skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Becoming responsible for the technical lead of a number of teams. I was always strong in solving things whilst implementing. Doing and thinking interchangeably. Getting to the root or final design in an iterative fashion. However, that doesn't really scale. So now as an architect I have to come up with a design or analysis without coding it out first. That requires a different set of skills.

Second, it helped me grow from always late to (mostly) always early. No help in sharing a design after the feature implementation is already started. It's either time lost on whatever was done already, or time lost discussing how to adapt it so it fits. You should discuss before you start, so as an architect that makes you responsible to prepare before that moment and facilitate. Be sure to discuss designs with your team(s) though, don't go all ivory tower on them.

Third, it forced me to grow in the social aspect. I am only as helpful as the information I can bring to the engineers in my team(s). I learned I have to understand the individual engineers, how they work, their strengths and weaknesses, their preferences. I learned that showing genuine interest in them and their wellbeing is a great way to achieve this. I have never feared the coffee corner or desk/room/lunch talks so it was mostly paying some additional attention to their responses, talks, interests, etc. I daily use this information to select the right person for the job, adjust my explanation to fit their needs, learn who likes more intervention and who I should (and could) simply trust and run free.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13784085 for why hiring is unlikely to be a problem for them.

I also encourage you to find _any_ experience report that tells of difficulties finding the right candidates for a Haskell job.
> I truly don't know what could be done to help free speech prosper there as it should

I think there's literally nothing the West should do directly, and active pressure will actually be counterproductive.

I don't know if it's true about Europeans, but it's sad how Americans have a tendency to give strong opinions about topics without understanding the history, even when it's very relevant.

China endured constant humiliation and near-colonization by Western powers for a period of 300 years, including a series of unequal treaties and giving up Hong Kong, forced importation of opium, and military occupation of Beijing and the surrounding countryside. Americans may not have ever learned about this history, but this is drilled into every single Chinese student from a young age.

In that context, America or any other power telling China that it should 'learn from the West' and should adopt Western values, perhaps under the threat of sanctions or other consequences, will be automatically rejected not just by the Chinese government but also the Chinese people as a repeat of colonialism and Western 'arrogance'.

Better to let the people ask pointed questions of its own government. But if the West gets involved directly, then it becomes very easy for the government to tar domestic proponents of human rights as stooges of Western imperialists and then lock them all up, with the full support of the populace.
Increases in supply do not always cause the same effect. An example is multi-lane highway expansion projects. This often leads to more traffic problems, not less.
More likely reskin Android than BSD. Minimum Linux kernel.
>> Your IoT should be Private by design, running without needing the cloud.

The correct term you want to use is home automation.
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>Uber had tagged Mr. England and his colleagues — essentially Greyballing them as city officials — based on data collected from the app and in other ways. The company then served up a fake version of the app populated with ghost cars, to evade capture.

Wow, that's genius.

Uber has my full support when it's them vs. outdated entrenched state regulations.
(Okay, but, uh, we can manufacture diamond now, you know that right? ;-)
I have a number of elderly relatives who have been well and truly fucked by that philosophy.
Trump's FCC Chair: Net neutrality was 'a mistake'
We have done informal ones and may or may not do more formal ones, we'll see.
It can have the outward appearance that you were demoted. My personal situation is that I left a fairly lofty position to run a very small business, so it's more opaque. But, people do still ask things like "what happened?"
You think the guys designing prosthetics should be administering SAP systems for UCSF? They have the appropriate skills for this and it's a good use of their time?

I'm not sure what you're even trying to argue about anymore. My comment was specifically addressing the idea that universities should be funding their IT efforts with researchers, which is in general a poor use of research dollars, but especially for a university that literally has no relevant research program or school. You're not even trying to respond to my actual criticism. You're engaging in pedantry and rambling about staph infections instead.

> Your lack of imagination makes me hope you're not in charge of anything important.

Your incoherent responses and abrasiveness make be fairly confident you are not.
That doesn't prevent renunciation to avoid taxes, it just prevents you from coming back.and enjoying the benefits Americans taxes pay for after you decide you don't want to be an American because that means paying taxes.

Which seems perfectly fair to me.
How much will it cost to staff these offices and process visa applications?
> What is driving this change? AFAICT there are no major issues that should have caused this.

Well: unemployment, under employment, insecurity and difficult living ate really striking hard our societies. That's the reason.
I'm not sure your math pans out - the issue, AFAIK, isn't rich people within the same city owning multiple flats, it's rich people worldwide. The report cited in the first link states 167,700 UHNWI worldwide. If, on average, each of those have one flat in NY, that's 20% of the NY housing, which is pretty far from a drop in the bucket.

