skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related article: https://www.techinasia.com/grabs-2015-financial-numbers-reve...

Another aspect that I haven't seen discussed a whole lot yet in relation to Didi's purchase of Uber:

Didi's $1B investment in Uber gives Didi an economic interest in Uber, but perhaps most importantly it probably gives Didi investor information rights. This is a big deal when it comes to navigating the waters to compete with Uber directly or indirectly in markets outside China. Uber may also have information rights on Didi, but those may only be shareholder (eg common) rights vs investor information rights since Uber China's acquisition was a merger rather than a cash investment.

In any case, I don't think people are giving Didi enough credit for how savvy and strategic they were here. Uber seems to have been outplayed on every level by Didi when they faced off. It will be very interesting to see what happens over the coming years.
"Protectionist trade policies are common in Japan too...."

There are advantages to the way Asian economists do it.
For example, not only in Japan, but especially in Korea, cell phones were standard even by the mid-90's....EVERYONE had one. And the rates were quite reasonable, too. (No contracts, either. IfIRememberRight.)
But there are(/were) disadvantages to Asian Tiger economics too. After the Asian bubble burst, the Korean Wan [SouthKorean money] depreciated to the point that USArmy Sergeants were trying to buy cars (even Fords, not just Kias and Daewoos) made (or rather bought) in Korea. (The US Dollar-to-Wan rate was so out of wack that it was still more economical to buy AND ship a car back to the US across the Pacific on a boat. Unfortunately emissions standards were different; Korean cars didn't pass EPA muster.) ~circa 1998
It comes from living in a bubble with other nerds who deal with machines all day. The machines don't care, they don't have emotions. It's why techies have always struggled with the "human" aspects

But what really kills me are the leaps in logic a lot of SV dips like to breathlessly promote to their users, who often genuinely look up to their tech lords and will take their words without further thought. Just the other day Yelp posted this whole screed about facilitating free speech rights (as in, preserving the freedom to review businesses on yelp), getting everybody fired up and diverting attention away from their shady advertising and business practices.

All of this advocacy, all this diversity, all these stupid little bleeding-heart SJW tactics... ALL of them are red herrings for deeper agendas, which are often very weird on account of a prevalence of the personality attributes you've described.
> protectionism is justified for critical functions

Then don't complain about other countries' protectionism. They also have the right to decide what is critical to them, right?
Nice article! I wanted an article on L1 norm and L2 norm. Thanks a ton for this!
I use my Vive probably 3-5 times a week, depending on how busy I am. There seems to be a flavor or two of the month release for VR that keeps me busy and interested. Currently its Raw Data with a touch of Battledome and Poolnation. I'm not typically a single person gamer, but I did spend a fair bit of time with Final Approach, which makes you feel like a kid again, standing in front of a model airport and playing with toy planes. Most vive gamers are early access and I'm eager to get back into them after major updates. I haven't had time to try Rec Room, but I heard it really puts AltspaceVR to shame.

I could gush about Raw Data for quite some time, but its really the first VR game to feel like a AAA title and the swordplay is very rewarding.

SteamVR gets updated almost monthly as well and gives much needed fixes and performance enhancements. The Vive is much more user friendly now and the latest batch of video drivers seem to be helping VR performance as well. I did see the Poolnation and Raw Data devs have implemented Nvidia's mult-res shaders which give fairly impressive performance increases.

Now I'm waiting on the full Budget Cuts game and EVE: Valkyrie to get released for the Vive. Its incredible how much content there is right now. That said, its not much considering all the non-VR games on Steam, but its enough for an adult with a FT job or family to be unable to keep up.
Profile of a Russian Attack IP
Yup, and so the tyranny of majority will tax it all out of you, sacrifice your youth for a false promise of tomorrow.
kinda. the shareholders for many of these banks lost everything or close to everything, and the govt . took large stakes. It was not a shareholder bailout - rather it wa a capital infusion. We're moving closer to nationalization of parts of the fin. system
I think the Didi-Uber merge is more of a individual case. Not a reflection of "China vs US".

Many people don't know, the head of Uber china and the president of Didi are cousin. So to be honest I'm not surprised at all.
Imagine. PHP in the browser. A competitor to JavaScript on so many levels.
Nope it's .75. IQ heritability is only .4 for children but it climbs to .75 as the children age into adulthood adults. So it's basically as heritable as height.

