skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what possible universe do you think that TSA/border security/etc. is a power-symmetric universe? Of course they'll joke around and abuse their power if they like it - you, me and everyone else they're inspecting are powerless to them and they'll happily use that fact.
This will probably be unpopular as well. I think Travis overreacted and lacked empathy with the driver, but the driver didn't seem to understand that TK doesn't control market forces, and doesn't "have the business model in his hand". Uber was doing well with Black Cars, but the company did the right thing by undercutting its own market so that it could survive and grow. There's also nothing wrong with "giving every person a ride", rather than limiting Uber to just black cars for the riches. Uber adapted to market forces, the driver didn't, and then he blamed the company for his problems.

Maybe teaching economics in primary school could solve this problem.
Of course. It’s not clear that the “real” or even “natural” numbers meaningfully correspond to any physical phenomenon. They’re just abstractions and tools for making predictions and reasoning about our experiences as humans, which don’t necessarily reflect how the world actually is.
Today I learned something fantastic, thank you! :o)
Why is exactly 140 still the right length? Why not 145, or 73, or 280? Answer cannot contain words "always", "traditional", or "nostalgia".

There's a large distance between 140 and infinitely long.
A big part of the advantage is more consistent adoption by browsers. All the major browsers have experimental WebAssembly support already, and Firefox and Chrome are already shipping it (although it's off by default). Firefox/SpiderMonkey and Edge/Chakra have AOT compilation for asm.js, but notably Chrome/V8 doesn't (although they did optimize its performance significantly). Asm.js also still hasn't become a formal spec, while WebAssembly is already very close.
He was describing why doing QA is hard, and I'm suggesting (not to you clearly) some good reason for doing it still exists or he wouldn't be in that business.

I apologize for striking you as off-topic.
It's not as advantageous as you'd expect, because your ships now have to have docking collars extra sensors, and extra maneuvering capability. The rendezvous will take extra time and fuel, and the extra time means you need more life support for the crew.

Worse, the extra steps involved create extra risk, both for mission failure and to the lives of the crew. You could get to your fuel depot and discover the battery sytem has failed and your depot is tumbling, or a leak caused ice buildup that prevents you from docking. Or the chillers failed and enough oxydizer got vented into space that you can't continue the mission.
I think it's quite safe to say philosophy has never contributed anything whatsoever to any kind of math, science, or engineering. Philosophy is all about helping mankind understand how to think about thought itself. Also I wouldn't call psychology a science either. Until mankind has a clue what consciousness actually is, there will be an impenetrable firewall between philosophy and all sciences.
I do agree that dmoz did a very terrible job at fulfilling the requests. That ultimately was the downfall and why so many didn't like DMOZ.

But there were way to get in, no matter what (unfortunately).
Not all Lyft employees are saints either. I'm worried when the next Lyft scandel happens, ill have no good taxi options.
it does! love it too.

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
With $35/mo, it looks like another half-ass effort like Google phone hardware business. For 10 dollars extra over internet charges per month I get all the channels that this post explicitly mentions + some more I never watched.
This is the free market. Uber Black is one thing, but you do know Uber is aggressively working towards autonomous vehicles, because Uber wants to provide transportation in the future, and not just now. A $69 billion dollar company must always be thinking of the long term if they want to stay relevant.

Uber isn't a charity. I don't condone Uber's culture or whatever the CEO may or may not have done to create such a workplace but you have to understand that Uber is a business, like any other, out to maximize profits. Everyone seeks to maximize profits, and if the market calls for changes, then you make those changes lest you give up market share to your competitors.
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It's funny, right now there are two comments:

>> What’s sad here is that we’re now in an era where AI and other computers are now categorizing and approving websites.

and

>> Good riddance! It was crap anyway.

I kind of agree with both of them. It does make me sad to see DMOZ go, but at the same time, maybe, just maybe it's ok to admit algorithms do a better job of this stuff. As a librarian, I want to think we humans are better at categorizing and cataloging everything.
What are these laws forcing people to live in cities or somehow aimed at destroying suburbia?

In reality, the laws that do exist tend to be aimed at trying to force people to live in suburbia and _not_ a dense city. Lots of municipalities ban density - either out-right or through absurd minimum parking requirements and other design specifications that severely limit what people can build on their land. Plus decades of transportation planning, and current funding decisions, have been aimed at undermining urban neighborhoods in favor of suburban sprawl.

In general, people who advocate for legal reform to facilitate more urban living are saying there should be _less_ regulation and government intervention into how people live and what they do with their land.

