skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes targeted attacks more difficult because you have to compromise all of your users rather than offer a different download to one.
Because not everyone uses their real name on Facebook, especially in a Middle Eastern country, I would imagine. And Facebook isn't just for your family and real friends anymore (and hasn't been for years).
> I was happy paying $25 for an uber to the airport rather than $30 for a cab, but now it's something like $14

You were happy paying $25, but they wanted more costumers, even the ones who just want to pay 15.
How is it possible to get to profit with the subsidies?
They have written and released a new client at the end of 2016. They use HTML, JavaScript and C++.

More info: https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/architecture-league-c...
My mother still calls it Fox Fire and Newegg, "Egghead", although I think it's mostly to annoy me. It doesn't though, but I let her think it does because it's funny.
Any larger car company is a competitor at the same scale. And you don't even need a competitor of the same scale: It's enough if every city has a local competitor.
Veil of ignorance. There's a significant part of the upper end (wealth wise) of the population that like our classist society just the way it is, or maybe that it should be more classist. Everything should be a rent, there should be no public lands, everything is to be exploited, and if you're on the short end of the stick it's merely unfair, not a wrong or a failure of society. Or the more extreme versions of this, higher class folk have better money, better ideas, better genes, make and sell better things. They are better than others. Democracy and socialism are threats to these notions.
I think there's an aspect of democracy, too: so rather than using process as a way to control people from above, you are all working together as a team. Process naturally moves into the background because you trust each other to all be working towards the same goal.
Just wanted to say sorry that you had a bad experience. Would you mind if I asked when you applied and went through the process? I'm curious whether your experience was a recent bad one.
I don't think so. They just released a new client (might still be in beta, I have not logged in for months).
> 250% surge pricing or $90. Lemme check Lyft. Sweet, Lyft is about $50. Our Lyft will be here in 3 minutes." There was zero friction switching from Uber to Lyft.

That's not zero friction.

Zero friction would be if you routed the directions under "Public Transit" in Google Maps and scrolled to the bottom where you can see both Lyft and Uber pricing (and clickable links) next to each other.
Debt The First 5,000 Years

It's the most influential non-fiction book I've ever read.
As far as war chest goes, Uber basically has no competition. As far as their routing and vehicle management algorithms go, there already exist companies with more sophisticated routing systems than Uber. Uber's routing algorithm is basically nearest neighbor search at a massive scale - which is perfect for the on-demand nature of their business; the companies that I'm referring to can support on-demand routing as well as scheduling rides days and weeks in advance.

More knowledge of future rides -> better optimization -> better margins.

Once self-driving cars finally come around, it's going to come down to fleet size and routing optimization, and while Uber can win in the first category, there's no guarantee they can win in the second category.
Big fan of Hot Functions. Doest this utilize lamda like code format?
That's a good point. I didn't realize that it was also introduced into 2.7 at the same time.
Is anyone going to talk about what this means for Python and Django? I read the first 30-40 comments and they are all about off topic stuff related to Django, but still the core premise is the committed move to Python 3.x going forward.

What do people think of that?! I'm a newer dev and I'd really really love to hear what people think of that and what it means for the future rather than side conversations about how bad their API is, how good it is, how good their Docs are and how bad they are.... Blah blah.

Please!! This community is filled with some of the most brilliant minds and I for one don't want to miss out on this chance to hear what people think of this change.

Please please don't reply that you disagree with my POV. That's irrelevant, but please do if you are interested in the initial topic. I'd be be very excited to hear your thoughts.

So Django moving to Python 3.X
Go :)
Actually, that review just underscores a problem I have with modern design, which is a focus on aesthetic elegance and cleverness over real usability concerns.

I love design, so I'm not meaning to bash design per se, but every field has its problems. With design, it's a lack of attention to usability as a scientific, empirical, psychological, cognitive, physiological sort of issue. There's too much of a focus on cleverness and theorized or actual aesthetics over real usability.

Design sits at this funny intersection of art and science, and it seems like too often the former is emphasized over the latter.

This design is a perfect example of this, and the review reinforces it. Where's the discussion of usability and confusion? When did they reach out to naive users and pose real-world use tasks involving the logo redesign? When did the review discuss this?

The logo redesign is great unless you acknowledge that it co-opts symbols that have real meaning and can be ambiguous in that regard. Mozilla was well-intended but failed.

To me, this whole discussion is a perfect example of the foibles of the design world.
To each his own. I find DOTA (a MOBA) extremely entertaining. Far from repetitive. There are so many heroes with so many different dynamics that can arise from one game to the next.

