skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do not live in a one variable world.

You can't ascribe the position of the US solely to its immigration policies. Especially since it's impossible to correlate immigration trends in recent years in the US to economic trends.
And an even better question: Would we need to ask ourselves these questions if these nonsense laws didn't exist?
Addressing your first point: the problem is that they're stagnating /now/. They don't have the means or will or resources to deal with their problems. There's not enough labour to support the elderly population.

I'm sure they can decrease inflow at an appropriate time, but for now, they need fresh blood and fresh ideas.
>If I don't like Uber, I can... stop using Uber.

Even ignoring the fact that Uber might become a monopoly, this ignores extrenalities caused by corporations.

You don't have to purchase chemicals from a chemical factory to be impacted by them dumping toxic chemicals into the water supply because it is cheaper.
Thanks for well wishes!
My problem with Ikea isn't the design--their products are pretty good in that regard. My problem is with their awful construction quality. Particleboard does not belong in furniture. Fiberboard and plywood sure, oriented strand board maybe, but particleboard? Hell no.
Korea has a lot of immigrants.
I do as well. Uber is a fantastic company and really exemplary in terms of innovation. This is no exception.
Thanks! Didn't find that by Googling
That's a damn shame. I was looking forward to new laptop in 14" form with nvidia 1060 and strong battery. Damn. XPS then?
AI can and does have significant bias, as long as it learns from sources influenced by humans with bias.[0] Additionally, you still need to be really careful to write in ways that avoid furthering existing human bias.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8026-a_story_of_discrimination_a...
Comments like this, while factually correct, are the reason why we need these books.
So would therapy. It's a lot cheaper financially and morally.

There is no benefit to society as a whole burden itself with such things in order to make "some victims" feel better.

Perhaps we could do better at caring for criminals who became criminals from mental disease (quite a few actually), and those who felt they had no other choice (even more).

We'd make fewer victims in the first place.
I bought a US layout Das Keyboard from getdigital.de, only because it was out of stock on Amazon.de. And from my regular window shopping it's pretty easy to find US layout laptops as well.
It's quite common for revolutionaries to get carried away and end up on the guillotine themselves. I was extremely supportive of Uber when it was getting off the ground because I loathed the taxi monopoly, but since Uber has a) shown little regard for anything beyond its own profitability and b) is hellbent on becoming a monopoly of its own, I feel no sympathy for their current woes.

tl;dr Fuck 'em.
I think one of the things that really enabled me to grow as a developer and as a person was to accept my limitations and still be able to call myself such things as "engineer" (the role I currently perform in at work) and "mathematician" (what my degree is in, and what I heart to continue learning)

I think these arbitrary and frankly elitist constraints on what it means to be something like an engineer is often time more bullshit than not. You _are_ a developer. And you might even be better than you think you are given you've had to work with a very difficult language with extremely difficult constraints. Personally, I have no idea how I'd work in C if I didn't have access to malloc, free, or a lot of the components of the STL. The fact you're still looking to grow and expand experience rather than settle into dogma and specialization shows a lot of maturity.

If you needed an official welcome: Welcome to the club. We're all different here.
[Update - Holy Moses, that presentation is amazing! It's a perfect illustration of what happens when you don't have the background of experience that web devs do, and just throw a bunch of smart but inexperienced C++ devs at a huge Javascript project. They walked into every rake in that grass, and I get a distinct subtext of "holy crap, I would never have believed the tooling was this bad..."]

My comment addresses the perception that "OMG programmers today know nothing; this is what a Real Man looks like". Someone learning web development has spent a lot of brain-space on learning a level of in-depth knowledge that also looks magical to someone who hadn't.

