skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lot like the story of the kid who gets a horse.

The level of competition of driver apps right now is excellent for passenger-users, sure. But it makes Uber (and by extension all copycats) a much less solid proposition than it seemed to be a few years back.

While it's fashionable to shit on Uber right now, it was originally hailed as revolutionary for a reason: the "local" providers were entrenched monopolies who imposed artificial restrictions on supply to extract extraordinary rents. That's what we're going back to if the Uber business model proves to be unsustainable -- and there's rigorously no reason why "local companies" would do better, given high capital costs and a poor entrepreneurship environment nearly everywhere in the world.

In a way this is a more general problem with the "disruption model": it identifies inefficient monopolies that extract too much rent and muscles in with crazy unicorn capital powers to establish business models that extract fewer rents, which in turn have to produce ROI -- at which point the business model is global rent-seeking arbitrage. And then the unicorn capitalists have to ask themselves if investing on Uber being in Brazil is a better use of their money than direct investing in assorted (large, profitable) business opportunities in Brazil. Uber-likes are not technological silver bullets. Just potato.
I think that's quite possible, and I'd like to believe that's what happened. I guess there must be a cockpit voice recording somewhere - I wonder if that will ever come out, or if people need to die for that to happen.

I'm still kind of skeptical that the pilots could be completely oblivious about it though. You'd think that if something is serious enough for a flight attendant or gate agent to call law enforcement, and get them onto the plane, then they'd tell the pilot about it too, if only as a courtesy or practical measure so they're not surprised about the noise or banging on the door. Also, at some point the pilots are going to have manifests of passengers vs crew, and that would change, so you'd think they'd see that happening, since the plane was fully boarded it seems possible they'd have had the first manifest, and wonder about / be annoyed about late changes. Or, maybe they'd simply see the law enforcement folks get on, or hear the call on the intercom / radio, etc.

I'm more inclined to think that the situation was misrepresented to them ("we have an unruly passenger, but we're taking care of it"), and they took it at face value without asking any questions. Will be interesting to see what comes out.
I think GP's point might be that the Nim homepage gets submitted fairly often. For the other examples you mentioned, there's usually more variety in the content being submitted.

However, as noted in another comment, Nim has a new website up hence the post this time.
They've talked about it so much they got sick of answering fan mail and stood up a site for it:

http://isfiberreadyyet.com/
I live in an 11 foot truck camper during the summer. I'm a camp host at a Forest Service campground. The rest of the year I live in my home in Mexico. It can be a lonely life, and I miss road-tripping across Mexico and all the interesting people I used to meet. At 71, though, I guess I'm too old. Damn! Still, I can fish, pan for gold, write, etc. as the impulse strikes me. A small pension with health insurance and social security makes it possible. I do miss the people on the road though.
Definitely true if you're a control freak. It's an extremely intense experience that requires care and an open mind. Senses go haywire and time warps for a few minutes.
Same boat. How did your pre-interview go?
Like plugging a vacuum cleaner into a UPS.
> Now, what happens if you kill the H1B?

Companies all start paying the premium for these most-sought-after and most-specialized technologists, as they should, which then causes more native-born people to pursue these jobs, knowing they won't be arbitrarily undercut by the lottery, and reaping the benefits of a top-dollar US-based education. To me, it's a national investment argument. Does a nation NOT want perfectly capable native citizens to get these lucrative types of jobs, and US-based academic institutions to get the tuition to educate them? No, it wouldn't happen overnight, but we don't have to cut it off all at once, either. The market can, and would, adjust.

