skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find React Native dev/build environment quite straightforward (and I'm not even a "JavaScript developer"), so what exactly Expo adds to that?

Slight off-topic: is it possible to use C++ code cross-platform way for performance-critical parts? i.e. to have single C++ code for iOS and Android, in React Native.
...Can I buy you a beer? or a few?
I don't think that is it. I have sex whenever I want with my friend with benefits and masturbate twice a day, morning and night if I don't have sex. It is just not fulfilling long term. Sex is like eating, something you do because your body wants you to di it, but is not something my mind really cares about. I don't want to create something awesome to have sex, I already have all the sex I need, I want to create something awesome beacuse that is more important to me.
I'd like to reword what I meant: we do technically have more control than a calculator. I guess what I mean is something more like: how are we any less deterministic than a calculator?

I don't mean, harder to predict. I mean, are we not as deterministic as anything else?
What you want is competition, not for one entity to control the market regardless of its organization.
> - It's unlikely that whichever automotive company achieves autonomy first is going to immediately get into the ride sharing game

I think GM shows clear signs of interest of being in the ride sharing game if they have an advantage there.

Would you rather be the first self-driving ride sharing company, and use that to displace Uber in high margin areas, or would you rather try to make a little bit of money off the premium segment buying these cars and then be a fast follower?

The main argument for being a fast follower would be to let someone else deal with regulation for you, but otherwise being able to undercut everyone in rich markets seems like a no brainer that would bring a tonne of revenue and experience to the project very quickly.
What's euphemistic about it? I used the same intensity words as your description (literally the same words, like "invaded") and mention a superset of the information (I asserted that the ban was primarily intended to combat their opium epidemic, as opposed to e.g. hurting British interests).

It's circular to bring up the US War on Drugs to support the argument that the opium wars were about national security, in response to a comment challenging whether the opium wars support the argument that the US War on Drugs is about national security. My whole point is that I'm skeptical of the case that either is about national security.
This is an acceptable solution in your situation it wouldn't be in mine and only storing local time is never acceptable IMHO.
We had similar classes and I always found them waste of time. It sounds fun, but a lot of time is basically wasted in (needed but still) busywork. Conventional class allows you to learn exactly same amount of things, but much faster and then you can do whatever you actually find fun. Specifically, planting in different environments and tracking growth takes a lot of time and boring work.

It is cool to do experiment once in a while or short experiments you are curious to know what happens. But, if you are able to read experiment based class means waiting till the thing you expect to happen (based on what you already read) finally happen.
> except that breaking the law has been Uber's business model since day 1.

So tired of hearing this. It's just parrots talking in the echo chamber. Show me a court verdict that Uber broke the law.
No. But that is probably two more than most other languages with a similar compilation model. (I think Rust has two IRs?)
What would be the difference in human agency and a calculator's agency?

Or, a human's agency and the agency of a bad guy in a modern video game with complicated AI?
Apropos of nothing, 1952 was apparently the first year after 1881 without a lynching.

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1952/12/31/page/23/articl...
What do you mean by that? Could they actually be awarded ownership of Uber if the damages were larger than a cash amount Uber could pay? Or do you mean indirectly, like, Uber gets found liable for say $10bn, and Google offers isntead to buy a controlling share of Uber and then forgive the liability?
> There is absolutely an audit trail, including non-repudation for the analyst who performed the query (They must use their smartcard or "PKI").

What do you make of Snowden's assertion that he could have eavesdropped on anyone he wanted? Was he failing to mention that his actions could be audited? Was he failing to mention that he had access to someone else's PKI with which to do the surveillance? Other?

Assuming you have knowledge of how the intelligence agencies work:

- Which agency is the process you described applicable to?

- Are you certain it is the same in other agencies?

- Are you aware of any loopholes (or might Snowden have been?) which would have allowed it to happen without consent from higher level officials?

I do not have a belief one way or another about whether Trump was "wiretapped". My intent was to apply the logical consequence of the Snowden revelations to the issue being discussed, and flag the FISA warrant argument as a straw man.
How's that different from any integrated circuit?
>The "material conditions" that lead to illegal immigration in the US are lax enforcement of immigration and labor laws.

These are material conditions, but they do not cover all immigration, so they are insufficient. The bigger material conditions are namely that people want to live better lives, and they think that they can do so in "better" countries like the US.

>and remove their incentive to be here

This is what I am talking about. You must fix the material conditions, which means that you must either (i) make your own country worse or (ii) make others better. Why not do the second?

>We have our own country to make great (again!).

America has always been founded on capitalist exploitation. It never was 'great'.

>Everyone has a right to act in their best interests.

