skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way it was explained to me by someone who drives for both Uber and Lyft (which isn't a common thing, by the way, contrary to popular belief):

Prospective Lyft drivers actually have to undergo an orientation where they are essentially screened and given basic training by a Lyft driver.

Prospective Uber drivers, on the other hand, can start working right away without even a face-to-face meeting with anyone. All they have to do is apply online.

Not sure how accurate this is, but anecdotally, I've always noticed that Lyft drivers have better customer service skills than Uber drivers, and are more personable.
milek7: ~$ time powershell exit

real	0m3.323s
user	0m4.140s
sys	0m0.507s

Seriously?
As long as they don't install a second shorter cable, and have the software route to the second cable. The entire thing is a dog and pony show for retail investors who are even bigger suckers than the idiots running IEX. If the speed bump is for everyone and can't be removed then how do PEG orders bypass it? Are PEG orders some kind of magic that travels faster than light?

Pro Tip: If a large financial institution tells you they are protecting you, they are bald faced lying to you and you are about to get a serious lesson in business.

The same idiots who tell you that IEX is a good thing will also sell you actively managed mutual funds that A) under perform vanguard and B) seriously under perform once you subtract fees.
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A T-1 line? wouldn't it be Cable internet, or more likely Fiber? in Miami, at least
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In my experience, no complexity multiplies.

Compatibility switches hinging on different versions for different features in the code are basically unrelated.

Sometimes multiple switches affect the same area of the code. This is fairly linear. E.g. if the same logic is affected by two version checks, basically the behavior is split three ways: the ancient behavior before those two versions, the behavior starting with the older of the two versions up to before the later one, and then the new behavior starting with the later version. The code variants do not grow exponentially in N (the number of places in the implementation where a version check is made).

That could happen if you introduced individual Boolean controls for individual behaviors rather than a linear scale on version: the same area of code being "hit" by three run-time flags for altering behavior could have 8 possible behavioral combinations and up to as many blocks of code to implement them.

I don't see how it avoids making design decisions. If you have a plan for somehow mitigating the impact of backward-incompatible changes so that users can get through them, you have more freedom to uproot bad design and replace it with good design.
> It will speed Internet access for Cuban users

Cloudflare being in Cuba or not will have zero impact on this... unless Cloudflare is getting into the last-mile business (doubtful, but possible).

> As local access gets liberalized (which seems inevitable)

Inevitable, probably, but in 1 year's time - unlikely.

> Caching in Cuba, especially for large media content, will make the same amount of international bandwidth cover more users

This could be the only tangible benefit - except Cloudfare isn't a "nation level" cache, they're a glorified CDN with only some content being "opted-in" to using Cloudflare. So the actual benefit will be minimal (unless Cloudlfare decides to cache all inbound content for the entire nation... which seems unlikely).

> there will be more Cuban websites; if those sites use a cache like CloudFlare it will be faster for international visitors

Cloudflare doesn't need to be in Cuba for this to happen. Frankly, Cloudflare needs to _not_ be in Cuba for this to happen, otherwise it would be no different than a regular hosted server in Cuba (for in-country traffic that is).

> Plus, Cuba is (hopefully) going to rapidly rejoin the world economy,

Cuba never left the world economy -- only the American economy.

Cloudflare isn't an ISP, so Cloudflare putting a PoP in Cuba literally provides zero benefits to Cuba (and it's heavily questionable whether it would provide any benefits to Cloudflare either).

Sure, some money will be exchanged, but it's very likely the data center Cloudflare would colo at would be foreign owned and operated (since Cuba obviously lacks this infrastructure and expertise to build such an infrastructure, let alone maintain one).

> As to why CloudFlare would want to do it: I'm sure there's a novelty/marketing aspect to it

That seems to be the only logical conclusion.

Look, I'm a paying customer and love Cloudflare's service. It made a huge difference for my company's website. But it seems the comment that started this wasn't thoroughly thought through.
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I believe that everything will reset when automated cars come out. Whomever is in the lead now will not matter because automated rides will be such a game-changer that it'll reset the entire market.
Propably bit unfair comprasion, but...:

milek7: ~$ time bash -c exit

real	0m0.009s
user	0m0.007s
sys	0m0.000s
There's nothing which says that Microsoft does the same thing to all installations of Windows. They could be doing A/B-testing, treating installations in certain regions where they fear legal repercussions nicer, or just trying to confuse users, so that we bash each others heads in, instead of theirs.
I feel like right-of-resale is legitimately complicated for digital products. The right to resell a physical object doesn't give you the right to mass-produce it, but for digital products the two processes are identical.
To those wondering if MS does QA anymore because you've seen one or two minor issues:

how much QA should they do to verify the millions of different hardware and software combinations out there won't have some edge case behavior?

