skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not about taking on Uber. Google is testing AI for self driving cars. Once we have self driving cars, the idea is that you deploy these cars and the cars figure out who to pick up and who to drop off and possible doing group pick ups along the way. Waze is going to predict who to pick up based on their collected data thus far using ML, their data scientists are going to supervise it and correct it. Once we have self driving cars, Google will have the tech that can manage assigning cars and picking people up. This is what it is all about.
The only major downsides to that part of the country are January is really cold and August is really freakin' hot. Also, there's a tendency towards blandness and sprawl, but that's a problem everywhere.
Because the upvote/downvote mechanic coupled with easily visible karma totals results in endlessly-increasing numbers of users who simply want to get more imaginary internet points by means of resorting to low-effort, easily digestible joke posts or one-liners.

Reddit comments are invariably a cesspool of shit outside of a handful of decent, smaller subs.
I gave up and wrote my own babel cli front end (sudo npm install -g better-babel-cli) for that very reason.

babel --es2015 --babeli infile.js -o outfile.js.
Tell that to the people who died en masse from bacterial infections before the discovery of penicillin.
No, thank you.

That is not a novel thought. It is as old as religion.

Abstinence based sex education has been shown to be ineffective, leading to greater pregnancy and STI transmission. Evidence says your idea won't help. And, well, it's also boring. I'll take my chances with responsible non-monogamy.
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As another poster has pointed out, there are many, many non-glyphosate herbicides.

In the past, Monsanto has required farmers buying Roundup-Ready seeds to sign license agreements stating that only Monsanto glyphosate may be used.

https://www.ssjr.com/pubdigassets/presentations/lawyer_7/sbs...
I love the website. I'm a lone developer who doesn't know any HTML, how would I go about getting such a nice design for my own projects? (Or how much would it cost)
Anyone else notice that, in the last week, the CTO has had employees post recommendations of him on LinkedIn (presumably in a preemptive effort to salvage his reputation)?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/albrown

In case deleted:

Liubin Jiang
Backend Developer at 1for.one Corporation
There is so much about Al I want to share. To be short,
1. Great mentor. Not only in coding but also his personality.
2. Workaholic. I can't count how many time I've seen Al working at midnight and weekends.
3. Faithful. Al has faith in everything and everyone. This motivates us the most.
4. Knowledgable. I literally never saw a technology or technology problem Al did not know how to fix and how to coach us to spot the solution ourselves.
Al is the most luckiest and best thing I can imagine especially when I just start my career in this industry. I would kill for working in Al's team again!!less
August 26, 2016, Liubin reported to Al at JobSonic

Rui Bi
Software Engineer
It’s very honored to have worked with Al. He is a genius in IT area, very knowledgeable person. As a leader, he is humble and always being nice and patient to the team. He guided me not only what to do but also the idea, the thinking; not only about works but also life. It’s really lucky to have him as the first mentor in my career. I would never forget this experience we work together. I just hope I can work with Al again!less
August 25, 2016, Rui reported to Al at JobSonic
Those books aren't really mentioning Google Search as an example, right? It didn't have first-mover advantage.
Baby and mom working out
Interesting.

This thread is a good argument that many people don't choose effective health without coercion.

It's probably a good idea for public health for the government to sponsor to the point of "effectively free" adult sports such as running/soccer/swimming, along with requiring such each semester for state-sponsored schools.

It's probably past time for me to put on my running gear and take regular evening jogs, myself. :-)
So its just a quality of service type thing. However if there were far more incentives for the drivers themselves and you built it in such a way that they could be actively doing service for a competitor while monitoring/taking rides from another.. why not? Many drivers work for both uber and lyft. With the right technical structure you can use Uber's army against them, made easier by the fact that Uber isn't known for really wanting to take care of drivers.
We started out similarly and the only reason not to is if your customers cluster geographically. It's a huge competitive disadvantage to not be where your customers are.
Just fyi, Google has massive resources devoted to detecting click fraud and getting rid of it. But I agree with the author. While many Google’s engineers and security professionals are focused on providing the most transparency about click fraud, the majority of the company (its business people) have all the incentives to reduce the appearance of click-fraud. If you were holding a spreadsheet that showed how 90% of your budget for self-driving cars, google glass, and other projects, is coming from a ponzi scheme, would you show it to anyone?
I had the same thought. Hardly a day goes by that I don't have a jingle stuck in my head from Japanese TV.
Some of us actually _like_ the Opera.
Use Lyft, they let you tip in app then you don't have to carry cash.
John Ellenby (father of the laptop) dies aged 75
Just yesterday (msn).

