skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gray part is the fact that Uber happily entered markets by ignoring regulation or unilaterally deciding some rules didn't apply to them. Right or wrong, they were deciding without getting approval.

I use the term 'gray market' which is commonly used to differentiate from 'black market' or clearly illegal, and 'white market' or fully above board and legal.
Many cities (including London) have peak fares for transit, trains, etc. The problem is that if you're a typical commuter you probably don't have a lot of control over your schedule. If you're asking why don't companies do this, why would they? If anything, they probably prefer people to be in the office at the same time.
Yes it's better to be misunderstood, than to use too many smileys.
This is one of my favorite general high level introduction to this area. Most people whom I have shared this with understand it even if they do not have deep technical knowledge. Great material!
If anything, NULL's opacity is another argument for doing the comparison. NULL is guaranteed not to equal any pointer to an object/function, and the result of the comparison will be an int 0 or 1.
Hey gbrits. Thanks for the comment.

This looks like a great alternative solution!

Haven't messed around with step functions yet but was looking into it today after I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MKL5Jr2zZ4&t=226s

Are you using step functions for other flows?
Everyone cooks with water.
It's complex stuff, no doubt about that.

For me, it's much simpler - I come from the PostgreSQL world, so gettimeofday() is pretty much what EXPLAIN ANALYZE does to instrument queries. Good time source means small overhead, bad time source means instrumented queries may take multiples of actual run time (and be skewed in various ways). No fun.
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Snapchat's confusing UI and UX, explained
I should've prefaced my post with "from an urban planner or potential [permanent] resident's perspective." The opinions of current residents are likely formed by the set of different reasons mentioned in other posts.
The writing system you mentioned fell out of use centuries ago, but there's another East African writing system which has been in use for millennia and is still in wide use today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%27ez_script
For live unit testing you really cannot go past Ncrunch.net. It is absolutely brilliant, colour coding the testing coverage and test results in the margins of the editor - which run and update as you type. I bought my own personal license for this.

Core support is coming; first beta just released. I believe that targeting a constantly changing tooling set was/is quite a challenge.
Netflix’s AI tweaks each scene to make video look good even on slow internet
WTF slideshow.
The purpose of the compressor is simply to compress the air. It's one step of the Brayton Cycle which is used in gas turbines to convert heat energy into mechanical energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brayton_cycle
Hi, yes, I mean selfish.

The reason I "moralise" it is that it is but an instance of a prisoner's dilemma, tragedy of the commons. Same applies to signalling while driving, not stealing in stores, jumping the queue, lying on your CV, etc. etc.

As in the tragedy of the commons, we have a lot to gain by cooperating, but individually have an incentive to defect/cheat. I personally think that there is no karma or god imposing justice or preventing cheating, thus it is incumbent on us to police compliance and discourage cheating.

Furthermore, there are good arguments made that we have evolved capabilities to detect cheating and a tendency to punish cheaters (even to our cost).

So, I'm both viscerally and, I think, rationally opposed to that and other forms of selfish cheating, and it warrants opprobrium and moralising disapproval, to minimise it. That's the purpose.

Is that what you're asking?

> I can definitely assert that some of the anti-vacciners are less selfish than the pro-vacciners I know.

Not entirely sure what you mean - do you mean to say that the anti-vaccine stance is not selfish (which is in a sense a scientific issue), or that (while it is) there are people that are (in other ways) not selfish?
I am taking issue with this. This was not conspiracy wing nut theory. As far back as 2004 cybersecurity (for lack of a better term) experts were reporting repeatedly that governments (not just the USA) were exponentially using exploits, as were other unknown or non-govt actors, and other techniques for malicious reasons, from spying on citizens to hacking infrastructure. Here's just a nice litmus of that:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04321.pdf

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB424/docs/Cyber-027.pdf

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0920/070.html

here is even a hertiage foundation report talking about sharing privacy keeping technologies with the government in the name of 'fighting terrorism'

http://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/report/technologie...

http://www.heritage.org/defense/report/information-oversight...

and here is the ACLU sounding the alarm in August of 2004:

https://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/surveillance_report.pdf

Ironically, its around the same time the NSA purported to have their own 'rules' in how they gather, which were obtained here:

https://epic.org/privacy/nsa/foia/EPIC-NSA-USSID-18-and-Dome...

and of course, not more than a few years later we have these reports:

https://www.eff.org/pages/calea-faq

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/12/behind-the-legal...

It was never a wing nut conspiracy theory. Its just nobody was looking close enough to care.
> because they've never published anything that wasn't verified to be true

Mr Assange repeatedly claimed that Podesta's gmail password was 'password' in interviews, which was false:

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jan/06/...
You seem to have misunderstood my point. As density increases it is easier to build subway stations because the value measured in terms of money or units of abstract social benefit goes up proportionally to density.