You want them to track your privacy settings so they can be applied. Oh but then they are tracking us!

Cause everyone here works at a company that gets their code right every time, I'm sure
I doubt that Windows will ever be open sourced. I think it's more likely that they continue to integrate Linux API's into the commercial OS product and slowly morph into a their own Linux distro when most of the legacy code has been replaced.
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I can't get past the "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" episode. This was Herzog's "re-imagining" of the great film by Abel Ferrara. Ferrara was infuriated, as he had not authorized a remake and was paid a token amount for rights. The kicker: in interviews, Herzog claimed, bizarrely, not only to have not seen the original, but never even to have heard of Ferrara. I realize that many people greatly admire Herzog's work, but there is clearly something wrong with him.
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System programming in JavaScript makes me feel queasy.
Yes, I was a being tongue-in-cheek at the expense of clarity. The elevator, in combination with advances in building materials and engineering, allows for construction of high-rise condominiums. These lower the cost of housing by improving the efficiency of land use. Regulation prevents this technology from being used in many of the areas where it is needed most.
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I just returned from Kiev. There is a certain degree of uncertainty that local people feel, but it's mostly related to weak local economy rather than the war. It surprises me that The Economist rated the city so low -- as long as you stay in its central part it's a very nice European city -- beautiful, clean, with lots of cafes and restaurants and decent public transit.
Reverse engineering isn't outlawed.
People are way, way, WAY underestimating how long it will be before "self driving car picks you up, takes you to location". If we don't have self-driving cars everywhere on highways moving cargo, then we won't have self-driving taxi cabs for many years after whenever that happens. City driving, where Uber can actually make money with the density of people, is the hardest driving of all, and will be the last place where self-driving cars without any human operator take over.
It might be helpful when reporting anecdotal information about what the Anniversary Update does and does not change, to note which version of Windows 10 you have. Windows 10 Enterprise offers more control than Pro, which offers more than Home, as I understand. This may explain some of the differences in these observations.
Disclaimer: MSFtie, who came in prior to that switch as an SDET, and was converted to a SWE during the layoffs.

In case your genuine was genuine, I'll give a somewhat serious answer: The intention was that the SDET work would be picked up by SWEs who would be responsible with dev and test. Ops also is slowly being absorbed in this manner (this current wonderful permutation of the word "devops")

As to my thoughts on the transition... let the assertion that my home machines are still (happily) running 7 speak for itself; and I say that with unfortunate tone in that I'm a big fan of hyper-v integration/DX12.
If you want to blame someone, blame the corrupt government that spends billions on the Olympic games instead of feeding their own people.
<looks around backyard's beautiful blooming Arizona desert> Welp it is hot outside... guess we should panic!
I wonder what the future of security breaches and invasion of privacy and theft look like when there are sensors everywhere, data is flowing in all directions, and all locks are digital.
It would be great to see some mitigation in the form of emissions reductions to boot!
What job title should I be aiming for?
I've been consulting as an independent consultant (full-stack dev/software architect/lead technical point) with a national company for several months. They _really_ want to hire me.

In order to set aside my independent consulting practice, they're willing to offer a nice salary and title. Since the IS/IT department is so small at the moment, there's room to really choose my title.

My role will involve high-level architecture, and detailed implementation. It will also involve working with c-suite execs and product strategists to transpose the product vision into code, and guiding the companies technological decisions.

I've entertained the titles CTO, Chief Architect, CEA (Chief Enterprise Architect), etc. I want to choose a title that fits my responsibilities, as well as a title that is level with the high salary I'm aiming for. In this area of the country, "Senior Dev" or "Software Architect" aren't "high" enough to match a high salary, nor do they truly match some of the roles that I encompass.

What are your thoughts on the title that I should aim for? What "lofty" role still involves direct implementation of code? In this regard, the IS/IT department is kind of like a startup.
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"America's wealthiest and best-educated young adults still lag behind their peers in other countries in the literacy, numeracy, and computer-age problem-solving skills needed to compete in the global labor market."
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/02/18/us-millennials-...

"The U.S. spends more on health care than other high-income countries but has worse outcomes."
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/20...

"American Schools vs. the World: Expensive, Unequal, Bad at Math"
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/america...
You have no idea if people are being routinely "abused" or not. The original commenter's hypothetical is as follows (I've expanded a bit):

A likely extremely highly paid employee is working at a company where they aren't sure whether their stock options are valuable are not. It is extremely likely if they ask the company for information necessary to value those stock options, they would get it. Completely unrelated, founders of the business may or may not have sold stock during a previous round of funding.

