skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curbed is ... not the best experience I've had in ride-hailing. To be honest, it's easier and more convenient for me to have the office call a cab for those relatively few times when I'm in Austin. They may have ironed out some of the quirks of their platform since then (scheduled cabs being called out immediately, an attempt to get a ride to the airport being denied because the app decided I was trying to be dropped off on the tarmac itself), but there's no killer reason yet for me to try it out again.

Having said that, it's definitely true that there are basically no meaningful barriers to entry beyond mindshare (after all, every Uber driver is also running Lyft, and likewise for the drivers -- and Lyft's better driver rates are also why I have to use Lyft when I leave for the airport at 3 AM).

Things like UberEATS may provide some stickiness, but I'm far from sold that their basic economics are going to work in the long run, let alone keep them in the market pole position.
It's remarkable similar to a game that was created before it, kingz.io, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Kingzio/comments/5dm2cv/my_thoughts...
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These are consumer benefits, what does this have to do with Uber being a great business?
I'll be honest. I don't know what your point is right now (which I admit you stated explicitly above: "You are missing the point"), other than to disagree. I've read and re-read your comments in this thread, and this one in particular in an effort to figure out where you're coming from.

I see no reason why the consequence of allowing people to join and contribute to an online community where they might do things I'm not happy with (I think that's what you're getting at when you say "consequence")—which I understand will happen—also doesn't mean I can't have expectations of their behavior and choose to, say, kick them off if they don't meet those expectations. I haven't expressed this explicitly, but I don't think it's much of a reach from what I've posted upthread.

At best we're talking past each other, but I'm going to take my answer off the air.
You can't run someone else's code, unless you have paid them first. And no one you share the code to can do it either, unless they paid the original author of the code.
I think you hit the nail on the head with your comment on emotional intelligence and communication.

That said, does the ability to empathize and communicate with someone outside of that window mean that it doesn't exist? I know that when I go full speed with someone at my level, it sounds like a foreign language to some of my peers. They understand the words we say, but they don't really understand the conclusions, implications, etc.

Note that I am not sure I agree with the hard interpretation of the author of the article (specifically, "no meaningful communication is possible among people not sharing a common
window of 30 IQ points"). That said, I do think that there are some fundamental differences in how people outside of a 30-point range perceive the world.
That's actually really good advice. Agree completely that finding a good canonical source that takes away all possible ways to get derailed is awesome.

The only thing I'd say is that I do think web dev is still the best thing to learn first when getting intro programming for two reasons: There's something about having what you've made out on the internet for anyone to see, that has a URL attached to it that is much more rewarding that writing something that lives purely in your own computer. The second reason I think webdev is very good is because there's a huge job market out there for it for which the barrier to entry is fairly low. I think it'd be very hard to get a job as a backend engineer with 0 experience being self taught, vs starting out in front-end web-dev (not that one is harder than the other!).
Advertising everything with oversexualized women is a real problem, but that character is not at all sexualized. You seem to be saying that games should only depict men or ugly women. That is really not what anyone needs or wants.
They offered $10k? Counter. $50k, $75k. Whatever you feel is right. $10k is the cost of a few good laptops, not a viable business idea.
Those times look a little exaggerated to me. My understanding is that it will be up to the magistrate to decide what is a reasonable life expectancy of a device. (Based on how the product was marketed and sold)
But just because they can demand whatever does not mean you have to fulfill their request.
"Of course they do. For anyone who has ever made a political contribution in the U.S., their address is public record."

No, they don't. That is a specific case, wherein someone could arguably publish data, because it's public.

It would be trivial to change that law - i.e. you cannot know the 'home address' of the contributor, or, you cannot publish it.

In which case we're back to the normal scenario of 'your private info is not public info'.

"No, because I hold the copyright on my private notes."

FYI - you do not hold the 'copyright' on your Google notes - you have a 'user agreement' with Google, which is probably complex, and beyond the understanding of anyone who is not a lawyer, and may allow them to do all sorts of things.

Bug you validate my case: as with 'google notes' - there's not reason that standard information could not be controlled in a similar manner.

If you want to 'delete' your Google notes forever, you probably could, and Google would probably not keep a copy. They can do the same for other things.
> Now I count him as a delusional and deluding self-promoter.

I think there is probably a context to Linus Pauling's making an end-run around the medical-industrial complex of his day. My understanding is that the physiologists were making progress in figuring out how biological systems work, while the pharmaceutical industry was coming up with new patent medicines to sell. Medicine has always been a more practical science than a theoretical one, so the doctors understandably tended to listen to the drug companies more than the physiologists.

