skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selling out by 9 shows they at least didn't overproduce to a flop considering how awful the WiiU sold?
Indeed there is much to be said for the value of diversifying your assets, and the same is true when it comes to physical and nonphysical currency. Now, where to put them...
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Human bodies are actually quite good at blocking Bluetooth. My $15 no-brand BT headphones can handle three walls in between my Nexus tablet and them, but putting it in my back pocket is enough to get dropped packets.
Ask HN: How do you deal with sites auto-playing ads/videos with sound?
I would deal argue that the most annoying thing about publishers online is this recent tendency of auto-playing videos--and now it seems to be always with sound! Is there a Chrome plugin that deals with this?(It's not always ads so I am excluding AdBlock here.)

And I read recently Facebook will be 'sound on' going forward for autoplay so I'd love to hear your suggestions.

Thanks!
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Are DC Taxis not "ruthless, impersonal and corporate" enough?
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Not parent, but for example, this is how easy serialization is in Scala Play in the majority of cases:

case class Person(name: String, age: Int, likes: List[CustomObject]) //simple data object
implicit val personFormat: Format[Person] = format[Person] //this creates a "Format[Person]" with serialize/deserialize methods

The code to generate a serializer/deserializer is completely independent from the definition of the data, no annotations or XML needed. It is also efficient in that it doesn't use reflection. This is only possible because of how expressive Scala is - macros and strong type system means a lot of powerful code introspection can be done at compile time.

Because of implicits, most of the time I write that one line above, and an HTTP handler as a simple function from (Person => HttpResponse) and dont even think about the serialization/deserialization. And that one line is not an opaque abstraction, it is very customizable if you need it to be, and all via code not config.

Using Jackson in Java can get much more complex because annotations and XML files creep across the whole code if you want compile time generation. I think this is directly because Java's inspect/generate code at compile-time is not as powerful as macros.
RFC 2606 reserves the "example.com", "example.net" and "example.org" domains for examples. Please don't invent your own domains for this purpose.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-3
Maybe it's a foolish thought, but it occurred to me that maybe in 10/20 years AAA game titles will have a 'web' version, as well as the PC and game console ones. Or maybe they let you play a demo for free on the browser, with real gameplay mechanics and graphics made with wasm or similar tech.
Unbiased algorithms. /s
It's worse than that. There is a third band, 802.11ad running at 60GHz. But as you say "tri-band" actually means tri-channel.
Well, your AM receiver wouldn't support them anyway.
Ugh. That's ugly. The history behind that crash is too.
Couple of months.
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Ask HN: Signup for service via e-mail instead of html form
I'm thinking about having my developer focused startup accept signups by having users send an inbound e-mail (signup@mystartup.com) instead of having a traditional web based form.

Using Mailgun, I can parse incoming e-mails and automagically create accounts. My thinking is that this will cut down the back and forth of going from form to email to activate. It also reduces the likelihood of signup bounce.

What are the pros and cons of this approach? Anybody tried it?
This is what greets me:

"This feature isn't available to everyone yet."

I get no info from the linked page.
Do you want your car service also to be disrespectful about laws? Disrespectful about women in tech? Disrespectful to privacy?
This is becoming far too common. It seems like every good long read I see these days is on a site affected by this problem. Even the tiniest scroll jump causes these things to appear and disappear, moving or obscuring the relevant content underneath. I've been thinking of making a Firefox extension that allows you to whitelist "position: fixed" on a per-site basis, but that won't help much on Mobile Safari!
i will basically never get into a taxi again unless it is passing by and stops for me just as i need it. the price difference, if there is one, will not be a compelling reason to switch back.
Isn't Uber like a Ponzi scheme in some way? They use investors money to subsidize drivers so that prices are low and they get more users, and with more users they are valued better and get more investors money. When investors money or/and user growth stops, prices go up, people stop using it, and the system collapses (or at least the user base shrinks).
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Wouldn't any scheme runtime/compiler need to handle that, though? In other words, wouldn't a transform to a loop (on the js side) be one possible approach?
As Oren Klaff said...you can't steal it, you can't find it, you can't buy it...you have to earn it.[0]

Courses and books give you tool. For sharpening, you have to use it daily.

Good resources about "tools":

> I'd Rather Die! Public Speaking Survival Skills by Robert Scanlon.[1]

> MIT OWC - Rethoric [2]

> Oren Klaff - How To Pitch Anything (LondonReal) [0]

> (not exactly about speaking but suitable for speak preparation) Technical communication by Mike Markel [3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxwTn_f5yaI

[1] https://goo.gl/zv2DOY

[2] https://goo.gl/oJ4lRL

[3] https://goo.gl/AxS1Pc

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Local taxes on earnings above the $108000 can be taken as a credit:

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/choo...

