skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a thing. Google uses it, Paychex and Adp too. Just about every really big one uses it for two factor.
It wasn't presumption. It was my understanding of the word that was used.

Further, the major difference between a "guarantee" and not comes when we've run out of useful things to hire for.
When you're so broke that an extra couple of dollars will put you in overdraft territory, it's not reasonable.

At least they inform you in most hotels. I have not used Lyft - I would hope they do the same.
I agree, have healthy unprocessed food on hand, and adjust to what you have. Mollie Katzen, author of Moosewood Cookbook, and other cookbooks, talked at Google in 2013. I was fortunate enough to have had a long chat with her before she spoke, and I told her about my attempts to write software that would morph recipes to use what food items you have on hand. I mentioned that I was motivated to do this because my wife and I are very good at making up recipes to use what we already have. Mollie laughed and said that she enjoyed doing the same thing. A good skill to develop!
I had a cat with food allergies, and learned to read ingredients to tell a quality food (less allergies) from a lower quality.

Nearly all of the good foods had premium pricing, but not all of the premium priced foods were good quality. On the other hand, few to none of the mid to low priced foods actually were 'good'.
Are you asking what it means or disagree with it?

If a: 2-Factor Authentication with Short Message Service (called "text" in the US).

If b: It's how Google's 2FA works by default, falls back to SMS.

Basically, getting control of (i.e. stealing) the 2nd factor in the 2FA scheme, and bypassing the 1st factor, the password (by resetting it). Plausible.
> do they really think they can just permanently ignore all driving laws?

What laws do you think they'd need to permanently ignore? And no, I doubt that's their belief.
Nobody is saying you can't befriend your coworkers. They're saying that you can't presume friendship with coworkers as an excuse to treat them unprofessionally.
sure it should
This is selective enforcement, not equality under the law.

I understand the load police tend to be under, but I really wish they would have some lottery enforcement style that grabbed one random instance of "common" crime like this at a time, and went whole-hog with it. They do it for speeding, so they can make a bit of money with fines, and have the hope of finding connected crimes; what's different about theft like this that they can't do the same?

But back to the all-seeing eyes, I'd far, FAR rather have surveillance footage in the hands of individually distributed private entities, than centralized and auto-analyzing anybody for behavioral pre-crime indicators. If your local McDonald's truly is just its own independent operator storing the footage, then IMO it can still be generally considered "lost in the crowd".

It's only when automatically aggregated and its contents cataloged that stuff like this truly becomes dangerous.
I agree that your second code example is difficult to read, but I think that is more a result of a lot of logic being inlined into one call, than it is a property of the language.

% and | are going to be unclear if you're an outsider looking in on the language, but that is true for any sort of specialization. I'd be interested to know what languages you find to be readable, because I can all but guarantee that there's aspects of that language that I'd find arcane -- not because they are, but because I don't know the language.

I'm not terribly interested in discussing whether a language is readable or not, because a lot of that is going to come down to subjective opinion, but at the end of the day, I find that Elixir lets me quickly write maintainable code.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "overloading of atoms to work like pseudo-objects", do you mind elaborating?
Has there been a startup in recent history that was losing this amount of money per year (planned or not) that ended up going green and successful?
Why? It appears to have no value to anyone but the immediate consumer. That's not a business, it's a charity. What a collossal waste of cash.
Uber does background checks, not sure where the idea that they are skipping them comes from
RIP Uber. Imo it will be gone in less than 24months.
Such meta-commentary (bashing a community that you yourself are a part of) is off topic and only worsens the threads. Please stop doing this.
That's such a terrible strategy I can't believe that's really what they're doing.

The short term problem is that they can't burn through money long enough for it to work. The barrier to entry to create an Uber or Lyft competitor is very low - anybody with a car and a laptop can create a viable Uber competitor. Nobody's doing it because Uber, Lyft, and taxis are everywhere, but when there's only Uber, and they're suddenly expensive, they'll get disrupted just like taxis did.

The long term problem is that even if they succeed, purposely creating a monopoly and then raising prices is illegal. It's a great way to get in even more trouble with the government.
There was no claim about yearly revenue. The figure given was $15k/mo based on $7k of sales in one week. Even so, that was a singular oversight on my part[1], not some sort of formula for all the interviews on the site.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072326
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211565
Imagine a Netflix type service which needed to calculate a bunch of different categories to show the user. If some of them are more expensive to compute than others, those categories could be dropped, while still returning an acceptable response to the user.
State level.
I'll email you my ideas, thanks!
My understanding is that in mature markets, Uber is profitable. The issue is that it takes a few years to become profitable in a market and so it's extreme growth pushes out profitability on the whole for a few years
Would you consider the idea that if someone has murdered, they are more likely to murder again (compared to those who never have) an example of "pre-crime"?
This looks like exactly what I'd need, I'll email about their email API.
Amazing, I haven't seen a true blockchain in real world.
All great resources, thank you!
I've seen a C++ program get changed while it was running.
Not before destroying any competition with cripplingly low rates. That's the problem: I can't hail a goddamn taxi anymore, despite it being cheaper by any back of the envelope calculation for society as a whole.
Huh? What's the end game?

