skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever this comes up it's important to realize how much addicts are already costing us. It's hard to know exactly how much because the costs are born by already existing systems - home insurance to cover burglaries, auto insurance to cover smash and grabs, law enforcement to investigate these crimes committed to feed addictions and to try to stop the flow of heroin.

Then there is the cost of health care. Even if you ignore long term problems like HIV or Hep-C infections contracted by sharing needles (hundreds of thousands of dollars per person), just responding to overdoses is very expensive. [0]

>In December 2016, the City of Vancouver approved a small property tax hike, which was intended to help address the opioid overdose crisis. Councillors passed a budget that included a 0.5 per cent property-tax increase to support front-line service providers, which is in addition to the 3.4 per cent increase already in place to deal with the fentanyl crisis.

>..

>According to the report, the total funds available in the 2017 contingency fund for the opioid crisis is $3.5 million and the remaining amount after the above expenditures is $1.4 million.

That is only the monetary cost, there is a mental cost as well. [1]

>A health and safety worker with Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services says he's never seen stress and anxiety so rampant among first responders.

>Acting captain of occupational health and safety Steve Fraser says the ongoing overdose crisis has many firefighters dealing with emotional and mental fallout because of their job.

>...

>Another big issue, Fraser says, is "compassion fatigue" which comes from sometimes treating the same people time after time.

>"It's that feeling of helplessness and hopelessness that what you do is not making a difference," he said. "For all of us … why we do it is we do want to make a difference. So, when we see that fail time and time again it does start to take its toll."

Heroin clinics would help solve most of these issues. [2]

>Crime Issues: 60% drop in felony crimes by patients (80% drop after one year in the program). 82% drop in patients selling heroin.

>Death Rates: No one has died from a heroin overdose since the inception of the program. The heroin used is inspected for purity and strength by technicians.

>*Disease Rates: New infections of Hepatitis and HIV have been reduced for patients in the program.

>Note: The Swiss save about 38 dollars per day per patient mostly in lowered costs for court and police time, due to less crime committed by the patients.

[0] http://globalnews.ca/news/3189393/city-releases-report-outli...

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/overdose-fent...

[2] http://www.citizensopposingprohibition.org/resources/swiss-h...
Could weed slow down the opioid epidemic? It gets you high, it is way cheaper, way healthier (not smoked), it isn't addictive, curbs the urge for opioids, easier to make, easier to sell.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/marijuana...
There must be more, but Cisco TALOS pursues the botnets used to distribute spam.

E.g. http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/09/the-rising-tides-o...
That's fairly common in the US as well, especially if it's somewhere quieter like a pub or a brewery, vs somewhere with a big crowd and music.
That's only if newlines are meaningful in the grammar. In C and related languages they are not, and where they are they tend to be a pain (the dreaded semicolon insertion...)

And even if you make newlines meaningful you only trade one pain for another, namely, you now need some kind of line continuation construct and lots of special cases where newlines are allowed...

In short: it's not that simple.
/usr/bin/time doesn't seem to be a thing on my Arch Linux install. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't understand this sentiment. Whoever you're responding to could have other responsibilities, family or otherwise, where his or her decision to leave could adversely affect other people - not just them. I also don't quite think it's appropriate to invoke one of the seminal events of the Civil Rights movements in this country as a way to try to shame someone into quitting a job at a company you don't like, exogenous of all the nefarious claims made against them. Let's hold off on grabbing pitch forks for the time being.
It does. It seems like the devs are of the "it compiles, ship it" sort. Building the source, I'm seeing all kinds of warnings -- the code trying to return consts, warnings about sign differences, etc. Looks like lots of potential places for naughtiness to occur.
Yeah right, because catching a bus is the same as staring down a tank. Literally the bravest thing I've ever heard.

How about next time you have a problem with the way a company does business, you just don't use that company's services? Or is that not enough for you? You have to march around HN and tell everyone else what they should be doing in order to appease you?
Your viewpoint assumes a lot about the original commenter's life situation. It would be incredibly foolish to leave a stable, well paying full-time job if one were supporting a family living in one of highest cost of living cities in the U.S.
Especially if someone in their family has a chronic medical condition. I understand it can be done as you mention in your examples, but it's not so easy -- especially with uncertainty surrounding healthcare in the U.S. in general.
Seems like Steve Yegge worked on palm, I haven't read anything from him at this level though, I am not an authority though!
Ah thats pretty cool! I made https://snow.watch that gives 10 day forecast snow reports via SMS.

Wanted to do a second angle on it, see you did travel which is pretty sweet. I assume those are affiliate links, wonder what % are buying flights?
async/await has greatly reduced the need for indentation in JavaScript
That seems extreme -- they could be in CYA mode to document reasons to fire you.

