skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collusion's another thing all together, and not the thing you're replying to. Complicated, as always, but in short the scenario you describe might very well be illegal.
Nice map about most popular jobs in US state by state. What about Europe?
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And yet GDP has more or less risen: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations... Its kinda crazy how noisy their GDP is for a country a third the the size of the US.

IIRC, one of the theories is that Japan's banking system allows zombie companies that should have been declared failed businesses to survive. In that situation, there's really nothing left to constrain management from rolling the dice on high risk low reward strategies, or worse, not changing the strategy that led them into secret bankruptcy.

So to the extent that the Nikkei continues to hold zombie businesses, or the banks that prop them up, it's not a good passive investing benchmark. Which means active investing has a role in filtering them out.
That's an awesome idea. It would eliminate the need for distribution centers. Know the huge window-less monsters next to highways? The alternative could also be small vehicles for first and last mile (like starship, or a tad bigger) and then larger trucks on longer lanes between distro centers. Of course the distro centeres should all be robotized like amazons in that case.
Those monopolies were generally protected by tariffs, expensive licenses or regulatory costs, or other laws that blocked competition.

Some dominant companies of course emerged in that era, but I'd be interested to see evidence that companies that weren't insulated from competition by government policies actually used their dominance to harm consumers.
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Is it possible that this thought does not accurately reflect the reality of the matter?
I would recommend that you try Signal, Wire and any other messaging platform with just one or two close people. Once you get a hang of the user experience and see any deficiencies and any annoyances first hand, you can decide whether it's even worth asking all your other contacts to try them.

My advice: Except Telegram, none of the others (Signal or Wire) are ready as a replacement for WhatsApp in UX or speed as of this moment. But Telegram has end-to-end encryption only for device specific, one-to-one chats (called "Secret chat"). Normal chats are only encrypted during transport and are stored as plain text on the servers and on the devices to support quick searching and multi-device/multi-platform sync.
Agreed, this author plays fast and loose with the stats. I absolutely think almost everyone should be biking, and that it is far safer than people think it is, but this article would not convince me of that. :-)
At a research lab I once worked for I knew a mathematician who was sure he was onto a way to break RSA. I won't go into the math involved but it got me thinking that often when one person has an idea, several other people have the same idea around the same time independently. I would not be surprized if some infamous security agency had broken RSA years ago and has since been pretending it hasn't.
Always before. If they won't tell you the details of your compensation you need to run, not walk.
Right, barring time travel, once you can make the voyage at all, you'll always reach a point where it makes sense to depart on it. If you invent technology that takes a million years to arrive, then you have a maximum deadline of a million years. Past that point, even instantaneous travel won't be worth waiting for, if your goal is simply to get there as early as possible.
Found a phantomjs docker image for this here: https://github.com/ubermuda/docker-screenshot

docker run --rm -v (pwd):/srv ubermuda/screenshot http://www.espn.com/ espn.png 1920px

espn.png will now be in the current directory with 1920px width

http://imgur.com/a/EYh7m
I'd say that Uber is more a taxi company than a car sharing company as people buy dedicated cars to provide service and earn a living. I'd go as far as to say it's a first trully global Taxi company with a very good app and payment implementation.

The whole car sharing is marketing bull, so that they can justify dodging regulation and dumping prices.
http://attrs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#on-the-a...
You can't possibly claim that the R language is better-designed that python...
But why stage when you can just commit? You can use rebase -i to modify that commit later if you need.
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Back in the day I recall using an editor called Foxe on a 2060. Was easier to me than TECO for basic editing. But the really cool geeks had already begun moving on to Emacs. This was a time when punch cards were still being used, mostly by those on CDC stuff
This was essentially the plot of Ex Machina. Absolutely stellar movie.
Your replies make it seem like you think others owe you something. As you're aware, nobody here is trying to "sell" you the project in an attempt to get you interested. I don't know why when someone shares a project they find interesting, people come out waving their little OS flags "but it doesn't run on my Amiga".
I highly recommend also reading the book Consider Your Options[0]. It's an easy yet very informative read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Your-Options-Equity-Compensa...
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Obviously you think it's hard to understand, so I guess I win.
> Go would make a good language for writing dynamic languages such as Apache Groovy in

Wasn't the whole point of Groovy to have something Ruby-like that was more intimately tied into the JVM ecosystem? Seems to me that Go would be just about the worst imaginable [0] implementation language for that.

