skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Belt ans suspenders.

Defense in depth.
The boycotts might help Uber's profits - by bringing them closer to zero - but that's irrelevant to Uber's goal of growing its user base.
First party advertising. And native advertising.
> After that they are given the green card, which lets them work for any company.

I upvoted as this is a comparison a hadn't seen before. However, what I quoted is innacurate.

They can HOPE to get a GC in 10 years (for people from India), provided their current company agrees to sponsor it and goes through all the necessary hoops (the biggest of which is the PERM application). And it's not guaranteed, no matter how much work you've put in.

They are tied to the company, but they can switch companies if they find another sponsor. It requires a lot of effort and is far more difficult than just changing jobs, but it's possible.

L1 visas are tied to the company, however.
hah, the C/C++ programmer in me cringed the first time I saw it. It's a decent platform though.
Only bank I know of with really risky auto practice is perhaps Santander. The world will keep turning.
The US manages to enforce a lot of their regulations around the globe, eg no trade with Iran.
Well, the confirmation time problem and the transaction fees problems aren't going to go away anytime soon right? They're only going to get worse. So what's the opinion of people who have agreed not to follow BU? Let the transaction fees increase till transactions <$10 will be stupid to make?
In the aggregate, there has been a huge increase in social welfare spending. I can show you the raw, inflation-adjusted statistics if you wish.

What this means is that social welfare expansions have far outsized the cuts.

>productivity has far outpaced the wages which workers have earned since the 70's.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where...

>Almost all the benefits of economic growth since [the 1970s] have gone to a small number of people at the very top.

—Robert Reich, Financial Times, Jan. 29, 2008

>Since the mid-1970s, however, income growth has been confined almost entirely to top earners.

—Robert H. Frank, New York Times, March 9, 2008

>The modern American economy distributes the fruits of its growth to a relatively narrow slice of the population.

—David Leonhardt, New York Times, April 9, 2008

...

>These statistics appear quite compelling, but hiding in the background are some key issues that might alter the story. Average household size declined substantially during the past 30 years, so household income is being spread across fewer people. The mix of household types—married versus single, young versus old—also changed considerably, so the “median household” in 2006 looks quite different from the “median household” in 1976. Finally, the measure of income used by the Census Bureau to compute household income excludes some rapidly growing sources of income.

...

>Here is a preview of the key data issues that lead to the higher estimates of median household income growth.

>The price index used by the Census Bureau overstates inflation, and thus understates income gains, relative to a preferred price index.

>A changing mix of household types leads the overall median increase to understate the median increase of most household types.

>The Census Bureau measure of household income understates income growth by excluding some rapidly growing sources of income.

>The remaining difference between the 44 percent to 62 percent increase in median household incomes and the 80 percent increase in BEA personal income per person appears to be largely attributable to an increase in income inequality. The findings in this article are consistent with recent research showing that the largest income increases occurred at the top end of the income distribution. However, the findings here are not consistent with the view that the incomes of middle American households stagnated over the past 30 years. Income for most middle American households increased substantially.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...
> It looks like every kind of screening of immigrants will deter the more desirable ones

As someone who self-selected the name 'bayesian_horse', can you please cite the evidence you're basing this on?
How do you fix the brainless buying? Make pensions great again.
People should have the courage to state their opinion instead of simply down voting. I did not state something that was incorrect at least as far as I know and if I did, I would like to know what is incorrect about it.

Perhaps there should be a rule that when downvoting, people state the reason. I suspect that some readers believe that people living here illegally deserve taxpayer funds. If so, they should have the courage of their convictions.
My company banned network access to StackOverflow
Interesting. Any links to places that document these quiet efforts? (Somebody's blog post or so is perfectly fine.)
Will see. I have no doubts that mods are doing that they sincerely think is the best, but I have my doubts if that's indeed the best.
The number was determined by looking at gross revenues (which is just Uber's cut of rides not the total that customers pay) and comparing it to corporate expenses (which is not the same thing as what it costs to deliver the rides). It's an almost non sensical calculation.

The fact that it has been widely reported is a sad statement on the innumeracy of journalism.
A simple concept for no-timezone time: instead of using a number for hours, use some city (perhaps first one/two letters of the name) where it is noon at that time. E.g. this post is around 15:00 PST in such system will be just "samoa". 12:00 GMT will be "greenwich", 16:00 GMT - "moscow", e.t.c.

Does not solve the problem for local time (stores in one country will be open from moscow to greenwich, in other - samoa to tokyo), but helps to put global time in perspective. E.g. if its berlin, you can guess, that folks in Berlin have around 5 hours more of work time, and folks in Moscow will be done in 4, and Japan is enjoying nice evening already.
"Relieve" and "remove" are not the same thing.

