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Something about this headline interests me, along with the title that appears here on HN:

Article: "Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate"

HN: "Ubser rivals consolidating: Gett to buy Juno for $250M"

I wonder if the HN headline is as-submitted or mod-ified.

The latter title leans much more on the Uber link, while TC's headline puts it at the end.

If we didn't have all of Uber scandal stuff going on, I wonder which title would've been submitted to HN:

"Uber rivals scrambling as Gett buys Juno for $250M", maybe?

Here's a fun query to run: Pull HN submissions and go back to the linked articles. Pull those headlines, and then remove ones too long for HN's length limit.

Of the remaining headlines, normalize and see how many HN posts modified the title in some way.
This is encouraging. I strongly believe that public schools at all levels should (as in, morally ought to) use freely available coursework. Not only does it remove one more way in which kids are sorted by economic class, but it also teaches them something about the "system" in a meta way that could be as useful as any other particular subject, in itself. But I can see the major roadblock to this, which is just that it is damned hard to create a curriculum in any subject that will meet all internal and state requirements.
You've asked an interesting question. I can't find a good source on what is the range of reaction times for autonomous vehicles. However, in the test videos I've seen, they appear to be human-level or better. For reference, human reaction times (to start braking) are typically between .5-2 seconds. It's difficult for humans to react to anything in under .25 seconds.

I don't think it's controversial to say that machines can easily beat those human reaction times.

Most or all autonomous vehicle software is written in C++, so garbage collection shouldn't be an issue. Of course, these programs need to be tested carefully and extremely before we trust them.
The UK received quite a lot of Marshall Plan money. Nearly $3.2b of it, in fact.
Are you trying to argue that there is a moral difference between action and inaction, or just a political difference? It's certainly something that historic philosophers have spent a lot of time discussing, but that doesn't mean their moral confusion needs to be taken seriously.
Googles stated mission is "to make the world's information universally useful and accessible." By definition, this would mean to filter out disinformation. Your interpretation of this as an "aggregate credibility index" is demonstrably antithetical to the mission of spreading information. If the entire planet placed credibility in "1+1=7", the google calculator should not be rewritten to reflect global credibility scores.
I wanted to ask an open ended question : how important do you think it is to be well-connected? I am sure if someone spent a lot of time going to plenty of networking events and put serious effort into talking with people, then they could grow their network pretty fast. But every minute spent in networking is a minute not spent in doing something else. So how do you set your priorities?
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>Keith Ferrazzi's "Never Eat Alone" compares networks to gardens that must be actively maintained along with attendant and relevant gardening analogies (care/attention, pruning, growing, etc).

I wonder how introversion/extroversion fits into the world of "networking theories"? I can certainly see that some people might really enjoy tending that particular garden, and in fact "connecting with people" might be their main source of enjoyment. While to others that seems like endless drudgery.
> Money doesn't make you happy. It makes you unhappy in a better part of town.

Great quote!
Note that links marked with Nofollow can still be followed by well-behaving bots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpretation_by_the...
Everything I've read about a postwar reconstruction of North Korea says that the costs would be much, much greater than the integration of East and West Germany.

Not only assuming that a hot war would have serious consequences to the economy of South Korea.
Recently I was reading about hash tables on wikipedia and I was surprised to learn about how much the birthday problem influenced their design.

"A real world example of a hash table that uses a self-balancing binary search tree for buckets is the HashMap class in Java version 8."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Separate_chaining_w...
Would it be possible to use this on the server to create complicated PDF files for download (react -> sketch -> pdf), without using something like this current process (react dom -> html, css -> phantomjs -> pdf)?
things like naming, load balancing and service discovery can be done by a well managed dynamic dns system

monitoring / "circuit breakers" would probably require a proxy I guess
Very few people on HN actually care about the Uber scandals. Almost no one has changed their daily behavior. They all still use Uber.

It's exactly how Trump won the US election. A small group of people spread the idea Uber is doing poorly when in reality they're not.
North Korea, like the Sow jet Union, has fought a war that the US can not imagine. They fought a war in which they lost 10% of the population. If the US would lose 32 Million in a war maybe the US would lose the taste for war too.

Not going to judge their outdated equipment. But they will fight. This a not Arabic troops from tribal societies who will run as soon as they are given the chance. In fact, North Korea CAN NOT lose this war. They have not lost the last one, they won't lose the next. North Korea is too important for both, China and Russia as a buffer country. Both countries have moved a lot of troops recently near North Korea. If there is a conflict we may seem a regime change (supported but Russia and China). What we are not gong to see is a US occupied united Korea.

