skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No idea why this is being downvoted. If a single AZ goes down and your app goes with it, then you haven't deployed your app in line with Amazon guidelines.
No, that's not even what this is. It's "I am republican and I am X, you better have a good reason to think I'm X-ist."
Exactly what is blocking "people in the cities" from giving money to less well-off people in rural areas?

There are legitimate reasons to object to redistribution schemes via the federal government. Framing those objections as lack of empathy and furthermore suggesting that this reluctance is the primary reason these problems aren't solved is an unfair and simplistic view of these sorts of complex problems.

There is also lots of evidence that conservative/right-wing/republicans give way more to charity than progressive/left-wing/democrats (e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html). So I'm not sure the 'lack of empathy' theory holds water.

As for legitimate reasons to be wary of federal wealth distribution mechanisms:

* private charitable activities can be more effective
* administrative overhead associated with a federal bureaucracy
* federal misunderstandings of state/local concerns and conditions
* federal one-size-fits-all solutions
* lack of controls to prevent fraudulent receipt of benefits
* there is often an assumption of zero-sum thinking, sometimes the analysis ends there as if lack of wealth was *the* problem
* no actual plan for how to use the money effectively or any attempt to measure progress

I'm not suggesting that there are never reasons for a federal program but there are lots of reasons why private charities, local initiatives, and state control is to be preferred.
I see... your description reminds me of how I thought about physics when I was 9. I was big on the "wonder" of it, light on the math and the science. I can see how enthusiasm and ignorance would be a potent combination, without any dishonesty entering into the equation.
I agree. There's enough social awareness that people don't want to support a company run by jerks like Travis Kalanick. In an era with socially conscious consumers, integrity of leadership matters.

It is easy enough to switch to Lyft (I live in major metropolitan area) without any inconvenience. And the Lyft driver's I've talked with about all the controversy say they make more $$$ and are happier driving for Lyft.
I left startup scene and more specifically web dev, I was full stack.

I didn't like the 60-80 hrs week with no overtime really.

I also didn't have any real life and wanted to spend my free time looking for a girl and concentrate on my health (exercise). 60-80 hrs really kill most of your plans...

I left to go back to school to become a data science... so I guess it's not really leaving.

But I'm not giving up my years of experiences to go to a totally different field. Just web dev isn't there any more with the recent bootcamps pumping out tons of, in my opinion, ok-ish web dev. Beside who am I to say when I can't do those google interviews anyway. I didn't have enough grit to compete or tell the "CTO" why they should hire me over two other web devs that graduated from some bootcamps for the same salary. I left two startups after they hire pretty bad people, they came calling me for freelance works though even though I left because I disagree with the CTO and the other because too much free overtime.

So I said fuck it, and went to school and get another hard degree (other than my bs in comp sci, I'm doing master in stat). I doubt a bootcamp can do that and plus the data science field is very wide. Maybe who knows one day I end up in Google or some nice tech company in SolCal, a nice stable job and concentrate on other aspect of my life while enjoying my career instead of slaving away and hating my passion.
Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017 [pdf]
There's nothing new about this, it's how speech recognition training data has been generated for a long time. Whether you can align a script will depend on how accurate it is and how expressive your models are for generating spoken/surface form alternatives for the ways things like dates are verbalized, which look different in text. If more than one person is speaking at the same time the results will be terrible.
There's lots of other companies out there that are paying good salaries that don't have these problems. It doesn't make sense to me to seek out a ship that's taking on water to sign up for. I know some Uber employees and none of them are happy with the situation.
Originally Intel claimed that this new technology would offer 1000x shorter latencies and 1000x better endurance than NAND flash, and 10x better density than DRAM. The figures they're quoting now are more like 10x shorter latencies and 3x better endurance (compared with flash), and 2.5x better density (compared with RAM).

The article linked here says "3D XPoint has about one thousandth the latency of NAND flash" but I don't see any actual evidence for that. The paragraph that says it is followed by a link to actual specs for a "3D XPoint" device, saying: "the Intel flash SSD has a 20-microsecond latency for any read or write operation, whereas the 3D XPoint drive cuts this to below 10 microseconds." which sounds to me more like a 2x latency improvement than a 1000x improvement.

So I ask the following extremely cynical question. Is there any evidence available to us that's inconsistent with the hypothesis that actually there is no genuinely new technology in Optane? In other words, have they demonstrated anything that couldn't be achieved by taking existing flash technology and, say, adding some redundancy and a lot more DRAM cache to it?

[EDITED to add:] I am hoping the answer to my question is yes: I'd love to see genuine technological progress in this area. And it genuinely is a question, not an accusation; I have no sort of inside knowledge here.
> You mention tolerance, nodding, respiratory depression, histamine response and constipation... this is odd.

