skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a really big assumption and non-obvious.

I don't consider it an assumption. Uber reduces transactions costs, increases competition, and improves the user experience of hailing a taxi. They are eliminating deadweight loss.

It is a quantifiable fact that the harm done to taxi drivers is outweighed by the jobs given to Uber drivers (quantifiable in the sense of dollars paid out - Uber has increased the size of the market).

> Uber is currently subsidizing ride costs with VC money. Uber can succeed in driving a lot of taxis/ride services out of business before the VC money shuts off and it implodes leaving people without ride services.

They are actually profitable in the US. However, this is true in many other markets, though I don't really see how its relevant.

> Airbnb can improve the efficiency by moving more people through unused housing. However, that can take away from long term rentals, and also brings problems with it like vermin (bedbugs, etc.) and transient crime.

Why is it a problem if it takes away from long term rentals? And i'm not sure how it would increase vermin, bedbugs, or transient crime, though i'd be curious why you think that might happen.

> Whose responsibility is it to clean these problems up? How do we clean those up? Or, do we regulate sufficiently up front that when damage is being done we have some limit to it?

If there are indeed negative, uncaptured externalities from these things, I think it's fair to price them in accordingly, through some sort of tax or similar system. But i'd like to see better evidence that these externalities are real.
As the article says, this is three replacement Note 7s catching fire in less than a week (that we know about). If that incidence rate were normal for other devices, I think we would know about it. (And I imagine far fewer people would carry phones around in their pockets.)
They're not the same thing, and the refusal of one side to accept the distinction is what most of the contention is about with GamerGate.

The response of the games industry to the fact of more women games is a cultural choice on their part, not some forced physical reaction to the mere fact. Hence the distinction between "women in gaming" and the "industry response to more women in gaming".

It's entirely possible to like that more women are involved with gaming while not liking how industry leaders have chosen to respond to that fact. I find it strange that so many people don't seem to get the distinction, and suspect that it's willful on their part, because they agree with those cultural choices and don't want to have to defend them.
A small chance does not show up with 3 phones catching fire within a week. How many of these phones would have even made it into customer's hands during that time.

I doubt it is eve fair to say there is a "chance" they will catch fire, but let us say there is. What is the "chance" that they will all catch fire within the first few days of use?

This is all quite damning, and unfortunately is probably going to put a dent in Android adoption. With Samsung being the more premium Android brand, I suspect many people will pick-up an Apple instead. But that is just speculation.
Well, because every single person on earth would be slightly worse off. The size of the ride-hailing market would contract to pre-Uber levels, for one. This means fewer jobs for drivers and fewer dollars paid out overall. The liquidity of the ride-hailing market would go back to taxi-levels. You'd have to carry cash, and the rides would be slightly more expensive.

These might seem like relatively inconsequential details, but the sum of them over an entire economy adds up to billions of dollars of deadweight loss. And in an era of slowing growth, we really shouldn't be throwing these things away because it makes some people uncomfortable.
In my mind, I really don't even see any reason to believe that there is significant bad blood between the actual employee that was fired and FSF. The only side of this story that we have is Leah's and she's already outed the ex-employee, slandered 3 people in every way she can, and either the fired employee changed her mind about supporting Leah's actions, or Leah made that up as well.

At the very least, I think we can conclude that the FSF and the fired employee are unhappy with Leah's actions.
That's another thing, everyone has the freedom to move and live wherever they want, to work where they want under their conditions (hours, pay, etc. Interestingly enough, working conditions aren't up for debate as much), etc. The other part is that there's very, very few relationships that end up in "for life"; my parents' generation is still the ones that believe in marriage for life, they manage their problems like adults. But there's no social reason to stay together anymore, at least if both parties are financially independent - on that note, I know a few people that stay together not because they want to, but for practical and financial reasons. as in, the woman / mother can't move because she couldn't afford it. Kinda sad really.
While I find your second sentence quite insightful, the first sentence seems to fight a straw man.

(GP stated that this software is high-performance, and that it is written in C++. They didn't claim it to be high-performance because of C++.)
Interesting, thanks
I don't believe that this person means to imply that C++ is inherently performant -- only that the software is written in C++ and it is highly performant.
Study a language and algorithms. Recite those functions and algorithms from memory, and then compare what he writes and those in books.
It seems to me that there is a higher risk that a large complex molecule synthesised by a microbe is biologically active, and that the risk for contamination is higher.

