sustainable, day after day of it is not. Sprinkle in some learning and curiosity, I for example, would keep coding for pleasure. In fact, sustainability will probably motivate people towards sciences and technological advancement even faster, as we'll finally let free of our intrinsic motivations to do so.

To quote Nietzsche: "To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general."

The first part of that quote is Growth, endless, unhealthy, never ending Growth, simply to address our own boredom. The second part is sustainable life, easy, playful, and fun.

I really hope as we progress, I stop hearing about Growth, and I start hearing a lot more about Sustainability.
This looks cool. Where do you see this fitting in versus using something like TypeScript or PureScript?
Well, except the largest communist country has nothing like that.
Secret to Tim Ho Wan is to get there before rush times! Went at like 4:30 for an early dinner and had no wait. Amazing.
Indians still shit in the road and you give them internet? Heh priorities
As others have mentioned, there are real performance gains to be won on both client and server, but does that make it a necessity? No.

Perhaps the more compelling reason you're looking for is that HTTP2 significantly affects best programming practice.

Well-established patterns of HTTP become antipatterns under HTTP2, e.g. image sprites, concatenating files, domain sharding. Most of those originated as messy hacks to get around limitations of HTTP and introduced unwanted complexity into both development and deployment of web services. Thanks to HTTP2, they are no longer needed and in fact can actually reduce performance now that the standard handles the simple case effectively.

Upgrading therefore makes for cleaner architecture as well as the obvious perf boost. The longer you hold off, the longer you have to hold off making those updates and pushing them into production. (And again, it's of course not a necessity in the same sense a security or compliance update would be. But it's another very good reason imo.)
Could you share why you want to try it? What particular problem are you facing that this project solves?
This is really weird, trying to create an account returns an invalid HTTP response, Twitter seems to be glitching badly.
An external Thunderbolt 2 GPU will only run at the equivalent of PCI x4, while Thunderbolt 3 eGPUs will do enough bandwidth to have full GPU performance. eGPU driver support was added to macOS Sierra, so hopefully the new Macbook Pros with USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 will support eGPUs nicely.
Redesigned PicoLisp Wiki
I believe my Core Duo 2 laptop (Inspiron 1420) is the model Dell set up with Ubuntu. Got it on eBay for $800 from person who lightly used it but didn't want Linux. It's about 8 years old or something. Still handles about anything I throw at it from web servers to video to virtual machines. 1080p seems to be rough on it but I can't tell if it's it or Linux-related software. 720p looks great on it, though, so I question the necessity of 1080p anyway.

Things run a bit slower for the apps that get unnecessarily bloated over time. Including some websites. Still fast enough day to day to not really matter. I was used to it about 3-4 years ago. Thanks to software improvements, my laptop actually got better over the years. ;)
Their standard contract also forbids you from engaging in further projects with the same client for 2-3 years unless done via the platform, specifying pretty hefty fines. It's a pretty good deal for the clients, but not ideal for the providers.
I'm pretty sure Tesla had nothing to do with this. It makes autopilot seem much more than they've claimed, and if they were ever found out to do this kind of marketing, the lawsuits would be huge.

It still might be faked, but there are many more who would gain something from fakng th without having massive downside like Tesla.
Slightly off-topic, but since you brought it up.

A 40" TV is, like, $300 [0]. The average American watches 5 hours a day [1]. Replace your TV every year, that's $0.16 per hour of entertainment. I probably pay more than that in bus fare and late fees to use the public library.

Big-screen TVs don't belong on the list of excessive consumption items anymore. They are incredibly cheap and deliver enormous utility relative to expenditures that get drastically less hate, like a data plan for even the cheapest smartphone, plane tickets/vacations in general, picking the crossover instead of the compact sedan, picking the very slightly nicer apartment, etc.

[0] http://www.bestbuy.com/site/tvs/led-tvs/pcmcat193400050018.c...

[1] http://www.recode.net/2016/6/27/12041028/tv-hours-per-week-n...
Didn't see that. Man it's good to be a middle-man!

Screw the skills business, I'm setting up a general store on the frontier.
Get influencers to follow you. It's easier to convince the one than the 1,000 but if you get the 1, the 1,000 will follow.

Follow and engage a few verified users in your niche, maybe they'll follow back.
I agree. All in the name of writing code that makes it easier to do what? Not lose track of your own javascript?
The search for the ‘Holy Grail’ of human longevity
Air Force silo jockies, tho I do suppose the nomenclature is more commonly used to refer to submariners. All i know about submariners is that the movie Down Periscope is more accurate than satiracle.
To be fair, the piece remixed in that video is one of the only “traditional” musical tracks in the game, and I think the remix works pretty well. But I share your concerns: I hope that the later parts of the game, where music is replaced with weird sounds and background noises, retain the wholly alien feeling of the original.

Metroid 2 is relatively forgotten compared to Metroid and Super Metroid, but its graphics and sound build up a sense of tension and uneasiness in a way that they don’t match, I think. This blog post articulates my feelings on the music of Metroid 2 pretty well: http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2007/03/15/the-music-of-metroi...
bash Pocket Reference. I keep a stack by the office door, sort of like a candy bowl.
Android Internals: A Confectioner's Cookbook