skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too - I took their Computer Architecture course and really enjoyed it. Would recommend.
Yes, I've added a lot of them in the meantime (and added a validator written in PHP).

I think it will be hard finding a list that makes sense for everybody. It's a tricky problem.
They could have taken capital from Uber to fund themselves and then waited longer for Uber to acquire them.
Thanks for the insights! I tried out all the featured projects and they all have the "card" swipe. Reading your post I get why it's implemented like this. Getting as much in JS as possible. However if you push it too far you'll end up with something like Ionic. I guess it'll all meet somewhere in the middle where you have the basic blocks native and JS where native is too hard.
Turbolinks? https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks-ios
As a Turkish Citizen, I Have No Sympathy for the Turkish Protesters
You wrote:

Claims to the contrary the map is not the territory and a country is not a house.

The correction is saying this should be:

Despite claims to the contrary the map is not the territory and a country is not a house.

This does not seem to change the meaning, but rather makes the sentence read sensibly.
Selfish plug here but this industry is our bread and butter (our company hosts the data rooms and powers the marketing for the vast majority of subprime auto backed securitizations in the US). Below is a link to issuance volume going back to 2008. You'll see that big banks are not the leading originators in this market and at peak (2016) we're talking $26bn in loans (versus hundreds of billions in subprime mortgages). Additionally, unlike mortgages on second and third homes, people are far less likely to default on a car rather than a home because in suburban America, you need your car to keep your job, regardless of where you live.

Finsight Subprime Auto issuance profile:
https://finsight.com/sector/Auto/Subprime%20Loan
The hostage-taking here is in the form of the $647 million omnibus transit bill encompassing the Caltrain electrification portion.

It's like kidnapping a kitten and demanding a $100 ransom for "kitten food" or the kitten dies... then spending $1 on kitten food. And you'll likely have to pay more to get the kitten back later anyway.

The Democrats are free to introduce a clean bill with just the Caltrain electrification funds. A clean bill (funding ALL of it, even) would sail through Congress.
For a router-based block, see DD-WRT and dnsmaq:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/b2ungqjvmlflvinrtp4cug
I just bought two new cars, a Chevy Volt and a Mazda CX-9. The dealers couldn't care less how I was going to pay, nor whether I purchased or leased. They barely even tried to sell me extended warranties.

In fact, Mazda gave me a $500 incentive to borrow at 0% for 5 years. My GM loan was also 0% (but no incentive). So obviously they aren't making anything loaning me money.

Further, I find it hard to believe there's no or slim profits in the sales. I think I did a pretty good job negotiating. I don't even mind disclosing the numbers.

The Volt had an MSRP of $40,325. I managed a $38,258.25 sales price + $1147.75 tax + $94 tag less $1000 rebate for $38,500 out the door. The invoice on this car is supposedly $38,651.

The CX-9 was a similar situation, with an out the door price below invoice.

Both dealers I purchased from were in fact a bit out of town and had to secure the vehicles from other area dealerships. They knew I wasn't likely to use their service departments (each is almost an hour away), so I doubt they cared about any more than making the sale. The sale alone has to have been profit motivated.

Now, maybe individually they didn't make a lot of money on these sales. But it has to be the case that they are making money on their total sales volume. Maybe they'll take a loss on a sale or two if it puts them above a quota which gets them a huge bonus.

These dealers are obviously costly to operate. They have a lot of real estate and the show rooms are beautiful. They hold a ton of inventory for months at a time. I just can't believe they could exist on the slim margins they claim they make on each sale. I would be shocked if they aren't easily clearing 20% or more on average on sales alone, even on deals like mine.
Just curious -- where do you live? UK? US? Other?
Because they haven't thought of that and have done zero research on it, so they just build buildings like they did a century ago, right?
And yet, the schools are still really, really good!

This is a particularly weird statement to make in regard to NYC school performance, across the board.
Definitely.

I was considering adding 2-letter language codes, and that list only is > 100 items.

I already thought about breaking up the list into multiple categories, I can really see how it can get complicated (and ugly) pretty quickly.

