skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pretty damned good circus, too, for something put on by volunteer students.
It's terrible terminology because "being in a circle" with someone suggests symmetry and reciprocity that isn't there. They mean "X has followed you", which is clear and to the point.
And my browser is always fullscreen with lots of tabs. I'd rather have a readable width article by default.
Ridesharing law is a bit of a gray area, but I was looking into it a couple years ago, and it seemed to be a dominant interpretation that the IRS limit was determining for whether something could be considered true ridesharing and not subject to regulations that companies like Uber have to deal with. There is a company called Carma that was operating under that cap at the time (but I just checked their site, and they seem to have changed their model to a subscription thing). Here is one link I found in five minutes of googling that mentions using the IRS cap: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M042/K158/4... There are better sources, but I don't have them handy.
It's about awareness and opportunity required before the arrangement you suggest, imo.

If Waze becomes the "I need a ride " or "I'm coming to work, want me to pick you up?" handy-dandy awareness machine that is dynamic (key point) and universal (in everyone's pocket) then i think it becomes another management-benefit tool for the scores of workers that do not own cars in areas without transportation.

Before I go to my retailer I'll check waze to see if anyone I know needs a ride. Likewise when I drive home.

This is missing from our engagement with employees - a way to help with transportation.

I hope waze works the way I think it will.
Yes, I believe this is what happened

Fb will suggest you know person X if a) you looked at person X's profile or b) person X looked at your profile
from [3]

> If you're not sure what this means, our product is Not For You.

Please don't do that, its childish and unimpressive.
Great interview, I think Jessica was the secret sauce that made YC so good.
Waze has been owned by Google and shared data -- both mapping and traffic, etc. -- with Google Maps for years. Using Waze, in a very real sense, is using Google Maps, and vice versa.

Heck, the new Google service at issue in this thread is Waze Carpool.
Not me, but there was a dev from the Seattle Times who gave a talk at SeattleJS and CascadiaFest about using web components in production.[1]

[1]: https://thomaswilburn.github.io/slide-dash-show/#0
The only social network I'm using is Google+. As long as the new version doesn't allow me to have 3 columns display on my PC, I'll stick with the old version.
I wonder if there is an open WiFi access point in the vicinity. I noticed that I had several coworkers suggested as friends shortly after I connected my phone to the office WiFi.

It makes sense that people using the same access point or connecting to Facebook from the same external IP would likely know each other.
That was probably a promotion, check your receipt. Most places in the US UberX minimum fare is $5+ and even without it, I couldn't find any reasonable combination of base fare, time and distance that would come out to $1.22

http://uberestimate.com/prices/

But no, probably not sustainable (for Uber):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-loses...
In their ruling, the commision implies that other countries may seek to judge this independently based on their findings. This can still turn into a much larger tax bill than the nominal value in the commission's findings. :)
Actually these students qualify for a large amount of federal student loans due to poverty.

Private student loan vendors are would never lend to these for-profit students with out collateral or a well off co-signer.
With so many competitors in the marketplace, such as Lyft, Gett, Via, Juno, and now Google, seems like Uber's leadership position is at risk. There appears to be very little differentiation between all of them, and while Google is starting out with carpooling, it is just a matter of time before they expand. Not sure how any investor could ever justify Uber's $60B valuation. In 10 years, will likely be 1/10 of that.
Do you know if they invest in torture technology? Or is that the domain of more surreptitious ventures of theirs?
I know this timeline prefers primary sources and tries to avoid blog posts, but Cloudflare's blog post 'Staying on top of TLS attacks' [1] dated July 11, 2013, was a milestone.

It came in the wake of 'Lucky 13' and the demonstration of RC4 biases exploitable in TLS, and showed the awkward situation that existed at the time: essentially all supported ciphersuites were vulnerable to something, and no mainstream browser supported TLSv1.2 yet in which non-vulnerable ciphersuites were present.

Even if a reference isn't made to the blog post, the timeline should somehow reference the aforementioned ciphersuite conundrum.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/staying-on-top-of-tls-attacks/
"The overall parameters (area surveyed, sensitivity, etc.) of the RATAN search are not reported by Bursov
et al. ..."

I find this incredible. They rushed to get credit for an ET candidate but didn't even bother to mention the details needed for others to be able to verify. Great work by the Berkeley people. Skepticism is healthy and vital to science.
If it's a subgroup of https://www.facebook.com/groups/groupsatwaterloo/ then it would require an @uwaterloo.ca email to join the group.
This one actually seems fair to me. They're not saying that GC won't kick in on the value the deleted property used to point to, but rather that using `delete` on a property can be more expensive than you need if you're just trying to let the GC know something can be cleaned up. This is because optimized JIT code and caches guard on the structure of objects that pass through them, and changing that structure (eg. deleting a property) will lead to deoptimizations / tossing away some of that code.

