skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh there are good views in lots of places in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, etc. I was specifically referring to mountains, as in the "landscape of the Lord of the Rings" the GP referred to.

Besides, Sumner doesn't seem very safe, earthquake-wise, which will be contributing to the price.
Sure, though that was a fairly low-grade failure. An inexpensive, unremarkable failure for both Apple and consumers.
Perhaps the car calculated that it could safely enter the bike lane. It doesn't matter if it was close.
What sorts of places have you lived in? I've lived in eight different places since I moved out of my dad's house, and only one has allowed me to play with credit card (with an exorbitant fee)
If you don't fly, what distinguishes the two?
Well, they're selling a product aimed at frequent travelers. Airports are a safe bet for that market. ;)
You have a very weak understanding of what the word 'correlation' means.
That's the mythology Judge tells. In reality he worked in tech for less than a year, and quit because he wanted to be an artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Judge#Early_life_and_educ...
Possibly. Like I say my mom has her social network.
This is a p/r piece from the winning pharma company. Would be nice to have a more independent source. There are varying degree of scummy-ness in the patent world. It's possible that Thermalife is like a Intellectual Ventures or a MPEG-LA, particularly if they are somehow affiliated with Stanford. Recognize that some people may consider the later two to be patent trolls, as well.
> A company that loses money on every unit sale has no breakeven point (Uber)

What? Uber spends an additional ~$0 on every additional ride. They only lose money because of growth and price wars with the competition.

In mature markets with no competition (eg. Toronto) there are no driver incentives or bonuses and they are still cheap and popular with riders and drivers alike.
I commented on this issue over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119248
Sure. A decent card works 100% so you don't need two cards to purchase something. Otherwise what's the point?

Edit: this is really a question better answered with words than a downvote.
I paid for a $50 Costco membership last year and, by using the credit card, got my annual refund check this year of over $400. Didn't pay a penny of interest. Sure seems like a reasonable deal to me.
strongly second this recommendation; it is hands down the best history-of-tech book i've ever read.
When will they just ping my phone to confirm the purchase? Are they stuck in the sixties?
It also didn't really have anything to do with the train operators.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/BART-Responds-to-NTSB-R...
I do not have "block ads". I simply do not request them.

Users do not intentionally make requests for ads or pixels from tracking servers. Browsers do. Automatically.

People writing web pages that aim to cash in on advertising budgets depend on this "feature". However it is optional. I read hundreds of web pages and never see any ads. Because for eading the news I do not use a so-called "modern" browser.

It seems the entire web ad industry requires browsers to operate a certain way. If browsers do not follow these assumptions, then the user sees no ads.

Despite strange notions like the one in the top-voted comment in this thread, there is nothing that requires any user to use browsers written by people whose salaries are paid directly or indirectly from ad sales revenue.

Assuming certain companies were as all-powerful as the commenter suggests, then why not require users to access pages using software written by companies who profit from such web traffic? And make the software proprietary?

Surely no one would complain. Thank you sir, may I have another?

Let us not forget some of these "multi-billion dollar entities" are just websites. If the traffic dies down, the business of selling ads is no longer feasible. And the company disappears along with the website. It has happened before.

98% of revenue from web traffic/ad sales.

Castles made of sand.
Why would you assume they aren't sworn officers? They are government employees.
Self Driving Taxi service Voyage hints its rides will be free
> HN did it for people like Steve Jobs, who demonstrably didn't care about tech workers or anyone else for that matter

I am frankly fed up with Hacker News and Reddit demonizing companies and business leaders just because they built successful companies that make money. Building a business is really hard, cut-throat, and competitive. Business is not charity. Business is not social justice. Business can and does provide good and impact way beyond what nonprofits do -- mainly providing jobs and income that makes this entire existence possible.

It especially seems like hypocrisy, since lots of people here on HN have dreams and aspirations of building successful technology companies yet continue to demonize those that are successful.
If people's understanding of social network is something similar Facebook, then this understanding is too confined. The key is to observe how people adopt the technology. My extended family are geographically dispersed. They have since formed a group using WeChat. Now they are sharing stuff in the group daily. I get to know them more than ever. This is absolutely functioning as a social network.
Can you just by the card you want and copy the cc info? If not, why not?
Google Nexus 6P Battery Early Shutoff and Bootlooping: Class Action Lawsuit
> Check out "General Adversarial Networks"

Another way to describe GANs is that the loss function, which used to be hand-made, now is a whole separate neural net and can be learned bottom-up instead of dictated top-down.

There was a time when features were hand-made. Now we have deep learning and finding good features is automatic. GANs automate another part of the process.
They are real police officers.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-united-chicago-aviatio...
This is an interesting example. The store to x is dead and ought to be totally elided, but Rust will still emit an "overflow check" for an array that does not exist. This overflow check dominates the cost of the function.