I'm inclined to agree that there's significant circumstantial evidence here that at the very least extremely pointed question should be currently being asked of the CEO, and in the absence of immediately and publicly verifiable evidence countering these claims - the CEO should quite reasonably be "relieved" (as in - temporarily taken out of decision making and business information collecting capacity) while the investigation continues.

But Uber has continuously demonstrated if not the sort of company who's ethical constraints would bind it to that sort of behavior. (To the extent that I'm now cynically wondering whether the current "Uber is an awful place for women to work" controversy has been intentionally orchestrated and played up in the press to help suppress this information...)
That is also not correct. TBH I have no idea where you are even getting that 12% number.
Does anyone know of a scraper with a simple UI that's usable by less technical people? Similar to Kimono (bought by Palantir and shut down). https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/15/palantir-acquires-kimono-l...
Actually, I'd have to recommend avoiding the current 2-in-1 XPS's for a while if anyone is considering them as an option. We've got about 200 of them in the wild and about 70 of them either won't sleep or won't come out of sleep and have had to either go back to Dell or get their motherboards replaced. No idea what happened, normally they're up to a pretty high standard.
Hillary and Bernie hasn't used a bully-pulpit to attack climate change facts.

If we don't do something about climate change right now, it will kill our species. We were doing something, and those efforts are already being reversed via anti-environmental (and anti-human) EPA appointments.

Your arguments about racism are irrelevant to me considering the context.
For informational sites, I'll block sites that violate my preferred conditions, and load them up in third-party tools, e.g., Archive.is, on the rare occasion I find an interest in their content.

Almost universally, it's not worth it.
I'm speaking about impressions, not the actuality of it. One person's casual attire, which is the norm for a lot of interviews now, might be interpreted as "gang clothes" even when they're clearly not.

Like is a simple Kangol t-shirt "gang clothes"? By the same token a Lulu Lemon or Izod shirt is, they're just different "gangs". People have a way of reading into things. A well-dressed black person might look "like a drug dealer" while a scruffy white dude might look "like a real programmer". It's a matter of perception. Our pattern matching is often badly distorted by the media.

Improving is always a good idea, but if it completely handicaps entire groups of people it's not necessarily an improvement, it's just shifting the artificial rejection criteria.
Things Super Weird Now, but It’s Not a Glitch in Matrix, Harvard Physicist Says
The Air is my private machine and I bought for size/form factor (aka travel).

I had a MacBook Pro 15" (far better spec'd) at the time, but left it at home/work due to size and weight.
The 11" Air fits "everywhere" and still has a full size keyboard and a good trackpad.

My Late 2013 MacBook Pro (bought early 2014) is a 2,3GhZ i7, 16GB memory and 500GB SSD.
Compiling, VirtualBox/Parallels and Docker is less painful, but 99% of the time the old 11" Air is good enough.
> All of the countries in the union have ... their own devolved parliaments.

England?
I don't know, maybe my perspective is particularly weird: I've been working in Haskell and OCaml most of my career (apart from a stint at Google) which tends to keep out the riff-raff people seem to afraid of, but I don't have a degree.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855559 and marked it off-topic.
Obama gave plenty of respectability politics[0] speeches. This argument is as old as U.S. Reconstruction. The problem isn't inspiration, working hard, or wanting a better day for their children.

Actual laws set up these neighborhoods, schools, prisons, and employment consequences.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respectability_politics
:/

I was tutored by BH in middle school - he taught me recursion and basic programming through Logo. My family was a little close with him for awhile; we used to do a New Year's brunch that he'd come to, but I haven't seen him in person for nearly a decade.
Difference between beginner and advanced Tech Recruiter
Most passwords don't have capital letters unless forced by stupid password rules. This only makes it so accidental capital letters don't prevent you from logging in.
Thanks for sharing that. I'm curious about whether you work with other, more mainstream technologies too alongside Pick, and what the interoperability is like?

Despite the limited features you alluded to, I think I would quite enjoy a platform that isn't constantly mutating in response to fashions and (I assume) lets you get on with the job.
Please be specific. What is inflammatory? What is uninformed? It seems to be to just be ad hominem attacks.
maybe simply to keep keep all forensic operations as separated from any google operations as possible?
Yes. But that only makes sense for people who already have a sizeable chunk of super---since there are fixed costs for an accountant to sign off on your investment decisions.
Firefox as well. I use Pocket as a perferred reader generally, though its failure to provide a means of navigating directly to sites, or of showing a navbar, is annoying.

