skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a certain (supposed) billionaire who wants a big wall. Not quite as inspiring to me personally, but, well, tastes vary, I guess.

Also, he's planning to spend your money on it, not his.
That's one of the reasons I gave up on Clojure, though I think it could be a good option if you're coming from the Java world.
> The goal of HTTP error responses is to say that something went wrong in the transport layer.

Huh? What networking model are you working on?

HTTP is application layer.

TCP is transport layer.

IP is internet layer.

Ethernet is network layer.
Which are also a couple orders of magnitude fewer in number than music-listeners.

Nonzero to be sure, but nothing like the numbers they're used to in free, ad-supported products.
Hmm, what word means it unambiguously?
> Toyota's profits are real. GM's profits are real. BMW's profits are real. Tesla's profits might be great in the future - and that risk means the potential profits are worth less than actual profits.

You have this exactly backwards. For instance, you could have made the exact same argument about Walmart versus Amazon. What you're missing is that the investments that Tesla is making, which hurt short-term profitability, literally create new lines of business that power future revenue streams. The fact that car manufacturers are hoarding profits and failing to invest in the future is precisely why they are overvalued.
Not really because you choose foods that are calorie-dense (i.e. foods without water weight, and fatty foods).

3000-4000 calories per trail day was typical during my 1,900 PCT miles. I never had to restrict intake due to weight concerns. Also binged on burgers and ice cream at every opportunity in town.

This is what one of my larger resupplies looked like, 31,750 calories for a 7-day stretch:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmartinpct/14501624495/in/phot...

I gained 5 pounds overall, but started in decent shape without much to lose (125 lbs).
Snowflake Strings: string literals and the D compiler
I also prefer putting the version in URL. I find it to be practical and easy way to version your API. I've also been told that it's not the right way to do it.
actually it's the drivers that add all the value, the devs are the folks that enable the cheating. Susan Fowler was responsible for keeping the trains running on time.
Josh Eppard Talks New Weerd Science and Coheed Tour
As you may be know, CIA/JSOC statements about the people they kill are often complete fabrications. For example, for years they classified any military-age male killed in a drone strike as a combatant. This included even if the the CIA/JSOC did not have any evidence of what violent acts the men had committed or planned, did not know their names, or did not even know how many "combatants" had been killed in a strike. The victims of these strikes are sometimes just drinking tea, attending weddings or funerals, or even attempting to provide medical aid to victims of a drone strike minutes or hours before.
The conditions of a race are very different from a thru-hike done for enjoyment. I got the best sleep of my life on the PCT. 8-9 solid hours each night (sometimes I would wake up to eat), and an hour nap after lunch every day.
Virginia Supreme Court Should Protect Drivers from License Plate Surveillance
I think most people here are defending "web ads qua web ads" (i.e. a picture in a box on a page that doesn't track you or start dancing around your screen), not the realities of most web advertising today. I think it's sad that business models that are based on non-intrusive web ads are becoming increasingly infeasible, but I certainly don't blame users for the current state of affairs.
Tesla is a $45B company right now.

Perhaps that sounds like a lot. But consider that Uber is valued at $68B.
EFF to Appeals Court: Protect Software Interoperability
I read that too but I hope they know the difference between APM and EPM. Pros spam APM that they could never do real actions on but their EPM is considerably lower (if the bots make actions based on pros APM they will have an insurmountable advantage).
" Occasionally, problematic managers who were the subject of numerous complaints were shuffled around different regions; firings were less common."

Same strategy exhibited by certain religious organizations. Problematic individuals were transferred to developing countries or disenfranchised communities where more distinct power imbalances enable the crimes to go unpunished.
Recover Contacts, Messages, Call Logs from Android Lyf Water/Wind/Flame/Earth
So the question is: at what point does this kind of long-term exercise turn from beneficial to burnout/overtraining?

https://www.outsideonline.com/1986361/running-empty

And can you reliably predict it beforehand?

