skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the article misses is that consumers drive startups like Seamless and Uber up the totem pole. Sure, some have more money than others, but clearly, if Seamless is succeeding then it must've hit a nerve.

I mean I don't live in NYC, but whenever I'm there, I honestly hate it. It feels like the biggest concentration of assholery in the entire US. And I'm not saying this like some hippie pot-smoking LA liberal (because I adore LA), but as a European that is used to the hustle and bustle of city life. I was born in a small European city where people greeted each other and the streets were busy, etc. I grew up in Romania in the late 80s/early 90s.. I'd prefer living in the dilapidated Eastern Bloc to living in New York. Unless I was Donald Trump or something, but that misses the point.

If people are riding in Ubers and if people are working for Uber, then, hey, maybe it's not such a terrible "soul-sucking" idea. I mean God knows I'm no Uber fanboy (I think their skirting of regulations and squeezing out markets is pretty dodgy at best), but maybe something needed to wake up the taxi companies and make cities take a serious look at their public transit systems.

Silicon Valley may not always be a beacon of hope and joy, but Uber and Seamless are hardly the problems. If the author argued against companies like Theranos, he'd have a much better argument imo.
That whole thing with the docker developer smugly wearing a name badge with 'I reject red hat patches' was just sad.
But the gov or FB or whoever already has your messages at that point.
I know that vim has the built in :grep command that does what you describe. The results are listed in the preview window and pressing enter will open the corresponding file and place the cursor at the desired line.
SpaceX succesfully deploys all satellites from today's launch
It would indeed be in the best interest of its users, but Apple has apparently decided that it would not be in its own best interest:

http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/

[…]

Anyway, the message is pretty obvious: Apple won’t ship anything that’s licensed under GPL v3 on OS X. Now, why is that?

There are two big changes in GPL v3. The first is that it explicitly prohibits patent lawsuits against people for actually using the GPL-licensed software you ship. The second is that it carefully prevents TiVoization, locking down hardware so that people can’t actually run the software they want.

So, which of those things are they planning for OS X, eh?

I’m also intrigued to see how far they are prepared to go with this. They already annoyed and inconvenienced a lot of people with the Samba and GCC removal. Having wooed so many developers to the Mac in the last decade, are they really prepared to throw away all that goodwill by shipping obsolete tools and making it a pain in the ass to upgrade them?
Even simpler, and handles the different new line characters:

$l = file('in.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
Who cares? The only relevant question is "Do their actions make the world a better place?" Or perhaps, "Are they improving these people's lives, or making them worse?" And yes, they are improving their lives, if only slightly. They are making the world a better place.

The people who claim to care about these poor people, have done nothing to help them. Their revealed preferences show they don't actually care at all. They just want to signal how virtuous and moral they are. The policies they support would actually make them poorer. And they know that and don't care.

It is the worst kind of hypocrisy, and I believe it's responsible for many of the world's problems.
What constitutes "rapid technological innovation" these days is just exceptionally bright people acting as middlemen to concentrate wealth into a new class of financiers. It's not structurally different from Wall St. UBI is just a story being peddled to keep the engineers on board because they're (right now) more moral and science fiction optimistic than their investment banker counterparts. Americans will gladly embrace (maybe have) authoritarianism before they'll abandon the just world fallacy of Capitalist individualism.
This is an article about the CEO of Lever and hiring practices at Lever. It's being posted on a forum about the technology industry. You're discussing it with people who hire people to be software engineers and not to be hairdressers or dock workers. I'm not interested in "discussing trends," I'm interested in actually doing the right thing for my company when I make hiring decisions. I assume so is the CEO of Lever. I want gender balance in every industry, but tech is the one I'm hiring in. I assume the CEO of Lever would be thrilled to see gender balance in every company, but there's only one company where she gets to make those decisions.

When you vote, do you make yourself as knowledgeable about the political problems of every other city and country in the world as with the political problems of your own city and country? Would you refuse to vote for a particular candidate who promises to do good things for your city and your country, but is silent on improving the lot of every other city and country?
I've donated plasma when I was really broke...only a couple of months ago. I would do it again except the phlebotomist perforated the vein in my left arm 6 or 7 times, digging around for what felt like an eternity. I'm a glutton for punishment but that definitely wasn't worth 40 bucks. I needed money for car parts though.

The really interesting thing about the plasma center is all the oddball characters you get to see. It's worth a visit just to experience the weird vibe.
You can change jobs on an H1B, if you're planning on working in the US it's probably your best option unless you can quality for an O1. I can tell you most people on an E2, an L1 or comparable visa would give their left arm to be on an H1B if they have any intent to stay in the US.
Sure, but surely they can make some sort of estimates, depending on quantities, typical economies of scale, etc. Of course, I don't know accurate they'd be in the end, but it shows they've thought about it in more detail than "oh yeah, it'll totally be cheaper later on."
People have "monologues" on IM all the time. I'm sure FB has the data from Messenger and WhatsApp, what the aggregate exposure in message volume is at any time. I do not have that data but I suspect it's "a lot".
OverDrive’s Steve Potash Moves to Block IDPF Merger with W3C
I don't think their business plan to sell things at a loss.