Of course some people want to live in suburbia. That's great. No one is trying to stop them. The tens of millions of people who want to live in dense walkable neighborhoods are sick of people trying to stop them.
Oh yeah, I have no reason to believe it's worse; it's just that I also doubt it's going to help much either.

But... trial and error and all ;-).
I agree with you; I also think there's an opportunity here. I wonder what the biggest cost would be to such a company. Maintenance?
I've heard the same about the moon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt specifically """While on the Moon's surface, Schmitt — the only geologist in the astronaut corps — collected the rock sample designated Troctolite 76535, which has been called "without doubt the most interesting sample returned from the Moon".[8] Among other distinctions, it is the central piece of evidence suggesting that the Moon once possessed an active magnetic field.[9]""" . It was true at that time only because we didn't have good robots.

The science resulting from our robot exploration is astounding. Nearly all photos of outer space objects beyond the earth and moon are robot driven, and the high quality photos of Jupiter, etc are entirely robot driven. Compare that to a Mars rock.

BTW, we can't send a human to Mars right now. It's technically impossible- well, I mean, we could deliver their dead body to the surface, but that's not super useful.

A single geologist on Mars would constantly have to check back in on their plans.
A few possible reasons, the most obvious being grandparent is disclosing a possible source of bias.

Also it could look suspicious if grandparent gets the job and at some point in the future someone looks back at this comment.

If in doubt, disclose. Especially in the tech industry, that's what Gamergate was actually about.
Former Aereo engineer here.

First off, there are really two main reasons for someone not to have a cable subscription:

1. They don't care about the content

2. Price sensitivity

At Aereo, we saw these sort of mix together to create hugely elastic demand.

For a while, we offered a $1 "day pass" that would give you access to live TV for 24 hours at a time.

During the Super Bowl and various award shows, we had crazy numbers of people sign up for these day passes. We actually had to stop offering them, because we literally couldn't build out the extra capacity in a cost-effective way (remember, we needed distinct physical antennas and transcoders for every user we served).

It was tough enough to get people to pay $8/month for access to live broadcast TV and a cloud-based DVR. I have no idea how YouTube will convince anyone to pay $35.

If they can work out the licenses, I'd imagine something like a day pass would work well with consumers – but it's probably hard to get the economics of that to work out.
I've been trying to understand how the author of DF does development. My impression is that he doesn't really add features the way most of us add features. Instead he'll rewrite large portions of the game, or he'll write some stand alone test application and then integrate it into the mainline code. Apart from safety (I really hope he has backups), there probably isn't that much use in VCS because he intends to simply rewrite everything every time. He also does not like to have anyone touch his code. He allowed a few people to improve the performance of his display code once and has since sworn off it. While the performance improved as promised, he says that he can't understand any of the code and now never touches it again.

Not the way I would do my work, but when you are your own boss you get to do whatever you want ;-)
The main problems seem to be that Uber is simultaneously in control of supply and demand and can pretty much single handedly decide the terms of the agreement between them and drivers. Basically they've created a market they are now in control of, which goes against the principles of both capitalism and socialism.

That said, it's hard to determine exactly how to prevent this from happening, and even harder to fix. My current best estimate is that either Uber needs to stop being a market and function as a full fledged company, or supply and demand should be made independent. This could be done by, for example, splitting Uber into a company advertising the services of drivers, and a separate company that buys these services for their customers. This should in theory allow for more competition.
right. i think the point is, we should tolerate them less, so that they get to the top less.
Via a single SMS message.

The size of SMS messages is still fixed at 160 characters, but now they can be transparently chained to send longer texts. This is quite unlike IP protocols which have much larger maximum packet sizes.

Whether Twitter should ever have taken a cue from SMS is moot: apparently the Twitter creators were inspired by the way police and emergency services use radio, so terseness was an aesthetic choice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
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Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)
I don't think that's fair, any more than it would be fair to say mathematics is the hypothesis phase either. Mathematics might be used to build scientific theories, but mathematics itself is self-contained and doesn't need to reference the physical world at all. The goals of mathematics, the methods mathematicians use and the results they produce are largely orthogonal to the physical world.

This might be less true for areas of applied math, but that just shows how the boundaries of any field are fuzzy. The same for philosophy: most of it deals with questions—and, subsequently, arguments and answers—that are fundamentally distinct from science. There are certain areas classically part of philosophy that have become the subject of physics or psychology or the social sciences, but these parts do not characterize philosophy as a whole.
Do you feel this dynamic holds true for all developers? What about non-developers?
> You don't get to challenge everyone in your life who makes decisions that directly or indirectly affect you.