It also seems utterly unreasonable that only 3% of the world's UHNWI own housing in NY.

> The more inequality we have, the fewer rich people there are and the smaller this problem becomes.

I think this simplifies to the point of uselessness. On the basic level, yes - fewer rich people, fewer rich people living in housing. But, definitely not fewer rich people owning housing, and definitely definitely not fewer high-rent places, where we can define "high rent" as taking up most of your income. Then there's considerations for housing growth - as inequality and population rise, housing demand increases, but ability to pay for that housing does not, so why would you expect any additional to be built, given the increased cost of the land due to the increased demand for that land?

To be clear: I don't know if your prediction would pan out, because I can imagine how easily the situation gets crazy complicated.
This reminded me of a quote by Snowden, "Right and wrong has a very different standard from what is legal and illegal.... Every act of progression in nation's history has involved tensions with law..."

I'm glad Uber did the things they did to circumvent the law. There are countless number of times where my friends and I had the option to 'uber' to a party or bar instead of driving ourselves. Ive met many Uber drivers who loves the opportunity to work and provide a valuable service.

Despite the many flaws, Uber was able to bring social value and it has improved the quality of my life significantly. Had I waited for the law to 'do things properly'... I can't even imagine.

This is one of the things Uber did right and it made me realize the efforts Uber went through to provide me a viable alternative to public transportation and gave me the freedom to travel around the city reliably 24 hours a day. I'm now reinstalling Uber.
There's a ton of tourists in Germany during summer though.
sys/socket.h is the most likely culprit.
How rival bots battled their way to poker supremacy
Automatic time tracking software
Good point. They would be on firmer ground if they just said "you're banned from our service because [vague reason]", even if the real (unstated) reason was "we don't want cops on this".

But presenting deliberately fake information to hinder law enforcement sounds like it's going to be illegal somehow.
Have you tried ghcid? In my experience it was a bit quicker than `stack --file-watch`
Exactly.

1. They have no obligation to law enforcement to make it easy to catch them. They're making it so that it's harder for LE to use their own service against them. Good investigators wouldn't investigate under their real name, or with their police-union-linked credit card, so it only seems fair.

2. Taxi and municipal transport are easy pandering-demographics for local government, creating monopolies. This isn't Uber vs. competitors, or vs. average citizens, this is Uber vs. the cartels. Everyone, in the long-run, benefits.
Did you join the company as well?
Meh, mortality rate would be bad, but not as bad as it was in those days. IVs help a lot with dehydration, which they did not have. You'll need something more lethal to accomplish the terrifying and sadistic goal of being the worst thing to have happened to the world since the dinosaurs. Likely, we will just mumble along like we always have through the black death, polio, etc.
Macros are being largely re-done, see http://words.steveklabnik.com/an-overview-of-macros-in-rust for an overview.

Honestly, I very rarely use macros and have written two in my years of Rust. You almost never need them, or at least, that's my experience.
Guess why you have no choice in ISP or power company? Because the government deliberately regulates those markets to reduce competition, often to the monopoly level. But they don't give you any compensation for that, such as a say in how the companies are run.

This is the root cause of many problems in other markets too. High pharmaceutical prices? The government granted monopolies (patents) to those companies. Forced to use Windows? Microsoft has a government-granted monopoly (copyright) on Windows. Strange that limiting or revoking these state-granted monopoly rights is never considered as an option for remedying these problems.

More relevant to this article, the government has historically put drastic limits on the number of taxis that can operate in a city, to the point where the permits required to operate one were once worth over a million dollars apiece. The need to disrupt that system is why Uber developed a culture of law-breaking to begin with.
I feel that Nix solves a lot of the same problems in a better way. The ideas implemented in that project have a lot of potential and I wish that the community focused more on user experience for new users. Since I've started using Nix, I had so many cool ideas about what it could be used for.

It's a shame that it has such a steep learning curve.
I've only owned a Mac and honestly I hasn't found it really better. Actually I was surprised to find there are unsolvable user hostility problems like font size. For most Windows annoyances there were usually some registry key that you can touch.
Yes I understand the difference between a windturbine falling down and a nuclear meltdown.

Those WHO projections, for both Chernobyl and Fukushima, include deaths from future cases of cancer. In Fukushima's case, the WHO specifically examined the effect that the increased radiation exposure would have on children. From their 2015 update:

"Given the exposure to radioactive iodine during the early phase of the emergency, WHO specifically assessed the risk of thyroid cancer. The greatest risk was found among girls exposed as infants (i.e. < 1 year old) in the most affected area in the Fukushima prefecture. Even if those levels of risk might not be clinically detectable, WHO anticipated that the thyroid ultrasound screening programme being conducted in Fukushima prefecture was likely to lead to an increase in the incidence of thyroid diseases due to earlier detection of non-symptomatic cases.