As it happens, I too think that the things you learn lower down the stack tend to make you a better engineer, whereas what you learn higher up the stack is too often an unedifying schlep. High-level systems spend a lot of complexity solving problems created by the layer underneath. (This goes 10x for web frameworks.) Low-level systems are more tightly constrained by the boundaries of the possible, so they spend their complexity on more fundamental problems. The same amount of time and intelligence spent learning the ins and outs of Angular yields less transferable skills than learning how compilers work. But if you need to build a web startup, compiler expertise on its own won't help you.

It's like learning physics vs biology. Sure, physics is more fundamental, and a physicist learning biology usually has an easier time than the other way round. But a research biologist has also spent their time acquiring an immense amount of expertise, and fundamentally we need medical advances more directly than we need confirmation of the Higgs boson.
Someone told me that the hard part about universities in Japan is getting in. Once you're in, you have to try to fail. Conversely, High School, while rote, is hard. In that sense, it's a bit opposite of other places like the Us where High School is not hard but typically University is hard.
My aunt's boyfriend works for California govt and his home address is on display. You'd be surprised at how incompetent and irresponsible govt can be.
Facebook is already better, with number of mutual friends. It does require having a social circle that's relatively immune from law enforcement coercion.
What could be greater than getting your rides subsidized by fat cats?
japanese culture predates "the US way" by thousands of years.
Title is misleading, it's not confirmed that Switch runs a FreeBSD base OS yet.
Any place using such a novel technique as tracking someone on Uber is almost universally likely to have access to a stingray. A stingray is arguably a more accurate and legally enforceable device.

And to add (edit): It's not a derailment, it's the logical conclusion that any area that has enough economic activity to be target by Uber definitely has enough resources to supply LEA with a stingray.
I think it would make more sense to do the opposite, generate Docker compose + files starting from a Kubernetes configuration. k8s features is a superset of Docker Compose, for instance networking, importing files, managing secrets is imho easier and superior in k8s. With docker-compose and Mesos often one has to find workarounds, change the topology, install additional pieces (e.g. service discovery) etc.

To be honest, I don't see a reason to use docker-compose anymore, because minikube gives the full Kubernetes experience locally. It might take a bit to learn k8s, but it's definitely worth it.

"docker-compose up" is perhaps still easier to start with, but as soon as you start working, rather than playing with demos, you hit limitations and want more.
It isn't necessarily about breaking laws. There are many legitimate reasons to deny service to undercover law enforcement personnel who are often simply looking for ways to boost their agency's revenue through specious allegations. Uber has no legal obligation to do anything for people that do not declare themselves to be law enforcement personnel with special rights.

Not that it will ever stop them, but I often build a clause into the TOS of my websites that law enforcement personnel may not use the site without prior authorization. I have no idea if this will ever stand up in court, but perhaps this clause will, for example, be useful in defeating a search warrant for user information since the suspicion upon which the warrant is based would necessarily have been obtained without authorization unless the government asked for permission to access the site in advance. A healthy disdain for government agents makes for a healthy, free society.
I'm cautiously optimistic, but I would like to understand a lot more about your vision. :)

Journalism is pretty much about about selection of data. The opposite is.. well, like a data viewer for a repository of stats.

How would having makefiles for articles help things? Wouldn't it just make it more efficient/cheaper for biased editors to create articles using cherry-picked data?
That was my intuition.

The instant win scenario for ML based languages is quite appealing from this side of the fence (Scala) where it's not all roses wrt to type inference and subtyping.

Maybe even, gasp, SML can rise from the ashes and bring Rob Harper's dream to fruition (which seems to be that developers stop using Haskell); that or someone implements Rossberg's 1ML, or the theory backing this thesis.

All the MLs, including Haskell, have pretty significant tradeoffs, would be great if there was really 1 ML to rule them all.
Motion for an indefinite moratorium on articles masturbating about Haskell.
City officials are not a protected class in the US that are provided legal protections connected to being discriminated against.
Any particular reason you would refrain from naming it?
The media "sticking to the facts" (laughable) isn't what causes mistrust. Them treating whole swaths of public debates as taboo, and ignoring some sets of inconvenient facts, is. If there's no problem, why the taboo?

