skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is not the case in
many places around the world.

Uber has one gigantic advantage over all local taxi services from the
custormer's point of view: Uber's unified, location-independent
interface. You put in your credic card once, you learn the UI once,
and it works seamlessly all over the planet. (Same with AirBnB.) This
is a heaven sent for the frequent international traveller.

I understand why local taxi-driver lobbies are rent-seeking with
anti-Uber legislation, but selflessly it aint.
What were the technical buzzwords that companies used to signal hotness in the industry before the ML hype train (startup or not)?

I know on the process & management side for large organizations, there's been a revolving door of Lean/Agile/6 Sigma/ISO 9000, each with their own set of certifications, colored belts, and army of advisors/consultants.

I like the idea of always being retrospective and asking what can be improved, but it's made me a bit cynical seeing management chase fads based on whatever a vendor tells them.
Ah thanks, I had no idea
Hi there - seems like you're getting some downvotes and as someone else who cares about the environment, I'd love to convince you golf can actually be a good thing for land use. Some of the courses I grew up playing on were old landfills. The golf course would cap and seal the landfill, then plant vegetation on top letting it grow and then eventually putting a golf course on it. What once was a landfill and source of rodents, disease, and an eyesore on the community became an effective use of the land. Now, not every golf course is built on a landfill, but you'd be surprised how often it happens:
http://americancityandcounty.com/mag/government_chicago_dump...

"The facility won top honors in the 1996 Superior Achievement for Excellence in Environmental Engineering competition sponsored by the American Academy of Environmental Engineering, which cited Harborside for addressing "the major criteria of the competition ... most important was the manner in which it met environmental and ecological concerns and contributed to an improved environment, using available materials to reverse perceived abuses and achieved significant cost reduction and control in course construction.""
Sorry, but how would C solve your problems? If that's the only thing holding you back, go for it, you can learn it in a few weeks.

You won't be able to magically write a data analysis engine or high-concurrency server better than the tools you are complaining about though, in any reasonable amount of time. I think you, like the author, are severely underestimating the gigantic clusterfuck that is writing programs today, and how that would not be solved by merely avoiding writing new code.
Climate science is totally inaccessible to lay people. All we can do is trust. I'm a science teacher and when I teach climate change, it's just the bare basics and a few subjective facts. We can make cardboard greenhouses and draw pictures of IR rays getting absorbed in the atmosphere. But that's not what's in doubt. That's the stuff everyone's accepted for decades. The part people don't trust is the "it'll destroy the world". For that, I haven't got the faintest clue how right it is beyond trust. In most of high-school science, you can measure forces yourself, you can mix the chemicals yourself, you can observe stuff doing what the text book says it should. But not climate science.

Unless it can be made accessible to even science graduates to actually reproduce the results from a critical point of view, it's always going to have a lot of sceptics. Not everyone has so much faith in scientists.
This is indeed an important narrative, but it's not a priori clear
that you can infer from "the forests are alive and healthy in 2017"
to "If we had not instituted limits on sulfur pollution in the
1980s, the forests would be dead now.

I grew up next to some of the world's largest coal-fired power
plants that regularly featured in "worlds biggest polluters"
lists. The forests were fine before flue-gas desulfurisation just
as much as after. Some countries enacted flue-gas desulfurisation earlier than others. The forests were fine before flue-gas desulfurisation just
as much as after.

Anecdotal? Sure. But one wonders ...
Reverse Engineering Malware 101
Impressive thing about Evans is she doesn't worry about it, just dives and learns.
My hope is that their research will accumulate to a state that war isn't an option anymore.
var someInt: Int! // class parameter

// later, in a method
let url = "/api/bla/\(someInt)"

In Swift 2.x it would simply show the value of someInt. Now it will print Optional. The problem is described in the linked Stack Overflow question as well.

I never program like that but there's a ton of people out there that convince the compiler they're going to set that value in time even when it's not set when init is called. Just like some people (including Apple!) use this pattern for setting outlets:

IBOutlet var someLabel: UILabel!
That's a great link, thanks. What's not-as-great is the next tweet, where she says people "called her suggestions out as ableist". Is this really a thing? People were offended at her because handicapped people couldn't do the things that were most effective?
> We're never going to achieve anything great again...

Wikipedia, the open source, and even massive online communities such as reddit are great things.
Lets say an infant is 3 years old, thats 26,280 hours, lets say a baby sleeps about 2/3 of the time - lets call it 8600 hours of awake time.

8600 hours of 4k video at 60fps (i would say this is lower quality then the human eye) is 2.657 petabytes.

Thats not including the sense of touch or smell, which i am sure are comparable in the amount of data processed by a human.