Sure, and it's in your best interest to fix the material conditions for immigration if you don't like immigration.

>Charity is never obligatory.

That's true, but it seems very selfish to not care about the fate of others, simply beacuse they were born somewhere else.
I'm confused what the point of your comment is. If you can do it natively you can do it with React Native. "The jump" for any app from not including Rollout-style invocations to including them is the same if it's a React Native app or a normal native app, and these can all be determined by static analysis by Apple during the review process.
> It looks like every kind of screening of immigrants will deter the more desirable ones, as far as that determination is possible on their arrival at all.

that just leaves room for a real american to a founder! /sarcasm.
This is more or less what works for Stack Overflow.

How about if there was a bit associated with every post that indicates whether it's meta or not. A submitter can set it when they post if they like; a mod can set or clear it later. Perhaps users could flag posts as being meta as well, i don't know.

Then we just take all the meta posts off the main page, and show them on another top-level page like Ask HN or Show HN.

I i think i'd be happy for meta posts to appear on the 'new' page. There aren't that many of them, so they won't flood it. If they get upvoted, they get promoted to a different place to substantive posts, so they won't clog it.

It's a bit like a GC which allocates large objects in the nursery, so you can still, eg, create a scratch buffer quickly, but promotes them to a large-object heap instead of the normal tenuring generations.
To be fair, the new apps do suffer with reliability issues in periods of high loads. e.g. I would not, from experience, trust fasten to get me back home at 2.30am on a weekend night (even if I'm willing to pay their "boosted" fares).

Its not an unsolvable problem though. I bet if they could hire more/better engineers and invest in infra for reliability they could be a lot better. And it might actually happen if Uber suddenly raises its prices and people look around for alternatives.

I think Uber and Lyft have made a huge mistake by leaving Austin. First of all they showed drivers and passengers just how little they cared about them; a lot of people in Austin were really angry at them and continue to be. Second, their stunt did not work. There was, obviously, a lot of backlash against the Mayor and local politicians but that has died down and the city has moved on. But lastly, and most importantly, the Austin market became available exclusively to all the other ridesharing apps, giving them a leg up and a source of reliable income and feedback.

I get the feeling that next time this happens in another city, the other apps will similarly step in and take over the market. But this time they will be faster and better prepared.
Entitled "The Witch Hunt Continues" or "Why Americans can't have Nice things".
Got it. You're a troll whose only response is "umadbro."
Either pay a higher wage and start paying a higher price, automate it, or do without it. Arguing in favor of exploitative labor practices because you just have to have strawberries or your lawn mowed is a horrible argument. We should not be importing impoverished people and keeping them impoverished for your own personal convenience and desire.
That's perhaps a semantic argument if any is!

I'm not sure I could support the view that the two referenda are directly comparable in that sense. There has been no noise from the Scottish government about 'too many English here' or anything like that - rather more along the lines of everybody being welcome in a self-determining country. Contrast that with the dog-whistle EU campaign, with the 'new border with Iraq' leaflets (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2XwDAEXUAE597E.jpg) or the whole 'breaking point' billboard campaign (http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/5...) - these are mainstream campaigns, and I didn't encounter anything even close to this yellow in the Scottish referendum.

There will always be a hardcore of extreme views in any political campaign, and it's important for the mainstream to denounce this where it's out of line. But we can't take the extremes and use them as a basis for comparison in that way.
> For me, the biggest blow to ETH is the revelation that "the code is NOT law".

Considering Ethereum Classic has all the features of ETH and it follows whatever your distorted definition of 'code is law' means, the fact that ETC is at it's all time low (compared to its price in ETH)). The question remains if ETH violated 'Code is Law', then how come market doesn't care.

Clearly the biggest blow to ETH is NOT the DAO fork. If ETH is not above bitcoin, then among all the reasons I can list, its decision to hard fork is not one of it (because if that is the case then ETC would have been the market leader).
Arguing and calling someone stupid are not the same thing. I can make the distinction. Telling me it is my problem is another personal attack. I stand by my statement that your remarks here fail to meet a standard of civility.
> Ask yourself if this was a centralized hard fork ordered by up high, or as users we chose to opt in to this change. Clearly we opted in, because Ethereum Classic exists for those who so wish. Therefore, the Ethereum Foundation did not "force" me to do anything that I didn't agree to.

The analogy to the legal system is that mob rule supersedes (digital) contract law and property rights.

If people want to go down that path they're free to do so but I'm not a fan.

> Yes in my example Musk might have gotten sued (although really? is he at risk of that right now? I doubt it.), but a mistake early on in development should not hinder the advancement of the technology.