The end game is a company with self driving cars, having SIGNIFICANTLY less overhead than they currently do with human drivers. And, probably a ton of technology patents to boot?

Yea, they're definitely a brazen company, but do you really expect anything less from a unicorn company? Very few make it this big without cutting some corners, having some connection, etc.
There aren't any taxis anymore in SF.
I have done this with high quality aka strong vanilla ice cream with that real creamy taste and high quality aka strong chocolate ice cream and no it was not tasty.

You can try the same thing what cheaper ingredients by adding the same fairly large quantity of vanilla extract to unflavored ice cream and chocolate ice cream. But, you miss out on some of that strong cream flavor.

PS: Even just good chocolate is hard to find in the US. Hint it has zero wax content and a short shelf life.
Yes, living in a food desert makes eating well and affordably very difficult. It's unrealistic to expect people to make meals out of simple ingredients if they can't access the ingredients. Likewise a lot of good strategies are pre-empted if you don't even have a refrigerator.

I find the intermediate cases interesting. Food deserts and/or dire poverty (they overlap!) can narrate why large numbers of Americans eat poorly. They aren't a satisfying explanation for why many people with cars and refrigerators choose to buy frozen TV dinners instead of frozen ingredients one aisle over (or potato chips instead of potatoes, soda instead of black coffee...). I don't have a complete answer, but I'm trying to preempt an incorrect answer ("ingredients for home cooked meals cost more than processed food") by way of counterexample.

This study made quite an impression on me when it came out: http://www.academia.edu/454540/Dinner_Preparation_In_the_Mod...

Working class families that make heavy use of pre-packaged foods do not save money on meals or save meal prep time overall (though they reduced the "hands on" phase of prep). Pre-packaged foods did simplify shopping.

This points to a different set of drivers for processed foods than low sticker price. Making Hot Pockets relatively more expensive and fresh leafy greens less expensive isn't going to improve eating patterns much if (e.g.) people are eschewing home cooking to reduce cognitive overhead rather than to minimize the weekly food budget.
Absolutely.

What breaks my heart is that many managers to this day love their charts with imaginary increased productivity percentages and reduced average time spent per ticket, much more than they love reality itself.

It's like the market for drugs -- as long as there's a need for them, there will be market for them, legal or otherwise.

Conversely, as long as there are managers eternally in love with charts, there will be developers lying to them that these over-simplified charts represent reality.
Toronto. I haven't taken a taxi forever, but I believe they start at $3.25 (city council orders) as opposed to Uber at $2.5.
It only has short-term consumer benefit. Once there's a lack of competition they're free to benefit themselves.
It's a hold, not a charge.
Probably should. The logs have some pretty interesting details in them.

http://attrition.org/postal/logs/2006/logs.001.html
Personally I've never experienced that
I'm not a fan of facebook or Zuckerberg, but I do appreciate it that he still keep challenge himself.Maybe some of his projects is not really "AI" stuff. But it's not easy to keep coding when you are CEO of a big company.
Wow, just what I needed! I posted a rant a few days ago here where I advocated for just this thing!
Attrition Web Logs: A Study of Oddballs
For all the shitiness that Uber has engaged in, at least they've shown that you can get around the antiquated Medalion system.
Is there something akin to a city's uber manager that all drivers have to report to for the sake of noticing if someone should _not_ be driving for uber?
> despite it being cheaper by any back of the envelope calculation for society as a whole.

Can you explain this? Not challenging, just curious.
You mean once they have burned VC money to price dump transportation in a given market, they start charging higher rates to make money and run pet R&D projects.
Restaurants Flocking to this Marketplace
Call for privacy probes over Cayla doll and i-Que toys
Whole versions don't get deprecated. Visible features get deprecated when they are still present in the latest version but will be missing or incompatible in the next major version.
It might come from the fact that they ragequit Austin rather than do background checks.
> software that would morph recipes to use what food items you have on hand

What are the best solutions for this currently? And are you working on a new solution?
my question is why do you make false assertions such as this:

"it could try to wake the user, resulting in grogginess and complete lack of energy till the end of the day". you cite source [4], which is the wikipedia article on "sleep inertia" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_inertia

The wikipedia page doesn't say you'll have a "complete lack of energy till the end of the day", or anything close to that. it says "Morning sleep inertia may take several hours to dissipate" and "Sleep inertia is the impaired cognitive performance immediately upon awakening, which decays over tens of minutes", and "In the majority of cases, morning sleep inertia is experienced for 15 to 30 minutes after waking".

so my question is, whose idea was it to embellish using the phrases "complete lack of energy" and "for the rest of the day" ?
I have used https://ghostinspector.com/ which is a fremium alternative.
Yes if you don't have $25 you really should walk or take a train. Not sure that is a big reason to pick or not pick it.
https://www.card.com/faq/will-preauthorization-hold-always-e...