My problem is that I see a lot of H1B's doing clerical jobs that don't require anything more than a 12th-grade education. Some even have MS degrees, but they're doing things that, at their most-technical, would take a trade school programming intern to do. I also know several under-employed people, who don't have college degrees, but who would be GREAT at those jobs, but can't get them because of the H1B system. None of this makes sense to me. You think only Ph.D.'s can deal with LIDAR systems? Fine. But dozens of H1B's working around me are doing their jobs without the need for even an Asscociates degree's worth of education. It seems like blatant abuse to get overqualified people on the cheap who can't leave.
I think we may be splitting hairs over the definition of API compatibility
My non-profit application was rejected half an hour ago.
Critical deficiencies in upcoming Java module system (Jigsaw)
Yep. Typo.
Car colour popularity
Actually, they were not United pilots, but pilots for Republic Airlines which was operating the United flight. The United Pilots union issued an angry statement, as unions are wont to do. [0,1]

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-pilots-letter...

[1] [Video] http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/video/united-pilots-issue-statem...
So much negativity here. Constantly pushing the boundaries of existing technology is how we got here in the first place. If we were content with the status quo, we'd still be looking at a four-month journey from New York to San Francisco on horseback.
Very excited as well for the release of Relay Modern! I think overall a huge boon for the Relay developer experience.

I'm with you here on the static queries. We've used Relay a couple of times as well for various smaller applications here and there, but honestly felt the "magic" was too strong. I'm looking forward to building my future apps and try out Relay Modern.

In addition, I want to be able to encourage more applications that build on our GraphQL platform called Scaphold.io (https://scaphold.io) to try out Relay Modern as well since our API is built to the Relay spec. With that in mind, I'm hoping that the spec will be less restrictive in the future, so there's a smaller learning curve for folks trying it out.

As for the concern with focusing on the internal needs of Facebook, I think the experience that they have working with one of the largest distributed systems in the world helps (rather than limits) their vision on what Relay can be. I trust that this is the case, though it would be really great to see some of the tooling for native support (i.e. iOS, Android, etc). I'm sure they've got that somewhere waiting to be released as I can imagine they have plenty of mobile teams at Facebook who aren't using React Native yet.
The Mac client runs at 1280x960 (double 640x480). The font in the menu looks like it's been upscaled or redrawn, but everything else is just pixel-doubled.
No but if I type "beets yellow squash" it gives me a bunch of recipes. It's far easier to do that than keep a running inventory of ingredients in my fridge updated in an app.

I can see that this might be useful for people who really don't know anything about cooking but would like to start somewhere.

Now if this app has a receipt OCR scanner that automatically adds ingredients and amounts to the inventory, I could see paying for it. I started a project like that in the past but gave up with the OCR technology wasn't very accurate.
Litho: declarative framework for building efficient UIs on Android
You say that as if the Vice President weren't a driving force behind the very bigotry and discrimination that makes people feel unsafe.

This is a man who passed a law forcing women in Indiana hold funerals for their miscarriages.

Edit: didn't realize they didn't have to attend and pay for the funerals themselves (addressed below; comment left in its original state for context).
It does allow more immigrants to displace American workers or workers looking for work or depress American wages.

The only bill that needs passing is one that rescinds all H1-b visas that don't follow the letter of the law including the Disney H1-b workers that displaced Americans.
Hey this is awesome. Thanks!
Working with @jaymeh13 and interviewed with him for W17.

To those who got an interview: congratulations! Keep trying to prove yourself wrong and you'll expose any of the weaknesses that they will try to find in the interview.

To those who didn't: Congratulations anyways! The YC application process itself makes you think deeply about your business and you should keep that with you and take it as a learning experience.

Best of luck to everybody!
Congrats on the release of Relay Modern guys! This has been a long awaited moment :)
This benefits highly from spread attributes imo
https://pastebin.com/nSFHh0NK
I thought it would give me total interoperability. That I could edit an movie in a windows app, run it through ffmepg, and go back to editing.

Cygwin is still useful.
I watched Memento for the umpteenth time tonight.
Give those fucks more of your data? Why?
Sure, but in the meantime the web is a much less accessible place for screen readers, underpowered mobile devices, and those without good internet connections
Agreed, but plenty of countries have these rules in law (you can maybe justify why Germany and Austria do, but not the rest of Western Europe). The US does too, but not explicitly, they are structured into in crimes of violating peoples' civil rights.

