skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2013, I nearly died from getting hit by a car. I was 28.

In 2014, a friend died in a car crash, a victim of a drunk reckless driver. He was 27.

In 2017, my college roommate died in a lake accident. He left behind a wife and 6 adopted children from Africa (he was a man of God). He was 32.

As others have noted, life is often long and investing in our future financial wellbeing is a prerogative. But sometimes life gets cut shockingly short. Take some withdrawls from the fruits of your hard work with those you love from time to time; don't save all of it for a future that sadly might not come for some of us.
> As Volkswagen discovered

Night and day. Volkswagen was falsifying data provided to the government at an identified testing facility. Uber is fuzzing data and refusing to provide services to certain customers who have not identified themselves as police, though may be*.

A city official cannot demand entry to private property without a warrant. Furthermore, one can eject someone from your place of business--again, provided they don't have a warrant. To get a warrant, investigators need probable cause. There are good reasons we limit the power of those seeking probable cause.
Seems they have rushed a design to production. When this happen, except if the design flaws are utterly catastrophic (read on the level of batteries exploding here and there; or perhaps slightly marginally less grave problems), production will happily happen and only actual production flaws will result in the possibility of an effective RMA. This is the case for any hardware mass-producing company. This is actually also the case for production of dedicated hardware at intermediate volume. "Of course" in that situation pretty much no company will publicly acknowledge about the design flaws, even when obvious -- I put "of course" between quotes because this is hugely ridiculous, and I predict that state of doing that part of the business will change to far more transparency in a few years.
I'd rather spend my 20s and 30s exploring the world, finding adventures, and meeting women.

Working in tech gave me the opportunity to do that while minimizing time spent working.

I think before we can share cautionary tales of other people, we have to acknowledge the freedom most of us have in this industry.
You chose indirectly when you voted for the city counselors who granted franchise agreements to your ISP and power company.
It's a fair observation that you could build end-usery UIs on a LispM. The default UI was pretty programmery, but then that's true of pretty much all computers at the time they were being introduced.

I guess a more important factor is that PCs were cheap enough to create a market for friendlier UIs, and LispMs weren't.
It may have been months of thinking and two weeks of coding. Once the stars align things can happen very quickly!
No, because it's not the tool alone it's the shady act without the tool vs. the shady act with the tool.

(And it mostly only applies to acts that, while perceived as shady, wouldn't be perceived as outright evil on their own -- no one thinks that something that is unquestionably murder on its own is more evil because you tried to conceal it [0], but if you are taking your co-workers' food out of the fridge, the idea that it wasn't intentional wrongdoing is harder to maintain when you're also caught stashing the wrappers in someone else's trash.)

[0] "No one" is a dramatic exaggeration, of course, and this assumes that the acts done in concealment aren't evil on their own, etc., etc.
When we're trying to balance a trade off, I often wish we could just do A/B testing on it, but that's not realistic for languages.
I don't understand how you can run a financial exchange and not have break analysis running periodically (if not every transaction). How else are you going to catch mininteractions between complex systems on an on going basis?

Apparently Fintech startups have no need for the wisdom built up over the course of 500 years of modern banking, because this stuff is Banking 101 for any engineer at a bank.
That is not the correct way. The correct way is to use fxed-decimal math, and pay careful attention to rounding.

No floats. Not even once.
Maybe people at NSA. FTFY
Crowd sourcing your Spotify playlist live
No, a bit closer to 'mens rea' with regards to conspiracy.
Decent. Feel free to email me. John@stae.co
Herein lies the source of the disagreement.

We are all better off because uber willfully disregarded these laws and regulations. These laws once had a good reason, but are now still on the books only because incumbents have regulators in their pockets.

As for lobbying to have the laws changed, if you expect startups to be able to lobby in every jurisdiction to get the law changed against incumbents when the regulators often come from the industry the startup is disrupting, then I got a bridge to sell you.
Use fixed-point decimal math.
I wasn't saying Tim Cook is lacking in skills. As the CEO of one of the world's most successful companies he certainly has his own unique and impressive skills.

Lisa Su demonstrated an impressive skill not every CEO could pull off and I wanted to highlight that. That's all.

Whether being technically adept is a requirement or not, I'd say no in general for tech companies (and I'd count Apple as one) but for a certain subset of the tech companies (AMD, Tesla) it certainly seems to help.
I'm totally on Uber side here. Both Uber users and drivers use the service voluntarily. It may discriminate, be unsafe, whatever, but I just ride a bus and don't care.