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2k761i/gas...
You mean in the US not the world.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/22/13019688/singapore-self-dr...
I wonder how much that is attributed to difference in behaviour.

4-6x is a huge difference (assuming that's accurate) so it's unlikely all of that could be behavioural. However, high heel shoes and hand-bags are known to cause lots of posture-related issues.

In Australia, young women also tend to play different sports. For example, Netball, which is notoriously strenuous on knees and ankles.
I'm actually working on exactly this currently. It's called Praisee. We're trying to focus just on the review and product decision making side of things, with a heavy emphasis on community, trust and personalization.

Amazon is not a reviews service, nor is YouTube, yet this is where people turn. Nobody else seems to be taking the issue seriously, so we are.

The hardest part of building something like this is the chicken and egg problem, which is why I don't think there exists a good service for this yet. It's actually really hard to find a group of trustable product reviewers who stay engaged. People don't buy reviewable things that often, so you need another hook to get them to come back and sustain the ecosystem. This has been the hardest part of getting traction for our startup.

We're working hard on the problem. Hopefully you'll hear more about us soon.
I think String now is part of Any and NSString still is AnyObject. You need to cast, but the cast will always succeed.
They aren't Uber and they exist.
Yeah, I used to see that all the time when I was running competitively in school. I don't think I knew a single guy with an ITB Syndrome / injury but so many of the gals got sidelined with that kind of knee problem.
In this particular iteration of the game, what exact benefit does running a $800M losing ride-hailing service confer?

If the entire value proposition is "taxi using self-driving cars", then surely they would be much better off dropping the money burning ride-hailing operation with cars they don't own to spend more on R&D...
Evade local regulations that everyone else follows in the name of 'innovation' even though the reality is they are just taking a free pass on conducting background checks, and skipping safety guidelines.

When they replace all taxis, do they really think they can just permanently ignore all driving laws?

Since when do hackers bleat about obeying laws and regulations? What happened to having a "we can do better" mindset? Has everybody wigged out and flipped their "I want a nanny state to protect me 24/7" bit?

And as far as that goes... I guess no "certified" taxi driver has ever turned out to be a criminal or done anything to harm a passenger? Me personally, I prefer to exercise some personal discretion and simply decide whether or not I will ride with a particular Uber driver, or cabbie, or Lyft driver, or whatever, based on my own judgment in the moment, as opposed to abdicating responsibility to either the State or a corporation.
Ask HN: What type of people do you dislike working with?
Marketers, designers, lawyers? Anyone grind your gears? Why?
> When they replace all taxis, do they really think they can just permanently ignore all driving laws?

Why wait? https://www.wired.com/2016/12/ubers-self-driving-car-ran-red...
Investigators recommend extending search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370
By 'background check' I mean a process that the local govt. believes is necessary based on experience and past incidents, not something that someone at Uber came up with randomly.

"News of assaults by ride-hailing drivers has been a frequent occurrence. Reports of rape, battery and harassment have grabbed headlines in California, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Washington, Florida and many other states. While some of these drivers have clean criminal histories, others had prior convictions that Uber and Lyft's background checks didn't find."

https://www.cnet.com/news/california-law-tightens-background...
Not to sound rude but someone who's that short on cash might be better off going by public transit, walking, or using a bicycle.
There are many lithium chemistries, and variations within chemistries.

My Nissan has over 30% loss after four and a half years. They clearly use lithium ion/polymer, the lightest but least durable chemistry.

Meanwhile, I have a lithium ferrous phosphate battery pack for a robot that has lost very little capacity over the same time.

It's pretty clear that different manufacturers use different design margins already.
It's funny how you call me disingenuous when you selectively engage with my arguments and repeatedly assert that Tesla is profitable when it hasn't been profitable for a single year in the entire company's existence.

Tesla has 1/6th the market cap of Toyota but produces a tiny fraction of the cars. Tesla is exactly like other silicon valley startups in that they could have been profitable if they had chosen a different business model, but now they need to grow massively or they'll become insolvent. That's what I mean when I say they haven't hit scale yet.

Will Tesla actually deliver 100,000 Model 3 cars in 2017 as promised? I'm skeptical to say the least, but if anybody can do it it's Musk.
Uber was already doing background checks in Austin. They quit in protest of a requirement that drivers be fingerprinted and forced to drive around with Uber decals on their cars.
> Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Why isn't this taught in the MBA courses? Why isn't this common sense?

Hey, you're welcome ;).