On SpiderMonkey, deleting a property that isn't the last one that was defined may incur a "dictionary mode" conversion [0]. This means the information describing each object property, which is usually immutable and shared between similar objects, will be copied one-by-one into a unique chain owned by the particular object instance. This can only happen once per object instance, however, and subsequent usages of `delete` on its properties will be less expensive -- but still more expensive than simply setting property values to `null`. I believe something similar happens with V8's "hidden classes" mechanism.

[0] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/vm/Sha...
Your privilege is showing. Not everyone who "chose" the job they have really has a choice. It's just not that simple.

BOH employee pay rates are generally not based on the assumption of tips the way they are for FOH employees.

And don't forget, BOH employees don't have to deal with the way some people treat service workers.
Never Stop Selling: Validating Products the Easy Way
What do you think of my design? https://kitnic.it/
Absolutely agree. Pulling the rug is a powerful incentive both for the customers and the CAs. Customers will have to consider the likelihood the CA will be revoked due to poor security practices, CAs will have to show that they're not rubbish.
thanks! we also fixed the URL yesterday.
Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
How to Scale Your Startup: An Intro
As I understand it, that's less about morality and more about fraud risk.
Ask HN: How can I get my hairstylist's contact info?
I would like to hire someone to come to my home and cut my hair for $15. I'm a male asking for a simple cut: 3 on the sides, faux-hawk on top kind of thing. Most of my haircuts take 10 minutes.

There are 4 cheap haircut places near my house.

These joints typically pay the employees little, and have high turnover rates. I often get my haircut by someone and then never see them again. They are gone by the time I need my haircut next.

I can't ask for the hair stylist's personal info in order to arrange for them to come over and cut my hair for the following reasons:

- they will get fired
- it's creepy to some

What is the best way to find someone to come over and cut my hair on their own time and pocket $15?

My ideal situation would be to find a hairstylist who lives around me, can spend 5 minutes driving over, 10 minutes chopping my hair, and 5 minutes driving home, for a fair $15.

How can I get my hairstylist's contact info to even propose such a thing?
That is not what I have been seeing. My absolute living expenses would go up about as much as my absolute after-tax income, based on what I could actually get out there (i.e. not a plum Google senior engineering unicorn job).
There is a con where guys looking for a usa visa get accepted at a school with no classes. i wouldnt be surprised if some for-profits did this on the side for extra cash.

Also, some foreigners just dont know any better and get conned.
Not everyone has a choice, for example if you had kids at the time then living in your car would be unacceptable. Meanwhile, restaurant patrons make a choice to eat somewhere where tipping is customary.
Sure, they can't guarantee speed with a particular service, but they can guarantee width and reliability of my pipe. Believe me, back then I was downloading so much crap that my internet was stuffed full at all times. I'd notice any dip in service.

And when I was on ADSL, I did notice those dips. A lot of them. With FTTH, they went away.
If there is one thing I want to make sure my self-driving car has hard-coded in as its Fourth Law of Robotics, it is "Do not hit a moose!" It's a great way to die gruesomely if you are driving anything smaller than a dump truck.
Why you should not refactor your code
Muimota – an experiment in surfing the web at 8-bits
In my eyes, this kind of advertising has existed for quite a while, and is often times too subtle for most people to notice. Casey Neistat, one of the most popular daily vloggers on YouTube, is a great example of this. There are several recurring product placements in his videos, like the Boosted board, Samsung events, and certain airlines, for which there aren't any clear statements about. An example of these undisclosed partnerships/sponsorships was his 'surprise in South Africa' [0] video back from 2012, where it appears that the trip was sponsored by British Airways without any mention of it. At one point in the video, he makes it look like he's calling American Airlines, but in reality he didn't call (some comments back in the day called him out on it). On the other hand, he did mention that Samsung invited him to the Oscars.

I think most people will watch his videos regardless of whether he discloses his relationships, as was the case with the Nike 'make it count' [1] video which many (including me) found inspiring. However it is clear that it is becoming harder and harder to tell apart what is branded content/native advertising and what isn't.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Mg75awALA
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxfZkMm3wcg
I was very frustrated by PE. At my college, you could take a class about making maple syrup for a wellness credit. It's a joke. But how many people can brace correctly, or squat, deadlift, and press with proper form? These are archetypal movement patterns that we repeat 100s of times a day without thinking about it, and most people don't even know what they're supposed to look like. How many people know how to use a foam roller? How to read a nutrition label? Forget about trying to impart healthy habits, most people don't know what healthy habits are and wellness classes, whether they're making maple syrup or playing soccer for 2 hours a week, aren't going to fix that.
As part of registration, the app asks for your work email address, and sends a verification email there. The pilot program is only open to few companies around Google Mountain view, like LinkedIn.
Took me a moment to spot the animation in site's head. Very nice indeed, but I've considered dominant reds bolder and nicer, even if not without its own tradeoffs.