[0] Or at least, in the class of extremely poor choices that includes all languages that are not themselves especially targeted to the JVM platform.
Sadly people often see it as obstruction or laziness, when you point out the possibility that they, and by extension you, might be better of without some feature.

The issues I most often face is explaining the running cost, be it due to complexity or hardware requirements. Some potential or minimal income always seems to trump long term savings. Another is "the customers expect us to have XYZ feature", regardless that you can prove that only a limited number of them actually use it. Far less than required to cover the running cost.
I thought academic anthropology was moving away from ideas like Diamond's "Geographic determinism" and towards a more "Historical particularism" view of civilizations progress?
"cars work fine"

Global warming, congestion, obesity epidemic, and arguably peak oil. Also: http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/

I agree that many downtowns such as those of Las Vegas, Houston, and Atlanta simply are not bikable.
The Facebook family of companies will still receive and use this information for other purposes such as improving infrastructure and delivery systems, understanding how our services or theirs are used, securing systems, and fighting spam, abuse, or infringement activities.
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What if I don't have that option in Whatsapp?
Does it mean you can't opt-out after 30 days?
Wow, this is pretty impressive. The last time I checked its progress, it was very basic. Now it even has a working GUI with transparency! I should find some time to tinker with it.
You can add bits and pieces to commits directly with commit --amend. The index is really not needed.
Yeah, I'm aware of these -- that's why I said there's 2-3 occasions per year when Uber might be useful. Most people don't go to the airport every week or even every month (and even then, a lot of them will ask a friend or family member to drop them off and save the money). Most people don't go to the bar to get drunk every weekend. Most people don't go to crowded events that often, and if they did, they would probably rather spend 5-10 minutes looking for parking and get to enjoy the comfort and freedom of their personal vehicle on the drive over rather than paying an extra $50 just for someone to drive them.

>All of the reasons why cabs exist can be served by Uber better and cheaper.

I don't necessarily agree here, because Uber always has to have drivers standing by. If usage in the area isn't high, average people won't become reliable drivers because their app will usually be empty and they'll give up. Thus, Uber would probably be more efficient if they paid the same small subset of people to be available at set intervals, and at that point, what's the difference between Uber and a typical cab company?

In markets that aren't hot enough to get normal people in the driver pool, Uber may do better just to open their platform to local cab companies.
I'd also add that the proof is in the whole "let's create autonomous cars and drive people around without drivers", where it's kinda obvious that it can't be a sharing economy if they provide the car and the driver is not needed.
That's how it looks to me. I don't have the option.
The brain uses backward instant replays to remember important travel routes
That's VC valuation though right? I maybe wrong, but are you sure market will value this same company at $60B when it is not even profitable? I genuinely have no knowledge about this, so feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
> prefer powerful and efficient tools that I can use without any learning, since the two aren't mutually exclusive.

They're not necessarily mutually exclusive, but in my experience there's often a trade off. I would argue that git is about as simple to as it can be without taking power away from the user by forcing an abstraction on him.

> What is it in git's architecture and design that mandates that a file should be removed with "rm", a branch with "branch -D" and a remote with "remote remove"?

Yeah... I have to agree that the choice of command line arguments is the weakest element of git.

> What does "intuitive" mean if not "easy to learn"?

The two often go together, but aren't necessarily the same thing. Something is "intuitive" if the correct thing to do is natural and obvious without a whole lot of thought. Git isn't intuitive before you understand the data model, but once you do, you don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out how to accomplish things, so it becomes intuitive. I would argue that by contrast, subversion is intuitive out of the box, but as soon as you want to do more sophisticated things it becomes rapidly counter-intuitive and very difficult to work with.
Are we supposed to congratulate WhatsApp for doing something that should be expected with 1.0? Furthermore, your default is incorrect; sharing info is opt-in.
Pretty sure you can email HN and they'll do it.
In current MRI images of the brain, a million different data points are reduced to a single pixel in the image. Absent some kind of dramatic breakthrough in science, we are a long ways from being able to resolve individual data points inside of a person's brain.
Probably they didn't update the app yet?
Parsing: an expanded timeline
Really neat stuff.

Question on the KC 85/4 - was the cable between the keyboard and computer really as short as it looks in that picture?
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Yes I think I realize your point. But original it came across though like:

"oh your script can just be rewritten in Go and while we are at it Groovy should be rewritten in Go".

