skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I work in Montclair a couple of days a week. It probably is the type of town that could support this, but it's still kind of peculiar. The Montclair Times HQ was shut down - it's now a dialysis center. There is a blog of sorts as the article mentions, Baristanet, that covers local news in Montclair, although I have no clue how many people read it.

I would imagine that most people in Montclair read the NYTimes - perhaps it would make sense for the NYTimes to 'up' it's local coverage game in the tri state area.
From this comment and others, it seems to me there's a business to be made creating a unified app that all taxi services can integrate with. It seems like a large momentum to overcome, but faced with extinction via uber/lyft/etc might be the catalyst to make it happen. Priceline et al made something similar happen to the hotel industry, so it seems possible.
Why Hoodie is raising money, but not to pay developers
I agree we've definitely wasted far more money in far worse ways, but it still doesn't change the fact it's wasteful scientifically and economically speaking, just because there are bigger wastes doesn't mean we should accept all smaller ones, this is known as the "fallacy of relative privation" or "not as bad as" fallacy.
>It has gotten twice as cheap (if you look at average ticket prices adjusted to inflation) from 70 to now.

Which is consistent with the gp's point that progress has slowed down.

It had gotten 100 to 1000 times cheaper, faster, more efficient to e.g. travel intercontinentally between the 1900 to 1970 that it has between 1970 to now.
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>The only problem I see is printing is cash-flow intensive compared to full digital. I mean, for paper you have a daily/weekly expense with a proper credit line/funded account with the printer.

On the other hand, with digital you have to spend money to advertise and market to your audience, otherwise it disappears. With print, you own the "platform" because you pay for the paper, ink, and shipping.
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Sorry, I don't.
I was surprised to learn that in Kotlin, it is possible to disambiguate overloaded functions based only on their return type. I had no idea the JVM even supports such semantics. [1]

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/q/42916801/1772342
Socialising doesn't have to mean conversation. I almost never see movies in theatres but when I do I love going with friends, just for the little moments, hearing each other laugh or react at particular parts, when we turn to each other and go "WOAAAH!" or "Did you see that?" and then we go back to watching.

We bring our own food and drinks.

And sure I could do that at home but then I'd have to buy a screen or a projector, make sure my place is tidy, etc.
I'm a man and work in a sane work environment where genitals and drinking habits don't effect promotions -- especially among engineering staff where the whole point is to minimize the impact of those sorts of petty politics and instead focus on shipping product.

It's a shame we probably aren't in competing companies.
This is a very good question and I wonder how they've "squared" that with the credit card companies. Is it by any chance iPhone-only? Or does it actually do a card-not-present transaction?

All the normal Verifone, Ingenico etc EMV devices have built in key pads.
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I thought a big factor for Snapchat was that it did not have Facebook users.

Teens and 20-somethings liked the fact that Snapchat was their smaller circle of real friends. Facebook has that goofy uncle, and coworkers from 5 jobs ago, and old classmates you don't really want to stay in touch with. Facebook has too many "weak ties".

Therefore, Facebook could clone every feature of Snapchat but it can't change the fact that it is still Facebook. The new features might keep Facebook users from switching to Snapchat but would it entice Snapchat users to switch to Facebook? Sure, people can use social networks for a myriad of reasons but Snapchat the network seems to be a dominant factor.
Ugh, the Drupal community strikes again. I have been working with Drupal for roughly 10 years, and outside of an initial flurry of commits rarely engage with that cesspit of a "community". I have the misfortune to have to do a significant amount of work with Drupal, which was badly designed and written, then badly redesigned and re-written, with the same pattern repeating twice more. There are many nice and helpful people in the community, but the majority of those in a leadership position are nasty little fascists hell bent on preserving their position of power.

I once got a salescall from Aqcuia, they tried to enroll me in some partner program or something. The salesguy got chatting with me, I explain in rough outlines how we train up our developers to become Drupal devs, this being the reason I wasn't really interested in their training program. Shortly thereafter, they launched a "Drupal Academy" or some ame, which was pretty much word for word what I told the lousy slimeball I was talking with on the phone.

I have no respect for these people, and this is just another unsurprising demonstration of what they are like.
Yes. Because of overloading there may be 2 functions with the same name and the same return type but different arguments. So you need to include them too.
If said team uses Keras as just a black-box, I would argue that it is. Not having intimate knowledge of the complex algorithms that you employ to build your services is not exactly an ideal situation to be in. If things doesn't work as expected, you can't just look it up on Stack Overflow, for instance.
I love the EFF, but sometimes I don't understand their bifurcated approach to online rights.

On one hand, they support and distribute tools like Tor and Privacy Badger. On the other, they write, in the boldest print of this article:

> There is only one way to stop them from winning.