Violent crime has fallen over decades, but has increased since the refugee crisis. This manipulation of facts by the media is what causes distrust, and is their own doing.

Check out the journalism Tim Pool (Vice Media) is doing, right now, over in Sweden. He's reported on the Middle East, on the ground, in the past. He said he would investigate if there was any link between crime and refugee migration in Sweden. Before he even left for that country, he got harassed on Twitter by many on the left including journalists. Once there, after some continued trying to create a scandal out of nothing, several of the Swedes he had set up interviews with outright cancelled, and more agreed to speak but not on the record, meaning he can't publish any of what they said.

If there's no problem there, why are people being terrorized into silence?

If there's no problem there, why groups of men with masks threaten Tim and his co-reporter in the streets, and why did the Swedish police force them to leave the area, instead of defending them? (check his Twitter)
To add to the confusion, it's not uncommon in cities to have a government office within a building shared with other private tenants.
I totally agree with this. One thing that should be noted is that in this case the government was acting in the corrupt interest of the incumbent taxi industry. Once the system has been corrupted, tactics like Grayball become the only way for any company to disrupt the industry.

My guess is that Grayball was used most in jurisdictions with the most corruption and regulatory capture inflicted by the taxi/livery industry.
To be fair, the poor shouldn't be racking up credit card bills. That's just adding fuel to the fire. A world existed before credit cards became commonplace.
>> They can't store the numbers themselves except the last four digits IIRC.)

That's not actually true. Vendors usually have to store the entire number (but not the CVV/CVN).
Most of them show you the last 4 numbers to prevent shoulder surfing and accidentally disclosing the number to someone who's taken over your accounts.
Which brings an interesting question, what are the techniques to get to know what OS a system uses? I know nmap can send specially crafted packets to get a fingerprint of the networking stack. Is there something else?
Implementation inheritance is to OOP what gotos are to procedural programming
> If I don't like Uber, I can... stop using Uber. What can I do if I don't like the service a state provides - can I opt out and stop paying? No, my only option is to flee - which the state will often try and prevent you doing anyway.

Flee? So states are a prison? Last time I checked it was pretty easy to leave a state which equals 'stop using Uber'. Fleeing implies you aren't allowed to go, that's wrong. The only problem is no other state (or country or whatever) is forced to accept you as a new customer.

And who would want a customer that doesn't want to pay for the products ..
I think they meant that they could use public payroll records to get the names of city officials.
Maybe electric bikes and mopeds/scooters? Space seems to be a bigger issue for those than cars. And in the early days (and in some cases today) lead acid batteries were used. Lead acid had similar weight issues, but are much worse in terms of size and power, so seems like if folks were able to make that work, then a bike or scooter with this solid state battery could work.

I went on amazon to look at some product weights. There is an e-bike battery that weighs 6.5 lbs[1], and an e-bike that claims to have a shipping weight of 60 lbs[2]. So assuming 3x battery weight for roughly the same power, that means an extra battery weight of 13 lbs and a total bike weight of 73 lbs for a battery that could possibly fit in the frame (as opposed to be mounted on the down tube). So that is definitely getting on the heavy side for a bike but the bike in question is also relatively 'over-powered' as far as e-bikes go (25 mi self-powered range, 350 watt motor). A lot of the sleeker/higher end e-bikes are 'pedal-assist only' and already hide the battery in the frame. These bikes can get in the sub 40 lb range, and probably use 1/2 the battery that the one in the link does. So an extra 10-15 lbs is probably manageable and it would result in a bit more range while still being able to hide the battery in the frame (assuming a li-ion battery weight of ~3lbs, you would add an extra 6lbs to 'break even', or an extra 15 to double the power).