I believe the first amendment disagrees. If you have a grievance with someone, it is absolutely within your right to tell them. In fact, I'd argue that a healthy, functional society relies entirely on people being completely honest with each other.
Hey, I just looked at your twitter profile. How does one invest $500 in a startup?
by "agenda" do you mean the agenda of exposing sexism at Uber? because that's what the whole post is about.

and why exactly would it make you doubt her credibility?
Right across Civic Center, which overlaps and is not very different from the Tenderloin.
https://twitter.com/whispersystems/status/836651250842124288
So, what laws should we propose from the IT community?

+ Ownership about your own data.

+ The right to be forgotten.

+ The right to use your own data in your way.

+ The transparency of being able to monitor who is when looking into your data.
Is WebAssembly's binary format finalized? I wasn't able to find anything about it, but about two weeks ago binaryen pushed a new release[1] whose notes said "update wasm version to 0x01, in prep for release, and since browsers are ready to accept it".

From what I had heard the plan was not to do that until the final standard was settled on, but I wasn't able to find any corresponding announcement.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/releases/tag/version...
Parent's point is still valid. There's another 3+ billion of internet users outside the U.S., it would be nice not to be an afterthought's afterthought. They just need to say "Sorry, this product will not be available outside the U.S. at launch." Is it so hard?
As already mentioned, they do have Windows VM's but there are some caveats that indicate it's not fully baked yet. 1.) They require that each VM MUST have a public IP address so that Windows can talk to an activation server every 30 days. 2.) You cannot yet bring your own license.
Inactivity, excess weight linked to hard-to-treat heart failures
The good thing about PasswordSafe is that the file format is well documented, so there are several implementations of password managers using this format, which should all be interoperable. For Android, there is the app PasswdSafe. It also offers its own keyboard for entering passwords. Sad to see they didn't test this one...
They have paying customers. When you're in business to make money, you do what you can bill for.

Though I don't know why anyone would want to spend a week locked in a tiny can like that, let alone pay big bucks for it. There's a limit to the discomfort I'd be willing to endure for bragging rights.
Wow - good job. Literally people (myself included) were commenting this morning in the saving twitter thread about how something like this is really needed.
Karl Popper was born in 1902 and wrote his first book in the 1930s. Just to give a bit of context on how vital philosophy was to Physics developing.
This feels like maybe a [citation required] thing. Facebook doesn't have any particular length limit on posts, and anecdotally vast screeds are quite rare on my feed, and most posts are pretty terse regardless.

Is there data to suggest that people will just rant all the time if they're permitted to?

[edit] Anecdotally, my current top 20 posts in my FB feed: 17 under 140 chars, 3 greater than 140 chars.
We sometimes use online code editors
I'm not asking what we should do from a moral perspective, which is highly subjective. I'm asking for data. Has anyone done an analysis on the traits of successful CEOs?
Admit that it's a (better) chatroom and tailor it to that use case. It's not a new thing. Go super-aggressively after abuse, bots, etc. even if it hurts your bottom line short term, it will help it long term. Don't make statements about addressing abuse, just do it. It will be noticed. Stop focusing on growth, focus on quality of users. Make a tier of "verified" accounts that anyone can get -- subscription is fine. They verify their real contact info with you, they get a verified badge. Make eggs not able to dm or mention for two weeks. Let me right-click to save animated gifs. Allow "extended" tweets that start with 140 characters but you can click through to more, for when it's time for some game theory. Shadowban the potus.
The standard "lol google will kill it in 6 months anyway" troll doesn't really apply to Google Cloud services. They know better than to be fickle with infrastructure offerings.
> Question: Has it ever happened that philosophy has elucidated and clarified a mathematical concept, proof, or construction in a way useful to research mathematicians?

I would hope so! The short answer is the philosophy of Math will help you determine whether what you're researching is true! Surely it would be very bizarre to research something with complete apathy regarding its truth value. A few examples:

The famous Peano axioms [1] are widely used to prove such things as the commutative property of multiplication (ab=ba). But as the name "axiom" suggests, you just have to accept them as true or the whole thing crumbles. So why is it true that "0 is a natural number"? If this is false, much (all?) of math research is in big trouble! Does this suggest a sort of mathematical epistemic foundationalism? If so, what are its limits? When is mathematical research warranted, and when can we simply regard mathematical beliefs as properly basic?

Also, consider the realist/anti-realist debate [2, 3] which seeks to answer the question "are numbers, sets, functions, etc. actual features of the real world, or are they all just in our heads?" (or some refined variation thereof). If they are real entities, how is it that these non-causal things (like 5) lie at the very heart of the laws governing the physical, causal universe? But if they aren't real, then what possible explanation can one give for the perfect harmony of the physical world and these functions, that are ultimately all in my head? Moreover, why is belief in these unreal entities so widespread (I know of no "amathists")?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
durability is different from availability
Reference-counted GC is trivially implemented on top of WebAssembly memory model.
Wrong topic? Perhaps you meant to post it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746549 ?
From a consumer standpoint, yes – except 4x more expensive. From a technology standpoint, definitely not.