One risk with Trumps pressure is they it works two ways. North Korea could reasonably assume that they will loose most equipment if the US attacks. So why not attack first? Use it or lose it. The safest place for a rocket or artillery shell is still in the air....
There are many great points being made in the article, and in the comments - esp the comment about how this is a rehash of wisdom from Dale Carnegie.

I believe these kinds of posts need to have a corollary for introverts - folks that are shyer, more reluctant/reflective (thoughtful, perhaps), aren't great at small talk and find the prospect of starting a conversation intimidating. While I am naturally skeptical of any kind of 'people categorization' - I do think there are folks who find "networking" daunting. So, what should they do?

I think the first step is to acknowledge the importance of a good network of people that you can talk to - it is often a powerful source of diverse ideas (outside of your own bubble), mentorship, collaboration and even friendship. The reason I say this is because it is often easy to dismiss "networking" as something frivolous (it doesn't help sometimes when certain people hijack this word to mean lots of low-quality connections) or not-for-me or 'I am just happy doing my own thing' etc. I think a discussion about how networking helps us in various facets of life is important. I'd love to hear positive examples from others in this area.

The second step is to work towards a realization that most of the qualities that introverts likely possess - like "listening well" - are key to this "networking-thing". So you already possess a lot of the raw ingredients that are needed to have a good network of people.

The third step is to really value diversity - of ideas/opinions, knowledge and competence (e.g. "engineering" sometimes have reluctance in appreciating "sales"). Groups, companies, teams thrive when there is real diversity. This should make you want to talk to others who are doing different things in different domains (or same things as you, but differently)

And finally, realize that (and several folks points this out in the comments) it is not about "tricks" - i.e. don't lose your authentic self. But try to distil the "tricks" into more basic human tenets - e.g. if you are a curious individual genuinely interesting in learning more about technology (say), then "Convey genuine appreciation" isn't something you would need to fake.

The longer I work and observe other folks doing interesting things, the more I find that networking is a useful (even powerful) thing -- and I say this as an introvert and someone not proficient at networking (have a very small group of close friends). I often think "wouldn't it be cool to learn more about what this person is doing" or even "how did they do that!?", and lately (gradually) started acting on that impulse and wrote to some of those folks (that I wish to know and learn from). To my surprise, it was very rewarding. I met some very knowledgeable and interesting people -- even some that I learned from a lot. Just having a bunch of people that I can discuss different topics with - related to software, scaling, operations (or life in general!) has been rewarding.

Most of what I say here is obvious, but I just wanted to share this because I struggled (and continue to) with this whole "networking-thing". :)
I like the article and bookmarked it for future reference, there's a lot of advice worth considering. One thing I'd like to point out, is that I don't like the way the "becoming a better person" is embedded in "how to be successful in any job". I do think strongly that it's the other way round: the job is only a part of me as a person, and doesn't define me. There are other values and people around me who are way more important than any job will ever be.
Please stop taking this thread (or any HN thread) further into flamewar hell. We've asked you before not to do this.
For some, sure, but there is a argument to be made that it's really about time that we decouple work and income. If I didn't have to work to get an income I sure would work with something quite different, more artistic, instead of reinventing the wheel for the fourth time even though I know this code will not be used for anything usefull anyway.
I've been offering a math text that is open source (LaTeX on GitLab) for many years, since 1995. I have had the good fortune to work at a college that gave me professional activity credit for this.

Writing a text, well, is a major piece of work. The text body takes a lot, writing good exercises takes every bit as much, the answers to the exercises are important, and so also are ancillary material such as classroom slides.

People respond to rewards and unless they get rewarded for this it is not going to happen nearly enough. If you are an alum, and have some contact with your college or university, please urge them to give people credit for this. Say its important.
That HOAA would soon have a secret black budget, used to fund various programs which automatically identify individuals with hedges not trimmed to association standards.
What in particular makes you feel ill about this? What is the strong emotion that affects you so upon reading of the wealth of a person you will never meet?

Normally when people say this, their tone makes it evident they are envious, but that's missing here and I'm curious.
I'm not sure I follow... Op is looking for some Django hosting, doesn't necessarily have to be shared. It could be containerized or maybe it could be PaaS (Heroku style).
Sure, but the point is that some kinds of questions are more likely to yield interesting conversations than others. Nothing is guaranteed, of course.
That's the point here.

There are a lot of people out there applying these principals who don't really do shit, but by god they are "well connected." You see them at all these entrepreneur events and all they do is waste everyone's time with their bullshit. In the end it doesn't matter how well connected they are because they have no vector and no capabilities. These are the guys who consistently tell you how they are incidentally connected to someone who has actually done something - why? because that's all they know how to do. Worthless.