How is this person a victim exactly? If an employee doesn't want any risk in their compensation, they should reject stock options in favor of salary. If they decide to take stock options there is always going to be risk, not only due to the information risk we are talking about but because the future is uncertain even to people with all the relevant information.

And FWIW, almost every startup is incorporated in Delaware which already has this law on the books.
I wonder if part of the problem is that WinSE is expensive.
The headline is very non-specific. Here's what's going on:

In a multi-stage, two year effort, the Chrome App Store is being deprecated on Windows, Mac, Linux, but not ChromeOS. They're asking people to migrate to websites/webapps instead. Extensions and themes are unaffected. By 2018, only ChromeOS will be able to run apps in the Chrome App Store.
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Are you really proposing to kill Win32 completely?
Interesting, my intuition is the exact opposite. With human driven vehicles, you have a chicken and egg problem. Drivers only come if there are riders, and riders only come if there are drivers. Having the biggest user base is a big plus.

With driverless vehicles, a company can solve the supply side of the market making problem by buying a few cars in one market.

If I'm in city A, I just want an app that summons a driverless car to me. Do I care if the company behind that app is also in 200 other cities? Is there any cost to me to having multiple apps on my phone?

My intuition would have been that uber is way overvalued because once driverless cars are mainstream, it's easy for a competitor (possibly local government!) to break into any given market.
> It wasn't HFTs that brought down the economy in '07-'08. It was their adversaries.

That's a cute quote, but it's not true in any meaningful sense.

HFTs weren't trading against the collection of real estate speculators, mortgage originators, mortgage securitizers, ratings agencies, or lazy investment managers who brought down the economy in '07-'08.

You're right that HFT is hardly the worst part of modern finance, but your post is conspiratorial nonsense... suggesting that other parts of finance are trying to villainize HFT so you look over there, instead of at them? That's unfounded, conspiratorial lunacy.

I get that you hate some bankers, or whatever, probably because you were told to... but if you did even the most superficial cui bono analysis, you'd realize there are simpler explanations for the HFT hatred; and that only a nutjob would write your post.
I think next year's Android tablets will be more like the Play Store with Chrome OS under the hood, the apps they are obsoleting today will be a universally inferior experience on tablets because they were only ever supported on desktops.

I think Google are betting on the Play Store for Windows and macOS breaking the Windows/Mac desktop paradigm too ... between Chrome the browser and Android apps Google occupies a lot of user attention already, they're already close to all the apps most people need, especially when they're co-installed on your desktop/laptop.

In terms of functionality they're on the brink of parity with Windows wherever the dependency is really just x86. A commercial Android version of WINE has already installed the Windows version of Steam and playable games, just as sophisticated GPUs start moving to the same USB every cheap tablet will have next year.

A lot of people will end up completely weaned off Windows/Mac app dependency... those are platforms on which both native app stores are orders of magnitude less popular than the Play Store and unpopular with developers.
> aren't you paying to make your website globally available?

No, any website (unless blocked by a nation-state) is by default accessible globally.

Yes, Cloudflare's CDN offers increased performance for global visitors, but with so few people online in Cuba, there's very little sense in fronting the cost of building all this infrastructure just to have a Cloudflare PoP there. There's many other nations much larger and better connected that CloudFlare does not have a PoP in, so why pick Cuba?

Cubans have bigger concerns than getting a page to load a few milliseconds faster. Getting online in the first place might be a bigger concern for starters...
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I don't think that's possible. The ISS is in an inclined orbit (iirc for easy access from certain launch sites that orbit passes over) and afaik is useless as a waypoint to anywhere (because an orbital plane change is very expensive).
The high end graphics cards were $500 in 2011 too. Maybe your definition of high end has changed...
I've encountered the start menu issue a few times and also found the various magic incantations on google didn't work. The final solution in each case was to create a new user account.
Even without seeing headlines like this, I have felt for a while that Zika is being downplayed in the media. I remember mass hysteria over mad cow disease, bird flu, and ebola. Zika seems at least on par with these to me. This disease is so new that we really don't know how long women have to wait before they can get pregnant safely-- if ever. We know that it stays latent in semen for a long time after being infected. Certainly it sounds very scary.

But for the most part it's being reported by the media in a very calm manner and I see relatively no panic. And that's not to say that mass panic is the right response to Zika, but just that our global reaction to Zika seems wildly inconsistent with our super-diseases of yesteryears. When the ebola crisis was going on across the Atlantic ocean, I saw many normal (albeit misguided) people in my Midwestern supermarket stockpiling bottled water and dry goods.

Meanwhile with Zika, they're estimating that 25% of Puerto Rico will have the disease before 2017. And yet I don't feel any real sense of panic in this country.

