skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the title it's amazing that he never actually explains why he's selling.
Same here. I bought a 2015 model.

https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-bought-a-2015-macbook-pro-fad...
That would be amazing if Google just added in Uber's entire business as a feature into Maps.
For software engineers, I haven't seen a company which doesn't offer all of those things. I guess it depends on one's definition of "normal", "plenty" and "certain degree".
So Twitter didn't do the right thing then. Does that mean they shouldn't do the right thing now?
It is actually much much much easier to start something like Twitter than it ever was to buy your own printing press, run it, and distribute its pamphlets. The analogy is whether or not it was easier to get access to the Philadelphia Gazette's printing press (or whoever was big back then), or to Twitter. Clearly, it's still easier to get access to Twitter, but similarly to the Gazette, they can decide not to print and distribute your pamphlet.

And if they did agree to print your diatribe against the President of the day under an anonymous byline, they sure as hell would have claimed the right to not release your name to the government.
Ya but he's surprisingly absent from being a paper author.
And things labeled hate speech isnt as easily defined as some seem to imply.
Unfortunately Mr Wadlow, I think you'll find that the average guy is, well, average.
Google's internal training emphasizes to do the right thing and compete fairly%, going so far as to not use terms in PR or even internal email such as 'crush the competition' 'dominate' 'destroy', and always doing what's good for the user, rather than bad for the competition.

% and often mentions competition/monopoly laws
I am not sure about the legality here, but I will say that I see this arrangement as good for both the driver and the passenger.

As a passenger I can know exactly what I'm paying ahead of time, and don't have to worry about my driver intentionally increasing the time/distance of a trip to charge me more.

As a driver, you are compensated on a time/distance basis, which means you don't have to worry as much about special requests/traffic/other issues messing with what you earn.

Uber is the one accepting the risk here, which the chance that the payout to the driver exceeds the flat rate the passenger paid because of an extra long trip.
The WOW starts now
The research is secondary because it is something they read about long ago compared to an actual experience they had that may have impacted their life. Most of it's proponents are in favor of more research, but with that being almost impossible still felt the available information was impressive enough.
It's just amusing to me how only one of those bad things seems to be "terrifying" or "disturbing". Which is worse, unmasking the twitter account owner, or Susan Rice's unmasking of intel reports on Trump's campaign staff?
Nope, there's proper crypto in place to prevent this (each user has their messages signed with a keypair)
Chrome used differential privacy far before Apple. See the RAPPOR paper.
I meant: how often do they lose the spread?
> Virtually no new parts are available for IBM 9020E systems. Most
parts for the 9020E come from small untested stockpiles at various locations or are taken from
training computers at the FAA Academy. Disabling or degrading the capability of training
devices to keep operational devices on line is definitely a counterproductive, stop-gap measure.
Frequently, remanufactured circuit cards, visibly heat scarred after years of component
resoldering, arrive as spare parts. There is often no way to test the functionality of components
such as these, other than by placing them in service in the live ATC system, which is quite
undesirable. Many of these difficulties will persist until the 9020Es are decommissioned.
However, efforts to improve the situation include a first-ever 9020E spare parts inventory, and
the retention of two decommissioned 9020D computers for spare parts.
Thanks! This is way more interesting than the data 23andMe provides.
> I couldn't care if he liquidates 99% of what he has -- what would put me to ease as a shareholder is what is that "personal" reason. Buy a house? New startup? Fight a cancer. Sure, I'm fine... but if that personal reason turns out to be no reason at all, then its a short sign!

Did you read the article? He very clearly says:

> Here’s the short story: I like to invest a lot in things I care about. For example, I’m the largest LP at Obvious Ventures, which has invested in over 35 world-positive companies. In addition, my wife and I have done a fair amount of philanthropic giving and—especially in the last year—upped our political donations significantly . These are all efforts to help build a smarter, more sustainable world. I’ve been doing all of them for a while, and I’d like to continue. (In the early days, I also funded Medium, but have not in recent years and don’t have any plans to, thanks to awesome investor/partners.)
I believe the commenter meant that Hayek was _in favor of_ urban planning, unemployment benefits, public health, socialized medicine, and inheritance taxes.
No, if I walk up to you and grab you, unless you're successfully able to fend off my spontaneous grab, do you consider that you "let" me?
Equivocating about harassment, that's really the hill you want to die on?
Since you asked about long term storage and occasional queries, have you considered offloading to the cloud?

(Disclosure: I work for Google)

With BigQuery you can:

- Store as much relational data as you want ($20->$10 per terabyte per month).