However, you can choose to take the foreign tax credit on any amount of foreign income which has not been excluded under the foreign earned income exclusion or the foreign housing exclusion.

So it isn't a double tax, the US credits the foreign tax payments.
I miss Access. Superb RAD tool. Especially for small biz type solutions where you are replacing pen and paper, or "dunno".
I totally agree, I've mentioned in earlier threads that it seems to me that Uber is Groupon v2 having its Zenefits moment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13788642
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13585025
> As an immigrant and woman, I have often felt like a lone barometer in gauging the importance of a lot of issues around gender, race and culture.

This really stains the author's credibility (a statement which would, I'm sure, be met with shocked incredulousness from her). One's imagined "identity" has precisely zilch to do with any discussion where truth is being investigated.

If you want to relate an experience ("I was harassed on the job"), then by all means do so; your gender (or any other attribute), if part of the story, will be just that: part of the story, without any signaling or fuss. Its importance to the related experience will be baked right into the significance of the story itself.

If, however, you're trying to zero in on a bit of objective truth ("What does Apple do to handle harassment reports from employees?"), then your own attributes do not play a role. Only evidence matters, and by loudly signaling up front that you are more qualified than anyone else to analyze a question because of your "identity", you are shredding your trustworthiness as a rational analyst.
I think about this a lot.

We live in a time where some of the most ridiculous services are being subsidized big time by VC cash, and I should be enjoying it while it lasts. From cheap rides to the airport, food delivery, laundry service, etc... soak it up now.
Which may also work against them...

> If Uber stalls, it isn’t going to be saved by a loyal consumer fan base. There is no stickiness to Uber. It has no frequent-rider program. It has no social component. It prevents users from forming bonds with drivers. No one gets a heightened sense of self by identifying as an Uber rider versus some competitor. We’ll stick with Uber as long as it continues to get us where we want to go at a price we like. Someone else comes along with a better service or lower price, we’ll use it.
I wouldn't pay for it. I (and most of the US) don't have the money to blow $50 each way to the airport for a vacation. Assuming Uber/Lyft on both ends, that's $200 in airport transportation which is nearly the cost of the airfare to fly a thousand miles round trip.
I genuinely believe Facebook is a threat to society at this point. It's a website which is designed with decades of psychology in mind specifically to trigger animal-like instincts of immediacy and self-gratification with no real purpose other than to raise Facebook's market value.

It helps us stay connected sure (though it feels more like some kind of serfdom where you have to keep a Facebook account), but it also encourages narcissism, envy, and echo chambers. Don't like an opinion (or fact)? Scream, block, or dispute it and get that person out of your life so you've got a nice curated feed which fits all your preconceptions. What has its ecosystem created which is of lasting value?

I've never trusted Facebook from an ethical standpoint but as they exist longer, its hard to trust them from a social engineering standpoint either. They have more data available to them than anyone save god, better machine learning capabilities and stats than anyone else, and it takes them until after the election to recognize fake news is a problem? Of course, conveniently, the result of the election didn't fit Zuckerberg's political views.

You can get downvoted on HN for stating an opinion or fact that someone doesn't like for whatever reason. Some people are very spiteful. This is the solution?
Is that inches or feet? With my bose qc35 I can walk 5 to 10 meters away from my phone/computer. (10 if clear view, 5 if wall)

1.5 meters seems very little and 18 meters seems too much.
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ < The most popular version of the most popular javascript engine supports tail call optimization.

That said, it would still probably be worth doing the optimization in the transpiler, to avoid having the JS compiler have to work out if your program runs into any JS pitfalls.
The classical hidden terminal problem, where two clients of the same AP can't receive each other and so collide when they transmit, isn't such a big deal with WiFi. First, there are, by definition, no hidden terminals for the downlink (and most traffic is downstream), or the clients couldn't associate with the AP. Second, although two clients can't receive each other's transmissions, if they're associated with the same AP they can usually hear each other well enough for carrier sense to work.

The usual problem these days is too many overlapping networks. Different APs on the same channel will not only defer to each other when they can hear each other, but also because the AP tends to use a shorter contention window than clients, when they do transmit, they still collide with each other with moderately high probability. Worse, modern 802.11n and 802.11ac only get good performance by forming aggregates of many packets (up to 64KB in 802.11n, more in ac) to reduce the overhead of medium acquisition. Often they don't use RTS/CTS because this reduces performance in benchmarks. When such aggregates collide you lose the whole aggregate, not just one packet.
The more imminent concern is that publishers are beginning to bundle browser runtimes completely replacing native browser functionality along with its established privacy and fair use expectations. Say hello to unskippable interstitials, unblockable analytics and targeted advertising, content that can't be linked, saved/archived, mirrored, cached, shared, translated or made otherwise accessible.