> We must speak up and call our elected officials to reject H.J. Res 86 and S.J. Res 34 and preserve our legal rights to consumer online privacy.

Well... no. There's more than one way of winning.

In fact, it's not at all clear that the state can "eliminate" our online rights. They can infringe upon them sure, and in fact can be counted on to do so.

But the internet organism must be made to protect us from the state, and this happens by collaboration of inventors and philosophers and dreamers who create the tooling of the internet, not by a vote in congress.

Notice I'm not saying not to call your reps - it can be a very effective tactic. What I'm saying is that "there is only one way" seems to go against the multiple-front strategy that the EFF (awesomely) employs.
I wonder if the Walmart strategy of destroying your competition by undercutting prices can work for Uber.

Is the barrier to entry for an app-enabled personal transportation service that high?Therr are also many substitutions for the service suxh as driving one's own car, carpooling, actual ridesharing via a platform, mass transit, biking, etc. There are already open source implementations of this and ride sharing.

I apologize if this sounds misinformed, but as tech advances and platforms such as these become more mature, could we not use some of the principles established by blockchain to create a rating system that is open/transparent so that drivers and passengers can just directly transact with each other?

Personally, I like Uber/Lyft's service but I dont find the price to be a. bargain. As it is, I primarily use it for transportation if there's is a chance that I may be drinking alcohol or when parking is going to close to thr cost of a ride
Can I ask how you found your broker?
We can consider them "successful new developments" or whatever else we want.

We just can't consider them important new discoveries in the sense that the creation of things like steam engine, air travel, jet engines, etc were (to stay with transportation).

If you wish, the former are basically incremental engineering/efficiency improvements upon the latter.

What the parent observed as lacking/slowing was non-incremental improvements.
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>One thing that was awesome about Uber, was that you could go into a city internationally and just use one app (instead of installing new apps every city or multiple apps for one city!)

This is still true. Only a few countries/cities with very authoritarian governments have blocked Uber. The expectation of using an Uber anywhere you go is still a given and the reason I use it when traveling abroad. I've never had a problem yet.
We have similar systems in stores here in Switzerland as well [1]. Very easy and quick. Fraud check is random.

[1] https://subito.migros.ch/de/self-scanning.html
> I've always hated the argument that said "but look at how much technology has come out of the military [with all of those tens of trillions of dollars invested in it over the span of a few decades]!"

> Yeah, and imagine how many orders of magnitude more it would've come out if say NASA had gotten that money

That exact same argument applies to giving money to NASA. Sure, it has spun off some useful technology (no, not just Tang, space pens & freeze-dried ice cream), but while we see that technology, we don't see the innovations which could have been developed with that money elsewhere. There's no reason to think that the state can pick innovative winners any better than it can pick economic winners.

The reason to spend money on the military is national defense, period — not some amorphous 'oh, we'll get some cool tech out of it too!' The same applies to NASA or any other government agency.
> Consider the possibility that the strong streak of instinctive union bashing that you see in typical professional class culture in the U.S. is very much the creation of decades of aggressive PR effort by those who consider unions threatening.

This is a perfect example of the genetic fallacy. How or why a person came to hold a view tells us nothing about the truth of the view. Even if it did, possibility shouldn't be taken as (or a as defeater for) plausibility. It's possible that unknown to you, your parents are aliens and you were hatched on another planet. It's plausible that you're a human and so are your parents. Similarly, even if it's possible we're all duped by aggressive PR, until I see a very compelling plausibility argument my current experience of observing unreasonable union interference grounds my belief that unions often engage in crude, counterproductive behavior.
Again, "many of his casual viewers won't care". Several people elsewhere in this thread have observed that his subscriber count did dip, but normal growth has brought him back above that level already.

My point was a very specific one, which is that a lot of longtime viewers who heavily engaged with his content (e.g. posted at length on the subreddit) seem to have walked away from engaging or perhaps subscribing at all. I think that's damaging even if his viewer count doesn't tank, which is why I gave a specific example of how it could hurt a channel.
Could anyone help me with this question. If I take a picture of "famous person" in public I can put it on a cover of a book and sell it correct? (USA)

Now if I take that same picture and slap it on a boxcover for "shampoo" that I sell, I assume "famous person" could legally get me to remove the image. What "law" would they be using to get me to remove it?
> I'd wager there's more non-readers than readers...

Work in tech support, can confirm
I was more thinking, who writes a headline where an idea is suddenly sentient and goes out and finds evidence for itself? Oh, the same person who assures me how bewildering the synoptic-scale wave thing is, twice, and uses enough words doing it, that they could've just defined it.
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tl;dr Java needs to be able to decide which overloaded method implementation to use at compile time, meaning you can't differentiate between method implementations based on return type alone. However, when compiled to bytecode, each method and method call includes the return type as part of the method identification, so Java bytecode is actually capable of differentiating between implementations with the same name based on return type alone. This fact is used by bytecode obfuscators, and can lead to bugs in decompiled code if the decompiler doesn't account for it.
From a UK perspective, Uber has really sorted out a lot of problems with the taxi market.

