skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> rather than wait for a stranger to pick them in a semi-determined block of time

I think the idea is that it's supposed to match you in real-time and give GPS updates, just like regular Uber and Lyft. That is, it's not like BlancRide in Canada (which has been struggling) where you schedule in advance, have blocks of time, etc.

https://blancride.com/

> Waiting and hoping that the person who promised to pick you up will actually do so seems annoying and nerve-wracking

Unlike most carpooling services, Lyft and Uber have strong reputation mechanisms that can greatly reduce this. You can always fall back on a taxi or normal Uber for couple times a month when the driver is flaky.
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Well, given that America is mostly white, it makes sense. But the Democratic party is also the party of the majority of non-white people, not just most non-white groups, but to my knowledge all of them. That says something.

I bothered making it because understanding the demographics of an institution will help you understand its goals and behavior. I guess I'm not sure why you see no value in that.
"PulseAudio solves all your audio problems on Linux, except the ones you have."
Ehh idk. I've lived in a couple major cities, and moved here to LA in 2015. It's not as terrible is it might seem on the surface. One of the major differences that sets Los Angeles apart from other cities is that people tend to live quite far from work because of housing costs and geography. I'm fortunate that I can take the bus (for now) and often take the Expo Line downtown to go to Kings games, but I know a lot of people that live in Playa or El Segundo and work in downtown, or even the Valley. That just isn't a realistic option for them. I think people have to see Public Transit as a reliable replacement before we introduce some forcing mechanism for them to sell their vehicle.

I think LA is probably a market that most uniquely fits for self driving cars (depending on whatever business model emerges for those things). Thing is, I can't imagine the special kind of road rage that'll emerge when you're driving on the 405 and look to your left and right and see a completely empty vehicle.
On one interview they asked me what my favorite pattern was. I said "visitor", was already about to start explaining but heard a deep breath-out and "thanks God he didn't say singleton". Appeared they had it pretty high in hiring criteria.
With any Pigouvian tax[1] you encounter the problem of progressivity. The answer is to make sure that the tax revenues are directed towards making it easier for low income people to have better transit options. Whether that means improved transit systems or income based toll exceptions, it's relatively easy to offset the detrimental impacts that tolling may put in place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
Yes, that's on our bucket list!
Meh. You provide a great strategy for keeping professional branding people and agencies in business, but not for growing the product company's sales. You are just confusing people.

$100k invested into improving the product offering to better solve problems for the customer WILL "accelerate your marketing".
That's reflected in the vehicle price, aluminum vehicles are substantially more expensive (and more expensive to work on after an accident) than steel.

Aluminum is extremely well recyclable, pretty much everything you buy that is made of aluminum will have a substantial portion of recycled material in it.

It's pure marketing to make it seem as though that's special somehow. The whole idea of something like an SUV being somehow green is a nice example of how 'green marketing' can be ridiculous.
For those who aren't riveted by the gorgeous ... sweater ... the link to the relevant TED talk is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7E973zozc

TL;DR: when tempted by procrastination count backward from 5
Some of the cost could be mitigated with "toll-free" options, such as using a vehicle tracker like EZ-pass and not charging you if you travel less than N miles (to encourage people to live near work), or giving partial refunds if you use your car very little during a month.

Another option could be a centralized "smart-driving" app, that would act as a hybrid between self-driving and manual driven cars. Each driver could be given "hints"/instructions, and measured on their compliance rate. The reward would be a measurable improvement in travel time. For instance, if 80% of the cars on a block were using this app, preference could be given to hold a signal light green longer for them. Drivers would see a benefit, and that would be their only impetus to comply with its directions (slow down, turn left here, park and wait 5m, etc). Someone who never listened to the thing would be kicked off. Soon with enough users , you could organize mini "convoys" of cars travelling through the city (say, all cars slow from 65 to 60mph for 2 miles, so that the offramp signal could be ready and green at the exact moment of their arrival and kept green for the whole convoy) and attempt to optimize travel for them or give them other perks such as free parking. It wouldn't solve all problems, but it would encourage cooperative behavior on the roads which may go a long way to easing congestion.
There has been already talk in the finnish news that Vaasa is lobbying itself for the Tesla's new Gigafactory in Europe so it is going to be interesting to see how this develops.

Here is an article in english about Vaasa's ambitions if anyone is curious about their rationale.

https://www.vaasa.fi/en/tiedote/vaasa-finland-will-apply-for...
Driving technology is 100 years old. The article doesn't discuss at all what technology solutions need to be deployed in order to make dynamic tolling possible. Sure, it just a matter of having all cars in the LA region be fitted with RFID. But I'll claim that with people behind the wheel that it just won't work. Let's just focus on the correct long-term solution of getting rid of the steering wheel.
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LA is getting better with mass transit. The problem is it's not running 24 hours. It shuts down around 1am so you it's not really good for doing things at night like in NYC.