There have been recent reports about thyroid cancer cases being diagnosed among children exposed to low doses of radioactive iodine as a result of the Fukushima accident. These reports should be interpreted with caution. A large excess of thyroid cancer due to radiation exposure, such as occurred after the Chernobyl accident, can be discounted because the estimated thyroid doses due to the Fukushima accident were substantially lower than in Chernobyl. Nevertheless, the highly-sensitive thyroid screening of those under 18 years old at the time of the accident is expected to detect a large number of thyroid cysts and solid nodules, including a number of thyroid cancers that would not have been detected without such intensive screening. Similar or even slightly higher rates of cysts and nodules were found in prefectures not affected by the nuclear accident. The substantial number of cases that have already been observed in the Fukushima Health Management Survey have been considered likely due to the sensitivity of the screening rather than to radiation exposure."

2015 update: http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/a_e/fukushima/faqs-fuk...

2013 report: http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/fukushima_ris...
>It also seems similar to VW's Diesel engine "Defeat Device".

I see this as the market routing around the defect that is regulation.
God yes. If anybody must remember one concept only about ergonomics, it's that.
I really don't see how you could call an unfavorable/unacceptable contract you chose not to sign "extortion" in any way.

From the quoted contact language, the $2,000 charge is if the journalist skipped out on the demo flight or failed to write an article.

I think what's missing here is if Verge really established JetSmarter was trying to exert editorial control. If they had replied for example, "we want to amend the contract to clarify that JetSmarter will not have any editorial control over the article produced" and then JetSmarter refused I would be much more suspect.

If I'm giving a journalist an expensive service trial it's not crazy to have a contract requiring an article actually be written.

It seems like they are hanging the whole story on a single word ("positive") in the contract.
So, do you feel this same way with every product/investor/advisor/partner/etc. that works with evil companies such as Wal-Mart? Or most banks. Or most internet providers. Etc.

It seems like you're very quick to jump on the "hate" bandwagon with Uber, but unless you are applying this logic to every company that's (more than likely) worse than Uber, it's pretty hypocritical. And I highly doubt that is the actual case that you do apply this same logic to many other evil corporations.

Just like shitty companies like Comcast, some people choose Uber because while it's not the best option you WANT to use, it's more than likely still the best option in a very tiny pool you have to choose from.
A friend bought the 5520 and his raving about it has me wanting to buy one myself now. He loves it.
... for every value of "Today".
New Technology Is a Censorship Tool for North Korea
Actually, I read somewhere that Nikola Tesla actually lamented later in life that he didn't put any effort into dating. Tesla was very devoted to his work, but he wasn't a complete hermit like Isaac Newton; he was also a bit of a showman, doing elaborate public demonstrations with electricity.
>After ww2, there was a housing shortage in most European countries because people were moving from rural areas to cities. I don't think the shortages were solved until governments stepped in and built price-controlled rental apartments on a massive scale.

The idea is that what did the trick was not the "price-controlled rental apartments" but the "built (...) on a massive scale"
I think we can all agree that there already are vetting processes to screen for immigrants who are least likely to receive and give cultural shocks with existing cultures within the country. These should be given appropriate weight as desired by citizens of the country.
> Most people in Europe are not dumb enough to fall for your nonsense.

Feel free to actually try to refute anything I said.

> It isn't.

It is according to Avraham Burg, and I'm not sure there is anyone more qualified to make such a claim.
When given a choice, drivers stampeded from yellow cabs to Uber. Riders stampeded from yellow cabs to Uber. It's clear which one most parties prefer. And that suggests that all those government "services" around the provision of taxi service are valued at or below 0 by most people.
Yeah, they are saturating the market these days.

I decided to go for it because I was unsatisfied with my degree path (I was in business), and a scholarship more or less fell into my lap.

I filtered the bootcamps based off the curriculum they offered, which I decided my prefrence based on what tech was hot, both in the industry and in my region of the world (South Central US). I then filtered by reviews and success/employment rate. Finally I scheduled an interview with all the remaining options and talked with them to to get as much of an idea as I could on what kind of place they were. I finally applied to one, and thankfully was accepted.
> it's possible to own your home outright but still get pushed out of it by your local government's taxation practices.