When government tries to interfere with voluntary exchange, it is OK to circumvent it.

See what HN says when government tries to prevent you from using certain websites or services (Signal messenger, just for example). We call it censorship, use VPNs and circumvent government regulations all the ways possible. Service providers hide behind CDNs and use domain fronting to increase collateral damage, move to liberal countries and things like that. It is the same case here.
#define M_PI 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
They should take on a huge project, like say, converting the linux source code into Rust.

The sheer bulk of the code will effectively "force" them to make Rust ergonomic. They might even end up with annoying things, like different sized ints on different CPUs, or... (horror of horrors)... running Rust through a pre-processor as part of its compilation.
I'm not sure, it looks both are still active.
People are talking about globalism in response to your question, but that answer is beating around the bush. The truth is that neo-liberal elites have been slowly weakening democracies and taking more and more wealth and power. They recognize that the inequality gap is now too large, but in their greed and competitiveness they have been unable to relinquish their grasp despite and a critical mass of unrest is fomenting.

An example is how the US Democrats clearly needed to support an anti-establishment progressive to win the election but in their greed for power and wealth they maintained the status quo rather than doing something that would help the common man, giving up the election to a nationalist.
Uber's support is pretty worthless - every interaction is with a different person, and none of them read the conversation history. I'd expect the person would get a runaround and just wind up going in circles.
I'm writing from a point of innocent curiosity:

> I mean, if you are really too hard-hearted to understand that life can end suddenly, and that you should cherish your connections with others, then I pity you.

Is this really what this essay was about? Using off-hand literary analysis, it's only a story, albeit a sad one, about a woman who's about to die, publicly absolving her husband from the sin of dating after your spouse has died.

She mentions she wants "more":

> I want more time with Jason. I want more time with my children. I want more time sipping martinis at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Thursday nights.

But, this is only a small part of this piece and the connection that people need to focus less on their jobs and more on their lives seems to be a guilty conscience projecting its own meaning onto a, arguably, blank canvas.

There is no underlying meaning here. The author is days away from being dead and it shows. She doesn't have the characteristic panic of the just-enlightened who've learned they will die. Nor is she showing any fight.

The story plays out like a fever dream. It would be coarse to call it a rambling, but that is how it came out.
Yes they aren't. But as you clai. Guantanamo bay is one, well, china has plenty of examples of that. America has first world problems, china has third world problems, different scales completely.

Anyways, this whataboutism-ing is idiotic. If you want to talk about the USA whenever we are talking about china fine, but why don't you start a separate article submission.
Wow. This has GOT to be illegal...right?
[Citation Needed]

I realize there are some folks with their head in the sand, but I've never once met someone who actually believed that and I'm not even coastal.
Not sure. I just hear that you can't go live in the woods for too long without getting into legal trouble. Maybe I'm wrong?
But I'm confused. Are they actively pushing other businesses out? Or are they just snatching up vacancies where businesses already failed?
Ideal Numbers Seek Their Lost Primes
You are forgetting the "Visa Waiver Program". Essentially, the rest of us Europeans are required to fill out detailed forms, pay a fee for filling out those forms, and then get a government-issued authorization for "visa free" travel. Right.
i dont even know where to begin with how wrong this is. what culture is something like Todai-Ji a part of? since japan was apparently invented in 1868
This specific situation is not that, it's a problem with visa waiver reciprocity: all US citizens get a waiver to the EU, but not all EU countries get waiver in the US. In 2001 the EU adopted a rule that reciprocity is required for an EU visa waiver.

The US were notified about the non-reciprocity issue in 2014 alongside Australia, Brunei, Canada and Japan, published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 12 April 2014[0]. The situation with Australia and Japan had been resolved by April 2016[1], Brunei resolved it in April 2016[2], and Canada is in the process of resolving it and will be implementing reciprocity through 2017 but there had been no such evidence from the US by December 2016[3]:

> Following intensive and coordinated efforts and sustained engagement between the EU and Canada at political and technical level ahead of the 16th EU-Canada Summit on 30 October 2016 in Brussels, Canada provided a clear timeline for achieving full visa waiver reciprocity with Bulgaria and Romania, the two remaining EU countries whose citizens still require visas. On 3 October 2016 Canada announced that it will lift the visa requirement from 1 May 2017 for Bulgarian and Romanian travellers who have held a Canadian temporary resident visa in the past 10 years or who hold a valid U.S. non-immigrant visa. The rest of the travellers will become visa-free as from 1 December 2017.

