skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "labor-exploiting" argument seems a bit disingenious to me. It's not like someone sees an ad for Uber and tells their boss to shove it, as they're quitting their full-time job, forfeiting all the benefits and 401(k) matching to start a brand new career as an Uber driver.

The alternative for many drivers is simply unemployment. While there's zero possibility of labor exploitation, it reminds me of Flight of the Conchords quote "There is no more unethical treatment of the elephants. - Well, there's no more elephants, so..."
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There were a not-insignificant number of companies who tried setting up build servers &c on PandaBoard & found the units failed fairly quick under any kind of sustained use. AFAIK BBB, although more limited, best I know remained reliable.
You mean write to the maildir sent folder? Or metadata like read and other tags? I don't have metadata sync but I bet there's a way to do it via xapian.

For multi-device, I use a MDA[1] on postfix that writes to a maildir, and that's rsynced to my various boxes. When I send, ssh pipes the msg to sendmail on the server, which copies it to the .sent folder.

[1]: https://github.com/jakeogh/gpgmda/blob/master/gpgmda
You are comparing Apples and Oranges. The Asian student applicants on whose behalf the DoL filed the lawsuit have to be U.S citizens.

If you read the suit itself, there is a lot of wiggle room for Palantir. Here is the threat (paragraph 14 B) "An order permanently enjoining Palantir and its officers, agents, successors, divisions, subsidiaries, and those persons in active concert or participation with them... "

Here is how they can easily wiggle out: (paragraph 14 D.) "An order requiring Palantir to provide complete relief to the affected class of Asian applicants.." and (paragraph 14 E.) "An order requiring Palantir to hire Asian applicants from the affected class list."
Id imagine indians in india looking for visa sponsorship. They spam alot of jobs regardless of visa sponsorship
Spot instances cost way cheaper. The only downside is you need to create an AMI everytime before termination.
But, also, AWS g2 has NVIDIA Grid K50 with 4GB memory, so it's not very good with performance.
The points the article makes about Uber's drivers are kind of meaningless anyway since Uber won't even have drivers in a few years.
not sure of OCI card entry to ISRO but you can work as a contractor with various indian govt agencies through mygov.in. check it out.
One thing that might work well with a CNN is geospatial data (easy to consider as an image).
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I much prefer nmh.
> then got scholarships because of only ethnicity.

Are you absolutely certain of that? How did you know?
Exactly. If you're a ML person, you must be working with Linux in most cases. And in such case, you need to be familiar with the types of permissions, cause that's relevant even during the installation of various libraries, doing ssh etc.
That's a good point. We would still want to separate the stuff like home loans from higher risk, more profitable finance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12583509
Can you elaborate a little on what you think lacks in Clojure?

I ask because I've never been happier with any language (I came from Java/Peolog) and I rarely use loops (maybe one for every 2kloc, mostly because a reduce does it in most cases) so I don't know what else I might be missing without knowing it.
It comes down to the characterizing architecture of convolutional nets, that is weight sharing, and the assumption on data this makes. If by image one means something where you can expect any pattern (at some level in the hierarchy) being equally likely to occur anywhere across an input dimension, then yes this is true. Personally I would say that this is too narrow of a definition of an image (too great of an assumption), and, interestingly enough, perhaps too broad too. I am not a pro.

[Edit] Too broad in the sense that, intuitively, there is perhaps an implied assumption of continuity of the input function defining the image. Note that such assumptions can be made explicit with various so-called statistical priors incorporated in the network.
You've conflated USB 3.0 with Type-C. Many many people ship USB3, many of them being fairly low cost wifi routers, but yes, they use USB 3.0 Type-A connectors, the big rectangular ones.

I'm also generally unconvinced the Type-C scaremongering is real. Difficulty now is high, costs are high, but it still doesn't seem as impervious a barrier as many people intone.
Signal/TextSecure was released in 2014.

Can you be specific about the "many boxes" you're referring to? The most relevant to the grandparent being: has it ever been audited?
Well, they do have a track record at this sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
I never had to use it but I recall there was a 'trampoline' fn for mutual recursion
Basically, I couldn't get authorization to publish internal code. In this case, it was a combination of who was going to maintain it and ensuring nothing internal was leaked.
Direct quote from the article "Hill believes ride-sharing may be here to stay, but Uber is not"
Not only that, but the TSA was created because there was a threat, and not because the TSA provided any actual defense against that threat.

Major difference between intent and outcome.
It seems like you don't watch Unix porn (http://imgur.com/r/unixporn).
Headline grabber, but not much more. That the 'sharing economy' will not continue as today should be obvious though. Governments have to react to avoid a breakdown of regular services like taxis, assuming that they want to save them. More importantly, governments won't tolerate the tax evasion and externalisation of costs - like unemployment benefits, health care, etc. That's the main reason uber is cheaper, and it's simply not sustainable - all taxis replaced with 'volunteer' drivers makes the streets not just a bit less safer, but also will cause huge costs on welfare budgets that are not paid through the regular cut taken from salaries.
One wonders if driving for Uber could compete with basic income.

