skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This puts words in the mouth of the poster that the poster didn't say. The Lyft API is authenticated so it's definitely not like accessing a URL manually, using wget, or or incrementing a number. You have to sign up, get an account and then you can use it.

A better analogy would putting your chair in a private room with a locked door and sign on the door that says ask management for access to the chair. Anyone who breaks in to use that chair definitely knows they aren't supposed to be there.
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I really don't understand all the hate that Linkedin gets on HN.

In my opinion, Linkedin is one of the better social networks - devoid of clutter and politics since each posting is connected to your professional network/appearance.
You can squeeze DRMed bags.
I bet this was really fun to work on.
Yeah, some people may not care about it and go on to consume questionable but ideological aligned news. However, this is for the people who do care about reliable and transparent news. For these people Wikitribune promises to do a great deal to combat fake news because at this time all they can do it to choose between different flavors of fake news.
I read a little over half of ZMM about a year ago, and there's one aspect of it that caught my attention which I'm surprised to not see mentioned here.

He gives a break down of a certain style of thinking about things where you break the subject down into parts and the relationships between the parts. He gives examples in technical writing that this process has a degree of arbitrariness to it. His circumscribing the general process of conceptualizing things suggests that the process itself has limits, and while valuable, is not everything (despite the tendency of certain mentalities to see things that way. He has an ongoing contrast between himself who is inclined to think that way and others who aren't.) I see this as a bridge to understanding Eastern philosophy's low opinion of language and penchant for indirect explanations.
Pynchon worked as a technical writer for Boeing, and Vonnegut worked as a publicist for GE. You can see how their appreciation of tech shaped their future work. You're in good company!
> Give half-order-of-magnitude estimates

My current boss likes to ask "is it a day, a week, a month, or a year" and while sometimes I just want to say "yes, it's one of those" I actually think that's a pretty reasonable way to ask the question.
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>No, because they can do the same withyour last game. It's called a level playing field, which is clearly a foreign concept to the people who work at Uber.

And Lyft can access Uber's API, unless they're scrupulously avoiding doing so for legal reasons, which doesn't seem all that likely. There's a lot of stuff that is technically illegal, but we'd all be paralyzed if we followed the letter of the law (or every contract we sign) precisely. I'm sure Lyft and Uber BOTH understand this, as they're both generally operating in direct violation of local taxi regulations.

It's funny to read so many people acting like violating a ToS is some moral horror, apparently unaware that the ToS is routinely violated by normal usage, and that like most contracts, they're intentionally written that way. The goal of this, as all contracts, is to a) have a reason to sue someone they dislike and b) have a defense against suits from someone that dislikes them. Since the user has no individual/direct bargaining power, the contract will always be massively favorable to the company.

Businesses sue each other for breach of contract all the time. It could even be argued that this is not fundamentally immoral, which is why it's a civil matter; disagreements in business will sometimes occur, and resorting to the civil dispute resolution system that's in place for exactly this reason is not necessarily a sign of malfeasance.

No one reads ToS except lawyers, and then only when they're looking for something to sue over and/or decide how much likely they're going to get sued. Like most contracts, it doesn't become a consideration until something goes south.

In the football analogy, the opposing team could easily concoct a situation where a ToS prevents an opposing team member from watching the video of the game by creating an interstitial landing page that says "You must agree to the Terms to view this site", the person checking OK, and then viewing the video that technically was prefixed by mandatory agreement to a document that buried language like "This video must not be used against us in any way." under 50 paragraphs of boilerplate. This is unfair because they were able to say "Please don't compete with us, k?" in a potentially technically legally-binding way? Come on now.

>There's more to competition than the zero-sum variety.

OK? It's not zero-sum just because some are happy and some are sad.
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Are you serious? I'm not being flippant here, but your question doesn't seem to be an honest one.

Laying cables is really expensive. It takes a lot of capital and the return on investment is long-term. Two things that aren't very popular among Wall Street or VCs. Even assuming you undertook such a venture, Comcast/ATT/Verizon have really _really_ deep pockets. They can undercut any price you care to offer.

The idea that "regulation" is causing high prices is farcical on its face. There aren't enough schools and libraries to make any difference to the bottom line.

The market is uncompetitive because broadband is a natural monopoly. Just like roads, water, sewer, and electricity. The capital costs are so high there is usually no business justification for having more than 1-2 providers in a given area. There are a few exceptions but they prove the rule.