I don't really consider it a grind at all. MMPORGs are where the true grinding occurs.
Then why is poverty concentrated geographically in inner-cities and rural areas instead of evenly spread out? Obviously location and environment affect opportunity, including the perception that breaking out of poverty is even possible to begin with.
Yes, it's using the gnome-keyring which requires unlocking. How is this less secure than using LastPass or KeePass?
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And the new musical protocol:
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TFA and a lot of commenters here don't seem to understand that Uber doesn't want to compete with taxi services, which are a niche business to be disrupted en route to the real prize. It wants to compete with your car - imagine 12 lanes of L.A. traffic composed mostly of Ubers. That's their dream. They even admit this in public. [0]

The day they can get cost per mile one penny below what you'd spend owning a Toyota Camry, they'll open up the biggest transport market ever created (the intentionally-inefficient American built environment). They're taking all this VC money and expanding so aggressively not because they like the scale, but rather because that's the only way to compete with private car ownership.

[0] https://twitter.com/travisk/status/564065776005808128
The commercial airline industry has lost money over the whole of its existence.

That is clearly not true. See, for example: http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2016-12-08-01.aspx

If I'm flying from NYC to DAL, I'm flying the cheapest carrier (with a slight nod to Frequent Flyer programs).

It's true that many people bargain hunt, but the people that don't (primarily business people who need to fly on short notice and on fixed schedules) subsidize lower fares for those who do.

At the moment, it is the investors who are subsidizing lower fares at Uber and Lyft, to the tune of billions of dollars per year. You're right about the autonomous cars. At this rate, Uber will run out of money before autonomous cars can save it. And even if they do, Uber will be a low margin business.
Yup. The next level down of detail would be "using technology or best practices from the tech industry."
No moat? Do you think brand recognition is worthless or I'm missing something? They have a large user base (I presume) already. I'm not sure one could build one from scratch just like that. It would need a big player to enter the game.
I don't see how any of that makes it matter. Given that timeline, what difference does it make whether 6 is a coincidence or written by Mr. Spearrin?
Here's a table of Uber's funding rounds.[1] What's keeping Uber going is Saudi Arabia's sovereign-wealth fund, which put in $3.5 billion last summer. They also took on $1.15 billion in debt last year. That's real debt at 5% interest, not some convertible deal.

Bloomberg says Uber is losing $800 million per quarter.[2] Unless they can find a bigger sucker than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, they run out of money in 2018.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding-rounds
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-lo...
This is a problem in every society, and must be addressed in a different way. If the role of government is to provide its children with a fundamental understanding of themselves and how to manage their individual motivations, perhaps the resulting adults will be better equipped to rise above their parents' shortcomings? Strong family and team dynamics will pull how healthier people live into stronger contrast in such a situation.
TBH blz neglects war3 because they are riding the wow cash cow.

War3 has always had a healthy community. In China war3 community was the pincle of any gaming community in history.

Blz stops releasing balancing patch after 1.23, not sure exactly. Then the games all become identical. The players dwindles. Most go to war3 DotA. Even then blz had a chance to capture the next big thing in their ecosystem. They neglected it.

War3 has been a total disappointment for me personally. War3 game is way more entertaining imho. Blz really advanced the state of art of RTS by mixing traditional RTS with RPG elements (I bet it's not blz invented). The graphics shows a good presentation appealing to showing to large crowd.

Sadly they squandered the golden opportunity...
Seems pretty clear to me...

https://mail.protonmail.com/create/new
They rewrote Trident to be Webkit-compatible (EdgeHTML). It's technically a fork of Trident but lacking most of things that made IE bad, "is IE" is completely wrong. Chrome and Chromium share a layout engine.
From ignorance, why would I (a non-interesting person in a nominally free country, with non-interesting interests that could nevertheless become interesting depending on political shifts and shit) want to use this hidden service, rather than plain old ProtonMail?
Any plans to force IPv6 adoption in the same manner?
Let me answer with a question: why are you asking HN instead of a lawyer?
We need better-quality studies to draw conclusions about causality. A correlation is just a correlation.

I didn't read the original study, so I don't know if it drew unwarranted conclusions about causality, but the Science Bulletin article certainly implied them.
Yep, that's exactly one of the points I was trying to make.
How? The logo image request goes to google.com then, and not Lastpass, right?
Great point, which hits on the problem of trying to extrapolate from anecdote. In retrospect, I should have clarified more so others can see if their circumstances approximated my own, and if they could then draw similar conclusions (full well recognizing the reliance upon anecdotal evidence to begin with).
I don't think Uber necessarily needs a monopoly to win, if Lyft wants to compete on price it's free to due so, but if Uber has thin margins as it is, undercutting them is just a shortcut to death.

