skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, as much as I don't like Kalanick and would love a reason to dislike him even more, to some degree I have to side with him on this situation.

The footage with the girls, while incredibly awkward, is nothing more than a flirtatious conversation. Now, fair enough that the driver realises he has the CEO of Uber in his car and wants to talk about his situation as a driver, and I give props to Kalanick for actually taking the time to listen and explain.

Did the ending clip not paint Kalanick in the best light? Sure, but keep in mind that in this situation he is a guy in his private life who has been blindsided and accused of ruining this guys life, with, what it seems like from other posts here, lies.

If telling the guy he needs to take responsibility for his own choices instead of looking to blame someone else is the worst thing that Kalanick could say to anyone, then there really isn't a story here from my point of view.

Also, Bloomberg should really take a good hard look at themselves for posting that video without cutting out the conversation with the women. Posting that section of the video is the kind of disgusting shit that TMZ and other gossip rags would pull.
I saw a video of the CEO talking to a driver.
I'm happy the top comment was posted, and simultaneously happy that you pointed out that it is in questionable taste/timing.

Life is full of tradeoffs and balances, it's not wrong to point out the social or human ramifications of a post, just as it's not wrong to reply, "Yes, but nevertheless..."
What makes you say that? The camera looks like it's in a place where you should be able to see it. Either way, I don't think a conversation I have in the back of someone else's car is private.
How are you handling all the rendering that WP needs to do on a post (e.g. shortcodes, special HTML formatting, etc)? ... or are you just forcing your users to write Kramdown and leaving out things like shortcodes? IMO, the worst parts about Wordpress are: 1) complete coupling of data to PHP and 2) the absurdly terrible DB schema.
No kidding. The moment I saw the zip code requirement I knew it was going to be pointless.

Not only that but $35? Come on. There's not $35 worth of programming there. It's just the same old dumbed down broadcast TV that has been in decline for over a decade.

Compared to Netflix, Amazon, and even YouTube shows ABC, NBC, Fox et al just plain suck. As proof, after watching an awesome trailer for some new sci-fi show you may be totally pumped up to watch it until at the end when they announce, "only on ABC!"

"Well shit. So much potential, ruined."
I think this doesn't provide any extra value to anyone who is not a cable subscriber already; this is more useful to those who think cable is a fine package and would just prefer to not actually deal with cable companies any more than they have to. Getting this through YouTube's apps is probably going to be a big tech improvement.

It seems like a decent value proposition if you're into sports, especially if you split the price with 5 other people.
Hopefully they don't attempt to mimic Quebec's Language Police...
Behind the Push to Get Pluto Its Planetary Groove Back
It's politics. He's saying it because it's an effective thing to say, not because he actually didn't know health care is complex.
If it is up to them to fuel the change, it do make them wrong.

A better comparison would be to murder someone and write an essay about how the world is a violent place.
So $35 to stream what is already available free over the air in HD, with a $20 antenna?
Food is a form of cultural memory. Maybe the most important one?
Whilst I don't agree with all you said, indeed the problem we have as a society is that (as snowden et al have revealed), is that I cannot even trust my firmware. And if I cannot trust my firmware, what is the point of securing anything above it.
I don't think releasing the video was right.

Regarding Uber black, another HN user points out,

> Travis is right on a technicality they did not lower Uber Black prices much if any. What they did instead was coerced Uber Black drivers to take Uber X request. Yes drivers can reject Uber X request, but if you reject a certain amount of Uber rides, they kick you off their system. Probably why the driver is complaining about going bankrupt, you need a luxury car to drive Uber Black, but if you're stuck picking Uber X fares you'll lose money.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13758023
Don't worry, you can buy YouTube TV Unlimited for $4 extra per month. :eyeroll:

[1] https://help.hulu.com/articles/52427902
esp since my side project on heroku which uses nothing is down because of this.
> Why shouldn't it be the companies doing business?

Because that's not fair to those of us who work independently. Why should an "employee" get subsidized healthcare but not a struggling business owner? You're saying the only companies worth having are ones big enough to negotiate with insurance companies?
What's your take on this?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q1/bells_theorem_no_epr_reality/
In the end a startup is still a business, and if you don't make more money, you answer to investors, or you start losing money and then shut down, which makes things worse.

Having said that, I do think that trying to min-max pricing is quite a waste of time and resources, assuming you're already at a good place for pricing, and like you mention, are already gaining a decent profit. You'd probably be better off spending developer time and resources into satisfying your customers' needs, performance improvements, instead of extracting the most profit out of them. It's easier to tweak pricing once you build out more value for your customers, instead of paying a bunch of people silicon valley salaries to figure out if 25$ per user vs 26$ per user is better.
This article does a poor job of addressing the root causes of this sort of urban desiccation. There are likely many that compound.