We're looking at 5+ petabytes of data that a human has to learn from by age 3 - Whats wrong with taking petabytes of data in order to learn meaningful things?
Does anyone else find it ironic that the author finishes with "I'm paying, I'm the boss" when all of his examples apart from Windows are free?
That same president has of course also publicly proclaimed vaccines to cause autism. He and his tens of millions of followers are the antithesis of the liberal soccer mum, of course.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/trump-vaccines-autism-wrong-20...
Chinese megacity Chongqing to punish those skirting China's Great Firewall
Elon Musk wants to connect brains to computers with new company
Doesn't it take some time to take care of the assets though? Or are you able to get those returns without touching them at all?
This is great news! I wonder why we can't legalize all drugs?

I have a side tracked question about this:

Let's say you were in prison for dealing Marijuana. What would the status of your case be now considering that it would be legalized?

(as in, would you still have to serve your term even though the crime you did is now considered legal?)
Open the actual image in a new tab it is much larger and actually readable.
https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/files/2017/02/MapMigration_c.j...
Because so far he's staying true to the motivations as he described them; he's using business to help solve big problems - as opposed to other entrepreneurs, who use big problems to help their businesses. He's done nothing so far to make me personally doubt that his motivations are as noble as he says they are.

I'm not saying that he won't eventually turn into yet another selfish business baron. That would be a very sad day, though. We need more people with noble intentions and means to execute on them - and such people need to be encouraged, not constantly doubted.
Your focus on "effort" and "real" sounds a bit exclusive at the behest of your own job security.

The ML boom (specifically DL) is so interesting because of the applications. Computers recognising images better than humans for instance.

Surely outside of academia its a means to an end like anything else. If Team A wires together some high level Keras components with 30 lines of code, and does something really cool with it, is it less valuable?
This is the more likely scenario.
The Medium's paid subscription model is the future of publishing
Why not just hire a "Class A operator" to operate it? It'll still be huge cost savings, right? And the union will stop stonewalling them, and they can go into business.
Oh. I assumed Albertson's dropped these because they were slow and inefficient, not because of loss/shoplifting. The stories I can find about it suggest the same.
The Galaxy S8 will be Samsung's biggest test ever – The Verge
> we need uber

debatable.
2018 VW Touareg spied
Laser-Based, Industrial 3D Camera from VRmagic Res – Community Forums
When the network goes down or the app backend has technical problems, the taxi fare meter will still work. It makes sure no-one gets ripped off (the passenger and the driver) and that taxes are paid correctly.

It's not fool-proof of course but I trust my local taxi's meter more than I trust Uber. This varies a lot by country and city, but I'm pretty sure that taxi meters are very reliable in Denmark.
Maybe we're "fake intelligences" too. Just a bunch of proteins and water, performing chemical reactions.
Forget about AI, which is something Elon realized to be an issue only relatively recently. Tesla Motors and SolarCity exist as his response to exactly the problem of climate change - the stated goal of Tesla is not "fast and sexy cars of the future", but "electrification of all transportation", exactly because the latter is an important way to fight climate change.

As for other grand efforts - I haven't heard of them either, and I'd damn love to hear about them. We need to praise and support people who're doing good work.
beyond the article, sad to see even businessinsider.com blocks ad-block. what a tragedy.
Uber to pull out of Denmark, blaming new taxi law
Things you must know about UPSC civil services examination
Let me correct that slightly: some unions have rules that add significant cost. It's unfair to blame the entire concept of unions for a small number of dysfunctional unions.
How will you know if the safety features have not been compromised?
DevOps hype? Sometimes a pizza really is just a pizza
Ask HN: How do you test webpages/networks from ouside your LAN?
I'm interested in how developers/sysadmins test their webpages and network security from outside of their LAN.

Obviously the web side of this only applies to businesses which host their pages from the same building.

Personally, I spin up VMs on Digital Ocean for an hour or two, but it's a bit of a pain.
Elon Musk Seen Targeting Human-Computer Link in New Venture
> Most AI

AlphaGo would be an example. It was trained by self play.
2017 Renault Zoe review: A cure for range anxiety UK
Profiling is not telemetry. Telemetry implies that events are supposed to be transmitted off-site (tele + metry = remote + measuring). Profiling writes a local file with statistics.
> Couldn't you have simply changed seats? The odour issue isn't any worse than cigarettes

I highly disagree, at least in strength. I can't smell tobacco when outside just because my people are smoking indoors and have their windows open, I can with weed.
ClrMD Part 1 – Going Beyond SOS
It's been a while since my various neuroscience lectures/courses, but as far as I remember LTP only refers to the process of strengthening existing synaptic connections, not the forming of new ones. The process of forming new connections is called synaptogenesis.