That does not imply subway stations should not be built in low density areas, it is just an observation that as density increases subway stations are easier to build.
> You really think it's impossible to use facts to construct a narrative that is untrue?

What? That's completely unrelated to what I said, which is simply that the phrase "true facts" is redundant.

> people with any level of sophistication in their thinking can understand that. I don't even know how to respond to some folks here.

I wrote just two lines of text to express a simple thought using basic vocabulary. The fact that you misunderstood my comment so thoroughly, and yet with such extreme condescension, is simply spectacular.
By "price", you point out that California "HOV" lanes... aren't.

"Carpool/HOV" lanes have been political toys from the start. A true carpool means more than one would-otherwise-be driver per vehicle. A minority of HOV lane users in CA have more than one licensed driver. The rest are "kidpools", "hybrids" (which, for all but the first 10-30 miles on a charge are less efficient than non-hybrids), "non-polluting vehicles" (pure electrics, CNG, fuel cell), buses, and government vehicles.

Such lanes are now as crowded as conventional lanes more often than not.

Actual trip reduction could be obtained by limiting HOV use to actual carpools (>1 licensed driver) and buses with passengers, and narrowing their hours of exclusivity a bit.
By "price", you point out that California "HOV" lanes... aren't. Those with the means (and those who defraud) can drive solo all they like.

"Carpool/HOV" lanes have been political toys from the start. A true carpool means more than one would-otherwise-be driver per vehicle. A minority of HOV lane users in CA have more than one licensed driver. The rest are "kidpools", "hybrids" (which, for all but the first 10-30 miles on a charge are less efficient than non-hybrids), alternative-fuel vehicles (pure electrics, CNG, fuel cell), buses, and government vehicles. Alternative-fuel vehicles also don't help fund roads via gasoline/diesel taxes.

Such lanes are now as crowded as conventional lanes more often than not.

Actual trip reduction could be obtained by limiting HOV use to actual carpools (>1 licensed driver) and buses with passengers, and narrowing their hours of exclusivity a bit.
Yes, this. Also, maybe those people who drive so far into offices to sit at a desk all day clicking buttons in a web app... Maybe those people don't need to be driving into an office at all. Or maybe just one day a week. Or, if you can't trust your employees to work from home, maybe there should be neighborhood working spaces where you can have a supervisor with your employees as they click buttons in a web app, but do so only a couple of miles from their house.
I just went through one episode myself, so I know how it feels. For a couple of months, it was as if my skull was empty, that there was nothing there. It's an emptiness that's tough to describe.

But this is the point of life! The experience.

Now I'm onto something else.

There has to be this drive to do something different, something that you love and that will make a difference. Sometimes it takes more than one try to find that one thing.

It's the modern form of a luta continua, vitória é certa. How else would you succeed if you don't try, and fail, and fail...

That, or stick with your day job, even if it bores you to death.
Seems like a better course of action would have been to make the videos accessible rather than force them down.
because context is everything so facts on their own are untrustworthy.

even worse than facts are 'statistics'.
> This comment was immediately down voted on Reddit. Someone is seeking to control the narrative.

Please...
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about "lol client has $3m in funding, charge them at least $75,000".

When you pay $75k to a reputable agency for a branding package, you're paying their hourly rate * a number of hours dedicated to your project, and it's not unreasonable to spend 500 hours working on a branding project for a startup that can afford it. Realistically that's 3 people working on this as their "main project" for 2 months (comparable to short branding projects I've completed, with a small internal team, at companies from 50-100 people).

Just keep in mind, there are going to be dozens of concepts that are attempted (to a reasonable extent) along the way, and never make the cut. You're not paying them to have exactly one brilliant idea, complete all the supporting work / documentation, and then "turn it in". :)

(Note: I just picked a random number somewhere in the middle of what agencies seem to be charging. You could just as easily find one talented freelancer working part-time for a month for $10k - $15k & end up with a very polished result)
I just wish the Instant Pot (and really, all electric pressure cookers) had a fast-response PID controller so that it could keep 15 psi like a stovetop pressure cooker instead of maxing at 15 psi and averaging 10 psi.
Alright. The article feels like light-hearted satire to me, and is the funniest thing I've read in a while. I'm surprised to see you associate it with entitlement and toxicity. I guess we have different types of humor. :)
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I suppose a better question is how did the existing code base get this bad? I work on a product 10 years older than FireFox and we've been able to make do with upgrades in place. Over time large pieces of architecture change.

The difference is our customers see improvements over time not large periods of stagnation.
Note that it's almost impossible to not lie on the form. Even a cold or a hangnail could be classified as a "disorder" under the very first question ("Do you have a communicable disease; physical or mental disorder, or are you
a drug abuser or addict?")