Prior to Uber, getting a taxi involved phoning a dispatcher of your preferred firm and usually get told "it will be about 30 minutes". Then ringing back after 40 minutes had passed to enquire about it and then it turns up another 10 minutes later. And then paying about £15 for a journey that costs £5-8 with Uber nowadays, depending on traffic and surge.

Nowadays taxi firms are much better about actually getting to you quickly (and when they say they will, roughly) and charging about half as much. They're still not as cheap or quick as Uber but it has definitely improved.

Nevermind problems with only accepting cash and somehow never having change...
> They know that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

I'm already paying for health insurance. Its not, nor has it ever been, a free lunch. Diving into my genetics is completely uncalled for. Stop calling health care buyers moochers, thanks.

Also somehow almost all other wealthy western nations do better than us by almost all metrics in healthcare and they don't need to do this either. What's wrong with Americans?
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Do these stories sync with those in Messenger? Seems weird if it doesn't but there's no mention in TFA.
better nutrition and hygiene, and generally lower alcohol and tobacco consumption (in the West anyway) have slightly extended the total lifespan for people who don't die early of accidental or pathogenic deaths.

however, you're still absolutely right that senescence is inevitable and we have very little, besides nutrition and exercise, that can do anything about it.
If this isn't a ringing endorsement for single-payer "medicare for all" health insurance, I don't know what is. As a society we're aghast at the notion that people might be discriminated against due to their genetic pre-conditions. Why the heck do we let our values slug it out in an inefficient, non-competitive, quasi-market?

Also, because it's Hacker News and a lot of folks here are engaged in start-ups, I wonder why I hear relatively more from tech about basic income than single-payer health. While basic income goes further, single-payer health removes a major burden / friction for creating a start up.

Also, from a labor standpoint, decoupling health benefits from work allows start-ups to play with less-than-full-time employment arrangements. Having more people fractionally employed might be just the safety valve we need until automation job loss is more comprehensively addressed. But I digress.
Smoking will continue, but I suspect that many people will choose to consume via edibles/oils/etc which won't have a smell, or vaporizers which also have minimal odour.

When the dispensaries popped up all over Toronto (pre-raid) there were MANY edibles, so I assume they were popular. Sadly, after the raids the dispensaries switched to /just/ flower and concentrates. One can still order concentrates and edibles online however.
According you your link JVM does not support this feature. It's implemented by Kotlin itself. I guess it's probably some kind of name-mangling scheme.
"After 24 hours, posts in your story disappear forever" - Yeah, sure. You mean it stays in Facebook datacenters forever. Just a slight difference. :)
What makes you think it will work? G+ is like the poster child for fighting the wrong way, a technically more advanced product that lacked the user base, and thus the point, of Facebook. Isn't Facebook doing the same thing with Snapchat, where the different user base is the real draw, not the tech?
I wish you were right, but for the past 20 or so years, national media has been less decimated.
In Ontario the profiteering is not by the province for the Beer Store. That's a monopoly owned by the beer companies themselves. So it's not a de facto tax.
I've been parroting for a while that Snapchat was a feature masquerading as a business (I got that idea from somewhere but I don't remember where). Once FB messenger gets the filter goofiness that SC has (maybe it does already, I dont know), that'll be everything SC had to offer that I am aware of.

Unless SC does something novel soon, I wouldn't assume that it's going to be around for much longer.
I am interested. email in profile.
Well it depends where you are. I spent my last vacations in Cuba, and it was a pain to have to bargain with taxis every single time, same distances will cost me anywhere between 25 and 5 dlls. I really missed uber over there, or even a taximeter, and again I'm sure that was because I was a tourist, even though I'm Hispanic myself they were able to spot me as a tourist.
Link seems to be dead. Is there another copy somewhere?
I guess you don't show the domain name blacklist because that's the entire business?
Being born with this type of genetic predisposition is unfair, but passing that risk on to an unknowing employer is also unfair. For a medium-size business that underwrites its own policies (very common), a few employees with multi-million dollar medical needs can easily make the difference between a modest profit and bankruptcy.