This is a young company with many great engineers and known for their efficiency
Haters gonna hate, man. It's fine to correct misinformation, but in the long run -- and whether they say so or not -- there's much greater respect earned in taking the high ground and not dragging oneself down into the muck of name-calling, ascribing malicious intent to others, and other ill behaviors.

If I were your counselor, I'd advise you to do nothing other than stick to the facts; make the best product you can; delight your customers; take pride in the great work you do; and apologize openly and honestly when you make avoidable mistakes. You can't make everyone happy, so focus on the people you can, and aim to exceed their expectations.
I just picked the $8 tier :) I advice you do the same :)
I'm not an expert, but IIRC a fast neutron reactor can change power levels very rapidly. The rate of change for a thermal reactor needs to be much lower.
> Walmart doesn't also have the ability to make buying the good from somewhere else inherently more difficult.

Yes they can and do regularly. The extreme example is of course an exclusive contract where the vendor agrees to make it impossible to buy the good elsewhere.
What's wrong with selling your blood? To me it seems like selling your time is a far more personal, unrecoverable injustice. And most people just call that 'work'.

If you want to make it out like these people are being 'exploited', then you can make the case just the same that all property is exploitation. Railing against poor people donating blood plasma, or organs for that matter, is profoundly misguided.
I tend to link to this too much, but see Hyper-Reality.[1] Augmented reality for the job monkey, out of Medellin, Colombia. After viewing that, read Marshall Brain's "Manna", if you haven't already. Then visualize the two linked together.

The killer app for augmented reality may be the bossing around of humans by computers.

[1] https://vimeo.com/166807261
[2] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
I do not disagree and am not aware of any other significant disclosures from Manning's data. However, the families of the victims deserved to know and the FOIA tequest was nefariously(IMO) denied. Stats don't tell the whole story.
Is it irony that, if this comes to pass, the government will use that money, made on the backs of mostly poor people in the USA, to drop bombs on mostly poor people on the other side of the world?
Personally, I don't think that's "good." I remember fondly Tim Cook's response to an activist investor about why they support environmentally sound policies:

"When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI,” Cook said, adding that the same sentiment applied to environmental and health and safety issues. [1]

Personally, I think there's a higher system of value than corporate profits and share price. But that's a first principle argument. Conveniently, I happen to believe that purely shareholder-value-maximizing behavior rarely fails to build long term value, so I'm having my philosophical cake and eating it, too. But when push comes to shove, we do things for reasons beyond profit. It's pretty hollow otherwise.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook...
But you are aware that python2 has not only bytestrings but also what you call "text"? That these are different types and there are implicit conversions between them?

$ python2
>>> len('ä'), 'ä'[0]
2, \xc3
>>> len(u'ä'), u'ä'[0]
1, \xe4
>>> 'ä' == u'ä'
True

I think it's obvious that there are different levels of looking at the data that we have to deal with. If the implementors feel that the best way to enable different levels is having different representations, so be it. Note that it doesn't require twice the amount of memory if you stream the data.
You can't prove whether or not it was intentional. Marketing speak can spin this as a convenience for the user. It's still a backdoor until they fix this.

I don't believe Moxie has the actual insight into Facebook's true intentions with the Whatsapp platform. He may believe their intentions are honest, but he's just a cog in their wheel.

If he honestly believed Whatsapp was sufficiently secure why would he bother with Signal?
From Moxie's response in another thread:

[...] a fact of life is that the majority of users will probably not verify keys. That is our reality. Given that reality, the most important thing is to design your product so that the server has no knowledge of who has verified keys or who has enabled a setting to see key change notifications. That way the server has no knowledge of who it can MITM without getting caught. I've been impressed with the level of care that WhatsApp has given to that requirement.
I think we should all remain open to ideas about how we can improve this UX within the limits a mass market product has to operate within, but that's very different from labeling this a "backdoor."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900
it's the economy, stupid.

normal people have so little income that working multiple jobs to get by is mainstream.

this is a bad thing. it means that the people of our country are poor. defend it however you want.
Not everybody is struggling out there... tech has some of the highest salaries for any industry. It is workers that are not in tech like traditional taxi drivers which are losing out badly to these innovations.
Cool. I just went with the $8 tier. Go go GIMP!
> That's usually when I'll suspend and then use the command line.