A "free market" in broadband would look much like the "free market" in electricity: Either the government or a regulated utility granted monopoly power by the government should run the fiber. Any ISP that wants to compete can hook up at the local CO. The equipment on both ends of that fiber can even be owned by the ISP so if new technology allows faster speeds nothing blocks the upgrade (the favorite excuse for pro-corporatist shills).

The big three have fought anything that smells like a free market tooth and nail, outright purchasing legislation at the state level to squash municipal attempts to do anything like this.

The funny thing is the big ISPs rely on government-granted taking of private property in the form of right-of-way to run their cables... something for which property owners receive no compensation. So much for "using our lines" as the ATT CEO likes to claim.
I have my main one + two verified working ebay specials within arms' reach.

(HN being one of the few places I can not only admit this, but get good-natured grief for using the 'new' models. :D)

I also have another saved up, ready to give my younger brother-in-law as he prepares for engineering classes. I plan on getting him as addicted to RPN as the rest of us.
He's not talking about marginal utility. At least not unless he's talking about an extremely unusual utility function. Maybe my Econ background is getting in the way but...

Marginal utility, would be the increasing/decreasing value at the margins, for each additional screw.

Here I believe the point is in process engineering that more or less, something big may be disguised as something small. That you must thoroughly know your process to understand the problem(s) at hand.

It seems more analogous to "the straw that broke the camels back."
> Isn't there some action that would open up the market to more competitors?

Sure there is. It's called local loop unbundling[1] (applied to Internet, rather than legacy telephone networks). Europe successfuly used it to boost ISP competition. In US though it didn't go further than copper DSL lines, and we still have this messed up monopolized market.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
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Look at Steam's Discovery Queue. Make a better version of that and have it work on mobile. Throw in the features of CheapShark (multiple store price comparison and email alerts are the big ones).

Import my Steam profile data and use that to help seed.

Have it pull from more then one store front but nothing unheard of, stick to sites like Steam, Humble, Gog, itch.io, etc. Don't use G2A.
The author lost me. TL;DR; it depends on the contract. If you're paying for 9am-5pm and they're working on other projects during that time you've not approved, yes. If they're doing other work outside of work hours, it depends on the contract. If they're hourly/contractual and billing your for hours to work on projects you've not approved, yes. I've worked for companies, although stipulating a 9-5 work period stated that they owned all works created by me, unless otherwise cleared by legal (very common in finance). I had to ahead of time have clearance on any FOSS contributions by legal. It was a pain in the ass and net result was I didn't bother unless there was a critical isuse.
It's a bit disingenuous to assume that they are ignoring the problem of adversarial actors. Jimmy Wales, through his experience with Wikipedia, is probably more aware of these issues – and potential solutions – than pretty much anyone else on this planet. Also, your arguments could equally be used to argue that something like Wikipedia cannot work but we know that this is not the case. Is this going to be easy? No. Is it worth trying? Most definitely.
Jeez, chill man. For some of us, the fact that we knew about this changed the book. Why be insulting just because you don't agree?
> Even if another company had to lay their own cables, that happens and isn't impossible.

But highly improbable, because it's very expensive to lay cable and hard to recoup the investment. There are countless articles on the Internet as to why this is so. One from 2014 has this poignant sentence:

> There is a ray of hope, though. Just this month, FCC chair Tom Wheeler indicated that the agency might be willing to step in and help do away with all the state-level laws blocking municipal broadband projects.

Not bloody likely.

https://consumerist.com/2014/05/10/why-starting-a-competitor...
My biggest problem with the product is that the QR-scanner, the wifi, the app, all of that has the single purpose of sometimes saying "no" when you press the button to press a pack of juice. That's all it does.

If you remove all of that crap, you get an overengineered juice-press that never says no, and always presses the packet you put into it.

Nothing is more infuriating than machines that randomly say no and refuse to do the thing they're supposed to do. The consumer value of all of that crap is negative.

"But the machine can alert you if the juice pack expired or was recalled"

Look, if you can't read the best-before date already printed on the pack, and if you can't smell the juice and tell if it's funky or not, you are a useless human being. I'm sorry, but you are.
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Read the piece - it's more than about caching. It's about framing, XSS, code injections, TLS enforcement and more.
You're wrong. What you're suggesting is there is no merit in going for an O(n^2) sorting algorithm to O(nlogn) and then to an O(n^1.2534) sorting algorithm.