But yeah I would be interested in platform agnostic scripting language with out GIL, cheap threads, easy dependency access. I'll keep Gro on my radar :)

Are you going to change your middle name now to "Gro" (I did find that amusing albeit I'm not sure I know your entire history with Groovy)?
Basically, yes.

Anti monopoly laws are meant to protect consumers, NOT other businesses.

It is very hard for a company to get in legal trouble for price dumping, because as it turns out, price dumping in many cases is freaking awesome for consumers.
Another complexity is that one thing that makes a big difference to cyclist's safety, is the number of people who cycle, so you can have a vicious or virtuous cycle of people taking up cycling and making it safer, or people giving up cycling and making it less safe.
Or... you know... just use something like Telegram that isn't owned by Facebook. Their data-sharing / privacy policy is pretty simple https://telegram.org/privacy

1. Sharing data

We never share your data with anyone. No.
I had few enough people who I've communicated with via Whatsapp that I was able to simply delete my account. I hope that means they'll actually purge my data rather than sharing it with Facebook.

This is one of the problems of digital identity--privacy has a latent value. The company you choose to share data with today, may choose choose to share with / merge with a third party in the future.
I'm reminded of Einstein wanting 1,000 copies of the famous Hiroshima edition[1] of the New Yorker (70 years ago this week) to send to colleagues.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
Growth Will Kill Your Business Before You Even Start
Search engine crawlers use adaptive politeness: start being very polite, and ramp up parallel fetches if the site responds quickly and has a lot of pages.
But what about this approach? https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/24/sweden-electric-highway/
So when you remove that tickbox "Share my account info" - your data still gets shared:

"The Facebook family of companies will still receive and use this information for other purposes such as improving infrastructure and delivery systems, understanding how our services or theirs are used, securing systems, and fighting spam, abuse, or infringement activities."

Never does it say, you won't get ads. But if you share, you will get "improved ads".

Am I reading this right?
Well, having it both ways is entirely dependent on market forces. As of right now, it would seem they can in fact have it both ways.
By having a history of every single key you typed to create this comment, it would help me know what your thought process was when you typed it up. Maybe you got pissed off and wrote a swear word or two and then backspaced. Maybe you worded something awkwardly and then refactored your sentence. Without all of your keystroke history, all we know is that a comment was made by you, and your opinion may or may not have taken into account certain arguments made by others in the same thread around the time that the comment was published.
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People tend to think of this in black-and-white terms. The actual deal is that if Uber jacks up its prices significantly, on the margin people will ride with Uber less.

Will their number of rides go to 0? No, of course not. But even if there is no other ride service available, there's still taking public transit, driving yourself, or, you know, not going out to whatever you're going to.

Remember also that even if Uber fully defeats Lyft and Lyft's service shuts down, there are plenty of companies out there better capitalized than Uber itself is. Those companies have so far decided to stay out of a "lose $2b per year" business, but if Uber can demonstrate that this is a "gain $2b per year" business, then Google, Amazon, one of the car companies, maaaaybe Apple, and probably a bunch of other companies can at that point launch their own service.
It's kind of pointless, Facebook owns Whatsapp so they have all that info anyway.

'The Facebook family of companies will still receive and use this information for other purposes such as improving infrastructure and delivery systems, understanding how our services or theirs are used, securing systems, and fighting spam, abuse, or infringement activities.'
Hey, I helped edit the blog post. Definitely agree that the different spiky behaviors are driven by data collection, but that's the beauty of real-world datasets! It would be interesting to learn if it was bulk first-of-month reporting, that crimes where the day wasn't specified get marked as the first, or some other phenomenon. The next step might be to interview police officers and ask :-)

Here's the top crimes broken down by the first of the month vs the average for the rest of the month - some crimes are only reported (or never reported) on the first of the month, and "FRAUD" for example is twice as likely to be the first of the month: https://sli.mg/lHjo83
Right, using accounting methods that were "generally recognized as having been invented at or by Enron, used nowhere else in the industry and at least passively, if not actively, misleading".

In other words, Enron-esque.
For what it's worth: the people doing the actual hacking work at NSA are in their early 20s.

Generally, "hacking groups" that have picked fights with the USG have a somewhat spotty track record of retaining their freedom.
Having removed the app a while back but not formally deleted my account, seems like I have to re-install, dig up my account again, then opt out.