If the optimizer determines a store is dead and can elide it, should it also elide the overflow checks? If "no," then it seems we've unnecessarily hamstrung the optimizer. If "yes," then whether a program panics is optimization-level dependent.
I have some opinions about the black bar myself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119248) and this thread is not quite the place to argue about it (considering the topic it's about), but a top-down independent and objective investigative analysis could actually be quite interesting and insightful. I say this honestly and genuinely.
I wouldn't mind if the CPU remained soldered - I don't think I've ever done an upgrade that didn't require a new chipset too.

Give me standard ram, m2 slots, and pcie graphics card slot, and I will order on day one.
Take a look at Backdrop CMS https://backdropcms.org it's a Drupal 7 fork...
Unoptimized programs rely on this too. That's why stack buffer overflows are a thing.
I think it's quite clear United had no such authority from the article. Here's one that goes into more detail: https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-united-legally-wrong-deplane-...
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Because eugenics means doing something about it, usually with state power. Also, eugenics is the negation of the movie's premise, not the movie's premise.
That's way to complicated and confusing to execute in an airport departure lounge or on an airplane
This doesn't work, at least in PostgreSQL:

select b, max(a) as ma
from t
group by b
where ma > 100

ERROR: column "ma" does not exist

You would have to use the having clause:

select b
from t
group by b
having max(a) > 100
This may downvoted (it's sort of off topic), and that's OK, but as I get older the speed at which people I know or admire go and die just gets faster and faster. Sort of sucks.

That said, if I could say one thing to young people about people dieing, it's this: find the people who matter to you and get a video camera and go get them to talk. Apply some wine if that helps, whatever. Get them loose and get them to talk. Ask them how they got to be where they are, ask them what they would like to pass on, let them talk. Old people are just you only ahead of you.

What I would give to have had the balls to go do that with Dennis Ritchie. I didn't know him that well, we talked about Unix stuff quite a few times but I doubt he would remember me. But I'm sure, 100% sure, that he would have let me go get him to talk on camera.
If you want twisted, I can't help but think of Doom as a Process Management Tool (2001) [1].

[1] https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
Yes, but they're a shell company that doesn't lose anything if they're bankrupted.
You assume:

1) Merit is an understood and measurable trait

2) Merit is measurable to a fairly fine degree

3) Diversity does not, in and of itself, increase chances of success

For #3, there's research showing you're assumption is wrong. You can also make an analogy to any other kind of investing, where if you do the same thing as everyone else, your results will be average.
I've been using Fidelity's 2% back AmEx since forever. I was happy when they changed it to Visa and kept the same rate. But for that extra .25% I might have to switch.

Edit: reading more, it looks like that rate is only for purchasing travel through their site. Not worth it.
Those are two very different and challenging projects.

Exactly. Some self-driving projects have used electric or hybrid cars because they usually have electric power steering, which is easy to control by computer. But the technologies are unrelated.
The US announced their participation in the TPP in 2009, a free trade agreement encompassing trade between the US and New Zealand. The Obama administration had been very gung-ho about its ratification in the US, so I don't think the question of nuclear powered warships comes up much anymore.

I don't think you can squarely point to the New Zealand–China FTA for whichever interpretation of colonization you'd like – immigration laws were mostly unchanged by the FTA with the exception of short term work visas, and property purchases by Chinese investors is not an exclusively "countries who have negotiated free trade agreements with China" phenomenon (see Vancouver in Canada, Seattle in the US).
In fact, forget the black bar, and the site.
you can find the answer to your question here: https://www.google.com/search?q=united+dao
Each whack at launching another Windows phone feels like trying to resurrect Diner's Club.
For me one of the biggest selling points is that it is the first home console that isn't region locked.
I worked on HoloLens software at MS, so I was more or less using one all day every day. We all just sort of pushed them to the backs of our heads while we were coding. Anyway, my impression is it's fucking amazing.
It's possible he meant game in a deeper, street-philosophy sense, in that the drivers are playing the game and Uber is playing the fool.
The Dream Machine was Taylor's own favorite of this genre.
Yep, I meant to allude to this... and agree 100%.
A good amount of companies operating in the space are private, guarding their financials as much as possible, so the field is not well covered by analysts, especially in emerging markets. I guess there's not enough incentive for an analyst, investment bank or brokerage house to pay for such research until someone in the field goes public. So unfortunately, we're restricted to random news articles.

Here's NYT on India https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/technology/uber-india.htm...

"On top of all this is competition. Uber faces an aggressive and well-funded Indian rival, Ola Cabs, which operates in 100 cities and offers a wider range of services than Uber does."