One is certainly the presence of malls and big box stores nearby. I live within walking distance of several groceries and bakeries but I mainly shop at Costco, because of the insane convenience of getting 90% of what I need at one place, with parking, that also happens to be very inexpensive.

Another is tourism. In tourist towns (Albi is one, apparently), there's a tipping-point where shops can make more money selling bottled water and tchotchkes to tourists than they could selling staples to locals, and once you pass that point things go downhill fast.

Lastly, jobs. If Albi is like many small cities in the US, the jobs are simply elsewhere.
I get your point, but I'll also point out that costs a lot more than $35 to lock yourself in a room for 3 months. Many people don't have guaranteed room and board for that long.
> Why did they limit the study to persons over 40 only?

1st sentence of introduction of the fine paper:

"Many countries have already increased their retirement ages by delaying the age at which people are eligible to start receiving pension payments."
S3 is back online (for us)
It's anecdata, but looks like it's working for us now.
You have to admit there's a bit of karma in it. If you want happier drivers, head over to Lyft where we tip better. :P
We're a B2C selling to students, and for us it's not just about maximizing profit or not leaving money on the table.

We definitely want our service to be available to lots of students and to help them learn. But pricing it too low can not only leave money on the table, but actually make our product less valuable. Why? When you pay for something, you want to make the most of it. So our students have an even bigger incentive to keep learning. If it's too cheap, it loses its value, and in a way becomes less useful.

So we try to tier prices and offer a much lower price in developing countries for example. But we still want to find a "sweet-spot" for our main customer base, so people feel that they get value, but also that it's not too cheap so they stop caring about it.

Pricing experiments aren't always evil and the motivation isn't always to grab as much money as possible. Plus, don't forget that you can maximize profits by lowering prices in lots of cases. But you need to be able to test it to find out...
Drivers are contractors, so Uber can dictate the "terms" for contracts it is part of. Drivers are in a contract with Uber.

Uber should be trying to protect its costumers from privacy violations, so it should take steps to ensure drivers are not using anything that would hurt costumers physically or by any other way. I understand the some of the recent privacy issues in Uber have come from its employees and not from drivers, so It should also be trying to get rid of destructive employees as well.
You're allowed to film people without their permission if they enter your property, or are in a public arena for security purposes. But _publishing_ that film is strictly immoral and illegal in many jurisdictions.
Video games. They require soft realtime constraints which current browsers are far from satisfying. Think networking, frame rendering, physics loop (even with deltas), etc. All of that is highly time-dependent.
> I think I would be okay with being filmed as long as it wasn't secret.

Would you be OK with the video being published on a major news site?
I interact with slow and/or battery draining software every day that annoys me.
Right, the driver didn't even know what the current Uber Black fair was...falsely claiming it was $2.75. Anyone would get annoyed when someone was telling you that you were essentially doing your job wrong but didn't even know the basic facts. In this case, these facts have a direct impact on the driver, which makes it all the more inane that he doesn't know them.
Then charge per character and ramp it up as it gets longer.
> will I someday be prosecuted for the news articles I read or the songs I listen to or my amazon purchases or my google searches? I guess maybe, but that is a HUGE maybe.

Perhaps you aren't vulnerable, but there are many who are. What if you are Muslim or interested in Islam? LGBTQ in a small town? And do we know who will be in power and what the risks will be 20 years from now? We can't wait until someone starts to abuse power; it will be too late to stop them.

Also, I think the parent greatly underestimates the risks of abuses of power. Read the history of the civil rights movement, for example, when the U.S. government tried to blackmail Martin Luther King, or conducted COINTELPRO. People feel vulnerable to this day; when U.S. government mass surveillance became public recently, evidence showed that people began self-censoring their searches.

Finally, one reason many in the West feel safe is that institutions were built to protect against abuse of power. There is nothing genetically different about Western leaders that makes them less prone to abusing it. For example, a military coup in the U.S. might seem very unlikely; one reason for that is the structure of the defense institutions are designed to prevent it, partly based on what happened with the German military before WWII.

What are we doing to protect and provide freedom to the next generations, as our predecessors did for us?