I've worked at places like this -- they didn't have the balls to fire anyone for worry that they'd get sued for wrongful termination; so to get rid of a problem employee, they'd spend 6-12 months building up evidence or working on a "performance improvement plan" or whatever.
Same here. I had to fetch it via pacman. Also, the -l option doesn't exist on the non-bsd version.
The game itself presents the text "You lose" or "You win" depending on which path you take.
"Go inlining improvements..." and then "Conventionally, inlining includes ... but Go has been limited to ... until recently. With ... Go now supports inlining in a broader array of circumstances."
I evaluate resumes when we have openings.

I can accept that an employee might want to wait to see if Uber can turn it around. I wouldn't count that against them. But if Uber fails to fix itself, then it's time to leave. If I see a resume showing work at Uber past that, there is zero chance of an interview.

Better to quit without a better offer than to risk your career by staying. It's a hot job market today; might not be hot later.
It's unclear if they will mine pictures; the third point was merely speculation on what could present a valuable component of the business. That said, mining could be done in a non-creepy way similar to how Facebook mines data without alienating (too many) users.
I'm curious, what language did HR use?

I'm surprised by that response to what seems legitimate expression of frustration, but not aghast.

In all likelihood, it was someone on your team who was discomforted by the chat and mentioned it to hr. At that point, they don't have much of an option but to discuss it with you, especially if there is no explicit policy for swearing.
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There's even room for marginally technically skilled to rake it in. I think Karpeles is still out on bail. And there's a few that did well with just marketing skill and vaporware mining gear.
Can't help but think the conveyor belt that presents the drink is there to keep you a safe distance should the controller go unstable.
Nothing about giving your work away for free or wanting to do good necessarily puts one above criticism for misuse (or useless invention) of terminology. It's not a marketing exercise, you are correct -- all the more reason to expect a narrow use of terminology.
I think if you explained this in layman's terms to "a bloke down the pub", he'd consider it theft. The law generally feels the same way. (IANAL.)

Not the same, but it reminded me of years ago, I had £50 deposited in to my account, by mistake, a couple of months running. I asked my girlfriend's dad - who actually was AL (WAL?) - if I could keep it. He said it would be like someone parking their car on my driveway and leaving the keys in the ignition. Inconvenient, yeah, and I don't want it there - but it doesn't make the car mine.
Can we edit the title to include the colon, addressing Uber?
Maybe, but plenty? What are you thinking of?

Also, can you distinguish between those two scenarios (which was my main point)?
Do you actually believe the things you are writing? No, going without a text book is not actually a viable choice if you want to pass a class is it? Are you just trolling?

>"You seem to think that the book "ought" to be priced by cost to produce as they would be in a perfectly competitive market"

Nowhere did I articulate that sentiment at all. There is plenty of room to make a tidy profit without resorting to punitive pricing, even in a captive market.
This isn't about saying something someone doesn't like.

This is about unlawful behavior which, from the outside, appears to pervade the entirety of Uber.
Your mildly snarky response has been recorded and you will be fined $120,000 for use of a computer for producing such a comment.
301-688-6524

Since they're listening anyway. Cut out the middleman.
What even goes through these people's heads when they post crap like this? Do they really, genuinely, expect people to quit what is probably a secure and well paying job, because they've decided they don't like Uber any more? Have we really reached this level of arrogance?

Financial and family responsibilities be damned! I read a news article that said Uber didn't give everyone participation awards and gold stars!

What next, we ask kids to stop working at McDonalds because it's making everyone fat? Or maybe tobacco companies, because they're making everyone sick? Or BP, because they're BP? No no, just Uber because there's a trending hashtag and it's pretty hip not to like Uber now.
Yep! That's happy path/golden path/line of sight programming, and it's awesome.

https://medium.com/@matryer/line-of-sight-in-code-186dd7cdea...
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No it was someone working on one of the project parts but they didn't complain to HR they mentioned it to their manager who then brought it up but didn't lodge a complaint for a warning.

That same manager then apologised and said that he didn't intend / want it to be something formal like that at all but it seemed too late.
It's pretty self-righteous to tell someone they should quit their job because of your beliefs when there is no cost to you and potentially quite a bit of cost to them.
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You're never beyond the reach of a civil suit. If you identify yourself with the scheme and you're in the same country where there's adoption, you could be easily targeted.

Plus, the language in 18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(2) (courtesy of CFAA) refers specifically to "any computer, when [it affects] use by or for [a] financial institution." And later it mentions "...affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication...". This statute is one that gives so much leeway to prosecutors that it's frequently abused.
HR Departments have also groomed hiring managers not to ever give a reason why they say no. Every reason you provide is grounds for speculation and potential law suits.
I know exactly what you mean and I've seen it happen at other places but I can assure you this is not the case here, I won't go into detail but you'll just have to take my word for it, but thank you for the warning just incase.
Good. Then he'll be in a position to pay restitution for what he's done.
$ which time
time: shell reserved word
$ ls /usr/bin/time /bin/time
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/time': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/bin/time': No such file or directory

Looks like something specific to the author's distribution.
It's unlikely, but you could do it. After going through the trouble of bringing a suit -- once you have the judgment against them, you'd have to get in line behind the other creditors. :(
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The sheer number of "scandals" coming out of Uber raise the probability that something isn't Kosher to nearly 0.99. That said, I find it deeply disturbing that anyone expressing any form of skepticism of any individual claim is downvoted.