For scooters/mopeds, the math probably works out even better, as these are already over 100 lbs, and an extra 30-40 lbs won't really matter that much. And if you want to build a electric scooter or motorcycle that can go highway speeds, that extra weight can help with stability.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/36V-11AH-Li-ion-E-Bike-Battery/dp/B01...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Addmotor-HITHOT-Electric-Bicycle-Susp...
I don't understand why it was so difficult for officers to find a Uber driver? Why didn't they just stand outside a bar at 2am?
But then you end up growing your taxonomy ad-hoc. Also, Python does multiple inheritance sanely, and so does Eiffel.
Politics aside, I think HSAs are great. Under a single payer system I would expect payroll taxes to be significantly higher (8-10%). You pay that every month even if you don't use it. In return you get free healthcare when you do use it.

With HSAs in America, you save an amount equal to your tax bracket on expenses up to the lesser of your deductible (if plan pays 100% post-deductible) or the maximum HSA contribution (3350 for singles). You only pay this when you need care. You can also use your HSA dollars for things like glasses, pregnancy tests, and teeth cleanings.

There's added incentive for employers to offer HSAs because it reduces their payroll tax as well.

Granted this is all given that you are eligible, can afford, and have health insurance. And that your provider will cover whatever treatment you're seeking.

However, given my plan, I pay about $60/mo after my healthy life plan savings. I can take the savings from that plan and look at my budget and afford to save $100/mo in my HSA. That's $500 "lost to insurance" each year and $1200 growing tax-free given I have no medical expenses (unlikely). Compare that to a single-payer system with ~8% payroll tax. Given I make $5000 a month, that's $400/mo or $4800/yr that's "lost to insurance" given that I have no medical expenses .

I'm not a great example because I'm young, privileged, and healthy. I'm interested in the economics of this whole thing though.
That is pretty interesting, although 'greyballing' as a analog for 'blackballing' as an analog of creating a list of people you won't serve is taking it a bit deep. I wonder if a counter hack would be to make it illegal to discriminate against people based on whether or not they were a public employee.

I think it is completely reasonable to have a 'reputation' system where drivers can rate passengers as well as passengers rating drivers, and then sharing that rating so that drivers wouldn't pick up people known to be combative drunks. Having your app display a bunch of 'ghost cars' always out of reach has a certain poetic justice.

But parts of this are really mind blowing, going into shops and recording the IMEI's of burner phones for later correlation? I think that's a service right there.
Seems like they haven't considered the fact that they would then be in the same situation their current competitors find themselves in, ripe for "disruption."
> If I don't like Uber, I can... stop using Uber. What can I do if I don't like the service a state provides - can I opt out and stop paying? No, my only option is to flee - which the state will often try and prevent you doing anyway.

You can't evade a service like Uber either which does have an impact on the commons just like a Government does. You can avoid giving Uber your money but that isn't quite the same thing.
While Bitcoin is not completely anonymous, it is also not completely transparent. The blockchain does not contain names and things can be obfuscated in various ways. Furthermore, a truly 100% anonymous system of money without any exceptions may not actually be desirable from a societal point of view, as it would enable things like assassination markets.
"Second, the value of state money is maintained by the state's ability to levy taxes [...] Not coincidentally, this is also the biggest hurdle for serious adoption of cryptocurrencies."

It is not a hurdle. In fact Bitcoin's growing adoption and increase of value over the last eight years has already demonstrated your worry is a non-problem. Money has value because people demand it. It doesn't matter if demand comes from the government or a merchant. Both can change their mind about what they'll accept tomorrow as money (as history has shown many, many times.)

Sure, on a practical level a currency's value will have a more solid foundation if (1) the government that demands taxes is big and stable, or (2) if a large number of merchant accepts it. But again, fundamentally there is no difference between (1) and (2). Multiple cryptocurrencies already have value resting on a more solid foundation than the value of currencies in many smaller countries.
> The 'say' you have in government is much smaller than the 'say' you have in using Uber. I can choose not to use Uber any time I please. I can not choose not to be pulled over for speeding, or opt out of murder laws temporarily.