SLAM at a multi-city scale can use mathematical trickery to improve runtime. Sure, a new solver would help - but we don't need it as long as there is another trick up the mathematician's sleeve. Oh, and it's harder to come up with a new solver / technique.
>> pump up the stock value now even if they're bad for the company in the long run

I agree this was the main reason for Dell to become private allowing them to concentrate on long term and i think they have done better as private company than public earlier.

I wonder if it is possible only have retail investor as shareholder who does not care much about strategy as long as they get dividend and stock price kind of keeps a phase rather than always going up.
Would one not have to keep up the dyeing if hired then? You don't think they'll notice a rapid change to grey?
That's my impression as well. I was responding to an article title that has since been marked duplicate.
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As a PM, of course, I know this padding is happening and generally will add my own:

You know in your mind it will take you 3 days

You give me, your PM, an estimate of 2 weeks

I report up the chain that it will take a month

When it's all said and done, you end up getting it done in a month by the skin of your teeth :-)
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Hi I'm a person who was born and raised a refugee, I've been reading Hacker News for more than 10 years.

I've been working the last 3 or so years in software development, at diff finance, consulting and educational organizations, small and large.

I'm familiar with 'pg's own holy sayings and am going to ask a diff question: has anyone on HN experienced or noticed a bias or interesting reaction for someone explaining they came from a disadvantaged background?

I ask because I myself came from a disadvantaged background but make a point of not acknowledging/brushing over it. I understand the bleeding-heart American mentality towards if you play it up, but at the time wish to compete with everyone else.

I'm an American citizen now and would like to hear others experience in this space (anonymity understood).

Thanks,

qax
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Relevant to this discussion, and not included in the linked repo as far as I can see.. A one-line tree in Python:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

More here: https://gist.github.com/hrldcpr/2012250
This is a race to the bottom. There is no public policy reason that corporations, particularly public corporations, should be allowed to amass such enormous piles of cash.
I understand what they're trying to do here, but beyond the problem of "fake news" there appears to be a deep crisis within the profession of Journalism itself. Wales is correct, in my opinion, that the proximate cause of this crisis is indeed social media. (If you don't agree just ask yourself how often you visit the masthead of whatever newspaper you typically read, and why that might be the case.) But I just don't see crowd-sourcing as the solution to this problem. I'm inclined to agree with @intended's diagnosis, and I feel like the solution has to come from the profession of Journalism itself.

So, in attempt to not be "that guy" that just complains here's what I'd suggest as a start.

- Institutions need to drop their relationship with Facebook et al (The Guardian has just done this [1]).

- There's a few places (and in the interest of avoiding starting a flame war, I'll forgo naming them explicitly) that parade themselves as "objective" sources of news by telling you they're explaining "complicated" concepts in digestible ways. In my view, that's just a rhetorical tactic to disguise what is actually just advocacy journalism. It's not objective at all, and seeks to form your opinion rather than present you with data from which you form your own. These places need to either be shut down, or pivot back to what we'd traditionally consider actual reporting.

- I consider myself reasonably well read, and read the actual, physical paper daily (when I can, I suppose). There is a distinct difference between the content I see pushed on the internet and what's in the traditional paper and it's this: increasingly articles that belong on the opinion pages are pushed elsewhere, probably because they know it'll generate more clicks elsewhere on the site because it makes either a controversial or marginally supported claim. In my view this directly contributes to the loss of faith people have in the Journalistic profession because it's just so damn easy to point out instances of bias. So, hire some old school editors and fire the "social media" guy and put content where it belongs.

That's just what I can think of off the top of my head right now, but I'm pretty convinced that "crowd-sourcing" is not the answer to this problem.

[1] http://digiday.com/media/guardian-pulls-facebooks-instant-ar...
If you think party affiliation is relevant here, you have a lot to learn about WV politics.
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Tell us more about how learning Japanese changed you, I'm curious.
Exactly. I actually left software development after about 15 years. I think my salary progression was pretty typical:

First 5 years = ridiculous year over year growth, including getting raises without having to change jobs!

Next 5 years = slow growth, generally have to change jobs in order to get a raise.

Next 5 years = flatline, cost of living increases only, IF THAT.

I don't know any other professional field that plateaus this quickly.
One of my first programming classes used PL/1. Terminal, not punch cards. I remember liking it OK, but never used it other than that one semester.
There's a lot of stuff that is technically illegal, but we'd all be paralyzed if we followed the letter of the law

A very convenient excuse, which is precisely why I don't find it convincing. Please spare me your patronizing explanations of Terms of Service; having already studied law they're not very impressive.