> most of the data collection benefits us all in at least some small way

You may feel that way, but shouldn't people be able to disagree and have a choice?
much of O. Henry, "The gift of the Magi", and "The Last Leaf" are really good. Also virtually anything by Borges, "The Library of Babel" is a nice place to start.
Networks available:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wZJuVdp0HaH4GQiB-XNVz76qkd...
Me. If I still used Twitter. Heck, I tweet maybe 5 times a month and I'd pay that. $1 a month is so cheap I would notice.
I like JS, so that's not my problem per se.
I think there is nothing wrong with asking a candidate to do live coding/algorithms given that they could be solved in reasonable amounts of time and the interviewer has practice in helping a candidate feel comfortable doing so.

If I'm in an interview and I feel judged/nervous enough I'm going to struggle to spell my own name, much less write a merge sort. If I feel like I'm having fun and the interviewer is just sort of pair programming with me to make sure I'm not BSing that I could code, then sure, I can probably do most medium level algorithmic problems after some stumbling around and mis starts.
People already hack around this by posting images of text, or using several tweets (usually annotated with "1/" "2/" etc, or merely by replying to their own tweets).

The images hurt accessibility, and the streams make it harder to share the discussion (which is partly the purpose of being a social app to begin with).
So... Reasoning is for socializing, but I never found out why, this is too rambly and I'm not trapped on a four hour flight anymore.
Good design instincts takes lots of hard earned real world experience to develop. I wouldnt expect the average 21 year old programmer to really know how to design stuff maybe they can provide me crammed textbook answers but that is as "irrelevant" as whiteboarding.

I think a good approach is to not emphasize the whiteboard as much for senior hires, so people with good work experience can mostly get in on their resume and design questions and people with lesser experience still have the opportunity to break into these top companies by grinding algo questions.
They're equally competent except that they can't design an algorithm on demand based on remembered strategies for solving problems, or talk intelligently about the trivia of the field that can come up in a technical interview, or tell you the asymptotic running time of a given algorithm, or comfortably rattle off a bunch of code from experience without needing to look things up online, etc.

That's not the same as being equally competent.
It is probably, in a limited sense, ethical to suspend (save) the game, but not ethical to destroy the saved game file. When the game is off, the dwarves do not experience an interruption of continuity to their time. So on the face of it, there is no harm done to the dwarves if there is an existential interruption from the perspective of some external context.

However, the abstraction of the dwarven universe from the universe in which it is being simulated is hardly complete.

By suspending the game and keeping it in storage for several days, for instance, you are placing the dwarves at greater and greater risk that some external-universe course of events will prevent their universe from ever resuming. Furthermore, as the cycles of time which can occur in the universe ultimately face a limit with respect to the rate of the processor and the cycles of time available in the external universe, so in a very real sense you are causing a sort of existential damage to their universe.

This, in fact, raises the question of ethics with respect to the resources devoted to the simulation. Is it ethical to run dwarf fortress on a consumer-grade general purpose computing device? Should not the dwarven reality be given the strongest underpinnings we can provide it, with equivalent respect given between an internal universe subjective & sentient existence an external universe subjective & sentient existence? In fact, given our moral debt as the creators of the dwarven universe, do we not actually owe them more than we owe each other?
Woah so TypeScrippt will be able to compile directly to Web Assembly. Thats reall cool.
If I was a solo SaaS founder, I'd rather have 100 customers paying me $100/month apiece than 1,000 customers paying me $10/month.

Your time is worth something, and customer support is a very real burden. In the case of a $10/month user, answering one customer support email more than wipes out all of the revenue you've earned from them that month.
You can have a high level of customer satisfaction if you lie to them and arrange so that they don't even notice, and by having a good damage control strategy for when some customers do notice they aren't getting that they were promised.

Such approach has better ROI than actually doing high quality products or services, which is why so much of what we buy is utter shit. That's especially true on the mass market, when satisfaction of individual customers doesn't impact your company at all, as long as they're not complaining too loud.
I have to say, that would be interesting, as my conversations are not usually relevant to the readers of bloomberg. I might not be happy about it, but I'm not sure that a law was broken or that I would have any recourse...
What does "6 accounts, 1 price" mean?
My approach is not ad hoc. I have refined my questions and technique over a decade of conducting interviews and much more being on the other end of them.

Let me be clear; it's what works best for me. It may not work best for everyone. But I feel our industry doesn't even really put much thought into interviews right now. They just find some coding puzzles online and say "Here do these." That sucks. There's always something better you could be doing IMHO.
There is no cloud, there is only someone else's computer.

:(
I think of Singapore Airport.

Which - being an airport - is about as transient as you can possibly get.

No community, no common culture, no (historical) shared experiences…just a brief fleeting visit in the present moment, on your way to somewhere else.