It's one of the great things about the USA that they at least have a determined effort to try to live up to embracing free speech. That's very difficult in practice
Cisco Warns of iOS Flaw Vulnerable to ShadowBrokers Attack
You still have not answered the question. What has their lobbying done to decrease living standard, and what are they lobbying for, specifically?

Your response is useless in the context of the current conversation.
Forgot Bebo.
I've been using React with CSS/SCSS files. You do not need to write CSS in javascript.
Holy cow if that doesn't get you in I don't know what would...
Or wait until JavaScript gets arbitrary precision ints which is not unreasonably far away I would reckon (less than a year most probably).
That's really helpful! And funny! Thank you!
I went to a ZFS preso for the Vancouver BSD meetup and it was great and I learned a ton. You win some you lose some.
Wow, that was interesting until it got to "the political elite". Can I flag just the second half of this article?
There is an implementation in TensorFlow too: https://github.com/vanhuyz/CycleGAN-TensorFlow
I haven't received any answer yet. Is anyone still waiting?
I've launched but would support/fly-out to a reject event...

We get a space together and maybe present startups and then have a little party? Host our own demo day and make some type of support network for contacts and trying out each other's products?
I found Hawker centers in HK way dirtier than eating in the street in Bangkok :P and waaaaaay worse food...
In Singapore was OK but like the rest of the city everything feels too clean and boring!

Bangkok has already Hawker centers but its a totally different experience (complementary).

I really love the smells, the lighting, busy things happening all the time around me, and feeling so casual while eating in the street... :)
It doesn't have a tracing GC (or at least, the primary portion isn't tracing). The garbage collector is outlined at https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
AWS now has Sam which I hadn't heard of before. It's an extension of cloud formation specifically for deploying serverless code to lambda, building API gateways etc. Their command line tool is pretty slick, I'm wondering if these other third party frameworks are needed anymore.
DON'T LET YC KNow THIS
YC don't look now but I just figured I could start a fresh thread here in HN... Duh
Tumblr is launching a video chat app called Cabana
In Memento, the main character had short term memory, but it would not form new memories. His window of awareness seemed to be on the order of 10 or 15 minutes. The author of the article describes not being able to even read a paragraph because the start was forgotten by the time she reached the end.
I work for a large company that used to outsource all of it's IT to a large contractor. Almost all of the applications and code I've worked with that was done by the outsourcing company was substandard crap. Obviously over complicated to support large (profitable) estimates.

From my experience working with a lot of tech immigrants, I can say that compared to the native population, they seem about the same in terms of competency. The only issue is the language thing. In tech (especially at large companies), so much of what you do is communicating with others and not having a good command of the English language can make an otherwise capable dev a lot less so.

If I were hiring, I would never consider a person that didn't have a good command of English unless they were really a rock star in something that didn't require much communication.
I am a tax lawyer.

You probably need years and multiple millions of dollars to write competent tax return preparation software. Our office uses an expensive pro package (Lacerte, owned by Intuit) which is frankly a C- product.

I don't know what would be more important -- coding skill or a deep, intimate knowledge of tax law. Tax law is an internally inconsistent logic box. Oh. And ambiguous too. I'm not sure how you deal with those situations.

Even if you succeed in writing awesome tax prep software, you have a marketing problem.

We do not like Lacerte. We have identified software we would rather use. But I cannot get my team to move to the new software. Learning curve fear, data conversion fear. Etc.

Look at the accounting software business. Why does Quickbooks continue to dominate the market?