On the flip side there are the brilliant people out there who have done something notable but haven't made anything of it or made any connections because they see the guy from the first paragraph and recoil in horror. That's who I think this article is probably for. Not sure how to reach those folks practically though.
I prefer Gett for long commute. It gives you a firm quote so if your Uber/Lyft/Juno driver messed up enroute or there's a traffic, you don't pay the extra. From a user's perspective, this saves me money. I would take Gett to Barclay Center knowing Uber and Lyft would charge me high premium after game. Or trip from Manhattan back to Queens. There's also an option to make extra stop which is nice! Gett cars are the regular black SUV cars so much more comfortable.

This acquisition is nothing but acquiring users (although Junos has fewer drivers so fewer active users) and talents, as Gett itself can already do what Juno and other rider-service apps can do. I wonder if they will continue to run Juno as a standalone app like Seamless and Grubhub but share the same user database. I still wonder why Seamless and Grubhub can't shut down one of them, this seems like a marketing tactic than anything else, creating a diversion that there are other players in the market. Who knows, maybe there's tax advantage.
How much does your 'top of the line' lane-staying sensor cost? How about your backup camera? How about automatic breaking sensors? How about all of the components required to integrate these sensors into your vehicle?

These are all things that started high and fell low. The historical prices for each of these systems reflects this fact, as does their gradual movement through the available product line-up. They all started in top of the line vehicles that cost well north of the average person's yearly salary, and are steadily creeping into the lowliest models.

I see nothing in self-driving systems that make them special in this regard. They're already largely an amalgamation of commodity components whose prices are trending downwards.

You can bet on them staying a niche product forever, if you wish. I just think it flies in the face of historical evidence.
What are the odds of many drunk drivers killing thousands of people? p(x)=1.0, it happens every year.
For those of you in LA, this work is being exhibited at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. Highly recommended.
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> They're named after Pierre Bézier . . . publishing his investigations in 1962

> One might be tempted to say that the mathematician Paul de Casteljau was first,
investigating the nature of these curves in 1959

> Bézier curves are, at their core, "Bernstein polynomials",
a family of mathematical functions investigated by Sergei Natanovich Bernstein,
with publications on them at least as far back as 1912.

I see many stories like this, which shatter the idea of a lone inventor bringing something new out of thin air.
>Our goal is not to extend the current limits of viability

In the interest of looking at thing squarely in the face, this can eventually (and therefore will) be used to extend the "current limits of viability".

It's important not to put blinders on because this has a very real impact on medical ethics. Is it ethical, for instance, to develop human embryos outside of the womb for convenience?
Two points:

1. I parsed the statement slightly differently, in that having a campus full of activism was important, not specifically climate change.

2. Activism requires learning and networking, so it makes sense that if you want to learn that skill and form a network fresh out of high school, you would go somewhere there's an established network to join and many mentors to be found. It's much more like choosing a school because their alumni organization has connections you're interested in or has business ties to an industry you want to get in to or has a famous athletics program or any of the not-strictly-academic reasons that make sense from a career development perspective.

If the person seriously wants to be an activist, even in a non-professional capacity, it makes sense to go somewhere they develop that part of you (even if they don't have the best academics).

It's nothing like choosing one based on red building count.
We just reverted the submitted headline from “Uber rivals consolidating: Gett in talks to buy Juno for $250M” to that of the article.
Which isn't really an alternate hypothesis from the four discussed in the piece:

> Economists are therefore scrambling to explain the change. There are, by my count, now four main potential explanations for the mysterious slide in labor's share. These are: 1) China, 2) robots, 3) monopolies and 4) landlords.

...but rather an effect. (Labor's return is declining, so of course a greater share goes to corporations.)
There is no moral justification for accumulating more wealth than you and your family can spend in a lifetime. The only way to amass such an amount is by exploiting the labour of others. The extremely wealthy are a net drain on society.
That was in the age of the Red Scare. These people had reason to be seriously concerned that they may find themselves on the wrong end of a torch and pitchfork.
It's not like that money disappears, it just traded hands. Whoever sold the painting might use some of it for charity.
Front page:

> Next-Level C# Game Engine

> Xenko is an open-source C# game engine designed for the future of gaming. It comes with a full toolchain and is especially well suited to create realistic games but allows you much more!
Sounds like it's because he has seen the polar opposite, and is frustrated that the resources Marcos is spending on gold-framed Picassos and shoes are not used to improve the existence of the vast number of poor people in the region.
The CNCF also has [coredns.io](https://coredns.io/), which I think fits the use-case you describe well. I actually really like the concept behind linkerd, it makes a lot of sense when used in conjunction with Kubernetes.
Octopress, because it handles code formatting particularly well.
Yeah, I've run into a lot of performance bottlenecks using Radium in all of the React components in a large, complex web app.
Shared Libraries: Windows vs. Linux
This just seems to be a biased claim that Soylent hasn't done any "real testing". Do you have evidence of that? Soylent has been out for years and a lot of people have been drinking 100% Soylent for a long time now.
That was a great read, thanks for providing it! It's interesting that they mention studies in mice about using radiation to cure cancer. Sounds like the beginnings of the discovery of chemotherapy.
It's complicated in the medium-term, at least in the US, isn't it? It would potentially lower the age for viability, and hence extend the time period during which states can regulate abortion.
Who decides the CEO compensation? The Board of Directors.