Anyway, I could probably live a full life without blue smarties actually.
> A switch to sales of only zero-emission cars puts thousands of German auto industry jobs at risk since the powertrain of an electric car requires only a tenth of the staff to be assembled when compared with a combustion-engined equivalent, which needs more workers to assemble cylinders, spark plugs, and gearboxes.

The stupidity with wich we argue for retaining useless jobs is baffling.

To quote Volker Pispers.
"If you tell the minister of the internal that all those anti terror actions treated jobs in the TNT rod industry. Then you'll really put him in a dilemma."
ESTA allows you to stay up to 3 months, no change of status allowed. B1/B2 allows a maximum of 6 months, with the possibility to change status without leaving the country.
Or the mind might simply be able to control the perception of time.

(which leads into the question "What is time?")
I wonder if this is the reason:

"I inspected the kernel source code. Samsung charges the note 7 battery at just over 4.35v

Older models have 4.35v batteries but only charge to 4.3v.

If you put a generic 4.2v lithium ion battery in, they survive 4.3v with a reduction in charge cycles but anything above that causes formation of metallic lithium dendrites, a non reversible process that eventually causes a fire. This policy makes sense if you have removable batteries as there are lots of fake genuine samsung batteries. But you want maximum battery life using special 4.35v cells. Perhaps they thought with a sealed battery they could hit 4.35v?

The chemistry is not hugely different, just uses more expensive elements. So a factory trying to minimise cost could easily introduce a defect from changing from one type to another etc.

So this tiny change could cause a defective battery to catch fire where it normally would not.

Doesnt matter how you charge it, more how long it sits above 4.30v at ~60-100% float charge.

So samsungs 60% charge resolves 2 issues, peak voltage above 4.3 and energy release on failure.

Imho they need to go back to 4.3v policy rather than just replace and assume its a once off.Lithium batteries used in phones dont catch fire without physical damage like a knife or overvoltage. That's why this is so unusual.

Ps kernel source is available from samsungs website because android is based on linux.

Tldr: policy change from 4.3v float charge to 4.35vwhich I have confirmed by examining source code available on samsungs website would explain the fires"

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/560luq/slug/d8fhh2...
Is this an argument of sneaking in a book on elliptic curves that tangentially talks about cryptography?

(I kid, of course.)
SKHANDA+NEWS+–+visite-nos+sempre
>If you are more concerned with rules and respecting other applications by not standing out, you are just playing the game poorly.

So say sleeping with people from HR is ok?

Either we have social norms, fairness and an (attempt at) a rational system or we don't.

And btw, the behavior you reward is the one you get. So expect a hell of a lot of donuts over the next year.
> A commit conceptually has a tree of complete blobs that git will diff as needed

You're a bit confused about the difference between "concept" and "implementation". There's multiple ways to conceptualize git, but the one I offered is the one presented by the default porcelain while the one you offered is closer to the implementation. The encoding used for storage is entirely irrelevant to my point.

Anyways, my point had nothing to do with efficiency but was related to the topic at hand; that is, whether it it safe to use git to put code on test machines, and indeed whether that's safer than the alternatives. Nothing you said really addresses that point.
After all the press he got, I'm sure that an O-1 visa is possible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649311
Hmm. The pages move only as fast as you turn them :)

It's probably safe say that it's more concise than others that I have read. A sentence in SICP could become a paragraph in a lesser book.
Every “peace fighter” get a peace prize lately
From the west to east all presidents seem to be peace makers.

Will technology ever disrupt concentrated power?
When will a programmer get a peace prize ?
Yes, poor management is the cause of 1) and 2), and is unable to handle 3). Would be interested to hear more about your experiences with management teams.
> The problem is that some people never got the memo that says that chanspeak is not acceptable in polite conversation. So the chans end up being a continual generator of sexist, racist assholes who think that it's OK to be sexist, racist assholes. Lots (but not all) gamergaters fall into this basket of deplorables.

What you revile here with such colorful language is nothing but many developmentally delayed people you likely bully in real life (and certainly, if not you, others do) for not learning social graces and conforming to society at the rate you do forming a community and insisting that they be treated with rather than oppressed by society at large, or they'll tear the place down.

You don't like it, because you were on the oppressing side, and oppressing them is easier than dealing with their very real underlying issues and trying to meaningfully integrate them in to society.

So your suggestion is to eliminate a community that plays a healthy role for normally developing people and a meeting ground for them, presumably in hopes that they'll go back to quietly being oppressed.

> It's just a terrible place to learn socialization. And a few too many do that.

Frankly, I doubt you offered them a better alternative.
Having personally witnessed a delivery guy walking out with a half-dozen or so engineering laptops (I realised this seconds too late, after walking into the office area), tucked into his messenger bag, it's been known to happen. Lax security was a confounding issue.