Wikipedia Quote

"The general figure for the heritability of IQ, according to an authoritative American Psychological Association report, is 0.45 for children, and rises to around 0.75 for late teens and adults"
Ask HN posts rise faster than links, I believe, but maybe dang can clarify.
CommaAI Releases Self-Driving Car Dataset
1980 S&L crisis?
You're just wrong. You don't know that, period. It doesn't matter how legal or illegal guns or ammunition are.
Even if the terms ate up 2.9B of the 3B an engineer with 1 point will still walk away with close to a million. I don't buy it.
And legions of STEM graduates with poor critical thinking skills believe that is the norm for the liberal arts and post ceaselessly with poor grammar and qualitative reasoning about the superiority of their academic discipline. It is like an underwater basketweaving major taking one requires remedial course and declaring that all of Mathematics is blow off easy stuff.
I think the point was the lack of success, not smarts.
My guess is that this article is just indirectly referring to the six UAS test sites that most companies can already test at for interesting UAS projects.

https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=1...
Ask HN: Have you launched a new product/service? I want to write about it
Hi HN,

I am writing a series of blog posts (and potentially magazine articles) about existing small businesses that have successfully launched a new product/service.

The only restriction is that your new product/service has to be different than your original, core offering (it doesn't matter if it is complimentary -- it just needs to be different), and it has to be bringing in new revenue that you would not have gotten otherwise.

I would like to feature you, and tell your story. I will include links or other details about how potential customers can get in touch with you if they are interested in your new product or service.

Please Note that you don't need to be a typical "internet-based" business, although those qualify as well. If you run a "normal", physical business, I would love to hear from you.

If you fit the above criteria, and are interested in telling your story, leave a comment here with how I can reach you directly.

Unfortunately, I am not looking for people that are just launching their first product/service at this time. This is about existing businesses diversifying their revenue stream by adding a new product/service.

Thanks!
GitHub Enterprise 2.7 is now available
What kind of machine learning techniques do you use to generate your results?
Sure, family money.
I mean, in-person. The internet, online, potential for VR is huge. But strapping on a VR headset when someone else is in the room with you is just awkward.
Barring a very few genuine ones, most of the HRs and recruiters that I've come across are nothing but humans parroting company policies and procedures. Practically, they never exhibit any empathy or creativity, I'd love for some of them to be replaced by bots.
I wiped the caches on my largest recent Wordpress (very complex, post2post links and all archive pages including home page are generated via lookups to metadata tables) site and the response time was 28ms.
>what's the best investment you've made?

Bought stocks in late 2009/early 2010 when everyone said the world was melting down. I think I got into SPY around ~115, and it's almost doubled since. I just wish I had more money at the time; my return isn't so sexy in absolute terms.
The US is an enormous country. Every state, county, city, town, village, hamlet are different. Every block in New York City alone is an entirely new community with different values or joys or hardship.

Those people who "find out" the US is a "sad place to live" haven't found the right place.
A quick intro to grouping in pandas using NYC Citi Bike data
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Sounds to me like this wasn't your only bet of the year. How long have you been predicting NBA games (or other sports)?
Yeah but my gut tells me you're wrong.
Wow. If this is what I think it is, than in a single release, Geohot has demonstrated he's willing to open up something that nobody else in the field is willing to open up: Data. No matter how many times other companies preach their love of open, they generally release tools only, and the data is considered the incredibly valuable component to hoard.

If comma.ai is going to release the data it's AI platform is building up, that's going to be a huge deal.
"A large part of the problem comes from the many, buggy plugins you can one click install from within wordpress."

But isn't that the main benefit of Wordpress - the huge amount of plugins?
Why is the lang attribute on the HTML element set to en-US when this blog post appears to be written in Arabic?
> they were buying their first house, having kids, and starting up the (relatively certain) career ladder

There's still plenty of people still doing exactly that. Get out of the HCOL areas and there are tons of people going to an inexpensive state school and buying a house in a new suburb outside of Boise Idaho or wherever.

I bring up Boise because I did an internship with Micron 5 years ago and other interns were meeting with realtors so they could buy a house as soon as they graduated.
I get the opposite experience, with games such as Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes[ktne], Black Hat Cooperative[bhc], and Pool Nation VR[pnvr].

[ktne]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/

[bhc]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/503100/

[pnvr]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/269170/
How can you click vouch? (I thought I had enough karma to do all the extra ops).

I don't agree w/the article but that's why comments and voting are for, not flagging which feels almost as censoring.
"It's a big boy's game for large nation states...."

The Koreans have a saying: "...like a shrimp between two whales...."
> As a sanity check, Googling on drone electricity costs has other people saying pennies per delivery.