RT (okay, not the best source of non-fake news, but this is covering business and referring to a third-party report, so even with a grain of salt) https://www.rt.com/business/312513-yandex-taxi-uber-revenue/

"Russia's most popular search engine has not only beaten Google on its home turf, but has now left Uber in the dust in the Russian taxi market. The company has announced that its online-taxi services’ revenue has tripled in the second quarter of 2015. The Yandex.Taxi fleet has more than 15,000 vehicles in Moscow compared to 10,000 for its Israeli competitor Gett and America’s Uber with 3,000."

Analysis of Singapore market suggests that the playbook consisting of lowering the prices to undercut the taxi establishment works well in countries with expensive taxi services that limit medallions, not so well in countries with dirt-cheap and readily available taxi services http://sbr.com.sg/transport-logistics/news/sorry-uber-and-gr...

"the extremely high taxi penetration rate in Singapore means that it is less difficult for commuters to get a taxi in Singapore than in other cities, making it harder than elsewhere for Uber/Grab to get jobs for its drivers during off-peak hours."
Will this .tex file contain all the images? What happens if an image is missing? What about audio and video?
I do get mad at those publications, though. I hate that people who claim moral/ethical authority act contradictory to those morals and explain it as either a means to justify some "greater" end (as if moral consistency wasn't hard enough for our species) or as some reason why their standards don't apply in their situation.

Yet Wikileaks seems to be in some weird guerilla moral territory that basically every corporation seems to occupy. They provide some necessary good, and because of it, many of us ignore the bad. I don't think we should though.

For anyone :/
There's a big chance that the AD blocking AI would consume much more power than the AD scripts and make browsing slower.
Pretty sure it was Java: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO0...
The law can be passed, whatever it must be (I'm honestly struggling to imagine it), but what is it worth if you can't enforce it? Evidently some people believe they don't steal because it's illegal, but they actually do it only because they can be caught and punished, and it isn't worth the hassle. If we are talking about some abstract computing environment and not just some proprietary, DRM-bound OS — I can chose to show on the screen whatever the fuck I want, if I can watch some movie at all, I also can watch it in vertically-flipped sepia mode, with whichever parts of the picture blacked-out. Same with any content. It may be illegal, but you cannot verify it, and then prove I did it on purpose.

I think solution will be found, but it more likely will be technological. There's no such thing as "end to the arms race". Never can be, almost by definition.

That been said, the "news" here isn't even that much sensational. Just vice.com, as usual. Journalists, eh. The most obvious thing is that CV-based solution, while being buzz-wordy and fashionable isn't preferable by any means: for me the main point of blocking ads is not "hiding them" (I don't even care that much), but making web-pages faster and less obtrusive, which requires blocking ads before they are loaded.
I seen the video.

They literally just pull him from his seat. I don't know how else you would forcibly remove someone whose resisting getting out of their seat.
AMEX definately has problems, but as you said their service is world class.

Chase started harassing a coworker whose daughter died to try to illegally collect her debt within 72 hours of her passing. I will never do business with them.
Did a captain order him to leave, or did a booking agent?

Why shouldn't United let Dao stay in is seat (as required by law) and then sue him afterward? Why should Dao be the one to cave in?
If I'm not mistaken, the Costco deal was a free membership and it was the only CC Costco would accept - any other payment had to be via debit card. That bit of arm-twisting was valuable.
Likely it'll mean paying lawyers to file false dmca requests in the end. Or something similar with cease and desist. I think the intent is they're saying we'll sue everyone and make you pay for it.
I don't think it's that dire, but I guess interviewing afterwards could be trickier. If you were still a good programmer after three months, I think you'd be just fine. I just took six months off to travel the world, I'm not worried.
Probably nobody identifiable, or a large class of people.

It pretty clearly causes increased organizational fitness in the current social / regulatory / legal environment.

.

The solution is not increased punishment for customer-facing people, since that would just put them in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

Something along the lines of RICO or Sarbanes-Oxley might help, since it would give strong personal incentives to the people who actually have power to set procedures and organizational culture.

Something that has definitely hurt, is the demonization of (and organizational liability for) individual initiative and discretion.

There does seem to be something a bit odd in making both leadership personally liable for bad outcomes of following policy, and the organization liable for bad outcomes of not having a strict enough policy.
An airplane is not a McDonald's. That's why the FAA exists.
I'd be interested in seeing your math.
Losses up 6% and they're celebrating. I've been at companies like this. "We're losing money faster than ever, if I keep saying words after that you might be confused as to whether that matters."

And if you have new or growing product lines that incorporate into both revenue and expenses like Uber Pool does, you'd see exactly this shift _without a change in the underlying unit economics_. Which means that, not only are they losing money faster than ever, but they have no mechanism to stop the bleeding.
By your reasoning, there certainly is a need to go around attacking the messengers. The messengers can file a lawsuit later if they disagree.
There's a good discussion about this on the churning subreddit[1].