Having suffered from burnout/CFS, I would be very careful about doing something like this, and I'd be on the lookout for early warning signs such as elevated heart-rate, anxiety/depression, excessive fatigue/pain, oversleeping/insomnia, etc.
How does one get started doing this kind of thing? Ever since moving to the US, and specifically to the PNW, I've been wanting to hike, but I don't know where to start. People here seem to grow up used to it, but I don't know what equipment I need, what food to bring, how to get to the trails (do I drive? what if there's no parking?), etc.
> So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing.

"Fun" fact: I register on sites with addresses like "address-suffix@domain", with a different suffix for different sites. I won't name names, but I now receive viagra-level spam to several of them, which reasonable people would expect to be able to trust. haveibeenpwned.com confirms that one of them, off the top of my head, was part of a breach.
Seconded, but in NY here.
The impact would have to be absolutely massive to cause enough damage to the Earth that it is less liveable than Mars.

To compare, the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event created an Earth still more liveable than Mars. Even if we go way back in time, to when there was no land-life on Earth and a poorly oxygenated atmosphere, the Earth is still better off than Mars for supporting human life.

If the goal is to save the human race, then it'd be better to have a few high orbit or lunar habitats, then if something wipes out the majority of civilisation on Earth, we immediately begin recolonisation of our home planet.
Actually, the article explicitly calls out that step as one potential "great filter". It also (click the link) lists the theoretical ways it could be accomplished.

It seems to leave out the Von Neumann Probe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

This is not exactly colonization but possibly an easier step. Either way, the point is that if either we or our machines can get to another star system and repeat the process from there, exponential growth means it pretty much doesn't even matter how long it takes. In astronomical time, we'd cover the galaxy in the blink of an eye.
"Proprietary software generally leaves society worse off than if that same software were free and open source. In that sense, it is some evil thing."

No, it does not.
Found Internal Apple Memos about Copy Protection for Apple II, SARA, LISA
I used CreateSpace for a hardback book seven years ago (LaTeX → PDF), and it came out very, very nice. Absolutely no complaints.

Was your experience with their paperbacks or hardbacks?
It's much more militaristic than before 9/11. In the U.S., the military now is glorified, as is war and violence.

* Despite the military's lack of success in Afghanistan and extreme recklessness and failure in Iraq, the public trusts the military more than most other institutions.

* Politicians must say 'the greatest military in the world'; the military is glorified at sporting events and elsewhere. I attended a small college's graduation in a rural area. A few students were ROTC members;[0] the audience gave them a standing ovation for several minutes; no other graduates received anything like it.

* Politicians on the right, and to some extent the left, must openly demonstrate hyper-aggression and an embrace of war and violence in foreign policy. Diplomacy is mocked by some (and Trump is neutering the State Department). When is the last time you heard a U.S. politician mention "peace" as a goal and priority, or speak of the horrors of war?

* Trump has appointed members of the military as Secretary of Defense (which hasn't happened since WWII), Homeland Security, and as National Security Advisor. All are almost always civilian jobs, to maintain civilian control of the national security apparatus. Now people seek the military to run the government.

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[0] ROTC: Reserve Officers Training Corp: In return for scholarships, college students undergo military training in college and serve for a few years afterward (IIRC the details).
Can you tell me what other experience you have working with the web is and your experience with nodejs/express?
> It is odd they do not use URLs (or URIs) with 'upspin' scheme.

Yes it is. An Upspin file path like ann@example.com/dir/file is not obviously part of any scheme. If Upspin takes off, all the automagic parsing of plain text (that makes ann@example.com and news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc automatically turn into a clickable e-mail link and an HTTP URL) could be extended to turn ann@example.com/dir/file into a link that fires up a GUI to the Upspin service. The problem is that the file path also looks like an HTTP/S URL for https://example.com/dir/file specifying the username ann, so copying it into your browser's location bar without a scheme is fundamentally ambiguous.