> Despite the stepping up of political and technical contacts, there have not been comparable indications of progress towards the lifting of visas with the U.S.

[0] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1345_en.htm

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-is-new/news/news/2016...

[3] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-4484_en.htm
I think it was Giordano Bruno who first claimed that whatever has the most value and the least cost of storage will become money.
The US would need reasonable public healthcare first.
Agreed, I like having both of your points (plus user management).
Even Razer's mice are pretty shit quality. I've had them going back to the original Boomslang, and I don't think I've ever had one last more than two years. I just like their ergonomics and features -- and the fact that Razer is good about replacing them when they break quickly, which they often do -- enough to put up with it.

I'm probably harder on input devices than most people, but I have working Logitech and Microsoft mice that are older than Razer itself.
I'd say that you can use the washing up liquid 'Fairy' (Dawn?) for almost all cleaning related tasks.

An exception is getting rid of limescale, where you need an acid. Citric acid works fine and does not smell.

If you have a wooden floor, a specially made detergent with a wax component is probably also a good idea.

I also have a machine with a private git repo that I keep some shit in - mostly half made things like an dead ant stack simulator, a non-working robot simulator controlled by a un-evolved neural network, a few heuristic Sudoku solvers, a really advanced configuration-management tool that might have worked at one point, and 20 years of random junk like that.

It actually also contains a GPU based Smith-Waterman algorithm using Aparapi that I think actually works and could possibly be moved to github without too much embarrassment. Maybe I should do that...
Nah, someone was just speculating about hacking/cracking it and installing the linux steam client. Sorry to get your hopes up.
Should everyone get to decide what laws to follow?

You act as if they don't already. Society works pretty well anyways.
Having kids, and following any passions in your young adult life, are mutually exclusive goals. You can't have both, unless maybe you're independently wealthy and even then the marriage and kids will constrain your time a lot.

Our biological condition where we need to have kids in our 20s or at the latest 30s is simply incompatible with our other goals in modern society: building a prosperous career for a good nest egg, doing great work (science, research, art, etc.), working your way out of the lower classes into higher classes, etc. There just isn't enough time for it all. So as a result, we're seeing only really well-off people and really poor people having kids. The well-off people can afford nannies, while the poor people live on welfare and food stamps or have crappy jobs and struggle like you experienced. The poor breed more poor people who end up being a drain on society, plus a few who manage to break out of it, but then grow up scarred by the experience and don't have any kids themselves. This isn't a recipe for a healthy, stable society.

What we really need to do is figure out how to greatly increase human lifespans so that people can wait until they're 50-100 before they have kids (and feel youthful enough at that age to do so).
Gogs is fast. Makes Gitlab seem very slow.
Wait, so people use git and they don't know this?

How?
I disagree. I found the looping animations jarring and having 3 or 4 of them on screen at once is really distracting, and the image quality is very poor. The animation isn't even showing anything informative, just rushing water. The underlying damage isn't even visible.

Reuter's had a picture gallery just a couple days ago that shows the damage much better:

http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/massive-damage-at-califo...
Yes, everyone should decide what laws to follow. Ask rosa parks or any poor soul unfortunate enough to be a citizen of nazi Germany.
so basically trickle down economics?
The problem is that the EU is organized in such a way that it is at an intermediate stage between it being just a bunch of different nations and it being something similar to the USA. We need more EU and less nationalism to become something similar to the USA, we need a bigger EU government and smaller nations governments. The EU government is about 1% of the GDP and the nations governments are 50%, we need to reverse those numbers.

Of course I agree that the EU is not very democratic right, we also need to change that.
> Alternately, I wish rust would let me say that all those temporary values should live as long as the returned thing (log and db), so it can keep them around even if I don't have variables for them.

Possibly I've missed something critical about your example, but I think you may want to create a struct Log, turn open_log() into Log::new(), and put the things the log needs (such as the log file) inside Log, owned by Log.
"What's proposed here is a universally good way to think about what to make implicit."

I had a completely opposite reaction. It ignores all of the important things that make usability good and instead focuses on the approach that essentially promotes inconsistencies in design.

"The basic thesis of this post is that implicit features should balance these three dimensions. If a feature is large in one of the dimensions, it’s best to strongly limit it in the other two."
There's Servo: https://servo.org/
Search for relax/relax on GitHub. You'll love it.
Assuming you're against -arbitrary- people and entities operating above the law, how do you square that with the opinion in your comment?