That's when I run !bash, enter my list of commands, then exit.
I think it's possible that that's true, but am uncertain: the claim depends on formal methods for software construction that defy decompilation. But the higher-level the tools used for building software, the more effective decompilation tends to be. I also don't think we're even close to the apex of what decompilation (even of the clumsy, lossy compiled languages we have today) will be able to do.

So, it's an interesting question, and one I have much less of a strong opinion on.

If you can't tell, my real issue here is the idea that closed-source software is somehow unknowable. I know you're not claiming that it is. But I think if you look over these threads, you'll see that they tend to begin with people who do believe that, or claim to.
Sounds good! Reach out anytime.
Where I am you can donate twice a week and usually takes an hour, during busier times it might take 1.5 hours depending on a short wait and how quickly you cycle (the more hydrated you are the faster it can go and your weight determines how much you will have to donate). First donation of the week they pay $20, second time is $50. That's $70 a week, $280 a month. I donate. I don't need to but why not get paid to read?
Workouts with fewer reps could yield better results
PAC: A political action committee (PAC) is a type of organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation

Tech companies have been annoyingly left for a very long time. I'd like to see more parity. It becomes annoying to have people make questionable political statements (especially HR) and not have the ability to speak up without being called names.
Well, I would expect those mostly in military / govt satellites (even those with more benign overt goals such as the GPS constellation). Sounds a bit less likely that they would sneak military hardware (specially weapons) on comercial satellites owned by a private corporation (i.e. Iridium Communications) and likely not designed to function in an adversarial environment. I mean, it is a VA based company, so it is possible, but would not be my first bet. Lacking ground tracking when the satellites are deployed almost a half-orbit away from the launch site seems perfectly plausible to me.
If someone wants to fight the "unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology", then certainly shutting up is a bad strategy. The reasons for making noise about this given in the article are not personal, but ideological. Presumably, it works as intended if it feels annoying.
Well, vibration of the barge wouldn't have been a problem this time as there was no view from the barge during the landing (only after). But I had the same thought regarding the launch profile to be much easier to track. GTO launches from the East coast are about 600 km off the coast. This time the drone ship was about 370 km away from the launch site, and also much closer to land in general.

We'll see how it'll be for the Echostar 23 launch (and landing).
Oddly enough, it's on tech-oriented sites like this one that I hear the most chatter about universal basic income or post-work societies, and grappling with the very disruptions of the social fabric that tech development creates.

Perhaps this shift is partly a seismic realignment; traditional left-right divides don't fit as comfortably as they used to, as issues move faster than constituencies and demographics.

Or maybe just corporations, like people, get more conservative when they're richer. Possibly out of cynical self-interest.
Watching the broadcast, it appeared that they launched _westward_ off the coast of California. That seems very weird to me, since my understanding is that you can use the not-insignificant rotation of the earth as "free energy" to achieve orbital speed.

Did they launch westward? Why?
Paint.NET is great for Windows users that want more than MS Paint and for whom Photoshop is too expensive and Gimp is too complicated. But alas, this thread is not about Gimp alternatives.
> I think it's going to be extremely hard to prove that either customers or developers suffer because of the monopoly.

Not having any options other than a webview for web browsing is certainly damage enough particularly with zero day exploits.
> We started with interpreted languages with fast feedback loops and then "real" software engineers got into the game and turned all these interpreted languages with fast feedback loops into "compiled" messes with nightmarish debugging experiences.

Interpreted languages suck at performance, maintainability, productivity and readability. Don't try to romanticize the web-thrash industry.
JavaScript library for generating HTML code dynamically
They're in a weak position long term because they don't have a cohesive strategy. It's a shotgun approach of trying many diverse offerings and hoping something will take off. The problem with this is lack of focus, not being able to rally the company around a singular mission.

If you look at all of their businesses most are either low margin or undifferentiated or both.

They have a big asset tied up in their patent portfolio. They need to make use of it, either defensively i.e. enter a western market, or as a platform to focus more of their efforts around fewer initiatives and become truly great at something that makes money. It's hard to be innovative at many things at once.
If it were cash, this article would be about cigarettes and alcohol.
For some real speed the Extreme-G series always made me happy, the audio ducks when you break the sound barrier, I love that.

Difficult control and the "battle mode" multiplayer is garbage, also lacks the character of F-Zero series but a very pretty and enjoyable game with lots of variety in the tracks.
Ask HN: What are some good (fiction/non-fiction) books about human progress?
Everything is said in the title, however if you'd please include why you have chosen that (those?) book it would be a really nice addition!
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nearly-all-of-silicon-v...

http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-donors-favor-h...

Here is what Paul Graham and Sam Altman had donated to:
https://blog.dcpos.ch/silicon-valley-political-contributions
Yea, maybe we can get more guys to go full retard like the GrubHub CEO lol...