I was completely opioid-naive at the time. A teaspoon or two of Kratom had the potential to knock me out for a few hours at that point in my life.

> Histamine response from kratom is also much less than other opioids - and I say that as someone with symptomatic dermographism.

I don't have much to compare Kratom with, but I would end up scratching myself all day and night without realizing how hard I was doing it because of the analgesia.

> And the oddest of all, respiratory depression - I'm on mobile so don't have sources to hand, but kratom has been shown to absolutely not cause respiratory depression.

At that time, I would combine Kratom with the benzodiazepine I was prescribed and noticed a difficulty breathing and a drop in my breathing rate. On its own, it was pretty insignificant.

> I know there have been cases of kratom being spiked with potent opioids such as O-desmethyltramadol, and honestly it sounds like you've had something like that. Did you buy from a head shop?

I bought from different online bulk suppliers and vendors, sourced from different communities and referenced with independent rating systems. Plain leaf was pretty consistent across the better vendors.
> Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup.

... complains the former king.
>But that's not what any of the recent talk about Uber is about. The issues are about being there as an employee, the culture they promote, and the values they espouse.

I really think it is related, though. Those values flow from the top down, and when executives set the tone for treating people unfairly the rest of the business will suffer down to the lowest level of employees.
>What happens if the distinction goes away? What if all data is persistent?

A while ago (a few years?) there was some buzz about a new kind of machine from HP (maybe based on memristors? which were also in the news around then, IIRC), that was supposed to do away with that distinction. They called it The Machine or something like that (:-). I did not follow it at the time, after the initial read, so don't know what happened to it.
I've gotten very very spoilt by OSX trying very hard to retain information about what was open when you reboot, I suppose. At any moment I've got like four or five different desktops set up with various numbers of windows related to the task I'm doing on that desktop, and those will all come back if I reboot. I still find the "save early, save often" habit very worthwhile.

Hell, maybe I'm also spoilt by the fact that Illustrator defaults to re-loading a file with the view sized and centered exactly the same way it was when you last saved it.

Even with all these things making life easy for me, I'm still saying that "don't walk away from your art app with anything you'd be sad to lose unsaved" is a habit worth having.

I am not defending Windows rebooting and ignoring unsaved changes in the least. That is inexcusable.
Thanks for sharing, good to hear stories from people that have done it.
Sorry, this is not just or mainly what's happening here. Every time an anti-Uber article comes up, someone pops in and says something to the effect of your comment, but it simply isn't true.

Uber is evil. They do evil things. They should not be supported. Yes, people like to see the titans fall, but people also like to see those who behave poorly get what they deserve for that behavior. That's what's happening here.

For reference, here is a list I compiled a while ago of all the scummy things Uber does that would make one glad to see it go.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13793923
Article title: "The Hundred-Year Language"

(2003)
<One officer, according to the transcript, explained that the “protocol on high-risk search warrants is no-knock — it’s for officer safety.”>

But that's not what no-knock warrants are FOR.

The only legal reason that the no-knock warrant was considered allowable under the 4th Amendment was for cases where evidence was at risk of immediate destruction upon announcement of search by the officers; for example, small amounts of drugs that could be flushed or burned, or bookmaking operations with paper records subject to immediate destruction by fire or solvent.

They print the warrant request in the Guy case. It has absolutely no mention of any evidence at risk of immediate destruction.
I asked this last time but got no response.

1. Is there a firewall between the information companies applying give you and the rest of the OpenAI effort?

2. What's to prevent a partner from seeing a good thing and passing the info along to a potential competitor already funded inside the program?

Overall it seems that this may be used to give OpenAI a strategic competitive advantage by using ingress application data for market analysis/research/positioning/signaling/etc.
More like he forgot the proverb we're not taught yet, but probably will be soon: "The viral circlejerk can get on you for no reason at any point, and you can pretty much do nothing about that".
Uber president Jeff Jones is reportedly leaving the company amid turmoil
The problem is, people tell me that if I just learn Haskell, Idris, Closure, Coffescript, Rust, C++17, C#, F#, Swift, D, Lua, Scala, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Scheme, Julia, Emacs Lisp, Vimscript, Smalltalk, Tcl, Verilog, Perl, Go... then I'll finally find 'programming nirvana'.

While you might think it's worth spending 100+ hours learning Haskell, I don't (at the moment) have any reason to Haskell as a better time investment than anything else on that list.. why should I give it more than 10 hours?
Because there is dumped model out there, and you can download and run it and see the accuracy yourself. If you cannot even do this, then your question or suspicion is worthless
You should always be interested in what you are doing and think about how you can use it to better the world. But you also have to think: Is it going to pay me enough to live my life?