I might be unreasonably optimistic about self-driving cars, but it is important to note that the rollout will accelerate itself. The more SDCs on the road, the safer they'll be, and the more data they'll gather. On the legislation side, my sense is that once one company bears the brunt of the legal pushback, the rest will have a relatively easy time.

Not that BI has a crystal ball, but their prediction seems at least somewhat reasonable. [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/report-10-million-self-drivin...
I guess I don't see the point of using Tor with Facebook. So much of your identity is already tracked. It's like trying to sneak up on somebody while wearing those squeaky clown shoes.
Well yes, income inequality at a particular university is not interesting because the paper concludes that upward mobility is a better metric to identify schools that should be expanded. I see comments below about capitalism, supply/demand, luxury cars, tuition, affirmative action, banning private/for-profit schools, and social status. Some of those are totally irrelevant, and the relevant ones ought to be in the context of how they relate to access to high mobility schools.

There are accompanying NYT articles, and I agree that it's fair to jump off from the research. I believe the discussion needs to incorporate the conclusions from the paper into that new direction.
When Uber is put up to the same scrutiny as taxi companies are (to ensure their drivers are up to the same standard), they refuse to compete and instead of paying the same tax everyone else does and abiding by the same regulations everyone else does, they just leave the market.

Don't misunderstand me, taxi service in my country is horrible, they're useless and rude and service is generally bad, but just because that's the situation, we should try and improve that, instead of allowing companies like Uber to exploit the situation.

I have to agree with this. Uber is its own biggest enemy. Market regulation comes along with it. This is the real danger for them, for now. At least here in Europe.
Tracking purchases requires time and skill, both of which are often lacking in the poorest. Rich would hire a person to do it. (and also to game the system)
Introducing Electron to the Windows Runtime
> You could report it to their commander. If they don't listen, then report it to their commander, and so on.

Sounds like a great way to get retaliated against.
Agree, I think the title is more about marketing the book than accurately describing the content. That said I think there are a lot of people (me included sometimes) who make interesting things without thinking carefully about what the user really wants to achieve... so the book has some value.
Become a producer of knowledge rather than just a consumer. When you create new knowledge, you synthesize what is already known and thus learn with a purpose (vs. being passive). Alternatively, solve a problem. When you identify a problem that you want to solve you will retain and apply related learning better than if you are simply reading or listening.
Technically you are correct, but you are just nitpicking. We understood exactly what he meant.
Tesla comes off extremely well in this report. For one thing, the 40% statistic cited in the headline appears to be well supported by the NHTSA report (section 5.4) and actually manages to frame the incident in a very positive light:

ODI analyzed mileage and airbag deployment data supplied by Tesla for all MY 2014 through 2016 Model S and 2016 Model X vehicles equipped with the Autopilot Technology Package, either installed in the vehicle when sold or through an OTA update, to calculate crash rates by miles travelled prior to and after Autopilot installation. Figure 11 shows the rates calculated by ODI for airbag deployment crashes in the subject Tesla vehicles before and after Autosteer installation. The data show that the Tesla vehicles crash rate dropped by almost 40 percent after Autosteer installation.

I had hoped to see more information about this specific incident. For instance, any data on whether the driver had his hands on the wheel, what steps the car had taken to prompt his attention, etc. But that doesn't seem to be included.
A lot of people are coming up on the end of their one or two year terms, so we'll be managing that transition. I will say that to the degree the next administration is interesting in modernizing technology in the government, there's a ton of great work that can be done. I believe there's a solid interest in that.
Kali Linux certification, first official Kali book on the horizon
Women in the 2016 Stack Overflow Survey
I took a few courses of astronomy at Helsinki university, but mostly I've studied on my own. I did watch Leonard Susskind's lectures on classical mechanics but did not any online courses.

Check out my related project, it contains all the orbital mechanics you need to write your own Kerbal Space Program clone (look around in the branches):
https://github.com/rikusalminen/twobody
Really he is a skid? his aptitude at such a young age is very impressive to me.
> For Westerners, who may never have been to an Asian country prior to Japan's Olympics, to see a manji and mistake it for a Nazi symbol is perfectly reasonable, if that is the only context in which the symbol exists for them.

Well then it seems like the obvious answer is to expose oneself to all the contexts in which the swastika has been used throughout history. We do have the world wide web after all. It's the duty of the ignorant to reduce their ignorance not that of others to cater to it.
I don't find this surprising at all. I spent a summer program at ISU once and had plenty of friends that wound up going there. In the mid-90's, it was cheaper than both Indiana University and Purdue, with smaller class sizes - and they have a completely different focus it seemed. If I remember correctly, ISU seemed to cater towards lower income much more than Purdue ever did.
Rather than considering whether an 8% return is "reasonable" perhaps we should be considering whether distributing unearned income unequally is a good thing at all.
Antivirus companies cause a big headache to small developers
Given those constraints, you probably wouldn't. However, the moment your interests become interesting, or the political winds change...
I touched on this point in the post. If there's a significantly cheaper local competitor, most people will be happy to use that service when they're home. Then they'll use Uber (or some other globally operating competitor) while they travel.
> It's amazing how often someone finds an NP-Complete problem and doesn't even attempt to try and solve it.