A subdomain makes the app look a lot more trustworthy IMHO.
As expected. Turns out seizing the means of production won't necessarily result in equitable outcomes.
Relevant discussion of the existential operator on ESDiscuss: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/existential-operator-null-propag...
Watch the same thing five times on average? What for? There's way too much other cool stuff to watch.

I admit our Thomas the Tank Engine DVDs have probably been played more than 50 times by now, so buying popular kids stuff makes sense (and these cost a lot less than $20), but for me, I generally prefer to watch something new rather than the same thing a second time.

The impending death of net neutrality is only a US thing. Netflix is more international than that. I doubt it's going to impact me much.
protip: the -currency and -coin suffixes are skeuomorphs.

this is a new asset class that retains qualities of several asset classes (currencies, commodities, and securities), while dropping all of those asset's limitations, and introducing its own unique limitations where people are positive they can all be fixed.
Ok, that might have been an oversimplification on my part, maybe "isn't a natural fit" would have been better. I'm sure there's enough value there that you could have eventually made a business out of it.
The Obamas are definitely doing something about it:

http://www.mbkalliance.org/
Yeah, but for Costco it actually makes sense. Costco sells items that are big, bulky and hard to transport, and they already do a ton of logistics - supply chain stuff is a big part of why they remain profitable. Uber is trying to do something that other people are already doing, better, for less cost, without experience. It isn't working out.
Pretty much agree with everything you said. I'm an iOS/Android dev with about 7 years of mobile development experience and I have shipped two apps using React Native.

I think the biggest problem with adopting React Native in a shop that already has a native team is politics. Lots of Native developers don't want to touch it.

I think it's a great fit for companies who already have a React front end team and who's mobile teams are at least open to giving it a try.
and raising capital, and returning capital, and being an infallible datastore for arbitrary data
youtube-dl can take a playlist as an argument.

That playlist is about 3GB of videos downloaded at max quality, in case you're curious.
looks like they have testing centers around the US:

http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/distance-and-flexible-l...

http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doc...

This is very interesting.
The poor are generally not in a position to dump large amounts of time, energy, and attention into something with such a risky and far-future payoff. I mean, they often don't have the wherewithal to cook dinner rather than grab something from McDonald's.
Piggy backing off this a little, in a similar vain I recently embedded Python in a macOS app (approved by the store) which was a bit of a pain to do. I documented the process as well since I couldn't find a full fledged tutorial on it.

https://medium.com/python-pandemonium/embedding-a-python-app...
> If the office of the president is saying things like "microwaves that turn into cameras," I'm not confident in the president's ability to understand the problem well enough to solve it effectively (nor, and this is small comfort, to take advantage of it effectively).

imho this particular case seems like the incoherent ramblings of a nutcase, but bugs hidden in everyday devices are old-school espionage stuff (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) or countless others).

A microwave would be a pretty awesome target for a bug - it can live off the microwave's standby power, and transmit in the 2.4 GHz band when the microwave is operational. The high power usage of the magnetron (and the load-switching voltage spikes) would cover the increased energy demand, and using the 2.4 GHz band prevents it from being detected by bug sweepers (the noise from the microwave will drown out the sweeper).
Perfect example would be Zimbabwe
The arts can pay well if you're very skilled or talented. I moved into a career in film easily, though between the time I moved in and some extraneous factors, it's been financially difficult, but generally it's a results-oriented space that rewards innovation and initiative.
Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping
Pool is profitable on average, but low margin, so any particular ride is likely to be an expense. Much like how a casino loses money on 49% of slots sessions.
There are lots of Java AOT compilers to native code, namely most commercial JDKs for embedded development.

The biggest problem with GCJ was that most people left the project when OpenJDK was made available, and decided to work on it instead.
yeah- my response neglected "near future"- i don't believe our current encryption methods are "near" broken. to that end, i was obviously wrong.

but i appreciate you reading between the lines and following up with a great response- i have a lot to Google. :)
I'm regularly surprised to see some very new content show up. The MCU Marvel movies are nearly complete. (Winter Soldier is mysteriously missing, but Civil War is available.)