You got to be delusional to think Apple is helping the environment.
You can iterate over Grapheme clusters using the standard library: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.3.0/std/str/struct.Graphemes.htm...
You are claiming that JS libraries are crap but then you like clones of Angular, React, etc but in a different language? You don't have to like JS, but it seems to me that you answered your own question: "Mind naming some great libraries?"
That is certainly not the case. Renewables are solved. Storage is not. Until that problem is fixed 24/7 generation sources will still be needed.
Wow, yes! And someone is actually offering codec2 audio files: https://lowbitnet.wordpress.com/audio-books/
> full retard

Stop that.
It was intentional, they've thought about it.

Yes, of course it is clearly less secure than Signal. It's an UI tradeoff given the reality that the vast majority of the billion+ WhatsApp users will not verify key fingerprints ("security number", I believe, in Signal speak) out of band.

Again, let me quote Moxie from the other thread:
"Given that reality, the most important thing is to design your product so that the server has no knowledge of who has verified keys or who has enabled a setting to see key change notifications. That way the server has no knowledge of who it can MITM without getting caught. I've been impressed with the level of care that WhatsApp has given to that requirement."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900

The point is, if you need the extra security, use Signal, Threema. But if you want to get good crypto in the hands of billions, make it simple and invisible. That's what they've aimed for, and achieved.
It's always seemed a little ironic to me that literacy rates have been on the rise at the same time that human communication in general appears to be moving away from the written form (UIs with indecipherable pictograms instead of text, ads, the whole "tl;dr" culture, etc.)
The data you link to shows that the top 5% income people pay 58.55% of all taxes, while the the top 50% pay 97.22%, as you indicated.

So as a simple-language summary we might all agree that the rich pay a majority of the taxes, while the richer half of the country pays nearly all the taxes.
I still disagree with both lucideer's original and improved wording, but I agree with their message, which praises Opera's basic auth UI as making it clear with the borders and 3D foreground overlay effect that it's a part of the browser-produced "trusted zone", and not the pool of untrusted content behind.

Moreover, these kinds of UIs are still possible with the 'flat' look that's in vogue today, so there's little excuse why others choose not to do it. Perhaps one reason is that basic auth lost out early on to site-supplied login forms, so people got used to entering usernames and passwords into the page content anyway, instead of the browser UI.

For the most part, basic auth only tends to affect uses like intranet sites, router login pages, web services, remote management pages -- settings where phishing can still cause (serious) damage, so a harder-to-fake UI would be beneficial nonetheless.
In this case it would have been barely possible to do a land landing, but the margin was much larger for a barge landing (since the stage doesn't have to return all the way to the launch site, which takes quite a bit of fuel). In the end it doesn't really matter, though. The cores that land on the barge just take a few days longer to return home.
How do you solve these problems?

1. I do not wish to consent to the contracts of your community. However, I was born here, and lack the resources to leave, or any goodwill that may assist me in doing so. Perhaps I am LGBT in the deep south.

2. Somebody is murdered. A person can be demonstrated to be the killer, but they do not consent to jailing or court.

3. Somebody is emitting carbon dioxide on their own property, as I suppose is their right. But the expanding sea is now trespassing on my island, flooding my property.

4. I buy up all the land surrounding your property, and erect a wall. I refuse to grant you passage onto my property (and thus, off of yours) unless you sign a contract agreeing to turn over to me a portion of all value you produce.
Well perhaps it was just a bug or edge-case, and WhatsApp is just "spinning" it as convenience. We could go back and forth all day.

Immediately jumping to backdoor and malicious intent for use by the Government is disingenuous and we don't know that to be factual. Yet the media and this YouTuber seems to be distributing that very message.
I'm hopeful the money will end up having to shore up social security or Medicare.
Not dial-up, but around 2004 you could find tutorials for how to unlock your (Verizon) Razr for USB access and OS X would recognize it as a PPP modem out of the box. I think an OTA update stopped it eventually.
Don't quote me on this but there's ofono, used by various incarnations of Meego/Mer/Sailfish etc.

In which case, yes, there should be a GTK+ or Qt frontend.
That's assuming a 1.5s reaction time. Surely that's quite slow and accounts for the bulk of the difference.
I have found a much worse case in mobile apps. I do not have Facebook App installed, so I get a prompt from some apps when I try to auth through facebook in-app to login into facebook, which could be totally fake.
Does anyone know if you could apply for permanent residency while on this visa?
I've never heard the term "line of death" used to describe this before, but this concept is exactly why I've sadly convinced myself that fully chromeless browsers are a bad idea. Unless there were some sort of spoofless hardware indicator that a given UI element was being displayed by the browser, I suppose... but that sort of defeats the purpose.