Headline: "Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space"

Actual SETI website statement: "The chance that this is truly a signal from extraterrestrials is not terribly promising, and the discoverers themselves apparently doubt that they’ve found ET."

The media reported literally the opposite.

At this point you're better informed not following the news, if you don't have the time to dig for yourself.

What hope does Average Joe have of having any clue wtf goes on in the world?
Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter
My startup is in Kansas City. There are a lot of great developers here. Huge companies like Garmin, Cerner, Sprint and others do a good job of attracting a lot of talent from all over the US here out of college. Startups like mine can then hire them when they are ready for something new.

Cost of living here is low. Decent basic house is $150-200k in the burbs.

Awesome office space is cheap. Great tax incentives from KS and MO to start companies and create jobs.

I honestly would have no interest being in the valley trying to compete with the likes of Google, Facebook and others for top talent. In KC we can be the cool company everyone wants to work for!

We are Stackify, located in Leawood Kansas! :-)
The original comment literally presented "without government, the world would be in complete anarchy" as a false belief. If "without government" is a false pretense and the actual case being explored is "minimalist government" then maybe they should have said so, but it hardly seems fair to blame the responder for replying to what was written.
> they've shown no staying power in any of their other long term initiatives

You actually can't find even one? :)
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I can fire my worst developer in KC and he will find a new job in 3 days. Huge demand here.
I mean, that's not the general use I see, so we clearly have different social circles. The thing is, a HOF is a mechanism, the Strategy pattern is an intent. I would in fact argue that there is at least one HOF that takes functions as arguments and isn't an instance of strategy: call/cc.

call/cc does not actually use the passed in function to determine how any action should be done. All it does is provide a capture of the current continuation as an argument. That's it. So it's not a strategy, it's just a HOF.
Ran Riak CS in production and had constant issues. It's not terrible but it's also not ideal. I would caution against anyone depending on it for mission critical systems. Many of the failure modes are undocumented.
Those folks also lacked the internet, where ordinary people can look up extraordinary things that previously could have only been learned by a select few privileged people, if at all.

We also have a global economy of a sort that did not exist previously. Things that would have been exotic not that long ago can be acquired readily by people who aren't wealthy by first world standards.

People used to routinely suffer scurvy, which is almost unheard of today because a) we know what causes it and b) ordinary people have no trouble getting citrus fruits. This was not true, say, 200 years or so ago.
The history is incorrect in that it was Netscape 3 that introduced SSLv3 (I actually tested it in a VM).
Called hypnagogic auditory hallucinations - these are common period (Feynmann discusses how to acquire them in his autobiography) but especially common if you have temporal lobe epilepsy. Note that most cases of epilepsy are never diagnosed because most seizures are nocturnal, and focal, not necessarily the tonic/clonic seizures movies have made us familiar with.
Some examples would be really informative as to how well it works.
As a student, I've been fortunate in that most of the time I can find pdfs of the books I need, saving me a dime and the pain of the weight of a normal textbook. The two books I had to buy this semester were books I still bought online, and I still hate them: they're slow, don't work without the internet, constantly log me out (b/c timeouts), and why the fuck can't I cntl-C? Chemistry nomenclature is a bitch. Give me a pdf for use in my favorite pdf reader damnit!

The other stuff I fucking hate is the free resources given to professors (yay, fiscal budgeting!), but shifts the revenue stream to the student. For example, iClicker, which provides the server for free to the professor but makes the students buy a physical clicker ($50); when this service could just use the fucking web-browser and make the professor/university I pay tuition purchase this REQUIRED part of the course pay for the software. Or the online homework, which is also a purchased item (like $60-70 too). I don't pay for the organic chem lab equipment (and couldn't; that stuff is expensive!).

To be clear, I have not a problem with using these materials. I also don't mind paying for them. But I ONLY want to pay for it through tuition!

Also, why don't publishers work directly with universities so that every student is provided with a copy of textbook/homework? It seems to me that that would be a sure fire way to prevent lost sales due to the used textbook market/pirating. They could just get the university to purchase pdfs of the textbook for each student every year: it would drive down the incentive to pirate and would mean they didn't need to develop their own shitty-af reader. A win-win.