OK? It's not zero-sum just because some are happy and some are sad.

Win-loss outcomes are zero-sum by definition. I don't see this discussion going anywhere productive from here.
I had finished reading the book(ZAAMM) recently. I have been sharing its snippets with friends and talking over them. I found it really insightful and reflective.
I'm 99.9% certain these vehicles would be forced to fly over existing roads. And it's likely the final product would be autonomous to ensure no one could do a random fly over of your house.
Apple makes $99/yr for each free app developer. There's nothing stopping any developer from releasing multiple apps.
I've used this before to modify the leaderboard scores of small web games[0]

I was amazed at how simple it was to use. Pretty full-featured, as well.

[0]: http://kevinwang.us/cheating-a-guide-to-achieving-high-score...
if you mean $250k compensation per engineer, that sounds in-line with mid-level dev compensation at amagoobooksoft?
I have read the many fine suggestions and comments to this thread.

If I were in this situation I would approach it from a somewhat different angle. Taking three steps:

1. Stay where you are and use the funding to create a demonstrable MVP.

2. Once the MVP is ready for demonstrations, then visit SV/USA on a B1 visa. Conduct the meetings, demo the MVP AND negotiate next round funding. As required for a B1 do not actually work on the product whilst in the USA.

3. Assuming you get $2m+ for round 2, then you return home, get the appropriate visa lined up and then make the move. While waiting for the wheels of bureaucrazy to grind by, you would do further work on your product.

As many comments suggest, $100k won't last long in SV. Immigration legal services don't come cheap either. Immigration process takes a long time to complete appropriately. You will waste a lot of time and money relocating. If you don't get a substantial second round of funding you will have to pack up and go back to EU.
Are you comfortable with the thought of being forced to abandon the traditional Latin script and picking up a new script based on half-straightened squiggly handwriting form of alphabets, in everyday reading, on papers and screens? If yes, then I think you indeed made a point.
I will never understand the need to identify as something. To do so is to reject dynamics. Do the things that sustain you and keep an open mind.
The "gumption trap", both the term and the definition, is a great insight. I tend to find gumption traps really annoying and it's good to know why I'm annoyed and how to push through. When a friend of mine recommended the book he used this concept as the example of why it was amazing.
Absolutely.

ISPs should remain privately owned and operated. But the so called "last mile" should be a shared utility like a road. Government should build it, maintain it, and support it. But once that last mile hits the exchanges then different competing private ISPs should pay a licence fee from the exchange onto the final mile to people's homes.

The last mile is the most expensive element in internat deployments, and also the one most encumbered by regulation (e.g. digging up roads, putting cable on existing poles, installing cable with other utilities, etc).

But most importantly other businesses depend on the reliable fast internet to make money. It is a utility. Entire new industries will crop up from superior internet (like video streaming services did from the last leap forward, and streaming music the leap before that). The US's entire ability to make money is being curtailed by low quality internet.

Google had the right idea, just not deep enough pockets and a long enough attention span to see it through. This is a billion dollar project per state.
They'll notice, yes. Anecdotal, but my experience is that age discrimination tends to mostly manifest at hire time. They think you're too expensive before even throwing numbers. Or too rigid, etc. Things that shouldn't be an issue once you're there.
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Really depends on the business model. I modeled different deployment scenarios for a product for a small company, and egress pricing broke the economics for the ones involving cloud providers. (It was principally concerned with hires images.) That was some time back and I know pricing has come down, so that may be different now.
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IMO the even worse part is that you can only use their own packs at all. You know the company is most likely going to be gone within five years and then you're stuck.

The recall thing is so ridiculous though. The CEOs letter mentioned a hypothetical "spinach recall" that you would want to know about. Never in my life have I had to worry about my vegetables getting recalled. Why on Earth would I be looking to buy a product that can tell me about something that in my experience never happens?
>The site became a point of contention on campuses across the >country, with many universities debating banning it.

Yes universities could "ban" an app
If it's a natural monopoly, why are there all these laws only allowing one provider?

BTW, before the law enshrined AT&T as a "natural" monopoly, there were lots of phone companies who seemed to have no trouble at all running wires everywhere.
Were you using a Lambda integration? I found the following blog to be useful: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/error-handling-patterns...