Developers mostly discuss JavaScript shortcomings and new possibilities offered by WebAss, but seem otherwise happy to completely throw the fundamental architecture of the web under the bus.

Technically, what WebAss can do has since long been possible with native applications; the only thing added here are new software licensing models, eg. pay-per-use, but mostly tracking/ad-financed.
Why would the self driving cars need better maps than humans do? After all, we use this maps to go where we want to.
HTTP is not the only traffic on a network. DNS is rarely encrypted, and many email providers use STARTTLS, which starts unencrypted.
I'd say that such a 'philosophical' zombie would indeed be conscious. In fact, I'd call it human.

As for how it arose, I'd posit a theory:
As an animal starts modeling others, at some point it's model includes the others are also modeling others. Now, combine this with that animal (and the others) also modeling themselves. At some point, probably during collaboration, it starts becoming useful to start reconciling these models with each other by communicating about them.

Now, reconciling models about a third party is already a big step, but essentially speculation. At some point though, someone might want to reconcile their model of you with your own model of yourself. After all, your model is probably a better source of truth. This requires phrases like: "I think that", "I wanted", perhaps even "I wondered".

Interestingly, this account of consciousness is rooted very deeply in the 'second-person'. It is very much a social construct. I'd also like to point out this is naught but a hypothesis.
You might be right about marriage, but having kids has always been all responsibility and liability. People keep having them though.
Is it really a choice between the respectful and the non-respectful of the law?

http://observer.com/2016/05/derailed-by-uber-deposed-new-yor...
I guess Unicorns are actually a myth and don't really exist.
No.

If you know and realize that it is only convenient because of VC subsidies, you know enough not to use those services since it won't be sustainable.

I try to understand each business model I support with revenue. If it's only setup to enable growth, I pass.
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Probably the most effective economic trickle down.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... solves the problem thoroughly for Chrome.
Much better than the mess that is JS, IMO.
> This has created a case where the strict rules in the name of safety have actually caused a reduction in safety.

Local maxima != 'reduction'.
To be fair, you could make a similar argument with a lot of these high-growth VC backed companies.
Actually it's very good
This is an admission that self-driving cars aren't going to happen. You might as well just put them on tracks.
If you want to see really easy to use native GUIs, look at Red/RedSystem. The runtime manages to be both very high level and tiny. It is basically a reworked Rebol with a built-in system language DSL that allows you to compile miniscule binaries. It's still in the early stages though.
The first part is basically what Final claims to be doing:

https://getfinal.com/
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Like Amazon & Tesla?

Some companies just have a much bigger ramp up than others. Amazon has so many markets to build warehousing & logistics in. Uber has so many markets to establish drivers in.

The subsidising of rides makes complete sense; subsidised rides are loss-leaders aimed towards building habits. I haven't seen their data, but it seems like a good plan.
What I don't understand is the number of companies that started building LSAs. It was a great idea and has lowered the costs, but there are so many of them I don't see how anyone can make enough money to bring prices down.
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I don't understand how something built using RPython & C FFI libraries could be much slower than Python as RPython is fairly fast. Maybe the built something on top of RPython akin to CPython, but slower? Still looks like an interesting project.
That's not called a Ponzi scheme, though. It's possibly a type of anti-competitive behaviour, just not that particular type.
I prefer to think of it as a wealth redistribution plan from the investor class to the upper middle class
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They are aware of this, the goal is to have a large market share when self driving cars make their business model profitable.

This may not work, but that in no way makes Uber a Ponzi scheme.
If a billionaire wants to subsidize food and taxis for me then I'm more than happy to take it
The unit economics work at a much, much smaller market size.
This page shows, for me, simply:

How is news marked as disputed on Facebook?
This feature isn't available to everyone yet.
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:< :( :| :) :D

Of course, I clicked the saddest-face feedback button.
Or... you could continue avoiding websites that do what you deem unacceptable things. I won't visit a Forbes website intentionally - I have no intention of supporting a site that wants to throw ads quite that blatantly in my face. There'll always be a very large amount of sites that behave respectably.
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Well it's not like a taxi is free in comparison.
I believe they are profitable in many city venues, their cash outlays have to do with targeting new markets, and moon-shot style projects.