This makes sense, even assuming half an hour in the air for each delivery, the cost of residential electricity in the UK would mean ~5p of electricity for a 1KW drone making a delivery.
It sounds to me like one or two people reused passwords between fosshub and some other site that had its database breached.
Companies have arbitrarily set a very high standard that can only be passed by x% of engineers, and then argued they can't find enough. You could do the same for any industry.
Here's an example (also keep in mind this next example would work the same even if the bar isn't set arbitrarily):

Let's say I run a cleaning business, and I decide that I only want to hire janitors who can run a 4 minute mile. I think that they are the best people for the job, and no-one else will do.

Let's also say that I only want to pay them $50k a year. Some time goes buy and I'm having a really hard time finding people. Now I could raise what I'm offering to $100k a year, and find plenty of candidates who would move here from other states, change careers, move from management back to working as a janitor, come out of early retirement etc...

Or I could relax my requirements--take people who show the potential to run a 4 minute mile and train them.

Or I could lobby the government to increase the visa cap so I can import qualified people who are willing to work for $50k.

This doesn't sound so bad when you think about it. I wasn't willing to offer more than $50k a year, so wages weren't increasing anyway.

However, if I didn't have the option of raising the visa cap, and I really believed that only janitors who meet my qualifications would work, I would have no choice but to offer a higher salary.

Therefore, importing more workings depresses wages for qualified janitors.

Now you might be thinking $50k is plenty for qualified janitors. They can live with less. But here's the important part. You didn't increase the visa cap for only qualified janitors.

You increased the visa cap for all janitors, who are making at least the prevailing wage. And it's based on a lottery. The number of extra visa spots aren't proportional to how much a company is paying. Every company who is willing to pay the candidate at least the prevailing wage gets the same shot at these visa slots. Since, most companies don't have sub 4 minute mile requirements for janitors, the prevailing wage is much lower than $50k a year.

Now the market is flooded with janitors willing to work at average companies for $20k a year, and you've driven down wages for all janitors not just the top 1% of qualified janitors. Even though the shortage is only for the top 1%.

Average software developers aren't making $150k a year and buying Teslas, and they are the ones you're going to hurt with visa cap increases.

I'll agree that there is a shortage of top 1% programmers. There is a shortage of the top 1% in nearly every industry almost by definition. However, until you develop a system for only importing enough top 1% programmers to meet demand, you're going to hurt everyone who's not in the top 1%.

There are several systems for doing this. The easiest to implement probably to use an auction instead of a lottery (this comes with a set of its own problems though).
In case anyone else is interested, this looks like a way to get there: http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/latest/creating_a_linter.htm...
Student loans. Total investment will end up being something like $200k with interest included. Lifetime value added to my income will easily reach $4 million. 20X+ return.
that was a big deal but not quite catastrophic. the losses were S&L losses at $90 billion. these involved smaller 'thrift' banks
I sold my collection years ago for about $1000 altogether. I started playing during 3rd Edition, had 4 of each dual land, a handful of older cards, and 4 of pretty much every card worth a damn from ice age until around when 7th edition came out. I doubt that $1000 came close to even breaking even on how much I spent on the game. However, if I still had those cards today, it would be a very different story. I never considered the cards an investment, though. I just liked playing the game at the time.
Fresh out of college, putting as much as allowed in my 401k.
This is true for most games, the difference that with VR you're strapping on figurative horse blinders. As I mentioned in my sibling post, there are some games taking advantage of the disconnect.
Thanks for explaining / clarifying.

> I don't view this as a victory of Didi either, they simply defended their home turf.

I think this is where we disagree. It was definitely a victory for Didi. They beat Uber in China, which is the market they care most about.

Moreover, they have aligned themselves strategically. They now have a stake of Uber as well (don't forget Didi also invested $1B in Uber and as a result achieved information rights on Uber). They have partnerships with Grab in SE Asia and Ola in Inida. Lyft in the US. They continue to encircle Uber...

Whereas a year ago, an Uber investor could've reasonable thought Uber was on a path to domination worldwide... today it's clear that their potential is greatly diminished from those lofty possibilities. They are removed from China outright. They are being confronted by an opponent that has already beat them in SE Asia and perhaps in India. Who knows what is next in Europe and the US.

Didi has been absolutely brilliant here, and they deserve full credit for it.
WTF is Jet.com? I have never heard of it, why is it worth 3B
if it is not common knowledge!! Sigh!
What's Worse Than Death? Breathing Machines and Dementia, Patients Say
I think I'd actually prefer that...
What about flat file CMS like Kirby? Just upload your files.
Says you. I have whole-system simulations that need running.
Harmonized standards and EU directives (2014)
I live in the US. Let's say there's a law I disagree with. If I break that law, and police officers take action to enforce it, I'm still capable of cooperating with the officers and working through the system, using my rights as a citizen to achieve as fair an outcome as possible.