Also, there's a TON of crazy people riding, literal homeless crazy people, or kind of thuggish people. There needs to be some sort of loitering code enforcement on the train along with more security. I feel uncomfortable as a dude, I bet women feel even more so.

Also need more train tracks!

Fix those problems people will ride transit way more. Thats the way to solve the traffic problem.
You don't actually say why they shouldn't be doing this, though. Everyone with this opinion seems to base it on moral grounds around privacy, but in practical terms, is this really harming citizens? So far there's zero evidence these things being used illegally domestically. IE: Without a warrant. There is some evidence that they've prevented some wrongdoing with it, though.

I get the theoretical moral argument. I just don't understand why it matters in practical terms.

If the government wants to blackmail me, or discriminate against me, or whatever, they're going to do it with or without these tools. To not build them is to willfully give up an important competitive edge on the global stage.
Yes. This. ^
I applaud what seems like a coordinated attempt to outdo each other when it comes to extreme transparency.

1) Wikileaks revealing the CIA has undermined consumer goods with malware. (this looks like a bigger deal than the Snowden revelations on the NSA side).

2) Russian opposition leader Navalny revealing that former Russian President Medvedev has been accused of amassing a billion-dollar plus property empire, based largely on bribes and subterfuge.

I can only hope this extreme transparency, despite the biases of its torchbearers, lights its way into every hall of power from the White House to the Great Hall of the People.
It baffles me the amount of support in this threads for this totalitarian bullshit... i know we suppose to hate Uber but ultimately charging with criminal charges to the "users" aka "drivers" is huge mistake, it will be the equivalent of the US government asking you to paid all your earnings because ebay wasn't playing by the rules.

PS: On a side note, i will add Norway to the list of countries you shouldn't do business.
I wonder if they tried this:
https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/21/set-environment-...
I haven't wrote in c for years and still don't get what is supposed to be confusing about it.

Maybe he wanted to check for undefined too? Most often you want to treat it the same as null.
"Clearly the defendant is trying to hide something now. If it pleases the crown, might we have a search warrant to seize the piece of paper?"
The idea of someone talking about my personal spends would be really annoying. But I can see how useful it could be for other people, it would be like a personal finance consultant giving tips.
Sounds like run of the mill incompetence here rather than anything political. Border guards are, in my experience, incredibly stupid and not at all knowledgeable about the laws they are tasked with enforcement. One idiot at JFK, after he couldn't find my stamp (how stupid do you have to be to not find one out of about 4 stamps in a very lightly travelled US passport?) asked me if I had other passports and proceeded to tell me that my other passport (and dual citizenship) was illegal and that I needed to get rid of it as soon as possible. Needless to say, I agreed with him until I got out of there but he was and is wrong. Not to mention a complete asshole. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case here.
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Because American health care payments are based on quantity and not quality? ;-)
Developer salaries in Europe are ridiculously bad, not sure about Paris specifically, but one of my in-laws moved from Vienna to San Francisco and the salary boost was ridiculous (and housing in Vienna proper is extremely expensive too, so it's not as if he moved from a cheap country).

We've had developers move from Spain to Chile, and even Uruguay where I am, rather than France, so there must be some problem with salaries (they do have the advantage of the same language here of course).
sigh

I meant to write founders and employees. Not founders and investors. Sorry. Not sure I screwed that up. The screwup made my statement completely wrong.

Investors, as you helpfully point out, generally have preferred stock with liquidation preferences and hence are "first in line."
A Google searches indicates that this is not accurate.
Looks like the CIA is screwing the public by mutual consent. The public is demanding more of the same, just as long as it's directed at whoever is out their favor. Here're the two topmost comments on NYT at the moment[0]:

karma2013 New Jersey 3 hours ago
If anyone still has doubts that Wikileaks and the Russians
are working together to undermine and destabilize our
government institutions, erode public confidence in our
government, and generally wreak havoc in our country, this
latest document dump should erase all doubt. We are under
attack by an adversarial nation, with a President here at
the helm who seems not to take any of this seriously.
Spy agencies spy, this should come as no shock -- this is
how they infiltrate potential terrorist plots against
America and keep us safe. We are less safe today thanks to
Wikileaks and Assange's unholy alliance with Putin..

Thomas Marin County, CA 3 hours ago
Where's the hacking of trump's taxes and his Russian
connections??
This information is needed NOW!

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/europe/wikileaks-ci...
maybe you would call this system "public transportation"
> In my previous company we used ask candidates to code a very simple task: reverse a string in Java, on the whiteboard or on paper. It is a trivial task but many seasoned people failed it to the extent that we thought "you don't really know Java, do you?".