(Pocket ... has multiple annoyances. It's better than the alternatives, so far as I've tried, but that is one hellaciously low-set bar.)
Knowing nothing else about this planner yet, you really gotta give it up to the founder for what he's persevered through to launch it:

> WHY I CREATED PANDA PLANNER

> For over five years of my life, I was hampered by Lyme Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and most recently, Cancer. Each of these on their own was enough to knock me on my back and render me mostly useless, but the combination resulted in a perfect storm of depression, anxiety and inability to think clearly. Naturally this was something of a bummer!

https://pandaplanner.com/pages/about-us
As I remember, DropBox put some tool/lib for making plumbing (JNI & friends) easier.
Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes
Key Machine Learning PreReq: Viewing Linear Algebra Through the Right Lenses
Because I think in this case, it's not just about money (per se), copying a public design, or patent-related technicalities ("we had a patent on that very generic thing!").

This one is about bad-faith theft. Google didn't sue Uber because they want to extract some $ from them, they sued because they feel their hard work was literally stolen by a bad-faith actor who is now competing against them with their own work.

Neither party cares about an extra billion or two in either direction, so I doubt we'll see a "token" settlement for that amount.
How to Succeed in Any Programming Interview by Siraj Raval
Having not been convicted of a crime (with the assistance of one of the world's largest legal budgets) is not the usual measure of being the sort of respected and trusted person you'd want at the helm of your corporation.

The man is unquestionably toxic - it's entirely possible the entire company is toxic.
Mostly because you're in a competition with everyone who sells cars; a commodity business. That's hard.

What is a startup? Poised for explosive growth. Are commodity businesses poised for that growth? No.
Lawyers in most jurisdictions are required to take Continuing Legal Education courses, but my experience was they were of limited use and the ongoing practice of law kept me far more current about legal trends than the courses did. They seemed more geared toward keeping the lowest common denominator from dropping into the realm of malpractice than teaching you anything that would be 'cutting edge'.
What is not equitable about this?
Are you asking if a degree conferred by the University of London is more recognisable than one from a place like DeVry? Yes - colleges of the University of London are frequently in the top ten of all universities in the world.
There's also: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/softeng/

A lot more expensive (£25,000 all-in, part-time over four years), a reasonably well-known university, it's an MSc, flexible curriculum, no undergrad degree needed.
Not if the experiment takes place in an elevator....
Yes, hence my qualification that it's important the economy be booming.

Alas, government protection doesn't help that much: just like you see greedy landlords in the US haze people who are paying below market rates in rent controlled apartments, you see bosses quietly make people's lives hell in some jobs in Germany.
Only because, you're are grossly misinterpreting the phrase.

The whole idea behind socialism is that the means of production are controlled and owned in some democratic manner where everyone has almost equal ownership and control.

Bitcoin is more akin to Rothbard's capitalist utopia, with private ownership of property but no state.
A Platform for Creating Isolated Development Environments
My family is middle class, I'm college educated, and have a middle class wage as a software engineer. I'm not wealthy. I spent 4 years in my early 20s in rock-bottom poverty and I know exactly how much of a struggle it is for some people. I've been there before.

Money is still fictional status points. That doesn't change anything about the nature of the thing. It's value is based entirely on social constructs. I call it "status" points because it represents how much "buying power" you are granted by your society. That's a form of social status. It is only very indirectly correlated to how much material benefit you produce. For example, a nurse who saves lives at a hospital ER is paid much much much less than a bank executive who takes phone calls all day. Do you understand my point now?
At what point is byte ordering handled?
Lightning is supposed to reduce transaction fees whenever it finally gets released.
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13862350 and marked it off-topic.
The Lunatico demo got 2nd place at X'2016. Here you can find videos of the winner and the rest: http://www.indieretronews.com/2016/11/x2016-c64-had-one-hell...
Oh, I was musing whether we can tell today---both in practice or in theory.
Very true.

I got a pretty persistent request to work on an informix 4gl system for a ridiculous rate. Haven't touched the stuff in years.
Pretty neat how nicely this integrates into an existing docker host setup. Definitely going to give it a try and see about integrating into containership.

edit: typo
But it is related. The fact is that the NYT article was complaining about the lack of federal funds, but the true fact is that if the citizens of California elected politicians who did not unwisely pay for people living here illegally, they would have the money for the electric rail. Since money if fungible, since California politicians decided that taxpayer money should go towards people living here illegally, then it means that federal funds are going towards people living here illegally. I think this argument is very sound. I'm really tired of people writing articles and other complaining without stating the full context.

If that electric rail is so very important to California, and I believe it is, then the citizens of California should elect officials that do not use valuable and scarce taxpayer funds to pay for services for people living here illegally. They should elect politicians that spend taxpayer money for the benefit of people living here legally which includes the electric train.
I hadn't seen this project before. It looks really cool. I especially like the support for pushing network configuration at startup (via the "hyperstart" concept in v1 and systemd in v2). This is sorely lacking in Docker. You can accomplish it with pipework (which is just a wrapper around `ip exec` in the container netns), but then you need to write code in the container like "wait for interface XX to be up before running entry_point.sh"

My use case is creating containers with multiple interfaces and custom routing rules for each interface. Currently I am using pipework.sh to setup the interfaces and routes, but it's a dirty hack and increases container boot time due to the need to poll for interfaces to be up before starting the application. It looks like this "hyperstart"/systemd approach to namespace isolation avoids that latency, which is nice.