That's just nit-picking about terms though, it is clear enough what you mean - except that growing the exact same network still doesn't give you the exact same synaptic strengths of each connection. And I don't know what you mean by replicating the existing network - do you mean a technique to recreate the exact same neural network? But even if you manage to do that, where are the boundaries, how do you know which connections matter and where do you stop? I probably don't understand your plan though.
Logistics startup Turvo emerges from stealth with $25M in Series A
Functional abstraction to help achieve digital continuity
Changing face of Formula E electric racing cars
ClrMD Part 2 – From ClrRuntime to ClrHeap or how to traverse the managed heap
An Interview with the Devs of StarCraft: Remastered
I'm not someone who takes the mental illness excuse lightly, but I have from time to time had the privilege of catching Terry in a more lucid state and let me assure you the man you understand him to be is not who he is.

Would you accuse a person with tourette's syndrome of racism due to their outbursts? This disease is far more pervasive and systemic than that.

Vincent van Gogh was similarly mentally ill as a society we look past the things he could not control and instead focus on what he has created. I suggest the same course of action here as I believe the situations are uncannily similar. This is all I will say on the matter.
Idea finds evidence in its favor, isn't that backwards for a rigorous evaluation of the evidence?

Shouldn't conclusions be drawn from all evidence?
As a local, this may solve your problem in St. Petersburg. But what if i am a traveller and regularly travels b/n different places in the world. Do i need to keep track of every taxi service? That will be painful.
It does not mean that i support Uber as a company. I support for their global transport model. We will help you go from Point A to Point B without much hassle wherever you are in this world.
That's why, if Uber dies, no one will again dare to attempt to solve this amazing problem. I am really surprised with different regulations in different countries for such a beautiful solution which they are offering. That's really a pity. :/
How do you know the map is correct and immutable? You're essentially trusting Uber itself to keep a good record, whereas the law is designed to avoid trusting the taxi companies at all, by mandating sealed meters.
Even creepier... If Google knows all your physical locations they know how many employees you have at work on a given day
Intel's first Optane memory modules available next month
Conversation
Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
I worked for Congress for 6 years, and here's what I learned about how they listen to constituents.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
First, tweeting or writing on Facebook is largely ineffective. I never looked at those comments except to remove the harassing ones.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
Second, writing a letter to the district office (state) is better than sending an email or writing a letter to DC.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
But, the most effective thing is to actually call them on the phone. At their district (state) office. They have to talk to you there.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
We repped half a million people, it was impossible to read and respond personally to all letters. Impossible.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
This was something in particular that I cared about as a staffer and worked very hard on, but the sheer volume of emails is overwhelming

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
So, we batched them with computer algorithms and sent out form letters based on topic and position. Regardless of method received.

in reply to @editoremilye
Emily Ellsworth‏
@editoremilye
But, phone calls! That was a thing that shook up our office from time. One time, a radio host gave out our district office phone # on air.10:09 AM ·

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
He was against our immigration policy and told our constituents to call. And they did. All. Day. Long. All I did all day was answer phones.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
It was exhausting and you can bet my bosses heard about it. We had discussions because of that call to action.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
If we started getting a pattern of calls, I called up our DC office and asked if they were getting the same calls and we talked.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
Also, recognize that your letters and your emails get seen by staffers, just like your phone calls get answered. That's the way of it.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
If you want to talk to your rep, show up at town hall meetings. Get a huge group that they can't ignore. Pack that place and ask questions.

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
We held town halls consistently that fewer than 50 people showed up for. And it was always the same people. So, shake it up.

Nov 12
Megan Broderick‏ @megbrod12
@editoremilye I'm literally making an excel right now of all my reps contact info, this is great to have! Esp the DC vs district office

Nov 12
Emily Ellsworth‏ @editoremilye
As always, please be kind but firm with those staffers. They will listen and talk to you. I always, always did.

Sorry about the lack of formatting, I'm on my smartphone.

Edit: added line breaks.
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I spent a couple of hours sitting in my senator's office lobby the week before last, during the run-up to the healthcare "vote". I was surprised to see that the calls are answered by highly educated people (interns) sitting right there in the office. I had expected a call center in India. Ok, I suppose not really India but perhaps Indiana or at least the senator's state where wages and office space cost much less. So based on my experience the call is answered by a real person who will listen, take notes and pass on something about what you say (probably an aggregated report) to the elected official. afaik also the elected officials to pay attention (hence the whole "call your congressperson" thing). I chatted with one of these people answering calls over coffee. He told me that if there are too many calls to answer, or he has to go to the bathroom etc, you get voice mail but they do call back everyone who leaves a call-back number.