Even though Upspin uses HTTPS for its API (e.g. https://store.upspin.io/api/Store/Get/something), there doesn't seem to be an HTTPS URL for access to a particular file. Since ann@example.com is by design just an email identifier disconnected from the directory server and storage server that ann uses to store her files, clients can't skip the root key server and talk to example.com to request ann's files, even though in some cases it will be the same server name.
Exactly. They'll just take you to a computer they control and make you login there. Or there'll be a law that requires an override authority.
Agreed, if you have high conviction and really want exposure to the name, better idea to buy call options that are a bit out of the money then put your life savings on the line. You can still get asymmetric upside without putting all your capital to work.
Waiting for the Enron fall.
I hope this is not flagged as spam but I think another good way of learning F# is getting paid to write it :) see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541679#up_13548091
Take a look at your local Sierra Club chapter or outdoor goods store (REI for example). There are a ton of "Beginner Hiking/Backpacking" type classes.
A good way is to sign up for group hikes and camping trips from REI and other places. You can also look for hiking clubs and ask for help, or find people at work/school who hike. Finally, you can start doing research by yourself and learn by (sometimes painful) trial and error.

My first major hike (9 days at Torres del Paine, solo, I was 19) was hell, shitty gear, overweight backpack and so on, but was amazing and I learned a lot.

It is far easier to hike in groups, there are major gains in weight (stuff for 4 people weigh far less that 4X stuff for 1 person).
Just as interesting is a recent news story about a plan to build an interstellar space ship, propelled by giant solar sails to travel about .2c (20% of the speed of light).

In other words, we could get to the Trappist-1 star system in about 145 years.. practically in the blink of an eye.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/02/how-an-interstellar-stars...
Why not name names? Let's name and shame companies that are either selling your info or hiding breaches.
As I mentioned elsewhere, there's a recent phenomenon of new accounts making trolling, extreme right-wing statements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13708894
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The article came out in Aug 2015 and one of the things it identified was lack of paid parental leave. Amazon announced paternity leave in Nov 2015. You can decide if it was the article that triggered it, or this would have happened anyway.
We (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541679#up_13548091) use F# in Linux and works very well.
And if you're a permanent resident with a green card or any other type of visa, you won't be allowed in at all. All these solutions assuming you're a citizen aren't all that helpful to every other person.
Is washing your hands not sufficient enough? I have a cat and clean the litter box every other day without gloves.
> No stranger would it be, if you and I met at the hanging tree

On a more serious note: though this might be precisely what you've suggested, it plays into fears about this administration that were raised before they came into power. Research and data that disagreed with party lines would disappear.
I've heard the same number, 6 million, my whole life.
Like other replies said, VS Code is nothing like VS.

I've been a dedicated Sublime Text user for years (wary of IDEs like you) but VS code kicks ST2/3's butt for Typescript development.
Understanding something doesn't mean you can manipulate it in any way you want.
Would there be any upside to a company like Uber cultivating a reputation like this deliberately? Obnoxiousness seems to be a characteristic quite ingrained into elite hacker culture.
> The data suggests that the answer for Rust is zero

Let's not go overboard. Claiming the number of bugs is zero in any non-trivial piece of software is generally a losing proposition, no matter the language.