Linus Pauling singlehandedly did more to make the public at large appreciate the importance of nutrients than anyone else.
The "documented atrocities that certain Native American tribes committed" against INVADERS, you mean? Because it was their land, and the word "settlers" is a way to whitewash what people did to them - and are still doing to them today - which is invasion and genocide.
Right now, Uber's business model is throw so much VC money at everything that everybody else goes out of business, and hope the taxis die before you run out of VC money.
I didn't realise this was happening here in Australia! Hope to hear the follow up!
We live under a capitalist system that is driven by the profit motive, and the idea that you can have an "agnostic" system for software, separate from the rest of society, seems like a fantasy to me.

Anything that can't be sucessfully integrated by capitalism is fought agaisnt by the system itself, much like an organism defending itself agaisnt a virus. This would deweaponize the whole issue.

If you were to legislate that the user can modify the software, but not redistribute it (at least not unless he shut off his own DRM keys and gave it to someone else, preventing duplication) you would allow for the profit motive AND open-source, which would make it work for everyone.
Nice finding even with the new Go. I was skeptical, but wow!
Because without above consumer benefits, people would not use Uber, and it would stand no chance whatsoever of being a profitable business.
Lincoln, Hitler, Cobain, Lennon.
Short version: bullet.

In seems a person's whole life can be summed up by the one thing that killed them. I never really thought of it that way before. Interesting insight.
"Giving every HN user power to delete all his comments will make HN unreadable."

No, I think it would be so rare it would not make a difference.

For that 'small intrusion' on your HN experience, you get a hefty dose of privacy and security protection.

I would gladly agree if HN allowed people to 'delete all comments'.
That's only sort of true (male elves in art tend to be slender and androgynous, but still identifiably male) and anyway beside the point. Yes, that elf is probably intended to be female, and that's okay.
GCC has the target_clones function attribute that lets you specify a list of different architecture variants, and GCC will emit a version of the function compiled for each, and automatically generate the code to pick the right one at runtime. This does hinder portability outside of the GNU binutils/glibc world, but is otherwise a pretty clean solution.
I recently tried to parallelize some non trivial code I have with multiprocessing.map/imap/imap_unordered - the state of parallel computing in python is really poor have to say. If the program's CPU runtime has gotten so long that you'd think about parallelizing, its datastructures tend to be too much to push through the pickle bottleneck and no gain would be had. Except of course number crunching stuff for which there's numpy. Bottom line is, you can do parallel computing, but trying to parallelize after the fact will usually fail, you have to plan for it from the very beginning due to no shared memory, which would add significant time until your first version is up and running

I long for a dynamic but strictly typed language with rich standard lib that gets this right. Nim?
Where are all the women, Wikipedia?
I flagged the article since it's blatant theft.

I'm surprised Fowler hasn't been able to get the website taken offline.
Is the only thing that was widely inappropriate and tone deaf to the community the fact that it was a email to golang folks about a nodejs project or the fact that it was just spam or something else that I'm not picking up on?
10K is an absolute insult. I have sold domain names for that much. Ask for at least 100K plus a percentage of any revenue they generate from the product for the next 10 years. Then you will find out how serious they are.
And you can see him talk about his robots in Errol Morris's documentary, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119107/
Katz's story is perhaps actually an antidote to that: he worked crazy hours much of the time, and ended up dead at 37.

What's interesting for me is that many geeks I've worked with have real issues in some regard, in a way that non-geeks seem to find a way to make entertaining (IT Crowd, Big Bang Theory), or simply think is disturbingly sad (the loner in the basement stereotype).

The truth is the things that make us great geeks can also make us a little self-destructive, and we should probably as a community talk about that some more.

Spending your formative years as an outsider and then finding yourself as an adult a highly in-demand insider is potentially damaging. It's compounded when - as many of us do - we realise that social anxiety can dissipate with alcohol and use of other drugs.

We've all watched it. Some of us have done it. We need to be a bit more open about discussing it, I think.