What gives? Is society just collectively becoming more reasonable? I find that hard to believe.
I don't understand this argument. Why on earth are we allowing companies to operate in such a dishonest manner?

Not to mention that, usually when you try to get the information, its after you've already joined and already have some shares. Your suggestion is to just simply drop that, and walk away. How on earth is that a reasonable thing to suggest?
At least two of those aren't "buy"...they are "leverage self further".

I know this sounds a bit nutty, but many of the arguments for credit seem to go:

"Why do I want to take on debt?"
"To build your credit score!"
"And what does that do for me?"
"It gives you the opportunity to take on larger debts!"
"And why would I want to do that?"
"...why do you hate America?"

Not even joking.
I remember last year I was going to start playing around with Atlassian JIRA API because of the massive installation my employer has (hosted internally, today's version: JIRA v6.3.11) and the experience was like an uphill battle.

If I want to get started again, where would you suggest me to look? I believe one should start with basic JIRA knowledge to understand the fundamental of the software/system/service before they continue to tackle the API (I believe most people, except Managers, use JIRA as told without knowing some fundamental idea behind it).
We'd really love some feedback on what people would find valuable on the site - rather than just who you support and why they are great.
I feel like, taken to it's natural conclusion, everything you buy will eventually be tied to a boycott, because that's pretty much how things are.
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Sure they can keep their financials private by requiring a signed NDA before distributing shares. But if they're asking for an NDA after granting shares then it's too late. What incentive would the shareholder have to sign away certain rights in order to gain access to financial records to which he is already entitled? In order for an agreement to be valid and legally enforceable it generally has to provide some specific benefit to both sides.
> The problem is that after installing the update, Windows no longer allows USB webcams to use MJPEG or H264 encoded streams and is only allowing YUY2 encoding.

Thurrott's explanations is incorrect. What is happening is that Windows is decoding the MJPEG or H.264 encoded streams coming from certain high end webcams and delivering the decoded frames to the video chat application[0].

[0] - https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-U...
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I'm not generally a fan of viewing the world in terms of an extended version of the social struggle from high school, but given that this actually does do a reasonably accurate caricature of human market makers versus HFT firms, this has always confused me regarding HN's reaction to HFT.

In one corner, we have sweaty alpha male jocks [+]. In the other corner, we have geeks with computers. The geeks ran the table on the jocks primarily because the geeks can do math faster. The jocks complain that the geeks are cheating, because how can they be expected to out-math a computer and, also, isn't math just a little suspicious? And HN sides with the jocks?

[+] People might think I'm exaggerating. Videos exist of the daily life of a market maker. Here's a representative day at the office, circa 2000, in Chicago's open outcry options pit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvx3xM02iUs In stocks and bonds, you generally got to be sweaty in your own office (open plan, frequently) and yell at someone over the telephone rather than straight to their face.
> "You want them to track your privacy settings so they can be applied. Oh but then they are tracking us!"

The privacy settings do not need to be transmitted back to Microsoft. At the start of the upgrade, the installer could read the current settings, then reapply those once the install was complete. No privacy-infringing tracking required.
> This brings SSL to more sites, ...

We issue SSL certificates for all plans, including our Free tier, and terminate HTTPS traffic all over the world. You don't need a Business plan for that.
Usually when I see something like SNMP listening to the public internet, I treat it like this:

http://www.compliancebuilding.com/2009/08/03/compliance-van-...
In terms of "Apps" that is comparable to a quality web app, I think Chrome Store is pretty dense. If you look at the photo apps here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/pictu...

It is pretty much a replica of the top search results of "online photo editor" or "web photo editor". It is as competitive as web but I think the layout/review/star information in the store is still more useful than looking at a linear table returned by search.

It seems like Play Store is going to replace the Chrome Web Store. Speaking as app developer, the only advantage for searching for apps on Chrome Store is that most apps are optimized for a laptop/chrome book with a mouse and keyboard, and the apps work better for desktops.
I like the conclusion. It must be true.
I think you miss the point. Just like Amazon disrupted themselves by pioneering ebooks with the Kindle to compete with physical books, along with streaming video against DVDs. Uber will disrupt themselves by introducing self driving cars[1]. They are not vulnerable, they are pioneering because they will have the platform to do it with.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37117831
So the bandwidth for Cuban consumers is great! The ping, not so much.
"You want them to track your privacy settings so they can be applied. Oh but then they are tracking us!"

This argument doesn't hold up. Privacy settings can be stored locally, which requires no tracking. The problem arises when those privacy settings aren't correctly applied or remembered between updates.
Honestly I never understood the success of Evernote : you don't get much more value than if you were using a bunch of rich text files in a Dropbox folder (OK I'm exaggerating a bit).