I've written quite a bit of Java in the last year (though not in the last couple months), and a fair bit before that. I'd have a low probability of giving you a correct answer to that question without references—I have several possible approaches but I'm not 100% certain which would work without checking. Can I treat Java strings as arrays? Or is there some kind of toArray thing I need to do first? I think so but I'd have to check to be certain. Is there a string-reversing util method somewhere? Quite possibly. How do I read it one byte (glyph? Ugh, I can't remember how Java strings work and I have Go on the brain, I think) at a time if the treat-as-an-array thing doesn't work? God, I don't remember. What's string length again? size, length? Maybe even len? Assuming I figure that out, was that a property or a method, now? Hell if I know, it's not like I've written more than a dozen lines of Java outside an IDE, ever, unlike some other languages. I suppose I can use split if I have to (it's just called "split" in java, right? I can't remember for certain, of course!)

I'm sure some people memorize this stuff. Plenty of us, I'm sure, if it's not something we use ALL. THE. TIME. rely very heavily on tools, context (i.e. cheating for syntax by looking at surrounding lines) and documentation. I haven't been doing tons of specifically string manipulation in java lately, so I'd likely be screwed on this question.

I dunno, I guess by that standard I know zero of the 7-8 languages I've been paid to write over the last fifteen years or so.
> Taxi licenses would comply with the rule of law iff they were freely available to anyone who met the safety and service criteria.

You seem to be mistaking "the rule of law" for what are simply your ideological preferences.
We're also in Seattle and had the same experience. I took several taxis to the airport but switched to Lyft or Uber because I felt like the taxi drivers might get me killed. The Uber black car drivers were by far the safest of all of the methods, but I only used those a couple of times.
Are there any negatives to Zstandard (besides those listed in the article)? Specifically, I was thinking about using it to compress backup archives. I figure it might be annoying to use an algorithm that can't be extracted using default installed tools (though zstd is in Ubuntu 16.10 repos), but otherwise I don't see any downside.
How does that play with BSD license file which presumably has no such restrictions: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/LICENSE
> it's "impossible to know anything for certain" is lost on people

In my experience, people tend to use this phrase as a bludgeon to exclude ideas they don't like. It's a way to stop a discussion, not help promote understanding and find real facts.
> whomever ran that army would be the defacto leader of the world

That is specifically why I don't permit an executive. This isn't one army, it's an alliance of armies. They were (in my original proposal, not in the comment above) controlled by a council of heads of government who had to take (arrest) suggestions from the chief prosecutor of the international court, but were forbidden to take other actions collectively.

In fact, I recall suggesting that such a group of allies would promise to use force only to defend direct attack on their own borders, and to execute arrests.

> We're organized as nation-states in the first place so we can protect (generally) and pursue interests based on some sort of shared goal or value.

I'm not sure I was ever offered a choice of whether or which nation to join, nor given any arguments for it. The reason(s) for their formation are certainly not rational - they are an emergent phenomenon!

> the UN

The UN is a diplomatic mission, which aims to give nations who come into conflict a neutral space in which to talk to one another like grown ups (or, often, not like grown ups.) It is a fundamentally different goal to an organisation which aims to use the traditional enforcement of rule of law to coerce those with political power to act within at least some behavioural boundaries.

> Coming to an understanding between 8 Billion on who should be able to arrest them is extremely difficult.

Actually, again, this hypothetical force only has arrest power over international crimes - specifically, crimes which are committed by people wielding state power. This includes members of governments, civil services, uncivil services (police, army), and so on, but most definitely not civilians.

(An interested edge case I considered was the idea of an impromptu Texan militia who attempted to invade Mexico. I can't remember whether I decided they had designated themselves a pseudo-state or not by doing it. The same reasoning about whether jurisdiction should apply also works for most terrorists, anyway.)
My definition of rule of law is a common one where:

1) Laws must be known by all who are governed by them (i.e. there cannot be secret laws)

2) The enforcement of laws must be foreseeable and predictable (i.e. laws should not be interpreted or enforced differently over time)

3) Laws should be enforced equally against all those subject to the law (i.e. there should be no exemptions)

I would argue that 'sharing economy' companies have been subjected to abrogations of 2 and 3 in many jurisdictions, and I fail to see how this specific enforcement action proves that any of these principles are being upheld. I appear to be in the minority, and a great number of people seem to believe that I am factually incorrect.
Hangouts switched from NPAPI to WebRTC in Chrome back in 2014, but still uses plugins (NPAPI or ActiveX) for other browsers. Hangouts depends on some non-standard WebRTC functionality in Chrome. Google has had almost three years to adapt to other browsers' WebRTC stacks, but it is not a priority because the plugins have still worked (in Firefox < 52 and IE).

https://plus.google.com/103171586947853434456/posts/39TCW3Pc...
The traffic in LA is soul crushing. I just finished a job where I commuted about 18 miles each way and the drive would take 50 minutes each way. That might not sound unreasonable, but nearly the entire commute was freeway driving, which should have been much faster.