- Query it whenever, and get charged only by query (no servers needed)

- To stay on topic: HyperLogLog:

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq...

Note that BigQuery exposes partial HLL functions like HLL_COUNT.INIT, HLL_COUNT.MERGE, HLL_COUNT.MERGE_PARTIAL, and HLL_COUNT.EXTRACT.

"These functions operate on sketches that compress an arbitrary set into a fixed-memory representation. The sketches can be merged to produce a new sketch that represents the union, before a final estimate is extracted from the sketch."
Hmm, what's with the snarky message behind political donations?

"World positive", and "World change", it's absolutely awful how far these "established" entrepreneurs need to distance themselves from a comfortable level of empathy, to be able to convey their reasoning behind needing to do something; such as unloading shares, granted for a company that isn't really doing all that well. (Hence the language used in the post!)
but its against trump so its ok
> People often want rather simple improvements like card readers more USB ports, easier change of batteries ...

People want all sorts of conflicting things like a number of things on your list make the box bigger.

Apple should absolutely keep innovating. Perhaps the first iteration of the touchbar isn't a home run but that doesn't mean the idea is a dead end, maybe all that's needed is some haptic feedback.
Ask HN: How to break into finance from being a web dev
I am a web developer (~2 years out of school) and I work at a fairly large company. I've also had a passion for finance and in my free time, I write trading algorithms.

Although, I think I want to move into finance (HFT/hedge fund). Is there a path I can take or steps to take to get there?
XSA-212: x86: broken check in memory_exchange() permits PV guest breakout
> With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn’t matter.

It may matter very much to the person who was fired.
An alternative title for the post could be "I'm going to compete with two of the most dominant tech companies in the world and blog about it."

I've heard that Slack isn't really interested in supporting paid Slack communities in a meaningful way (all of the money is in enterprise chat). So I could see a company that's truly focused winning that battle. Facebook on the other hand seems pretty invested in private groups.

Naturally, I wish John the best of luck. Building a company is hard in and of itself, he's choosing to take on a particularly difficult version of that challenge. I hope he doesn't plan to bootstrap a community chat application.
> Certainly I'm not arguing in favor of unbridled assholism

I think you actually are.
The quoted 150 MB is for all messages in one's network. On my local node there are 91773 messages, going back roughly a year and a half, taking up 147 MB - of which about 72 MB is the actual messages, and the rest are indexes. gzipped, the 72 MB of messages goes down to 29 MB.
Yes, the public and hasty reaction was inappropriate. This is a very different claim than keeping politics out of the project.
Even if it is read charitably, as you have done, that really damages Uber' claim that it's a effectively just a middleman connecting independent contractors with customers. By doing this, Uber is much more than a mere ride arranging service and, instead, they're actively reducing risk and manipulating both sides – something a mere middleman wouldn't do.
Ancestry.com currently has a big marketing spend on pushing their DNA service to determine a person's ancestral origins. The FAQ [0] implies that Ancestry operates their own lab, but who knows what happens behind the scenes or where that test is outsourced to (23andMe maybe?). Of course the more likely scenario is that the Ancestry test normalizes providing a sample in exchange for information that regular people would be amazed by. If the test from Company A could tell me specifically what my ancestral makeup is (which is something Americans in general are fascinated with), what can the test from Company B tell me about my health?

I mean sure, I could be way off, but I could also totally see any of my family members taking the test out of curiosity and I don't see any of them announcing it beforehand. I totally see the genealogy use case as a gateway drug to making this more popular.

[0] https://www.ancestry.com/dna/en/legal/us/faq#about-3
Getting a double mastectomy is 90% effective in preventing breast cancer in high risk patients. Getting tested for cancer is 0% effective in preventing cancer. The best it can do is possibly increase your odds of survival.

Angelina Jolie wrote in an OP-ED about her choice to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-cho...
Because you can't measure what people don't want, or what their relative preferences are between comparable items. You really can't do this right without a price system.

UPDATE: And this applies not just at the consumer level, but in the decisions firms make regarding their supply chains.
I think it's pretty clear: he's selling so he can invest in do-good-things-for-the-world causes. It's understandable that he didn't care to name the specific recipients of the funds he'd get from the sale; that's no one's business as of now.

The only reason he posted this piece was to stave off the otherwise-inevitable "Twitter Co-Founder and Board Member Sells a Third of His Stake: Does He Not Believe in the Company?" headlines.