The poor grammar is vanishingly unlikely to be unintentional, considering how many reprintings these forms must have undergone.
I think it's possible to state truths and still be misleading and/or distracting from another narrative.

Indeed. The canonical example of this is releasing privately-commissioned polls. The data released can be a perfectly true reflection of the poll done, but if you are only choosing to release the polls that tell the story you want to tell, then the result is still going to be biased.
perhaps those people shouldn't have jumped to bringing a lawsuit, then
The most informative post on odbc I've ever read
This is also true here, but someone has to build or design those improvements to buses. The contract will typically go to someone's brother's shell company or something, especially in California. The approach to the Golden Gate Bridge cost a million dollars per foot of road. Yes, seismic this-and-that, environmental reports, noise studies, etc, but the corruption is just rampant in Cali.
autonomous cars people!!!!!!!!!!!!. they will solfix all of the entire whole worlds problems .
Coming from the other side of the process, even if a question may be arbitrary (Although, I'd argue a lot aren't) it can still be helpful in evaluating a candidate's thought process. Additionally, using the same questions on multiple candidates is a good way to actually cut bias out of the system as you have a lot more data points to evaluate responses against.
Pointing at a service with 99.99% uptime and claim the outages as a reason to go elsewhere? Host it yourself and hit that same uptime target. I'll be impressed.

AWS isn't built for little static sites. It is built to host Amazon. And others likewise as big. The ability to do neat toys like this at a low cost, utilizing far more machinery than you would ever need to for such small project, is a happy byproduct.

> Meanwhile lots of good admin guys lose their jobs

Don't go all union-y on me! Frictional Unemployment is unavoidable. The reality is that services like AWS free up all those clearly intelligent (by virtue of being "good") admins to utilize their intellect elsewhere. We live in the age of the STEM shortage. If you can work a computer and can be described as "good", I won't worry for you.

FWIW, it's "nay" not "neigh"
Berkeley will caption any video for their students on request.
lol, ok
Ask HN: What is the best approach to compressing ProtoBuf streams? Does it still depend completely on the content being serialized, even with the ProtoBuf metadata?

For example: brotli is designed with an existing dictionary optimized for HTTP. Based on this design decision, it seems like it wouldn't necessarily be a good idea to use it with ProtoBuf, especially for small ProtoBuf serialized plain-old-[whatever]-objects in a data access layer.

Poking around a bit so far, it seems http://blosc.org/blosc-in-depth.html may be the right choice, but I'm not so sure about adopting its serialization stuff since it isn't as widely xplat as ProtoBuf.

If your decision was obvious after reviewing multiple algorithms then you might save me some time by sharing your experience; thanks in advance!
I've actually gotten to the point where I just skip applying to jobs when I'm redirected to one of those portals. Fuck 'em. The only exception is when I think it's a company I really, really want to work for, and there aren't many of those any more.
Why should anyone accept planned obsolescence?
> Answered my question a few paragraphs down. Kudos.

I absolutely love it when a blog post, talk, or docs like these do that.

Especially during talks. Often the speaker will say something and it will immediately pop up questions in my mind which I really really want to ask but of course I should wait till the end. And then they answer it in the next slide. Perfect :)
Except you don't have to watch the fire.
There are torrents, and they're also up on archive.org.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22UC+Berkele...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5xqnc6/uc_berk...
If you have a job with decent pay, sane management, and reasonably good co-workers, do not casually walk away from it. I've been too many places that didn't have one or more of those. All three in one place... well, think twice before leaving that.
Unit testing helps with this.
I've been using it for English/Russian for the past couple years, haven't noticed any change... it's still pretty awful and makes the same mistakes.
im suprised, i thought it was beyond question that wikileaks is basically an attack vector used by russia. i guess you are saying while that may be true, it wasn't clear that assange was actively helping to that end.

my thinking is, everyone keeps things private. its fairly probable that there is as much damning info on most other orgs. in the context of wikileaks role in the 2016 election, im sure the RNC would look just as bad if they had all their dirty laundry aired. to my mind, you must consider the consequences and context when leaking, and for that reason i think wikileaks was highly unethical and they are partially culpable. there is no way assange wasnt aware of the motivations behind the leaks. so, to me, he hasn't been impartial- its a sin of inaction, not action.

a third, and minor point- when assange was last interviewed on bill maher, he struck me as very careful with his words, and very talking point ish. sounded just like a politician. wouldn't give any play to bill's questions about putting thumb on the scale for trump. not much there, but weird for someone who purports to be even minded, rational, fair and pure to behave like that.
The instant pot is a pressure cooker and a slow cooker. And other than a fucking electronic panel similar to a rice cooker I don't see what the big deal is. Indians have been using them for years, electric or stove top pressure cookers, that is. I bought an Instant Pot years ago and we love it, but god these fucking hipsters turn everything into a self congratulatory bunch of crap.