Unfortunately, according to these docs, each container interface requires a tap bridge in addition to the usual veth pair, due to qemu networking limitations. That's unfortunate, especially for containers with multiple interfaces, which is specifically my use-case.

Does anyone have an idea of the overhead of creating many tap interfaces within a container?
The problem we have when thinking about poor people is that we think they're people just like us, but with no money.

That's not the way to think about it.

You would be astonished at their ignorance and, as an effect of that ingnorance, laziness. They literally have no idea what is possible. No idea what effort could achieve.

It's typically not their fault either. Someone with influence in their life has to set an example and show them the way otherwise they'll never understand how to unlock their potential.
In the UK, you'd probably be better off with Now TV. It's basically Sky's IP-only platform. If you don't mind 720p and the lack of subtitles (with subs currently in closed beta), it's pretty cheap. Especially as you can buy a box with a code for 3 months Entertainment package for £15 with a free locked-down Roku box.

If you're actually IN the UK, they do a rather good DVB-T2 IPTV hybrid box called the Now TV Smart Box.

Although I'm the opposite entirely. Last thing I watched that was Sky-exclusive was West World. Netflix and Amazon Prime have been smashing it.

Black Sails is just about to finish up on Amazon Prime (exclusive) and I'm just getting up to current on Hell on Wheels, and the second season of Hand of God, having just finished binging Vikings and Patriot.

I'm looking forward to the full seasons of Jean-Claude Van Johnson, and The Tick, both having had well received pilots (as did Patriot.)

Netflix are about to release Iron Fist, which I'm chomping at the bit for. Luke Cage was a bit of a let down for me, but only in the context of DD and JJ which were superlative.

They've brought scifi ranging from the gourmet The Expanse to junkfood Killjoys, including the rather enjoyable Travellers. (Weirdly I watched the season of Hell on Wheels where they changed a character's actress to MacKenzie Porter, after watching Travellers.) Stranger Things, ASoUE, Narcos, the new season of Black Mirror (having moved from Channel 4), the surprisingly excellent Shooter...

And Arc, Gantz: O, iBoy, Santa Clarita Diet, Kuro Mukuro, Aldnoah Zero, Ajin: Demi Human, Your Lie In April, Better Call Saul... There's no shortage on new varied content that I've thoroughly enjoyed.

I've still got some new-ish Sense8 and the second season of Bloodline to watch.

I can't think of a month that hasn't provided a new influx of excellent content on both platforms.
Not much discussion here so I'll jump in.

I've been working on a private Telegram bot that I converse with about my daily habits, how I feel (mentally/physically), what I've eaten, etc., and in theory it will use machine learning to help me uncover some patterns to my various wild mood swings.

Since it's open ended/conversational, all private, and run on my your own machine (at least the analysis part), I'm hoping I can get a more accurate overall picture of my life.

I confess that I haven't quite figured out how to get the output together in a way that is useful, but I'm feeding content to it and experimenting in Mathematica to see what is possible.

Eager for ideas if anyone has any!
I remember buying a Mac in college because I was finally going to get into Native development!! Well, that was almost 10 years ago and after many false starts it just never happened... seemed like such an insurmountable amount of cruft for even the most mundane things.

Then earlier this year I tried RN. And yes, I struggled mightily at times with building/deploying/linking libraries, but when it came to the app it finally felt closer to the level of effort I put in building web stuff. And then I finally sent an app out the door with Camera integration and some pretty neat UI elements. All thanks to this.

RN has lowered the barrier to entry in such a way that I have a feeling my story is/will be incredibly common. CRNA is yet another great step in that direction, so on behalf of us mostly part-time devs, thanks a ton!
> By any measure, Caltrain is the equivalent of a dated personal computer running Windows 95 way overdue for an upgrade. Rush-hour trains are so crowded that their aisles are filled with passengers. Trains break down frequently and the locomotives belch plumes of black smoke into the air — a sight more in line with the early industrial age than 21st century Silicon Valley.

As a frequent commuter, I couldn't agree more with this paragraph.
Please explain why taxpayer funds should be funding people who live in this country illegally. To state that it is a bumperstickerism without providing an explanation for why this is so is an ad hominem attack.
To be honest, the only time I'm going to pay for open source is if you bounty or ransom it and I want it. Neovim for instance.

OpenSSH, probably never. Just being honest here. And considering half the population here blocks ads, I doubt they'd pay either.
I like this one,

> DO NOT solely rely on SSL/TLS to secure data in transit.
Rationale: Numerous man-in-middle attack vectors and publicly disclosed flaws in the protocol.