If you are interested in breaking into the market, find a tiny subset that you can competently serve. E.g., my friend Mary Beth and her business partner solved a truly horrific piece of tax hell at www.form8621.com. You have no idea about the intellectual complexity of the tax law underpinning her software.
I was turned down after an interview last batch. I think I probably won't apply again. YC's standards now seem so high that, by the time I expect to meet them, there won't be much point in YC anymore. If I have 2,000 users, which is pretty tiny, that's $40K a month at $20 per person. If I get 50 signups a week, that's a 10% per month growth rate. If I have $40K in high-margin monthly revenue with a 10% per month growth rate, why sell stock at a $1.7M valuation, in the hope of getting some connections to sell more stock at a $5M valuation? It just doesn't make business sense. All you'd have to do is wait a few years, and you'd have more profits in the bank, in cash, than the "valuation" you'd get from California VCs.
Thanks for the link - you're right, it was fun!
If your teeth are like mine, then they are sharp at the front, designed for the cutting and tearing of flesh.

Industrial farming is about as humane as any other method for killing I've seen/practiced.

People argue that hunting keeps one more connected with the concept of meat as quarry, but the end result is the same. I shot a scimitar oryx through the heart a few years ago (before the ban) and it still ran 100 yards before it dropped. I'm pretty sure stun guns and captive bolt pistols remove the concept of pain faster.
But you'd only have to render the level once, after that it's all textures to be slapped on polygons. And those 'expensive GPUs' are pretty much there in that context since they were designed for games to begin with.

In fact, let's stimulate this to make sure GPUs get even faster and have more memory.

GP is wrong in that GPUs won't be needed but that doesn't make it a bad idea as such.
Great idea. I'm in. Rejected for like the 5th time. The rejections get easier to take. I think the 3 months hence launch date is doable. It's useful to have it to work towards.
Ah my bad. I have to constantly correct people who equate southern with stupid. It gets old.
It does but you have to do that from the Windows file system not the Linux one. So from Linux you are accessing /mnt/c/Users/you/somedocument and from Windows it's C:\Users\you\somedocument.
I am very much not looking at it from the outside.

ES6 is a step backward. Prototypical inheritance was one of the few things Javascript had going for it, but because CS majors who only learned Java in undergrad couldn't be bothered to learn prototypical inheritance now we have two incompatible inheritance systems instead. Promises are minor syntactic sugar over callbacks which could be implemented as a library. Meanwhile `this` still doesn't mean "this", there's still no integer or boolean types, accessing a nonexistent variable silently fails but happily continues execution, only reporting an error when it's far away from the problem. There's no threading, no security primitives, and no decent debugger. None of the problems are being fixed and the new features are either lackluster or make things worse.

And that's just the language itself. The ecosystem is in more of a shambles. Web development in the age of left-pad and global shared state being normal is exciting in the same sense as plagues of frogs and locusts are exciting: it's not boring but if it were boring that would be better.
Welp I mean, with Java, you at least have an option to compile from Windows (given that you can call out an Windows executable from WSL now)
What I heard in Moscow is that Khrushchev was impressed by the new-style architecture in Cuba, and imported the style to Moscow. It sounded like the reverse of what you say.
Actually, only Stalin's era buildings are comfortable for living. https://cdn.cian.site/3/194/601/peredelkino-blizhnee-moskva-... This is ordinary new buildings in Moscow. No trees, no sun, everywhere wrong parked cars, and so on. It's like living in hell, but on earth.
Having studied this myself at great length over the last ten years, Cornwell's book is widely regarded as a joke. I could list off a bunch of reasons here but Casebook covers this all in great detail here - http://casebook.org/dissertations/dst-pamandsickert.html

In my opinion, the Sickert theory holds about as much water as the Royal Conspiracy - entertaining read but almost certainly bollocks.
Maintainer vs. Community
None of which are on the photos team or have the time to rewrite it for the newer stacks.
Cool, thanks for the links!

While I won't argue that I wasn't "conscious", I'll argue for all intents and purposes, I wasn't conscious at that time. My buddy said I'd basically completely forget everything after 5 minutes, and we would have the same conversation over and over again.

Its disconcerting to say the least to find out just how fragile consciousness is.
> At the end of the maneuver

Here's the difference, once the plane's wings are level with the horizon, the roll is considered to have been completed. The rest (regaining a stable pitch) is recovery.

