skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FR8 Revolution Inc | Oakland, CA | ONSITE | UI/UX Engineer, Front End Engineer and Back End Engineer | Full-time

Hi, I'm Steffen Enni, VP Engineering at FR8 Revolution Inc. We’re providing the $700B truck freight industry with a new and powerful way to help fleets fill their trucks, shippers track loads in real-time and drivers gain some control over their lives and careers. We recently raised an $8.5 million Series A round of funding and are excited to be growing our team so we can bring new solutions to an industry that literally drives our economy.

We're hiring experienced front end / full-stack / back end engineers to help build our product vision. Our front-end stack is React, MobX, Material-UI, Jest+Enzyme on top of an api layer using Express/Node.js sitting in front of a set of micro services built with Dropwizard, Java, Docker, Swagger. (See more on http://stackshare.io/fr8-revolution/fr8-revolution)

For more information have a look at our job openings at http://www.fr8.guru/jobs. Interested? Feel free to contact me {steffen at fr8revolution.com}, I'd like learn about your recent accomplishments.
That is an obvious solution for extremely expensive items that do not sell much. It doesn't work if the seller can just pay people to buy the thing and then write a review, no?
If that's an Australian number, we actually have a reasonably decent enforcement regime. If you post the number then I'll have it reported to the ACCC, who I suspect would dearly love to actually catch an Australian fraudster given most of their reports are from India or Pakistan and somewhat untouchable.

Incidentally, a friend once got "Microsoft" on the line and they gave a return number. Curious, I called it. "Microsoft" answered. Quick as a flash I said "I don't have much time, they're on to us!"

They were unphased. Until I abruptly disconnected, then called Crime Stoppers and then conference called them in. Crime Stoppers were very unhappy with me for doing so, but after that call I waited 5 minutes then called the original number. It was disconnected!
In cases it's not smart to live with parents for financial benefit.
Society could become worse depending on the culture adapting to this if it becomes the forced norm.
Interesting to watch...
The connection: without Prop 13, a decision to protect neighborhood character would have an explicit trade-off for residents-- their decision not to develop would lead to scarcity in developable land and thus higher land values, and thus higher property taxes.

When this is decoupled, residents (who control all zoning decisions) have every incentive to approve every anti-housing measure, insofar as they're insulated from the costs.
See also SCXML and SCION:

https://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/

https://github.com/jbeard4/SCION

And for background, see the pioneering work of Dr. David Harel:

A list of all of his papers

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers.html

A few on Statecharts

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/SCANNED.PAPERS/Seman...

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/reactive_systems.htm...

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/RhapsodySeman...

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/Statecharts.H...

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/Statecharts.H...

Prof. Harel the dreamer...

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/LiberatingPro...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6.
>Unlike manufacturing cars or silicon, housing has very poor economies of scale. Building 10 houses isn't a whole lot cheaper than building 5.

That's similar to cars. The economies of scale are there. You just need to sell 500,000 a year like a car manufacturer does.

Also, cars have customers which will pay many multiples the normal price for new technology, and that market that lasted for a century.
Given his background with bitcoin, I'm guessing (hoping) he keeps his coins in a way malware can't get at them.
Lot of good infocom stuff here: https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet and also interesting stuff on http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
Yeah. The trick is that discretion is the better part of valour. Mainstream games (that lack permadeath mechanics) allow you to Groundhog Day your way to victory by abusing the save/load mechanics. With a Roguelike you've got to treat your character like a newborn duckling. Attempting to melee unknown enemies without ever having had any prior experience with them is just too big of a risk.

So: run away from enemies, lure them into traps, throw stuff at them, cast your spells, etc. Until you have a good idea of how powerful a monster is at melee combat, assume it's totally unsafe to fight.

After that, it's a matter of exploring and trying to gather as much information as you can. In a lot of Roguelikes, this means identifying your items, either formally or informally. Carrying an inventory full of completely unidentified items is not helpful.
> It's also a lot harder to make more efficient. Housing isn't manufactured in large factories where you can optimize every step of the process—instead, it's done by lots and lots of local firms. This leads to vast differences in the level of efficiency.

> There's also the problem that there is still a social stigma against "generic" housing. Having the same phone as everyone else isn't looked down upon, but mass-produced homes carry a definite negative connotation. People look down on cookie-cutter condos or manufactured homes.

Agreed on both points.

The firm Elemental Architecture utilizes 'incremental building' to help improve the efficiency of housing construction while simultaneously attempting to address the homogeneity of low cost housing projects. The idea is certainly in its nascency, but it seems like a novel approach. In short, low cost housing is constructed such that occupants are able to expand and adapt the lodging to their needs later on (paying for the materials and labor themselves).