The Internet keeps telling me that all Uber drivers are unhappy. I use Uber from time to time, and about 90% of the time, the driver seems super happy to be driving for Uber. They seem happy with their compensation. Maybe all the drivers are new, this is their first week, and it all sounds good on paper. But maybe they actually like the job. I don't know.
Certainly, sooner or later the liliputians will come in and tie Uber down, but it's a giant now. It's a little too late to be proselytizing about the company's imminent demise.

And in spite of supposedly losing in China, Uber managed to negotiate some pretty favorable terms. Uber now has a board seat and a 20% stake in Didi, a 30 billion dollar company growing about as fast as Uber was when it was that size.
There are several open source authentication servers out there. E.g. I am working on privacyidea (http://www.privacyidea.org).

There is one open hardware project I know of. It is the nitrokey (http://nitrokey.com), which is also supported by privacyIDEA starting in the next version of privacyidea.
But this is also a USB device similar to yubikey.

There is not open OTP display device I know of.
Also, Most of these devices come preseeded, which means the vendor generated the secret key.
But if the only concern is your phone - you can use the yubikey with an USB OTG. Or there is the yubikey neo, which works via NFC.
I am both surprised and immeasurably pleased at the sight that "too big to fail" isn't (yet) reality for CAs.

When it comes to shady shit like this... I would reference the title of Metallica's first album.
Bizarre answer to this question. How is he shorting Uber? In his own mind?

Q: Do you really think Uber is going to collapse or be bought up by another company?

A: Look , I don’t have the internal numbers to – I’m not like . . . the hedge fund guy, Jim Chanos, who shorted Enron. He had lots of research and researched this stuff. . . . Let’s put it this way: I’m shorting Uber.
As a legally blind person living in the urban sprawl of LA, I rely on Uber and Lyft heavily to be able to commute and run errands. There is a lot about these companies that remains ethically and economically questionable, but until the public transportation options in the area are as quick and accessible as these services I will continue to use them. The pricing is the most unnerving thing for me. In some cases, I am now able to get an Uber for less than the bus. I am not sure how profitable that pricing is, but it is amazingly helpful that I can now go almost anywhere a sighted and licensed person can go and not have to carve out huge chunks of my day, plan for walking with potentially heavy loads or paying too much for this service.

Recently, I took a trip to Africa. It was interesting to me that even though they do not have a fancy app, you can walk out the door and find someone to take you almost anywhere you want to go. Part of our current situation is due to societal and cultural factors that don't necessarily exist everywhere. But, if we don't have Uber, I think there's still a market for affordable, on-demand rides.
The transportation industry is just a fad, everyone.
>in a few years

I think you're vastly overestimating the sophistication of driverless systems.
Here's the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LR_lBEy7qU
I don't understand the point he's making about traffic congestion. He's claiming that "Uber is putting more cars on the street". More compared to what? Compared to everyone driving themselves?

If Uber wasn't around, the alternative would not be people taking public transport. The alternative wouldn't be people waiting 35 minutes for taxis. The alternative would be people driving in themselves, causing greater congestion, because they'd rather sit in traffic for an hour rather than stand out in the rain.
I'm sure uber just needs a blockchain.
You can find Indian by going to Google News and selecting India edition. There are many newspapers with websites.
> And Internet is just a fad

I think a statement like "...and AltaVista is just a fad" is more appropriate, considering that ride-sharing is likely to continue being relevant but the companies that provide it will come and go.
This is gold...

"So, yeah, it’s great: you hit the app, and the car shows up now in 10 minutes instead of a 35-minute wait. But now the traffic congestion is so bad that you’re sitting in that car for 20 minutes longer to get anywhere... cities now are starting to discuss and deal with: traffic congestion. The traffic congestion is so much worse.

Now, is it all because of Uber? Not it’s not...you suddenly have a new service that’s committed to just flooding the streets with cars, putting thousands of more cars on the street. Is it any surprise that now the streets are more congested?"

This is total stream of consciousness. Is Uber multiplying the taxi fleet? How can one put so many competing statements together like that and think it's coherent?
Should we revert to poor taxi experience? Will that bring down traffic congestion? What's the point?
That's a typical canned response, but there's many things about the early Internet (and Internet I assume you mean the Web) that didn't make it because they were unsustainable.
https://www.usa.gov/green-cards

"A Green Card (Permanent Resident Card): Gives you official immigration status in the United States. Entitles you to certain rights and responsibilities. Is required if you wish to naturalize as a U.S. Citizen"
I thought you must not have been very charitable, as usually slide decks are easy to follow. I was wrong.