Also: that guy had brass balls.
CQRS increases consistency
I like your post as an interesting though project.

My initial reaction was "yeah, why not a tax break for not having a car", but I'm not sure why you would get a tax break for not eating meat. Are you thinking a carbon credit type of thing.

On deeper inspection, it actually probably doesn't make much sense to give you a tax break on these sorts of things.

Your tax dollars are helping the entire system run. You still use streets, so why would you get a tax break for not having a car?

Also, tax is not an a la carte purchase. In some ways I wish it was, but it isn't.

I've always been interested in the idea of paying my taxes, but getting to say where it goes. So on my tax return, I can allocate what percentage of my taxes go to different parts of gov't.

How many people would spend more on public health and less on military. More on roads and less on farm subsidies, etc etc?

There are a few problems with this approach.

1) Many people may not understand the long-term effects of what their taxes go to, and that could cause major issues, but I like it as a concept. Vote with your Tax Dollars.

2) It couldn't be a direct percent of your tax dollars, otherwise those paying more tax would have more say, so it would have to be averaged across all tax payers.
Why would they "let go" of libreboot over this sort of behavior?
I think the missing detail in this argument is where is this company trying to acquire users from? They are competing for mobile users on Android and IOS who are most likely quite happy with Google and Apple maps.

So "good enough" may not actually be to get people to try something new.
My bet as a german is that this is not going to happen. Ze lobbying is strong with this one.
Hey, pretty neat--thanks
Ok, sure. It's only similar to architectures which have existed. I doubt there have been any serious ones which limited you to a dozen instructions at a time :)

There's nothing in the TIS-100 architecture that is unique or unheard of, just things that are left out of it.
I've had uber crash on drivers while on a ride, even 30 seconds is better than complete failure! I think it would make uber more resilient...
A good friend of mine is totally into hackmud: https://www.hackmud.com

It looked neat but I have the same problem as with music games like Guitar Hero etc - I'd rather continue programming on one of my many pet projects or practice playing actual guitar...

I may be missing out though - I wouldn't know because I actually never invested more than 30 minutes in any of those games (also bought TIS-100 last year, never actually played it once).

Incidentally - are there any music games (rhythm, composition, etc) that are similarly "hardcore" as a TIS-100 that anyone would recommend?

I finally might be giving TIS-100 another shot as it is Sunday and all :)
If you want to learn an algorithm I suggest implementing it as well. Since this question does not state any prerequisites I can only suggest the hands down best practical datastructure and algorithm study and reference book I've come accross:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

It's old but concise and very much to the point. All of the material is highly practical.
Harsh but well said:

"At this point, it’s irresponsible for us to say anything else: If you own a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 you should immediately stop using it and return it for a refund (...) The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is a fundamentally defective product and it should be pulled from the market without delay."

Not sure what's going on, but it looks like Samsung is handling this extremely poorly.
> All of the people who responded on the GNU Prog discuss mailing list are cisgendered men

Ye gad, get rid of her, sooner the better. Fork it and name it librestart if necessary.
If anyone wants to play with the demo from 23 years ago, the code can still be found at ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/languages/pdb/
Neither of those things is likely to get you sued, arrested, or (if you're a foreigner) kicked out of the country.

It's not about underestimation of ability, it's about not wanting to take a risk or flout established social norms.
This problem (+ the fact that it still hasn't been fixed) and the pricing of recent big-brand models makes me consider buying from Chinese manufacturers suchs a Xiaomi, OnePlus etc
What’s the oldest independently owned software company?
Why should non Solar users subsidise the grid for those who can install solar panels in sufficient quantities to matter? This probably means people who owns houses gets a subsidy from those who live in apartments, who are typically poorer.
The oldest one I can think of is SAS, which is 40 years old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute
Twitter Seeks New Path After Potential Bidders Said to Back Off
Then we'll just build steam engines again. Maybe nuclear instead of coal-fired? The Germans haven't banned those, they just got quickly replaced by ICEs. Why ban? Why not just let the market handle things?
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12669086 (9 hours ago, 37 comments)
The batteries in modern smartphones are very easy to get wrong. So, it's not specifically the phone itself which combusts, but the battery.
Chinese manufacturers aren't exactly well known for good lithium battery safety. IIRC the entire reason amazon banned hoverboards was because they couldn't tell which Chinese manufacturers used safe batteries.
Other Reddit threads have stated that this is inaccurate, and the S6+ use 4.4V batteries.
>So say sleeping with people from HR is ok?