This approach was featured in Urbanized [0] (a documentary on urban design) and later in an episode of 99% Invisible [1], among other places, I assume.

[0] http://www.hustwit.com/category/urbanized/

[1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/half-a-house/
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Apps review exchanges
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beehexapuzzle.game
"I’m excited to see what Apple has in store at WWDC though. Maybe something even slimmer?"

I'm going to sound like a grumpy old man saying this, and maybe I am. Please, dear god, stop this war on thickness. I want my ports back.
Paying more for housing is part of moving to a big city.
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I don't understand this fully, but it seems complicated.

The way I have in mind is the same way you'd separate out the digits in a decimal number, except you'd use 3 instead of 10 in the math.
Indeed it isn't. It does seem to be most common there, though. (See sibling post for comments of early lisps supporting this. Well aware of it, but many higher level languages do not commonly support it.)
The problem isn't really that they used strace+id, it's that they abbreviated the output a bit too much. A better clipping would have been:

$ strace -e open id 1000
...
open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
...
open("/usr/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
...
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
open("/etc/group", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
...

Where nsswitch.conf informs it how to look up the information; the default on most systems being

passwd: files
group: files

which tells it to the functions in /usr/lib/libnss_files.so to access the "passwd" (user) and "group" databases. libnss_files.so uses /etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively for these.
I think it's a small barrier to entry for such a powerful tool.

If you can't understand what task-based agents are, and can't dip into the code a little, you probably shouldn't be toying with this.
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This version exists purely for Xcode, which lack of option for controlling the line height in editor.
Go read up on bitcoin mining, it's essentially a code-cracking competition between miners but my description doesn't do it justice.
I think they should be able to tell apart from people's purchasing history if they are "organic" buyers [normal people's consumption patterns of goods] or something organized to curry favorable reviews.

Sure someone could get paid to review an item and also be an avid consumer of a product, but in that case it would seem they believe in the item.

Imagine someone buys eneloop over and over, never offer a review, then purchases a no-name brand, gives rave reviews and goes back to buying eneloop again.
Yeah, I'm aware of graph data structures. I tried creating a map like that too. It ended up a big mess of nodes with all of these edges intersecting each other and looping back around. I might have made a mistake or two and that screwed up the graph even more! It drove me crazy with how tedious it was.

I guess I reached a point where I said "this is just too complex, it can't be the right solution, there's got to be a smarter way to do this". So to find out that there isn't a smarter way just makes me think it's a terrible puzzle design.
David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO
Buying stock is buying interest in a company. Buying an individual stock certainly does have a significant speculative element, but in aggregate companies are expected to make money, and so stocks are expected to either increase in price or pay dividends.

Buying bitcoin as an investment is more like forex trading (in fact, that's almost literally what it is), which is zero-sum.
> on the hope that Bitcoin soars in value

faint hope.

> Neither of those is going to happen.

Yes, because a digital method of making payments will never take off. Paypal would like a word with you as well.

> vast majority of people don't have any non-cash assets, and many don't have any cash assets

Think about it, it's a currency that behaves like cash virtually. You can transfer it anywhere that internet exists. Western Union would like a word here too. There's thousands of people around the world that are unbanked because of many reasons.

> Why would everyone on earth have Bitcoin?

They wouldn't.

Bitcoin settlement is 10 minutes. Try transferring money to another country and having it "ready to go" in 10 minutes with lower fees than Bitcoin. The business-to-business remittance market is worth Billions and that's not even counting customers.

> CXO at Fortune 500

I never subscribed to the whole 'It's going to take over the world', because it won't. However, the technology's upside cannot be denied and you should have the tools to analyze them as a CEO, CFO or CTO. The reason for "my logic" was to point out that there is no "bad time" to throw $5 into Bitcoin.
If you're into good old text adventures, you might be interested in an upcoming book that (as far as I'm aware) is fairly unique in that it's written as a text adventure. Not a choose your own adventure book, but as if the main character is literally in a text adventure, with prompts on what to do and everything: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31374622-post-high-schoo... It's coming out June 2017.

Disclaimer: I'm married to the author, so I might be biased :P To be fair though, I read a very early copy, and thought it was solid. It's only gotten much, much better since what I read. The head of the small press publishing it has compared it to Microserfs.
Well, then create one single lane for cars/taxi/etc through the shared street, limit it to delivery vehicles and busses, and allow parking on the rest.

Pedestrians know they won’t get hurt on the rest, and you don’t lose space.
Zenefits CEO David Sacks to Step Down
It happens on a 20 year lag, so by the time it becomes the norm, it isn't necessarily any of those things.