Though his "It actually pains me to be selling at this point" bit in his post is almost certainly to be translated as "I'm disappointed that I have to sell when the stock is in the dumpster".
Since Uber is already in there [1], Google just needs to push out an app update that swaps the copy to "Waymo". Boom. A string change, and Uber's business model goes poof.

Was mighty kind of Uber and its investors to prove out the business model for Google.

[1] https://newsroom.uber.com/googlemaps/
Nothing stops you from making your own website now and distributing it. Indeed, there are entire portions of the internet devoted to giving people like Milo a platform.
I thought he pretty clearly explained he wanted it to fund other investments and charitable giving?
Now I kinda understand why no URL yet; this is amazing, and I imagine you don't want to leak how you're doing it quite yet. (How ARE you doing it?)

Is the homescreen part of your system, or is that a synthetic simulation?

I wish I had a practical reason to ask to use this. I definitely want to learn if there's ever a demo I can play with :D
>They are only responsible to the extent that their contract with you allows for.

The law doesn't allow you to sign away consumer guarantees act or sale of goods act rights (at least here in NZ).

So a bank cannot make you sign a contract that removes their liability to keep things in a safety deposit box safe, because in fact keeping them safe is the entire point of a safety deposit box. That's their responsibility.

If a bank gets hacked, and loses customer information, then it is because of poor security practices, and that is gross negligence.
Another thing: If Uber really wanted to charge their customers more, they could just raise their rates relative to distance (which would be identical to the user since they only see the final fare and not the components of it). I think they probably just pick a long route to be conservative in the time estimate they give to the user.
> If you're another programmer, yes perhaps.

And even then, we can only really evaluate developers below and maybe slightly above our own skill level. And only if they're working in similar areas to us.
Is it possible to start an S corporation instead? Part of the appeal of Delaware is that transitioning from S->C is a well defined process, and a C corp seems a bit silly for many businesses.
I was just being flippant, especially after you had to add the dig that I was probably a 'short, tiny little person' by Dutch standards.
> So you adopt some kind of policy that you believe forces your line managers to have some kind of accountability.

But, it doesn't. Actually evaluating the people within your scope of control (at a minimum direct reports) and holding them accountable for concrete, business-meaningful results does that.

Stack ranking doesn't, and moreover it transparently obviously doesn't in a way which has obvious adverse impacts on subordinate organizations which are effective, so it not only fails to establish real accountability for lower management, it sends a message to lower management that upper management is more interested in pro forma shows of "doing something" than actual concrete business results, which—aside from.the direct adverse impacts of stack ranking itself—has adverse cultural impacts on management throughout the organization.
signed up, checking it out
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-10/they-know...
It says something about the platforms integrity if it only silence one side of the equation even though it might be its right to do so.
Your description of the groups is oversimplifying things and isn't a very "fundamental" dichotomy at all. The key phrase is "silencing someone." There is a continuum of power that a private individual or corporation or government can have to "silence" someone.

At one end of the continuum is an individual hanging up the phone when they decide they've heard enough from whoever called them. I think most of us would agree that this doesn't violate the principles of free speech, even if the caller was expressing valid ideas.

At the other end of the continuum is a government imprisoning someone for their speech. I think most of us would agree that this violates the principles (and laws) of free speech, except in certain circumstances (e.g. falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre).

But there are cases in the middle of the continuum where things aren't so clear. If I run a small blog with occasional guest writers, a lot of us would probably agree that I can choose at will which content I publish without violating the principles of free speech.

But what if my blog has millions of viewers? What if it has become more of a "news site" or "forum" than a "blog?" What if it's the largest such site in the world, and the only one with significant market share? Perhaps then many of us would accuse me of violating the principles of free speech, since I have significant power to "silence" certain people or ideas.
He alludes to a reason rather than saying it is the reason. That is the tell. He is not being completely forthright.
I think you could be spot on: there are new applications emerging in deep learning, like self-driving vehicles, where you have a powerful need for mountains of data to train complex models, yet a logistics problem in how to aggregate that data in a single place (I'm making this up, but imagine a car collecting 7 streams of 4K video at 60 fps). I really see a growing need for these types of distributed training models.
Here's google doing this in November 2015:

http://download.tensorflow.org/paper/whitepaper2015.pdf
Not only that, many of the self-titled nazis have verified accounts. Twitter is remarkably broad in support of political speech, even that which is against its values.
Yea interesting... I continued scrolling down thinking there was some build up toward a greater good. It turned out to be: I'm selling my shares to spend money elsewhere, and possibly donate some too
Reminds me of a talk I saw by Stephen Boyd from Stanford a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqy-og_7SLs

(Slides only here: https://www.slideshare.net/0xdata/h2o-world-consensus-optimi...)