Edit: I should have said this was in the Hart Building in DC.
The overall point remains to be argued with good examples, as the only concrete example has to do with LiFTR reactors. Everything else is vague, at best.
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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!)

The taxi game is becoming more like the Social Media game where you have multiple platforms like Fb, Twitter, Snapchat etc each doing it's own thing.

While that's great, I have 10 different apps on my phone just to deal with Social Media.

BTW I am not suggesting that Uber not be regulated or anything of the sort, but just that, if all taxi companies start having their own apps, I won't install any (from a registration, security and ease of use point of view).
>sensibly regulated

Requiring fare meters when the price is agreed in advance is not sensible regulation.
Eh. In principle, ideally, but in practice this is how it works most of the time.

It makes the idea less likely to be true, but sufficient evidence can easily overcome that.
I never feel more productive as a programmer than when I have a day when I delete a lot of code.

Fred brooks made a distinction between accidental complexity and essential complexity. The problem you are solving has a certain amount of complexity and based on Ashby's law of requisite variety, your system will need to be complex enough to manage it.

If you are fighting with your build system, feeling stupid because you can't understand monads, struggling with a big ball of mud or have your head spinning from too many microservices, that is accidental complexity and it can be reduced.

Many people won't do it, because it means you have to stop and think.
for those of us who can't keep of track of which software named "xOS" is which anymore:

IncludeOS is an includable, minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services running in the cloud. We provide a bootloader, standard libraries and the build- and deployment system. You just provide the service.
What a beautiful word.
I think that's less of a risk these days than it used to be. In this day of ubiquitous communications, camera phones, online reviews, and so forth, it would be easy to get caught and suffer a wave a bad PR that won't go away.

Also, a fair amount of the produce in my area is sold by piece now, instead of weight. Oranges are 50 cents a piece for example. Or pre-bagged and/or packaged for a fixed price.
Frogpocalypse Now
There has literally been attempts at passing legislation to force people to use gender pronouns other than he or she.

Your framing of this issue as simply being about LGBT wanting to be able to meet together without harassment is disingenuous.
Natilus
Leaving the politics aside for a second, wouldn't using a VPN fix this?
He was on JRE a couple weeks ago, and had a very interesting interview I thought. He talked at length about being put on Ritalin most of his childhood, which is pretty sad. But it explains a lot of how his personality developed, his anger and energy.

It's had me thinking because I've already had people bring up medicating my 4 year old son, and he's not even difficult, just an active boy.

here's the clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOqSQ4xuFdc
cite?
Android Wear has made it trivial for fashion companies to 'make' tech products
> daft styleguides

Daft is correct, but some of them are being pushed by large companies and (frustratingly) seem to be somewhat adopted.
Taxi charges continue while the car is at rest. So the shortest route doesn't mean much if the traffic is barely moving.
Is it tamper-resistant to a taxi driver driving in circles to screw over clueless tourists?
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> Uber could follow the regulations, charge approximately the same as a taxi, and still make a moderate profit.

That's what they're doing here in Berlin and I really wonder if they make a profit, especially when the competing apps are also funded by deep pockets that don't necessarily try to make direct profits.
Nope - I'm not an expert. The point is that I can come up with these reasons, all of which are sensible in my opinion. I'm guessing if you want the actual reason, you'd have to speak to the officials in Denmark.

The other comment, however, gives an actual reason to require them.
Love seeing this on HN!
It was interesting to read up more on the Hopi Language Controversy and see how Ekkehart Malotki demonstrated that the Hopi do have a wealth of time related vocabulary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy
It's free and easy to use other tools to verify, and you have a past trips history. They could fiddle with maps, but changing the origin or destination points would be noticed.

Sealed meters don't force the driver to take the most efficient route either. Nor do they show the full price before you commit to the trip. Map based apps are just better than meters all around.
No past research has ever pushed up the maximum age of humans. It remains at about 124. There has been no progress in that field.

Other medical research has helped prevent people from dying early and that's certainly worth continuing. But that's not what we're discussing here.
Uber is having a similar problem in Sweden. The taxi market is possibly too unregulated with two-three larger regional or national companies that focus on quality and compete on good prices, and a bunch of scammers that try to have identical cars but much more expensive fares.

Uber is only able to compete with the scammers somehow, and as they pay no tax, insurance, employment tax, social costs, etc, and use drivers accounts in the middle east for payments which probably is not a sold tax and money laundering strategy etc, it's not hard to see why.
Sure. The first NBER paper in [1] features the following jewel (p.34):

"B. Calibration

To quantitatively decompose the contribution of different factors to the growth of shadow banks and fintech firms, we first have to calibrate the model to the conforming loan market data."

I can tell you with a straight face that is not normal science. Economists themselves increasingly recognize so-called "calibration" is a farce.
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