Star Wars 7 was also available surprisingly quickly. But Rebels still isn't for some reason.

Still, the selection is very good, and the Netflix Originals are among the best content available. You're unlikely to find them on another streaming service.
> "I would much rather have my money flow to my neighbor, someone who works hard and is essential to the economy, than someone in Mississippi, no matter their citizenship status."

You mean, no matter whether they are living in the country legally or not. Well, OK. But I see that there are a lot of veterans that have served their country throughout America and I believe they deserve our support over neighbors who are living in the country illegally. Let's agree to disagree on that one.
I live in a Third World country with ridiculous monetary restrictions (no PayPal for instance) Bitcoin has been the only way I can pay for books and services. It might not seem like much to you but it has literally been life-changing to me.
Yes, that's why I also mentioned changing the HTML. For instance, change the ID of the div that contains the ad. It could even be random and change every time.

I don't have experience fighting ad blockers, though (I actually enjoy my ad blocker).

If Google did it, I doubt ad blockers would be able to block all ajax request on Google, or everyone would simply uninstall the extension.
What Works on Wall Street
> You can only get so far with this

Is improving a problem not worthwhile without completely eliminating it?

> "He's wearing gang clothes" or "I thought he was a rapper"

Are gang clothes business attire now? That's what I see people of color wearing to interviews and work.
> JVM bytecode is truly portable, whereas target ABI details leak into LLVM IR. A biggie is 32 bit vs 64 bit LLVM IR.

From a few LLVM meetings and Apple's work on bitcode packaging, I think there is some work to make LLVM IR actually architecture independent.
I get a lot of flag for saying this but it's the same reason most girls don't get into programming or math; it's no fun for them, at least not near the same ratio as boys; as it is observable from an early age. Just like (sadly) fighting is more fun for males so are logic puzzles; and that's fine; except now it gets framed as a discrimination issue.
I dunno, I'm a pretty hard core native developer (7 years mobile, mainly doing iOS) and I'm enjoying developing in React Native ;)

One of the reasons I like React Native a lot is because it makes it so easy to drop back to native code when I need to.
Sit-down restaurants won't go out of business just because a McDonalds opens across the street.
https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion

This plugin solves the curly brace issue. I find if there is something you find repeatedly annoying, there is probably a plugin to solve it. That or you suddenly have an interesting side project!
www.google.com/dslkj/

www.google.com/dog-595984hdfh/

www.google.com/cat21/
I agree. When I'm tutoring students and they have a problem I point out things like 'Find Usages' and the 'go to' menus. Those things are useful.

Unfortunately with Python, for to the nature of the language, there are often things pycharm can't call out. There are other times where pycharm says it won't work, but in fact it will (happens a lot with turtle, but imports in general are challenging). This isn't a criticism of pycharm so much as a challenge for any IDE with Python; VS Code gets it wrong more often than not as well.
"All kinds of diversity" sounds a lot to me like "all lives matter".

You can't have racial and gender diversity while keeping racists and misogynists at the top of your company. Why would you want to work for someone who doesn't think you're entitled to fair pay? Or to live in your home? Or to be married to your spouse?

Having a workplace that's accepting of diversity requires kicking out bigots.
Fixing the Tech Job Interview with Cold, Hard Cash
"How is what Austin did good? It dissuades capital investment and innovation."

I don't believe that for a second. Especially because the exact regulations that Austin put into place are followed by Uber in other places.
>Our (Google's) policy only impacted cold calling, and we continued to recruit from these companies through LinkedIn, job fairs, employee referrals, or when candidates approached Google directly. In fact, we hired hundreds of employees from the companies involved during this time period.

Not defending google here, but there is some nuance to the issue.

The scummiest part to me is that they made "agreements that, when offering a position to another company's employee, neither company would counteroffer above the initial offer."

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
"Economic majority" of bitcoin space have already agreed not to follow BU, that's why not many talk about it.
That's not a baseline value, that's a baseline cost. It costs money to mine a bitcoin, but that doesn't mean anyone will want to buy it.