Anyway, to those still reading: sorry 'bout the language. This status quo drives me absolutely bonkers.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. As a very casual G+ user, I never figured out how circles worked.
FUCK SHIT UP team
Wappalyzer (https://wappalyzer.com/) tells me they're using Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/) (probably customized a bit). HTML isn't very difficult (just another markup language) and if you're not inclined toward design (I am also not) there are a plethora of CSS frameworks to choose from (like Bootstrap) that will get you up and running with something not completely ugly. Personally I like Bulma (http://bulma.io/) right now which showed up (I think as a Show HN) on here a while back. Currently using it for a project and I'm enjoying it.
And vice versa. Using movie stars in TV ads is the new new in America, but is old hat in Japan. Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold, Bruce Willis and Scarlett Johansson are the only ones that I can recall in the past few years here.
Segfaults can often be turned into an actual exploit; unwinding the stack cannot. It would be better to explicitly abort than to purposefully cause a segfault.
I requested a code on the site and was told I was "at position 1163 in the queue." I received a code three days later.

I can't comment much on the app yet since I've only done one session so far.
> The more drives you have the more likely one of them to have a failure and once one fails and since the rebuild time increases with size your chance of failure during rebuild increases as well.

That was exactly what I was saying. Given the same sustained transfer rate, the bigger the drive, the longer the rebuild time, hence the greater the chance you'll have a failure during the rebuild. While you might think they would, throughput increases have not grown to match increases in bit density & storage capacity.

SSD's have helped a bit in this area because their failure profiles are different and under the covers they are kind of like a giant array of mini devices, but AFAIK they still present challenges during RAID rebuilds.
We didn't have any issues with lost data but we had a lot of operational issues that didn't have clear fixes. Primarily around TLS, migrations, and performance. We had to contact support for many issues because the documentation for various failure modes wasn't there.
Oh, I just mean it as an example of something that you should absolutely do if you need it, but something that most people wouldn't want publicised (because of that stigma).
Nope, sex forgot me.

:-)
Sure but that illustrates my point: applying as much kindness as possible is not what people actually strive for nor would it be a solution. Preventing being taken advantage of takes priority.
I generally agree with your sentiment, but I think there's a fault in any logic that tries to correlate behaviors of separate arms of giant bureaucracies.
My senior devs in KC all make about 110-120. I agree!
As long as you are in a major city it isn't an issue at all. I would define a major city as any with a pro sports team.
Send this story to people if you're irritated about poor quality video calls
Holy shit those side burns.
The desired outcome is a program that either doesn't have the error or crashes safely with a report of exactly how it happened. Not segfaults or undefined behavior in general. The latter are simply one of the consequences of C's design and programming style than anything inevitable or ideal.

It's tradition that failures of a language's safety system to handle memory are "memory, safety issues." However, that they can be used for code injections in some scenarios is even more reason to think of them that way and make our languages prevent them where possible. Quick example:

https://tk-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/exploitable-userland-nu...
It is easy to be generous with other people's time and money, yes.
No, you didn't. You proposed using the "invisible hand of the free market". I told you why most of us wouldn't trust that idea.
Finally, they alter the hydrology of wet areas in which they live, connecting existing water sources and separating others depending on their seasonal movement patterns.

https://bioventures.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/keystone-specie...

From what I have read, swamps tend to fill in over time and turn into solid land -- unless there are alligators.
I'm really surprised by all of the next job worry. I'm a software developer in Iowa and have been doing this right here for 18 years now and that has never been a concern. I was once out of work for about 2 months after being laid off from a start-up after the main VC investor backed out.

I have spent a lot of time interviewing candidates and it is much harder for me to hire than it is for me to go find a job.

I have a nice large home in a quiet neighborhood with easy access to anywhere I want to go. I raise three kids and still manage to invest about 50K a year into retirement every year and so I will retire early with millions saved.

There is so much FUD from everyone that doesn't live here.

Please keep thinking the same way though. If everyone catches on and moves here eventually we really will be the next silicon valley; to that I say, "No thanks."
I think D have been already given tons of attention, especially in its early years (just like other newer languages). That early-day reception defines the acceptance in, say, next decade---at which Rust has been relatively excelled than D, IMHO.
And we have awesome springs and falls with all the beautiful trees. Something I really missed when I moved to Oklahoma for a couple years. They have very few big trees.
Come one, most serious adults don't give a rat's ass about how cartoonish or not their mapping app looks, as long as it works well.
The way she looks at Sam is the way a mother would look at their child. Jessica seems very endearing.
The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
Bottling things up, with regards to depression -- pretending to be what you are not -- is exhausting. If you don't have depression exhaustion can be overcome. A big part of depression is the inability to recover from stress, therefore pretending to smile, over time, would be obviously detrimental to depression. I know this from experience.

The studies on depression and stress are many and numerous, although they are neuroscientific in nature (actual science).

No offence dude, but the field of psychology is to neuroscience as alchemy is to chemistry and physics. Welcome to the twenty-first century.