This is not a problem in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
Asteroid passed within 'ring of satellites' in orbit, NASA says
Would it be OK to ask for visa from Texas but not from Alaska? Huh?
I can't help thinking the author is subtly c-blocking her hubby for all time with her incomparable saintliness.
That's absolutely worth nothing if you already have a Razer mouse, but it's still a good reason to avoid Razer hardware. This is not the sign of a company that has their priorities straight.
Agreed but you could refuse access to cops unless they have a warrant, right?

The article did not mention whether they had a warrant, I assume not.
> I wish rust were smart enough to make the functions put the values directly in the caller's stack frame.

That's one reason why macros exist.

> I thought maybe macros would help here, since there is no new stack frame, but they still introduce a new scope that limits the lifetime of the temporary variables.

Why can't you just "return" the variables you need later on ?
"In another comment section (Reddit, I believe) there was anecdotal evidence that visitors from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania regularly outstayed their visas and were notorious for violating a tourist visa, hence the additional checks the US wanted to put them through."

Well, what would you think if we said the same thing about US-americans (remember the term american is also from Colombians) from a number of states?

No, we the EU are one and if you do this to Bulgaria, you are doing this to all of us. This is not nationalism, it's actually the opposite.
As a potential Gitlab customer (I would be running an instance in the cloud if I moved off of their hosted offering), this removes the main concern I had with migrating to their platform.

Fundamentally the performance problems they had could be solved by either software or hardware, and I have more faith in the team's ability to learn the distributed computing / caching techniques required than to learn how to run their own metal.
The ultra high net worth individuals I was referring to were $30M and up, not $1B and up.

According to Le Wik, there are only 536 billionaires in the US. So if all of them have 10 10x sized properties, that's equivalent to taking 53,600 flats off the entire US housing market.

You can roughly triple that number if you assume every billionaire in Europe and Asia buys 10 10x sized flats in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_numbe...

Why don't you crunch your own numbers and see if you can make them come out different?
Hmmmm.... you make a prima facie good argument, but I'm not really convinced.

While Japan may not presently be gutted in terms of GDP, I wonder if we are witnessing the slow rotting from inside right now.

The older generations are demanding to be supported by the younger generation in a number of ways, but they are not giving the younger folks the means to do so via decent-paying jobs and jobs that are stable enough to encourage the start of a family (i.e., future generations).

Right now Japan is printing money hand over fist to try to make something -- anything -- happen economically. I don't see that it's working, and I wonder how long they can keep doing this before they take a hit on the economic side (GDP or otherwise).

If Japan can make it 25-30 years with something like their current GDP, then they will be fine -- their population will have shrunk, and there will be no big bubble on the top of their population by age pyramid. That said, think their economy will take a huge hit a some point in that timeframe.

Do you see much positive hope on the economic side moving forward?
Uber for Cleaning into a $9M/year Business Without VC Funding
See my reply to a similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13786992
They may not do user studies like this, but for sure they adapt to user feedback.

https://thefeedbackloop.xyz/stroustrups-rule-and-layering-ov...
Solving actual problems.
Good example.

I think in general women take care of their health more than men. Women may well have been the main users of the app(?).

Not having people who represent your main/large user groups does seem problematic.

I don't think it calls for automatic diversity, still. Instead, a definite consideration of who is using the product.
> It's got a minimalistic design versus Windows Explorer

I recently installed Windows 10 to play a few games, the latest version available from Microsoft, hoping that it would have improved since the last time I saw Windows over a year ago, and I wish I could describe this without hyperbole, but the user interface remains a veritable nightmare.
>Type inference in the presence of subtyping is so hard that no programming language does it currently.

Hack does some cute stuff in this area. E.g. the type checker postpones inferring the type of empty arrays.
The Batman Movie: Keeping It Real. (Rendering tech)
Also note that it's not binding, it has to go to the Commission first.

And, again, it's been an ongoing dispute since 2014. But still probably a reflection of the times.

(Note that the US Visa Waiver program is opened to countries that fulfil certain criteria in terms of (high) percentage of visa applications granted, and (low) percentage of admitted people overstaying. So, the US basically argues that they stick to their (country by country) criteria, while the EU insists on equal treatment.)
Do you honestly think that's what I'm asking or just want to be confrontational? (I re-read my question and I don't believe that's what I'm saying, but I'm not a native english speaker).

To clear my question: If I'm being really mean to you how can you confidently say that it is because I have bias against your gender or your race and not because a) I'm mean to everybody or b) I don't like you in particular (which is the case so far).

Same case: If somebody hates my guts is it because a Mexican dude or is it because I'm like, insufferable? I guess that if he says "Go back to Mexico, you beaner" the answer is clear, but if you instead downvote everything I post… how could I tell if it's either or both?