> If you are going to say smart contracts are useful, but we should abandon the Ethereum blockchain, then BY ALL MEANS please go to Ethereum Classic. You'll be welcome there with open arms. But the main Ethereum community clearly prioritizes pragmatism, as do the majority of the world. We're not idealists. We're actually trying to put out a meaningful technology to help people.

Eating the loss doesn't stop you from developing better software. Heck, I'd say that it's a pretty good way to prevent things in the future by giving people a real incentive to prevent bugs in the first place. If it's socially acceptable to roll back the clock because somebody wrote a dumb smart contract then it's a sign that writing dumb smart contracts is socially acceptable.

> So you can throw Musk in jail or let him get back to work on saving lives.

That's a false dichotomy. In the analogy Musk doesn't go to jail unless he willfully released something that he knew could kill people or otherwise programmed the cars to drive on the sidewalk.

In ETH's case they could have absorbed the loss, hardened the systems, and moved on. Honestly it would have added a lot more credibility to the whole endeavor by showing that they were willing to put their (ETH) money where their mouths are.
Ah! I did wonder what was going on.. :) I've heard of HN before, but never actively participated, hence only signing up today!

Thanks for vouching for me :)
There is a section called "'MUMPS' vs. 'M' naming debate" in the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

"Some of the contention arose in response to strong M advocacy on the part of one commercial interest, InterSystems, whose chief executive disliked the name MUMPS and felt that it represented a serious marketing obstacle. Thus, favoring M to some extent became identified as alignment with InterSystems."
Personal experience, so take it with a grain of salt.

I've talked with 2-3 Uber drivers in LA area. They seem to be getting 65% to 75% of what passenger pays. I think many of the core Uber markets are fairly profitable. This would imply that majority of the burn is focused on growth in new markets.

Some potential problems with extrapolating the data:

* Small sample size.

* Uber rides cost more in California, observed 65% to 75% might not hold in other mature markets.
Professors and other high-ranking academic nerds: get your students to design your websites, cause you always fuck it up. Lol.
I'm not criticizing rebranding (although anyone would agree that rebranding this many times in less than a year of existence is abnormal).

I'm criticizing how they pretend this is a new product launch.
Invoking the Spring framework here is just cheating -- they have dozens of classes like that! :-)

Just the other day I was dealing with Spring's declarative transactional support. Here's a fun read: http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/4.2.x/spring-fra...
This case doesn't actually exist.
That's part of the reason people use SAAS offerings in the first place. They don't want to have to be responsible for data security and upgrade cycles. These things are hard and when even the professionals get it wrong, what hope does a layman have?
ESA is also using mumps...: http://www.intersystems.com/library/library-item/european-sp...
The CIA's “Development Tradecraft Do's and Dont's”
Yes, you are correct. On page one under Executive Summary:

>"The research finds that 51 percent, or 44 out of 87, of the country’s $1 billion startup companies had at least one immigrant founder."

link: http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Immigrants-and-Bi...
For a period of time, I absolutely do think someone can do some other career in addition to art, rather than receiving public assistance.
oh damn this looks interesting

> Heh

no longer interested
That seems reasonable, but the new name is already in wide use in software/hardware. Even outside, its dictionary definition is "a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan".

That seems like an odd choice, though the blog seems to suggest it's because everyone will be fixing each other's bugs.
They're a decade late and have no engineering culture. All they could do was throw money at the problem. If they weren't hyper aggressive they would have looked to partner with someone more experienced or to play vendors off each other.
But how do we know Google wasn't the one making that plan? I find it strange that Google paid Levandowski millions in bonuses after he quit abruptly and after they already knew he was starting a company with their IP.
You're just reaffirming the fallacy.

You don't save time by skimping on quality, it's foolish to think otherwise.
I deal with this, we monitor various sensor data, and for the most UTC is never what's wanted, except for exporting and importing, but even then, I've seen people want/give things in standard time, or even DLS time. Certain things naturally need to be in local time like with water measuring over night usage looking for leaks. So things are recorded with datetimeoffsets so you can know when something occured locally to the sensor, as well as being able to translate to UTC, or the local time as it is now, or the local time of the viewer of the data
As an end user of a Mumps codebase, I like the speed (our interface is a VT-500 emulator over SSH to an OpenVMS machine), but the fact that there is no table-row-column database means pulling research extracts requires logging screen output to flat files, which then have to be parsed.
How many Somalian immigrants are on welfare after 5 years? 10 years? What's the economic productivity of those Somalians -- not just the taxes paid, but the profit made by their employers? What's the cost of that welfare? How many citizens are on welfare in an average year?