I don't know if tolls are the answer, but it's probably worth a try. Also massively expanding the metro system would be fine with me. LA needs to try whatever it can to solve the traffic problem. Traffic makes living in LA a huge drag and I found that friends often wouldn't bother to get together even on weekends because the traffic and parking are just so unpredictable.
You probably have a very incomplete understanding of taxi licensing. It is, first of all, very different in different localities. Second, while there are often grievous inefficiencies and/or corruption in the taxi licensing process, it is rarely a straightforward case of "powerful entities give you campaign contributions, you give them licensing."

Taxi companies are not, in general, large powerful sophisticated organizations (that's Uber). When they benefit from regulatory capture (which they do in a variety of places), it tends to be a result of slow decades of working extensively with regulators and benefitting from an accretion of rules.

There may be local exceptions because of rule 1: taxi regulation is local. The situation may be massively different outside the US -- I don't know.

Source: Worked for Flywheel, an Uber-like service that used taxis instead of individuals, for several years.
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And then Heisenberg happened.
"Lots of cores, lots of threads, and lots of main memory. That was the key."

Very much this. Which is why I ended up theorycrafting that the AMD many core CPU's would be so useful.
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Reality not just science is complicated.

One 'fact' I remember was men are more likely to physically harm their spouse, women are more likely to kill their spouse. [used as an example, may not be correct] If it's true that means domestic violence is biased in both directions. In other works Men are not more, less, or just as violent as women. Instead violence is a insufficiently complex model for the behaviors being discussed.

The hardest part of science is our desire to simplify past the point of accuracy. Consider, cities albino alter their local climate in more ways than just temperature. However, temperature is easy to model and complex interactions with various layers of the atmosphere and wind patterns is so guess what's ignored about this interaction. You don't teach middle school students about chimera when they study DNA, but it's a very real thing that actually happens.

This seems to extend in every direction. Do we want trade policy for today, next year, our children's future?
No, from Wikipedia:

>"The Oxford English Dictionary has defined "rule of law" this way:[2]

The authority and influence of law in society, esp. when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behaviour; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes."
Nope but everyone is running in the "cloud" and there you are lucky to get 50K IOPS
“Pssst You can pay to remove ads from my app” *facepalm* #fail
so, its a trial and error way to figure out the time equivalent of whistles?
It's not the companies' money being wasted. It's patients' money.

The nation would be better off without the ads. They create an artificially inflated demand.
I find meat cooked by pressure cookers and especially slow cookers sort of disgusting.

Mainly it boils down (pun intended) to the texture and the meat is lacking in caramelization (maillard reaction).

But I haven't tried the Instant Pot so maybe it has a solution for that.

If I could grill all the time I would. I almost can as I have a kamado style grill which has its own cult following as well (see Kamado Guru [1]).

There isn't much you can't cook on one of those grills.

[1]: https://www.kamadoguru.com/
I also don't understand this, nothing wrong about Yoda conditions and I don't understand the 'cognitive load' argument since the condition is just as readable. And: Visual Studio 2015 does not warn in the case of "if (a = 5)", not even at the highest warning level, only the VS2015 static code analyser catches this.
Huh, I had never heard that, why is that? Does Murray have a credibility problem, has he no evidence for his claim? Assume that any explanation that amounts to suppression by the "liberal media" or the "establishment" will fall on deaf ears.

Murray's Wikipedia page is not full of alarm bells, it does mention him appearing on Alex Jones's radio program but to discuss a non-crazy subject.
So where's your evidence that the US is secretly stockpiling chemical weapons? Note: a cynical claim that "they're all liars." is not evidence.

Or am I supposed to trust a stopped clock [the nuts] since it was shown to be right twice a day?
There are very interesting and fairly recent results on causal discovery under additive noise models [1]. Although such models aren't universally applicable the underlying concept is intuitive and a good fit for many problem domains. On the time series front, google open sourced CausalImpact [2] for Bayesian structural time-series modeling a few years ago. Looks like RankScience [3] is putting that research to good use.

I'm surprised that causal discovery doesn't get more play. Aside from the direct applications to scientific research, causality is a strong consistency hint for assessing models/features learned from data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8776582

[2] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2014/09/causalimpact-new-o...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13552862
Too bad that the article doesn't mention any electrical nor water/sewage installation. No wonder the appliances are depicted turned off.