For anyone doing the downvoting, can you elaborate please on what sort of system you have in place that decides whether we can or can't be skeptical of a claim without corroborating evidence (apart from personal testimony)? It's true that in this case the preponderance of testimony is pretty strong against Uber, but I wouldn't hold it against someone who, say, assigned something like a ~0.50 probability value to the anonymous harassment claim.

I'll also say that I've worked at a tech company before that went through some bad PR issues. As an insider, it was obvious that, while there definitely were issues that needed fixing, the media exaggerated them or invented entirely new issues out of nothing. When the media senses a PR catastrophe, they'll jump at any tidbit of information that even remotely seems "scandalous".

Now, in the case of Uber, I'm not an insider, and my own estimate as an outsider is that there is something like a 99% chance that serious misconduct is going on at the highest levels of the company. But regardless, it is really absurd, and in fact quite disturbing, to see any degree of skepticism expressed over any of this to be so harshly resisted. It is perfectly reasonable to believe that some of the reported scandals may have a < 0.50 probability value of being true, while others are more probably true, etc.
Oh and HR stated that 'the communication was in appropriate and goes against the company code of conduct...', which is very hypocritical as they let a sexist, agist, psychopathic bully loose and cause havoc throughout the company for almost 4 years as many people complained and left because of his bullying and harassment / power games. They have however since replaced this person with someone excellent who is 'healing' the org and turning things around I believe.
Really? How is it insulting?

So if I was a woman, you'd be ok with me going to the police and saying that you stole my wallet - even though I had zero proof of that ever happening?
It's really not when you realize these aren't extraordinary claims. Those that wish to distract from the industry's systemic issues insist on evidence.
And Promises too!
There's a lot of shitty jobs available and a few good ones. People don't work for companies they work for managers.
I work as a developer of Engineering Software.

I have seen E1, E2, SE and PE used as abbreviations for level of experience (Graduate Level 1, Graduate Level 2, Senior, Principal). These levels might have been applied to a RE (Reliability Engineer), SE (Safety Engineer), EE (Electrical Engineer) etc

So there is already potential confusion in the abbreviations used for various engineering roles. SWE provides some disambiguation. Interestingly HWE seems to be used for Hardware Engineer - when they are generally Electrical Engineers.
What is a underwriters/handicraft? Are they writers paid by the company to write bearish articles about them and have 'no' affiliation so there's no disclaimer?
impulse purchase are a real bitch... although I don't think I've ever heard intercom.io described as an impulse buy before...

Seriously though. If you've ever built a company, there will be times when you wish you had that extra $60 sitting in your account. Cancel until you are ready.
The reason 'time' is a builtin is because it can time a complete shell pipeline, not just a single command. If you type

time foo |bar

Then the result is the total time taken by foo and bar together. This requires it to have special-case syntax. Whereas

/usr/bin/time foo |bar

Would run foo and give its time statistics as input to bar.
> The whole point of being in Vegas or on a cruise ship (prior installation)

My best friend works on RCCL's Quantum (or rather, its one of the ships he's worked on recently), and one of his responsibilities is maintenance of the robotic arms that perform the drink making experience [1]. He's says they're constantly down or in need of major repair while operating.

Will robotics get there? For sure. Are they there yet? Not in a cost effective manner. Still cheaper to have someone making tips behind the bar (unless, as you said, its purely showmanship).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBF7EE2xnN4
Ah, yes, there's a problem with `Float`s in Haskell. There should be no `Eq Float` instance. Standard ML handles this properly:

> map Math.acos [2.0] = map Math.acos [2.0];
poly: : error: Type error in function application.
Function: = : ''a * ''a -> bool
Argument: (map Math.acos [2.0], map Math.acos [2.0]) :
real list * real list
Reason: Can't unify ''a to real list (Requires equality type)
Found near map Math.acos [2.0] = map Math.acos [2.0]
Static Errors
>Those that wish to distract from the industry's systemic issues insist on evidence.

Insisting on evidence is verboten. On HN.

I'm quickly growing tired of this place.
> The point is, as usual, Go is trying to catch up to what everyone else has had for years.