Thinking about going first and writing a blog this weekend, but man, it'll be emotionally raw for me, and possibly cringe-inducing for others...
strongly agree. i think we should replace the trope with that of a master craftsmen. sure they work long hours, but i think what stands out is their wisdom, dedication, pacing, far-sightedness, and mastery. i think the best engineers i know resemble the best craftsmen, rather than indulgent narcissistic fanatics.
Looks just like that. As dstaten said, "just Promise.all but for microservices". I've been contributing to an open-source project called snappi.io - a microservice blueprint that includes very comparable dynamic RPC functionality. Combining RPC with standardized service contracts allows us to create and inject stubs for distributed systems as they get shipped out to solve the problems described in the article. Happy to see companies like Twitter following a similar path, and we're hoping to bring those patterns to more applications powered by a wide variety of tech-stacks.
Tell em yes for $25k, then you can say "I have built and sold a company/product."
Blog post might be more efficient.
ST monad is not state; it's a convoluted way of threading a value through a chain of functions. State means we put the value into the same memory location (or CPU register, or piece of tape or whatever).
Nobody will read this Guardian article after tomorrow. Sure wish the author had led by example and written another 500, or 8,000, words on Margaret E. Knight, that will be handed down to the generations...
That study used 400UI of vit E, which is more than 10x the RDA. Mega-dosing is what's dangerous. Good multivitamins use a fraction of that dose.

The BBC article is merely clickbait.. People love to jump on the 'vitamins are actually dangerous' bandwagon. if you do a bit of digging into the studies they're quoting you'll find that their claims are unjustified.
I like. Now I can add this grumpy dude to my login: (෴)凸

EDIT: Whose eyes got stripped by HN.
"Refactoring to Patterns"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85041.Refactoring_to_Pat...
What I meant is that ransomware predominantly spreads by tricking the user into running malicious code, as opposed to tricking the OS. There's not a whole lot the OS can do if the user is determined to open e.g. "kittenpic.jpg.exe" or "invoice.doc.exe".
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I know a lot of people who did what you recommend and it broke them all mentally. Its really hard to regain self respect and adjust back to reality when you obey for 10+ years.

So I will give the opposite advice: Rebel. Be a pain. Skip class. Don't get into college.

If you're unlucky that might close lots of career gates, but at least you got your sanity, and that's the most important thing. A healthy mind is worth a bunch.
Pretty interesting. I use the money I get for holidays almost exclusively for cigarettes, alcohol, and gambling.

Someone should perform a survey of middle to upper class people and see what they spend free money on. Are they just projecting their insecurities on other people?
If it's a bug, why not submit a fix?

I think the Python maintainers fundamentally disagree with you on that point, but a fix submission would settle it unambiguously.
From Wikipedia:

>>Survivorship bias, or survival bias, is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that "survived" some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in several different ways.
So much so, and for so long, that I'd always assumed it was authorised. It seems not.
Thank you! My VPS got overloaded and I put it behind a CDN but I don't know where the DNS SERVFAILs came from.
Strongly concur. We're remodeling right now, and I just had a conversation with my electrician about this. I purchased eight z-wave dimmers and four slave switches for the house, and he raved to me about how easily the install had gone. He says he normally has to spend about $300 on a high-end Lutron model to get the equivalent functionality. I think I've got a convert here. :)

Smart switches have been a godsend when dealing with an old house with old wiring. We had no lights in our living room -- but there were two small ones controlled by a switch on the second floor. Two bookshelf lights, one smart outlet plug, and a smart switch for the second floor + one controller == turn on the living room lights from the entryway, as FSM intended, without running any new wiring.

I've been a little grumpy about trying to be clever with the smartthings hub, but turning all the lights off at bedtime works, and I won't complain much.
I second this. If 10 or 20k isn't enough, what if you add a 0? Given your input time (labour) plus consumables (computers, internet service, food) you have probably spent 20-50k on development already.
> At some point, they have to raise prices.

They don't have to raise prices, they have to cut costs. This will be quite straightforward once there's no driver to pay.
I dislike running but enjoy cycling. Maybe there's some other activity that would catch your interest?
What would you recommend for someone who used to love running but can't anymore because of knee and ankle problems?
I think the parent's question is not about the policy matter but more like "how could this kind of DRM work?" (technically).
$10K is about what you can get for a minor domain name with some traffic. Is that what they want it for?
How do you know it was taken without permission? Are you the artist?
Starch molecules are chains of the simple sugar glucose. There is no difference between the glucose molecule in flour and the glucose molecule in cane sugar. Calorie for calorie, flour (100% glucose) provokes twice the insulin release of table sugar (50/50 glucose/fructose).
I've used reddit for around 10 years now and the past 3 or so it has become a seriously hate filled place full of awful people. It makes me a worse person when I interact regularly there these days so I rarely do.

If people on the other side of the political spectrum to me can't express their views without being rude or mean than honestly I don't care about their opinions. Is that living in a bubble? No it is choosing not to interact with people that I consider to be jerks. It's only living in a bubble if you let some social network define your life.