That said, I think I know what you're trying to express, and I would say it like this: The number of bugs in a program written in Rust compared to C or C++ should be statistically less, all other things being equal. Certain classes of bugs are impossible with Rust at best, and easier to locate or isolate at worst (assuming you haven't wrapped the entire program in one giant unsafe block).
I can't upvote your comment enough. Learning F# w/o .NET and Clojure without JVM knowledge is next to impossible. There is no good doc despite what people say (and I own several books in this space). Scott W's F# articles are great for foundational FP, but neither that, any of the F# books, or any of the online tutorials show me how to do even simple things like iterate through a file. I'd love to see "Basic Office Programming in F#".
Use your GitHub datas to make a better resume
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I was an investor for a while in tesla and had a good ride for sure but sold for many of the reasons you articulated. At this point the hype machine is totally out of control there is no way justify the realitive evaluations of tesla verse the other car companies.
Meetup.com is great for just getting into hiking, just search "[your city or metro area] hiking." Equipment couldn't be easier, wear comfortable walking shoes (sneakers are fine) and bring sunblock, snacks, and water. If you start hiking a lot, you may want to invest in dedicated hiking shoes, a hydration pack, trekking poles etc. But you don't need any of that to get started in easy hikes.
Show HN: Working code for Operational Transformation/CRDT hybrid
Is there a reason you chose the percentile instead of something like the pivotal (and for not adding the options for other intervals)? Is it solely for simplicity?
A good first step would be to go to REI. They have a liberal return policy if the gear you buy doesn't work for you. They have good trail books at the bookshelves that will give you plenty of well-categorized hikes organized by region and difficulty. Start with a decent daypack, hiking boots, and a basic survival kit (water bottles, first aid kit, emergency blanket, knife). Try out a few dayhikes of five miles or less, at that point you'll rapidly learn enough to know what direction you want to go in next. It's not that big a leap afterwards to getting a multi-day backpack, a tent, a sleeping bag / pad, a water filter, and a stove.
Sumbaolighting
I agree with the statement but not the example. Theranos actively deceived its investors and lied about it's business. This is wholly different than a company that is obviously not doing well but you didn't bother to vet.
I think you should explain your position in more detail. What do you mean by cheating, for example?
He was hardly the only murderous sadist; you can find many in the history of Holocaust camps. Look up Joseph Mengele, for example, who would perform sadistic medical procedures (called experiments, but really for sadism) on prisoners, including children, and without anesthesia. Too sickening to describe here.
> You're wildly swinging between advantageous and not.

What?

> The ground rules must be clear: you get the screenshots and keyboard input in every frame, as a normal player.

Perhaps if you want to start from flawed assumptions/ want to create an AI that's tweak-able to appear as human. Which would be pretty useful and practical for other applications, but not competitive play.

We could go on and on about digital vs. analog, but digital is good enough for your argument and doesn't require you to spend enormous resources on a trivial pursuit.

This going in the direction of nonsensical handicaps. You don't give AlphaGo stamina parameters that artificially slow down processing speed. You give it all the tools it needs to beat a human player.
Solving the mystery behind the OP1 processor in the Chromebook Plus
Not 100% sure it was Amazon, but a month or two ago I actually got a physical junk mail letter after looking up a brand of dog treat online. (I don't have a dog, it was a random question I had about it.). I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. You have to expect that nowadays every time you get online there's basically an AI sitting on the other side taking notes.
This Century Is Broken
Maybe half of these things apply to Lyft too, which really weakens your argument.
[edit] Tomluck pointed out below that this post can be misinterpreted. I don't want to discount people's experiences - and there is definitely work to be done. But at the same time there is a lot of great things too, so we can have a healthy perspective. Thanks to those who are discussing it!

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I could go into detail about my experience at Uber (which is great), but a friend and coworker I really admire did a much better job. Here's her LinkedIn post:

"Uber has been a lot in news lately, and not for all good reasons. While as an Uber employee, I think there are things (in fact, many things!) we can do better, one thing that I couldn't agree less with are the allegations of Uber being a discriminatory, anti-women culture.

"While I am deeply saddened with what was recently brought to light, and being a woman, demand that the investigation is urgently, unbiasedly done, I also want to say that as a woman, an immigrant woman, I have never felt even an iota of discrimination, let alone harassment.