I think we could use more facts before coming to a conclusion.
Ethereum Name Service registration auction goes live
My experience with Mob Programming – The good and the (not so) bad
Who knows? He is trying to ramp up the military budget, in a country that already spends more on the military than the next dozen nations combined. Given the US's extremely defensible position, with two moats called the Atlantic and the Pacific, what's that military buildup for? Hey, what about the hawkish talk that he's given? Where he's said he'd "bomb the shit out of them"? His hostile rhetoric about muslim countries?

This whole "he hasn't actually hit the button yet, so what are you complaining about?" angle is adolescent. Are you only supposed to be concerned about military action after it's initiated? Have you never heard 'prevention is better than cure'?
What ? maybe I'm stupid, but to me the python version seems a a lot more readable. It's only me ? (maybe because I don't know lisp, but neither python, so should be the same)
Yep. 99% of programmers use an actual computer to type their code into, rather than typing on an iPad or other touch screen. And 95% of programming still requires manipulating text.
It's NoSQL, the early years. Trees with fast lookup capabilities. Useful for medical, which is basically tree-oriented. There's not much need for cross-patient access in medical records. A wide variety of data structured in different ways must be stored.
If self-driving cars become the norm, if you can just buy one at will, Uber's business model is junked.
If only I could write as well as the screenplay for Dave Barry's "Big Trouble".
Actual title should be "How I am trying to own my time"
Both BTC and ETH have been (generally) climbing lately; ETH especially. However, I feel (and I should be clear that this is all my own, anecdotal opinion) like -- even if it is superior -- BTC was "first to market" in a popularist sense and thus probably a better long-term bet. ETH is Betamax to BTC's VHS.
John Romero learned this in his early days at ID Software: it's crucial that you can still boot the game even when things are missing, but make them very apparent.

Source: somewhere in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2MIpi8pIvY
Not necessarily. There are people who just like to be naked. (unless you meant farted in someones face)
Yep. When I was in high school, I picked asparagus on a nearby farm. My sister bagged groceries at our local grocery store. I'm sure I could still get a job picking asparagus (at least around here, most farms use legal migrant workers who are paid at least minimum wage, so they're just as happy to hire Americans for the same job). The grocery store doesn't have baggers anymore, they went to the cashiers bagging, and then to self-checkout and self-bagging years ago.

I don't know if the interest in summer jobs went away or if the abundance of summer jobs went away (chicken or egg), but it's not nearly as common at all. Doesn't help when underemployed college graduates are working at Burger King instead of high schoolers.
Are you sure it was to make an example or there was something unique / different about Austin that made both companies not want to provide business there?
I don't know, you'd have to look to studies.

Anecdotally, my first generation friends had parents who didn't come on study or skilled worker visas. They are all net contributors to society and many sacrificed a lot to get their kids into good private schools. They weren't upper middle class but still made it happen.

Besides, the US really doesn't have much of a safety net, so even if I wanted to live "on the dole" here I don't really know how that's possible. Closest I could think is TANF but even that gets cut off after a few years.
If you have all the native dependencies, you can always make a RN app the old-fashioned way- `react-native init`. This is not going away.

The Expo client is open source, so you can fork it for your needs if you want.

Also, if you do start an app with CRNA, and decide that you want to avoid everything-Expo-related, you can eject to a native app with one command.

In summary, we have been careful to craft the CRNA solution to have absolutely zero lock-in.
As a perspective from someone doing React + ES6 work while coming from a background in Python ecosystem, the modern JavaScript ecosystem is kind of a mess.

Fragmentation across virtually every tool imaginable from language choice to build systems. Dependencies on dependencies on dependencies. Apps breaking regularly from using the bleeding edge of everything. The total number of downstream dependencies that just using create-react-app installs is kind of insane. And don't get me started about the anti-separation of concerns of embedding "inline" CSS in React components... That said, some things are simpler too. I hope the JS community starts investing more in quality and longterm unification, and it might happen but I'm not sure.

Many libraries and frameworks today are designed to support huge apps for huge audiences, but people use them even to build small apps for small audiences, when there might be a better (simpler) choice. Incentives are misaligned for the companies supporting the most popular frameworks to care about small apps though.

I think we are starting to get there, but the JS ecosystem today vs 3–5 years ago has exploded in every direction.
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SSL does not really keep the domain name private at all either way though. That is no good solution to this, because your ISP needs to know how to route your request, right? Or, am I misunderstanding your point?
Even worse than that, it's the subtitle!

In companies that sell to other companies, not to individuals (B2B -- business to business), value people who perform specific actions to get to your app (marketing qualified leads -- MQLs) over traffic.
A more coherent response from someone who actually uses MUMPS: https://robtweed.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/a-case-of-the-mump...