Sure you can. Just leave their jurisdiction. I've heard Somalia is nice.
Thanks for the comment. Do you think there's a difference between pursuing a undergrad degree v grad? From my limited experience so far is that undergrad classes are better in terms of teaching fundamentals.
interesting they use romeo & juliet as the first example and attribute to marlowe.

most of romeo & juliet is copied scene-for-scene from the english translation of an italian play by the same name. Most of the lines you remember from the play were added in shakespeare's version.

In the example in this article, I'm getting chills from how much better the shakespeare line is vs the marlowe line he stole.

If you read R&J side by side with its italian source, start with the 'if I profane' scene ('let lips do what hands do').
I wonder if AI's will attempt suicide one day.
Anyone who has a California State and Federal Employees Credit Union debit card is probably a good indicator.

I saw an Illinois State Police Federal Credit Union branch recently and really thought to myself... that might be giving away a little more information than I'd be comfortable with if I were a cop. I mean, anyone going to that credit union is pretty likely to be, you know, a police officer. So if a criminal was trying to track down a police officer they had beef with, where would they look? Seems pretty obvious. Seems pretty dangerous.
LibFIRM's sea of nodes representation is a bit different in that nodes are tied to a basic block, if I understand it correctly. That would indeed make control flow sensitive analysis easy. Their sea of nodes representation does not have this property, so it is not immediately apparent under what control conditions a node may be executed. Their scheduler will place nodes in basic blocks at the end of the pipeline.

I loved your paper about PBQP register allocation, by the way!
I checked the definition of the words before I posted.

Please, enlighten me?
HR has to operate within the constraints of the larger organization.

Under normal circumstances, HR tries to get the organization to behave reasonably, and employees to not get too upset about it, during or after their period of employment. The actions of both are actually out of their control, but they push both ways. It is a classic case of responsibility without authority.

If the organization refuses to take HR concerns seriously, then you get the result you see at Uber. The only thing that HR can do is try to get employees to toe the company line. Good HR people will leave. But there is always someone left to do the job. (It is just like death marches in software development. Which also seems to be a problem at Uber.)
Bias always exists to some extent but not all media are equally biased or biased in the same way. Citing this as a reason to dismiss any media content that makes you uncomfortable is itself an example of subjective bias. You can aim for a kind of objectivity by attempting to maximize the predictive power of the information that you convey to as wide an audience as possible.
Wrong. He was working for Google and becoming reacquainted with Linux at the time he said that.
If 49% of people stop using Uber, Uber loses almost half its revenue and will probably be forced to change its practices or go out of business. What happens if 49% of people don't vote for a US presidential candidate?
If your connected home requires a round trip to the cloud to turn a light bulb on, that's a major fail.

Yes, you may lose the ability to control your home via Alexa, but the core functions should all be managed locally. Even a phone app should be able to talk to items on your home network via WiFi, or directly via Bluetooth.

This is also the place to make the obligatory point that any cloud service that isn't running in multiple AWS regions is not serious about being highly available.

EDIT: FWIW, my home is wired with a fair amount of Insteon gear, which continues to work just fine if I unplug my router.
Not sure what to say except that it may be quite natural for this word to come up when discussing the Guardian anno 2017?
I don't think you could consider this obstruction. It's their service, it's private, they can serve data to users the way they wish. There is a method and a system in place if law enforcement can prove they need unfettered access – a warrant issued by a judge.
In my experience it's a generational thing. I'm 29, and whenever I'm with people around my age sometimes the TV will be on, but only if we're actually watching or playing something. Otherwise the TV is off. Whenever I'm with people of my parents' generation though, the TV is always blaring even if they're not actually watching anything, and since they always watch live TV instead of streaming services the advertising is incredibly annoying.
I couldn't have put it any better.
"The freedom to try stuff".
People who provide that opportunity.