"When I moved to the US about a year ago, with no job and plenty of dreams, Uber was one of the few companies that gave me a chance to prove myself in a new country. And, since then, I haven't just survived, but thrived here. I look forward to coming to work daily, making my contribution, and having a say in shaping a company that's changing so much around us. Again, I feel deeply sorry for the recent situation that came into light, but I stand against anyone who generalizes that Uber epitomizes a discriminatory culture for it couldn't be further from truth.

"[Her] Disclaimer: These views are my personal views, and in no way linked to my employer's. I just feel an overwhelming need for sharing my personal experience working at a place that has given me so much in terms of learning and growth."
Well.... the most abundant element in the universe is "Nothingium." Just because hydrogen is common doesn't mean it's always around when you need it, especially in heavy form.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13710712
Traders who get their 'edge'(alpha) from grey information.

White = information easily available to the public. Say, like SEC filings or press releases.

Grey = information between white and black. For example if you over heard a CEO mention something vague to a colleague at a bar and think you can act on it.

black = clearly material insider information
What factors motivate higher-ups to avoid dismissal?
TIL NB = "nota bene".

> N.B. is an abbreviation for the Latin nota bene, which means "note well." It is normally used at the beginning of a sentence in order to inform the reader that the following words are of great importance.
> It's very hard to do it along the way if you aren't familiar with C# either.

Which I keep overlooking with so many years of C#, I'm so sorry about that :(

That being said, looking at the .NET framework documentation and hanging out on fsharp.org's slack might be a good way to make up for what you are missing to get started.
All these mountain bike races are self-supported, so they're actually very similar in the amount of gear carrying by someone doing a thru-hike with UL equipment, as you're carrying everything you'll need from start to finish, including your sleep system. Much of the course for say - the Colorado Trail is difficult enough you're not riding the bike: you're pushing it. This sort of thing [0]

I've actually considered trying to hike the Colorado Trail unsupported - carrying everything I'll need from the start (except water) with NO resupplies until the end. My target time would be around 9 days. If you're trying to gauge how strenuous the types of effort I put forth when I go and do the things I do.

Anyways, 8 hours seems like an easy day on the trail for sure. 8 hours hike + 8 hours sleep leaves you 8 hours for $Other_Things. Might as well hike some more!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyznXGXiSDk
The impression I got from the story I believe she's describing wasn't "discriminatory, anti-women culture" as much as "very bad manager" (to the point of sexual harassment) and Uber not doing anything about it.
Shoes for hiking should be sized to be roomy around the toe. All of mine are 1-2 sizes larger than my Brannock size. Toe bang is prevented this way.
Why do you think rates are so low? Hint: its because the Fed printed a bunch of money to monetize the debt.
Even if there is an economic case for supersonic civil aviation, considerable environmental problems must first be overcome.

Given their extreme noise, pollution, and ozone layer disruption it's certainly a good thing there aren't hundreds or thousands of Concorde-equivalents plying the skies today.
But the thing that’s unusual about good scientists is that while they’re doing whatever they’re doing, they’re not so sure of themselves as others usually are. They can live with steady doubt, think “maybe it’s so” and act on that, all the time knowing it’s only “maybe.” Many people find that difficult; they think it means detachment or coldness. It’s not coldness! It’s a much deeper and warmer understanding, and it means you can be digging somewhere where you’re temporarily convinced you’ll find the answer, and somebody comes up and says, “Have you seen what they’re coming up with over there?” and you look up and say “Jeez! I’m in the wrong place!”

It makes me happy whenever I read quotes like this of Feynman's.
So what are your thoughts on this argument? It sounds like you were convinced, and the comment reads like a slightly clever way to spread these hateful ideas. (I can't speak for your intent.)
Team's standardized on IntelliJ so everyone already has Ultimate. It works great for everything not-Typescript.
Also to the taxi companies Uber and Lyft are replacing.
I wonder if this is a case for a side project.

A website showing which sign ups put you at risk, by exploiting a similar email naming convention.

So everyone ends up on level pegging.
I wish he had tracked his wife's possible changes as well.
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