One of my hobbies has been maximizing rewards over the last few years. I've had the Amex Gold, but Platinum rewards have never looked good enough to justify it for me. I'll keep the CSR until something better comes along, but it's easily the best card I've had.

Part of Amex's problem is the ease of access to information about which cards are actually good. They can't rely on image anymore. I don't buy into the article's argument about the CSR making the purchaser "interesting" at all.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/65e347/amex_chall...
> Music production software is home to some of the most complex and inventive UIs out there

Complex and inventive, yes. I would also add that most of the time (for me at least) it goes too far. For example, there are a fair number of synth UIs modeled after (or inspired by) real analog synths, and for people who are familiar with the real-world counterparts, I suppose that makes the software more approachable. For someone unfamiliar with that hardware, however, the UIs just feel like over-the-top skeuomorphic eye candy with little functional advantage in pixel form.

Then there's an infinite array of virtual instruments, synths, effects, etc. that don't have any real-world counterpart, and they're styled to look like super-advanced alien sci-fi machines... I mean, the UIs certainly look cool (at least in the context of visual art), but they're a frustratingly convoluted mess to actually work with using a mouse and keyboard[1].

I've never quite understood why pro audio software is so strongly coupled with that design aesthetic. If it's truly driven by functional necessity, I guess I wasn't born with the necessary set of alien tentacles to take advantage of it.

[1] As I understand, certain controls in these UIs are often linked to knobs, sliders, and buttons on real audio gear, but that still doesn't answer the question. The on-screen representation undoubtedly looks nothing like the real gear, and the heavily-stylized form doesn't exactly seem to serve a purpose beyond what could be achieved with a more conservative aesthetic.
If you've got a specific point of fact about the law in mind, by all means articulate it.
I don't think you are being fair. It's pretty clear that he means secondary, not primary, research, i.e reading papers and talking to experts. And, it's quite common in medicine that there is very little communication or consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of conditions like this, where five different specialists could give you five different answers. Just look at how long it took him to find someone to do the ablation treatment that gave him some improvement.
For testing purposes, today's clunky rotating LIDAR units are OK. For deployment, something better will be needed. That's coming along well, but due to lack of a market, nobody is producing in volume yet. I'd bet on Continental, the auto parts company, which is using flash LIDAR technology from Advanced Scientific Concepts.[1] That's known to work well, and ASC has been selling it to DoD successfully. Space-X also uses their units for docking the Dragon spacecraft.

Quanergy has been in "fake it til' you make it" mode for a year now; they announced an impressive product 14 months ago and didn't ship. Their web site looks as if they're shipping, but they're not. Now they're trying to get in on the Trump border wall security business.[2]

[1] http://continental-automated-driving.com/Navigation/Enablers...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/03/24/silicon-...
My understanding was that Uber had/has a system called "Hell" that could uniquely identify Lyft drivers based on fiticious rider requests Uber would send, and then use that data to target those Lyft drivers to drive exclusively for Uber.

Uber most definitely wasn't playing the fool.
> What would a post-ad-supported web looks like?

It was possible, even though most people disagreed at the time, to make open source thrive and write the largest, most complete encyclopedia. Stackoverflow filled with answers without pay.

An ad-free world would be ok, people are creative, we can make our own stuff. I, for example, read mostly comment threads, research papers and watch user made videos. We don't need their content and ads at all.
One thing I am very irritated about is how 100% of these diversity advocates (read "opportunists trying to capitalize on the trend") use some research that says how diverse companies performed better than non-diverse.

There are so many things wrong about this I don't even know where to start.

First of all "diverse company had higher returns than the median" is such a bullshit. This is called a "correlation". There is absolutely NO causality between the two factors and yet these people say "diverse company => higher returns". Stuff like this where there can be so many variables is not something you should draw an easy conclusion on.

Second, "higher than median" is NOT something investors are looking for. They are looking for the Googles and the Facebooks. A lot of these outlier companies were actually far from diverse when they were startups.

Third, these are interpretations with agenda. And everyone with the same agenda uses these results to "scientifically" back up their claims. It's equivalent to cigarette companies funding research to prove that cigarettes are not bad for health.

I DO believe that diverse team is SOMETIMES good (but not always), but I just don't like how these opportunists are manipulating the narrative in the name of "science", just so they can profit from it.
You should read Brad Stone's The Upstarts. The outcome in China is actually pretty favorable for Uber. One-line summary: Travis (not Uber, but Travis) probably owns as much of Didi as the current founder/CEO of Didi. Didi is currently valued >$30B.
can they? Their valuation is entirely based on self-driving cars, if they fire everybody and give up on that it's over for them.