Yes, you are correct that the aircraft's velocity is not maintainable after the maneuver has been completed, and must incur positive G forces to regain level flight, but it's not technically part of the barrel roll.

EDIT: As I noted in another response (in which I go into a lot more detail), the pilot probably doesn't even have to take any action to negate the downward velocity component; the change in the angle of attack (the angle at which the wing intersects with the airflow) would naturally increase the amount of lift being generated by the wing, at the cost of more drag.
Ask HN: Rejected by HN? Did anybody even view your video?
I've just received the rejection letter, and looking at the stats in youtube, nobody in the US has ever viewed my video, and one person in France viewed it for 3 seconds.

Anybody else seeing similar stats? Do you think you even got a fair shake?

As a start-up nearing 40k dedicated users, growing 20% WoW, I find this quite surprising.

I know this isn't the end, but I'm wondering if anybody else has experienced the same.

Thoughts?
Sorry, I have to ask. Why do you need to use Java with WSL? Native methods?
> Is hitting your kids any less morally despicable than hitting your spouse?

> Why does such a large section of society think it's OK to hit your kids and not your spouse?

It's not OK. Beating your kids is not OK. Beating your wife is not OK. Beating anyone is not OK.

Resolving to violence is weak.

One of the cases is when adult tries to explain something to kid but kid can't understand. Adult gets frustrated and starts beating kid. I was not a smart kid and my father was not particularly great at explaining things. He never beat me but verbally and vocally felt that way.
Oh man, being from MI everything he said hit home in a big way, and it got red hot the summer+fall of 2016. (And then Clinton skipped our state, to top it off, after we voted Sanders.)

Moore put into words the devastating alienation the Rust Belt feels from the rest of the country. How they laughed at midwesterner's baseball caps was a big one. And they aren't getting any better. Scary.
Zappa is amazing I am currently using it to make an alexa app.
Generally speaking, there are two avenues people have to change quote-unquote undesirable behavior: legally and socially.

Legally, we should vociferously oppose any restrictions on speech, including hateful speech. This is a pretty banal point; most people not to the far left or right can agree on it.

Socially, I think it's pretty clear that we need not tolerate a lot of speech that should be legal. Milo Yiannopolous is free to spew his garbage, but we have no obligation to hear him out, or let him speak at our schools or events. Freedom of speech does not mean we have an obligation to let people who mean harm speak unencumbered. We should protest and block them however we can.
No it's more like we've got a 2 month journey on the Hindenburg.
Oh! so sad :(
I just arrived from a one year trip in the area and really liked Vietnam and Saigon.

I hope it doesnt become Singapore II... I think is my least favorite city in Asia...
Let me reword the question. Are you actually getting food poisoning enough that you can say how often it happens in each place? Even as an anecdote, you need a bunch of data points to calculate a rate of food poisoning. (And if your answer is yes, why are you getting so much more food poisoning than others?)

An anecdote like "I only got food poisoning once and it was at X" works fine with one data point. But rates need several data points.
> But having another XML dialect that's not actual XML…

HTML is based on SGML, it was never an XML dialect.
https://shop.countdown.co.nz/Shop/SearchProducts?search=cott...

I think I have some of this in my fridge right now. "Lite" is used here a lot.

I hear native English speakers in NZ make grammar mistakes here all the time. I'm really curious that you hear the less/fewer distinction adhered to.
This will not be default until React 17 I believe.
I knew that would trip someones grammar wire.
Yes, punching Nazis in the face (who are nationalist, woman hating white supremacists) should be illegal. Antifa knows this, and takes measures to evade the law.

Hate speech laws are a separate issue, and no, they are not the end of the world. There are many countries with hate speech laws, some reasonable, others extremest.

The author makes many assumptions and selective interpretations. Punching a nazi in the face is a crime of passion I deeply sympathize with. I don't think it should be legal, but confronted by nazi salute I'm not sure I wouldn't do the same.