skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lyft is making this information available to anyone who signs up and accesses it, there's no subterfuge going on. They didn't plant a mole in Lyft to send them secret internal documents. They didn't steal their code and copy its innovations.

The mere fact that Lyft "would [try to] stop them" makes it immoral? How does that work?

Is it immoral if I watch tapes of the competing team's last football game to figure out what plays they like to use? Surely they would try to stop me from doing this if they could, because they want me to know as little about their playbook as possible, because they'd prefer to win. They might even tell the clerk not to sell the tape to anyone who is wearing my team's colors to try to keep it out of enemy hands. But there's nothing wrong with reviewing the tapes, even if they've tried to stop me from doing so.

What makes your competitors pleasure a barometer of morality? Almost always, winners are going to be happy and losers are going to be sad. Is it immoral for anyone to win or lose?
Yeah, pretty much. Especially if you're an animal.

Eventually, maybe we'll become effectively plants, creating our food from sunlight, CO2 and minerals. But what about our microbiota?
truth != fact
And surprisingly, I can actually follow it. (I have that thing where people say "yeah I can read this but don't expect me to write it" right now though...)

This is very interesting. Does Haskell not have reasonably easy-to-use EOF indication?

I'm reasonably impressed this is as short as it is; being able to shove everything into maps (and get concurrency for free) is nice.

I can understand why Haskell is less widely used though; this is... OH, "take 5" is substring, that's why you did "http:" and "https"!

...I was going to say "hard". :P

Thanks for taking the time to write this!!
Looks like they just do a HLR lookup to get cellphone location, which at worst gives you the cell tower location and sector the phone is connected to.
Punch card images?
So why is it then that 23 year old engineers are building everything in SV? It certainly explains a lot about what I see happening there.
Colin Furze even made one a few months ago.
Inside Boom’s efforts to build a new generation of supersonic commercial jets
I love the snippets of prose I've seen from Blood Meridian and The Road, but I am reluctant to read them, even though they're well on their way to becoming classics of the English language. My impression is that the books are saturated in darkness with very little light shining through. The violence and horror will stick in my thoughts long after I put my books down. There are certainly books and movies I regret ingesting for imagery that they've embedded in the back of my mind.

Did you get that feeling reading these books?
Pirsig's displeasure at John's disrespect for using a strip cut from an aluminum beer can as a handgrip spacer on John's lah-dee-dah BMW -- who can forget that? That vignette served as the main example of Pirsig's "quality" and how easily the rose-colored glasses of provincialism can distract us from seeing it.
Misallocated Capital. Maybe I'm bitter because my startup wasn't funded, but I feel like we can and must do better than this.
As someone who earns some revenue from affiliate marketing, I doubt this. It's already hard enough to compete with others for a 7% cut. For 2.5%, it's probably a better investment of time for others to find a different source of revenue entirely.
US Considers Banning Laptops on Flights from Uk Airports
They left out the obvious things that tend to reduce the number of offspring: birth control, distractions like video games, fear of losses in family court, choices that lead to prison, the fact that women no longer need to please men in order to survive, obesity/diabetes/cardiovascular issues, and the tendency to dislike spreading resources thinly across numerous children.

People who overcome those impediments to reproduction are the evolutionary winners. The changes can be physical, mental, metabolic, and/or anything else -- it doesn't matter because evolution doesn't care how the job gets done. People of the future will be more like those few people of today who are effective at overcoming the impediments to reproduction.
>Well, since you can't put food stained plastics in the plastic bin.

Why couldn't you? If it's just stained it's not much of an issue after all the food is biodegradable and will just rot on its own from bacteria and insects.

There are some people actually washing out their plastic garbage to prevent bad smells coming from their plastic garbage bag. Imho that's a massive waste of water, just put the garbage bag somewhere where the smell does not bother anybody, the stuff is garbage after all so it's not supposed to smell like roses.
So my wife and I use a French Press for coffee in the morning. I love a good cup of coffee and it really does not take that much time to make. Heck, I enjoy the process.

Now for espresso or the like, well that is a different story. We used to have an espresso machine but it was quite a pain (and took up space). For that the machines are great. We have the Nespresso machine with the milk attachment. Makes a pretty good cup. They provide mailing bags for you to send back the used cups? carts? (hum) for recycling.
Ivestopedia has a different definition - "Marginal utility is the additional satisfaction a consumer gains from consuming one more unit of a good or service. Marginal utility is an important economic concept because economists use it to determine how much of an item a consumer will buy."