Which is maybe a reflection of the experience of modern life.
This really needs to beat PS Vue's selection to be competitive. SlingTV looks good but the lack of a DVR function is a non-starter. I'm not even sure why they bothered to even launch without that. Who watches live tv?
That idea is as old as the web and I don't see why Twitter doing it will suddenly make it work.
I would have a product recommendation. Twitter missed the change to be a player in the chat space, but it could still offer a chat experience that other services can't.

Imagine Twitter would start offering users the possibility to create group chats where only the invited users can write in but that others could follow in real time.

So lets say there is an Apple keynote and @BenedictEvans, @asymco and @gruber start a group chat where they comment the event. I get a notification that this group chat started and I can go and follow it (the same way I could follow a live video). I can't comment myself, but I can follow their conversation (and maybe hit the like button from time to time). Because it's a chat, the participants will write much more than they would if they would be only limited to tweeting.

It's crazy that in 2017 we can see celebrities interacting with each other via video, tweets,snaps, Facebook comments and so on, but there is no option to follow a real time chat between them.
Whiteboards are useful for conversations about software architecture, but that seems to be the less common application in interviews.

Writing pseudocode you've memorized from a book is fundamentally meaningless. You have to realize it isn't really a programming test: it's a filter for whether you're willing to do what's required to fit in.

The principle is the same as in classic British private schools where boys were required to memorize long passages of ancient Greek and Latin texts. In fact, tech companies would probably get the same hiring results by replacing Cracking the Code Interview with Ovid's Metamorphoses, and asking about Phaethon's fall instead of binary trees -- the substance doesn't really matter. (The non-whiteboard parts of the process would do the same job as they currently do of ensuring some degree of practical software competence.)
Font Awesome went out for me for a bit, but they did a great job getting back up and keeping their users in the loop.

https://status.fortawesome.com/
You literally can't make this shit up
$35/month ouch.
I am in ads, and occasionally deal with ad fraud. So i cannot speak what they do for other products. I don't think you should derive any meaning from what I say.
Agreed on 1 and 2, but how does that work for improving targeting.
Cut costs and lose the millions of bots! It's disheartening to be followed and messaged by bots all the time. You feel like you're in a echo chamber for crazy people.
Subways, buses etc. are public spaces. A car is not, and unless the driver had a prominent sign conveying that everyone is being recorded, it is definitely an invasion of the reasonable expectation of privacy.
I mean, that's not really AWS's problem, is it? Outages happen. If you have a mission-critical service like health care, you really shouldn't write systems with single points of failure like this, especially not systems that depend on something consumer-grade like S3.

This appears to be a normal doctor's office where there are routine appointments. Emergencies would be referred to the ER anyway. And while I obviously don't know the details of how his office is run, you'd think that you could get by on a pen-and-paper fallback to manage the office. Maybe that's an advantage to keeping experienced office staff on board.
I don't know if you realize it, but you are conflating anti-immigration sentiments with racism.
What if it all ends up as chic commercial fusion food artisanally and algorithmically optimized for flavor and appeal to the popular taste of the moment?
Fix the bot problem. Beyond headline testing, I'll never advertise on Twitter again due to bot clicks.
look up 2 party consent laws in California.
It's not just watching it at a specific time, but also watching at a specific speed. I watch most video at 1.5x speed. Professional standards for how fast to talk are set low enough for a wide audience including non-native speakers. If you're watching something in your native language you can almost certainly understand faster. Live TV feels annoyingly slow.
I am a real Software Engineer. I don't remember all the details that are seconds away via Google or other reference documentation. I focus my brain power on thinking about the problem, trying to see it in the wider context, and understanding the needs of the users in my problem domain. I weigh the different solutions, choose a reasonable one, and implement a prototype that I can refactor into shape, step by step. And I have been doing this since 1981, before people talked about Agile, Patterns, and so on.

Best practices are best for a reason, and the reason is not the language around describing the practice, not the experts who wrote books and give seminars about the practice and not because of some Computer Science professors choice of course material.

What is wrong with thinking about problems before rushing into a solution? Since when does a certified computer science solution solve real world problems for real users? (answer: occasionally). The world of software development is driven as much by mindless fads as fashion, entertainment and politics.

But it should be more about hard nosed engineering, up against the wall face to face with harsh realities.
I started out as a PHP web developer and started developing in .NET when it was released. At this stage, I've been developing applications in .NET for 15 years. Whenever I have to look at a PHP project or ASP classic project, the code quality is usually much worse than other languages. ASP and PHP make it really, really easy to do things wrong.