To anyone who didn't click: imagine 6 slides that show stroke by stroke how a character is built up - and then another 6 slides, and then a change in topics all without comment: yes, it's frustrating and I didn't really get much out of it. (there are random pages from the appendix of a book on fonts, historical pictures that clearly are part of a talk but without the talk, etc etc.)
Exactly the part where I stopped reading
Except they're "disrupting" the taxi industry to get to that point. So they're destroying jobs and replacing them with less secure, less paid ones.

(Wether or not that disruption has a positive effect for society in the big picture is another debate - but in terms of labor you can't ignore it)
I'd be afraid of a bad review if I told a passenger I'm not happy driving for Uber.

What do I have to gain from sharing this info? At best I'm where I was before and at worst maybe an Uber employee is testing me for fidelity and I could be punished. The truth is somewhere in between, and a non zero number of passengers would rate me a non-5 star if I complained about my condition.

So take the info with a grain of salt.
RIP USA. I thought only EU is stupid.

It's like being a heterosexual white man is a crime against humanity.
Or is shipping sexy to the HN crowd?

Any suitably complex problem space can be 'sexy' if you consider it in abstract terms. It doesn't matter if you're solving how to move crates on ships, or move people in cars, or move streams of data in networks - it can all be a lot of fun irrespective of the end result. The main differences are the constraints on the problems, not the problems themselves.
I wish he would have expanded on that. Why would one fail and another not, when the companies have the exact same model?
The valuations and conditions between Lyft and Uber are drastically different.

Lyft with the funding from GM has only raised $2B over it's lifespan which is comparable to that of Uber. Uber has raised nearly $13B and blown through most of it.

At their last round, Lyft is valued at about $6B and Uber is valued at $68B. One of these is reasonable based on the taxi market size (domestic $20B), the other is about 2x over the assumed value with decent market share and margins it could attain.

The only way for Uber to express the value on the books is to replace car ownership, which is unlikely with the turnover rate of individuals replacing their cars, they'll need about a decade or more runway to justify the current valuation.

Lyft and GM have an advantage in the race to replace ownership, with their partnership. Lyft gets a partner that can reduce cost of vehicle supply costs and maintenance, while GM gets a hedge against a possible headwind to their current business model.
From the title I hoped it the article would make an interesting argument, but most of it was the same complaints about Uber that we have heard for years including that Uber evades livery laws. Well, livery laws are terrible and unjust, as are taxi medallions. Complaining about Iner drivers not being professional also misses the mark because they are much better than regular taxi drivers in my experience. Has this guy actually tried Uber?
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Often, the minimum brightness is still too bright. An Android app called Screen Filter helps with this on phones - it turns down gamma or another setting - not sure about a PC equivalent.
I explained above, but Uber is way over-valued to the point that they cannot have a reasonable IPO and acquisitions are off the table to all but a few companies that don't need that business and can acquire a direct competitor at a more reasonable expense.
Also, this is the most interesting conversation I've ever had, please feel free to email me at derekbreden AT gmail.com if that's easy.

Have a good one either way.
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60 events per second and it's pretty but basically unfollowable.

It's something I always wonder about visualizations - no human can follow the amount of data in even a small system. How much are they just hype and feelgood, and how much are they genuinely useful?
Thanks for the answer, makes perfect sense.
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No comeback--just my personal comment. You guys don't have to agree. My original point is that I wasn't surprised regarding the hiring practices at Palantir.
> replacing them with less secure, less paid ones

My understanding is that people got in deep debt to the medallion owner, which they slowly repaid from taxi revenues. Are taxi jobs at the lowest rung that secure and well-paid?
Some companies prefer a "white" office and too many asians is an issue.

Alternatively, they trashed resumes with south east asian names and schools becuase they usually arent even usa citizens.
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As others have already noted, uber is not about replacing human drivers with human drivers, but about going driverless.

To me a more interesting question is the whole sharing economy and it's relation to traditional regulation.

Restaurants, hotels, taxies, etc have long been heavily regulated to ensure that so you don't get salmonellosis, don't have to deal with cockroaches or die in a car crash because of an incompetent driver.

As the whole "sharing economy thing" is about information - the question is - can better movement of information replace the need for traditional government regulation in those fields (in the form of ratings, web of trust, etc)?
Heh, I did something similar, but in JS, rather than C++, if you want a second opinion of "how it works":

http://magcius.github.io/sw3dv/sw_rast.html

https://github.com/magcius/sw3dv/blob/gh-pages/sw_rast.js

The math and geometry behind 3D projection and 3D rendering is fairly basic once it clicks.
There is a list of recommended monitors intended for people with migraine over at Reddit and as low brightness is the main criteria, this list can help everyone with CVS.