A broader point is that its 2017; we have a decent grasp of chaos theory. We know that self regulation in chaotic systems takes the form of hard to predict cycles of extreme variation. We know that stabilizing these systems requires external adjustments to parameters; some dampening here, a little increase there, etc. Personally, I've grown to quite enjoy being a part of an economy that has some measure of stability introduced to it.
Appreciate the insider insight!
From moving from Perl to Rust, the only thing that I miss is the postfix "if":

return true if number > 2;

VS:

if number > 2 {
return true
}

I find that one-liners like these are really ergonomic.
Obstruction of justice and interfering with police duties are crimes in plenty of jurisdictions. I'm not sure Waze is a good comparison - your behavior around knowing where a police car was sighted is to comply better with the law, so it'd be hard to argue it's obstruction of justice.
This is just as bad as the Volkswagen emission testing scandal and I hope just as disastrous for the offending company.
In the past 8 years, the relations between the EU and the US had improved a lot (despite there being some high profile espionage scandals). I truly hope both sides can work together, and solve minor issues like these. It would really suck to go back to the times of "Freedom Fries", especially with the threat of inner rupture, and Russian pressure in the Baltics.
> I'm not even European

Now there's a surprise.
This is why I always have two bank accounts (with two different banks and two different ATM cards) and always have two credit cards, in case one bank account or one credit card gets shut down or skimmed it wouldn't be a big inconvenience. Especially helpful if you are going out of the country.
> Feel free to actually try to refute anything I said.

Refute right-wing propaganda?

> It is according to Avraham Burg, and I'm not sure there is anyone more qualified to make such a claim.

Point me to a recording where Schulz said anything like that. On the contrary, Schulz has a decade long track record working for Germany and the European Union.
The Fast Track to Safe and Secure PHP Sessions (2015)
Informal is fine. The important thing is to do user testing in an ongoing way, not just once. Without a feedback loop it's quite surprising how quickly development priorities diverge from what's really important.
There's a legal requirement to comply to emissions laws.

Is there a legal requirement to make it easy for cops to use your service? Are they a protected class?

If I didn't want to sell donuts to the cops, I sure wouldn't tell them it's because they are cops. I would just be mysteriously out of donuts every time they come in.
The idea that building high-income housing makes rents rise is pretty obviously bunk, but the idea that building high-income housing "helps affordability" is not as clear cut. Is it good to increase supply? Yes, of course. But on the other hand, this article fails to mention three phenomena plaguing cities like London, San Francisco, and Vancouver:

1. Speculators. There's been a huge uptick in people from other locales - even internationally - buying or building housing units as investments and literally leaving them empty, expecting them to appreciate in value. These units are effectively not part of the housing stock and don't help with the supply problem.

2. Vacation Homes. As wealth inequality has become more dramatic, the wealthy have more income to spend on vacation homes. In cities like Portland, Maine, Manhattan and San Francisco, many high-end condo buyers are buying these units as vacation destinations that they'll only occupy for a tiny part of the year. These too are not being truly added to the housing supply.

3. Airbnb/Short Term Rentals. I don't want to single out Airbnb here, but it's known to real estate agents and investors that you can make way more money with an Airbnb rental than a long-term rental. (Where I live it's about 5x difference in annual income.) Many new housing units are being eaten by people who use them to operate short-term rentals, which they have an enormous economic incentive to do. These units too are not being added to the long-term housing supply.
Wait... WhatsApp has a J2ME app? Like... a Midlet? From the 90s? For real?
I prefer a Middle Eastern or African to a Trump supporter. It's just too dangerous to let them in to spread their ideology. ;-)
Yes, if every single rich person owns a flat in NYC, that might make NYC unaffordable. They might also do the same in London and SF. That only leaves the entire rest of the world to live in.

If the rich concentrate, they can only harm a small number of locations. After all, there aren't very many of them.

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?

Well, I'd expect additional housing to be built because developers are clamoring to do exactly that. They are just not legally permitted to do so in a few of the highly desirable locations (e.g. NYC, SF, Paris).
>Sounds like he dropped the ball.

You're actually making my point for me: The US requires someone with a spouse and children who are citizens to get a visa to come and live with them.

If it didn't, there would be no ball to drop.

(Never mind that you also quote the part that is irrelevant to his spouse).
The Rust compiler is written in Rust, so rest assured the Rust core developers spend a lot of time dealing with the language itself. Additionally Mozilla is spending quite a bit of developer time on Servo, so we have quite a few people actively writing a lot of Rust code.