As far as programming languages go, Go is very new. Of course, there will be a number of areas that still need to be optimized or fully fleshed out. I think the Go compiler has only been written in Go for about a year. I'm sure you you find this pretty lame as well.
Huge systems with crazy amounts of code are what power most large companies. The budgets are usually way smaller than for defense contracts such as we're discussing where the profits of the contractors are assured through corruption. The former have to get more done with less. There's thousands of those teams, too, in just the Global 2000. Maybe Fortune 500, too.

Far as amazing examples, I'd go for the centralized, five-9's systems like NonStop or the decentralized ones such as OpenBSD before the failure we're discussing.
I still have a DeviantArt hoodie and wear it regularly! I bought it in 2007, along with a couple of well-designed t-shirts. I think that those might have been my first online purchases.
Interesting POV. Didn't think the public markets would provide a stricter level of accountability than the private market.

I feel like Snapchat is what all the younger kids are using, at least so I've noticed. I'm 30 but old school. I don't see them using it past a certain age (say.. college most likely). Everyone who uses Snapchat will probably gravitate to or concurrently use Instagram and Facebook. Facebook will persist into old age, perhaps Instagram as well.

There's a notion of active vs. passive engagement in each of these. Snapchat requires more active engagement to be interesting. There's the story aspect but not sure it's compelling enough. Facebook is nice because as soon as you turn it on you have this sort of mini magazine like feed that tells you what all your 'friends' are doing, you don't really need to do much to get involved, and it becomes easy to boop the like button to engage / like things.

What I think snap does have, that could be quite cool from a technology standpoint is its ability to create these "masks/goggles" that react when you say stick out your tongue or raise your eyebrows. I think that sort of what I would term reactive AI is something that carries a lot of potential. I don't know how much I see it becoming an ad-revenue generator, like FB/Insta/Twit that have more of this passive magazine like structure that still somehow fosters engagement.

Also curious to see what happens when rates go up
A stolen wallet is just like someone putting their career on the line because of a feckless HR department. Wait, no it isn't.
Yup. Not only is it very informative about the 4-6 separate trends that resulted in this slow disaster. It also really well written.
Sorry to be cynical, but this sounds as about as useful as Microsoft Word syntax checkers that draw green lines under perfectly valid sentences.
Has wearable tech had its day?
+1 Thanks for sharing! If anyone's actually found these to work please share so we can get more confidence in them :)
A good enough excuse to troll through his blog posts again at least. ;)
Cool, but you could improve the user workflow. I have 2 airports tops I could leave out of here in San Diego. It doesn't help me at all that there are fares from Seattle to xxxxxxx. I recommend you ask me to enter my location and show me only relevant results.
He is on MacOS.
If they've been behaving unlawfully then let the people who enforce the law deal with them. Suspicion of unlawful behaviour absolutely does not give people the right to demand that people quit their job.
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Is, not was. We're starting to see patent trolls migrating to the much greener government agency sue-able territory of section 508 law suits instead.

Only this time, there's practically a for the children argument behind it.
Point taken. But I've heard repeatedly about it, involving different sorts of illegal data, over some years. And the discovery rate is arguably low. That suggests to me that it's common.
Haha, the comment has since been edited (I'm guessing) but it must have linked to your post about how ConvertKit raised $1.8M.

I'm guessing this because I too spent a very confused 30 seconds before realizing I just got trolled. Well played.
> They seem more interested in telling me how to feel

How very millennial. Perhaps it's on purpose.
ok, got rid of my repo on github, thanks for the heads up.
No, /usr/bin/time is indeed what I know, and its extended stats is why I suggested using it in my last perf book (time -v).

"/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know" -> "/usr/bin/time: may not be the command you think you know"

There, I fixed the title.
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Employees are effectively making an investment in the company in the form of work instead of cash. If a startup chose not to give out stock options, they'd likely have to pay their employees more, and they may have to raise another round to get cash to do so. The dilution from that round would never come back to the original stockholders under any circumstances.

When employees accepted the options in lieu of cash, they were taking a risk in exchange for a potential future reward. The work they put in often makes that success happen, whether or not they're actually working for the company at the time a liquidation event occurs.

I liken the scheme a16z proposes to something like using a loophole to buy back all of your investors' stock at their original valuation, just because you got to profitability. At that point you no longer _need_ their money, so why do investors deserve to reap the rewards?
Y.A.U.S. (Yet Another Uber Scandal)
One of the guys who designed soups (Walter Smith) went to Microsoft and worked on the database-based storage system for Longhorn. It didn't go that well; my take is that the project got really big and politicized -- classic Microsoft -- and he wound up leaving after a while.

I think that systems like ReThinkDB are really close, if not superior. One thing the Newt never had to worry about was concurrency; the scripting environment was single-threaded, and the storage system only ever had one transaction at a time (with some advanced cheating going on for background storage operations and garbage collection). Modern systems solve harder problems, albeit with many orders of magnitude more resources and way better tools.
lol, ancaps aren't anarchists although they claim to be