Still, amazing work. :)
How to Love the Place You Live
Wider usage of "one" -- in German, man -- is something I miss from studying German. It's a pretty elegant solution when it can be used.

Of course, the German version catches flak for being too close to "man" (Mann), and is sometimes replaced with frau (Frau meaning "woman"). So it goes.
As someone who likes google+ I think what they do now is smart:

- decouple things from the g+ name since a vocal minority is still throwing a tantrum everytime the name is mentioned.

- g+ identity continues like before only they just call it "your account", not "your google+ account"

- why was photos, maps etc so heavily tied into g+ in the first place? I think it is safe to say now that that portal-like idea was a big nistake in the first place.
I don't disagree, hence my use of the word "some", and I think Chicago's combination of very cold winters plus humid summers would not be to my taste. Experience shows I can tolerate one or the other based on living in the Boston area for a dozen years, and the rest in the Joplin and D.C. areas which are pretty similar, on the order of 15 degrees F higher in the day during the winter than Chicago.
This is ridiculous. With a company the size of Google, is it really that hard to simply make two totally different UIs, one optimized for mobile touchscreen devices and the other optimized for desktop PCs? Where did this utterly stupid idea come from that we need to have a single UI for everything? It's not like they even need to look all that different, but they do need to be tailored for the screen size and aspect ratio as well as the mode of interaction (mouse pointer+keyboard vs. touchscreen). This really shouldn't be that hard.
What does he do to keep his energy level to the point that he can do all he's doing. From a distance it seems like he must have superman levels of energy.
Different view on software design
My point really that we always had ride sharing, it's car pools (which is obvious from Ubers naming). The regular uber is a taxi service and a service for organizing car pools is a car pool service.

I agree that uberPool and this is much more ridesharing.
This article makes it sound secretive and corrupt, but really this is a surprising amount of transparency compared to other drug cartels.
Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says...

>>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on.

I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Would've helped to at least have a screenshot of the "new look".
> That was literally the premise of the thread.

No it wasn't. The thread starter discussed how broadband connections should be marketed, and the suggestion was to use guaranteed bandwidth as a measure.

This then digressed into the cost of bandwidth, where one poster took it totally off the rails by assuming transit costs $25 per Mbps, when the true cost is two decades lower.

The fixed cost of providing guaranteed bandwidth in the last mile pales compared to costs like $25 per Mbps, which was my point. The last mile is a fixed cost and even high amounts of guaranteed bandwidth in the last mile are fixed costs which are easily covered by the monthly subscription fee.

That does not mean that the fixed costs are free or low by absolute dollar terms.

So there.
That was a quote from a photo caption in the news article, not the judge nor the decision (which I cannot find online). It's unlikely the judge was actually under this sort of misconception. (If you have a link to the decision text and it shows otherwise, I'll stand corrected.)
You realize that "living wage" is only a price floor for labor, not a price ceiling, right? It is a guarantee that people are paid at a minimum the amount necessary to support themselves, with various definitions excluding or including that person's family situation from consideration.

Instituting a living wage would in no way prevent you from working extra and being paid extra for that work. I'm inclined to believe you haven't actually researched what a living wage is or would entail to enact, because the inaccuracy of the claim you're making is egregious.
What is being shared between GPUs?

Training data is easy to duplicate and share nothing.

Large models with shared weights get tricky but less frequent asynchronous updates with schemes like hogwild seem to work with SGD. I believe TF has support for this too. It won't scale linearly but might be good enough.

There's some excitement about synthetic gradients to allow less communication and further parallelism.

The hpc community has certainly leveraged 400 GPU clusters.

It seems like a fun problem, and if you want to focus the resources, there isn't anything insurmountable about utilizing 400 GPUs :)
How is the brain not a body? Brain is certainly not mind, neither consciousness. Why not replace it too then? Is it because he has enough imagination to think replacing heart is possible, but replacing brain isn't without losing consciousness?