Here is the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/migraine/comments/53m46d/as_promise...
And the list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1etWKGqzZFHd293O5ooKy...
I guess mechanically yes, thermally no (if you're below pasteurization temperature). My intuition would be that mechanical bacteria killing is always going to be < 100% efficient, so eventually they will be back in force.
I don't mind a driver mentioning they're not happy driving for Uber and Lyft, or that the rates have gone down in the area, or that they've had a lot of short trips today. That alone wouldn't cause me to rate a driver poorly, though I can imagine that it might for some people.

I do mind when I get a 20-minute rant for the duration of the trip, though. I've had that happen once or twice, once accompanied with a less than subtle "it's possible to tip in cash".
Ask HN: Companies that are open to hiring older devs?
I'm in my 40s with a family, and in a position to look for a new job. I have held management (Director/VP level) and developer roles over my career, and have a wide range of skills on a variety of platforms (web, mobile, back end, etc).

My last venture went a little sideways (still growing, but not fast enough, etc) and now I'm back in the job market again. Happy to be a dev or a manager, whatever is needed. I don't need to work on the cutting edge, but I try to keep up with the latest trends (I enjoy it, honestly)

I would love to hear specific recommendations and anecdotes about companies that solicit developers who are my age and older (I'm in the bay area), as well as any strategies that older developers use to find good jobs.
> The on-base museum exhibits show how their weather and communications satellites help India with its national development goals.

My question is: Can India achieve those goals with less money using a commercial satellite launching company like SpaceX? And if India does have a competitive advantage in launching satellites, should it be run by the government or as a private enterprise?
... I didn't mean it to be that off topic.
This got posted on the wrong thread, I'm sorry. If any mod could remove this, I'd be grateful.
I don't know if the threading makes it less than obvious, but I was simply answering this question:

>OT, sort of, but a while back I saw one of these... "Pi-like" boards that had two Ethernet ports. It also had significantly more horsepower.
I'm wondering what might be recommended choices at this point for someone looking for an inexpensive, wired MITM / Firewall platform.

There are a lot of very interesting, very cheap boards!
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Taxi drivers are actually employees in some places? I had assumed most drivers were already under some non-employee structure in most jurisdictions pre-uber.

That's certainly the case here in Australia where taxi drivers were making under minimum wage with working conditions that would not be allowed were they employees. It's hard to see Uber as any worse than what existed before.
Uh, .NET Standard adheres to the APIs in the .NET Framework. It's the same APIs you have been using for many years and that is the entire point of it all. .NET Core initially used a subset that was too painful to port to by a lot of developers so now they are expanding that subset closer to the .NET Framework.
autossh and reverse tunnels. like this: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Autossh_persistent_tunnels.ht...
I did not mean to offend or generalize--there are many people of the same race around the world that dislike each other. I believe everyone is inherently racist--it might be an evolutionary trait (Terror Management Theory comes to mind where the thought of death cause certain people to become subconsciously sectarian), but it doesn;t suit us very well anymore in modern society.
First you misquote me and add your own words against me not justified by facts in evidence. Now you say it is just "reading between the lines."

Reading between your lines, I see malice and mendacity. Have you a better excuse?

I remember a blog post by @tofumatt, flip-flopping from pro- before to con- after I left. That is neither "staff" (plural) nor "Basically: the staff didn't respect him" evidence. It's a post from one person, who was not inside the room with C-level and board members, which assumed the worst: that I couldn't figure out how to lie my way through the crisis, so clearly didn't merit CEO. I can produce multiple others who supported me all the way from appointment to well past exit, including @christi3k and @lsblakk.

But really, what's your point? You weren't even at Mozilla, whether on the outside of the C-suite or on the inside. To assert "Basically, ..." as you did stinks of malice and mendacity. There's a five letter word for someone who assumes the worst about out-group members in advance of facts, who finds it "pretty easy to imagine" the worst of adversaries. It starts with "B" and ends with "T".
Of course having a job is better than no job. That doesn't excuse Uber from having good working conditions, though.
Virginia Tech is also public.
> expression templates bring no benefits to 99% of linear algebra computations

If you limit the scope of your statement adequately enough, I would agree. What ET did was to remove the overhead that conventional style C++ brought to OOP matrix libraries. Fortran and C would beat C++ libraries hands down. So ET pulled C++ up to level 0: what a naïve (but verbose) implementation in, say C, would have got you. It is only after this the real stuff begins, optimizing for cache reuse, common subexpression elimination. Nowadays there are more advanced ET libraries that do this.

> linear algebra computations

To elaborate on this a bit more. We usually encounter two broad kinds of operations. One is of the linear algebraic variety, e.g. mat_vec, mat_mat etc. Here ET by itself wont buy you much. Here it is all about cach re-use. The other kind of operations are those chained operations (some times these are called array operations, as opposed to matrix or linear algebraic operations), it is here that ET will show its strength. A high performance library in C++ would typically use ET for these and fall back to BLAS for the former.