No electric pressure cooker on the market can get up to a stove top, but the instant pot is pretty good.
Don't be naive. Gaslighting people on the internet is a billion dollar industry.
Am I horrible person to want higher end trains again (like there used to be)? So I can pay double but have the confidence that my fellow passengers have jobs and families they care about and don't have voices in their head. Does this make me a bad human to want this?
I recently attended a transit planning meeting in Austin where they discussed the idea of combining demand driven tolls that provide free access to express buses.

I think this approach provides an excellent alternative to trains (which Austinites keep voting down) because:

- It addresses the issue where buses are slowed down by other traffic.

- It has the potential to convince people to take buses when total travel time is faster than driving and the cost of the toll is too great to use routinely.

- It has a low financial impact on tax payers, making it more likely to be approved.
This is easy to solve, have the public add closed caption. As volunteers add closed caption to them they become publicly available.
Strongly agree with this - as someone else wrote, I respect my references' time (and patience) much more than my own in this situation. I've come to regard early reference checks as a "no go" and have broken off with potential employers over them.
Visual Studio 97 also had Visual Interdev to make ASP pages. It also used Visual Source Safe for version control.
Well shit

Maximize ratio and minimize unaccounted (unaccused?) crime
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Toll roads interfere with the right to assemble, because they create transactions. When there are transactions, there are records, and when there are records there are subpoenas.
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We also know that Mr. Assange did lie about something in the past, his repeated claims that John Podesta's gmail password was 'password':

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jan/06/...
I'm reminded of the replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445190 (about the Guardian story on WhatsApp). There Maciej, for example, said

> I think the vaccine analogy is really helpful here. You can make true statements, like "vaccines can kill you", that cause massive public harm if they're not correctly contextualized.
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Depending on traffic, the bus is typically about the same, maybe 5 minutes more on the hour long ride I took for 2 years under the 405 everyday. You have to add in the time it takes to find parking for your car, which a bus does not do. Yes, some days are worse, some are better, but for me it was about the same for a hour+ commute.
I think most of these start out as as management having to justify sharepoint licenses. I wonder how many of the "can't find qualified people" companies are doing this? It's amazing the steps some employers will take to limit the employee pool.
I agree with this mostly, but I've also heard that algorithms questions can be a good proxy for actual software engineering skills. I've never validated this claim but I'm curious if anyone has any research on either side of the argument.
OK, but if you avoided disputing the definition of a word the author explicitly said was irrelevant, you would avoid invoking the topic of "what constitutes functional programming" altogether.
>You mean, selfish like everyone else is?

Nope: everyone else gets vaccines, they are clearly more selfish in this regard
For me, these are weed outs. I use behavior like this to weed out the companies I am willing to work for.
What would be really interesting if AMD CPUs and GPUs both support their Infinity Fabric concept. Heterogeneous systems with high-performance direct memory access is a huge deal.
Is it even still on any rail network? I know it use to be way at the top on the Cityrail posters but a quick check now and it looks like it's been replaced with a coach service.
I must have overlooked that. Thanks for pointing that out.
And most of those companies tend to not have shitty portals like this.
This is a terrible solution. This will disproportionately affect the working poor. Think of all the people who work in Malibu. Hardly anyone who works a service job there live in the 'Bu.

This is effectively a tax on lower income people who had to move away from the city because they couldn't afford it. Buses aren't a good solution, as they double the amount of transit time vs a car. Advocating buses would be another tax on time.

There are no easy solutions LA traffic which is why it remains such a problem. An expansion of the subway system would be a good start, but eminent domain needs to trump NIMBY-ism to keep the costs down.
I think that situation calls for the candidate to preemptively make the decision that it's not a good fit. Who wants to work for a place that is obviously willing to waste your time and then insult you for it?
It's a symptom of a process that is completely broken. I have given up entirely on interviewing for SV companies, and work 100% remote now.
Could you imagine.

deletes browsing history

If there is a page stating the CIA can create an unsavory browsing history, let me know, just for future reference.
When you're at the point where you're analyzing human psychology in order to convince people of something you've surely crossed the boundary into manipulation and must realize that you're evil, right?
Only because the costs of that lifestyle are socialized - either someone else pays them, or you can't opt out.

Surburban sprawl is unsustainable, but is paid for by new development, parking is free, or cheap, highways aren't tolled, costs of pollution aren't factored into your bill at the pump... When you live in the city, you still pay these costs, but you don't get to reap any of the benefits.
Bus Rapid Transit expansion is a near-term fix that can happen in a year or two. Rezones and construction to densify a city take longer. I don't think these two solutions are incompatible - they address the problem at different time scales.