Similarly, micro versus macro economics: we can end up in a globally bad situation from everyone making locally good changes.
I suppose I should say ironic rather than hilarious.

From day one you're drowned in briefings and presentations on secrecy; they make it a point to declare how devastating it would be if "they" knew anything at all about "our" methods or means.

Thus, I find it ironic, to the point I now laugh aloud, that an organization so incredibly buttoned-up, clinging to secrecy, now hosts open-source (right?) software on the servers of a separate organization known for its contributions to transparency.
What are you talking about?
The article argues that the unaccounted girls were not aborted or killed.

Anyway, to answer your question, the central planning works to reduce population growth.
As long as it's a federal ID that's given freely to every single citizen at birth, why not?

The shortcomings of the Social Security Number as a registration number are obvious. The shortcomings of letting the states handle ID are obvious - we tried that right now and it's not working, there's still a huge number of people country-wide with no ID and obvious barriers being erected to keep them from getting it. The only solution is to register people for a free Federal ID number nationwide and require it to be acceptable as a form of voter ID.

People who need records of citizenship retrieved (birth certificates, etc) or affadavits of birth filed should also receive assistance they need to retrieve or validate their records from states/counties no matter how "reticent" they may be about letting LaQuan register to vote. This assistance should be provided by Federal courts under the Equal Protection clause at no charge to any citizen swearing an affadavit of legal birth, and the states billed for any court costs or legal costs incurred regarding citizens born in their state, whether successful or not.

By all means, let's move into the future. But everyone comes with us, you don't get to lock out black people just because they are more likely to be born at home and not have documentation that their state finds acceptable while Mr Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III gets to present his hunting license.

Oh wait suddenly it's the Mark Of The Beast? You don't say, golly who could have predicted such a reaction.
"The trick is (and we never asked or found out) is that most of the time the remote digi-box is actually a carousel of SIM cards with unlimited local calls. The carousel is used to automatically distribute the calls over the SIMs to impede fraud detection by the mobile carrier."

I have seen this in action ... I was working late at night in our (rsync.net) Zurich datacenter and there was a man who had a very tall stack of SIM cards that he was punching out and inserting into these long PCI cards ... I couldn't not ask him what he was doing.

He was a little cagey about it, but I got the general idea (thanks, Swiss folks, for all speaking english!).

The thing I don't understand is, to whatever degree running all those cards through a single SIM is a fraud alert, then I would think running all of those calls through a single tower would be an even bigger fraud alert. And yet, that doesn't seem to be a problem.
Totally agree. I was super excited to upgrade but I'm not sold on the lack of ports + touch bar. Might wait to see what they do with the bitty MacBook. If not, this MBAir and I are together until the death!
That's not really accurate. That status was developed for the transitional period after the Spanish American War, and subsequent legislation and court cases evolved that initial state.

It's really a colony, unlike US States it isn't a sovereign entity unto itself, and is essentially at the mercy of congress with respect to self-governance and other things.
I see what you're suggesting, and honestly, hope that better characterizes this particular portion of the story; not that I have a horse in the race, but I'd rather here that this turns out well rather than burst into flames.
>the thing they didn't explain was how they distinguished between people who live with their parents (in their parent's home) and people whose parents have moved in with them.

Because they didn't make that distinction:

>Yet, some who live at home make a wage that should allow them to live independently. Like the older groups in our age analysis, these high earners could be older adults in established households who live with elderly parents to provide, not receive, support.
What?

If my library requires X version 1.2 or higher, how is it a breaking change if I don't work with version 2.0 or 1.0 or anything except 1.2 through 1.99999?

That's the whole point of software versioning, no matter what you call it (renaming things, semver, git hashes, anything). At some point you require something of someone else, and you can only use the versions of that other library which provide what you require (or more). Semver is just a way to lock those requirements into a machine-readable number scheme.
A man whom allegedly grabs women without their permission, seemingly lacking self-control, is about to be given sole power to kill nearly everyone on the planet. Except in this case, there is no wolf to cry about until the bombs are exploding, and then it's far too late to say "I told you so" or debate checks-and-balances and limits of executive power.
There's no such thing as "inherent value". Value is an emergent property of the utility functions of the billions of humans involved in the market.

Can you explain why gold is as valuable as it is? And no, the answer is not "you can use it in jewelery and circuits".
I think what buddy means there (the grandparent post) is that the NYTimes statement/claim in its article had not been qualified by reference (i.e. attribution), rather than that Clinton herself was unqualified for the job. That's how I read it.
That's an artificial limitation, not a practical one. The devs are being too conservative about increasing it, however.