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginalutility.asp
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Would it be more or less ethical if researchers killed caterpillars infected by parasitic wasps, preventing them from being eaten alive?
When parents fail, public school can't do much.
>This ethos from some of the other commenters that you shouldn't do something because it might make your competitors unhappy is absurd.

I'm not sure that's what these other commenters are really saying. It seems to me that this sort of competition actually ends up being bad for the consumer. Good faith competition where you make your product better is what we hope our markets will do. When companies like uber instead try to hamstring the competition that's bad for consumers and should be discouraged.
If they break a security measure, it's a hack. If there was deliberately no security, it's not a hack.
A qood question - I'd say the best answer is "no" simply because "experience" and "insight" imply some higher-order cognition at play ("insight" for sure).

What ML algorithms do is more akin to curve-fitting, or (chains of) "if-this-then-that" type of association. Yes this is comparable to "experience", but only at very simplistic level.
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This reminds me of the King's Toaster, an ancient allegory about overengineering a food appliance:

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/ktoast.html
Headless SlimerJS with Firefox
Even 9/10 of the cloud market is huge, and it's growing. I do see the OP's vision happening.

Don't forget that Apple's initial goal in the phone market was 1%.
McCarthy's "No Country For Old Men" is one of the only books I've ever read, as an adult, that actually made me jump in my chair because a scene was so tense:

>He was half way back up the caldera to his truck when something made him stop. He crouched, holding the cocked pistol across his knee. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.
> Today's cars are gratifyingly quiet.

Only if you sit on the inside ;) Highway noises are extremely loud, and engine noises on local roads, especially from trucks, are painful in some places.
Great idea. I signed up and chose Portuguese. Spanish was shown to me and can't change that for some reason.
I don't think so. Congress is full of corrupt people who would have too much to lose from passing such a law.
When you call yourself a 'computer programmer' and noone calls you back on your resume because they think that is a different thing, then yes.
The interesting question is: given the information available to the organism in the moment and the organism's previous experience, what sort of reality can be perceived? This book sounds to me like Bad Philosophy of Mind if it can't answer more coherently than "not reality".
I can never understand this attitude. Programmers are people -- why is it surprising that some of them are ethically flexible?
It's still minimal, or at least more tolerated, compared to aviation related noise.
Winston Smith
You need to have one person who can run apt-get upgrade a few times. Most of the good development and operations people are capable of it in my experience at least. It requires at most a few days upfront and a couple hours of monthly work to keep things up to date.

It's not remotely comparable to re-developing the whole system. If your developers can maintain their own machines, they can probably handle this.
How quickly people forget this. It went quickly from Apple is changing the game, and giving developers an unprecedented cut of the sale of their apps. And for their 30% they host it, they process the credit cards, they provide the iCloud infrastructure and notifications for free, they make it searchable in their store. No one said it wasn't a good deal.

But a few years pass, and now it's the Apple Tax? Some people could promote and sell it themselves for less. A lot less? Maybe, maybe not. But most of us could never ever do it for the 30%. Why does everyone think they're the smartest one in the room these days? Odds are, you're really not. Sorry. You're just not.
What a sad world we live in where you define your "quality" as your worthiness to serve someone else. So pitiable.
"The bans sparked criticism from technology experts, who said the new rules appeared to be at odds with basic computer science."

What strange customs Americans have. Exactly how do you get a laptop into the US legally without shipping it with your ^insecure^ luggage?
The money is already returned to shareholders offshore as equity in the global company. I don't know what you are talking about.
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You can take a look at some startups that sell nootropics. But after going through many natural supplements and prescribed medications, I realized that everyone is different and respond differently. I personally get high blood pressure within days of taking certain nootropics. Certain other ones causing me to be more explosive and agitated. Some natural herbs caused shortness of breath within hour, etc. All these things are very individual so I would not bet on any startup with magic pill to cure everyone. Took me a while to find something that works for me. Maybe there should be startup that guides you through these experiments to find what works for you individually.
The first 2D microprocessor – based on a layer of just 3 atoms
It's less overt, but I've come to believe the US has the same thing going on. Consider two things... first Fox News just fired O'Reilly, who is the highest rated news man in the country (probably the world). Why? Not because he was a sexist pig. They knew that for years. They did it because the advertisers started pulling out. Now consider that every 4 years the major political parties spend over $1 Billion in advertising. And that's just for the Presidential election.
That comes with a lot of power to tell the news media mega corps what they should be talking about.
Make school interesting.

Actually, learning how to code and learning Japanese changed my life in this regard.