I'm not sure what kind of programs you use or if you use any programming, though I encourage you to learn the programming languages that are most used in your field, which I believe is R. I have met some scientists and researchers in my travels who use the R programming language who are making great money and love what they do. As it stands right now, the yearly salary is over $100,000 a year.

Not to say that money is the most important thing in the world, as you should really find something you love to do and enjoy doing it, as well as hopefully contribute something positive to the world. Once you acquire that PhD, you have, in a way, developed this sense of commanding respect no matter what company you work for. More education? You can never go wrong!

I've only got a bachelors psychology degree yet work in the field of web design. Can't say it lacks psychology... from the fonts, the font size, and the colors and placement of everything. We do tend to strategically place things on those pages in certain areas that are more prominent to the eye and make people want to buy. For my professional work, I build landing pages for companies and to sum it up: It is basically the media and advertising industry that I work in. Do I feel like it helps anyone? It helps the consumer world, and businesses, the economy, and drives business engagement to companies so the world can continue to function the way it does. Do I feel it helps anyone personally? I make a living doing it.. so definitely me. But mostly companies and the consumer world.

As for the side projects I work on, I tend to focus on two things: the individual and small business. I do actually feel that my side projects help to make the world a better place, at least, to help people in their everyday lives.

You have to be creative. You have been alive long enough to know that every year, jobs disappear, just as new ones are created every year. Jobs that existed when you were younger don't exist, yet tons more that no one would have ever imagined would ever exist do actually exist today and still many more that have yet to be thought of or dreamed of (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality will soon possibly created hundreds of thousands more jobs)-- imagine surgeons-in-training using that technology to practice on virtual patients).

Find your place in the world and if your job doesn't exist, imagine it, create it. If it already exists, well then, utilize it! My suggestion is to gain experience in the work world, work for a company for a year or so, and if you like it, keep doing what you're doing, and during that time, if you don't like it, think of something you can do to create your own job and meaningful purpose in this world. You sound like a very intelligent individual who already knows what you have to do. You just have to acquire and apply the knowledge and research to do it!

Good luck :)
It is worse than that. Of course they don't want competition but the the monopoly services areas are an artifact of legislative deal making. So the current situation is codified in law and would need to be changed.

Monopoly service areas for universal service offering was the deal.
> I will never understand why someone would volunteer to pay a monthly fee (basically a tax) to have a group of bozos tell you what you can and can't do with your own property.

Really? Are you being honest?? You really don't understand???

It's so you can tell your neighbors what they can and can't do with their own property. You give up your own freedom too, of course, but no one joins an HOA because they're worried how their own lawn might now.
> Our cryptography is certainly superior to Laravel's...

Ok, but cryptography is only a small portion of what a framework does and not necessarily the most important bit. I was asking more about your routing, view layer, ORM, code layout, templating, validation, caching, ACLs etc.

> Beyond that, nobody has paid me to look deeper and I haven't had any reason to.

Look, you can't put up a blog post titled "How We Engineered CMS Airship to Be Simply Secure" and say that when asked "well, how did you actually engineer it to be secure?". In your post you talk about problems all solved by a framework, and apparently you haven't even evaluated what is out there already and rushed headfirst into building it all yourself.

This is not engineering a project to be "simply secure", in the sense that it is definitely not simple and probably not secure!

> If so, then anyone reading this thread who's aware of any vulnerabilities will be interested...

This is great! I wish more companies did this. However, as stated previously, the ad-hoc nature of the code and the single-developer nature[1] makes this pretty hard to do from a code review point of view. Again, using a framework makes your code way easier to review and a lot smaller to boot. Anyone with Django experience can pick up a Django app and start to review it, rather than have to learn whatever bespoke framework the developers of the project dreamed up.

Also I just wanted to add that I don't mean to come across as a dick, your project looks interesting for sure and a lot of work has gone into it. PHP CMS's need to start taking security seriously, things like Joomla and random Wordpress plugins are a blight and anything taking security seriously is great! As someone who works in the security industry it's just a bit tiring to see yet another homegrown PHP half-framework full of it's own intricacies and potential issues with the ever familiar problems described in all my comments above, coupled with a post saying how it was engineered to be secure from the ground up.

1. It's hard to tell, in this graph (https://github.com/paragonie/airship/graphs/contributors) is 'paragonie-security' a single person?
And how does this statement in your article fit into your world view?

>House Speaker Paul Ryan, also a Republican, "clearly disagrees" with King's comments, a spokeswoman told reporters.

Paul Ryan is hardly a fringe in the Republican Party, he's the speaker of the house.