If we care about equal protection of all American citizens -- and I believe that we should -- the solution is not to legally prohibit employers from performing genetic screenings, it's simply to cover healthcare for high-risk individuals, or ideally everyone, at the national level with single-payer care. That way there's no incentive to cheat anti-genetic-discrimination laws, business don't have to worry about getting hit with an unexpected multi-million dollar expense, and the cost of coverage to everyone shows up on the national ledger, where it honestly belongs.
Be careful when using macros however: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80076
This already exists and ironically Uber is leading the charge. https://www.uber.com/ride/ubertaxi/

It's very, very hard to get taxi monopolies onboard with something like this though. That's why Lyft/Uber had to forcefully enter the markets like they've done. The market is too corrupt for something standardized like priceline to take hold.
With continuing automation and globalization further devaluing the work of the lower class, I don't have a problem with this. The social and physical effects of cannabis addiction are much lower than other addictions like cigarettes, alcohol, and opiates. If it leads to a higher quality of life for the poor while not negatively impacting our economy, who cares?
What did the disassembler do wrong? It just happens that there is no valid Java code which could produce that (valid) bytecode. What should it have outputted instead?
In basic blocks (no conditionals or loops), a disassembler mostly does a mechanical job translating opcodes to the appropriate Java code and aggregating expressions.
But it doesn't rename functions and or classes. They are left as were in the bytecode.
Notably Stern's employers and advertisers seemingly didn't know what they were getting, as judged by their decision to drop him for racist comments. Maybe they should have known, maybe they knew but figured they could profit and then drop him when he screwed up, but they did hire him after his success and drop him later.

You're right that it exactly mirrors PDP's situation: off-the-cuff, inflammatory content creator partners with advertisers, does something extra-inflammatory, gets dropped by same.
I've used both and prefer next.js. Granted I'm using GraphQL but I'd prefer it regardless.

RBP is actually more opinionated. It's "best* practices to the extreme" at the cost of productivity and lots of boilerplate. It's also a little hostile towards server-side rendering.

I enjoyed RBP and learned from it, but we switched to next.js (with styled-components and apollo-client) and things have been far smoother. To be honest I can't really think of a reason to use RBP over Next.js.

The creator @mxstbr has tweeted positively about Next.js, has other projects to look after (e.g. styled-components), and hasn't updated it since January, so I'm not sure RBP has much of a future anyway.
I would assume that snapchat doesn't delete your snaps after x amount of hours either. Probably for the same reasons.
MAD was a large part of why Vietnam lasted so long, so it had some major negative impacts.
no real reason :)
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_Coding_ is more about understanding what your boss/clients want and turning it into something more concrete, so it's merely a NLP problem. This will, I think, see adoption in "app/website builder" tools like Squarespace.

Then there is real programming, which IMHO will get automated in the far future.
As a resident, Im so happy to see something so local and exciting on HN!
Promise and peril of regenerative medicine
I haven't read this article yet - but I just wantedto point out an interesting trivia tidbit about the golden ratio...

If you draw a typical star, the one you likely first learned to draw, each line is intersected by 1 to 1.618
Is that any different than Snapchat? There's no proof either way.
Uber uses Google Maps. You can 100% trust that.

Even if Uber changed to their own proprietary map system you could still use your receipt and validate that the trip was the best route by using Google Maps yourself.

The system is very open. Taxi meters are not. I have no way of verifying that my taxi driver is charging me the correct price since meters can be gamed. Also the meter only judges distance. It can't tell when the driver takes a long route to pad out the fare. Uber will refund your money in that case but with a taxi meter you are stuck paying for a bad fare.
After it permeates, then what? The water still has to go somewhere, and usually it's into nearby ditches (and then streams, and then rivers). As well, with any larger rainfall the local water table below the grass will fill up quickly- now the water is running on the surface.

Permeation is definitely good, but having more stops before it gets there is important to prevent floods.

(To be clear, I'm not expert on this at all. But I did marry one, and you sort of absorb a lot just from conversations over dinner).
This looks like an amazing initiative - and shows an entrepreneurial spirit! As a side note, it's interesting, how many software engineers consider alternative careers for themselves?
When you say wasteful, you mean not the most efficient?

Because science and engineering benefited from the project. we are better off for having done the project. However, we could've gained the same knowledge in other ways, for less money.

So, if it costs of $25 billion to put a man on the moon, and the same knowledge could have acquired for $15 billion, you think the effort was wasted?
When Instagram launched Stories, I noticed that most of my friends moved there. I rarely open Snapchat because it is almost empty, nothing is happening there. But apparently it stayed popular among high school students, so I guess it is different among different demographics - I'm 23 and most of my friends who switched are similar age.

Facebook is probably hoping that similar will happen with the main app.
Kdb+ is incredible. It blows away any of the current attempts at time series data stores out there (eg; InfluxDB, OpenTSDB). Unfortunately, Kx Systems failed to allow it to reach mass popularity by keeping licenses extremely expensive. Startups simply can't afford to outlay $100k+/year for a tiny cluster.