I didn't know how to teach myself things until those two things happened, once I did, pretty much everything else opened up to me.
Zen is still a great gateway text into philosophies Eastern and Western. It's nice he lived to a ripe old age.
I think Lua, statically compiled against musl libc, can fit in 200KiB. Not in a (32KiB) L1 cache as the grand-parent comment asked, but in L2. There's also LuaJIT, which I think is only a bit bigger, I'm not sure ...
Check out the REBOL examples on Rosetta code. I'm very fond of the "percent of image difference" one -- it's not large, but shows off some of the nice features like image handling and the fantastic REBOL GUI dialect. (Yes, I wrote it...)
What's the benefit here instead of using the tcp load balancer? I'm guessing it's primarily URL mapping.

Does it support websocket compression (meaning the load balanced servers don't need to do compression - as it'd be handled by the proxy) We would probably switch in a heartbeat if it did
Worth reading simply for the quality of McCarthy's writing. And that he can write about language and the mind without mentioning fMRI's, 'the part of the brain that ___' and 'emerging neuroscience'.
Apparently the new hotness is AI. The last five years have seen titles with similar(ish) roles evolve from Data Scientist -> ML Engineer -> AI Engineer
Worked fine for me when I just tried it.

Dunno what tf this is about...
Football and running a foot race are not the same thing.

Generally speaking, you should endeavor to create rules that you can agree with regardless of which side of the fence you happen to currently be on. If the roles were reversed and your reaction is now "Hey, wait a minute, that's not fair!" then you should reconsider your current position.
I suppose. The downsides seem large enough that I would try and find alternative implementations such that I could do it in one cloud. Or ar least something that highly minimized cross provider dependencies and expensive data xfer.

You're fighting the purpose built intention of the cloud to make it costly and clunky to move data out.
I've watched them all except the latest Arise prequel series. And yes, they definitely delved into too abstract a lot. Probably my favorite anime show but a good 25% could easily be cut out.
A double-roller system will probably have that problem, but twisting the bag in on itself and just torquing it will probably work, the bag's pressing against itself in a fairly uniform manner.
Egress is not that expensive. You use it to serve the customers, in the end.

But it's (still) too expensive to allow migration between cloud providers e.g. on hourly, or even daily, basis. That is, it prevents the consumers from realizing the benefits of short-lived spot prices.
I know a lot of people who found The Road incredibly depressing. But I thought it was optimistic and the most moving thing I've ever read.

I haven't read Blood Meridian yet, but Child of God (another McCarthy novel) definitely lacks the optimism of The Road.

As for this article, I think that the subconscious fascinates almost everyone. The reason we have psychology (in my opinion, of course) is that it's apparent to almost all of us that there's something going on under there.

Everyone has anecdotes like the one mentioned in this article, where a solution to a problem appears in a dream or pops into someone's head immediately after waking.
A couple of other obituaries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/books/robert-pirsig-dead-...

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-robert-pirsig-...
Has potential, as a news junkie I'm interested in both using and contributing to this. Heaven knows internet news delivery needs an overhaul. Google could have solved his problem years ago but have instead chosen to profit off it.
Apple makes at least $99/yr for each free app (Developer's program fee)
Just to play devils advocate for a moment (since I kind of agree with you), aren't the politicians fairly captive to the media as well, though? It's not like they can vengefully decide to stop advertising with them.
In situations with multiple founders, many of these questions are tackled together. Yet the other founders are rarely mentioned in the media.
Does the result of wearing such a filter match, in differentiable metamers, the type of vision natural human tetrachromats have, or is it different? If a natural tetrachromat wore these glasses, would they then be effectively a pentachromat?
Well, that's the issue: The people not choosing to compete and instead seeking cooperation will be at an individual disadvantage compared to those that compete, so it's hard to get people to cooperate on a massive scale because it's often a rather selfless act. Why cooperate and share, when you can just be greedy and keep it all for yourself with no obvious disadvantage to yourself?

But this results in kinda a chicken&egg problem: If nobody cooperates then we are wasting resources and effort, but if only some people cooperate they put themselves in a disadvantageous position, compared to the remaining competitors, and will have a hard time pulling trough.
The Trouble with Innocence
> Many of the people share similar backgrounds

Not sure where you get that from. I find significant diversity in academic backgrounds amongst the people who do ML/AI. Some folks in my company include: Mathematicians, Biochemists, Physicists and Computer Scientists. I used to work with an awesome person who had a Poly Sci background. So yeah, things are all over the place.
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If you are thinking of purchasing this book from the kindle store, buy the mass market paper book for $3.99 and then matchbook it to get the kindle version for $2. This way you end up with 2 copies for the price of the standalone kindle version and you can give one away.