Do you really equate sleeping with HR to getting noticed by delivering donuts to executives?

I want to point you to Paul Graham's essay about what they look for in Founders. Specifically, "They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter."

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
4. Naughtiness

Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.
I used to think that. But I was wrong. These relative ratios continue up the stack. Blowing them off is just excuse-making that gives us bloated and slow software.

You may be a programmer in a language that doesn't permit you to influence L1 cache performance, for instance, but you better understand the mechanisms involved and how that applies to your language and computational model 5 layers up.
FIDEX: Filtering Spreadsheet Data Using Examples
>This is all quite damning, and unfortunately is probably going to put a dent in Android adoption

Not likely. There are tons of other Android phones that people can use (including the new pixel). Everyone I've talked to (including non technical people) about this have associated this with Samsung, not Android.
What this here compound needs is some hydrogen peroxide
I was reading about buying a laptop with libreboot bootloader but then I saw a whole section to screw paywall.

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/

https://minifree.org/paypal/

Their laptops are cheap and with good configuration except for CPU and graphics card. I will have hard time running Matlab on such a machine, so I cannot make that investment. Better CPU please especially when your laptop is 2.2 kg in weight.
You're probably referring to Alexander and Ann Shulgin.
So this is basically `python -m json.tool` via a browser right?

Still not sure I understand the purpose of all these single use sites that replicate functionality already present on most developer machines.

Like I said earlier, the next thing will be "println" as a web service. It just echoes back the input with "\n" appended.
The Science of Standing in Line
How can this powerplant idea work? You get the binding energy from carbo hydrates, then you need to add back more thsn that energy to capture and convert all CO2 back to nanotubes and oxygen. The excess energy comes from solar? Fine, may make sense, but that's not going to be an electrical powerplant anymore. It's a battery factory.
It may be known to happen, but what I'm saying is the act of letting a delivery person into a building does not equate to a lapse in security.
Are you advocating that people vote yes or no? Because the article doesn't really say which would be better for solar.
I agree, this is part of my point. If the big brands manufacturing under stricter regulations still face the same problems then why pay the premium?
The algorithm isn't random -- every time you run your image through it, it's doing the same exact maths, and getting the same exact result. It's random whether or not any image you might pick will be flipped, but for a given image, the result will always be the same.
And then start an actual riot by mistake?
GNU refuses to let go of libreboot thread was removed from HN?
There's a difference between whatever-random-flybynight-hoverboard company and, say, Huawei or OnePlus.

...

I hope. Cause I just bought a OnePlus 3 after being really disappointed by the Pixel phone. Like who made google think they could charge iphone money for a nexus -- $750 plus tax so over $800 to get something with 64G of space?

The OnePlus has been out since June and while there are sporadic reports of fires (just like there are sporadic reports of iphone fires), there's nothing like the wave of reports of Samsung phones catching fire.
Git Flow vs. Continuous Delivery
The original was probably flagged because its title didn't offer any suggestion of what it was about. However, that original post was brought back to life, and has considerable discussion, so the current posting is a duplicate of it.

Also, I'm guessing that the content is political in nature. If so, it's probably off-topic for HN (see the Guidelines link at the bottom of the page).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667962
There is nothing exceptional in having the perception of time altered. This happens usually in accidents and such
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion_perception

I felt this in a car crash once. It feels really strange.

To have this same experience triggered by a chemical is not hard to believe.
I hadn't heard anything about an iPhone 7 catching fire, so I just looked into it. And it's pretty obvious that the box was badly damaged. So no, the iPhone 7 did not catch fire under normal conditions, it was heavily damaged first.

Photos of the packaging: http://imgur.com/a/LrhYz
I know someone who lives with severe chronic migraines. She writes about her experience when she can on thedailyheadache.com. Similar to the author, she searches desperately for triggers, treatments, and even moved to a drier climate.

My sister-in-law gets debilitating multi-day migraines. She too searches desperately for triggers, and has a hard time with medicine.

I get cluster headaches for a couple of months every two years or so. Although they are extremely painful, it's infinitely easier to cope with an episodic affliction than chronic pain with no end in sight.
Version 1.2 of tco for performing tail-call optimization in Python is released
I suppose you've read James Hansen or Kevin Anderson's latest work on climate change, right?
The claim isn't exactly that: "A transgender employee at the FSF was being harassed by a transphobic colleague for being trans. The trans person, not the bully, was then fired when they stood up for themselves, because it was seen as trouble making while the bully remained silent."