PS: Psychology has done a pretty good job of getting depression wrong at every possible turn. And people like me have been the butt of their half-baked ideas since the beginning. gives psychology the middle finger
I didn't know that about them. Is there a list of what they contribute to anywhere?
JSON Information Management and Publishing for Technical and Business Users
The author seems to want to unearth some scandal about conflicts of interest, but there's not much here. The final quote of the article pretty much nails it.

“On the one hand, if you wanted really pristine independence, it means you are going to need people who don’t have commercial ties to the industry,” Mr. Gilson said. “On the other hand, if you have people without any commercial ties to the industry, they are not much use.”

If there were no conflicts of interest at all, then we'd be discussing an article about how horribly In-Q-Tel's investments performed, because they were made by bureaucrats in D.C. who had no idea how startups worked.
Nothing has changed in the last 20 years in terms of the economic model for the textbook publishing industry. The strategy is still about how to create artificial demand with useless features and how to create artificial scarcity with exclusive deals. Yes, 20 years ago they really were literally taking the same product (like, the same text and photos) from 20 years before and jacking up the price 1000% by putting fake "revised edition" labels on them. Now that production costs have dropped, distribution costs have dropped, and sources of information have exploded, they are looking for new ways to jazz up old content to appeal to students and professors. But it is the same hopelessly corrupt and wasteful industry.
I've had the same experience. In order to have a great cross-platform weird processor, you've got to do it yourself.
Seconded. I am running the technology department of my (California) company from rural Eastern Arizona. Travel back to CA every couple months and it works out well.
Naytev (YC S14) is hiring a SaaS sales rep
Our very existence is as improbable as an asteroid, some 70,000 years ago.
My experience as a server was a lot of < $1 paystubs after taxes on tips.
Absolutely not saying that. You're trying to portrait him as some kind of spy, waiting to see if Uber turned out to be a good idea to get out of the board. What I'm saying is you can only construct an argument like that by omitting the obvious reason he stepped out.
Now slow down there slick, I didn't say any of that.

It's a matter of what has greater impact. Drugs/art/meditation, as a rule, are a greater force for changing perspectives than ideas are. That's just how it is.
Note: I can’t claim to write anything even close to this timeline about PKI!

Many of these items seem correct to include in "A comprehensive history of the most important events that shaped the SSL/TLS and PKI ecosystem”, however it feels very… inconsistent in inclusion.

Dates are given when browser implement protocol support, but not OpenSSL, NSS, etc. (Actually, nothing positive is said about OpenSSL at all.) Also no mention of Nginx, Apache or IIS and their TLS/SPDY support/features?

Brian Smith is mentioned by name working on a Rust crypto library, but no mention of DJB when discussing ChaCha20-Poly1305? (Is Ring actually used by any major projects so far?)
And make implants possible as well.
I don't think where developers go to school have all that much to do with it... The best developers I know don't even have college degrees. They were self taught and it is just in their blood.
Not necessarily. I briefly worked at a 24x7 roadside place where tipped employees would occasionally fall under minimum wage due to slow periods or customers who would either stiff the waitress or tip out $0.35 on an egg, toast, coffee which cost $2.65.

That place systematically robbed those staff by refusing to pay minimum wage and falsifying records and withholding taxes based in nonexistent tips. The Labor department fined then pretty heavily -- but that isn't an uncommon practice.
This semester we have switched to an OER (it is only the second week so I don't know how well it is working)but the last two years we have used a book from Cengage. The powerpoint slides and test questions that they provided were of terrible quality. I did base my powerpoint slides off of them but changed them quite a bit - including basic things like fix typos. The course was taught by several people and we came together to make a test bank and some of the questions from Cengage may have made it into that.

More than that, however, Cengage (and I'm sure the other publishers as well) have been making a hard sell for their online interactive stuff and their ebooks. A year or so ago they came and made a pitch to us talking about how much cheaper they are for students (of course the students can't sell the ebooks back and can't buy used copies and their access to the book goes away after a year...) and how awesome the interactive online stuff was.

Luckily, the course director is kind of a self-professed Luddite and didn't really care for it but other people at the meeting bought the sales pitch completely so if we had a different course director I could see being forced to use this drmed junk.
Come on, this can't be true even for most developers in Silicon Valley. 3 days seems like an exaggeration (however I also have nothing more to offer than anecdote). Does anyone actually collect average/distribution of days spent looking for a job, broken down by function/industry?
CTO of Algorithmia here. We've spent a lot of time thinking about the issues of deploying deep learning models. There are a whole set of challenges that crop up when trying to scale these kinds of deployments (not least of which is trying to manage GPU memory).

It would be interesting to compare notes since we have deployed a number of models in production, and seem to focus on a related but different set of challenges. kenny at company dot com.