Now let's say I disagree that police officers have the right to enforce the law, and that, in fact, the entire legal system doesn't apply to me, and it infringes on my fundamental rights as a human being. I don't need to work through the system, because the system doesn't apply to me! Well, that sucks -- I still live in the United States, where the power of the law is ultimately backed by a large citizenship that does believe that the laws apply to them, and also by an incredible military force and globally connected political powers.

Clearly, saying "the law doesn't apply to me," while I'm living in the US, is about as useful as saying "the rules of physics don't apply to me." In the interest of self-preservation, while pursuing my ideologies, I might abscond to some country that does not have political ties to the US, and obtain citizenship there. Heck, I might just find my own island in the middle of nowhere and live out the rest of my days in the peace of my own personal government. Great! Everyone's happy!

However, essentially declaring war on an institution far more powerful than yourself, while the institution has both the self-interest and ability to enforce its laws isn't so much "exercising your personal ideologies" as it is "a symptom of an insane person with no sense of self preservation"

There are refugees all around the world that are fleeing from the ideologies of their own governments. That's within their rights as human beings. However, it's a symptom of insanity, not personal ideology, to believe that the laws of the country literally don't apply to you while you're there. This is why we don't often see these refugees driving around the streets of their home country, disobeying (relatively) minor laws in an extremely attention-getting way, trying to pick fights, and then threatening to shoot cops. I'm sure there are examples of this, but I'll just say the same thing in those cases -- that's not political ideology, it's insanity. And when insane people wave guns around, they get shot.
401(k)'s (traditional) will be taxed anyways. That's the plan, it's deferred until you collect in retirement, or, potentially, on inheritance. This is also why you have to take the minimum payouts at 70 (? need to look up the precise age again).

Suppose your suggested future comes to pass and they tax it earlier. At what rate? Which part of it? Fundamentally, it's a brokerage account and you've invested the money. Do they go back and find XX years worth of investments and say you owe that much in back taxes? Do they look at the present value? The former is moronic. People wouldn't have that much cash lying around, that would literally bankrupt the population. The second also fails to make sense because then they'd be taxing unrealized earnings on investments.

This fear over 401(k) (and, relatedly, IRA) savings is generally unfounded.
Can Google Cardboard do controllers?
Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
It looks like they show different prototype designs on their webpage: http://www.solveforx.com/wing/our-approach/

[including the old design. But in the image, they show something with helicopter-style rotors]
> what can I recommend to non-technical people when they need a website quickly and inexpensively

A SaaS website builder and host like Squarespace, Wix, or Weebly.
They never mention the ones they lost ;)
"Maybe I am reading too much in to it...."

No, i don't think that you're reading too much into it. In fact, i like your analysis. I'll have to rewatch it, again. LOL

especially concerning "unity" vs. "FREEDOMMM!"
> I think there's another big part of this, and that's that working on the design is going to open you up to bikeshedding from all the non-designers whose work you're supplanting.

Or maybe sometimes it isn't bikeshedding but legitimate concerns from longtime users, supporters or even creators of said software.

> Can you imagine how galling it would be for the designers or marketing team to start sitting in on code reviews? What do they know? But here in this forum, lots of people are dumping on the ribbon interface (which is quite popular, works very well, etc). Who's going to volunteer for that?

I'd readily admit to be one of those "dumping" at the ribbon interface as long as you believe me that it is a bit tongue-in-cheek since I'm very open about my colour weakness and lack of education in design. :-)

That said a number of the things that are said about the ribbon thing is IMO legitimate and well argued issues like the use of valuable vertical space and the lack of discoverability. (This is a general problem today as browser etc hide menus so you have to press alt to see them, thereby discriminating against non-power-users. Same goes for removing the context-menu-button on the keyboard completely hiding the feature: who thinks of just trying shift-F10 if they don't know what they are missing and google it?)

Edit: Remove stray sentence at end. Try even harder not to come off as arrogant
I did a computer science degree. it's taken about 2 years from when I started it to pay off in spades
Also, other posts on the front page were stale. Most were over an hour old with, at the time I saw this one, only one other post under 1 hour.
Best investment: Started farming just before the commodities boom.

Worst investment: Still am farming after the commodities bust. Luckily I enjoy it.
Airplanes need to become fully autonomous
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