At that time I was working at a healthcare startup, and the ramifications of consensus algorithms blew my mind, especially given the constraints of HIPAA. This could be massive within the medical space, being able to train an algorithm with data from everyone, while still preserving privacy.
Why are people trying to twist this into a partisan issue?

Both sides agree that political speech is too censored. Agreeing is good - it gives us common ground where we can make progress instead of fighting forever.

Unless you're more interested in the act of fighting than making progress.
They're not. They do have lots of experience with VC-backed startup but the majors do too and they will all have great personal service if you have the that kind of VC (a few million+) in the bank.
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Wow. These graph cards have more memory than my machine.
I wouldn't expect it to, and over time the insurance cost for used boosters may even be less if it turns out there are more failures related to manufacturing defects than damage from previous flights. Though it's going to be awhile before we know one way or the other.
I like the meal options, is there a way to show your own recipes or use only your own recipes?
This is different from differential privacy (which, btw, isn't just an apple thing). Differential privacy essentially says some responses will be lies, but that we can still get truthful aggregate information. The canonical example is the following process:
Flip a coin, if it's head, tell me whether you're a communist. If it's tails, flip another coin and if that one comes up heads, tell me you're a communist, and if it's tails, tell me you're not.

From one run, you can't tell if any individual is telling the truth, but you can still estimate the number of communists from the aggregate responses.

This is doing local model training, and sending the model updates, instead of the raw data that would usually be used for training.
He's not saying that sudo is dangerous but that a GUI program running in X11 as root is dangerous. This is because most GUI toolkits aren't hardened against attackes (buffer overflows, badly formed events, etc.) that can all be sent as a non-privileged user/program under X11 to one that's running as root. This means that if someone had an exploit in your browser that let them see X11 events or send them to another window then they could potentially use that to gain root access the moment you went into ANYTHING that ran as root under you X session.
Not sure what kind of contract you have but outside of a discount on the first N wires, all the accounts have fees for wires, both domestic and international. Were you transferring directly to another SVB account?
It didn't matter that they were literate, since printing a bible in english was still illegal. It was only in 1526 that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale
created the first bible in English, allowing the common folk to go around the 'Bible counselors'. As a result the church had him convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake.
Yes but... this only works in sales type environments where every worker is only interested in themselves, sales at all costs without regard for others, and it rewards the worst type of psychopathic personality
What form of organization do you find legitimate?
The amount of ridicule for this post seems rather surprising. This guy had a curiosity and he wanted to quantify it. I'm sure everybody knows that traffic is reduced when school is out. Why should that stop someone from asking why, by what magnitude, and what other interesting things occur during this time? I'd hazard a guess that everybody in the 1600's knew that apples fell to the ground. It took Newton to ask why.
Bitmain: AsicBoost Not a Covert Attack on Bitcoin, Never Used on MainNet
I get what you're saying, especially the Lexus grilles - the designers have gone insane. Audi has some similar bold shapes at the front but they pull it off much better. Also, the side view of modern Audi sedans are perfect - simple, clean, beautiful lines, and impressive unity of design language across the entire lineup[0]. This design of this Tesla is not in the same league IMO.

[0] https://www.audiusa.com/models/
Cool. I knew of previous work [1], but not the recent paper you posted. Thanks.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6056 "Predicting Deeper into the Future of Semantic Segmentation"
No, Twitter is your neighbor's printing press. Your neighbor doesn't have to let you use it.
No, they don't.

You can't just arbitrarily say huge chunks of planet are off limits because the people who fell out of a vagina there say so.

You can enforce it with guns and an ongoing culture as we see with the current state of things, but that doesn't make it moral.
Yeah, I thought they knew. Here's what I thought might've been on their list

1. You get a single IPv6 per instance (as opposed to a CIDR range).

2. You still have to deal with IPv4 CIDR ranges

3. ...which means you have to deal with all the overlaps still :(

IMO I would love it if my ec2 instances were IPv6 only, and then use public IPv4 addresses or dual stack loadbalancers as necessary for public ingress.
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Then why use a GUI to edit the hostname in the first place? Either use sudo or fix the security issues with Xorg.
Can't wait till the require these for health insurance... Seriously, is there regulation protecting people from "pre-existing conditions" discovered by their genetic analysis?
Not sure whether they have implemented the Toyota system where anyone can stop the production line to fix a problem. With their rush to fulfill production, quality might suffer initially.
Sounds a little like the usual "I want to spend more time with my family" explanation when someone leaves