Gold is a bit different since it has some baseline value from practical uses, but the store of value use case dominates those.
> There is no proper oversight, not for any reasonable definition of the word.

Could you elaborate on what practices you precisely take issue with?

If it is regarding domestic telephony metadata collection, I am in agreement and I am glad that the USA Freedom Act restricted that. Otherwise, I don't really know how to answer you as you haven't stated any specific problem that you have.

Additionally, I'm not so sure my reply is that great of a defense, I am only stating facts because I do not believe that spreading misconceptions is very helpful to discussion on this kind of topic.
This is just one pessimistic investor. Many think that Netflix will continue to grow. As a user, I think Netflix is getting a lot of things very right. Their original content is really, really excellent, and they make it really easy to keep track of where you are in a long series (unlike when I'm recording something from TV, for example).
The first one is, but as the obviously hyperbolic "infinitely faster" claim.
What'd you use to buy the vehicles? Did you use an internet purchase tool or a blast fax [1]?

[1] http://credit.typepad.com/credit/2006/04/buying_a_car_wi.htm...
It's possible to jailbreak any Kindle as you can preform a downgrade to a vulnerable firmware version.
I don't agree that the notion of multi-codepoint characters is necessary, I don't think it was a good idea at all. I submit [1] as evidence.

Whatever this mess is, it's a whole thing that isn't a byte-stream and it isn't "characters" and it isn't human language. Burn it with fire and let's do something else.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/unicode/6485/characte...

(In reality I am slightly less hard-core, I see some value in Unicode. And I really like Z̨͖̱̟̺̈̒̌̿̔̐̚̕͟͡a̵̭͕͔̬̞̞͚̘͗̀̋̉̋̈̓̏͟͞l̸̛̬̝͎̖̏̊̈́̆̂̓̀̚͢͡ǵ̝̠̰̰̙̘̰̪̏̋̓̉͝o̲̺̹̮̞̓̄̈́͂͑͡ T̜̤͖̖̣̽̓͋̑̕͢͢e̻̝͎̳̖͓̤̎̂͊̀͋̓̽̕͞x̴̛̝͎͔̜͇̾̅͊́̔̀̕t̸̺̥̯͇̯̄͂͆̌̀͞ it is an obvious win.). Even when it doesn't quite work... (I think I'm back to "fuck Unicode" now.)
Is it me or is 'stdlib' not the best name for something that's not the <stdlib.h>?
Technology Inheritance
"Distributed" as in using proxies?
Where do the requests come from when I scrape a page?
> Summer 2015 - Anthony Levandowski told Pierre-Yves Droz, a colleague at Waymo, that he had talked with an Uber executive about forming a self-driving car startup and that Uber would be interested in buying that startup.

This, particularly, seems absolutely moronic. If you're going to do something shady, don't tell anyone about it.
> "A major flaw in your argument is the implication that undocumented individuals in CA"

"undocumented individuals" is a euphemism that does not help the discussion and tends to minimize and obfuscate the language so as to seemingly minimize the fact that they are living in the country against the law. The correct term is illegal alien (look it up if you don't believe me).

My argument is a simple one that I think most people agree with which is this: people that live in this country illegally do not deserve taxpayer funds. I am not making any assumptions, just a statement.
same could be said for corporate debt as well as its the same financial instruments and structures..
> The government needs to change education to a protected status, like gender, religion, etc

Protected classes are usually characteristics that people cannot change (eg. race, ethnicity, disability) or that it would be unconstitutional to force them to change (eg. religion). Educational attainment doesn't fit either category so that would be a hard sell, politically. (I don't actually know how protected classes are decided; this is just based on my observation and could be completely wrong)

> The core issue here is that companies use degrees and education status as a filter and proxy for perseverance, intelligence, and skill,