Disclosure: I'm a former Aereo engineer
It is also yet another negative hit to a family's cash flow if "latch key" isn't feasible/desirable and the only alternative is to pay for after school options (depending on if there is a cost for those).
What part of McKinsey does this/how?
you don't comment for 4 years and THAT'S the comment you choose to return with?
I'd have agreed with your reasoning, if Uber was a charity. But its not. If Uber didn't cut prices, Lyft would have steamrolled Uber in 2013. So, Travis is not lying when he says "they had to drop prices".

When someone tells you how to do your job better, and that someone is not even qualified to do that job, you'll also get angry.
Apparently search engines, like Google, think that computers do a better job than humans. I still like the human element, even though it may not be as efficient.
Yes of course, but only during the early stages. The post-MVP roadmap for WebAssembly specifies DOM & Web API integration (http://webassembly.org/docs/gc/), so that specific case will too disappear with time.

If you read point 3 on this page (http://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/) you should realize that the need for JavaScript won't be required at that point.

edit: I'd like to clarify that I'm not saying wasm will boom in usage over night, but as time goes on, the rough edges clears up & features like these are added it might become the better choice.
What did you dislike about it? (My first guesses would be too many drugs, too much of the legacy of Calvinism, and possibly aggressive bicyclists...)
They're not being forced to take unprofitable fares, though. They're being offered UberX customers when there are no Uber Black customers available. Whether or not they have the ability to change that priority is the question here. It seems that taking a slightly lower fare is better than taking no far at all at a higher rate.
Refusing to associate with people is not "censorship" of ideas or anything else. Damaging, abusive people can be kicked out of one's place of business and it ain't a problem.

I will not cede the ground of basic language to protofascists and you shouldn't either.
Not sure what you're looking to hear from me. By a nose, I think Google has the best security team in the industry.
As have I.

Interestingly, sometimes that cleanup was an intentional part of the process and looked more like maintenance and extension of rapid prototypes. It still felt like I was compensating for all those bad habits of Mr 10x.
No. Organizations that protect employees do exist, they're called unions.
Timing.

Get the info you want from the sources you like at the moment you desire.
I suspect the intersection of a) people who care about Twitter, b) who use twitter via sms, c) people who do not have phones that hide/abstract away multipart sms so they've got 300+ character messaging - is so small it'd be less expensive for Twitter to buy all three of them a new iPhone every 2 years instead of hold one meeting trying to solve the problem ;-)

(Note: I'm not convinced long-tweets are "the killer idea" others seem to think - like someone else put it, the reader's attention is the limited resource, not the service's ability to publish characters. I don't scroll thru Wordpress/LiveJournal/LongReads on the train or while waiting for coffee...
They decided to use it because it let you add things like drop-down menus (and falling snowflakes!) to your website, which made it look better than your competitor's website. Syntax was just the hoop to jump through to achieve that, and a very minor one at that. I doubt it would have made any difference.
They say "no need for a DVR" so I assume that you will get time-shifted content. That's not free. Also, watching 3 shows simultaneously (on devices I already own) is useful.

And for those of us cord-cutters who have been missing live sports this is a nice option.

[EDIT: 3 simultaneous streams, not 6]
Ask HN: Are all U.S. employment contracts so lacking in personal privacy?
I have been extended an offer by a big company in the US, with the possibility of relocating to US.

Reading the contract, it looks like a standard contract. Several clauses really concern me, specifically regarding privacy.

I am suppose to agree to no expectation of privacy on company issued hardware. The way it is phrased gives broad access to the company, including personal material that may be stored on the company machine. Given that this is a development position, use of personal email, GitHub, etc. is expected.

The company may use my likeness in promotional material without consulting me, and I cannot refuse the "exploit" (the actual contract term) of my likeness and information.

Another clause that bothers me is that before any open source contribution done on my personal time, I have to submit an approval form and await approval grant before contributing.

Are these standard clauses in U.S. employment contracts? I have never signed such a privacy-invasive contract in the country I live in, and do not feel comfortable signing the contract offer I received.
It's basic cable with unlimited DVR, but bring-your-own data pipe.
He was clearly off duty. Being the CEO of a company like Uber is very difficult indeed. Surely the guy doesn't have to answer to literally every single person he meets 24/7 because he is the CEO. He deserves no personal free time?