Just out of curiosity, how are you coming across these? I've dabbled in integer programming with both Gurobi and SAS (once for hobby purposes, and twice to solve some pretty major problems for work). For some reason, I've found it to be some of the most enjoyable work I've done to date - perhaps because of the satisfaction of being able to say "this is (one of) the best possible solution(s) to this problem."

I'm constantly looking for new problems to play around with (particularly those with business applications), but I don't find too many. In fact, just yesterday, I was commuting home running through business models and trying to imagine likely unsolved problems where you'd be minimizing/maximizing something subject to constraints...
I would be nice to have links to the products.

Also the name is kind of weird :/, it looks like a porno site name.
Oracle acquires Apiary
This is fantastic news.

It wasn't that long ago that I tried to log into a government site via my SSN, and discovered that the page didn't even permit HTTPS. I was displeased, to say the least; logging in wasn't exactly optional, so it seemed much worse than a business offering poor security.

Permitting HTTPS is obviously the first step, but security shouldn't be limited to people with the expertise to seek it out. I'm really glad to see that something as inescapable as the .gov domain will be pursuing security-by-default.
From my experience most ethnic groups or countries have some quirky traditions and habits. Germans have weird/funny habits and beliefs, Austrians do, Hispanic people do and all other groups of people do. I have no problem with people asking me what's up with Germans running around naked in parks in Munich or how I feel about the Nazi time and I like to talk to Indians how crazy I think their traffic is or what the deal is with arranged marriage. To me that's showing respect because we treat each other like real people and not some fragile beings that are offended all the time.
That's what Yandex.Taxi (and also Gett) are doing in Russia, contracting cab dispatchers. This way, they hail you a real cab (that, for example, can drive in bus lanes) with your app.

I think they're also trying direct Uber-like scheme but I'm not sure about that.
Right, they're so elite that the mainstream hasn't really heard of them. But, if you were to wander onto the executive floor at Goldman Sachs or a top law firm, I guarantee you'd see their banners hanging in the offices.

These schools aren't elite because they attract the smartest students, they are elite because they attract the richest ones, who then have a leg up with their wealthy and well-placed alumni network.
$800 million / quarter = $103 / second. Wow.
That's discrimination based on culture, not on race, though.
7 software development shortcuts that will backfire
You know what, I did. Thanks for pointing that out! >_<

I would delete my original comment but it looks like I can't.
Same here. The odd thing is, I'm usually pretty good at rote memorization, but the multiplication tables just didn't interest me or something. So, like you, I use a "multiply then add" strategy to multiply anything I don't have memorized. And it's never seemed to affect my ability accomplish anything.
The idea that success is based on effort is fundamentally... wrong. For every famous singer, there are thousands of other people putting in years of effort who cannot even earn a salary. For every Facebook, there are thousands of other products or companies who have put in heaps of effort but just didn't have the right timing, or that special something, that let Facebook take off.

For every well thought out or engineered piece of software, there's a more successful one that did the minimal work necessary to get their barely working code to market.

And we can easily find counterexamples on the other side, wealthy or successful people who needed very little effort and simply chose the right product, the right timing, were born to the right family.

I might even go so far as to say that in the Real World, and not some libertarian utopia, that effort is irrelevant (or orthogonal) to success.
But whether someone is a native speaker is a trait that someone can legally and rightfully discriminate over. It's perfectly reasonable to reject someone if you think their English skills aren't sufficiently good. It's not reasonable or legal to reject them just because they were born in a different country.
For those who don't want to signup to Scribd just to download a publicly available PDF: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2016/INCLA-PE16007-7876.PDF
My favorite sign for native English speakers is "could of" instead of "could have"/"could've".

I have never witnessed that mistake with non native English speakers.
The problem is that there's nothing unambiguously non-typographic about the design. If they had distorted the symbols so much that they were outside the realm of normal unicode characters, sure. But anyone with that font could reconstruct the logo.

Stuff like this works when the glyphs are recognizable enough, but when the design is such that you simultaneously know that it is not to be interpreted literally. It fails here because the latter isn't clear.

So in this case it is typography. That's the problem.
I would expect that the number of anything (including alcohol stores) would correlate with population size, no?
IPv6 is pretty low priority compared to comprehensive HTTPS support.

Disclaimer: Not USDS/18F, just tech professional.