Who decided the Board of Directors compensation? The CEO.

Follow the money.
PageRank counted the number of inbound links to a page under the theory that the resources people were organically electing to point to were superior than others. This was and is the foundation of Google's search, and it's what allowed them to succeed against massive incumbents like Yahoo.

The concept that the general public can tell what's worthwhile is the fundamental component of Google's success (as well as the theory behind news aggregators like reddit and this very platform). The theory was that most people would intrinsically reject falsehoods like 1+1=7 and that they would intrinsically gravitate towards facts like 1+1=2. It was an investment in the wisdom of crowds, in democracy.

Perhaps this concept is no longer useful, but top-down editorialism is a departure from what most people perceive Google to be about, whether you agree that it's a good direction or not.
Stopped reading after seven seconds - giant animated pop-up.

Dear websites: please please stop doing this.
You can go even faster with some effort! The other day I was frequently hitting well over 50kph, maxing out around 62kph (30-38mph) and I was trying to conserve energy. It's a hell of a lot of fun. I'm not even that fast or fit - any half decent bike will absolutely fly on a good descent.

https://www.strava.com/activities/954036327 (Shows top speed recorded by my GPS)
a friend of mine used to say "you can cry in a corolla, or in a Ferrari, but I sure as hell would want to cry in a Ferrari"
Perhaps the US might not act as NK regime tries to overrun SK. This would force China and Russsia to support SK to prevent unificAtion. The economic and political consequences of a unified Korea are contrary to its neighboors interests, but I don't think, despite widespread perception, the US need intervene.
I'm not envious. I want to understand why such wealthy people wouldn't spend the money improving the lives of other human beings, and instead waste it on overprices sh*t like a $12,000 Hermes bag.

I grew up in India and the wealth disparity couldn't be any starker. I feel that if I was ever that wealthy, I would spend a lot of it trying to improve the lives of poor people and homeless people, instead of buying 4000 shoes or a 100 Hermes bags.

I know from close contact with Filipino Boxers, how broke and poor a large population of their country is. Meanwhile their President is stealing from her people and hoarding 4000+ shoes, when she can only wear 1 pair at a time :)

So I really want to know, is there some very primate (and hence hard to control) instinct in all human beings, which causes them to hoard useless stuff instead of using their wealth for 'greater causes'?
Enforcement would be tricky. Fleeing wealth might be a real issue at that level of taxation, and you'd have to stop all kinds of activities that the really wealthy use to avoid the inheritance taxes we already do have (family trusts, board membership on corporations that exist largely to buy housing and transportation for family members, plus all sorts of overseas shenanigans and likely plenty of outright illegal maneuvering)
Climbing, dance, biking. You barely dipped your toe in the water.
So after such a tragedy, what does Uber do? They deny the family's benefits claim, of course:

Uber denied the benefits claim through its insurance carrier. In California, workers’ compensation usually does not cover psychiatric injuries until after six months of employment. Joseph Thomas had worked slightly less than five months at Uber when he killed himself.

But there is an exception to the six-month rule. It doesn’t apply “if the psychiatric injury is caused by a sudden and extraordinary employment condition,” according to California law.
I'm even more interested in mentioned SeeInTheDark app (that's unfortunately not available yet as it's part of Google research). The video demo is so impressive. I don't really care so much about photography, but decent sensors and optics combined with innovative processing in real-time is really starting to pick up.

I've already started using phone camera app to enhance my vision for text that's too far to read. Advances in post-processing will increase our vision even more, as well as allow for night vision and understanding text in other languages. We are transitioning into cyborgs by means of android platform...
Zuck lacks more than just charisma. He lacks social competence. He'd be more like Jeb than Carson. He falls to pieces when he gets flustered, worse than most awkward autistic teenagers in front of a crowd of judgmental peers. Shit, Jeb might just make Zuck look smooth.
Russia has a short border with North Korea (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/42.3129/130.6686 ). They've been moving forces there, in case something happens and people try to flee into Russia. I don't think they are an especially willing ally.
That's actually a default time picker on Android, used in all native apps; Keep is just one of them.
https://material.io/guidelines/components/pickers.html#picke...