If they want to be profitable, they can pull back on aggressive expansion, and dump the more expensive, less fruitful projects.
I don't know about DC, but in LA there's nothing lovey-dovey about Lyft. The ride is identical to Uber.
no, docker does not work with CGO_ENABLED=0
In many ways yes, as C can be much more straightforward than JavaScript, which enforces spaghetti-programming by design (via callback hell). So anyone used to develop desktop apps, facepalming on trivial problems in JS like loading resources, can rejoice. And I expect other languages will be ported soon, like Java, C#, Scala, Python, Go, Rust etc. Imagine getting the whole Java stack of libraries, .NET or ML stack for Python running on top of WebAssembly with almost zero differences and at native speeds. Why not?
It sounds like the status quo for Middlebury.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

Hopefully everyone involved in assaulting a professor will be expelled, but I wouldn't hold out much hope, given the way other campus protesters with similar violent behavior, but implicitly endorsed rhetoric, have been treated with kid gloves in the past.
When the media outlets first coined the term "fake news," http://nationalreport.net/ was their Exhibit A. Its current main headline is "Trump Reports World Record 39 Under Par, 12 Holes-in-One, During Golf Outing with Japanese Prime Minister." In November, one of its front page stories was "Chris Christie nominated to head of Supreme Food Court." That is the primary example people were using to make the case to create centralized "trusted news sources."

I'm not really sure what the Pareto principle has to do with this.
Both Amazon and Tesla build physical infrastructure to lower their costs in the future. Uber is banking on self-driving cars to save them. The ironic thing though is Uber is racing to spend as much as money as possible before that happens, effectively gaining them nothing more than mindshare. As soon as another company pops up with self-driving vehicles, they can compete with Uber and they haven't wasted $10 billion making everybody hate them.
I don't think it's morally wrong to take a cheap taxi ride subsidized by speculators. I don't care if the model is sustainable since I get all my value immediately in return for the fare.

The way Uber treats its people is a separate issue.
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Lyft and Juno will run out of cash by the end of this year and be forced to sell to companies that won't run them at a loss, that Lyft $500 million round they are trying to shop around won't happen (that leak is a bad sign, early Lyft investors are dumping their shares on the secondary market as well) and Uber currently has billions in the bank while Lyft is down to under 1 billion, Uber will raise prices and no new competitors will be able to find any funding at this point
For the moral and legal system, 'Free will' is important because it means people are responsible for their actions.

In that sense, a world where someone could have made a different choice is a world with less free will. After all, the choice they made was random, it wasn't inherent in their character.
What matters here is agency. Did you act of your own volition, with your own agency? Or did someone else use their agency to manipulate you (threats, etc.).

In this perspective, free will means that your choice depend on who you are (i.e. in the causal chain that lead to your decisions, your 'character' was of very large influence). In a materialist view, your character would be a property of your body. There is a gray area, as alluded to in the aricle, for those properties of your body you are not aware of, that play a large role in the decision process. (e.g. being cranky because of some indigestion)
You don't know much about London. $100 fares from Heathrow to z1 are pretty normal.
This is what makes math math :p You can make up any concept you like, and if it doesn't contradict itself its perfectly valid to analyze it. Later someone has a hairy problem and a mathematician points to how the made up thing he studied is isomorphic to the problem and solves it.
Use them while they are subsidized, then bail quickly. Maximize for your self interest.
Amazon spent capital on building an efficient supply chain based on technology which is a huge entry barrier for any competitor. They did not use VC on exclusively providing any discounts. Uber, on the other hand, is using VC almost entirely on discounts hoping that users will stick around. Their product is essentially an app which has been replicated in every major economy with considerable success.
So he's specifically referring to collision on the same channel, not that a device connected to Router A on 2.4 channels 1->4, but can also see Router B on channels 10->13 has to wait to transmit data back to Router A.
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In 10 years there won't be any difference between a web-app and a desktop app precisely because of WebAssembly-like tech. Imagine WebAssembly being the new JRE or .NET runtime (or maybe more like JavaFX, but supported by everyone). You can run it in a browser, but you don't have to. All native stuff will be accessible to you, like Vulkan, OpenAL etc.
If someone doesn't know what it stands for, that's also not a problem. You would have to have an extremely specific partial understanding to both notice the capitalization difference and not realize it's the same thing.
A dress code is a red flag.

It is not about being forced to wear clothes. It is about working with a management team who is so incompetent that they would do something so stupid as implement a dress code.
How much metal in total would be in our cranium? more than the total amount in your fillings?
Didn't make much sense to me they would put money into self driving cars. It works be much more sensible to await a viable commercial solution and then buy it in bulk.