I borrowed the book from the public library just last week.
I thought that too, after I saw an explanation of the notch filter they use, I was much more impressed with the glasses.
CFAA criminal charges (and the associated sentencing guidelines) were famously used as leverage against Aaron Swartz.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa

"Even first-time offenses for accessing a protected computer without sufficient "authorization" can be punishable by up to five years in prison each (ten years for repeat offenses), plus fines. Violations of other parts of the CFAA are punishable by up to ten years, 20 years, and even life in prison. The excessive penalties were a key factor in the government's case against Aaron Swartz, where eleven out of thirteen alleged crimes were CFAA offenses, some of which were "unauthorized" access claims."

I doubt Uber had authorization to use Lyft's API in the manner they did.
Same issue, but I got through and got a receipt for my sub and donation. Just keep trying. It seems to be up at this moment.
I think introversion is not what you are describing as the issue, it sounds more like some social anxiety.
The Strange, Spectacular Con of Bobby Charles Thompson
It's funny, but this book probably played a greater role in my getting into motorcycling than all those years of poring over enthusiast mags like Motorcyclist or Cycle World combined. The thrill of raw speed is fleeting, but an epiphany... that lasts. A bike ride on back roads is a surprisingly natural place to think.
Reinventing the wheel, or in this case, reinventing the square wheel.

Wikitribune solves a problem, just not the problem they have defined as the target.

They've used a naive view of the problem; the model under this ignores the existence of antagonists and too much faith in crowd sourcing difficult problems.

Antagonists will prey on services like this, and off the top of my head, here's 2 ways in which such a service can be made biased.

1) baseless accusations, oft repeated. Find the facts inimical to your (the antagonists) position. Ignore them.

Find facts which are borderline, and have dog whistle properties - highlight these facts ad nauseum. Say that "Wikitribune is biased". Repeat till it sticks.

Then target the facts inimical to you.

2) flood the service with facts that serve your cause- humans have only so much working memory.

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The particular structure wikitribune has chosen, will result in issues. There's a reason print news papers had an editor and a whole staff dedicated to working together.

With volunteers there's no structure, and that causes failures, just consider the Boston bomber case. Of course with a journalist in the mix the assumption is that they will push back.

But the structure is supposedly egalitarian, which just means that this is going to end up causing the same politicking, and admin arguing that plagues Wikipedia.

Recruit everyone, don't get volunteers. Get the whole team.

> Articles are authored, fact-checked, and verified by professional journalists and community members working side by side as equals, and supported not primarily by advertisers, but by readers who care about good journalism enough to become monthly supporters

The wisdom of the crowd fails all too often. As another article recently discussed, it's 5% of the people that take up most of your time.

How will this structure deal with truly divisive news articles? Or people who have conflicts (and conflicts of interest) within the group?

How will you deal with the fact that one day someone can say "volunteer X was a pedophile from <country>!"

Kudos for trying it.

This looks like a propaganda machine which will use the wiki brand about to be born.
[Infographic]  Lessons of a Failed A/B Test
Learning Japaneeses opened up your life ? I'm now much curious about your story.
They have less to loose (already broke), are not accustomed to nice things (never experienced a real salary), and are enthralled by startup culture (so they'll accept shit equity and work all night).

There's also a bias in which ones we read about. Nobody puts the age of a 40 year old founder in a headline.

I think PG wrote an essay on why ycombinator started out primarily accepting new graduates, but I can't find it right now. Clearly he had a different take.
No, no, that's just today speak for "systems developer". Really, someone who can dev/debug run-times for any languages, write C10K networking code, write good Haskell code, do wonders with average SQL RDBMSes, suffer through JS, and put together a complete solution.

I actually like the term "full stack developer". I take it to mean: can handle anything from assembly to HLL and everything in between.
3 RMB is $0.5, is that relevant?
Not in my Philosphy Department (1989-1992). "That book may have brought you here, but we will focus on the original Phaedrus, followed by Descartes, Kant and Wittgenstein."

I have read ZMM many times, it is on the short list of books that have had a profound influence on me. But in college I read a different set of philosophers.
Well, I haven't read his Nautilus piece yet, but I think that I will like it. I love his fiction. And it seems quite clear that consciousness is mainly just an observer.
> If multiple teams are avoiding rollers, there may be some non-obvious disadvantage with that configuration.

My suspicion, if I put my engineering hat on and give them the benefit of the doubt, is it's an optimization for later.

Right now, the purchased packs you can buy are effectively already juice. Later, you may want to make them less juicy so you can spend less time manufacturing the packs, but people will scream if you make them buy a new machine. So, your first machine out the chute needs to be way overengineered.

Nevertheless, this machine design screams junior engineers.