You're going to need some actual stats showing 100:1 is the ratio of racists to non-racists. Anything else is conjecture.
Yea but telling your kid you regret them or wish you aborted them is awful as well.
Google Cloud Platform Offers 'Always Free' Tier
When was the last time the NYT was the king of anything? Rush Limbaugh and his type have been dominating for a couple of decades now.
Because aside from exploitation, there is another very real problem of replacement. Who said there's only one problem to be attacked at a time?
Wow, some lovely downvotes for making a suggestion. Not sure how two words can be so offensive to people...

Other advantages to Propeller in addition to what you say:

- DIP form factor, easy to breadboard

- Very little supporting circuity needed. Very easy to set up.

- Enthusiastic intimate helpful community on the forum

- GCC available (not an advantage over Arduino but it exists you don't have to use SPIN)

- Pretty high performance compared to Arduino -- 80mhz on 8 cores [tho that doesn't tell the whole story since memory accesses to the shared memory take a lot of cycles)

Other disadvantages:

- Small memory space. 32k of slow shared memory space, only 2k per cog (core)

- New Propeller 2 is taking years to come out and the old Prop 1 is really starting to show its age
I'm not sure I'll call xmonad popular. Also I know quite a lot of people who hate it -- because it's configuration language is "write some Haskell and recompile", so it tends to be very fragile (people who use Haskell love it)

Also found it crashed a lot, which I would have hoped would be one of the things Haskell would solve (the problems revolved it having to integrate into C code for linking to X, but that's part of living in the real world).
It's not about keeping prices down, though - it's about existing inhabitants living there instead of being displaced by wealthier immigrants to the city. That's certainly not uncontroversial; I think it's bullshit, but that's what these people actually want.
>> job re-training, which will be a big part of the shift.

To me there's no other way to look at this other than having faith in our ability to find work to do. Wherever there is deficiency in technology, humans will find a way to fill in. Now the question is whether this will be at the same scale, and will there always be gaps to fill in. No one knows. We never have known. We've just blindly innovated and had faith. It's worked so far. Until it doesn't we will probably just continue doing it.

In other words, this is and has always been unplannable. An example. When DARPA invented the internet, no one explicitly said "We're going to put a bunch of mail staff, brick and mortar commerce employees, etc, out of work so we better ensure we train programmers to help fill the void."

I'm with you though; it concerns me.
Thanks for the mention. :)

If anyone is near SF you can learn how to do the techniques (free) at our memory club: http://artofmemory.com/sf and train for our upcoming memory championships (SF Bay Area and internationally) at https://memoryleague.com/
Are there any good learning resources to help make that jump?
Upcall qualifies leads and generate interest. An internal sales team spends weeks to call 1000 leads and qualify them, and that's our sweat spot.

We are a stop-gap solution for large team, but work with over 350 customers (including many SaaS companies) who simply don't have time to qualify their leads that they purchase.
In absolute terms one would have to agree with your logic. But from what I understand the vast majority of homeless are drug addicts and/or mentally ill. I think (no data to back me up at the moment) that this dwarfs the number of people who become homeless literally because they are priced out of the market.
Skyscraper flats ... are at such a high starting price that they might put a downwards pressure on really expensive flats but do nothing for the average person.

False.

Without new units, the occupants of the (unbuilt) new luxury units would simply be driving out the occupants of other (more affordable) spaces in older units.
Maybe because this has nothing to do with availability zones and it's specifically to do with AWS mis/under-reporting status.

What AZ were they supposed to failover to? Another one reporting green?
[Edit]: sorry, I missed that the given link is the Digest version.
There's an important difference: compensation.

If a losing team wants a winning coach, they will either have to settle for someone inexperienced, or pay up to get someone experienced in turnaround situations.

Same with companies, except with turnarounds the most substantial part of compensation is the company's stock. If the turnaround is successful, the executive will get wildly rich as the stock appreciates (and rightly so).

With Uber, the stock is greatly overvalued, which means anybody coming in is trying to turnaround the company, but only to maintain the current imaginary valuation. Where's the upside?
[slight political rant given the title and meme]

Perhaps the writer and co-founder Ably used "post-truth" because he knows Bezos is not a supporter of our current administration, but I wish he wouldn't because it waters down the bald-faced lies of Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, and The Donald.

The missteps of the American government should not become as trivial and normalised as a bodega not stocking organic almond milk.
i wish that were true outside the US :( i really really want lyft here in AU so that i can ditch uber

as it stands, the options are taxis and not getting private transport, which is the option i've taken when it's not too inconvenient
> as it doesn't force our users to upgrade to Windows 10

Why is this something to avoid?