As for eating, he clearly stated what he meant - power brain through electricity. Shows complete lack of basic understanding of body functions, of which brain is part of. He believes that brain is powered by electricity. Good example of this whole article - fantasy without any deeper thoughts of why things are the way they are.
Ah, you're right. It's been a while :)
Try it you might like it. I find I'm a more aware, more relaxed, slower driver. I find myself less determined to pass all the clueless bumpkins.
I don't think this blog post broke that news: it pretty much follows directly from Lucky 13 and RC4, both of which are documented in the timeline. It would be pretty weird to add a blog post about two other things in the timeline to the timeline itself.
Oh, thanks for pointing that out. I now remember reading it had been moved not long ago, but I still linked to the old repo without thinking, as I have never used this simpler scikit-learn-like interface to TensorFlow. Sorry for the oversight.
Remember to translate out of startup-speak: "change the world" means "make a lot of money for our investors".
> yes, it kind of is.

No it's not, and you're ruining things by tipping.

I hate tipping.
That's a deep question. Allocating large objects on the stack is usually frowned upon. (Especially in places with small stack limits, such as the Linux kernel.) It's common to allocate just the header for a variable sized object on the stack, but put the bulk data on the "heap". C++ vector classes do this. On-stack variable size arrays were in the C standard for a few years, Microsoft didn't implement them, and they were kicked out of C as a feature. Stack variables are usually live enough that you want the top of the stack in the cache, and big on-stack objects can break that.

Should programmers in interviews know that?
This came up on the Mozilla mailing list and the most likely explanation is that they're sharing some infrastructure, i.e. one CA is hosting the other[1]. This is apparently quite common in the industry.

I don't think the Baseline Requirements (or any of the root program policies) currently require that CAs disclose these arrangements. I don't think CA hosting is inherently bad (in many cases I'd actually be happy to know that a CA is not running their own infrastructure), but it would probably be a good idea to force CAs to be transparent about it. If it's publicly known that WoSign and StartCom use the same domain validation infrastructure (just as an example, this might not be the case), that fact would be highly relevant for this discussion.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...
Ah yes, Kim Schmitz, AKA Kim Kimble, AKA Kim Dotcom -- Professional narcissist and scammer for over 20 years.

What do you think he'll change his name to next time he needs to run another scam or fleece some investors?
It is very interesting. I worked in restaurants for many years and I never knew a server who made less than the back staff - usually they made several multiples of their pay in a night.

I assume it's because servers (and I was one!) feel generally more empowered when it comes to their pay; they think complaining will accomplish something (strengthen social norms to tip), while kitchen staff know that what they get is what they get.

No doubt server pay varies wildly, but I worked at a cheap buffet essentially just bussing tables and I never made less than kitchen staff and sometimes made up to 6x what they would make in a shift - usually about 3x, and management directed that we report the minimum amount possible, to get out of their payroll tax contribution, I assume.

On top of that, employers are in fact nominally required to pay the difference between their tipped wage and the "real" minimum wage if they don't get enough tips (for some reason this isn't commonly known) to make the difference, but that situation is probably rare enough that businesses skate by without fulfilling their legal duty. [1]

Frankly, I liked waiting tables and I'd do it again if it paid as much as programming. It's not all that crappy. :) And at the same time, I have a lot less sympathy for servers than I used to. Save your sympathy for the people who are paid minimum wage and don't get tips. Yes, that server is getting $2.15 instead of $7.25, but a) the business is required to make up the difference between $2.15 + tips and $7.25 and b) no server I have ever heard of, anywhere, is making less than $7.25/hour with tips.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips
It was a pain because of conclusions / actions rather than the writing style.
Sounds great. When will we see reputable validation of their extraordinary claims?
The story of how WoSign gave me an SSL certificate for GitHub.com
My default seems to be who-/whatever I posted to last time.

Add to collection means "add to collection". Practical example: I share my uncles interest in clean energy solutions but not his taste in music. Unlike twitter, on g+ I can easily follow his collection about clean energy without seing everything he posts.
The Apps for Work integration is going to be interesting. Google should just clone Slack and make Slack Plus tier features free on their service. That would literally steal thousands of communities and companies.
Giordano Bruno was the person supposedly burned to death for heliocentrist views, in reality, that was more to do with his religious beliefs (pantheism, rejection of the Christian trinity, etc) than his views on how the stars are lined up.

That one was easy to find on Google, but I'm unable to find an identity of any person who was burned at the stake for their views on mathematics. It's a common theme, but not one of the links on the first few pages were able to point to anything in specific (just lots of posts like this one that repeat the claim)

Not that this absolves the early church of ideologically based murder or makes their actions less heinous, but in the interests of accuracy...
"We wanted to automatically generate the schedule based on mutual interest."

Dating application.
G+ seems to be in its Google Reader phase now, when the behemoth infamously didn't have a couple guys to spare for the product coasting to obsolescence.

It's quite possible there's not that many people working on it now.
Evidently :)