Which implies there's a market opportunity for smart companies to pick up, on the cheap, non-graduates that they can determine, through some other filter, are smart, persevering and skillful (the Moneyball approach, if you will). I personally think it's silly to limit a person's career growth 10-15 years into their career just because they didn't go to college when they were 20. Any "rounded-ness" a person picked up then has long worn off for most.
HTTPS requests only timeout if your setup doesn't reject them (also described in your first link).
"the information" had a great article on Uber's finances recently. One of the stats cited was from an internal Uber study that said moving to a fleet of self driving cars would only achieve a 5-10% profit margin for the company.
I can't speak for every student at every university, but my university is in the top 50 of csrankings.org and yet even in my junior-level courses there are loads of cargo-cult programming students. They think they understand things like compilers, operating systems, and so much more, and they delude themselves into having those beliefs based on things like "I'm in CS; of course I understand $THING" or "I'm at $UNIVERSITY and we've learned so much, so I definitely understand $THING". In reality, if you mention "ELF", most of them would probably think you're talking about a special type of new line, and the only thing they think "IR" could possibly stand for is "infrared"

It gets even worse when you get on the topic of "Computer Architecture" - so many people think they can talk to their computer on a deep level, without realizing that what they're learning in class (MIPS) is actually not what their computer understands!
It's a marketplace designed to be exploited by shitty vendors.

You have the hospital administration that cares about billing first and foremost. Then you have doctors who have 500 lb egos and could give a shit about the computer systems.

All the company has to do is sell regional hospitals and the smaller practices will fall in line to more easily interact with the health network.

When my wife had our baby, we were in the hospital for a few days due to some complications. The OB nurses rolled around carts with two thin clients and two PCs on a KVM. There were seperate systems for charting, pharmacy, special OB charting, and something else. It was ridiculous.
That's a factor too, and likewise you can point to things like legal liability driving pressure for employers to pick people who look good on paper.

I don't mean to suggest all credentialing is bad, obviously I would prefer doctors to have been to medical school and so on. but rent-seeking is a powerful economic force that often goes overlooked and is worth taking time to understand because it's so widespread.

Also lol at that username ;)
I really hate the "gigantic block quotes between paragraphs" thing. It's very distracting from the flow and content of the article.
This is the difference between misappropriation of trade secrets, patent infringement, and just copying uncopyrightable ideas from your competitors. A person can go to prison for the first, pay the injury compensation for the second, but nothing can be done for the third.
Interesting! Which country?
I took their Databases course and currently taking the APIs one. Highly recommended!
> Aside: It interests me that you sign yourself as English and call yourself a unionist. I'm British

I don't think that's interesting in the context of this discussion, it's shorter that "I'm British but not from Scotland".

The interesting thing to me is that it's only we English who feel the pressure to identify as 'British', say 'UK', et al. - Scots say so, Unionist or not.

It's a funny outcome after centuries of 'England' being used to refer to the whole union (and even the Empire, I believe) - but it changed some time in the last century or so, and now "you must get it right or you'll offend Scots!" is instilled into us in schools such that we even err on the side of UK.
Delicious quote:

"...splatter ring around that was caused by the sheer velocity of the fart, which blew skin bacteria from the cheeks and blasted it onto the dish... they're similar to the ‘friendly’ bacteria found in yoghurt."

You're welcome, you pervert.
See the sources mentioned in https://www.alt-m.org/2015/08/08/thats-right-famously-sound-...
What do you do to ensure the psychological safety of your coworkers?
We’ll only run out of jobs if the world runs out of problems to solve
Depends. Ideally you want to tax something that's a good proxy for pollution. You don't want to tax trade.

There wouldn't be greater revenue for consumers: the money that pays for the taxes ultimately comes from them.

(Just to mention it: the standard solution for all revenue raising taxation is, "land value tax". Any other tax is only useful as a `sin tax'. Alas, right now we have sin taxes on labour and capital..)
I guess it's not truly distributed in that sense. StdLib uses AWS Lambda, which have widely different IPs and I believe they're multi-region.

I haven't had issues hitting a wall with getting caught doing any scraping. But then again, I haven't done it at a 10k/pages/sec rate or anything like that.