People are weird. Confusing. Illogical. Communication is hard, management is hard, and emotional intelligence is perhaps not as high up on people's bucket lists of virtues to aspire to as one might hope.

Personally, it wasn't until I got to see the difference between extremes of good vs bad management first hand, and in depth (for me, this was heavy involvement in several project's schedules), that I was able to really pick apart the differences between the two, and pick up on the relatively subtle differences in surface level behavior, and trace that all the way back to the more fundamentally different modes of operation.

> They want to RULE and they hate the idea that their subordinates can dictate the pace and the format of the work, and they want "to get back at the nerds" <-- and this is actual overheard conversation between two managers in one of my former jobs.

Ooof, my sympathies. I'd hope they were being sarcastic, but that's perhaps more the power of denial than anything else.

I've seen a borderline case or two. I've also seen plenty of people between a rock and a hard place, and a few layoffs from the resulting collisions.
Authors please heed the above warning. You are entering an extremely competitive, challenging marketplace and opting to play on "hard mode" for limited benefit. Worse you're doing it with your first project. You should focus on becoming an expert with vanilla Unity and shipping as many titles as quickly as possible.
If they're all from the same IP address, it seems likely that it's a compromised machine.
Since when do hackers bleat about obeying laws and regulations? What happened to having a "we can do better" mindset? Has everybody wigged out and flipped their "I want a nanny state to protect me 24/7" bit?

Hacker News is fairly progressive/authoritarian. The kind of attitude you describe can still be found on slashdot.
You probably haven't used a debit card to purchase gas.
There weren't any taxis before in SF.

"It's faster than the fucking taxis... of which there are five."
Thanks. He seems interesting.
Isn't it somewhat reasonable question, given the relatively recent advent of TensorFlow, compared to ML curricula? The stress is on, why don't we learn TensorFlow / Caffe / etc.
From the article:

> Even in the U.S., Uber's home market, the company continues to lose money. After turning a slight profit in the in the first quarter of this year, Uber lost $100 million in the U.S. in the second quarter. The loss increased in the third quarter, the person said.

I thought that they'd turned the corner in the US too, but go figure. I guess the claim that Travis makes about driverless cars relates to their profit margin as much as it does to their long term competitive advantage [0]:

> Developing an autonomous vehicle, he adds, “is basically existential for us.”

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-fi...
I think a meat thermometer is the best kitchen tool you can own, but folks should be advised that the "safe minimum" temperatures are (understandably) very conservative. The recommended 145 for pork, for example, is done. Anything higher will be overcooked and dry.
The difficulty of enforcing the law is actually a useful part of our overall system because it provides a check-and-balance against the overeager enforcement of bad laws. Imagine a world where ubiquitous automated cameras sent you a ticket every time you jaywalked, or if your car automatically reported you every time you exceeded the speed limit. Yes, it becomes annoying when criminals get away with things they really should not be able to get away with (like the theft in this article) but even in situations like that there are grey areas, like stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family (not the case here, but it does happen). That the law does not get enforced with 100% efficiency can be a feature as long as you don't go too far towards the other extreme.
So what's "net revenue" in this context?

I always thought revenue was income before costs, and profit was revenue minus cost. Gross revenue would make sense as "total income", but net revenue doesn't make any sense to me. Clearly I'm missing something.

Can someone explain?
I thought it had something to do with the type of background check and what was included
It seems to me that he is hinting that the iMac will receive updates, but not the Mac Pro. This makes sense since the iMac form factor is large enough for multiple disks, probably a powerful GPU (cooling?), etc. My Dad loves his Pro, would like to update, and likely will be disappointed.
> I just want people to recognize that the outcomes business optimizes for are bottom line outcomes, not outcomes we would all agree are good.

Okay, yes, I agree with that completely!

> If you want to produce good results and don't care about making yourself or (more likely) your boss rich, you should absolutely adopt this philosophy.

"Think long term" and "always learn things" and "aim for high quality" seem like platitudes, not a methodology or a serious philosophy. What, specifically is the problem being solved here? Where is the evidence that what is said here has actually worked? What does this document say that will actually help me achieve high quality? What is it suggesting we engineers do that we aren't already doing?

I've never known an engineer in my life that didn't already think he or she was solving the longer term problems that others couldn't see or appreciate. One of the biggest problems we have in software is over-engineering.

Interesting argument that if I don't buy into this "manifesto", then I must not care about good outcomes or personal gain. I don't buy that, I don't believe Longflow provides me with the formula for either good outcomes or achieving personal gain or satisfaction. It claims to, but it delivers something else.

Purely from an engineering perspective, I don't believe that this Longflow essay offers me any practical steps to achieving high quality, and I do believe that it contains some very bad advice; avoiding regular communication with management and avoiding budget discussions will both result in poor quality software and a failure to achieve either personal satisfaction or career growth as an engineer, in my experience.