What a hassle.
I think progress against RSA is more likely, unless Shor happens first and kills everyone. I also hope to see a O(n^2) matrix multiplication algorithm within my lifetime. My point was not to defend RSA, but to point out that Cohn's argument could be reused for most of our current primitives.
You're probably (like me) on version 2.16.9, released 8/15/16, and haven't received the new TOS update yet.
If only more people used Telegram..
I love it, but only a couple of friends use it.
In a town here, we had basically the same with a doner kebab shop. The chain moved in, priced the doner at 1.20€ (local was 2.20€ which was already cheap), killed the competition after a few months and then raised prices to 3.50€.
I can't stand the development style that takes takes the associative array values from a web action (POST, JSON parameter...), creates a custom class code, dutifully copies stuff into it (with varying degrees of library support and manual make-work), then immediately passes it somewhere else to copy and immediately throws it away thereafter.

Such as waste of typing and perpetual reading.

The alternative deserves a "top level" comment...
Missed this comment but I don't take offense to it.

In all honesty, if you have a well designed system it's pretty good at what it does. I've used it without any issues on small personal projects and it was great at what it did. Although getting it to work with Postgres is needlessly "complicated". Not complicated per-say but not as easy as it just working with SQL Server.

What happens when you take a legacy system and move over to .Net and try to use EF on a poorly architectured data model? Chaos.

"Oh you want to search for orders that have these attributes that are stored in a bit-encoded string field that is only joined from 3 different tables?"
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There's already two threads on the front page about the WhatsApp TOS change, do we really need a third when this link is already in one of the top-voted comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12358205

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12358751

Duplicate threads like this just dilute the conversation especially when the comments made here are already opinions voiced elsewhere.
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Thank you for the link! Turns out I completely missed these pages of computing history.
Most restricted stock subject to vesting will require the recipient to file an 83(b) election. This takes the full current value of all shares at the current issue price as income up front. Since the shares are typically worthless at that point, the tax bill is zero.

The alternative is disastrous for a fast growing company. Each month, each year, you are vesting new shares at an exponentially increasing valuation, and now have to pay income tax on that completely illiquid gain with cash you literally don't have.
Riding a bike in dense urban areas is not much (or at all) slower if you are reasonably fit. Traffic lights will take away a lot of the advantage that cars have.
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How to spot a good accountant:

- How much is 1+1?

Correct answer: Whatever you want it to be.
I would be interested to know why this is the case, or why it's a serious concern, because I really don't find myself able to comprehend it. The closest I can come is something like not wanting to adjust my trousers or scratch myself in a vulgar fashion if someone might see me doing it, but I doubt that's what you mean.
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It's not. The page seems to be mostly about the EU, so the list only has EU countries. There is an "Other" option at the bottom of the list, though.
You are absolutely right and I'm sorry to see you getting downvoted. See:

http://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2013/06/git-branches-are-n...
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Would there be any value to allowing a convention for the __init__() method that allows direct assignment of arguments to attributes? For example, replacing the following:

class Point3D(object):
def __init__(self, x, y, z):
self.x = x
self.y = y
self.z = z

with:

class Point3D(object):
def __init__(self, self.x, self.y, self.z):
# Other initialization work

It seems __init__ could be made to parse the list of parameters, and for any self.foo that's not defined, assign the corresponding argument to that attribute. But I have no experience in language design. Is there a reason this wouldn't work?
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That reduces the throughput of the cleaning staff and costs you 1+ cars moving them around anyway.

Also, from a capital perspective the utilization from 2-5 AM is going to be terrible. Taking peak demand into consideration you probably average ~6-15 hours per day per car anyway.
I think it is unlikely somebody would use Bash Infinity interactively, since it's apparently targeting scripting:

"The aim of Bash Infinity is to maximize readability of bash scripts, minimize the amount of code repeat and create a central repository for well-written, and a well-tested standard library for bash."
yeah, cash money.

if a startup has VC's and lawyers sitting around dreaming up and codifying a complicated and rather arbitrary set of rules to protect their investment from the little people, there's enough cash floating around to pay the employees a fair salary, they just don't want to.

options are fool's gold, plain and simple. you are either a founder, or a venture capitalist, or lawyer, or you should expect a zero or negative value from this silly charade.

if you can't tell which person sitting at the poker table is the sucker...