What I find sad is how upset people are getting here at the idea that not everyone wants to deal with them. It's like there is a surprise that there has been a backlash against jerks and all the jerks are sitting around complaining about no one wanting to be friends with them anymore and how the other people are jerks for that.
I wonder how he would have reacted if he had lived to see the integration of his ZIP file format into Windows itself, starting with Windows XP in 2001.
You get stuff like not really being able to install qt4 and qt5 at the same time with Homebrew. Also the "just one target" thing is definitely the same with a Linux distro. Were you trying to install random .debs or something?
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I got it right away. People not getting these jokes is just another confirmation that we have a critical pirate shortage these days, raising our global temperature.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13146246.
No idea. Putting stuff on HN is a great way to watch it all break. Happy to help.
> It only shows a lack of awareness that in reality your job as a programmer is not to give instructions to a machine, but to provide enough help that a machine can create its own instructions better than you can.

If you are in the position where you need to care about fast code, this is extremely naïve advice. Even in your example, it's plainly obvious that something simple but specialized like

uint64_t reverse_actually_fast(uint64_t n, const uint64_t k) {
n = bswap_64(n);
n = (n & 0xF0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0) >> 4 | (n & 0x0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F) << 4;
n = (n & 0xCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC) >> 2 | (n & 0x3333333333333333) << 2;
n = (n & 0xAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) >> 1 | (n & 0x5555555555555555) << 1;
return n >> (64 - k);
}

is going to knock the socks off a "plain C" version.
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I'm so happy that none of us - not even you - are merely our 'cause of death'.
Yeah, or doing builds in side a VM. Gets really slow if the linker / compiler starts swapping etc.
But now that's a different point altogether, isn't it? We were not talking about whether one should fulfill the demands or not. This also does not imply that the implicit rules can be automatically enforced.

If you agree that the rule-setting is unnatural under such context (i.e, the context of an online community, dealing with humans and human nature), then you would agree that you should first fix your own expectations.

If you read my comment about the Scott Peck's framework, then you can see that at the first stage, humans are generally nice to each other in any group setting. This is a modern condition: the consequences of civilized societies. But humans also tend to reach the second stage, where they are totally not nice to each other. If you read him directly, you'll get the better idea.

This argument of freedom of speech, or lack there of, is misguided and misplaced in my opinion. It tends to come up at every opportunity (every normalized social network now initially had this argument when they started in the beginning - and we're still having this misplaced argument.
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I presume you're farsighted?
Text (and general glyph) rendering is way sharper. Causes less eyestrain.
I think for more community-run sites, the business model is not the real premise.

No one would say that the real premise of Wikipedia is collecting donations.
So the only one not to join Trumpistan.
Before my VPS folded it was mostly bot traffic, which I hadn't been expecting. Evidently many follow the HN RSS feeds and hit new posts (repeatedly..) when they show up.
Is it an info or a product site? If it's the latter you could go into an affiliate agreement with them and that would be a win-win situation without the need to sell the site. If it's an info site with that amount of daily visitors I'd say the offer is quite generous. If you try to work a partnership you'll have to divulge numbers which isn't in your favor.
Read up on English public (private) schools like Eton or Harrow. The privileged upper class do indeed get a special better-designed education.

These schools are factories for CEOs and politicians. They have the absolute best teaching, the best resources, a culture that not only encourages high achievement but expects it. If an Etonian or Harrovian says that he wants to be Prime Minister, nobody bats an eyelid - the odds are fairly good that he might well be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tcRXHyEKC4
Oh boy. Find an attorney now. Or you will regret it heavily in the future. DO NOT give them any information yet (like weather or not you're a registered company, or have any patents, etc...) until you find a professional to consult with.

#1 You have something they want. Understand that. You are on their radar. They can either clone your project, or buy it, whichever is cheaper for them legally and financially. How you negotiate with them will determine weather these people will be a partner, a buyer, or a competitor, or enemy.

#2 Probably they want your idea and are giving you a tiny amount of money for it, thinking $10k is going to impress you. When really your project is worth a lot more once they monetize it. If you ask them for too much they won't bother dealing with you unless they really want what you've got.

#3 They might even want your domain, or you to join their team. Equi-hiring style. Are they asking you to continue working on the project?

If you don't sell to them or offer too high a buying price, they will clone and compete with you. Are you ok with that?

Consult with a professional, this is a must. ===> MUST < ===. They WILL have lawyers drafting up the contracts, you do NOT want to get screwed. I work in a law office myself and have seen so many people get screwed on good deals (regardless of the industry) because they thought they could "do it themselves for cheap". A lawyer can help negotiate a fair deal where they give you not only cash up front but also a percentage of stock or revenue or royalties on the product they buy from you. That way they don't give you pennies for a business that might make millions later.