Also not sure what you mean by "expensive". I think I pay about 11 cents per transaction. Way less than credit cards!
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That's because the science is not influenced by just scientists but pseudo-science backed by industry selling stuff. Our science establishment sucks to a degree and it's mostly because of money. Money for grants comes from benefactors and often has strings attached. Scientists can't just do science they must constantly publish, and publish even if they don't have good findings. etc. etc. Science itself has become an industry beholden to economics. With all the problems that go along with that.
Wow are you implying Im racist?

Im pro voter id because its sensible, you need an id to drive, rent a home, buy large goods, get a bank account, and even a nation with a billion people has voter ids.

Both parties have exhibited enormous distrust in the current process, and we need solutions.
Im also pro having a paper trail, and neutral observers.
Carol is the preferred C party :P
I don't think that's the indictment you intended it to be; RMS's "crazy" talking points have all been 100% validated in the last few years.

In what way is that statement an exaggeration?

Do I need to spell out how public schools are run like prisons? Or do you not believe in their critical function as daycare facilities?
As I said in my comment, "That is, living with parents after graduation is done to just survive, rather than to save more and pay off student loans faster."

My problem is that the advantages/payoffs (more savings, faster student loan payoffs, etc) of sensible/smart behavior are removed, while the misery/discomfort/etc (living with parents, being looked at funny, not being able to be alone) remain (or are made worse).

It's even worse if the idiots then repeatedly bring up the advantages (to excuse themselves of what they did and to make it seem there's nothing wrong with what they are doing), as though they still exist.
jq is really nice and I always install it as part of my tool chain. However I don't use it very frequently because of which I can never remember the syntax which imho is not very intuitive :(
Wow so much unix and shell goodness in this post.

Useful bits/tricks to me:

# see what files a given program opens
strace PROGRAM_HERE 2>&1 | grep open

# get last pid
echo $!

# all sorts of useful commands and information on a given PID
ls -alh /proc/PID_HERE

# get a tree listing of all processes
pstree -a

# echo into a file using sudo
echo "some text here" | sudo tee -a FILE_PATH_HERE
TL;DR Prop 13 main focus was it reduced property tax increases to a fixed level because retired residents were being gentrified out of their homes when they could no longer afford to pay taxes on their increasingly valuable homes. My grandparents benefited from this enormously as they bought a home in 1968 near Los Gatos for $30,000 and it's now worth over $1,000,000 but they have Prop 13 and so are able to afford property taxes. Most anyone whom moves loses this protection, so residents tend to cling to their homes because of the fear of losing Prop 13, and so many very elderly residents in California rarely, if ever, move.

Prop 13 was a half-baked, short-term solution to a terrible issue. Real-estate taxes should be scaled with both income and wealth progressive tests to prevent both obscene burdens and tax dodging, so that they are affordable, encourage people both to attract residents to the state and pay their fair shares, but knowing how Sacramento dances around hardly doing anything, it's unlikely to ever be revisited without a sustained, on-message campaign and buckets of crowdfunded cash.
Prefabricated housing [1] was also employed in Europe after WWII to accommodate the demand for housing in and around cities as many headed from rural areas to cities for work [2]. The social connotation usually varies by neighborhood, as with other types of housing, and merely living in a prefab flat is not commonly considered undesirable. Although most often found in the former Warsaw Pact countries, they are also fairly common in Sweden [2] and France [3].

The same can be said about Hong Kong [4] and Singapore [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%C3%A1k
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banlieue
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
> <Insert literally anything at all> is good for bitcoin!

> anything at all is good for bitcoin!

...instruction unclear, did I do it right?
I love this "almost commutative" diagram Terry gives in a comment:

pre-rigorous –––—> rigorous

| ……………………………………….|

v ……………………………………….v

heuristic ––—> post-rigorous
> Bitcoin will thrive whenever the shit hits the fan somewhere

Not if "somewhere" is nearby elliptic curves
Actually, I'd suggest people did tell them to build the iPhone, and the iPod.

They looked at the problems with the MP3 market at the time, tiny devices with poor user-interfaces and their solution to the state of the market at the time was the iPod. Unexpected from Apple which was only a computer company at the time.

Once we had our iPods we were carrying around an iPod and a phone (Blackberry was huge at the time). They understood customers wanted a single device, it had to have great messaging like a blackberry, and do all the music and video needs of an iPod of that era. Blackberry had apps, a web-browser, maps, etc. It's important not to forget that. Apple did a better job with the browser and gave the thing a full-size touch screen. Customers didn't ask for that, but they had asked for the basic device. Apple took what was asked for and put their own scrutiny to it to see just how amazing they could make it.
For anyone curious about the Factor language mentioned,

http://factorcode.org/